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

Page Eight Daily, ,QWorker | COMMUNIST feTEERA THOMA (OUTER COGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.t.4 (SECTION OF > “america's Only Working Class Dally Newspaper | FOUNDED 18% PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE| COMPERODAILY PUBLISHING CO., ING, 8 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. Gable Address: “Daiwork," New York, ™. ¥. Washington Bureau 4th and P St Washington, D. 0. Midwest Buresu So Telephone: Desrborn 1, Subscription Rates: Manhattan and Bron), % year, 96.00; Mall: (except Pantns, $350°°2 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.7 cents. ‘eanhattan, Brons, Foreign and Caneda: 1 year, 98.00; 3 months, $3.00. § months, $5.00; " 18 cents; monthly, Sy Carrier: Weekly, 7! cents. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934 S—_—_—_———————" International Women’s Day (Gtetement of Central Committes, Commanist Party, U.S.A) IGCLASS WOMEN: ‘The fifth year of the crisis has brought untold misery to you and your dependents. It ts upon your shoulders that the burdens of the N-R.A. falls hard- est, It is you who have to answer the hungry cry of children for bread. It is you who have been pounced upon hardest by the bosses and the government in the drive to lower the living standards of the Ameri- can masses; you have been discriminated against in the industrial wage codes. Speed-up has been set at. Dreak-neck speed, breaking down your health and vitality. ‘The misery of unemployment falls most heavily upon you. Hundreds of thousands of women, young and old, wander the streets without shelter or food, breaking down their health and the health of the future generation. The inadequate relief handed out by charity ignores the needs of the single women. Negro women are hit hardest in this vicious drive against the American workers. ‘The entire program of the Roosevelt adminisira- téon has been a steady movement towards Fascism and War. The U. S. Government prepares for war as ® way out of the crisis, It ts you, Negro and white women, who will be called upon to give your sons, husbands and brothers to feed the war machine. You will be called upon to replace the men to a much greater extent than you were in the last war in the factories, plants, mines and on the farms, A It is you who will be forced to make the greatest sacrifices so that the bosses can reap riches on the battlefields soaked in workers’ blood. We can already hear the beat of the war drums. Preparedness propaganda is now greater than in 1916, _ ‘The success of the Soviet Union, where workers Tule, stands as an inspiring example for the workers of the world. Its strength challenges the decayed capiptalist world, inspiring the workers to fight, by showing concretely that there is a way out for the toflers. Revolutions and wars are the order of the day. ‘The capitalist countries, including the United States, hate and fear the Soviet Union; they are prepar- ing to attack the workers’ fatherland, the only coun- try where complete freedom and equality for work- ing and farm women has been achieved. ‘The menace of Fascism ig closing in on us. | | Room 954, National Pres Suilding, | ree wells St, Room 76, Chieage, | TOF, discrimination and abuse against the Nesr DAILY A terse NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1984 easier for the capitalists to rob and oppress the workera, to mobilize for Fasciam and war. On International Women's Day stand shoulde: to shoulder with your fellows, Negro and white men and women, against imperialist war, in defense of | the Soviet tinion and the Chinese Soviet Republic: Working men and women! Weld a chain of soll- darity in the shops and among the unemployed. Or- ganize and strike for higher wages, for shorter hours, | for equal pay for equal work. Struggle against lynching and all forms of fer | masses, | | | Unite i defense of the victims of German and fell on the barricades in Vienna by joining the Cow-- munist Party, which leads in the struggle. agsinci. Fascism, ‘ Join in the struggle for a better future for your- self, for your children ,and all humanity; for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establish- | ment of revolutionary Workers’ and Farmers’ Goy- ernment, ® Sovies Government, in the U. S. A. Milwaukee and Bridgeport 'WINGING clubs and blackjacks, brutality against workers who were fighting for their bread, for the most elementary rights of assembly and pick- eting—such was the scene yesterday in two leading cities with Socialist Party Mayors in office. In Bridgeport, yesterday, Mayor McLeyy went through every trick and stall that the most reac- tionary Mayors practice when they seek to evade @ demonstration of jobless’ workers asking for bread and relief for their families. And when the usual tricks, “the Mayor is out... the Mayor will be back later. did not work, McLevy let loose his police in brutal assault on the jobless’ workers who came to see him because they took seriously his pre- election promise that the “City Hall will be open to all.” What did the Bridgeport workers want yes- terday? They simply were demanding that they be paid for the snow shovelling the city