The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1984 / Daily .QWorker GOUTER, ORGAH COMMUNIST PARTY BEA (S4CTION OF COMMUMIST MITEREATIONAGS Working Class Baily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 “America’s Only PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. New ¥ 954 INC., 3@ E. 18¢h « <i le 14th and F ngton, D. Midwest South Wells St, Room Telephone: 3931 Subscription Rates: except Bronx year th $3.50: 3 mo. 1 month 7% cents. Manhattan, Bronz, Fo m and Canada: 1 year, 6 months, $5.00; 3 mon $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1934 —_—_—_—_———————= The Arms Cesspool FFORTS already being made, as pre- E dicted in the columns of the Daily Worker, to smother important testimony in the arms investigation in Washington. Senator Nye has promised not to ask the du Pont brothers the extent of their po- litical contributions. “Desiring not to embarrass g elections,” says & United Pr teh, ‘the committee decided to postpone s\ josures.” The great munitions manufacturers are not separate and apart from the great basic industries, the great banks and the government; on the con- intertwined with the alists and ruling class politicians. “merchants of death” standing apart nment and the decisive sections of trary. y are inextricably wealthy c: These are not from the gove the ruling class; they are simply that part of the ruling class whose merchandise happens to be lethel inst ents. No effort of Senator Nye can make it appear that different than the rest government. They are can change that the du Ponts are somehow of the ruling class and its all implicated—the Morgan and Rockefeller banks, the U. S. Steel, the War Department and other parts of the governmental apparatus. Mr. Nye and his committee would try to make it appear otherwise, but no worker should be fooled Nye and the capitalist politicians sense the great anti-war spirit that is abroad in the land, the a sentiment that pervades mil- lower middle class people, the section of the population whose interests Nye and his committee pretend to represent. To them Nve says that he has discovered the roots of war —a special group of wicked capitalists who manu- facture arms. To solve the problem he proposes lions of farmers and that the government take over munitions manu- facture. But every worker should ask himself the ques- tion Are not munitions made for armies and are not armies the means of carrying out govern- ment policies? Did he War Department the manufacture of these arms? these arms to kill Nicaraguan the debts of to fight the down strikers at United States? know all about Did it not use workers and peas- the Chase National Chinese Revolution the textile mills not ants, to collect Bank in Haiti, yes, to shoot and docks of the HE workers of the United States must see this traffic in dea this monumental racket, as part of the whole diseased capitalist system. To do away with the arms racket, one must do away s war, the captialist onary workers’ gov- ent. Only thus can ional intrigue and corrup- tion—a which the arms investigation afforded us—be done away with. The Daily Worker anti-war fighter: the munition, concealment urges all workers and other to demand in ringing tones that ion be carried on without ingle document must be brought to 1 me of every individual connected wi ture and trade of mu- nitions must 1 publicity. Workers sho demand that the hearings be broadcast over radio networks. Let us see where the taxes out of the masses go. Let us see who profits by the sale of tear gas used against strike Wo must use this occasion to demand a 100 per cent tax on munitions profits—these vast funds to go for unemployment relief and insurance, for bread and not for bullets. Demand an e nitions to fasci on the Soviet go on all shipments of mu- Germany and to Japan for war nion! Give the most energetic support to the forces which are fighting the munitions makers and the system of which they are a part! Support the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fas- cism in Chicago September 28, 29 and 30. Get your union, fraternal society or cultural organ- ization to send delegates! The Strategic South HE strike situation in the South is grow- ing more tense. The employers and their government machinery are getting ready to strike another bloody blow at the strike. Every available National Guard being mobilized for instant regiment Gangs of hired thugs and deputies the employers, with the full the Carolinas and action. are being formed by support Georgia. of the Governors in The South is getting ready for more spilling of workers’ blood. This is Roosevelt's South, his party and his most loyal supporters. In the shedding of Southern workers’ blood it is Roosevelt who is re- sponsible. ‘They are the South because they think that in this way they will smash the unity of the textile battle lines. striking at The employers are not slow in seeing that the U. T. W. officials made very little strike prepara- The employers, though dis- agreeably surprised by the