The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1934, Page 5

reece DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1934 |The Strange | And Dillinger, Highwaymen Only Difference Is That Insull Knew Whom to Rob While Dillinger Went Gunning on His Own By E. E. ILLINGER, the son of a small farmer is trying to make his way with the revolver, as a gunman. There are tens of thousands of such gunmen, such declassed ele- ments in the United States. They play an important role in this system. They are instruments in the hands of the politicians, of the capitalists, of the A. F. of L. buroerats, and above all. they play an important part in the struggle of the bosses against the workers. They aré the stool-pigeons, the nal strike-breakers, they e sworn-in deputies, when there is to be shooting against striking steel workers and miners, as for instance, in the Ambridge steel strike. They are fed and pro- tected like watch-dogs are pro- tected. Unemployment, no hope of making a sufficient living, the monotony of work in the capitalist factory are driving thousands of youths into the army of the slum- proletariat, the army of criminals, the professional strikebreakers, the gunmen of the capitalists. Mr. Samuel been an enemy of the workers’ right to organize. There were thousands of stool-pigeons in the plants con- trolled by him. How many thou- sands of smelled Dillingers did In- sull use against the workers, in order to keep them enslaved, in order to prevent them from fight- ing for higher wages, in order to break their strikes! Tnsull {s a man who enthusiasti- cally fought for this system of society, in which one individual ts allowed to exploit hundreds of thou- sands, Ask him what he thinks about the Communists, about “those damned Reds.” He will answer that the Communists are destroy- ers, that no real patriot must sup- port them, that the government must fight them with all brutal methods. He will answer exactly as his brothers, Morgan, Ford, and all the other kings of steel, coal, iron, textile, railroads, do. Dillinger On His Own Dillinger’s crime is that she dared to murder on his own hook and not under the orders of a capitalist | boss in strikes, demonstrations, etc. Had Dillinger only shot down work- ers, as workers were shot down in Ambridge, had he been a useful gunman, he would be paid a large salary, nobody would prosecute him and the courts would protect him. But this gun hero draws his re- volver against banks, plunders banks and does not understand that it is a privilege of the banks to plunder the people. Mr. Insull has more people on WHAT Insull has always | Case of Insull ve) | |his conscience than Dillinger. How | many workers, small savers has he driven to desperation and suicide | with his policy of exploitation and hunger? How many hundreds of | thousands have lost work and bread | through Mr. Insull. The criminal Dillinger murdered people. How Dillinger Insull |many people has that great cap- fain of industry, Mr. Tnsull, on his conscience? | It is the Insulls, ete., magnates who are plundering the tha: sees overwhelming majority of the | people. An Insull is arrested be- cause his crimes stank too much, | but the Insull system continues in | | power. This system, in which the Insulis, the Morgans, the Mellons and the other captains of industry dominate with full power, is con- | tinuously producing such criminals as Dillinger. Dillinger will be arrested when he runs out of money for bribes and will be condemned to the electric chair or shot on sight. The coun- try, the hopelessness of the capital- ist system for millions, is continu- ously producing new Dillingers. In- sull will be given a rest in a jail. This gentleman bandit will un- doubtedly be treated differently than the Scottsboro Boys, or Hern- |don, but hundreds of other Insulls | will continue to exploit and de- fraud thé people. | There is no method in this decay- Hing system for the destruction of |the Insulls and Dillingers. The | working class in power alone will make it impossible for 8 few dozen | gentlemen bandits like Insull, Mor- | gan, ete., to plunder the people and to drive them into a bloody war! from time to time. The working class in power alone can do away with crimes and criminals by guar- anteeing to every human being a free and unhampered chance to advance and develop, education, culture, and joy in working. We, will do away with this system. We, the Reds, the Communists, are | fighting against an order of society whose characteristic products are the Insuils and Dillingers. (Continued from Page 2) Seturday Manhattan HOUSE and PACKAGE Party given Joe Hill Br, LL.D., 1885 Seventh Ave., corner 113th St., Apt. 3-A. Dancing, re- freshments, Negro jaz band. Packages are welcome, SPLENDID SHOW in Spanish. Excelient Musical. Puerto Rican Workers’ Center, 1888 3rd Ave. 8 p.m. DANCE at “Mutualista Obrera Mexi- cana,” 66 E. 116th St., 8 p.m. Jazz and Rhumba orchestra. MIDNIGHT LUNCH and Entertainment, 11:30 p.m. Auspices Unit 32, Section 1. 