The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1933, Page 6

“America’s Only Worki Newspap FOUNDED 1 sur Publishes daily, except Go, Inc., 50 East i3th Telephone: Algonquin 4-7955 Gable "Address: “Maiwork Washington Bureay fiatheend F, st., Washingtor Subscription Rates Room By Mail: (except Manhattan or ® months, $3.50; $ months, $2.00 Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada @ months, $5.00; 3 months $3.00 1s ents My Carrier: Weekly, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 193 The Terzani Victory ‘THOS TERZANI has be The fascist m anti-fascist fighter. hony Fierro, the ni g and Defense ‘These. two facts the--weak sides of Committee's he unit work Securing th victory. This through unite: ing to. uniied ac in the Scotts national Labor Def cessful united strug: The Terzani case wa Significance. It aros fascist worker | of the fascist of another fascist not by the to frame°up the ant showing right here in the United tes the open collaboration be- tween fascist bodies and the governmental authorities, characteristic of the Leipzig trial in fascist Germany. ‘Therein lies the 1 nificance of the ‘Terzani case. case was first T But inseparably cor was the fight a back of Fierro’'s Terzani-to the electric termined ‘effort to vittion of the real m Utilization of the trial i tHe’ court, the pros: as symbolic of the ‘States: The trial itself sho srousiny of the masses against fasc rom sm in America, This was not done. he forced release of Terzani by th is now used to conceal the op of fascists, prosecutor and nocent Victim to his 1 inurderer. It is u for the very ca On t worke to frame him. + Let_the wor! Anthony Fierro rested immediate Tergani, while F + Moffer safe free: “Lerzani bys the -face! punished with Seeutor who wot been ar- state held Now with PHIS man WAS not Zani,. with non-class ing influence of “capitalist d by the capital- art of nave made le and the came fo. become for ther gles and thestruggies of the New recruits y hav vanguard of the “working clas This is the approach of a working class defense Organization to the question of the struggle in the courts, Political Strikes 000 Philadelphia workers in 48 A. F. on TUESDAY, 2, { Of I. cleaning and dye shops struck for half an ‘ hour, demanding the fi lom of the Scottsboro boys. ,4 Ab the same time 500 school children walked out on \ strike for the Scottsboro boys. On December 19, metal ‘4 Workers.in the Lehman Brothers’ plant in New York + Will Strike for 15 minutes, demanding the release of * thé four framed-up Reichstag fire triel defendants. { ‘These “actions, reflecting { against fascist terror in the United States and in other | Countries, show the development of higher forms of + Political struggle of the American workers. eee | FE AS-TRUE that these are small strikes, and the | SmGvement has not yet reached or organized the great Masses of workers. But they are a fine beginning. They show the rising international feelings of the ‘workers, and the necessity of connecting economic | Struggles with political strikes. { ~The organized workers in the shops are beginning | to see that such struggles are necessary to fight against fascist. oppression on a world-wide scale. ) © Bolitical strikes, because of their higher level, al- i Ways. require better organization, and above all the necessity of having real, close, intimate contact with the «masses of workers, to know their attitude and sentiments, "Yhe workers participating in th Hing to’feel the hand of ‘only. in their economic strik Si¥evacts. against ali workers. state, not more opp’ * 6 ff “These strikes show how important it is to work shops, and especially to raise political issues ‘the workers, and to organize them for struggle these issues. j ‘Whore actibris of this kind are needed. ‘They not . Pada tremendous force to the movement for the /0f the Scottsboro boys and against the Nazi threats hovering over the four defendants in the growing struggle | NEW YORE, EF ECE) EC#! RIDAY, D Writes a Letter Ambassador to Cuba, Sumner to the United Sta But s remain, American bankers life of the country, and the intrigue with the counter-revolu~ up by Welles is not budged one inch. Roose- ‘oke of Yankee esented in Cuba 8 turned will now b: Welles 11 do his share from | ¢ the State Department. On Saturday, the Daily Worker will publish a | translation from the Spanish of one of the most sensa- tional documents to come out of Cuba, written by Wel imself when the Grau-Batista regime first nto power. | This letter throws a flood of light on Welles’ sup- | port to the two counter-revolutionary armed uprisings. | They will make clearer to all workers the future policy American imperialism in Cuba of | Be sure to obtain a copy of Saturday's Daily | Worker and read these documents which will be printed exclusively in the United States in our columns. | Going--Where? RITING to his friend Grover Whalen today, Roose- velt declared: ‘The recovery program is an established fact. It has worked, is working, and is going to work.” Two days ago, Roosevelt told the farmers “We are on our way.” These statements of Roosevelt are beginning to resemble more and more the famous statements of Hoover about “prosperity being around the corner in y days.” They are just about as true and