The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1933, Page 6

RPP LLP EE LOST AILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1933 The N.R.A. Steel Betrayal NATION and wrath must be sweeping the 14,000 teel Co. workers now when they see how re tricked back to work on October 16 by the 2 Communists Murdered in Nazi Camps; Lives of en’s Only Working ch e e e F | SS mowtatontrse sect Dimitroff, Others in Danger; World Protest Dec. 19 ae = Sects monet | War TMM ATG je ae ean ah ___By Burek ‘Rote Fahne’ Editor Washington Building ess le pra: ey would have th t to Join a rg BPs e vieaiins andOthersTortured Mth ani F. st., ewn choosing. Sounded As Nazi. On M mday, they were informed by the tion Rates Mail: except Manhattan and Bronx ian: sae pany, Mr. Weir, that the NR.A : ; a a paper they are writen on Germany Re-Arms. by Storm Troopers jonths, $5.00; 3 months $3.0 ust either join the company union Saeee Magee adie eee aan ee ie Ae ot | Lavele: Rata ee payee. Fascist Press Silent SAY, DECEMBER 13, 12 Tin and Wire Workers, affiliated to the NR Will Resist’ Italy’s on Recent Mass rick to break the strik f ~ © alg ick fo,break the Plan for “League Arrests the very day this “agreen was signed, ie ey he ily Worker printed an editorial, headed by a PARIS, Dec. 12-4 wer: uiti- | | BERLIN, Dec. 12—Further Naa matum was sounded, today by tke foreign ministers*of two of.the Little Entente states against Italy’s attempt to revise the Versailles Treaty.! | Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of; e, slovakia, and Nicholas Titu- Rumanian Foreign Minister, declared that the revisionist : demands of Italy.and Germany were! leading to war..-The joint declara- | {tion followed a seriés.of secret con- | ference between the foreign offices of nt made by John C. Williams, president of the n Steel Co. Mr. Williams said: “Settlement of strike is satisfactory to the company, and the Jong- shed open shop policy of the company is ab- olutely ed in every respect.” A. F. of L. officials told the workers otherwise, | had won a victory which the N.R.A. would The Daily Worker editorial warned ie that time that: “The company will try ist the v: g into 3. compar inion. brutalitles against imprisoned Com- mumnist leaders are reported in the | illegally published “Information Serve | ice” of the German Red Aid, No. 10, Werner Hirsch, editor of the “Rote | Fahne” (Red Flag), who was arrested | with. Comrade ‘Thaelmann last | March, has been subjected to frighte \ fu] ill-treatment in the Nazi concen | tration camp at Brandenburg. His | head is covered with fresh scars, Execut: IN THE GESTURE of th United Textile Worker A. F. of L. burea to consider duction in pay discontent down bel America ca esta a st The t they we can he ow Not so long be een himself me Of it, as the A. F. of L. from the workers ‘The U.T.W he question again. ‘Why do they Mahon and his gang, heading the union. st to enter intc code. negotiations, the cotton textile code that set miserabl, ets. Now th WR.A. is being e: powerful lever to workers Jard of living, ployment ‘The U.T.W. leaders say they favor strike. Every worker anxious to obtain out reduction in pay should im sue of organiz: Very well, the 30-hour week with- ise the is- The National Te Mediately take up tt U.T.W., through loc: organization, joint action to prepare and organize the Strike for the 30-hour week without reduction in pay uion should im- 1 and propose to the is as well as to all bodies of the Ce: such an issue must receive the broadest support of all workers. United front, in which every worker can become an ac- tive f to achieve this end ainly Tt 0: he basis for the widest e to initiate the powerful struggle necessary leader: fact that th ers’ organi: Woll, Morris: Yention of the very same bureaucrats w Voted to support the Roosevelt d stead th y appeal to Green, Lewis nan & Co. to call a special con- ntly ork~ just rec: ve against the @rs. The U.T.W. leaders know that this convention Will not be call Even if it is called, they know it Will be the graveyard of the demand for a strike to hieve the 30-hour week, without redv in pay, unless within the A. F @ powerful united front movement among the rank and file forces proposal to the A. F. of L. action is positive proof that Bui the The call for suct will receiv * response organized and unorganized workers The revolutionar slogan for a shorter who have been leadi for higher wages, low should immediately Mass demand thr over. the heads of takers. reduction in pay, minedly the strike s and improved conditions, to force