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HELP FIGHT WAR By Getting Subs for “Daily” Vol. XI, ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ Is Support of Japan’s Program for War DEAL JUST MADE “Shows British Weak- ness,” Says “Pravda” (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By Radio)—British imperialism, the chief organizer of the anti- Soviet front, has cemented a virtual alliance with Japan In a re- cently concluded “gentlemen’s agree- ment” between the two powers. This fact, with its grave implica- tions in the imminent attack of Japan on the Soviet Union, is com- mented in by “Pravda,” organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in an editorial on the an- nouncement of this British-Japanese agreement “for the solution of in- ternational political problems.”¢@ “If this information is true,” says “Pravda,” “then it once again con- firms the fact that British imper- jalism is not only weakening, but that it is increasing its support of Japanese imperialism. “Tt has come out in frank support of Japanese aggression. The Man- churian incident, the unequivocal Statement that Japan’s leaving the League of Nations does not deprive Japanese imperialism of its right to the mandate islands in the Pacific Ocean, its policy of invisible loans carried out through taking virtually no measures against Japanese dump- ing—these are the landmarks of this British policy which now finds its consummation in the conclusion of the ‘gentlemen’s agreement.’ “In view of the basic position of British foreign policy—the struggle against the U.S.A. and. the organiza- tion of the anti-Soviet front—Brit- ish imperialism is striving to preserve its virtual alliance with Japan by all Means. The ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ is the specific form which this al- liance takes.” Britain Plans To Fortify Islands Near Cape Horn Expects To Be Shut Out of Panama Canal in U.S.-Japan War LONDON, Feb. 4. — The secret British naval conference which just closed in Singapore strongly advo- cated the establishment of a strongly fortified naval base in t'te Falkland Istands, ‘n the Sovth Attentic. 150 miles off the coast of Argentina, Pevnolds Illustrated News says to- day. This is a step aimed at American imperialism. It assumes that in a war betreen the Tinited Stetes and Japan, the Panama Canal will be closed to British ships, which will have to round Cape Horn on their way to the Pacific. The British claim to the islands was disputed a year ago by the gov- ernment of the Argentine. The pres- ent decision reveals the strengthen- ing of the relations hetween Great Britain and tina. Police Use Numbers Racket To Carry Out Raids on Negro Sections NEW YORK. — New York and Jersey City police carried out wide- spread raids in the colored sections yesterday under the pretext of stamp- ing out “numbers” racketeering. neither city did the police make any attempt to arrest the bankers and gangsters behind the policy racket which victimizes tens of thousands of Negro and white workers out of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars an- nually. In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Jerry Arnold + Page 3 Amter Asks for United Fight for Workers’ Jobless Insurance Page 4 Letters from Food Workers Party Life LW.O. News “Dr. Luttinger Advises” Page 5 “Change the World,” by Michael Gold “Hackman,” by Harry Kermit “Son of a Sailor,” by S. Marks , Tuning In Page 6 Editorials Foreign News Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1934 Britain Reaches Agreement | second to none,” etc., will strive to support of his imperialist war plans. masses. energetically counteracted. * * With Japan Against U.S.S.R. Rally the Masses Against Roosevelt’s War Plans! By C. A. HATHAWAY week!—that is the time we have to prepare the counter-campaign to the War Department’s jingo drive announced to begin on Lincoln’s birthday, February 12th. The radio, schools, movies, churches—all the institutions of the bour- geoisie—will be used to whip up a war frenzy among the people. As Wilson used the slogan, “He kept us out of war” to prepare the people for “the war to end war,” “the war for democracy,” etc., 80 Roose- velt now, behind phrases of “preparedness,” “national defense,” “a navy poison the minds of the masses in The naval and military building programs of Japan, Great Britain and France will be magnified and used as a justification for the frenzied militarization program of the Roosevelt regime. “Work for the unemployed,” skilfully intertwined with the claim that “preparedness is