ac- curate. “Recovery program is working.” Sure it is. But not for recovery. And not for the workers. ‘The Roosevelt recovery program has given the 425 biggest Wall Street monopolies a 450 per cent in- crease in profits since March. For them it is working. But, at the same time, the buying power of the wages of the entire American working class has been slashed by 10 per cent since March! And the cost of food has gone up 16-24 per cent | in the largest cities! And the index of steel production has dropped 30 per cent, swifter than at any tjme in history, from the July peak And the New York Times Business index is at the Hoover 1932 levels! | | | | | “Recovery program is working.” Sure, a Public | Works Fund of $3,300,000,000, most of which has gone | for war preparations and subsidies to industrial mono- | polies, previding only 50,000 jobs—not the 4,000,000 | originally promised by Roosevelt! | | | | | Wage cuts, unemployment, intensified crisis, and war preparations, inflationary price rises—that is Roo- evelt’s program. “We are on our way.” To deeper crisis, to im- perialist war, to more intensified class struggles. Stockyards and Recruiting 'URTHER proof of isolation from the workers in a decisive industry where major struggles have taken place is contained in the report from the Chicago dis- trict on recruiting for the Party for the past month. | Not one new member was enlisted in the Commu- nist Party for the past month in the stockyards dis- trict of Chicago, Yet around the stockyards there exists a section which was specially built for concentration on stock- yards. This Party section at present has a member- ship of 135. There is a shop nucleus in one of the | packing plants, though it is very weak. The stockyards was the scene recently of a mil- itant and successful strike of some 8,000 workers. There was ferment and discontent among all other stock~ | yards workers that alarmed the bosses. ‘The stockyards have been a concentration point in Chicago and is extremely important because of the large number of Negro workers employed along with white workers, ° wat are the main reasons for this dismal failure to recruit members for the Party in this concen- tration industry in this most favorable situation? First, as was pointed out in an editorial of the Daily Worker on the stockyards strike, there is the isolation of our Party from the main body of workers in the stockyards, Serious efforts have not been carried through on the concentration policy with the result- ing failure to strengthen the Party among the workers as the leader of the struggles. ey SA The Party has been working in the stockyards for many years, But when the recent strike broke out our Party was isolated from the workers. This shows the failure of day to day work, correct application of the united front, partciularly among workers under the jJeadership and influence of the A. F. of L.; the failure to win over individual workers for the Party; it shows the effect of hiding the face and program of the Par- ty among the stockyards workers. These workers are not hostile to the Communist Party. They are filled with prejudices, misgivings and lack of understanding | of the Party program. But it was our task to break | these down, to enter their struggles and win over the | advanced workers, . | ie we have a concrete and glaring failure to carry out the Open Letter. This situation must be remedied Immediately. We invite the Chicago district leadership to discuss this poor showing in stockyards recruiting. We especially invite members of the stockyards section to send us letters discussing the failures and proposing plans for remedying the situation, ‘The whole Party can learn @ lesson from the failures in the stockyards district and use it to ex- amine their own weaknesses in concentration and rapid recruiting for the Party, particularly in the decisive, basic industries. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y¥. Please send me more information on the Commu- nist Party, ADDRESS....... SAVE TORG ui LE Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the original drawings of Burck’s cartoons: R, DIM OFF, TANEFF FEED TR and of $7.50. Other T. R. Weeks wins yesterday's drawing with a bid $1.14; Allan Parret, $1, Total to date, $562.34, POPOFF! bids, Pen and Hammer, Rochester, Philippine Leader Ordered to Prison To Serve 4 Years NEW YORK:—-F. Feleo, outstanding young peasant organizer of the Na- tional Peasants Confederation of the Philippines has just lost his appeal on “sedition” charges before the local Supreme Court and will now have to enter prison to serve a term of four years,-niné months and 11 days and pay. $250 ‘Tine. Feleo has led struggles against the landlords, who have lately adopted a policy of confiscating the entire crop of the peasant following the harvest. After the ousting of Jabinto Man- aham (who was expelled from the Communist Party of the P. I. as a traitor), Feleo became the leader of the National Peasants Confederation. The entire Central Committee of the Communist Party is under arrest, many of the members facing as high as eight years’ banishment and jail and huge fines. Leaders of the Pro- letarian Labor Congress, the National Confederation of Peasants, the I.L.D. Anti-Imperialist League and the Co! munist Party