The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDN Daily, GETUTIAN ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ILS.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 BY if FE. THE 13 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., New York, N. Y. Street, ALgonquin4-7954. hiy, 75 cents JUNE 6, 1934 . DNESDAY Helping the Steel Trust With “Red Baiting” O DOUBT the employers on the Steel Trust hea 1 with a good deal of satis- faction the vicious outburst of President Tighe of the Amalgamated Association yesterda} Referring to the Communists and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial U he said ‘Not only do we advise, but we command you (A.A, members’ to disa: jate yourselves from these vipers and mongre This is raising the in a style that cel employers happy indeed. ists are in the front ranks of the make the struggles of the wor a 1st the employers. | They are the most devoted, loyal and persistent | defenders of the workers’ wages, conditions, etc reason that the employers in- It is prec y se the smoke-screen of the | Tighe's policies play right into the hands of the Steel Trust. Tighe'’s “red-baiting” is a blow against the struggle of the rank and file of the A.A. for higher wages and better conditions, * « * HE S.M.W.LU. is a trade union. It welcomes and urges a. teel and metal workers, regard- of party, race or creed to join its ranks in a | ed fight for better wages, union conditions, etc. Among its members are Communists, who dis- tinguish themselves by their militancy in defen: of the workers’ intere: But there are non-par uni workers who are equally militant in struggle. The | 5.M.W.LU. unites all these workers in a common fight against the common enemy, the Steel Trust. The S.M.W.LU. m calling for unity union and non-union, preparation for a issued a call to joint strike action. | The S.M.W.I.U. differs from the leadership of | A. F, of L. unions in that it bases itself on a | n of cl struggle, in that it declares that id the bosses cannot have any com- terests, that the fight for higher wages must rdless of how this affects the profits right is now taking the lead ALL STEEL WORKERS, party and non-party, in | national steel strike. It has the members of the A.A. for | of of the employe: This Tighe * d-baiting” is a menace to the success of the steel strike. Against it, the SM.W. | I.U. and the Communist Party urge the firmest | solidarity and unity of all steel workers. For unity and a national strike in steel! “Debts and Disarmament” RITAIN’S velt government, flat-footedly refus- ing to pay the June 15 installment on the $4,713,785,000 war debts, carries the con- flict between these two imperialist pow- ers to a new and more bitter stage. The aim of the Roosevelt government in try- ing to collect these war spoils is to increase its available war budget and lessen that of Britain. More than that, yankee imperialism wants to un- dermine the financial standing of Britain in order to cripple it as a competitor in the struggle for world markets and a re-division of the colonies. The British reply by refusing to pay and de- manding a conference for a downward revision of war debts, The Roosevelt government, in discussing war debts, already has in mind the next imperialist war, and links all war debt talks with “disarma- | ment”—that is, disarmament of the competitors of Wall Street. The present stage of the war debt controversy will have important results in the sphere of world | finances, in the struggle for greater armament, and in speeding the danger of war. . latest note to the Roose- HE hypocrisy of the Roosevelt government's talk 4 about “disarmament” is shown first by the fact that it has spent greater sums than ever before since the last world war for armaments. Secondly, it is shown by the stand of Norman H. Davis, U. 8. Ambassador at large at the Geneva Disarmament. Conference. Mr. Davis rejected discussion of the Soviet Union's peace and disarmament proposals | submitted by the Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff. | In fact, despite their bitter differences, the United States and Britain formed a temporary al- Viance against the Soviet Union's proposals and for mecsures which would lead to the further arm- Ing of German fascism. | Whether it collects or does not collect on its | war plunder, Wall Street will intensify its arma- ments. It will increase its process of squeezing More profits out of the workers and farmers by | increased exploitation and taxation. Every worker and toiling farmer should demand | an end to the war spoils, the war debts. They | should demand the casicellation of the debts of | the poor and middle farmers, an end to the rapid | arming by the Roosevelt regime, and the passage of tt rs Unemployment Insurance Bill, H.R. 7598, and