The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1934 Daily .QWorker our coe ay PARTY 0.5. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST ITTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y. ‘Telephone: ALgonguin 4-7954, 1” Press Building, 708, Cheago, Il. , $6.00 cents. > $8.00; 1934 MONDAY, MAY 21, Farm-Labor Strikebreaking TRIKEBREAKING terror of govern- ment armed forces, with murderous attacks on the picket lines, con abated, with the aim of smashing the strikes of the workers for increased wages and union recognition. On the heels of the murderous attacks of police, natic i troops and co: ties against the Alabama ore mine’ striking 1o! men in Western and Gulf ports, rs of Buffalo, comes news of bloody assaults on the picket lines of the 5,000 striking truck drivers in Minneapolis, Minn. The Minneapolis police are engaged in the most vicious strikebreaking terror. Six hundred special police have been sworn in. Each truck brought into the produce market contains four policemen. Fifteen have already been injured in police attacks on the Picket lines. The officials of the Farmer Labor Party, headed by Governor Floyd B. Olson, are now taking the lead in the attempts to smash the militant strike of the truck drivers through terror. ‘The Farmer-Labor Governor, Olson, brazenly an- nounces that if the police are unable to protect the strikebreakers sufficiently, he will call out the na- tional guard. Olson makes it clear that the national guard troops will themselves run the produce trucks. They will not only protect the scabs, but will them- selves do strikebreaking duty. Under Olson’s in- structions, the national guard officers have already mapped out in detail their whole strikebreaking plan of action. . . . HE issues involved in Minneapolis are the same as the issues involved in the other strikes where terror is being used to enforce strikebreaking Labor Board decrees. The Minneapolis truck drivers are fighting now for the right to strike and to picket. They are fighting for their right to organize and for higher wages. All workers and working class organizations should at once protest against the attempts of the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota to smash the Minneapolis truck drivers strike with bloody terror of police and national guards. Organize the broadest united front of all workers and farmers, in meetings, conferences and demon- strations, for the right of the workers to strike and picket, to meet, to speak, and to organize! Send telegrams and protest resolutions to Roose- velt, and to Wagner, protessing against the bloody fascist terror, backed by the strikebreaking N.R.A, and Labor Boards, which is trying to smash the strike wave of the workers! Organize the broadest united front actions aganist fascism and against the fascist terror now in force in Minneapolis, in Alabama and in the long- shore strike! Defend the elementary rights of the working class! ——— The Fascist Coup in Bulgaria HE Fascist coup d’etat in Bulgaria is a reflection of the desperate attempts of the ruling bourgeoisie of Bulgaria to meet the remorseless intensification of the crisis. The reports of the situation are not yet complete enough to warrant a detailed and thorough evaluation, But two factors in the situation are already clear. The first is the intense fear which the Bul- garian revolutionary movement, led by the splendid Bulgarian Communist Party, strikes in the hearts of the Bulgarian ruling classes. Even from the meagre capitalist press reports, it is obvious that the Fascist coup is the desperate lunge of the Bul- garian ruling classes against a powerful Communist Party, a Party which has bred a Dimitroff, a Party which is rapidly leading the masses toward open class battles. The Bulgarian Fascist coup also reflects the struggles within the Bulgarian ruling classes around the question of alignment to Italian or German Fas- cism. The conflicts within the ranks of the Bul- garian bourgeoiste are the reflections of the extraor- dinary sharpening of the international imperialist antagonisms in the Balkans as the major impe- Tialist powers, France, Italy, Germany, and Britain maneuver ceaselessly for advantages in the shifting for positions of power in Southern Europe. The world crisis of capitalism, whatever the dif- ferent courses of various separate countries, deepens steadily. The imperialist antagonisms and hatreds grow in intensity every day, every hour. Within all the capitalist countries, the toiling masses are pre- paring for revolutionary struggle. The revolution- ary upsurge of the masses grows higher and higher, confronting the bourgeoisie with the menace of pro- letarian revolution. In this situation, the bourgeoisie everywhere brings forward its last reserves, its open Fascist dic- tatorship. It attempts to head off proletarian