are today entering dun- geons to serve long prison terms for “sedition” and membership in an “‘il- legal organization.” The Supreme \Court of the United States has re- fused to consider their appeal for a new trial, In a spirit of solidarity with an oppressed people suffering under the tyranny of U. S. imperialism, and de- termined to arouse the American workers to the realization of the ter- ror in the Philippines, the Filipino Anti-Imperialist League and the In- ternational Labor Defense is calling a conference on Filipino cases and terror in the Philippines for this Sun- day, Dec. 17, at 11 a. m. at 132 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn. All organizations are invited to send two delegates each, and visitors are welcomed. Joseph Tauber, labor lawyer and Robert W. Dunn, chairman of the Anti-Imper- ifalist League will be among the speak- ers. There will also be a poster ex- hibition of life in the Philippines. France and Britain In Armament Race: In Rift Over Arms, PARIS, Dec. 14—Despite all offi- cial talk of peace, the fight for in- creasing armaments is rising higher, reports here indicate. The rift Between Britain and France over the question of the re-armament of Germany is grow- ing. The British Ambassador re- turned here from London without issuing any statement on Hitler's demand for greater military forces. Since France is determined that the German bourgeoisie shall not have an increased army, this cool- ness of Britain to France’s demand for its assistance in keeping the German bourgeoisie within the lim- its of the Versailles Treaty, is ag- gravating the present race for in- creased armaments all over Eu- trope. The munitions industry is working day and night all over the continent. EDITOR’S NOTE:—With news of rising armed struggles of the work- ers taking place in many centers of Spain, after the recent elections, the fo! statement of the Con- ee of the Communi: Spain is of special portance. It emphasizes the cow ter-revolntionary role of the an- archists and the Socialist Party of Spain, both of whom are engaged in attempting to disorganize and confuse the growing mass struggies of the Spanish masses for the over- throw of the hourgeois-landlord dic- tatorship. gh g 5 ° MADRID, Noy. 23 (By Mail). —To- day's number of “Mundo ‘Obrero,” the central organ of the C. P. of Spain, publishes an extensive appeal of the C.C. of the C.P. of Spain to the work- ers, peasants and all exploited, in which it is stated: “The elections have taken place in a@ period of powerful growth of the revolutionary actions of the workers and peasants. In view of this sit- uation, and frightened by the tremen- Bullitt Hails USSR Progress; Greeted By Pres. Kalinin U.S.Ambassador Finds Prosperous City (Special to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (By Cable).— Today, Mikhail Kalinin, President of Council of People’s Commissars of the U. S. S. R., received the United States Ambassador William C. Bullitt, who presented his official credentials, Kalinin and Bullitt exchanged warm greetings, as Bullitt issued a state- ment to the representatives of the Soviet Government and the foreign press. Among other things, Bullitt said: “I pledge you every effort within my powers to forge strong and enduring ties between our two countries. I be- lieve the words of President Kalinin when he says that the Soviet Gov- ernment has always been ready to es- tablish friendly relations with the United States.” Bullitt informed the press that the staff of the American Embassy will be very numerous, and that American consulates will be organized in vari- ous points of the U. S. S. R.. Bullitt continued: “I was struck with the tremendous changes in Moscow compared with what I saw the last time I was here. Moscow gives the impression of great liveliness and active business. Big new buildings can be seen everywhere. The traffic is heavy, and the pedestrians are well-dressed. It is an extremely striking fact these changes in the external appearance of the city took place while the country was devoting its main ef- forts to industrial construction.” and the Disarmament Conference have openly admitted that the dan- ger of war is growing closer, and that all the so-called “peace Leading officials of the League agencies” have broken down. Why the American Delegate Liked the Collectiv By VERN SMITH (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker) KAZAN,’ U.S. S. R., Nov. 16 (By Maily—This ~is a description of a collective farm in the Soviet Union, but not just of any collective. It is al a Tartar collective, and the Tartars in the.old Czarist Russia oc- cupied about.the same place in so-~ ciety that the.Negroes do in the American South, that the Hindus do in the British Empire, that the Ne- groes do in South Africa, that the aborigines do in Australia. It was quite appropriate, therefore, that the group which went out from the main body of British and Amer- ican worker delegates to the Soviet Union, to see this Tartar collective should have included an American, an Englishman, an Australian anda couple of South Africans—and the correspondnt of the Daily Worker. Is Average Collective ‘The collective lies 40 miles from Kazan, the city of over 200,000, which the rest of the delegation was study- ing. The reason for