this popular the rank and file and and other A. F. of L. U.T.W. tasks of the Cor in the shops type of struggle do not wan’ nions s le—jus' A. F. of L, iea ithout reduction loyment swe I covered up facts clear that are delibei and the U.T.W. ieaders ‘The N.R.A. has lowered the standard of living of the whole American working-class. Its counter-part, in- finflation, is shooting prices vard, while the codes fasten wages down to starvation levels with the iron chains of the bureaucrats and the government. In the textile industry, Johnson has permitted the bosses to ut production, fire workers without any provision for relief or unemployment insurance for those discharged because of the NRA. Those who now talk brave about a strike for the 30-hour week without pay reduc- tions were the very ones that broke strikes of the Workers during the past summer against the N.R.A. The fight for the 30-hour week, in the face of rising dying costs, must also include fights for ‘higher pay and against the N.R.A. (to which the A. F. of L. bureau- cacy is a party) and must be the keystone for the development of partial united front struggles for Shorter hours and higher wages. by Green Hence they now try to cover their treacheries by this latest gesture. * * . MUST not permit them to shield themselves with words nor play around with the conditions and lives of the workers, We rust call their bluff. We must, with all our Organization and energy, bring this slogan to all work- ets—mobilize for strike struggles to win the 30-hour week without reduction in pay. We must make the broadest proposals for the united front actually to achieve this struggle. ‘To do this is the duty of all Communists in mobiliz- ing all sincere trade unionists for the real achievement Cf a united front struggle against the NRA. for Shorter hours without reduction in pay, and unemploy- ment insurance. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, WN. ¥. Piease send me more information on the Commu- hist Party. ADDRESS 2000s iiseceeescceisesocess R.A, and Amalgamated Association offici all they can to help them.” T ly what has happened ere we have the N.R.A. again stripped naked as the brutal strike-breaking instrument of the Roose- velt me is pr During the past summer and fall a wave of strikes gripped the steel industry. The workers showed ceptional militancy, bravery and determination to win. The bosses feared that the steel strikes would become al, involving every steel plant in the country In Ambridge, where the Steel and Metal Workers Union led the strike of 5,000, the N.R.A. offi- cials failed in their slimy efforts to break the strike. The steel trust mobilized its army of fascist gunmen and by murder and bloodshed were able finally to drive the men back into the mills. This was one phase of the N.R.A. Where the A. F. of L. officials could not keep the men from striking, they called in the N.R.A. to break the strih What has happened in the Weirton Steel Co. shows with glaring clearness the criminal way in which the N.R.A, and the A. F. of L. officials broke the strike. The main object of the bosses was to get the mei back into the mills. The N.R.A. played the role oi “mediator” as between the classes. In reality it was the real agent of the bosses, posing as the friend of the workers he workers were told to go back to work and accept the forged promise of later elections. Naturally, Mr. Wier, president of the company, ac- cepted happily. He knew what it meant. Certainly, A. F. of L. officials accepted, it was the easiest ay to break the strike. Now the workers are paying for this betrayal. I eG) ae ae cae EIRTON STEEL is not an isolated instance. It ts just the most outstanding and most shamelessly sed example of the methods of N.R.A. strike- aking in collaboration with the A. F. of L. official- dom. There was every possibility for winning the Weir- tou Steel strike. For the first time in 20 years, this plant was shut tighter than a drum. The strikers fought the state troopers and were supported by the coal miners. A continuation of their strike would have brought out other mills and the company would have been forced to come to. terms. But here the N.R.A. stepped in. From its actions in this strike a lesson should be seared into the mind of every worker. ‘The whole demagogy of the N.R.A. is exposed in this action at the Weirton Steel Co. The N.R.A. sup- posedly guaranteed the workers the right to organize nto unions of their own choosing. The A. F. of L. officials’ leadership assured the workers that they were granted these rights by