The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1934, Page 6

> DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934 Daily orker ANTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTEREATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 "UBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE SOMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC, 5@ East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Dabl New York, N. ¥ m 94, Ni nal Presse wutlding, Cc ion Rates: Bronx}, % year, $6.00 th, 0.75 . _ Bro % months, $5.00; 3 By Carrier: Weekly The Wagner Bill and the Socialist Party | HE leaders of the Socialist party, pressed by the demand of the masses of workers for the enact- ment of the Work ate covertly suppo: government to side s Unemployment Insurance Bill, ing the moves of the Roosevelt. ck the Workers Bill. The attempt to sidetrack a: federal unemployment insurance is carried on support of the Wagner Bill. The latest subtle propaganda against the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill emanates from Louis Wald- Man, co-chairman of the Socialist Party’s “national | public affairs committee." Waldman “welcomes” the | Wagner Bill as “a step in the right direction.” He | Says that the bill does not go far enough, and advo- | @ates a federal system of insurance covering unem- | ployment, health, maternity and old age. | Waldman says ‘We need a federal system for the same reason that N.R.A. had to be national. Need for unemployment insurance as a practical way to Provide for the jobless has been fully demonstrated during the depression. Towns, cities and even the national government have been called upon to spend hundreds of millions to care for the idle. The entire C.W.A. system and the relief provided are nothing but doles to overcome lack of an unemployment insurance fund.” An analysis of Waldman’s statement shows that he is misleading the workers by claiming that the “Wag- ner bill is a sjep in the right direction.” This bill is a step in the wrong direction. It does not provide any unemployment insurance for the jobless, but merely ‘xempts from a federal tax all employers who con- tribute to any state unemployment reserves fund. It gives. the states a free hand to enact, not unemploy- ment insurance, but s “reserves” law which does not cover any of the sixteen million workers now jobless. Under pressure of the masses, Waldman talks of unemployment insurance” in general. At the same time, he ignores the existence of the only Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill which applies to those sixteen million now unemployed—the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Waldman has no concrete criticism to offer of the Wagner Bill. He does not say that the state bills mow being proposed in conjunction with the Wagner bili contain strikebreaking clauses which bar strikers | from benefits, that they apply only to those now at work in industry, and that they are to be administered by the employers, and not by the workers. Waldman’s only criticism of the bill is that it is noi a federal bill. But supposing the Wagner bill Were a federal bill. The fact that the Wagner Bill DOES NOT GRANT UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TO THE JOBLESS, the main criticism of the bill is ignored by Waldman. Waldmani’s position is typical of that of the So- | Cialist leaders. Knowing that the masses will see the inadequacy of the Wagner bill, Waldman says it does not go far enough. In order to prevent a struggle \ tor real unemployment insurance, to prevent a fight against the entire policy of the government of refusing to grant security to the jobless, Waldman declares | that the bill ls a step in the right direction. IN PASSING, Waldman pays a compliment io the | N.R.A. “We need a federal system for the same veason that the N.R.A. had to be national.” The position of these Socialist party leaders, indeed, is the Same on the Roosevelt program on unemployment imsurance as it was on the N.R.A. The Socialist party leaders said “the N.R.A. does not go far. enough.” They made wordy criticisms of non-essential points in the N.R.A. But they hide the strikebreaking char- acter of the N.R.A. and thus aid the Roosevelt govern- ment in putting over the wage cuts, speed-up and | Strikebreaking campaign of the N.R.A. Norman:Thomas Said the N.R.A. was.a step in the right direction, toward | “genuine socialism.” The same is now done by the Socialist Party lead- | ersoregarding the Roosevelt position on unemployment | insuranee, Under cover of télk of unemployment in- | surance general,” the Roosevelt administration is | | | refusing to grant security the workers through unemployment insurance. In id, the Wagner bill, which is harmful to the workers, is proposed. The Wagner bill, while dodging the demand of