The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1934, Page 6

: / Page Six Daily .<QWorker TENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST (NTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC, 530 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y Telephone: ALg: Cable A Weshing! 1th and F. mal Press Inflation-Hunger-War DENT ROOSEVELT, by his latest proposed monetary and gold laws, re- veals that from the policy of inflationary Sniping the Wall Street government now resorts to the use of the heaviest artillery against the toiling masses through drastic, direct inflation. Stripped of its high-sounding theo- retical verbiage, the Roosevelt proposal sig- nifies the government centralization of gold control in the interest of finance capital, in- ternally for attack on the American work- ers, farmers and petty-bourgeoisie, and in- ternationally for the most virulent economic warfare. Roosevelt takes over control of the coun- try’s gold reserves. He decrees that here- after the masses shail be paid in paper money with reduced purchasing power for their work. He immediately sets the value of the dollar at from 50 to 60 per cent of its nor- mal gold value, thereby decreeing a na- tional wage cut for all workers in the most brutal and direct form. The actual result will be a pauperization of tens of millions, the establishment of coolie standards for the American workers. To anesthetize the masses, to soften the impact of the terrific blow, Roosevelt de- clares that this is a means of stabilizing the dollar, of establishing a “sound currency.” Every step of his inflationary program has been paved with lying promises, with demagogy, deceit and swindle. The Herald-Tribune, a foremost Wall Street spokesman, declares that while Roosevelt tactfully closes the front door to inflation which would reduce the value of the dollar to zero, he “leaves the back door” wide open to an endless barrage of inflation. * * * HAT it will stir to the highest pitch the most gigantic financial and economic War among the imperialist giants, leading to the imminent danger of a new world slaughter for markets, for colonies, for im- perialist domination, is admitted indirectly by the capitalists themselves, and is shown directly by the facts. On the very day that Roosevelt sent his goid message to Congress, the stock «manarket began to. plunge into speculation vies. Anticipating the stimu- lation of war production, stocks of the steel, chemicai, motor, railroad and util- ities shot upwards to an increase of as high as 37 a share. At the same time, prices of all basic commodities, wheat, cotton) rubber, rushed upwards, forecasting an imme- diate rise in the retail prices the workers wili have to pay for all the necessities of life. The foremost conflict of the imperial- ists, that between the United States and Great Britain for world hegemony, has flared up never before. The New York Times on January 16 de- clared: “The possibility of conflict between the operations of the new $2,000,000,000 stab- ilization fund of the United States and Great Britain’s Equalization Fund oc- curred at once to foreign exchange dealers. With such large sums at the disposal of the two countries, a gigantic currency war might arise if policies of the funds come into conflict.” Behind this monetary war, behind this furious war for world markets, with a money weapon second to none, we have the stark fact that the United States is build- ing a “navy second to none.” While Roosevelt speeds ahead with infla- tion, the N.R.A. codes are designed to hold wages down in an iron vice. The National Labor Board, with its lackey assistants on the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, mobilize their forces to smash strikes, The rise in prices will rapidly slash real wages. The process that was begun with the passing of the N.R.A. will now take on the speed of an express train. The Daily Worker, through its Washing- ton Bureau, has already published the facts brought out at General Johnson’s hearings prices, showing that prices have risen 17 to 250 per cent on various com- ‘modities under the N.R.A. ir. Edward S. Mead, professor of fi- “nance of the University of Pennsylvania, commenting on Roosevelt’s direct inflation drive, referring to wages, said: “Real wages —the purchasing power ¢ of money wages—will fall if retail prices rise. Minimum wages fixed by the codes (i assist the employer in holding money down to present levels.” ie workers will be held to the iron of the N.R.A., while the Roosevelt me whacks at them with his powerful mer of gold. a * * * becoming clearer to ever wider sec- s of the working class that the eco- policy of cavitalism