The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1933, Page 8

“America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1984 Published daity o., Inc., 80 Ea: Telephone: ALgonquin 4-79 Cable) Address: Dalwork Washington Bureau ith and F. St, We 8 Mail: (except onths, $3.50; 3 m Maphattan, Bronx, ® months, $5.00; 3 By Carrier: Weekly By é SATURDAY. DEC Give JORKERS T know? prepara they do it in the name of If ali the p uring the past yeat, we W lab in:the United The N.RA The P.W.A, was to W now whillion ! Every on. the numk declared 9,000,00¢ ET there are still te seventeen million out jobs. And the number is New York & decrease in emplo ania in riod, with a 5 s, The num- mployed also de- eS also show 2 cline (that is, an of 3 cline of 1 working time But what worries Mr. Ciiamberlain and British imperialism is that this raising of the domestic price levels is not confined to the home markets, but is in- evitably accompanied by a renewed, intensified, ag- stessive drive for markets, particularly the markets where British trade Is predominant! And the nature of the British imperial to Roosevelt’s inflationary imperialist drive | from the following, taken from a speech of jain quoted in @ leading British banking journal It is time that it is fully recognized that we are not prepared to sit down and see our vital interests jeopardized by unfair practices or discrimination of any kind.” Th tt reprisals already smells of war. and U. 8. oil in- is Anglo-American w the masses of Bolivia and aughtered in the fight over Briti: ats in Chaco. | B JT the imperialist American delegation continues to | drive ahead for British ‘kets. On Dec. 12 Hull proposed at Montevideo that “the countries . . . estab- lish bilateral reciprocity based on material concessions.” This means that Hull is attempting to break down | the British trade agreements, and is trying to pene- rate into these British trade markets. It means that Hull is trying to lure the South American countries way from Britain by offering them preferential mark-~ | in those agricultural products which are not | produced here at home. | Thus, the Rooseyelt inflation gold-buying policy, the outward face of the N.R.A. monopoly price- raising policy, as well as the British drive to retain their markets, is sharpening the imperialist Anglo- American antagonisms, bring ever closer the open explosion of imperialist war. ‘We must sound the alarm against these imperialist war designs of the Roosevelt government! The at~ tack on the living standards of the masses is part of | this war drive for foreign markets. For it is the Amer- | ican masses who must pay for the “dumping” losses | of Wall Street imperialism as it pours cheap products | into the foreign markets. The broadest solidarity of the U. 8. with the | Latin American workers must be cemented in their | common fight against Yankee exploitation and im- | perialist robbery! | | The Next Step at Weirton Pr WASHINGTON there is a lot of blustering talk, | shifty maneuvering to screen the real role of the | N.R.A., but in the hell holes of the Weirton Steel Co. | plants, 14,000 workers are being driven into “yellow dog” company unions because they believed the prom- ° | ises of the N.R.A. | In spite of ali the talk about court action, which | Mr. Weir, president of the company, said he wel- comed, the workers were denied the right to elect their | own representatives and to choose their own union, | The Weirton situation is the festering boil come | to a head on the whole body of the N.R.A, Here the workers, believing they had a right to join a | union of their own choosing, went on strike to enforce this right. They wanted a union to improve their | conditions, as they had just suffered a wage cut as er | a result of the N.R.A. steel slave code. promises in th accept at. face provide jobs for Sim so great! ‘The: , that they taanot For ti us disap- poiniment s through- | out the enti to open in the. morning jay after day the faint hope of a job. : cag is a that must be considered in our I ed, and in the work of 1 Convention 5 o be held in Washington on r JOBS FOR ALL | WITHOUT DISCR The masse Rose in New ar posure of Roose- res, and the de- ployment in- ie that, within a t by combining the ediate relief, and un- powerful, and militant 1 be set in motion. ues—jobs, imme- —in the work for energetic stru employment i mass moyement o' ‘These must be the three cer diate relief, unemployment insura: the ‘national conventior Montevideo Conference --An Imperialist Battleground latest statement of Roosevelt re-affirming his determination to continue his inflationary gold- buying policy is of great significance