The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1934, Page 6

—e——— | Page Stx Daily -<QWorker SATRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY 3. “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO. INC, 56 East 13th Street, New York. N. ¥ Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. Address: “Dalw fngton Bureau TION @F COMMUNIST [eTHREATIONAL > eee All Honor to the Austrian Revolutionary Workers heroically and the workers are battling against fascist scum of A blood capitalism. The eyes of the entire working class of the world are turned on the Austrian work Facing howitzers, poison gas, machine ers. guns, hand grenades and field artillery, the Austrian workers are stubbornly fighting against the fascist barbarians. In one of the bloodiest civil wars in his- tory, begun by the capitalists to install their open reign of terror, bloodshed and violent suppression, the Communist and Socialist workers of Linz took up the counter-offen- sive in a manner that will arouse the admira- tion, the grit and determination of the whole world proletariat. The whole world is forced to acknowledge the great heroism, the remarkable fighting determination and doggedness of the Aus- trian proletariat. They are storming the heavens against the greatest odds and mired by the dirtiest treachery of their own Social- ist leaders. ‘Despite the apparent success of soldiers and police,” writes the United Press corres- pondent in Vienna, “the struggle continued. The revolting Socialists (read, rank and file workers), opposing a ‘fascist threat in the | government,’ used pistols, hand grenades, | gas bombs and machine guns with savage daring.” The murderous fascist dogs, bent on rule or ruin, hesitate not a moment to open the deadliest fire on the workingclass sections, drowning in a sea of blood hundreds of workers, their wives and children. In the breast of every worker must be stirred up the profoundest hatred, the great- est venom against this expression of the “democratic” capitalist regime with its dem- agogic toga stripped from its brutal, ghastly flanks, with its bloody teeth barred—capi- talism degenerate, sadistic, seeking to build its violent dictatorship on rivers of gore and mountains of workers’ bones. The whole working class must be roused into actions of international solidarity with their Austrian brothers, the vanguard in th front line trenches in the world fight against fascism ti HE Austrian barricades, the worst treachery of the Social-Demo: the workers Everywhere, in France, in Germ anc now in Ausiria, as a result o: of the treach of the Social-Democrats Imination in Linz and Vienna, as a result of the treachery of the Ger Social-Demiocrats who opened the flood to the brown pest of Hitler, the worker: instinctively taking to the Communist pat! of revolutionary struggle against fascism The French proletariat took to the mass general political strike, based on the b: united front from below. The Austrian wor ers have taken to the barricades. The present hard-pressed situation of the which has its c at k- Austrian workers is the outgrowth of th whole, long history of social-democratic be trayals. The Austrian and German social- democrats have constantly disarmed th workers with their maneuvers, their ations and alliances with the capitalist } ers of fascism. * * * concili- yreed- ‘HE Austrian Social-Democrats, on the vile theory of the “lesser evil” negotiated and co-operated with Dollfuss, the leader of the armed forces now daubing the streets of the Austrian cities with workers’ blood. On the ground G2 Staying off one brand of fascism, they encouragec nurtured the fascist hordes who are now taking the toll of workers’ lives. Not many months ago Otto Bauer, “left” demag leader of Austrian Social-Democracy, arguing against workers in his own ranks who cried out against the eviminal co-operation with Premier Dollfuss, declared “The differeniation falls today not between dem- ocracy and the Proletarian Dictatorship, but rather between democracy and the fascist dictatorship.” “On this ground, the social-democratic leaders justi- fied their co-operation with the fascist Dollfuss. * Who ordered the shooting against the ‘workers? It was this very same Dollfuss, the repre- sentavive of “democracy,” in the words of the sociai- r rat, Bauer. Dollfuss, hailed by the leaders of the Social-Democrats as the “lesser