The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1934, Page 8

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 i ER 8,000 New York Workers Pledge Fight Against War Page Eight Daily <QWorker SHRTRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY 1.5.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) igh the old, stale “red scare” cry of e jitators,” ete., etc. As if it were not the er of the C. W. A. men that caused the protest ration, but some “outside” influence. This “America's Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” is the way Olson tries to cloak his hunger program _—_— > “: va FOUNDED 1924 t ifferent from the most reactionary Wall " : ats ene B iF h Cc . il Str t sok Os does I ! y Burck PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | Street program only that it is embroidered by mor Hundreds Join COMING OUT By ag rene ulV1 COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 18th fake cal phrases. % a | Street, New York, N. ¥. Yet, it is true that the Communists organized A: * W. 2 B d 2 : | W orkers Call signi: “Algonquin 4- 7954. and led this demonstration of the C. W. A. men for | £ nth ar bo y Be eis oatvock ip bread and jobs. That is the honor of the Commu- és - Pe ; t é Suakiagion ‘Berean: Reuoaik “Devan Party, its historic task, to organize and lead the M M F _ Mie a aw es for bread and iberation from the yore of ALMassMeeting | £o Sgiteset ‘Durees 101 Room 706, Ohicere, M. | canitalist exploitation and oppression! No hysterie Baits Eee : as | Subscription Rates: shriek of “Red” can wipe away the fact that it is | Demand Thaelmann and Reformists Strive to Ry Mail: (axcest. Mai $6.00: unists everywhere who lead the fight for Z x " ; 5 tenth 30 wii to-day interests of the masses. The victory Other Anti-Fascists Stem Workers 8 month in Minneapolis shows what Communist leadership Be Released can bring to the jobless, starving masses organized | to fight against hunger. By Carrier NEW YORK.—“A million New York workers out into the streets against war on Aug. 1, interna- tional anti-war day!” The walls of St. Nicholas Arena shook with the gigantic roar of ap- | proval of 6,000 workers who jammed the hall Friday night, when Nor- | | Indignation PARIS, April 8—While a wide j Series of protest actions has met | the Doumergue decree firing 80,000 | civil servants and slashing the-wages | of the 720,000 others to 10 per cent, | the reformist leaders have already | begun to sabotage the May 1 strike MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 t that every American worker should remember that the Communist Party, now Cleveland at its Eighth Party Conven- nds enthusiastic greetings to the Minneapolis workers and their leaders. It is the only Party that stands with the jobless and C. W. A. workers. All = Communist Leadership Wins CWA Victory the other parties are capitalist parties, defendng in man Tallentire, secretary of the} New York City Committee of the| plans of the workers. oth the council of the reformist 3 KoeRE eis one way or another the interests of the capitalist | A Z ‘ A he Labor Federation and the council MPHE country is ringing with the mag- ee e American League Against War and | gegen y 2 Jof the Civil Servants of France, nificent victory of the Minneapolis C. Hi . . . Fascism called for a pledge to ful-| cee jmeeting to discuss the situation, We Ae ahd joblens-warkers who Lieve suai fill this slogan. Pres | adjourned without issuing a strike won their demands for bread and jobs by a tremendous demonstration and struggle with the City administration. The Minneapolis victory shows what the C. W. A. jobless can accomplish when they are led by militant leaders, by real working-class fighters, by Communists, representing the true interests of the masses and ready to face all obstacles and dangers in defense of those interests. As usual, the capitalist city government of Min- neapolis, which is no different from any other capi- talist city government, showed its ruling class colors when confronted by the demands of the C. W. A Jobless for work, for food and adequate relief. The “democratic” government of the city bared the naked ruling class brutality that lies behind all the sweet- sounding phraseology of “American democracy.” It Was with machine guns and tear gas bombs that the city officials of Minneax answered the workers’ ery for bread and work But this ruling class brutality did not cow the ©. W. A. workers. This time the workers were not sold out by a treacherous, “negotiating,” class-colla- baration