the workers for real unemployment insurance, places in the hands of the employers a weapon to smash unions and cut wages by holding the small “unemployment reserv over the head he workers as a cl If the workers | Congress, This Bill, | protect and guarantee their profits. ie | Fight the anti-Soviet propaganda! | ping of all war and munitions shipments to Japan! organize and the the reserves away employers will take wage cuts, m. therm ALDMAN has undoubtedly read and studied the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. But he remains silent on it. Waldman tries to sidetrack the workers’ fight for real unemployment insurance, by general talk of unemployment insurance without ref- erence to any specific bill. These Socialist leaders do not want the workers to fight for their demands. The National Convention Against Unemployment’ recently concluded in Washington, D. C., demonstrated | the strength of the workers demand for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The mass demand for the passage of the only real unem- ployment insurance bill, which provides for unemploy- ment insurance administered by the workers (the funds | to come from the war funds and the employers) was So strong that two Congressmen were forced by this mass pressure to indorse the bill. The Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, is now before now in the House, with the exception of the elimination of two important clauses, is the Workers Bill. The workers in all localities, under the leadership of the National Unemployment Councils, should so intensify the campaign for the bill that it will not die in committee in the House, but that the Roosevelt government will be forced to enact it into law. Two Billion Dollars Two billion dollars of “emergency” expenditures have | a already been poured out by the Roosevelt govern- ment as part of Roosevelt’s $10,000,000 budget program. That is this morning’s news. And, it is officially announced, over $5,000,000,000 more will be spent by the Roosevelt government by June 30 of this year. Roosevelt is turning these government billions over to the inner clique of Wall Street monopoly capital to He is turning billions over for the lightning swift building of a record war machine of battleships and bombing planes. Already he has set aside $4,000,000,000 to guarantee the mortgages of Wall Street banks. Already he has set aside another $1,000,000,000 to subsidize rich land- lords and plantation masters for the destruction of cotton, wheat and corn, in order to raise the prices of these commodities. Roosevelt js thus levying enor- mous tax burdens on the masses to make them pay for the destruction of crops, in order to raise their own cost of living! The Army and Navy are getting huge millions from the public works funds. They are getting millions more from the regular budget. For the jobless there is no money, says Roosevelt. But he is plundering the masses through heavy taxes, through the cheapened inflationary 59-cent dol- lar in order that the government shall have funds to guarantee the bond payments and profits of the Wall Street monopoly capitalists. This is the N.R.A-New Deal in operation, stripped of Roosevelt’s hypocritical verbiage. There are nearly 16,000,000 jobless workers and | their starving families for whom Roosevelt spurns all thought of any Federal Unemployment Insurance. “The government finances do not permit it,” he says. Roose- velt is planning to dump the C.W.A. workers into the | streets soon “because there are no funds.” What about these billions he is pouring out for Profits and war? They come from the masses. They must be placed at the disposal of the masses, for relief, for a real public works program, and for Unemployment Insurance. The National Convention Against Unemployment just held at Washington has sounded the national call for a million-wide united front of the working class for these vital needs. Fight the Jingo Week! IS only four days to the Roosevelt National Pre- paredness week which begins on February 12, Silently, behind the scenes, with the full co-opera- tion of the capitalist press, which {s always at the service of the Wall Street reactionary-militarist cliques who dominate the Government, the War Department is preparing such a blast of nationalist jingoism as has | not been seen since the reactionary war brutalitles of 1917, The Roosevelt government is building with night- | Mare speed, the most gigantic war machine in the world. And it plans to use it soon—very soon. The Roosevelt government steadily seeps Jingoistic chauvinist war poison into the minds of the American masses whom it can not feed. The Communist Party alone can lead in uniting the forces of all sections of the population who hate imperialist war. Every Party member, in the units, sections, and | districts must not lose a moment of the next four days to arrange meetings and demonstrations to fight the Roosevelt war poison. Against jingoism, raise the banner of international solidarity with the toilers of all nations! Demand that all war funds be turned over for the unemployed! Call for the stop- For the defense of the Soviet Union! Organize meet- ' ings in the shops and streets! ‘As Cuba Strike Continues Firm \Navy Officer Rips Off Uniform at Sight of Killing of Student (Special te the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Feb. 8.