the best guarantee for peace,” will serve to confuse the This campaign, comrades, can have serious consequences unless it is 2 ° ‘THIS week, beginning today, must see the thorough preparation of the counter-campaign, a campaign which exposes Roosevelt’s “povce” dem- agogy, which brings to light the aggressiveness of the administration’s policy, which shows up the gigantic militarization program, and which draws the masses actively into the anti-war struggle. Don’t wait for formal directives! Every unit, section, and district, every Party fraction should immediately get on the job. Organize meetings where Roosevelt’s war policies are explained. Speak against war at all trade unions and other workers meetings. Adopt res- olutions against war; send them to Roosevelt, to Congress, to the workers’ press. Put out leaflets against the war plans. Factory units should put out special leaflets, particularly dealing with the part their factory is playing, or is prepared to play in the war preparations. Rally the masses against Roosevelt’s war plans! Rush in orders for the special anti-war issue of the Daily Worker to appear next Saturday. Demand that all war funds be turned over to the relief of the un- WEATHER: Colder F a AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER a (Six Faon) Price 3 Cents 900 DELEGATES MEET AT NATIONAL JOBLESS CONVENTION Hungarian Nazis Plot Murder ead Dnited Proat a = February 11th Meet in New York To Protest Fascist Terror By SENDER GARLIN NEW YORK—Following its relentless expose of Nazi activ- ities in the United States, the Daily Worker has just un- covered a plot to murder the} leaders of the Hungarian anti-fascist | movement in this country. A letter sent by Oscar Schilling. secretary of the New York section of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) to D.} Balogh de Almassy, director of the | “Colonel Kovats Society,” reveals the plans. “That damned Jew, the New York editor of the Hungarian Bol- shevik paper,” writes Schilling to de Almassy, “who, you say is their leader must be silenced. If you agree we will take care of this mat- ter. And if necessary we will do the same thing with the others.” This murder plot against the lead- ers of the Hungarian anti-Fascist movement in the U.S. recalls the ex- posure by the Daily Worker, on Oct. 7, 1933, of a Nazi conspiracy to in- This murderous Nazi program will be protested by the thousands who will gather in Bronx Coliseum next Sunday evening, Feb. 11, at the “Support the German Workers’ Revolution” concert and affair, at which Earl Browder will give an acocunt of the ficht of the German Communist Party avzinst fascism under conditions of Hitler terror. “That Damned Jew Must Be Silenced!’ 19. hee Machtcht vom D. Balogh de Almassy 29 Bast Gord Street, New York City. Sehr geehrter Herr: ninmt im Interesse unserer gemeins: zum Schweigen gezwungen werden. tun, Rationalsosialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei & ‘Mew York Cityden 21.Dez.,1938 In Beantwortung Ihres Schreibens vom 14, Dezember hab zur Kenntnis genommen, dass Ihre Or, Betreffs Ihrer Frage in Bezug auf das Zusamnenwir! sationen, méchte ich Ihnen folgende Vorschlige mach Bs ist dringend zu raten, dass nicht auf ausfihrliche Anweisungen von Drifben warten, da diese ~ in anbetracht der politischen Komplikatio~ nen in Burem Lande - einige Zeit auf sich warten lassen wiirden., Und sofortige Aktion ist hier unbedingt erforderlich, da + wie wir es aus Ihrem Briefe verstanden haben - Ihre Kréfte sehr schwach sin’ da die Feing unserer Bewegung zwischen den Ungarn schon etwas ang: fangen haben. Sie mlissen Ihre Krifte organisieren noch bevor die: verdamnten-Juden, die Xommunisten und Liberalen ihre Krafte stlrl Es ist traurig, dass - wie Sie sagen - die Ungarn in diesem Lande und besonders in New York nur noch sehr schwach auf unsere Ideale ein- gehen. Das beweist, dass die Kommunisten bereits an der Arbeit sind. Dieser verdamate Jude, der New Yorker Redakteur der ungarischen Bol- schewiken~Zeitung, von dem Sie sagen, cass er ihr Fuhrer ist, muss enn Sie zustimmen, so wollen wir des fiir Sie. besorgen, Und wenn nétig, so wollen wir das auch mit anderen Ich michte Sie des Weiteren darliber informieren, dass wir bereits die Anweisung haben eine ungarische nationalsozialistische Zeitung miglich eine tiglich, doch Jedenfalls eine wichentliche, herauszugeben | ‘Thousands of CWA Wir wurden angewiesen diese Zeitung teilweise zu financieren, jedoch Dez. ore Leche B ich mit Freude sation bereits etwas unter- Ziele in diesem Lande, n-unserer Organi- und » Wenn | | j= | 6 Marine Park CWA Man || Dies from Exposure | BROOKLYN, N. Y.