The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1934, Page 6

ea Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934 Daily QWorker | UHTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 F BY THE 13th | Street, New York, N. Y. ALgonquin 4-7954. Telephone tes: ubscription Ra pean Race 1 $6.00 ear, $9.00 Rally Behind the Alabama Miners ! Alabama has h by ad of terro t 21,000 s with machine ey point out they should against their coal mines and the y this Morgan corpora- have s and ur e for the knit their fight Ik out in the mest por protest the rs. Demand ai of the National Guards utized gunmen. brutal murder Ala. Workers’ organizations behind the Alabama miners, t, fight against the reign of ist. them! mediate with the 1. O. Ty against the Montgomery, Rall to vernor ed | Two Imperialist Gangsters | "HE fight between Tokio and Washington | i is nothing but the fight between two ips of gangster imperialists, “muscling en one another’s profitable “territory.” | Japan is ready to warn Washington that it considers itself the sole “defender of peace and the guardian of the integrity of China” in the Far East. Wall Street naturally is “indignant.” imperialis of g i American ‘m is just as eager to be the “guardian ne integrity of China” as Japanese imperialism. In this way American imperialism merely expresses the fact that it is just as eager as Japanese im- perialism for the fat profits that can be wrung | frem the workers in the hell factories of Shanghai | and N: ing, where Chinese children spin silk for 6 cents a day. Wall Street poses as the defender of the Chinese } people against the wicked Japan. But it would be | impossible to decide which gang of imperialist robbers, Washington or Tokio, is more ruthless, more | brutal and savage in its exploitation of the Chinese masses. It is enough to remember that the Roosevelt government in its benevolence to the Chinese Masses has stationed gunboats all along the Yangtze River with cannon trained on the villages of the Chinese peasants. It is none other than Roosevelt who is providing the unspeakable torturer and mur- derer, Chiang Kai-Shek, with $50,000,000 to buy bombing planes and poison gas bombs to destroy the villages of Soviet China in the interior. Wall Street is horrified at the “aggression” of the Japanese Monroe Doctrine of the Far East. But does not American imperialism itself warn that it means to hog the profits of South Amer- ican exploitation against all imperialist rivals? Does not the Roosevelt government warn all other powers that it will resent any interference with, let us say, the Rockefeller holdings of Venezuela oil fields Dees not Wall Street imperialism dominate Cuba, Haiti, Latin America, and the Phillipines? . . . 'HE American working class has nothing to gain and everything to lose from the poison of the ji ic that the Wall Street prostitute press is now tr} to stir up against “the Japanese menace.” When Wall Street gets fat on the Chinese mas it is strengthening its ability to rob the American workers at home. Both the American and Japanese working class are the victims of their own” particular gang of imperialist robbers. Both Washington and Tokio are raping China. They are merely squabbling over the booty. Both Washington and Tokio are preparing to drown the Chinese revolution, the Chinese Soviets, in blocd. Both Washington and Tokio are sending their military machines against the Chinese Sov- iets, where the Chinese workers and peasants have destroyed the slavery of the landlords and ex- ploiters. Wall Street thinks that it will blind us to our starvation at home, and use us for cannon fodder to defend Morgan's investments in China, and to crush the new society of Soviet China. But against this Wall Street jingoism aimed at our cla banner of working class internationalism. We pledge that we will do our utmost to defend Soviet China. We pledge that we will not be the murderers of the Japanese wo: g class. places arms in our hands to If Wall Street defend Morgan's profits, we will not fail to strike a blow at the gangster imperialists of all brands, Washington, as well as Tokio. Down tools on May Ist! Let this international of la be an answer to the jingoism of the im- peria. ! Yorman Thomas and Socialism “MFHE time has now come,” Norman Thomas tells the workers in the So- cialist New Leader, “when it is the busi- ness of Socialists to get Socialism and not bother with reforms.” This sounds very radical. reactionary. Norman Thomas is telling the workers that it Actually it is higher wages, social insurance, Federal Unemploy- ment Insurance, to be paid for by the government and the bosses, etc., etc, “Now we must get So- cialism,” he says. But this theory plays right into the hands of the employers. Is it not clear that the fixing of the eyes of the workers on some vague “Socialism,” WHILE GIVING UP THE FIGHT FOR IMMEDI- ATE DEMANDS, permits the employers to continue their pelicies of placing the burdens of the crisis upon the backs of the working-class? He who talks about “Socialism” without leading the workers in bitter, relentless struggle for day- to-day concessions from the capitalists, who does not fight for higher wages, Federal unemployment insurance, etc., etc., is throwing dust into the eyes of the workers. ony the Communists, who are not afraid to slash the profits of the capitalists, who are not afraid to slash into the sacred private property of the banks and investors, who are not afraid to prepare for the smashing of capitalism, are really able to put up the best fight for the day to day needs of the working class, for higher wages, for better con- ditions, for relief and unemployment insurance. And conversely, it is because they are the best fighters for higher wages, for relief, for unemploy- ment insurance, that the Communists are the best fighters for Sccialism. t is impossible to fight for the overthrow of capitalism, for Socialism, without fighting with bull- dog relentlessness for the day to day “reforms” of higher wages, etc., etc. On May 1 let the working class down its tools! Let it strike a blow right here and now for such “reforms” as higher wages, better working condi- tions, unemployment insurance, etc. Cn May 1 let the working class strike a blow for Socialism by striking a blow to the “reform” of slashing into the capitalists’ profits! The fight for Socialism, the road to Soviet Power, is the road of day to day fights against capitalist wage slave exploitation! Down Tools on May Day! industry for war purposes, by spreading war senti- ment among the masses, and by militariz! youth in Civilian Concentration Camps. ernment. of the United States, intensifying its op- pression of the Cuban and Philippine masses, is partner to all the conspiracies of the great powers against the Soviet Union and the Soviet Districts of China. May Day finds the forces of expioitation and op- pression more rampant than ever. But the forces of resistance on the part cf the workers have been growing apace. Mass strikes in every industry are the order of the day. Protests azainst expliotation move the worke:s to go on strike even against the wish of the leaders of the A. F. of L., who have made peace with the bosses. Mass demonstrations for relief and against discontinuance of the C.W.A. jobs have rallied scores of thousands of workers in various sections of the country. Farmers’ revolts against foreclosures have become a feature of the countryside. Negro masses in the Scuth have or- ganized into militant unions together with the white workers to fight against bess terror and to demand the right to live. The country is astir with militant action. Clearly, the workers and the other fov.ers of America do not wish to bear their sufferings any longer. This situation demands that May Day of this year be a real fighting day of great masses of the - workers and farmers in the United Siates. The destroy the old government, establish their Soviet Communist Party of the U. S. A. appeals to the masses of America to make this day a great day of militant protest against capitalism, a day which Will strengthen the working-class of America, strengthen their brotherly ties with the workers of other countries and make them al! capable of win- ning battles against capitalism until the final battle will have come, when the workers and other toilers, (Continued from Page 1). rising in a revolution against capitalist rule, will Government, and proceed to the building of So- cialism, which will mean the “hal liberation, not oniy of the working-class, but of all mankind. The Communist Party of the U. S. A. appeals to every working-class organization, no matter what its affiliation, and to every Worker, no matter what his ‘organization, to help build a powerful united front May Day action. This means, in the first place, to down tools on May First. It means power- ful demonstrations of united workers from coast to coast. This can best be prepared by local every-day struggles of workers and farmers right now around Pressing local issues. May First of 1934 must become a red letter day in the history of the American working-class. Down tools on May First! Demonstrate in the streets for higher wages, for shorter hours of ‘ork, for the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), for immediate cash relief, against company unions, against compulsory arbitration, against discrimination in relief, against fascist poli- cies of the American government and against fascist formations, against the war preparations of the American government, for the defense of the Soviet Union, for the defense of the Chinese Soviets, for the defense of the