not only as it affects the living standards of the American masses here at home, but equally so as it affects the foreign policy of the Wall Street imperialism. Roosevelt’s latest statement gives unmistakable warning to Wall Street's imperialist rivals, par- ticularly Britain, that he, as the agent of Wall Street imperialism, will continue to drive aggressively out- ward for foreign markets now under the domination of the British Empire. “And at the present Montevideo Conference, where the delegates of the South and Latin-American coun- ‘tries have assembled to discuss matters with Roosevelt's Secretary of State Hull, this growimg fierce rivalry between Britain and the United States is breaking through all the discussions on trade, debts and “peace.” Pan-American Confere turned into a huge battl vering to tie the Latin-Ameri chariot of U. 8. imperialism in } finance capital in South America, Recently Britain strengthened its South American position through thé Anglo-Argentine trade ments. tushed through just before the London Economic Con- ference, But now American imperialism is driving ruth- lessly ahead to break down this advantage. “It is already reported that the traditional pro- British Argentina is getting support of the Hull dele- gation in return for some concessions granted it by the American delegates. The ruthless, aggressive imperialist drive of the Roosevelt government is already finding its response im the upper ranks of British imperialist finance capital. .. That Chambe; at Montevideo is being with Hull maneu- tes behind the agaMst British 1 should un tand the Roosevelt iomestic prices through in- the policy of ly capi- York to smash- | for JOBS for the | PLOYMENT IN- | | They fought militantly and well, and had every | prospect of victory, though their A. F. of L. leaders, | acting with state police, urged them to stop mass picketing. . | THE STRIKE could not be broken by the bosses’ | violence, so the N.R.A..stepped in with its oily | promises. With the prestige of the President of the United States, with the boiled-shirt promises of Sen- | ator Wagner and General Johnson, undersigned by the leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, | Sheet and Tin Workers, the workers were told they | would be granted the right to vote for their own repre- | sentatives, without company union interference, and | that there would be no discrimination. | Now all of these promises have been brutally | | | ed oe violated. Over 2,500 workers were fired. Friday, the bosses forced a company union election, In Wash~ ington, the N.R.A. blustered about court action. But the workers know this is some more window dressing to stall them off, to keep them from action. The courts are but other instruments of the bosses’ | power of suppression. Even should the matter be taken | to the courts, the workers could expect nothing from | these citadels of capitalist rule. Now the workers are faced with the problem of | What to do next. The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, Sheet and Tin leaders have already de- | feated a rank and file proposal to strike to win the | right of organization, so that they may have a power to improve their living and working conditions. The company union has been installed and strengthened by the deeds of the N.R.A. See he | )PHE FUTURE is in the hands of the Weirton steel workers, They should rally their forces to organize | their union in the shops to improve their conditions, to insure a weapon in the struggle against “Shoot a | Few” Weir, as well as the capitalist state forces that | back him. They must break completely with the strikebreaking leading that made such a crass défeat | and betrayal possible. To accomplish this end, in every mill of the Weir- | ton steel, in every department, in every shift, the workers should build up their struggle committees. ‘They should know that the whole workingclass has been aroused by the N.R.A. betrayal of the Weirton Steel Co. workers. They must prepare for attion— the only action that can win them any rights and prevent more oppressive action of the bosses—strike! ‘To achieve this action, detailed, thorough organiza~ tion is necessary, based on the workers in the shops, free from the death-grip of the betraying A. F. of L. leaders, | we. wee | ne DOUBT, as a result of the last strike in Septem- ber and October, the workers learned who were | the most militant and trustworthy in their own ranks. | It is these forces who should take the initiative for the present drive for organization, Undoubtedly, in each department there still exists the core of organi- zation which can be kindled into life and arouse