—One of the |} two C.W.A. workers who were || taken to the hospital suffering || from exposure while working on the Marine Park C, W. A. project, died Saturday at the Coney Is- land Hospital. The workers on this project are made to work in zero weather, are not allowed to build fires or seek any protection from the cold. Anyone who attempts to take a few minutes to warm up is fired. C.W.A. “observers” are put in the cupola of the old Whitney man- sion to spy on the workers and || report anyone warming himself at a fire. | The workers are fired on the || slightest pretext. Every day 509 o- 60 workers are taken off the job || for “loafing.” “Loafing” is the || term used by Frank Moses, Com- missioner of Parks, appointed by || La Guardia at a salary of $10.840 || a year, when he recently tried to justify lay-offs in a statement in the New York press. of U. 8. Anti-Fascist Leaders Call for the Workers | Social Insurance Bill United Front of All Workers Main Link, Amter, Benjamin Say UNION DELEGATES Needs of Negro Masses Vital Task, Stachel Declares By CARL REEVE (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 4.—The~ approximately nine hundred determined delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployment, which opened in the Masonic Temple here yesterday morning, have taken decisive steps forward in or- ganizing the nationwide fight for the enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. They will fight for jobs and relief, and for the achievement of the unity of all workers, regardless of their mis- leaders, in the struggle for the de- mands of the unemployed. In both the reports of Amter and es ist nur selbstverstandlich, dass Sie an den Ausgaben teilnehmen gollen. follen Sie mir bitte mitte: welchen Betrag kinnten Sie dsflir verwenden, Es wire erwiinscht den Botrag suerst aus privaten ir dgs Erscheinen der Zeitung geheinhalten mn gesichert ist.Sp&terhin kinnen Sie vielleicht yon den Organisationen in welchen Sie Einfluss haben, Geld bekommen. | Benjamin and the delegates speeches, ! in the numerous ovations and dem-: onstrations, determination was madel | Plain to fight against the whole | hunger program of Roosevelt’s New* ; Deal and N.R.A., and to prevent the | liquidation of C.W.A. jobs on May ist Workers To Strike employed! By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 3—A rising ova- tion and enthusiastic cheers greeted Dmitri Z. Manuilsky when he mounted the speakers rostrum to report for the deelgation of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union to the Executive Committee of the Communist International at the 17th ternational now plays the same role sion. Comrade Stalin’s prognosis at the 16th Party Congress, he said, which deeply analyzed the situation of world capitalism, has ben confirmed by the course of developments in re- cent years. Th world enters a second cycle of revolutions and wars. Five years of economic crisis has shaken the world capitalist system to its foundations, and has intensified its general crisis. If the world economic crisis has passed its lowest levels, he pointed out, there can be no question of the return of “stabilization” or “prosper- ity” of capitalism. Unevenly, but steadily, there goes on the conversion of the genera) crisis into a revolutionary crisis, maturing in all links of the im- perialist chair, The elements of the revolutionary crisis are increasing everywheré. The forces of the proletarian revolution are growing, even if in a majority of countries it has not yet taken suffi- cient hold in order to overthrow capitalism by revolution, Oncoming Revolution The calm before the storm is being broken by the lightning of percur- sors of coming revolutions—mass strikes, peasant revolts, mutinies in the army and navy. Frantic preparations are being Growing Might of Comintern Cheered by 17th Congress CPSU made by the world bourgeoisie for a new imperialist war. The transition to fascism means the open direct, terrorist dictatorship is a sign of weakness of the bourgeoisie which is no longer able to rule with “normal,” “democratic” methods, The political and economic power of the Soviet Union has grown in these years; the Soviets in China are becoming stronger. In the capitalist countries, the vast, hopeless im- Ppoverishment of the toiling masses 4s extending. Millions of workers are thrown overboard as the result of the crisis and rationalization. The right to work becomes a privilege which the fascists use as a means of splitting the working-class, Comrade Manuilsky then charac- terized the intensification of the imperialist antagonisms which have taken such a hold that a new world (Continued on Page 6) 69 Bulgarian Soldiers and Sailors Face Death For Anti-War Activities NEW YORK.