the payment of the bonus. | The 7th Convention of | tne Y. Ci 1. HE 7th National Convention of the Young Communist League opens in New York City on June 22. This conven- tion is historically important not alone for the masses of youth but for the entire working class. Its importance flows from the strategic position occupied by the | the youth in the class struggle. Never before have the youth played so de e a role in the struggle for Soviet power as they do today. The youth today form the axis around which ral i revolve the plans of e capitalist class for the fascization and ita tion of the entire work- ing class. Among the youth, above every other section of the workers, are concentrated the efforts of the class to instill nationalist and entiments. From among the youth, y er section of the workers, do their armed forces for however, the youth are more ont ranks of all the i by the proletariat and many other le testify to the ‘enor- the youth in the struggle the ruling class is exerting all the yc as its storm troops , the proletariat, must than ever its struggle youth as its shock troops for revolu- It is this which gives to the 7th National Con- the Young Communist League its his- nportance e deliber: ion w on of ms and decisions of the 7th Y.C.L. e of a far-reaching and funda- For this reason, workers every- where, both youth and adult, must not be merely spectators but participants in the Convention dis- cussion. The y Worker calls upon all readers to study the draft resolution of the National Com- ee of the Young Communist League for the h National Convention and to discuss it in the pages of the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker calls upon all our readers to contribute their opinions on the basis of the draft tion so that a really mass discussion of the ‘oblems of the revolutionary movement may be developed. Forward to the 7th National Convention of the Y.C.L.! Forward Conve! mental, character. to a mass Y.C.L.! Owen D. Young And Revolution WEN D. YOUNG, urbane multi-mil- lionaire industrial monopolist, whose hand guides the billion-dollar monopoly, General Electric, offers the graduating class of Nebraska University some of his homely philosophy. “Civilization by evolution progresses slowly. By revolution it destroys more than it creates,” he advises the students out of his large wisdom. Has the learned multi-millionaire never heard of the mighty Revolution of 1776? Does he, certainly a “100 per cent American,” considers that this revo- lution destroyed more than it created? Before the 1917 Proletarian Revolution in Rus- sia, there was the oppression of Czarism, the ex- ploitation of the capitalists and landlords, the de- gradation and filth of a backward country. The Proletarian Revolution destroyed all that. Now there is no unemployment, no exploitation of the many by the few, no capitalists, no landlords, no usurers, no mortgage holders, no capitalist bankers. Now the Proletarian Revolution, through the setting up of a new form of government, a Work- ers’ and Farmers’ Government, a Soviet Govern- ment, is building a better life for the whole toiling population. Now the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union ‘are on the road to Socialism, to a classless society free from all parasites and ex- ploiters. In this case, Mr. Young would have a tough time proving that the Bolshevik Revolution “de- stroved more than it created.” In the United States also such a proletarian revolution would put an end to the rule of the Wall Street billionaires and bankers, to the rule of the Mr. Youngs. It would open all the fac- tories, give every able-bodied person immediate work, cancel all mortgage debts, stop all farm foreclosures, increase production to the highest limits in order to give adequate food, shelter and clothing to every worker and his family through- out the country. It would end the crisis, For Mr. Young, such a revolution wouid be “destructive.” It would destroy the capitalist sys- tem in which he gets fat profit. For the vast majority of the population, revolution would be the most constructive deed possible. Smash The Bakers Injunction HE temporary injunction issued by Supreme Court Justice Leander B. Fa- ber against members of Local 505 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers In- ternational Union, forbidding them to strike, picket, or talk or whisper about striking or picketing at the Standard Baking Company of Brooklyn is being railroaded through the courts with lightning speed. This injunction, the most infamous in the an- nals of labor history, an injunction aiming at ham- pering other unions from coming to the aid of the bakers and entirely outlawing the union in the plant, will become a permanent axe hanging over the entire New York labor movement