The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY APRIL 24, 1934 ~t Daily QWorker TRNTRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAS) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE CO., INC., 56 E, 13th COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING Street, New York, N. ¥ Telephone ALgonquin 4-7954 al Press B Room 705, Chicago, nL Subscription Rates: hattan and Bronx), 1 $2.00; 1 month, and Canada $3.00 monthiy year, 0.75 cents. $9.00; 78 cents. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1934. Spread the Auto Strike HE anti-strike floodgates in the auto industry have finally been broken through, and between 10,000 and 12,000 auto workers are on strike in Cleveland and St. Overriding all efforts of the top A. F. of L. leaders to prevent the strike, the Fisher Body and Chevrolet workers in these cities by their determina- tion and enthusiasm tion Louis. for struggle have forced ac- Every worker should rally to their support, should | bend every effort to see that these strikes end in victory for the workers and their organization. But the Cleveland and St. Louis workers do not enter the battle unscathed, As the Daily Worker pointed out, the whole effort of the Roosevelt ad- ministration, working hand-in-glove with the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Commerce and the Green, Collins & Co, leadership of the A. F. of L., was to delay and thwart strike action by the auto workers at the peak of the season. When the majority of the 250,000 auto workers in this country were ready for a mighty battle that would win them the Roosevelt government, thanks to the yeoman service of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, was able to spike action at that time. Now a whole series of scattered auto strikes have been going on in Wisconsin, Toledo, and Detroit. The strength of the auto workers has been diverted and sapped by their leaders, through mani- pulations with President Roosevelt and the Auto- mobile Labor Board. But the action of the Cleveland and St. Louis workers should arouse the workers of the entire auto industry to new determination and action. The strike should immediately be spread. In every auto local, in every auto plant, the workers should now take up the question of joining this strike, of sup- porting their fellow workers in Fisher Body and Chevrolet and fighting for their own demands. The Cleveland and St. Louis workers must re- member that their leaders at a meeting in Pontiac, Mich., together with Collins and the other A. F. of L. betrayers agreed not to call a strike. They called for reliance on the Automobile Labor Board. A strike was forced over their heads. But they still have their hands on the guiding threads, and they will do everything possible to work with the Auto- mobile Labor Board (which will come into the strike quickly) in order to defeat the workers’ demands, to prevent the strike from spreading. . 'VERY maneuver of the Automobile Labor Board should be rejected, as the direct representative of the automobile bosses, The immediate problem of the strikers in or- der to strengthen their strike, to avert betrayals, to rally the maximum fighting spirit of the workers is to force through the election of rank and file broad strike committees. Every department in all the plants should have their representatives on the strike committee. There must be mass picketing. As one striker in Detroit said: “We want a picket line, not a lovers’ lane!” In Cleveland thousands of workers were drawn to the strike front, but kept from the picket line by their leaders. They know their place is on the picket lines, There must be no settlement without a meeting of all the strikers and a vote of the workers. The strikers should demand a rank and file negotiations committee to meet with the bosses to discuss the demands, and should not leave this most important matter to those leaders who fought against and are now trying to cripple the strike. The Cleveland and St. Louis workers have thrown down the challenge and are backing it up with militant action, It should be taken up by auto workers everywhere, in Detroit, Flint, Pontiac. Now is another opportunity for the auto workers to win their demands of union recognition and higher wages, despite the disemboweling betrayals, the de- Jays and sell-outs by their A. F. of L. leaders. “Traditional Differentials” Slane insisting on extending the 10 per cent wage cut for railroad workers, President Roosevelt obliged the Southern capitalists, closely connected with Wall Street, by slashing the code wages for miners from $4.60 a day to $3.80. In this way, Roosevelt widened by a deeper gap the already existing differentials between wages in the North and South. At the same time, Roosevelt ordered the 21,000 Negro and white miners in Birmingham to stop their strike against the wage differentials and to bow down to their traditional