had per- mitted them, in its generosity, to perform at starva- tion wages. The Socialist MeLevy is Mayor,’ and he proposes to run it in a capitalist way—for the benefit of the capitalist bondholders and big: real estate holders and manufacturers. He is anxious to preserve the city’s Income for the city’s bond- holders, That is why all his “Socialist” pre-election | promises turned to ashes as soon as he todk Offite. For to s Socialist Mayor, like to any frankly capi talist-reactionary Mayor, the claims of the capitalist banks’ bondholders and big real estate interests come first. That is why McLevy incited his police to club jobless’ workers and arrest their leader, Samuel Krieger, all in good capitalist style. In Milwaukee, the workers on the picket line at the Seamen Body plant met the clubs and black- Jacks of the police in a city with a Socialist Mayor; Mayor Hoan. The Socialist City Attorney, Raskin, had informed the workers that the police were their “friends.” In experience, the workers have*come to a different conclusion, In “Socialist” Milwaukee all the common phases of capitalist exploitation and oppression are present in full flower—police attack against pickets, wage cuts, slashes in relief, salary cuts for civil service employees, ete., ete. For whom? For the bondholders and bankers, ea ee Thaelmaun Trial ds Effort to Check Growth of C.P. ‘Anti- War Meets . Chicago, Hartford! | Office Workers Union in! } + Chicago Fights War CHICAGO.—At the cali of the | Office Workei ‘Unior Theeting against: war an will be held Friday, March 9, 8 pm, at Irving Hall, 2237 we Division St. The meeting was de-| yeided on at & general business meet- | ing of the union two weeks ago. | eet ce HARTFORD, Conn—iore than , 400 workers, professionals and intel- | lectuals attended a meeting on the) |war danger in Center Church) |House, at the call of the aad | ‘Against War and | Dr. ¥. Treadwell Smith.of Col bia University was the main speaker, and in response, to.,his al many present. pledged to see that their organizations affiliate with the/ | League Against’ War and Fascism. | Arthur Stone, a Lovestonelte, at- | tempted to disrupt the meeting. by | | oriticizing’ the Jack of union mem-| | bers in the audience. At thé call| of the chairman, 14 men announced | }that they were’ members: of the | American Federation of Labor, ard |many others were present who did not announce themselves. Tee Crack Splits us | Chelyushin Hut Italian C.P. Appeals for Fight Mys, ee On | Into Two Parts InSupport of. fustrian ud orkers Summing Trip To’ |Marooned “fe yied Party | In Bering Sea s aves | mobilization of Ttal Selves Without Panic (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 7 (By Radio)— | On the very night after Lapidevsky, the Soviet airman, rescued the ten | 1) | marooned company from the polar | ship Chelyushin, a crack in the ice} | broke in two the wooden ‘hut in | lived. | men are still living on an ice- foe | |in the Bering Sea. | “Wide crackers appeared in the camp again,” said his message. | “Ice blocks continue on the move, | heaping up one on the other. Dur- | ling the night the wooden hut | | where half the Chelyushiners’ lived, | including the women and children before their departure, broke into) two parts, “Without panic, the inhabitants of the hut opened the emergency doors and came out onto the ice.) against intery n | women and two children of teal stn | which the women and children had/ and perhaps world ‘This is reported in @ rad{ogram| makes War z from Professor Otto Schmidt, lead- | threatening absorption on one sid jer of the expedition, of which 89) and Mus: : couraging greetings to the Au proletariat which has tough heroically against the bloody fury) government |of fascism, the Central Committee a of the Italian Communi greets particularly PARIS.—In ses under reyolu- » of the the pro-| the Communist | m. The appeal, iile; 0 ts, Appeal of Ttalian C.P. The bloody ev in Vienna em- European dang of war. The present situation in A imminent, with unist Party id all ant: all _interv in powers for the ist organizations dom of workers’ or- i on the oi Feced with tt t rvention and for a un. and soldier diers To Fraternize y of Italy invites the Communist ny to organize a en-| fight to compel the withdrawal of aiz| troops from the Austrian frontier. so | To the soldiers whom the Italian 2s to send to Aus- the Communist Party addresses Party|the hove that they will fraternize the socialist | with the Austrian workers and go Greet Soclatist Workers After sending werm and We must tte the woman from’ her prison—the kitchen!” .) Committee of the | [Death Verdicts Fail to Check German Party, ‘By Phil Bard To Free Thaelmann’ On This Week : Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany, and are preparing their apparatus of forgers, spies, provocateurs and per jurers in an attempt to smirch the name of the Communist Party, is to be seen in the intense activity of revolutionary workers throughout Germany. Court records of the trials of revo- | lutiona y workers who are caught ntenced give an indication of the energy with which the fight inst the Nazis is carried on. Death Sentence Death for one, and a total of 94 ars of penal