The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1934, Page 2

Page Two C.P. Mobilizes Workers for Huge Actions An Appeal for Angelo Herndon | By JOHN HOWARD LAW son—| HERE are only sixteen days left in which to Communist Delegation Proposes Unity to the save Angelo Herndon from the terrors of the Georgia Chain Gang. A tremendous effort must be made to raise the sum necessary to ‘prevent the further torture of Herndon. Two weeks ago I saw him in Fulton County prison. He smiled courag- eously as he talked to members of our delegation —but in spite of his un- failing courage, there can be no question that Herndon’s health is failing; he has had no adequate medical attention; he has been kept in a damp cell, into which | water has dripped from leaky | pipes from above. He is unable to eat, suffering from nausea, vomiting and severe cramps. that he has tyberculosis; but X- rays recently taken to determine his exact condition were so blur- red as to give no definite indica- tions. The authori efuse to have a further thorough examina- tion by competent doctors. Adjutant General Linley Camp (who recently made a perfunctory investigation of the case at the request of Governor Talmadge) told us lightly that he found Herndon “uppity,” and that he was convinced that this dent nigger” ess “impu- was pretending ill- in order to get in the hos- attitude of Camp and other Officials shows the brutal prejudice against Herndon; the same preju- dice caused the Judge to set the unreasonable bail to fifteen thou- sand dollars. In refusing lower bail, the Judge made the extra- ordinary comment that he as- sumed it would be worthwhile for the Russian government to pay fifteen thousand dollars to keep Herndox out of jail. The reactionary red-baiting rul- ers-of Georgia want to destroy Herndon. In his present state of broken health, his consignment to the chain gang is almost equiva- Jent to destruction. In Alabama the gang of reac- tionaries is intent on destroying | the Scottsboro boys. Their proved innocence only increases the bloody. fury of the lynchers. Svery day counts. Money for Herndon’s bail and for the Scotts- boro defense must be raised with- out delay. Every worker, every honest intellectual, should make any sacrifice to help the Inter- national Labor Defense in this urgent task. * bd . NEW YORK—The sum of $15,000 is needed in loans of cash and Liberty bonds for Herndon’s bail. The bail must be raised and posted before August 3, or Herndon will be sent to death on the chain gang. Loans should be Tushed at once to the Interne- tional Labor Defense, 80 East llth St., New York City. An additional There is a probability ; Socialist Party NEW YORK.—As part of the in-| ternational day of ggle 2 int imperialist war, a mass demons tion will be held August 1 in Union | Square at 4:30 p.m. under the initia- tive of the Communist Party. Every effort is being made to draw S organizations, and espec' Socialist Party wo in a migh rotest against t war prepara- he Roosevelt government. tion representing the New York District of the Communist | Party will visit the New York City Committee of the Socialist Party | to propose joint action on this day. The N. Y. District of the Com- munist Party yesterday issued direc- | tives to Party units and fractions |for anti-war activity before August Every section of the Party will |prepare at least two anti-war ac- tions aimed against war prepara- |tions at docks, piers, munition plants, | ete, Steps to mobilize workers in| the basic industries against war | have been set as one of the central | | tasks of the Party. The District | Bureau of the Communist Party esterday issued a statement relat- ng to united front action again: erialist war with the Socialist Party. The statement follows: “The New York District Buro of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. has decided to send an of-| ficial committee to the New York City Committee of the Socialist | Party to take up with it the ques- | | tion of joint action against war and fascism, on August Ist, the inter-| national day of struggle against war | and fascism. | “The danger of war fs growing| |greater daily. Fascist trends and| |methods are on a tremendous in- |crease in the United States. The} | American working class has the | duty of supporting their class | brothers in the European countries, | particularly Germany, in the strug- | gle against fascism. The struggle for the freedom of Ernst Thael- mann and all anti-Nazi victims, jis a struggle against the entire Nazi | regime in Germany and at the same |time a fight against the growing | fascist danger in this country. | “In the face of such a situation, | it is the duty of every organization | that pretends to. represent the work- | ing class, to leave no stone unturned | |to bring about the broadest united | | front in struggle against war and fascism. “Therefore, the New York Di trict Buro of the Communist Par | decided to send an official commit- tee to the Socialist Party of New | York City for the purpose of try- | ing to come to some understanding |for joint action against war and | fascism .on August 1.” NEW YORK DISTRICT BURO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY. }1. Knitgoods Workers to Plan Strike Tonight NEW YORK.