The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1934, Page 6

ie a Page Six Daily,QWorker | Gewre ceean cONMINIST PARTY ESA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST METERMATIOMALS “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th | Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable “Daiwork,” Ne Washington Bureau: Room lth and F St., Wash Midwest Burea Telephone: Dea JULY 25, WEDNESDAY, A War Signal HE report of the Baker Army Aviation Committee, given front page display in every capitalist newspaper in the coun- try, makes two points: One, that air invasion of the United States is a “visionary conception.” And second, that the United needs a strengthened aviation industry fense purposes.” It is clear that the Roosevelt government is building its tremendous war apparatus for the pur- pose of imperialist expansion, for the defense of Wall Street investments in foreign countries and the colonial empire of the Far East. The Baker report is the signal that Roosevelt is preparing for war in dead earnest. States for “de- IN RESPONSE to the Baker report, the Wall Street Journal states that the “aviation interests ‘are cheered.” Naturally, they see more fat profits on government contracts. But for the majority of the people of the coun- try the Baker report heralds more jingoism, war preparations, and all the horrors of imperialist war. The Baker Aviation report makes it bluntly plain that imperialist war is the goal toward which Roosevelt is rapidly moving. The fight against imperialist war, against ® repetition of the monstrous horrors and miseries which the last world slaughter brougnt the masses, takes on an immediate urgency greater tham ever before. . . . (ALL STREET prepares for slaughter. The working class and all haters of war must answer. i August 1st is the great international day of strug- gle against war and fascism. Mighty anti-war actions on August Ist in every city and town will make the war-mongers think twice before they hurl the best sons of the working class into the butchery of imperialist war. Against imperialist war! Against Fascism! For international solidarity of the working class! Against chauvinism and jingoism! Against the Wall Street war makers! Johnson-- Blue Eagle Custodian ENERAL Hugh S. Johnson, custodian of the Blue Eagle, who gave the signal for the terror campaign in Frisco by ad- vising business men to “wipe out” the “sub- versive element as you would clean off a chalk mark from a blackboard with a sponge,” has not only a long record as a scab employer, but has been rattling the saber of *~--=ican imperialism up and down the land since 1903. vhanson's whole social background and training has fitted him well for his present role—chief of the strikebreaking forces of the Roosevelt govern- ment. Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1903, Hugh Johnson entered the regu- Jar army as a Second Lieutenant. A hard-boiled army officer, he rose rapidly and in 1916 was a Major Judge Advocate with General Pershing’s im- perialist invasion of Mexico. He was later ad- vanced to the position of Lieutenant Colonel Judge Advocate, in which office he was responsible for the imprisonment of hundreds of soldiers in mili- tary prisons. Besides being a judge, Johnson was also a po- liceman, As a member of the staff of the Provost Marshal General he was one of the chiefs of the military police and custodian of guard houses and disciplinary barracks (prisons). Hugh Johnson was the father of the draft law in 1917 and also the rules and policies of the same and was therefore responsible for the jailing of thousands of men and women who fought against the World War. Leaving the military, he became the general manager of the Moline Plow Company and the chairman of the executive board of the Moline Im- plement Company, notorious open shop establish- ments. Certainly one would not have to produce a bet - ter record than this to qualify as chief of the N.R.A. Johnson has in him all the makings of a Fascist murder gang leader. Inspiration to Fascism ATHERING fresh inspiration from Gen- eral Hugh S. Johnson’s recent oratorical anti-labor outbursts, fascist [forces throughout the United States have begun kicking up their heels with considerable vigor. The Vigilante raids against Communist headquarters on the West Coast, the provocative forging of Communist leaflets in San Diego, the re- fusal of Upton Sinclair to protest the terror cam- paign of the ruling class against Communists—all this brings more clearly before the public eye the advance of fascism and social-fascism in this coun- try under the aegis of the New Deal. To force through the class collaboration, union smashing policies of the N. R. A. the vigilante hordes, incited by state officials, have copied almost to a letter the tactics of the Hitler ruffians and fire-bugs. Like the German fascists raided the Liebknecht House in Berlin and other institutions of the work- ing class, so Hitler's California