The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1934, Page 6

xa Page Six 1934 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIOWAL) “Americz’s Only Working Class Daily FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. 50 Street, New York, N. ¥ ep! AL gor Newspaper” BY THE East 13th 4-7954 Subscription Rates Step By Step TEP BY day by d e Roosevelt: govern- ment is sses toward the wholesale some ev ation for war by The rep Washing respornde sue revealing that of the NRA. is ishing the closest possible hook-up w: Yar Department through t appointment of an- other military expert, is certainly ificant of the war prey ions of the Roosevelt government General Johnson has appointed as head of the strategic Planning on of the a man ex- pert in the rapid organization of ind Ci duction. 7! onel R. H. Montgomery, has been part « 1 War Department, and has gerved American imperialism as a member of the War Policies Con r IS ssior | to remember at the whole Roose- velt N.R.A. program is directed toward gearing up the entire American economy to war efficiency and eentralizatio necessary Let us not forget that Roosevelt has in his posses- sion a secret memorandum delivered to him several @ays ago by his advisers Prof. Tugwell and Peek re- garding the immediate survey of every American fac- , with the objective of ascertaining its place in relation to war needs. The N.R.A. codes, the forced destruction of the “marginal,” that is to say, the sm: non-trustified producer in agriculture, oi], cotton, etc., the govern- ment intervention in speeding the further trustifica- tion of the telegraph, telephone and radio industries, together with the constant appointments of military men to strategic positions in the industrial divisions of the N.R.A. and the survey of American industry for war purposes—all these day to day actions of the Roosevelt government give overwhelmingly cumulative evidence that the government is deliberately organizing for war! Tha mow engaged in the most gigantic program of naval and military building this country has ever Within the past nine months Roosevelt has poured over $1,000,000,000 into direct war expenditures! fs growing louder every day—why Mrs. Roosevelt, for example, is indulging in the most gushing kind of pacifist sentimentality, while the machines of war prep- aration roar day and night! For, this rise in offi- cial pacifism is a s the forerunner of war. It is the smokescreen, it is the camouflage behind which the W: Street imperialist war-makers can go about their war preparations unhindered Now Roosevelt drives the American workers and impoverished farmers deeper into starvation through . Scissors of rising prices and cheapenin: by sending them to the imperialist war all to protect the profits and investments of Wall Street imperialism. In the factories, shops, unions, everywhere where the toiling masses gather, the day to day war steps | of the Roosevelt government must be wrested from the obscurity in which capita conceal its w: what th for W tries to are—plans to hurl the masses into slaughter lism Street imperial “That’s the Stuff!” Brery DAY letters come from workers telling what | the Daily Worker means to them. The following excerpt, re-printed word for word from one of such letters, typifies the deep response our paper calls forth from workers once they start reading it, This worker writes: “We read your paper every day now and find Mim every respect extraordinary good. Just the Paper we needed so long us workers, it can’t be beat. The E.C.C.I. is got the right stuff and idea.” Like our tenth anniversary edition, which reached over 200,000 new workers, last Saturday's edition, con- taining the historical statement by the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International on the world crisis, Dimitroff’s speech and other features, afforded @ splendid opportunity for planting the roots of our Daily Worker among the working class masses, But very few new workers were reached with this edition. The orders for it showed little increase over usual orders. The same is unfortunately true of our Lenin Me- morial edition coming out this Saturday. historical importance of this issue, the added agita- tional and organizational value of this Lenin Memorial edition, orders for it show very little rise. In short, while workers are ripe to read and fol- low the Daily Worker, there 1s on the whole a decided lack of effort to get the Daily Worker in the hands of these workers. How then, comrades, will workers become readers of the Daily Worker, and in this way our fellow ers in the struggle against capitalism, hunger Will the capitalist class and its agen the “Daily”? Certainly not. The task is ours. If