—Another victim of President Carlos Mendieta died Jast night the second one to die from the bloody attack of soldiers on @ student delegation Tuesday. At a mass meeting of 1,500 stu- dents, which called a 24-hour protest strike against the latest murders, a Heutenant of the Cuban navy threw away the jacket of his uniform, and denounced the government and American imperialism. Colonel Fulgencio Batista immedi- ately ordered his arrest, and he was forced to go into hiding. Communist League was enthusiast- ically applauded at the meeting when he announced that the strike was 100 per cent strong in the schools. The public school children have also gone on strike, demanding free lunches and an end to discrimination against Negroes. While all the forces of the state and army are mobilized to smash the strike, and the army is used both to scab and to protect scabs, the general strike remains firm, although some of the public utilities are scab- operated under cover of armored trucks and cahine-guns. Spanish Socialists Seek Again ToLead Revolt They Knifed MADRID, Feb. 8.—Indalecio Prieto, @ leader of the Socialist Party who was a member of the Republican Cabinet which crushed the revolution of the Spanish proletariat and peas- ants, made a bid for worker-support in the Cortes (parliament) yesterday by declaring he was in favor of “revo- lution at all “posts.” The cabin / of Alejandro Lerroux, which represénts the momentary tri- umph of the most reactionary ele- ments in Spain, won a 235 to 54 vote of confidence The Socialists are attempting once more to read and divert the deepen- ing resentment of the masses, who have been robbed of all their revolu- tionary gains of the past two years, including even the disestablishment of the church. The peasants’ will to divide the land is violently sup- pressed. An indication of the mood of the masses was given when President Al- cala Zamora presided at a dinner where he decorated several policemen who took part in crushing the up- risings of last December. The waiters struck, refusing to serve at such a dinner. After scabs had been found with great difficulty, the officials were so afraid there might be poison in the food that they decided not to eat. Britain Backs Nazi Rearming for War Against the USSR. LONDON, Feb. 8.—Full approval of German rearmament on land; though not on the sea, was voiced in the House of Parliament Tuesday by Sir John Simon, foreign sec . “Germany's right to arms equality cannot be resisted,” he declared. Sir Austen Chamberlain, former foreign secretary, added that this must refer only to land forces. Both added that they hope Ger- many’s “equal right to rearm” would be accompanied by some diarmament by other powers. Simon accompanied this declaration of British support of Germany's role in the anti-Soviet front with a bid for French approval by insisting si- multaneously on France’s right to “security” By VERN SMITH ‘special to the Daily Worker) superior to the rule of the capitalists, as jell as the profound differences | between ‘the Socialist planning of the Soviet Union, and the capitalist “planning” of the capitalist coun- ies, are the two dominant notes of | 13th day of discussion at the 17th | y Congress of the All-Union amunist (Bolshevik) Party of the; SR. Iso emiphasized is the funda- pial’ difference between the dis- ions “at this Communist Party. ess and the deliberations of the st congresses and Parliaments italist countries, where the point of all discussions is how ive the crisis at the expense of! ker and farmer masses; how pa some way back to pre-c’ 2 by. lowering the living s Br the toilers, by some scheme falling prices by inflation, ting production of industr: ng the acreage of agricul- tariff wars, and by imper- tural activitie: grain crops, by turnover, by the world. the remnants of all their real purposes discussion of the 17th ess of the ruling Party et. Union ce around for its frankness, le oppos: The things. grasp of economic Plans for the tremendous “advance, on how to raise te ‘ds of the toilers by j | two and a half to three times during the next four years by raising the MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (By Radio)—) Teal wages, by lowering prices and The triumphantly proved fact that| increasing the supplies of