—A mass meeting | to discuss plans to prepare for a | general strike in the knitgoods in- |dustry will be held tonight at 6 Pm. at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. jand 15th St., under the auspices | of the Knitgoods Workers Indus- | trial Union, 131 W. 28th St. Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers and the United Textile Workers are espe-| | Shows $15,000 is needed to carry the ap- “ially invited. Ben Gold, national | peals for Herndon and the Scotts- | Secretary of the Needie Trades | boro boys to the U. S. Supreme Workers Industrial Union, will | Court, speak. | BRAZIL TELEGRAPH “STRIKE Oil Riggers End Strike RIO DE JANEIRO, July 15—A| KILGORE, Tex., July 11.—The fable and telegraph operators strike | | strike of 500 rig builders at the) which began in northern Brazil on | East Texas oil field will end at mid- ‘Thursday was reported to have tied | night. Under an agreement the rig | @p all telegraphic communication }builders will accept the current| ‘nd shut off newspaper supply. daily wage seale of $10 and $12. Fascist Provocation Against Communist Party Is Latest Weapon of the American Ruling Class in Efforts to Smash Rising General Strike Wave SPECIAL LEAGUE MEMBERS! NOTICE TO A TO ALL Employed and Unemployed! The District Committee of the New York Y. C. L. urgently ap- peals to all League members to be present at the District Office —35 E. 19th St., fifth floor, on Tuesday, July 17, at 5 p.m. sharp, for special work in connection with the West Coast strike. This mobilization takes precedence over all other: Marine Union Urges Nat'l | Ship Tie-Up This Will Aid Fight for the Entire Working Class NEW YORK —A call for a nationwide tie-up for all shipping was issued here today by the Marine Workers Industrial Union in a statement emphasizing the fact that the Pacific Coast struggle involves the whole work- ing class, The full text of the statement follows: ek ae “The West Coast strike has now become a question of life and death for every worker in the American | merchant marine — seamen, long- shoremen and harbor workers. Our wages, working conditions and or- ganizations are at stake in this Struggle. If the orga: ers win this strike, they will tr to crush every vestige of organiza- tion in the industry and drive the |wages and working conditions even lower than they are today. “The strikers on the West Coast | are fighting against every power the | shipowners and the government can | organize and hurl against them. | Their strength is in the organized resistance of hte working class. The | general strikes in West Coast cities show that the West Coast workers realize that their conditions too are involved in this strike. “The Marine Workers Industrial | Union calls on the workers on the ships, docks and harbor craft of all ports to join in this fight for the defense of their West Coast fellow workers, and for the defense of their right to strike, to organize, and to live. The Marine Workers Industrial | Union calls on all ships’ crews to get together and take up immedi- lately the question ow strike for the | defense of their fellow workers. The M.W.LU. calls on all longshoremen, organized and unorganized, to come out in defense of their West Coast | brothers. “The Marine Workers Industrial./ Union calls on all seamen, ployed in the various ports, to gather in mass picket lines, to make this strike effective, to call on long- shoremen and seamen to tie up jevery ship in the merchent marine, to tie up every harbor in the United States, until these rights of the working class are won, and the troops and police are withdrawn from their brutal strikebreaking job in the West Coast. “Longshoremen: Defy the or- ders of your strikebreaking Presi- dent Joseph P. Ryan. Refuse to handle the bloody cargo on West- Coast ships. Refuse to load cargo on any ship until the shipowners withdraw the troops and police from the dock sirike, and yield te the logical demands of the West Coast workers, “Seamen: Refuse to sail the ships until the workers on the | West Coast win the demands they ore fighting for: the right to choose their own organization, the right to decent wages and liy- ing conditions. Get Daily Worker Subscribers d shipown- | y | long- | }shoremen and other workers unem- .| breaking activities of the Greens DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1934 | A.F.ofL. Group, Asks Backing For. Strikers “Issue of Frisco Strike) Affects All Labor” | NEW YORK—In a statement to all local unions of the American | Federation of Labor, the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee called for energetic support of the San Francisco General Strike. The statement follows: To all Locals of the A. F. of L, To all A. F, of L. members: Brothers: The San Francisco General Strike is the answer of the workers to the | brutal attacks of the employers and their company union drive. For months the resentment of the workers throughout the country against the open shop drive of the bosses has been mounting. It was | expressed in the fight of the Toledo | workers