tremendous sweep of the textile strikers’ militancy, still think that they will be able to crack the Southern workers first with terrorism and trickery. tions in the South. Thus the fight in the South is becoming more and more strategic. SPECIALLY important is the question of the unity of the workers, of organized with unor- ganized, Negro and white. The employers will surely try all their old tricks of dividing the work- ers with the poison of race hatreds and other divisions. But they will do this only the better to rob and exploit each section of the working class sepa- rately. White and Negro workers belong together in solidarity, each assisting the other to win better wages and working conditions. The mass marches and picket lines must be increased; To slacken on the mass picketing for one minute would be to weaken the strike and encourage terrorism. The flying squadrons, pulling out the lower mills, still have their work to do and must not under any circumstances be allowed to slow down, The Southern Worker, P. O. Box 576, Concord, N. C., the paper of the Communist Party in the South, which rallies the workers for effective struggle, needs support. Rush it aid! Keep the mills closed. The terrorism of the employers and the government can be met by the mass organization and picketing of the workers, U.T.W. Leaders and the Youth in the Mills CLASSIC example of how the U.T.W. leaders discriminate against the youth is seen in Paterson, N. J. Here, from 3,000 to 4,000 throwsters, almost all of whom are youth, are still working in the throwster mills. So far, the U. T. W. leaders have refused to call them on strike. In this manner, the U. T. W. leaders are creating a breach between the young and adult textile workers. In this, they are also aided by the fact that the throwsters went back to the mills after fighting militantly in the last national silk strike without any union organization and without any demands won. The U. T. W. leaders callously disregarded them when the time for settlement came, both with regard to the improvement of their condi- tions and the organization of their craft. Remembrance of this action doubtless still rankles in the minds of the throwsters. But even despite this bitter memory, the throwsters are anxious to strike. In all the mills, the throwsters are waiting for the strike call or for a flying squadron to pull the mills, The Young Communist League in Paterson cor- rectly calls upon the throwsters not to wait for an official strfike call and not ai wait until a flying squadron is sent to picket the throwster mills. It calls upon them to strike now on their own ini- tiative, elect their own rank and file strixe com- mittees and become part of the huge national tex- tile strike, It calls upon them to figrht for the following demands: Guaranteed minimum wage of $18 for a 30-hour week with a six-hour day; no Saturday work, workers to be notified a day before lay-off; improved sanitary conditions, Throwsters! Strike all the throwing mills in Paterson! Elect rank and file strike committees! Mass picketing in front of every throwster mill! Reject all arbitration! Stay out until your de- mands are won! efeat the Murder Drive! -An Editorie! (Continued from Page 1) whelps cry that this means “outsiders” are invad- ing the mill towns, When they scour the under- world of the whole country to bring in strike- breakers and gunmen to shoot you down, these are “patriots,” they are not “outsiders.” When they mobilize troops from every part of the state, these are not “outsiders.” . . . r VIEW of the concentration of the bosses’ forces in this mighty effort to break the strike, it now becomes a thousand-fold more necessary for the whole labor movement in the country, for the whole we @ class to stand behind the textile strikers. Remember, workers: a defeat for the textile strik- ers will be a blow against you. The force and the power of the whole toiling population must be thrown behind the textile workers, to help them win their demands, This is a fight of the whole movement. T is a fight of the whole employing class and government and armed forces against the textile workers. There must be solidarity pro- test meetings in every mill town and surrounding territory. The trade unions everywhere should im- mediately take steps to come to the aid of their striking brothers. In Hazleton, Pa., the whole work- ing class went on a one-day general solidarity strike. This helped to close down the mills We must help now to rush relief to the textile Strikers. The whole labor movement should be mo- bilized for this task. Why do Green, Woll & Co. remain silent? These gentlemen pull down hand- Some salaries and incomes of from $20,000 to $30,000 a@ year. Why don’t they issue an appeal for relief fer the textile strike. The history of the American Jabor movement shows they could easily raise from ¢ i American labor Spread the Strike! four to five million dollars. Every union man, yes, every worker and friend of labor in the country would contribute. Yet they do