the N.R.A.. At the same time, they used this very N. struggles for the right ee Se 'HE deeds of the N.R.A. here (as in hundreds of other instances) are additional proof of the Communist analysis and exposure of the real aims and purposes of the NRA. Now the Weirton Steel Co. workers have greater before them. Despite the threats of Mr. Weir, despite the new promises of the N.R.A. and Senator Wagner, they should organize their shop and depart- meni committees, electing their own representatives and demand negotiations on wages. The whole work~- ing class can be rallied behind these workers. Their fight against the N.R.A. and its lying promises is one that affects directly the wages, living condtlions, and the right of organization of all workers. The A. F. of L. leaders should not be allowed to escape their participation in this criminal betrayal. The rank and file of the A. F. of L. in other mills should raise their voice in protest against their offi- cials and the N.R.A. In Weirton Steel, as in other mills, now there must be active preparations for new struggles to force the bosses to grant the workers’ demands and to win the right of union organization. to break these strike The Same Master A VIVID lesson in capitalist journalism and politics is given by the overnight change in ownership and policies of the New York Evening Post. On Satur- day, the Post, as a Republican paper, carried on a sharp criticism of the Roosevelt regime. On Monday, presto, everything is changed. The new management announced it would retain the same editorial staff. The same journalists who wrote one thing Saturday, on Monday write the opposite. This is a sample of the freedom of the press under capitalism, The New York Evening Post has been purchased by the rich exploiter, David Stern, owner of the Phila~ delphia Record, The change is the change in ownership from one rich exploiter, J. P, Morgan, to another, David Stern. He has long experience.in just the type of lying dema- gogy that Roosevelt requires to fool the workers about the real imperialist aims of the Roosevelt program. © AO ri Bre cal 'TERN makes of the Post an official organ of Roose- velt ballyhoo. Roosevelt writes an ingratiating letter congratulating this purveyor of the wildest false~ hoods, In return, Stern scratches Roosevelt's back by supporting his program 100 per cent, adding some of his own and more filthy demagogy, especially to appeal to the workers, ‘The “new” Post is new only in its methods, the wildest use of demagogy. Fundamentally the program is not changed. Fundamentally the policy of the paper remains the policy of Morgan, more cleverly dressed up in the demagogy of the Roosevelt regime linked up with the leading imperialists attempting to force capitalism out of the crisis at the expense of added and untold misery for the toiling masses of the United States. |France and the Little Entente | The declaration is coupled with a} campaign of chauvinist incitement tn | the Little Entente countries, with 100,000 militarists marching in a} |torch-light parade last night in |Koscie, Czechoslovakia, calling for “resistance” to the Hungarian re- | visionists. i | The “Echo de Paris” published proof today that. Hitler was hiding} his rapidly mountingexpenditures on war material by drastic wage cuts | against workers in the, munition fac- tories. The charge, with supporting figures, were made -by Gen. Eugene Debeney, | Germany, declares Gen. Debeney, has over 1,420,000° troops under arms | now, with additional effectives of | 1,300,000 World War veterans, with hundreds of thousands of youth being mobilized in the -forced labor camps. | Welles Breaks Off Confab; Preparing ‘New Counter-Revolt. HAVANA, Dec. . 12.—Negotiations; between the Grau-Batista regime and the counter-revolutionary ABC,| | steered by Wall Street ambassador | Welles, broke off suddenly yesterday. | day. | The Uruguayan minister to Cuba, | | Dr. Fernandez de Medina, who was} | taking part in the conciliation efforts, | blamed Welles for the rupture. | | Welles’ purpose in engineering the | | negotiations was to form a concen- | tration government with the ABC) | landlord-capitalist-group and Colonel | | Batista, head of the army, in dom-/ | inating positions. —At the same time | | he was dragging out the negotiations | in order to give the ABC time and |funds to prepare another armed | | counter-revolutionary uprising so) that it cound seize power with Wall Street support. As a result of the negotiations, the left petty-bourgeois and student ele- | | ments in the Grau-Batista regime} | grew restive. They brought pressure to | bear on President Grau, and when | | Welles demanded terms that woul make him more openly a tool . 