in support of the Auto-Lite | strikers—there 86 A. F. of L. locals | voted for a general strike. It was expressed in the readiness of the | A. F. of L. organizations in Minne- | apolis and Milwaukeé to join in gen- eral strike in support of the striking | truck drivers and carmen of these respective cities, It has now found its highest ex- | pression in the actual organization | of the General Strike in San Fran- cisco of all the A. F. of L. and other unions in support of the striking longshoremen and sea- men, | The A. F. of L. organizations in San Francisco, thanks to the mili- tancy and determination of the rank and file of the locals, did not fol- Jow the advise of our President Wm. |Green who sent a special telegram jto the Seattle A. F. of L, Central Body urging them to stop all talk | of general strike. The San Fran- | cisco workers enraged by the brazen and cynical stand of the shipown- ers, by the murder of the strikers and the bringing in of troops acted according to the only correct policy |—to answer the mobilization of the forces of the bosses to break the strike, by mobilizing the forces of labor in support of the strike. Now the bosses know throughout the country that labor can and will fight back. Labor will not accept company unions, Labor will not ac- cept starvation wages. Labor will Prepare United Anti-War Protest in Union Sq. Aug. Ist! by President only hope of breaking, strike.” Winner. the West ‘To Kill Coast Strike (Continued from Page 1) Roosevelt Acts The White House and the De- partment of Labor today took pains to emphasize that Wagner's jaunt! was requested by the Roosevelt Na- j tonal Longshoremen’s Labor Board. a, SEI ¢ !But this merely brought a grin to working against the Pacific Coast! the faces of all observers who know| general strike. | full well that President Roosevelt is The War Department served no-| directing all Washington strike- tice that the commandant of the| breaking from his battle cruiser, Ninth Corps Area, with headquar-| Houston, at sea. The fact is, it| ‘Bosses ‘Riise Famine Scare: to Split Strikers Hunger and Violence Threats Raised By Press As Pretext for Military Mobilization | working class themes: that the gen- ters in San Francisco, can send treops in without consulting Wash- | ington, under the guise of protect-| ihg the mails against “threatened interference.” ‘When asked how many soldiers are available, an official answered tary training and Civilian Conser- vation Corps forces, as though it was assumed these, too, would be expected to shoot their fellow workers. At the same time Federal Relief | officials, pressed by mass sentiment, promised to feed the strikers. A]. spokesman who was in telephone communication with San Francisco said that relief rolls have not been increased yet, but he added: “The Federal Relief Ageney’s pol- icy is to feed the families of strik- ing wage earners, and we will not change that. We have plenty of money and plenty of people and a/ good set-up in San Francisco, and | we are prepared to do a good job. We have nad no difficulty with get- | ting supplies in.” Tension oozed from every corner of official Washington as ome news, dispatch after another reported the great sweep of the strike’s effect- iveness, There was a note of | hysteria here in the capitalist press’ | four-footed anti-strike campaign. Press Sounds Note of Fear All Washington papers displayed | prominently nationally syndicated | features as well as locally prepared | matérial ‘hammering two anti- eral strike always fails; and that there is something unjustified in the very nature of this mighty weapon and legal right. The Washington News, one of the | liberal Seripps-Howard chain whith has been virtually a Roosevelt organ | ever since the new deal began, let| the cat out of the bag, however, with the following headline, spread over | the whole width of a page: “Action them as was done in the case of the auto and steel workers. The fight of the San Francisco workers is a fight for the whole of | organized labor, a fight for the | whole working class. Organized Labor, every A. F. of not be chained with anti-strike and }compulsory arbitration measures | that are being promted by the “new | deal” government. Labor will not | allow itself to be beaten back group | | by group. Labor will not follow the advise of the Greens and Ryans which leads to defeat just as sure as the policies of their twin brothers in Germany led to the smashing of the most powerful unions in the world. Labor Will Fight Back The issues of the marine workers’ strike, the issues of the San Fran- eisco general strike are issues that face all labor in this country. It involves the very existence of or- ganized labor as a fighting force against the employers. It involves the most elementary needs and RIGHTS of labor, Let us not be tricked by the bosses and their press that is trying to confuse these burning elementary issues, These issues were involved in the auto situation. Green and Com- pany retreated before the auto mag- nates and compromised with the | company unions. These same is- ation. Green-Tighe and Co. be- | trayed the interests of the workers. | These