The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight Daily <QWorker FENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. ( ICTIOM OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. Washington Bureau; Room 94, Ni Press Building, léth and F St., Washington, D.C. Telephone: National 7910. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells S., Room 706, Cheago, 2 Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail except Manhattan and Bronx 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, Manhattan Bronx, Poreign and Canada 6 months, 00; 3 months, $3.06. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934 Unite Against Spanish Reaction OMENTOUS, revolutionary events are occurring in Spain that should arouse and rally the whole American working- lass behind their Spanish brothers. After three years of the Spanish re- public, the most reactionary forces are concentrat- ing their efforts to set up a fascist dictatorship, to Grive the workers into submission, into starvation, and into worse slavery. The workers’ answer has been a revolutionary general strike. A united front of Communists, So- cialists and Syndicalists has been achieved. Fight- ing is going on in all parts of Spain, with the mad dogs of the Spanish capitalists, landlords and for- ¢ign concessionaires, mobilizing their armed forces to repeat the Austrian and German events. Only one road to victory is open for the Spanish Proletariat, the road of the revolutionary offensive, the road of establishing a workers’ government, a proletarian dictatorship. That is the road urged by the Communist Party Of Spain. That is now the task of the united front athieved by the workers in their revolutionary gen- eral strike and in the armed fighting going on throughout the country. We must now be ready to rush to the defense of our Spanish brothers. That can best be done by the united front of the Socialist and Communist Parties of the United States. Socialist brothers! ‘We must now unite our forces to do everything in our power for the victory of the Spanish revolu- tionary general strike and to defeat the forces of Spanish reaction and fascism! The ‘Red’ Drive HE leading A. F. of L. body in Milwau- kee, the Federated Trades Council, has just rejected decisively the veritable or- der of William Green to “expel all Com- munists from membership.” Yesterday, the Newark Federated Trades Council took similar action, and a large painters local in the A. F. of L. there has followed suit, and has agreed, moreover, to take part in a Communist Party affair. These actions are significant. They reveal that Green’s vicious “Red-baiting” drive against the Communists is meeting the resistance of thousands of honest, militant workers in the A. F. of L. The action of the Milwaukee A. F. of L. body is Particularly significant in that this body is con- trolled by Socialist Party members. This is enlightening when one remembers that the New Leader, Socialist Party organ, even this ‘week, features William Green and his policies, in- cluding his anti-Communist crusades, as the bul- wark of the American Labor movement. This shows that within the Socialist Party there 4s serious resentment against the trade union poli- cies of the top leadership, policies which are con- cerned mainly with protecting the class collabora- tion tactics of the Green-Woll-Lewis officialdom. IREEN’S vicious “Red-baiting’ drive has been Jaunched at this particular time with reason. Green is striving to divert the attention of the A. F. of L. rank and file from the disastrous results of his class collaboration policies, policies which have permitted the employers to drive the wage levels and working conditions of the workers down to Starvation levels. Green is seeking to conceal from the A. F. of L. rank and file that his endorsement of the Roose’ N.R.A. program permitted the em- ployers to foster company unions and strikebreak- ing “arbitration.” But Green's anti-Communist drive comes at a time when thousands of A. F. of L. rank and filers, most of them not yet committed to the policies of the Communist Party, are seeing that the Commu- nists in the trade unions have no aims or inter- ests antagonistic to the daily bread and butter Struggles of the workers. They are seeing, on the contrary, that the class struggle policies of the Communists in the trade unions are directed pre- cisely toward protecting the wages, working condi- tions, trade union democracy, against gangsterism @hd_ corruption. The Communists in the trade unions have won ~the respect of their fellow workers precisely by “their uncompromising fight to make the trade unions real fighting instruments to improve the daily economic conditions of the workers. The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, through its national secretary, William Z. Foster, have both addressed open letters to the membership of the A. F. of L. These letters should become important Weapons in the fight against