Cuban masses struggling against Yankee imperialism, against the shipment of mu- nitions to aid the attack on the Chinese Soviets, for the release of all class-war prisoners, for solidarity with the working-class of Germany fighting against Fascism under the lecdership of the German Com- munist Party, for the release of the valiant fighter and leader of the German working-class, Ernst Thaelmann. Long live working-class unity in the struggle against capitalism! Long live red May Day, the day of international working-class solidarity! Forward to working-class victory! Forward to a Soviet America! brothers of Japan and China we raise the | useless for them to fight for such “reforms” as | Mendieta Forced to Free Anti-Strike Law Prisoners Fortifies U.S. Exploitation ‘Independence’ Scheme Conceals Shackles of Wall Street WASHINGTON, April 18.— President Roosevelt and Presi- |dent Stenio Vincent of Haiti yesterday issued a joint note | which pretends to represent jan agreement for complete polit- jical and financial independence of the Republic of Haiti, which has | been occupied by U. S. marines for 19 years. The agreement, which is a re- sponse to the growing indignation of the Haitian masses, seeks to ap- | pease them by continuing the rob- jbery of the Haitian masses by American imperialism, and the draining of the country's economic resources by Wall Street, in a more concealed form. Vincent As Wall Street Agent President Vincent and his gov- ernment will now play a more ac- tive role as the direct agents of | American imperialism, instead of | | the men from Washington and Wall | | Street, who have played this role| lin the past. | American imperialism controls | the customs of Haiti on the basis of the loan that was forced upon the Haitian masses in 1915. These | customs are controlled through the National Bank of Haiti, a sub- |sidiary of the National City Bank |of New York. The present agree- ment proposed to sell this bank to the Haitian government. To Protect U. S. Exporters In this agreement, guarantees are made for the protection of the in- terests of the Wall Street holders of $11,000,000 in outstanding Haitian bonds, thereby guaranteeing the continued looting of the Haitian masses by Wall Street. At the same time the Haitian government promises to keep the island a free field for further ex. ploitation by American imperialists. The agreement expresses the sup- | port of the Haitian government for the American imperialist policy of | aggression in Latin America, and the utilization of Haiti as a naval | base of the U.S. The U. S. marines will not be removed until October, No Alleviation for Masses The agreement means no allevia- | tion of the conditions of the masses | of Haiti. On the contrary, the con- fidence which Roosevelt expresses in the Haitian bourgeoisie is an ac- knowledgement of its sharp cam- paign of terror, which Roosevelt prefers to have carried out by Vin- cent than by his marines. Vincent meintains a state of siege throughout the country, which includes the suppression of the press, the prohibition of strikes, the prohi- bition of the right of assemblage, censorship of the mails, imprison- ment of revolutionaries and liberal opposition elements. Recently, the government denied the United Front Scottsboro Defense Committee to collect subscriptions and to hold meetings in defense of | the Scottsboro boys. Strengthen Wall Street Control The financial arrangements of the present agreement not only con- tinue Wall Street's strangle-hold in full force, but facilitate the increase of Wall Street exploitation of the Haitian masses, with the Haitian ruling class as its faithful agents and policemen. Against this robbery masked as “independence,” the Communist Party declares that only the com- plete cancellation by Wall Street and repudiation by Haiti of the robber Wall Street loans, the immediate, complete, and unconditional free- dom of Haiti from all obligations to Wall Street government, and the immediate withdrawal of all Ameri- can armed forces and naval and military establishments from the island, can lead toward indepen- dence for the Haitian masses, PLANT EXPLOSION KILLS 3 DAYTTN, Ohio—Three women were killed when a detonation at the United Fireworks Co. near here yesterday destroyed two buildings and shook buildings for miles arcund. Four others were injured. \Haitian Deal | THE LIBERAL MAYOR By Gropper @o ee ee sue Sub Drive Lag in Pittsburgh Calls for Quick Correction PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Lack of rev- olutionary action in the Daily Worker circulation drive is still no- ticeable among numerous units and mass crganizations in the Pitts- burgh District. So far this important concentra- tion district has obtained only about daily and Saturday subscriptions. Is this poor showing due to lack of