64 Horatio St., 1 block south from Sth Ave. and Mth St. “L' Station. Cast of Stevedore, music and dancing. Entrance 25c. WINGDING and DANCE at Film and Photo League, 12 H. 17th St. Movies, photo exhibition, entertainment, good music, 8:30 p.m. “UMBRELLA” PARTY at ‘Harriet’s", 327 W. Sith St. Auspices C.C.N.Y.-N.S.L. benefit “Frontiers.” Adm. 20¢, Entertain- ment—refreshments. Bronx SPRING CARNIVAL and Dance, given by Bdith Berkman Youth Br. Sport Exhibition, Negro spirituals, éxcellent jezz band. 2078 Clinton Ave, near 179th’ Bt. Hat check 2 cents. CONCERT and DANCE, Tremont Pro- gressive Club, #66 FE. Tremont Ave. 8:30 p.m. Symphonic concert by Pierre De Gevter Ensemble, fellowed by dancing till dawn. MID-DAY DANCE given by John Brown Seciel Club et Bronx Studio, 3681 Third Ave, Dennish Williams end his Synco- pators. Admission 35 cents. DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT at Ford- ham Progressive Club, 7 W. Burnside Ave., Room 20. Negro jazz bend. Professional entertainers. Dancing till dawn. PROSPECT WORKERS Center, 1157 So. Blvd. Concert and dance. Good program arranged. PARTY given by Unit 16, Section 15, at 1505 Boston Rd. neat Wilkins Ave., Apt. B-7, 8:30 p.m. Refreshments, entertain- ment. Admission 10 cents. MEMORIAL MEETING for Philip Dzer- winski, arranged by Br. 34, I.W.O. Dzer- ainski' at 813 F, 180th S*. Program: Leon. ard Posner, violinist; Eva Cohen, drama- tist; Sara’ Silberberg, recitation: Group from Freiheit Singing Society with Com- rade Yelin, conductor; J. Vogol, accordion. All workers invited. SOCIAL and DANOF. Refreshments and Entertainment at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx (corner 170th 8t.), 8:30 p.m. Adm, free, Auspices Mt. Eden Youth Br., Friends of the Soviet Union. PARTY at 951 Leggett Ave. Big Enter- tainment—Surprise! Dancing also. Atis- pices Unit 3, Section 5. FOUSE PARTY given by Y.C.L, Unit 1505, at 1305 Commonwealth Ave, near St, Lawrence Ave. Station. Entertainment and refreshments. Adm, 10c. Brooklyn BANQUET and CONCERT given by Un- employed Council of Brownsville, 1813 Pit- kin Ave, Admiscion 25 cents. GALA AFFAIR given by all organiza- tions meeting at the Boro Park Cultural Center, 18th Ave. and 56th St. Program: Chorus, John Bovingdon, poet dancer, Harry Pranklin, violinist; Dolly Gale, Gus Edwards Rveue, hot jazz band. CONCERT and DANCE given by Work- ers Center, 723 Fifth Ave., 8 p.m. Work- ers Laboratory Theatre will present “La Guerdia’s Got the Baloney” and “News- boy." Jazz band. SHOCK BRIGADE Concert arranged by Br, 115 LW.0. at E.N.Y. Workers Club, 608 Cleveland St. Interesting program. Workers Laboratory Theatre, Comrade Haltz from Artef. Entrance 25 cents. WILLIAM L. PATTERSON will speak at Costume Ball and Concert at Brighton Beach Center, Brighton Beach Station, 8 p.m. Auspices: Filipino Anti-Imperialist League and LL.D. Hat check 35 cents. PARTY and ENTERTAINMENT} Brownsville Workers School, 1455 Pitkin Ave., 8:30 p.m. Admission 18 cents. BOHEMIAN NITE at Brooklyn Né.L.. 328 Adams St. or BMT.) (Borough Hall on LR.T. Free refreshments, dancing, ‘intimate entertainment. Adm. 19¢, 9 p.m. DANOE and ENTERTAINMENT at New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Aye. be- | tween Avehue T and Avenue 0, | Long Island COMMUNIST PARTY, Section 9, Spring Concert and Dance at Civic Hall, Liberty | Ave, corner 114th St., Rithmond Hill. Hot | jazm band. Dancing until (?). Admission | 38 cents. | CONOBRT and DANCE arranged by | Youth Br., R.N.M.A.8., at Armondale Hall | on Uniondale Ave., East Hempstead. Sn- | day, May 13. Dancing 2 p.m. Concert | 7 p.m. Dancing After concert. Tickets 40 cents, adults; 10 cents, children. Sunday HIKE arranged by Left Wing Group of Local 22. Meee at 10 a.m. at Dyckman St. Ferry. Take Van Courtlandt train and Palisade Park. Interesting program. VEGETARIAN Workers Club, 220 B. 14th St. hike to Indian Head and Forest View. Meet at Woodlawn Station, 10 a.m. Physi- cal instructor will be there. ‘TREMONT Prog. Club Hike and Get- together party in the evening. Meet at Club rooms, 866 E. Tremont Ave., &: |am., hike to Tibbets Brook Park, After hike party at 7:30 p.m. at club rooms. TALKING FILM Festival from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Webster Hall, 119 E. lth | St, “Red Head” and “Killing to Liv Patty and dancing from 11 p.m. to $ &. free to those attending gala 8:30 p. performance. Auspices: Provisional Com- mittee for Support of M.W. UNITY THEATRE, 24. . 98d Bt, presents “African Festival.” Horton's Sho- lona Olobe, 9 p.m. Admission 38 cents. SPRING FESTIVAL given by Midtown Workers Club, 414 W. 5ist St., 8 p.m. K. of C._ auditorium. Admission 25 cents. NEWS REELS and Lecture by Film and Photo Lengue at I.W.O. Br. Y-67. 