The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY .JULY 11, 1934 Page Three California Communists Ask | Dockers’ Support in Elections; Other States Swing Party in Statement Hits the Record of Fakers | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — Countering the strike-break-| ing attack on Communists} made by leaders in the Central | ~ Labor Council here, the Com- | munist Party is calling on members of local unions to} vote the Communist ticket in th-| coming local and state elections and to defend the rights of their fellow | union members to support whatever | political party they choose. In a four-page statement ad- dressed to iho striking sea- men, the Communist Party points out the perfidy of Thomas Ryan and his local satellites, Lewis and McKenna, and contrasts their rec- ords with the consistent and whoie- hearted support given to the strike by the Communist Party and or- ganizations in which it has influ- ence. Blasts Splitting Tactics The statement said in part: “In line with the previous at- tempts to break the ranks of the strikers, the Council launched its attack in the form of an aiarm| against the Communists. They hope to succeed where the Chamber of Commerce, Industrial Assn., Ryan, Chief of Police Quinn, McGrady or any of the others failed. If they could get the workers busy doing) the work of the police —fighting| against Communists — the united) front, and splendid leadership of the longshoremen would be smash- | ed, and the shipowners could easily come out victorious. “Scharrenberg and Larson of the/| seamen have been doing everything | in their power right in their own| Inteznational Seamen’s Union, to! still the voice of the rank and file Since the last seamen’s meeting, | state conference to ratify the state; when over 1,000 repudiated their) Splitting policy, they have decided not to call any more mass meet- Ings. Scharrenberg wants the Fink | Hall to stay,” the statement de-/ clared. “The longshoremen have learned that Communists in their ranks are among the best fighters in the in-| terest of the workers. They know) that while the Labor Council and/| the State Federation of Labor have | been scheming on how to break the} strike, the Communist Party and the | other organizations it influences) have been working night and day| to rally every possible support to} the strikers. They know that only | because of the fine response it re ceived, were the I.S.U. officiais forced to also agree to strike. Reviews Communist Record | “Now look at the record of the Reds in your strike and contrast it with the fakers. While the Labor Clarion pretended “neu- trality,” the Western Worker offi- cial organ of the Communist Party, was put completely at your dis- posal, The International Labor Defense, attacked as “Red,” of- fered you legal defense free and helped start your defense work. The Workers International Relief, attacked as “Red” started your relief work and served the first sandwiches and coffee to your picket lines. The Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, attacked as “Red,” pulled out the seamen and prevented a repetition of the 1919 lost strike. They had to do this over the heads and against the will of the A. F. of L. fakers, who insisted on craft division and non- cooperation. In the present move- ment for a General Strike, the Communists in the A. F. of L. unions, are the main driving force. Vandeleur, of the Central Labor Council, ruled it out of order when your representatives brought the question up. “Many of you stevedores voted in your last Monday's meeting to ac- cept the Central Labor Council resolution. Do you realize it means that you are denying your mem- bers the right to their own political beliefs? Why should you turn your union into an agent for the Repub- lican, Democratic or any other capi- talist party and deny your mem- bers the free right to support any Political party they want? You should be especially interested in favor of their supporting a working class _party—the Communist Party. The Central Labor Council endorsed Rossi for Mayor—the same Rossi » COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City EXES EXAMINED By JOSEPH LAX, 0.D. tometrint Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-45%0 Factory on Premises o— ® Into Fight Chicago to Nominate on the 21st; Conn. Files Slate NEW YORK, July 10. — At widely scattered points thru-| out the country local Commu- nist Party organizations are - | swinging into action for mu- Leo Gallagher, fighting I. L. D. attorney, who will be the Commu nist Candidate for Associate Jus- tice in the California State Su- preme Court. Textile Leader To Head Slate In New Jersey Hold State, Ratification Conference On July 15 NEWARK, N. J—The Communist Party in New Jersey will hold its candidates on Sunday, July 15, at 10 a.m.,, at the Sokol Hall, 358 Mor- is Ave. Newark. Petitions have