The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1934, Page 8

4 — Daily * murderer hear our demand—For the immediate libera- "strikers of these plants, following the holding of ® »QWorker | SHNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY E54 (SECTION OF COMMWErET leTRREaTIONN) “America's Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 19% PUBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO, INC, 4 Bact 18h Street, New York, N. ¥. | Telephone: Algonquin 4-17954 Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, ¥. ¥. | Washington ‘Buresu: Room 9%, Natictel Pree Sulléing,| ith anc F. St., shington, D. C. Midwest Bures lis @., Room OH, Chteage, mi. Telephone: | Subscription Rates: E By) Mail: has and Bronm), % your, $6.00; & months. Manhatta: € months, By Carri 1 month, 0.75 conde, | and Cansde: 1 pees, 00.08 $3.00 monthly, 7 cents. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1934 Demonstrate Today at Nazi Consulate for the Liberation of Thaelmann We forced the Pascists to let go our ades, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff. We tore them out of the hands of the Fascist jailers the horrible Fascist dungeons. But Theelmann, is still in Nazi hands. He still iS in the hands of the torturer and murderer, Goering. ‘Thaelmann, fiesh and blood of the German working @lass, worker of the Hamburg proletariat, and true Weninist leader of the\German Communist Party, is SN kept in some secret Fascist dungeon. ‘The Nazis refuse to give one word of information &s to his whereabouts or health. They fear Thael- Mann and hate him. They are trying to break his iron Bolshevik spirit with torture and isolation. The Fecent cold-blooded murder of our four German com- les, Scheer, Steinfurth, Schoenhaar and Schwarz, in the back by Nazi troopers while “trying to scape,” reveals a new wave of ‘Fascist hate and ter- forism against the Communist Party and its leaders. » These murders warn us of the terrible danger that faces Thacimann, captive in some secret Nasi prison hell. ‘The week of March 3-10 has been set askle by the Working class of the world as the week that launches the immense world campaign for the liberation of ‘Thaelmann. Throughout the world, during this Inter- Hiational Week for the Liberation of Thaelmann, mil- Hons of workers will! mass before the German con- Siilates, will march through the public squares and ‘Streets, will gather in shop, factory and street meet- @igs to raise the world cry for the immediate deliver- @mce of Thaelmann out of the hands of the Nast ‘bea: ‘Today, March 3, at 1:30 P. M. the workers of New Work will meet in mass demonstration before the Fascist Consulate office at 17 Battery Place to demand the release of Thaelmann. Workers, all haters of P ist reaction, gather before the Fascist Consulate 1, raise the cry for the liberation of our comrade ‘TGHaelmann! We forced them to surrender Dimitroff #nd his comrades! We can break their clutches over Wheelmann! Let the Fascist Hitler, and his fellow ‘Stion of Ernst Thaelmann! For the immediate lbera- Ton of ali revolutionary prisoners! _ Comrades! Immediate organization of actions for the International Week to Free Thaelmann! Se E The Aluminum Strike "WEARLY five thousand workers in the three Mellon ‘ controlled aluminium plants of New Kensington, - Arnold, and Martins Ferry, have declared a so-called '*holiday” and completely tied up operations. The “holiday” was declared by a huge mass meeting of "Mational convention of a number of local unions of the Mellon plants, which included in addition to the @bove mentioned cities, Aleva, Tennessee, Fairmount, W. V2., and two Illinois plants, Los Grange and La Mont, Ili. Other plants were represented by proxies. The indications are that the locals not yet: involved Ja the strike will join. This pledge of support. was Mnade by the delegates at the National Convention. _ The workers in the aluminum plants joined en- thusiastically in the walk-out because they cow no ‘Tonger stand the present conditions—low wages, ang “@specially the increasing speed-up since the N.R.A. ‘These are the immediate cause for the strike. Present Wages are 40 cents an hour for men and even less for women. The workers also have adopted the de- ‘Mand for the check-off as the form of their demand for fnll-union recognition. : The organization of the workers began in the Summer of last year. The workers became dissatisfied ‘With their conditions. They saw that althouch they ‘had joined the union for the purpose of getting better “@onditions, the union did nothing to improve their Miditions. The locals being directly controlled by the #. of L. Council in Washington as federal locals, “demanded the right to organize thetr own