The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934 : Daily QWorker CONTRA, O8GAN COMMUNIST PARTY B54. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST MITERMATION, |) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper’ FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. : Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Daiwork,” New Room Address: $ Building. onal 7910 Cheago, m. By Mail: (except $6.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 5 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 mon By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934 Gorman’s Agreement ORMAN, the leading U. T. W. official in the present textile strike, has just of- fered a proposed agreement to the textile employers upon which he offers to end the str Every textile striker now fighting for better wages and against the killing speed- up should discuss this proposed agreement with his fellow workers on the picket lines. Every striker should ask himself the question, does this agreement adequately protect my inter- ests? Does it give me what I and my family need in our fight for tter wages and for the end of the frightful hout in the mills? The very heart he textile strike is contained in the demands on the wage scale and the limita- tions of the speed-up formulated at the recent United Textile Workers Convention. It is fundamentally on the question of wages and speed-up that one million textile workers are now out on strike. . * . T THE recent convention of the United Textile Workers Union a program representing the minimum wage demands of the rank and file mem- bership of the union was forced upon the officials by a unanimous vote. These demands define exactly what the rank and file textile workers want. What they are fight- ing for on the picket lines, They want a minimum wage of $13 a week with the rates rising up to $30 for highly skilled workers. They listed very definite demands on the number of looms and spindles to be worked by each worker in every department. And yet it is on just these definite conven- tion demands of the rank and file on wages and stretchout that Gorman’s agreement leave the field open to victory for the textile omplo; It is just the question of w wD that Gorman’s proposed agreement offers to “ar- bitrate” with the employers through the Rooscvel Mediation Board. Gorman lists all the other con- vention demands just as they were originally passed. But he does this only to detract attention from the fact that on the central issue of the strike, Wages and speed-up, he drops the convention de- mands, and leaves the way open for concessions and betrayals. Gorman’s agreement merely proposes that wages and work loads shall be discussed with the em- ployers and the Mediation Board. This is tantamount to letting the employers know that the U. T. W. officials are ready to act jn the spirit of McMahon, U. T. W. president, who declared two days ago that the union offi- tials are willing to “give way here and there’— that is to say, on the most vital issues for which the textile workers are now so bravely fighting. Any strike settlement that goes back on the convention wage scale, leaving the textile work- ers as hungry as before, as driven by the streteh- out as before, is a defeat for the workers and a betrayal of their struggles, * * str ‘HERE must not be one single settlement of any question involved in the strike without a vote taken by the strikers themselves. It is the strikers, the pickets, who must have the real authority to decide all agreements. The strikers must see to it that they have the final vote on every settle- ment, rather than leave the decisions to the upper officials. No “arbitration” of any wage or speed-up de- ™mands! All questions of settlement to be submitted to the strikers for a general yote! The convention demands are clear and definite. The strikers will see that they are not betrayed. The Aluminum Strike eae labor conciliator Fred Keightly and Dave Williams, official of the American Federation of Labor, were both working at great speed yesterday to con- elude a betrayal of the one-month strike of 8,700 workers at six plants of the Alum- inum Company of America. According to Keightly, top union of- ficials and representatives of the company have agreed in a secret, conference to end the strike today. The strikers have had no say in the matter, United Front Problems| Of Youth Congress To Be Discussed Tonight | NEW YORK.