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2 _ “misled by Lewis,” off for Maloney! Page Str Daily, TERTRAL OM CAN COMMUNIST PAR S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTEREATIONAL) “America’s Onty Working Class Daily Newspaper FOUNDED 19% i PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING C6. INC, } Bast 13h} Street, New York, N. ¥ ALgor 4-794 | Te ephone 54, Natiorsl Prem Butiding, Subscription Rates 96.00 90.00 Anthracite Miners! Take the! StrikeInto Your Own Hands! 'WENTY-FIVE THOUSAND miners in the anthracite region in Pennsylvania are on strike. All of the forces at the disposal of the operators have been Called into play against the strikers. Governor Pin- chot has ed instructions restricting picketing to Working miners at have been issued by army of State Troo) been sent to surround Injune ainst picketing. An police and deputies have he collieries The strike, called by the United Anthracite Miners Union of Pennsylv: finds two unions in the field. | The United Mine W ts of America officiakiom, the Machine of John Boylan of District One, are playing the role of open strikebreakers in the strike. A con- vention of officials of the U.M.W.A. has issued a state- ment urging all miners to scab and remain at work. But many local unions of the U.M.W.A. have de- tlared their solidarity with the strike by voting a “holiday” and walking out of the mines. The Anthracite Union was organized some months ago by the miners because they were completely dis- illusioned with the Boylan machine of the U.M.W.A., and saw it working night and day in the interests | of the coal operators. With their wages and working conditions getting constantly worse, they found the Boylan machine of the U.M.W.A. making a scrap of paper out of the existing agreement with the operators and enforcing only those provisions in the agreement which were detrimental to the men, such as compulsory arbitra- tion. RP executive board whose only difference from the Boy machine is the use of more demagogy, and | desire to force the operators to deal with them ad of with John Boylan. This leadership, aided | Rinaldo Cappellini, state president, and Thomas , district president, have tried to prevent and the strike, have tried to end the strike ‘arbitration,” and have tried to kill the mili- the strike by refusing to call the miners ne picket line. i haye not tried to draw the rank and file of the U.M.W.A. into the strike. The de- of the strike have not included demands re- \ wages or working conditions which were the . * * T in the leadership of the anthracite union is an | b for the miners’ insistence on striking. Maloney and Cappellini have from the start tried to conceal from the miners the strikebreaking role or national government and its National Labor | They have tried to protect the Labor Board peating that “Green and Lewis have misled the ment.” They have stated they will be only ad to dicker with the National Labor Board. Maieney and Cappellini have thus tried to maintain the illusion that there is some difference between the Roosevelt government and the National Labor Boerd, It is becoming more clear to the rank and file, how- ever, that the role of the national government in this as im past strikes, is an open strikebreaking role, iN spite of injunctions, police, the. Boylan machine's sirikebreaking role, and Maloney and Cappellini’s | t at betrayal, the first three days of the strike | powerful and militant strike of the masses of which is still spreading. Communist Party and the Rank and File The Opposition now has the task of exposing the treacher- ous role of Maloney and Cappellini before all of the miners. The recent maneuver to end the strike with “compulsory arbitration,” directed by the Labor Board, which Maloney is trying to inject into today’s conven- tion, must specially be exposed. 7 The Rank and File Opposition demand for the unity of the strikers of both unions, through the organization of rank and file united front strike com- mittees, is especially necessary in view of the fact that in some collieries both untons exist side by side. The rank and file members of the U.M.W.A., who showéd that they want to take part in the strike by voting a “holiday” in a number of collieries, must be drawn into participation in the strike. | To leave the strike in the hands of Maloney and | his executive board means to allow the beheading of the strike by these misleaders. The miners must take the strike inte their own hands. The strike must be controlled not by Maloney and Cappellini, who sold out the November strike, and whose record is one of betrayals, but in the hands of rank and file strike committees elected in each colliery, by all the miners, The strike must be turned into a strike, not to obtain the checkoff, not only for recognition, but also to win the economic demands