national organization so that they could prepare for 2 show- down with the bosses. The whole policy of the A FP. of L top leaders here as throughout the country, was one of holding by the successful walkout. It is now quite clear that the sentiment for the struggle is very high among the workers and that the resentment among the work- ers against the A ¥F. of L. bureaucrats is increasing. ‘The workers have every possibility of winning an UT if the struggle is to be won, certain steps must be taken and certain very serious and real dangers | avoided. Already agents of the Labor Department are on The scene representing themselves as the “friends” of the workers. The danger also exists thai the A. F. of L. leaders, who throughout opposed a strike, refused the workers the right to organize national union, will now come forward as they did in Weirton and claim to represent and make deals in the name of the strik- ers. That the National Labor Board in Washington headed by Senator Wagner will enter the scene for the purpose of disrupting and demoralizing the strike, urging the workers to return to work and leave their fate in the hands of the Labor Board, is especially evident. A danger also exists that Governor Pinchot, who has already announced his candidacy for the U. 8. Senate and who tries to fool the workers into believing | he is an enemy of Mellon and the steel trust, will try to have the workers return to work on some future ‘The aluminum workers can learn trom what hap- in the miners’ strike, in the Weirton strike, and bloody massacre of the Ambridge steel workers, to allow the Wagners, Pinchots or their agents, or the top A. F. of L. leaders to fool them out of their %m this connection, it is also necessary to avoid certain dangers that may come from some well mean- ing but inexperienced local leaders, who start with the idea that if they are “nice” boys they will get some concessions. All experience shows this to be 2 game for the workers—a game that plays right im the hands of the Mellons. There is too much talk about “holiday.” Whose holiday will it be? That will be determined by how the strike is organized and led. The decision to give passes to maintenance men, office staff and others, opens the door for the bosses with the aid of the Police and state troopers to use this’ at the moment when they feel it advisable to bring in scabs. If it is a “holiday” it must be a holiday for all. In other words, it must be a real sirike. Not through being “gentlemanly” to the brutal Mellon bosses, but by mill- tant struggle can the company be forced to grant the Workers’ demarids, . Secondly, there should be meetings of all workers, of all departmenis to discuss and adopt the demands, to determine and broaden the leadership of the strike, . * . | ames the committees chosen by the workers should negotiate with the company. The workers must especially keep out the A. F. of L. representatives who will now try to,edge-in. And all decisions regarding agreements, return to work must be decided by all strikers, Finally it is necessary to spread the strike to the other aluminum plants; to enlist the support of all workers’ organizations. The struggle of the aluminum workers is one of the most important struggles. It is a sign of the coming struggle of the steel and metal workers. It is the duty of all workers and especially all militant workers to give full support. to this strike. Especially must every Communist work. willingly to make this strike against the Mellon interests, a successful struggle for the win- ning of the demands of the workers, for extending the Struggle of the workers in the metal industry, for the building of solid militant trade union:organization among the steel and metaf workers, © Join the Communist: Party EAST 12TH STREBT, NEW YORK, N. Y. Pleses mind me more indermetion om the Comune- moved in Morocco.” S against the e te desperation, to the point e, like their fellow country- em in the Yangtze Valley, they also take to the field in arms » their oppressors, The nuc- Ally, Japan, as the embodi- is the threat to robber im- n in the Far East: a peril would be created by the Bolshevisation of Asia, Japan is foremost in fight- as the United States has in the Caribbean and as And i ising revolu- y struggles of the Chinese arming that Bolshevism, not Japanese propaganda among the Ne- gro masses flows out of the present bears ‘Coane Far East, the efforts ot ¢ U. 8. to egg Japan on against the Soviet Union, in the hope of thereby weakening its chief imperi- alist rival in the Far East and at the same time striking a blow at the main enemy of imperialism, the real champion of the toiling masses of all colors—the proletarian power in the Soviet