The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, Daily. ANTRAL oncAW ay PARTY u SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published Inc. Sean Ie fgg ©o., a Gable Daiw Washington exe Buliding 14th and F. st By Mail c 1 year, 36.00 € months, $3.5¢ 5 cents 1 year, $8.00 Capitalists Hounds Bay at| the Second 5-Year Plan Bee yaar to wonderment, av which greeted the f 1as now turned ision and der anion r in the capitalist press With the annov objectives of the Second Fiye Year Plan. While the whole capitalist world uniformly pre- dicted the failure of lal Five Year Plan, we find that the , and ious, representative ot American capi on the new plan admits it will succeed nitting it, at the same time, the New Yor! bune vents its spleen against the rapid rise of so the Soviet Union. All the rage, bitterness and hi d of the capitalist Who ‘sees the inevitable forward advance of socialist construction in the Soviet Union while around him instability and decay e, eezed into an editorial by the Heral Since the capitalists have no facts to argu #f that can precipitate a the lowest stage of chauv m in Tribune. no hope of failure—except slaughter—they resort to inist vituperation, ‘T answer can the capitalists have to the collos- a" gally impressive declaration of the second Five ear Plan that production will be nine times greater that the pre-war level of production and two and one-half to three times last year’s level? ‘With “instability” written over the whole face of their decaying, dying system, what answer can they ~ hhaye to the declaration that wages under the Second Five Year Plan will double? ‘They can no longer state these are fantansies or Wishes. ‘Chey know that behind these objectives are He ‘accomplishments of the First Five Year Plan and the proved brilliant leadership and determination of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The capitalists of the world know that when the dictatorship of the proletariat speaks and declares that the Second Five Year Plan will see a tremendous imcrease in cultural development, in the whole living Standards of the masses, in the advance of socialism, im a fuller, happier life for the workers and collective Peasants of the U. S. S. R., that the goal will be shiewed. What'else can the Herald Tribune do to hearten hose sections of American capitalism consciously working for war against the Soviet Union except to oe to the vilest. slanders? left. in peace,” accomplish the plan. But then they begin to argue why the Soviet Union should not be left in peace. ‘And here all of the degenerate motives of capital- ism, of a system of robbery and plunder, of exploita- tion and degrad: m of the masses, is by imputation sought to be transferred, by the Herald Tribune, to the motives of the Soviet Union, They conclude their editorial with a call for the American militarists to keep their guns trained on Whe country that is building socialism with express ‘train speed. “An industrialized Siberia,” they say, “with a mili- Sexy power that will insure its access to Pacific ports, ‘aight ultimately, however, become a serious com- with all the nations that sell cheap wares in East and a real menace to the economic hegemony ‘over the Far Eastern market which Japan considers W@eential to her destiny. To every Pacific power, @mong which this country must be reckoned, these , which are inherent in the second piatiletka ear Plan), are undoubtedly its most interesting feature.” Completely trying to blind its readers to the basic Motives of the Second Five Year Plan (advance of the @onditions of life of the toiling masses, moving to- ‘Werds a classless socialist society) the Herald Tribune fitfes to read into the Five Year Plan what they were = in reading into the first, * 4g the purpose of the second Five Year Plan to aoe the Soviet Union economically completely inde- Bdent of the capitalist countries that surround it 1 Plot war against it. Whe Soviet Union is not competing for markets, Plan is not designed for any other reason than to the conditions of the masses and speed the ent of socialism. And none know this better | the capitalists in the United States, particularly } Herald Tribune. But then what basis would they for continuing their arguments for war if they mot resort to distortion and the most degenerate Plan in its particular stress on doubling the of food available, increasing the consumption of all kinds, envisages not any program of port on the world capitalist market, but the absorp- sof more and more at home, e the whole program of American capital- to still further lower the living standards of nerican workers at a time when in the Soviet fon the workers’ standards are rising and will ad- @ still more rapdily, the dogs of capitalism bark ously, to distract attention from the facts, Very advance of socialism in the Soviet Union / the gap between the two systems, between capitalism and rapidly developing socialism. gh its very victories on all fronts, the Soviet S forced recognition from the United States, does not lessen the basic antagonism be- two systems, which at this time the Herald expresses more openly and frankly than poles are shoved further apart by the in- of events, the baying of the capitalist Tise to war frenzy. this reason we must never lessen our one moment, not for one second. We arouse the class-conscious workers to inst the war mongers, to popularize the and the magnificent objectives