The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1934, Page 3

) Proposed by Communist Party, Basis for Fight of Poor Farmers; Workers’ | uld Back the Bill Farmers Relief Bill/Nazi Poison Amo Is Clear Program for Struggle on the Land Organizations Sho By €. A. HATHAWAY | “.., the laboring masses of the | peasantry must be unhesitatingly | supported in their fight against servitude and exploitation, against | »ppression and impoverishment. Of course this does not mean that the proletariat should support every peasant movement without excep- | tion. But they should support | those peasant movements, those peasant struggles, which tend di- rectly or indirectly to promote the emancipation of the proletariat, to supply motive power to the prole- | tarian mill, to make the peasants | a proletarian reserve, to transform them into allies of the urban workers.”—Joseph Stalin in “Len- inism.” HE Farmers Emergency Relief Bill, proposed by the Communist Party, has that Leninist aim. It is the first proposal for farm legislation which takes into account the most urgent needs of the great | mass of the nation’s laboring farm-| ers. It provides the impoverished farmers with a clearly defined fight- | ing program which leaves the bour- | geois exploiters of the farmers no| room for evasion. It has the same significance in the farmers’ strug- gles as H. R. 7598, the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, has for the workers. It is certain that this bill| will quickly gain mass support. | Another important fact must be| noted. This bill, the Farmers Emer- gency Relief Bill, is brought forward by the Communist Party, the party of the proletariat. It places the revolutionary working class, and its vanguard, the Communist Party, in the very forefront of the struggle for the needs of the farming masses. Tt throws up a challenge to the bour- geois and reformist leadership of the | farm organizations, who work hand in hand with Roosevelt’s banker government. It marks a distinct step forward in the efforts of the working class to win the toiling farmers as revolutionary allies. Until now concrete proposals for | tarm legislation have come from the bourgeoisie and their reformist aids. ‘Their measures, while invariably di-| rected against the interests of the! impoverished farmers, and benefit | ting only big city capitalists and a) relatively few rich or well-to-do farmers, created many illusions among the poorer farmers. They did not see the class divisions in the country-side. They did not see that the big landlords and the richest farmers were working in close al- Nance with the capitalist rulers in| the city. They believed the promises made that first Hoover's and then Roosevelt's farm programs would ald agriculture in general, and thereby also the impoverished farmers. The Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill draws class lines in the rural districts as well as in the city. It does not, approach the problem from the viewpoint of aiding agriculture “in general.” It undertakes to pro- vide a firm foundation for the fight to improve the lot of the most ex- ploited, the poor and middle farm- ors. This fight can result in forcing the ruling class to grant immediate concessions to the impoverished farmers. When energetically sup- ported by the workers, this fight can also lead only to a revolutionary al- liance of workers and poor farmers for the overthrow of capitalism. With power in their hands, with a revolutionary workers’ government established, the workers and farm- ers will then solve the general prob- lems of agriculture as they are now veing solved in the Soviet Union. Support for the poorer farmers’ — fight against oppression and im- poverishment and the winning of | the poor and middle farmers as revolutionary allies of the work- | ers, this is the fundamental ob- | jective of the Communist Party in bringing forward the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. . . * | | 'HIS bill does not reflect some new program developed by the Com- munist Party; it represents only the more concrete working out of the central demand for the farmers brought forward in the party's last election platform. At that time we demanded: “Emergency relief for the impoverished farmers without restriction by the government and banks; exemption of impoverished farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts.” This demand is now worked out in the form of a legislative bill, the Farm- ers’ Emergency Relief Bill. This bill contains proposals first for the repeal of Roosevelt's Agri- cultural Adjustment Act, which works against the interests of the impoverished farmers, and second for new measures, all of which are designed to aid only the impover- ished farmers. It stops evictions even to the point of cancelling those debts threatening such evictions. It further provides for cash relief, for crop production loans, and for farm, home, equipment and_ live - stock loans. Most important to emphasize is: (1) who will benefit from the act, and (2) who will administer the act. Section 2 of the proposed bill clearly states who shall benefit. This 4s accomplished by a clear sharp definition of the term “farmer.” It says, “the term ‘farmer’ as used in this Act means any individual who 4s engaged in tilling the soil, whether tenant, sharecropper or owner, who operates his farm