The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1934, Page 4

Class New Crisis Outbreak Battles Grow Loom As Mass Poverty Grows. Production Falls Junk Piles Capitalist Press Conceals Recent Sharp Drop in Production—Unemployment, Cost of Living Due for Further Rise By MILTON HOWARD nas appeared in the past few weeks that IVIDENCE ican imperialism is teetering on the edge of a new ward plunge, a renewed intensification of the crisis Amer- The capitalist press has deliberately played down the highly significant development that within the past few | weeks there has occurred a sharp drop in the total activity of Ame usual seasonal pected at this time. This development another significant coupled fact Commerce, that umsold stocks of goods now total 11 per cent higher | 1, ican production, a drop which has exceeded the decline to be ex-¢ : se with | charact than last year, unquestionably | points to new storms of crisis. The growing “poverty of t masse (Marx), the root cause of the crisis, is vividly reflected in | ership, the ruthless monopoly of the program, but also not only reported | taught the masses that the N.R.A. ‘by the United States Chamber of | would inevitably deepen the crisis, ¢ to this firm Marxist- inist ane of the capita how empty and reactionary ppear the various opposing s of the crisis made by the t Party, the A. F. of L. lead- he Trotskyites, Musteites, In contr: now estimat Socia the reports of the National Indus-| and Lovestoneite renegades! trial Conference Boa which | states that “distribution and trade | moved generally downward in June. saw in the ‘new capital- The Socialist Party Roosevelt program a with retail trade in department and | ism,” a capitalism which was al- | chain stores declining both dollar values and in — physical} volume.” ‘The renewed accumulation of un- | sold goods and the steady decline | in the amount of goods purchased by the American masses are but the | two sides of the same development —the intensification of the funda- mental factor in the world capi- talist crisis. | And inevitably these signals of | the renewed outbreak of further economic crisis are also signals of maturing political crisis. ae ea INCE the last week of June the weekly index of business activity published by “Business Week” re- veals a drop of five points, from 66 to 61, the sharpest decline in this index in the last twelve months. The progress of this index re- yeals that the war and inflation program of the Roosevelt govern- ment succeeded in increasing pro- duction from 50, the low point reached last March, to 68 in December, 1933. Since December, however, ail the efforts of the Roosevelt government to expand business activity have failed, and were effective only in barely maintaining the _ level achieved by the enormous artificial inflationary stimulation of 1933. Today American capitalism has again reached the point where the inflationary effects of the 1933 Roosevelt measures are rapidly wearing off, and the abyss of fur- ther crisis stares it in the face. ae IOMRADE STALIN, at the Seven- | teenth Party Congress, pointed out with the true Marxist-Leninist keenness that the bourgeoisie of the biggest imperialist powers had sueceeded in overcoming the lowest point of the crisis. And he warned very realistically that the factor of the normal eating-away of ac- cumulated surplus must not be overlooked as a factor making for revived production. It is in the light of this insight of Comrade Stalin that the appear- ance of new surpluses of unsold commodities, towering 11 per cent above last year, takes on its real meaning. For this proves that the eco- nomic measures of the govern- ment have failed to solve the fundamental question of the capi- talist crisis, the widening gulf be- tween production and the world market, and that the temporary rise from the lowest crisis levels is rapidly collapsing. After twelve months in which the N. R. A. codes were aimed at severely restricting non-monopoly production of the smal business man, after a prolonged, deliberate attempt to “plan” production of the biggest monopolies in accordance with the demands of the market, American imperialism once again finds itself confronted with the monster that will destroy it—the monster of unsalable surplus com- modities in the presence of squalid poverty. eae THUS far, it is true, the biggest Wall Street monopolies have done excellently at the hands of the Roosevelt government. The enormous profits reported for the first quarter, surpassing the profits of the same period last year, are themselves being surpassed by the reports coming in every day for the second quarter ending June. The record of 30 large Wall Street corporations recently reporting their earnings shows profits 42 per cent higher than for the first three months of this year, 86 per cent above the first quarter last year, and most startling of all, 12.6 per cent higher than the highest point reached in 1933! Yes, indeed, the biggest Wall Street monopolists are still