The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily,,QWorker GRUTRAL ORGAN CONMEENST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST MITERMATIONNLE “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. ALgonquin 4 - e: 7954. Room 705, Cheago, I 36.00; year, 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934 Unite in Common Fight Against War, Fascism ed from Page 1) (Contin inspiration to the toilers the world over in their revoluionary struggle, the force of Socialism, the force of peace. Deeper than the antagonism be- tween the imperialist groups is the antagonism be- tween the two worlds. Notwithstanding the recog- nition of the U. S. R. by the U. S. Government, thanks to the growing power of the land of So- cialism and the tremendous sympathy to the U. 8. S. R. among the American people, the bourgeoisie continues all provocations against the U. S. 8. R., places every obstacle towards establishing normal trade relations, incites against the U. 5. S. R. with all sorts of slanders on all occasions, while the most reactionary strata of the bourgeoisie openly calls for preparations for war against the U. 8. 8. R. and calls for breaking off diplomatic relations. It is a well-known fact that the U. 8S. is shipping munitions and supplies to Japan to be used against the U. S. S. R. The foreign policy of Japan and Germany is openly directed toward the seizure of Soviet ter- ritory. The Japanese militarists from the East and the German fascists from the West are in- triguing with the bordering States for the encircle- ment of the Soviet Union. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934 The Bag of Tricks AS the great general strike action spreads from town to town in the San Fran- cisco Bay area, the owners of industry, government officials and the cap- frantically open new bags of tricks, in additional New Deal me- diators and augment troop detachments wi additional battalions. the trot Vying with the armed forces of the State for first place in the ranks of the strikebreakers is the capitalist press, It was the capitalist press that spread the mythical red terror stories and the wild, incredible tales of red plots for immediate revolution in California. The stories were the brain children of the Honorable Mayor Rossi, but the capitalist press nursed them, dressed them up and saw to it that they got an immediate public debut. But the “red horror” fantasies were not so effective as the San Francisco Mayor and the capitalist editors thought they would be. So, while corttinuing to whoop it up against the Communists, the press is trying a new stunt. The good editors, leaping to the crack of the N.R.A. whip, launch into a soft-soap literary en- dorsement of the “conservative, level-headed labor leaders.” The gentlemen referted to are: Paul Sharren- berg, of the International Seamen’s Union; Andrew Furuseth, president of the same organization, who with Mr. Sharrenberg, proposed that the strikers go back to work and then arbitrate their demands; Joseph P. Ryan, who is now on the East Coast trying to halt the spread of the strike, and all leaders of the San Francisco Labor Council around Vandeleur, over whose heads the Frisco workers decided to strike in support of the maritime work- ers. In endorsing this batch of labor misleaders, the capitalist press aims at discrediting the rank and file leaders, who are very well able to take care of the situation, The press of the bosses is at- tempting to swing the leadership of the movement over to the reactionaries—those who are interested only in breaking the strike and stopping its spread. The workers can only have faith in their elected rank and file representatives. Only such repre- sentatives should be allowed to speak for the strikers. Only such representatives can lead the strike to a successful conclusion. . To hand the strike over to Furuseth and Shar- renberg would be as bad as turning over the lead- ership of the struggle to a major-general of the California State Field Artillery. | San transisco ay! ea lliediwrs Portland MAE ai reemens een News Item:—General Johnson and Senator Wagner fly to strike front. On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Where Famine Has Hit | A, A. A. and Planning | News From Japan | upee more famine actually | rides over capitalist fe | countries, the greater the ef- | Independence Of Mongolia Is Celebrated Anti-War Issue Must Stimulate Intensified Circulation Effort With the spectre of war and in this country, it is imperative fascism hovering over the workers that the Anti-War issue of the Wider Savin Area’ in USSR Promises Great Wheat Crop, |forts of the capitalist press nk | to create famine in the Soviet om through their imagin- jative writing. Yesterday we printed the fact that the crops in Czechoslovakia, |for instance, are 60 per cent below | last year, jing throughout Germany. | United States, 500,000 farm families |face famine, The Roosevelt govern- Actual famine is spread- In the ment through the A.A.A. deliber- ately planned a curtailment in food | production, and now with cattle and |crops dying of drought throughout the United States, the starvation caused by capitalist crisis is to be | augmented by actual shortage of foodstuffs. The American workers are already paying in higher prices for the criminal policy of the Roose- | velt government of forcibly reducing | wheat, corn, fruits, cattle and other | foodstuffs, Meee eae |\JITH these facts in mind, the motives of the New York Times in one of its most vicious editorials against the Soviet Union can be | understood. Under the title “Eat~ ing Under Capitalism,” the Times re-hashes the fable of famine in Russia emanating from that para~ }gon of truth, the Hitler press in Berlin. The Times declares that “well« informed circles in Moscow,” mains tain that the Soviet crop will be only 70 per cent of the 1933 bumper crop, and that this means “famine.” What the Times does not say is that the crop in the Soviet Union | in 1934, despite some reduction due |to drought, will be greater than at jany time under the Czar, and that it for speculation; that it is more there will be no parasites to ‘aord Daily Worker, which will be printed July 27, reach at least 250,000 workers. Such questions as the edition deals with should reveal to the masses of America the necessity of reading the Daily Worker, and || a broad circulation of that day’s issue will contribute greatly to mak- The role of the Hitler government and of the Japanese monarchy as principal instigators of war is directly connected with the fascist nature of these regimes. Fascism, the “open, terrorist dic- torship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinist than ample not only to supply tha! | needs of the population, but alsa! to raise their standards higher than ever before in the history of the country, Furthermore, while the Wall Street government of Roose~ Parade, Festivities Marks 10th Year of People’s Republic * . . 'HE capitalist press continues to announce that the strike can only be terminated by ousting the reds, by accepting arbitration, in short, by Soviet Plan Calls for Building 1,373 New Grain Warehouses j and most imperialist elements of finance capital,” combines in iself the counter-revolutionary fury of black reaction against the toiling masses at home and the ultra-jingoistic drive to a war of plunder and imperialist expansion, ‘HE bosses could not launch their war, they could not set up their fascist dictatorship, they could not maintain themselves in power, unless they had at their disposal the misleaders who stand at the head of the American Federation of Labor and the Socialist Party. In 1914 the leaders of the majority of the Second International Parties and reformist trade unions betrayed the working class by coming to the support of their respective gov- ernments. Only one Party, the Russian Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Lenin, defended the interests of the toiling masses and consistently led in the revolutionary struggle against imperialist ‘War. Under the Leninist slogan, “Turn the imperial- ist war into civil war,” the Russian workers and peasants overthrew Czarism and capitalism and established the dictatorship of the proletariat, the land of the Soviets. Under the leadership of social- democracy, the workers of Germany, Austria, and elsewhere were held back from the revolutionary assault upon capitalism, from seizing power; were prevented by a policy of splitting from forming a solid united front of struggle; and the offensive of fascism was actually facilitated by the traitor pol- icy of the social democratic leaders. The A. F. of L. bureaucracy and many top lead- ers of the Socialist Party are either directly or indirectly tied up with the strikebreaking, fascizing, and war-preparing apparatus of the N. R, A. The recent S. P. convention offered the workers no program of real struggle against the N. R. A.; it adopted no platform for the defense of the Soviet Union; it ignored the Communist Party's offer of a united front. Workers, the struggle against fascism, against imperialist war, must not be postponed a single day, a single hour. It would be a crime against our common class interests to wait without re- sistance to the forces of fascism and imperialism until the moment when they overwhelm us, Toilers in city and country, the Communist -Party calls upon you. Rally in your mighty numbers to the banner of struggle against fascism and bosses’ war. Although we bring forward to the American workers the program of the Communist Party as the only program that will lead them to victory, to Soviet power, we address ourselves to all toilers in this appeal for a united front against fascism and war with a program on which all workers, all working class organizations can unite—the