brethren smashed up workers’ headquarters and homes with axe and torch. Cne of the most outrageous provocations against the workers and their Party, was the distribution of whe ‘illiterate leaflet in San Diego by fascists—a 4 ‘ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934 leaflet purporting to be a Communist throw-away calling for rape, loot, arson and the overthrow of all form of government. ACKING up this provocation and the bloody vigilante attacks, is that staunch supporter of the social democratic theory, Upton Sinclair, who is now parading under the banners of the Demo- cratic Party. “Like all Civil Liberties people,” said Sinclair in a telegram to the Daily Worker, “I encounter difficulties in defending the rights of Commu- nists who themselves repudiate freedom of speech, press and assemblage, and do everything they can to deprive others of those rights.” In this same manner the social-fascists and lib- erals of Germany argued against uniting with the Communists against fascism. Sinclair knows that the Comniunists are the staunchest fighters for free speech, assemblage and press, but not the hol- low kind of freedom of the capitalist democracy. Communists are not for freedom for armed bands of fascist murderers, they are against such freedom which allows police to shoot down the producers of the nation’s wealth. Communists fight for free- dom of the working class from the bondage of capitalist wage slavery. In fighting against fascism in the U. 8S. A. the workers must also direct their fire against those who shield the fascist terror by attacks on the Com- munists and the militant workers. Economic Propaganda HE familiar ballyhoo on “an expected business upturn” is beginning again. From well-controlled central scources, with headquarters at the White House, the press is already launched on its cam- paign of front page stuff featuring the blessings that the N. R, A. will bring—in Autumn. ‘That a barrage of current economic ballyhoo was coming in the Summer was well known, and fore- cast in all the advisory services that keep business men informed. The basis for the jubilant promises of a Fall upturn is the rapidly disappearing inflation “boom” upon which the monopolies were recently reaping profits, The Annalist, leading organ of Wall Street fin- ance capital, in its current summary of the busi- ness outlook makes the following illuminating com- ment: “If it were not for the support of this [in- flationary—Ed.] buying, it is probable that stock prices today, on a gold basis, would be at a new low record for the entire depression.” This is an admission that the fundamentals of the crisis not only have failed to be solved by the Roosevelt program, but, despite the real upturn from the low point of production, all the essentials of the crisis continue to intensify, confirming the words of Comrade Stalin at the recent Seventeenth Party Congress of the Soviet Union: “., . all the unfavorable conditions that pre- vent industry in capitalist countries from rising to any serious extent continue to operate.” What the vast majority of people face in the coming months of the Fall and Winter is a more desperate hunt for work, more unemployment as a result of speed-up under the codes and unsold. stocks which are accumulating again. The cost of living is rising, slashing the real wages of every worker. Production is falling, retail sales are far below expectations, and no upturn in heavy industry and building, is in sight. Mostly war production sus- tains them now. Not an “upturn” bringing wages and jobs and bread, but a crueler struggle to keep alive is what faces the vast majority of the toiling population of this country. Trotskyist “Leadership” EFORE a crowd of workers, Grant Dunne, one of the Trotzkyite leaders in the Minneapolis truckers’ strike, made a very revealing statement the other day. The employers rain bullets into the ranks of the strikers, and justify their ac- tions by claiming that the “strikers are Communists.” And what does this Trotskyite reply? This Trotskyite phrasemonger, when confronted with an actual attack on the revolutionary van- guard of the working class, immediately leaps to @ reformist-reactionary position which actually Plays right into the hands of the employers. His reply to the “charge’ and his “argument” against the employers’ terrorism was: “Anybody would know that this is not a Communist movement.” The unmistakable inference being that if it really were 8 Communist movement then the ter- rorism and the shooting would be justified! ‘Then he goes further: “The American flag was run up behind the speakers stand. I think every man in that crowd, even though the officers of the law had just tried to murder them, took off his hat.” Note with what jingoistic pride this “revolution- ist” boasts of the “flag” to which he offers homage. He strengthens the boss-inspired impression which the employers seek to inject into the minds of the workers that the presence of Communists