gather- ing the golden fruits of record- breaking profit which blossomed under the care of Roosevelt. But the really significant fact is that these profits are the result of a production boom which is already , the boom which reached its peak last December. From now on new and more desperate measures will have to be taken by Roosevelt to find new sources of profit for his Wall Street masters. . oer ge LL these developments once again confirm the scientific precision and correctness of the analysis of the Communist International. It was the Communist Interna- tional alone, under the Marxist- Leninist guidance of Stalin, which pierced through the demagogic tray of Roosevelt’s N.R.A. pro- ppings gram and revealed to the masses in|Teady a transition stage on the “peaceful road to socialism.” Trotsky, revelling in the columns of the New York Times, organ of American finance capital, found in Roosevelt the new “saviour” who would lead American imperialism out of the crisis at the expense of the imperialist powers of Europe. In Europe the is would deepen, Trotsky admitted, but in the ric! powerful America, led by the “so: cial-minded” Roosevelt ... (?), that would be different, thanks to the “planning” of Roosevelt. The leadership of the American Federation of Labor, headed by Wil- liam Green, of course, found in Roosevelt and the N. R, A. the ‘Magna Carta of American labor” that would lead to a new pros- perity. And as for Lovestone, his hymns it immune to the cancer of capital- ist crisis, grew more eloquent than ever under the inspiration of Roose- velt’s advent. crisis has destroyed these reaction- ary theorizings of social-fascism and its diverse wings, from Trotskyism to Norman Thomas. The firm, penetrating Marxist- Leninist line of the Communist International alone remains the tried and tested guide of the work- ing class in its struggle against capitalism. The Communist Party alone correctly appraised the course of the crisis in its rela- tion to the Roosevelt program. aes. eae HE: capitalist press, with William Green and the. Socialist Party “New Leader” were busy debating whether the San Francisco general strike has national or local signi- ficance, Comrade Browder ripped this re- actionary tripe to pieces by boldly and truly proclaiming that the San Francisco strike had international significance! This is the key to the coming political developments in this coun- try. American imperialism faces growing revolutionary storms. A stage has now been reached in the capitalist crisis where the slightest demand of the workers for better conditions undermines the founda- tions of the whole capitalist rule. This brings the capitalist state power as an active antagonist into the smallest strikes. The American masses are coming face to face with the capitalist state power as their hated enemy. In America, stronghold of world capitalism, the revolutionary crisis matures. The struggle for bread, for life, becomes a struggle for power. The question of the smash- ing of capitalism and the seizure of power is becoming an organic part of the fight against the em- ployers. 552 Men Killed In U. S. Mines In Six Months Deaths from accidents averaged more than three a day in the coal mines of the United States during the six months from January to June, 1934. In all, 552 mine work- ers were killed—409 in soft coal mines and 143 in anthracite. Last year, 430 mine workers were killed during the first six months. Increased output in the first part of 1934 meant increased exposure to mine hazards. As usual, falls of roof and coal took the highest toll, killing 238 bi- tuminous miners and 76 in hard coal mines. It must always be remem- bered, as we pointed out in Labor and Coal, that such falls are largely preventable, provided the miners are allowed time at the company’s ex- pense to prepare supporting pillars and ceiling. But too often, such safety precautions are considered as “dead work” with no pay for the time worked. As a worker cor- respondent in Stockdale, western Pennsylvania, wrote recently: “The next thing the bosses said we had to do was to set safety posts, sprays, and snub the coal. They didn’t mention pay. We called a special meeting—elected a chairman, discussed the dead work. The result, —not to do it without pay.” down- | Today the steady pounding of the | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SAYURDAY, AUGUST TT, 1934 As Crisis Undermines Capitalism War Makers Sift Iron International Traffic in Serap Iron Feeds War Machine | By Si GERSON | JUNK piles, on the whole, don’t seem to be particularly danger- ous. The average citizen passes | them by with hardly a glance. But military staffs in Japan, Po- land and Czechoslovakia think dif- ferently about the matter. The old bedstead which is discarded (not so soon anymore) by the average housewife doesn’t seem like a lethal weapon. But that’s only because she isn’t engaged in the manufac- | ture of ammunition. ! If you were present on the docks «of Norfolk, Va., at about the begin- }ning