if it is not at once vigorously challenged by mass actions of the organized workers of Greater New York. The Appellate Division of the courts has al- ready upheld the vicious writ and the solons of capitalism, have got the legal skids greased to shoot it through the Supreme Court where they hope to make it a permanent strikebreaking order, one which will establish a precedent to make illegal and smash all strikes. Matthew M. Levy, Socialist lawyer of the firm of Panken & Le’ who is handling the case in court, is trying to keep the fight within the bounds of legal procedure. He is attempting to pin the faith of the workers solely on the capitalist courts, which issued the injunction. To rely only on legal action in the courts will be disastrous. Only mass action of the workers can smash the injunction. The Bakers Locals of the A. F. of L., workers of the Amalgamated Food Workers and the Food Workers Industrial Union must get together at orce with workers in all unions and form a solid fighting front against the injunction menace. Smash the injunction by mass picketing and mass violations! Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y¥. Please send me mo"? incotm nict Party. NAME..... ADDRES | jon on ths Comrau- | ESDAY, JUNE 6, 1934 U. S. Sailor Addresses Swedish Anti-War Meeting Pledges Footh Congress To Fight on W ar Youth Day Meets in U.S, Extend Fight on War and Fascism STOCKHOLM, May 22 (By Mail) —An American sailor from the cruiser “U. S. S. New Orleans,” brought the greetings from his | fellow sailors to a National Youth Day Congress Against War and | Fascism representing more than | 70,000 young Swedish workers, held here May 20. The American sailor spoke at the | second day of the congress. He | said | “We, the crew of the New Or-| leans, greet the great Anti-War | Congress and hope that the con-| gress will bring positive results. We promise that the sailors of the/| | American navy will do all we can| |to prevent an imperialist war, to | | defend the Soviet Union and Soviet China. Due to rigid police control | we can only be represented in this | way, but we promise to be repre- sented at the Anti-War Congress in | the U, S. A. Long live the solidar- | ity of soldiers and sailors all over | the world. “In the next big war, we, Ameri- can navy men, will be forced to fight against workers in other countries, against the workers in China and the Soviet Union, But | we will not do this. We will unite with the workers and fight against the rich for a workers, farmers and } soldiers republic.” | ‘The greeting was followed by a/ tremendous ovation and the con- gress sent a grecting back to the American sailors. | Sailors and Steel Workers In Baltimore N. Y. D. Meet BALTIMORE, Md. — Two hun-/| dred young seamen and steel work- |ers demonstrated with other young workers here on National Youth Day. | Ca aa 300 Participate in Akron Demonstration | | AKRON, Ohio.—Three hundred | workers took part in the National Youth Day demonstration here, which was also a demonstration of solidarity with the Toledo workers. Resolutions were adopted demand- | ing the dropping of charges against | all workers arrested as a result cf} | the strike. eS ca | |More Than 600 In | Seranton N. Y. D. Meet | SCRANTON, Pa. — In the first National Youth Day march and in | the mass meeting at Forty Field |here, more than 600 young and adult workers took part. Delegates came from the lower anthracite dis- trict and from Wilkes-Barre. a a Se Cannery Workers in N. Y. D. | Meet in San Diego SAN DIEGO, Cal—A highly suc- cessful National Youth Day mass meeting was held in a local park. Many young people from the can- neries were present. Good talks were made by members of the Y. Cc. L, the N, S. L., the C. P., and various other student organizations. * 8 8 1500 in Demonstration In Portland on N. Y. D. PORTLAND, Ore.—Fifteen hun- | dred workers demonstrated in Plaza | Park here on National Youth Day. a alain Hold N. Y. D. Parade in Face of Police Refusal VIRGINIA, Minn. — Despite the fact that a permit had been re- fused, more than 500 young and adult workers took part in the Na- tional Youth Day parade, down the main street of this city. The mili- tancy of the workers made the police think better of trying to break it up. oi 200 Turn Out in Williston N. Y. D. Meet WILLISTON, N, D.—Two hun- dred young workers and farmers massed at the Williams County Court in the National Youth Day demonstration. 125 March in Negaunee on N. Y. D. NEGAUNEE, Mich. — One hun- dred and twenty-five Y. C. L. mem- bers and sympathizers marched, carrying banners, singing and cheering, through the city to Jack- son Bowl, where the demonstration was held, on National Youth Day. FOREIGN BRIEFS ENGLAND HIT BY EMBARGO LONDON, June 5.