evil,” as the bui- Wark against fascism, as an enemy of “Hitlerism” is ‘today the butcher of the Austrian working class, the Austrian Hitler. Only last Friday, the leaders of Dollfuss’ Party, the (Christian Socialist Party, and the leaders of the Social- Democratic Party of Ausiria, joined hands in a public demonsiration of mutual admiration. © Germany, the Social-Democrats helped to put ‘Hindenburg in power, as the “lesser evil,” the very ‘same Hindenburg, who undersigns every deed of Hitler. ‘The first fruit of the Dollfuss-Bauer co-operation ; the. outlawing of the Communist Party of Austria. the first fascist blow directiy aimed at the { bs the entire Austrian ies gare And step Austrian | | They performed y DAILY bot NEW tabla las WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1934 worker on the barricades in the fascist concentration an to be tortured only Ling hen the lower ranks began to fight, hout waiting for official agogic leaders of the gave lip service to the workers Yet were left leaderless. They were un- jespite their weaknesses, despite the systematic betrayals by the aders, despite the fact that against the wall, they put up @ most neroic struggle. They braved the sm to carry forward the banner of in every land, the outstanding esson must be that in order to fight fascism it to fight social-fascism, the socialist lead- > of capitalist reaction. only glance at capitalist reports, sympa- to the social-democratic leaders, to see how the is of these swine played into the hands of the oR F* every worker, is “At the last moment a general strike was called by the Socialists (leaders) ,” writes the New York Times correspondent, Frederick T. Birchall, “The general strike call came too late... A year ago the summons would have brought a quarter of a million workers into the streets (in Vienna alone) eager to meet their foes, but dis- couragement followed discouragement, and lead- ership is lacking. Socialism has again missed the boat.” No, the socialist leaders did not miss the boat, They tied, shackled and hamstrung the working class, choos- ing the time most convenient and preferable to the fascist scourge for the fight. When there was noth- ing else to do, they “permitted” the workers to con- tinue and attempt to seize victory against mountain- ous odds. “Yet it was not for want of warning,” says this capitalist correspondent, “or without cer- tainty of what was te come. Some weeks ago one of the Socialist leaders made a last attempt to Segeinte with the Chaneellor (Dollfuss). ry day of the holocaust the Soci- alist leaders maneuvered with the murderers of the They sought their support in the ranks of among the very group which Vienna, Steyr, Graz, Linz, the streets of with deadly fire and In Austria in 1918, ts were established. The workers were armed. ‘y factor was in favor of the workers seizing power, establishing the Dictator- ship of the Proletariat and ending capitalism forever. The social-democratic leaders disarmed the workers. They drove them back into the clutches of capitalism. an service for Austrian capital- ism in pa rid capitalism in general. The s ts openly preach the course of veering the wi from the path of revolutionary struggles. policy has been one of preaching the “peaceful” transformation into ir actions from day to day, prohibiting nting strikes, rallying to the support of one lists as against the other, demoralized ks, kept them from prepara- ictorious armed offensive. They sowed he ranks and pre of into workers answered with armed strug- SUT gles, All honor to the Austrian working class! Their deeds are already one of the most glitter- ing an@ heroic pages of working class daring, of revolutionary determination and struggle. the nary upsurge of the Austrian prole- e gigantic mass political strike s against fascism, will stimulate itionary struggles against fascism through- 1 of Europe, throughout the entire world. The burning lesson which stands out is the neces- sity of the firmest united front of the entire working class, over the heads of its treacherous socialist lead- ers and trade union, grafting rotten bureaucracy, for a militant, revolutionary struggle against fascism and for the overthrow of capitalism. The Aust and French struggles show that the are following the road advocated by the Com- onal, the road of mass revolutionary fascist pest, the road of the united front