The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily .QWorker MTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY 1.5.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Clas« Newspaper” FOUNDED 19% Published daily, except Sunday, by the Comprodaity Publishing Co., Inc., 50 Fast 13th St., New York, N. ¥. Daily Telephone; ALgonquin :-7954. Cable, Address: “Daiwoy\,” New York, ™. ¥. Washington Bureau 964, National Press Butiding Mth and F. St. wash 2. © ‘ubscriptiij, Rates: and Bronx), 1 year, 68.00 and Oanads: 1 year, 0. monthly, 7S cents. 2 cea 7 Timea, JANUARY 9, 1994 s Hear From You! Tr DAILY WORKER exiends its revolutionary greetings to the huncreds of class-conscious work- ers who helped reach fully 200,000 American workers and farmers with the 28-page, shevik newspaper and with our revolutionary move- ment. ‘The mobiligation for Red Ssiurday and Sunday was one of the most impressive in the history of our “Defy” and of our movement Bo rest content with the mass distribution of our ‘pecial edition, however, is not enough. It is neces- ery to know what experiences you had in approach- ing the workers and farmers with our Daily Worker | #o that we may use your experience as a guide in the future for getting our “Daily” to the masses. We want to know what you shock-brigaders who @anyassed with the “Daily” think of the contents of the anniversary issue, and what you heard from work- @rs and farmers about our paper. Let ws know what the steel workers and coal miners say of the special edition; how the farmers in the Middle and Far West received the 26-page is- sue; what was the response of the Negro sharecrop- pers Of the South? This information will help guide ws in putting out a still better Daily Worker that will truly become the mass organ of the American working class and the farmers. Norman Thomas:and PWA Te SPEECH Sunday night in Chicago of Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, praised all of the basic features of President Roosevelt’s Public Works Program. In fact, the only criticism he offered was that the “recovery measures increase the public debt” and that he himself favors limiting the P.W.A. projects to “self liquidating projects,” financed through issuance of non-interest bearing Treasury notes. ‘tomas readily admitted that this is inflation. He posed these notes be stopped when prices have boosted “to the 1926 level.” The meaning of “self liquidating” projects is seen in the announcement of the Roosevelt administration yesterday that it is dropping the “slum removal” features of its P.W.A. plan. The slum removal is not good business. It is not “self liquidating.” Those now living in slums could not pay the increased rents which would be charged. They cannot pay more than $5 a month a room. Therefore the P.W.A. money will be put into better paying propositions, The dropping of even a gesture toward housing of workers is one more proof that the government is not going to give ny funds toward the unemployed for relief housing or food, unless forced to do it by mass pressure. These are the P.W.A. “self liquidating projects” approved by Norman Thomas. Norman Thomas, the socialist leader, thinks the P.W.A. is “praiseworthy.” The P.W.A. has given hun- dreds of millions for war purposes. The P.W.A. has @iven millions more to the railroads and bankers in easy loans. This is “praiseworthy” in the eyes of ‘Tomas, who once more praises the war preparations of the U. S. imperialist Roosevelt government, as he has done before. Perhaps Mr. Thomas praises the P. WA. “self liquidating projects” of building battleships, ‘or of colonial expansion, which would pay the United States debts which worry Thomas—at the expense of the. workers. | sascragal THOMAS has nothing but praise for Roose- velt’s inflation policy—which means high prices on workers’ necessities for the masses, Norman Thomas finds the boosting of prices by the Roosevelt govern- ment, which amounts to virtual wage cuts, as “praise- Norman Thomas, for inflation, for high prices, for the war preparations entailed in the P.W.A. and for ‘the “self liquidating” projects of the P.W.A—again Proves himself the chief social-fascist lackey of big business. Mr. Thomas praises the P.W.A., the “rec- overy” measures which mean fascist attacks on the working class and suppression of their rights. He is & good servant of finance capital, and bootlicker to the Roosevelt administration. The Communist Party and the Unemployed Coun- cil cali on the workers to demand of the present ses- sion of Congress enactment of precisely those features of spublic works, the last vestiges of which have now ean abandoned by Roosevelt—public works which will 2 Of benefit to the unemployed workers, Demand, for example, slum clearance whereby the wousing projects