all the workers to struggle. These must be strengthened and begin to act, to develop a program of struggle, to propagandize and organize the workers, At the same time, we must point out that before the strike, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union had made some valuable contacts in the Weir- ton Steel Company's mills, Unfortunately, these were ruptured during the strike itself, as the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union was devoting all its energies to the Ambridge and other strikes. struggle to protect their rights and living standards, |Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 122TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information en the Comma- nist Party, MADER. ccse us eeevecee Weeeeeeneeee seeereecee neeeee , Great Britain not excepted. { ADDRESS...... 050006 But now this union must concentrate on the Weir=. | | ton Steel Co., to galvanize the workers into actioti, | to help them in mobilizing their forces for a decisive | HITLER’S SHARE-THE-WORK PLAN OP of Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the original drawings of Burck’s cartoons: Workers Laboratory DAILY WORKFR, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1933 —By Burek } | Theatre wins yesterday's drawing with a bid of $5. Total to date, $567.34, Ford to Speak at Meet to Protest Venezuela Terror Actions Against Gomez Rule NEW YORK. — James W. Ford, will be the main speaker at a meet- ing called to protest against the bloody terror of the Vincent Gomez cictatorship in Venezuela, to be held Sunday, 3 p. m., at Esthonian Hail, 27 W. 115 St. This meeting 4s called by the Venezuelan Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. ‘Tuesday, Dec. 19, is the 25th an- niversary of the butcher regime of the “Tiger of Maracay” as the tyrant is known to the people of Venezuela and all South America. ‘The International Labor Defense. the Carribbean Secretariat, and other organizations, have called for the flooding of the Venezuelan embassy at Washington, D. C., with protests against the inhuman treatment of political prisoners in Venezuela, on this anniversary, More than 800 political prisoners are held in the dungeons of Gomez, subjected to daily torture. Recently, word leaked out of the death of one of them last March, eaten to death by lice introduced into his wounds to increase and multiply while he was bound with heavy chains to prevent ILD Calls for Protest} Anniversary Issue to’ Have Special Articles, on Capitalist Press “My Experience With the Capi- | talist Press,” by Marguerite Young, of the Daily Worker Washington Bureau, will be one of the special features in the 24-page Tenth An- niversary edition of the Daily Worker. In this article Comrade Young tells how she saw news suppressed or distorted while she was a staff correspondent for the Associated Press, and later as a feature writer for the “liberal” New York World- Telegram. The Anniversary Edition, which will appear in 24 pages, will con- tain a history of the Daily Worker; an article on the World Commu- nist Press; the struggle against fascism; the Daily Worker and the Crisis, and a large number of other articles of vital importance. Sixteen pages of the Anniver- sary issue will be the form of a magazine supplement. With orders for more than 1(0,- 000 copies already received, present plans call for the running off of a total of 250,000 of the Anniver- sary Edition. his taking them off. Protests should be addressed to Pedro Arcaya, Venezuelan Embassy, Washington, D. C., from every meet- ing of working class organizations in the United States, and especially | Anglo-U.S. Fight i} Montivideo 15,000 Bolivians Slaughtered in Chaco War Rises, As Imperialists Talk At LA PAZ, Dec. 15.—While the Monte- video Conference is going on with barely concealed antagonisms between Great Britain and the United States dominating the procedure, open war- fare between Bolivia and Paraguay has broken out with renewed force. This armed conflict reflects the eco- nomic warfare of the United States and Great Britain, the United States supporting and aiding Bolivia, and Britain helping Paraguay. Along the Chaco front, where the two armies are now fighting, more than 15,000 Bolivian soldiers were wiped out two days ago, according to dispatches from Paraguay. ‘The Bolivian Government is calling 16-year old boys to the army, it was reported yesterday. ‘The dispute is over a boundary line, which covers important oil lands, for which the Standard Oil Company of the U. S. is struggling against the British oil monopolies, Send your greetings to the 24- page Tenth Anniversary edition of Workers Torturéd, Murdered in the NAZI MURDER OF WORKERS INCREASES Prisoners Camp Delegates Report ‘Monday on Month’s: Tour of the Soviets 3° Workers to Speak on What They Saw in the U.S. S. R. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Three work- fers, delegates from the Friends -of the Soviet Union, who toured the | workers’ Russia as guests of the Russian trade unions, will report to the American workers on life in the Soviet Union, on Monday night, at the Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St., Manhattan. Hays Jones, a New York marine tool and die maker, and John Geraghty, California metal worker, were the three delegates, They toured the vast country where the workers’ rule for over a month, from as far north as Cheliabinsk, Siberia, to as far south as Kazan. They saw collective farms, huge and modern up to the minute factories, schools, museums, art institutes, children’s nursuries, restaurants, theatres and , movies, everything that would give a pic- ture of life in this new country. They are filled with enthusiasm and pride for this workers’ land. The American delegation saw the huge AMO works in Moscow which had just. produced its 35,000th truck, and afterwards wrote that the sheet metal and metal stamp- ing departments were efficiently run, and they could find no fault with it, They said that not only are the plants up to date, and that the workers running the plants know their business, but that work in the plants, and around the plants, is what made them realize that they were in a country foreign not only in language, but in ideas. “In America we’ve got to keep our nose close to the grindstone. Here, the workers work, but not hectically, not at the terrific rate of speed that they do in American plants. The workers of Russia ‘have a tremendous feeling of power. They know that this country is theirs, and that they are building for themselves. Even the kids in the streets know this.” The delegation will give full and complete reports of what they saw in this land where the workers. and farmers are the rulers at the meet- ing on Monday, at 8 p. m., Irving Plaza. Tenth issue of the Daily Worker, Jan. 6. 24 pages. Articles by leaders of Comminist Party, U. S. A.; greetings from leaders of the world Communist from every demonstration against the Leipzig frame-up on Dec. 19th. the Daily Worker. Rush them to | us before Dec. 30. movement; special features by staff members, Rush your orders. No Class Distinctions Permitted in Ranks; Part of the Masses By R. BISHOP MOSCOW—One of the most in- teresting days spent by the British workers’ delegation to the Soviet Union was when they, in company with all the other foreign delegations, visited the Moscow House of the Red Army, Here they found an Army where politics are encouraged, not discouraged, where the soldiers are taught to think for themselves and not regard themselves as mere auto- mata, Here they found Commanders—as all ranks above Private are called— who had in almost every case sprung from the ranks of the working-class or peasantry and whose guiding star was Socialist construction and inter- national working-class solidarity. Closest Contact Here they found an. Army of the toilers who are kept in the closest contact with the workers and peas- ants from whom they sprang. In capitalist countries everything is done to keep the Army and the toiling masses apart—in the Soviet Union. everything is done to bring “them .closely together so that they may the better fight their common battle against world-capitalism and for the construction. of Socialism. ‘The Red Army is the university of the people and has done more than any other single thing to raise the cultural level of the once illiterate Russian masses. The delegates had a busy day at the Red Army House. The first thing they did was to go through the War Museum,*where they got an excel- lent idea of the way in which the workers and peasants during the Civil War repulsed the forces of the im- perialist powers. At one time in 1919 over half of what is now the Soviet Union was in imperialist hands, The delegates saw the primitive cannon made from sew- age pipes, the pikes, even bows and arrows with which, in many places, the Partisans fought the well- equipped White forces and their im- perialist allies. A large placcard quotes Churchill to the effect that 250,000 rifles, 200 cannon and 30 tanks were given to General Denikin alone. This par- Soviet Red ticular White Guard blackguard was made a Knight Commander of the Bath by George Windsor and given a pension by the French goy- ernment. Many of Churchill’s gifts to Denikin —gifts made at the expense of the British workers—found their way in- to