leadership of the Socialist Party or some other fake “radical” Party. This time the workers were led by Communists, by class-conscious, devoted fighters of the working-class, basing themselves, not on a policy of class-collaboration, but of class strug- gle against the capitalist slavery And it was because they possessed the advantage of this leadership that the Minneapolis workers wrested bread and jobs, the promise of C. W. A. con- to the ee * 7 tinuation from the at-first, contemptuous officials Projects! Fight the coolie wages of the “work | German Ambassador in Washing-| but several workers braved the|of the American League Against | the aaee leks Sonate 300 | of the Welfare Board relief!” ton and the German Consul in New| miniature arsenal the police had| War and Fascism; Roberts of the| ‘he demand roared out by | Tt lesson of Minneapolis must sweep the country wild-fire. The lesson of Minneapolis is that mass power with Communist leadership can win work, relief, and break down the coolie, hunger pro- gram of the Roosevelt government and the city administrations. Similar demonstrations must take place wherever C. W. A. workers are being flung into the streets, wherever the capitalist officials are trying to plant their new “Work Relief” Trap which is nothing but a miserable forced labor scheme at coolie wages, and for only a handful of the C. W. A. men at that. It is significant that the demand for the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) was prominent throughout the Minneapolis demonstration. Unemployment Insurance is one of the most vital needs of the American working class at this moment—insurance against hunger to be paid for by the capitalist government and the mil- lionaire employers. The fight for the passage of this bili must be | the response to the two resolutions part of all struggles for relief and jobs. Jobless and Minneapolis has blazed the They have shown what can be done to de- feat the Roosevelt starvation decrees, the decrees abolishing the C. W. A. jobs and setting up the “work relief” slavery. C. W. A. workers everywhere! workers on the jobs! way. Organize demonstrations before all relief boards, in front of all Welfare Boards and C.W.A. offices protesting against the C.W.A. aboiition! Demand full union wages on all government Friday night’s mass meeting, on| the 17th anniversary of America’s | entry into the world war, was a resounding demonstration of the determination of New York work-| ers to build a gigantic fighting front against the coming imperial- | ist war. The hall was filled to the| last seat with a crowd which ex- pressed its fervent, militant deter- | mination to fight war with thun- derous responses to all the speak- | ers, Many Join League |. When Tallentire called for ac-! tion, called on all those who meant | |to join the New York branch of | the League and carry on the day | |to day struggle against war, more |than half of the gigantic audience | stood up in pledge of readiness to Mee A roar of “Aye!” which could be heard far out into the street, was bartirsaie for approval, the first a |pledge to refuse to support the | Sovernment in the coming war, to | organize and build a fighting or-| | ganization against war, and to mo-| bilize a million New York workers to strike and demonstrate against war on Aug. 1, the 20th anniver- sary of the beginning of the World War. Demand Release of Thaelmann | The second resolution, which was immediately telegraphed jing against the preparations Chicago Anti- War Pickets Face ‘800 in Pittsburgh Police; 500 at Rally in Boston CHICAGO, April 8—The Crib- ben and Sexton stove manufactur- ing plant at Chicago Ave. and Sac- ramento Bivd., was an armed camp Friday afternoon when squads of police and red squad plain clothes- men kept workers from demonstrat- to manufacture shells at the plant. None were allowed to stand still within two blocks of the factory, | | the speakers and about five others. | The | but because of no attendance had | at the S. P. “demonstration” were “demonstration” was started to be ended within ten or fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, at the Parkman Band- stand, tremendous enthusiasm and | cheering greeted the words of the speakers. Ruby Cooper, who acted as chairman, introduced Mallinger | ROOSEVELT | | “ Borel Demand Freedom | For, Thaelmann, Demand Scottsboro and | Other Class War | Victims Be Freed PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Immediate release of Ernst Thaelmann by | | call, At