1008 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Subs. 10 cents. BEDFORD CENTER, 1083 Bergen St. Brooklyn. Lecture: “Recent Strikes in New York,” by Harry Raymond. ITALIAN WORKERS Center, 558 Morris Ave., between 149th and 180th St. Enter- tainment and dance, 7:30 p.m. Contribu- tion 18 cents. “THE COMING Strugele for Power" ($2) and the “Menace of Fascism ($2.50) you | can have both now for $8 at Workers Book Shop, 50 EF. 13th St. N.Y.C. FRANKFURTER PARTY — Dancing and Entertainment at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx ‘corner 170th St.), 8 p.m. Adm. 15c. Auspices Mt. Eden’ Br., Friends of the Soviet Union. ed by the Millinery United position to Jacobs Ladder. Meet at 242nd St., Van Cortlandt Park at 9 a.m. Directions: Take the 7th Ave. LR.T. line to 24and St., Van Cortlandt Pi to Comrade Ci . String Orchestra ‘til midnight. to Rican Workers Club, 1888 Third Ave. Adm. 25¢. COSTUME BALL at Mutualista Obrera pies Br. 4759 I.W.O. at 66 BE. 116th » Begi 4 p.m, until midnight. Special program. OPEN FORUM, Pen & Hammer, 114 W. 2st St., 8:30 p.m. ‘The Modern Econo- mist in the Light of Marx,” by Economics Committee, with cooperation of Dr. J. H. Gilman, 8:30 p.m. HARLEM WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM, 200 W. 135th St., Room 214A. Dorothy McConnell tures on “Women in the 30 p.m. Adm. free. LECTURE on “Workers Defense in the Courts,” at New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave., between Avenue T and Avenue U. Adm. 10¢. W. WATTENBURG lectutes on “Menace of War and Fascism in the U. S.” Program of Chamber Music—revolutionary songs— dancing. Auspices Wm. Hushka Br. I.L.D. at Brighton Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave. ISIDORE BEGUN speaks on “Education and the Crisis,’ at Brownsville Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Ave. Auspices ¥.C.L. ‘Unit 8, Section 8. COMRADE RAMSAY speaks on ‘The Role of the Trade Unions in the Revolu- tionary Movement.” Auspices Tom Mooney Br. LL.D, 323 E. 13th St. Adm. free, y | Discussion. FOLLOWERS OF NATURE Hiking and Camp:ng Club. Bus Excursion to Camp. Meet at Public Service Bus Station, 168th Bt. and Broadway, a.m, Round trip fare 70c. : a small clique of shrewd} land who decide the fate of the | the Reds, leading the working class | Hitler Supporters in Pittsburgh Endorse | Class vs Socialist Candidates in ¢ | Pittsburgh GERMAN GROUP. \CCORDS. REED (Pinchot, Wife Under Lash of Teutortic Voters’ Body. 2 ites for United States’ sen- ie German-American Feder- _ ation in the Moose Temple last “night at which mention of the name of Adolph Hitler brought a tremendous chorus of “Heil Hitler!” despite the fact that several Jews received endorsement as candidates by tht group. — ‘ About 500 attended the mecting. ‘United States Senator David A. Reed was endorsed for re-election by the associatio William A. Schnader was endorsed for. gover- Oe Say, B. Beott was endorsed Reproduction of the Pittsburgh SHOUT “HEIL HITLER ® By TONY MINERICH | Under the name of the German- | American Federation the Hitler | supporters held a meeting at the Moose Hall in Pittsburgh. In an-| other hall the Jewish workers were | holding a mock trial of the head of | the Jewish Daily Forward, who had) charged the Lord Marley Committee with stealing money, intended for the German Anti-Fascist Fighters, In the Nazi meeting, Julius Weis- berg, Forward agent and Socialist | leader was endorsed. Though in two different halls “friends” recog- nized each other. | to decide whom the Germans were | | going to support in the coming elec- | | tions. In the speeches and dis- cussion it was clearly shown that the meeting was called to organize | the Hitler supporters, i One of the speakers supported | Reed for U. 8. Senate because he refused to sit on the Lord Marley }committee. And opposed Governor Pinchot because Mrs. Pinchot at- ; tended the Lord Marley meeting and was a member of the Lord Marley | Committee. | | At another time the speaker said, | “we are Germans, but it took Hitler | to show us this.” He said that the | Italians and others were getting the | ENDORSEMENT |: ernor and the Legislature | Paper Reports \Senator Ree loming Election azi Backing of Social ist Party Candidates PITTSBURGH & POST-GAZETTE: # MONDAY, ./MAY 47, 1934— Communist Party Must of the F.L.P. and Its By M. CHILDS 'HE Eighth Convention of Party pointed out that in view of the growing radicalization of the our # (Continued From Page ee, ic wt the lord but sat on the same plat-| shouts of Hitler “It. doe! aa En form with him,” Attorney John A. Gloekner, one of the speakers, sai Pleased by Reed's Reply. . Gloeckner also said that Senator | , Reed was “very gracious” in ex- rs Dlaining to representatives of the organization his stand on the im-( migration bill of 1924 and that Gov- ernor Pinchot had refused to grant their spokesmen an interview. Gloekner excoriated the gr for their “lack of political interest’ and reminded them that “we've got | a ghante to put one of our own boys in the governor's chair noiv,” | referring to Schnader. Loibl spoke in German and in Eng- lish. German he accused the German - American citizens of apathy under the “false accusa-| tions” of Lord Marley and others | in the newspapers, and of “sitting! at home with a glass of beer rather than attending the meeting.” 