as exnressed i Butiding through the brutal measures of the Roose- velt regime is not solving the crisis, but is intensifying the basic contradictions of capialism. Finance capital cannot restore the stab- ilization of capitalism. Its deeds drive the workers to greater starvation and its sys- tem closer to the abyss, As the XIIIth Plenum of the Commu- nist International pointed out wih remark- able clariy: “The economic policy of the financial oligarchy for overcoming the crisis (the robbery of the workers and peasants, sub- sidies to the capitalists and landlords) is unable to restore the stabilization of cap- italism; on the contrary, it is helping still further to disintegrate the mechan- ism of capitalist economy (disorganiza- tion of the money system, of the budget, state bankruptcies, a further deepening of the agrarian crisis) and to sharply in- tensify the fundamental contradictions of capitalism.” “In this situation, all the capitalist counries are developing their war indus- ries to unprecedented dimensions, and are adapting all the principal branches of in- dustry, as well as agriculture, to the needs of war.” . * * UNGER, misery, death and destruction ride on the wings of the Blue Eagle. Seventeen million workers are still un- employed in the United States. Those em- ployed have the noose of N.R.A. codes around their necks. The strikebreaking ap- paratus of the N.R.A., through the Na- ional Labor Board, with the assisance of the American Federation of Labor leaders, has been strengthened, as a force to smash down the workers struggles. When Roosevelt on the assumption of the presidency began his original inflationary driv against the workers, the American ilers showed their resistance, their mili- tancy by a tremendous strike wave. We can expect bigger strike struggles, more deter- mined resistance against the latest depre- dation of finance capital. The workers were misled by the false promises of the N.R.A., they were betrayed and scabbed against by the strikebreaking bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., aided by the Socialist Party. Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, urged the workers, “Now is not the time to strike.” He invited inflation as a means of solving the capitalist crisis. The Communist Party has before it tre- mendous tasks. The present sharpening of the attacks against the workers, the drive to war, will be one of its greatest tests. We must make clear to the workers now the full significance of Roosevelt’s war and inflation moves. We must rally the work- ers for struggle, giving these struggles lead- ership and organization. Above all, it is necessary now more than ever to penetrate the factories, and in the basic industries to bring to the workers the truth, the real meaning of Roosevelt’s pro- gram. * * * E MUST organize for the powerful strike movement that is now matur- ing, giving it leadership, raising the slogan everywhere of increased wages to meet the rapidly rising prices. Our leadership of the rank and file opposition groups in the American Fed- eration of Labor must be strengthened to carry out the program adopted to the various trade Party conferences on trade union work. The greatest obstacle in the path of de- veloping strike struggles to meet the bosses’ offensive, has been the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist leadership, and the Musteites, who act as a “left” brake on the struggles and the united front of all workers, The immediate need of the workers is a united front regardless of union affiliatioy unity of employed and unemployed, unity or organized and unorganized in all shops for a common struggle against this most drastic attack. In the last huge strike wave, the revolu- tionary trade unions were mobilizing their forces to lead many struggles. They must now intensify their organizational activity among the unorganized, preparing more energeti- cally than ever to lead the oncoming strike wave. CNG. baa. ree | AS the strike waves grow, the Roosevelt regime, through the N.R.A., and its strikebreaking provisions, will act with great- er decisiveness and brutality. The fascist measures will be increased in an effort to stem and drive back the resistance of the workers. Against this our main task is to forge the united front of all workers for the struggle. Everywhere we must give leadership to organize against the pauperization of the toiling masses. We must raliy the workers around the slogan of “fight against the high cost of living,” to de- mand higher wages to meet rising prices that cut into the real wages of the work- ers. Against the tremendous drive to war, against the wholesale subsidies for the