we fall to carry it out, it will not be carried out by anyone else. ‘We call for an immediate awakening on the part Of all class-conscious workers to the pressing and im- Pewitive need of spreading the Daily Worker among our fellow workers. Hunger, through the N.R.A., is Cutting deeper into the bodies of the workers! War is no longer on the horizon, but hovering over our heads! One of our most powerful weapons against the hunger and war programs of the bankers is our Daily Worker. Place this powerful weapon in the hands of the working masses. Take up the Lenin Memorial edition of the “Daily”! Spread it and following issues by the tens of thousands among new workers. f - pa mae Mr, Green On Fascism try for war pro- | 6 explains why the Roosevelt government is | seen. | t also explains why the voice of official pacifism | As he does so, he prepares to complete their plans, and revealed to the workers for | Despite the | iEN WILLIAM GR. Federation of Labor n a gesture horror inst Hitler’s labor code, we can to observe t th ‘ascist stains on them cEN, presider e American W bi e submission of the tions of wages and conditions, trongly worded statement. Hitler's labor code signi utocratic control” for the G servitude,” opined Mr. Green workers to the most een master and servant Green even borrowed from the N.R.A Mr. Green red that and 2 _ the He primitive Mr that the of their own choosing.” to state German workers cannot belong to “unions we remember that the chief Nazi butcher Hit- declared that the N.R.A. codes followed the of fascism. ler labor polici nat Mr. Green is trying to accomplish by raising and at the same time trying to crush a inst—Fascism in Germany is to make the Fascism under Roosevelt * * T THE SAME TIME, Mr. Green, sensing the grow- ing, bitter hatred against Fascism being aroused among the workers, under the leadership of the Com- munist Party, wants to deflect this struggle away from a real, militant campaign, which will strixe at the roots | of Fascism. * He does not want the American workers to develop & united front to help their German brothers over- throw Fascism and pvtablish a workers’ and farmers’ government. Mr. Green finds it convenient to talk about “slavery” in Germany, because he thinks he can effec- tively block action on the pert of the American work- | ers to overthrow this slavery, and the whole system on which it rests. Yet in this country we can see how every action of Mr. Green on the National Labor Board, his sup- | Port of the war program of the Roosevelt regime, his strikebreaking attack on strikes, lead to the rapid | development of Fascism. Every time the workers resist the slavery of the | N.R.A. codes through strike, every time the workers develop militant action for unemployment insurance that may disturb the war plans and budget of Roose- velt, this gentleman is the first to offer his lackey services to the bosses. Mr. Green is more than an embryo Dr. Ley, German Fascist Minister of Labor. Fundamentally, there is not the slightest differences in the phyloosphy of Mr. Green and Dr. Ley. Both are for class collaboration, with the bosses’ state acting as the “umpire.” Mr. Green is for tying the unions closer to the state apparatus of Wall Street. Mr. Green is against strikes, against resistance to the N.R.A., which shackles wages down, while Roosevelt, through his inflation, shoots prices up and squeezes the American workers’ standard of living to the pauper, coolie level, IR. GREEN follows Hitler's method in attacking the Communist Party, in calling for a capitalist at- tack against the Soviet Union, going to the extent of manufacturing documents to present to President Roosevelt to break relations with the Soviet Union. But Green suits his Fascist deeds to the needs of the present situation in the United States— the | demagogic New Deal methods, which are a firm de- velopment towards Fascism, His whole energy is de- voted to crippling and smashing the fighting ability of the American workers in trade unions, making them prey to Fascist assaults. With this background in mind we can understand Green’s latest statement. His statement on boycott of German goods also becomes clearer. The “boycott” becomes the hypocritical flag that all social-fascist forces drape around themselves to hide their real support to German Fascism, * * * | bin quite in line with Mr. Green’s policy, the * * branches urging them to join the “boycott” movement against German goods. They specifically ordered these branches not to permit the Communists to come in lied scurrilously, saying Communists are not in favor of the boycott. The Daily Worker has made the Communist posi- tion on the boycott crystal clear. Socialist leaders do