1 : t Wages Fight on Boycott. German Vice Consul John ©.) Marhoefer said, and ye: ence is less'than “o1 yet the Germans had receiv his election and Tudwig Marhoe(g@@ecretary of | Rep ard 918 and in 193%, 2 here were still that many jobs ‘Ker! John: R. O'Keefe, Republican and | an. | Democratic; Max Hiller and M. A Marcus, Independent: Aba Solomon Ed John R. ~ alist. es Secon: rT w t, Ar-| K, | |thur Firman and vermap, Ingependent, and Ig dore Re American masses, the capit | The ha eers and! ning” in selecting the ones to be| Law | Class, with the help of the Social *| endorsed. . . we | Dov Fascist. leaders, will attempt to es- difference | Legistative. Endorsement. | E | tablish all kinds of rail; 4, Whether you like him or not,” Loibl| Endorsements for legislative wa: [for intercepting the “| continued. “You've got to like him | nominations follow masses and to set up barriers again: f or else.” ——yunomee §6First district, two, to: elect,|O'F |Communism. This is the chief p’ Mitorsement Indjdates ‘for | Joseph R. Lynch, incumbent, and|De pose of the Farmer-Labor P: this time A year ago, the labor bure: uced the N. R. A. to the v ss as a “gleam of hope” “a charter that puts labor on an equal status with that of the em- per William Wright, | Joh ublican, George J. Sarraf and ber the legisiative comMittee, reminded John Li* Priel, Democratic. ] Ercan teres ian ma jhis audience that¢'numerically we| Third distrio® one to elect, Wil-|# | I Brea, @xtmnt, Become ah are“stronger thai the Jews, Irish|Jiam C. Miller, Republican; Her-| % |Syee' pear” ‘The eleam of new and Italians.” man P. Eberharter, Democratic; |tia | Nex, Dea Sieg soho a] There are 84,000 German: Jake Bonenberger, Independent; | str | ope” turned out to be like a will- |can citizens in Allegheny ¢ Max Weissman, Socialist. of-the-wisp—just & mirage created to serve the capita | Ce fect, Leon- | St* and put a damper upon the discon- P. Kane, incumbent, Repud- | lai jlemger,”-because they are not or-|lican; Joseph 8. Merk, Democratic; | Jai | tent of the working class. ganized. “ |Thomas F. Burke, Independent; | 0. Although millions of workers and Patronage Angle Is Cite Julius Weisberg, Socialist. | Ro farmers still pin their hope up g et, Ralfe| Mi | the promises of Roosevelt and tr Marhoefer also sai: thfre|O, P. Silverman, Republican; Al-| ; Democratic Party, there is, never- were 4,000,000 gover! ‘al jobs in| bert F. Steinmetz, Democratic; Sil- Fr, theless, a great deal of dissatisfac- tion both with the Democratic as ‘ber, Socialist. » three to elect, Ja- le ,. Mor baa wiki eer He WMfran- |representation. / Other sp cob W. Shenkel, incumbent, Jacob jodie ea Pie oagclgrntes Amerie ld fight against the | stressed the possibili z Yeager, Thomas J. Whalen, Repud-| Jo! | other channels—perhaps a tt boycott ducts of their father- | political jobs as a reasoM for strong!|iican; Eimér J. Harter, Peter J.| Rg ores, Crannels—pernans at land, h@fn out of the rise of the| integration of thé German vote.-|McGrath, Robert N, Hartman, party, or should the situation Miteg@overnment, ‘Their attituge| Marchoet quoted Pinchot as|Demperatic; Norman’ Robinson,| 4 See ee ene tral Dovcott was one of the ques- | saying: “I’m, not even interested in Shenkel and Yeager, Independent; | W cle 5 eg aia acto can ed asked candidates who re-|the German movenfent.” Anna Van Essen, David Rine,Sam- #4 | S-Called La Follette Progressives sponded to interviews? Tt was explained that there m uel Blugstone. ‘Socialist breadth. would be merged with the Demo- In English Loibl declared: “It| be many candidates who mi es. wee to elect, A cratic Party. Many so-called pro- took us Germans here and Adoif|he acceptable to. the a ajJames Wettach and James P. In gressives were given high-paying Hitler over in Germany to teH us whole but that “thee ittee had | Rooney, Republican; Jamex Wet- B positions in the administration ‘ve wene Germans,” \to consider the chances’ of win: | tach and Albert Bandi, Democratic; | J¢ |(Blaine, Brookhart and others) Post Gazette's story of the Nazi rally in the smoky city, where, after cheering Hitler, the meeting went Other Socialists who received, Nazi endorsement are Abe Solomon, John R. Sciens, for the first district. Max Weisman for the third district, form the same job for the Fascist| held some years ago in the Labor | and Julius Weiseberg for the Fourth District. Isidore Kerber was en- | dorsed for the Fifth district and) Anna Van Essen, David Rine and Samuel Bluestone for the sixth dis-| obstacles in the way of getting help, writer was the chairman of this trict. George Griffith and Edward] for the victims of Hitler terror.| meeting C. Mueller for the eighth district. | They can also fight against the! ting in Albert Kunze for the 9th district. Henry Kumer and Mildred Adler for the} 10th District. Michael Luft and Valentine Hensler for the 11th. Jacob Herman, Mary B. Lehner, George W. Torrence and John M. O'Rourke were Socialists endorsed! tenant Governor of Pennsylvania.