not act. * . * y omer! Federation of Labor members, all friends of labor, every worker, take steps now to collect relief. Collect food in your territory. Send it to the local strike committee. If you are not in strike territory, send the money to the strike committee in Washington. Act now to declare your solidarity with. the tex- tile strikers by collecting relief to aid. the strikers stick until they win their just demands. In every strike area, mass demonstrations, in- cluding every workers’ organization as well as strik- ers, should be organized to go to the: Federal relief | agencies and demand the immediate granting of strike relief. done. Everything must be done to safeguard the fighting strength of the workers. Communists! As leading fighters for the victory of the textile strike, in this situation of the tighten- | ing of the class lines, of the sharpening of the battle, it is your duty to be most active in the mass picket lines, on the flying squadrons. Everything | must be done especially by the Communists to close down every mill. The mobilization for relief, for demonstrations for Federal relief, for solidarity actions in support of the textile strike, becomes the foremost, imme- diate task of every Communist. Defeat the strikebreaking efforts of the mill bosses and their government! Strikers! Hold your ranks firm! Spread the strike! Call out every branch of the textlie in- dustry! Speed the flying squadrons. Forward to victory for your demands in the strike This can be accomplished, It must be | Soviets Hail EconomicGain During / August U.S.S.R. Industry Makes Great Gains as Capitalist | Crisis Deepens (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (By Wireless). —The national economic summary for August, and another of the first eight months of this year show a new rise in Soviet Economics. Important branches of Soviet industry, from January to August of this year, increased their output as compared with the same period last year: Coal, by 25.9 per cent; oil, by 17.2 per cen! peat, by 19.1 per cent; iron, by 51.2 per cent; steel, by 44.4 per cent; bars, by 36.7 per cent; , aluminum, by 316.5 per cent; Ural copper, by 34.1 per cent; automo- biles, by 34.1 per cent; tractors, by 32.3 per cent; engines, by 20.5 per cent, freight-engines, by 63.8 per cent, etc. This summer brought a new crisis in the economic situations of most capitalist countries. In the coun- tryside, drought and big crop fail- | ures were common. In industry, the |summer months were marked by new production lows. | In 33 countries in Europe, includ- ing all the largest capitalist cotin- | tries, the devaluation of money| | continued. These facts again and again dem- | onstrate the correciness of Stalin's words at the 17th Congress of the | Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when he said that the pres- | ent crisis in capitalist economy will | not lead to new booms in capitalist \industry. The curve of bourgeois | [economy is again going downwards. ‘These figures and facts, and the | progressively encouraging details of | Socialist economy in the Soviet Union, demonstrate that the U. S. S. R. is the only country in the | world which is free from collapses | | and retreats, and always moves for- | | ward, | More Violence Is Committed In Manchuria | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Sept. 16 (By Wireless). | —Rowdyism, club-law and violence | upon Soviet citizens, employed by the Chinese Eastern Railroad, in Manchuria continue. | In a number of stations, Japanese | soldiers recently evicted Soviet em- ployes from their quarters under | the pretext that the quarters were needed for military occupation. | Brutal beatings are common, even | the women being subjected to them. At Station Ugunor the wife of the | Soviet citizen Shustov was beaten | | by Japanese soldiers because she | | refused to vacate her apartment to | | the military. Similar cases also oc- j curred at other stations. Energetic | | protests by the Soviet Consul to, | Japanese authorities were not suc- | cessful and the acts of violence are increasing. | Simultaneously with these acts, | Japanese club-law military authori- ties continue arresting Soviet citi- |zens in the employ of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Station Chief Shablinsky and | Locomotive Engineer Korsakoy have been arrested as a station in Man- churia. | The Soviet citizens under arrest continue to be tortured during ex- amination. When they xefuse to tell the untruths demanded of them by Japanese ~- Manchurian authorities, [eae tortures are increased. | Cuban Union Chief Urges Protest Here NEW YORK. — A special appeal | through the Daily Worker has been | issued to workers in the United States by Cesar Vilar, Secre- tary of the Cuban National Con-)| federation of Labor, in behalf of the workers of Cuba. The appeal urged American workers to send messages of pro- | test to General Batista and Jeffer- | son Caffery, U. S. ambassador, in| Havana, against the arbitrary police | seizure of the