The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1934, Page 3

Foreign-Born Pay Dues In United Mine Workers But Can’t Hold Offices Lewis Machine Fears| Militaney of Foreign- Born Coal Miners | By TOM MYERSCOUGH Although it boldly declares in the ery first section of Article 2 that ts purpose is to “anite in one or- yanization, regardless of creed, color oe nationality, all men working in and around the mines on the Ameri- can continent,” the constitution of he United Mine Workers of America | uso vety definitely declares that foreign-born non-citizens cannot hold office in the union. ; This bar to leadership for foreign- som members of the union, regard- ess of what abilities they may pos- sess, can be found-in the first section of Article 8 of the U. M. W. A. con- stitution in the following words: “Any member in good standing in the or- ganization who is a citizen of the United States or Canada, or who has legally declared his intention of be- coming a citizen . . . shall be eligible to hold office in the International Union.” It can be readily seen, therefore, hat atty foreign-born miner who is a militant fighter of the type any / inion needs for real leadership, can- 26t become eligible to hold office. And this because both the United States and Canada have vicious anti- ‘oréign-born laws and policies which aot only bar them from citizenship, yut hasten the day when they can- aot even be residents of the coun- ty. | Struggle Against Restrictions | At the approaching convention of he U. M. W. A. the delegates should ake the necessary steps to eliminate ‘hese hateful clauses and the many other barriers fo progress from the constitution and replace them with aws and rules that will serve the} rest interests of the miners. Such nterests are working-class interests. New rules must be enacted to re~ jlace the document which now serves he interests of Lewis, his’ payroll | vatelites and the coal operators. | The membership of the U.M.W.A. S$ preponderantly foreign-born, but| hey pay their dues in hard-earned American dollars, and this fact should help to sway the delegates to rection at the convention. John L. Lewis is willing to take his $12,000 salary out of the dues paid by these oreign-bori members. How about ights for these miners who pay ‘ues? When a foreign-born miner with ability to lead is desired for eadership, there should be no clause n the constitution to conflict with he one which reads: “he purpose of this organization is to unite, te- iardless of creed, color or national- ity, all men working in and around ‘he imines,” ~ Chicago, Ii. Central Forum 59 Kast Van Buren St. Sun., Jan. 14th - 8 P.M. — MAX BEDACHT — “The Situation in the Fav East” and Katayama Memorial Auspices: Chieago Workers Schoo! —Admission 15¢— Philadelphia, Pa. Lecture and Russian Picture DONALD HENBERSON will speak on ‘Leninist StruggleA gainsi Imperialist War’ Sun, Jan. 14th, 8:15 P.M. MUSICIANS HALL 120 NORTH 18th STREET Auspices Philadelphia Wor'sers School Fo: -a 10™ ANNIVERSARY Daily, qWorker CELEBRATIONS DISTRICT 3 Py HILADELPHIA—On Feb. 2 a¢ Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Ave. program arranged. DISTRICT 5 {ULL SECTION, Pittsburgh—Jan, 19. SOUTH SIDE, Pittsburgh—Jan. 19. NORTH SIDE, Pittsburgh.—Jan, 13. YUKON, Pa.—Jan. 13, jan. 48) NEW KENSINGTON, Pa.—Jan. 13. McKEESPORT, Pa—Jan. 12, DISTRICT 6 * COLLINWOOD, O.--On Jan. 15 at Slovenian Workingman Home, 15335 Waterloo Rd., at 8 P.M. Good’ speakers, very inter esting program. * DISTRICT 7 J8TROIT, Mich.—On Jan. 14 at Finnish Hall, '5960—if'h St. “A. W.. Markorr, from New ak, will be the main speaker. M/gical program. arranged. DISTRICT 8 “4ICAGO, Ill—On Jan. 14 at 1503 N. Hard- tng Aye. Auspices of Sect. 5. Special x for two months sub. for Worker with 25¢ ticket. eee On Jan. 18 at New Workers Center, 548 Wisconsin St. (cor. of Larrabee). ‘Blue Blouses, John Reed Club, Finnish Youth Chorus @ large program. Negro Jazz Band, Refreshments. Gene Bech- told, speaker. Adm. 20c. “in” advance; %5¢ at door. Auspices Sec. 4 C.P. DISTRICT 16 JRFOLK, Va.