of the miners. The maintenance of the colliery rate sheets, pay for dead work, etc., are the demands which the strikers want put forward and which can be won. The strikers have to take the strike into their own hands, and stay out until their grievances are won, Maloney and Capellini have ignored the demands of the unemployed miners. There Bre 35,000 jobless Tiners in Lucerne County alone. An important task in the strike is to draw the unemployed miners into all sirike activity, to establish complete unity of the employed and unemployed miners, The demands for the six-hour day with full pay, and for relief and un- | employment insurance for the unemployed, should be brought forward as important demands in the strike, * * . a. RANK AND FILE opposition has the task of exposing the maneuvers of Maloney and Cappellini with the National Labor Board. No compulsory ar- Ditvation, must be the stand of the strikers, It is necessary to expose the National Labor Board not as 4 but as a part of the strikebreaking apparatus of the Roosevelt government, which has | already outlawed the anthracite strike, and which, through any board set up, Will render decisions in favor of the coal operators, The exposure of the Strikebreaking role of the national government and its N-R.A. and boards must be made clear to the miners if the strike is not to be betrayed by Maloney and Cappellini. _ The Party and the rank and file opposition have ithe task of crystallizing the mass strike sentiment and the fighting spirit of the miners into organized oppo- j ‘sition, inside the Anthracite Union, to Maloney and Cappellini’s treachery. The Rank and File Opposi- fion, still weak organizationally, must be built in the course of the struggle. A strike to win the demands of the tie miners against “their atievances, and not 2 strike to secure the check- For the demands of the unemployed miners for DAIL relief, Unemployment Insurance work day with full pay! No compulsory arbitration, bet economic demands are won! For unity of the rank and file miners in the strike through United Front, Colliery Sirike Committees! The strike to be in the hands of the rank and file elected strike committees in the collieries and not of the officials! For defiance of all injunctions and anti-picketing orders! For mass picketing! and for a shorter strike, until the Against Hunger and War! ROUGH his latest inflationary measures, Roose- velt is asking the American masses to eat less im order to permit the Wall Street monopolies to compete better against their British imperialist rivals. Soon, the Roosevelt government will ask the American masses to go inte the battlefields of im- perialist slaughter to vrotect these Wall Street in- vestments and profits. That is the fundamental meaning of the latest Roosevelt proposals for the devaluation of the dollar, and the setting up of an immense financial engine in the form of 00,000,000 “equalization fund.” Roosevelt, through this latest financial move, is now telling British imperialism that Wall Street im- perialism is determined to keep the dollar below 60 cents sharp weapon in cutting away from British influence the markets of Latin America, China and India. All his when eans that the day is swiftly drawing the present intense financial-economic warfare between the leading imperialist powers will ex- Plode into a bloody world imperialist war. For it is inevitable that the Wall Street and British imperialists will soon find that other weapons besides financial and economic ones will be neces- sary in the fight for markets. ch LREADY the international atmosphere is percep- tibly growing more tense. Leading British bankers demanded yesterday that the British pound be driven below the American dol- lar, even if it means that France is driven off the gold Standard. And already yesterday the British pound dropped quickly away from the French franc, and sank several Points against the American dollar. This gives in- dication that British imperialism is getting ready to reply to the Roosevelt inflationary drive, even if it means the end of its temporary financial tie-up with France. The inflationary drive for markets is inten- sifying the instability of the whole world capitalist structure, leading it closer to war. These developments give further confirmation to the analyses of the 12th and 13th Plenums of the Executive Committee of the Communist Interna- tional describing the end of the relative stabilization of capitalism and the steadily growing uncertainty and instability of imperialist diplomatic-international agreements. & s 4 = wet DOES all this mean to the American masses, to the millions of workers and impoverished farm- ers who are now feeling the heavy lash of the Roose- velt NRA. slavery? % It means that the entire American working class is being plundered still further through a sharp