the same time they de- nounced the Communist Party which has called for a united front of real struggle against the wage- cuts and dismissals, and for a strike of all civil servants on May 1. Meanwhile telephone workers in Paris staged a short strike in pro- test, as did telegraph operators, for five hours, workers in the govern- ment mint for half an hour, workers in the state tobacco works at Le Mans for one hour, School teach- ers voted a protest resolution. Protest meetings, showing a high degree of indignation and militancy are being held in many cities in France, passing vigorous resolutions and demanding strike action. Everywhere the leaders of the re- formist unions are striving to put a brake on the workers’ militancy and to brake the immense rank and file demand for strike. The revolutionary Unitary Labor Federation, supported by the Com- munist Party, has issued a call for strike May 1, and for a united front of all workers for militant resistance to the government’s program, ‘McLevy, S.P. Mayor Forced to Abandon . ‘ * | Spread the fight against hunger! Do not let | Y°TK, was a fiery protest against ready, and distributed anti-war leaf- | Young Communist League; H. Carter iat ae ae ee Plans to GreetNazis 'HE fake “radical” Farmer-Labor Governor, Olson, | ths bankicw sad tele |the imprisonment and torture of) lets. of the International Labor Defense | “~~”. ae % —— pareai! government starve the work- rm . je¢|Negie Library here Thursday T together with all the reactionary capitalist press |Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the eye |and John Weber of the Communist is already trying to snatch the fruits of the workers ers and their families in order to protect their fat profits! Severing, Ger (Continued from Page 1) ® had already written! And what he had already written was damn- ing enough! There was not the slightest at- tempt of the Volks-Zeitung to con- ceal the fact that they were quoting from Severing’s own previous writ- ings. That, precisely, was the point of the article—to show that already Severing’s writings traced a road that could not but lead to Fascism. | And it was this that was cooked | up by the Socialist press, begin- | Hitler Pension Hindenburg Wins Return : * Of Frau Ebert’s Pension —— F. "© wireless to Twa Nuw YoRK These, .|.. BERLIN, April 4.—The penston { ’ of Frau bert widow of the first: , President. ofthe German }Re-; ‘public, has been restored ‘after. shaving been canceled’ when }the, «Nazis came into power a! year; i | League Against War and Fascism, German Communist Party, and the 200,000 other anti-fascists impris- | oned by the Nazis, a demand for | their release, and a pledge to carry | on the struggle until the demand is} fulfilled. | A collection of $357, toward the war-chest of the League Against War and Fascism, was contributed. Harry F. Ward, newly elected na- tional chairman of the American was greeted with tremendous ap- plause as he declared that only the| organized power of the exploited masses of the world could put an} end to war. Advances Revolutionary Slogan “You are seeing with open eyes the greatest preparations for mass murder in the history of the world,” he declared, and showed how all the efforts of the imperialists are call of the Young Communist League | tions and numpers of delegations 500 Demonstrate in Rain in Boston BOSTON, Mass. — Despite cold weather and rain over 500 adult and young workers responded to the and demonstrated on April 6 against the war preparations of the Roose- velt government. The demonstra- tion was held at the Parkman Band- stand on Boston Common. Hun- dreds of protest postcards, resolu- forced the city authorities to grant the permit for the Bandstand. The militancy of the demonstra- tion and the attendance stood out in sharp contrast to the efforts of the Boston Socialist leaders to split the anti-war struggle by calling a “demonstration” at the same time, only a short distance away. Present for Negro Rights; Jack Davis, of | American-owned Firestone tire com- \Silver Shirt Leader Party. US. Plant in Spain in Lockout of Men BILBAO, Spain, April 8. — The pany closed its doors Friday when 300 workers struck in protest against the firing of several workers for union activity. The general strike at Zaragosa was resumed as several plants re- fused to reinstate workers who had been on strike. night, at which Leo Gallagher and | Ada Wright were the guest speak- ‘ers. Resolutions demanding the release of Thaelmann, the Scotts- boro boys, Ernst Torgler, and