low wages and jim- crow conditions. In fact, Roosevelt, declared it is a principle of the N. R. A. to maintain and enforce wage differ- entials to suit the needs of the bosses. “On the question of Southern wage differentials,” he said in a dictatorial letter to the Southern workers, “the recovery act (Section 7c) recognizes differentials ac- cording to locality. It is not the purpose of the Administration, by sudden or explosive change, to impair Southern industry by refusing to recognize traditional differentials.” . . Te is great news to the Southern coal, iron, tex- tile and railroad magnates. Their policy of double traditional differentials are upheld by President Roosevelt and the N. R. A. The government or- ders the Negro workers to accept their differentials, and the white workers of the South to kow-tow to the lower wages enforced on them. As the Daily Worker pointed out in a previous editorial, this is not a blow against Southern Ne~ gto and white labor alone, It hits the entire Amen $6.00; | Roosevelt, by slashing and thern wage differentials, gives as to slashing wages of the whole 1 working class. The lower the wages of ‘0 workers, the lower the wages of all work- h, the easier for the bosses in the drive dowr wages white m w strii oa ners, ified e against eject Roosevelt's order Strike stronger than into the battle the iron workers. Roosevelt's order applies to in the South, and should be rejected through increased and extended strike who have he They ever. ould move to draw ore and steel every worker by them action Less Milk for Babies--- More Profits for Trusts NOTHER cent a quart for milk. That is the order of the New York State Milk Control Division. That brings a quart of milk to 13 cents. The dairy farmer gets two cents for it, and slaves at the rate of two cents an hour for his labor. The Wall Street monopolies get the dif- ference in a steady stream of golden prof- its and dividends. Borden and Sheffield, both con- trolled by Morgan banks or other Wall Street in- terests, get the benefit of the State's ruling. The new ruling means $13,000,000 more a year for them. The State Commission, applying the Roosevelt Policies of the A. A. A., wants to accomplish three things: One, to reduce the supply of milk through reduced production. There is “too much milk” say these capitalist officials, while literally millions of working class babies face disease or worse for lack of milk. Secondly, the State wants to drive the small producer and the small distributor out of business, leaving the monopolies in full control of the situation. And thirdly, all this is summed up in the main purpose of raising milk prices to keep profits high. It is this which makes ironic the hypocrisy of the milk trusts who exclaim in indignation that they are having these new profits forced upon them by a cruel Milk Commission! The Commission is doing exactly what they are instructed to do by the monopolies whom they serve. And the action of Mayor La Guardia and the New York Evening Post are even more disgusting in their hypocrisy. La Guardia threatens “to run to his friends in Washington.” But it is precisely these “friends” who are now applying exactly the same program through the A. A. A.) And the Post knows very well that the Supreme Court has just ruled that the monopolies are fully entitled to have their profits protected by State price fixing! It is the mothers of New York City, the workers and their families alone who can smash this new hideous robbery of the milk of children. Let the farmer get five cents a quart! Let the consumer pay not more than nine cents for this! Wipe out the monopoly profits! Mass demonstra- tions before the dairy trusts, before the homes of the Aldermen! A Lesson for the Party ‘VER so often, we repeat Lenin’s famous statement, that a Communist news- paper must be the “collective agitator and organizer.” And ever so often when ex- cellent opportunities are at hand to realize Lenin’s statement, such opportunities are neglected. Take the auto industry. Con- sider the city of Detroit. Despite the be- trayals of the American Federation of Labor lead- ers, the situation in the auto plants in Detroit continues to be tense. The workers are by no means satisfied with their conditfons, Strike and organ- ization sentiments continue to grow. In Detroit, the Party really concentrates on one industry, the auto industry. The center of the concentration activities is the auto plant, and vari- ous departments in the plant. Is it not clear that under such conditions, that the Daily Worker dis- tribution must, first of all, be organized around the various auto plants? But what are the facts? In the whole city of Detroit, with hundreds of plants, the Daily is sold regularly only at one auto plant! Can we, then, speak of the Daily as being the “collective organizer” when it is sold only at one plant? But what is even more revealing, is the fact