| berg closer to Fascism, The German meeting was called | —— Menzhinsky Death Is Great Loss for Bolshevik Party (Continued from Page 1) and organized the soldiers’ risings this year, the work of the Cheka occupy their against the réactionary officers and the Caarist government. He was a on record as favoring the candidacy coming election campaign, !’; VOTE TO BACK 8S, P. MISLEADERS AT NAZI RALLYIN for the 12th District. Of course as yet, one cannot ex- pect the Socialist leaders to per- butchers as they did in Germany. One cannot ask them to murder a Liebknecht or a Rosa Luxembourg. ; But even at this time they can put Communist Party that is carrying Roth, Lewis Stark, Max/|on the fight against Hitler in Ger-| Michael Halipy and another stool many world, The | Thomas | United and Fascism all over the Meeting also endorsed Kennedy, leader of the Mine Workers for Lieu- , ter-reyolution, speculation and sab- otege. j~ After a slight break, he finally | connected himself for good with the work in the Cheka, and the OGPU. | In 1919, the ring of fire of the in- terventionist armies of the impe- rialists closed especially widely around the Soviet Republic. White |guard herds were hiding in Soviet | towns and villages to help their | armed colleagues in every way. In was especially intense. Vigilant. eyes | had to discover and quickly render | When Postmaster General Farley visited Milwaukee in 1933, he stated that the Democrats will no longer give special consideration to the Progressives and urged that they |join the Democratic Party. It is obvious that since the growing strike struggles and disappointment with the “New Deal” that such a move on the part of the La Follette Pro- gressives would not be to the ad- vantage of the big bourgeoisie. In order to tie workers, farmers, and sections of the petty bourgeoisie to of Socialist Party candidates in the MEET Even this is connected with the So- cialist leader Weisberg. The writer remembers a miners meeting | Lyceum on Miller street and file miners were The Rank holding a meeting to fight John L, Lewis and| capitalism, this could perhaps be the same Thomas Kennedy. The| fulfilled better through another Party—a supposedly independent party—a Farmer-Labor Party. On May 19, there is to take place a state convention of the La Follette Progressive group, which will make ry ' som-| the decisions for separation from eee of the Pittsburg Coal Com-| i. Republican Party and for the | formulation of a third party or a Since that time years have passed. Farmer-Labor Party. Labor organ- History has moved and so has Weis-| izations (A. F. of L.) and other organizations have been invited to send delegates. A recent decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court makes it possible for this third party to put up a complete slate of candidates, state and local, with- out going through the procedure that minority parties usually have to go through; signatures of one- sixth of the voters in ten out of the Julius Weisberg was sit- the balcony. He was carry- | ing on friendly conversation with ; always up-to-date, and until his last | breath continued to work, increasing | and perfecting his knowledge, One of the best fighters of the Party, one of. the best fighters for socialism is dead. But the cadres of the strong Bolshevik Cheka,/ 79 counties in the state is suffi- workers supremely faithful to the! cient to legalize this party. proletarian revolution, steeled by Already at the 41st annual con- the Party of Lenin and Stalin, or- ganized by Comrade Dzerjinsky, and vention of the Wisconsin Federa- tion of Labor, nine months ago, a . Class--The Answer To the Farmer-Labor Party well as the discredited Republican ‘ Expose Traitorous Role Socialist Supporters to consider farmers as “sete rking class.” They their betra with a pre- tense that such a party will bring workers and farmers close together, they hide the that they want to subordinate the interests of the working class to that of the 4 petty boury The Communist Party points out that necessary win over broad masses of farmers i but not interests of the worke t of the farmers Party clearly to sub- letter of our ques« dd to our policy, of the proletariat mers and ruined der the hegemony struggle for out of the forward their rhich goes Party, in which the an appendage to rgeoisie and the petty becomes an appendage © the bourgeoisie, and the demo-< cratic methods of struggle. In the present situation the ore ion of a Farmer-Labor Party not be a step forward for the American proletariat Reformism in the United States, just as in Europe, has travelled very rapidly in the last few years on the road of Social-Fascism. Any Farmer- Labor Party organized today would from the very first be a recruiting ground for Social-Fascism, which would tie the American working class to capitalism, to prevent a revolutionary solution of the crisis. The slogan for a labor party is no longer useful for the mobilization of the American proletariat for inde- pendent political action. The world crisis of capitalism, the end of rela~ tive stabilization; the sharpened class struggle, and the growing revo- lutionary upsurge has developed new and various forms of struggle. Only the slogan of