— The Brad- ford woollen industry has been herd hit by the German embargo on wool and woollens, it was learned yesterday when Secretary of Overseas Trade Colville in- formed the Commons that the German government had extended the embargo until June 30. In reality, he added, the em- bargo must continue indefinitely or until there is a change in the German situation. he ee SHANGHAI SCABS STOPPED SHANGHAI, June 5.— Striking workers of one of the factories of the British American Tobacco Co. yesterday prevented the landing of strike-breakers at Fu Tung, oppo- site Shanghai. The picket line held firm against imported thugs. The anger roused by the company’s tactics was expected to lead to a strike at the rest of the British American plants, SAVE THAELMANN! oa e ‘i | By Burck USSR Note Exposes Japanese Spy Ship Deeds in Manchuria By VERN SMITH Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, June 5 (By Radio)—| Declaring the statement of the Japanese diplomatic agent Sima- mura in Harbin that Soviet guards deliberately fired on a Manchurian steamer are entirely unwarranted, the press here publishes the reply of the Soviet consul general Slavutsky in Harbin. In the latter part of May the} Marchukuoan steamer Dicheng with Japanese soldiers’ on board ap-/| proached the Soviet border and began taking photographs of the frontier guard stations. This was the third of a series of provocative acts instigated by the Japanese military authorities against the Soviet Union, Consul Slavutsky states that an investigation undertaken by him conclusively established that the steamer Dicheng made an wnwar- ranted approach to the Soviet river bank in North Manchuria and spies were photographing Soviet guard points. The steamer insisted on sailing near the Soviet shore, despite repeated warnings. On the basis of international law, and Soviet law, the Soviet frontier guards had the right to stop the steamer by force of arms, However, in view of instructions from higher authorities necessity of avoiding everything which might cause complications with neighboring states, the Soviet guards did not use their rights. The Japanese captain Taki who was on board the steamer confirms this in the newspaper Harbin “Nich Nichi,” stating the Soviet frontiersmen signalled repeatedly to the steamer by shouts and shots fired in the air. It was only after the steamer showed complete unwillingness to mind the signals that several shots were fired up towards the funnel. The Soviet government, at the same time, points out that in order to eliminate repetition of such in- cidents it is necessary first of all that Manchurian authorities take energetic steps to see that steamers sailing under the Manchurian flag should not violate the frontier of on the! 100 Hurt in Fight ‘on French Fascists 'Barricades Set Up and | Fight Lasts 4 Hours ROUBAIX, France, June 5— More than 100 persons were wounded today in a four-hour fight jof Communists and rank and file members of the Socialist Party of | France against a fascist meeting jercreret by Deputy Philippe Hen- riot. workers rallied many thousands, who stormed the meeting shouting: “Down with fascism! Down with Hitler! Down with the French and German fascists! Free Ernst Thael- mann!” When the police arrived to protect the fascists, the workers barricaded themselves and con- tinued the fight. Deputy Henriot, who is a fascist member of the Na- tional Republican Party, was pre- vented from speaking. The police attack was especially vicious, a the U. S. S. R., and comply with} number of workers being seriously Soviet laws in Soviet waters. | wounded, Socialist Party Convention Upholds Jim-Crowing of Negroes Special to the Daily Worker DETROIT, Mich., June 5.—The only Negro candidate for the National Committee of the Social- ist Party, Frank Crosswaith, re- ceived the lowest vote of 19 candi- dates at the Socialist Party conven- tion which closed here on Sunday. Thus the Socialist leaders, despite their lip-service to Negro equality, demonstrated again their real white chauvinist position. The low vote for Crosswaith was another clear example of the great gap between the words and deeds of the Socialist Party. When Cross- waith was nominated, he received tremendous applause, and through- out the convention whenever his name was mentioned, he was loudly applauded. But when it came to actually voting for a Negro, that was another matter. The so-called “left” groups, “milit- ants” and revolutionary policy. com- mittee, who made a secret deal re- garding a common slate, joined with the open reactionaries in failing to support Crosswaith despite the fact he is politically close to the “mili- tants.” (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, June 3.