of this week, you would have seen tons and tons of scrap iron being piled diligently into the hold of a sailing vessel. Wreckage of ancient Fords, rusted cornices, twisted bolts, old bedsteads — all kinds of scrap iron came from all over the country in a veritable flood of junk to the docks of the Virginia port. The scrap metal, 150 freight cars full, amounting to approxi- mately 7,700 tons, were carefully stowed aboard the British vessel, “Bonneyville,” bound for Yawaka, a Japanese port. There it will be im- | mediately shipped to large ammuni- tion plants and used in large shells |and bombs. The ultimate destina- tion of these shells can be guessed | by discerning people by the fact that most of the Japanese guns are turned towards the West and South, towards the Soviet Union and the Soviet districts of China. That the British owners of the |“Bonneyville” are truly international |in viewpoint is evident at a glance. | Flying the Union Jack, the ship goes to Phillipines, from where it takes sugar to the United States, From |the States it carries scrap iron to | Japan, al under the flag of the | Empire. That its prices are extremely rea- |sonable is shown by the fact that | the charge for carrying the metal | to the eternal glory of American im- | 35 only $8.50 a gross ton, the low | perialism, whose alleged might made|Tate being explained by the fact | that the scrap iron is listed as “bal- | last.” | An interesting fact in connection | with the price is the fact that set- |tlements are made through the |médium of the Chase National | Bank, Rockefeller-controlied institu- tion. But the “Bonneyville” is not the only boat sailing the high seas with scrap iron. Ships are leaving At- lantic and Pacific ports almost daily with loads of scrap iron, bound for | Japan and countries on the Western borders of the Soviet Union. Schiayonni and Bonomo, a large New York scrap iron firm, is doing |a land office business in metal junk S. Coal Production Drops | Below Level of 1933 Output Wa ges Cut But Administration Hides Decrease, Plays Up} Amount of Unused Coal Stocks—Payroll Totals Now Only Half of 1929 Figure By ANNA ROCHESTER Production of soft coal in the United States took a sharp drop about April 1, falling from about nine million net tons in the closing | week of March to about five and one-half million in the first week of April. Wavering about the six million ton level for the weeks of | May and June, the line of produc- |tion then fell below the 1933 level. By the week ending July 7, 1934, output of soft coal was 5,118,000 tons as compared with 5,530,000 tons for that week a year ago. By the closing week of July the U. 8. Bu- reau of Mines estimated the produc- tion as 6,020,000 tons whereas in the corresponding week a year ago it was 7,550,000. Anthracite production has also fallen below the 1933 level. For the week ended July 26, hard coal out-} put was estimated at 816,000 tons,/ as against 1,044,000 a year before. But these cold figures do not fit into the optimistic picture of the “New Deal” promoted in the news-| papers at the request of the Ad-| ministration. So the “New York) Times” buries them away in a news item headed “Coal Stocks Increase” in which the increased reserves in the hands of retailers and indus- trial consumers are played up as if they were an advantage to the in- dustry, caused by “the comparative absence of labor unrest in the soft saving as high as 20 or 30 cents a of course, unused stocks of coal on hand indicate low production levels of consuming industries. Employment in bituminous min- ing stood at 72 per cent of the 1929 average in April (latest figures), while employment in anthracite mining stood at only 58 per cent of the 1929 level. Payroll totals meanwhile were only about half the 1929 figure. The April index shows payrolls at 51.7 per cent in anthracite and 51.4 per cent in soft coal mining, with 1929 as 100 or “normal.” Coal Age sees hope for the in- dustry in “concentration” of work in the mine “from an immense num- ber of separate rooms to a few fo- cal points, bringing the working area down to a minimum, and the rest of the mine being abandoned,” ex- cept for passage ways. This will save “the costliness of distribution | on wide areas. ... Some put the ton... . If mechanization did not save a dollar in cost of loading it would abundantly justify itself in the other costs it eliminates by its adaptability to high concentration.” This is the trade journal’s solu- tion for the ills of the coal indus- try. With about 50 per cent of its space always devoted to advertisers who have new machines and other devices to sell. “Coal Age” edi- torializes in terms of mechanization. coal fields.” As a matter of fact, Nothing is said about the decreased number of workers to be employed. for foreign consignment. Handling material mainly for Japan and Po- land, the company is making ship- ments from all over the Atlantic seaboard as well as from ports along the Gulf of Mexico. In Poland the scrap iron is re- ceived