been filed for Communist candi- dates for Morris M. Brown, organ- izer of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union in Paterson, as candidate for Governor; Rebecca Grecht, Dis- trict Organizer, Communist Party, New Jersey District, candidate for U. S. Senator; and for 11 candi- dates for Congress in Essex, Hud- son, Passaic, Bergen, Union, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Also petitions for 33 candidates for State Assembly have been filed, as well as petitions for Freeholders in the important industrial counties of the state. The New Jersey District of the Communist Party has arranged a@ mass election rally for the Satur- day night, preceding the Confer- ence, July 14, at 8 o’clock, at the Y. M. H. A. Auditorium, High and W. Kinney Sts., Newark. James W. Ford, member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, will be the principal speaker. who sent the cops to shoot you down. Naturally they are against the Communists. For the same reasons they are against the strike But you shouldn't be. You should not split your ranks. The Com- munists are the source, and have been the best mobilizer of support for the strike. “Increase your unity with the seamen including the Marine Workers Industrial Union! An- swere the fakers by pushing for- ward for a general strike! “Don’t let them get you to do police activity against your fellow workers who are Communists. Stick together for your demands. “Already they are plotting’ to remove your best leaders. Don’t Jet them do it—it will destroy your seven weeks of splendid united struggle. The Communist Party is your Party—it fights for workers in all industries as it fought for you— it fights for a workers and farm- ers government which will help workers—not murder them! “Vote Communist! Join the Communist Party!” Issue Statement to A. F. of L. Unions A similar statement was issued to all members of trade unions af- filiated with Central Labor Council, calling for repudiation by local unions of the resolution railroaded through a recent mass meeting called by the council condemning Communist activity and leadership in the strike. The Communist candidates for State offices in California are: Sam Darcey for Governor; Pettis Perry for Lieutenant-Governor Harold Ashe for Secretary of State; Archie Brown for State ‘Treasurer; Peter Garcia for State Board of Equalization; John E. Williams for United States Sena- tor and Leo Gallagher for Asso- ciate Supreme Court Justice. CAMP Regrets that it will not Wingdale, New York registration until after Sunday, July 14th UNITY be able to accept your 3 and 7 P.M. After Sunday, You May Come By Our Cars from 2700 Bronx Park East Daily at 10:30 A. M. and Fridays and Saturdays 10 A. M. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-1148 Activities Excellent Standards of Proletarian Cullural Camp Store City Prices nicipal, county and state elec- tion campaigns. | Reflecting the uniformity, of the New Deal in cutting relief | and supporting strikes throughout | the country, most of the local and state platforms will contain vigor- ous proposals against police brutal- ity, for passage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, for immediate cash relief, for worker- controlled slum clearance projects and for security of small home | Owners against tax forclosures. | County Meet in Chicago In Chicago a county-wide front nominating conference has been called for July 21 at the Peoples’ Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago Ave. In Madison County, a complete slate has already taken the field | and in Akron and Cleveland signa- ture campaigns for Communist | nominees are forging steadily ahead. Other important cities in which the Communist Party is preparing | to wage determined election cam- paigns are Boston, Stamford, Pitts- burgh, Superior and Sioux Falls. State campaigns are also getting under way in Illinois, Chio, Maine, | | Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and| Colorado. Additional reports of | campaign plans reach the national | office of the Communist Party here daily. Wiis ane % Connecticut Nominates STAMFORD, Conn.—Two hun-| dred enthusiastic workers filled the Workers Center here as a full slate | was adopted by the local nominat- ing convention of the Communist Party. Seventy dollars was contributed by the audience and delegates as a starter for the campaign fund. The slate is headed by Charles Preziosi, Relief Workers League leader, for mayor; Charlies Taylor, active Ne- gro organizer, for First Selectman; and Mary Monaco, woman leader in the Relief Workers League. The convention adopted resolutions de- manding the freedom of Samuel Krieger, unemployed worker jailed in the Socialist city of Bridgeport on the order of Mayor McLevy, and for the immediate release of Ernst Thaelmann, Angelo Herndon and the Scoitsboro boys. Build a Daily