The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily, CANTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? — | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Fight Roosevelt’s Action | Abolishing CWA Jobs | said Federal Relief Dir “HE show is over that within a fev Will be abandon The orders o worsened the posi ers as follows hired in any and never been have been cut to a be $10.80 a week workers receiving much less); cut by means of the old Hoover on ©.W.A. jobs were cut from 30 15 hours in the small towns (a cut of 50 per cent in | Wages), and 24 hours in the cities hich reduces the ‘Wages in cities 20 per cent. Roosevelt, who has corroborated Hopkins’ who admitted that he has “no plans for e C.W.A.,” thus abandons all his demagogic pro Tegarding “ending unemployment” through the C.W.A. Roosevelt claims that the C.W.A. has hired four lion men. And yet, government figures show in Novem- ber and December, a steady decline in employment, and a decline also in payrolls. In fact the figures for December show the payroll to be less in December than last July, when the N.R.A. went into effect. The figures show that unemploymnt is now at the level | of last July. Roosevelt now throws off the mask. The was to put six million to work. The government figures Show no decrease in unemployment. The P.W.A. was d unemployment. The P.W.A. aided only the akers and the industrialists. | Now Roosevelt casts adrift even those who got NRA. WA. jobs. Now Roosevelt and Hopk: they | idea what is to become of these fired unem- | rkers, and of the millions who r: fed and | able to get C.W.A. jobs. ‘a T see the fruits of Roosevelt’s “re-employment pro- Hundreds of thousands of destitute unem- ‘workers have been removed from relief rolls. have no guarantee from Roosevelt that they | now be returned to relief. They were taken off d promised some permanency on C.W.A. they will have neither jobs nor relief. it’s Tosy promises and his many schemes have served as a cover for an attack on the unem- pl The “recovery” program has left larger ; | E seventeen million unemployed workers can now | | ed workers, mass of unemployed workers poverty stricken and in actual starvation. The workers of the United States must not allow | this callous condemnation of millions of jobl to starvation to go unanswered, A nation-wide protest against the of the O.W.A. workers, and the | refusal to give jobs or relief to additional millions, must be launched at once. The masses of work in give such a ringing answer of protest agains er Regime of Roosevelt as to force the government to give the millions of unem- ployed wo relief. The open abandonment of even a pretense of unem- Ployment relief to the millions of jobless, calls for the most deep-going, widespread and militant protest of the entire wo: class, The ruthless attack on the unemployed is not a question of the jobless al It affects every worker in the United States vitally. | The present crass condemnation of fhe unemployed to starvation, calls for the unified struggle of all work- ers, employed and unemployed. The rank and file opposition in every A. F. of L. local union should immediately organize the protest in no uncertain terms | Ss workers Soci 300 LEAVE SOCIALIST PARTY ° | only alist Locals in California Rev to force the standard of living below the coolie starvation level. mass meetings, demonstr: on of the unemployed Roosevelt attack is on e solutions nd above all, t of L. local unions and all work- ould imm take s to V.A. worker out of the The v and p to this movem ds of ¢ Is by on their job: all registered uncom : F es and working con for all C.W.A. workers! All unemployed not on nm of f Congress to and of Union ers rank and file committees and of the f Workers Unions! Immediate passage of the Jnemployment Insurance Bill by the present ankers— al insurar on of the Unemployed on $s of unemployed throughout the most recent e abandonment of the m, and for the imme- Inemployment Ins ci er of the unemployed workers to Roose- ack in the election of additional del al Convention, in the organization of unemployed, and the development of ations 2 ggles in all cities—must ughout the United . FOR A MASS NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE LOYED IN WASHINGTON ON FEB. 3! THE IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF THE MPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL! The Drive Is On! * Kegs circulation drive is on. Today it begins in real i + three months—12 weeks—we plan to have eased the Daily Worker circulation by 10,000 n j|ay readers, and 20,000 new readers of the Satur- day edit Comrades, our