Phil Frankfeld, Jim Egan, and_ the Rankin boys, local political prison- ers, all victims of capitalist ter- ror, were also passed unanimously Tumultous ovations were given Mother Wright and Gallagher as they took the platform to expose the class war nature of capitalist oppression both here and abroad, in the attempts to lynch the nine Scottsboro boys in the south, and revolutionary leaders of the work- ing class in fascist Germany. A united front of white and Ne- gro workers against chauvinist terrorism was pledged in the storm of applause which greeted Mother Wright‘s militant declara- tion to “continue in the struggle Protest Forces Change, But His Cops Beat Demonstrators (Special to the Daily Worker) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April 8.—Socialist Mayor Jasper Mc- Levy, who last week had de- clared his determination to give an official welcome to the Nazi captain and officers of the S.S. _ Europa on the night of April 6, | found the mass protest too much for him, and slipped out of town before the Nazis arrived. But he left instructions to his police force to smash the heads of demonstrators who massed in front of the Mosque, where the Nazis were guests at a “con- cert.” Three workers were’ se- verely clubbed by McLevy’s cops i | Charged With Robber: ning with the Jewish Daily For- | ago, tt wag learned today.’ : engaged in directing their war-|t h e Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s 8 ¥ against oppression, even should/when the American League ward last week, as a “frightful | Ss me cisiiiation | eae ald bie’ making antagonisms into an attack| League, each one declaring the the lives of her two boys, Roy and| Against War and Fascism organ- Communist forgery’! (For full] analysis of the “Forward” canard | see Daily Worker of Thursday, April 5). This week the Socialist New Leader, which has led its readers | to expect a continuation of this alleged “shocking” expose, treads have been the result of interven- tion by President von: Hinden-" , burg, Herr Ebert's successor and ‘en admirer of the “harnessmaker,| | President,” | Frau Ebert has been’ living’ in“ retirement j since on the great Union of Soviet Re- publics, | “The American imperialists,” he declared, “will hesitate to make war if they see in the working class a united determination to use that occasion to so alter the political and economic form of the United militant determination to fight war of the organized workers and toil- ers they represent. James Lerner, youth organizer of the League, re- ported on the militant successes of young workers and students in anti- war actions; Robert W. Dunne of the Labor Research Association HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 8. —Police here have been forced to arrest Eugene R. Case, state leader of the Silver Shirts and the Silver Legion, anti-Negro, Jew-baiting fascist organization, as a result of his identification as a robber by several hold-up and Andy Wright, be taken by the southern lynch court.” She described the cruel frame- up by which white ruling classes of the south seek hte lives of the nine innocent Negro boys, now in jail three years, whose lives have been saved solely by the work of ized a mass meeting near the hall. The cops had instructions to be rough, but to make no ar- rests. Mass picketing of the hall con- tinued for more than an hour, and was followed by an anti- states ak” thal ae ‘ egret er been saved solely Kk of | fascist parade through the main ane itself, af : F: a au eir power will be| gave a concrete account of what se e LL.D. an ie mass protests | streets of the town, in which a ihe air Worker refutation page ona rae re ee aa war micas dn. tendits for the cap ‘ of workers in all countries number of Socialist Party mem- Anes CR Great slander net & , Friedrich Ebert Jr., was re- Workers’ Representatives Get | talists and misery for the workers, Dollfuss Fires 1,200 Gallagher, fighting I-L.D. attor-| hers joined. feeble, timid, restricted reprint of | the already refuted piddling opera- bouffe “Forward” photostats. The | editors of the New Leader, ap- parently, are quite aware that their “case” proving a “Communist | forgery” is constructed of the thinnest and most transparent ice. In the faee of the attached | reprint from the New York Times, can the New Leader deny | that Severing, German Socialist | leader, is collecting a pension | from the Hitler government? | leased ‘ on } Christmas from the | Orapienberg concentration eamp, wiere he had, been” confined : for, six