will go to unemployed workers rent ree. ‘The Roosevelt government, supported by the 5 oe leader Thomas, seeks to evade any govern- appropriation for the unemployed, and to evade nt of unemployment insurance, “Demand the enactment of the Workers’ Unem- hent Insurance Bill, which provides for all war “to go to the unemployed, and for unemploy- ance funds obtained by tax on corporations ‘government funds, wer the social-fascist policy of Thomas by legates to the National Convention Against in Washington D. C., on February 3, Tenth Anniversary- | Madition of the Daily Worker. As a result many of | these thousands made their first contact with our Bol- | AFL Heads View NRA NN THIS THRESHOLD of the new year, the portly officials of the A. F. of L. survey the New Deal and tell the workers why they should be thankful. The Green-Lewis-Hillman bureaucracy is so close- ly tied up with the government in all its actions con- cerning the workers that they find it eminently neces- sary to go to a very long detailed explanation of the results of the N.R.A. The greater part of the year's review of the New Deal is an apology. What they strive mainly to achieve’ is to keep up the workers faith in the N.R.A., hold back strike struggles, and attempt to hoki the workers firmly tied to the madly racing chariot of Wall Street’s inflation and war program Here a little medicine man skill is required. No one will deny that Green is especially apt in this regard. The A. F. of L. economic medicine men hand the workers a few bitter pills to swallow, but then they sweaten their poison pellets so thickly they hope the worker will not realize how he was damaged. Regarding wages, the A. F. of L. declares “In wages, there have been definite gains under codes for the lowest wage groups; but workers of average or higher wages have been forced to a lower living standard... Meanwhile, food prices are up 7 per cent and prices of clothing and furnishings are higher by 21 per cent, so that workers’ real buying power is considerably lower.” The majority of the workers, according to the A. F. of L. official’s report suffered actual wage cuts. And ali workers had their real wages cut—“their real buying power is considerable lower.” Im short, through the working of the N.R.A. the minimum is becoming the maximum and the stand- ards of living of the workers are being driven down. HO IS responsible for this? The A. F. of L. lead- ers do not even blame the usual straw-man, “the chiseling” bosses. The process is too widespread and covers every worker in the country. Those respon- sible are the Roosevelt government, acting in the in- terest of the dominant, ruling capitalist clique, with the aid of the A. F. of L, leaders, who helped break strikes and the workers’ resistance to this smashing of their living standards, Then the A, F. of L. claims that employment was increased. But the National Industrial Conference Board, surveying for hard-headed business men who do not want to fool themselves, declares that employ- ment in October was no better than in June (when the N.R.A. was first passed), On this point there is no agreement between these boss agencies, because each has @ different purpose to serve. The A. F. of L. has to fool the workers, but the bosses do not want to fool themselves. The bulk of the A. F. of L. “review” is concerned with the question of inflation. On the face it ap- pears as @ trenchant argument against inflation. Let’s see about that. ‘When it comes to huge subsidies for the banks, squeezed out of the hides of the workers, the A. F. of L. officialdom is for that type of inflation. For they say: “Government credit extended to business, banks, railroads and agriculture increased during the year by $3,000,000,000. To this government credit we owe a large measure of our progress toward recovery.” Only a liar or a scoundrel could be guilty of such distortion. What the government subsidies account for is the “recovery” in dividend and interest pay- ment to the parasites, because we already have the admission of the A. F. of L. that the general level of wages were lowered through the N.R.A. The A. F, of L. supports the particular type of inflation that suits the big bankers and the Roose- velt regime. They declare: “There are various kinds of inflation, some constructive, some very destructive.” Of course “constructive” inflation is the one that best constructs profits and the capitalist system with its foundations deep in the vitals of the workers. That kind of inflation the A. F. of L. officialdom is for. While the fact is that every type and kind of in- flation, no matter how disguised, slices the workers’ bread thinner and steals food out of his family’s mouth. Green & Co, fully approve huge subsidies to the bankers and industrials, but