—On Jan. 14 at Waltz Dream Garden, Church St. near, Brambleton Ave., af 2P. M. Good program. Mil Howard, Editor, Daily Worker will be main speak Unions Aid in Raising Funds for National Jobless Convention NEW YORK —The United Shoe and Leather Workers Union and the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union have taken steps to aid in the financing of the Na~ tional Convention Against Unem- ployment, to be held in Washing- ton, on Feb. 3, 4 and 5. Both unions have taken a large number of convention stamps to be sold for five cents each in ad- dition to boxes for the tag day col- jections. A number of workers clubs and organizations have arfanged house parties and affairs for the benefit of the convention. Organizations and individuals in New York City arranging affairs for the benefit of the convention should commu- nicate with the Special Conven- tion Fund Committee, 29 E. 20th St., telephone Algonquin 4-7846. The committee has features such as films and speakers to ald at such affairs. Progressive Miners Elect Rank, File to Office in 13 Locals 9 Women’s Branches Also Elect Officers from Opposition SPRINGFIELD, Il, Jan. 1—In- jcomplete information as to the re- sults of the elections in the locals of the Progressive Miners of America, not yet reported in the Daily Worker, indicates that rank and file opposi- tion candidates have been elected to official positions in 13 local unions. Among these elected officials are a number who are members of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. In no locals, how- ever were all officials elected from the rank and file slate. Nine locals of the women’s aux- illaries of the P. M. A. elected offi- cers from among the rank and file candidates. Most of these candidates are members of the Communist Party. Attention Detroit! FIRST ANNUAL BOOK SALE | 20% OFF Jan. Lith to Jan, 25th BOOKS & PAMPHLETS Dealing with ECONOMICS SOVIET UNION UNEMPLOYMENT LABOR HISTORY TRADE UNIONISM PROLETARIAN FICTION WORKERS BOOK SHOP 1981 GRAND RIVER Detroit, Mich. —Open 8 AM. to 7 PM— 10th ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS TO THE -00 Down Delivers a New ——————————————— PHILCO, RCA, MAJESTIC RADIO || All Newest Models On Display L. L. GOODMAN 327 WEST GIRARD AVE. Philadelphia, Pa, OPEN EVENINGS Have Your Wates Repaired PECKS 4248 W, 35th STREET Cleveland, Ohio Sanitary Meat Market 9117 JOS CAMPAU Hamtramck, Mich, Phone 2-8156 GENESEE COAL and ICE CO 3101 MICHIGAN AVE. Flint, Mich. We Deliver Cherow’s Grocery Everything for the Table “Phone for Food” 12111 Lindwood, Detroit, Mich. Cor, Monterey Townsend 7-0643 “I AM AN OLD TIMER” Sam’s Clothing Store 2022 SOUTH 7th STREET Philadelphia, Pa. DAILY WORKER DAILY ont ER, NEW YORK, FRiva... ANUARY 12, 1934 [What Rockefeller Knew About the “Kick-Back” Rockefeller’s Answer on Graft ADoLew lige Xow York Cf Dear sir: 4 workers exployed in tas erection -o ay attention, in which they were f considerable size for the privilegs Por the past month offios committee after committee 5 The plasterers hii md S0tn each whion thi latter gentleneo were ural Plastering Company. Ih the workers involvsd in this that there vere cany more whose na upee request. wnich bes been proclaimed to be in: ever inereasing unéoploynent, I am attention for you aiabe’ oot: are 4p dire étetr member are recipi to Radic City md they I ae prey tee belief thet you will nes your tom ceased. soya very serious matter m couctracting the tw completed Moxy Tate Street foreg’ to pay bacl f Ye been given a list of the vanes of xtortion ach as te prinetnal sponser of the Radke GSby project strimental ii alleviating tho and Have been evicted from thetr heaes. of charity from varions relief buresus and wany of thor, if not a vast majority, ara reduced to utter penury. These workers bave erected the beautiful structeres should be givoh back the money they wore foreed to give for tho privilege of workings 4 te place all the date before. you sn ‘Yours,yery truly, : dk Dac ozs Sf fsoting the Hundreds of Tew 6 of be: there hes been streaming epresenting these wor! the Archit tural Plastering ab 6th @ andI have been assured mes Would be furnished to me calling this matter to your ideration. Many of these workers A lerge good offices to tave this extort- 16 Broadwa: New York Deer Str: Your letter to Me. Rockefeller was duly receiveds I regret to sey that preseure corlker acknowbedguen:. Me. Rockefelier hes been ib1 amd ic away for 2 period ot and reeuperstion. Me. Adolph Deaic SAT Madicon Avene New York City, (Left)—Reproduction of the letter addressed to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., by Attorney Adolph Dzik, acting for the Anti-Racketeering Com- mittee, telling the oil trust heir of the wholesale racketeering at Rocke- } | feller Center. | (Above)—Replying to Attorney Dzik’s letter exposing racketeering | at Rockefeller Center, the billionaire’s secretary replies that Rockefeller is “resting and recuperating.” (Continued from Page 1) eae eee ened, to turn over a big share of their wages to the racketeers. “kick-back” was in full swing. But the “ill” Mr. Rockefeller was far away recuperating, and couldn’t say @ word about racketeering. The letter to John D. Rockefeller, dJr., written by Attorney Adolph Dzik, who has been active in exposing rack~ eteering for the Anti-Racketeerii Committee, told the oil billionaire the following: Letter to Rockefeller “Mr, John D, Rockefeller, Jr., “26 