The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1934, Page 8

: ( ‘ Page Hight Daily,QWorker SUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY RI.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTEREATIONAD? FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDA¥, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC, 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. Pakions 954 Press Building, D.o Midwest Bureau ells St., Room 708, Chicago, Ti Telephone: Dearboi Mail ear, $6.00 Bronx rar, 99.00 $5.00; 3 Weekly month 18 ¢ SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934 The Next War--Against Whom? IDENT ROOSEVELT sets the keynote for mayors, a officers, riots” were spouting yes- all through the land. Day. will spout t ion of A is what Roosevelt This wrote “The celebration of Army Day on April 6 each year, commemorating as it does our entrance into the World War, indicates in part the grati- tude of our nation to our army, which so valiantly served this country For aggressive already in its every emergency.” these ement of an ready now to spring m s, fac- ach in the the secret hese “emergencies?” This uestion of the most immediate and concern to every worker, every farmer, every student, every professional, every member of those vit great masses whose bodi and lives are looked on by car ism as the cheapest of the munitions of war. “Defense of the homeland; protection of life and law and defense of democracy, ilization, of c nent of the ag- r Which masses ms of imperialist of ¢: are war. There can be no doubt that these noble-sound- a tremendous influence over Ve must learn how again hate examine them carefully; we must to explain them clearly and patiently, nd again, to those millions of toilers who war, but are not afraid to fight. We must ow how to show them why they are fighting, and against whom to fight. “N)EFEND the homeland.”"—Whose homeland? Is it ours, does it belong to the millions of work- ers, farmers, students, who are called to fight their class brothers of other. lands? Does it belong to the masses, of whom today 17,000,000 can get no work, are “not wanted,” out- sts in the land of their birth? In the land of ed wealth, where those who are allowed to work are robbed of their own produce, live on the edge of misery and in constant insecurity? The workers and toilers have no fatherland if the fatherland does not belong to them. When the oppressed and exploited are called to fight in defense of the “fatherland,” it is in defense of their oppressors and exploiters that they are called to fight. Today, the workers and toilers of the world have but one fatherland—and that is the one jJand which belongs to the workers, the land in which the workers and toilers have destroyed the oppressors, and taken for their own—the Soviet Union. “The protection order.”"—Whose life of life and property, law and and property, whose law and order? Is it not the life and property of the exploiters, the law and order of the oppressors, the very devices by which the enslavement and the insecurity and misery of the toilers are secured, for the benefit of those who own the vast wealth of goods and machines which the workers have produced. “The defense of democracy, civilization, culture.” —Whose “democracy,” whose “civilization,” whose “culture?” Is it a democracy where misery and starvation of the masses are legally provided? Have the workers any part in the state which provides the laws and the armed forces by wMth they are exploited and starved, their strikes broken, their struggles violently suppressed? And what of the “civilization” of a society which permits the masses but the minimum of education which makes them useful producers, which keeps millions of the Negro and white masses in cultural darkness—a society in which, in its crisis, the schools, the scientific institutions, the libraries, the health services, the very fruits of science and culture, are the first to go in order to preserve the Profits of a handful of bloated rich? Only in the Soviet Union, only in the workers’ fatherland, are civilization and culture the prop- erty of the broadest masses, preserved and fostered as the priceless right of all toilers, “Punishment of the aggressor.”"