whole working class in a mighty offensive against alist brutal dictatorship. rs are taking this path of revolutionary the disembowling sabotage, the venial treachery of the social-democratic leaders. ese evenis will go further to stimulate these ts throughout Europe. The effect of the Austrian and French events will be to draw to the sharpest edge the class conflicts in every country. They will intensively sharpen the whole political situation in Europe, and throw the whole wi vorking class more intensely and determinedly into gle against rismg reaction. e pened class antagonisms, no longer con- ithin the flimsy drapery of democratic trim- will tremendously spur the move towards war. 2 is bt ng the burning brand lighting the ‘y struggles, er Berenger of France has already proposed nobilization of the French imperialist troops for rt to Dollfuss, for the seizure of Austria, for war the Austrian proletariat. Hitler is preparing | seizure of Austria by war. Italian fascism is for the plunge. e fascist pest will attempt to use Austria as its step in a new imperialist war, for the redivision of the world among the imperialist powers, for a step- ping stone to an attack on the Soviet Union. . . . The example of united front actions of Socialist and Communist workers given to us by the heroic Austrian workers, by the revoiutionary fervor of the French worgers, must inspire us here to develop the broadest united front actions of internafional soli- darity for the support of the Austrian proletariat way of revolutiona: Mi! Every Socialist worker, every Communist worker, can unite in action for the support of their heroic European class brothers. rity. 1 with the fascist murderers! the Austrian workers in their fight against tion! streets in solidarity with our yainst their slaughterers! 2 the united front of the American work- against the fascist moves of the Roosevelt the ani Austrian ing class hunger Long live the international revolutionary sotidarity of the working class! Long live the united front of all workers in their fight c~ote-t fostism and war! Long live the Communist International, world leader he Communist and Socialist workers | French Steel Trus Gives Japan 15-Year Credit in Manchuria Deal Signed to Build Up Japan's Continental Anti-Soviet Base PARIS, Feb. 13—A syndicate of the most powerful industrialists in France, including the steel trust, the electric trust, and the engineering trust, has just signed an agreement with the Japanese government to e: tend credits on 15-year terms for ex-! | ports to Manchukuo. |. The deal, signed with the South Manchuria Railway, owned by the | Japanese government, has the ap- | proval of the Japanese war and state | departments. A consortium in which | Japanese and French interests are | | evenly represented has been set up | with Hirotaro Hayashi as president, | and Etienne Fourgere, president of the | French National Association for Eco- |momic Expansion, as vice-president. Brine other French representatives are | the heads of the four big French | | trusts. | | This agreement amounts to an of-| | ficial alliance for developing Japan's | war base in Manchuria, since the| | French steel trust (Comite de Forges) | exercises absolute control over any) | French government where its inter- | ests are involved. It is officially re- | coftded that one of the biggest plants | of the Comite de Forges, seized by | the Germans at the outbreak of the | World War and operated with 200,000 | workers making munitions for Ger- | many in sight of the French lines | throughout the war, was never once | even bombarded by the French army | because the steel trust would not | premit the French government to in- | jure its property. ‘New Jersey Center of Death Machinery (By s Worker Correspondent.) NEWARK, N. J.