The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1934, Page 6

iy Page Six Daily,.QWorker | GRUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST UETERRATIONAAT | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 THE PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥ Telephone Cable Address Washington Bu: 14th and F &t., ALgonquin 4-795 4 Daiwor Press Building, | ne: National 7910 705, Cheago, Ill Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except | Bronx) 6 months, $3.50; 3 month, Grates. Srenz, nd Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 $3.00 a | ; By Carrier: Weekly nts; monthly, 75 cents. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934 The Minneapolis Strike | Statement of the District. Bureau, Communist Party, District 9, | Minnesota IOMRADES, fellow workers: | The stubborn struggle of the truck drivers of Minneapolis is at a critical stage. This fact must be stated very clearly. It is still possible, however, to win this strike. But victory can be won only with the active support of the entire work- ing population of the city. It will never be won by relying upon. Governor Olson and his agents in the Central Labor Union. This is just what the Trotskyite leaders of Local 574, the Dunne brothers, have done. These people hhave also. relied on aid from the A. F. of &. chiefs of the Central Labor Union—who are agents of Governor Olson in the Minneapolis Labor move- ment. | «+ The idea was spread among the drivers that Governor Olson sent National Guardsmen to Min- neapolis to enforce martial law against the em- ployers, against Chief of Police Johannes. The drivers have discovered that this is not so, ‘The troops and the declaration of martial law was directed against the strikers. Martial law was an attempt to stop mass picketing, to defeat the strike. By their support of Olson and by their failure to appeal to the trade unionists of the city over the heads of their leaders, the Trotskyite chiefs of Local 574 stand convicted as a party to Olson's game of supporting the drivers in words, and trick- ing their strike in deeds. These policies, as scores of drivers, are beginning to see, are heading the strike straight for defeat. This must not be! The strike of the heroic drivers must not be permitted to do down to defeat. In order to guarantee the success of the strike, a break must be made with the treacherous policies pursued until now. The Communist Party of Minnesota makes the following proposals to the workers of Local 574, proposals which, if carried through promptly and energetically, will mean the success of the strike: 1. Militant mass picketing should be renewed. 2. All members of Local 574, drivers, helpers, and inside men, should come off their jobs and rejoin the strike. 3. The local’s committee of 100 should organ- ize committees to visit all local unions, factories, shops, car barns and other workers’ organizations, to mobilize them to support the drivers through sympathetic strikes. 4. That a special United Labor Conference of all unions and other working class organizations be called to prepare for a General Strike, to fight for the freedom of speech and assemblage; the right to picket and strike, to lift the military regu- lations that hamper the strikers, and to demand the freedom of our brothers imprisoned in the military stockade. 5. That Olson’s agents be driven ont of the strike leadership. Towards such a development the Communist Party will strain all its strength. The Communist Party places its forces unstintingly at the service of the workers of Local 574. Our members will march with you in renewed mass picketing and aid in every possible way to mobilize labor organiza- tions throughout the city to come to your aid, Every Communist in Minnesota must be on the alert to work for the victory of the strike. Every unit member must be in close contact with his unit organizer if the necessary work to bring victory is to be done, Every unit organizer must maintain the closest contact with his section, every section or- ganizer with the district. The Communist Party Membership must be a disciplined army that has its immediate objective the fight to aid the workers of Local 574 win their strike, Reach the members of Local 574 with these pro- Posals of the Communist Party! Rally the locals of the A. F. of L. for sym- Pathetic strike action, for the general strike! Throw all the forces of the Party into the struggle to bring victory to the striking truckmen! DISTRICT COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. DISTRICT 9. Roosevelt and Food D prices have reached a new 30- month peak. In the last two weeks they have jumped at an extraordinary speed, rising 4.6 per cent. This, of course, doesn’t worry Roose- velt or his Secretary of Agriculture Wal- Jace. Didn’t Wallace say, after a private confer- Uoin the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more infor-ration on the Commu. nist Party. i | | I NAME......ccc0ecseeeeeee ADDRESS. | ge ence with Roosevelt, that at least a 7 per cent food price advance is “inevitable”? And hasn't it been the avowed purpose of the Roosevelt government to raise prices, a purpose which succeeded to the extent that even before the drought Roosevelt had already raised prices more than 16 per cent since last March? But all this will mean bitter hunger and misery for millions of American workers and toiling farmers. It