servitude and 18 ars’ imprisonment is the verdict on 18 workers tried in connection | with the death of a Fascist | Ahe. The judge was forced to admit that there was no evidence that even |the worker Huttig, sentenced to | death, had shot Ahe, “There can be no doubt that it | was in Huttig’s power to have pre- vented the attack on Ahe in this se- rious form,” said the judge, in fusti- fying the sentence of death. < Police Report Communists Active The State Secret Police of Ba- varia reports that “toward the end of last year signs of serious an systematic work on the part of Com- munists became observable in as ae and Franconia. leaders were appointed, literature distributors; < Star vation Island |To “Cheer” Porte Rico Toilers, Dying Under US; — Hsceavell, ie due lumming trip to vorst_hell- hole of misery possessions of American it is one of the most fertile spots in the Americas, no here because Be r companies and In conse- quence, even v ables have to be | imported from the United States, Out of a population of 1,600,000, | there are 1,200,000 without work, and the average wage is 40 to 45 cents a day, while living costs are much higher than in New York. A strong growth of militancy among the island workers and peas- ants first brought Rose Schneider- |man, strikebreaking “labor” leader and N.R.A. official, and now the of the undiminished, but extremely cleverly carroufiaged sotivities of the Communists.” In Aschersleben, 25 Communists are facing a mass trial for me carried on Communist dbetiig in the World-Wide Mass Figh.! Roosevelt is moving in the same direction as Hitler, Mussolini, Dollfuss, with a program which further degrades and enslaves working and farm women. Working Women! You who suffer most from Fascism and war! Don't put your faith in pacifism. | Remember how pacifism betrayed you in the World | War. Don’t be inactive. By staying away from the Glass struggle and by your inactivity you make it police, The workers, Socialist, Communist and non- Party must form a united front of struggle for their elementary rights to assemble and picket, for ade- quate relief, against wage cuts, and for unemploy- ment insurance. This is how they defeat the broken | promises and betrayed pledges of Socialist Mayors who protest capitalist investments with capitalist | When the movement of the ice- blocks ended, each teturned to his part of the hut, and started walling | jin the open part of the half-hut.| | The kitchen was also broken in two, | | and its parts separated by 50 meters. | | All this does not frighten us, but it causes much additional work, | removing supplies and parts for the buildings.” workers who, tearing themselves| over to their side, aiding them to from the paralyzing’ influence of| arm and lending them support in their leaders, have heard the appeal} their baitle to disarm the fascist of the Communist Party in Austria} organizations and to overthrow the to strike and to fight besides their! present government and establish a Communist brethien, | republic of the workers, peasants The Central Commiites sppeals| and _ soldiers. to all the proletariat of Italy and! After calling for a united front all anti-fascists to learn from the| against war and fascism, the ap- events in Austria that only the peal concludes: } president's wife, in an effort to head off the workers’ discontent with phrases and promises: which, how- ever, will not change the funda- mental cause of the misery of this island, which is in the death grip of the American sugar and shipping monopolies on the whole economy of the island. burg (Berlin) Storm Troopers, a i ward of 50 marks was offered for every Storm Trooper who catches a distributor of Communist leaflets, and 300 was offered for the dis- covery of any illegal Communist Lenin on the Jewish Question, — On the National Question: printing plant, ®Emnity Against Jews Exists Only Where Landlords and Capitalists-Oppress the Masses.. Among Jews, the workers are in the Majority. They are our < Redtier Comrades in the Struggle for Socialism. The Jewish Capitalists, Like All Capitalists, Oppress and Divide the Workers,” Said Lenin. LL paid an thieerepae scan me elt genre ‘The fol- lowing excerpts from Lenin, great leader of the Communist revo- tation, give & masterly answer to this question. Theae excerpts from Lenin on the Jewish question are of tre- wemdious importance at the present time, especially due to the fact that not only is Hitler in Germany deliberately reviving and spread- ‘mg the terrible poison of anti-Semitism, but capitalist reaction all over the wrold is in one form or another also provoking the vicious hatreds of nationalism and racial antagonism. ‘The stimulation of chauvinism and race hatreds is an old trick ef ruling classes whenever their rule begins to grow shaky, when- ever the masses begin to rise in motion sgainst their unendurable misery and oppression. Jim-crowism in the United States, anti- Semitism, chauvinism against the Japanese and Chinese workers, ete, etc., are all expressions of the ruling class chauvinist poison. Lenin’s remarkably clear exposition of the Communist (Bol- shevik) position on the Jewish question becomes of the greatest value to us at this time when the