revo- tution by means of the most brutal and bloody ter- ror. But, while this makes the revolutionary strug- gle of the workers more difficult, it does not solve the growing crisis within the bourgeois ranks. The farceg of proletarian revolution continue to mature, This is the broad meaning of the Bulgarian coup, Raiding Workers’ Clubs [AND in hand with the murderous attacks on strikers and on the right of the workers in the shops and mine fields to organize to defend their inter- ests, there is proceeding a violent cam- paign ‘by the police and their gangster allies against the social organizations of the workers. In both cases the aim is the same: te prevent the building of workers’ organizations which are not controlled by corrupt bourgeois a { ist agents of the rul- stem ‘the gro ation rs of the club were a: ed in an t to hold social rters for its workers Court trates on the Social Youth Culture f a national char- ficance to the entire lar raids and attacks la, Newark and other Ww pena -class, is shown by s' on workers’ clubs in Philadel cities. Every working-class organization, every militant worker, should answer these a’ on the right of the workers to organize by supporting the plans of the Associated Workers Clubs for a conference to organize defense against these attacks, A Bitter Indictment HE long-awaited report of the Darrow National Recovery Review Board has finally been made public. It is a document of first-rate political importance. In it, for the first time, in a govern- ment agency, we find remarkable admis- sion of the charges which the Communist alone has been firing at the whole Roosevelt-N.R.A. program ever since its inception, The N.R.A. program, far from being the “social” program described by everyone from Roosevelt to Nor- man Thomas, stands revealed in the Darrow report | as a brutal domination of the most powerful, reac- tionary Wall Street monopolies, The N.R.A. codes have fastened increased hunger, intensified slavery and exploitation upon the vast majority of the population of the country—such is the verdict of the Darrow Board. Such has been the verdict of the Communist Party, which alone has led the masses in fierce struggle against the slavery of the N.R.A. program. ‘The criticism of the monopoly character of the | N.R.A. by the Darrow Board is a bitter one. It is essentially a petty-bourgeois criticsim. It is the criticism of the small business man who is being crushed to pieces by the advance of the Wall Street financial monopoly machine. It is his last cry of anguish before his extermination. This explains the vacillating, confused character of the report. More detailed analysis following the excellent sum- mary of the Darrow report given today by our Washington Bureau, will be made with the publica- tion of the full text. But already in its bitter flaying or the N.R.A.- Roosevelt program it has revealed the ruthless, re- actionary face of the big Wall Street monopolies which all the time has been hidden by the rotten hypocrisy of Roosevelt and the Social-Fascist echoes of the whole tribe of A. F. of L. and Socialist Party officialdom. The Nazi Axe Menaces Comrade Thaelmann ESTERDAY, in Hamburg, Germany, the axe of the Nazi executioner crashed down on the necks of four more of our German comrades. This adds another chapter to the | hideous course of German Fascism. The Fascist savagery is rising still in Ger- many. From the hidden recesses of the torture chambers and concentration camps it is again un- leashing its terrorism in the streets. The Fascists are afraid. They are terrified by the grim menace of the proletariat, which defies all terrorism, all torture, all repression. The Fas- cists think that more terror will save them. They think that they can blind the masses with blood, where they have failed to give them bread. After 15 months of rule, Hitler knows that his Tule rests on sand, that the spectre of proletarian reyolution, which he thought to crush with bayo- nets, rises again. He knows that the Communist Party of Germany lives deep in the heart of the working class, rooted, unbreakable, He is letting loose his venom against Thael- mann, Bolshevik leader of the German working class, fearless son of the German proletariat. At this moment Thaelmann is feeling who knows what insane torture, who knows the agony at the hands of the beasts whom German capitalism has sent to prey upon him. The working class of the world cannot rest quiet while Thaelmann is in the hands of these beasts. The working class of the world tore Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff from the hands of the Fascists. It can wrest Thaelmann away also, Every Fascist official in foreign countries, every consul, every Ambassador must hear the voice of the masses demanding the liberation of Thaelmann and Torgler, of all anti-Fascist