The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1934, Page 6

DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1934 Vorker OMMUMIST INTERMATIONALD G@RxTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTIO “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 EXCEPT SUNDAY CO., INC,, 5 BY THE E. 13th D DAILY Y PUBLISHING New York, N. Y. ALgonquin 44-7954 $6.00 $9.00 Toledo, ci THE most yent, Taf twenty-four A Warning! workers of Toledo we sound the e Roosevelt's just managed to get a in the strike of delays the strike. ke and the s are gerous y is a blow at the The experience of f or Minneapolis, and other strikes should be a seri warning. The N.R.A. mediator, Taft, has only one purpose—to protect the corporations from the power of the oppressed workers. He has no other purpose. And his main strategy now is to stall, stall, stall, in the same way that a hurt fighter stalls for time until he can get his wind again. But when your enemy wants to stall is just the time to strike hardest! That is the crucial, strategic moment. The men ready and eager to strike. Who is hold- ing them back? Whoever does so is an enemy of the strike. Spread the strike! No delay! Do not give the companies any chance to mobilize their forces! Toledo, take warning! The Socialist Convention om National Convention of the Socialist Party opened yesterday in Detroit. The leaders of the Socialist Party face internal dissension in their party. They are disputing among themselves as to questions of policy and tactics. There are “left” groups and “Old Guard” groups. There is a group that calls for a revision of the plank of internationalism. There is a group that calls for “revolutionary methods.” This motley confusion of doctrine reflects the struggle that has been going on in Socialist Party of the honest working class elements against the support which the Thomases, etc., have been giving to the N. R. A. codes, and the effort of the lead- ership to stem this rebellion in the rank and file against these policies. Fundamentally, the leadership of the Socialist Party supported the main actions of the Roosevelt program. It played into the hands of the Roose- velt reaction by depicting it as a “liberal” govern- ment. Its main task will be to determine how to continue this under the new conditions. The Central Committee of the Communist Party has addressed an open letter to all members of the Socialist Party and to the delegates at the Conven- tion. This letter, printed in the Daily Worker on May 26, deserves the widest popularity. It will be placed in the hands of the convention delegates. It calls upon all honest, class-conscious members of the Socialist Party to consider the vital ques- tions that face the working class, with the objective of forging the working class united front, without which the capitalist class can never be overthrown. It warné against those who are now coming forward with pseudo-revolutionarl platforms to block the real revolutionary development of the Socialist workers. The Socialist Party convention emphasizes the necessity for popularizing the letter of the Central Committee to the Socialist Party membership. More Trickery in Steel OOSEVELT is again moving forward as the chief strikebreaker in the steel industry. He tricked the Weirton steel strikers with his honey promises of N.R.A. “arbi- tration.” The result of that was the recent Weirton decision upholding the Weirton employers to the full against the steel workers. Faced now with the prospect of an approaching steel strike, Roosevelt signs a new steel code and comes forth again with his same old stall about “an election” under the “supervision of an appro- priate government agency.” The new code means absolutely nothing, and the workers know it. As for the new Roosevelt promise about “super- vised elections for collective bargaining,” they are like poison gas. They drugged the workers last when they weren’t so wise to Roosevelt, when velt line still sounded good. , there must be a drastic rejection of all velt promi The steel workers must go ahead with their strike plans with absolute disregard of anything Roosevelt has to say. What- ever Roosevelt says is only to trick the men, to weaken and confuse them, so that they will be unable to strike at their Steel Trust exploiters. Steel workers, watch out for the Roosevelt- NR.A. “arbitration” and “supervised election” stuff. Stick to your own rank and file committees, your own shop committees. Prepare for strike. Delay threugh endless “arbitration” means defeat. The steel corporations just love this “arbitration” stuff. Look what it brought them in the Weirton case. Mass power, mass struggle, strike! Let the Steel Trust feel the power of the workers! oin the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. | Piease send me more information on