job is to get the Daily Worker into the hands of the workers, particularly in the big fac- vy ind: 21, coal, auto, ete. There are thousands of workers in the biggest fac- tories of the country who would become the most devote yal supporters of the Daily Worker—if they w about it, if they only saw a copy of it. This is an indisputable fact. Our experience proves it. For example the following letier from a miner in Princeton, Indiana, printed in Saturday’s issue: “While the Daily has no large circulation here, it reached the masses in the Anniversary issue of January 6th, who never had the privilege of reading it, not knowing that anything like it was published. All who bought a copy of that issue are very much enthused over it, and we expect to follow up and gain a greater circulation.” Here is a typical picture. Hundreds of enthusiastic new readers among basic workers by simply taking the trouble to organize some systematic distribution of the paper to them, There will of course, be difficulties and obstacles to overcome. But, by and large, if we give enot nergy and thought to establishing persistent anned distr nds of new readers—we will be able to achieve our goal of 10,000 new readers by May 1. This is a major revolutionary task. Ten thousand new readers will give us a strong lever for the organ- ization of mass struggles against the capitalist hunger dictatorship of the Roosevelt government. We love our paper—we know that it is our yoic: id weapon, Let us carry this enthu n to ot Let us show them day by day, ho’ ¢ is the expression of their interes: ‘he fighter for these interests, Put the Daily Worker into the hands of the work- ers in the shops, mines, factories, unions, relief job ste.! Carry the message of the only daily workers paper in America! For immediate setting up of committees, drives, contests, ete, for the achievins of 10,000 new ever y readers and 20,000 Saturday readers by May 1! Every one into action! e ad AILY WOR) | | | | | | | | KER, Midwest Delegates ‘To FSU Convention Will Get Send-Offs |Lovett, L.LD. Chairman, Endorses Meet In New York first national conven- ds of the Soviet throurh the coun- to the East, the Uinon in the to the of the on the 26th of January, mass meeting greet- , on Tuesday, Jan. 23, South Hall City Public the P.S.U. nass organiza 2g this convention, will id off their represen- on Coleman, dis- f the F.S.U. from ill be the main speaker farewell for the Cleve- ion, . similar meeting will be held in Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, of Erie bid fare- leman of Los Angeles Speak at this Morse Lovett, the national] of the League for Indus- Democracy, endorsed the na- nal convention of the Friends of the st ment, sent ot the oficers of the FS.U.> “The need for the activities of the Friends of the Soviet Union is | as great now as before the recogni- | tion of the Union by the United | States. ion of the Daily, we will Win thou- | | | | olt Against Officials, Join United Front With Comm FOLLOWING REJECTION BY S.P. LEADERS OF UNITED FRONT PROPOSALS; STATE SECRETARY OF S. P. OUSTED BY OFFICIALDOM | which may be anticipated. Those who were opposed to such recognition continue to maintain a barrage of falsehood which must be met if recognition is to produce the fortunate results for peace and economic progress Lit- vinoff's assertion of a natural sym- pathy between the Russians and American people should be accepted and endorsed by this country. The convention to be. held by the Friends of the Soviet Union on | January 26, 27, and 28, at the New | During the demonstrations, engin- Star Casino, 107th and Park Ave., New York City, will give an admir- able opportunity to this end.” Leasue Uultimatum Served on Liberia | Seeks Direct Imperialist Rule of African Siate GENEVA, Jan. 21—The League of Nations delivered an ultimatum to Liberia yesterday, demanding unre- served acceptance of the League's proposal to put the African west coast country under a white dictator- ship aimed to strengthen imperialist control of the country. The League’s proposal, dictated by the U. 8. government, seeks to force | the Liberian government to accept a | ew loan from the U. S. Firestone | ber interests, with imperialist | control of Liberian finances to guar- | entee re-payment of the loan. | Faced with furious protests at ome, the Liberian government has cted this provision, accepting the eague’s proposals with reservations. Under the guise of “rehabilating the untry,” the League is preparing to ree its demands upon Liberia. The League's action is in line with the mperialist program of attempting to e the economic crisis of world italism by intensified exploitation the colonial masses as well as wage cuts and increasing fascist at- tacks on the masses of the imperial- ist countries, of Socialist | Soviet Union, in the following| NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1934 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS | | | | | | OF LENIN —By Gropper Protest toJapanese OnWarProvocation Enyoy Denounces Attack By Harbin White Guards | On Soviet Citizens TOKYO, Jan. 21.