fighters! The “trial” of Thaelmann approaches. It will be a sinister farce, moving swiftly to the execution of our comrade, Thaelmann. We cannot wait. Thaelmann calls to us. Protest meetings, demonstrations, resolutions, must be arranged for, everywhere. All workers, sym- pathizers, and mass organizations must continue to flood the German Consuls in every city with protests. Let the Fascists know that we are de- termined to liberate Thaelmann! onli Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Piease send me more information om the Commu- | mst Party, NAME. Serene eemereseeaseecnreecsceecseseseeeseeees | ADDREBB......c0ceeereeres Party | Chics Police! Refuse Permit! For Youth Day 4 |Y oung W: orkers Prepare | in Detroit, Pittsburgh, for May 30th | NEW YORK.—Four clubs of the Young Circle League, Socialist-con- trolled, voted unanimously to take part in the May 30 United National Youth Day demonstration called by the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism. The demonstration will start at 1 pm., parading from Tenth St. and | Second Ave. Hundreds of thou- sands of leaflets, issued by partici- ting organizations, are being dis- tributed. An appeal was issued to all ar- tists and sign painters who have | free time to report to 80 Fifth Ave., | 18th floor, to help in preparing for National Youth Day. + * * Chicago Permit Refused (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, May 20,—Police | still refuse a permit for the National | Youth Day demonstration, which | will assemble at 47th and Halsted Sts. May 30. Delegations from the | | American League Against War and |Fascism have been refused four | times by city officials. The Youth Section of the Ameri- }can League is organizing a mass | protest campaign against this effort |to drive the youth into the back |streets on the same day that a | great militarist parade will pass | through the busiest part of Chicago. Two parades will be held Sat- urday, May 16, in preparation for May 30, at the call of the Com- |munist Party and the Young | Communist League. One will start |at Division and California, the other at 14th and Loomis. The Young Pioneers will hold three outdoor rallies the same day at Ellis and Washington Park, and | at Lake and Artesian. They are issuing 10,000 leaflets for the Na- | tional Youth Day demonstration. * * Pittsburgh Conference Affiliates to League PITTSBURGH, Pa—‘We must | make this National Youth Day a monkey wrench in the war ma- chine of the bosses here,” declared a girl delegate, at the conference held here in preparation for Na- tional Youth Day. Seventy-five delegates, repre- senting 22 organizations, attended pledging the support of their membership in the struggle | against imperialist war. There were two delegates from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers from the National Tube Co., in McKeesport. The conference voted unani- mously to affiliate to the Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism. Pile Ste Ford Workers Prepare Detroit May 30 Parade | | | _DETROIT, Mich—The National | Youth Day parade will start from | Clark Park on the west side and Perrien Park on the east side of the city, at 1:30 pm., and will reach Times Sq. at 3 pm. This | point is across the street from the Detroit Times, a jingo Hearst | sheet, which is doing its best to whijy up nationalism in prepara- | tion for another war. ‘Young workers of the Ford plant, the unemployed youth and the sons }and daughters of Ford workers are holding a big rally and dance on Saturday, May 26 at the Martin | Hall, 4959 Martin St. In one department of over 200 men and youth, Ford has promised @ wage increase above the $5 base. Only 12 of them got the increase | and many were laid off in this sec- |tion, causing great resentments Stickers are being used calling on | these youth to demonstrate against this misery together with the other | youth on May 30. ee Haverhill Council Refuses Permit | HAVERHILL, Mass. May 20— The local city council voted unani- mously to refuse a permit for the Preparing for’ for Youth Day! May 30 Is Immediate Task of Party By CHARLES KRUMBEIN (District Organizer, Communist Party, New York District) yw war and fascism becoming more and more imminent, the entire working-class must give se- rious consideration, organize and prepare for the struggle to defeat these two beasts of the working class. One of the biggest tasks we have is the reaching and organizing of the young workers and students in the struggle against war and fascism. In war youth is a decisive factor. In fascism, as we have seen in Ger- many, the youth can also become decisive. It is our task to win the youth against war and fascism. This can be done as we have alreasy seen in the past by the large numbers of young workers who have been en- gaged in militant strike struggles for their day-to-day needs. It has been proved by the large numbers of young workers and students in the reecnt strikes against war. It has been proved by the tremendous turnout of young workers and stu- dents in the May Day demonstra- tions. It is so because the youth are especially discriminated against. Hundreds of thousands of them have not been able to get their first job. Most of those with jobs receive jess wages for equal work, They Young Socialists Vote to Join N.Y. Youth Day March Ire va nore DROP ! ee aaa Cleveland Women Active for World Anti-War Congress Plan Back Yard Meets, Baby Carriage Parades To Win Support CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 20.