issues could not be side-| | cause the rank and file are playing a more and more important role in shaping the policies of the strike and are overcoming the strike- and their allies. They have time | lutions of solidarity with the San sues were involved in the steel situ- | strike. tracked in the marine strike be- | L. Local, every A. F. of L. mem- | ber, every honest worker must | come to the support of the San | Franciseo General Strike. Brothers in every local, pass reso- | Francisco strike. Demand from the A. F. of L. Council and from every Interna- tional Executive Board, every State | Federation and Central Labor Body | full support for the San Francisco strike. Raise funds for the strike. Demand the withdrawal* of all armed forces from the strike area. | Demand an end to the reign of | terror, Send protests to the Presi- | dent, the Governor and the Mayor of San Francisco, Demand the immediate freedom of Tom Mooney, kept in prison by | the same master class that refuses | to grant the workers’ demands, that is out to smash trade unionism. Force your leaders to demand the release of Tom Mooney. Take steps in your city to organ- 13,117, counting in civilian mili- | }land, instead of San Francisco, | undoubtedly must have taken pressure amounting virtually to putting Wagner on the! spot politically to make him take this strike-breaking assignment, fer during recent weeks, this Senator, | haying seen the strike handwriting | on the wall, has refused several lesser strike-breaking jobs in an| } effort to save his political hide from | awakened workers. The sending of Wagner to Port-/| is a maneuver to create the fiction that his task is to prevent the spread of the strike in Portland instead of to break the entire coast strike. However, every one in Washington knows that Wagner will get in touch immedi- ately with the whole strike-breaking apperatus, and will take command. Communicates with Army Among the first he will communi- eate with probably will be Major General Malin Craig, Army Com- mandant of the Ninth Corps Araa, and Rear Admiral Yancey Williams, Navy Commandant of the Mare Island Station. These military of- ficers are now intently watching the situation—ready to spring for- ward with thousands of uniformed men at the slightest pretext, as of- ficials here disclose in a somewhat} pleased tone. | | Fear Secret Trial, Thaelmann Death (Continued from Page 1) of Thaelmann and the other anti-fascist fighters can break through that silence, and wrest these proposed victims of the “People’s Court” from the Nazi butchers. No rest to the Nazi representatives in this country until Thaelmann is freed. Flood telegraph, mail, telephone, by mass delegations, by constant the consulates with protests by daily picketing protesting against the Nazi hangmen regime, de- manding the freedom of Thael- mann and other anti-fascists. are ane PHILADELPHIA, July 16—De- fying mounted and foot police, Philadelphia workers carried out a militant mass picketing of the German Consulate at noon, Satur- day, shouting “Free Ernst Thael- | mann!” “Down With Fascism!” “Down With Hitler!" and waving a host of banners emblazoning forth the same demands. Workers militantly resisted sev- eral police charges, and prevented the arrest of several leaders of the action. The cops finally started a frantic grabbing of pick- ets, and succeeded in arresting six. REY fiir NEW YORK.—The situation in Germany today and the United Front Against War and Fascism will be discussed at a meeting called by the Left Wing Group of the Needle Trades, I. L. G., at 1 o'clock noon today at Mem- ize jointly with all other workers’ organizations huge meetings of pro- | test in support of the San Francisco | Fight in your local unions for the | same policies that have placed the | San Francisco workers into the | front line in the fight for the labor movement of this country. jhas issued a call to all Detroit orial Hall, 344 W. 36th St, . . * DETROIT, July 16.—Painters Local Union No. 42, A. F. of L., local unions asking them to elect five delegates to a conference July 27 to arrange for the sending of a delegation to the German Con- | bridgeable gap between the radical (Special to the SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., | this decisive battle is about. you eagerly, | millons into the pot to fight | the unions.” All ‘workers, regardless of! political affiliation know that this is a fight to the finish. No Los| Angeles conditions in San Fran- cisco, they say. San Francisco is a | union town, and it’s going to stay a| union town. This remarkable de- termination of American workers to stick to their unions no matter what the cost is something that has some basis in tradition, but which in the present situation is the point from which the bitter class struggle here starts. As the general strike movement develops in Portland and Seattle, foreing the employers and authori- ties to recognize that this is a struggle unparalleled in American labor history, the class lines are be- ing drawn tighter. One would na-/| turally expect this, but the rapid) manner in which it is taking place | is most striking evidence of the} acute