primarily by his own labor. None of the benefits or rights of exemption from taxation granted by this act shall apply to any landlord or absentee owner or corporation or to any farmer who wns more than one farm, or who operates primarily with hired labor, | tion of farmers in each county or | fewer, shall be sufficient to call a It Provides Firm or to any manager or foreman of a farm.” From this it is clear that the Communist Party is taking up the fight for the smaller, impoverished farmers. It is formulating a clear- cut, class program for them which) will enable them to fight effectively, | for the first time, against all of the| rich-farmer, capitalist-inspired pro- grams heretofore brought forward. On the administration of the Act,| likewise, the basis for the illusion) that a capitalist-controlled Depart- | ment of Agriculture would give a} square deal to the impoverished farmers is removed. The bill pro-| vides that the farmers themselves | shall create their own administra-| tive organs. Section 10 of the bill| proposes: “At noon on the 20th day fol- lowing the passage of this Act there shall be held a mass conven- parish within the United States at the seat of government of each county or parish, At each mass convention there shall be elected from among their number, by se- cret ballot, a Farmers Relief Com- mittee which shall not exceed ten (10) members. The membership of each Farmers’ Relief Commit- tee must be based upon propor- tional representation of the race, color and nationality of the farm- ers in the county or parish as re- ported in the 1930 Federal Census. At these and all subsequent con- ventions, each farmer shall have only one vote. No convention shall have the power to act unless at least 40 per cent of the farmers, eligible to vote, are present at the convention. At any time, a peti- tion of one hundred farmers or one-tenth of the farmers in any county or parish, whichever is mass convention to consider the recall of any member or members of a committee and the election of a new member or members.” This committee, elected by the farmers themselves, the Farmers Relief Committee, is given the power to determine who shall receive re- Hef and how much, who shall receive loans for any purpose and how much. A set-up is arranged that gives to the poor and middle farm- §AILY WORKER, NEW (Gontinued from Page 1) ® “special Hitler Number” of American Tlustrated News got it a letter signed by editor Berg- mann. This letter not only admits the official nature of the magazine but asks the Congressmen who re- | ceived it to co-operate in its propa- ganda. The letter reads: Congressman So-and-so, Address. | Dear Sir: | One year of the Hitler Govern- ment has impelled us to request the Reproductions of the “The American Witustrated News,” published im Ber | lin, under the direction of the chief Nazi propagan- st, Goebbels, and sent by ng Members of Congress Labor Board, Union YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1934 mismumiee, Heads Bar 1200 from THE BRIDGE OVER THE ATLANTIC {BERLIN « LONDON + NEW YORK AMERICAN rs ¥ | Strike in Blacklist, But Opposition | Is Not Yet Organized the heads of the Government to | maf to United States give us a statement as to their | Special to the Daily Worker) ideas on the reconstructive work | Congressmen attempting ST yTT MT 1 r + leader which has been done in the new | ST. LOUIS nap ps oi Germany. to enlist their support for dependent Federal Auto Workers’ Union, with the aid of We are enclosing a copy of the Richard Byrd, “Labor” representativ the National Au special Hitler Number of The Hitler on the ground of Richard Byrd, “Labo t ative on the National Auto American Illustrated News re- | fighting “the international Labor Board, put ov -out on the sulting therefrom and trust that you will be so good as to give it your attention. Should you wish to make any comments upon any of the articles we should be grateful if vou send us your views on the matter. WE SHOULD BE GLAD TO PRINT THESE WITH YOUR PICTURE, WHICH WE HOPE YOU WILL SEND US. Yours very truly, The American Illustrated News Karl Bergmann. Since the magazine was distrib- uted only to a selected list of Con- | gressmen and was not sent to any | of the correspondents or newspaper | agencies in Washington. it is clear what sort of “views” the Ministry of Propaganda was trying to get for its English language sheet. Straight from Hitler’s Aides The official nature of the propa- ganda contained in the magazine is emphasized again in the opening editorial entitled Americans, the New Germany Speaks to You! “In this magazine,” the editorial, signed by Bergmann, explains, “an attempt has been made to present |to you a picture of what the new |Germany has done and is doing. | This is not a collection of reports by a few journalists but comes | straight from the source. Every | article is written by a man high im the confidence of the Chancellor and every writer knows exactly what he is writing about.” (*) The government officials and Nazi leaders who fill the magazine with their hysterical diatribes against | Marxists and Jews and their epi- |leptic licking of the “Leader’s” | Person, beginning with his boots, |include Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Min- | ister of Propaganda; Hermann | Goering, Minister-President of Prussia and German Minister of Aviation; Dr. K. Schmidt, Minister | jot Economic Affairs; Alfred Rosen-| berg, notorious “Foreign Minister” jof the National-Socialist Party; W.