the Commu: Call For Textile Strike 4 Be need for strike faces in the textile industry. code all the workers fixed wage- ible speed-up. in fact through the ison order cutting pro- Wr the countless wage- loyers dragging down even re taken into consideration, textiles is seen to be down rought Strike m be stark misery ust be the answer 1, the textile workers the employers, but the A. F. fahon, Gorman, etc. It was L. leaders who fastened the cotton to the L. lea A. F. code on the wor in the first place. It was se A. F. of L. lea who fought bitterly against proposed code of the National Textile Workers m, calling for minimums of 60 cents an hour, 30 hours a week, and 40 weeks guaranteed work, equal wages for North and South, reduction of the maddenin; sensing the strike Ys, are beginning to talk e. But in order to trick the workers ough “ar n,” only in order to break the e if they cannot stop it. What happened in the Amoskeag mills and in the South shows what to expect from the A. F. of L. leadership. To win, the textile workers should elect their own strike ci nittees, all negotiations to be placed solely in the hands of the reliable, rank and file workers elected by the strikers. Militant picketing, mobilization of the unemployed together with the employed, children into the picketing must be arranged for, We call upon the Party organizations to get on the job at once in all the textile areas. Pre- pare the groundwork for strike. There is no time to be lost. Now is the time to strike. “National Unity” A’ GETTYSBURG, yesterday, Roosevelt sounded the theme song which seems to be obsessing the high and mighty rulers of the leading capitalist countries of the earth—the theme-song of “national unity. 2 At the present moment Hitler is sing- ing it with especial vigor. It is unfortunate for Roosevelt’s Gettysburg Ad- dress that his proclamation of “national unity” was interrupted by the news of approaching national strikes in textile and steel mills. And we wonder if Roosevelt at Gettysburg could catch any of the dying sounds of the ex- ploding gas bombs and rifle fire in the streets of Toledo and Minneapolis? It is the basic fraud of every capitalist govern- ment that it tries to appear before the working masses as a government in their interest, as their government, as a government of the “entire nation,” and not as it really is, the government of the rich- est capitalists, the banks, stock exchanges, and in- dustrial monopolies. What unity can there be between the employer and those whom he exploits and robs in the fac- tories? What unity can there be between the bankers, the mortgage holders and the ruined, impoverished farmers groaning under the yoke of debt slavery? What unity can there be be- tween the lynch masters and the oppressed Negro people? The government is painted by Roosevelt as the government “in which all have a stake.” But he does this only to hide the fact that the govern- ment is carrying out the orders of the Wall Street billionaires. He tells the workers that the govern- ment is “their” government only that he may de- mobilize, confuse the struggles of workers against their exploiters. In the last analysis, the “national unity” of the government rests upon naked, military force, the Army and Navy, upon bayonets and machine guns, In the name of “national defense” and “patri- otism,” the sons of the working class are drawn into these armed forces. Street investments, Wall Street factories and profits, that they fight, forced to shoot down their own class brothers, in Toledo as well as on the Yangtze River in China. This talk of “national unity” now is sinister with the preparations for imperialist war. It is always in the name of “national unity” that the ruling class sends the sons of the working class to slaughter. There is no “national unity.” Between master and slave there can be no unity, no bond of soli- darity. There can only be class struggle for the overthrow of the yoke of capitalist wage slavery and oppression. Roosevelt’s Allies in Alabama NEWS dispatch from Alabama, swiftly deleted from the later editions of the capitalist press, reveals that the White Legion, notorious for its Fascist brutality in the Birmingham strike, is now lobbying the legislature for two Bills that will “out- law Communism” and close the Alabama courts to “outside lawyers.” The meaning of this movement, of what is de- scribed in the Southern press as “a rechristened Ku Klux Klan,” is unmistakeable. It is the begining of another drive to crush out. every vestige of struggle of the Negro and white workers against the Alabama plantation and fac- tory masters. It is aimed at smothering the Herndon and Scottsboro cases in a ring of silence, at stamping the oppressed Negro masses, and the white workers, deeper into subjection, by a policy of ruthless isola- tion. It