war industries, the greatest mobilization should take place. Against the huge war budget, we must counter-pose more sharply than ever the demand for social insurance, for legislation | securing to the army of unemployed a guar- antee of livelihood. A struggle against war preparations, against the immediate danger of war, a struggle that will unite all workers in a fight against the real war-maker, capitalism, is necessary on every front. As the resistance of the workers rises, as class lines sharpen, we must raise all of these struggles to a higher political level, directing them towards the overthrow of capitalism, for the revolutionary way out of the crisis which alone can prevent war and the further severe enslavemert of the workers. Nazi Leaders Are Qutmaneuvered by, French in Saar Bid |Face French Control of; | Plebiscite Or Return To the League GENEVA ers were 0 in a propo! of the Saar to cd that indy since the Wo plebiscite in ¢ French rivals or of ig to the League of they bolted sev- hs ago in a typical Nazi atic gesture aimed at con- vincing the German people that Hitler was carrying out his prom- ises or a ruthless fight against the Wa: wh proposal has tripped jup Nazi gn Minister von Neu- rath and C jwhom, accordiing to Berlin dis- patches, are still engaged this after- ;noon in studying the possibilities for a countermove. The French proposal also registers a sharp defeat for Nazi diplomacy, jin the rejectioin by France of a Nazi | proposal to avoid the plebiscite aito- gether through a secret deal with |France for the return of the Saar to Germany in exchange for Nazi rec- jognition of the western borders of | the illes Pact and German arms | equality. | The German arms proposals are jexpected to be revived at this session lof the League’s Council, with Britain |and- Italy pushing their policy of ag- |gressive support for Nazi arms equal lity as an offset to French military |domination of Western Europe thru |its gigantic war machine and alli- jances with Poland and the Little |Entente vassals of French imperial- | ism. Foreign News | Briefs SEVEN FACE DEATH ON THREE YEAR OLD CHARGE HAMBURG, — The insatiable bloodhounds of fascism have dug up the case of the killing of a po- |lice sergeant in December, 1930, | and are demanding the death pen- | alty for seven workers whom they accuse as being responsible. | UNEMPLOYMENT IN ITALY RISES ROME. — The officially ad- mitted number of unemployed in Italy has increased from 962,868 at the end of October to 1,066,215 at the end of November. BOSSES RUSH INTO HITLER UNIONS | BERLIN, Germany—The Hitler | unions, which are to take in all workers and employers and be known as the “German Labor Front,” are meeting with great success. One | hundred thousand bosses have joined \the organization in the space of two weeks. One of the new fighters for the interests of the German working | class is ‘the great industrialist Thys- sen. 26 KILLED BY GUIANA FLOODS GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, | Jan, 15—Twenty persons were killed | when floods, caused by swollen rivers, destroyed scores of peasant shacks. |The bodies of two women were re- covered today in an up-country vil- lage. Food prices are soaring rap- idly as profiteers take advantage of the widespread destruction of crops. GENDARMES TO EJECT JOBLESS FRENCH PILOTS COMPIEGNE, France, Jan. 15.— |Gendarmes were ordered today to | eject 60 unemployed canal boat pilots | who have ben encamped in the City Hall of Longueil-Annal since Friday, demanding unemployment relief. The demands of the unemployed pilots are supported by workers in j the town, who recently held a mass meeting to back up their demands. 14—The Nazi lead-| uvered by France ered by the French Nations Council's y to invite Germany ms later this week for a plebiscite in he future fate of ministered | French im- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 THE ROOSEVELT STRETCH-OUT | | —By Burck | | | NEW YORK,—‘“The enemies of the Soviet Union in this country are go- ling to take every opportunity to sab- | otage and break up the relations that have been established. Thini of all the forged documents that are jgoing to appear mysteriously. If there is a Mississippi flood it will be blamed on Moscow,” stated Cor- |liss Lamont, ex-Columbia professor, son of Thomas Lamont, Morgan partner, and author of the book “Russia Day by Day,” as he warned against any relaxation of vigilance on the part of the Friends of the Soviet Union, and urged support of the first national convention to be held in New York City at the New Star Casino, Jan. 26, 27 and 28. Elmer Rice, John Haynes Holmes and Langston Hughes also sent wires of endorsements of