slash in the buying power of their pay envelopes. It means that every American family will find it harder to get bread, milk, coal, clothes, and shelter. It means that the Roosevelt government is using the State power to drive down the cost of production for the Wall Street monopolies (through permitting them to pay their workers in cheapened dollars) giving them greater power to compete against their British rivals for the profits of the world-colonial markets. I¢ means, in other words, that Roosevelt is help- ing the Wall Street monopolies to step down harder om the American masses, in order to leap outward for imperialist expansion for profits. Hunger, inflationary wage slashes, and imperialist war-—these grim capitalist blessings stare from every pore of the Roosevelt gold devaluation program. This blow against the American workers and their families can be returned. HIGHER WAGES TO MEET RISING PRICES! This must be the immediate demand of the American working class. The fight for this demand squarely meets the whole Roosevelt plan to protect the Wall Street imperialist drive for markets at the expense of the American masses. Organized struggle against the high cost of living. Against the N.R.A. strikebreaking “arbitration” codes! For immediate increases in wages of all Amer- ican workers to defeat the masked wage cut of the devaluated dollar! For struggle against the Roosevelt war prepara- tions that are part of the whole Roosevelt financial program! For unemployment insurance for all jobless work- ers, to be paid by the government and the employers! For the immediate turning over of the huge war funds to committees of jobless workers for an unemployment insurance fund! For a United Front of the oppressed masses against the Roosevelt-Wall Street offensive! Let Them Know | cpio THE LATEST reports from Berlin it is clear that the Fascists are determined not to surrender the four heroic Reichstag defendants, Dimitroff, Torg- Jer, Popoff, and Taneff, despite the fact that they have been acquitted of the arson frame-up charges brought. against them, Torgler is in the hands of the Nazi secret police. He is reported in a concentration camp at the mercy of professional Nazi torturers. Dimitroff and his comrades are still In the clutches of the Fascist jailers, and all demands that they be released have met with refusal, Yesterday, Dimitroff’s mother received a blunt an- nouncement that the Fascists have not the slightest intention of giving up the proletarian world hero, Dimitroff. They fear Dimitroff’s “propaganda,” they said. They fear, in reality, his exposure of their own guilt, The present Nazi seizure of the acquitted Commu- nist defendants is only proof that Goering’s savage threat to Dimitroff, “Wait ‘till you get out of this court into my hands, then you will have something to fear,” still remains the policy of the Nazis, What this means is obvious, It means that the German Fascists are only waiting for the world vigil- ance of the proletariat to relax a little, to give them the opportunity to murder our heroic comrades! It means that the lives of our comrades, of the unconquerable Dimitroff, of*Torgler, Popoff and Taneff. are in greater danger than ever before! ‘The Fascist terrorism, savage and bestial, still tages. Yesterd@y, two more German workers were ex- ecuted by the axe-blow. Fascist torture grows in the Nazi concentration camps, Scores of workers are shot “trying to escape.” Let the Fascists know that they cannot murder Dimitroff, Torgler and their comrades! Let them know that the eyes of the masses of the world are still upon them. It was this vigilance and mass pro- test that defeated the Fascists at the Leipzig court. This alone can win their safe release from the Nazi jailers and torturers, Continue the hail of protests, telegrams, to the German Ambassador at Washington, the German con- Sulates in every city! For the immediate safe re- lease of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popefl and Taneffl | the employer it demands, WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1934 ‘Lenin Memorial Meetings to Mobilize Against War Canton Armies in| Race With Nanking) for Fukien Looting Fighting Spreading in| | General’s Civil War in Northwest | t | SHANGHAI, Jan. 17—The Canton | | regime yesterday rushed its armies |into South Pukien province in a race | with Nanking government troops for the division of the loot following the sell-out by Fukien secessionist lead- ers to Nanking. Two Canton divi-| |stons occupied Chuanchow and Changchow, the latter near the sea- port of Amoy. Other Canton forces are reported to be pushing toward Amoy Nanking reinforcements were | thrown into Foochow, North Fukien | seaport, yesterday, in a drive to crush | | the -imperialist, anti-Kuomin- | | tang mass upsurge in that city. The | U. S, hailed this development