—Sixty-nine Bulga- rian soldiers and sailors are on trial for their lives before a court-martial in Sofia, Bulgaria, for their anti-war activities in the army and navy, ac- cording to a cable received yesterday by the International Labor Defense ass the International Red Aid in All workers were urged in the cable to send vigorous protests to the Bul- garian Embassy in Washington, and to all Bulgarian Consulates. In Dimitroff in Goering’s Hands; fect the Communist defendants in the Reichstag fire trial with deadly syphilis germs. These revelations, which jncluded a plan to hang some other man instead of Van der Lubbe, imbecile tool of Nazis, were uncovered in a letter which was signed by Wal- ter Haag, leader of the “Friends of the New Germany,” a, Nazi organiza- tion in this country, The Dickstein Committee “inves- tigating” Nazi activities in this coun- try, has not only refused to go to the source of these activities, but has in- stead proposed a bill which would be used as a weapon against working class oes o ascism, since it would suthorize a special committee to in- vestigate Nazi propaganda activities (Continued on Page 3) 300 Georgia Iron | Moulders Demand The Daily Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) ROME, Ga., Feb. 1—The article that appeared in the Daily Worker on the strike ot the 500 iron moulders | in this town made a big hit among the workers. The workers say, “The Daily Worker is the only paper to catry a real account of our strike.” There is a Daily Worker now in | every strike tent. The workers read it eagerly. Some have already sub- scribed for the “Daily,” and many others say they will do so as soon as | they get back to work, The strike, now in its ninth week, has affected four out of the five Rome stove foundries. The strikers were ordered by officials of the Interna- tional Moulders Union to go back to work, but refused to do so. Experi- ence has taught them that they can- not expect honest leadershin from the I. M. U., or favorable results from the negotiations between the bosses, the I. M. U. leadership and the N. R. A. Labor Board. By showing up the strike-breaking role played by the officials of the I. M. U,, the Daily Worker rooted itself | deep in the hearts of the striking Be ist weiterhin wichtiz, dass sie einen 1008-1 vey l&sslicnen Sauuee Buro, als Leiter unsere! lunge In der Hoffnung, dass wir ba fordern, verbleiven wir aint Society.” on Page 3). Wan, der uns Thre letates entsprechend zu sein, Lassen Sie mich gute Brfolge erzielen und unsere ziels Facsimile of letter sent by Oscar Schil- Ing, secretary of the New York Section of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) to D, Balogh de Almassy, director of the “Colonel Kovats (See full translation of letter fttr_unsei sel, Mitteilungen Uberbrachte. thi mehr liber ihn wissen, 7 Heil Aitlert 30,000 Hackmen Now Out; Mayor for Sellout Plan Gilbert, Taxi Workers’ Union Head, Scores LaGuardia’s Scheme BULLETIN Morris L. Ernst, who was ap- pointed by Mayor LaGuardia, an- nounced last night that he would attempt to settle the strike imme- diately on the basis of what he calls a “Consumers’ Monday,” thus turning the question of the 5-cent tax over to legal action to be tak- en at a later date. . This announcoment was made at a meeting held in Ernst’s of- fice with 13 representatives of the four unions. All of the demands put forward by the Taxi Workers Union were denied by Ernst. The ‘Consumers’ Monday” scheme calls for the cutting of fares 331-3 per cent every Mon- day for three or four weeks in order to raise the amount of fares | Seventh Ave. | Seventh Ave. this would increase business and therefore the hackmen’s fee, The Taxi Workers Union calls on all drivers to repudiate this sellout tactic and continue the strike until the nickel is won. * NEW YORK.