in the strike justifies ruling class terrorism! He acts, in short, like a true agent of the em- Ployers and their terrorist gangs, fighting the most revolutionary elements in the Minneapolis strike! With this kind of “defense” against terrorism, the Trotskyite, Grant Dunne, is actually knifing the, strike in the back and is helping to defeat the fight for the union’s demands. Ee SOVIET UNION has achieved considerable successes in the unswerving and firm policy of peace it has pursued in the interest of all the toilers (a number of non-aggression pacts, a num- ber of new recognitions, the definition of the ag~ gressor, the forced raising of the embargo of Great Britain). The Land of the Soviets is the only bulwark of peace and of the independence of the weak states against the attacks of the predatory imperialists. By its proletarian policy, it is winning more and more the confidence of the toilers of the whole world and of the oppressed nations. Retarding the outbreak of a new war by the gigan- tic growth of its power, the U.S.S.R. invokes upon itself a new wave of hatred_on the part of the most reactionary and aggressive groups of the im- Perialists.” (XIII Plenum of the Executive Com- at of the Communist International—December, 933.) USSR Accepts ‘For Relations, \Is In Interest of Both| Countries Says Litvinoff (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 24 (By Wireless) —Normal diplomatic relations be- | tween the Soviet Union and Bul- garia were opened yesterday by an| exchange of telegrams between the | Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Af- | fairs, Datolov, and the Soviet Com- |missar of Foreign Affairs, Lit- vinoff. This will be followed by exchange of ambassadors. Litvinoff’s telegram in answer to the Bulgarian message states that the Soviet government accepts the | offer which is in the interests of both countries and the cause of | peace. Soviet Harvest Ahead of Plan Grain Collections Are! Greater Than 1933 (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, July 24 (By Wireless) | —The rapid ripening of grain in all districts of the U. S. S. R. has per-| mitted the beginning of the harvest much earlier than last year. The harvest work is in full swing in the entire South, and also in a considerable part of the central regions of the Soviet Union, cov- ering scores of millions of acres of sewn area. Grain deliveries to the govern- ment also began much earlier than last year. From all districts of the Soviet Union information received shows a big inflow of the new harvest into | the elevators. To characterie the rapidity of grain deliveries it is sufficient to mention that during the first 15 days of July grain de-| livered to the Soviet Government | was nine times as much as the| same period last year. Collective farms and state farms in Ukrainia, the North Caucasus and Crimea have already exceeded | the July plan of grain deliveries. | 184 From U. S. Attend Moscow Institute | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 24 (By Wireless) —The 22nd series of regular studies began in the Anglo-American Summer Institute here organized | at the First Moscow University. The Institute was founded last year on the initiative of a number of American professors, who regard | it as one of the best means of| studying the Soviet Union, and as a big factor in the cultural rela- tions between the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. Last year only 28 students were in the Institute studying two sub- jects, general education in the U. S. S. R, and history of the revolu- tionary movement in Russia. This year 184 students arrived from the U. 8. to study ten subjects, includ- ing art and literature, elementary, secondary and higher education in the U. S. S. R., experimental peda- gogics, Soviet construction, Com- munist society, Soviet law and the | economic policy of the Soviet | Union, etc. The studies in the Moscow In-| | stitute will give the students credit | points in American universities. 20 New Soviet Radio Plants MOSCOW, July 24 (By Wireless). —From June to September, twenty new radio stations are planned to go into operation in various towns in the Soviet Union, including the radio station situated in the new polira town of Igarka, latitude 67. FOREIGN BRIEFS PARIS, July 24—Frightened by the united power of the class-con- scious proletariat as manifested in the newly established United Front of the Communist and Socialist (S.F.L.0O.) Parties, Premier Gaston Doumergue gave up his vacation and pleaded successfully with his equabbling abinet Miniters today to continue the party truce estab- lished after the February excite- ment. “The Doumergue Cabinet will go on,” declared Pierre Laval, Minis- ter of Colonies, following the Cabi- net meeting. The openly fascist Andre Tar- dieu had picked what he thought @ politically advantageous moment to tell what everybody knows: that. the Chautemps Radical Socialist administration had deliberately shielded the swindled Stavisky, and was up to its ears in his loot, Bie te TOKYO, July 24—New “uncen- sored” details were given out to- day about the Korean “plots” re- cently rumored. A Korean inde- pendence movement gave rise to street fighting in May, it was learned. Sixty prisoners, described as Communists in the official re- port, were held. SSeS he HAVANA, July 24—The ABC. fascists issued a slanderous attack on the C.N.O.C. (Cuban Federation of Labor) today. A bloody fascist war on this Communist -led organization was declared. When the Communists have been exterminated, the mani- festo promised, unemployment bu- reaus will be set up. . 