Union. In this situation, the Negro mis- leaders come forward in their usual Tole of agents and defenders of im- perialism. This time it is Japanese imperialism that they champion, but their slogans objectively sopport world imperialism, including U. 8s. imperialism, since their advocacy of Japanese imperialism serves to dull the fight of the Negro masses against sll imperialism. It is, indeed, de- signed to weaken the liberation strug- gles of the Negro masses and to divert them from the necessary unity with all toilers, white and Chinese, and | especially with the Japanese toilers should defend Hitler's new “4 Pal who are waging a heroic struggle against their own imperialists and in defense of the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union. Aid “White Supremacy” Concepts By putting forward the conception of a war of the races, the Negro mis- leaders give ald to the conceptions of Lotthrop Stoddard and other white imperialist ideologists of 2 united front of the whole white popu- lation against the darker peoples. They thereby objectively strengthen the hands of the white imperialists and justify their oppression of the darker peoples. They adopt this con- ception because it 1s in line with the whole policy of jim-crow Negro bourgeois of “race loy- alty” as opposed to joint revolution- ary struggles of all the toilers, white and colored. It is not ® contradiction that George Schuyler, ardent champion of the Firestone interests in Liberia, supports also Japanese imperialism, and seeks to present the proposal to by marriage the royal houses of Japan and Abyssinia as in the in- terests of the African peoples: “Associated with Japan, the Ethiopian kingdom Will doubtless become s power in Africa, albeit similar to Manchuris and Korea.” Who are the champions of the darker peoples? To this question there can be but one answer: the forces which throughoy} the world are engaged in an energetic, uncom- promising and ruthless struggle against the imperialist oppressors and war-mongers. These forces are the Soviet Union, where the national minorities formerly oppressed under tsarist imperialism have been fully liberated; the Chinese Soviet, Repub- lic, and the revolutionary movement, led by the Communist parties, throughout the world, raising the slogans of self-determination and unconditional equality for the Negro peoples DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1934 | | Weinstone Speaks On Austria Tonight In Philadelphia Talks in Bridgeport To- morrow Night fam Weinstone, recently returned from Europe where he made a study of political and economic conditions, will speak here Saturday at 8 p. m. at 510 Fairmount Ave. His address will be devoted mainly to 4 discussion of the Austrian revolt and the united front movement against war and fascism. On Sunday he will speak at a Meeting in Bridgeport which is ar- ranged by the Communist Party. The will be held at 8 p. m. at St, George's Hall, 396 Stratford Ave. Havana: Police Murder Worker Several Wounded When Resisting Eviction HAVANA, March 2—Another Cu- ban worker died yesterday in the | armed war which President Mendieta has declared on the whole Cuban working class. He was fatally shot, and several others were wounded when police | fired on a group of workers who were resisting an eviction in the city. Point in Trial of Canada Laber Man Court Intimates It Will Permit Tim Buck, Jailed Communist to Testify TORONTO, Canada, March 2.— The first point scored in the defense of A. E. Smith against sedition charges has been chalked up in the | intimation of Justice Kelly that Tim | Buck, Communist party leader, will | be ordered brought from Kingston penitentiary to Toronto as a material witness for the defense. The Hon. E. J. McMurray, K. C., chief defense counsel for the Canadian Labor De- fense, made the demand in court. His affidavit, im part, declared | “that the testimony of the said Tim Buck is of paramount importance to the defendant, Albert E. Smith, as it would show that there did exist an error and defect in the adminis- tration of justice in Canada, which the defendant was attempting to have altered by lawful means. “That the testimony of the said Tim Buck will establish the cir- cumstances under which the alleged seditious utterances were made, the Teason for which they were made, and the intention of the speaker, the accused A. E. Smith, on the occasion and at the time when the alleged seditious words were uttered.” Smith is charged with having said |that Premier Bennett ordered the | firing of shots into the cell of Tim Buck, in an attempt to murder him. Peter White, K. C., crown prose- cutor, in fighting against McMurray's motion, dug up a law dating back to 1722 and got himself