are deadly silent about unemployment insurance. They say not a word about the colossal war subsidies while millions of workers starve, though the A. F. of L. officialdom in this docu- ment are again forced to admit more than 10,000,000 are without jobs. Unemployment figures in the hands of A. F. of L. fakers are volatile things. One time it is 15,000,000. Suddenly it becomes 6,000,000, and just as suddenly 10,000,000. Seth adhe Sk | ssi the A. F. of L. officialdom remember the huge strike wave of last year. Whatever they write or whatever they tell the workers they know that the conditions fo the workers are growing more intolerable and that there will be resistance, perhaps more than ever before. The danger now arises, they see, that the whole fakery of the N.R.A. will become clear to the workers. So they begin to criticize the N.R.A. and “warn” of its dangers. “We may expect an era of artificial price-raising and limitation of production,” they say. “This would tend to check the rise of living standards for all through mass production and lower prices, and to divert wealth away from the workers to the hands of investors.” In short, this is a description of the growing crush- ing burden of advancing monopoly capitalism, stimu- lating and nurtured by the N.R.A. like a poisonous fungus growth, How shall this be fought? Here is where the A. F. of L. officials show their true colors as the slimiest minions of big capital. They appeal for greater representation on the N.R.A. for the A. F. of L. fakers in order to keep struggles from developing down below, in the mines, shops, mills, on the rail- roads, “If codes are to establish effective machinery for general upward progress in living standards, then work- ers who are producers and consumers must be repre- sented on the policy making boards,” says the A. F. of L, officialdom. These gentlemen wrote their name to every code that lowered wages. They signed the “merit clause” open shop auto code. They signed every document of the National Labor Board that broke and betrayed the Weirton, Budd, Philadelphia taxi, and Ford strikes. They are the ones who called the N.R.A. a “new charter of labor,” and promised the workers all sorts of rights of organization. At the same time, they are those most responsible for the rapid growth of com- pany unionism, the vicious assault against strikes by the government, Every new fascist attack against the workers receives the whole-hearted endorsement and most energetic support. Against these betrayers who have succeeded in helping the bosses lower wages, every rank and file member of the A. F. of L, should direct his energy and organization, Tt is necessary now to build up the rank and file opposition groups in every A. F. of L. and independent union, to prepare for struggles against these crushing methods of lowering the workers’ living standard, to defeat the strikebreaking within the ranks of the union, to transform the unions into organizations’ of strug- gle that will protect the workers’ rights. ‘Nazi Church Front Split Widens as6,000 ‘Pastors Defy Bishop Opposition Fears Nazi Measures Will Expose Church Role BERLIN, Jan he split in the Nazi Church Front—‘storm detach- ments of Jesus Christ”—widened yes- terday with 6,000 Protestant pastors uniting in opposition to the Nazi Reich Bishop, Mueller, and defying his recent decree ordering disclipin- ary punishment for those agitating, by word or mouth or printed matter, against his authority. A manifesto issued by the insur- gent pastors to their congregations had the effect of a bombshell in the Protestant communities, which had been kept in the dark by the Nazi press censorship on the crisis con- fronting the Nazi Church Front. The insurgent pastors, while sup- porting Hitler's atrocities against the working class, are opposed to Muel- ler’s thorough-going fascist reorgan- ization of the church, which they fear will weaken its influence over the masses. Bill Introduced To “Investigate NaziPropaganda” But Dickstein, Sponsor, Says It Is Not Against Nazis Directly WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Samuel Dickstein, Tammany representative from New York’s East side, has in- troduced a bill “To authorize a spe- cial committee to investigate Nazi propaganda activities and certain other propaganda activities” in the United States. His bill would author- ize the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a com- mittee of seven to investigate: 1, “The extent, character and ob- jects of Nazi propaganda activities in the United States. 2. “The diffusion within the U. S. of subversive propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution. 