ail articles the workers’ rule is practical and|°f general consumption, particularly food, clothing, housin by increasing indus- | trial consumption, by increasing the increasing the trade insuring the country against imperialist attack, by main- | taining through every means peace Complete Frankness The discussions of the capitalist leaders in the Congresses and Parlia- ments are always aimed at preserv- ing capitalist exploitation with Fas- cism playing an ever greater role, while the Communist Party Congress discusses the complete abolition of {aud the establishment of a Socialist Furthermore, and very significant, is the fact that the discussions of ~ | capitalist leaders are always camou- fiaged by the necessity of hiding by various struggles by capitalist groups within the capitalist system, and often by sheer misunderstanding of the economic laws of the system, whereas the discussion of the Com- munist Party delegates is remarkable Party Congress discusses especially in this Congress the com- plete and unanimous support and confidence in the Central Committee and its leader, Stalin. Whereas, in the capitalist Con~/ Bresses, the proposals are always somewhat in the nature of blind experiments, bitterly attacked as “impractical” by whatever capital- ist group happens to be out of power, the decisions of the Party Congress are made in an atmosphere of com- plete confidence in the assurance that the plans will all be carried out, This confidence comes from the splendid successes of the First Five Year Plan, which created a new industrial base, more than doubled industrial produc- tivity, during the years when capital- ist industry collapsed in economic crisis. Supported by Masses Furthermore, the. steady stream of delegates of workers and peasants from the most distant cities coming to greet the Congress, as well as the hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of collective letters and resolutions show that the whole mass population of the country is firmly behind the Gecisions of the Congress. This gives the assurance that all that is needed to carry out the decisions of the Con- gress is the proper organization of this enthusiasm. And this is typified by the way each delegate in his discussion applies him- self to the problem of executing the Congress’ decisions of the Second Five Year Plan in ais own locality and industry, The discussion on the Second Five Year Plan is made sharply pointed and all cul- exploiting classes from the toilers, its sincerity, its principles and by the remarks of Piatakov, states that it is “no longer useful to compare the troduction of the Soviet Union with the production of the pre-war days.” “Now our task,” he says, “is to outstrip the capitalist countries. Not only quantity, but quality is our goal. Soviet goods must be the best im the world.” The entire discussion is extremely healthy, in that the extreme enthu-! siasm of the Congress is not just empty self-congratulation at the im- mense victories already achieved and the certainty of new victories, but is tempered with the sharpest. hammer- ing away at the lagging sectors of the economy. Kaminsky, for example, of the Moscow Executive Committee remarks, amid the laughter of the delegates, that “It is characteristic that delegates here do not repeat merely that this is a Congress of victors, but engages in self-criticism which is not quite! bloodless.” Molotov Proposes Amendment In the concluding remarks, Molo- tov dealt with the proposals raised at the Congress with the consent of the Polburo snd the Contral Com- mittee, by Ordjonikidze, Mikoyan, and A Negro member of the Young ; ‘One More Dies|“4 CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH”! Let ¢ —By Burck Erlanterengen averzn Lin Bibl hr 4316 17 Wallenfein. Gin dDremarides Gerrans Ft, von Shiller. teter Che is only 3 by 4% inches, and less border into Germany. NEW YORK, — Fifty thousand copies of a miniature edition of the Brown Book of Hitler Terror, dis- | guised as books of poems and plays, have been smuggled into Germany and distributed, Lord Marley, chair- man of the International Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism told 600 people at a banquet in the Aldine club Wednesday night. After a stirring description of con- ditions in Nazi Germany, and the fight against them, Lord Marley col- lected $3,500 in cash and pledges for the American Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. He said his committee has gathered complete details of the murder of nearly 2,000 persons by the Nazis. He emphasized that the Nazi terror is not directed first of all against Jewa, but against revolutionary workers. “We have complete evidence of at least 12 instances where men were hung head downwerd until they died,” he said. Heywood Broun one of the other “But simultaneously, we are