involved in tangled verbosity which most of those present in court at the time are still trying to decipher. It is expected the trial will be re- sumed during the week. Leo Gal- lagher, International Labor Defense atyomey from San Francisco, who has just returned from Germany where he was associated with the defense of the Reichstag fire trial defendants, will assist McMurray and Onte Brown, in the defense. PHILADELPHIA, March 3—Will-| Defense Scores First , BRUSHING IT UP! Senator | wagner i | ee EB | Be | PARIS (By Mail) —On the first day of the great street battles in | Paris, Feb. 6, a company of soldiers with rifles came marching toward the Champs Elysees, where about 2,000 workers were gathered in a demonstration. At once the workers surrounded They fell in line with the soldiers, shouting, “Long live the Red Army!” At the Alexander III bridge, the officer in charge gave the order to fix bayonets. Shouts greeted the order, and the soldiers did not obey. them, crying, “Long live the soldiers!” | Paris Soldices F ra istn iz od: still ‘Wics: ‘ee Is With Demonstrating Workers At 8 that night, at the same point, | another company of 50 soldiers came | marching up. Instantly they were | surrounded with workers, singing the; Internationale. Workers and soldiers mingled as they marched, talking. “You're right,” said one soldier. “Don’t worry. I've, got a wife and ‘ kids, I know what you feel.” Soldiers and demonstrators marched together, a growing column which soon reached a thousand. At the head of the march of workers and soldiers, were Ramette and Ren- aud Jean, two Communist leaders of Paris. ‘Turtle Creek Steel Men Want To Hear Browder All Night PITTSBURGH, Pa., Mar. 2—Twelve hundred Turtle Creek Valley Steel Workers met in the high school here last week to hear Earl Browder, gen- eral secretary of the Communist Party, speak on fascism. This was the first open meeting held here in the name of the Communist Party, yei, so great was the enthusiasm of the workers, that when Browder missed his train, the workers shouted, “We'll stay here all night if you will.” This example of the enthusiasm with which the workers in the most important basic industry accepted the program of the Communist Party on one of the most burning issues of the moment, the fight against fas- cism and war, the fight against the Roosevelt fascist attacks which threaten to engulf and destroy the few elementary rights of the Ameri- can workers, is an indication of the readiness with which all workers will sccept the Communist Party when “We'll Stay All Night,” They Shout, Eager to Have Questions and Answers Clarified its program is presented to them. The steel workers, face to face with the most flagrant denial of their rights to organize into unions of their own choice, brutally terrorized by company thugs and police alike, find in the Communist Party the only program for effectively™fighting the beginnings of American fascism, Ask Many Questions. After Comrade Browder had finis! ed his speech on fascism the work- ers eagerly put forward questions, greeting his speech and his answers to the questions in turn with cheers. Browder, as a result, missed his train. At the close of the meeting the col- lection of workers’ pennies and nickles totaled $32, donated for continuing the fight against fascism and war. On the next day, the workers stood in groups, discussing the meet- French Answer to German Re-arming | ie | Eden’s Talks Result in| New Preparations for Warfare PARIS, March 2.—France will meet the British and Italian agreement to Germany's rearmanfent, arranged during Capt. Anthony Eden’s visits to Hitler and Mussolini, by a cor- responding increase in French ar- maments, it was indicated here after Eden’s meeting with the Doumergue cabinet. Hi‘ler ts reported to have insisted that the cannot dissolve his storm troops, which the French count as armed forces, for fear they will turn} against him, Thus the arming of Germany as the European spearhead against the Soviet Union is achieved despite French opposition to Germany, through France’s increasing its ar- maments on a still more gigantic scale. De Valera Invites the Fascists to Help “Preserve Order” DUBLIN, March 2—Eamonn de Valera, president of the Irish Free State, offered to unite the state forces with the fascist forces of the Blue Shirts “to preserve order,”.in a speech in the Dail Eireann last night. He was speaking on his bill to ban the Blue Shirts which, he declared, was agains: the shirts and not the fascism. “If the opposition will stop its tomfoolery of blue-shirting, the ing and the speech of Comrade Brow- der of the night before, people on both sides of the house can i get together and save the country from another civil war.” | the Hou: | Party of Spain Parliament House Workers Shout “Down With the Hunger Government” xR t ch 2—Poli MN é ear ay of Commons, after the House had refused to hear a delega- LONDON, Hunger Ma! | tion of the National Unity Congress of Unemployed. Wo in the gallery shouted, 2 the slave government! hunger government!” Internationale. es were sent to Bucke , the residence of the en Hunger Marchers dem- ed before the gates. Spanish Socialists Offer To Head Off Workers’ Revolt for Power as New Reactionary Cabinet is Being Formed { MADRID, March 2.