— Back-yard anti-war meetings to or~ ganize the women of Cleveland for the struggle against war and fas- cism and in support of the Interna- tional Women’s Congress which will be held in Paris, July 28-30, of this year, are part of the methods used by the Women’s Provisional Committee Against War and Fas- cism, Frances Field, secretary, of this city which has taken the initi- ative in organizing the campaign. These back-yard meetings will elect delegates to the Cleveland Re- gional Conference which will elect the local delegates to Paris. Baby carriage parades, tin pan and spoon parades popularizing the congress and mobilizing women for the fight against war and fascism will take place during the coming weeks. In addition, shop and trade union conferences are being organized to reach the working women of Cleve- land for the regional conference which will be held around June 23. The Finnish Working Women’s Clubs have elected a special com- mittee of 11 who are devoting all their time for this important work. They have been canvassing the homes of Finnish women with their own newspaper which has carried many pages of anti-war, anti-fas- cist material. anti-war demonstration called by the Merrimack Valley National Youth Day Conference for May 30, National Youth Day, in Washington Square, A meeting of the conference on May 17, issued a protest against the council’s action and endorsed a resolution pledging to make May 30, National Youth Day, a day of struggle and united front demon- stration against war and fascism; to organize and fight against war and fascism, and to defend the in- terests of the workers and the Sov- jet Union. The resolution demanded all war funds be turned over for j involve its members, as well as the unemployment insurance to be ad- ministered by the workers, Wall St. Bankers Aid Scabby Editor Form Cuban Fascist Group CUBA, May 18.—A fascist group is being organized to assist the Wall Street government of President Carlos Mendieta, by Jose I. Rivero, publisher of the reactionary news- paper, “Diario de la Marino.” Rivero’s slogan is “Death to Com- munism.” Assisting him in the or- ganization of the fascist bands is Jose Manuel Casanova, vice-presi- dent of the Cuban National Sugar Institute, which is controlled by American bankers and sugar inter- ests. IWO Greets Irish Communist Leader Urges Members to Aid Murray Banquet, May 30 NEW YORK—“We of the Inter- national Workers Order extend pro- letarian fraternal greetings to the Communist Party of Ireland, in the person of Comrade Sean Murray, its secretary,” declared Max Be- dacht, General Secretary of the In- ternational Workers Order. “We call upon the branches and mem- bers of our organization in New York to join us in these greetings to the young, growing Irish Com- munist Party.” Comrade Bedacht asks for attend- ants and representatives from all branches to be present at the ban- quet to be given to Sean Murray Wednesday, May 30th, 8 p.m., at the Irving Plaza, in an effort to help this: youngest member of the In- ternational in its task of organiz- ing the Irish workers against grow- ing fascism in Ireland. a ee 300 Hear Murray DETROIT, Mich—Three hundred Irish workers were present at an enthusiastic mass meeting held here in a reception to Sean Murray, at which the 18th anniversary of the death of James Connolly was com- memorated, last Tuesday. Captain Robert Montheith presided, and in his speech stressed the role of labor in the national struggle. Dr. Nur M. Malik, Indian na- tionalist, brought greetings to the meeting on behalf of the Indian workers and peasants, are especially speeded up because of, their youth and energy. They are generally handled as second rate workers by the: bosses, foremen, etc. N. ¥. District Drive for Youth All of this being the case, with proper approach to them, they can be won for the struggle against war and fascism, The Communist Party in its re- cent pre-convention discussions and at its convention laid tremendous stress upon the importance of work among the young workers and stu- dents. This was not accidental. It is precisely because the Communist Party sees as its main task the struggle against war