— Segregation of Negroes into jim-crow Sccialist locals in the South was upheld at a special conference on the Negro question held at the Socialist Paity National Convention here. Frank Crosswaith, reactionary Negro front of the Socialist Perty, acquiesced in the aemands of the white Southern delegates present for the continua- tion of the Socialist Party policy of supporting the jim-crow traditions and practices of the landlord-cani- talist slave drivers. ‘The conference was a striking il- lustration of the kind of lip-service the Socialist Party gives to the al important Negro question. A pre- liminary conference was heid Fri- day, with the two lone Negro dele- gates, Crosswaith, of New York, and George Streator, North Carolina (fi- | nal check-up shows there are only two Negro delegates at the conven- tion, both intellectuals), and a) handful of white people present. Not | a single white leader of the Socialist | Party tool: part in either the pre- | liminary or the final conference. Streator revealed that the Nationcl | Gxecutive Committee of the Sacial- | ist Party had not taken up the Ne- gro question, nor prepared an i ‘ e i in the South agenda for discussion, but he and Crosswaith had talked it over in- formally. Shut Off Discussion on Scottsboro During yesterday's conference, one person raised the question of. the Scottsboro case. Streator started to reply, but Crosswaith, realizing there was too much fire in the Scottsboro issue, shut him off. The conference produced no pro- gram on the Negro question. It’s only resolution was that the Na- tional Executive Committee should establish a sub-committee to carry on educational work on the sub- ject. Conferences of a similar charac- ter, with no Socialist leaders pres- ent, were held on unemployed and women’s work. These conferences were obviously only gestures to al- low some of the delegates to “let off steam” and create the impres- sion that the Socialist Party was really dealing with these problems seriously. AFL Leaders Force Toledo Strikers Back (Continued from Page 1) prised that the union could force Mininger to sign the agreement and Said this was no sell-out but merely a splitting of the difference. Under the agreement scabs get the five per cent increase and preferenc in th rhiring and recogition of their compay uion, Floyd Bossler, the president of the union, urged the strikers to “go back to work and prove to the world that union labor is better than non-union by working in har- mony with the scabs ad by pro- ducing better and more work than the scabs.” Lawrence Aundrey, member of the sub-regional Labor Board, de- fended the sell-out and stated, “A lot of scabs will make better union members than many members who strurk and fought against the com- pany.” ‘ Again this morning’s Times an- nounced the strike settlement be- fore the vote was taken. Some of the strikers read that the settie- ment had been concluded while the strike vote was takin place. At the meeting called by the Communist Party for Wednesday, in Moose Temple, corner of Cherry and Ontario Strects, Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Comniu- |nist Party of the U. S. A. will analyze the sell-out agreement and the lessons of the Toledo strike. Muste and his flolowers continue to verbally attack the Auto-Lite Cempainy, but they remain silent on Ramsey's betrayal, not saying a word againt the A. F. of L. leaders defeat of the strice. British ILD Youth Vote Affiliation to the Y.C.1. (Continued from Page 1) the conference, representing some 8,000 members of the Guild, however by 18 to 12 carried the Scottish re- solution for sympathetic affiliation. Present throughout the conference, also, was a representative of the Young Communist League of Britain, Comrade Massie. Brockaway threatened the youth with every dire consequence. He declared that since the youth now followed a dierent policy than the I. L. P., the whole basic question of the I. L. P. proper wou'd have to be changed. er,” official organ of the Communist Party of Britain, commenting on the signifiecance of this action, says: The decision taken by the IL. L. P. Guild of Youth Conference in favor of sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist Interna- tional is a striking indication of the growing mass support for a clear revolutionary policy which is now exnressing itself on the part of the I. L. P. membership. This decision will give added impotus and encouragement to the effcrise of al] those inside the ¥. L. P, who stand for the line of sympathetic affiliation to the Communist International. The National Administration Council of the I. L, P., under the leadership of Brockway, are striving their utmost to prevent the advance of revolutionary de- velopment on the part of the I. L. P. rank and file. Their latest -move in this connection abun- dantly demonstrates this.” The united front action of the| relationship between