The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight Daily,QWorker @RmTIM Cea COMMUNIST PARTY H.5.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONARD “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: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Gable Address: ‘Washington “Daiwoi New ¥ N 95 Building, Midwest Bureau go, TL Telephone: Dearborn 3: Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan an 1 year, $6.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00 0.75 cents. ; Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $: By Carrier: Weekly, 18 ce 75 cents. SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934 Norman Thomas Surrenders ‘AT THE Detroit convention of the So- cialist Party, Norman Thomas ap- peared as a bold, fearless “Jeft-winger.” Jf and when capitalism collapsed, said «Thomas, the Socialists would not hesitate to seize political power whether or not they were a majority. His language was go “radical,” so “revolutionary” that “Socialists” like Louis Waldman were said to have suspected Mr "Bhomas of turning Communist. The Communist Party, of course, never had su¢h illusions. We stated at the outset that Mr. Thomas ‘was talking radical only with the aim of holding back the workers who were really moving to the left, who were really moving toward Communism. To keep them out of the Communist Party, Norman Thomas hoped to convince the workers that if and when capitalism “collapsed” the So- cialist Party, and none other, would lead the work- ers to the goal, to the seizure of political power. That capitalism would never merely “collapse” was of no consequence to Mr. Thomas. That capi- talism, left alone to work out its own problems without interference from the workers, could get out of ¢ difficulties—no matter how severe—was conviently ignored. Mr. Thomas's aims were best served by brush- ing aside all the facts of history, by creating illu- sions about the possible automatic collapse of capi- talism only to prevent the workers, through militant class struggle policies, from furthering that collapse. At the same time he seemed to meet the growing appreciation of the workers that only with power in their own hands could they solve the burning problems of security for themselves and their fam- dlies. Clearly his talk of an “if” and “when” col- lapse was designed both to hamper the workers in their struggles for wages, hours, working conditions etc., and for the overthrow of capitalism. . . . ROM day to day, the huge wind-bag of “radi- cal” phrases set up by Thomas at Detroit col- lapses more and more. And in deeds, he has already shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is working in the fullest harmony with the Socialist Party “Old Guard,” a group so outspokenly reactionary that a writer in the New York Evening Post writes sarcastically that it would be difficult for them to join the Democratic Party since they would be rejected as being too conservative. Thomas has not only backed down from his blustering statements of the Convention. He has not only explained carefully to the capitalist press that they need have no fears that he has become a fighter for the overthrow of capitalism, or that he will fight American imperialism in the next war. In deeds, Norman Thomas has already ac- cepted the official stamp of approval of those very “opponents” whom he claimed to be fight- ing, the Waldmans, the O’Neals, etc. Thomas ac- cepted the Senatorial nomination from the New York State Convention, a convention that re- jected his Declaration of Principles, At this Con- vention, Thomas praised as a candidate for Gov- ernor Charles Solomon, a leading opponent of the Declaration of Principles. * * * » ash and his eolleagues of the “left wing” will no doubt find new ways in the near future of attempting to make the rank and file believe that he has real differences with the outspokenly reformist leadership of the “Old Guard.” | But in the face of what he has already said | and done since Detroit, it will not be easy for him to conceal the emptiness of his “revolutionary” verbiage and the conscious hypocrisy of his recent *radical” maneuvers at Detroit. In an amazingly short time, Norman Thomas d the whole “left wing” of Detroit have col- d surrendered to the obviously reactionary e, with whom they never really lifferences anyhow. The leadership of the revolution, of the struggle for Socialism, does not and never will lie within the Socialist Party or any of its “left wing” groups. The path of Lenin, of Boishevism—this is the only road to the overthrow of capitalism. This road is shown by the Communist Paarty— and only the Communist Party. The Inquiry Commission and Thaelmann IHREE days ago the American Inquiry Commission, composed