of the ive Year Plan, rallying new millions for the | the Soviet Union 1 they admit, the Soviet Union will | <QWorker |Better Preparatzon for the Unemployed Convention from tk | | | | e districts show that the prepara- | avention of the Unem- gton, D. C., Feb. 3, 4 ied on with sufficient energy. aployed Convention is not to be It is to be a v ng con 20 will actually represent th ront movement, e convention just four weeks aw heck-up of the progress of the unemployed w ricts, units and fractions of the Party, of the main immediate demands of ers is the demand for jobs from the e¢ demand for union conditions on C. W. A. ji “The organization of the unemployed work- ers at this time means therefore not only the setting up of t rial Unemployed Councils and committees, but 6 ly the organization of job committees and Re- lief Unions of the C. W. A. workers, Special efforts hould therefore be made to secure as delegates to the convention, workers elected from groups, committees and unions of C. W. A. workers. HE broadening of the united front, of the solid- arity and unity of the unemployed in their fight for jobs, for more relief, and for the Workers Unem- ployment Inswrance Bill, is immediately necessary. A check-up for the final month of convention pre- parations should pay particular attention to work in unemployed organizations other than the unemployed councils and to work in the A. F. of L. local unions. The ma in these organizations must be won from the influence of the social fascist misleaders to a fighting policy. The section and district conferences which have been held and are being held served as a means of inten- sifying the work within all of these and other, working class organizations. Delegates already elected can be utilized among the speakers at these organizations. The local conferences should serve to broaden and 'y the convention preparations and should in no be regarded as completing the convention cam- paign. HE reports from the districts show weakness in the development of struggle for the daily needs of the unemployed. The struggles of the C. W. A. workers for better conditions on the job are still largely spon- Il involve only a small portion of the C. W. and bring far too meagre organizational A. results, orkers, The popularization of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the fight for the bill, is also still weak- Except in isolated sections (as in Minnesota) the fight for Workers Unemployment Insurance has not been brought to large masses of workers. ‘The fact that the campaign for funds to finance the convention has not yet been taken seriously by the Party members in many districts, is an indication of the lagging behind of the entire campaign for the | preparations of the national convention. Unless the financial campaign is carried forward as an important part of the general unemployed program, the entire convention arrangements will be endangered. An immediate and self critical check-up of the cam- Paign against unemployment all along the line is in order. A Sinister Nazi Trick HE mark of deliberate trickery is written all over the report issued from Berlin that our Comrade Torgler, leader of the German Oommunist Party. had suddenly suffered a “conversion” to Nazism. This contemptible lie not only met with indignant denial by those closest to Torgler, but the report was so ridiculous that the Nazi lawyer, Sack, who, in “de- fending” Torgler, heaped praise upon Hitler and the Nazis, also had to issue a denial of the Nazi press release. But, so crude a slander, so obviously a piece of poisonous propaganda issuing directly from the Fascist publicity machine, is perfectly acceptable to the “So- cialist” editors of the Jewish Daily Forward, who with ill-concealed gloating rushed into print with the false Nazi report. The fake news of Torgler’s “conversion” is not a journalistic “mistake.” It is deliberate and sinister. It is grim evidence that the Nazi beast has not by any means reconciled itself to relinquishing its prey, the heroics Dimitroff, Torgler and their comrades. The spreading of lies about Torgler’s “conversion” to Fascism is a deliberate attempt to demoralize, and confuse the world fight of the workers to free him. It is an attempt to taint with doubt the present mighty loyalty and devotion which the masses of the world feel for the four Comrades who were marked by the Fascist rulers for the execution block. And despite the openess, the crudity of the scheme, it is a signal to us, to the masses of the world who forced the Nazis to halt in their plans to murder our Comrades, that our hated enemies are still scheming to carry out their original murder plans! In the past few weeks there has been a marked lull in the world campaign for the safe release of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff! Comrades, this is playing into the hands of the Fascist enemy! This lull is exactly what they are counting on for the further execution of their plans to destroy our Comrades by a sudden, swift blow! Not for a single moment can we relax our vigilance! The unceasing campaign for the freedom of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff must go on, must grow in influence and power! The latest “reports” from Berlin are a grave warn- ing to us as to what will happen if we slacken in our guard over our imprisoned Comrades! The every-day practical work in the Anti-Fascist campaign must be