0! | Wall Street he baulked. | In @ conversation with a member | \of the American Club, of which | | Welles is a member; & representativ | of the Daily Worker learned that the | | rumor is being spread by prominent | American business men here that U. | |S, armed intervention Will take place | in Cuba after Dec. 21, Pi Welles’ Letter NEW YORK.—The latest devel- opments in Cuba are more clearly exposed by the private letter of Ambassador Welles and the ABC leader, Lliteras, to bé-published ex- clusively in the Daily Worker on Saturday. These letters, which are being published in Cuba,.where the Daily Worker is obtaining: copies, avail- able Saturday, gives Welles’ post- tion regarding the ABC and the Gran regime. ~ > Every worker should obtain a copy of Saturday's Daily Worker | for an expose of role of Wall | for Street in the present situation ag Q eel : U.S, Iraperialisr Bue Helping the thr: original drawings of Burck’s cartoons American Youth Club, N. ¥.,, te Fa _ sapanese Imperialist ing with a bid of Club, Rochester, $1.14. Total to date: $552.70, Other bids: Pen and Hammer Chicago, Cleveland W Hail Soviet Recognition CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 12.—A victory celebration to commemorate | resumption by the United § normal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union will be held this Sun day afternoon at two o'clock at the Masonic Auditorium, Euclid Ave. at East 36th St. The demonstration is called by a conference attended by 150 delegates | f workers’ organizations, including | Tokio Government Plans New Raids, Arrest of Workers TOKYO, Dec, 12.—The Ministry} the Interior has drawn up a} “three-year plan” for the exterming- tion of Communism in Japan. The | plan envisages the arrest of all revo- | lutionary workers, who are to be in- terned on a lonely island. Over 2,000 workers and intellectuals have been arrested since last January. | Official Japanese dispatches from) Mukden report that large numbers | of Korean revolutionaries have en- tered Manchuria to support the na- tional revolutionary struggles of the Manchurian masses, who are carrying on a heroic struggle against the Japanese imperialists. ; the ill ij jends of the Soviet Union, der in the long fight in this coun- ry for recognition Corliss Lamont, former professor of Columbia University and well- known writer and educator, will be the principal speaxer. An elab-/| orate program of music and speaking | has been arranged. In addition to the | main speaker, other speakers include | Max Hayes, editor of the “Cleveland | Citizen,” official paper of the A. F| of L. in Cleveland; Rev. Edwin A.| Brown of the Broadway Methodist Church; O. G. Crawford, Socialist of Erie, Pa., who has just returned from the Soviet Union; Emil Gardos of) the Communist Party, and Norman} Tallentire, National Organizer of the F, S. U. ] Workers’ choruses, including the Freiheit Gesang Farein and Orches- tra, the Ukrainian Mandolin Orches- tra and Chorus, Hungarian Male} Chorus and the Negro Pioneer group | will participate in the program. © eo 1 i Chicago Celebration Dec. 20 CHICAGO, Dec, 12—The Chicago Local of the Friends of the Soviet Union and Icor are jointly prepar- ing a victory demonstration on Soviet recognition at the Coliseum, 14th St. and’ Wabash Ave., next Wednesday night, Dec. 20, at 8 o'clock. An elab- orate musical program, including the “Freiheit” and the Lithuanian chor- uses, has been arranged. Numerous organizations have endorsed the call, All-Nazi Reichstag Gives Authority to Goering; Adjourns /Deputies in Personal’ Oath of Allegiance To Hitler BERLIN, Dec. 12.—The all-Nazi Reichstag convened today for the first time, and following a brief speech by Hermann Goering, inside of three minutes had empowered Goering to appoint all heads of committees and to receive and dispatch any petitions or resolutions. Goering had demanded such power in his speech. Thereupon the session adjourned indefinitely. — In his address, couched in short, commanding sentences, Goering re- minded the deputies that their duty is to “implicitly support the govern- ment.” * “In view of our leader's absence,” he added, “I shall refrain from giving eat detailed instructions until his re- urn.” Preceding the session, the Nazi deputies took the personal oath to Hitler at a meeting last night. The oath, following Hitler’s recent pro~- clamation that the Nazi party and the bourgeois State are one, formally