and shipped to Upper Silesia where it is converted into ammuni- tion and shipped to Czecho-Slovakia and Germany, where Mr. Hitler needs the ammunition, no doubt, for a little pacifist, defensive war. een CRAP iron dealers have very acute political noses. In faet, their sudden prosperity for some of the larger dealers, depends entirely upon the world situation and the prob- ability of a new war. In these sensitive circles discussion about a war between the Japan and the So- viet Union goes on daily. They are expecting the Japanese war lords to make the attack almost any month. In fact, they’re licking their chops in anticipation. But what do the workers of the world say about it? The final answer depends uno tis | The fear of that answer, more than anything else, prevents iric.u, the scrap iron dealers from mak- ing their attack on the workers’ Nazi Policies Leading To Curreney Inflation BERLIN, Aug. 10—Note reserve | rose slightly as of Aug. 7, to 2.4 be- cause of a decline in note circula- tion, but mo escape from the ex- change crisis was seen, Completion of the Anglo-German exchange accord made no provision for payment of private debts now owing, it was pointed out, so that no great hopes for resumptién of British cotton trade with Germany can be held out. The German finances are notori- ously doctored to conceal an actual inflation going on. Rising internal prices in Germany attest to a steady depreciation in the currency, de- spite the fact that there has as yet been no official inflation. Jailed for Telling Truth BERLIN, Aug. 19.—Plain talk put a Bielefeld worker in jail today. He declared that Hitler was a homosexual as much as was Roehm, * Anthracite Under NRA Recent Article Cites Open Violation of Pay Agreement That wage agreements are openly violated by anthracite operators is shown by a recent article in the Wilkes-Barre Record, entitled “But- ler Miners Take New Rate.” The Butler Colliery of the Pittston Com- pany (a Morgan concern) had been shut down for two years. On opening up again the com- pany offered miners a new rate sheet which the men, long jobless, were forced to accept. Former wage rates called for by the anthracite agreement were $8.80 a day for miners and $7.70 a day for mine laborers. New rates at the Butler Colliery are now $5.79 for miners and $6.13 a day for company la- borers. Where the former tonnage rate was $2.60, it is now $2 per ton in headings, $1.85 in solid, and $1.75 per ton in pillar, It is, of course, no news that hard coal operators have been ignoring the established rates but the Butler Colliery now furnishes an exact record of such a cut, ‘It represents wages higher than are now paid in some of the other anthracite mines. Of the 1,037 grievances presented to Umpire James A. Gorman, of the Anthracite Conciliation Board, at hearings con- cluded in July, many had to do with the low wages paid, Japanese Army Morale Affected By Intense Poverty of the Masses TOKYO, Aug. 10—So desperate is the poverty of Japanese peasants and silk worm cultivators that the War Ministry has been forced to promise aid. Premier Okada and War Minister Hayashi today conferred with the President of the Serieulture Federa- tion and learned that silk worm cul- tivators were too hard hit to be con- tent with the plans of the Agricul- tural Ministry. Hinting that the umrest of the peasants was “bad for the morale of the army,” he demanded 10 per cent of the army budget to quiet the agriculturists. Fishermen Dump Catch Inte the Sea in Protest DOURNAZEZ, France, Aug. 10.— Breton fishermen, romanticized in bourgeois literature, were the heroes of a struggle never mentioned in polite novels. They threw their night's sardine catch back into the sea, refusing to accept starvation prices for their fatherland, the Soviet Union, sooner. and ought to be shot likewise. labor. “Dollar Is Worth More. to Capitalism Than | Human Lives” By FRANK LEONARD If any person... be in any manner instrumental in bringing, introducing or circulating within the state any printed or written paper, pamphlet or circular for the purpose of executing insurrec- tion, revolt, conspiracy or resist- | ance on the part of Slaves, Ne- groes, or Free Persons of Color in this state against citizens of this state or any part of them, he shall be guilty of high misdemeanor which is punishable by death— Georgia Statute of 1861, on which Herndon was sentenced to the chain gang. Pees oa Angelo Herndon’s “guilt” lies in trying to bring white workers and Negroes in the South together in violation of Georgia’s old slave law. Angelo Herndon was one of the organizers of the first all Southern Scottsboro conference o f Negroes and white workers which was held in Chattanooga, Tenn., in June, 1931, to arouse mass protest against the frame-up of the Scottsboro boys. Angelo Herndon was one of the first men in the South with the courage to fight for Willie Peterson, tubercular Negro ex-servicemgn who is now serving a 20-year prison sen- tence on a framed-up rape charge, in spite