months, CS (Carl “ Severing, <4 for ¢ thirteen “years Prussian Fnterior” Minister’ (has. obtained: restoration * o i Can they now deny that one of the leaders of the German | Socialist Party is now under the direct protection of the Fascist the Foreign nally of the Socialist New Leader, does |the Fascist government of Ger- while the Socialist leaders collect pensions from the bloody beast, Ovation Thunderous applause greeted Clara Shavelson, of the United Council of Working Class Women; Dale Jones, of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union; Alexander Hoff- man, of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union; Dr. Rubin Young, of the League of Struggle and Roger Baldwin of the Civil Lib- erties Union and Annie E. Gray of the Women’s Peace Society, repre- senting organizations critical of the political platform of the Commu- nist Party, each declared that “there can be no real fight against war in which the Communists are not a part.” ‘by the Dollfuss-Heimweha govern- | for Political Views VIENNA, April 7.—Dismissal of 1,200 city officials and teachers of the Vienna municipality, for their political views, were ordered ney, attorney, extended the revolu- tionary greetings of European workers and repeated Dimitroff’s statement that the question of sav- ing Thaelmann’s life from the Nazi hell-hounds is “a matter of the revolutionary honor of the ment Friday. workers of the world.” He em- phasized that only united mass protests by the workers will suc- ceed in saving class prisoners, and implored the workers of the U.S. | to weld a united front for the struggle against fascism here, showing that the splitting tactics were responsible for establishment, of the Hitler regime, C. P. Convention Gives Caben Revolutionary Leaders Ovation wv De NAY UNITY OF BROTHER PARTIES WELDED IN COMMON FIGHT ON AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Hitler government, writing a many aa Thaelmann and | Hitler? book under the patronage of |Torgler in jail, while protecting| The Socialist editors can manu- By HARRY GANNES | ae “« Py | sali < ers : blishment of a workers’ and farm- perialism, dozens of our comrades ‘We have seen how the Commu-, by our struggle here for our own the Hitler government? the Socialist leader Severing so| facture all their little comic-opera| oy, pes ee Sty ; te cer i ‘i What kind of book is it that Hit-|that he can write his “memoirs” |“forgeries” and “erpescer Senne EVELAND, Wfrch 8—Two out-' ers’ government within a stone’s | have lost their lives; hundreds have| nist Party of the United States | demands, but that we can never win ler’s Minister Goebbels finds worth while to support with a govern- ment pension? Will there be any denunciation of the Fascists in it? Why, one would ask the editors |at his summer home at Bielefeld? | Why does Torgler refuse all crafty offers of the Fascists to be freed if he will promise to give jup the fight against the Nazis, ing collects his Fascist pension punctually, from the murderers who torture Socialist and Commu- nist workers in the concentration camps. New Struggles Loom in Germany —- ¢ By ANNA SCHULTZ (Continued from Page 4) ity as the revolutionary workers. In Berlin they detected, under the | police of Berlin, the open murder of the leader of our Hamburg party, Comrade Willie Dolgar, last Febru- ary, the murder of 3,000 revolution- | ary workers and anti-fascists, is not are preparing for a new robber war against our proletarian fatherland, | the Soviet Union, we can tell them that if you turn your guns against the Soviet Union the Red Army of an 1 f 67 st t | an expression of strength of the) millions will march to the storm of See ihe Soviet cublen. The Tecke| Hitler government, but it is an ex-| the revolution for the defense of the troop was arrested and six were | Pression of their fear for the daily | Soviet Union. executed. The reactionary French journalist, Sauerwein, gave as his impression of the situation of Berlin in the col- umns of the Paris Soir, “There are | Srowing revolutionary strength of | the German working class, a fear of | tion, | The fire of struggle against fas- Having leaders such as Dimitroff, haying fighters such as the heroic ;| the approaching proletarian revolu-| workers of Austria, who even under | the gallows of Dollfuss still cry out “Long live the third international! standing leaders of the heroic Cuban Communist Party electrified the 500 delegates to new outbursts of enthusiastic expressions of in- ternational working class