Red hands, through capture or the desertion of the White rank-and-file. ‘The ending of the first war of inter- vention was followed by the Polish War, in which France took the lead-- ing position among the imperialist powers that had previous'y boon oc- cupied by Britain, A Toilers’ Army Today the Red Army is well equip- ped, well trained, well clad and well fed. It regards itself not as a Rus- sian Army, but as a toilers’ army, How it is constituted, how a ranker rises to become a Commander, how discipline is maintained, these were the kind of questions to which the as men doing the same work. She was a fully qualified chemical en- gineer, and held a rank equivalent to Captain. “Seeing that there is sex equality in the Soviet Union and men are oblged to serve in the Red Army, why is compulsion not applied to women also?” asked one delegate. Not even all men are taken, it, was pointed out to him, Only those who are toilers and who are physically fit to serve. “ We have a population of men sufficient to defend us from our .}enemies, But those women who are strong enough and who wish to serve in special branches can do so.” “Will women serve in the trenches in the event of war?” asked the per- sistent delegate. The young General replied: “Our women, I am confident, would fight, if it were necessary to do so, on the same basis as our men, to defend the delegation wanted answers. So after going through the Mu- seum and having lunch, the delega- tion adjourned with a young Lieu- tenant-General, and about 20 other Commanders of ranks between Col- nel and’ Lance-Corporal. They were free to address their questions to any individual they chose. But it took them, some time to get over their as- tonishment at the free and easy way in which Corporal ‘and General min- gled with ane another. First of all, how js the Army re- cruited? It is considered an honor for any toiler to bear arms in defense of the Workers’ Republic, and to toil- ers this privilege is restricted. No person coming from the ex-rul- ing class can serve in the Red forces. But all toilers are liable to military training of 18 months duration. Those who wish to remain in the Army or show special aptitude are sent to train to become Commanders. Drawn from Ranks ‘There is a direct, unimpeded path ,trom Private to General. The entire commanding staff of the Red Army, the Red Navy and the Red Air Force is drawn from the ranks of the work- ers and peasants. Women play a big part in certain branches of the Red Army, The del- ‘egates closely questioned one smart. woman Commander. She was the daughter of a locomotive engine driver, and had been for tliree years a student at the military chemical academy. In regard to her rights and Workers’ Fatherland. They have done so before, during the Civil War, when thousand of women performed yeo- man service in the fighting line. “Women in our country partici- pate in everything on the same basis as men. But we think we have enough men to defend us against all comers; if necessary, however, our working and peasant women will be with us.” The delegates were very interested in the. way,in which discipline is maintained in the Red Army. The contrast between the rigidly imposed discipline from on high which is the rule of capitalist armies, and the self- imposed discipline of the Red Army struck them forcibly. Freedom Off Duty On duty the Red Army soldier sai- utes his Commander and obeys his order unquestioningly. Off duty there is no salute—and Private and Com~- mander mingle as freely as any other two citizens of a free Soviet Republic. In the uniform of and Private there is no ‘distinction, ex- cept in the badge denoting the grade of commandership which the wearer has reached, Such a thing as an Officer’s “bat~ man” is unknown. The severest pun- ishment is meted out to any Com- mander who uses his position to get the Private to perfor~1 personal serv- ices, A Cavalry Officer has a Private, whose duty it is to groom and look after his horse, but that is all. As ib was vut to the delegation: Army Is Worker’s, Farmer’s Army her pay she was in the same volte Aly Great Cultural Force; Soldiers Get Political Training “If a Private cleans a Commander's boots for him, the latter is brought before a disciplinary court; if’ his wife cleans them for him, it goes on the wall newspaper of the barracks.” Disciplinary courts exist to which a soldier of any rank can take any other Red Army man whom he ac- cuses of an abuse of power, and on these courts the private soldier is fully represented. The Privates who sit on these Tribunals are elected at full general meetings of the men. Delegates were very anxious to clear up