con- fronted with problem of the circum- stances we work in and in which we will have to fulfill the Second Five- Year Plan. Must Guarantee Victory “There are such things as circum- stances which are not entirely de- necessary. to pay serious attention to the proposals made at the Congress to show a certain caution in the tasks of the new Five-Year Plan. Lubimov, that a slight change be made in the rate of industrial ad- vance for the Second Five Year Plan, reducing it from 18.9 to 16.8 per cent annually. These book covers, announcing a popular play by Schiller, and &® poem by Goetlic; aréamiong” the disguises under which the “Brown Book of Hitler Terror” has been spread throughout Ger- many. The whole book, in tiny type, printed on the thinnest paper, than a quarter of an inch thick. Hundreds of persons risk their lives to carry these books over the Indictment of Nazis, Disguised As Poems, Plays; Marley, Its Editor, Raises $3,500 in New York speakers, got up to combat the indig- nation against the Nazis which Mar- ley’s recital had aroused. “You can’t fight hate with hate,” said Broun, adding that a “new deal” of “human brotherhood” was needed. Dr. A. A. Brill, Freudian psychia- trist, injected his warped pseudo- scientific opinion that Naziism is sadism (neurotic cruelty), and that, while he was opposed to it, all human beings are cruel, and there can never come a form of social or- ganization in which the cruelty of men will not have to be forcibly sup- pressed. oie. NEW YORK.—The New York Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism issued an appeal yesterday to all persons and organizations which still have tag day boxes to return them to the committee’s of- fices, 870 Broadway. “Every penny must be sent to Fermany at once,” the appeal declared. Profound Gulf Between Soviet and Capitalist Rule Revealed at U. S. S. R. Party Congress “WE MUST SHOW BOLSHEVIK CAUTION, CONDITIONS ARE NOW NOT ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON US,” MOLOTOV SAYS, IN PROPOSING AMENDMENTS ¢ tions jn conditions, which will fulfilled in a Bolstevik manner.” (Applause). : 5 years. Now we must consider the totality of the condition of the pres- ent period, and decide the scope of our work so that it will be fulfilled under all conditions during the period known as the period of the Second Five-Year Plan.” during the First but somewhat less, about 13-14 per cent. Recalls Stalin’s Speech Molotov recalled the decision on the tempo of the Second Five-Year Plan made in January, at which time Stalin said: 50,000 Midget “Brown Books” |Najj Shipping Head Smuggled Into Nazi Germany| Shifts Propaganda Blame to Chief Cook NEW YORK.—The customary Nazi subterfuge of shifting official respon- sibility on to the shoulders of a single individual was employed yesterday. when Dr. Christian J. Beck. manaz- ing director of the Hamburg-Amer- ican Line and North German Lloyd in the United States, stated that Martin Pallor “acted entirely upon his own authority” when he brought 300 pounds of Nazi propaganda into the United States, ‘The literature, made up in small parcels addressed to persons in vari- ous big cities, and contained in four large burlap sacks, was discovered in the chief cook Pallor’s cabin aboard the German freighter, “S. S. Este.” Beck, who represents the Nazi shipping interests in the United States (the same interests which were exposed several months ago in the Daily Worker as being intimately tied up with the Nazi activities in this country), claimed that he had read the seized literature “and find nothins whatsoever in it inimical to he interests of the United States, and I do not see that anything more than a technical violation of the cus- toms regulations is involved.” That the customs authorities of the Port of New York also believe in the identity of interests between the U. 8. and the propaganda in the Nazi pamphlets, is shown by their imme- diate release of Pallor, without any attempt to probe the sources and higher-ups in this shipment, the largest of its kind ever discovered here. Beck promised that the Nazi gov- ernment would “offer full cooperation in any investigation which the United States customs may desire to undertake.” Spain Increasing Navy MADRID—Spain also is competing in the European armaments race, ac- cording to information just issued by the secretary of the navy. At this time the government is constructing two cruisers, seven de- stroyers and a submarine, all of which will be completed in 1936. The Spanish navy now consists of two battleships, five cruisers, 16 de- stroyers, 12 submarines, fifteen gun- boats, 14 torpedo boats and the neces- Sary auxiliary vessels, Continuing, Molotoy declared, “We must completely maintain the tasks adopted by the government and the Party for 1934, the second year of the | the Second Five Year