—Who is the aggressor in the never-ending economic war among the imperialists, in the never-ending class war of the capitalists upon the workers? It is never a question of Who is the “aggressor,” Who is waging an “unjust” war? The question must always be, who is on the impéfialist side, ‘who represents counter-revolution, who represents exploitation, and who represents the fight against the capitalist oppressors? Among the opposing armies, none of the fighters, not one of the workers and farmers in uniform stands te gain by the victory of “his” imperialist bosses. . . . pte 0 the workers dogan: im war, the slogan of the Communist Party, ts fraternization among the combetants, proletarian, revolutionary interna- tionalism across the war-front, and war on the war-makers in the rear. Toward the soldiers and workers of other lands, proletarian solidarity. Toward the imper- jalists at home, relentless class war. Turn the imperialist war inte civil war; turn the robber war of the imperialists into civil war against them! The Roosevelt “New Deal,” the N.R.A., is slash- ing wages, raising prices, breaking strikes, throw- ing the unemployed hungry into the streets, mili- tarizing the youth, co-ordinating fe industrial apparatus for war, It is reaching out ever more aggressively to exploit the colonies and semi-colonies of the world, to carry out relentless trade war against all its rivals. It is actively preparing for war. Therefore, the struggle against the New Deal, the struggle against the N.R.A., against the slave codes, against the Roosevelt strikebreaking, in de- fense of the workers’ right to struggle for their demands, is also a struggle against war. The exposure of the capitalist state is an essen- tial part of the fight against war. The two strug- gles—the fight against war, and the fight against capitalism, cannot be separated. The aim of both struggles can only be the aim of a workers’ and farmers’ government, a Soviet America. The Strike Wave Rises UNDREDS of thousands of workers are now moving into strike action against the hated N.R.A. codes. This great strike wave that is now sweeping the country, hurdling the bar- riers set up by William Green and other officials of the American Federation of Labor, is richer and more politically significant than any of the many strike waves since the introduction of the Roosevelt New Deal policies. If one analyses carefully the various strikes which make up this great wave he cannot fail to note one outstanding and indisputible fact: the strikes are becoming more political—they are di- rected not only against the employer, but to a greater extent than ever before against the Roose- velt government. The role of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the grand field marshall of all the forces of strike-breaking (which was exposed by the Daily Worker the minute he took office) is now more clearly perceived by the toiling section of the population than it was at the advent of the New Deal. Roosevelt has asked the strikers to give up their interests for “the interests of the whole people.” But the workers understand better now than before that the “whole people” which the president is talk- ing about is nothing more or less than the capiial- ist class—the owners of factories, the coupon clip- pers, the bankers. So the strikers are coming into conflict more and more with the capitglist state—against Roosevelt, against the N. R. A. The folowing facts show that the workers are begining to realize that in their fight against the employers they inevitably come face to face with the government, which is the chief strike-breaker and supporter of the mill owners. In Philadelphia 4,000 striking knitgoods workers and 900 strikers of the S. K. F, Industries are stag- ing a demonstration today against the N. R. A. and the strike-breaking activities of the city gov- ernment. In Detroit the auto workers booed down Wm. Collins and Hugh Thompson, A. F. of L. officials, who came to ask the strikers to support Roosevelt and the N. R, A. Miners in West Virginia are at present dealing heavy blows to the N. R. A. They walked out on strike in defiance of the U. M. W. A. officials after copies of the N. R. A. code was posted in the mines, They refused to deal with N. R. A. ‘The government now stands more openly exposed as an organ of strike-breaking. To stem off the growing strike wave Phil Raymond, militant leader of the auto workers, was arrested the minute 5,000 auto workers broke through the demagogy of the A. F. of L. leaders and struck in defiance of the N. R.A, All the leading strike-breaking forces of the Roosevelt New Deal set-up have been rushed to the various zones of struggle. Miss Perkins, Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, who said that “there isn’t a first class strike in America,” made a hurried trip to Detroit to do her bit in at- tempting to smash the auto strike. Edward Mc- Grady, who helped break strikes in the Pennsylvania coal fields and in the New York fur industry, has been rushed by the Roosevelt government to Detroit. Government conciliators (read strike-breakers) were catching the fastest trains bound for the strike regions yesterday. John L. Conner and Howard Chappell, commissioners of concilliation, headed for Buffalo and Camden respectively, with orders to break strikes in the Consolidated Aircraft Corp., the New York Shipbuilding Corp., the Campbell Soup Co. and the Radio Condenser Corp. Workers