of eight noted American jurists, issued a statement call- ing for the release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party. After condemning Hitler’s “People’s Courts” as an instrument! of “legalized murder,” the statement read: “Only the freeing of Ernst Thaelmann and the others similarly held on such vague grounds | can possibly satisfy the demands for justice in | accordance with established practices im the civil- | ized world.” Are the men who made up that Commission Communists? No, far from it. They were mostly liberals, with one or two con- servatives. Some of them are noted for their anti- Communist speeches and writings. There’s Clarence Darrow, chairman of the Com- mission, recently resigned from the N. R. A. board. There’s Arthur Garfield Hays, members of the Civil Liberties Union, who recently defended Nazis in court. There’s Dudley Field Malone, who has defended the Nazis’ right to “free speech,” and who is no friend of Communists. George Z. Medalie, Senator Costigan and Roger Baldwin were also on the Com- mission. These men called for Thaelmann’s freedom be- cause Thaelmann is the symbol of anti-fascist struggle in Germany today. That the condemnation of the Nazis’ so-called “People’s” Courts was coupled, in the Commis- sion’s statement, with the demand for Thaelmann’s liberation, is indicative of the growing mass de- | mand for the freedom» of Thaelmann, who sym- bolizes to the world, as head of the Communist Party of Germany, the leader in the struggle for the liberation of the German people from fascism. The decision of the Commission comes at the very moment when the personnel of the Hitler re- gime has been revealed in all its depravity and bestiality. It comes at the moment when the acts of Hitler, long directed at workers, Communists, liberals and Jews, are now visited against the fore- most Nazi statesmen, thereby blasting any preten- sion to the existence of any kind of rule in Ger- many except the rule of hooliganism and perver- sion. The increased world-wide revulsion against the Nazis on the part of workers and the petty-bour- geoisie is translated simultaneously into a growing sympathy for the fighters against fascism, for the underground German Communist Party, led by Ernst. Thaelmann, which alone leads the German workers in the struggle against Hitler’s bloody rule, The Commission’s declaration is an acknowl- edgment of the fact of which the American masses, together with the masses everywhere, are becoming more and more convinced. Join the Communist Party | 36 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the mist Party. $ Comane- | NAME... \ DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934 - 95 Hour of Cuba Hunger Strike! Many Near Death; Plan | Strikes to Force Their Freedom HAVANA, July 6—Ninety-five po- litical prisoners, including Commu- nists and Autenticos (rank and file |of the Grau-Guiteras group) have reached the 225th hour of their hunger strike for freedom today. Many are in a dying condition. | The Wall Street-supported Men- dieta. government refuses outside | doctors entrance to treat the hun- ger strikers. A general political strike is on in the Manzanillo region demand- ing freedom for all prisoners, and the right of organization, of as- semblage, dismissal of the military supervisor and guarantees for the life of Ordoqui, secretary of the| Cuban National Confederation of Labor. Demonstrations were held in all parts of Havana. Students of all | higher schools are out on a 48- hour strike. There will probably | be a strike of Havana workers to- | morrow. While Grau followers and | the ABC Radicale are active in a united front, the Grau San Martin j leadership is sabotaging all action for the prisoners. ‘Nazis Exile Worker’ 'ToFinnish Fascists Faces Long Jail Term; Only Protests Can Save Him NEW YORK—A Finnish comrade,| 4 Niilo Wirtanen, has been arrested | in Germany. Wirtanen took an | active part in the Finnish civil war. | er on a 2 Ath “ARE YOU BETTER OFF TODAY THAN YOU WERE LAST YEAR? —Franklin Roosevett in his last radio address. After the Finnish revolution was| | suppressed in blood with the ex- tensive assistance of German and Swedish White troops, he fled, to- gether with many others, to the Soviet Union, where he has since resided, as he could not return to Finland on account of his revolu- Attempt to Murder Tim Buck | tionary activities. Some time ago, Wirtanen was | traveling via Germany and on that | account stopped in Berlin for a few days. There he was arrested by the | police as a “suspicious” foreigner for using a false passport and for alleged carrying on political activ- ity. After an “investigation” which lasted for months, during which Wirtanen was subjected to all the horrors of the