im- mediate, united front for advancing the best in- terests of the toilers. Make August First a day of mighty mani- festation of the proletarian will to unite in a common, solid, fighting front. Fight Against Imperialist War and War Preparations! Further the Militant Struggles Against the Hunger, Fascism and War Program of the N.R.A.! Against Wage-Cuts, Strikebreaking and Ter- ror, for the Right to Organize and Strike! Not a Cent for Bosses’ War! All War Funds for Unemployment Relief and Insurance! For the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill! For Immediate Kelief to Drought-Stricken Farmers! For the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill! For Negro Kights! Against Lynching and Jim-Crowism! For the Liberation of the Negro People and Their Rizht to Self-Determination in the Black Belt! For the Freedom of the Scottsboro Boys and Angelo Herndon! For the Liberation of Ernst Thaelmann and All Anti-Fascist Prisoners! Stop the Shipment of Munitions to Japan and Latin America! Defend the Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the World Toilers! Defend the Chinese Soviets! Pacifism Binds the Hands of the Working Class—Turn the Imperialist War into Civil War! Forward Through Struggle Against Fascism and War to a Soviet America! the strikers returning to work under the same conditions as before the strike. This is the shipowners plan, the plan of the N.R.A., and its father, Mr. Roosevelt, the mediation board, the Governor of California and all the gen- erals of the National Guard. But the strike cannot be settled under such an idiotic plan. The strike can be settled by the shipowners granting the just demands of the maritime strik- ers—union control of hiring halls; recognition of the maritime unions; improvement of condi- tions on the ships and docks. Only one thing stands between the continua- tion of the strike and its termination; the refusal of the shipowners to grant three simple demands. The greatest determining factor, the factor that will force the bosses to agree to the strikers’ de- mands, is the support given to the strike by workers throughout the country. The struggle is one of the entire working class and must not for a minute be isolated West of the Cascade Mountains. Workers on the West Coast are placing great stress on the solidarity actions carried out through- out the country by the organized labor movement. A. F. of L. workers, workers in the Socialist Party, all organized and unorganized workers, re- gardless of political affiliation or opinions, must. unite behind this great strike with every ounce of energy. Hold demonstrations in support of the gen- eral strike! Send wires to the Governor of California demanding the withdrawal of troops for the strike area! Send funds to the seamen’s strike committee, 65 Jackson St., San Francisco! Spread the strike to the East Coast ports! Marine Workers! Spread the Strike to Eastern Ports ITH the greatest spirit of labor solid- arity ever seen in the United States, working men and women of the Frisco bay region continue to move forward with their general strike. Industry stands still and quiet today, not only in San Francisco, but in the cities across the bay—Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. But still the main order of business, so far as the working class is concerned, must be to spread the strike, spread the strike and spread the strike. The tremendous increase of strikebreaking forces in the strike zone, the continued denial of the shipowners to meet the demands of the mari- time strikers, the provocative attacks of the capi- talist press and the government against the strikers —all this makes clear the absolute necessity of drawing more thousands of reserves into the fight. Added support of the working class will force the shipowners to grant the demands of the marine workers, A most effective move in support of the strike would be to spread the action to the North Atlantic ports. To this end all workers in the eastern ocean ports should work. Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, who attempted to halt the spread of the strike movement in the West, is now in the East, promising the shipowners that there will be no strikes, But the longshoremen and seamen are the ones to decide this question. The Rank and File Committee of the Long- shoremen’s Association and the Marine Workers Industrial Union have issued calls to all seamen and longshoremen to show their solidarity with their heroic West Coast brothers by refusing to work all ships coming from or bound for the Pacific ports. Men on the East Coast! at once! Do not allow Ryan to make your decisions! Take control of the situation like the men on the West Coast! Strike for your own demands! Strike in support of the West Coast workers! You must decide (Special to the Daily Worker) ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, July 17. —The tenth anniversary