proclaims that Hitler is the State. The meeting was addressed by Hitler, whose alarm at the rising resistance, led by the unconquerable German Soviet Era Opened | in China by Uprising By HARRY GANNES IN THE outskirts -of Canton, six years ago, wher the Chinese land~ lord-bourgeoisie, with the aid of the impertalists, slaughtered the last heroic band of defenders of the Can- ton Commune, they-thought they had crushed forever the Spectre of Soviet China, eS ‘Today on the 6th Anniversary of the Canton Commune, Soviet China covers one-seventh ‘of<all China. It has established a powerful central Soviet government’ in’ Kiangsi. The Chinese Red Army, =:born in the struggle to establish the Canton Sov- jet on October 10th, 1927, today numbers over 200,008 well-armed men, with the active support of tens of millions of revolutionary workers and peasants. ww The Red Army of Canton, which the Kuomintang imperialist hangmen felt it had crushed forever, today has developed into a force which in four years has defeated six-anti-Commu- nist campaigns organized by Chiang Kai-Shek, financed by American, Japanese, French and British imper- falism, D t Opens A New Era, ‘The Canton Commune, which tablished the hegemony of the work- ers and peasants in the Chinese revo~ jution. The only anti-imperialist force in China is the China Soviets. The Canton uprising took place at a period of declining revolutionary struggles, when the Kuomintang butchers sought to drown the 1927 revolution in a sea of blood. The Canton proletariat together with the revolutionary forces in the Kuomin- tang army and the peasant insurgents made one last herculean effort to crush the rising tide of white terror and influse new life, energy and vic- tory into the Chinese revolution. * [OUSANDS of the bravest of the Chinese proietariat were slain in their heroic onslaught against the citadel of the landiord-bourgesisie and the imperialists, The superior forces of the tmperialist-supported Chinese bourgeoisie defeated them. But the rivers of blood unloosened by the Chinese exploiters failed to wipe out’ the experiences and lessons of the-Canton Commune. For China, the Canton Commune was the equiv- alent of the 1905 Russian Revolution and the Paris Commune. But in this period of rapid revolutionary develop- ment, thanks to the correct policies of the Communist International and the tremendous energy and activity of the Communist Party of China, the rapid big sweep of Soviet China lasted barely three days, from October 10 to 13, was a rearguard revolution- new historical stage in China—the era of the establishment of Soviets and the Red Army of China. It es- was not delayed by a long period of revolutionary depression. Birth of Red mountains at the junction of the Provinces of Kwangtun, Fukien and Kiangsi. Out of this band, out of the turbu- lent struggles of the Shanghai, Hankow proletariat and the peasant uprisings in Kiangsi, in 1928 a Soviet. district was established in Kiangsi province, now the seat of the central From partisan, guerilla bands, the red troops have been forged into mighty, powerful armies which have defeated the pride of the Kuomin- tang troops, the 19th route army of Fukien province. Through repeated cffensives, aided by the impoverished and oppressed peasants, the Soviets Soviet district. | have constantly extended their terri- tory. Today the greater portion of Kiangsi province is Sovietized. A huge slice of Fukien is in the hands of the Soviets. A large circular territory covering Anwhei, Honan and Hupeh provinces have a Soviet ti. While Chiang Kai-Shek has been able to dislodge the army of Ho Lung from the small Soviet territory around the Hu Hung lake district, today this army has swelled from 4,000 to a mighty force of 60,000, with < ter- ritory increased a hundredfold in Szechwuan province. 195 THE SOVIET districts of China, tremendous economic advances have been made. The land has na- tionalized and turned over to peasants. ‘The workers have been or~ ganized in trade unions and their conditions vastly improved. So power- E Army. After the defeat of the Canton ary action opening up an entirely; Commune, and the destruction of the Haifun Soviets, some 300 armed workers and peasants under Mao Tse Tung and Chu Teh escapeg #o the has become Soviet China, inheritor of the Canton Commune, that the Lytton Commission of the League of Nations was forced to declare “there are two governments in Nanking and the Soviets.” No wonder, then, that all of the energies of the murderous Chinese landlord-capitalist-compradore bour- geoisie