Broadway, “New York City, “Dear Sir: “A very serious matier affecting the hundreds of workers employed in the erection of Radio City has been brought to my attention, in which they were forced to pay a weekly tribute of considerable size for the privilege of being employed. “For the past month there has been streaming into my office -committee after committee repre- senting these workers relating a system of extortion in which these workers were involved, and which, I am informed, has turned into a profitable but unfortunate racket, and that with this condition em- anating from Radio City, it has found its way into the building bird generally throughout the city, Architectural Plastering Company in constructing the now complete: Roxy Theatre, at Sixtu Ave. and 50th St. were each forced to pay back a sum of money ranging from $12.50 up to $20 per week for the time they were employed. Many of these people have sworn to affi- davits now in my possession, de- tailing the time, place, and the persons to whom these weekly were connected with the aforemen- | ‘ioned Architectural _Plasterin,: | Co, I have been given a list of the names of the workers involved iz | ‘his extortion scheme and I have been assured that there were many more whose names would be fur- nished to me upon request. “As the principal sponsor of the Radio City project which has been proclaimed to be instrumental in alleviating the ever-increasing un- employment, I am calling this mat- ter to your attention for your im- mediate consideration. Many of these workers are in dire distress and have been evicted from their homes. A large number are recipi- ents of charity from various relief bureaus, and many of them, if not a vast majorily, are reduced to utter penury. 3 “These workers have erected the Monstrous Racke * The | “The plasterers hired by th | of correspondence hes preven Yery tral, t System in AFL Fi ought by Workers | Building Marine Work Planned at Communist Seamen’s Conference ~ e trong Opposition Need cies and wit emphasized loot ° Fs of developing a strong op; ion in Intern’] Longshore | movement within the International 500 , 8 | Longshoremen’s Association, of de- Assoc. Is Stressed veloping a uniform opposition move- ere ment and of preparing the issuance of a Central Bulletin dealing with the problems of the longshoremen, par- | ticularly of the LL.A. At the same | time, the conference combatted ten- dencies that have prevailed which | minimized the possibilities of organ- |izing the unorganized longshoremen | directly into the Marine Workers In- | dustrial Union, pointing out that vhere the Marine Workers Industrial ion had been correctly brought forward to the unorganized men satis- | factory results had been gotten. The ton, New York, Philadelphia, Ba establishment of a strong longshore mote and Norfolk, by members of| Section of the Marine Workers Indus- the Central Committee of the Party| ‘tial Union and the strengthening of and the fraction of the National Ex-| the forces assigned for this work 1s of eoutive Board of the Trade Union| ‘Me utmost importance. Unity League | The resolution adopted, and discus- e siti » conference,| 10m, also dealt with the problems | 22 non-marine w "s active in the} t@SK 1s the building of the Marine work, strongly emphasized the ex- | Workers Industrial Union and at the | treme weakness of the Party in the| S#me time of paying attention to the By ROY HUDSON e Central gtheni e work of the marine industry in h Atlantic ports in the spiri Open Letter. The conference was ded by all the leading forces en-| d in longshore work, as well as| ing members of the District Bu- Teaus and Section Committees of the Communist Party in the ports of Bos- | dustry, and the fact that the Party|@*OUPS amongst the reformist sea- |had failed to improve its situation | ™et'9 oranizations, where they exist. there despite the favorable possibili-| UNEMPLOYMENT that exist. This was especially se-| ‘The conference revealed the fact | rious in view of the relative Progress| that while systematic attention has that the Party has been able to make! peen paid to unemployed work | amongst the seamen where more se-| amongst the seamen the problems of jtious and systematic work has been|the unemployed and part-time long- | carried through and where a number | shoremen have received little or no | of favorable achievements are to be/ attention. The need of correcting this | recorded, | situation is of the utmost importance CLARIFYING TASKS | especially in view of the proposed de- casualization program, which would | centered around the question of clari-| off the front, as well as divide their | beautiful structures in Radio City and they should be given back the money they were forced to give for the