that distance is that in Czarist Russia Tartars were not allowed to live in the best parts of the province, along the main high- way. Also, this particular kolkhoz, or collective farm, is considered a good average, neither the best nor the worst, The assistant commissar of agriculture for the Autonomous Tar- tar Socialist Soviet Republic traveled out with us, and offered us a choice of any others-around, and we picked this one. This official, by the way, was once a poor Tartar peasant. His name is Uunusun. These collective farmers had never been visited by foreigners before; they made.a big occasion of it. A sign hurriedly painted on boards and stuck over the door of the clubhouse greeted us when we climbed out of the automobiles and out of the fur robes which Tartar hospitality had swathed us in. The sign read, lit- erally, as follows: “WELL KOMME YOU." Somebody there is learning English, though we never found out who. And they made us welcome, with speeches, with a parade of school children, with roast goose and five kinds of-bread and plenty soup, Pickels, Horley, cakes, tea and beer. 6 Visit to Tartar Collective Shows Advance of Formerly Oppre: ssed Nationality ‘When we couldn’t eat any more, they insisted on wrapping up a big bundle of the cakes and forcing us to take it along with us. We found about 300 families, with That many small family farms had been united. It was very new, only about two years old, but a clubhouse with cheerful meeting rooms had been built, three schools were in op- eration, a barn of 150 horses was be- ing used, and a cow barn for 160 cat- tle was nearing completion, along with other buildings, especially un- derground rooms for vegetables and potatoes. A regular building boom was going on. Activity and Enthusiasm ‘What showed the spirit of the kolkhozniks as much as anything else was that they couldn't get a saw mill until next year—such things are pro- duced as rapidly as possible in the Soviet Union, but there are hundreds of thousands of kolkhozes; these Tar- tars weren't waiting for the saw mill, All their building were constructed of planks and squared timbers, sawed out by hand, over a big pit, with one man above the log and one below. Similarly, they were starting the winter with an ambitious program of wagon and sleigh construction, all by hand—even the wheels being made by hand. Only their sowing and harvesting was mechanized this year; they rented tractors and machinery from the nearest Machine Tractor Station for 1 per cent of the crop per hectare if the yleld is one ton per hectare, and another one-half per cent for each additional ton per hec-~ tare.. (A hectare 'is two and a half ecres.) The entire collective farm was 1,850 hectares. ‘ A big campaign has ben waged by ‘the Communist Party recently and by the Commissariats of agriculture {and of collective farms for winter (Preparations, proper care of live stock, etc. Here was my first chance to see its concrete effects. On this kolkhoz, not only will the stock hay 1,300 people living on the kollthoz.! warm quarters, stables with glass windows and provision for hauling water to them, but there are long tows of haystacks to sustain them. And the warm underground storage places, all newly constructed, will pre- serve quantities of potatoes, vegetables ; apples and honey, things the Tartars never had in their long centuries of segregation and oppression under the Czars, They have now their own bee farm, their own vegetable gar- dens and orchards, Something else they have too, edu- cation, Whereas when the kolkhoz was formed, three-quarters of its pop- ulation could neither read nor write, now there are only 55 people in the whole farm that can not, and these ,expect to learn during 1934, Three o These children come from homes that look, inside, to me about like good types of farm houses in America. The Australian commented that they were about the same as in his coun- try. The floors were very clean, so were €ie walls and ceilings. Pictures were on the walls, and the table had a white cloth. Of course there were fitted; it’s a cold country in winter. Heating would be by an enormous white tiled stove. And among the pictures, alongside of family scenes would be the faces of Lenin, Stalin and Voroshilov. There is a good reason for those pictures, The Bolshevik revolution represents to this formerly oppressed nationality even more, perhaps, than it does to the formerly oppressed Russian, A race living in conditions about like those of the American Negro, Jim Crowed as he is, doubly oppressed as he is, forcibly kept in nights a week classes are taught in the club house on political subjects, \ Scientific agriculture, cattle breeding, etc. Others go to night school nearby. Some will be sent to the higher schools in Kazan, and will come back with advanced knowledge. In the vil- lage are 27 radios, to keep them in touch with the outside world. The ,Teporter from the Communist news- paper published in Tartar language in Kazan was present, and his paper is widely read on the kolkhozes. Children Well Cared For. We saw the Kindergarden for young children up to seven years; and they ‘did a Tartar dance for us, We saw the primary school where 134 chil- dren from the age of seven and a half to twelve and a half study. They Were obviously