—The Socialist tiday demanded dis- solution of the Cortes, and new elec- tions, declaring that this is the only way to prevent the workers from becoming disillusioned with govern- ment institutions. The declaration of thé Socialists was made while President Zamora is negotiating with various reactionary factions to get a new cabinet which will be more completely reactionary than that of Alejandro Lerroux, the most reactionary premier since the revolution, “Recent governments have shown scant regard for the republic or for its promises,” says the Socialist state- ment, “Whatever solution is found in the present crisis based on elements who have neglécted their pledges, will only aggravate the proletariat, bring them to a desperate point of dis- illusion without faith in officials or government institutions.” The Socialist Party, hoping to come to power in new elections, thus offers itself to restore the illusions of the proletariat in governmental institutions, U.S. Sets Up Board to Provide Credits for Private Exports Permits Exporters to “Dump” in Event of . Trade War ct WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1, = The Roosevelt administration ) launched a new government agency to provide credits to private export~ cvs, ‘* was announced Tuesday, Geo, N. Peek, foreign trade adviser to Roosevelt, has already been appointed as head of the first Government Exe port-Import Bank, which has opened , with a capitalization of $11,000,000 to extend credits to American exporters selling goods to the Soviet Union, Other similar banks will soon be opened to finance exports to Cuba, South America, China, ete. The money provided to the and on which no limit has been placed by the law, will come from the R. F.C. ¥ The financing of private exports, in many cases, can become a weapon in trade war, since many of the com- modities financed for foreign sale are “dumped” abroad at prices far below the prices in the domestic market. That is, the government takes over the losses incurred by the private exporters, i aay Communist Party Commemorates Ruthenberg’s Death Today Party Founder; Fought S. P. War Policies; “Under Comintern Leadership We'll Win,” His Last Words % es ef Charies B. Ruthenberg, the Founder of the Communist Party of the U. 8. A. (Born July 9th, 1882; died March 2, 1927.) By A. MARKOFF Charles E. Ruthenberg was snatched from our midst by premature death. The memory of Charles E. Ruthen- berg will live in our Party; his name is indelibly imprinted in the annals of the revolutionary proletarian movement of the U. 8. A. . Many of our young comrades who entered. the Party within recent months know little about Comrade Ruthenberg. On this day of the an- niversary of the death of our leader, it is necessary to give a brief account of the life and activities of Charles E. Ruthenberg. Comrade Ruthenberg, one of the founders of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., was a consistent revolu- tionary fighter and leader of the American working class. Throughout his revolutionary career, beginning with 1909, when he became the Re- cording Secretary of the City Central Committee of the Socialist Party in Cleveland, Ohio, he demonstrated a consistent line of true revolutionary leadership. He was a tireless worker, he had implicit faith in the toiling masses, he fought against the rotten opportunism within the Soctalist Party, rallying forces for a correct militant struggle against the capital- ist class. Comrade Ruthenberg ab- sorbed the teachings of Marx and Lenin and used his knowledge and ability to create a Leninist Party in the U. S. A. ‘The most outstanding revolutionary struggle led by Comrade Ruthenberg wes the struggle against the impe- rialist war. In the convention of the Socialist Party preceding the en- trance of the U. S. A. into the im- verialist war of 1914-1918, Ruthen- berg carried on a fierce struggle against the pro-Germanism of Victor Berger and against the opportunist line of Morris Hillquit and others. the Anti-War Platform adopted at their 1917 convention at St. Louis as; a sign that the Socialist Party fouzht against war. Even that resolution which suffered from many