—The resident com- | mittee of the executive board of the | Cleveland, New Haven Plans for Anti-War Congress CLEVELAND, Ohio, First American Youth Congress, in | Two conferences, one a youth con- and, indeed, none of the points of settlement were announced. But the that secret agreement is a terests is clear. Dave egotiations, let the body won or To say lost anything what decision er strike before is ended.” What more evidence needed than this? Fearimg the rese nt of the rank and file over an agreement kept secret and which rejects the demands of the workers, the union leaders hope to break the backbone of the strike by herd- ing the workers back into the mills, and after this is accomplished and the workers are demoralized, movement will be impossible, the aim of the government mediators s is to give the aluminum bosses, ready to retreat before the militancy a breathing space, a chance to rally for a heavier and more concerted at- and Mr. W who are no’ of the v their es, tack on unionism and the workers’ conditions. The demands of the strikers are simple and just trade union demands: Recognition of the union and a universal wage scale. The bosses in their conferences at Washington have continually refused to agree to these demands. But just when victory is in sight, the government and top A. F. of L. officials step in and conclude an agreement without the consent of the workers, which will give the workers none of the demands for which they fought. It is not necessary, however, for this strike to end under any such secret agreements and plans, which are favorable to the bosses and not the workers. The workers should and can decide the question. The aluminum workers should set up their own rank and file committees to take charge of the strike. Mass picket the mills. Demand that only a democratically elected committee of the rank and file shall negotiate with the manufacturers. De- mand that all questions of settlement be taken be- fore the membership of the union for a vote. Do not allow government mediators and Mr. Williams, who have proven themselves agents of the bosses, to decide the matter. That is the job of the strikers, and the strikers only. Settlement through a secret agreement, a strike- breaking settlement, must and can be defeated by the aluminum workers. Textile workers, too, should take note of the kind of a settlement government Officials are trying to put over on the aluminum workers. It is this same kind of a settlement that Mr. Roosevelt's Mediation Board is trying to put over on them, Sloan’s New Line R. SLOAN, spokesman for the textile employers, now has a new line to ex- plain away the tremendous sweep of the textile strike. “The mills are being closed by intimi- dation,” he states now. During the first day of the strike he belittled the walkout with the aid of his fake sta- tistics, “proving” the trike only 25 per cent ef- fective. And the capitalist press gave him all the help he wanted in his poison campaign against the strike by featuring his doctored publicity on all the front pages in the headlines. But, apparently, Mr. Sloan’s hopeful statistics no longer console him. He reads in today’s papers such headlines as this, “New England Mill Cities Hit by 100 Per Cent Tie-Up.” And Mr. Sloan admitted sadly today that the “mills are closing so fast,” that he cannot count fast enough to figure out the new percentages. So he drags forth his latest piece of stupidity and poisonous provocation against the strikers, charging that a “minority” of textile workers are “preventing the workers from entering the mills,” . . * CS anything be more ridiculous than this idea that a “minority” of the textile workers are “intimidating” the majority to join the strike? Mr. Sloan refers to the flying squadrons of strikers who are marching from town to town and from mill to mill spreading the strike call. Mr. Sloan is vainly trying to conceal the fact that in every case these striking workers are greeted with the greatest enthusiasm by the workers in the mills, who immediately respond to the leadership of their fellow workers by joining the strike. Could “intimidation” by a “minority” shut down the entire New England textile industry? Could “intimidation” by a “minority” bring 60,000 new strikers onto the picket lines in the South within 24 hours after the first strike call? It is the bitter anger of the textile workers against the most brutal exploitation and wage slavery in the mills that is sweeping one million workers into the greatest battle for better condi- tions in the history of American labor! The intimidation comes not from the strikers, but from the employers and the Roosevelt. govern- ment with its police and armed forces, who are attempting to terrorize the workers back into the yoke of the $8 a week starvation wage and the killing stretch-out at the looms. It is the Roosevelt government which tries to starve the strikers back to work by inadequate relief rolls, that is guilty of intimidation and ter- rorism; not the textile workers who are using their power of organization to better their conditions, No one will be fooled by your stupid lies, Mr, Sloan. The working class of America stands solidly behind the greatest textile strike and laughs to scorn the lies of your capitalist colleagues and their kept press. Press Sept. 6— |Chicago by a number of delegates. |New Haven will be represented in| its drive to advance the united front achieved at the First American Youth Congress, has called a sym- posium for tonight at Labor Temple, Fourteenth Street and Second Ave- nue, on “The First American Youth Congress and After.” The speakers, who will discuss concrete plans for putting resolu- tions adopted at the Congress into effect as well as other problems which face the youth, are: Gil Green of the Young Communist League; Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense; Monroe Sweetland of the League for Industrial Recovery, and | Theodore Draper of the National Student League. N.Y, LAUNDRY DRIVERS STRIKE NEW YORK.