interest amon workers in the Daily Worker? Experience proves this is not so. Get Subs Activity by comparatively few ecmrades in the New Kensington section, for example, resulted in 10 new subs for the “Daily.” The Brownsville section obtained nine McKeesport gained eight ; the Monessen Unit alone secured six new subs. Within a few days comrades in the Turtle Creel | Section secured 31 new subscrip- tions. In all these territories the workers are poverty-stricken, but they gladly subscribe to the.paper that fights for their interests. These results prove decisively that if workers are approached and the role of the Daily Worker explained to them, they subscribe. The trouble is that only a few comrades aro active getting subs. If every work- ing class organization would mobi- | lize its membership, if every class conscious worker would go out for new subs, we could easily double our circulation. Browder’s Report The report by Comrade Browder at the Party Convention in Cleve- Jand showed that the Daily Worker circulation is the weakest sector in Mass. Tech. Students’ Conference Votes to Join Anti-War League BOSTON.—The All-Tech Students Anti-war Conference held at Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology last Saturday, April 14, voted to affiliate with the American League Against War and Fascism. The students resolved “to ally our- selves with the working class in the struggle against war and fascism and not to support the United States Government in any war it may con- duct.” The students also resolved to support the peace policies of the Soviet Union; for the abolition of the R. O. T. C., etc. Among the speakers were N. Sparks of the Communist Party, Prof. H. W. L. Dana of the Execu- tive Committee of the American League 225 new subs on a quota of 900) our -battlefront. Every comrade realizes the great importance of reaching the American workers with the Daily Worker, but only a few so far do more than talk. The ccmrades who are active get- ting new subs show the way. We must fellow their example. Approach your friends and fel- low workers, talk to them about the Daily Worker and urge them to subscribe. Tell them that by subscribing now they wiil be sure of receiving a copy of the 24-page May Day edition of the Daily Worker. Comrades in the Pittsburgh Dis- trict and throughout the country! Bring the Daily Worker circulation drive up for discussion in your or- ganizations. is taken, that every class conscious worker particivates actively in gain- ing new. subscriptions for the “Daily,” and in helping to reach 500,000 new American workers with the 24-page May Day edition. Call Relief Workers League Convention For Sun, April 22 Workers on All Projects Urged to Elect Delegates NEW YORK.—The Relief Workers | League of Greater New York will hold its first city-wide convention on April 22, at 1 p.m., at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. Calls to the convention have been issued to all relief work projects, and workers on the job are urged to elect a delegate from the job action com- mittee regardless of whether or not he is a member of the Relief Work- ers League. The Relief Workers League was the first to enter the fight for pay on the jobs on C. W. A., won pay for the workers on many projects for time lest during rainy and freezing days, and picketing the C. W. offices, forced the C. W. A. adminis- tration to re-instate fired workers. It led the struggle against Jim Crowism on the projects. The Relief ‘Workers League is con- tinuing the struggle on the “work relief” projects. The city-wide con- vention will plan the struggles for the future period, and widen the | fight to embrace all the workers on | all the projects, See to it that action | Leading Women on US. Group for Paris. Anti-War Congress Mobilization Begun for | Women’s Delegation to July 28 Meet NEW YORK—The National Ex- ecutive Committee of the American Section of the International Women's Congress Against War and | Fascism, which will be held in Paris July, 28, 29, and 30 of this year has| already begun the work of mobi- lizing the widest sections of Ameri- | can women for the organized! struggle against war and fascism. | Down tools May 1 against fas- cism here and abroad, for the release of Thaelmann and all im- prisoned anti-fascists! Among the women already in- volved in this work are Margaret Forsyth, chairmen, who is an asso- ciate professor of Religious Educa- tion at Teachers College, Columbia University; Ella Reeve Bloor, one of the vice chairman, veteran revolu- | tionary; Winifred Chappell, another vice-chairman, secretary of the Methodist Federation of Social Ser- vice; and Margaret Schlaugh, third vice chairman, professor of English at New York University. The membership of the national executive commitiee shows the | broad appeal of this movement to every section of the American popu- lation. There are trade union rep- resentatives like Ann Burlak of the National Textile Workers Union, Rose Wortis of the Trade Union Unity Council; Nettie Selinger of the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, and a representative of the Needle Trade Workers Indus- trial Union. There are representa- tives of large pacifist organizations like Mrs. Annie Gray and Blanche Watson of the Women’s Peace So- ciety. Several outstanding women writers like Josephine Herbst, Grace Hut- chins, Babette Deutsch and Elinor Copenhave, the wife of Sherwood A.