of the in- dependence of the Peoples Republic of Mongolia was celebrated here on July 10 by a mass meeting ad- dressed by representatives of the Mongolian Peoples Assembly who greeted the Soviet delegation. The Speakers emphasized the growing fraternal contacts between the Mon- golian peoples and the peoples of the Soviet Union. In reply, the leader of the Soviet delegation, Karakhan, assured the Mongolian government of the friendly feelings of the U. S. S. R. toward the independence of Mon- golia and the desire for the further prosperity of the country which has already achieved such enormous Success in its home and foreign policy. On July 11, a parade of the Mon- golian army took place, at which all members of the Mongolian govern- ment were present, along with the delegations from the Soviet Union, the Tantuva Republic, and the Autonomous Buriat Soviet Republic. Numerous people arrived from the most distant regions of Mongolia to attend the celebrations. The parade was distinguished by the solemnity and impressiveness of the troops, who demonsirated the technical power of the Mongolian army. Representatives of the toiling peasants presented the army with banners and gifts, assuring the revolutionary fighters of their readi- ness to march under these banners in defense of the Mongolian Peo- ples Republic against the invasion of enemies. Comrade Karakhan greeted the Mongolian army and representa- tives of the Mongolian peoples, mentioning in his speech three of the most striking features of the young Mongolian Peoples Republic: Firstly, the solidarity of the leader- ship and the strong revolutionary connections between the govern- ment and the toiling peasants; sec- ondly, the enormous growth of na- tional consciousness and national culture; and, thirdly, the formation double our circulation by Jan. 1. The issue will reach Chicago, districts early Saturday -morning, fore Aug. 1, Anti-war Day. It is our intention to publish “Daily” should be a seller of the that the Anti-War issue of your “ number of workers. Every District must then fol tracted by the Anti-War issue. Make the Daily Worker circulat new readers by Sept. Ist! On toa Mexican Gov’t Acts To Recognize U.S.S. (Spectal to the Dally Worker) WARSAW, July 15 (By Radio) — The Mexican government represen- tative in Poland has informed the ambassador of the Soviet Union, Davtian, that the Mexican govern- ment wishes to restore diplomatic | relations with the U.S.S.R. | of a revolutionary army which po-| litically and technically had be-| come strong and powerful. | After the parade began the na-| tional festival of Mongolia—nadan, | which this time, in connection with the tenth anniversary of the repub- lic, took place under special condi- tions. The day ended with a play pre-| sented at the Mongolian national | theatre depicting the history and) Struggle for the independence of | Mongolia. The play, excellently! ing a success of the drive to get 20,000 new readers by Sept. 1 and to Minneapolis and other mid-west July 28. It will reach all the dis- tricts ‘throughout the country be- Red Week-end, and Red Week-end it must be! 250,000 copies, but the only way we can do this is to get orders from the districts with the cash in advance. Districts should send trial orders immediately. The week-end for the distribution of the Anti-War issue is a Every reader of the “Daily” during that period. See ‘Daily” reaches the largest possible low-up the workers who are at- Subscriptions must be secured; carrier routes must be strongly established. tion drive a success! On to 20,000 doubled circulation by Jan. ist! DEATH RAY PRACTICABLE PARIS, July 17—The “death ray” is a practicable war weapon, Dr. Eugene d’Arsonyal was today quoted as having said. He depre- cated the statement of Nikola Tesla that it was an accomplished fact, but said that there was every evi- dence that it would soon be ready for use. Price of Potatoes Revealed as Cause in Silesian Riots WARSAW, July 17—The real cause of the recent riots in Silesia was not anger over the death of “Killer Heines,” Storm Troop leader executed by Adolf Hitler, newspapers here revealed today. A hint at the real cause was seen in the Gazeta Polska’s re- port that potatoes are quoted in portrayed by talented actors, left an ineffacable impression on the) many thousands of spectators. 