of the fact that the Gov- ernor of Alabama, who commuted Peterson's sentence from death to 20 years in prison, himself admitted: “There is a grave doubt as to his guilt.” $15,000 Needed for Appeals Angelo Herndon is now tempora- rily free, released in the exorbitantly high bail of $15,000 pending appeal. The workers of America, under the leadership of the Communist Party and the International Labor De- ® | showing what the greatest revolu- | stroying bail being celebrated by the Ameri- can workers—and the way revolu- tionary workers celebrate a victory is by pressing for a further, more decisive victory—a letter written by Maxim Gorki, foremost author of the Soviet Union, comes to light, tionary writer in the world thinks of the Herndon and the Scottsboro cases. What Maxim Gorki Says The letter was written by Gorki to an American who had sent the famous Russian writer clippings from the capitalist press charging the Soviet government with “de- culture.” Excerpts from this letter follow: “The capitalists and their faith- ful servants, the Social Democrats and the Fascists, old men half mad as they view the present social catas- trophe, youths whose ambition it is to become successful parasites, ras- cals of the pen and scoundrels of the press—all this rotten crowd has been formed by the capitalist sys- tem into battalions accusing the Bolsheviks and the U.S.S.R. in gen- eral of attempts to destroy “cul- ture.” The bourgeois press has re- ceived instructions from its masters: ‘Fight against the Bolsheviks, against Communism, and for cul- ture.’ “Yes, the capitalists have some- thing to fight for! Their ‘culture’ consists of a row of institutions, ‘acting freely,’ whose aim is to pro- tect and justify the unlimited might of the parasitic minority over the laboring majority — peasants and workers. A Culture of Lies “Their culture! It is the school —where lies are told. It is the church—where lies are told. It is the press, which lies and calumni- ates; the police, which has the right to kill the workers. Their culture now faces the daily fight with the workers who protest against being robbed, who do not want to be poor, who fight against a culture in which fense, showed they were worthy of a great task when they were able to raise that heavy bail. Now the sum of $15,000 is needed for the expenses of the appeals to be made in the cases of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro boys. A campaign to ob- tain 1,000,000 signatures to a peti- tion demanding the liberation of Herndon and the Scottsboro boys, and the enactment and enforcement of the Bill for Negro Rights, has been launched. Churches, fraternal organizations, societies of intellectu- als, organized and unorganized work- ers, unemployed—all, throughout the country, will be mobilized in this their wives lose their health and are old at 30, who refuse to have chil- dren die of hunger and their daugh- ters to earn a piece of bread by street walking, who do not want criminals to be born from the honest working class through unemploy- ment. “...In Scottsboro, Alabama, young Negroes are being held for death. Those Negro boys are inno- cent, and the white rulers know it. ‘They are held for death because the white imperialists desire to frighten, to terrorize the Negroes in the South of the United States. “This is done because the Negro campaign. At this time, with the partial vic- tory of Angelo Herndon’s release in. masses, more and more, are being attracted to the revolutionary move- ment. They are solidifying their ranks, they are uniting with the white laboring masses against their common oppressors. They are tak- ing an active part in the fight against American imperialism, The bourgeoisie is afraid the rebellion is growing among the millions of Ne- gro toilers, among the workers and the peasants. They are taking all possible measures to liquidate the growing fighting forces of the Ne- gro and the white workers. Against both is arrayed the terror of the white rulers.” Gorki goes on in his letteer, re- citing various examples of the terror employed against the Negro and white masses in this country. He tells the details of “the bloody events of Camp Hill, Ala.” he speaks cf the courageous action of the Ala- bama sharecroppers organized in spite of terror and lynch law, he writes of various battles in which police and the National Guard have shot down and murdered workers in various strikes, showing that the terror is equally flerce against all workers, Negro and white. Then he continues: “The American section of the MOP.R. (the International Labor Defense) has awakened internation- al interest in the Scottsboro case. For the first time since the Ameri- can Civil War, the merciless ex- ploitation of the Negro working masses by the ruling classes of the United States is being published throughout the world. In Soviet Russia and in England, in France, Cuba, in Sout America and in countries on every continent, thou- sands of demonstrations, partici- pated in by millions of