extended. More committees for the freedom of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff should be organized in the shops, factories, in the trade unions, A. F. of L. locals, Socialist Party branches, neighbor- hoods, etc. Real efforts to forge United Front Committees which will immediately take up tasks of organizing protest meetings, sending telegrams and resolutions to the German Ambassador at Washington, should be made, It is the broadest United Front with our working class comrades of all creeds and politics that can be the powerful weapon to force the Fascists to grant safe release to our heroic Comrades, Let us not forcet, for one moment, they are still in the hands of the Nazi torturers and murderers, Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 2TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Piease send m» more information on the Commu- *| nist Party, itebanemspane os iG eo NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1934 Foreign News Briefs 1 Killed; 20 W: cuniels in Mexico TOL 1.—One UCA over the | today. to cut wood in a | Austrian Nazi panes Arrested The terday by s to re- near chancellor deported Turkey Scores Use Of Religion By Rivals ISTAMBUL, Turk ey, Jan, ‘S &@ Means to ithority and extend over other countries. assure interior hegemony Seeks New Methods To Distrac! Starving Masses FERRARA, Ital 1—A hope for the discover methods to distract the toi s “from con- tinous disas clones and finan- cial crises” under capitalism, was ex- pressed here today by Gen. Italbo Balbo, fascist leader and commander of last summer’s mass seaplane flight! to the United S Even the “find of live ante- diluvian animals” would be a for- tunate development, according to Balbo, in aiding capitalism to distract the attention of the massés from mass unemployment and growing misery, both in those countries where it has resorted to the naked sword of fas- cist dictatorship against the toilers and in those where the process of scrapping all democratic pretensions is proceeding. Unemployment Soars in Denmark COPENHAGEN, Dec. 31.—Within a few weeks the number of registered unemployed in Denmark has in- creased by 6,240 and now counts 108,463. If the unorganized unem- ployed and young workers were added to this number, a total figure of 150,0000 unemployed must be cownted for this small country, in which agri- cuture predominates. French Royalists Ask Ban On Jews PARIS, Jan. 1—The French royal- ist newspaper “Action Francaise” has opened a campaign for the barring For U. S. Warships In Drive For War Bureau In Significant Comparison With Britain, Japan WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—An im- mediate increase in the personnel of the U. S. Navy, furnish full com- plements for warships recently launched and those under construc- tion and thereby put the fleet on a war footing, is proposed in the annual report of the Bureau of Navigation to Secretary of the Navy Swanson. The report makes a significant comparison between the naval strength of U. S. imperialism and that of Japan and Britain, its chief imperialist rivals. It praises the “statesmansaip of Roosevelt” in di- verting huge sums from relief and ‘public works appropriations to secure ““a substantial building program” for the navy. In additkon to $247,000,000 diverted from such funds for war pre- parations, the Roosevelt administra- tino is planning to appropriate -over a half billion dollars for new war- ships. from France of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror in Germany, with the allega- tion that they are “not potential soldiers.” Jeers At Haitian “Independence” PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 1— Her finances controlled by the U. 8. Government; her soil occupied by U. S. marines, Haiti today received a message from the Pan-American Union congratulating her on the 130th anniversary of her “independence.” Brazil Without a Cabinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan, 1—The ministerial crisis continued today, while President Vargas of Brazil and Arthur Costa, his nominee for Fin- ance Minister, made little headway in their attempis to form a “national” Cabinet, following wholesale resigna- tions, The report proposes an upward revision of naval pay to increase the morale of enlisted men and officers, and recommends that recent reduc- tions in pay, allowances and emolu- ments be rescinded at the earliest possible moment. It characterizes as “particularly unfortunate” the 15 per cent reduction in the pensions of re- tired officers, and warm the Wall St. Government that the wage cuts for the active forces may have “a detrimental effect on the enlisted service” during the forthcoming year. Spanish Rebels Given Savage Sentences VITTORIA, Spain, Jan. 1—Twen- ty-five workers and peasants, charged with participation in the armed re- sistance to the fascization of the gov- ernment, were handed savage sen- tences of 12 years in jail yesterday. One defendant was given four years, while five others were acquitted THE NEW JOCKEY—THE SAME HORSE! SUB RDIN Asks Full Crews|Berlin Workers Sabotage Nazi New Year Jubilation Hambure _ Dockyards j Idle As Crisis Deepens BERLIN, Jan. ig — An organized Nazi jubilation for the New Ye2r cele- brations failed completely to mate- rialize last night, with the crowds in the streets considerably smallex than in former years and lacking any sem- blance whatever of gaiety. Traffic up and down