| danger of Bolshevism.” SHARE SERBOR? ce ana cw cusses ATED sews, ANYasthe, Hit Police Terror | ° y ry rikers at 30 hours ‘In Kansas City, Mo. perth | ‘i = 2 sition the leaders pushed ee ee A nn ; ough a resolution to the National reveals the lengths to the) Workers Mass To Aid Labor Board, asking that Hitler-Goebbels-Goer nae | to work out a plan for ing in its attempts 2 | I ramed Me n he work. This, however, united capitalist front the rank and fil | Soviet Union and t ed working class ev latest action te ac vill gather at 1,904 E May 9, 8 p.m., to protes an important international question. e Ger-/ and conviction of |}man government has violated the| Lewis Hurst, Roy Berger OY i he next ten da | professed non-propaganda policy| Shaw, who were leading Daily Worker Popular | which the United Day meeting sponsored , , upon in recognizi: | O.W.A. and Unemployed OG 0 She featies: aerate Union, If the United State | Association of Kansas Cits ited fare tomy cr 8 Se ee no step in this case, if the C Anger has flared up among the_| limiting of the picket line to 80 men | overnment is permitted of y TS as a result of the brutal| @fter the firs day of the strike, when |to circulate Nazi propaganda tol tactics the bosses used to squel |more than 3,000 pickets massed _at ; congressmen or anybody their celet of May Day. The| to keep out sca | tacking and_ slanderir | meeting was called at 12th St then pointed | the Soviet Union, Jey | the Paseo to protest the ur as an ar United States Governm | cies of the Jackson County Er it agreement from the diplomat guilty of a gross act of int tional discrimination; and from the} | political viewpoint will go on record} | Openly as an ally of Hitlerism. re is as yet no organi groyp within the a is a tremendous lot of un ganized oppo: n, to a great extent the result of persistent Daily Worker gency Relief Association, and to de- | mand passage of H. R. 7598 and} other workers’ measures. Before tt crowd had assembled, the city h bosses, who have been squirming | ID . ‘ a el : 4 Gs whale | ©, Reich Minister of Food; Dr.| pr Feder can blandly utter this ers, the overwhelming majority of the rural population, the power to themselves stop evictions and fore- closures and eliminate the mass misery in their own ranks. The Rich Must Finance Act On the financing of this act, the| burden is placed where it belongs— on the rich. The impoverished farmers are exempted from taxa- tion. No additional tax burdens are gifts and the taxation of all incomes | (whether of trusts, individuals, cor- porations or foundations) in excess of $5,000 per year.” Here also the| class character of the bill is clear: benefits to only the poor and middle | farmers at the expense of the capi-| talists, landlords and the rich farm- ers. | Finally the bill rules out any dis- crimination in the administration of relief or in the granting of loans/ “because of the age, sex, race, color, or religious or political opinion or af- filiation, or nationality of any | farmer.” This aspect of the bill must be particularly stressed in the South where the Negro tenants and share- croppers have long been hounded and persecuted. These are the central points that are to be emphasized in rallying support for the bill. Ste . MIOW on the campaign for the| N adoption of the bill. There should | | be no illusions, The Farmers Emer- | gency Relief Bill will not be em-) braced by the Roosevelt administra- | tion, nor by the Republicans, nor | for that matter, by the Socialists. It will not be accepted with favor by the leaders of the bourgeois farm or- ganizations. Its sharp class char- | acter precludes any such possibili- | ties. It will be supported only by the) farmers. It will be supported by others only to the extent that a powerful mass movement is set in motion around the bill. It is now our job to launch such a movement. The bill has already been en- dorsed by the Executive Council of | the United Farmers League. It will be presented for adoption to the national convention of farmers to open in Minneapolis on June 22. In the meantime the best guarantee of its adoption by this national farmers’ movement is its endorse- ment by hundreds of local farm bodies in all parts of the country. Communists, readers of the Daily Worker, militant farmers, and work- ers should bring this bill to the attention of every farm organiza- tion. The bill should be explained, over and over again, if necessary. An effort should be made to have the bill endorsed. These organiza- tions should be urged to send the bill to their congressman with the demand that it be introduced in congress and supported by him. Re- ports of every endorsement should be sent to the Daily Worker, to the Farmers National Weekly, and given to the press generally. This campaign to popularize and win endorsements for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill should be de- veloped side by side with the most determined mass struggle against evictions and foreclosures and for cash relief in every township and county. The bill should likewise be dis- cussed and endorsed by the work- ers’ organizations in the cities. The Communists, particularly, should ex- plain the unbearable plight of the farmers and the