workers, have shown and are continuing to show their solidarity with the American working class, with the Negroes op- pressed by the white imperialists in America, demanding the liberation of the innocent Scottsboro boys and the cessation of the white terror. Urges Stronger Scottsboro Fight “The Scottsboro boys are suffer- ing in the prison. They are con- stantly being reminded by their keepers that the electric chair awaits them. Their guards constantly tell them their day is approaching. “It is necessary to strengthen the agitation throughout the world. Every meeting, every demonstration, each paper published by the work- ers and their organizations, must protest against the white terror which American capitalism is urg- ing in an effort to suffocate the growing fight for freedom among the Negro masses of the United States. The proletariat of the en- tire world protests against the exe- cution of their bsSthers. The capi- talists, and the capitalist ‘culture,’ cannot be expected to be humane. > Gorki Letter Cited in Fight for Herndon Million Names, $15,000 Sought for Herndon, Scottsboro Boys against these murders, It must real- ize |that capitalism cannot avoid murder. It must realize that capi- talism must attempt always to snatch from its ranks, to murder its best leaders. The dollar is worth more to capitalism than human lives.” : Why Herndon Was Jailed This letter was written by Gorki at the very time Angelo Herndon was organizing the first All South- ern Conference in Chattanooga. The Ku Klux Klan and the police warn- ed that the conference would never be held. Herndon, defying all op- position, proceeded with the work. The Kluxers served notice through the press—‘“the rascals of the pen” as Gorki calls them—that no con- ference in which Negroes and white workers sit and deliberate and plan to fight together would be permitted. The comference was held. Four hundred Negro and white workers attended it. Police and detectives, citizens armed with guns and revol- vers, surrounded the hall. A massa- cre was fully expected by all the delegates to the conference. But not one stayed away. The courageous example set by the organizer, by this young‘ man, Angelo Herndon, was sufficient to hold the conference to- gether. It is for that reason that the State of Georgia dug up its old slave law of 1861, invoking it against An- gelo Herndon. As Gorki points out, it is because the Negro and the white toilers are learning the les- sons of solidarity that the white rulers are mobilizing the full forces of their “culture” against the work- ers and the leaders of the working class. It is precisely for this reason that By JACK KLING CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—The question of united action in defense of the most burning issues confronting the working class as a whole and the youth in particular has been time and again raised by the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. Recent events on both an international and national scale makes working class unity against capitalism the most burning prob- Jem before the whole working class. The growth of fascism on an inter- national scale, fascist attacks in various countries in Europe and in America and the burning danger of imperialist war faces the whole working class regardless of what their political opinions may be or organizational connections they may have. The Young Communist League in the past and today has realized that only the united ac- tion of the working class youth, student youth, together with the en- tire working class will be able to destroy fascism and carry on a very successful struggle against imperial- ist war. And precisely because of this, the various Young Communist Leagues under the leadership of the Young Communist International, have made headway in bringing about united actions among Social- ists, Communists, workers in re- formist trade unions and organiza- tions, in spite of the resistance of many leaders of reformist groups to bring about this unity. In France, the Young Socialist organization has united with the Young Communist League in a struggle against fascism, imperialist war. In England, to a much higher degree, the Guild of Sécialist Youth Unity of Working Class Necessary in the Fight Against War, Fascisn Incidents in Capitalist Terror-Wave Cited te Proy Urgency of United Front Actions Against AH Working Class Enemies Here and Abroad ple only in the Y. P. S. L. tw three, four, five and six month ‘These people actually became scare when they heard these attacks, Therefore in closing I want + say, the Young Communist Leagy has been in the past and is reaq today to meet with a delegation ¢ the Y. P. S. L. to discuss unite front action. We will do everythin possible to bring about united ac tion. The most important type ¢ united action is between the circle of the Y. P. S. L. and the units o the Y. C. L. in the neighborhood: in the shops, in the various terri tories. We will attempt to overcom every obstacle in our path. Th Young