Plan. As we know, this task was fixed at 19 per cent. This means that already in 1934 we adopt the task of exceeding the average tempo of the Second Five Year Plan. Thus we show how we want to guarantee the fulfill- ment of the program. “What is the meaning of the ‘ adoption of the proposal made here by the above mentioned comrades? It means the following—that in all industry during the second plan, there will be an annual increase of pay production of 165 per cent you see, to the thesis of the Glatteal Obteartion, this proposal not only ensures tre- mendous increase in all industry, but an especially intense growth of industry producing articles for gen- eral consumption. No Change in Line “The entire task for the increase for capital works for the Second To Hold Big Anti-Fascist Meeting in Chicago ‘Chicago Plans Big Campaign On Jingo Week — Rally Masses To Expose é Roosevelt “‘Prepared- * Propaganda CHICAGO, Feb. 8.— Workers of Chicago are swinging into immediate action against war and to counteract the high-powered war preparations of the Roosevelt regime through the so- called “National Defense Week” Feb, 11 to 22. Anna Schultz, secretury to Ernst Torgler, and wife of one of the four Communists murdered last week by Nazi police, will be the main | Speaker at a mass meeting against fascism and war in the Chicago Coliseum, Wabash Ave. and 15th St. this Saturday evening at eight | o'clock. The meeting is under the auspices of the Chicago Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism. Included in anti-war and anti-fa- Scist activities here are mass meet~ ings, demonstrations, leaflet distribu- | tions, the sale of 10,000 copies, in Chicago itself, of the Feb. 10th special anti-war issue of the Daily Worker, anti-war shop papers with special concentration on the steel industry. A united front conference against war and fascism will be held this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 10 and 11, at the Abraham Lincoin Center, 700 Oakwood Boulevard. with B. K. Geb- ert, organizer of this district of the Communist Party, speaking against fascism and W. B. Waltmire of the Socialist Party as the speaker against war, The conference is also called to set up a Chicago branch of the American League Agairist War and Fascism. Bullitt and Staff Sail for Moscow From N.Y. Feb. 15 Partial List of Staff Is Announced in Washington ness’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—William C. Bulitt, U. S, ambassador to the Soviet Union will leave New York for Moscow February 15, on the S. 8, ‘Washington. Although the list of his staff is not complete, the names of some have been given out. John Cooper Wiley, Bullitt’s charge d’af- faires, has held the same post in the Hague, Madrid, Warsaw and some South American capitals. Recently he Was a member of the American delegation to the London Economie Conference, and was a representative of the State Department in inter- viewing the Japanese mission headed by Viscount Ishii, last May. Anderson D. Hodgson of Baltimore will be first secretary of the em- bassy, and Bertel Kuniholm of Gard« ner, Mass., West Point graduate, will be another. Lieut. Thomas D. White, recently a military attache in China, will be air attache, and Capt. David R. Nimmer of the Marine Corps will accompany Bullitt with a group of marines. The naval and military at<« taches have not yet been named. — Argentine Debt Increased by $43,700,000 BUENOS AIRES—The secret of the treasury has announced that the Argentine national debt has ine creased 144,600,000 pesos, equivalent to $43,700,000 during the year 1933, The total debt now amounts to 3,267,000,000 pesos, or approximate! $1,020,000,000. Half of "ite t sf debt is owed to the United States, Do you want to hear how the Ger- man Party is able to effectively lead the German working class in spite of illegality? Hear Earl Browder at the Bronx Coliseum, Feb, 11! Five-Year Plan, as mentio1 the:.draft thesis of the cme - remains entirely in force. The to- tal amount of capital for the na- tlonal economy increases from fifty-five billions in the first to-one hundred thirty-three billons in the second, per cent. “We thus show good Bolshevik caution, such caution which, to the tremendous scope of ok Cane struction, completely assures the fulfillment of our program = dustrial a pe production in the second plan, and prepares a powerful ones tt na eendtous growth of the | national economy f ee Plas, y for the third Five conditions, and’ Bolshevik firmness in the basic ine of the Second Five-Year Plan, plan, we must develop a real struggle to carry it out. Although this is already the second Five Year Plan, it cannot conquer by itself. Our task is to organize view tory, to take this victory into our Bolshevik hands.” (Proe thunderous longed and turning into an ovation) A Le per ” aw owe om | _