is therefore of interest to know who this White Legion is. There can be no question that it is linked up with the dominating political machine of the State, the Democratic Party. This is Reoseyelt’s party. Even more it is the section of his party from which he draws his greatest support. The lynch rule of the South, the terrorism against the Birmingham strikers, the frame-up of Herndon and the Scottsboro boys, are all carried out directly by Roosevelt’s political machine, by his closest associates and supporters. The White Legion, the sinister Ku Klux Klan, all this is of Roosevelt's own gang. The Negro reformists of the N.A.A.C.P. call upon the Negro masses to follow Roosevelt as their deliverers. They call upon the head of the lynch system to protect them from lynching! The fight against Southern terror rule, against Jim Crow oppression, against lynching, is a fight against Roosevelt. He is the conscious leader and upholder of the whole lynch system, { and the bringing in of the women and | But it is to defend Wall | | airplanes, | gan-controlled United Aircraft Co. | Roosevelt government U. S.-Provided Planes Attack China Soviets Red Army Rainn United Drive of Nanking and Canton HONGKONG, May 31.—Charac- terized by the severest aereal bom- bardment yet undertaken against the central Soviet of China, both the Nanking and Canton forces yes- began a terrific armbed at- multaneously against the Red Reports to Hongkong state that despite the heavy concentration of | the First, Third and Ninth Communist armies are put-| ting up a stubborn resistance. The airplanes are supplied to the Nanking forces chiefly by the | Roosevelt government. The Mor- has been sending millions of dollars of planes to China recently. The provided a} $40,000,000 wheat and cotton loan that is being used mainly for arms in the anti-Communist drive. Declare Support to The China Soviets At Mass Meetings Pledge Fight Against Imperialist Attacks On China NEW YORK.—Six hundred Amer- | ican and Chinese workers responded to the call of the Friends of the Chinese People, and filled Irving Plaza Hall, Thursday evening, and enthusiastically expressed support | of the struggling Chinese masses against imperialist and Kuomintang treachery. Winifred Chappell spoke about the | main aim of all U. S. govarnmental | activities today, preparations for | war. Han Su Chan showed the | fascist nature of the Kuomintang | government, and Harry Gannes, of | the Daily Worker, analyzed the | world situation today, showing the | direction of international conflicts | | today as centering on an attack on | the Soviet Union. A telegram was sent to President | Roosevelt, demanding the with-/ drawal of armed forces from China, and that the shipment of munitions to Japan, and financial aid to the} Nanking government be stopped. Protests were also sent against the imprisonment of Ernst Thaelmann, and against the murder of 20,000 Chinese at San Sing in Kirin, Man- | churia. The Friends of the Chinese People has offices at 163 West 23rd St., where it holds lectures every Thurs- day evening. It issues a very in- formative monthly, “China Today.” Fare ee | NEW YORK.—A mass meeting, attended by 100 Chinese, under the auspices of the “Chinese League Against Japanese Invasion and for the Salvation of China,” to which five organizations and several groups are affiliated, was held Sunday aft- ernoon, May 27th, at 22 East Broad- way, New York City. 4 HURT IN FIGHT ON SPANISH | FASCISTS JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, Spain, May 31—Fascists provoked a street fight with workers today, | it was reported, and four were in- | ~ jured in the melee, Workers called a 40-hour general | strike in protest against govern- mental protection of Fascists. 2 NEW AFRICAN RAILROADS PARIS, May 31.—Two African railroads whose completion was an- nounced yesterday, will speed up ex- ploitation of the territories, it was said here, and facilitate troop movements against the natives. The Fez-Urja line makes direct travel by rail possible from Tunis to Marrakech, Sections of the Congo Railway to Brazzaville and on the coast have been completed, opening the way to the heart of the Congo region. LONDON, May 31.