—All drivers of the Bolland Laundry, Ninety-third Street nd Third Avenue, struck on r nder the leadership of Workers’ Industrial the reinstatement of union activities, ference, are planned by the Cleye- | jland branch of the American | morrow, |League Against War and Fascism | for September 15 at Grace Epis- copal Church, where plans and de- tails of preparations for the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism, as well as the enlistment of greater forces and support will be taken up. The congress will be |held in Chicago Sept. 28, 29 and 30. Elected delegates to the Chicago congress will be given a mass send- | | off banquet at Moose Hall on Sept. | 23, Arrangements are being made to \International Women's A tag day is scheduled for to-| | Following an outdoor meeting on |Central Green last Friday, 400 per-|in Osaka, the industrial center of |Sons crowded Fraternal Hall for a/ \talk on War and Fascism. Mother | |Bloor, recently returned from the Congress Against War and Fascism in Paris, was greeted with great enthusiasm by the audience and a number of. |Persons present filed applications for membership in the League, NEW YORK—The National ex- accommodate delegates on the New |°cutive Commtitee of the American | York-to-Chicago Anti-War Spectal League Against War and Fascism which will make connections with |@nd the Arrangements Committee Cleveland on September 27 at 9:30 /0f the p.m. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. |The twenty-four organizations af- filiated to the New Haven branch congress and it is expected that jand 30, Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism, a dele- {gated body, will meet tomorrow at | 6— |8 p.m., at the New School for So- Against War and Fascism to be ‘Harbin Press Urging War Against USSR) Manchurian Newspapers Lay Groundwork for Japanese Attack (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (By Wireless —The Japanese, Manchurian ar Whiteguard press, in line with th slanderous anti-Soviet campaigr are conducting the most unb: war propaganda against the U.S SR, The Japanese newspaper, “Har- | bin Simbun,” issued in Harbin, attacking the U.S.S.R. and provok- ing the Japanese population against the Soviet Union. In an article entiled, Should Be Loved,” this states: “War paper “Nine-tenths of our compatriots (that it, Japanese living in Man- churia), say it would be good if we have a war.” The newspaper “Anspot,” refers to a war “that would quickly de- stroy the beasts from the U.S.S.R. and insure a peaceful situation, and thus deserve approval. “This frame of mind must be spread throughout the Japanese | territory because in order to hunt beasts against which the whole country must be raised, it is in-| sufficient that only the Japanese in| Harbin should feel this necessity.” This Japanese organ urges ex- tensive contributions for the prep- aration of war, recommending even that “school children should econ- | omize on school appliances, lunches, ete.” | In a burst of chauvinistic ecstasy, | the newspaper exclaims: “Even. three-year-old children | when playing war should be seri- ously taught how to handle a rifie and sword, and be imbued with the spirit that war is agreeable and should be loved.” | The falsehoods and slanders with jwhich the Japanese-Manchurian press is filled are best illustrated by reports in a number of Japanese newspapers alleging that the Man- churian government decided to dis- continue transportation on i} | arms and ammunition, | The apparent objective of such falsification is clear. It is common | knowledge that the C.E.R. did not and does not carry military freights belonging to the USSR. Even more, it is a generally known fact that military transportation by the C.ER. is carried on exclusively by | Japanese commanders and Man-| churian authorities. Soviets Plan Future Fight On Droughts (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (By Wireless). —Taking up the future battle against drought, the Peoples Com- missars of the U.S.S.R. at its cur-| rent meeting, discussed the problem of irrigation in the drought regions of the Volga. Considerable successes were achieved this year by the collective |farms of the Middle Volga and |Saratov regions, notably in local |construction of irrigation works. The Peoples Commissars instruct- |ed the Soviet organs in the district | |to help collective farms to complete | \the construction of irrigation sys- tems before the end of this year /on an area of more than 78,000 acres, in addition to the area | hitherto irrigated. | For this purpose the collective |farms receive credit without inter- {est to the amount of four million | rubles for four years, At the same time, the Peoples Commissars in- |structed the Land Commissariat to | prepare a plan for the construction |of local irrigation works on collec- | tive farm fields in 1935 and to com- |plete the present surveying work and the making of plans for irriga- tion of Volga regions with local water reserves on an area of 300,000 | acres, as provided for in the Second |Five-Year Plan. This will be the \peginning of more extensive irriga- |tion work in the Volga region to |combat drought. 