is absolutely undeniable, proved by scores of investigations, and confirmed by recent develop- ments, that the American worker's family is now getting less food than at any time since the crisis. Serious milk shortages in workers’ families are re- ported by the Department of Agriculture. And the situation will now get even worse, . . . HO is responsible? The drought says Roosevelt. But there would never be any rising prices if it wer not for the Roosevelt criminal A.A.A. program which has already destroyed millions of bushels of wheat, corn, and other farm products. If not for the A.A.A. destruction, the drought would have not been able to reduce the country’s supplies down to their present record low level. There would have been large carry overs to take care of the emer- gency. As it is, no blarney of Roosevelt can conceal the fact that there is an actual menace of food short- age. If there were no shortage, what basis would there be for Roosevelt’s hollow, tepid “warning” against “exorbitant” food price rises? And what is an “exorbitant” price rise? To every workers’ family every cent represents an “ex- orbitant” price rise which makes life more- difficult and miserable. . . . 'T IS clear that the vast majority of the American population, workers and impoverished farmers, faces an immediate, drastic degradation of its living standards, It is also clear that it is the Roosevelt policies of crop destruction which is responsible. What is to be done about it? There must be a fight against the whole Roose- velt, A.A.A. program of rising prices and crop de- struction, a fight waged jointly by the city workers and the toiling farm population, The entire toiling population must unite to abolish the A:A.A. criminal destruction program! There must be an organized fight for relief to the drought-stricken farmers through a fight for the enactment of the measures outlined in the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill proposed by the Communist Party. Cash relief to all drought- stricken farmers’ families! In the cities, organized actions against any rise whatever in food prices organized in the neighbor- hoods before food markets. In the factories, workers must protect their fam- ilies and themselves against the rising prices by preparation for strikes, demanding higher wages to meet any price rises that take place. All unemployed workers on relief must organize immediate actions for increased appropriations to take care of all food price advances to prevent an actual slashing of their relief grants. In all the cities there must be big demonstrations in the streets against the rising cost of living, against the robbing of the families of the working class of their daily food necessities, Roosevelt's policies are a menace to the impover- ished farmers and the working class! For united struggle of workers and farmers against the criminal food destruction of the Roosevelt A.A.A. policies! Warships in China ASR ICON: British and Japanese war- ships are ready to land troops at Foo- chow, sea coast town of the Fukien Proy- ince in China. The reason is that the Chinese Red Army, an army consisting of workers and peasants, is rapidly approaching this stronghold of the Nanking government, Why are American soldiers and sailors, sons of American workers and farmers, sent against the workers and farmers of China? We are told that the Navy is “for defense” only. What are American warships and marines doing near Foo- chow? They are -protecting the investments of Wall Street, of Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan. Above all, they are ready to drown in blood the new world which is growing up under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. in the Soviet Districts of China. The Chinese Red Army has been able to win victory after victory against the well-armed, Wall Street-financed troops of Chiang Kai-shek, largely because it is the army of the majority of the oppressed population. The Chinese Red Army Is a@ people’s army fighting against the yoke of the landlords and the imperialist bankers. * . . | Cacia er VICTOR .A. YAKHONTOFF, authority on Chinese affairs, states in his latest book that “Most if not all of China would turn Communist within a very short time,” if the imperielist armies and warships supporting the Nanking government were withdrawn. Reaction and exploitation in China now. rest solely on the bayonets of imperialism, including Wall Street imperialism, the imperialism of the Roosevelt. government. These Wall Street. imperialist hayonets are aimed at the Chinese Soviets which are fighting against robbery, exploitation, and all imperialist oppres- sion, . The Chinese Red Army and the Chinese So- viets have become an international force, a bulwark to protect the Soviet Union. They stand in the way of the Japanese imperialists who see in them an obstacle in their path to the seizure of the Soviet Siberian territory. It is the duty of the international proletariat to come to the aid of the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviets. Protest to the Roosevelt gov- ernment against the sending of U. 8. warships to Chinese waters. Demand the withdrawal of all American troops from China, Raise the slogan everywhere, “Hands Off the Chinese Soviets!” DAILY WORKER. N U.S. W. arships Near Soviet China Towns Together With Japan, British Prepare to Land Troops SHANGHAI, Aug. 16.