— Tokyo newspa- pers reported today that the Soviet Ambassador Konstain Yureneff had filed another sharp protest with the Japanese Foreign Office against the continued detention by the authori- ties of Japan’s Manchukuo puppet | state of six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Soviet Ambassador, it is re- ported, also protested against the violent anti-Soviet demonstrations in Harbin against the railway adminis- |tration within the past few days. eered by Japanese agents in Man- |churia and participated in by Tsarist | White Guards, windows of the railway | buildings and the homes of Soviet | citizens were smashed. | Together with its anti-Soviet provo- cations, the Manchukuo puppet re- {gime has held up negotiations for |the sale of the railway, which were jbegun several weeks ago, following|’ an offer by the Soviet Union to sell the railway to Japan. i The Soviet offer reflects the firm peace policy of the Soviet Govern- | ment and its willingness to adopt any | conciliatory measure short of permit- ting Japan to seize Soviet territory, - | | Foreign News Briefs INDIAN QUAKE DESTE RISES CALCUTTA, India, Jan. 21—The/| death toll of the quake which swept| | LL to be 15,000. Workers are laboring day and night dumping the bodies of the dead into the Ganges River. ‘The damage estimated for the Bi- har province alone was reported to be $40,000,000, NEW SPANISH AGRARIAN STRIKE MADRID, Jan, 21—Spanish Minis- ter of Agriculture, Rico Avello, an- nounced today that several organiza- tions of agricultural workers in Toledo have gone on strike in protest against working conditions, Paris Groups Protest to Nanking on Brutal Treatment of Rueggs PARIS, Jan. 21—A_ telegram protesting the barbarous prison treatment of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg and demanding their im- mediate release was sent to the Nanking Embassy in Paris Friday. The protest was signed by Ga- briel Duchene of the French Sec- tion of the International Women’s League; L. Wanner of the Women’s Commitise Against War and Fascism; Professor Prenant, Henri Barbusse, international fa- mous writer; Andre Malraux, who has written several books on Chi- na; Francis Jourdain of the Anti- Imperialist League, and a number of others, Nanking Troops Are Defeated By Ningsia Warlord Fakien Regime Sets Up New Capital Near the Kwangtung Border SHANGHAI, Jan. 21,.—Nanking troops, invading Ningsia Province in the Generals’ Civil War in North- west China, were defeated yesterday by the Ningshia provincial army under General Ma Hung-kwei, who is supported by the warlords of Chinghai and Kansu provinces in his resistance to Nanking. Many prisoners were taken, including high officers. Nartine troops in Fukien Proy- ince, South Chine, were warned agai. st attempting to enter Amoy, South Fukien city, in messages from that city. New Gas Tax { A drastic raise in duties on gaso- line and kerosene is proposed by the jall of India was unofficially declared| Nanking government to take effect Feb. 1, with the deepening of the crisis in government finances as a result of the heavy drains of mili- tary expenditurcs for the present Sixth Kuomintang offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic and the spreading Generals’ Civil War in Kuomintang China. The Nanking government is also to ask the U. S. Government for easier terms on the $50,000,000 American loan, given os- tensibly for the purchase of wheat |in Inner Mongolia in preparation for | Siberia. As part of the drive for the j hegemony of North China, the Japan- ‘Japan in Ultimatum To Chinese General In China | Province Threatens Atack in N Drive for Control of - North China | —- PEIPING, Jan. 21—The Japanese command of a Japanese-Manchukuo army invading North China, delivered an ultimatum {o Gen. Sung Che- yuan, Governor of Chahar Province, yesterday demanding the withdrawal of Sung’s 29th Army which is op- posing the further penetration of the province by Japan. The ultimatum threatened an immediate attack if the Chinese troops were not with- drawn. The Japanese forces occupied sev- eral new towns yesterday and con- tinued their concentration of troops