the Freidrich- strasse, the favorite playground of outdoor revellers in past years, scarce- ly exceeded the volume of the daily rush for sudurban trains. The crowds were likewise small at the popular- priced theatres. Only a few scattered shouts of “Heil Hitler” were heard as the midnight hour struck, ahd these from members of Hitler’s Brown Shirt, army. The Nazi regime faces the new year with a rapid deepening of the crisis, growing disillusionment among the petty bourgeois masses and peas- antry, its chief mass base in the past, and rising struggles of the working- class under the leadership of the un- conquerabie German Communist Party. The economic situation in Hamburg, for instance, is described as follows by the Frankfurter Zeitung of Dec. 10, “Anyone making a round of the docks observes their gaping emptiness. The extensive dock equipment in- tended for business with Russia, and busily engaged till only recently, is now scarcely in use .. . Tonnage has greatly increased, but business has shrunk. Docks once echoing with the sound of the rivetting hammer now lie in depressed silence.” In ths connection, German exports had declined by 51,000,000 marks by Dec. 15. or 11.5 per cent as compared to the preceding month. At the same time, imports of raw material for the metal manufacturing industry greatly increased, reflecting the vast war preparations of Nazi Germany. In connection with the disiilusion- ment of the masses, and of many sec- tions of the Brown Shirts, the Nazi regional leader in Halle, Jordan re- Tampa AFL Leaders Agree To No Strikes For Three Years By HARRY GANNES iAMUEL GOMPERS, predecessor of William Green, died wheezing: “Long live our American institutions,” thereby endorsing in advance the NRA. With such a figure to live up, to, we can well understand why the of- ficials of Cigarmakers International Union of America in Tampa, Florida, pledged themselves in advance to break all strikes in their union for three years under the N.R.A. Gom- pers rose, we recall, on the backs of the cigarmakers. While it is true the N.R.A. is sup- posed to be law for only two, the Cigarmakers International Union of America officials give their solemn pledge they will outdo the N.R.A, by one year. There have been many strike- breaking agreements made under the N.R,A. (for example the coal code) but none ever reached the level of the agreement made in Tampa, Florida by. A. F. of L. officials. In the coal code, where the workers are forbidden in a dozen different ways from striking, there is, at least, a pretense made at offering a higher wage scale. The formalities of bour- geois etihcs in contract making is lived up to. Is is true the coal opera- jtors get their pound of flesh, but the miners are offered at least the formal “one dollar in hand paid for good and valuable consideration.” Not even this formality is lived/up to in the Tampa cigarmakers agree- ment engineered by Mr. Thonias Finn of the N.R.A. Approve Wage Cut Beforehand, Wores still. Beforehand, the A.) F. of L, leaders in the cigarmakers w guarantee the bosses that whatever wage scale may be fixed by the sa ntly threatened the “calamity howl- ers,” decloring that “people who bring discredit on the faith given to the leaders, and peddle rumors must have silence imposed on them ruthlessly.” The effects of Nazi rule on the | work ing youth is shown in a report issued by the consultative physician at the Youth Office of the German Labor Front, Dr. Hoske. This report contains the characteristic informa- tion that in the cities 43.4 per cent of all the young people, and 33.04 per cent in towns with fewer than 30,000 inhabitants, must be classified as unsound in health, needing treat- ment and recuperation. The remedies prescribed by German fascism against the poor physical con- dition of ,German youth are well- known: labor service camp, militariza- tion, etc. Such measures as shorter working hours, holidays, better pay- ment and therefore better food, are | classified as the “enervating demands of Bolshevism.” Urges Support Of | Porto Rican Strike NEW YORK.—In support of the 4,000 striking taxicab drivers in Porto Rico, the Porto Rican Anti-Imper- ialist League in this city has called a mass meeting for Thursday, 8 p.m., at the Esthonian Hall, 27 West 115th St. The League urges all workers to show their solidarity with the strikers. eae SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Jan. 1— Taxicab drivers, striking against the exhorbitant price fixed by Gov. Hor- ton for gasoline, are continuing their strike in defiance of N.R.A. arbitra- tors who are insisting that the strikers go back to work in simple trust that the grasping oil companies will themselves reduce the price of gasoline. In page advertisements in the press today, the gas companies revealed that Gov. Horton fixed gasoline prices at their suggestion. The price was fixed at 27 cents a gallon. U.S. Arms Na Regime For A On Chinese & Furnishés Bon Planes, Bom Trains Pilot W YORK Cynical admissic that the U.S. Js arming the Nankir re-(tme with heavy bombers and all tt latest. w of destruction for i war against the Chinese masses an the Chinese Soviet Republic is cor tained in an’ article published in la: Sat New York Evening Sun. “America is helping China develo into one of the air powers of th world,” declares the article, whic then goes on to give details of th vast extent of this aid by U. S. im sm to its Nanking puppet: “Not