fascist prison hell, he was convicted for the “crime” of having used a false passport. Now, after Wirtanen had served his sentence in Germany, he is to be handed over directly to the Fin- nish fascist authorities. As he is hated by the Finnish bourgeoisie on account of his participation in the revolutionary struggle in Finland and in the socialist construction of the Soviet Union, he is menaced by a long prison sentence of at least 10 years in Finland. A mighty protest movement must be developed against this incredible aggression of the German author- ities, against the threatened sur- render of Wirtanen to Finland. Niilo Wirtanen must not be handed over to the Finnish fascist police! The International Red Aid calls upon all its Sections, all organizations of the toilers, to take a stand against this shameless action, Through a mighty protest movement, demon- strations, meetings, through letters of protest, etc., Niilo Wirtanen must be rescued from the claws of Ger- man and Finnish fascism! Hold 12 Outdoor Meets in Brooklyn BROOKLYN, N, Y.—Twelve “Free ‘Thaelmann” outdoor meetings were held in the Crown Heights section, the heart of the Negro district, dur- ing the past week. Much literature on Thaelmann was sold, and money (Special to the Daily Worker) TORONTO, Canada, July 6—The Canadian government now admits that eleven shots had been fired into the cell of Tim Buck, secre- tary of the if®egal Communist Party of Canada, and one of the Kingston Seven, sentenced to long terms in Kingston Penitentiary for their working-class activities. The Canadian Labor pyefense League several months ago charged the authorities with attempting to murder Tim Buck. A, E. Smith, secretary of the League, was ar- rested, charged with libeling the authorities for telling of the shoot- ings, but was acquitted as a result of mass protests throughout Can- ada and the United States. Five thousand workers turned out at Union Station, this city, to wel- come Sam Carr and Matthew Pop- ovich, two of the Kingston Seven, released on sick leave, following a flood of resolutions and protest telegrams to the government de- manding the release of the Seven. The police attacked the demon- stration, beating many workers with whips and clubs and arrested five. In spite of the attack, the work- ers, carrying red flags, marched to Queens Park where Carr spoke. Popovich was unable to attend be- cause of serious illness as a result of torture in jail, In his address to the workers, Carr openly declared himself a Commuist, continuing his defiance of the government which has made membership in the Communist Party a criminal offense to be pun- ished by long prison terms, He appealed to the Canadian workers for protest resolutions was collected. to intensify the fight to free Ernst | Thaelmann, the Scottsboro boys | and the five working-class leaders still held in Kingston penitentiary. Hitler Responsible For Thaelmann, U. S. Inquiry Says. (Continued from Page 1) freedom of Thaelmann and all other anti-fascist fighters now in Hitler dungeons, and have sent copies to Arno Mowitz, local consul; and Hans Luther, Nazi ambassador in Wash- ington. The Furriers’ local sent a delega- tion to the consul this afternoon, and when Mowitz would not see them in person left a resolution protesting Thaelmann’s treatment at the hand of Nazi torturers. ger ar Student Plenum Plans Campaign for Thaelmann NEW YORK—Directives for ac-| tion to help free Ernst Thaelmann, German proletarian leader, was of- fered to the Third National Plenum of the National Student League yesterday by Frank Myers, U. S.| student deported from England be- cause of revolutionary activity among the students and a member of the secretariat of the Interna-/| tional Student Committee affiliated to the World Congress Against War and Fascism. Myers urged a nation-wide cam- paign on the campuses of this coun- try to free Thaelmann. Concrete plans for widening the campaign among the students are being worked out by the delegates at the plenum. The Inside Story of Corruption of Nazi Regime Shows How The German Social: :,..2aders Aided Advent of Fascism “tary of ® (Continued from Page 7) with all sections of the bourgeoisie, with or against Hitler. An example: “Strassor spoke of Hitler as if he were a half-sick, half-mad operatic soprano; of Goering and Goebbels he talked in quite a differ- ent tone. But the brotherly love of the Brown Shirts is a peculiar affair.” Strasser is finally dismissed, though he comes back into the fold when Hitler comes to power, only to find his head at his ankles. “Hitler has appointed s his successor Robert Ley (now head of the Labor Front), a great boozer before the Lord. Besides, he is in the particular confidence of the chemical man- ufacturers in