more than ever must be vigilant as hawks against these agents of the strike-breaking government. They are a tricky lot these N. R. A. folk. They promise much, but give nothing to the working class. The best against the bosses ts the strike. The only power that the working class has is their or- ganized strength, their unions, their Mass ‘organ- izations, their Communist Party. With these weapons, which the Roosevelt goy- ernment is trying to weaken and take away from the workers, but which are growing stronger each day—and with these weapons only, can the working- class of America smash down the N. R. A. barriers and win union recognition and better conditions in the factories, ‘There is no mistaking the fact. The strike wave is rising irresistibly higher against the N. R. A. slaves codes. Spread the strike movement against the exploiters! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934 SSS , and Youth March Brownsville, New York) Demonstrations Are Cheered NEW YORK.—Three thousand | Workers demonstrated against war | and fascism in Brownsville Thurs- | day night, in one of the most mili- tant and spectacular actions ever seen in the section. The demonstra- tion was called by the League Against War and Fascism. The youth were very much in evidence. Young workers and stu- | Gents who had never before parti- | cipated in any such action, and | youth social organization were rep- | resented. Falling in behind the Red Front | band at Ralph and Fulton Sts., and j behind the Pioneer Band at Hins-| {dale and Sutter Aves., the workers | marched to Hopkinson and Pitkin | Aves., where speakers of the Amer- ican Youth Club, the National Stu- dent League, the Young Commu- nist League and the Communist Party spoke. The students of New Lots Evening} High School, whose G. O. declared a strike in order to participate, were in the parade, and had a speaker) at the meeting. Several Socialist | workers expressed their wish to join| |the League Against War and Fas- |cism after the meeting. | Oe ew Students March in New York NEW YORK—Three hundred | high school and college students, | members of the National Student} League, the Student League for In- dustrial Democracy and the Amer- | ican League Against War and Fas- |cism, demonstrated against im- | perialist war yesterday in a mass | meeting and parade through the| | midtown section of the city. | Braving the chill rain, students gathered at Madison Square Park, carrying signs denouncing the war preparations of the government, de- | manding the abolition of the R.O. |T.C., and the reinstatement of 20| | students expelled last year from C.C.N.Y. for protesting military training. At the Soldiers’ Memorial at the park, a wreath was laid in memory |of the World War dead, and over | the wreath was placed a placard! bearing the inscription: “We Will Not Support the United States Government in Any War!” Cheered by Workers | Shouting slogans of “Down with | Imperialist War!” “All War Funds | | |for the Unemployed!” and “Work- ers Join Our Ranks!” the students | marched up Broadway, through the fur district where workers of the| Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union scattered leaflets and torn phone books from windows, to Col- umbus Circle. All along the line of March workers lined the streets, | cheering and applauding the dem- onstrators. More students joined the parade as it wound uptown. Singing the “Internationale” and “Solidarity,” the students marched up Madison Avenue and in front of the New York Soldiers and Sailors Club the parade halted. “Soldiers, sailors, fight againet war —join our ranks!” the students shouted. At Columbus Circle, Jim Lemer | lof the American League Against | War and Fascism, Violet Eberil of the SLID. and Sidney Katz of the N.S.L., addressed the students, urg- ing them to join hands with the | workers in their struggle against war and war preparations, ‘Asks for Support Of Anti-War Fight Provisional Committee Active Getting Aid for Marine Workers NEW YORK—Pointing out that | the marine workers occupy a key position in the fight against im- Pperialist war and fascism the Provi- sional Committee for the Support of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, 505 Fifth Ave., has issued a call for active and financial support of this militant union. The call of the Provisional Com- mittee said in part: “In their active struggles against war and fascism, the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union has adopted the slogans, “Stop Shipment of Munitions,” “Don’t Load War Ma- In their constant contact with for- eign seamen they are successfully carrying out vital anti-fascist work. “However, the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union is hampered in its work by lack of funds. This militant. union, as distinguished from the average A. F. of L. union, does