the Communist Party — ‘class against class” will break the workers away from bour- geois politics and Social-Fascism and bring them under the leadership of the Communist Party for Soviet Power. The American working class has also learned something from events in Europe; two labor govern- ments in England, which defended the interest of imperialism as loyal as any conservative government, were a good lesson for the American proletariat. The events in Germany and Austria further convinces the workers that there is no third road. It is, therefore, the task of the Communists to expose and unmask the Social-Fascist leaders and the Farmer-Labor Pa Farmer labor. ism is not only a phenomenon pecu- liar to Minnesota and Wisconsin, but a tendency in many ‘ofKer sections of the country which we must com- bat. Should the La Féllette Pro- gressives decide not to organ such a party this month, this wor not be the end of this tendency, but only a postponement because of | sheviks. Arrested at a session of the | Of the great cause of the defense of member of the Petersburg military | harmless tens and hundreds of | organization committee of the Bol-| White spies, diversionists, saboteurs | get off at Dyckman St. Station. Hike to | political jobs and the Germans were left in the cold. At many times in the meeting | | there were shouts of “Hail Hitler” and much hand clapping at the | | ene at aouaingie Gee |in Belgium, Switzerland and France. | mans, both boys and girls, greeted | Returning to Petrograd in 1917, he each other with their hands out-| #84im entered the military organiza- | stretched as they do in Hitler Ger- | on and directly participated in the many. The Vice-Council of Ger- preparations and in conducting the many was also present and spoke. October Revolution. This time he It was very clear that th Ht *_| was a member of the Bureau of the ny Clear that the Hitler-| Bolshevik military organizations, ites were holding their first “public | and editor of the newspaper, “Sol- baa 3 in Sh eh | dier.” : At this meeting they also recog-|" after the October revolution, Protea re ht tendered by the comrade Menzhinsky was appointed alist leaders of Germany 88/ {9 the post of First Peoples’ Com- well as those ‘of the United States| missar of Finance. In 1918, when and especially those of Pittsburg. the capital of the Soviet Republic This was shown in the names en- was transferred to Moscow, after dorsed for the various candidates in| the signing of the Brest-Litovsk the coming elections. ‘treaty, Comrade Menzhinsky went As stated above, Reed was sup-| to work in the Commissariat of Jus- aced by a court-martial, but suc- ceeded in escaping abroad. Returns in 1917 From 1907, he was an emigrant | William A. Schnader was supported so that by verdicts of the revolu- because he “is one of us.” Julius tionary tribunal he could punish Weisberg, Socialist leader and head | enemies of the revolution who were of the Jewish Daily Forward in| not stopping at attemp‘s to organ- committee, Menzhinsky was men-| ported because he was against the tice of the Petrograd Commune. He | Lord Marley Anti-Fascist meeting.|took charge of the criminal sector | {adolescent kid, and the vocabulary Pittsburg was probably supported | because he fought hardest against | the Lord Marley meeting and the. raising of funds to help the victims | of Fascist terror. ize the counter-revolutionary rising. Simultaneously, Menzhinsky par- ticipated actively in the work of the Petrograd Extraordinary Commis- | the Socialist fatherland. This year | the Party appointed Menzhinsky to | leading work in the Cheka—a mem- | ber of the Presidium of the Cheka, | and later assistant chief of the! OGPU. In 1926, the Party suffered a creat loss. One of the best colleagues of Lenin and Stalin, Felix Dzerjinsky, | died. His place was taken by Via-| cheslav Menzhinsky. Since then he | continually was the head of the OGPU. Extremely modest, and mer- cilessly exacting of himself, full of courage and self-sacrifice, Comrade | Menzhinsky was a model proleta- } rian warrior, giving all his energy | and his tremendous revolutionary temperament to the struggle against | the enémies of the proletarian revo- lution. His keen, sharp mind had the spe- springs of the vile work of enemies of the proletarian dictatorship. He was able to inspire the steel de-| tachments of the Cheka fighters | with the fire of unswerving revolu- | | tionary action and tirelessly taught | | them how to recognize the face of | ihe class enemy whatever flag or mask concealed it. | Comrade Menzhinsky had an al- most encyclopedic knowledge of \siom for the struggle against coun-| many branches of science, He was! Co. Wisconsin Federation of Labor, Menzhinsky, eran an vigilantly | resolution was adopted in favor of | political expediency. et eee Pp ute) \a Labor Party. After the Supreme; yw, must, through our everyday ; Court decision was announced, Z Henry Ohl, Jr. president of the! struggles in the factories, in the Arrest 2) of AM) ab Shae trade unions, among thee unem- ‘Metal Strikers in