the Rhineland. And stinks with the money of his employers.” The Nazis were not in ‘the least particular wha section of the bourgeoisie financed them, though they got the greatest sums from the Thyssens and Krupps, and never hesitated to accept hundreds of thousands of marks from the Jewish bankers. “It was at the house of a Jewish Bank amd Stock Exchange king (of all things), that of Baron Schroeder in Cologne, that the feast of reconcilia- tion between Hitler and Papen took place. The lives ‘of ‘great spirits,’ it seems, leave room for some queer aberrations.” At this dinner, Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, chairman of the board of directors of the Krupp munitions works, and of the Federation of German Industries, calls up to find out how the conciliation. ids going. Supportéd by Soviet Enemies 'HE general reveals, also, how the Nazis received international financial support from the most corrupt monopolist and the most vicious enemies of the Soviet Union in Great Britain and Sweden. Schleicher got mad about it and wanted to arrest ae “Hitler must be arrested,” yecords General ative | yon Seeckt, “his party dissolved and outlawed, the whole scandal of the Nazi’s revenues brought to light, their connections with the armament industry abroad, with Deterdings, with Ivar Kreuger made public.” Which explains a lot about what is happening to- day. It explains the support of British imperialism to the Nazi's armament program; the connection of Vickers and Krupp; the supplying by the British Vickers concern of bombing planes to the Nazis, and it explains the purpose, Deterding, the most vicious single enemy of the Soviet Union in the world, who has been financing every counter-revolu- tionary force, has been feeding the Nazis with funds solely to speed the war against the Soviet Union. Should the Stavisky scandals in France ever reach the full light of day, they would undoubtedly show Hitler received funds from this putrid source just as he did from crook Kreuger. The British financial support, which is only barely exposed in this book, also partly explains why the British bankers got special consideration on the moratorium. Author Speaks As Militarist “HE Berlin Dairies,” is filled with details of the day to day horse-trading, corruption, intrigues of the German bourgeoisie, trying first one means, then another, leading to the fascist dictatorship, against the proletarian revolution. The author does not attempt to give an analysis, or a rounded-out picture. He speaks only as a militarist in the service of German capitalism, agreeing with that small section of the ruling class which did not want the Nazis to come to power, feeling that they narrowed the avenues of maneu- vering and brought the doom of German capitalism too dangerously near, We could foresee, from his class position, that Fascism in Germany meant catastrophe, and the catastrophe meant the end of German capitalism, His daily record of the servile support of the German Social Democratic leaders, fully exposed by the Communist Party of Germany at each stage of the betrayals of the Socialist bootlickers, is here confirmed from intimate connection with these scoundrels. So despicable were these betrayers of the workers in the eyes of their own masters, that they looked upon them as the most pliable lackeys, to be used without question, and to be thrown into the garbage can when their services were no longer required, It's not a pretty story that is told, no more than are the present events that are unfolding for the whole world to see. Rotten, decaying capitalism congenitally degenerate to its marrow, can find no other means of preserving its bankrupt system than through ‘the agency of the most depraved, perverse, gangsters and cutthroatis, the most de- graded human beings who slaughter their best friends and servitors. For all this, the workers of Germany can thank the Socialist Party leaders, who even when Hitler was already in power, before the Reichstag fire re- mained true to their class collaboration policy to the last, refusing to join the united front call for a general strike which could have swept this scum from the face of the earth. The C. I. On German Social Democracy IN the light of present facts, how true and fore- sighted is the resolution of the Communist In- ternational on the rise of Fascism to power and its Perspectives. We quote two sections from this resolution, passed April 1, 1933, more than a year ago: “German social democracy, which had the sup- 1 i ‘ ha + alliance with the bourgeoisie and the generals of port of the majority of the proletariat in the No- vember revolution of 1918, split the working class, and instead of carrying the revolution forward to the dictatorship of the