Worker Route 20,000 New Readers by Sept. 1 NRA Fraud of Militant Struggiec Against War By I. AMTER ‘WENTY years after the declara- tion of the World War we find the imperialist governents prepar- ing for another war. This war is not planned on the basis of the scope of the last war. No, this time, the use will be made of far more destructive means. Secret formulae are being worked out to destroy whole populations. The “front” will be at home—the factories, worke:s’ sections of the cities. Boys will he sent to the front, while airplanes will fiy over the industrial cities, dropping bombs and _ chemicals which will wipe out the population at home. Three hundred billions of wealth were destroyed in the Jast war— wealth created by the working class. Much of it was for war purposes; a great part, however, was made up of factories, bridges, buildings put up by workers. Ten million young men gave up their lives. Millions more haye been left living corpses, their energy and hope blasted. Pacifists Aid War Moves A new generation has grown up that knows little about the last war. The U. S. government and all its agenciés—the American Legion offi- cials, the leaders of the A. F. of L., of farm organizations, of the Negro reformists, and in their special treacherous way, the leaders of the Socialist Party, are doing all in their power to mobilize the youth of the country for the imperialist war Program. “Roosevelt does not want war”; “Any soldier who has been in war is opposed to it”; “War is horrible and inhuman’—these are some of the so-called “anti-war slogans that the imperialists use. “Take all profit out of war,” says Baruch. He is seconded by Senator Borah—but the U. S. government is meanwhile preparing feverishly for war, Millions starve in this country. Farmers can no longer live on the land. Negro workers are denied relief. Foreign-born workers are threatened with deportation if they fight against the growing hunger. Young workers are herded into the military CCC camps. Single men are being forced to go into the mili- tary transient camps. Families no longer able to live in the cities are being shipped to “subsistence home- steads.” Sixteen million remain unem- Ployed. Milliohs are working only part time. No worker has security— he does not ktow from day to day whether he will be able to provide for his family. Insecurity is the August Ist Must Be Day Meet These Red Builders! San Jose is the garden spot of California that the late Sunny Jim | Rolph blessed for its public-spirited |lynching act . The bosses of San Jose believe in the tradition jof terror for militant workers. Par- jticularly do they believe in terror |for “Reds.” “Workers are afraid to be seen | buying or having Communist papers in their possession,” writer Comrade |Fred Brown—as he sends an order |for bundles of the Daily Worker. |“Vigilante committees are set up; they co-operate with the American Legion and local and state police forces in suppressing the struggles of California workers. “In San Jose canneries and in the surrounding fields workers must become readers of the Daily and Western Workers. Send the papers. It is of vital importance that we continue to get it here.” Pu aide: On June 22, Comrade Karo Migr- dechian, of Detroit, was arrested for selling the Daily Worker. As he was being taken to the station in| @ police car, he leaned out to| sell the paper to| workers on the} sidewalks. For) this he was beaten by the police, Later, the | I. L. D. brought about his re- lease, and Com- | Kae WisHfechien Oe caro went! on the streets again with his bundle of papers, | “I have been & Daily Worker agent for four years,” he sa) “Since Bloody Monday in March, 1932, I have been beaten and ar-| rested 23 times. In Dearborn or| Detroit the same Ford gang is/| after you. But I am going to con-/| tinue to sell the Daily Worker un- til the masses know it, and read is as their paper.” umes, Se Bernard Goerkes, of Colville, Washington, celebrated his 81st} birthday by sending in 50 cents for | a bundle of Daily Workers. In 1904) when he was 30 years younger, he | organized a Socialist local in the Far West. Now he wants to help form a Communist Unit (“a good one”), and get the Party on the election ticket in the Fall. He knows what is the best organizer and campaigner—a bundle of Daily | Workers. That’s why he sends us| the order. Win Wage Increases, Union Recognition at Horlicks Plant RACINE, Wis., July 10—Substan- | thal wage gains and recognition of | the Racine County Workers’ Com- | | mittee were won by the striking | Workers at the Horlick Malted Milk Corporation, who returned to work yesterday A fifteen per cent wage increase was accepted by the workers, who had demanded 30 per cent. The new scale gives men | workers 48 cents an hour minimum and women 35. | Nine persons were injured outside | of the plant last week, when police | attacked