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i a ~ Page Eight =x + & is tune. Even now he has not sup- ———————— e =" him change h Daily, QWorker | ported the measure, the only adequate unemploy- o GONTRAL COGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A, (SECTION OF COMMUMIST MITERNATIORAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 15th Street, New York, N. ¥ Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. au National Press Building, ‘0 St., Room 105, Cheago, Midwest Bur 101 n 705, ic a Telephone: Dearbor AUGUST 11, 1934 } Provoking” Fascism N ARTICLE in this week’s issue of the Socialist Party “New Leader” contains a blunt, cynical justification of the terror- ism which the California shipowners let loose against the trade unions and the Communist Party. Just listen to this: “The air became tense. A spark meant an ex- plosion. The Stalinites furnished the spark . . . the s| was broken. The Stalinites set the dyna- mite r the works .. . they furnished an excuse for the landlord fascists of the interior and the pirate fascists of the city to organize vigilantes. .. . In short, the Stalinites have done everything pos- sible to stimulate the activity of fascism .. .” Now what does all this mean? The New Leader is saying that the ruling class terrorism against the strike would not have happened if not for the “excuse” which the “Stalinites” gave the capitalists. What was this “excuse”? It was the activities of the Communists to organize the marine workers to win better wages, better conditions, and the abo- lition of the hated “Fink halls.” Therefore, reasons the Socialist New Leader, the best way to have avoided the ruling class ter- rorism would have been not to furnish the capi- talists with an “excuse”! In other words, they argue, avoid fascism by surrendering to it! That is to say, the working class will have nothing to fear from the capitalist-fascists as long as they starve quietly and take meekly every kick 1 the face the capitalists wish to send in their ion. What a wonderful theory this is—for the fascists! It not only condones their brutality by blaming it on the fact that they were “provoked” by the Communists leading the workers for better conditions. It also helps to spread the very same anti-Communist poison which they themselves are spreading. It conceals the dictatorship of the capitalist state. . * . ‘HEN the Socialist Party leadership speaks of the Communists “provoking” the fascist ter- rorist atacks, it is actually repeating exactly what the employers repeat as the justification of their violence against all workers, It is spreading the anti-working class poison about the “violence of the Reds.” The General Strike was not broken by Green and the infamous treachery of the A. F. of L. leadership. Oh no! Not a word on this. It was the Communists who fought for the three main demands of the workers and who faced the worst police terrorism in the front ranks of the strike! This is the typical argument of Social-Fascism. It tells the workers to accept the advance of fascism in the name of Socialism, in order to avoid “provoking” the fascists! It is the argument of the “lesser evil” which strives to get the workers to accept the attacks of the capitalist class on the ground that any resistance will “provoke” something “worse”! Tt is, in short, the classic theory of Social- Democracy, which surrenders every vestige of the principle of class struggle against capitalism. dire Norman Thomas Has Hope | iO NEW thousands of American workers who have heard him attack the San Francisco general strike, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor and his official family, are strike- breakers, arch-enemies of the working class. To Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, the leaders of the A. F. of L. are good fel- lows who can be trusted with the destinies of American labor. Here is what Thomas has to say in today’s “New Leader,” Socialist organ: “It is encouraging that President Green of the A. F. of L. is speaking out so vigorously on the matter of unemployment. It is also encourag- ing that with increasing emphasis labor leaders are challenging the performances of the N.R.A. This is all to the good and WARRANTS A CON- SIDERABLE DEGREE OF HOPE OF WHAT MAY HAPPEN AT THE NEXT A. F. OF L. CONVENTION.” [Emphasis ours.