11,000 Japanese Leave Tokyo Traction Jobs; |Join Strike Movement TOKYO, Sept. 5—A huge spurt in the strike movement in Japan is resulting from the walkout of 11,000 trolley and bus workers in Tokyo,. members of the ‘Transport Workers’ Union, The workers went on strike yesterday because of lay- | offs and pay cuts, resulting from | reorganization of the transport | system. Attempts are being made to run cars and buses with scabs. The traction strike follows a whole series of smaller strikes of | metal and machine shop workers Japan, The Japanese bosses, in further- ance of their war plans, have been smashing down living standards, and through the most extreme acts of terror against the Communist Party and militant workers, were able to hold back the strike move- ment, | Lately, however, the number of | strikes have been increasing, show- ing the rising resistance to the program of Japanese imperialism on the part of the workers. CORRECTION In the editorial in Thursday's is- sue of the Daily Worker entitled cial Research, 66 West 12th Street, “4,000 Furriers Win” it was incor- e 1 |New York, to discuss preparations rectly stated that the agreement jof the American League Against |for the Second U. 8. Congress | provided for | War and Fascism are all busily en- & union driver who was fired for | saged in recruiting support for the |held in Chicago, September 28, 29 |: the 25-hour week, vhereas it should -have been stated ‘that the agreement provided for the 35-hour week.” the | Chinese Eastern Railway of Soviet BLOOD! By | peg over a year and a half Adolf Hitler, chief of the German fascists, has been wading in blood. The incendiaries of the Reichstag, Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and the rest, are trying to in- stigate a new imperialist war. The military-fas- cist clique of generals and admirals in Japan is holding its army and navy ready and waiting on the eastern borders of the Soviet Union. The in- ternational political situation may be subject to great variations, but one fact remains certain: Every imperialist country is already preparing for an imperialist war. Fascism has become the principal instrument in these preparations for a new war. The offensive of capital on the living standard of the working class is designed to cover the costs of armaments. By robbing the working class of its rights and to throttle the resistance of the working class against wars and robbery. WORKING CLASS RANKS SPLIT In the face of this threatening new catastrophe, the ranks of the working class have been split since 1914. Unity is a erying needa. Only the unity of the working class against the instigators of war, against fascist oppressors, against the source of imperialist wars and of fascism—capitalism—can alter the relation of class forces in favor of the proletariat, The Communist Parties in all capitalist countries are waging a dauntless struggle to restore the unity of action of the working class, this being the neces- sary condition for drawing over the middle strata in town and country to the side of the proletariat. The Communist Parties have also addressed them- selves to the leaders of the Social-Democratic Parties in order to achieve the united front of the working class. The results as yet are insigni- ficant. Only in France, in Austria, and in the Saar region have agreements been come to between Communist and Social-Democratic workers. The difficulties are still great, but they are not insuper- able, DESTROY CLASS COLLABORATION However great these difficulties may be, the Communist Parties will dauntessly continue their struggle against fascism and imperialist war, against the offensive of capital. The rejection of united tront proposals by a number of Social-Democratic Parties may make this struggle more difficult, but it can never hold it up. Class collaboration with the bourgeoisie is the obstacle in the way of es- tablishing unity of action. The natural condition for establishing the unity of action of the working class is to break the class collaboration with the capitalists. This does not-mean that the contra- dictions—in tactics and in matters of principle— between Communism and Social-Democracy will be done away with. Nevertheless, the common struggle of Social-Democratic and Communist workers in the factories, in the trade unions, among both employed and unemployed, is the first prerequisite for overcoming the split in the ranks of the work- ing class. No one who is against the splitting of te pro- letariat, no one who wants the liberation of the working class, can refuse this common struggle against the dange:s with which the working class is directly threatened. The