—Retail sales were down 3.2 per cent over April, SAILOR, BEWARE! By Burck Pres. RoosevVELT Irish-American Workers Should Be Champions i Of Negro Liberation, Says Murray at Farewell '1,000 WORKERS BID IRISH COMMUNIST eee ® NEW YORK. — Packing Irving| Plaza, Thursday night, in a fare- well demonstration to Sean Murray, General Secretary of the Irish Com- munist Party, who has just com- pleted a speaking tour in this coun- try, more than 1,000 workers heard leaders of the American revolution- ary movement stress the importance of winning Irish-American workers to the struggle of the working class in this country. It was pointed out by Comrade Murray that one of the greatest ob- stacles to the struggle of Irish workers of other countries was the use of “antiquated weapons,” re- formist methods. “We've learned,” he said, “that it’s necessary to get rid of these bows and arrows which are only hin- drances in our fight and pick up the real weapons of Marxist and Leninist teachings.” Citing the similarity of the strug- gle of the oppressed Negro workers in this country and the Irish work- ers under the yoke of British i perialism Comrade Murray said, “I look forward to the Irish workers of America to stand out as the champions of Negro liberation.” He said that in Ireland they were meetng with fascism and we! fighting it in “true Toledo fashion.” Comrade Murray brought home the fact that a set-back to the Irish working class, one of the oldest groups oppressed by imperialism, would be a defeat for the oppressed all over the world. “Before I'm six months back in Ireland,” he said, “I want to see a lot of O’s and Mac’s in the ranks of the American Communist Party.” Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party in this country, greeted Comrade Murray and pledged solidarity with the Irish workers, “The Irish Communist Party,” Browder said, “has shown in its short life that it contains the capa- city to catch up with the struggle’s historical development. We'll have to spur ourselves a bit if we hope to make the revolution here before the Irish do,” he said. Comrade Browder said there has not been sufficient attention given the Irish question here and he was LEADER ADIEU glad Comrade Murray had come here to remind us of this. “When Comrade Murray pays us another visit,” he said, “we want to be able to introduce him to several} thousand Irish Comrades here.” A sum of $553.89 in cash and pledges to aid the Irish Commu- nist Party in its struggles was raised. James W. Ford, Communist Party section organizer in Harlem, pledged the support of the Negro toilers to Comrade Murray and pointed out that Negro masses too were engaged in a fight against British imperial- ism, citing South Africa and India. Austin Hogan, active in the Irish Workers Clubs of this city, spoke and sang old traditional songs of Ireland. Chares Krumbien and Charles Newell also spoke. Peadar Noonan sang an old Gaelic song. Sandy Hanna who fought with James Connolly, great Irish leader, sang Connolly's Rebel Song. Eula Gray sang two Negro Sharecroppers songs, and Deborah Martell, an opera singer, led several mass songs, Mike Gold also sang. The International Workers’ Order orchestra played. Cleveland Bvenesini Consul Gets Demand For Rakosi’s Freedom (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 31—A mass delegation of 30 representing 14 Cleveland Hungarian organiza- tions taking part in the nation-wide Hungarian “Free Rokosi and Thael- mann” campaign demonstrated this morning at the Hungarian Consul- ate. John Roman, co-editor of Uj Elore, Hungarian worker daily, head- ing the delegation presented de- mands for the release of Rokosi, who is facing death, and for a gen- 1933, it was announced yesterday. eral political amnesty in Hungary. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, slovakia, May |31 (by radio)—The urge towards the Soviet Union is increasing more and more among the Austrian Schutzbunders (armed defense corps) still in Czechoslovakian camps, where they are in exile. The Social-Democratic leadership is taking all measures to keep the Schutzbunders from going to the U. S. S. R., not even stopping at repression. In the Godoninsk camp the Social-Democratic leadership gave up to the police three Schutz- bunders who had established con- tart with the Weisl International Ausra Sootalizt Head Help Jail Three Barricade Fighters Red Aid committee, preparing the sending of a second detachment of Schutzbunders to the U. S. S. R. There are already over 300 in the Soviet Union. These three Schutzbunders are threatened with being delivered to the Ausrtian authorities, if they do not desist from their intention of going to the workers’ fatherland, But they were not easily intimi- dated. There are aready 300 ap- plicants desirious of going to the U.S. 8. R. It is expected that the second detachment will leave for Moscow at the beginning of June. Radek Writes On History of League of Nations Shows How w Sharpening! of Capitalist Conflicts Changes Outlook (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 31.