proletariat and socialism, which was the duty of a proletarian party, it, in the Kaiser, suppressed the. uprising of the revolu- tionary masses and laid the basis for a profound split of the working class of Germany. Under the flag of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and the tactic of the ‘lesser evil,’ in alliance with the bour- geoisie and with the approval of the Second (So- cialist) International, it continued the policy of severe repression of the revolutionary movement and the line of splitting the working class right up to the most recent date. It disbanded the Red Front Fighters’ League, suppressed revoltionary workers’ organizations, prohibited and fired into workers’ demonstrations, broke economic and po- litical strikes against the capitalist offensive and fascism, and supported the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie . . . “Every day will show with greater clearness that Hitler is leading Germany to catastrophe. “The present period of calm after the victory of fascism is temporary. The revolutionary upsurge in Germany will inevitably grow in spite of fascist terror. The resistance of the masses to fascism is bound to increase. The establishment of an open fascist dictatorship, by destroying all democratic illusions among the masses and liberating them from the influence of social-democracy, accelerates the rate of Germany's development towards pro- letarian revolution.” Should the General ever continue his diaries, he will be able to record, first, that the Red Army of China defeated his crack troops; and second, that ‘Canadian Gov’t Now Admits |Many Conferences To Pick Delegates For Anti-W ar Meet Women’s World Meet Against War Put Over to Aug. 4 NEW YORK—The International Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism which meets in Paris has been postponed from July 28, 29 and 30, 1934, to the three days be- ginning August 4. This will give all sections involved in the cam- paign for sending delegates to this historic congress an additional week to muster their forces and in- tensify their preparations. Dates for the regional conference which will elect the delegates from the United States remain un- changed. The Pittsburgh Women’s Com- mittee Against War and Fascism has already elected one delegate, Mrs. Belle Jackson, Negro miner’s wife, president of a UMWA Ladies’ Auxiliary in Fayette County, Pa. Mrs, Jackson was elected at the regional conference which met on June 24, Among the delegates at this conference were workers from one of the largest tin factories in Pittsburg, Westinghouse workers, miners wives from surrounding mining towns, YWCA representa- tives, liberals, pacifists, writers, etc. The conference to elect the dele- gates from New York and Chicago will. be held on Saturday, July 7. The Chicago confenrence will be held in Hull House and the New York conference at Irving Plaza. both at 2:30 P. M. In both cities intensive preparations are going on to make these conferences as large and representative as possible. All organizations interested in sending delegates to the New York City conference can do so by ob- taining credential calls from Rina Evans, 213 4th Ave., N. Y. C., or directly at the conference on Sat- urday. FOREIGN BRIEFS BRITISE PLAN SUPPLIES OF OIL FOR WAR LONDON, July 6—The meaning of recent government measures en- couraging private development of huge plants for the production of gasoline by hydrogenation of coal was revealed today with the an- nouncement that t he Royal Air Forces would be fueled in future by artificial gasoline drawn from coal. Large scale production of gaso- line by this method is an eccom- plished fact, British imperialism having greedily seized scientific pos- sibilities wherever they might con- tribute to military advancement. oe Or ae FRENCH PUBLIC WORKS, WAR MEASURE PARIS, July 6: The Chamber of Deputies today passed the so-called Public Works bill which was then accepted unanimously by the Senate. The bill under the guise of a huge public works outlay to create em- ployment, military roads, fortifica- tions electrification of railroads and other” preparations are openly planned. Moreover, the 2,700,000,000 francs thus expended will not be raised by taxation but will be withdrawn from the social insurance fund. | te ee ae BUDAPEST, July 6. — Former Public Welfare Secrtary Emerich the proletarian revolution in Germany shall have achieved the final victory, Drehr was today sentenced to five years imprisonment for embezzling Public Welfare funds. | On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Rising Struggles When Is It Sedition? Bulgaria-Japan and Dope ECENT weeks have shown an increased radicalization, a heightened militancy of the _— | workers in many countries of