3. “All other questions in relation- ship thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legisla- tion.” If the house should approve the Dickstein resolution the Committee will have the power of subpoena, something his recent interim investi- gation of Nazi propaganda activities in this country did not have. Dick- stein asked for $25,000 to defray the expenses of the investigation. “Ts your bill aimed exclusively at the Nazis?”, the Daily Worker Cor- respondent asked Dickstein a few minutes after the bill reached the clerk of the house, “Now you're asking me a lot of questions. The bill speaks for itself. It’s against all foreign propaganda,” he replied. Arrest Mine Engineer DUCHCOV, Ozechosloyakia, Jan. 8.—The chief engtneer of the Nelson, 111 mine was arrested today in an effort by the government to allay the mass indignation aroused by the mine disaster last Wednesday in which 142 miners perished. All Promises Made To the Workers By HARRY GANNES 1 N. R. A. is being weighed in the balance and found wanting by its most ardent supporters. By some strange and perverse twist of fate, they want the workers now to be- lieve, the N. R. A. is working op- posite to the manner originally in- tended. What are the facts? The N. R. A. is working out, indeed, contrary to all promises made by’President Roose- yelt, General Johnson, the A. F. of L. leadership, and the Socialist Party Officialdom. Promises, however, were only the gold paint on the brick the Roosevelt regime was about to heave at the heads of the- workers. When the worker gets up groggy and mad, the union officials begin to make apologies. Here for example is a comparison of promises and accomplishment from the chief promisee, President Roosevelt. When the newspapers were blaz- ing away‘on the wonders the N. R. A. would accomplish, Roosevelt's first message on the N. R. A. said that its main object was to increase purchasing power, “and by that I mean raising wages,” he said, and “by wages I mean decent living standards.” That was in July, 1933. On Jan. 3, 1934, Roosevelt made a speech at the opel ti of Congress, in which he saidt “Uniform standards of hours and wages apply today to 95 per cent of industrial employment within the field of the national industrial re- covery act.” “Uniform standards,” and “decent living standards,” are oceans apart, as we will learn from Roosevelt’s sup- porters. The fact is the N. R. A. has made wages uniformly low. Have a Hard Time A. F, of L. leaders are now having a hard time explaining to the work- ers how a law which was supposed to raise wages, lowers them; a law which was supposed to grant work- ers unionization rights, introduces fascist methods of attack. 2 Works Out Opposite to science cit caicahnait 856 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934 FEEDING THE WAR SHARK Southern Share Croppers to Hold Secret Lenin Memorials Meetings All Over United States to Commemorate 10th Anniversary of Great Leader BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Jan, 8.— Southern white and Negro workers and sharecroppers will honor the memory of Lenin with innumerable meetings, both open and secretly, this Sunday, Jan. 21. The meetings will be the first Lenin memorial held in the South on a mass scale. Fifteen meetings are planned for the city of Birmingham alone, in- cluding meetings in Ensley, Fairfield, Bessemer, etc. Bessemer is a steel and mining center, where the Com- munist Party has recently made great headway. The sharecroppers and poor farm- ers of the Black Belt will brave ter- ror by the landlords and klan to honor Lenin's memory in small secret meetings. Such meetings will be held particularly in Tallapoosa county, stronghold of the Share Croppers Union. There will be at least one such meeting in Chambers County, where eleven croppers were recently framed and sentenced to prison. Among the many other cities in this part of the South planning Le- nin Memorial meetings, are Citronelle and Andalusia in Alabama; Memphis and Nyota in Tennessee, and Oxford in Mississippi. Speakers at these meetings will stress Lenin’s teachings on the na- tional question—the right of the op- Pressed nationalities to self-determi- nation, and the great need of white and black workers sticking togther to gain freedom for both. pier amet 5 Lenin Memorial Meetings in Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—More than 50 Lenin Memorial meetings will be held in the Minnesota district on Sunday, Jan. 21, the tenth anniver- sary of the death of Lenin. Two mass meetings will be held in Minneapolis, at the Humboldt Hall and the Metal Workers Hall the evening of Jan. 21. Speakers will be ‘Wm. Schneiderman, district organizer of the Communist Party, and Jack Carson, Section Organizer. Two mass meetings will be held in St. Paul on Jan. 21, at the Deutsches Haus and the Scandinavian Workers Hall, where Norman Bernick will be the speaker. Morris Karson will be the main speaker at the Lenin Memorial meet- ings in Duluth and Superior, which will also be held on Jan. 21. ae ann 9 SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 8.