—Ed.] Consider the situation: Norman Thomas suggests that the workers may have hope in the actions of the leaders of the A. F. of L. He bases his same faith on the same Bill Green who only a few short weeks ago pub- licly attacked the San Francisco strikers, saying that: “The strike in San Francisco is local in character, possessing no national significance. . . . The American Federation of Labor neither en- dorsed the strike nor authorized it.” What hope does Mr. Thomas draw from that statement? Biil Green has attacked unemployment insurance for years—until a storm of endorsements of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (known in the last session of Congress as H.R. 7598) made m. | ment insurance bil, but has consistently attacked ILL GREEN was the chosen agent of the Roose- government to disrupt the ranks of the It was he who helped to bamboozle on of the Amalgamated - Association taking strike action against Green supported the Hoover no-strike pact at the beginning of the economic crisis. Today he supports, with some mild criticism, chiefly in- tended as camouflage, the N.R.A. and its strike- breaking mediation boards. Green and the official family of the A. F. of L. continue their existence at the top of the Federation in a great measure by the support of gangster-led unions. It is a matter of record that Norman Thomas himself has had to condemn the A. F. of L. clique in the N, Y. fur industry and has had to admit that the militant Fur Workers Industrial Union was the major union in the industry. These racketeers are typical of Mr. Green’s base. And yet these gentlemen are the ones upon whom we are to pin our hope, according to the pious Norman Thomas! Workers in the A. F. of L. unions in increasing numbers are pinning their faith not on Bill Green and his ilk, but more and more on themselves and their own strength. Rank and file delegates at the coming A. F. of L. convention in San Francisco can be counted upon to show that they have no faith in Green and his clique. Release Ordoqui! 'T IS the revolutionary duty of the Amer- can working class to come to the aid of Joaquin Ordoqui, militant Cuban leader of the working class, who now lies in the dungeons of Havana, flung there by the Mendieta government. The seriousness of the fight and its revolutionary importance are attested by the fact that both Comrade Earl Browder and Clarence Hathaway have issued personal appeals to the American working class to join the fight for our jailed Cuban comrade. Cuba is the puppet of Wall Street imperialism. Its colonial exploitation provides Wall Street with reserves with which to oppress and plunder the workers here at home. The fight for Ordoqui is thus part and parcel of our fight against the capitalist exploitation right here at our own door. Wall Street ordered him jailed. We must reply with the demand for his freedom! Two hundred dollars are needed for a defense fund. Protest meetings before Cuban. Consulates will help release him. Protests and telegrams sent to Mendieta at Havana as well as the Cuban Conculates will force his release. Let all unions and mass organization wire funds and their protests at the imprisonment of this militant working class: fighter. All out to the Cuban Consulate on Monday morning! Tear Away the Mask! ITH the same viciousness that his gubernatorial colleagues in Ohio and California used troops to smash the strug- gles of the workers, Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, masking his action with a veil of “sympathy” for the striking truck drivers, has used the armed forces of the state, While the Republican and Democratic governors, Merriam of California and White of Ohio, do their strikebreaking openly, the Farmer-Laborite Olson covers his with a palaver of “sympathetic” phrases, “I am not a liberal,” Olson declared at the state convention of the Farmer-Labor Party last April, “but what I want to be—a radical.” But by deeds, not by high-sounding declarations will the workers measure all who profess to fight for the working class—and Olson’s deeds are in direct contradiction to his words. His deeds are those of a strikebreaker, of an enemy of the working class, He issued a statement of “sympathy” with the strikers and then prohibited Picketing; he spoke harshly to the Citizens Alliance and then moved their trucks; he has issued proclamations about the “new social order” and supported with military rule a decaying capitalism, * * r RECENT years, the Democratic Party in Minne- sota, led by National Committeeman Joseph Welt, has co-operated with the Farmer-Labor Party. Not averse to political horse-trading, the Farmer- Labor Party supported Roosevelt in the 1932 elec- tions. Since then, and now, they support Roosevelt's Strikebreaking N.R.A. Tke Communist Party calls upon the entire working class to break with these Political parties— it calls upon the workers to defeat the candidates of the Democratic, Republican, Farmer-Labor and Socialist Parties in the coming elections. The Communist Party calls upon the workers in the shops, the poor farmers, the unemployed millions, all Negro and white workers, to elect Com- munists, and, not stopping there, boldly to take up the struggle for the immediate demands of the working class. The mass fight for these demands, the Commu- nist Party points out, is the starting point in the workers’ fight for political power, for Soviet Power, which alone will bring the capitalist crisis to an end, Join the Communist Party] 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. | Piease send me more information on the one | | Rist Party. NAME......, ADDRESS North Dakota Farmers Hear Robert Minor By a Worker Correspondent ‘member of the Central Committee | of the Communist Party, spoke hase recently to a capacity crowd at the courthouse, giving a lucid analysis ‘of the New Deal in operation and | its effect upon the workers andj} small farmers. organized by the great % | the A. F. of L. to cover the true role BISMARCK, N. D.