| Anderson support the Congress. In addition to representatives of large working class organizations like the United Council of Working- class Women, International Labor Defense, Workers International Re- lief, Workers Ex-Service Men's League, Veteran War Nurses, there are individuals like Mary Van Kleeck of the Russel Sage foundation, and Wiens Margaret Lamont of the Socialist Party. | * Demonstration Tomorrow at CubaConsulate NY Workers to Deman Freedom for All Cuban Workers NEW YORK.—The New York District of the Inter- national Labor Defense yes- terday called upon its mem- bership to support the dem- onstration called by the Anti-Im- perialist League fer Friday, April 29th, at 12 noon, in froat of the Cuban Conculate, 17 Battery Place to pretest the Mendieta terror in Cuba and demand the release of all political prisoners and the re- peal of the anti-strike laws. Many prominent speakers will address the demonstration, while a delegation of 12 presents the demands of New York workers to the Cuban Cousul. The Anti- Imperialist League urges ail or- ganizations to mobilize their membership for a mass demon- stration of solidarity with the Cuban masses, “8 HAVANA, April 18.—In the face of a powerful and growing series of strikes and mass demonstrations, l * the Caffrey-Mendieta government today was compelled to issue a de- cree of amnesty for about 2,000 workers imprisoned for violation of the anti-strike decrees. One hundred and fifty of these imprisoned workers have been on hunger strike, 71 of them for nine days; 20 of these have been re- Ported near death from exhaustion, This partial victory of the Cuban masses does not, however, release all political prisoners, and does not achieve the repeal of the terroristic anti-strike laws under which these workers were jailed, and a number have been killed. In the same decree, the Caffrey- Mendieta government seeks to drive a wedge between the Cuban and Negro workers, by providing that 75 per cent of workers in all pri- vate enterprises must be citizens of Cuba. Most of the non-citizen work- ers are Negroes, It also strengthens the power of American imperialism by prohibit- ing acquisition of land by non- Cubans, except for the development, of new industries—that is to say, except by the biggest American monopolies, which through Jeffer- son Caffrey, U. S. Ambassador, con- trol the Mendieta government, An apparent concession to the peasants, which, however, only bene- fits rich farmers, is made in the decree for establishing an agricul- fast credit bank and a homestead law. Two Steamers Rush to Bring Chelyuskin Refugees from Cape (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 18—The Soviet steamers Smolensk and Stalingrad are rushing toward Providence Bay, |to pick up the rescued refugees of the Chelyuskin expedition, the last of whom were taken by planes from | the ice-floe in the Bering Sea, where they had lived two months after the sinking of their ship. Meanwhile the icebreaker Kras- sin yesterday passed the Panama Canal, and headed north to take part in bringing the refugees back from their bleak Arctic haven, Thousands of radiograms from all parts of the world are pouring in to the far-off station at Cape Wellen, congratulating the Chel- yuskiners and the flyers who res- cued them. A great number of radiograms from all corners of the Soviet Union and from abroad are addressed to Professor Otto Schmidt, leader of the expedition, wishing him a speedy recovery from the pneumonia which he con- tracted during his last days on the ice-floe. Down tools May 1 against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China! for Communists in Month of March The striking gains made by the Communist. Party in the recent elections in South Wales are of great significance for the revolu- tionary movement. These gains, in which the growth of the Party reveals a high degree of revolu- tionizing of sections of the work- ing class who formerly supported the Labor Party, are made in one of the chief coal mining districts of Great Britain, the center of some of the bitterest labor strug- sles of recent years —Editor. ee By IDRIS COX The results of the local elections in South Wales this year bring out more clearly than ever the