solidarity by their speeches yesterday at the 8th National Convention of the Com- munist Party here. Through the participation and contributions to the discussion of these delegates was being welded the strongest bonds yet forged between these two brother parties that have fought side by side against the common enemy, American imperi- alism, ‘The first spokesman of the Cuban party is one of the foremost lead- ers of the Cuban National Con- federation of Labor, which has within its ranks the majority of | the organized Cuban workers. We cannet here give his name, but in Cuba he is known to the majority of the Cuban workers as one who throw of the United States. I now present to you one of the great leaders in that revolutionary struggle!” It was many minutes before the Cuban comrade could speak, as cheers and shouts of solidarity shook the hall. “In the name of the Communist Party,” he began, “and of the trade unions, leader of the proletariat of Cuba, the Na- tional Confederation of Labor, whose last congress represented 431,000 workers, the majority of the Cuban workers, I greet this magni- ficent congress of our brother party, the Communist Party of the United States. Tells of Cuban Gains “In the name of the Confedera- tion I bring greetings to the lead- ers of your Party and Trade Union Unity League, Comrades Browder, Ford and Stachel. Together with yourselves I feel deeply the absence been imprisoned. “Cuban Workers Watch Convention” “Our experiences in leading the struggles of the revolutionary pro- letariat should serve as a lesson to the glorious T..U. U. L., just as much as the struggle of the T. U. L. has served us and will serve us as an example in the future” Referring directly to the delibera- tions of the Convention, the Cuban representative said: “The Cuban proletariat has its eyes focused on this Congress. We believe that through this conven- tion the Party will be able to pene- trate many of the basic industries and main enterprises. “We believe that out of this con- vention will come also more exten- sive support for the fight for the liberation of Cuba. Cuban Party Leader Speaks “We know that out of this con- gress will come still better relations forges its line of steel. This I could myself observe when I par- ticipated in the rich discussion which was carried on in the Negro commission. There I saw how through struggle for the correct line U.| the Party makes itself capable and prepared for its leadership of the proletarian revolution. Such strug- gle will help and stimulate us and the other Parties of the Caribbean who together with us have not yet reached such a high level in the struggle against our mistakes.” The comrade from the Cuban Party then dwelt in detail on the revolutionary struggles led by the Cuban Communist Party. After the stirring reception of the Speeches of the representatives of the Cuban brother party, expressed by repeated and lusty cheering, by the singing of the Internationale, leaders of the Communist Party, our demands except when we directly help the Cuban workers in their fight against American im- perialism.” To this Comrade Browder added: “Tt is in line with what I have said that we can especially be glad that We were able to send such a rep- resentative of the Communist Party, U.S. A, to go in our name to Cuba to attend the workers’ congress there just two months ago, as Com- rade James Ford who raised the prestige of our Party in Cuba.” Krumbein Pledges District's Support In closing, Comrade Browder said: “The presence of our Cuban com- trades is understood by all of us as the symbol of that world unity of the workers of every country em- bodied by the Communist Interna- tional which is the guarantee of our final success in every country.” Comrade Charles Krumbein, or- : ; r U.S. A., in turn arose and pledged | ganize: the Bete Beale th Wise heteed | Oo and social-fascism, in the Long live the Soviet Union!” our| suffered tortures under the bloody | of your great leader, Comrade} petween the working class of Cuba | their support to the Cuban Party of ihe Cae Pie plage wae fies ae ; atsgins sted Soak | sharpest struggle against two fronts, Party must be victorious, must de- Machado regime, and who has led | Foster.” and the United States. Standing | anq to the revolutionary masses of | that his 2 come out alive.” Another illustra-~ tion of the growing dissatisfaction in the ranks of Hitler's storm troops troops is the latest decree of Hitler which prohibits jokes at the expense of the Nazis or any possible