that in the same city there are 10 func- tioning shop nuclei. How can our shop nuclei then carry on “collective agitation, propaganda and or- ganization” if they do not organize the sale of the Daily at the very plants where they function? At the time of the threatened general strike, the Detroit capitalist press, the radio, the pulpit, all performed their duty as the “collective organizer” of the auto manufacturers. At every turn of the workers’ life during the day, he could hear these forces shout into his ears, “Don’t strike!” Can we Say that the bosses’ agitation carried on by their “collective organizers” has had no effect on the workers? It would be foolhardy to maintain so. The fact is that the A. F. of L. leaders were helped in their treacheries by the poison propaganda of the capitalist press. The Daily Worker, in the stirring days of the last week in March, when the auto workers were itching to strike, devoted its columns, its editorials, to the auto situation. It tried earnestly to fulfill its role as the “collective agitator, propagandist and organizer.” The Daily has been continuing ever since to pay its major attention to the struggles in the auto industry. But frankly, of what value are the stories in the Daily, the editorials, the struggle against the A. F. of L, strikebreaking policies, if it does not reach the workers for whom it is writ- ten, in the first place, for the workers in the shops? About every item which appears in the Daily, it must be first of all considered what effect it will hhave on the workers, Will the story help the work- ers in their organization and strike struggles? If the Daily is not brought to the workers in the plants, to the workers in the industries on which we concentrate, it will he so much cold type, and the spark that Lenin spoke of will fail to ignite the flame of revolt. We discussed the example of the sale of the Daily only at one auto p'ant as being, in the main, typical for many of our concentration industries, And it is high time that we do not merely repeat the phrase of the Daily being the “collective organ- izer,” but what is urgent, what must be done at once, is that the Daily be built as the collective or- ganizer. And the first step in this direction must be the regular sale of the Daily at the shops, in the first place, at the points of concentration and where there are functioning shop nuclei, This is the lesson from Detroit, a lesson which can be learned profitably by every concentration district, Youth Meets Against War In Many Cities Call State Conference Against War May 4 at Ann Arbor, Mich. NEW YORK. — The City Youth | Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism will meet today at 8 p.m. in the Labor Tem- ple, 14th St. between 3rd and 2nd Avenues, All youth organizations have been urged to send delegates. Plans will be laid for a large youth conference in New York on May 13. * * ITHACA, N. Y¥.—Two hundred | delegates at an anti-war conference */at Cornell University Sunday voted to affiliate with the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism. Michigan State Conference May 4, 5 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Students from high schools and colleges throughout the state of Michigan will meet at the University of Mi- chigan in Ann Arbor on May 4 and 5 for an anti-war conference called by the Michigan League Against War and Militarism. The Michigan League Against War and Militarism is composed of delegates represent- ing the Young Communist League, National Student League. Church peace organizations, and members | of the Socialist Party. Speakers at the conference will be William Weinstone of the Commu- nist Party; Philip Nash, President of Toledo University; Kermit Eby, Ann Arbor High School; Professor L. E. Cole, Oberlin College; Dr. Frederick Fisher, Methodist Church pastor of Ann Arbor; Tucker Smith, Director of Brookwood Labor Col- lege, . LOS ANGELES, Cal.—The Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascsm, Los An- geles branch, has called a youth conference against war and fascism for Saturday, April 28, in First Uni- tarian Church, 2936 W. 8th St., Los Angeles. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m., the conference will open at 1 p.m. . Oberlin College Anti-War Conference OBERLIN, Ohio—At an anti-war meeting called by the Natonal Stu- dent League chapter in Oberlin Col- lege, in which two other organiza- tions, the Peace Society and the Public Affairs Society, participated, ninety-six students adopted the Ox- ford Pledge, not to “support or co- operate wth the government of the United States in any war it may conduct.” Only thrteen people voted against the resolution, and many who were not at the meeting signed the pledge later. Other resolutons passed at the meeting were: 1, The support of the program of the Amercan League Against War and Fascism, 2. The abolition of the R.O.T.C. and all forms of military training in all schools and colleges throughout the country, with appropriation of such war funds to the aid of the needy students, 3. The support of the interna- tional struggle of the workng class in its fight against imperialist war. 4. The creation of a permanent anti-war committee composed of representatives of the three lower classes to carry on the anti-war work, * Harvard Group Joins League Against War BOSTON.