the world. At the same time, the infuriated ruling class is beginning to exhibit its bloody fangs. In Chile, a general strike has been declared in sup- port of a peasants’ revolt. Gold and coal miners are already lining up with the peasants against the government troops. A whole series of bitter strikes are on in Cuba, with a general poe | litical strike in Manzanillo demand- ing the release of 95 political pris- oners who have passed their 225th hour on a hunger strike. Strikes are expected today in Havana, So gee IN HOLLAND, the unemployed militantly Gémonstrated at Am- sterdam against the cut in their relief; and they were met in thé style of Mayor LaGuardia and Governor Merriam of California, The police fired at the hungry workers, killing one and wounding dozens. Brazilian dockers and seamen struck two days ago and tied up the British - owned Companhia Navacageo Lloyd Brazilier, and the Brazilian government-owned line. The battle lines are being drawn tighter everywhere, ee Pak AVING defeated the strike of 80,000 cotton mill workers in Bombay, British imperialism sought its revenge against the strike lead- ers. Comrade Ranadive, secretary of the heroic Kirni Kashgar (Red Flag) Union was arrested’ on the charge of a seditious speech deli- vered at Chowpaty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment. It is a fifty-fifty chance, under the deadly conditions of an Indian prison, whether he ever will come out alive, if he is forced to serve his sentence. What was his crime? The repre= sentative of British “justice” in India, in rendering his judgment on our comrade declared: “In the beginning the accused had said that by holding this meeting the hungry workers, the starving work- ers, were declaring war against un- employment, against capitalism and against imperialism.” “Since,” said the judge, the speech was addressed to “a hungry and ignorant crowd of unemployed workers” in the time of agitation and unrest, it was sedition. If the same speech had been made, say to a group of well-fed Ramsay MacDonalds, Purcells and Hendersons, it would, of course, not be sedition. Bulgarian fascist “or monet T makes a good deal of money from the manufacture of dope. It is not generally known that Bul- garian drug factories manufacture four times the world’s legitimate requirements of the powerful drug, heroin. There are ten huge heroin factories in Sofia, and leading gov- ernment officials own them. Rus- sell Pacha, Egyptian delegate to the League of Nations’Opium Ad- visory Committee, declared that M. Karagyzoff, former chief of police of Sofia (torturer of Communists) operates one of the largest fac- tories; and M, Parlapanoff, head chemist of the institute of Public Health, owned another. Where does the drug go? Japan takes most of it, but it is not all used in Japan. Japanese imperial- ist culture-dispensers force it on the Korean, Formosan, and Man- churian masses; No Japanese agent goes into Mongolia, Chahar, Sin- kiang, or any other province where the Japanese militarists are carry- ing on their intrigues, without his supplies of heroin. The tribal lead- ers, the princes and feudal lords are doped, and dream of war sm Y much as the Japanese want them to dream. aay SE HE Japanese imperialists cease- lessly plot for war against the Soviet Union, and while they trans- form Manchukuo into an armed camp, they have a few more cards up their kimona sleeves. Recently a “liberation” congress was held in Kobe, under Japanese patronage. Turko-Tartar-Mohammedans fron the Chinese border states near the Soviet Union, as well as deposed feudal princes from Soviet Turke stan were present. With Japanese funds and arms, a central organization is to be set up to “direct all political, cultural, and religious activities” of all Tar= tars, Turks, Bashkirs, Uzbecks, Kir ghizes, Sarts, etc. now living in exile throughout the East. The main point of attack is the Chinese province of Sinkiang, which is inhabited mainly by Mo- hammedans, and borders the Soviet Union, While the British, too, are plotting to seize this territory, al-{) ready having appointed a “Mosl King,” Mr. Khalid Sheldrake, Eng- lish pickle manufacturer, the Jap- anese have their pet emporer for Sinkiang, Mr. Abdul-Rashid-Hasret Ibrahim. All of the provinces near the Mongolian People’s Republic, near Soviet Turkestan, along the Man- churian border, is honeycombed with Japanese spies, provocateurs seeking to gain allies among the ambitious princes who prefer to be Pu Yi's (puppet emperors) under Japanese hegemony. ‘ One of the most dangerous fea- tures of this business is that the Japanese have called another Turko-Tartar Congress for Autumn in Tokio, which shows how ra y they are preparing all their forces — for war against the U.S.