—Robert Minor, | of the N. R. A. He further gave a clear class analysis of the political situation in North Dakota, where a (sham) battle has been staged be- |tween the Langer and anti-Langer factions of the Non-Partisan League. He pointed out that Langer was Minor brought out conclusive evi- | using radical phrases, thus taking dence proving that the N. R. A. was advantage of the militant sentiment industrial | of the farmers and workers and try- magnates of the country, naming) ing to claim the credit for what the Swope, DuPont and others who were; farmers and workers had accom- using the bureaucratic leadership of | plished by their militant mass strug- gles. He said, “They are stealing the program of the Communist Party in words” in order to be able to divert the attention of the workers and farmers from organization, while at the same time gaining their confi- dence so as to be better able to betray them. Minor called upon the farmers Party; the only Party that is fight- ing for your immediate and final aims, the Communist Party” | ‘Communist IL eaflets ‘Fill Berlin Appear in Thousands | Urging Opposition in “Elections” BERLIN; Aug. 11—To the com- plete bewilderment of the Nazi au- | thorities, thousands of Communist leaflets are flooding Berlin every day now urging the German people to refuse Titler “their signature in blank” in the Aug. 19 “referendum.” The Nazis have searched every- where without being able to locate the secret Communist printing plant. Offers of large rewards for informers, and threats of instant Geath to all those found near the plant or handing out the leaflets have been of no avail whatever. During the last “referendum” more than two and a half million ballots were cast against Hitler or voided deliberately to show oppo- | sition to Fascism, despite the open | terrorism at the polls and the risk of arrest by Storm Troopers placed at every voting place, The Communist Party of Ger; many has defied every effort of the fascists to annihilate it. | The leaflets urging opposition to | Hitler in the “elections” are found pasted on walls, inside of Nazi newspapers, under restaurant chairs, in library books, at machines in the shops, and in other places, Italian Police Kill 8, Jail 200 At Tax Protest ZURICH, ug. 10.—News has just come through the heavy Italian Fascist censorship of a bloody clash that took place between Fascist police and the population of tne town of Pratola Peligina. In the last |week of April the people of the town demonstrated in the streets against the cruel taxes which the Mussolini government had levied upon them. The police attacked, arresting more than 200, killing at least eight of the paraders, and wounding more.than 40, Several children were shot to death by the police in the attack. The population, enraged, smashed |the City Hall doors and wrecked several public buildings, Police and soldiers surround the town. It is obvious that the oppressed people of Italy are rising in ever more militant actions against the Fascist Mussolini government. Very little news comes through the Fas- cist censorship, but the Fascist rule is feeling the blows of the crisis and the rebellion of the starving masses. Nazi Courts Impose Heavy Jail Sentences BERLIN, Aug. 10.—The Berlin assizes have sentenced a young worker named Loriades, 19 years of age, to the unheard of sentence of eight years penal servitude, on the charge of continuing the work of the Red Front Fighters Alliance, and of distributing illegal newspa- pers, The Dortmund special court has sentenced a peasant named Heller- mann, 31 years of age, from Hink- hausen, to 8 years penal servitude, for defending himself with a knife against the attack of a Storm Troop leader who threatened him for pur- poses of blackmail. The Saxon special court has sen- tenced a working woman named Hentschke, from Oberseifersdorf, to three years penal servitude for dis- tributing illegal communist news- papers. Two workmen charged at the same time were sentenced to two years each, and two other per- sons involved to eight and five months imprisonment. Four workers from Essen have been sentenced to six months im- prisonment each for singing com- munist songs. The manager of a canning factory in Essen, who had criticized the economic policy of the Hitler gov- ernment, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment, British-Japan Rivalry Flares in Cotton War TOKYO, Aug. 10.