tobacco workers center in Havana, against the occupation of the revolutionary trade union printing plant by military police and against the arrest of eleven workers. The Daily Worker urges organiza- tions throughout the country to rally to the support of the Cuban workers’ struggle against this new wave of Wall Street-Mendieta terror. Send telegrams and letters |of protest to Jefferson Caffery,! United States ambassador, Havana, Cuba, and to General Batista, com- mander-in-chief of the Army,} Havana. Soviets Prepare Plans for Official Opening | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (By wireless). | —Soviet Ukraine is now preparing | \for the official opening of the enormous heavy machine construc- | | tion plant at Kramatorsk. This new giant of the second five-year | plan will be one of the largest in the Soviet Union, and one of the Es technically equipped plants in the world. |. Some of its shops are alrezdy open, and have been in opefation since last year—the iron foundry, | with a capacity of 30,09% tons; the, steel foundry, whoss capacity of | 36,000 tons of castings makes it the largest in the world, | The siz@ of the new plant can be judged from the fact that the reof-area of the principal shops is pi sixty-six. acres, } FOR SERVICES RENDERED e The Most Burning Question --- By Burck| Unity of Action By Member of the Presidium of (Eighth Installment) | “THE UNITED FRONT WITH THE COMMU- | NISTS REPELS THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE FROM THE PROLETARIAT” HE Populaire of July 17, 1934, published the draft resolution which Frossard and his intimate com- rades of the Right Wing of French Social-Democ- racy put forward in the National Council of the French Socialist Party against the acceptance of the Communist offer. In this draft we read as follows: . . Merely in order to co-operate with them [Le., the Communists—B.K.], the Socialist or- | ganizations cannot surrender their contact with | all the democratic elements, which constitute the enormous majority of the French population.” | Citizen Frossard cannot be accused of incon- sistency. During his brief stay in the Right Wing | of the Communist Party of France, he was just as much opposed to the united front with the Social- Democrati: Party as now, when he occupies a place in the Right Wing of French Social-Democracy, fulfilling the function of connecting link with the -Socialists and fulminating against the united front with the Communist Party. It was this same ssard who, while still in the ranks of the Com- munist Party of France, wrote as follows against the leadership of the Communist Internetional, ogainst its directives for the struggle for the united front: “For the international Conyiunist front the following holds true: The bridges haye been broken; we shall not restore them, nay, not even by coming to terms shall we make this appear | desirable in the eyes of the masses.” Now, too, Frossard wants to break down the bridges between Social-Democratic and Communist workers, though it is now from the other bank that he is trying to do this. We do not want to force our organizational principles upon the Social- Democratic Parties, but we cannot avoid mentioning that we Communists did not tolerate in our ranks | such an attitude to the united front, to the fight- ing unity of the working class. Now, however, let us come to the point, to the question whether the unity of action of the working class, the fighting unity of the Social-Democratic workers with the Communist workers is repelling all democratic elements from the working class. | Under the term “democratic elements” we are to understand the urban petty bourgeoisie, poor and middle peasants, office employes and professional men. The Social-Democratic worker, or even the Social-Democratic functionary, whose mental hori- zon is not limited by the frontiers of his own coun- try, would do well to begin by comparing the suc- cesses of the Social-Democratic and of the Com- munist policy in the ranks of these democratic elements on the basis of concrete examples—Russia on the one hand and on the other hand, Germany and Austria. The revolutionary policy of the Russian prole- C. P. of Spain BEL President of Cuba A KUN the Communist International tariat under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party has made it possible for the Russian working class, numerically a very small proletariat, to lead dozens of millions of poor and middle peasants, broad strata of the office employes and a part of the intelligentsia into the struggle against the big bourgeoisie, the feudal nobility, into the struggle for the power of the proletariat. Today, thanks to the Bolshevik policy, the great majority of the poor and middle peasants in the Soviet Union are col- lective farmers, conscious builders of the socialist economy. The urban petty bourgeoisie in the So- viet Union are freed from the exploitation of the banks and cartels, united in industrial co-operatives by means of assistance, financial and otherwise, from