character of the crisis. One | of the principal proofs of this is| that the employers, the Federal gov- ernment, state and local authorities | have been compelled to disclose | their basic immediate strategy. The Employers’ Strategy This consists in, first, an organ- ized attempt to terrorize the middle class and the dependents of work- ers by the threat of a food short- age approximating famine condi- tions. Second, by featuring every conceivable incident of minor vio- lence inseparable from a struggle of these proportions in the press, ‘and by combining these two factors, create the impression that only the most extensive military and police mobilization stands between the populace and unspeakable horrors. The third point in the employer strategy is to utilize the press, radio, churches, fraternal organizations and so forth, to try to make an un- element (Communists) and the so- called conservative workers. In the face of all this it is necessary to keep in mind that this gigantic | clash of class forces comes as the result of the waterfront employers’ refusal to recognize the marine unions and to give the longshore- men control of their own union halls where hiring is done. “Carrying out the tactical line indicated by this strategy there is here mobilization of armed force, against workers and their organiza- | tions unprecedented in the history of the American labor movement. - The great. weakness of this strike ! movement as a result of the heavy concentration of conservative offi- cials in the leadership is apparent. This strike shows not only the im- mense reserves of militancy and re-’ sourcefulness of the rank and file: and the basic role of trade unions” as the combat organizations of the handicaps of a labor movement long committed to a policy of class collaboration. The San Francisco strike commit- tee has been faced with the neces- sity of taking over the distribution of food supplies. One of its meet- ings was devoted practically to this once they know where you stand, the Standard Oil threw two* calif working class, but it shows also the | Against General Strike Daily Worker) July 14.—Listen to workers talk in this part of the country and you understand what Clerks in clothing stores tell “That California must be kept a decent place to live in.” Basic Interests At Stake It is especially enlightening to realize that Hearst, the British baiter, devotes great space in his Frisco sheet of today to long quotas tions from Sir John Simon on the British general strike. It is the general interests of capitalism that | are involved in this struggle. Acting Governor Merriam has stepped into action under the Hearst lash — or maybe he did not need it, The Governor takes up the theme in a special Hearst Examiner broadcast from the State Capital last night. He said: “When the strike was declared there 1200 to 1400 longshoremen. Now there are 5,000 longshoremen in San Francisco. They came in from outside. The entire strike has been directed from other parts of California. The master minds of the strike are not in San Francisco. They would not risk their lives there.” According to the heroic governor who has just sent 2,000 more troops te Prisco, the unemployed long- shoremen do not count. It is also interesting to note that according to the governor, there is a price on the heads of strike leaders in Frisco. Perhaps the governor was irritated by the fact that in practically every California town of any importance and all California towns are im- portant according to Californians, there are movements on foot among alt unions and central labor bodies for support of the West Coast in one form or another. In Sacra- mento, state capital, yesterday there was a mass meeting of from two to four thousand in a town of some one hundred thousand, at. which a number of hated reds urged finan- cial and strike support of the Frisco strikers to the applause of the as- sembled multitude, Acting Gover- nor Merriam may be irritated also by the fact that the Sacramento Labor Council is meeting tonight to take up the question of support of their Frisco brothers, Agricultural workers are preparing strike move- ments in all regions where the crops are ready for garnering. A. F. of L, organizers have formed recently a union dual to the Agricultural Workers Industrial Unions. The press admits frankly that this union was formed at the request of the land owners, Accounts sent out by the press services give no real idea of the practically complete stoppage of industrial and commercial activi- ‘ties in Bay districts, It must be seen to be appreciated. There is now an actual division of authority be- tween the city and state forces and -the representatives and committees - of the central strike committee even in the conduct of the daily lives of some million and a halw people. Fort Worth Carmen Strike FORT WRTH, Texas, July 11.