8 HAVANA, July 24.—Minister of the Interior Pelayo Cuervo today denied a permit to the League for Struggle Against War and Fascism to hold an International Congress ‘Bulgaria Note, \at Santa Clara “SO YOU'D MUSCLE IN, EH!” Twenty Years After Last Imperialist ‘War By Burek/ Manifesto of the Central Committees of the Com- munis Parties of France, Great Britain, Germany and Poland. To the Working People of All Countries! Workers, Working People in Town and County! Young Workers and Women! The twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the bloody imperialist World War will soon be here. The day is approaching on which the imperialist war parties will begin a new and even greater slaughter of the peoples. Think of the imperialist war! Think of the ten and a half millions killed, who, if buried side by side, would fill a cemetery more than 100 square kilometers in size. Think of the 25,000,000 wounded, invalids, widows and orphans, who together could populate a country bigger than Switzerland, Holland and Belgium to- gether! Think of the gigantic sums of money, amounting to more than $250,000,000,000, which were expended on immediate instruments of de- struction, This huge sum would suffice to ensure a decent human existence for a long time to all the unemployed, it would relieve all the working people in town and country from all taxation for a number of years. Think of the imperialist peace, of the treaties of Brest-Litovsk, Versailles, Saint-Germain and Trianon, which robbed the peoples of hundreds of thousands square miles of their own soil, placed millions under a foreign yoke, and imposed mil- lions of reparations on the vanquished. ‘Think of these treaties, which immediately after the war sowed the sseds of fresh wars. ‘Think of the 16 years which have passed since the war, in which social and national oppression, chauvinistic incitement, the tyranny of the rulers and the enslavement of the ruled have reached unprecedented dimensions, Think of the years of crisis with their boundless starvation and misery. Think of the 30,000,000 un- employed, of the millions of people who have com- mitted suicide in the post-war period. Think of the millions who have been foully murdered in the time of peace so that the class tule of the exploiters can thereby be maintained and a new world slaughter let loose. Think of the past war and fight unrelentingly against the approaching new imperialist world war! Dozens of wars in all parts of the world have refuted the slogan with which the war criminals wanted to deafen the rebellious masses; the fraud- ulent cry of “No more war... .” Just as in 1914, the bellicose parties of imperial- ism occupy the leading positions in the capitalist state. They want by means of fascism to hold down the forces which are opposing imperialist war. Nationalist incitement, barbarous race persecutions, intrigues of secret diplomacy, the feverish activity of the general staffs, lead from general economic war among the imperialist countries to imperialist war. The world is to be distributed again—for the benefit of the stronger States, Enslavement of the working class, destruction of their rights and liberties in the fascist countries, progressive abol- ition of these rights in the bourgeois States by emergency orders, the war legislation passed al- ready before the outbreak of war are intended at the same time to prepare the hinterland of the future war fronts. Modern military technique, the air forces, long- range guns are being got ready in order to do away with the division between the war fronts and the hinterland. The bankers, the factory owners, the big landlords, their politicians and general staffs are beginning already now to obliterate the line of demarcation between war and peace in order to take the working people by surprise with the new imperialist world war. In all parts of the world the flames of impe- rialist war are springing up. From Tokio to Berlin, from Berlin to Tokio the Japanese military fascists and the German Hitler fascists are reaching out their hands to each other. The Diehards of the British imperialism form the third side of the txi- angle of kindlers of imperialist war against the proletarain State, against the Soviet Union, In the Far East, in Manchuria, in North China, in Inner Mongolia, the Japanese imperialists have made