the mass picket line. | | as | | Unemployed? Sell the “Daily” | | the founders of the N.R.A., voted By EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth of a series of articles on war preparations by Seymour Waldman, Washington correspon- dent of the Daily Worker. pe ee HE corporation lawyers, bankers, industrialists, publishers, judges, journalists, |generals, admirals, ministers, and other lights of the ruling | class, in a National Citizens’ Committee headed by Newton D. Baker, called upon “our citizens” to “take stock” of what we have| in the way of national defense and | what preparations are being made | to meet ANY emergency that might | arise,” in the Army Day (April 6,| 1934) issue of the National Bulletin of the Military Order of the World War. To leave no doubt in the minds of their readers that they were chiefly concerned with what Chief of Staff General MacArthur called “unrest,” Lieutenant Colonel Geo. | E. Ijams, Commander-in-Chief of | this high sounding “Military Order,” | capitalized the word any on the| same page on which he featured | President Roosevelt’s letter to him- | self. Roosevelt wrote: “My dear Colonel Ijams” that “the celebration of Army Day on April sixth each year, commemorating as it does our entrance into the World War, indi- cates, in part, the gratitude of our nation to our Army which so vali- antly has served this country in its every emergency.” | That American bankers, indus- | trialists and landlords are pushing | this militarization campaign for the | purpose of smashing workers’ mili- | tancy and revolutionary progress | was made clear by the “proposals” adopted this Spring by the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States, the highly organized propa- ganda organ of the most powerful capitalists. This group, also one of “overwhelmingly” for the following foreign and domestic recommenda- tions, written by a committee which included James A. Farrell, former president of the feudalistic United States Steel Corporation, the key- | Stone of American capitalism and incidentally, the beneficiary of big | Navy construction contracts. “The United States should maintain the principles of Army organization embodied in the existing national defense laws, calling primarily for a small ac- tive military force to serve, with the National Guard and the Or- ganized Reserves, as the nucleus of a large CITIZEN ARMY IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. [Em- phasis mine.—S. W.] “In agreements for limitation of naval armament the United States should obtain assurance of a fleet adequate to protect ‘our shores, our territories and possessions, and our foreign commerce to an extent equal to that enjoyed by any other power.” IBERALISM is doing its bit in | One twelve year old boy was slugged | attempting to divert the atten-' by Cop Number 5227 of Squad 149, | 2234 Lake St. ds to Must Make Warke big haunting word written over the | door of every worker’s home, over every jungle, every Rooseveltville, every flophouse. Insecurity—but the | U. S. government which, according} to the Declaration of Independence, has the duty to “provide for the! | welfare of the people” looks with /contempt upon the misery, the de- (mand or security of the working | population. Sixteen million unemployed—what | |greater duty can any government have them adequately to protect | these millions? The government is not miserly— not to bankers and railroad corpo- | rations. Six billions to the banks and railroads and other corpora- tions, to raise profits, tofit the rail- roads and other industries for war! —not miserly to the war industries —two billions for war preparations Not miserly to fascism—a “loan” of 75,000 rifles to the America| | Legion, so that they may use the |Legionaires for fascist attacks on the struggling workers. “Are you better off than you were last year?” cynically asks Mr. Roosevelt. “Only carpers criticize | the president,” states the “acting president,” Mr. Richberg. Roosevelt boasts about what he has done for the toiling population. “Seven million went back to work,” says Roosevelt. “Five million,” says Richberg. “Three million,” says Wm. Green, These millions are not back to work—and those that are \are only working part time, getting starvation wages, hardly better than relief. The cotton textile industry cuts down 25 per cent. Steel drops from 75 per cent to 20 per ceni Production in one week. The auto industry slows down in a calamitous manner. Building constzuction is hardly taking place. Where are these millions at work, Mr. Roose- velt? Facts—not generalities! Public Works? Where? i What has Roosevelt done for the unemployed? $3,300,000,000 for “pub- lic works,” we are told. But those more than three billions were not used for public works. $680,000,000 was applied to the military C.C.C. camps (two contingents), which are “the first real