—Workers here will commemorate the 10th An- niversary of the death of Lenin at a meeting in International Hall, 427 Lackawanna Ave., this Saturday, Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. mcrae: COER D'ALENE, Io., Jan. 8—Unit 1, Sect. 11 of the Communist Party has arranged a Lenin Memorial meet- ing together with the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Daily Worker. Other units are cooperat- ing. Dutch Imperialists Plan Support of U. S. In War With Japan THE HAGUE, Jan. 8.—Fear for Holland’s East Indies loot in face of Japan’s war preparations and aggressions was expressed by Lieu- tenant General Gerth Van Wyk, who declared today that Dutch im- perialism would support the United States in event of war between the two chief imperialist rivals in the Pacific. Van Wyk was former com- mander-in-chief of the Dutch im- perialist forces in the East Indies. He declared that in a war be- tween Japan and the United States, the odds were that Japan would de- feat the U. S. forces in the Far East, after which the Dutch East Indies loot of Holland would be- come an easy prey for Japan, JERE is how the editor of the Union Advocate, official organ of the A. F. f L. unions in Minneapolis, tries to do it (at the same time making admissions that the majority of the workers suffered severe wage slashes under the N. R. A.): “With all due respect to the honesty of those who pass upon the various industrial codes and with respectful regard for President Roosevelt's in- terest in solving the unemployment problem, it must be admitted that the blue eagle has been a dismal flop for millions who once believed it would be a godsend, “It has failed in its purpose be- cause selfish industrial interests, dominated by even more selfish bank- ing interests, have insisted on low wage scales, long hours and count- less exceptions. “In few industries wages have ac- tually been increased, but in the vast majority of cases, wages have been lowered.” Apology and Knavery What groveling apology to the N. R. A. administrators and Roosevelt who are responsible for low wages “in the vast majority of cases.” This knayery equals only the support these A. F. of L. leaders originally gave to this whole scheme of smash- ing the workers’ living standards. ‘The Union Advocate goes on to say: “The ‘case of the packing house workers is well to the point. In that industry, under the N. R. A. code, wages were reduced to such a level that; American standards of living were impossible.” But, gentlemen of the Union Ad- vocate, do you know that some of these same meat packers who under the N. R. A. have made “American standards of living impossible,” in- creased their profits 600 per cent? piste aN T is just what the N. R. A. in- tended to do. Thé Communist Party from the day Roosevelt scrib- ‘| bled his name to the law and bab- bled his promises over the radio, declared that the N. R. A. was one of the most vicious attacks ever levelled against the American work- ing class. We pointed out that the promises were the usual smoke screens to hide the real attack. Now the Union Advocate tells us: “And in all too many cases the N. R. A. has failed to serve tts own ends. These ends were (1) to in- crease employment, (2) to increase the purchasing power of the work- ers through increased wages, and (3) to guarantee collective bargaining through recognition of legitimate unions.” What Actually Happened On point No. 1. Mr. William Green points out that in November 580,000 workers lost their jobs. The total un- employed still remain at 17,000,000. Point No. 2. We have the admission of the Union Advocate that wages were decreased in the majority of in- stances. “Labor,” one of the most ar- dent supporters of all the knavery of the Roosevelt regime, official organ of the railroad unions, declares on this point: “But the N.R.A. has shown two se- rious weaknesses, Its codes have fixed hours too long and wages too low. The N.R.A. wages do not supply suf- ficient buying power for prosperity, and the N.R.A. hours could flood the market with goods, while millions of men were left idle on the breadlines.” That is putting it very mildly. On Poin No. 3, we have the action of the National Labor Board against the Weirton Steel Co. workers, the Budd Auto strikers, and the Philadel- phia taxi strikers. It is the avowed object of the National Labor Board (with its A. F. of L. leaders) to pre- vent or to break all strikes that fight against the admitted worsening of conditions as shown under Points 1 and 2. “ ; * * sY the most depraved betrayers of the workers