—The Harvard Anti- War Conference held Thursday, April 19, voted to affiliate them- selves with the American League Against War and Fascism. Resolutions were adopted “not to support the U. S. Government in any war it may conduct;” against fascism in Europe and rising fas- cism in the United States; to sup- port the peace policies of the Soviet Union; to “ally ourselves with the working class and working class or- | “THE GOLDE? cow” by Burck | in fascist Vienna where anti-fascists in Vienna are permitted to say what they think, writes G. E. R. Gedye, New York Times correspondent in Vienna, In a dispatch published yesterday, he tells of visiting the “People's | Educational Center,” in Margareten, | a hall seating 500, where Dr. Ernst | Karl Winter, deputy-mayor of Vienna, debates weekly in defense | of Dolifuss fascism. More than 2,000 | were trying to get in Sunday when Gedye arrived, | As Gedye listened, worker after | worker got up, after Winter had spoken, to express their bitterness and hatred of fascism and of their Social-Democratic leaders. “We have more freedom to attack | Winter than we ever had to criticize our own Socialist leaders,” declared a street car motorman. “The last speaker,” writes Gedye, “introduced himself thus: “My name is Reif, twelve years a party secretary, for years a Social- Democratic parliamentary deputy, for the last eight weeks in prison, now released pending trial on a charge of high treason. I have come to the conclusion that Winter is right and that our best course is to follow his advice and enter the gov- ernment union.’ “Some applause followed, the ef- fect of which was rather spoiled by an ironical voice saying, ‘Now you are sure of acquittal at the trial!’” ganizations . .. . to prevent war.” John Weber represented the Communist Party at the Confer- ence, pointing out the role of the Party in struggle against imperialist war. Prof. H. W. L. Dana reviewed the history of the American League. } NEW YORK—There is one spot || | | Picea ‘Workers Bitter While S. P. Leader Bows to Fascism Sean Murray Speaks in Three New England Cities During Week NEW YORK. — Sean Murray, leader of the Communist Party of Ireland, will speak on “Ireland’s Path to Freedom” in Providence, Portland, and Boston this week. He speaks in Providence Tues- day, April 24, 8 p. m, in the Irish-American Hall, 767 West- minster St.; in Portland, Maine, Wednesday, April 25, 8 p, m. in the Workers Center, 82 Union St.; in Boston, Thursday, April 26, 8 p. m, in Deacon Hall, 1651 Washington St. Nazis Ship Workers’ Children To Farms for Forced Labor ESSEN, Germany—A regiment of 3,870 children whose fathers and mothers are “suspected of Marx- ism,” are being sent from eight towns n the Ruhr district to serve as “land helpers” in Pomerania and Sleswick-Holstein. ITALY LAUNCHES THREE WARSHIPS ROME, April 23.—A 7,000-ton cruiser, Emanuel Filiberto, an 1,800 ton destroyer, Sirocco, and a gun- boat, Astore, were launched by Italy yesterday. Belgian Workers Collect for the “German Revolution” BRUSSELS, April 23—The fund being collected on the intiative of the Communist Party of Belgium “For the German Revolution” has already yielded 464,915 francs. Danish Socialist Regime Smashes Two Big Strikes ‘Socialist’ State Forces Seamen, Packers Back on Bosses’ Terms COPENHAGEN, April 23—Broken by Premier Stauning, Social-Demo- cratic head of a Social-Democratic government, the strike of Danish seamen is reported ended today. After having sent his whole police force against the strikers, who threw up barricades to defend themselves, Stauning introduced a bill into par- liament. providing for compulsory arbitration not later than Wednes- day. By the same fascist method, the Social-Democratic government broke the slaughterhouse workers’ strike, ordering the men back to work to- morrow, on terms which are to be decided later by the State Arbitra- tion Court. NAZIS THREATEN NEW YORK SINGERS NEW YORK.