by with- | ‘drawing marines it had landed sev- eral days ago to aid in crushing the { struggles of the workers and rank |and file soldiers, who deserted the | 19th Route Army following the sell- {out by their commanders. Many } petty officers are among the de- serters. | High officers of the 19th yester- | day telegraphed Nanking announcing | their repentance (bought with $36,- 000,000, Mexican) and expressing | their réadiness to resume the cam- paign against the Chinese Soviet Re- public. Their forces have been con- sistently defeated by the Chinese Red Armies in every engagement in the past. Sharp fighting continues in the Generals’ War in the Northwest, where the warlords of Ningsia, Ching- haf and Kansu provinces are lined |up against Nanking. Emissaries of the Nanking regime are playing on the rivalry of warlords in Shansi and Suiyuan provinces to offset support by some of these warlords for the | anti-Nanking forces, which are rap- idly mobilizing in Ningsia. o6 Ge MANILA, Jan. 16.—Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, former U. S. Minister to China, in a recent address here praised the Nanking regime for its pacification of China, referring to the murderous war waged by Nan- king, with the aid of U. S. loans, bombing planes and experts, against the emancipated masses in the Chi- nese Soviet Republic and the revolu- tionary masses in Kuomintang China. Nanking was “unifying” China, he said. Fee ea GENEVA, Jan. 17-—The League of | Nations, which last year laid down |@ program for the Nanking regime for Zascization of the government ap- | paratus, evtermination of the Ghi- nese Soviet dictricts and crushing of | the revolutionary upsurge in Kuo- | mintang China, received a report of “progress” from the League's tech- nical adviser to China, Dr. Louis Rajchman. The report covers the building of military roads and the construction of fortified “pill boxes” on the bor- ders of the Soviet districts. The re- port was unable to report “progress” in the extermination of the Soviet districts, which have increased in | power, extent of territory and num- bers since the defeat of Nanking's | fifth anti-Communist offensive. The Sixth Offensive, now under way and openly directed and aided by the im- perialists, received a severe setback due to the Generals’ Civil War in Fukien and Northwest China and the heroic actions of the Chinese Red | Armies, which in the past two months have gone over to the offensive with notable victories on all fronts. Fight for jobs or relief—elect delegates to the National Conven- tion Against Unemployment in Washington, Feb. 3. KNOC > THE WIND OUT OF HIM! —By Burck “New Leader” Attacks F-.S. U., Aids Counter-Revolutionaries NEW YORK, N. ¥Y.—‘The Socialist Party uses the New Leader to in- struct their membership not to sup- port the Friends of the Soviet Union Convention and, refusing flatly to have any ‘co-operative relations’ with the F. S. U., at the same time car- ries publicity notices for sabotagers and counter-revolutionaries,” de- clared the acting national secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, Herbert Goldfrank. The publicity notice is entitled “A Night of Love,” and appears in the Sleeping accommodations for the delegates to tne F. S. U. conven- tion are badly needed. All those having a sleeping place to spare are urged to get in touch with the District office of the F. 8, U., at 799 Broadway immediately. latest issue of the New Leader. It tells of a certain operetta being given under “the auspices of the Relief Society for Socialist Prisoners and Exiles in Soviet Russia,” on Jan. 20, “The New Leader calls for defense of saboteurs and counter-revolution- aries, through the tones of an oper- etta, but instructs the rank and file not to have anything to do with ‘supposed Communists or Communist organizations, even while they ver- bally claim support of the Soviet Union,” stated Mr. Goldfrank. Open Letters to S. P. Members In an open letter to the member- ship of the Socialist Party, the Na- tional Committee of the Friends of the Soviet Union explained that the reasons given by the City Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of New York are not valid for non-par- ticipation in the national convention of the F. S. U., to be held in New York on Jan. 26, 27 and 28 at the New Star Casino. “The F. 8. U. is not a Communist organization. It is a non-Party or- ganization—a united front. Of course, we have active members who are Communists. No one can deny that Communists are friends of the Soviet Union. The Communists number less than 15 per cent of the member- ship of the F. S. U. We also have many Socialists, syndicalists and lb- erals as active members. “We know that there are hundreds of thousands of workers, farmers and others who are divided in their polit- ical beliefs and affiliations, but are in agreement with the aims of the F. 8. U. “While the Socialist Party gave verbal agreement to these aims, they put the lie to their statements by aiding and supporting such counter- revolutionary outfits as the ‘Relief Society for Socialist Prisoners and Exiles in Soviet Russia,’” continued Goldfrank, “which helps to spread lies and slanders against the Soviet Union, which helps to mobilize for attack on the Soviet Union.” The F. 8. U. appealed to the rank and file of the Socialist Party to support the convention and join the F. S. U. Many Organizations Endorse Fight on War Appropriations NEW YORK.