revolutionary sig- nificance of the workers energeti- cally taking up the fight for the impoverished farmers. A discus- H. Frank. Reich Commissioner of | | Justice; the “famous” Captain Ernst | |Roehm, boss of the storm troops; | lie feeling perfectly safe that no Congressman will know that this ott | is ve i y rais Nazi salute. The| will do anything at all, it will be| the most mi vorkers joined th Dr. W. Frick, f ’ |aphorism was formulated not by|Upraised in the The| ything at all, it will be| the most militant workers joined the Biloceaoe Filner Be an | the Socialist Marx but by the|™map includes the Polish corridor| under pressure of a mighty protest! crowd. | dent of the Reichsbank, and Saud anarchist Proudhon, Marx at-|in lighter shade with the crowd/on the part of American work [RUE Shemp el tee ania |Seldte, Reich Minister of Leber” |tacked Proudhon’s formulation, | continuing across it. ‘The map’s|and intellectuals, of all those re-| tik: widlenl weal an abide The magazine made it clear that | Pointing out that property is not = st Soha TES Sa ae a | turally, on these considerations} for months under the growi | sales and leaflet di ibution by the corner, contains in the center a| alone the United States Govern-| sure of organized protest, ha | Trade Union Unity League. Copies large map across which spreads the| ment will do nothing to interfere| army of some 80 uniformed tt , Workers News were protograph of a crowd with arms| with official Nazi propagand abbed by the workers at Thus, on the scene. 400 of | The Daily Worker gives you full heavy black borders include the|gardléss of Party, class, creed, news about the struggle for un- meeting, and to put fo: |German Fascism and American | |“democracy” have common inter- | ests. An entire page—and these | |; Pages are each 17 by 22 inches—i | Placed on the city workers. The) devoted to photographs capti | a phs tioned | 1 a ry needed funds are to be raised “by|The New Germany as the Standard |WPich he knows American Con- International Danger of Bolshe- | vism. The photographs show Com- | |theft because there must be prop- erty before the concept of theft can arise. From this lie of minor importance r. Feder comes to a “great” truth |the taxation of inheritances and) Bearer in the Fight Against the |S*essmen will understand and ap- preciate. “In recognizing and of- ficially protecting private property,” Dr. Feder explains, “National So- ‘ | Punist jSomonstrations’ In San /oiaiism sees in all Marxist-Bolshe- 'rancisco, Los Angeles, New York, vist tendencies the gravest menace Belfast, Tondon, Stockholm; | to the existence and preservation of group of Communist prisoners in a/the nation, and indeed to order, Chicago jail; scenes presumably |right and security in the whole from the “Ma unrisings atter | world.” the imperialist war: an utterly in-| Gan for Support Against Marxists comprehensible picture labelled | This article, like the entire maga- Madrid, and a group of women and \zine, is a plea for American sup- children standing arommd a bonfire | port in the Nazi's “heroic” strug- in the snow, labelled Moscow. Ar-|gie against the “Marxian madness” rows connect these thotozraphs | whose leaders and spokesmen “have with the respective cities indicated | mostly been Jews.” Goebbels and by circles on a world map. | other writers in the magazine make On the page ovposite this nhoto-|the same anti-semitic anti-Marxist montage there is an article by) attacks and the same pleas for Under-Secretary of State Gottfried | being allowed to carry on_ their Feder, Nazi ideologist, entitled The | “great” work on behalf of the Fight Against Marxism and _ Bol- | “world.” shevism and the Importance of this! While the magazine contains Ficht for World Business. The | speeches by Hitler and articles by article is characterized by its open-| other members of the government ing sentence: “‘La propriete c’est | professing peaceful aims, other| la vol’'—‘property is theft’ is the | spots in the publication reveal the basic principle of all Marxist eco- | real intentions of the Nazis, The nomic thought.” j cover, which carries Hitler’s head EAN jin the upper left hand corner and (*) All emphasis is mine—J. F. | the swastika in the lower left hand r | AFL Heads Import Article on Seamen Appears Tomorrow | Hitler believes | frontiers of pre-war Germany, re-| are fighting to wipe the monst 3 | vealing Nazi imperialist aims. Two]of fascism from the face of the| employment insurance. Subscribe | pages further on there is another| earth. to the Daily Worker. |large map of Germany, this time 7 is }an outline of the frontiers with — — —$$____—_________ the interior all white except for Please Mention Dai Worker W. izii sertisers | the Polish corridor which is shaded. a He baat Ure cepa ae simsdd The caption under this map ex- plains that the “German people | cut, militant program for strengthe | ening the union and to prepare for | future struggles, | have become one and the destiny of 4 so fs this people is being guided by the! genius of a truly great leader who not only sets himself aims but knows how to attain them, The world will have to reckon with these two facts in the future.” Advocates Open Terrorism Similarly, the magazine does not conceal that the power of the Nazis is based on literal brute force. Un- der the caption, The Foundation of the Hitler