—Ernestine Schu- mann-Heink, 74-year old operatic singer, received a note threatening her with death if she sang at an anti-Nazi meeting, she said Sunday night when she appeared at a con- cert of the “Non-Sectarian Anti- Nazi League to Champion Human Rights,” in Carnegie Hall. This “League,” which has at- tracted the support of various well- meaning liberals, is headed by the notorious millionaire corporation lawyer and Tammany chieftain, Samuel Unermyer. Down tools May Ist! Show your -@ will for the overthrow of capital- ism, for a Soviet United States! French Workers Prepare for Gigantic Class Battles Fascist Bands Get Arms With Help of Gov't Social-Fascists Fail tof Break United Front of Workers PARIS, April 23—The workers 0, France are preparing for May Day in a tense situation which may break out at any time into armed clashes between fascist defenders jof a ruling class rotten with cor- ruption and a broad and militant workers’ united front. Under the leadership of the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary Unitary Trade Union Confederation, the fighting united front of work- ers, peasants, and even of soldiers has reached a level which has thrown terror into the hearts of the French ruling class. Hundreds of thousands have demonstrated under the slogan of “Soviets everywhere.” Workers Keep Fascists Off Streets Day after day, in every part of France, Communist, Socialist, and non-Party workers have routed the fascists, and swept them off the streets. Day after day, “L’Humanite,” cen- tral organ of the Communist Party, has exposed the purchase of arms by the thousands, and ammunitions in immense quantities by fascist groups, with the active assistance of the Doumergue government and the general staff of the army, and the military drilling of fascist bands. Fascists Get Arms From Nazis The chief purchases of arms by the fascists are made in Germany, at bargain prices offered by the Nazi arms makers. A purchase of half a million automatic pistol cartridges in Germany, carrying the trade-mark of a no-longer existing firm, has been exposed by the Communists. The special trade- mark is intended to con- ceal the recent date on which the ammunition was imported from Germany. Such imports cannot be made without the connivance of the government. * * General Strike Begins May 1 On May 1, the series of short gen- eral strikes and mass demonstra- tions against the Doumergue gov- ernment’s wage and veterans’ pen- sion cuts will culminate n a general strike of state employees against the government’s war budget “economy” program, This strike, called by the Unitary Trade Union Federation, with the energetic support of the Communist Party, is to continue until the gov- ernment rescinds all the decrees at- tacking the standards of living of the working class. National Anti-Fascist Congress It is to be followed, on May 20, by three gigantic anti-fascist na- tional congresses, called by the French League Against War and Fascism. The first is a general work- ers’ congress, the second a peas- ants’ congress, the third a youth congress. Simultaneously, through- out France, mass demonstrations in support of the congresses, and against fascism and war, are being prepared. Reformists Produce Fascist Scheme The leadership of the Socialist Party and the reformist trade unions have attempted to head off the militant will of their rank and file by bringing forward a social- fascist scheme for the “rehabilita- tion of the national economy.” A mass meeting called by the leaders of the reformist trade unions for April 8, at which the fascist- like scheme of the reformists was to be presented, was hurriedly called off the day before, after a confer- ence of the trade unon leadership and Premer Doumergue. It was called off because the Com- munist Party, the revolutionary trade unions, and the revolutonary trade union opposition groups had brought about the election of so many militant representatives to this social-fascist “estates general” that it became clear that this at- tempt at class collaboration would be transformed by the workers nto a gigantic expression of working class unity against social-fascism, “Chinese Sovie ts Impatiently Await Help of World Toilers ” DEFENSE OF SOVIET CHINA IS DEFENSE OF U.S.S.R. AND WORLD REVOLUTION, BLOW AT WORLD IMPERIALISM This is the concluding article of a report on the Chinese Soviets, which now cover a quarter of the area of China proper, with a pop- ulation of about 100,000,000. The chief financial, political and tech- nical support of the Chinese anti- Soviet forces is the Roosevelt gov- ernment. The Chinese Soviets are a powerful bulwark in the defense of the Soviet Union; the defense of Soviet China is one of the major tasks of the world proletariat. —Editors. ee By KAN SEN Displaying tremendous activity and enthusiasm in the campaign for the strengthening of the Red Army, the population of the Soviet regions realizes that in order to defeat the sixth offensive of the counter-revolution it is necessary to strain all energy and direct it in the struggle against the Kuomin- tang economic blockade, for the eco- nomic development of the Soviet regions, for the supply of the Red Army. One of the last dispatches from the Soviet region says that in the Soviet parts of Kiangsi the work of extending the cultivated area by the ploughing up of vacant lands has been carried out with much success. Thus in the Boashen County 6,000 dans of idle land were ploughed in 