the point ‘as to what per- centage of Communists were in the Red Army. Some of them had read that only Communists were allowed in, Even in the Commanding ranks the percentage of Communists is only 45. In the ranks the percentage is about 30 per cent at time of entry, and about 45 per cent at demobilization. The increase being due to the fact that with the elimination of illiteracy which the Army classes ensure, and with the cultural and political eiuca- tion that is provided, large numbers of non-Communists see the necessity of applying for membership of the Party under whose leadership the great task of Socialist construction is i i 35 i z z 4) & EF : Z : g : worker, Tom Austin, a Minneapolis} |C. P. Works Heroically to Organize Fight Against Fascism | BERLIN, DEC. 15.—Ten Ger- man Communist workers have been sentenced to die at the hands of a Nazi executioner for an alleged attack on a Nazi Storm Troeper. The Nari Judge, in handing down the decision said: “The evidence has shown that two of the ten workers took part im the shooting of the Storm Trooper. The others had neth- ing to do with it. But they are guilty because they wished the deed done.” © e BRESLAU. Three corpees, bound with rope and weighted ‘with stones, were just found by work- ers in the Filtz Pond near Schnei- berg. One of the bodies was iden= tified as the body of a Communist Trade Union fraction leader, Hoob, a Comrade who had suffered Nazi tortures for many days before he disappeared. . . BERLIN.—The miner, Theodore Hebers, was riddled with bullets in the concentration camp near Essen, He was one of the leaders in the Ruhr Valey uprising in 1920. The © Nazis said that he “was trying to escape.” oats BERLIN. — The followin, stance is reported by the Communist Press throughout Germany: In the East section of Berlin group of revolutionary workers had balloons made, to which they affixed a sponge soaked with alcohol. They set fire to the sponge, and let the balloons rise into the air, where they could be clearly seen burning im the night. As the flames reached the string, one by one thousands of Commu: nist leaflets began to drop down upon the city, where they are eagerly seized by the workers. ee DUSSELDORF’.—After being ia the hands of the Dusseldorf Palice, the Communist worker, Janek, died. from torture and wounds. His body, turned over to his family, with the words “he killed himself,” was marked with burns and bruisés. 7 8 8 fegel ege circulated BRANDENBURG. — (From # Concentration camp). Part of a letter smuggled out of the concen- tration camp here states the fol- lowing: “‘Eyen after we are freed, we cannot leave at once, because we must wait for the laundry to wash all the blood from our clothes. They have to use lysol to remove the blood~cakes from our io oo ere FRANKFORT. — Konrad Lang, prominent German Communist leader in the Landtag, died in the concentration camp here from the torture and wounds at the hand: of the Nazis. : Gaile, Sak | 3 BERLIN. — In the station near Neukoln, the body of Max Lukas was found, mangled and beaten. The Nazi police announced the murder as having been done “By hands unknown.” It is well known, however, that Lukas was a marked man by the Nazis because of his outspoken comments on the Fascist officials in the factory where he worked. Students Circulate 10,000 Petitions for Abolition of ROTC NEW YORK.—On the heels of General MacArthur's statement of the inadequacy of the present army staff, 10,000 petitions were being circulated among college students this week urging. the President and Congress to withdraw the appropriation made for R.O.T.C. The was sent out by the Student Committee of the American League Against War and The petition will be delivered to the President and Congress by a delega~ tion of several hundred students and faculty. members on Dec. 28. The delegation is being selected on each campus. During the past two weeks students have been expelled. from two -high schools, Manly H. 8. Chicago, and the South Philadelphia H. 8., for op- position to war preparations, ‘The petitions read: “We, the undersigned students, de- tt ce as Ue eee approp! ie War exclusively for. R.O.T.G; activity: ‘propaganda, in the schools end: colleges of the ...“1. In a world where the masses of’ the War Department, inculcates a vicious aes of militarism among the stu- nts. ; Ce: 2. Tt is an item in the war prep- aration of the United States. “3. While’ millions ‘of dollars are wasted on the R.O.T.C., education is — masculated in the interests of econ- omy. “Therefore, we insist that R.O.T.O, funds be turned over for: the hen of unemployed teachers sion of the educational facilities this country.” . *