not want a boycott. They are for the boycott in words. The Communists declare | that these betrayers of the workers’ struggles in the United States use their phrases about “boycott” only | to keep the American workers from developing a real, militant and effective struggle against German Fas- cism, and against rising Fascism at home. The Communists are for a boycott—a real boycott— connected with a broad united front of all workers to develop mass actions that will help the German workers overthrow Hitler. This requires development of struggles below, in the unions, on the dock, ships and railroads, among the rank and file, to refuse to unload and transport German goods, the development, of mass demonstrations against those responsible for the transportation and sale of German goods. In other words, the Communists are for an effective, real boycott, participated in by all workers, and made effective through the actions of the workers themselves. With this must be coupled mass meetings, demonstrations, and other actions against German Fascism, Ae ‘THE SAME TIME, to make this struggle count, right here at home we must speed the struggle against the Fascist menace. On this point, the A. F. of L. leaders help the fascists; the socialist leaders do the same, in different ways, They do it by sabotaging the united front struggles. They do it particularly by urging the workers “now is not the time to strike” against the N.R.A. slave codes. They do it by favoring Roosevelt's inflation and war program, calling it a step towards socialism. Mr. Green is voluble in telling the American work- ers that Hitler's labor code outlaws strikes. But he does it to distract their attention from the fact that the N.R.A. in all its deeds is making strikes imper- missible and illegal. Mt is following the same policy in the e German trade union and Socialist s to pave the way for Hitler. He aucrats are trying to keep strug: g while Roosevelt speeds onary and war programs, leading mobilize the workers in the A. F. of L. Geeds at home, against the strikebreaking, ist deeds of Mr, Green, Join the Communist Party % EAST TH STREET, NEW. YORK, N. ¥. Pitase send me more information on the Comma- nist Party. orkers overlook the seven league boot ad- | Sociaiist Party of New York sent a letter to its | on a united front in the boycott. To justify this, they | Mr. Green and the | Chicago Workers to. Greet Delegates on Way to F.S.U. Meet 30 from Middle West Will Leave Soon; Chicago Send-Off Jan. 19 NEW YORK.—A bus-load earrying from Chicago organiza- inforced with a number Gary and other will make the trip to onal convention of the Frien the Sovfet Union, the na- | tional office of the F. S. U. announced i be held nd 28. r these delegates is by the workers of Chicago for F in. the People’s Auditorium. | From various other parts of the couniry, California, dele- d, according to including e being elec s received here. Borah as “America’s dor to Russia,” Jus- Wise Tulin, daughter of Rabbi S. Wise and_ Margaret professor at New York have just endorsed the ention. battle of sixteen years has at last jbeen won by the American friends i—a battle of truth | of the Soviet Un: against lies, of information against ness. Justine Tulin Wise, calls upon all electuals, professionals, workers , and farmers, to support the S. U. convention. “The Friends the Soviet |fought apathy end bitter opposition im their effort to show Americans | what was being built in Russia day |by day. It is good to know they | Russia may bear a large part of the |burden of the spreading plague of | fascism and imperiatist ambitions. | But effective organization to help her meet that burden is essential now.” Margaret Schlauch likewise calls upon support of the F. S. U. conven- | tion. “In the present critical postu | of world affairs, tt is extraordinar: |important to mobilize and make ar- | ticulate all forces that are friendly |to the U. S. S. R. The work of the | Soviet Union in behalf of peace is enough to win it large numbers of | friends in America, even among those vho are not aware of the tremendous ignificance of the attempt to estab- | lish socialism over one sixth of the earth’s surface.” * Farmers Hail U. S. S. R. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 18.