short- comings, was adopted after a hard struggle led by Ruthenberg and his followers. Whatever there was of real opposition to war was introduced by Ruthenberg. In this he voiced the proletarian rank and file S. P. senti- ment. Hillquit and his followers tried to introduce a Centrist, compromise resolution camouflaged by phrases of neutrality to war, by pacifism, etc. Comrade Ruthenberg came out with an uncompromising stand against the war. A speech that he delivered in Cleveland on May 27, 1917, ef..tsed his imprisonment by the U. ‘& overn- ment. - Ruthenberg on the Question of Immediate Demands ‘Comrade Ruthenberg stressed the importance for the Communist Party to participate in,and lead the struz- gles of the workers for immediate de- mands. “The everyday struggles of the workers,” he said, “create the most favorable conditions for establishing the influence and leadership of the Communist Party. The workers learn! by experience in the struggle the character of the capitalist system. |s learn by their experience in the struggle that the government of the capitalist system is merely an The Socialist Party often points to CHARLES E, RUTHENBERG instrument of the capitalists for maintaining the system of exptoita--: tion . . . While fighting with the workers to realize their immediate demands azainst the capitalists it is Ruthenberg—the Founder of the Communist Party of the U. S. A The struggle against opportunism within the Socialist Party gave birth to the Left-Wing in 1917. Ruthenberg became the leader of the Left-Wing and led a persistent ficht, which cul- mina‘ed in a complete break from the S. P. and the formation of the Communist Party, in September, 1919. Ruthenberg became the Secretary of the C. P. He was vrevented, however, from performing his function as sec- retovv by a sentence of three years \in Sing Sing prison imposed by sthe State of New York, under the Crim- inal Anarchy Law. Upon his re- lease from Sing Sing, two years later, Comrade Ruthenberg resumed his post and continued in the capacity of Secretary of the Party until His death. Building of the Party To Comrade Ruthenberg the build-| ing of a strong, unified, disciplined Leninist Party was a most important , problem. During the years of his active work in the Party, he followed a consistent Leninist line. Unity of the Party is essential. but not unity at all costs. A narty unified. following the Jine Inid down by ‘he Communist Tnternctions!. this was the Party’ Ruthenberg fouvht for. He was an enemy of all opportunis! elerrents within the Party. the part of the Communists to point out to them, at every stage of the development of the struggle, that these immediate demands cannot solve their problems., It is in the Process of strugzle that the revolu- tionary will of the workers develops and through these struggles they are \leading, step by step, to the final struggles are maturing, it is the duty struggle of the proletarian revolu- tion...” (Speeches of Ruthenberg—Voice of Revolt—Int. Pub.—pp. 76-77.) “Tell the comrades to close their ranks, to brild the Party. The Amer- ican workers under the leade~i This was his final message to At this moment when 4: of every- member of the Party, of \every class-conscious worker to an- swer ‘he call of Ruthenberg, to an- {swer the call of our Party, of the Communist International. ‘ Let us study the i3th Plenum Resolution, the Resolution of the 18th meeting of the Central Commitee of our Party, and carry into practice the meaning of the resolution as speedily as possible. 15th Anniversary of the Communist International (Feunded March, 2-6, 1949) The commemoration of Comrade 0, E. Ruthenberg occurs at ‘he same time when we celebrate the 15th An- niversary of the C. I. The 15th An- niversary of the C. I. finds it the acknowledged leader of the revolu- tionary masses the world over. The C. I. purged itself of the oppor:unist elements,of the “left” (Trotsky) op- position and of the Right (Brandler, Thalheimer, Loyestone and com- pany). Comrade Ruthenberg served on the Presidium of the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist International (E. C. C. 1.) from 1924 until his death, ‘The commemoration of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg should serve as an added stimul win the mo‘ority cf the American Workers for the Party; to heighten our struggle against the fascism and war procvram of the N. R. A.; to broaden and deepen the work among the Negro mas:cs; to improve greatiy our work among working class women; ‘prove the Young fo learn to com= Marxism-Leninism sk of our move- correct recults, ing into life the ers’s work, “The American workers. under the. leadership of our Party and the Come intern will win” meaning of Ru