—Imperialist an- tagonism showed its teeth again today as Japan drew up plans to impose a 30 to 40 per cent tariff on Austrelian cotton as a_ reprisal against the Australian tax on Jap- anese cotton cloth. British and Japanese imperialism are at one another's throats in the imperialist fight for the cotton trade of the Far East and of India. Japanese imperialism has succeeded in overcoming the tariff walls set by the British about India. In re- prisal, the British have sought to wall off Australia, CORRECTION A phrase inadvertently omitted from James W. Ford’s article on George Padmore last week, dis- torted the sense of a section of the article. The statement said that one of the reasons for Padmore’s expulsion from the Communist Party was that he “was on inti- mate terms with well-known spies and police agents within the ranks of the French party.” Thic should have read “. . . well-known spies and police agents who had former- ly been within the ranks of the French Party.” and workers to “get into your own | The Daily Worker keeps you informed of the world-wide strug- gles by the working class against unemployment, hunger. fascism and war. The Daily Worker for, one month daily or six months of the Saturday edition costs only 75 cents. Send your sub to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York cite | | | Roosevelt: “‘This should get us home!” From the First World War to the Second By NEMO IX. POISON GASES AND PLAGUE GERMS (Continued) IN THE first gas attack during the World War (Ypres, 1915) 115,000 kilos of gas were launched on a front of 6 kilometres. The result of this first attempt was 15,000 wounded by gas and 5,000 dead. In the World War, 31 different poison gases were used; today there are a thousand. On October 13, 1933, one could read the following notice in the press: “The French Professors Rert and Vorrier have succeeded in discovering a poison gas against which there is no remedy. The preparation of this gas is especially easy. The War Ministry is strongly interested.” In April 1934, the press announced that 20 work- ers of Imperial Chemical Industries had been over- come by poison gas. This concern is alleged to have succeeded in the preparation of the “deadliest poison in the world.” One can note, therefore, that every day is bringing new “progress” in the sphere of gas warfare. And yet, the “achievements” already arrived at are already so great.... ‘There is an infinite series of poison gases, from the irritant gases, which compel the taking off of the gas mask up to the lung-damaging gases, in- cluding chlorine, phosgene and chloropicrin. One draught of phosgene and death occurs after two hours. One exposure to chloropicrin yapor and blinding is certain. Inhale cyanic acid and the central nervous system is at once put out of action, the respiration centre destroyed and life cut short. But five times more poisonous than phosgene is mustard gas, which burns the whole living body. Inhale only .03 milligrams of levisite, the “death dew,” and an unimaginably torturing death is cer- tain. Laughing gas, in combination with other gases, causes death with convulsions of -laughter or madness. But civilized bourgeois culture has still further surprises for the people. It is true that in the last. world war poison gases were not yet employed against the civil population, although they were employed at the front. On the other hand, bac- teriological war should bring with it something en- tirely new. War with plague germs and cholera germs? “That is a Communist provocation,” we can hear it being said. Let us then allow the bearers of bourgeois culture to speak for themselves. First ‘of all, listen to what Professor Banse, one of the scientific lights of the Third Empire, has to say: “Although biology still lags strongly behind chemistry, it may however be presumed that the necessities of the next war will win its position for it. The following come into account: infection of water supply by typhus germs, introduction of typhus by fleas as well as of plague by rats. In particular, aeroplanes, by landing in enemy territory and letting loose the germ carriers, could achieve especially favourable results.” ‘Banse in no way stands alone. Long before him, Mr. Churchill had written in the Pall-Mall Maga- zine that the laboratories of more than one: country have already been occupied with the question of be deliberately let’ loose on human beings and animals in enemy country; mildew, in order to destroy the harvest; anthrax, in order to ruin horses and cattle; plague, in order to annihilate not only whole armies but also the inhabitants of wide regions—such are the means, the application of which military science is preparing with ruthless progress. : Yes indeed, “with ruthless progress” there is being cultivated today in secret laboratories the carriers of anthrax, typhus, cholera, plague, small- pox, tuberculosis, etc. The French Professor, Andre Mayer, soberly notes: “All that can be said is that the possibility of unleashing an