war with all its horrors an everyday affair. They bombard peaceful villages, they murder de- fenseless women and children. The big imperialist Powers support with money and weapons the hang- men of the Chinese people in the war against the revolutionary Soviet Republic of the Chinese work- ers and peasants. The United States of America and Japan are feverishly preparing for war for hegemony in the Pacific. In South America English and American imperialism are waging a war against each other through their mercenaries. British im- perialism is arming against America. Hitler Ger- many is one vast armed camp from which an at- tack can be expected any day. The war party of French imperialism is arming for war against Ger- many. A new world war is plainly approaching. Only one State is fighting unswervingly for peace, only one State has made the abolition of war its cause—the State whose leading Bolshevist Party, under the leadership of Lenin, converted the fratricidal imperialist war into the only justified war of the oppressed against the oppressors, the State whose leading principle is not capitalist profit but the well-being of all toilers, the State which is building up Socialism, the fatherland of the toil- ers of all countries, the Soviet Union. In spite of all provocations, the Soviet Union is unswervingly pursuing its peace policy, the policy of proletarian internationalism. Proletarians of all countries! Women! You are the force which can sav> humanity from the fresh fratricidal slaughter. There is still lack- ing the unity of the working class in order, by the overthrow of capitalism, to put an end to impe- rialist wars. Only the common class struggle of the proletarians in alliance with the toilers in town and country can bring to naught all the plans of the financial capitalists, the war crim- inals, the war profiteers, the diplomats, the Par- liamentarians and generals. To this unity in the class struggle against capitalism, against its reac- tionary, fascist rule, we summon all workers, all toilers, men and women, old and young in the imperialist countries, in the dependent and colonial countries. We appeal to you, no matter what the color of your skin, no matter to what nation you may belong. ... We appeal especially to the social-democratic workers, to the members of the reformist trade unions, as well as to all workers who are under social-democratic influence: Young workers! On the basis of the solidarity of all toilers - against fratricidal war, on the basis of the com- mon interests of all oppressed against the op- pressors, on the basis of proletarian international- ism, against the fierce incitement of one nation against the other, all fight with us Communists and members of other revolutionary organizations against the preparation, against the letting loose of a new imperialist war. We address to the social-democratic parties the following proposal: In spite of the fact that at the commencement of the imperialist world war you sided with your own belligerent bourgeoisie, in spite of the fact that you approved of the imperialist peace treaties and voted for fresh armaments, in spite of the fact that by this policy you have split the workers’ move- ment, we propose to you: Organize and carry out joint demonstrations to- gether with us on the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, on August Ist, under the slogans: Not a man and not a penny for armament pur- poses—the money now expended on armaments to be used to provide unemployment, sickness, in- validity and old-age insurance for the working people in town and country and for lightening their burden of taxation. Not a train, not a ship must be allowed to leave which is transporting munitions and implements for war for Japan or fascist Germany. Protect the Socialist Soviet Union and its So- cialist construction from the counter-revolutionary war and the imperialists! Protect the revolutionary-democratic Chinese Soviet Republic from counter-revolutionary attacks! Protect China against its being carved up by the imperialist powers! _ Protect all colonial peoples from the robber cam- paign of the imperialists! Workers and employees! Working peasants! Small business people, small shopkeepers! Young people, women? We summon you to the common fight against those who are seeking to kindle a new imperialist war. Fight together with us against capitalism, the cause of all wars, for the overthrow of the rule of the bourgeoisie, for Socialism! Down with imperialist war! Down with fascism! Long live proletrian internationalism! Long live the united fight of all proletarians and toilers for the overthrow of capitalism! Leng live the world revolution! The C, C. of the C. P. of France The C. C, of the C, P. of Great Britain The C. C. of the C. P. of Germany The C, ©, of the C. P. of Poland On the | World Front HARRY GANN! ‘By 400,000,000 Bushels Less The U.S. S. R. and China’ Communists in Austria UTSIDE of the Soviet Union and China, there