—An increasing num- ber of organizations throughout the country are endorsing the campaign against war appropriations organized by the American League Against war and Fascism and the demand to transfer these funds to the unem- ployed and for a national system of social instirance, it was announced yesterday by the national office of the League. The League is sending 2 United Front delegation to Wash- ington on Jan. 29, with these de- mands and signed petitions. Included among the mass organi- zations which have sent in their signed endorsements, are the Holi- day Association of Nebraska, a farm~- evs’ organization with 30,000 mem- bers, the Bakers’ Union, Local 167 of the A. F. ci L.. Newark, N. J., the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Bronx Free Fellowship, a pacifist or- ganization, and others. The resolution passed by the Holi- day Association denounces U. S. war preparations, currency and _ tariff wars, the granting of loans to the Nanking Chinese government, the ringing of Cuba with U. S. warships, Mass demonstrations will take place throughout the country on Jan. 29 to back up the United Front Com- mittee, which will go with a definite set of demands against war appro- priations to President Roosevelt Czech Socialist Opposition Joins Communist Party “We Leave Party of Class Treachery,” Group Declares PRAGUE, (By Mail).—Meeting in a conference which was attacked by the police as well as in the Socialist |press, the Social Democratic Opposi- tion of Western Bohemia decided to join the Czechoslovakian Communist Party. There were represented at the con- \ference 86 members of the Social Democratic Party, 18 members of the reformist trade unions, one represen- tative of the Young Socialists, and 25 former socal democrats who were then without party affiliation. Be- sides these there were delegates from the Communist Party. A slanderous campaign in the press having failed, the official socialist |press did not hesitate even to call for police assistance to disperse the meeting. Illegal leaflets were confis- cated and vigorous search for the meeting made, After the group had |been in conference for two hours their hideaway was discovered. They hurriedly adjourned to a new house. It is significant that a centrist policy advocated by one of the dele- gates was denounced by the others, who enthusiastically greeted the speech of the representative of the Communist Party. An Open Letter adopted with only one dissentng vote, that of the Centrist, concludes: “Some weeks ago the Central Com- mittee of the Communistic Party of Czechoslovakia, the only workers party in ths country, called on us to leave the social demozrate party and to jon the revolutionary class front. We are enthusiastically responding to this call. We are leaving the party of class treachery and joinng the C. P. of Czechoslova because we realize that this party is the only force which can lead the workingclas: to victory and because we know that this party will courageously and de- terminedly fulfil its revolutionary duty even if the fascist regime should sup- press it.” The Czech socialists are repre- sented in the government. Employers Given Right to Fix Wages, Working Conditions, Firing BERLIN, Jan. 17.—In a savage at- tack on the German working class, the Nazis yesterday decreed the de- struction of all German trades unions, and abolition of the right of workers to organize and strike to better their conditions, becoming in- creasingly worse under the brutal fascist dictatorship of finance cap- ital, The decree replaces the system of collective agreements won by decades of bitter struggles by the German working class, and substitutes a semi- feudalism based on the unchallenged right of employers to fix wage scales and working conditions. The slave character of the law is shown even in its formulatons, whch call the em- ployer the “fuehrer,” or leader, and the workers hs “followers,” whose un- questioning loyalty and obedience to Abolishes Workers’ Factory Councils Under the new semi-feudal system each employer will be able to: fix wages in his plants, irrespective of any minimum wage requirements. And to further disarm the workers, the decree abolishes the workers’ councils elected by factory employees