10 days, and in the Gunlue County over 5,000 dans were similarly * ploughed. Special funds are being set up in many places to supply the Red Army through food econo- mies by the population. In Singo County the women have formed special production brigades and are fighting for the realization of the slogan, “not an inch of ground untilled.” During the past two months the toiling population has returned to the Soviet Government 200,697 dol- lars’ worth of Government bonds without compensation. Other econo- mies amount to 22,596 dollars. In addition to donation of loan bonds, the toiling population organizes vol- untary collections to help the Gov- ernment. In Juisin the toiling pop- ulation has subscribed 400,000 dol- lars to a future loan on its own ini- tiative. 7 Outside Support of Soviet China The movement in favor of the defense of Soviet China is develop- ing also among the workers and peasants of Kuomintang China. During the strike of the workers of the Anglo-American Tobacco Com- pany in Shanghai, in which more than 8,000 people took part, a slogan was advanced for “the protection of the Chinese Soviets, against the offensive of the Kuomintang and the imperialists upon ths Red Army.” The petty bourgeois and the stu- dent masses, who have no relations with our Party, have lately been displaying tremendous. discontent with the Kuomintang, which has betrayed the three eastern Provinces in North China and clearly capitu- lated to Japanses imperialism. Tre- mendous indignation among the population was aroused also by the fact that the Kuomintang has sent a million-strong army against the Chinese Soviets, instead of fighting against Japanese invaders. At the same time the direct attack of the imperialists against the Sov- iets and the Red Army has also been strengthened. American, Jap- anese, British, Italian, Dutch and other marines are prepared to land in the ports of Fuchow, Amoy, Swatow and Hong Kong. In Tien- tsin the imperialists are creating an aerodrome for about 1,000 aero- planes in order to be able to render assistance to Chang Kai-shek in his fight against Soviet China at any time and prepare for the war against Soviet Russia. British im- perialism is sending its Navy to Wansian and preparing to repeat the bombardment of its population on an even bigger scale. Chiang Kai- shek hastily transferred a large part of the “cotton and wheat loan” re- ceived from the American capitalists to the other imperialists to buy aeroplanes in the United States with the money thus received (see report in “Shinpao”). Chiang Kai-shek is building aerodromes in Linchuan, Tsinan, Nanchan and is reorganiz- ing his headquarters, and creating a new command for the struggle against Communism. International imperialism is preparing even more energetically for the most brutal suppression of the Chinese Soviet revolution. The proletariat and the oppressed peo- ples of the entire world must clearly realize that the Red Army, by gaining a victory in this fight against the sixth counter-revolu- tionary offiensive in Kiangsi has not yet definitely defeated the of warfare and is directly support- ed by international imperialism. The proletariat and the toilers of the whole world must strengthen their struggle in the defense ho their heroic struggle against the offensive of the imperialists and Kuo yf. It is necessary to remember that although the Chinese Red Army and the wide masses of workers and peasants are conducting a heroic struggle for the Soviets, they are unable to prevent the shipment of arms, aeroplanes, tanks, guns and poison gas from America, England, Japan, France and other imperialist countries to Chin- True, in the imperialist countries the great masses of the toilers, our class brothers, are already beginning to develop a fight in the defense of the Chinese Soviet Republic, but they have not yet carried out their primary task in full. Our leader, Comrade Sen Katayama, who re- cently passed away, told us before his death that “the danger of an armed attack upon the Soviet Union is now greater than ever before. We must support the Red Army of China because it is a force capable of defending revolutionary China and the U.S.S.R.” Toilers of the whole world! In order that the Chinese Soviet Re- public might not be subjected to further attacks from imperialism and the Kuomintang, to put up a real fight im the defense of the U.S.S.R., the fatherland of the in- ternational proletariat, and against the new imperialist war, that you might free yourselves of the capi- talist exploitation and oppression in your own country, you must take up the struggle in the de- fense of the Soviets in China. The Chinese Red Army and the great masses of workers and peas- ants bitterly fighting against the counter-revolutionary _ offensive, against aviation, tank and chem-_ ieal attacks, by the Kuomintang hordes, are waiting with impa- tience for your help and assist- ance,