can say the whole law slipped on a banana peel and landed on its behind. The results are precisely what were intended. Roose- velt, acting for the big trusts, sought to find some means of smashing down living standards, in a round- about way of course, covered with priestly lies, of course—but for the end of trying to bring capitalism out of its crisis at the expense of the toiling masses. The Communist Party analysis of the N.R.A. is proving true to life in every particular. What, in brief, was the Commu- nist analysis of the N.R.A. (not when it exposed itself, but right from the very start)? The Communist Party declared that the N.R.A. was a move to help the big capitalists, the finan- sealed See Te eas French Government; Rocked by Exposure Of Shameful Swindle Resign as Result of Furious Mass Anger BULLETIN CHAMONIX, France, Jan. 8.— Alexander Stavisky, fugitive head of the bankrupt Credit Municipal Bayonne, whose colossal swindles were aided by high French govern- ment officials, shot himself in the head today when trapped by police in an outlying villa of Chamonix. The financier was taken to the hospital where his condition is de- scribed as critical. * * . PARIS, Jan. 8—Premier Camille Chautemps was reported ready today to present the resignation of his Cab- inet under pressure of the furious mass indignation evoked by the ex- posure of the colossal swindle of thousands of small investors and in- surance companies by the interna- tional gambler and adventurer, Serge Stavisky. Following the failure of the bank last Wednesday and the disappear- ance of Stavisky with $40,000,000 in currency and pledged jewelry, it was revealed that insurance companies had been induced to buy Stavisky's bonds by officials of the same gov- ernment which recently put over, with the aid of Socialist leaders, a drastic wage cut agairist ciwl em- ployes. Premier Chautemps, leader of the attack on the civil employes and on relief payments, is involved in the scandal with Albert Delimier, French Minister of the Colonies, and other high government officials. Delimier has refused to resign. In another face-saving attempt, the gov- ernment yesterday ordered the ar- rest of Mayor Garat of Bayonne on a, charge of complieity in the swindle. Paris police raided the offices of the newspapers “La Vonte” and “Bec et Ongles” today in a drive to gag Some Best Friends Begin to Squawk About N.R.A. Blame on “Chiselers” Is Effort to Bolster Faith in N.R.A. cial and industrial trusts, by a sharp attack against the workers’ living standards, through the use of the government and the leaders of the A. F. of L. The Communists pointed out that the N.R.A. was the employ- ment of more and more fascist meth- ods against the workers, particularly against the workers’ organizations and strikes. We tore through and exposed all the lying promises and called on the workers to fight in order to prevent a lowering of their living standards. Why They Admit Things Now all this is becoming plainer, clearer, That is why the A. F. of L. leaders, cap in hand, begin to bow and scrape before the bosses and apologize to the workers, trying to keep their faith in the N.R.A. In order to prevent struggles now they take a new attitude. The N.R.A. is being endangered by “chiseling” bosses. (The fact that the majority of the bosses achieve benefits at the workers’ expense through the N.R.A. is a thing they overlook). They call on the workers to submit further to the yoke of the N.R.A., especially asking them to look to Roosevelt for aid. Above all, they want to prevent strikes and real organization of the workers that will upset the real in- tent of the Roosevelt scheme. But here is where every class con- scious worker, especially members of the Communist Party have an impor- tant task. In every A. F. of L. union there is questioning about the real intent of the N.R.A. The workers are learning the real meaning of strike betrayals, and are going to make it hot for the leaders. There are symp- toms of rising struggles. It is above all necessary for the Communists to penetrate these unions, to organize this discontent, this undefined desire for struggle; to mobilize it into a rank and file opposition; to lead it into channels of fight against the bureau- crats who are part of the government apparatus utilizing the N.R.A. against the workers, and above all to develop a united front of all workers to pre- pare for struggles for better living conditions, for union rights and against the fascist attacks being in- creased by the Ronsovalt razima Chautemps Cabinet May} 1 NRRL NE REO Young Workers Arrange Meets Against War Honor Revolutionists Murdered by German Social-Democracy NEW YORK — Working class youth throughout the world will commem~- orate this month the 15th year since the