Communist League propose: united action on: 1, Joint struggle against imperial ist war and fascism; joint mobiliza tion for second Youth U. S. Con gress Against War and Fascism joint participation in’ Internationa Youth Day, August 31st. 2. Against the attacks on Negr youth in Chicago, for the right o Negro youth to use all beaches with out any discrimination. The im mediate release of all those arreste: in the struggle for the beaches, 3. The immediate release of Ems Thaelmann and all anti-faseis’ prisoners in Germany. Our actions in the past and ou actions today have proven and ow actions tomorrow will prove ow sincerity to bring about united ac- tion for we realize that it is only the united action of the working class youth that will give strength, courage and ability to the working class youth together with the adults: to fight against fascism and im- perialist war. has affiliated to the Young Com- munist International in a struggle against imperialist war, fascism, and other problems confronting the youth in England. In Austria, there are at the present time negotiations , between the revolutionary socialist | youth organization and the Young Communist League of Austria against fascism and imperialist war. In the United States too, we have some examples of local groups de- veloping unified action with the Young Communist League on the problem of war and fascism (Cam- den, New Jersey; Hartford, Con- necticut; California). There is a growing realization among the working class youth in this country and in the city of Chicago for the necessity of unity, of united action, against imperialist war and fascism. The Young Communist League in the Chicago district, just as well as nationally, has consistently, for sev- eral years, attempted to bring about united actions against fascism, against war, between the Young People’s Socialist League and those under their influence and the Young Communist League. This is especially significant today. The recent raids on the Packing House Workers Union and arrest of its leaders, the raid on the Bakers’ union affiliated to the A. F. of L., the arrests of over 40 youth in the course of the struggle for Negro rights, for the right of the Negro youth to use all beaches, the re- cently coming into Chicago of Fred G. Clarke, chief of the Crusader movement who declares that the “Crusader organization of business and professional men are undertak- ing a new campaign on behalf of American democracy as opposed to Communism and Socialism.” These events make working class unit and working class youth united action in the city of Chicago the most burning problem on the order of the day. United action cannot be de- layed. On July 27th, 28th, and 29th, there was a Midwestern Jubilee of the Y. P. S. L. at Nature Friends Camp. The Y. C. L. sent a delega- tion to this camp to propose a pro- gram of united action to the Y. P. S. L’s who were present at this Jubilee. There were present many Y. P. S. L. members from Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Mil- waukee, and St. Louis. What were our proposals? 1. United action between the Y. P. S. L. and the Y. C. L. in a strug- gle against imperialist war and fascism on International Youth Day September Ist. 2. For the freedom of Thaelmann. and all anti-fascist prisoners of Germany. 3. Against the terror on the west coast and for the immediate re- lease of all arrested workers. 4, United action in Chicago for the right of Negro youth to use all beaches. 5. Joint mobilization for the sec- ond youth U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism. the workers must show still greater solidarity, still greater fighting spirit. In addition to mobilizing all the workers and their sympathizers, and in addition to circulating the peti- tion for 1,000,000 signatures, funds must be raised at once. The Inter- national Labor Defense, whose work has drawn the praise of Maxim Gorki, needs that $15,000 immedi- ately for the expenses of the ap- peals in the Scottsboro and Hern- don cases, Those workers and sympathizers who agree with Gorki that “capi- talist ‘culture’ cannot be expected to be humane” will enlist in this cam- paign immediately. Funds must be rushed, at once, to the International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 E. 11th “The proletariat must protest Street, New York City. After much difficulty, being sent from one person to another, our delegation was able to secure the floor to this conference on Sunday, July 29 to present our proposals. After we got through presenting our proposals, the delegates were en- thused and expressed their enthusi- asm with applause. However, the leadership of the Y. P. S. L. present. —Winston Dancis, national secre- tary; a leader from the New York| Y. P. S. L—requested that we leave so that they can have their dis- cussion. What was the character of the discussion following? Leader by leader followed the most vicious attacks against the Communists. 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