not expel its unemployed members be- cause they cannot pay their dues. The union is therefore forced to ask for outside assistance. : . ief | Guard student who fired the fatal mn be Rumanian Fascist Chief | shot, told the court he did not regret Who Instigated Murder Of Premier Is Acquitted his action. Codreanu, chief of the fascist Iron} Guard, st whose instigation three | S°Viet Ambassador Arrives in Hungary members of the organization mur-| dered Premier Ion Duca of Rumania, | and several other Iron Guard lead- | ers were acquittd yesterday nation. The three actual killers were found guilty and sentenced to life im- { The Iron Guard is a fascist or- ganization intimately associated with | the German is. BUCHAREST, April 6—Corneliu A BUDAPEST, April 6.—A. M, Pet- of |TOvsky, Soviet ambassador to Aus-| charges of complicity in the assasel- tria, reached Budapest yesterday, The first Soviet diplomat to enter Hungary since the Soviet revolution, | He wlil act temporarily as ambas-| prisonment by a court consisting of S8d0r both to Hungary and Austria, | nm judge and four army generals.| following the recent recognition of Nicolas Constantinescu, the Iron! the Soviet government by Hungary. ILD Tag Day Today, Tomorrow for Victims of Austrian Fascism NEW YORK.—The New York Eee the International rr fense yesterday appeal- ed to all its members and sym- pathizers, and to all anti-Fas- cists, to support the Tag Day collections today and tomorrow for the victims of Austrian Fas- cism, The following collection sta- tions have been set up; District LL.D, office, 870 Broadway; 524 Hudson St. and 130 W. 23rd St., Manhattan; 792 E. Tremont Ave. Bronx; and 1280 56th St., Brooklyn, & “The Provisional Committee for the Support of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which was organ- ized by a group of liberals, is en- deavoring to establish a sustaining | fund to further the activities of this | militant union against war and fas- cism. “All who have anti-war and anti- fascism work at heart, should send their contributions and pledges to this committee.” PREPARE BULGARIAN “BROWN BOOKS” BERLIN.—A Bulgarian edition of the “Brown Book of the Hitler | Terror” is being published through the efforts of the Bulgarian Central | Committee of Workers and Peasants | Aid. Its organizations in the dif- ferent cities are using this book in their campaign to raise funds to aid the victims of German fascism. Against War PAVING THE WAY! PRES Roosevegy By Bureck Austrian Socialist Paper Becomes Communist Organ @ Pema, Whole Groups Of S. P. Join ‘Communists Graz Socialist Publiekt Joins Communist Party With His Paper VIENNA, March 22 (By Mail) — The “Roter Arbeiter,” which ap- peared in Graz before the February uprising as the organ of the “left- wing of the Austrian Socialist Party,” is now being published as the organ of the Communist Par } of Austria. The publisher, a well known functionary and shop stewaz'| of the “Wagner, Biro” bridge build- ing works, has joined the Com- munist Party in a declaration published in today’s number. The newspaper now appears as the illegal organ of the revolutionary workers of Graz. Soial Democrats Join Communist Party The movement among the social democratic workers for withdrawal from the Social Democratic Party to go over to the Communists, is as- suming ever greater dimensions, In Vienna whole groups of the Republican Guards have joined the Communist Party. In the 2st Dis- “The Guarantee for Victory in America” From Earl Browder’s Speech at Eighth Convention of Communist Party . . . “WI7E ARE trying with all our abilities to make our Communist Party into a Bolshevik Party: That means to master all the lessons taught us by the first Com- munist Party, the most successful one, created and led to victory by Lenin and now successfully building socialism. under the leadership of Stalin; it means to be- come a party of the masses; to be a party with its strongest roots among the decis- ive workers in the basic industries; a party whose stronghold is in the shops, mines and factories, especially in the biggest and most important ones; a party that leads and organizes the struggles of all op- pressed peoples, bringing them into firm alliance with the working class; a party that knows how to take difficulties and dangers and transform them into advan- tages and victories. “Are we such a Party? Not yet. We have a strong ambition to become such a Party. We are making progress in that direction. But when we consider the ex- tremely favorable circumstances under which we work, when millions are begin- ning to moye, to organize, to fight, when only our program can solve their problems, then we must say that we are moving forward far too slowly. “The tasks of our party today, the tasks of this convention, have been clearly and systematically set forth in the