and fascism. We now have the job of putting our resolutions into life. To do this the New York District of the Commu- nist Party is launching a drive to adults in all the organizations sym- pathetic to it to reach the young workers and students, organizing’ and leading them for the day-to- day needs, and thereby winning them for the bigger struggles, Mobilize on May 30 During the course of this drive we have the task of mobilizing the largest possible demonstration on National Youth Day which falls on May 30th, We must reach every! youth organization poss:ble, likewise every adult organization, and bring them onto the streets for National Youth Day, which day is dedicated fo 8 AE Une ansibey eA eee cism., Let us see National Youth Day as a further step from the splendid May Day demonstrations which had as one of its main issues the struggle against war and fascism, The second big event will be a mass meeting at’ St. Nicholas Arena on June 15th, which will be the opening of the New York District convent.on of the Young Communist League. We must see to it that we pack this hall to overflowing. In preparation for these two big events the New York District of the Party is undertaking, in its own name, to issue a minimum of 50,000 mani- festos to the youth, as well as a minimum of 150,000 leaflets mobi- lizing for National Youth Day.. Youth Day Literature Further, the Party is undertaking to distribute at least 40,000 copies of the special National Youth Day edition of the “Young Worker.” The Party undertakes to sell 10,000 copies of the special youth pamphlet. “In Flanders Field Where Poppies Grow,” as part of this drive, But most important of all is the recruiting of young workers and students into the Young Communist League. The Y. C. L. must be built into a mighty mass organization. It must become larger than the Party. The District Committee of the Party proposed to the section organizers that a thousand young workers and students be recruited directly by the Party between now and the mass meeting on June 15th and present 1 NEWS ITEM: Roosevelt slashes federal relief budget by more than half a billion dollars. In the relief expenditures for the fiscal year ending July, 1935, are such “relief” items as 40 millions for naval construction, 285 millions for C.C.C. camps, and 5 millions for army airplanes. ]War Dep’t Plans Big Aviation Base For Chicago Area Begins Enlistment of More Men For Marines (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, May 19.—The U. S. War Department announced two war preparations for the Chicago area Friday. Quartermaster Sergeant Richard J. Stone, Marine Corp recruiting officer issued the call for 300 new members of the Marines during the summer months to be recruited in Chicago. At the same time, the War Department's ap- proval of an $8,500,000 airport on the lake front was reported, ‘The Marine Corp recruits must be young workers, from 18 to 25 years, in excellent physical condition, and not less than 5 feet 8 inches tall. It seems that the new anti-aircraft guns on battleships cannot be loaded by short men. The airport, which is to be built on made land in the lake, will be a strategic point from which to con- trol the City of Chicago and its surrounding territory, including the head of the great Lakes to Gulf In- land Waterway. The importance of @ military aviation base at the very center of the war industry of the country, within an hour's flight of the greatest rail center in the world, the greatest meat packing center, and the tremendous steel plants on the south shore of the lake cannot be exaggerated. Like so many of the other war ex- Ppenditures, this project will be dis- guised as a ‘commercial’ enterprise. ‘There is no mention of its mill- tary importance in time of war, or in time of great class struggles among the Chicago workers. ‘The government which has no money for unemployment insurance, has practically decided to spend $8,500,000 from P. W. A. funds for this project. The Chairman of the Tllinois P. W. A. advisory board has already approved the project, and the War Department's O. K. makes its final approval almost certain. Murray dealt in detail with the struggle of the Irish workers against British imperialism and the De Valera government. Party Must Win Youth for Fight on War, Fascism Must Prepare June 15 District Convention of Y.C.L. these thousand members to the Y. C. L. at this meeting. The sec- tion organizers put forth a counter plan of 1,400 new members. Party Must Aid Y.C.L. These are really modest tasks, Surely every Party member knows some young worker who can be con- vinced to join the Y. C. L. Espe- cially must the young workers of the basic industries and shops be brought into the Y.C.L. The Party shop nuclei should get out special literature, shop bulletins, leaflets, etc., for National Youth