big pros- ects for building a strong Com- munist Party in the area. While South Wales shared in the general “swing to Labor” through- out the country, the significant feature about the election results where there were Communist con- tests is that the swing to Commu- nism was much greater. This is proved conclusively by taking twelve places where Labor and Communist candidates con- 40,000 Votes Are Cast! Candi- Communist Labor Average Average | Year date: Vote Vote 12 839 1,300 12 1,015 1,498 These contcsts took place in the Rhondda, Aberdare, Maesteg and other places where Labor has had a majority for many years and where it is unusual for “Indepen- dent” candidates to contest. The result is that Labor receives many vetes frem Tory and Liberal elements, who are anxious to keep out the Communists. Despite this, the Labor vote only increased by 15 per cent, but the Communist vote by 21 por cent. Communist Vote for County cuncils Actually, the Communist vote in- creased by nearly 50 per cent in most places. For the County Councils there were 28 Communist candidates, who received a total of 12,874 votes—an average of 460 for each candidate, compared with 322 three years ago. In the .County of Glamorgan, where there continues to be the great mass activity following upon the big march to the P.A.C. last November, the Communist candi- dates made a big advance—ten can- didates polling 8,043 votes, an aver- age of 894 for each candidate, and tested both in 1933 and 1934; one candidate being elected to the County Council with 1,987 votes. In all these contests the Com- munist candidates polled 45 per cent of the Labor vote, In Monmouthshire also there was an. increased vote—12 candidates polling 4,263 votes; an averaze of 355 for each candidate, and one Com- munist being elected to the County Council with 963 votes. Communist Vote for Urban Councils ‘The results of the Urban Council elections show even a bigger ad- vance towards Communism. Thirty-three Communist and seven Workers’ candidates polled 27.230 votes, an average of 681 for each candidate, representing 58 per cent of the Labor vote, The result of the Urban Council The Communist vote was 29 per cent of the total and 58 per cent of the labor yote. These figures include places where Communist candidates ap- peared for the first time, and others where the Communist Party is just beginning to have a footing. But if we take the county of Gla- morgan, where the Communist Pariy has carried out great mass activity and has strong infiucnce, ® | Red Vote ' Increased by the following analysis shows even a greater advance: Candi- Total Aver, dates Vote Cand. Communist 16,306 959 | Gabor... 23,493 1,566 Independent. 11,101 1,009 Total Poll .....17 51,700 3,041 Here the Communist vote was 32 per cent of the total and 61 per cent of the labor vote. In the Rhondda Valley, where the Cemmunist Party has established itself for many years, the analysis of the Urban Council eleztion re- sults shows even a better situation, as follows: ‘ Candi- Total Aver. elections give the following analysis: dates Vote Candi- Total Ave:. Cand. dates Vote Cand.|Communist ....9 11598 1,288 Communist 40 27,230 681 |Labor .... 8 16,750 2,093 Labor ... 45,043 1,185 [Independent 6 8,356 = 1,393 Independent 21,304 4g | Total Poll......9 36704 4078 Total Poll.. 40 93,677 2,342| The Communist Party registered 32 per cent cf the total poll in this area and 62 per cent of the Labor voie. During the month of March over 40,000 vctes in all were cast for the Pelicy of the Communit Party. Even allowing for the duplication of the same workers voting in the County Council and Urban Council elections, there were still over 32,000 workers voting for the Communist Policy, Communist Vote Shows Great Gains in South Wales Coal Area 21 Percent During One Year In the election campaign, not only did the Communist candidates put. forward the immediate demands of the workers for struggle, and fought for this program in words and ac- tion, but also cJearly brought for- Ward the fundamental aims of the Communist Party in relation to South Wales in the struggle for Soviet power. Scores of workers joined the Communist Party during and after the eection campaisn, but still the main weakness is that not suffiient members are won into the ranks of the Cemmunist Party. In places where over 1,000 votes were cast for the Communist pelicy, ther: aze less than twelve Communist Party members! The big task now in South Wales is to harness the forces of the work- es won to the support of the Com- munist Party in the election cam- paign in order to build the unity of the workers for the fight against the new Unemployment Bill, for the demands of the National Cor of Action, against the terrible dan, ser of arbitration for the Wi miners and for strike action to cure a new agreement.