the coming na- tional convention. Langston Hughes, brilliant Negro poet, telegraphed the Friends of the Soviet Union from his home in Car- mel, Cal.: “Heartily endorse coming convention of the Friends of the So- viet Union, as friends of the true workers’ fatherland, Urge Negro at- tendance and support. I extend comradely greeting.” John Haynes Holmes, minister of the Community Church of New York, declared: “I know of nothing more | United Front Against War Grows in France PARIS, France—Numerous new Committees Against War and Fas- cism have been organized in the last few weeks. A special campaign is being carried on among the farmers with the united front with the social- ist workers being strengthened. The leaders of the “action socialists” ex- pelled from the Socialist Party are reorganizing their movement. On December 3 a District Congress of the Committees Against War and Fascism was held in the important shipping centre of the Lower Seine. Twenty-two new committees have been formed tn the areas of Correze and d’ Yonne. Virginia, Minn., Meeting VIRGINIA, Minn. Jan. 15—A Lenin Memorial meeting will be held at Workers’ Center, here, on Sunday, Jan, 21. Many Endorse Fi ig Nationnl F. S. U. Convention, Jan. 26 | | | important today than the spread of| exact information about Russia. This | is important from two points of view. First, to meet and overcome the} jgreat mass of misinformation and) deliberate falsehood which has been | engulfing the people of the world) ever since the bolshevik revolution. | Secondly, to present the full and ex act truth about the greatest expe! ment in human welfare in the his- tory of the world.” United Front. Meet to Answer Attack on Foreign-Born Sunday Convention to Fight Dies, Crail Bills NEW YORK, N. Y—Nearly 500 delegates of trade unions, fraternal warding credentials to the Commit- Born for its New York convention, Sunday, Jan. 21, at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. 4th St, Such organizations as the Work- man’s Circle, Branch 35, French Workers Club, American Civil Liber- ties Union: and the Trade Union Unity League are participating in the united front. The Dies bill, the Grail bill and all measures for finger- printing, registering and otherwise discriminating against alien-born workers, will be the chief concern of this convention. At the convention on Sunday a plan of action and resolutions will be made protesting these acts of Wash- ington. Sam Paul, who at present is being held for deportation under $1000 bail, will be one of the principal speakers. Fight for unemployment insur- anee. Support the National Con- vention Against Unemployment on Feb. 3 in Washington, D. C. | government today refused to acknowl- i | present, Nazi decree is by way of re- and political organizations, are for-| tee for the Protection of Foreign} France in Trade Ultimatum 1 to Nazis Threaten New Reprisals | in Trade War PARIS, Jan. 16.—In a trade ultima- tum to the Nazi regime, the French edge the new trade quotas set by the i imiting imports of 100 French The French note demands | from Germany by Jan..19, \the date upon which the new Nazi | measures are to take effect. | French trade reprisals are threat- | ened, including a denunciation of the reciprocal most-favored nation treat- ment. French imports of German will be taken against German dump- ing. ‘The French recently reduced Nazi | imports by 30,000,000 francs. Thé |prisal. French reprisal against the | decree will be followed by new re- prisals by the Nazis in the increas- ingly bitter trade war between the two countries, which is merely one front in the world-wide trade war between the canitalist powers under conditions of fiercely intensified im- perialist antagonisms and frantie war preparations by all the imperialist powers. GREEK PEASANTS FIGHT TAX COLLECTORS ATHENS, Jan. 16—Thirty-five peasants, including five women, from the village of Welisita are on trial at Janina (Epirus) for driving tax collectors out of the village and re- leasing peasants who had been ar- rested. ss The defendants were arrested only with the aid of a strong detachment of gendarmerie. MANCHUKUO % MUKDEN, Jan. 16—J. B. Powell, American editor of the China Weekly Review, was barred from entering Manchukuo, following publication in his paper of news of the Japanese preparations to seize North China in connection with Tokyo's plans for an enlarged Manchukuo under its puppet rule, Henry Pu-¥Yi, who is to be crowned “emperor” of Manchukuo. Publishing Scores of Mle- gal Papers, Tons of Leaf- lets, Pamphlets, Ete. BERLIN, Jan. 16—A_ significant admission of the wide extent and ef- fectiveness of the activities of the illegal Communist Party in heroic struggle against the Nazi terror, is contained in an article published by the Nazi “Hamburger Fremdenblatt,” which at the same time seeks to de- ceive its readers with the oft-repeated Nazi lie that the unconquerable Ger- man Communist Party has been “finally” crushed. The article states, fn part, under the caption “Exposure of Underground Police Activities—the Reactionaries Rule All-Nazi Reichstag BERLIN, Jan. 16.