—Karl Radek, outstanding Soviet journalist, in a special article entitled ‘“Dialectics, History, and the League of Nations,” published in the Soviet press, em- phasizes a number of cardinal changes which have occurred in the League of Nations recently. “President Wilson,” declares Ra~- dek, “put forward the idea of the League of Nations as a means of appeasing the masses of the entire world who were undergoing the greatest discontent, as a means against revolution, Other imperial- ist powers agreed to create the League of Nations because they saw therein an institution which not only should counteract the revolu- tionary frame of mind by pacifist illusions, but should become an or- ganization of international capital for fighting the proletarian revo- lution in Russia. “However, international reaction carried out intervention against the proletarian revolution in Russia be- fore the League of Nations was cre- ated to organize intervention, and before it was disguised with paci- fist slogans; it organized the march of international capitalism against the first republic of workers and peasants, The interventionists were annihilated by the Russian toiling masses under the leadership of the Soviet power. However, the statutes of the League had to serve in the future for the cause of unification of the imperialist powers for fight- ing the US.S.R. A Battering Ram “Including Germany in the League, the capitalist powers first proposed the role of Germany as a battering ram against the US.S.R. Now the withdrawal of Germany and Japan from the League have proved the latter incapable of be- coming the political expression of the “organized” capitalist world to adjust its interests and direct its expansion against the USSR. “What does the League represent now? Two powers withdrew, powers which were the chief bearers of the tendencies of imperialist expansion in the present historical stage; two powers which are now seeking the armed re-division of the world. Firstly, the small powers remained in the League. They are aware that in the case of a fresh imperialist war they fall its first victim. These small powers shiver at the thought of a fresh imperialist war and are attempting to make the League an instrument which at least could ar- rest the development of the war danger. France remained in the League of Nations, and the coun- tries allied with her, against which are directed the aggressive policy of fascist Germany and countries sid- ing with the latter. “France naturally defends the in- terests of French capitalism. France defends what remains of her war conquests. France defends her po- sition in Europe and her position as a world power. But defense of these positions demands defense of peace, because France can hardly hope that in case of war all powers that helped her defend her positions during the World War of 1914-1918 would be on her side. “Finally, Great Britain and Italy remained in the League. These countries are preparing to partici- pate in the fight for the re-division of the world, believe that the time is not yet ripe to come over to the side of the powers preparing a fresh world slaughter; they believe they might succeed in getting their de- mands satisfied by utilizing the an- tagonisms of the leading imperialist countries, “The League of Nations, or what remained thereof, in the present historical stage, has proved incap- ablesof playing the role of organizer of the march against the U.S.S.R. Changed War Front “The danger of the organization of war against the U.S.S.R. eman- ates now not from the League of Nations, but from its opponents and the British die-hards. The League was not in a position to reduce arm- aments and to secure peace. It proved incapable of guaranteeing peace and removing the war danger. TF ascism Drops Out and Takes Leading Role in War Preparations All that the Bolsheviks said about it when the League of Nations was founded has been fully confirmed. But those powers remained in the League who are interested in the maintenance of peace. “This is how historical develop- ment reversed the role of the League. The bourgeois powers who prepared the united march against the U.S.S.R. split. The U.S.S.R. be- came the tremendous international force dangerous for the enemies, and a force capable of rendering as- sistance to its friends. The US, S.R. proved she is firmly pursuing the policy of peace, and that the idea of aggression is foreign to her. Her neighbors, who uninterruptedly had been provoked against her with slander regarding Soviet ‘imperial- ism,’ were compelled by the U.SS.R. to extend diplomatic recognition. By signing non-aggression pacts, and pacts regarding the exact definitions of aggressor, proposed by the Soviet Government to all neighbors of the USS.R., they recognized her policy of peace. “The U.S.S.R., as defender of the cause of peace, earned the trust not only of the masses of the whole world, but compelled all who were menaced by imperialist aggression to look towards the first state of workers and peasants.