the conquest of North China and the invasion of the People’s State of Mongolia to provide a strategic mili- tary approach to Central Soviet ese will crown Henry Pu-Yi, puppet ruler of Manchukuo, as “emperor” of an enlarged Manchukuo on March 1, The Japanese aims in North China are aided by Chinese warlords in that region who have been bribed by the Japanese ang by Nanking’s policy of non-resistance, while waging a murderous war against the revolution- ary workers in Kuomintang China and against the Chinese Soviet Re- public. Nazi Terrorism in Saar Is Charged in Report to The League of Nations GENEVA, Jan. 21—Nazi terrorism ; in the Saar Basin Territory wi charged in a joint petition to the League of Nations Council from the League of Workers and the conomic. League in the Saar. The petition tells of murders of anti-fascists by Nazi agents, of ar- rests of Nazi opponents when they had occasion to enter Germany and of numerous other acts of terror- ism, SPANISH GUARDS FIRE ON WORKERS BILBOA, Spain, Jan. 21.— Seven end cotton in the U. S., but in real- ity to finance the campaign against the Chinese Soviet Republic. workers were seriously injured, when Italy Pledges Aid io Austria Against Nazis | Dolfuss Rattles Sword; Tells Germany It Is Unsafe to “Bully” VIENNA, Jan. 21—The tension ‘fs the two opposing camps of Austrian nd in the international situation. was tremendously sharp- ened today as Italian Under-Secre- tary of Foreign Affairs, Fulvio Suy- ich, pledged fascist Italy’s support to Chancellor Dolfuss’ regime against the intrigues of Hitler and his agents among the Austrian fascists. Suvich’s visit here is believed to be at achieving an alliance between the Italian and Austria governments. In a speech last nigr he assured Chancellor Dolfuss ¢ Italy's sympathy and support in his stwuggle against the Nazi wing of the Austrian fascisis. He stressed the strategic position of Austria in Central Europe in what was clearly a warning to Germany that Italy would oppose by arms, if necessary, any attempt to extend political and military control over Austria. The day before, Chancellor Dolfuss, in a sword-rattling speech of wel- come to Suvich, had warned Hitler that “it is not perhaps an entirely safe game” to bully Austria. Dolfuss’ speech was frequently welcomed by the bursting of bombs and the chrieking of police sirens as Austrian Hitlerites battled his police outside Suvich’s hotel. Avstria Protests Hitler Intrigues The Austrian Minister to Germany is reported to have lodged a sharp protest with the Hitler Gictatorship against its intrigues in Austria and the smuggling of explosives across the border for the Austrian Nazis. Meanwhile, the insecurity of Dol- fuss’ position is increasingly drama- tized by defections among the offi- cials of the Heimwehr, fascist military organization and chief prop, with the Social Democratic leaders, cf his “cornorate state.” A recent police raid on the home of Alfred Frauenfeld, Vienna leader of the outlawed Nazi party, revealed that Count Johann Alberti, commander of the Lower Austrian Heimwehr, was in conference with Frauenfeld, Sen- ator Shattenfroh and Herr Suchan- wirth, two prominent Nazi leaders. All four were arrested, but later re- leased. Count Alberti was relieved is command, but was present at a conference of Heimwehr leaders the evening following his arrest. The government is said to have long known of Count Alberti’s negotia- tions with those whom it publicly announces as the deadly enemies of the State. The Nazi opposition in the Heim- Wehr are demanding an al¥ance with Hitler, ousting of the Social Demo- cratic members of the government and outlawing of their party, which is supporting Dolfuss under the now- familiar ‘slogan of “the lesser evil.” Five hundred Nazis yesterday stormed the gendermarie building in Marein in Styria. The gendarmes charged with fixed bayonets and seri- ously wounded two Nazis, Hundreds of persons were arrested. Ui J Schneiderman Sent to Puerto Rico to Put Over NRA Slave Codes WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20. —Rose Schneiderman, A. F. of L. member of the Labor Advis- ory Board of the N.R.A. and one of Green’s favorite “veomen,” left for Puerto Rico Friday morning to aid in preparing codes for the needle, sugar, tobacco and other industries of this American colo- nial possession. Schneiderman declared she was going to Puerto Rico to “stabilize business there” and to help American capitalists by “reducing competition with industries in this country, especially with the the Civil Guard fired on a Commu- nist demonstration here last week. needle trades.” unists