test of the army's plans for wat mobilization under the National Defense Act” (Assistant Secretary of War H. H. Woodzing); $238,000,00 went for war vessels; $475,000,000 for Vinson’s “navy sec- ond to none”; $50,000,000 for air- planes followed by an additional $7,000,000 for the same purpose; tens of millions for barracks, harbor dredging, etc. The three billion “publie works” program of the U. S. government employed 370,000 work- ers in April, these works including the building of naval vessels. Only $14,720,000 was spent in that month in wages, but $23,434,000 went for material.” The U. S. government I. AMTER paid these 370,000 workers on the average, $47.51 a month. Skilled workers on buiding construction earned $51.16 a month! The government is not miserly to the employers in whose interests war is being prepared. The federal budget knows no limit—so that the government deficit today is higher than in 1919, after the war! Sweet Phrases about peace, proposals for disarmamant—just like the other imperialist governments—but un- limited funds for war! On the other hand, millions have no work. Millions can find no work. Millions of youth never have seen the inside of a factory—will never get a job. Seven million boys and girls unemployed, jobless, hungry, with no outlook! Millions of single men, white and Negro, un- wanted, hounded, find a refuge, a prison in the transient camps. What does the government, and above all Roosevelt, tell the mass- es? Roosevelt “saved” the country from the “rugged individaulists.” Through his drill sergeant, Hugh Johnson, with the screaming blue eagle before him, he is “cracking” down on the “chisellérs” who are hindering the “return of pros- perity.” “Retovery” is at hand; “reform of the system” is our next step! Are They Better Off? “Are you better off than you were last year?” we are asked. Ack the 1,500,000 workers who have struck because they cannot live on the miserable wages paid. Ask the 20,000 longshoremen on the West Coast, the truckmen of Minneapolis, the miners, the steel rs Cry “War pe - —- 6 tion of the workers from the real | causes of the threatening imperialist war. The Nye- Vandenberg resolution | ordered a Senate investigation into the practices of munitions makers and the consideration of the “desir- ability of creating a government monopoly” of the manufacture of war instruments, Worded in liberal- The War Set-Up in Washington SEYMOUR WALDMAN phrases strikingly remini-| of the piously disarming gs on the eve of the World the resolution, in effect, ac- serves the interests of the munitions manufacturers, the peo- ple who presumably are to be in- vestigated. It es them by striv- ing to dissipate the militant work- ers’ realization of the necessity for pacifist scent While a Senate Committee dustry, this U. S. arsenal in Washington is working fall biast turning out shells for the U. 8. i egro and White Workers Smash Chicago Eviction | “investigates” the munitions in- | Navy. By BILL ANDREWS (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Iil., July 10.—A heroic and determined six-day fight smashed through an attempt by the relief authorities to discriminate against a Negro family by driving the husband and wife into flop j houses and farming the children out to strangers last week. For six days, Dora Huckleberry, a Negro worker and Communist Can- didate for Assembly in the Twenty- First Senatorial District, with her husband and two children, refused | to budge from the place where their furniture was thrown out in an evic- tion. Mass meetings were held daily at Lake and Fairfield, and commit- tees were elected by Negro and white | workers participating, to demand vent for the family from the relief and from the aldermen. | Meetings were attacked twice, an clubbings and jailing took place. {and auto workers. Ask the textile and railroad workers. | But above all ask the unem- ployed, and the workers on the F. E. R. A. jobs. Is the mass dis- | content in the country the product lonly of Communis propaganda {and of agitators? This propaganda | would not fall on such fertile soil | were the economic conditions not | so unbearable. The workers cannot | live in the present situation and |are showing more and more de- | terminedly that they will not ac-/ |cept these conditions. No fascist | | terror of the government and of | fascist gangs will keep them from What has Roosevelt actually done for the unemployed? Five) hundred millions dollars last year Was expended for relief. This year Congress appropriated $960,000,000 for relief from June 30 to Jan. 7. | This fund is left at the “discretion | of the President.” The result is that relief is being cut down in jall parts of the country. Hun- | dreds of thousands are being re- moved from the relief rolls, which, with the “return of prosperity,” contained a larger number of} | history of the country. more