well fed,) well clad; they assured us they were studying hard, they were happy, that there teen study, but we to go through. ignorance as is the Negro, has been completely liberated. The uniyersi- ties and the ‘government’ posts of his autonomous republic are. filled with: his people. He is being educated. His standard of. . living . .is . immensely Moscow Lively, Busy, ! “m'C.P. of Spain Gives Position on Recent . Election Results ‘ C. C. Statement Analyzes Reactionary Role of Anarchists, Socialist Party Leadership dous force of the revolutionary moves ment the ruling classes and their “ree |publican” government have resorted to eyery F le maneuver in order {to falsify, annul and steal tens of |thousands of Communist votes which jwere cast by the workers and peas- ants in the whole country.,.. The Communist Party therefore openly de- clares that it does not recognize the faked figures which the government and its counter-revolutionary State apparatus gave out as the sum total of the votes really cast for the Party, Big Vote i In spite of the forgeries and the robbery of workers and peasants’ votes, the official statistics have’ to admit that the Communist Party has polled about 200,000 votes in the whole country. In reality, however, at the elections of November 19, our Party polled more than 400,000 votes, even if one accepis the fraudulent and contradictory figures given by the press and compares them with the data obtained. by our organizations. Our Party received the majority of workers’ votes in the most important centers, such as Seville, Malaga, Cor- doba, in the important mining dis- tricks of Asturia and the Basque prov- ince, and the majority of the votes cast by the land workers and peas- ants in many villages of Andalusia, Estremadure and even in Castile. With the number of votes actually cast for it, and even according to the bourgeois election law, the Commu- jnist Party would have obtained more than 20 seats in the case of propor- tional representation instead of the one seat actually allotted to it. By increasing its votes from 60,000 in July, 1931, to 400,000 in November, 1933, the Communist Party has great- ly extended its influence over vast masses of socialist and anarchist workers, submitted to them its reyo- jutionary program of struggle for the workers’ and peasants’ government, and made a big advance in winning the masses for the revolutionary way out. of the crisis. ‘The considerable increase in the votes cast for the “Right” parties, the monrachist and fascist bands, coupled with the cynical falsifica- tion of the election result, undoubted- ly means & temporary success of the counter-revolution. Anarchists Aid Counter-Reyolotion The elections further prove a smashing defeat for the republican- socialist block. The so-called “Left groups have been almost completely wiped out.... The tremendous loss- es of the socialist party would have been. still more considerable if the social-fascist leaders, in particular, Largo Caballero and consorts, had not resorted to fresh maneuvers in order to deceive the working masses and to keep them from joining our Party. In their use of “Left” dema. gogic phraseology they even went so far as to employ Communist slogans such as dictatorship of the proletar- iat, armed revolt, etc... . ‘The -elections further proved how harmful and counter - revolutionary were the tactics of the anarchist leaders, who advocated abstention from the poll, These professional disorganizers of the revolution are, together with the socialist leaders, mainly responsible for the advance of counter-revolution. . J. Encouraged by their tem election success, reaction and fascism are raising their head and are at- tempting to deal a blow to the ad- vancing revolution. But they will not succeed in this. The revolution is marching on, because not a single one of the fundamental problems has been, or can be, solved by the pres- ent regime. We are on the eve of great strug- gles, decisive struggles for workers’ and peasants’ power. The fight for bread, land and freedom is being participated in by millions of work- ers and peasants, and must ultimate- ly triumph. ... + us organize our struggles, let us set up factory and peasant com- mittees! Factory Committees We propose the setting up of democratically elected factory and workshop committees. These com- mittees have to organize a strike movement for higher wages and the as well as for the decisive fight against the counter-revolution and fascism. . ‘Setting up of peasants’ committees. for the seizure of the iand. and the distribution of the land, harvest and’ cattle, as well as the defence of the land which has been expropriated. — Setting up of unemployed commit- tees for the fight for bread, relief and work. i Setting up of workers’ and peasants’ self-defence groups in order to pro- tect the revolutionary toilers and to - fight against threatening fascism, _. Immediate Demands _ It is necessary to set un the united front of- struggle in order to realize ) the. following. demands: Tie ta release of olitjeal prisoners, @ class et fascist laws, for the tensive right of combination, free- dom of the press, demonstrations and. etings, and the right to against. unemployment and sals, general increase in wages, : all proletarian } fy \ i