By SENDER GARLIN Nearly 300 members of the Social- | Commui Party, | critically informed _the California “We are fully aware that your Na- ‘we find at this ist Party in California have turned in| t: their resignations and lined up with the left wing forces led by the Com- munist Party. leaders of the Socialist Party like Upton Sinclair in Cali- fornia and Paul Bianshard in New York are deserting to the capitalist parties, rank and file members of the S. P. are joining in united front actions with the Communist Party. Developments in California during resent weeks have shown how deep- going is the ferment among the mem- bers of the Socialist Party, who are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the opportunist policy of the Socialist Party. At the present moment a strike iad agricultural workers is nthe Imperial Valley of California, As in a score of similar strikes during the past year, the Communist Party and the left wing unions have provided the only ef- fective leadership, and workers in the Socialist Party have taken note of this, Three important locals of the So- slalist Party—East Oakland, Long Beach and Berkeley—repudiateq the action of the State Executive Com- mittee of the Socialist Party, which fefused to join in united front actions ‘with the Communist Party, and large numbers of individual members of the Socialist Party have openly criti- cized the action of the S. P. bureau- Propose Five Point Program The Communist Party, District 13, had Proposed a five-point program for ‘united action. The response of the Socialist Party State Executive Com- ‘Mittee was to reject the proposal by & vote of three to one. “While the State Executicve Com- feels that a United Front is »” the 8. P. officials hypro- ' time that it is impossible for the So- cialisi Party to enter a United Front ih the Communist Party as im- mediate past experiences has proven that efforts to unite have been dam- ing to the Socialist Party and the curing of sotialism, because of lack of good faith manifested by the Com- munist Party.” ‘The craven action of the S. P. lead- ers, particularly its most vociferous spokesman, J. Stitt Wilson, whose chief claim to distinction seems to lie in the fact that he has been an ex- mayor of Berkeley, California, for many years, resulted in a number of Socialist Party locals repudiating the organization and coming out openly in favor of the united front proposal. its proposal to the Socialist Party officials—anq significantly, to each and every local of the S. P. in California, the Communist Party had put forward the following five-point program for united action. 1. Support to the striking workers with defense funds, relief and every other measure that resources wiil allow, and to aid their fight against the capitalist N. R. A. program. 2. For federal and state unem- | ployment insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government calist laws, all anti-!abor legisation prisoners, 4. Against all imperialist war prep- arations, opposition to all fascist | Activity, and support and defense of construction of socialism in the U. Ss. S. R, 5. A militant fight to prevent fore- closures, reduce power rates and Otherwise improve the conditions of poor farmers, accompanied the unites I~ 1 declared thar. d front pro: \ 3. Repeal of the Criminal Syndi- | and the release of all class-war | |had led the “militants” ‘and tional Executive Committee has op- posed such united actions with the Communist Party, and we are in- formed of your efforts in connection with the Continental Congress, ince, however, all must, in honest ‘acing of the facts, admit that the Conti tal Congress has to date done nothing to really better the con- ditions of the workers, we believe that despite programmatic differences, and previous decisions of other bodies, you should give consideration to our pro- posals and act on them favorably. “We are fully aware of the great programmatic differences that exist | between the Socialist Party and the Communist Party. But irrespective of these differences, there can be no doubt that the five points outlined will really, at least temporarily, im- prove the conditions of the working class and poor farmers. “If you want to join such a fight, you will allow no excuse to evade it.” The letter from the S. P, was signed by Harold J. Ashe, state seere- tary, who a short time previously at the Re- sional Conference of the California | Congress of Farmers and Workers, held at Santa Ana, California. Ashe has just been removed from office by the S. P. bureaucrats. Ashe, who sought to introduce a esolution putting the rezional