—Landing parties from the American, Jap- anese and British warships anchor- ed near Foochow, seacoast city of the Pukien province, are prepared to land instantly and enter into action against the advancing Chinese Red Army, according to advices received here. The Chinese Red Army, composed of workers and peasants from the interior districts, has been winning victery after victory against the troops of the Chiang Kai-shek gov- ernment. It is now within a radius of four to ten miles of Foochow. the largest seacoast town in the Pukien province. The Soviet power has been es- tablished in the seven districts north of Fukien. Foochow is the capital city of Pukien. Already a guard of 10,000 work- ers and peasants has been created to protect the new Soviet districts, and more than 60,000 workers and peasants, including many fishermen, took part in the fighting which took the district for the Soviets. The Soviets captured 70 big junks with guns. The imperialist warships, it is now clear, are ready to take action against the Chinese Red Army and the Soviets. The Chiang Kai-shek government is supported mainly by imperialist money and bayonets, chiefly Ameri- can, Czech Workers Greet Three Soviet Flyers PRAGUE, Aug. 16.—A large crowd of enthusiastic workers broke through the police lines at the air- drome to hail the three Soviet planes which stopped here for a few hours on their way back to Moscow from Paris. Shouts of “Hail to the Red Army” and “Hail the Soviet Union, bul- wark of peace,” were heard on every side. The Soviet Minister at Prague was present, as well as many offi- cials and military officers of the air force. Leading the Soviet flyers is M. Unschlicht, head of the Soviet Union's aviation forces, Liebknecht Murderer Chosen Prosecutor in Nazi ‘People’s Court’ BERLIN, Aug. 16—The true character of the “People’s Court’ could not be more trenchantly illustrated than by the fact that Dr. Jorns, the man proved to have sup- ported the murderers of Karl Lieb- knecht and Rosa Luxemburg, has been appointed first public prose- cutor to this court. ‘The terror court has passed a fresh sentence: A man named Haagen, from Berlin, 27 years old, has been sentenced to 244 years im- prisonment for acting as Commu- nist messenger. No news has been heard of the fate of the Dutch trade union sec- retary Spansier, whose trial for “sedition” commenced in camera before the “People’s Court” on Aug. 1. Spansier has been on remand in custody for almost a year, Communist Leaflets Appear Suddenly in Room of Nazi Library BERLIN, Aug. 16—The “Basler Nachrichten” . reports: “Yesterday, shortly after noon, a bomb with time fuse exploded in the library of the University in Berlin. This explosion brought to light a num- ber of small leaflets, which fluttered about the hall, and were found to read as follows: “Today as in 1914 there are. incendiaries at work. Comrades, nothing but a Soviet Germany can bring us freedom, peace, bread.” Above the letter- press the leafiets bore the red ham- mer and sickle. Paint Phackumants Name On Roads of Czechoslovakian Cities PRAGUE, Aug. 16.—It may be safely stated today that there. is no town in Czechoslovakia where there are no Thaelmann slogans painted up. The workers of Slovakia are carrying on an energetic cam- paign for the release of Thaelmann and Rakosi. In Lucenec, for in- stance, slogans have been painted in red letters on the church, de- manding the release of Thaelmann ond Rakosi. In Bystrice the whole town was covered with painted slogans in the course of one night. The lock at Malomeric has been painted with Thaelmann and Rakosi slogans. t Farm Laborers Win Strike for Back Pay STOCKHOLM, Aug. 16.—The ag- ricultural laborers in Hedas have gained a complete victory by their strike. In spite of the prohibition issued by the leaders of the reform- ist union, these workers came out on strike, their demand being the payment of wage arrears. During the negotiations, the em- ployers endeavored to impose a compromise, and were supported by the committee of the reformist union. The workers rejected the compromise and carried the strike to a successful end, EW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934 PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE—! By Burck j On the World Front HARRY GANNE! { wy Blood on the Old Sod | Roosevelt Is Praised World Wheat Madness HE De Valera government of Ireland will not only merit the hearty applause of the British imperialists, but will get from them the great. By NEMO XI. The Path, (Concluded) The struggle of the victorious Russian proletariat for defense of its Socialist achievements, the revo- lutionary insurrection of the oppressed nations against imperialist enslavement, the war of the en- slaved proletarian class against the class of the bourgeoisie—these and these alone are the only pro- gressive, and hence, the only just wars which world Communism wholeheartedly champions as the pre-condition for the total abolition of war. The overthrow of capitalism represents the alpha and omega of the revolutionary struggle against war by the Third International, “As long as capitalism exists there can be no lasting peace. Lasting peace can only be built on the ruins of the bourgeois social order,” so it was declared in the above-mentioned manifesto of the Third International fifteen years ago, when all the social-democratic bells were pealing the announce- ment of the approach