Day, ad- dressed directly to the youth, putting forth their problems and grievances and placing the demands to meet these. This must result in recruit- ing young workers of the shop into the Y. C. L. so that we can carry out our pledge of building a Y.C. L. nucleus wherever a Party shop nu- cleus exists. Every Party organization ist give much more serious attention than in the past to guiding and helping the Y. C. L. organizations to become real mass organizations. A number of members of the Party years of age must be as- Ys Oe tdt not be able On the | World Front —— By HARRY GANNES German Political Dynamite Gold and Trade—Down Liberal Ostriches s@MHE Hitler government is leading Germany t catastrophe!” So declarea Comrade Wilhelm Pieck, rep- resentative of the German Communist Party, last De cember. His statement is con- tained in the brilliant pamphlet: “We are Fighting for a Soviet Ger- many,” containing his report to the 18th Plenum of the Communist International. That mature judgment of our German comrade becomes everyday news jnow, as the catastrophe of German capitalism assumes more visible proportions. In the reactionary Herald Tribune (May 18) we read: “The situation (in Germany) ts loaded with political dynamite, for a relapse of the domestic business boom, causing unemployment fig- ures to rise again, inevitably would entail far-reaching political conse- quences. “Some observers believe that the recent anti-Semitic tirades of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda and public enlighten- ment, and the anti-Jewish campaign started by ‘Angriff’ were both -in- tended to divert the attention of the German masses from the grav- ity of the economic situation.” A glimpse into the abyss into which the Nazi madmen are plung- ing Germany, was afforded the world recently. In Germany now there are a group of bankers from various countries conferring with Fascist financiers gver questions of foreign loan transfers and settle- ment. Caer ITH all the driving, with all the depredations and robbery of fascism, the economic crisis in Ger- many speeds ahead with seven- Jeague boots. To the foreign loan transfer con- ference the Nazis revealed two sets of figures that made the whole press of the capitalist world gasp with the frightful state of German econ- omy. Those statistics dealt with foreign trade and gold reserves. German exports in April fell, as compared to March, from $158,608,- 000 to $125,136,000, or 21 per cent in one month—at a period when exports even in crisis years usually increase. The unfavorable balance of trade against Fascist Germany is growing. As a result gold is being drained out of the country, with a total coverage on note circulation drop- ping nearly to zero, or about 48 per cent. The foreign trade catastrophe, however, has only begun. The Nazi _ embargo on the import of raw ma- terials, such as cotton, wool and copper, has not made itself felt yet. Unable to pay for these goods, the Fascist maniacs enforce a curtail- ment in the import of raw mater- jals, which will still further inten- sify the economic crisis in Germany. So far as the workers and poor Peasants are concerned, their lot is so miserable that the fact has even reached the liberal magazine of New York, the “Nation,” which, in its May 23 issue says: “From the large amount of data before us, it seems plain that the standard of living is steadily sink- ing (in Germany).” Sara Pang Ww HAVE already in a previous column quoted the editorial opinion of the leading capitalist newspapers of London, Paris, Hol- land and Denmark (those closest to Germany) to show that there was no disagreement among them on the fact that unrest is stirring throughout Germany against fas- cism. We have the Nazis’ own official reports that the Communist Party of Germany is functioning stronger than ever before in its f]- legal existence, that the whole of Germany is flooded with seareiae nist literature. Again we quote the latest Euro- pean capitalist press opinion which we have just received on what is astir in Germany: London Times: “Great atten- tion was paid in Germany to the defensive tenor of large parts of Hitler’s May Ist speech, and to his repeated attacks against ‘crit- ical and dissatisfied elements’— in a country in which there ts no possibility for open criticism! An increase of covert complaints and criticism has been noticeable during the past few weeks. Dis- illusionment, and discouragement have become auite noticeable.” Temps, leading French news- paper: “German government cir- cles are beginning to see that a certain opposition might be in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Swiss capitalist newspaper: “The critical attitude of a certain part of the peeple, which careful observation 3 stem the hew upsurge of lonary action, the Nazi mad- Cal ™ pe asa LAPS TRB AERATED —w eo