—With the utmost militancy the New York taxicab drivers continued their great strike for the nickel tax over the week- end, spreading and extending the struggle to every hack company in the city. It was estimated Sunday that 30,- 000 drivers have joined the struggle, halting the operation of 10,000 of New York’s 15,000 licensed cabs. All during Saturday and Sunday masses of strike pickets surged around the strategic auto transport terminals and compelled the few independents who were attempting to pick up passengers to beat a hasty retreat from the vicinity. Negro drivers pulled cabs at 141st St. and Lenox Ave., at 137th St. and and 133d St. and While the taximen on the streets | Jobless and CWA Work. | 15 Minutes To* Sy ers to Demonstrate | at City Hall | NEW YORK—In protest against the Roosevelt mass lay-offs and wage cuts, and the announted aban- donment of the entire C.W.A. pro-| gram, thousands of C.W.A. and | C.W.S. workers here will stop work for 15 minutes at 10 am. today. | With the stoppage of C.W.A. and | C.W.S. work telegrams will be sent from every C.W.A. job, from unions ang mass organizations, demanding continuance of C.W.A. work and its | enlargement to include all regis- tered unemployed workers; a min- imum wage of $5 a day, with a) guaranteed $20 a week, union wages | for all skilled workers; and enact- | ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- | ment and Social Insurance Bill. | To Demonstrate at City Hall | Simultaneously with the 15 min-| ute stcvpage of work, an additional | 10,000 C.W.A. workers will stop all! work for the day Meanwhile, the workers’ delegates at the National Convention Against Unemployment will present their demands to the Roosevelt admin- istration, Assembly Points Downtown workers and mass or- ganizations will assemble at 7th St and Avenue A at 10:30 am., will march to Rutgers Sq., where they | will be joined by the workers massed there, and march in a body to the City Hall. Needle trades workers will assemble at the union hall at 131 W. 28th St. at 10 am. and march in a body to the City Hall. Similariy, women workers will assemble at 114 W. 14th St. at 10:30 anq march to the City Hall. Delegates to Meet Delegates, who will form the mass delegation that will present the workers’ demands to Mayor LaGuar- dia, will meet at 29 E. 20th St. at 10 a.m. sharp, to formulate their demands, and to elect spokesmen to present their demands. Unorganized workers will con- verge on the City Hall at 12 noon. Other groups of workers in trade | unions and mass organizations wil! | by the Federal Government. “The workers are going to say whether C.W.A. jobs shall be liquidated or not, Amter said. “We are afraid of neither the iron fist of Hoover or the silk glove of Roosevelt,” said Ben- jamin regarding the demagogy of Roosevelt in concealing his fascist strikebreaking attacks on the work- ers. The struggle for the United Front for these demands was the center of the main report of I. Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Coun- cils of Herbert Benjamin, organizer of the councils, and of the discussion (Continued on Page 2) 12,000 Workers Tie Up Winois Town in Sympathetic Strike Union, Non-Union, CWA Workers Join Shoe Strike CENTRALIA, Ml., Feb. 4—The en- | tire business activity of this city was tied up by a widespread strike of 12,000 workers from every shop and job in the city. The strike spread to all the workers in the city after 450 employes of the Barnes Shoe Factory had walked out, demanding the removal of a certain foreman in the plant. The entire town was shut down, as mines, bakeries, motion picture houses, barbers and all other stores closed down. About 2,000 union and non-union workers from the factory were out on strike. Other trades joining the strike included carpenters, painters, printers, electricians, plumbers, brick- layers and plasterers. So complete was the tie-up that even the C.W.A. workers laid down their tools on the job in sympathy with the strike. So fine was the discipline of the strike that the municipal lighting plants and other necessary needs of collected by the cab companies. Ernst attempted to point out that (Continued on Page 2) kewa Dimitroff, mother of the pris- oner, went to the Leipzig jail to visit her son. She was badly shaken by the news, and is coming to Berlin at once to continue the fight for her son’s liberation. Rush Thaelmann Trial The three Bulgarians now join Ernst Torgler, their codefendant, in the clutches of Goering, whose threat to Dimitroff, “Just wait till I get my hands on you when you get out of here,” was made when Dimi- troff’s skillful questioning sent him into a raving fit of rage on the stand at the fire trial, Meanwhile, the Nazis are rushing Nazis Slay German C.P. Leader moulders. They recognize the “Daily” as their paper and as an effective weapon in their hands for developing militancy and unity within their ranks. Most of the strikers never saw Killing of Four Communists Is Reprisal for Death of Renegade Witness Against Thaelmann Preparations for the trial of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, on