—The compo- sition of the all-Nazi Reichstag, ; which met last Dec. 12 for a few minutes and voted new unlimited power to Hitler and adjourned, is interesting. It consists of 100 members of the landed aristocracy, 60 noblemen, 25 leading industrialists and capital- ists, 30 top officers of the old im- perialist army, and other trusted Nazis. ‘The Reichstag consists of 661 “deputies, of whom 17 are former workers. Naz Paper Tells of Wide Activities of Work of the Secret Political Police”: “a small exhibition in the building of the Secret State Police shows how the Communist Party has tried to work even during the last few months and how the secret State Police has killed the last small flame of this world epidemic. Unique Methods Urged by Communists “There one can see firstly, the enormous amounts of literature in the German language which is pub- lished outside of Germany, the ref- ugee newsvapers in Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich and Prague, and the many leaflets and circulars from the Saar. “Much more dangerous and impor- tant is the amount of printed ma- terial which is still being published in Germany. For example, there is a little green book with the harmless title ‘Trip to Eastern Prussia.’ The cover shows a picture of Eastern Prus- sia while the contents prove to be the Communist article on the fight against New Germany. “‘Air Protection Is Self-Protec- tion’—a new novel for the peovle of Berlin. This is the title of another pamphlet. The contents {s,a terrible Communist paper consisting of as many lies as it has lines. The Illegal Communist Press “A leaflet of the Communist Party of Germany was made to look like an appeal from the leader to his people. The Rote Fahne, and other Communist newspapers are being published again and it was learned they are being printed in Investigations proved that the Com- munist newspapers were made up in a Communist linotype factory and that small printing shops printed these newspapers. Ten of these places were closed recently and the State Police Department has confiscated over 2,587 tons of literature, “The character of the underground organizations which has been inves- tigated and destroyed during the last few months are very interesting. 2,300 functionaries of the Communist Party were imprisoned. The under- ground organization demands that each functionary travels under a false name, has illegal papers and no per- manent residence. The functionaries do not know each other and there- fore it is difficult to investigate these organizations. Nevertheless the Secret State Police has been successful in exposing these organizations. Nazi Terror Fails To Destroy Com- munist Party “In September the leader of the underground Red Trade Union Oppo- sition as well as the Agit-Prop Direc- tor of the Red Trade Union Opposi- tion were arrested. The leader of the former Red Front organization and his associates as well as the repre- sentative of Leow were jailed. Leow at that time had a goatee and glasses, and he had chenged his exterior to such a degre> that even his best friends did’ not recognize him. The transferring of the Reichstag trial to Berlin increased the propaganda ac- Communists Mass Arrests Terror, Fail to Crush Heroic German Communists tion of the German Communist Party.” ‘These excerpts are very interest- ing. They show the volume of il- Nazis Murder Three | Communist io i BERLIN, Jan. 16—The former Communist functionary Harting was murdered by Nazi storm troops at the Puhlsbuettel concentration camp, it was learned today. His. “crime” was given as some small breach of discipline. Two other workers whose names | inv | Franco-German trade treaty of 1927, | | | wkfch was revised in 1932 to grant || goods will also be drastically reduced, | | it is declared, while sharp measures | | U.S, JOURNALIST BARRED FROM | } Fakien Leaders Got He ng Bribe to Step Rebellion 5 Provine: Involved in Norihwest General’s Civil War IANGHAI, Jan. 16—The sudden of the 18th Route Army in iy followed the payment = & government of a of $6,000,000 (Mexican) to Gen amander of the 19th me Chen and other reported in the Ge: © remained at Foo- chow for the past few days to help break: the joint resistance of workers and rank and file men of the 19th Route Army