fight against anti-Semitism i confused by the fact that real struggle of the masses against this ourse is being held back by strata whose financial and economic imteresta are no different from the capitalist rulers who are the pogrom inciters. The first excerpt is from 2 phonograph record made by Lenin during the Civil War of 1919 to be used throughout the Soviet Union im the fight against anti-Semitism. THE POGROMS AGAINST THE JEWS NTI-SEMITISM is defined as the spreading of enmity against the Jews. When the damnable czarist monarchy was living out its last hours, it attempted to divert the illiterate workers and peasants into pogroms against the Jews. The czar’s police in union with the landlords and capitalists organized Jewish pogroms. They attempted to divert the natural hatred of the workers and peasants for the exploiters towards the Jews. Even in other countries one often experiences that the capitalists stir up enmity against the Jews, in order to divert the attention of the workers from the real enemy of the working masses, capital. Enmity against the Jews can only exist where the landowners and capitalists have kept the workers and peasants in complete 1I- Iiteracy. Only entirely uneducated and completely oppressed people €an believe the lies and slanders which are being spread about the Jews. These are survivals from the times of serfdom, when the priests burnt heretics at the stake, when peasants were trampled upon and were voiceless. But these dark survivals of serfdom are disappearing, the people are beginning to see. It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the toilers. The ene- mies of the workers are the capitalists of all lands. Among the Jews there are workers, toilers; they are in the majority. They are our brothers, comrades in the struggle for Socialism, because they are oppressed by capitalism. Among the Jews there are kulaks, ex- Ploiters, capitalists, Just as there are among the Russians and every sther nation. The capitalists are tireless in their endeavors to stir.up enmity af between the workers of different faiths, different nations and different Taces. The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. Disgrace and infamy. to the damnable cearism which tortured and persecuted the Jews! Disgrace and infamy to whoever sows enmity against Jews and hatred against other nations! Long live brotherly faith and unity in the struggle of all nations for the over- throw of capitalism! From phenom rca mae tring te Ce War 11 DECREE OF THE ‘COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS ON THE UPROOTING OF THE ANTI-SEMITIC MOVEMENT According to reports received by the Council of People’s Com- missars, the counter,revolutionanies are carrying on agitation for pogroms in many cities especially in the frontier zone, as a result of which there have been sporadic outrages against the toiling Jewish population. The bourgeois counter-revolution has taken up the weapon which has slipped from the hands of the czar, 4 The absolutist government, when the need arose, turned the hatred of the peoples directed at itself against the Jews, at the same time pened bvadieaiperacirag Ci Ph gatertiyies Shire cgs! mans. Dea Jows. The rich Jews, however, knew how to protect themselves; only See daw pres firey eaten trem Seeniiey tag, cere only they fell victims of them. The counter-revolutionaries have now pee hatred against the Jews, using hunger, exhaUstioi! and also the backwardness of the most retarded masses as well as the remnants of that hatred against the Jews which was planted amiong the peopie by’ absolutism. In the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet, Republic, where the principle of self-determination of the toiling masses of all nations has been proclaimed, there is-no room for national oppression. The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemics, not as Jews but as bourgevisie. The Jewish worker is our brother. Any kind of hatred against any nation is inadmissible and . shameful. a The Council of People’s Commissars declares that the anti-Semitic movement and pogroms against the Jews are fatal to the interests of the Workers’ and peasants’ reyolution and. calis upon the tolling people of Socialist Russia to fight this evil with all the means at their disposal. National hostility weakens the ranks of our revolutionaries, dis- rupts the united front of the tollers without _Mistinetions of Reyes Sia and helps only our enemies. ~ The Council of People’s Commissars snstructs all Soviet deputies to take uncompromising measures to tear the anti-Semitic’ movernent out by the roots. Pogromists”"ind pog-om-agitators are to be nlaced outside the law. Chairman of the Coancil of Peorle’s Cormmissars, ULYANOY (LENIN); Secretary of the ‘Conneft,* N. GORBUNOY, August 3, 1918. potent THE JEWS AND THE REVOLUTION «+. The hatred of czarism was directed particularly against the Jews. On the one hand, the Jews provided a particularly high per- centage (compared with the total of the Jewish population) of leaders of the revolutionary movement. In passing, it should be said to their credit that today the Jews provide a relatively high percentage of representatives of internationalism