the state. With tremendous exertions the Bolsheviks have succeeded in saving large sections of the old intelligentsia for socialism. It would be absurd to assert today, as was alleged by many Social-Democrats formerly, that a working class comparatively small in number and the still smaller Bolshevik Party are capable of directing a state and of building up a new socialist economy by means of terror, against the will of the great majority of the population. On the contrary, it has only been possible to carry out this task because the Communist Party has known how to pursue a correct policy in relation to the middle classes, It has been able to do so precisely because the major- ity of the working class, nay the whole proletariat, has been and is behind it. Only because of this has it been able to throw into the scale the strength of the whole working class in order to lead the middle strata in town and country and to make concessions to the peasantry when the economic situation, the relation of forces between classes, rendered this necessary. Why has not the relation of the middle strata in town and country toward the working class been the same in Germany and Austria as in Russia? Why did not the broad strata of the urban petty bourgeoisie, of the poor and middle peasantry, take the side of the proletariat when the question of the struggle between labor and capital was raised? Why did they take the side of the fascists, of finance capital, of the great landowners? The Social-Democratic Parties in Germany and Austria have alleged that the tactics of the Com- munists repel the petty bourgeois strata in town and country from the working class. We Com- munists have already saiti: The petty bourgeois policy of the Social-Democratic Parties renders it impossible to draw over the urban and rural middle strata to the side of the proletariat. And we repeat now that precisely the petty bour- geois policy of the Social-Democratic Parties was mainly responsible for the fact that these strata have been repelled from the working class, in con- trast to Russia, where the proletarian policy of the Bolsheviks against capital, against the big land- owners, has drawn these strata into the struggle against capitalism. (To Be Continued) “SCuhat Palive of Huge Ukraine Plant) , | Trabajo Acts for Unity With Alliance MADRID. sent, 17. 17.—With the de- ision of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party to enter the Workers’ Alliance, 2 virtual | | united front has been formed. The | powerful anarchist elements, cluding the Confederacion General | de Trabajadores, remained outside The Alliance includes the Com- | munist Party, the Union General de (Socialist), ‘the © Socialist ; Workers’ Party, the Left Peasants’ | and Workers’ Association and the Federation of Todacco Workers. i Quick action was indicated by the sudden drive on left clements under ; ‘cover of seizure of a shipment of | munitions Socialists arrested charged that | the shipment had been sent to Fas- ‘cists with government connivance, and they had acted properly in the interest of the Republic in inter- cepting the rifles and cartridges. “ om in- | Refuses to Explain Murder of 2 Students NEW YORK. — President Mendi- ete, of Cuba, Wall Street punpet, in| i cable to the International Labor |Defense has denied that his government proposes setting up summary couris similar to Hitler’s “People’s Courts.” Anna Damon, secretary of the L. D., had sent a protest to Mendieta against the passing of a law providing for summary trials and tutions within 24 hours of “terrorists” and | strikers participating in actions against the government. The I. L. \D. also protested against the murder of two students and the increasing terror. The report of the new courts was published in the Spanish language newspaper in New York, La Prensa, Mendieta declared in his cable to the I. L. D. that these protests were intended to “discredit the Republic,” but failed to say why the two students were slaughtered for their anti-imperialist activities, proposed | | Frame 35 on | HAVANA, Sept. sn a new ter- _ror drive against the rapidly-grow- | ing Communist Party of Cuba, the police here have arrested 35 work- ers as suspects in the burning of the | Morro Castile. The latest police story is that ; Communist seamen aboard the ill- fated Morro Castle not only bombed the ship but also killed Captain Willmoit. According to the official fantasy, | Cuban Communists are responsible | for the fires aboard the steamers ; Santa Clara and Pres. Cleveland. The Communist Party of Cuba | has .issued a statement, sharply branding the entire charge as a | provecation. The Communist Party | has always fought against the methods of sabotage and individual terrorism, the Cuban Communist Party statement points out, ‘ Arson n Charge On the World Front |_—By HARRY Hearst Visits Hitler What Did They Say? - ‘ |Not Far Wrong ILLIAM RANDOLYR HEARST, chief purveyor of yellow journalism in the | United States, failed to give his American readers the |greatest