applicants for ever before. How can they cut down the re- lief in Covington, Kentucky, where a family of seven gets $1 every two weeks? How can they cut down relief for Negroes, who represent the biggest body of unemployed and in the majority of cases get no relief? How can they cut down on young and single workers who are denied relief? Many Words, No Deeds “Are you better off?” If not, have more faith in Roosevelt, who promised us unemployment insur- ance two years ago, and now in- | tends to “study” the quesion. How noble that sounded when Roosevelt ran for President—but how hollow and hypocritical, when one sees the lavish expénditures to increase the profits and dividends of the biggest corporations, to prepare for another international slaughter of the working class! How different it is in the Soviet Union, where the workers and farmers control. There human life—the well being of the work- ers and farmers—is the first con- sideration. Capitalist bankers and corporations do not exist in the Soviet Union. It is a country that belongs to the toiling masses, In- dustry is flourishing in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Government is spending $3.750,000,000 this year for ‘social insurance—for the mainten- There are relief than fighting against the conditions. | names than at any time in the} Alderman Kells and other poli- | ticians made an attempt to buy off | Mrs. Huckleberry by promising her | assistance if she would give up her |“red propaganda” activities. She | flatly refused to accept this “deal.” | | | Continuous mass pressure of the | workers finally forced the relief | authorities to give in Saturday, | When attempts to intimidate com- mittees in the relief station by call- | ing police failed, rent was given, | Cheering workers of the Lake Street | | district greeted the relief station | | truck as it drew up to move the |furniture. All agreed that only the | |mass fight led by Section Nine of | | the Communist Party was respon- sible for the victory. | Plans had been made to move the | furniture in front of the Alderman’s house if the relief failed to act by Saturday noon, and committees were | | organized to protect the stuff. A mass meeting to celebrate this victory will be held Friday night at 99 Jobless” —? | \Vast War Expenditures | Give Lie to F. D. R.’s | Peace Talk | | ance of workers who suffer acci- | dents, sickness, for old age and | maternity. Three and three-quar- | | ter billions—a first charge on pro-/| | duction, while in the United States the workers and toiling farmers | | come last! August Ist—twenty years after— after twenty years of mock homage by the imperialists to the unknown Soldier, working class boy—we raise our working class voices demand- ing: All war funds for unemployment telief and insurance! We demand the immediate safe release of Angelo Herndon, the} fighting young Negro Communist of Atlanta, Georgia, to save him from death on the chain-gang for lead- ing white and Negro workers in the| |demand for relief. | We demand the immediate re- lease of Ernest Thaelmann, the leader of the German working class which is preparing for the revolu- tionary overthrow of the fascist dic-| tatorship of Germany. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of the Scotts- boro boys, homeless youths who were framed ‘up and sentenced to the electric chair. We demand the release of the hundreds of working class fighters in the prisons of the country who have dared to challenge the Roose- velt-Wall Street hunger program. But above all through the country | must resound— Not a cent for bosses’ war—we refuse to shoot down the workers |of other countries in the interest of |the imperialists. Let this slogan sound in the shops, unions, clubs. Let it become hoods. Let us organize the un- | employed masses into the Na- | tional Unemployment Council and fight for the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. The billions that can be provided for human slaughter we demand for the protection of the working class, Let us organize and fight—and we will get it! | While fighting, let us have no |ilusions. We will have security, we /will put an end to war, only when (We put an end to the system that breeds war. Ohly when the work- ets and farmers take over this country will hunger, fascism ani war be abolishsd. A Revolution- ary Workers’ Governmsent—the dic- tatorship of the proletariat—that | ments of war” findings of the War Policies Com- the clarion call in the neighbor- | revolutionary resistance to the fun- damental program of ba dustrialists, to wh rs ym the mu- ions makers are but a minor ser e subdivision. Liberalism, the pre-war cr handmaiden of a desperate capi! ism, tries to dope workers by try to get them to believe that y can defeat the “armament lobby” thout the revolutionray overthrow capitalism and that guns and ot capitalism are the primary