will be 400,000,000 bushels less of wheat to eat after this harvest than last year, ac cording to the United States Department of Agriculture reports. The greatest drop in world wheat production, quite naturally, is in the United States, where Roosevelt's “planning” so skillfully aided the drought in destroying foodstuffs when human beings are starving. The next big reduction is in the Danubian basin, that is, in Middle Europe, affecting Gere many, Austrian, and the Balkans. Wheat, the staff of life, is only a portion of what has been de- stroyed. Cattle have been killed throughout the capitalist countries; corn has withered or been de« stroyed, and fruits and vegetables (especially potatoes in Germany), were burned up by the sun. Poder es IN SHORT, toiling humanity in the capitalist countries has a Winter of scarcity (in some places actual famine), high prices, along with low wages, to look forward to. Now the Soviet Union and China are not reckoned in the Department of Agriculture’s report for different reasons. There are no accurate re= ports of wheat crop in China—tha usurers and the landlords not re< porting how much they rob from the peasants. Reports from China, however, show that the unpre- cedented heat and drought have in many places entirely denuded the fields; and this in China means deaths for millions this Winter. Just as the capitalist statisticians leave the Soviet Union out of ac- count when discussing the world crisis (because the movement of production in the Soviet Union has been constantly and sharply upward while in the capitalist countries it has been steeply downward with short depression zig-zags), they do the same thing when talking of wheat, ye hades HE drought hit some portions of the Soviet Union also. But in- stead of the A. A. A, the Soviet Union has collective and state farms. The Soviet Union has a planned economy, with the whole organized force of the proletarian state mobilized to create food for the masses, While Roosevelt aided the. natural forces of destruction, the proletarian dictatorship fought them—and successfully. The wheat crop in the Soviet Union will be as large as last year (which was a bumper crop), and probably larger. The drought has made it difficult at this time to give accurate figures, except to point out that while in some places, the damage lessened the crop, in others it is the most bounteous in the his- tory of Russia, The harvest is already on in th Soviet Union, and the grain is pour- ing in faster than last year. New grain elevators had to be built in order to store the crop and protect it. Just today we receive a wireless dispatch from Moscow on the rapid collection of the harvest. In this report we read the following: “During the first 15 days of July the grain delivered to the govern- ment was nine times as much as the same period last year.” eee © Bm as between the capitalist world and the world of Social- ism, the sowing, cultivation, fight- ing the drought and the harvesting is but half of the story. There comes the slip between cup and lip. The grain of the American farm< ers has to run the gauntlet of the bankers, the mortgagors, the in« stallment collectors, the grain spec ulators—in short, a host of paras sites who feed on the harvested crop as voraciously as the drought and the pests. In the Soviet Union there is no grain exchange for gambling in hu- man necessities. The crop is gar- nered for human consumption, for the greatest good and not for the yreatest profit. a . . /ECENTLY we reported Otto Bauer’s admission that thou- sands of former members of the Austrian Socialist Party were join- ing the ranks of the Communist Party. We just receive the re- ports from the British Daily Worker that the Austrian Communist Party, under the most difficult illegal con- ditions, held a national conference. We quote the report from the Lon- don Daily Worker as follows: “News has just been received from Vienna of the first illegal congress of the Communist Party held in that city. “In spite of the police terror and systematic spying, no less than 94 delegates, elected from factories and Communist Party organizations, at- tended. “The congress was of special im- portance, apart from the fact of its being held illegally so soon after the February fighting, because of the fusion of the ‘Red Front, the former Left Wing of the Social- Democrats, with the Communist Party. “Complete unity was reached and the political line of the struggle against the attacks of fascism was worked out. “The building up of revolutionary trade unions and the re-creation of the ‘Schutzbund’ as a non-Party defense organization were discussed in detail. “Steps were also taken to ‘build the Communist Party on wider and firmer foundations than eyer before. “It is significant that while thé workers of Vienna are going for- ward under the leadership of thé Communist Party, many formet leaders of the Social-Democrat# have accepted important posts it the new Vienna Municipality.” \