—The state of New | Jersey leads all other states in the | production of war implements. Pow- | der, gases, chemicals, shells, etc., are | being produced in large quantities in | practically every industrial city. In Harrison, N. J., at the Crucible steel plant, which is owned by the U. S. Steel Corp., heavy shells and guns } are being produced. In Haskell, N. J., the government has a large powder mill operating at |capacity. The Du Pont De Nemours | Corp. eperates many large plants pro- | ducing powder, chemicals, ete. The | largest of these plants is located in | Arlington, N. J. They operate many | other plants in South Jersey. | The Standard Oil Corp. plants in | Bayway and Bayonne are also produc- ing products for war use. | The Art Metal Works of Newark jare working on an order for 30,000 heavy gauge cans, evidently for air- planes. At the Federal ship yards in Kearny three warships are in the course of |construction. In addition to all of | these, the Westinghouse Manufactur- |ing Company, Whitehead & Hoag, the American Can, Krueters, and hun- dreds of other factories are prepared to convert their plants into munition | plants at a moment notice as was the {case in the last world slaughter. | ALE. |\Chicago Jingoists Sound Tocsin of Impending War | CHICAGO, Feb. 13—“The Na- | tional guard is prepared for any | situation that may arise,” Major- Gen. Roy D. Keehan, commander | of the Tilinois national guard, told a meeting of the Advertising Men's Post of the American Legion in the | Hotel Sherman here on the eve of |the French general strike and the | Austrian workers’ battle against fas- | cism. | “Here are citizen soldiers,” said | the general, “who are trained and ready for any situation that may arise. The national guard is al- | ways on duty and because of that | and because of the awareness it has of conditions and circumstances, I can foresee no contingency it is not prepared to meet.” t EUROPE ON THE BARRICADES —By Burck Japan Press Incites War Against the Soviet Union| for Organizing Navy, War Portlets Get Wide Distribution Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (By Radio) — Japan is continuing its unbridled war propaganda, despite all the official) “peaceful” statements of the govern- ment, the press here points out. For example, there has appeared| in ‘Tokio two new pamphlets filled with war propaganda. One of these} pamphlets openly urges immediate | war against the Soviet Union. The} second is called the “Crisis of 1936) and the Situation of the Japanese) and American Navies in the Event) of a Japanese-American conflict.” The author of both of these pamph- lets is Tesuo Sato, a well known | so. writer, and both pamphlets bear the jimprint of a well-known “Cultural Society.” fect of these books are illustrated y ps, of such a char-| seen that even some of the Japani bourgeois press was “embarrassed. |The advertiser of these two pamph-| jlets which are getting wide public| | distribution and publicity, states that| |they are being published in an at- tempt to assist Parliament to vote} more huge war credits in the budget. If the Japanese authorities really | | wanted to stop. the publication of} | these pamphlets, they could easily do Both pamphlets contain matter | hostile to the preservation of peace. Sioladiet ‘Pacals’ € upport of 'U.S.S.R. Angers * “New Leader” NEW YORK.—In an it eta 46. Bie to slander directly the Friends of the Soviet Union and indirectly the participate in the Congress of the Friends of the Soviet Union, held in New York, Jan. 27-28. As “proof” that Socialist locals re- fused to send delegates, the New Leader mentions the New Bristol, Conn., local of the Socialist Party. Here is a letter received from the local F. S. U., signed by John O'Neil, financial secretary: “Comrades: I have taken up the matter of sending delegates to the mass Congress to be held Jan. 26-27-28 with my organization, the S. P. We appreciate your invitation very much and would like to send at least one delegate, but our finances are very low and some of the mem- bers are working part time, and as most of us are financially embar- rassed, we are unable to send any delegates. But we wish you to know that we are in favor of the Soviet Union and wish your Convention of So-| viet Union, the Socialist New Leader | of Jan. 27 prints @ lying article claim- | ing Socialist Party locals refused to} the ama of the Soviet Union | great success,” This, the New Leader interprets as | “refusing” to send delegates and as} & rebuff to the Friends of the Soviet | Union. In all there were 15 Socialist Party members present. Among the Social- ist Party locals represented by dele- gates were Erie, Pa. a Milwaukee local, represnted by a member of the | Socialist Party locals represented by | delegates were Erie, Pa., a Milwaukee | local, represented by a member of the Socialist Party City Committee, | | Holyoke, Mass., and Perkasie, Pa. IRISH 1 FASCISTS AND ANTI- FASCISTS CLASH DUBLIN, Feb. 12—Anti-fascists fought with the fascist Blue Shirts in many parts of Ireland over the} week-end. Police used tear gas when Irish Republican Army men clashed | with fascists at Drogheda. Anti- fascists also fought Blue Shirts when William T. Cosgrave, fascist and former President, addressed a United | |Treland (fascist) meeting in Dundalk, County Louth, | tenced here to die by a military court. | | workers and peasants of the country. | 12Communists toDie| Sailors in in Bulgaria | |Example of Dimitroff| Spurs Revolutionary Activity | | SOFIA, Feb. 13.