only is the United States. sa, plying the equipment to push Chin: to the fore as a power in the skies but this country also is providing competent iurtructors for the Chines: military through “army- trained flyer: $ g government now ha: Re airman The Ni 300 huge modern bombers, with which to carry out its daily -ralds and bombardment of the population of tho Chinese Soviet distriets. The atrecities commmitted by the Nan- king regime were for time publicized in the capil “press as » result of the present aerial bom- bardments of Fukien province cities in the Generals’ Civil War. Almost 10 of these bombers were delivered to the Nanking regime by the Curtiss- Wright Company during the past six months. The planes are similar to those in use by the U. S, Army. Other U. S. firms are also building military craft for Nanking. With the aid of U. S. experts, the Nanking regime is now building a huge airport at Nanchang, on th- borders of the Central Soviet trict in Kiangsi Province; from to make raids on the emanc workers and peasants in the C Soviet districts. The N. Y. Sun inadyertenth, nishes concrete proof of one pha. U. S. intervention in China aga. the revolutionary’ struggles of the toiling masses groaning under the double exploitation of the native landlord-bourgeois cliques and their imperielist masters. The workers are faced with the class duty of Mout izing an_ effective mass eh against U. S.. intervention, for defense of the Chinese masses and the Chinese Soviet Republic. | Stop the shipment of arms to the Ni murder regime. Organize protest against U. S. ini against the Chinese Revolut Protect Foreign Born Meet Jan. To Act: Against B Pending In Next Congress NEW YORK-—In preparation the Protection of Foreign-B- United Front Conference to be Sunday, Jan. 21 at 11 a.m, in } hatian Lyceum, five meetings were held throughout city Dec. 23. The necessity of organizins powerful movement for the protec of foreign-born workers, fary students and intellectuals was stre in reports to the meetings, The c ing conference will discuss act) against anti- foreign-born pe ing in the next congress. clue the Dies Bill, the Grail 7 fingerprinting measures, deportati and discrimination. Actions will : be prepared to force unemploym ! ess and social insurance for fore €, In formation concerning the pe ing legislation, speakers outlines the subject and lecturers ‘ be | tained at Committee \for ° Protection of Foreign Born, “Re Shades. of Gompers a NRA Trickery of Cigar Union a s code is passed, wages in Tampa will be as low as any place in the country. It is hard to believe that all this is written in the plainest English in an agreement signed between A. F. of L. leaders and cigar manufacturers. But here it is, identically exact from two official sources, from the bosses sheet, the Tampa Daily Times of De- cember 20th, and from the official organ of the Cigar Makers’ Interna- tional Union of America, “El Inter- nacional,” December 23. Si acrom agreement is very short and contains only eight points. Each point is a deadly blow against the workers. We are concerned here mainly with two, what the capitalists call “the cessence of the contract.” Point 3, which is the neatest pair of handcuffs ever devised by A. F. of L, officials reads: “That no strike shall be approved by the Cigarmakers International Union and no lockout enforced by Feature Article in Jan. 6th E Shows ‘Daily’ as Fis Fighter for “The: Fighter © for the Needs, he Needs, Aims of of the Warking Class,” is of @ special feature article by C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily whch. will appear in the 26-page tenth anniversary edition of the coming off the press on Jan, 6th. Addressed to the many workers who will make their first cont, the Daily Worker through the anniversary issue as well as to th’ readers of the “Daily,” Hathaway's article shows concretely how _ the employers during the life of this agreement.” ‘The agrement is supposed to live three years. For these three years the A. F. of L. officials pledge themselves, before- hand, unequivocally, without regard to cause or’ reason, to break all cigar- makers’ strikes. Wage Conditions In return for this slavery, the workers are offered the following hoax on wages: Point 4: . . “Upon the code of the cigar in- dustry becoming fully operative ne- gotiations of a wage scale under the provisions of the code shall be taken up and finally agreed to; it being and agreed that 'UCH audacity and robbery is usual- ly committed in the dead of night. But here it is done in the bright Florida sun. The workers are con- tracted (by their leaders) not to strike for three years, before a code is passed. They are sold out before the wages are set. And to make certain that wages will be the lowest in the industry, a special clause is put into the contract that wages shall “not be detrimental” to the bosses in their competition with other bosses, ‘What group of capitalists ever went to Washington so confident as these cigar bosses who carry a contract of no strike for four years and a pledge from the union officials that only the lowest scale of wages will be ac- ceptable to them. Trouble in the Ranks =. er TParnie Bosses “e & Lowest Wages In Entire >» Industry that question out of the way. 430, at 80 East 11th Sth No sooner was this contract sol-/ “" emnly signed, as all such are, than trouble beger the ranks of the wor relish being sola ~ advance, We fin’ scribe *