Communists, who are leading the liberation struggle of the working class, who, for this very reason reject all collaboration with the bourgeoisie, will continut to fight for unity of action. The suc- cess of this struggle depends first and foremost upon the Social-Democratic workers. They must decide: ither with the bourgeoisie against the members of heir own class, or with their own class comrades against the bourgeoisie. These articles, written at various stages of this struggle, are designed, by way of persuasion, to help the Social-Democratic workers to make this decision. The -working class, which fights unitedly and irreconcilably against the bourgeoisie, is invincible; it will conquer. BELA KUN, Msocow, July 28, 1934, 4 BELA KUN— Member of the Presidium of the Communist International breaking up its organizations, the capitalists want. | The Most Burning Question --- Unity of Action I THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY OF ACTION Tt Communist Parties have recently addressed themselves to three Social-Democratic Parties with the proposal for joint action in order to rescue the leader of the German Proletariat, Comrade Ernst Thaelmann, from the hands of the fascist hangmen. The fight to save Thaelmann is the fight for the release of all anti-fascist fighters in Germany, in Austria and in all countries where fascism has been victorious. The Communists have never hesitated for an instant when it was a ques- tion of defending the lives of anti-fascist fighters who were in the ranks of Austrian Social-Democ- racy, or who, thought not adhering to any party, carried on the struggle against the oppression of the working class. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of France addressed a proposal to the Administra- tive Commission of the Socialist Party of France to organize joint demonstrations in a number of important industrial centers in France, epecially in those cities where the Hitler government has its official representatives, SWISS C. P. PROPOSED UNITY The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Switzerland likewise sent a delegation to the chairman of the Swiss Socialist Party with the proposal to organize joint demonstrations against German fascism and for the rescue of Thaelmann. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain made similar addresses to the Labor Party, to the leaders of the reformist trade unions and co-operatives. In personal negotiations between representatives of the French Socialist Party and the Communist Party of France, the Social-Democratic delegates declared themselves ready to agree to ‘the proposal of the Communists on the condition that during the period of joint action, the Communist Party of France should refrain from all polemics against Social-Democracy. The delegates of the Commu- nist Party of France declared that they were ready to cease all criticism of Social-Democracy during the period of joint action in those places where the demonstrations were to take place. SWISS SOCIALISTS REJECT PROPOSALS The Administrative Commission of the Socialist Party of Switzerland rejected the proposal of the Communist Party of Switzerland in a malicious answer of which we will quote only one sentence: “If the Communist Party of Switzerland in- vites us to take part in demonstrations before the German embassies, we challenge the Commu- nist Party of Switzerland to demonstrate before the RUSSIAN EMBASSIES in those countries where it is still able to do so.” Comment on this proposal is superfluous. The leaders of the Labor Party have up to the present time (June 15, 1934), not yet answered the proposal sent them by the secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Such are the facts. BOURGEOISIE FEARS UNITED FRONT To these facts we will only add one or two observations: The bourgeoisie, especially the Ger- man fascists, correctly estimate the importance of the unity of action of the working class as being the greatest danger for capitalism. They likewise correctly estimate the importance of the person of Comrade Thaelmann and of his defense in the anti-fascist struggle. In connection with the pro- posals made by the Communist Party of France to French Social-Democracy, the Berliner Boersen- zeitung, one of the leading organs of big German capital, wrote as follows: “We cannot, however, regard with indifference the fact that the French Communists are now preparing great meetings and street demonstra- tions in Paris, Reims, Lille, Strassbourg, Bor- deaux, Marseilles and other cities for the rescue of Thacimann, and have even contrived to in- duce French Social-Democracy to take part in these actions and to form a united front.” It is with good reason that this fascist paper agitates against the united front of Communist. and Social-Democratic workers; it does so in the interests of German fascism and in the interests of capitalism as a whole, (To Be Continued) ——By HARRY GANNES. New Outbreaks in Algeria Why Jews Were Attacked Between Anvil and Hammer HEN a number of Jews were killed in violent outbreaks in