* On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Manchukuo Eyes Hitler Professor and General |Crack the Foundations! HE greater the fascist dif- ficulties in Germany, tie more intense and repeated the | Japanese imperialist provoca- | tions against the Soviet Una» jon the Manchukuoan border What is the connection? The Japanese war lords gauge the ri ness for attack on the worl fatherland by the dezree to which » the fascist hordes are driven by the desperation of their position to at- | tempt a solution by an attack on?) the U. S. S. R. from the West. What is still more significant, the recent Japanese spying expeditions on the Amur and Sungari rivers, within Soviet territory, have grown extremely bold with, the British provocative acts. The most recent instance of @ Japanese shif photographing Soviet defense areas took place almost preci y at the time that Sir John Simon at Geneva was rejecting the Soviet peace proposals and in- stigating Ger- many to attack by supporting the re-armament of the Nazi madmen. The unity of Japan and Fascist Germany in their war aims against the Soviet Union becomes not only a practical matter of military or- ganization and alliance, but a sub- ject of learned discussion in the universities. Professor Ikata of the Imperial University of Tokio, writing in the coliege’s daily re- cently, declared: “In National-Socialist Germany the necessity of territorial expan- sion of German territory has al- ready been expressed for a long time. As a matter of fact, Hitler openly declared that if Germany desires to obtain new territories in Europe she can get them only in the U. S. S. R. or in countries bordering on the U. S. S. R.” The professor puts the question as one of mutual imperialist aid | Fascist Germany wants chunks of | territory on the West: the Japan- ese imperialists want their share in the East. It would be easier, he |hints, for both to attempt to sink their fangs into the Soviet garden at the same time. ESPITE President Roosevelt's peace gesture at Geneva, while speeding armament construction af home, the American munitions manufacturers are now profiting heavily from Japanese war prepara- tions against the Soviet Union. A worker in the R. & H. Chem- ical Co. (E. I. du Pont de Nemours subsidiary)tells us that large quan- tities of poison gas and other wal chemicals are being sent to Japan Besides, the du Pont company is building one of the world’s largest nitrate (for the manufacture of ex- plosives) plants in the world for the Japanese imperialists.. One of the sailors on the steam- ship President Van Buren reports te us that when the ship left New York four months ago for a round- the-world cruise it loaded a num- ber of boxes for Japan labeled “soaps.” thought he’d try the brand of soap was amazed to find on breaking open one of the boxes that it was filled with machine gun bullets with the initials “U. S. C. Co.” and un- derneath the number 18. The boxes full of bullets were unloaded at Yokohoma. Se ee aaa are just a few slight details of what is going on, or the barest indication of what would ge on in this country once Japanese imperialism began the big push against the dictatorship of the pro- letariat. We learn from a well-informed U. S. Army general, who has had a great deal of experience in the Far East that Japanese imperialism would have no difficulty finding sponsors in the United States and England for a war against the U. S. S. R. We refer to the revelations of General William S. Graves, com- mander of the American Siberian Expedition, and author of the in- teresting book “America’s Siberian | Adventure.” Writing in the June, 1934, issue ot “Current History” the General (now retired) declares: “For the prosecution of a war with a first-class power Japan must have financial assistance and supplies. I anticipate Japan will have no difficulty in getting all the aid she needs. There are many people in the United States who would be glad to assist in the destruction of a Communist st=te, and similar sentiments are to be found in England.” The Soviet Union, growing fara powerful daily, making tremendous | strides in socialist construction in‘ industry and in the country-side, rapidly improving the conditions ot the whole population, does not want war. It is the main force for peace. But not for a moment, not for a second is the proletarian dictator- ship relaxing its vigilance against the war plotters. Comrade Stalin has declared, and the Red Army and the whole toiling population of the U.S. S. R. is ready to back it up with their lives, “We do not want one inch of your territory, and will not cede one inch of ours; keep! your swinish snouts out of our Soviet garden patch.” To this Comrade Blucher added: “Impe- rialists, if you attack, we will make the very foundations of capitalism crack, and in some places crumble!" The crumbling of the founda- tions of capitalism is the chisf tasks of the revolutionary prole- in the imperialist countries De-« fend the Soviet Union! a One of the men whe “;