of eternal peace. On the eve of the second world war the Social- Democratic path of bourgeois democracy has led to fascism and unrestricted chauvinism at the moment when the Communist path of proletarian dictatorship has made the Soviet Union the strongest peace fortress in the world, while the growing Socialist well-being in the land of the Soviets brought an enormous improvement in the conditions of life of 170,000,000 workers and peasants. In the capitalist countries, bourgeois democracy has led to the fascist reign of terror, to unspeakable misery and to the danger of war for the toilers. Only in the country of proletarian dictatorship are the toilers sure of peace, freedom, work and bread. For 15 years, the Communist Parties have strug- gled in the spirit of a truly proletarian interna- tionalism. The national minorities and the op- pressed colonial peoples, the toilers of the Soviet Union, as well as the rebelling soldiers and sailors of the imperialist armies, have found their boldest champions in the Third International, Who is there can doubt that the second world war, the second intervention, would long ago have become a fact, were it not that the relation of forces had con- siderably altered compared to 1914, were it not that the bourgeoisie was in fear of the uncertain outcome of the war, which can lead to the victory of the world revolution instead of to the victory of world reaction? The breach made in the system of world capitalism by the Russian Soviets and Soviet China, the mighty revolutionary struggle for emancipation of the peoples of Asia and national minorities of Europe, the persistent anti-imperialist struggle of a united Communist World Party, are new factors in contrast to 1914 which the bour- geoisie have to take in all seriousness into their reckoning. The path of the revolutionary class struggle in the sign of the Soviet Star has proved to be the sole and sure path for combatting the im- perialist war. ‘The struggle of the wide toiling masses in all countries for defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China, for abolition of the fascist rule of terror and imperialist danger of war, can only be successful if it is carried on by a united working class. All toilers, no matter of what party, of what race or what convictions, who are absolutely equally affected - by fascist terror and imperialist war, by exploita- tion and oppression,. must stand together in unity, must fight in unity in order to be able to conquer in unity. As the Manifesto of the Central Com- mittees of the Communist Parties of Great Britain, France, Germany and Poland addressed to the toil- ers of all countries on the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, states In passionate words: “Proletarians of all countries! Women! “You are the force which can save humanity from the fresh fratricidal slaughter. There is still lacking the unity of the working class in order, by the overthrow of capitalism, to put an end to im- perialist 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 criminals, the war profiteers, the diplomats, the parliamentarians and generals. To this unity in the class struggle against capitalism, against its reactionary, 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 call to you, no matter to what party, what trade union organization you may belong, whether you are or- ganized or unorganized. | “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: “On the basis of the solidarity of all toilers against fratricidal war, on the basis of the common interests of all oppressed against the oppressors, on the basis of proletarian internationalism 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 20th anniversary of the out- break of the war, on August 1, 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- valid’ 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 of the imperialists!, “Protect the revolytionary-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 campaign of the imperialists! “Workers and employees! Working peasants! | Small business people, small shopkeepers! Young People and 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 proletarian internationalism! “Long live the united fight of all proletarians and toilers for the overthrow of capitalism! “Long live the world revolution!” (The End) Young workers! | capitalist government. jlantes, the red-drives of the Elks Curtain Workers Win Increases in Pay NEW YORK—The workers of the J. A. Kaplan Curtain Co., un- der the leadership of the Curtain and Drapery Section of the Furni- ture Workers’ Industrial Union, won a 15 per cent increase in wages and ether demands from the boss. He also agreed to all other demands, as recognition of shop committee and union representative, time and a half for overtime, three-piece cur- tain to be paid at the rate of 1% pairs, wages to be paid every Mon- day in cash. Unemployed? Builders} doin the Red PICNIC TO AID C, P, DRIVE CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 16.—A joint picnie of Branch 2-12 of the Russian National Mutual Aid So- ciety and the Russian Progressive Women’s Club will be held on Victor Balesta’s farm. east of Chagrin Falls, on Sunday, Aug. 19. USSR Issues Turkish Edition of ‘Gulliver’ MOSCOW, Aug. 16.—As part of the tremendous campaign of pub- lishing classics of literature in all the languages of the Soviet Union making the best literature availab'c to the masses, the Azerbajian State Publishing Hove is issuint » Turk- Two Russian Workers To Visit U. S. Plants MOSCOW, Aug. 16.