— Traction workers went out on strike here today. Classified COMRADE—(Young man) wants furnished room. Also room nad board for child (girl—4 years old), Write Box 30, ¢/o Daily Worker, Break down all resistance of the | Sulate on July 28, to demand the bureaucrats who stand in the way | release of Ernst Thaelmann and | of support to the San Francisco | other anti-fascists in Hitler's pris- strike. ‘ons and concentration camps. —A, F. of L, TRADE UNION The union assigned members to | and again repudiated the attempt [of Ryan to trick them and betray COMMITTEE. | visit at least 25 locals, Many lo- LOUIS WEINSTOCK, Seey. / cals have already elected delegates. question alone. But hence the strategy of the employers and their government requires that they main- tain control of this avenue of sup- ply at all costs, the San Francisco Examiner (Hearst) comes out today with the following headlines: Food, protection assured—Mayor marshals all forces to feed all and maintain law and order throughout San Fran- cisco—Ignores strikers offer to “per- mit” supply deliveries. At the same time the Examiner publishes a full page article on the lessons of the British general strike by one of the hand-picked California University professors. Its first page editorial says fur- COMRADE wants to buy small, light car cheap. Write details to A. A., ¢/o Daily ‘Worker. I. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-12734—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For Internati Workers Order WHERE Our Comrades EAT RAPOPORT'S Ruling Cis. Seeks tal rT Ie sins phe pe | tse of the “public” the vast | To see that the “Fink Halls” are) ‘The best way that the employers T Ratiles Exploiters| ther; “But if the small group of || DAIRY and VEGETARIAN ers eir | majority o! e population which | cxterminated, that the men get bet-| know to smash the strike is to un- | Communists, starting with their Isolate Strikers from Goreme pe isan the Rossis,| it rebs and exploits every day. [ter wages, better conditions, and|dermine the confidence of the/ Suddenly Appear As control of the Longshore and Mari- RESTAURANT the Masses ete: weet 2 ce for the “suf-| | their own unions, strikers in their real rank and file “Publie’s” Friend time Unions, extend their power over |} 93 Second Ave. N. Y. City ar te oun a Bishi le” as a result | Ree ae ce A Com- | * * . leadership. This is the function of ubile's rien the community of the Bay area and | munist Party are in the thick of the «puT the C ts Wi all the “red-baiting” propaganda. — thence into the whole, or even part By MILTON HOWARD Do not these capitalist employers | fight, facing the terrorism and mur- | solace aaa care’ ee ee hy cation against the Communists,|of the Reem ‘alifornia would be — WORKERS WELCOME — IFIED by the mightiest gen- eral strike in the history of this country, the American ruling class is turning the full machinery of its class power against the Pacific Coast strike. The ruling class now has one} Objective in tts offensive against the Pacific Coast workers — to isolate them from their class, the workers of the rest of the country, to split them off from all communieation with a militant, class conscious lead- ership, and above all, to rouse the furies of violence and Fascist re- action against the working class and its revolutionary vanguard, the Communisis. For this purpose, every capitalist newspaper office, every propaganda agency bound to Wall Street by the » invisible ties of financial ~~"), 45 new letting loose a steady stream of filth, a raging roar of ‘ + aiy4 sascist provocation — « the strike and the Commu- The culmination of this campaign to depict the general strike of the Pacific Const workers as being op-| posed to the interests of the vast majority of the population, is the! deliberate attempt to provoke Fas- | cist violence against the Communist Party and the Communists who are doing such valiant service in the | fight for the demands of the strik- ers, AS a preliminary for fascist at- tacks on all workers, |tob and plunder these “people” for | der cf the employers. Tha‘ is where whom they weep? Do they not rok | Communists always are to be found, jthe children of milk, skinning the | defending the best day to day in- millions of workers and their fam- | terests of the masses. The Commu- ilies every single day in the year nists have no mysterious, secret through their capitalist profit sys-| “purposes,” of which the capitalist | tem? Do they not doom 14,900,000 | press mutters with sueh fake warn- jobless and their families to slow| ing. The Communis's are workers, Starvation every day in the year?|men who are flesh and blood of! jover the sufferings of the working | class. class as it faces the daily horrors, What are the purposes of the of the struggle for a living under) Communists in the present strike? capitalism? What, for example, has| To see that the men actually get Mayor Rossi ever done io alleviate; what they are figh’ing for, \the hunger of the jobless in this, pica ALaS ity? £ pie “public” for whieh the em.