—Farm delegates at a relief conference held | here Jan. 6 and 7, adopted a resolu- tion pledging their solidarity to the workers and farmers of the Soviet | Union. ‘The message of greeting reads: Farmers and Workers of U. S. S. R. Dear. Comrades: We the busted farmer delegates Wash., on Jan. 6 and 7, 1934, do assembled in conference at Seattle, hereby pledge our solidarity to the farmet: and workers of the Soviet Union. Comradely yours, EKHET TIURA, Sec. Washington State Farmers Conference day evening, Jan. 19, | Redell, described by Sen-| Redell declares that “the | nformation, of light against dark- | Union courageously | Jare not resting on their arms, he-| cause the first skirmish has been won. | ETM: * | | | “You’se Guys Don’t Know When You Writings of Lenin Brought bi = Got It Soft’ By VERN SMITH radio) —The vital significance of the work of the Marx-Engels-Lenin In- stitute was pointed out to your corre- spondent today by Bierman, scientific and organizational secretary of the institution. In preparation for Lenin Day,| which will be commemorated by mil- | lions of workers and peasants | throughout the Soviet Union, the in- stitutes as well as the Lenin Institute have been temporarily closed for the| purpose of reorganization and en- largement. The institutions will be reopened on Jan. 21, when it is expected that thousands of workers will visit them. Object Lesson in Leninism |_ Sixty thousand workers visit the | Lenin Exhibit yearly, Bierman told the writer. The institute has 38,000 documents connected with Lenin’s life’ and work, and has published 300,000 copies each of 30 volumes of Lenin’s collected works. With the entire edition sold and workers clam- oring for more, the institute pub- lished 600,000 copies of selected six volumes. When this did not answer the need, the institute began the publication of one million copies each of a two-volume selections from Lenin, Millions Read Works The six-yolume as well as the two- volume sets have been translated into the 12 languages used in the Soviet Masses by U.S. S. R. Institute | | pean languages. In addition, the mu- MOSCOW, U.S.SR., Jan. 18— (By| scum has published 25 volumes of al- manacs, posthumous works of Lenin, including his philosophical note books, with notes on imperialism. the agrarian question, letters and docu- ments of the “Iskra” period, the years | | of the formation of the Party, etc. Bierman, the Lenin Institute sec- retary, pointed out that the publica- tion of Lenin’s philosophical note- books created a sensation and started a furious discussion in the philosoph- ical and scientific world. The Lenin Institute has a library of 600,000 volumes in all languages, and has a staff of 80 scientists doing original research in Marxism-Lenin- ism, as well as a corps of 120 trained assistants. The institute is directly controlled by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Among the noteworthy works of the institute was the publication of Merx-Engels documents which for years had been concealed by the So- cial-Democrats. The Lenin and Marx-Engels Institutes merged re- cently, and within four years will build a huge building which will house all activities now in scattered buildings. French Destroyers Crash in Fleet Maneuvers TOULON, Jan. 15—Two French destroyers were slightly damaged to- day when they brushed each other Union, as well as the principal Euro- during fleet maneuvers. News of the ‘Nanking in Drive on 5 —By Burck Borde Cantonese Troops Push On Into Fukien | HONKONG, Jan. 18.—Martial law was established in Foochow, Fukien seaport today as Nanking troops opened a campaign to crush the anti- imperialist, anti-Kuomintang upsurge of the Foochow workers. Cantonese troops continued their advance into South Fukien Province today as Kwangtung Province war lords challenged Nanking for hege- mony over the province, following the sell-out of the Fukien secessionist leaders to the Nanking regime. Eugene Chen and other leaders of |the secessionist movement, fomented | by British imperialists in the intensi- fying imperialist drive for the dis+ memberment of China, have taken refuge in the British colony of Hong- kong, off Canton. The 19th Route Army is reported to be practically intact. Its officers, while pledging their aid to Nanking’s anti-Communist offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic, are stated to be opposing Nanking’s plans to re- organize the 19th Route Army to bring it directly under the control of Chiang Kai-shek. accident is the first intimation the outside world has had of the war maneuvers of the French fleet which are being held under strict war-time secrecy. ‘Soviet | Delegates, Visitors, Cheer Report of Victories in Socialist Construction (Special to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (By Radio)— The Moscow City and Provincial Communist Party Conference opened here: yesterday in an atmosphere of great enthusiasm and elaction over the tremendous victories of Socialist construction, and at the same time a clear consciousness of the great problems facing the Bolsheviks in the further development of industry and in the struggle against war. The conference is