Algeria, a French colony, some weeks ago, the American capitalist press, as well as the Jewish Socialist press, was strangely | silent on the fundamental reasons for this bloodshed. Now that the | news from Paris indicates that bit- ter feeling is rising and new rioting is anticipated at any moment it would be well to go into the ‘basis for what now and then suddenly appears in the American capital- ist press as Algerians running amok, seemingly without reason. \ The Jewish population of | out of a total population of 5,000, jin Algeria has ben made the t |and butt of the policy of French” |imperialism. The Algerians are mainly poor peasants, bitterly ex- ploited by the French imperialists and the owners of huge estates, Hundreds of thousands of them are without land and without means of a livelihood, reduced to the worst | stage of beggary and destitution. [UST before the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, the French Minister Olliver granted the Jews of Algeria, who had inhabited that land for generations, and who had been op- pressed under Arab rule, French naturalization and a political status | } | above the rest of the native popu- | lation. Since the French and other Eu- ropean population today numbers |only 42,000, the policy of French | imperialism has been to utilize the Jewish population, with its special Political status above the native | Algerians, as a spearhead of im- perialist oppression. The economia position of the leading strata of the Jews lent itself readily to the French imperialist policy. For the most part the Jews control the money-lending market, the usurious operations against the poverty | stricken peasantry. The great ma- | ority of the Jews in Algeria are | themselves poor merchants, or pov- erty-stricken handicraft workers suffering under the proddings of the French reactionary anti-semitic organizations, and in their plight as the French imperialist buffet against the Algerian masses. Their economic position is not much bet- ter than the exploited masses of Algerian peasants and workers. At Constantine, for example, where the worst anti-Jewish at- tacks took place, a number of the Jews are the bourgeoisie, the gov- ernment agents, grain dealers, usur- ers, big merchants and intermediar- ies or compradores of all sorts. H Kt hatred of the Algerian masses against this compradore class is perfectly understandable. French imperialism gas cunningly directed the hatred the Algerian masses against its auxiliary force, its adju- tants in the system of oppression and exploitation, the Jewish com« pradore and money-lending class, In attacking the Jews, the Algerian population did not distinguish in its bitter hatred of French imperialism between the great mass of the Jews (who themselves are not much bet- ter off than their attackers) and the real agents of French imperial- ism, the Jewish compradores, Egged on by French imperial- ists, Jewish rowdies provoked Al- gerians at the Sidi Lakdar mosque, with the result that an anti-im- perialist fury was unleashed against those whom the Algerians looked upon as the agents of French imperialism. Twenty-seven Jews were killed and 200 were wounded. poate, hake | te fundamental anti-imperialist nature of the attack was shown by the fact that in many other cen- ters the rioting was directed not alone against the Jews but as well against the French imperialists as in Le Hama, Bizot, Kroubs, ete. The whole movement, in reality, was a spontaneous uprising of hatred against French imperialism and all its tools. It is noteworthy that in Constantine the bitterest attacks, as admitted in the French capitalist press (Paris Midi, August 7) were made against “those known as money-lenders and big business- men.” French imperialism is now at- tempting to utilize the attack on the Jews as a means of discrediting the anti-imperialist movement of the Algerian masses, and justifying its murderous retaliations against the masses as “in defense of liberty.” peal ce Tt Communist Party of France, struggling against fascism and chauvinism, points out that the main significance of the Algerian mass movements is its anti-im- Perialist character. It further points out that the victory of the Algerian anti-imperialist and agrarian revo- lution over French imperialism, though overthrowing along with it the dominant position of the Jew- ish money-lenders and big mer- chant exploiters, would bring libera- tion and a solution to the national and economic problems of the bit- terly assailed Jewish masses who are now caught between the anvil and the hammer. The efforts of the Jewish bour- geoisie and petty-bourgeois Zion- ists in various countries in attack- ing the Algerian masses in their anti-imperialist upsurge plays di- rectly into the hands of French im- perialism and paves the way for still more bitter attacks on the Jews. The victory of the Algerian anti-imperialist revolution, for which all exploited masses should work, would bring liberation to all oppressed peoples of Algeria, including the great bulk of the Jewish population, K Ll ‘ Hy i i