—Seized while they were organizing the distribution of | | literature among the different war- ships of the Bulgarian Navy, twelve Communists, former sailors, were sen- The Communist Party of Bulgaria | has a powerful mass basis among the) | Despite open fascist terrorism, the example of Dimitroff, leader of the | Bulgarian Communist Party, has spurred on the illegal Communist Party to remarkable feats of revolu- tionary organization for the over-, throw of| the Fascist dictatorship, which is supported by the financial) ald of imperialism. | Hearst Conducts Huge Campaign for War (By a Worker Correspondent) Brooklyn, N. ¥. Dear Editor: ‘This morning I bought the “N. ¥. American” for the want ads, and, | naturally, read the other part of the paper. I might as well get my 10 cents “worth” (?) Will you please tell me how any | paper has the nerve to contradict |itself as the “American” does? May |I take some of your time to tell you | of my impression of this lying bour- geois paper? Among the many things, | here are a few. The one that im- vressed me most was the five or six |full-page pictures of war—its hor- | rors, and horrible they are. I was only a child at the time of the world | war, but the pictures I see of the | last war leaves my heart pounding at thought of the next war, | which the Daily Worker has con- | vinced me is coming. To continue, it shows men dead, laid in rows (if they | paign® of | Japanese Communist Party. NJ. Plants Rushing Out Big Orders for | end 5-inch guns and shells, | were lucky), fallen Zepvelins, bombed ‘homes, death, destruction and fam- Japan OK’s Big War Budget; Press Talks Attack on U.S. 8. R. Javanese Imperialism Races With Huge Navy Plans of Roosevelt TOKIO, Feb. 13—A military budget providing for the largest peace time naval appropriation in the his- tory of the country was passed here today by the Japanese Parliament, It provides for 2 minimum of §$272,- 000,000 for war expenditures for the year beginning April, 1934. Japanese imperialism is racing with the United tSates and Great Britain building its navy to maximum 1 as the imperialist fight for division of the Far Eastern markets grows closer to the breaking point. The Roosevelt government is also! building its navy to record- in | breaking proportions in preparation | for military conquests of the Far | Eastern markets, as well as the ex- igencies provided by the imminent attack of Japanese imperialism against the Soyiet Union. Japanese imperialism is laying the | military basis in Manchuria for in- tetverition against the Soviet Union, as a desperate solution to its grow- ing internal crisis with the strength of the revolutionary moyement un- crushed by the fierce terrorist cam- suppression against the US. Army and Navy U.S. Steel Plant Working to Capacity on Big Guns and Shells KEARNY, N. J., Feb. 13. — The | Kearny. plant of the Crucible Steel | Company of America, subsidiary of the U. 8. Steel CGorvorat‘on, has in- |creased its force from 200 to 900, working on’ two shifts, to fill gov- ernment orders for 16-inch shells, The company is revorted planning to add a third shift. The Pollak Manufacturing Com- pany, Arlington, N. J., is working almost to capacity manufacturing aluminum tanks for storage of shells and. explosives, as well as airplane cowlings and oxygen bottles, on U.S, government orders. A -greatly increased force of workers is employed in the Lovell- Dressel Co. plant, Kearny, pro- ducing electrical appliances for the U.S. navy. Tn_addition, three U. 8. destroyers are in process of construction in the federal shipyards in Kearny. SCHENECTADY ACTS SCHENECTADY, N. ¥. — Please send us immediately material to be used in the Daily Worker circulation drive. We are going to do our share in getting 10,000 new daily and 20,000 new Saturday subscribers for our Bolshevik paper, our Dally Worker. ine. On the VERY next page, s headline stares at you in large print, “U. S. must replace 102 antiquated warships now,” says Admiral Stan- ley. “Other nations have steadily built up their navies year by year, while we have allowed ours to grow constantly weaker until we are con- stantly below the danger line.” Anyone reading the Daily Worker knows that Roosevelt has given millions to the navy recently. Here’s hoping such trash can soon be ‘taken out of circulation, and bee like the “Daily” read instead, the “only paper that is REALLY truthful, ‘Please accept a quarter towards helping the new press. 