privilege of working. “I am prepared to place all the data before you in the belief that | you will use your good offices to | have this extortion ceased. | "Yours very truly, | “(Signed) ADOLPH DZIK.” { Journal's Fake | In the so-called “expose” of racke~ | teering, especially of the “kick-back,” the New York Evening Journal took the greatest care to whitewash Mr. Rockefeller of all knowledge of what was going on under his very nose. On Jan. 6, the Journal declared: “Millions were poured into the Rockefeller Center that it might rise majestically to the skies. The mil- lions were spent by financiers who could afford it. “Little did these men think that union workingmen, swarming like bees over the fast-growing towers, also were pouring out money. Not money that they could afford, not money that was to help in one of | the most dazzling projects of mod- ern times,” Mr. John D. Rockefeller, not only he was fully advised that the method originated at the Rockefeller Center. Knows His Wage-cutting But Mr. Rockefeller also knew that was one of the methods used to lower | Wages. He was fully cognizant of the ‘fact that he himself, as every other capitalist builder, profited from this grafting system. It helped lower the cost of the contract, making the workers pay for the lowered cost by the “kick-back’ instead of the more round-about method of revising the vage agreement. By this means, Rockefeller profited, vhe contractors profited, the union of- ficlals profited. Only the worker paid, That accounts for the dead silence of Mr, John D, Rockefeller. Now Mr. Hearst becomes yoluble against racketeering. He sheds croco- dile tears about murdered workers, about workers who have been bled by union officials and small con- tractors. Before dealing with the real facts of racketeering, many of which the New York Journal deliberately hides, we want to recall to the workers a few interesting sidelights on the origin of labor racketeering. Hearst Hires Gangsters In 1912, the Hearst papers first entered the morning field in Chicago. ;It was big game. reviously only the | Chicago Tribune, ond another unim- |portant sheet held sway. Hearst wanted to dominate. A vicious fight developed. William Randolph Hearst began hiring gangsters and gunmen. Out of this group of gunmen, grew the first labor racketeers in Chicago. knew of the “kick-back racket, but| One of Hearsts chief killers was none ed |other than the tall and vicious “Big |Tim’ Murphy. After gaining his jexperiences working for Hearst, “Big Tim” Murphy began to prey on the workers. Where he couldn’t muscle into a union, because other hench-| men were there first, he organized | his own unions—among street clean- | jers, bootblacks, window cleaners, and dozens of others—in order to provide | a lucrative field for his marauding and robbery. Dozens of labor rack- eteers, high up in the A. F. of L. are the spawn of William R. Hearst's hi thi gunman’s war with the Chicago Tribune. it? Now Hearst becomes the self- appointed ‘crusader” against rack- eteering in New York City. But the real facts of the whole hook-up on racketeering will never appear in the capitalist press. | ‘There are many workers now walk- ing the streets hungry, without work, without hopes of a job, with their| ‘union cards taken away because they | of could not pay dues, who were forced | to part with hundreds of dollars for | the “kick-back” racket on the Rock-| efeller Center job. “I am now without wor! read dozens of affidavits of these workers. as the result of erating.” One of these victims. a Negro worker by the name of Ryland Bruno. plasterer's helper, tells how he was brutally mulcted by the kick-back racket at Radio City. The Evening Journal completely distorts this story in order to shield the union officials greatly responsible. To give an example of the distor- tion—how the Journal uses its so- called racketeering expcese for its own ends, for anti-working class and anti- trade union purposes, for the object of speeding the passage of fascist labor laws—we quote its treatment of the Bruno instance. Writes the Journal: “You'll have to pay me $2.50 for each day you work here,” (The fore- Co. told Bruno.) Brun had signed on for day. He protested “kicking with $2.50 of this; “Suppose you get caught at this?” he said to the foreman. “Why, everyone know ‘kick-back’,” he says \ forman) replied. bout the jams (the What Really Happened Here is actually what happened told by Bruno in a letter to the chi man, officers and members of Plas- |terer Helpers Local No. 30: | “Thursday at 1 p. m., after I was hired, he (Williams) told me that the full wages would be paid. But I would have to return $2.50 for About the lowest that back” racketeers h day that ¥ work-d. dered the assertion and ‘im: “‘Suppose you were caught do- ing that, what would the delegates do about it?’ “He responded: on the job is working those conditions’.” The union representative knew that) of clarifying the Party's major poli-| grafting workers’ wag was going on, th: is manner, rnd that everyo: working under those conditions. | Why didn’t he do anything about} There evidently were good rea- sons why the union officials permitted | the bosses to continue slashing wages. | Pay Big Sums Some workers paid huge sums over | a short perid of time. these, T. W. from N June 8, 1933, paid $225 of his wages Were back to the contractor. T. i Noy, 5, 1932, to April u, 1933, 22 weeks,| Powerless to compel the restoration |paid $330. Another worker M. D., in| °! the 25 per cent wage cut against four months, paid $175, the stooped was I con- re being slashed in We list a few D., | fying our tasks, particularly amongst | ranks and bind the longshoremen the longshoremen, of carrying| hand and foot to the officials of the | through @ mobilization of the Party) TI. L. A. | in the districts for immediately taking | One of the points given particular | Steps to improve the situation, and of | emphasis at the conference were the | establishing the definite responsibili-| tasks of the Party in the marine in- | ties of the Party committees for the| dustry in the struggle against war and asked ‘That the dele- | work in the marine industry, with a! the defense of the Soviet Union, as gates knew alf about it, and every- | | special concentration upon our major | well as the fight against fascism and weakness, the longshoremen. | particularly in support of the Ger- under | The conference set itself the task| man workers, } The conference emphasized that aus —.| the major reason for our failure to | win a mass influence amongst the NRA Seeks to Break | tor" stctast? utente an, 4 $ be | lect in build: Part Radio Men’s Strike |<: tte terion. tor wining tones at the} me was leadership to their struggles, was due shoremen into the ranks of the Party. __ Steibs f .|The conference clearly exposed our ct eR Sitiking radio ob- | tailure to build strong and function |ing waterfront units and sections. Likewise, a lack of orientation toward the marine work generally, and long~ shore particularly, as well as a lack of clarity on the relationships of the marine work with the Party commit- | tees and the responsibilities of the Party committees in carrying through | | 1932 to| N-R.A. Regional Board last Tuesday informed that, while their | from | $tlevances are just, the N.R.A, is which they struck. The NRA | Board decided that the matter have to go to the Deputy Admini: “kick- to take “T am forced to apply for city relief | unemployment.” | Rookefeller is “resting and recup-| man for the Architectural Plastering | ~ $1.25 out of the wages of one plaster- | ers’ helper who worked for only one- half day, receiving $4.25 for his labor. He had been jobless for some time Debts had piled up. He would have |to live on this sum for many da before he could fina another |The grafters still insisted he | ba | H. S&S. another worker, | ployed on the same job, “I received $34 for four days work,” he said. “On the following day r job. kick. was em- man, called me over. “I Was Hard-Up” | “*You have to give me $10 of that,’ |e told me. “He took me to a small room where he insisted that I give vi the jmoney. I was not working much up to them, I was very hard-up “‘T’m a peor man,’ I told him. ‘I |have a family to support and times h me. I can't afford to ‘He threatened me. He said if I {did not give him $2.s) for each day I worked I would be fired and earn no money at all. I paid him the $10.” Who are the racketeers? What relation do they have to the gov- cornment? What is the purpose of | the recent hectic tivity of Hearst | and the Copeland Senate Commit- | tee in its so-called investigation of | racketeering? What role is Roose- | velt playing in this whole struggle? | These questions as well as a de- |tailed and throughout exposure of graft and racketeering in many unions and the history of the strug- gle against them will be printed in future articles in the Daily Worker. I was paid, Jess Williams, the fore-j| trator of the Marine Industry Code, | | William H. Davis, raising false hopes that Davis might intervene in | behalf of the operators. | Prior to the calling of the strike, the wireless radio operators com- S| plained of the cut to Deputy Ad- |ministrator Davis, who informed them | that he was powerless to act, al- | though admitting that the cut given by the heavily subsidized American Merchant Shipping Lines should be | restored. The operators also ap- pealed to the Department of Labor and to the President's secretary. | When