being held in the great hall of the Moscow Trade Union House. The prevailing feeling of the delegates and visitors is that the conference is as monolithic as granite. The delegates know but one unique feeling—the greatest loyalty to Lenin’s and Stalin’s work and the greatest readiness to engage in new struggles under the leadership of Lenin's Central Committee in un- swerving support of Stalin. Stalin, Thalmann Elected to Honorary Presidium The conference elected an honorary Presidium, including Stalin, Secre- tary of the Russian Communist Party; Molotov, Soviet Premier, “%Kaganovitch, a member of the Pol- bureau; Voroshilov, Soviet War Com- missar; and Ernst Thalmann, leader of the German Communist Party, now facing death at the hands of the Nazi regime tn Germany. Workers, Farmers, Red Army Greet Conference A thread of the greatest sympathy unites the Moscow Conference to the Moscow proletariat, the collective farmers, and the toilers of the whole country. Workers from Moscow and regional plants came to the Con- ference with offerings of specimens of their production and achievements. ‘The Conference was greeted by representatives of the Red Army and representatives of the collective farms, whose speeches evoked the most enthusiastic applause. Kaganovitch In Opening Address ‘The Conference was opened by L. M. Kaganovitch, who stated that the Moscow Bolsheviks, together with the whole Party can now summarize the results of the three and a half years between the 16th and 17th Party Congresses. This period of time; he declared, has seen a mighty industrial development such as had taken hun- dreds of years for other countries to achieve, “This period,” he continued, “has been one of extreme tension and en- thusiasm of all forces of the country in its struggle for Socialist recon- struction. Today, on the eve of the ith Party Congress, it may be said that our Party has justified the name of Lenin’s Party. At the head of millions of toilers it. has aphieved. ip. f $= |a short time the conversion of our country from a backward country into a leading country. Huge Achievements in Three and One Half Years “Ten years have elapsed since the death of the man who was the great- est genius in world history, who found out Party, and laid the foundations for the Soviet state — Lenin. In the ten years our Pariy has lived, struggled and developed since Lenin’s death, it directed the Soviet Union. In these years we have proceeded unswervingly along the true Lenin path. At the head of our Party stands Stalin, Lenin's nearest companion-in-arms in whom the whole strength of our Party and the energy of millions of workers and peasants is incarnated.” Loud applause and cries of hurrah met this statement. U. 8.8. R. Today a Great Industrial Count Kaganovitch further pointed out that the U. 8. S. R. has become a leading industrial country, the first in Europe and the second in the whole world, in output of indusirial production, has consolidated its de- fensive means, and has become the greatest producer of agricultural prod- ucts in the world, through Socialist agriculture. “To the 17th Congress we sum-up the tremendous results of the period of struggle in which we achieved much during the first Five Year Pian. Outlining the Second Five Year Plan, we demonstrate before the entire L. M. KAGANOVITCH ments at x time of desperate con- flicts against class enemies and against opportunist elements within our own Party. We owe these achievements to the heroism of mil- lions of toilers and the exceptionally strong fighting faculty of our great Party, that we continueed along Lenin’s path, that we are assured a great future. The plan of recon- struction developed alma a ee at real i - Bad oamaeyentatonel plan will elevate still more the practical guid- ance of Socialist construction and aid to @ realization of all our great world the still greater extent of our achievements.” “Our collective farming system,” Kaganovitch continued, “produced in 1933 a record harvest for our great country, We attained great achieve- Saturday. s Toilers Greet Moscow Regional Conference ° Kaganovitch Hails Hero- ism of German Commu- nists; Honor Thaelmann our responsibility, our principles to a still higher level, as also our un- derstanding of internal, political, economic and international questions, and our international obligations. “Especially today when fascism is endeavoring to save flabby and de- teriorating capitalism, when fascism, especially in Getmany, is inclining to brutal chauvinism millions of the masses of toilers, our country must raise still higher its voice for the in- ternationalist slogan: “Toilers of the Whole World Unite for the Over- throw of Capitalism!” (loud ap- plause). “Our last Conference received greetings from the Berlin Regional Committee of the German Commu- nist Party. The German comrades included in their greetings the two slogans: ‘Long Live Piatiletka in four years!’ (Five year Plan in Four Years) and ‘Long Live the World Proletarian Revolution!’” (Thunder- ous applause). Warmly Greets Heroic German Communist Party “We replied to our Berlin com- rades,” continued Kaganovitch, “we will-fight for the victory of Piatiletka, for the victory of Socialism in our country, and we call upon them to struggle for victory over the class works. Calls for International Solidarity of | ardent Toilers “Wwe come to this Party Conference with closed ranks, We must raise Saturday’s “Daily” to Unmask Roosevelt’s War Manoeuvres Casey will reveal hitherto unpublished facts on war preparations, including an agreement reached by the American Government and in- dustrial barons for the complete and immediate mobilization of Isbor for purposes. Lenin’s “Letter to the American Workers,” written in 1918, when the Foochow Workers \Foreign Policy ‘Body Sees U.S. War With Japan | es |Tokyo Policy Threatens | U.S. Hegemony in China, | Paeific, It Reports } | WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—War be- jtween the U. S. and Japan in the | struggle for hegomony of the Pacific and control over China is envisaged in a report issued today by the For- eign Policy Association, an append- age of U. S. imperialism, The report declares that the U. 8, | Policy of the “Open Door” in China and U. S. imperialist interests are threatened by Japan's “far-reachin; bid for complete Japanese hegemony \in the Far East.” The report makes | the significant statement: | “Given the hesitancy of the Eu- | Topean powers to venture on vigor- | ous support of the ‘open door’, the | ehief onus of its defense is likely | to fall on the United States.” Japan's policy, the report declares, |contemplates the realization of the Program of the Twenty-one Demands {of 1915. These demands, designed to | establish Japanese control over North | China, especially the Shantung Pen- |insula, were met with fierce resist- |gnce by the U. S, and Japan was |forced to withdraw them and to re- \eall its troops from Shantung. Japan’s present drive to realize these demands is sharply attacked in the report as a challenge to “the |effective maintenance of the open | door policy in China and threatens to drag China along against its will in the van of Japanese imperialism.” | The report raises sharply the ques- tion of the U. S. fighting Japan as |against the alternative, with which it speculates, as follows: “Withdrawal from the Philippines, jafter negotiation of a pact with Japan neutralizing the islands, could be completed; American extraterri- torial privileges in China relin- Minquished; American marines with- drawn from Shanghai, Peiping and Tientsin, and American gunboats re- moved from the Yangtze River and Qhina's coastal waters. The Exclu- sion Acts could also be repealed, and a few score Chinese and Japanese |immigrants admitted each year on @ quota basis,” Against these steps, however, the teport summarizes that “such meas- ufes might eventually jeopardize even the legitimate American interests in. China.” emphasis ours, Daily Worker) The report suggests a third alter- native, already adopted by the Roose- velt government in frantic war prep- arations, of building up a huge navy, and of attempting to overcome the increasingly bitter antagonisms be- tween British and U. S. imperialism, in order to effect an Anglo-American alliance against Japan. The report further speculates on an alliance be~ tween the U.S. and the Soviet Union, PARIS, Jan. 18—The imminence of @ new world war is emphasized in the increasing speculations in Eu- ropean diplomatic circles on the pos~ sible line-up of the various imperial- ist powers. This question was dis~ cussed today in a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies. Some members of the Committee declared that Nazi Germany will support Japan. in an attack on the Soviet Uniort. Former premier Edouard Herriot expressed the opinion that the United States would oppose Japan’s attempt to add to its war resources by the seizure of the natural resources of Siberia. The speculations are significant in showing the conviction of European statesmen, based no doubt on secret information in their possession, that Japan is planning an early attack on the U. S. 8. R, The discussion in the French Foreign Affairs Commit~ tee is further significant in the light of the study by French financiers of a scheme to finance Japan’s war on the iet. Union, On Jan. 21 workers throughout the world will commemorate the 10th Anniversary ] —_