con- ress On record as favoring mass ac- tions as a weapon against evictions gas, water and light shut-offs, into a head-on collision with J. Stitt Wilson, state convenor of the Sacramento Congress, dust how militant and ageressive she will be in deeds in the days to come is yet to be seen, but at the conference he was yery outspoken, end declared that if moving furni- The letter to the Socialists, which | titute was illegal, then he wished “to be classed as an outlaw.” The conference, which was ate tended by barely 50, did not even take the trouble to examine creden- tials, for fear that the representa- tion would be even smaller. The Western Worker reports that sub- committees were arranged for the unemployed, union labor, farmers, youth and miscellaneous. But so few were present that J. Stitt Wilson pleaded that the delegates join what- ever caucus they chose, even if they aid_not occupationally belong to it. The storm which has been pro- voked in the locals of the Socialist Party by the rejection of the united front proposal made by the Com- munists is seen in various parts of the state. David Lyons, rank-and- file member of the Berkeley local of the S. P., has been touring the entire stzte explaining the stand of the rank and file committee in favor of united action. Lyons, in a debate in Los Angeles with John L, Packard, member of the national as well as the state executive committees of the Socialist Party, showed that while the State Executive Committee had rejected a United Front with the Communist Party, it had endorsed the Continen- tal Congress, and invited the “Lib- erty Party” to take part in the Con- gress, This, in spite of the fact that the Liberty Party is an openly fas- cist outfit, their official spokesman having recently made a speech in praise of Hitler and his program at a recent conference in Sacramento, Lyons created a stir in the debate, according to the Western Worker, when he pointed out that Packard bought a new, expensive automobile— despite the fact that he owned one—during the same winter that Fred Jackson, one of Packard's fellow-members of the California state executive committee of the S.P., hanged himself because he was faced with starvation, In Berkeley recently J. Stitt Wilson and Wilfred Howard. his Heutenant ( in the Farmers’ Protective League, received a sharp blow when the mili- tants of the Berkeley Socialist local, the Alameda County I. L. D. and a Jarge number of farmers came down from Sonoma County to protest be- fore the Federal Land Bank in Berk- eley against foreclosures and denials of loans. When Howard's gaze fell upon the banners and placards carrying mili- tant slogans, he rushed to the tele- phone and called Wilson and pleaded that something be done to remove the placards for fear of “offending the conservatives.” All his efforts were unavailing, however, and the parade to the bank went as per schedule, with placards and all. The Western Worker, descr:bing this demonstration, says that both Howard and the bank officials “got the jitters” when R. J. Pearsall, a rank-and-file member of the Social- ist Party, “proclaimed the Commu- nists and farmers as comrades” as the farmers and city worker frater- nized on the steps of the bank. The attitude of many of the rank and file Socialists is seen clearly in the action of the Long Beach local of the S. P. which adopted the five- point program of the Communist Party in open defiance of the state Socialist leaders. “Your five-po'nt program for im- mediate united action was read and taken up point by point,” Long Beach local informed Sam Darcy, district organizer of the Communist Party, “and was unanimously approved by overwhelming vote without a dissent- ing voice. “The secretary was instructed to communicate with the State Execu- tive Committee (of the S. P.), de~ manding that it endorse and act fa- vorably upon this proposal «of the Communist Party for a United Front of all workers. “. , « Judging by the temper and morale meeting, Local Long Beach will cer- tainly show the Executive Commit- tee in no uncertain terms where it stands on the issue, together with other things pertaining to the class struggle, at a very early date.” Fire State Si Seeking to stem the revolt of the rank and file, the Socialist officials ousted one of the spokesmen of the militant group, Harold Ashe, as sec- retary of the California S. P. The Los Angeles correspondent of the New Leader, official organ of the Socialist Party, dolefully comment- ing on the California situation, de- clares that “old-time comrades who have watched this developmen: have come to the conclusion that the party