they realized that they could | not force the company to yield ex- jcept through their own organized action, they decided to strike. At the N.R.A. conference A J. McCarthy, general manager of the American Merchant Line, declared the company’s refusal of the de- mands of the strikers and openly | showed how the N.R.A. is their own tool to break the strike. He said: “We are here only as a matter of courtesy in response to | your call and we do not recognize | Your authority, nor do we consider | that you have any power to inter- | Vene in this strike.” | The wireless operators will refuse | to be deceived by the pretensions of support by the N.R.A. The N.R.A. policy is to wear out the strikers by | promises and ho that it will be able to mediate, but in reality, with | | the intention of breaking the strike | by demoralizing the strikers. | The wireless | tensify their struggle, by drawing | more operators into the strike on these lines and spreading the strike to other lines with the support of | the Marine Workers Industrial Union. operators must in- | the concentration policy, necessary in winning over the decisive sections of the American workers. Especially was Philadelphia singled out for criti- cism for the lack of sufficient work among the longshoremen. The weak- nesses and lack of attention in most districts was strongly contrasted with | favorable results obtained In Norfolk, where a strong opposition movement |in the LL.A. has been developed, a branch of the M.W.I.U. established amongst the unorganized longshore~ men and a number of Negro long- shoremen have been recruited into the Party. IN NEW YORK While New York had a number of improvements to record, in the sense of well thought out plans of concen- tration, the beginning of a real mo~ bilization of forces, and a systematic check up on the execution of tasks, It was pointed out that little organiza- tional results had been gotten, and the execution of the plan was not proceeding with the speed and energy that the situation demanded. The conference demanded a more thorough mobilization of the Party for work in the marine industry, of systematic control of the work in this industry by the Party committees, of especially winning over the training of longshore cadres, of bringing the face of the Party to the workers, es- | y through the establishment of | Party units and sections and increas- | ing the sale of the Daily Worker. The conference, and the resolution adopted which will be published Sat- urday in the Daily Worker, represent @ real clarification of the tasks and necessary ‘base amongst the workers in the marine industry. This is the third and last of a series of articles on the Roosevelt budget. The first two articles ex- amined the character of budgets in the capitalist State, the details, of the present “recovery budget,” and their effect on the masses.— EDITOR’S NOTE. Cet ie By MILTON HOWARD In the first two articles we opened up the elaborate machinery of the Roosevelt — $10,000,000,000 “recovery budget,” and we found that it is the government-financial instrument of the Roosevelt N.R.A.-New Deal pro- gram, with which the capitalist State power at Washington is now doing the following three things: 1, Guaranteeing the profits and in- vestments of the Wall Street bond- holders, mortgage holders, stockhoid- ers, through the pumping of huge vated to the banks, R.F.C, “loans,” etc, 2. Organizing the entire economy of the country, so that the grip of mono- poly capital on production will be Strengthened and made more efficient Roosevelt Plans To Lay Huge Taxes On Masses FIGHT MUST BE FOR HEAVY TAXES ON RICH; BILLIONS TO GO FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE To Carry Budget Load INSTEAD OF WAR AND WALL STREET AID in the interests of preparation for imperialist. war. 3. Augmenting of the State’s ma-| chinery of oppression, the Army, Navy, police, etc., to an unprecedented degree by allocating for these pur- poses an ever increasing proportion of the national income, in deliberate preparation for war, for the violent suppression of the inevitably rising resistance of the masses to starvation and suffering. In concluding and forming the final conclusions of our examination of the budget, we must remember that the enormity of the expenditures, the unparalleled billions to be raised in the next few months, are the out- growth of the economic crisis, And it will deepen the crisis. Wall Street Tie-Up Té can very clearly be seen that the record-breaking “national debt” of $35,000,000,000 which Roosevelt en- visages for 1935 is a result of the tremendous government support that Roosevelt has given to Wall Street investments through R.F.C. loans, etc. The process of the increasing “na- tional debt”.can