Cincinnati Plant (Special to the Daily Worker) OINCINNATI, Ohio, May 11— Over 200 of the 400 striking metal workers of the Formica Insulation Co, here were arrested Thursday. | were arrested were all re- Nineteen strikers Wednesday. They leased on bail. The picket lines in front of the plant were unbroken, other sym- pathetic workers coming to fill the ranks of those arrested. The s0- called liberal local government of Dystra has used police terror and violence in a vain effort to break cial ability of disclosing the secret | the picket lines. Hundreds of tele- | of spoils in Milwaukee. To console grams have been sent by various organizations in the city and sur- rounding territory protesting the use of police violence. Eighteen hundred other metal workers went on strike today. Two thousand other workers are ex- ployed, convince the decisive séc- tions of the American working class that the Communist Party is the only political Party of the working class. The Party in District 18 will initiate an ideological and organ- izational campaign to expose the third or Farmer-Labor Party, We will already now prepare for the coming election campaign to spread our election platform containing state and municipal demands among wide masses of workers and farmers. Our nominating convention which takes place in Milwaukee, July 1, must be a broad United Front, in- volving various sections of the work- ing class under the leadership of the Communist election slogans. By the carrying out of the de- cisions of the Eighth National Con- vention, as well as the control tasks adopted at the convention of Dis- trict 18, we can defeat the agents of the capitalist class, who will hide themselves behind the mask of 4 Farmer-Labor Party. The District Committee at its last session de- cided upon the following steps in stated that now the road for a La- bor Party is open. The creation of a Farmer-Labor Party in Wisconsin has the support of a section of the Socialist Party leadership. Whether the Socialist Party will definitely affiliate to this | Party is not yet clear, although some linfluential leaders like Norman |Thomas and others favor such a move. Some people will ask how can the Socialist Party support the creation of a Farmer-Labor Party? It is not very hard for Social-Fas- ;cism, when the need demands, to} | merge itself for a time with one or the other sections of the bourgeoisie. | Did they not do the same in 1924 | when they campaigned to elect La | Follette for president? For Wiscon- jsin, it is nothing new. There has jalways been an understanding be- tween the La Follette Progressives |and the Socialists on the division |the followers of the Socialist Party, {the resolution adopted at the Wis- jconsin State Federation of Labor | showers praise upon the Socialist |Party, but blames the workers and the campaign against a labor party: |voters for their “inability to grasp| 1. To initiate a discussion in all the intricacies of a philosophy so | units and section committees on the pected to strike at the beginning of |far-reached and so involved that the week, political adversaries found it pos- Eleven hundred workers are on|Sibe to divide the voters by con- strike here at the Remington Rand | fusing them still more.” ee | ‘Therefore, the Social-Fascists pro- | pose to simplify the “philosophy” air mail have cluttered the radio, Press and the marble halls and heads of Congress have resounded to the American retort “You're Another.” Father Farley, whose past experi- ence as boxing commissioner of N. Y. qualifies him as Postmaster Gen. eral of the U.S. A., has lent his imposing confu- sion to the air aviation expan- sion via the stock juggling route, a characte ristic national _ bally- hoo was in full cry and a howl set up for avia- x " tion experts. jim Fark The Army t6- Jim Farley sponded nobly with medals clank- ing to the tune of “Aviation, Here We Are.” Some of them arrived with dazzling lapel wings—desk mot- toes, the romantic complex of an Re ene TIONS concerning th af The Real Slant on the Air Mai "SOME DETAILS ON THE AIRPLANE INDUSTRY FROM AN INSIDER | a little and thus bring the stubborn voters a little closer through a | Farmer-Labor Party as a first step —and then to “Socialism.” The So- \cialist Party justified this move in |the following statement which ap- peared in the Milwaukee Leader a number of months ago: “The State Federation of Labor Convention promotes the under- of an army top kick. Their lit- erary gems scintillated propheti- cally in the aviation periodicals and dripped a pollyanna optimism that mirrored a love of the padded chair, Everything was hotsy-totsy until one day the big bad wolf of the bankers trotted in and started a) parade toward the exit. A number of high-powered wind- | bags with an efficiency mania took over the patient and the wreckage | that followed was superb. One large operating company had three pres-- idents in two years—one lasted only three months—and the morning sel- utation changes from “Good morn- ing” to “You here yet?” Assets a Headache The financial magicians