and replaces them with a “confiden- tial council,” headed by the employer and with members appointed by Nazi spies in the factories on the advice of the Nazi factory cell. The factory councils have greatly worried the | Nazis in the past few months as a result of the increasing support by the majority of the workers for the candidates of the illegal Communist Party, and the many strikes and pro- test actions organized and led by the | councils under the guidance of the Communists, Turns Full State Power Over to Employers In a demagogic gesture of “equal treatment” for employers and work- ers, the law abolishes the employ- ers’ associations as well as the unions. jab taseclion Nazis Outlaw Unions, Strikes, Scrap Social Codes but substitutes +e full state author- ity as a weapon in the hands of the employers. Similarly, workers in the factories are given the dubious “right” of vetoing the appointments to the Nazi “confidential councils,” but the “veto” must be approved by @ Nazi “labor trustee,” 13 of whom are to be appointed in various dis- ‘tricts with virtually dictatorial pow- ers against the workers. The trustees will fix wage scales and decide upon dismissals in case of disagreement between the workers and the employ- ers, The law, however, provides that. the employer may not be overruled unless the dismissal is “not justified by the ecoriomic situation.” This, in effect, gives blanket approval by the government for wholesale dismissals nd wage reductions by upholding the “right” of the employers to at- tempi to get out of the crisis at the expense of the producing masses, Seraps Social Legislation ‘The new law abolishes all the labor legislation and social measures won by the toiling masses from the pre- yious repubican regime and which were already greatly undermined by the systematic betrayals of the So- cialist Party leaders and reformist trade union heads in “class collab- cration” with the capitalists, These Stalin’s ‘Mountain Eagle’ Speech On Lenin, in Saturday’s Edition “The Mountain Eagle,” a speech delivered by Stalin before the Kremlin military students on January 28, 1924, giving an intimate picture of Lenin as a man and as a revolutionary leader, will be published in full in the special Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker of this Saturday. In this speech, Stalin tells how, while in Siberian exile, he started corresponding with Lenin, and of his impression of Lenin on meeting him for the first time at a Bolshevik Conference in Finland. i Stalin describes the effectiveness of Lenin as a speaker. He tells how Lenin acted when the Mensheviks gained a victory at a conference and how he acted in victory against them. “The Mountain Eagle” is a vivid and moving description of our im- mortal leader as a man and as a political leader. In the same issue, James Casey will reveal a program by the American government and major industries for the immediate mobilization of labor for war purposes, and the movements of naval officers in preparation for imperialist war. J. Stachel, Acting Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will write on “Lenin and the Trade Unions”; Alexander Bittleman on “Lenin's Struggles Against Opportunism”; I. Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Councils on “The Struggle for Unemployment Insur- ance in the Light of Lenin’s Teachings.” The Saturday edition will also publish in full the “Letter to the American Workers,” written by Lenin in 1918. All Districts, mass organizations and individual workers are urged to wire their orders for this outstanding issue of the “Daily.” Make sure to get a conv of this issue. Spread it amons your friends and fellow ‘workers, ee es Nazi Press Hails Vicious Law As Hitler’s “Greatest Revolutionary Deed” same traitors abandoned the power- ful trade union movement to the Nazis without a struggle, after paving the way for fascism and leading the working class under the axe of the Nazi executioners. Paragraph Two of the New Nazi “Labor Code” reads: i “The leader of the undertaking de- cides in respect to the followers al} matters relating to the undertaking. He must care for the welfare of the followers, These must accord him the loyalty demanded by the shop community.” Sets up Courts To Try Agitators “Social Honor Courts” are to be set up within each “labor trustee's” district for the trial of workers who danger labor peace within the shop, deliberately interfere with the man- agement or make frivolous complaints. to the labor trustees’—such as com- all to be set at the discretion of the employer. Labor is given the dema- promise that the “Social Honor Courts” will also “try” employers who “maliciously exploit the labor of their followers or insult their honor. Hitler’s Greatest Revolutionary Deed ‘This vicious anti-working-class law is hailed in the Nazi press as Hit- ler’s “greatest revolutionary deed” and the realization of the “socialist” part of the Nazi program. May Ist, Labor’s international day of struggle, has been cynically set as the date on which the law is to become effec- tive. Nazi Minister of State Franz Seldte today d the semi- feudal decree as a measure to put an Cd foi 9 “through malicious agitation en- | ¥g New Members Initiated At Lenin Meets CP. icaders to Speak; ; Leopold Stokowski to Talk in Phila. i NEW YORK.