to the invading Nanking forces; left today for the South at the head-of a long column of soldiers. U. S., Japanese and British warships landed additional marines to help Nanking suppress the mass anti-ime perialist, anti-Kuomintang upsurge. Men of the 19th Route Army are putting up a flerce resistance to the Nanking forces at Amoy, South Fue kien, despite the orders of their come manders. Nanking marines hold Ku- Jangsu island, in the harbor, but the rebel troops, supporting the anti-im- perialist, anti-Kuomintang actions of the workers, are in control of the | mainland. Guns have been trained on the city by two Nanking gunboats, and U. S., British and Japanese war- ships. The Canton warlords are mobilizing troops on the southern borders of Pu- kien to enforce a demand on Nanking for the partition of Fukien between Nanking and Canton. General Civil War Spreading ‘The Generals Civil War in North- west China spread rapidly yesterday, ‘ving the warlords of five provin- ces in resistance to Nanking. Chin- ghai province troops are advancing to aid Ningshia warlords resisting the ad- vance of a Nanking army headed by Gen, Sun Tien-ying. Chu Hsao-ling, warlord of Kansu province, is also sending help to the Ningshia com- manders. Warlords of Shansu\pro- vince are reported divided in support of the two camps, with a civil war threatening in Shansu. A similar situation exists among the rival war- lords of Suiyuan province. Gen. Sun’s army captured the city of Shihusuitze yesterday, but is mect~ ing with increasing resistance with the arrival of Chinghai troops in Nin- gshia province. NAZI BOADCASTING STATION FIRED LEIPZIG, Jan. 15.—The local Nazi broadcasting station here was de- stroyed by fire last night. Nazi offi- cials charge an arson plot and are planning arrests. Lenin Corner On Jan. 21 workers throughout the world will commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the death of their revolutionary leader, Viadi- mir Ilyitch Lenin. The Daily Work- er, under the heading “Lenin Cor- ner,” will devote daily space to quo- tations from the works of Lenin ‘There will also be articles on Lenin in other sections of the paper. The Daily Worker of Saturday, Jan. 20, will be a special Lenin An« niversary edition. rik aay Lenin on Social Chauvinism “The economic basis of ‘social- chauvinism’ (this term being more précise than the term social patriot- sm, as the latter j lembellishes the Blevil), and of op- portunism is the same, namely, an alliance of an in- significant section of the ‘top’ of the ‘abor movement with its national bourgeoisie against the class that is exploited by the bo u re I. Lenin geoisie. Social- chauvinism is opportunism brought to its logical conclusions. “The political essence of social- chauvinism and opportunism is the same. It expresses itself in class col- laboration, repudiation of proletarian dictatorship, rejection of revolution- ary action, obeisance to the bour- geoisie and bourgeois legality, lack of confidence in the proletariat, con- fidence in the bourgeoisie. The poli- tical ideas are the same, the political principles of tactics are also the same.” (From Opportunism and the Collapse of The Second Internation- al), The Imperialist War—p, 389, In- ternational Publishers, hae € “Social-chauvinism is adherence to the idea of ‘defending the fatherland’ in the present war. From this idea follows repudiation of the class strug- gle in war time, voting for military appropriations, ete. In practice, the social-chauvinists conduct an anti- proletarian bourgeois policy, because in practice they insist not on the ‘defense of the fatherland’ in the sense“of fighting against the oppres- sion of a foreign nation, but upon the ‘tight’ of one or the other of the ‘great’ nations to rob the colonies and oppress other peoples. The social- chauyinists follow the bourgeoisie in deceiving the people by saying that the war is conducted for the defense of the freedom and the existence of the nations; thus they put themselves on the'side of the bourgeoisie the proletariat. To the social-chau- vinists belong those who justily and Y the governments antl the bourgeoisie of one of the belligerent groups of nations, as well as those who, like Kautsky, recognize the squal right of the Socialists of all belligerent nations to ‘defend the fatherland.’ Social-chauvinism, being in practice a defense of the privileges, prerogatives, robberies ad violence of ‘one’s own’ (or any other) imperialist bourgeoisie, is a total betrayal of all Socialist. convictions and a violation are not known were murdered on | the same day. of the decisions of the International Socialist Congress in Basle.”—(Sociale ia ism and War.) ee ITH