—Two workers irom the Makeyevka Iron Works Prices for the masses. the first have been elected by their fellow workers to visit the United States to learn the latest methods used here in the big iron and steel plants. The workers will work in Ameri- can plants to perfect their own vechnique. Twenty thousand new readers by Sept. Ist means 20,000 addi- tional recruits fer organized class ish edition of “Gulliver's Trayels,’! struggie, est encouragement and sup- |port in its butchery of the Trish peasants, so many of whom |were laid under the old sod by British bullets. A new chapter is being written in | the struggle for land and freedom in Ireland. What his Majesty’s hired murderers used to do to pre- serve the interest of the rict British landowners, the de Valer: government is doing to preserve the !* plunder of the rich Irish landlords, aD) . Cork on Monday slaughtered Jeremiah Lynch, 23, and wounded seven others described as “of the farming class” they emphasized more powerfully than leaflets or thesis that the national struggle is |primarily a class struggle in Ire- jland. Like their forefathers who struggled against the tyranny of British imperialism, the Irish farm- ers gathered at Cork to prevent a tax sale by agents of the de Valera government. They learned that | when farmers resist the robbery of the landlords, whether Irish or British, the Irish landlord’s govern- ment just as readily sheds Irish blood to maintain their heels on the necks of the peasantry as the British oppressors have for centu- ries, eae peers 1 eee poor and middle peasants who have been blinded by the illusions of the de Valera govern- ment’s sham battle against British imperialism can no longer fail to see now that the de Valera killers are not one whit different than the British hangmen. In the United States where the de Valera demagogy has sunk deeply it is our duty to bring to the Irish workers the lessons of de Valera’s butchery of the Irish peasants, just as British imperialism murdered their forefathers in the struggle for land and national liberation. sar Raa oO the Communist Party of Ireland leads the way to real liberation, in the united struggle of the Irish workers, poor and middle farmers against British imperial- ism and their blood brothers with Trish carcasses, the Irish rich land- lords. and capitalists, . #8 ITLER observes the works of President Roosevelt, and finds them good. After all, the record of | Some fifty strikers murdered since the passage of the N, R. A, is not such a bad one for a “democratic” The vigi- and other animals, are viewed by Hitler as following in the foot- steps of the Storm Troops, before the mutual misunderstanding be- tween the pervert Roehm and his closest friend, Hitler. tee rina OR does Hitler, in his supreme egotism in the slightest desire to slander or besmirch, the smirking President of the United States. He wants to pay him the highest compliment for being so apt and so rapid a pupil. Analyzing the trend and substance of Roosevelt's measures, the Ger- man Nazis find they completely conform to Fascist ideals of sup- pressing the workingclass, war prep- arations, slashing the toilers’ living conditions, and granting huge sub- sidies to the mammoth trusts at the expense of the rest of the popula- tion, + tee IT was to get the German Fascists to admire the methods of Roose- velt to see in him a kindred soul, that the Fascist newspaper, the Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung, organ of the Ruhr industry (the Pitts- burgh of Germany) declared: “Roosevelt's measures show in many respects a similarity with the National Socialists decision on the economic field. The labor creation program may in many ways be regarded as a far-reach- ing imitation of the German model.” Soe oe HY can the Fascist butchers of Germany quite correctly show the similarity between Roosevelt's measures and their own? A Because Roosevelt is ree lief in order to increase the profits of the American Krupps (the Mor- gans, Rockefellers, Mellons, and Fords.) Because Roosevelt through the N. R, lpn cet: follows Hitler’s met of smashing down wages, white dividends and profits are hiked upwards. ieee al like Hitler, is spe ig his war building program, Because Roosevelt like, Hitler, is ruining the poor and middle farm- ers for the benefit of the specula- tors. haa eas ND last, but not least, Roosevelt in the fully accredited methods of Hitler, provokes the slaughter of strikers and militant trade union leaders, instigates an attack on the vanguard of the workingclass, its most devoted and tried leader, the Communist Party. 45 ee the whole capitalist world " facing a wheat shortage and consequent hunger and high si on the agenda of the international gathering of representatives from wheat growing countries which opened Tuesday in London was—a further reduction in acreage in order to raise wheat prices! Secre- tary of Hunger Wallace is not just an American phenomenon, but merely one of a vicious species prevalent in all capitalist countries in this period of agrarian catas- | trophe. Though wheat production ; Was slashed at least 20 per cent by the drought, the big international wheat speculators want another 15 to 30 per cent cut in wheat acreage, t WHEN, the 300 civic Guards at 4