the Guild and} ‘high point of 44,500,009,000 lire in #225 to 13,500,000,00 in 1933, a de= 9, An editorial in the “Daily Work- | |reaches en impasse. |reduction in the productive efforts On the | World Front By HARRY GANNES Mussolini's News Counts and Toilers Fascist Competition VERY day the Associated and United Press circu- late a neat little bunch of “items” from Italy carefully culled by the Fascist pres: | bureai and cabled to these wil} s “news.” Mos# of them deal with the social life of Counts and Countesses, or if they become high- ly political, they quete Mussolini's speeches. A une usual story, al- ways sent out when wages are being cut, or the workers are en- gaged in some ace tion against the fascist regime is the yarn about the draining of the Pontine marshes, and the two or three dwellings be- ing put up in these formerly un- inhabited places, We have just received news smuggled out of Italy which tells a different story. In the province of Abruzzi recently a bloody con- flict took\place between the whole population at Pratola Peligna, a small community in the vicinity of Aquila, and the fascist guards, The workers gathered at the home of the Podesta and other officials of the fascist regime to protest against taxation and against starvation, They shouted their hatred and in- dignation. The black shirt butchers fired, killing at least one and wounding four others, “The peasants and workers who have fallen at Pratola Peligna,” says the correspondent of the Daily. Worker, “in the first lines of the anti-fascist struggle, testify to the deep hatred and the stubborn fight- ing spirit which animate the Italian masses in revolt against the regime of the black shirts.” ling agencies a MUSSOLINI * * IN the sulphurs mine district of Sicily, where the conditions are jhardly different from the time when slaves worked mines in tho days of the Roman Empire, u: | ployment has become so gene’ that the Fascist government hes | Picked this spot out for special re= pression. At Caltanisetta hundreds of hun- | sry workers from the suiphur | gathered in an unemployment dem. onstration shouting: “We went bread and work!” The fascist po- lice attacked them, arresting 1 | This enraged the miners who gathered still larger forces. They angrily stormed the jeil and forced the release of their arrested com- trades. Though a death-like calm now pervades the town, fascist militia and carabinieri (sharp- shooters) parade the mining dis- trict, fearing the outbreak of new demonstrations and rebellious acts, Sr aaae NLY the barest news of the ris- ing struggles against fascism in Italy get past Mussolini's censorship vacuum, However, the miserable economic facts behind the bragging, boasting and bluffing of the Fas- cist, regime cannot altogehter be hid. Even the petty-bourgeois in- vestigators in capitalist countries are beginning to see them and write about them. We have had occasion before the quote Mr. Hugh Quigley’s article, “Fascism Fails Italy,” (Current History, June, 1934), but we again borrow some figures from this excellent review of the economic bog into which Mussolini has led Italy. The economy of fascism in Italy, he points out, is built on the quicksands of inflation which re- stricts the whole economic life. The total of all bankruptcies has risen from 1,896 in 1921, when Mussolini came to power, to 21,308 in 1933, There has been a steady decline dustrial workers. At the beginning in wages of agricultural and in- of 1928 the average hourly wage paid in industry was a little over two lire an hour (a lire is a little more than. 8 cents). At the end of 1932 wages had dropped to ‘about 1.75 lire. Agricultural wages which were much lower dropped even faster. “Under fascism,” concludes Mr. Quigley, “labor is worse paid than in almost any European coun- try.” There undoubtedly now will develop fascist competition pbe- tween the bosses of Italy and Ger- many to see which can pay the lowest wages and make the workers eat the least. He shows unecmploy- ment is growing. The volume of foreign trade has shrunk from its cline to less than one-third of 1925, On top of all this debt continues to mount. The whole situation There is “a of the country, a reduction in the national inecme, a reduction in wages, a reduction in the standard | of living, a rapid increase in bank- ruptcies, a rapid increase in taxa- ,tion and in the long-term national debi.” No wonder Mussolini beats his huge chest and shrieks for war! fj OF THE GOVERNMENT CAMAGUEY, Cuba, June 5.— Angry workers stormed the local office of the Public Works Depart- ment, charging they had been laid off because of labor activities, yes- terday. In_ the clash ensuing, Serapio Recio, Chief of Public Works, and two others were killed and two injured, CUBA JOBLESS STORM gence | | | t | | a 4