ambi- guity of expression concerning Hit- ler. But the storm troopers continue to crack their jokes. They continue to sing: “Hitler give us bread or we will turn Red,” or “Come, Mr. Hit- Jer, be our guest and give us half of what you promised us.” The sharpening of the terror, and the murder of our leaders, of Com- the Communist Party of Germany has schooled its ranks and has | raised a new generation of revolu- | tionary fighters, who, armed with Leninism, will challenge even the greatest difficulties. We have before us the gigantic example of the vic- |torious proletariat of the Soviet Union. The world historic victories of socialism under the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union have shown to millions of {proletarians the world over that only the proletarian dictatorship can bring jobs and bread, peace and freedom, and bring unprecedented rades John Schehr, Schoenhaar, advances for the people. When | feat capitalism and fascism. Dimi- | troff showed the whole world what |4s real heroism. Only in the ranks | of Bolshevism can such heroism be | Seen. We must raise and organize millions of Dimitroffs for the over- throw of capitalism, for the over- throw of the Hitler dictatorship and for the establishment of Soviet Ger- | many and Soviet America. Long live the revolutionary struggles for Soviets! Long live the defense of the Soviet Union! | Long live the Communist Party of | the United States! Long live So- | viet Germany and Soviet Amer- ica! Long live the Communist Schwartz and Steinfurt by the secret | today the imperialists of the world! International! f the workers in their revolutionary struggles and strikes in the face of the most ferocious terror, after Machado’s overthrow. Introduced By Ford He was introduced by James Ford who recently attended the Fourth Congress of the Cuban National Confederation of Labor in Havana. “T attended the Fourth Congress of the Confederation where 2,000 dele- gates expressed their solidarity with the American workers,” declared Comrade Ford in introducing the representative of the revolutionary trade unions of Cuba. “The Com- munist Party of Cuba is leading the workers in the struggle for the es- The Cuban revolutionary leader then told of the great gains made by his organization. “During the past year, the Con- federation, with the help of the international organization and with constant struggle against our enemies, has increased its member- ship through great struggles from 12,000 to many hundreds of thou- sands.” He said this was secured on the basis of struggle against terror and by the jailing of thousands of work- ers and through the blood of others. “In the sugar mills of Jaronu, Sen- ado, Bagunaos, Tacajo and other great properties of American im- 4j here before this convention I stretch out my hand to the best section of the working class of the United States ni solidarity!” With this stirring appeal the whole convention rose and cheered. A representative of the Central Committee of the Cuban Party was then introduced. “In his great speech, Comrade Browder, and Comrade Stachel, as well as in the speeches of other re- porters and delegates, your Party again proved once more what we have seen in the past—especially during the last few years—and that is an unflinching struggle against right and left opportunism. Cuba. Browder Speaks j rade Earl Browder, “just to remind ourselves that the development of this struggle of the workers in the United States for our own immedi- ate demands is against American imperialism, and, therefore, directly helps the Cuban workers and other people oppressed by American im- perialism. This is all very good. But in addition to that, if we want to be a real Bolshevik party, we have to understand that our inter- nationalism is more direct than that. We have the task not only “It is not enough,” declared Com- | district would increase manifold “all our activities and struggle for the liberation of the Cuban masses,” “We want to call to your atten- tion,” said Comrade William Pat- § terson, “to the glorious manner in) which our heroic comrades in Cuba rallied to the defense of the Scotts- boro boys, the tremendous part they Played in the attempt to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, and other class war prisoners, “We, the Communist Party frac- tion in the International Labor De- fense, pledge ourselves to influence that organization to material sup- port of the development of the revo- of weakening American imperialism lutionary movement tn Cuba.”