be seen as nothing but the process whereby the capital- ist State assumes the losses of mono~ poly capital and sets up machinery to protect the financial vosition of Here is the present position of the “national debt”—the Roosevelt yevernment, which is too “poor” to wrovide adequate relief and unem- loyment insurance for the jobles vumps billions into the banks, rai voads ,ete. This runs Ww) a deficit | -£ $7,000,000,000, The Roosevelt gov- cnment then ‘goes to the very same Wail Street interests whom “t has been feeding with billions ir nterest payments, subsidies, ete., tc »errow funds to give still more sub- idies to banks, ete. And this stil’ ‘urther increases the governmen’ ‘ebt burden, the interest payment: he “fixed charges” to the bankers At every turn of the capitalis State, then, we see it acting as the “executive committee of the capitai- ist class” (Marx), as its financial agent and executor, As the crisis deepens, and the profits and investments of Wall St. are endangered, the Roosevelt gov- ernment increases its subsidies to Wali St. monopoly capital. But to be able to do this, it is forced to borrow from the Wail St. banks, whose investments it is pro- tecting! And thus, the grip of Wall Street finance capital on the capitalist Stote moneeoy apis grows tighter all the ug IS growing “national debt” load, naturally leads to a *risis in the Government finances. The process of paying the enormous debt pay- jments can only be solved by wringing |the payments from the masses in taxes. Soon a point is reached where the process of direct taxation must be supplemented by other methods of \financing the Government's expendi- tures. And then ¢he spectre of infla- tion begins to appear—the creation jot depreciated currency which the |government can issue without worry- jing about its backing or security. And this will mean wholesale rob- bery of the masses through sharp in- |direct slashes in the real buying |power of the masses. It will mean |working class suffering such as this country has not yet seen, Roosevelt's budget is thus part of his whole program of the capitalist load of the crisis on the backs of the masses. Taxes on Working Class IN his call for raising new funds to protect Wall Street, Roosevelt was very careful to avoid mentioning sur- taxes on large incomes, He protects these incomes < crwroonaenonnnscernamt 9° \ way out of the crisis—placing the) The whole tax program of the Roosevelt government is designed to wrest taxes from the poorest sections of the population, The working class fight against the Roosevelt Wall Street budget must take the following form: Instead of billions for the Navy, for banks, for railroads, trust com- panies, etc. the workers must demand that the Roosevelt government pro- vide these billions for immediate re- lief of the jobless, and for the im- mediate creation of a Federal fund for Federal Unemployment Insurance to be administered by committees elected by the jobless themselves. Insteaq of billions for a “public | works” program that conceals record- breaking building of battleships, bomping planes, etc., for war, the workers must demand a public works program that includes the clearance of the slums and the building of modern homes for the working class, hospitals, schools, etc . Instead of the Roosevelt program of heavy taxation of the masses, the processing taxes, the excise taxes on cigarettes, etc., the taxes on small in- comes, etc., we must demand the re- peal of all taxes on the masses, and the immediate creation of very heavy \ } cere ner anno Sn oN TR ONRCT taxes on all large incomes, all large capital accumulations, ete, A capital levy that will immediately take a big slice out of the Morgan- | Rockefeller industrial and bank sur- pluses, that will slash deeply into all accumulated reserves of rich cor- porations must be the way ef pro- viding funds for the unemployment insurance funds and real * public works. # The Roosevelt budget proves that Roosevelt knows that he can raise huge sums of money very quickly— when it is a question of financing war and Wall Street. We've got to force him and his Government to raise these for the working class, to fe jobless workers and their families, to provide shelter, and insurance against need and suffering of the crisis, The capitalist class is responsible for the crisis. The working class must organize to make the Roose~ velt government, Wall Street's agent, pay for the crisis and pro- vide Federal insurance for the working class against all the eurses of the capitalist crisis—unemploy- ment, starvation and the menace _ of war 4 # : longshore section of the marine in-| 4¢velopment of organized opposition | The main discussions and reports| permanently drive thousands of men |