causes of imperialist war. Jonathan Mitchell advanced this anti-working class view in an article entitled e Armamenis Scandal,” printed in the May 9, 1934, New Republic, He wrote ‘A few days ago, an investigation of American munitions makers was voted by the Senate. The sponsors of the investigation, Senators Gerald P. Nye and Arthur H. Van- denberg, are very much in earnest. It is to be hoped that their investi- gation . . . will end with the decis- ive overthrow of the armament lobby’s power at Washington. ‘Evidence of its work is not hard to find. The thumbprints of our munitions makers are smudged all over the budgets of the United States army and navy. The evidence is plain, at least to this correspond- ent, that they are the principal cause of our steadily mounting ar- maments. .. .” Tt makes little difference how “plain” the “evidence” is to intel- lectuals like Mitchell. The impor | tant thing is that this pacifist posi- tion must be exposed, whenever it is advanced as a weapon for keeping workers from joining the revolu- tionary struggle against war, the only kind of workers’ opposition which will help to eliminate capi- talism, “the principal cause of our steadily mounting armaments.” The seven Senators who are to conduct the Nye-Vandenberg in- quiry are instructed to examine existing legislation and treaties per- taining to the manufacture of ‘arms, munitions or other imple- and to review the mission (of which Vandenberg was a@ member) with a view to crystal- lizing them into legislative form. Though the preamble of the reso= lution refers to the “influence of the commercial motive” as an “in- evitable factor in considerations in- volving the maintenance of the national defense,” this same “influe ence,” in the second sentence of the preamble, becomes “one of the in- evitable factors often believed to stimulate and sustain wars.” [Em- phasis mine—S. W.] Such wriggling to camouflage the war danger inherent in capitalist society, however, is not so dangerous as the resolution’s misrepresentation of the origin and recommendations of the War Policies Commission. Furthermore, said the Senate? “Whereas the Seventy-First Con- | gress, by Public Resolution No. 98, approved June 27, 1930, responding to the long-standing demands of American war veterans, speaking through the American Legion, for legislation ‘to take the profit out of war,’ created a War Policies Com- mission, which reported recommen- dations on December 7, 1931, and on March 7, 1932, to decommercial- ize war and to equalize the burs dens thereof; and “Whereas these recommendations never have been translated into the statutes: Therefore, be it “Resolved, . . .” and so forth and | 50 on, that a special committee of the Senate be appointed for the Purposes already named. Now, the war veterans did de- mand that the government “take the profit out of war” but under “universal mobilization” slogans, popularized for ten years by the very leadership that betrayed the rank and file on the witness stand, which called for drafting capital “as a man is drafted.” It is well known in Washington how the then American Legion Commander Ralph O'Neil (a railroad lawyer) went even one per cent further than the War Department. O'Neil recom- mended a guaranteed war-time re- turn to industry up to 7 per cent. This 7 per cent, he declared, would be “a fair return.” (To Be Continued) Detroit Pickets Attacked by Cops At Burroughs Co. (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., July 10—More than 400 workers were on the mass picket line at the Burroughs Add- ing Machine Company plant yester= day with the Auto Workers Union and the Communist Party partici- pating. As the line grew, numbers of po- lice began driving and clubbing the workers, directing their main at- tacks on the Auto Workers Union line. The workers retreated, re- formed their groups and returned to the picket line. Police threatened Anderson, militant leader of the Mechanics Educational Society, but he refused to leave the picket line and he was not arrested. The Auto Workers Union has been informed that the Burroughs strike committee mét today and de- cided that no banners are to be carried on future picket lines other than the M. E. S. A. sign. This decision is directed against the Auto Workers Union banner which reads, “The Auto Wor!:>rs Union Supports the Burroughs Strikers.” Under the influence of officials the strike cocmittee ruled against enlarging the strike committee with representatives of codperating or- ganizations, which would have co- ordinated action and made unified Picketing more effective. The Auto Workers Union and the Communist Party proposed to a del- egation from the strike committee yesterdey to set up a co-ordihating committee to achieve unity and the | delegation stated they will consider the question. iis our ultimate aim, Interest Shopmates in “Daily” ae | | F