epidemic is not to be rejected a priori—quite on the contrary.” And Gertrude Woker, the well-known woman investigatcr of poison gases, came to the conclusion: “That a new war will make use of bacteriological means of de- struction is, in any case, to be supposed after the experiences of the World War.” There can indeed be no doubt that the coming poison gas war will be accompanied by a bacterio- logical war, Was it not intended, during the last how artificially-cultivated agents of disease could ‘ world war, to smuggle German cholera germs in fountain pens through Switzerland into Russia and to infest the Rumanian cavalry with smallpox cul- tures? Only the ending of the war prevented the execution of these criminal plans. But for the imperialists postponement is not renunciation. X. STORMING THE SOCIALIST PEACE FORTRESS pee freedom, land and bread,” that was the slogan of the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin, with which they began the struggle against imperialist war in their own country. In possession of political power, supported by the armed prole- tarian dictatorship, the victorious October Revolu- tion in 1917 realized these four demands. The ending of the war between Russia and Germany led the way to the ending of the World War. The young Soviet government, the first workers’ and. peasants’ government of the world, brought about peace; it tore up all-the imperialist treaties of the tsarist hangmen, and put an end to secret diplomacy. The Soviet government gave the peoples which had been oppressed by tsarism fox centuries, such as the Finns, Esthonians and Poles, their national independence and solved the national ques- tion within its own frontiers by the creation of a Federative Soviet Republic in which hundreds of nationalities were united peacefully on an equal basis. National oppression, this invariable con- stituent of imperialist war, was done away with for one hundred and sixty million people. The Soviet government voluntarily gave up all the tsarist op- pressive claims against the weak peoples as also against China, Persia, Afghanistan and Turkey. The century-old hereditary enmity between Russia and its neighbors was liquidated by the Soviet government without a trace. From the first day of its existence the. Soviet government had only one aim: to carry through socialist construction in peace and thereby to be able to raise the economic and cultural position of the toilers to a hitherto unknown level. For sixteen years, the Soviet government has succeeded in carrying out this policy against a world of enemies. The conquest of political power by the Russian proletariat denoted the first breach in the capital- ist structure. The first breach in the imperialist world system, World capital lost the loans granted to tsarism, it lost one of its best sources of ex- ploitation over one-sixth of the globe, it lost the Caucasian oil fields and Siberian gold fields. Did not the Russian workers and peasants dare to dem- onstrate practically to the toilers of the whole world that not only could one get along without capitalists and big landlords, but also that one could live still better than before? ‘Were they not the only ones who were able to report an unpre- cedented economic upsurge, the complete liquida- tion of unemployment, unrestricted political free- dom and undreamed of possibilities for further ad4 vance in the future, at a moment in which fifty million toilers in the capitalist countries had been thrown on to the street? Did not the example of the October Revolution inspire the millions of colonial slaves and national minorities to a triply enhanced struggle against the imperialist oppres- “sors? Was not the existence of the Soviet Union, which rallied round it an ever wider strata of toilers and enlightened intellectuals in all countries, bound to become a perpetual deadly menace to the exisence of the bourgeois social order? Did not the issue here lie in the struggle between two systems, the bankrupt, decaying, murderous capitalist sys- tem and the rising socialist system bringing peace, work and bread? Stalin, the successor to Lenin, declared: ‘ “ . , , the contradiction between the capitalist world and the U.S.S.R. . . . lays bare to the very roots all the contradictions of capit@lism and gathers them up into one knot, making of them a question of life and death for the capitalist system itself... .” “Hence the tendency to adventurist assaults on. the U.S.S.R. and to intervention, a tendency which is bound to be strengthened as a result of the developing economic crisis.”