Movement and the Secret of its Success, an unsigned article explains that Hitler's group “owed its first great successes at meetings to its heroic stand on the principle: ‘Terrorism cannot be overcome by the spirit but by terrorism.’” The same eulogy of the leader adds that “a man with but little academic training but phys- ically sound, with strength and purity of character and imbued with readiness to take decisioris and determination to act, is of more value to the nation than a talented weakling, And success justified the method.” The official Nazi apologists pour out page after page of praise for Hitler who, they explain, embodies the essence and purpose of Na- tional-Socialism “which has nothing to do with the destructive and sub- versive ‘Socialism’ preached by the former so-called Socialist Parties | workers and by the poor and middle | | The third article in Marguerite Young’s series on “Labor Rouses the Waterfront” will ap- pear in tomorrow's paper. It is entitled “Before and After Workers’ Control.” | sion of this bill in the workers’ or- ganizations can serve to clarify the | whole problem of winning the poorer farmers as the revolutionary allies of the workers. The final point to be emphasized | is this: The impoverished farmers cannot solve their problems under capitalism, nor through a legisla- tive enactment. But the fight for this bill can raise sharply the im- poverished condition of the mass of the farmers, it can become a rally- ing center for a mass movement which in itself can win substantial concessions, a mass movement that can stop evictions and foreclosures, that can win relief, that can force the granting of the much needed loans to the impoverished farmers. It can become the means of smash- ing the illusions of the farmers re- garding Roosevelt's “New Deal,” of tearing them away from their bour- geois and reformist leaders, of con- vincing them of the need of over- throwing capitalism. It can become the means of convincing the farm- ers of the need of allying them- selves with the revolutionary work- ing class movement. All of this can be accomplished | provided an energetic campaign is developed to win support for the | Farmers’ Relief Bill and to draw the farmers into immediate mass struggle for the demands embodied in the Bill. All workers and farm- ers are urged to firmly grasp this new weapon and wield it for the broadening of the struggle against the capitalist exploiters. Scabs to Ll. Strike (Marxists) in Germany.” In con- | formance with the pretense that Strikers Demand Boot | the entire Nazi movement emanates | from. the extraordinary personality and Shoe Get Out of Hitler, the propaganist maga- | zine is filled with photographs of |and citations from the “Leader,” LONG ISLAND CITY.—The strike} at the Garside Shoe factory, 37-06| 36th St., continued today under the} leadership of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, while of- ficials of the Boot and Shoe Union were acting as scab-herders for the bosses. A. Danner, B. Silverman, Procopio and Frank De Liberty, leaders of the Boot and Shoe, stood in front of the factory under police protec- tion directing the movement of scabs into the plant. Production, however, remains at a standstill, with about 80 workers on strike. The Jewish Daily Forward, the Socialist Party newspaper, as usual is supporting the strike- breaking Boot and Shoe leaders. The Boot and Shoe “will show the United,” said the Forward. The strikers are demanding that the Boot and Shoe shall not enter the factory. They are also demand- ing the five-day week, no Saturday work, no overtime without the sanc- tion of the union. Meeting Thursday NEW YORK.—A special member- from the front cover on which his | head broods over the Charlie Chap- line mustache to the back cover which is filled by one huge photo | of a@ mass meeting captioned Hitler’s | Historical Speech (sic) in the Siem- jens Works. Between these two | covers the Nazi leaders sing psalms. |to Hitler's genius, courage, purity, \idealism, physical endurance, mag- netism and the other virtues ap- propriate to the hero of a Wag- nerian opera, all illustrated by scores of photographs of Hitler in | every pose which he could possibly | take in public, No Protests from Hearst The propaganda of The American IWustrated News comes, as its ed- itor accurately phrased it, “straight from the source,” it is official. But | so far, not a single one of the news- | papers, congressmen, business or- ganizations and patriotic societies which have carried on & campaign against non-existent propaganda by the Soviet government has said a word about The American Illus- trated News. It has been impossible to locate any protests by Hamilton Fish, | Ralp Easley, William Randolph | Hearst, et. al., that America’s “dem- ocratic” institutions are “menaced” © 19%, Jocob Ruppert Brewery CCreteest Ingredients brewed in the most modern Equipment—then Aged by TIME. MADE IN AMERICA’S FINEST Only Nature, uninterrupted and unhurried, gives to Jacob RUPPERT'S Beer that mellow goodness of taste long preferred by so BREWERY ey mh many in and around New York: ship meeting of the United Shoe, and Leather Workers Union will be| by German fascist propaganda or held at Irving Plaza Hall Thurs-| any questions regarding the “pro- day night at 5:30 pm. TI. 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