compared with other nations. On the other hand, czarism knew perfectly well how to play up to the most despicable prejudices of the most ignorant strata of the population against the Jews, in order to organize, if not to lead directly, the pogroms—those atrocious. massacres of peaceful Jews, their wives and children, which have roused such disgust throughout the whole civilized world. Of course I have in mind the disgust of the truly democratic elements of the civilized world, and those are exclusively the Socialist workers, the proletarians. (At this time there were no Communist Parties.) It is calculated that in 100 cities at that time 4,000 were killed and 10,000 were mutilated. The bourgeoisie, even in the freest republican countries of Western Europe, know only too well how to combine their hypocritical phrases about “Russian atrocities” with the most shame- ful financial transactions, particularly with financial support of czarism, and with imperialist exploitation of Russia through the export of capital, etc. —From a Lecture on the 1905 Revolution, delivered in Zurich. FREEDOM OF OPPRESSED NATIONALITIES The October Revolution of the workers and Peasants started under the general slogan of freedom, The peesants have been freed from the rule of the landlo: large landownership no longer exisis—the soii has become free. The soldiers and ssilors have been freed irom the power of the sovereign Lenin Pamphlet on Jewish| Question, 5 Cents at Bookshop The above excerpts from Lenin on the Jewish Question in the light of the Communist position on the National Question are taken from the pamphlet “Lenin on the Jewish Question” just issued by the International Publishers, New York City. The pamphlet contains the most important writings of Lenin on this question, in addition to the most important official procla- mations of the Soviet Government relating to national minorities and minor naticnclities. Ii may be obtained at International Publishers, 381 4th Ave and at the following Workers’ Booxsheps: 50 E. 13th S., 699 Prospect Ave., Bronx; 2075 Climton Ave.. Bronx; 62 at the Cooperative Barber Shop, Wrastigng 27 Hudson Si., Yon! The price is 6 cents. PROCLAMATION OF THE SOVIET GOV'T FOR | generals, for the generals are now elective and removable. The work- ers have been freed from the caprice and tyranny of the capitalists, for from now on the control of the enterprises and factories by the workers has been established. All that is living and vital has been freed from hated bondage. Now there remain only the nationalities of Russia, who have suf- fered and still suffer from oppression and tyranny. Their freedom mutt immediately be worked for, and it must be brought about reso- lutely and irrevocably. During the times of tsarism the nations of Russia were systematic= ally instigated against each other. The results of this policy are known: massacres and pogroms on the one hand, the enslaving of nations on the other hand. This hideous policy of rousing hatred must and will never return. From now on it will be replaced by the policy of voluntary and honest unions of nations, In the period of imperialism, after the February Revolution, when political power passed into the hands of the bourgeoisie represented’ by the Constitutional-Democratic Party, the open policy of instigation was replaced by a policy of cowardly mistrust towards the nations of Rus- sia, a policy of molestation and provocation which was covered with verbose declarations about the “freedom” and “equality” of nations. The results of this policy are known: the sharpening of national en- mity, the undermining of inutual trust. This unworthy policy of Mes and mistrust, of molestation and provocation, must be ended. From now on it must be replaced by # frank and honest policy leading to complete mutual trust between the nations in Russia. Only on the basis of such trust can an honest and firm union #f the nations of Russia be formed. Only on the basis of such a union can the workers and peasants of the nations of Russia be merged into a single revolutionary foree: able to withstand all the attacks of the imperialist, annexationist bour geoisie, i In June of this year the Congress of Soviets proclaimed the fred ‘ right of self-determination of the nations of Russia. The second Congress of Soviets, which met in October, even | resolutely and definitely established this inalienable right of the rp of Russia. Acting on the decisions of this Congress, the Council of Commissars plans to base its actions in regard to the nationalities of Russia on the following principle: 1, The equality and sovereignty of the nations of Russia. 2. The right of the nations of Russia to free self-dei including separation and the formation of independent states. 8. The removal of every and any national and mational: privilege and restriction. 4. The free development of the national minorities and ethno- graphic groups living within the confines of Russi: ‘ r Corresponding concrete prov: the Commission of Nationalities is ¢ In the name of the Russian Repub! : Chairman of the Council of People’s Co} issaxs, V. Ulyanoy (enn. “ People’s Commissar of Nationalities, Joseph Djugashvilt (Stalin) November 15, 1917.