| TS is a Communist attempt to ployers and the gov nt weeps | start a revolution and overturn is nothing but the majority of the | the re ce ee ee population which feels the same op- peers ayer Rope. pression at the hands of the em-|, And his cry is echoed and re- Ployers as the Pacific Coast workers feel. Behind this hypocritical rot about the “welfare of the people,” — ete., lies the attempt to hide the | class struggle that rages through- | out all of medern capitalist so- | ciety between the plundering em- | ployers and the exploited working class, | wage slavery, it is tl f | It is the grossest impudence | a bends 1S | and trickery for the ruling class of America, the Wall Street handful of millionaires, to identify their — own class interests with the in- | t capitalist press, only the acticn of workers driven to desperation by the intolerable toiling in wage slavery fer the drivers. halls” which have produced the coastal General Strike. Has anyone ever seen any ot} the working class, fighting for and) these weeping gentlemen sorrow defending the needs of the working | | echoed throughout the land by the But the Pacific Coact strike is | | miseries which are the lot of men | | Pacific Ceast shipowning slave- | It is the conditions of capitalist » the workers and their children | and the brutalities of the ship- — owners’ slave markets, the “Fink | ers and their hirelings. Certainly the Communists want a revolution. They want a proletarian | revolution that will smash the rule | of the Wall Street financial monop- olies, a revolution that will trans- fer power into the hands of the/ working class, that will place the | means of production, the factories, mines, ships, etc., into the hands of | ing class. But the Communists are no’ | dreamers, visionaries. They do not |dream that the present strike can be wished into a revolution merely with the aid of a wishbone. In the Pacific Coast strike, the Communists defend and advance the proletsrian revolution for the overthrow of capitalism precisely by defending most tenaciously the immediate demands of the strike. The best fighters for the smash- | ing of the “Fink Halls,” for better | wages and conditions are those | workers who are also fighting for | | the smashing of capitalism. For it is just such class-conscisus fighters whe do not fear to eut into capitalist profits. The Communists propose only those measures which will benefit the maeses in their everyday life, which heip to organize the masses, | speed their liberation from cap- the people who run them, the work- | | this which makes the govern- raise their political development, — ‘S is arriving of “bombs that have been found,” of “smashing a@ Communist headquarters by a Vigilante Committee,” etc. This is an inevitable stage in all ruling class propaganda and provo- cation. Th planting of “bombs,” the| provocation of mob violence, is; always part of the capitalist cam- paign against workers struggling against the yoke of the capitalist employers. But whatever terrorism, what- ever violence there is in the strike comes from the employers and their government. It is the government, doing the bidding of the employers, which sends treops, police, «med dep- uties to assault and murder the workers. It is in this way that the Gov- ernment acis as the repressive arm of the employers, protecting the investments and profits of the employers against the inter- ests of the majority of the pop- ulation, the working class. It is ment the agency which executes the dictatorship of the capitalist elass over the working class. Cs IS of extraordinary significance that the ruling class itself is rais- ing the question of power, of the revolutionary seizure of power, The Central Committee of the Communist Party has already singled out as the distinguishing phase of the present situation, that the wave of single strikes become general strikes, and that these general strikes develop into poli- tical struggles against the capi- talist system itself. Certainly, the way in which the entire ruling class apparatus of the country, fram Roosevelt down to the smailest newspaper offices, has been mobilized against workers who are fight- ing only for the simple demands of bread, better hiring conditions and union rights, indicates that the daily struggle for the most elementary rights now can no longer take place without raising with the utmost urgency the vital question of power. But in the immediate struggles |on the Pacific Coast, there is no | question of power. The propaganda of the employ- ers raising the spectre of the im- mediate struggle for power, is only part of its technique for obscuring the immediate issues of the strug- gle, the struggles of the workers no more fit to live in than Russia... . “There are many thousands of honest upright God-fearing hard- working union men now part of the so-called general strike. The total of these against the handful of Communistic radicals, who have got- ten them into this mess, is so over- whelming as to make us wonder how they have permitted themselves to be led from wise leadership into this revolt against their very selves NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Chinese Dishes 20 * American Dishes 25e 848 Broadway tet. 13th & 14th st. Williamsburgh Comrades Weleome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Aye. os s, Slesel St. it cannot accommodate fort to all campers. two proletarian camps, against the daily misery of their lism, ey I that in the campaign of provo- ( wage slavery. 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