1 Upper Silesia at 12 to 14 marks per kilogram (about $2 per pound). (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, US.S.R., July 16—(By Wireless) —Every day the harvest- ing line in the Soviet Union is mov- ing further north-east, embracing new regions, The high quality of the Spring sowing and the favor- able climatic conditions in the East, promises a good crop this year, es- pecially in the Urals and Eastern Siberia. The Collective State farms of the Northern Caucasus will gather this year an abundant wheat crop. The nature of the grain in the different collective farms reach 812 litrograms (the highest nature of grain handled by the Grain Ex- change is 750 litrograms). The All-Union Grain Conference held in Moscow, devoted its major time to the question of the accep- tance of storing grain and prepara- tions on a technical basis—elevators, warehouses, flour-mills, etc. This year the U.S.S.R. is building 1,373 new grain warehouses, each | having the capacity of storing | 2,448,000 tons of grain. Police Fire Into | Havana Meet; 11 Wounded in Clash’ HAVANA, July 17—Police at- tacked .a Communist demonstration at Media Luna, firing into the crowd of 400 men when it refused to dis- perse. Eleven were wounded in the clash. At Cienfuegos police seized and confiscated two left papers. In Havana and throughout the island infantile. paralysis and in- fluenza rage. Mayors of many towns joined in a protest yesterday against the political use of the san- itation funds which were destined to remove the conditions respon- sible for the present epidemic. Communists ‘Rote F ae” Describes if Tasks of Workers’ Government BERLIN (By Mail).—‘“Die Rote Fahne,” the illegal organ of the Berlin Communist Party, contains in its last issue the workers’ pro- gram of the future Berlin Soviet. It says the following: “With the armed, victorious up- rising of the German proletariat, the workers and employes of Ber- lin, under the leadership of the Communist Party, will carry through the following measures: “In all industries and offices, the workers will at free elections choose their councils, those proletarians who were most faithful to the revo- lution. Every citizen, regardless of sex and race, who will have reached the age of 18, will have the right to vote. The capitalists, the bankers, the junkers, the usurers and those receiving profits from work, all agents of the bourgeoisie who will have shown themselves to be ene- mies of the proletarian fight for freedom, will be denied all political rights as well as the right of vote. The place of the capitalistic lead- ers of industry will be taken by the elected councils who, as the man- agement, will together with the unions look after the interests of the workers. Expropriation of Capitalists and Lan ers: “With the expropriation and exile of Siemens and Borsig, all capital- ists of industry and banking, the directors of the public utilities will be simultaneously removed and the management will be transferred to the workers and employes. The same will be true of the farms owned by the city of Berlin, where the farm workers will take over the management of the farms. The land lying in the vicinity of the city of Berlin will be taken away from the landowners without com- pensation and given over to the farm workers for collective man- agement, or divided up among the poor peasants and agricultural workers. All big department stores and big chain stores, such as Kar- stadt, Tietz, Kaufhaus des Westens, Wertheim, Leiser. Salamander, Epa and others will be taken over with- out compensation by the govern- ment of the city Soviet; likewise all big hotels and breweries. “The city Soviet will take the Place of Sahm, Engel and the other heavily paid government bureau- crats, as the legislative and execu- tive body of the Red Commune of Berlin. It will consist of workers, employes, small farmers, small busi- nessmen and professionals, whereby the leadership of the working class will be assured. The members of the Council will at all times be re- sponsible to the working class elect- ors and will be recalled at the lat- ter’s will, As long as they will be serving in the established office of the leadership and government of the red capital, their salaries will not exceed the maximum wages of a qualified worker. liament’ of metropolitan Berlin, will, with the broadest co-operation and agreement of the masses, carry through, among other things, the following immediate measures: “With the help of the armed workers, giving special privileges to the youth, it will disarm the Fas- cist counter-revolution and create a Red Workers’ Guard. In place of the civil courts, people’s courts of chosen representatives of industries will be established. Their immedi- ate task will be the quick judging of the responsible fascist executioners of the workers and their capitalist instigators. “The seven-hour day and the six- hour day for the youth will take immediate effect in all industries, In place of the reactionary indus- trial regulations, as for instance in the B. V. G. industry, the workers will establish themselves as their own regulators through their coun- cils and unions. Through the short- ening of work-hours with full pay, and through complete use of all machines and other means of pro- duction, a real productive work pro- gram will be carried out in the shortest time and work will be as- sured to ail unemployed. Social Insurance, Lower Taxes for Workers “The social insurance built up and