—From San Frans cisco, California to Portland, Maine, workers will gather in the next week to honor the memory of V, I. Lenin, leader of the international working- class, who passed away ten years ag” this month, : Called by the various districts an: , units of the Communist Party, thes, ¥ meetings, carrying on in the spirit of Lenin, will be mobilization points for the struggle against the new drive towards imperialist war now being organized by Roosevelt. Organizing against the inflation of the dollar, a part of the international currency war and an essential of the scheme to lower the standard of living of American toiling masses, the Lenin memorial meetings will be points of recruitment for the Communist Party, the workers’ vanguard in the struggles @gainst class oppression. In many cities, the demonstrations will be featured by mass initation of new party recruits. € KENOSHA WORKERS HOLD LENIN MEETING KENOSHA, Wisc—Morris Childs, district organizer of the Communist Party, will be the main speaker at the local Lenin memorial meeting, on Sunday, Jan, 21st, 7.30 p. m. at the Polonia Hall, 5009 7th Avenue. aa Hee I. 0. FORD TO SPEAK IN CANTON CANTON, Ohio,—I. O. Ford, veteran labor leader of Ohio, Communist candidate for mayor of Cleveland in the recent elections there, will be the main speaker at the Lenin memorial meeting here on Sunday, Jan. 2ist, at 8 p. m., at Red Men’s Hall, 134 East. Tuscarawas St. ee ALLENTOWN SILK WORKERS ‘ HONOR LENIN ALLENTOWN, Pa.— Workers of this silk mill town will honor the Memory of V. I. Lenin at a meeting at Hungarian Hall, 520 Union Street, at 2p. m., on Sunday, Jan, 21. Fred Biedenknapp wil be the main speaker. Se. CHELSEA TO HAVE LENIN MEET GHELSEA, Mass.—The Chelsea Lenin Memorial meeting will take place at 88 Hawthorne Street, Fri- day, Jan. 19th, at 7.30 p. m. Besides the speakers, a musical program is scheduled. Cay eee: PATTERSON SPEAKS AT NEWARK NEWARK, N. J.—William L, Pat- terson, national secretary of the I. L, D., will be the main speaker at the Lenin meeting in Newark. The meeting will be held at the Y. M. HB.) A. Auditorium, High and West Kin~ ney Streets, on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. 3 eee KANSAS LENIN MEMORIAL WILE HEAR BLOOR KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 16— Mother Ella Reeve Bloor and Bill Sentner, district secretary of the ‘Trade Union Unity League, will be the chief speakers at the Lenin Memo- rial meeting here, Sunday, Jan. 21, 8 P. M,, at 1904 Brooklyn St. Meise fesgar | 1 TORGLER’S SECRETARY SPEAKS | j IN DETROIT DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 16—Anna Schultz, former secretary to Ernst Torgler, one of the Communist de- fendants in the frame-up Leipzig trial will be the main speaker at the Lenin Memorial meeting here Sunday, Jan, 21, 2 P. M., in Arena Gardens, Wood- ward Ave., near Hendrie. The John Reed Club will present a pageant. Lenin Corner ~ On Jan. 21 workers throughout the world will commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the death of their revolutionary leader, Viadi< mir Nyitch 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. | . . ° Lenin Ox the Defensive Wars of Triumphant Socialism “Triumphant in one country alone, socialism does not yet do away with war in general. On the contrary, it presupposes it, The development of capitalism is extremely uneven in the various countries. It could not be -otherwise under a system of com~ a jmodity produc~ jtion. Hence, the invariable conclu k\sion that social~ ism cannot trix jumph IN ALL countries at the same time, It \first conquers one -jof several coun: pjtries while the others still res main for som@ time in their cape italist or pree capitalist state, ‘This is bound to give rise not only to.friction but to direct aspirations of the bourgeoisie of the other coune tries to crush the victorious prolee tariat of the socialist state. In such hinstances war on our part would be. legitimate and just. That would be a war for socialism, for the emanci« pation of the other nations from the Becrseolsip s alg dee absolutely right in speaking of the possibility of ‘defensive wars’ of triumphant Socialism in his letter to Kautsky of Sept. 12, 1882. He had in view pre= cisely the defense of the victorious ‘proletariat of one country against the bourgeoisie of other countries.* Lenin: The Military Program of the 7