for the past four years has been concentrated in the effort to crush the Chinese Soviets. They have failed miserable. Dismemberment of China. ‘The Chinese bourgeoisie, split into fragments, puppets of the verious conflicting impertalist powers. has succeeded only in handing over huge sitces of China to the oppressors of the Chinese people. Japan was handed Manchuria. American imper- jalism was given huge concessions in Shanghai and in other territories controlled by Nanking, in payment for heavy loans to conduct the anti- Soviet wars and to pay graft to the war lords. British and French imper- jalism quietly were granted a death- grip on South and Central China. hankenpeey and ieee of th ¢ iency 1c Chinese ‘This bourgeoisie today is preparing a new militarist gime « rypetween ‘Nanking and Fukien. “a8 Chiang Kai-Shek regime is war ‘The planning new depredations, atroci- ties and miseries for the Chinese masses. | Hirsch was brutally tortured by | Storm Troopers during their raid on | the Karl Liebknecht House. Besides | subjecting him to fresh ill-treatment, | the Nazis have denied him any food for asweek. His physical and mental | condition is such that his life is en- - | dangered. Refused to Beat His Fellow | Prisoners ‘The reason for this fresh maltreat- ment is Comrade Hirsch’s refusal to | obey the sadistic orders of the Storm | Troopers to beat his fellow prisoners, | This method has been employed ta | a wide extent of late, especially in the Brandenburg concentration camp, in an effort to prevent the incarcerated | anti-fascists from combining against | their Nazi torturers. | ‘The Communist Reichstag member, | Johann Scheer, was arrested last week | in“his home in Berlin, during the | raids and mass arrests carried out by the Nazis in the week following the fascist “plebiscite.” |. The fact that the authorities are | keeping Scheer’s arrest secret gives cause for the greatest alarm. It | means that Scheer is in danger. of beitig tiurdered off-hand by the | Nazis, ‘The same danger is shared by the hundreds of other revolution- ary workers arrested recently, whose arrests are totally ignored by the fas- cist press. The Storm Troopers had received orders that the workers ar- rested.during the “election” cam- paign were not te be handed over to the Authorities, but were to be taken to the. Storm centers, that is, the torture chambers, of the Nazi mur- derers. Hamburg Leader Murdered By Naris Fritz Lux, a dock-worker and a revolutionary leader of the Hamburg proletariat, is reported to have died “suddenly and unexpectedly.” His | Strong . physique had succumbed to the tortures of the Nazis, following his, arrest last spring and incarcera- tion in a concentration camp. ‘bux was one of the best known and most popular Communist leaders in Hamburg, and lived in the Red workers’ quarters until he fell into the-hands of the Hitler executioners. He died on the 16th anniversary of the victorious Russian revolution. On Noy. 11 he was buried in Ohlsdorf Cemetery. The hundreds of Ham- burg workers who stood silently at his grave have sworn to revenge the murder of one of their best com~- rades. From Frankfort comes the news that Konrad Lang, chairman of the Communist fraction in the Frank~ fort town council and former deputy in the Hessen-Nassau Diet, has suc~ cumbed in a concentration camp to the tortures of the Nazis. FATHER AND SON SEND $16 HAMMOND, Ind.—Kenneth W. 6., of this city, not only contributed $5 to the Daily Worker but had his father equal his contribution, both sending $10 ‘to help save our paper. Communist Party, in the factories to the anti-workingclass Nazi was teflected in the empty in his concluding sentence that “no power in Germany will be able to overthrow this true people's State.” Six Years After, and the Chinese Canton Commune Lives Red Army Defeats Six . Anti-Communist _ Campaigns mune, Soviet China lives, advances, grows, assuring the final Victory of theese Rake and the end of landlord-ca imperialist doiiination which for a century has made a shambles of China. ‘The Chinese Soviets are an Inspire« workers y against the bi reaction Lecraaee the ee indee workers and colonial countries the way out of the capital-' ist, swamp of hunger and oppression the Chinese Sovi is hand millions. to the butcher ref > Chiang Kal-Shek to con- duct the anti-Soviet Recently the R.F.C. gave Nanking a Joan of $50,000,000 to wage war against the ‘Chinese workers. and peasants, American bankers and industrialists in China advance eo for” Se, oe aeece bard the workers if they the ‘The same masters in this