destroyed by the German So- cialist Party, Bruening and Hitler, will be changed into a real social insurance for workers and employes. The whole management, disposition “The Berlin city Soviet, the ‘par and control of the social insurance will be transferred to the unions in Berlin Tell What Soviets Will Do Workers Will Be Armed and All Fascists Disarmed and councils. All contributions from workers will be stopped. The premiums will be paid exclusively by the industries. “The city Soviet will lift all the mass taxes established by Weimar and Hitler, above all, the head, wage, war, sales and beer taxes. It will pay once more in full the stolen pensions of the war and labor victims. It will reduce the costs of the communal enterprises and the rents of living quarters, adjusting them according to income. “All empty apartments will be confiscated at once. “The palaces in Berlin West, oc- cupied today by the rich, will be transformed at once into living quarters for workers. The palaces and villas in Grunewald, at the Wann-Muggelsee, in Dahlen and Spandau, the palaces of the former high officials of the Weimar state- bureaucracy and of the present Brown bureaucracy, will be changed into clubs, convalescent, old age and children’s homes for the workers. “These are only a few of the measures which the Red Capital of Free Germany will carry through after the violent overthrow of the Fascist dictatorship by means of the general strike and the armed up- rising of the German working class.” velt wantonly destroyed crops, help= ing the drought in its havoc, in the Soviet Union, the proletarian dic- tatorship has increased acreage, striving with might and main (and with tremendous success) to increase everything necessary to advance the well-being of the whole population, eke ae 'E Japanese press gloats over the fact that Chiang Kai Shek, dic« tator of the Nanking government, is showing open signs of coopera- tion with Japanese imperialism. The Shanghai correspondent of the Osaka Mainichi, organ of the big industrialists, on the occasion of re- establishing railroad communication between Manchukuo and North China on July Ist, wrote: “The solution of the problem, when viewed from another angle, is interpreted as meaning that the power of General Chiang Kai-shek,| the actual head of the Nanking gov-! hanced, and that the moderate Japan policy advocated by Wang Chao-ming and Huang Fu is now being upheld by General Chiang im its entirety. “At the same time, the so-called pro-Europe and American faction headed by T. V. Soong and Sun Fa will, it is expected, have to be rather quiet, at least for the time being.” The Osaka Mainichi then pointe out that in the war against the Chinese Soviets Chiang Kai Shek will need the support of Japanese imperialism. Paes ‘PEAKING of starvation, new symptoms of rice riots are break« jing out in Japan. Reports from Fukushima and Akita prefectures state that the farmers there, with- out government permission, have broken open the warehouses sealed by the government, in order ta stave off hunger. More than 30 per cent of the farmers do not have a grain of rice left to eat. Under the Rice Control Law, a certain portion of the rice is taken off the market in order to keep prices up. These stores were confiscated by the hun= gry peasants. Another report, published by the Bank of Japan in the latter part of June, on wages, shows that since 1927 money wages in Japan have been constantly forced downward. For example, textile workers have had their wages slashed 165 per cent. When it is remembered that inflation at one fell swoop slashed wages 50 per cent, the constant drop in money wages over a period of seven years, shows to what lengths Japanese exploiters have gone to suport their war policy in Man- churia and against the Soviet Union. mass ae ‘S of the Western Union cen- sorship of Daily Worker dis- patches from Alabama has gone around the world. We read the following editorial in the British- owned Japan Weekly Chronicle of Kobe: “An official of the Western Union (the American telegraph service) has discovered a new means of tadicals—being himself a very res- pectable person—so he quietly sup- pressed two Press telegrams con- cerning a strike in Alabama. When the Daily Worker, to whom they Were sent, inquiréd why they had not come, this official replied that as they were propaganda rather than news they were not entitled to press rates and had therefore been returned to the P. O. Box of the sender. The Daily Worker there- upon asked the president of the company what he thought of it, and the result has not yet come to hand. It is going rather far when local telegraph officals consider that they have the right to censor the news. . . .But if all propaganda were forbidden transmission, the telegraph wires would get rusty for lack of use—if that is what hal to them when idle.” ernment, has been enormously en- , Ce 4 oe +f j 1 | § iy