8. 5. Daily Worker Loe avin 8 Hangout of Writer of Murder Threat By SENDER GARLIN (Special to the Daly Worker) NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 18. — |Oscar Schilling, secretary of the Newark branch of the “Friends of New Germany” whose letter revealing a murder | plot against leaders of the Hun- | garian fascist movement in the U. 8 |was exposed in the Daily Worker, |on February 5, had Aurel J. Leitner, New York editor of the “Uj Elore” |in mind, when he declared that |that damned Jew, the New York editor of the Hungarian Bolshevik paper must be silenced.” | This was learned here today, together with the fact that Schill- ing until recently lived with his brother, Frank, at 36 Gilette Pt, Newark. The threats against Leitner were revealed in a letter which Schilling addressed to D. Balogh de Almassy, director of the Colonel Kovats So- ciety on December 21, 1933. The Daily Worker published a reproduc- tion of the original of this letter in its February 5th issue. The “Daily” expose incidentally, was picked up and quoted that day By the New York Evening Post. The father of the Schitlings, it was learned, operated an import business at 126 West 34th Street, New York, until a few months ago, when he returned to faseist Ger- many. Leitner Hated By Nazis Leitner, the New York ee tes “Uj Elore,” Communist ® number of Hungarian anti-fascist vations. On Dee, 11, last, he was violently ejected from a » caucd by Hungarian Nazis in New York the moment the Nazis “spotted” Leitner, who is an architect by pro- fession, has been on the editorial staff of “Uj Elore” since 1926, and, has been New York editor of the paper since last December. He cov- ered the Fish Committee “anti-Red” hearings in New York in 1930 at which Louis Bebritz, then editor-in- chief of “Uj Elore” was questioned. Bebritz was subpoenaed by the Fish Committee in order to lay the basis | for his deportation. When the higher courts upheld the Department of Lebor order that Bebritz be deported to fascist Ru- mania, the International Labor De- fense which had conducted a long and vigorous campaign on behalf of AUREL J. LEITNER, (ton), is on Nazi death list as a result of his anti-fascist activities. Oscar and Frank Schilling (shown above from left to right), are seen holding a picture of Adolf Hitler. Oscar Schilling is the writer of the letter Tu Elore” Edi tor # Veteran Fighter Against Nazis Bebriiz, succeeded in winning vot- untary departure for the Communist editor, Bebritz left the U. S, for the Soviet Union. Himself a railroad worker, he is now in the Soviet rail~ road_administration, The “Uj Elore” was founded in the United States in 1903. Appearing in New York first as a monthly, it later became a weekly and, finally, a daily newspaper. Before the formation of the,Communist Party in 1919, and while the “Uj Elore” was still under Socialist control, it at all times took Daily Worker, at 33 First St. New. ‘York, when the “Daily” was moved ee York from Chicago early in 1927, . Leitner Long a Nasi Foe Leitner’s experiences with Maievien dates back to 1919 when, following the counter-revolution and white ter- eatin meat the fascist of Hungary began a Seek aid rit against all Communists, workers and students. Leltner, who was then a student leader at the University of Budapest, was driven from the in- stitution by members of the “Awakened Magyrs,” whose reae- tionary, feudal program of fascism was reecntly promulgated publicly in Hungary. Defying the murder threats of the Hungarian Nazis, Leitner is continu- awhute by NAVI RTEING Lad fascist movement in this country. of the revolutionary proletariat against capitalism! published in, Cleveland, ts Mactive ma| rging that Leliner “be silenced? t D Leitner, Anti-Fascist Leader, On Hungarian Nazi ‘Death List .