story he ever came across. That is, his own ine terview with the No. 1 Nazi butcher, Adolph Hitler. Hearst, who has no compunction in printing the diaries of other pere verts and murderers, giving the ; Most intimate details of their life | and conversations, stooping to |ordinary burglary in order to get | | the information, refuses to mention, GANNES— | him and Hitler. “Visiting Hitler,” he told the Associated Press correspondents in Berlin, “is like calling on the President of the United States— one doesn’t talk about it for pub- lication.” #5 those UCH modesty, however, did not prevent Mr. Hearst from utilizing the first page of every one of his many newspapers to print the filth of Alfred Rosenberg, chief of the Foreign Political Department of the | Nazis. Knowing both the views and deeds of Hearst and Hitler we can- not be far wrong in reporting their conversation as follows: HEARST: This is one of the greatest moments of my life, your | excellency. I have always admired | you, and in my own way have done | the best I could to carry out your |great historical task, the fight against Bolshevism. HITLER: Heil! I am very happy to make your acquaintance. Ac« cept my thanks for your service to | the spirit of Fascism in your press, The very high ideals of your jour- nalism proves that at least you in | America are not in the pay of the Third International and of the Jewish intellectuals. Let me com- pliment you on your expert job in |San Francisco. I see our methods |have penetrated even to the Far West. The Vigilantes, you know, | remind me of the early days of the organization of the Storm Troops. | Splendid work your papers did |against the Red Menace, Herr Hearst. HEARST: We have only begun, |Fuhrer. The real task lies ahead, | We are all confronted with two | alternatives—either maintaining our system by whatever means neces- |sary—we may not have to do ex- j actly as you have; historical con- | ditions are different—or succumb to the savagery of Bolshevism. HITLER: Precisely. You have also understood our chief world task. That is wiping out the root and source of world Bolshevism, | the scourge of the civilized world, | Soviet Russia. Some of our best | friends, Britain, Italy, France, don’t seem to understand us in this re- gard. We are the wall of civiliza- | tion between the Bolshevist East jand the capitalist West. The damned Bolsheviks have succeeded in helping to isolate us and to sur- round us with a ring of hostile non- aggression pacts. But there must be war. We must burn them out with fire and blood. | HEARST: There is no other way. |My papers never lose an oppore | tunity to fight against Bolshevism, whether in the United States or in | Russia. Just now in the United | States a tremendous wave of strikes are being directed against us by the Third International. Our workers |do not appreciate what we have done for them, what a wonderful country they live in. Bolshevism is raising its ugly head; and we must smash it. I agree with you— | all our efforts should be bent pri- marily on ending the scourge at its worst point, in the Soviet Union, HITLER: I have always felt in | you a kindred spirit, a true son of the purest blood of our race, the jlast troop of great knights in the battle for civilization in its greatest crisis. I know we pursue different methods. Democracy is not for us. You can still utilize #; but the day | will come when you, too, will haye to look for your great leader, when the old forms must crumble, and the dictatorship of your great in- dustrial families, of your aristo- cratic barons of finance, such as my friends, Krupp and Thyssen, | must seize destiny by the forelock— or else the Red Tide will pass over you. HEARST: We are already posing the question. We have begun by a series of articles against Com- munism. You will notice that my newspapers are the most implacable foe of the Red scoundrels, of strikes, of labor organizations. The trade unions are becoming too outspoken, and the leaders seem to be weak- ening against the red uprising in the unions. My paper has already fought union labor. We must now organize our Liberty Leagues to smash them, even as you have, my Fuhrer. HITLER: You can always count on our advice and counsel. I would suggest that you establish closer connections with Dr. Rosenberg’s agents in the United States. They will be of immense service to you. HEARST: I thank you with all my heart. May I suggest in your propaganda that you soft-pedal the fight agains; the Jews and the open war preparations. You know the ignorant masses misunderstand. You have seen my technique. We arm for peace. In this world of growing Bolshevism we must in- crease our armements but without arousing the pacifist hordes. HITLER: I now feel I have established spiritual contact with the true veice of God and the American people. Herr Hearst, L now feel the spirit of National Socialism for the good of America will live and breathe in you and find expression in your magnifie | cent press. Heil! one word of what went on between } }