* * J, Stalin, “Leninism,” Vol. II. “Political Report to the Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.” (To Be Continued) | On the | World Front Arrogant War Lords — and Professors Manchurian Insurgents HE arrogance of the Jap. anese war lords knows. no bounds. When the word goes out for stimulation of provo- cations against the Soviet Union, one never needs to read the secret orders, be- cause there immediately results a flock of incidents that show the fine hand of the military gentry in Tokio. These provocations seem to come in well-defined waves , have a defie nite purpose, and are always caree fully timed. The most recent mae neuvers along the Soviet border in Manchuria followed the Soviet Union's refusal of the deliberately jow final offer for the USS.R.’s share in the Chicago Eastern Rail- way. They are timed, also, for the midst of the harvest. i ay, ey UT the arrogance of the generals is only exceeded by that of the professors. For example. Dr. Shigeo Suehiro, professor of Kyoto Im- perial University, writing in the in- fluential magazine, “Kaiko Jiho,” offers the following proposal to the Soviet Union in the Far East: “If the Soviet Union is sincere in her professions for the mainte- nance of peace, she should withdraw her army, to, say, west of Baikal, If this is accomplished, there is no doubt that it will remove all the uneasy atmosphere hanging over the two nations.” Pig SEN HAT prevents the astute pro- fessor from suggesting that the Red Army retire within its own bor- ders, say, to Moscow, is that Jap- anese imperialism for the first stage of its war plans is interested pri- marily in the Far Eastern territory of the Soviet Union up to Lake Baikal. With Japanese imperialism maintaining an army of over 200,- 000 men, and constantly building airdromes, military railroads and roads leading to the Soviet border, in territory it robbed from China, the imperial professors advise the Soviets to maintain peace, to with- draw from Soviet territory and open the road to the Japanese war lords. This is precisely the type of “Deace” Japanese imperialism wants; it is the type of “peace” it is plot- ting for all of China. The professor and his colleagues in uniform are doomed to disap- pointment. * . * FTER nearly three years of mili- tary conquest of Manchuria, Japanese imperialism has been un- able to crush” the rebellion of the Manchurian workers and peasants. In fact, the partisan bands are growing and their resistance against Japanese imperialism is becoming more costly. The Japanese press calls all of the insurgents “bandits” very much as Chiang Kai-shek, and the Trotskyites, dubbed the heroic Red Armies of China. When American marines invaded Nicaragua on the pretext that San- dino was a bandit, throughout Latin America revolutionary speakers, when addressing mass meeting, used to put the following question: “Quienes son los bandidoes en Nicaragua?” (Who are the bandits in Nicaragua?) The response of the entire audience would invariably be: “The Wall Street marines!” * 'HENEVER the colonial masses struggle for freedom, to those who have billions in profits at stake from the continued slavery of the workers and peasants, every armed struggle is “banditry.” Vigilantes are “heroic. and patri- otic” citizens, but striking workers are criminals. An idea of the size and effective- ness of the insurgent forces in Man- churia can be gained from the latest report published in the “China Weekly Review,” from which we quote the following: “Despite Japanese claims per- taining to the pacification of Man-° churia, which are handed out to foreign newspaper correspondents in Tokyo and broadcasted to the world by Japanese propagandists abroad, authoritative reports from foreign consular sources in Man- | churia state there are still 60,000 Chinese volunteers operating in Kirin province, while the number in Heilungkiang is estimated at 80,000. And this in spite of the fact that the Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army has now ex- pended approximately 600,000,000 yen on pacification in Manchuria ‘since the original occupation on September 18, 1931, the expendi- ture in the fiscal year exceeding 65,000,000 yen.” The “China Weekly Review” also points out that the number of suc- cessful attacks on Japanese forces in important cities is growing alarmingly for the Japanese “paci- fiers.” * 8 8 M the latest issue of the Chinese Workers Correspond-. ence we learn further that the Vol- unteers in Kirin recently scored two victories against the Japanese in- vaders. They occupied two impor- tant cities, Hsulan, which is only, 50 miles from the capital of and Lung Chin Tsen, also known under the nume of Lutaogu, which \ - serves as a distributive center in the area of Guan Tao. The Japanese militarists are hav- ing some trouble with their own Manchurian troops. On June 21, 200 cavalrymen stationed in Mal- anyu (a pass along the Great Wall of China) revolted against their officers and fled into Eastern Ma- sauloum. They put up a stiff re- sistance against their pursuers. * Tt Soviet aviator Yevdokimov, who holds the world’s parachute record, having dropped from a height of 24.000 feet, falling 22,700 feet without opening the para- of age, and a member of the Com- chute, is a young worker, 26 years munist Party. # i i