docu- ments before us for adoption, especially the thesis and decisions of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, and the draft reso- | lution prepared for this convention by the Central Committee. My report has been | for the purpose of further elaborating | these fundamental directives and discuss- | ing some of our central problems con- cretely in the light of these directives. All these tasks set forth in the documents before us are particular parts of the one general task—to arouse and organize the workers and oppressed masses to resist- ance against the capitalist program of hunger, fascization and imperialist war. “They are parts of the one task of winning the majority of the toiling masses for the revolutionary struggle for their immediate political and eco- nomic needs as the first steps along the road to proletarian revolution, to the overthrow of capitalist rule, the estab- lishment of a revolutionary workers’ government, a Soviet government, and the building of a Socialist society in the United States. “Above all, do we arm ourselves with the political weapons forged by the vic- torious Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the mighty sword of Marxism- Leninism, and we are strengthened and inspired by the victories of Socialist con- struction won under its Bolshevik leader- ship, headed by Stalin. Our World Com- munist Party, the Communist Interna- tional, provides us the guarantee not only of our victory in America, but of the victory of the proletariat throughout the world.” Ford Auto Workers Show Growing Interest in “Daily” 423,000 Dead Is (One-Year Toll of | terials to or from American Ports.” | DETROIT, Mich. — That workers in the Ford plants are anxious to read the Daily Worker was brought out in a report made by Comrade L. at a Conference of “Daily” repre- sentatives from Party sections and units in this city. Comrade L., from South Dearborn, 3 ‘ pf who began to sell the “Daily” only two weeks | ago, now sells an! average of 50 copies every day n only one sec- sion of Dear- dorn. He stated that the Ford workers on being approached with " ¥ she “Daily” show Bernice Ruffin , immediate of Hamtramack, nierest in the Mich. vaper. The other representatives from Dearborn pledged to follow in the footsteps of Comrade L. by seeing to it that more comrades are placed at strategic points to sell the “Daily” to the Ford workers. Pledge Activity The four Party Units in Dearborn pledged to secure at least five new subs each by April 26th, and chal- lenged the other units in Detroit to do as well or better. The following units accepted this challenge: Unit 13 of Section 3, Unit 8, Section 4; Units 1, 6, 8 and 10 of Section 5; Units 8 and 10 of Section 1. Section 8, of Hamtramack, Mich., Pledged to secure 20 new subs for the Daily Worker by April 22. One of the most active sub-getters for the “Daily” in Hamtrack is Bernice | Ruffini. “Experience shows,” Com- \rade Ruffini states, “that there are |Party members who are not sub- | seribers to the Daily Worker. I ap- | proach my fellow Party members as | well as workers in general and get them to subscribe.” All Units in this district are called upon to accept the challenge made conscious worker, Party members, of trade unions and mass organiza- tions, are called upon to approach their friends and fellow workers and ask them to subscribe to the “Daily.” District Conference The District Daily Worker Com- mittee is calling a distriet-wide con- ference for Sunday, April 22, 10 a.m., at the Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St., Detroit, Mich. All workingclass or ganizations are urged to send del- egates to this important Conference. Tax on Big Profits Rejected By Senate ‘Millionaires Protected From Heayy Taxes On Huge Incomes _ WASHINGTON, April 5—The La Follette amendment to the tax bill providing for an increase in sur- taxes on large incomes was de- feated by the Senate today by a vote of 47 to 36, icy of leaving large incomes alone as far as taxes go, The present tax policy of the government places the heaviest tax burdens upon the masses and lower middle classes. The Senators voting against the amendment that the millionaires who ‘now escape heavy taxes could evade the new taxes anyhow by buying more tax-exempt securities. All proposals, however, to make the government securities subject to | taxation have been rejected by Con- | gress. vealed that the wealthiest sections of the population, the Morgans, the Rockefellers, and the Wall Street This continues the Roosevelt pol-! Nanking Terror 108,000 Condemned to Slow Death in Dungeons SHANGHAI—According to in- complete statistics compiled by the International Red Aid, the number of victims of the white terror in Kuomintang China and the parts occupied by the Japanese during the year 1933 reached a total of 423,000 murdered