murder in Berlin on Jan. 16, 1919, of the heroic revolutionary lead- ers, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux- emboutg. The two leaders, Zighters against imperialist war while the World War was at its height, met their death at the hands of the Noske-Scheidemann Social-Democtracy of Germany. Luxembourg and Liebknecht, to- gether with Franz Mehring were co- founders of the Spartacus Bund which later became the present Ger- man Communist Party, Liebknecht took a leading part in founding the Young Communist League. a In New York the Young Commu- nist League has arranged a Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxembourg Mem- orial to be held in New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., this Sunday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. John Little, new organizer of the district Y.C.L., and Georg’ Siskin agitprop organizer of the Communist Party, N. Y. District, will be the main speaisere: Included in the program is music by a ballalaika orchestra, |The Workers Laboratory Theatre will jPresent a play. DETROIT.—The Young Communist League here is holding its annual Youth Anti-War Rally, Friday, Jan. 19, 1934, at the Brewster Center Audi- torium, on Brewster and Hastings, in commemoration of the deaths of three great fighters against war and for the cause of the working people: Viadimir Lenin, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg. There will be a concert. program put on by this organization and danc- ing afterward. “eluee ote MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Jan. 8.— The Young Communist League here is preparing a big anti-war meeting and memorial to Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxembourg, to be held on Mon~ day, Jan. 15. The meeting will be held at the Metal Workers Hall, 329 Cedar Ave., beginning at 8 p.m. A special anti-war program is being ar- ranged for the occasion. The local National Guard had a good example of the war prepara- tions brought before them lately, when in one battery alone, two new cannon costing $10,000 were pur- chased. This came at the same time when the Federal Government was “balancing the budget” at the expense of the National Guardsmen, , who were given a 55 per cent wage cut within a period of a few months. eo oe PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 8—The Young Communist League here will commemorate the death of Karl Lieb- knecht and Rosa Luxembourg with a mass meeting in the Hungarian Hall, 1144 North Fourth St., this Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. I. Amter, national secretary of the Unemployed Council, will be the main speaker. An anti-war play will be presented by the Nature Friends, be- side entertainment by the workers’ chorus and revolutionary dancers. “8.8 MILWAUKEE, Jan. 8,—The Lieb- knecht-Luxembourg memorial will take place at Liberty Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts. Sunday, Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m. An elaborate anti-war program has been arranged. the press. Documents implicating high officials were setzed at both of- fices. Present indications are that the government will merely be reorgan- ized by dropping Delimier and in- cluding Eduoard Herriot as a meas- ure of “strengthening” the discredited Cabinet. Lenin Corner CAPITALIST society, we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false; a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The lictatorship of the proletariat, the .|period of transi: ition to Commu- nism, will, for the \first time, produce 2 a democracy, side _|by side with the ‘necessary suppres= sion of the minor- ity constituted by the exploiters, Communism alone is capable oe giv- ‘cae coe Da Ue. & really: come V. 1. Lenin plete democracy, and the fuller it is the more quickly will it become unnecessary and wihter away of itself. In other words( under Capitalism we have a State in the proper sense of the word: that is, a special instrument for the suppres- sion of one class by another, and of the majority by the minority at that. Naturally, for the successful discharge of such a task as the sys tematic suppression by the minority of exploiters of the majority of ex- ploited, the greatest ferocity and’ savagery of suppression is required, and seas of biood are needed, through which humanity has to direct its path, in a condition of slavery, serf- dom and wage labor. Again, during the transition el Capitalism to Communism, suppres- sion is still necessary; but in this case “it is the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of exploited. A special instrument, a special machine for suppression— that is, the “State” — is necsesary, but this is now a transitional State, — no longer a State in the ore sense of the term. Ce! eae .