of “high treason,” for Wwatcks the comaity is death, Party Leader Murdered One of the four Communists mur- dered by the Nazi police who were taking them from Berlin to Potsdam Friday, John Scheer, was a member of the political bureau of the Com- munist Party of Germany, and had been one of the leaders of the Party’s illegal work after the arrest of Thael- mann. Scheer, along with Erich Stein- furth, Eugen Schoehnaar and Rud- olph Schwarz, were murdered in re- prisal for the killing of Alfred Katt- ner by an unknown person. Katt+ ner was a renegade who had be- trayed several Communists to the secret police, and was to be one of the chief prosecution witnesses against Thaelmann, < @ Daily Worker before. We hail our Daily Worker that fights for us. We urge every class- conscious worker everywhere to carry our “Daily” to their fellow wo-kers as we are doing in Georgia, and put the circulation drive for 10.000 new daily subscribers and 20.000 new readers of the Saturday edition way over the top. Barbusse Wires Stalin Greetings on Report Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By Radio) — Henri Barbusse, famed French writ-r and fighter acainst war, has sent a telegram from Cannes, France, to Joseph Stalin, at the Seventeenth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which reads: “Hearty greetings. Splendid re- port, Majestic congress. Great so- clalist victory heard throughout the meet at their own points of mobi- | the workers were not interrupted by lization and march to the City Hall.‘ the strike. Propaganda of Work- ers’ Enemies By HARRY GANNES NEW YORK.—Opened by the ex- Reverend Muste, the dinner for the declaration of faith by the leaders of the aborning American Workers’ Party last Friday night closed with the shivering misgivings of “respec- tability” of J. B. S, Hardman, better known as publicity agent for the N. R. A. strikebreaker, Sidney Hillman. “I am somewhat hesitant to speak when I look around here and see the dinner and wonder if Roc«svelt’s Prosperity hasn’t come,” said Louis F Budenz. Gathered in Town Hall were about world through your voice. “BARBUSSE.” 300 people. Predominantly thy were exceptionally well-dressed _petty- Fit in With Jingoist! “Americanism” Bristles Dinner to Launch Nationalist “Workers” Party bourgeois, professors, teachers, law- yers, college and high school stu- dents. Table No. 4, just in front of me, was graced by churchmen who came to give their revolutionary blessing to the new party. The purpose of the dinner was to tell the American workers that a genuine American revolutionary party is about to descend on them and win them for a 100 per cent American revolution. The workers themselves are supposed to hear about all this later from the teach- ers, preachers and professors. This new party, every speaker made it clear, would be untainted by any bonds with the victorious leader of the toiling masses of the Soviet Union, would be too American to claim fraternal ties with the Party leading the Chinese Soviets, and would be free from any other “for- we 1 Besides Muste, who was chairman, | and Hardman, who was the oratorical janitor, the speakers were, in the order of their appearance: Louis F. Budenz, trade union scout; V. F. Cal- | verton, expert on literature and “tra- ditional” revolution; Agnes Burns} Wieck, ex-president of the Women's | Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners | of America; Anthony Ramuglia, un- | employed specialist; Dr. Sidney Hook, | who warms a chair on “Marxian philosophy” at New York University; George Schuyler, Negro writer, and James Berman, teacher. A discordant note in the rank nationalism which characterized the | dinner was inadvertantly sounded by | Agnes Burns Wieck in her speech, | reflecting the sentiment of the most | militant miners of Illinois. “‘They can’t scare us with the words red, Bolshevism, Communism,’ say the miners." cues at Prosperous Mus te ® Worker atthe Conclusion Shouts: “Long Live Communist Party” Yet the pivotal point of the speeches of Rev. Muste, Doctors Cal- yerton and Hook, Budenz and Romuglia was that the Communist Party, and especially the theories and tactics of Communism, were foreign to the American workers, “Tools which are made to function in one period,” declared Muste in an- nouncing the reason for the forma- |tion of the new party, “cannot be used in another.” Then he described the kind of @ tool which the Provisional Organ- ization Committee proposed to fash- (Continued on Page &% ny ek ak a eee fg ag amas

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