and 108,000 im- prisoned. The number was highest | in Central China, where the power | of Chiang-Kai-Shek is the great- est. where 277,000 were slain and 53,000 imprisoned. In Southern China, 57,000 were killed and 34,000 | imprisoned, while in Northern China 89,000 were killed and 21,000 imprisoned. In reality, imprisonment for any length of time in China is equiva- lent to a death sentence, especially for those suspected of having taken part in the revolutionary struggle or even having shown signs of sym- pathy for it. Prisoners are confined in smatl, unlighted, unventilated rooms, the floors of which are usually either the bare ground or stone or cement. There is no heat in the winter. Toilet arrangements are usually lacking, or are of the most primi- tive and filthy sort. Usually there is not even a cot in the room. Con- finement is either in solitary or in grade, makes up the fare of the prisoners. Medical attention is al- bankers pay little or no income tax, by the Dearborn Units. Every class- 4 being able to escape through the many loopholes in the laws. most entirely lacking. Toryire of the most inhuman kind is the daily lot of most prisoners. horribly overcrowded small rooms. | a little dirty tice soup, with un- i the Fascist leader, Zankoff. Recent Senate investigations re-| boiled drinking water, together with {some boiled rice of the poorest trict two sections of the Social Democratic Party, with their lead- ers, have joined the Communist Party. In many cases the workers still working in the illegal groups of the Socialist Party refuse to dis- | ibute the Brunn “Arbeiterzeitung”, | for the reason that it still bears the sub-title “Central Organ of the So- cial Democratic Labour Party of Austria.” These workers declare that they want nothing to do with the old social democratic party. New Communist Shop Cells Formed In many large-scale undertakings in Vienna, where there have hither- to been no nuclei of communist or- ganisations whatever, the social democratic workers are coming to- day to the Communist Party, and are forming factory cells. The same movements is observable in the provinces, In Lower Austria whole groups of workers are coming over to the Communist Party in the Liesin- ger district (70 members of one local group of the Republican Guard) and in the Triesting valley. In this lat- | ter district Communist factory cells are being formed in the large-scale industrial undertakings, Barthou Said to Plan Hitler Visit French Foreign Minister Going to Poland PARIS, April 6—Louis Barthou foreign minister in the Doumergu government, is shortly making a visit to Warsaw, and probably also to other capitals of the Little En- tente, in a tour to strengthen the system of anti-Soviet alliances un- der French leadership. It is also authoritatively said that he will visit Berlin and meet Baron von Neurath, Nazi foreign minister, and perhaps Adolf Hitler. The one point on which the Euro: pean imperialists agree is their de. sire to canalize their antagonism: into a common channel of actioy against the Soviet Union, so that this visit of the foreign minister of the Doumergue war cabinet repre~ sents an important maneuver in the imperialists’ attempt to find a way. to unite against the Soviet Union, Living Costs Up, Production Down In Nazi Germany Arms Making Grows, AH Other Work Shrinks, Says Report NEW YORK, April 6—A picture of Germany struggling with in- creasingly difficult economic prob- lems as a result of the Hitler policies is given in a review by the Foreign Policy Assn. The cost of living has been in- creased 10 per cent while total in- dustrial production has decreased between 3 and a half and 6 per cent compared with 1933, despite heavy industries showing increases. The only other increase is in the govern- ment budget. Both increases seem based on arms orders. Foreign trade shows a growing deficit and the gold coverage of the mark steadily declines. It is at about 8 per cent. Hitler claims of improved employ- ment are discounted by the that 200,000 women have been dis. placed, 250,000 men have been put in labor camps and unknown thousands are in concentration camps or exile. “The rights which labor won un- der the empire and the republic have been abolished and the Third Reich appears to constitute a veritable in- dustrialists’ paradise,” the . repark | ends, BULGARIAN PEASANTS SEN« TENCED FOR DRIVING AWA FASCISTS SOFIA, Bulgaria. — Two peasants; were sentenced to 12 and a halt! years imprisonment by a court mar=" tial at Dupnitza and eight others to 2 and a half years, for driving from their village Lazaroff, general under Police are protecting the fascist inciters from the peasants, and at | the same time permit no meetings of the Workers Party confiscated he working class literature and ugh frame-ups attempt to arrest the working class leaders, \ 4 See