took stock of the assets and the result made them dash for asparin. Em- bryo airports in wheat fields, ex- pensive hangars with doodads and trick doors which nobody could open, minus only mural decorations and & general indiscriminste expen diture based optimistically on a fictitious future. One large airport. in Kansas had miles of copper cable and flood lights that have never been used. There was a forced landing of | aviation stocks, the worst feature of this being that a considerable | percentage of these mutilated stocks were held by aviation workers on the installment plan. The financial skeleton rattled dismally at each periodic inspection. The ledgers acquired a vivid red. A lamentable | lack of business vision in aviation was apparent in the dizzy attempts | to make it pay. Retarded by ex- ecutives whose qualifications con- sisted of a political or financial pull the operating phase of the industry including the loyal workers suffered considerably. The dizzy defenders of collapsing profits again passed the burden of their stupidity onto the workers in wage cuts and worse conditions. Frantie Reorganization A frantic period of reorganization started. Mergers and consolidations followed. Air lines were bought and sold with an eye to future air mail possibilities. Some were bought and sold back the same year when found | useless | scheme, erated by the big operators all over the country. Flamboyant circulars were broadcast among the roman- tically adolescent youth picturing a in the air moil contract} Aviation schools were op-| | standing between organized and industrial workers and organized farmers. “For a long time the interests have kept these two sections of the working class more or tagonistic to one another.” The Socialist Party even goes fur- ther in order to moke the Farmer- Labor Party acceptable to the more radical workers in the city. It calls it a “Farmer-Socialist Party.” obvious that this party will aim to |gold braided bedeckled pilot stand- !ing in the attitude of a stuffed) | sausage beside an enormous airliner | | whose wings obscured the horizon. | "These youngsters were initiated into| | the mysteries of aviation at so much| | per and taught to fly and most of | them flew—back to the plough and | the cows. | The axe whirled and the school closed. The depression had started. Hangars and fields were vacated—j| equipment dribbled away always at| @ loss—wages were cut—workers | fired—and stocks hit bottom with a} | bang that jarred the industry from} | top to bottom. the bourgeoisie, and not as some think—to separate the workers from bourgeois politics. The resolution of the Wisconsin State Federation of | The scene was all set. The band} Labor for the creation of this party wagon with only a few select seats; does not even mention the class | was rolled out and high hat Brown | struggle, but speaks of the “people” | the P. M. G. took a front seat.|in general. The resolution says that Uncle Sem was also taken for athe aim is “a new political align- ride. The destination was Washing-'ment for the purpose of securing ton. The weather was fair and)and maintaining liberal laws and warmer and the ceiling unlimited. fair administration (capitalist ad- | (Signed) | ministration).” While pretending | a a to be at odds with the Democratic 1 Nee oe ne |Party, ft. nevertheless. ‘saya: tho President Roosevelt “is above par | (To Be Continued) | The Social-Fascisis want to cover | (The following article will ex- | up the class differentiation among | pose the collusion and the parti- | farmers; to gloss over the fact that | Cipante). there are rich and poor farmers; we It is| bring the workers under the rule of, Farmer-Labor Party. 2. To organize a vigorous Com- munist Party election campaign and | wide distribution of our program as the best means of combatting the Farmer-Labor Party and Social- Fascism. To sharply raise the revo- lutionary way out of the crisis and | the slogan of a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government. Sections must nominate iocal candidates immedi- ate! 3. To mobilize all trade union fractions and opposition groups to deal with vhis problem. To get local | unions to endorse Communist Party candidates. 4. To deal with this problem at. shop gate and street meetings. also special articles in shop bulletins on | this question. | 5. To exchange speakers with | Minneapolis for mass exposure of Farmer-Laborism and Socialist Party. 6. To issue statement to the pre giving the Communist Party position on labor party; also articles for the Daily Worker. | 7. The Central Committee pam- phlet on the Farmer-Labor Party, which is to be written soon—to be | distributed widely. | British Firms Fill Big “Arms Orders for Japan LONDON, May 11 (By Radio).— The London “Daily Herald” prints information on heavy war orders being filled by British munition | plants for Japan. The paper states, in order to keep this secret, the | Japanese orders are being disttib- uted to plants in India, and in this way the British companies get paré | of the business aR