has been too careless in ad- mitting people to membership who know little or nothing of Socialist principles. . . .” It_is not clear whether the New Leader writer has in mind Socialist leaders like Upton Sinclair or the rank and file workers who have re- volted against the S, P. and joined forces with the Communists. — Lenin in “The Imperialist War” Jong ago characterized Sinclair as “a sontimental Socialist without theoretical grounding.” Certainly the Socialist leaders would never have agreed to this characteriza- tion. Now, of course, they mourn the desertion of a member of the S. P. out to cap’ure the Democratic némination for Goevrnor of Cali- fornia! Clearly, this stuff about “admit- ting ple who know little or about Socialist principles” is directed against the hundreds of rank and file members who know TOO MUCP about the Socialist “principles” to remain with this kite of the capitalist political ap- paratus. ‘The New Leader correspondent vir- among the rank and file Socialists of California, and the inability of the S. P. officials to cope with the situa- tion, when he writes that “because of maneuvers by Communists and their sympathizers within the Party, quite @ number of party branches have been more or less divided, some verging on disruption. This appears to be the result of plotting by Com- munists, and it has had its effect upon some members who joined the party in the last several years.” The Socialist Party leaders in Cali- fornia have good reason to be panicky over this situation. In spite of the stale declaration by the Socialist Party leaders that it will not join in united front actions because th> Com- munists “are not sincere,” thousands of workers and farmers know from bureaus have forced concessions and have convinced thousands of workers employed as well as unemployed—~ that only the Communists have the correct. program and the courage to jJead the fight for this program, An interesting barometer of the in- creasing influence and prestige of. the Communist Party is the specta- cular growth of the Western Worker, the western organ of the Communist Party of the United States. Beginning as a semi-monthly two years agc, the Western Worker last year became a four-page weekly, ard beginning with the present year en- larged its size to six pages. Because of its popular and concrete approach to the problems facing the workers and farmers 6f California, the cir- culation of the Western Worker has their own rience that the Com- munist, Party has shown itself to be a real leader in their struggles. The confidence of the toilers of the West Coast in the leadership in the Communists is shown by the fact, that the Communists have been at the head of scores of hard-fought strikes of agricultural workers, have led militant Hunger Marchers of the unemployed, and are carrying on the day-to-day fight against the N.R.A., continually mounted until its infiu- ence is felt not only in California, but also in Oregon, Washinyten and throughout the Far West. Party Grows Eight-fold_ The California district uf the Com< munist Party has increased its mem-9 — bership eightfold during the past two and one half years and is establish ing its roots through the West Coast. At the same time honest workers in the Socialist Party, eager for struggle and a way out of the crisis— the latest weapon in the hands of the bosses to force oe the living stand- of the werkers. aie March to December, 1933, for example out of a total of 71 strikes 35 involved 50,601 agricultural work- ers. Of these 35 strikes, according the Research Committee of the West: ern Worker, 22 were led by the Can- nery and Agricultural Workers In- dustrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. Twenty- two of these left-wing led ae Te- sulted in gains for the workers. > Strikes Led by Left Wing Under the leadership of the Cali-- eifect Marches and mili- tually admits the inroads which the ef the. members at our last united front proposals have made i tant ffective Hunger | tang demonstrations store eke Pome to| War government. ‘ and|nist movement and “yelief|ers’ rule in the United and sensing that the center of gravity for a new imperialist war has shifted to the Pacific—see the So- cialist Party officialdom as open apologists for the Roosevelt N.R.A<* _ The events in California, have not only a local import 4 but are symptomatic of what may be expected in other parts of the coun< try—more and more of the leaders ci the Socialist Party will desert to the bourgeois camp, while the rank and file members of the a will join the ranks of the eae the struggle for workers’ and farme ‘States, ek