Green’s reactionary- fascist, “Red baiting.” They will be discussed and Teproduced in part in coming issues of the Daily ‘Worker. ‘Ch latest developments, meanwhile, indicate that the strength of the rank and file, militant op- position in the trade unions is steadily growing. ‘This emphasizes more than ever the burning need for the united front of all honest, militant workers aim-the unions, of Socialist. Party workers together with> Communists and non-party. men. united in class solidarity to defend their economic, class in- terests against the offensive of the employers. | DAILY WORKER, ‘A Change in Diet’ ESS food for every working-class family, and a degradation in the quality of the food that will go onto the tables of the working-class in the coming months—such is the tardy admission of Roosevelt's AAA board in its latest reports on the effects of the crop- reducing program and the drought. In short, Roosevelt’s A.A.A. program and the drought, which only completed the destruction which Roosevelt began, will mean a steady advance in starvation among the men, women and children of the whole toiling population. A change in diet” is how the Roosevelt officials politely describe the coming food shortage. But this is a change in diet, not from one staple to another of equal food value. This is a change in diet, brutally forced upon millions of starving people by the ruthless necessity of rising food prices. This is a change from good food to inferior, low quality food. This is a change that means undernourish- ment, vitamin and calcium deficiencies, and disease. Naturally, the Roosevelt officials attempt to place all the blame for this increased starvation and. ris- ing food costs upon the impersonal fury of the drought. But without the planned destruction of crops by the Roosevelt A.A.A. the drought would not be the disaster that it has become. The food supply of the country would not have been menaced at all. The drought could have been met by the accumu- lated reserves, which were destroyed by Roosevelt. Let it be pondered by every worker who sees his children getting less and less milk, less and less nourishing food as the profiteers gouge increasing hunks out of the weekly pay envelopes, that Roose- velt’s policies had already raised food prices 23 per cent above last year, before the drought had begun to take effect at all! The drought only gave the final touches to this criminal price-raising program of Roosevelt whose sole purpose is to protect the profits of the Wall Street monopolies. The fight for higher wages and against food gouging is a matter of the welfare of the families of millions of American workers. The profiteers, aided by the Roosevelt government, must not be permitted te coin new profits out of the starvation of the American working-class. Thomas and the League iE IT any wonder that Norman Thomas sees eye to eye with the Trotzkyites on the entry of the Soviet Union into the League of Nations? After all the principle of merging with the Second International has been taken up joyously by the Trotzkyites. Here is what Thomas has to say about the Sov- iet’s entry into the League. “Socialists have been called almost every ugly name. because in part and fashion they have said that there were some good ends to be served through the League of Nations. Now Russia sits at the Council table and American Communists are supposed to applaud.” Hypocritical Norman Thomas conceals the fact that the socialist leaders supported their imperialist government's role in the League of Nations. One must indeed deliberately seek to blind the workers on the real issue when he fails to point out that the Soviet Union enters the League of Nations as the victorious dictatorship of the proletariat at a particular stage of capitalist antagonisms, and not to bring about a union of capitalist powers for their ends. The Soviet Union enters the League of Nations after a long period of a revolutionary fight for peace. On entering the League of Nations it clearly put before the eyes of the toiling population of the world its aims, to utilize its position in the League as a weapon for peace against every machination, against every scheme of the imperialist powers. The socialist leaders argued for their govern- ment’s participation in the League of Nations at a time when it was organizing for the armed inter- vention against the Soviet Union. Now the growing antagonisms among the im- Pperialist bandits have reached a stage where it. is possible for the growingly powerful Soviet Union to block their efforts, to arouse the whole toiling popu- lation of the world to the dangers of war, and to make it a hundred-fold more difficuit for the im- perialist bandits to pursue their imperialist war plans. dust a slight difference, which Norman Thomas does not want the workers to see. He taunts the American Communists with sup- porting the pclicy of the Soviet Union for. peace. He further charges that “Communist international- ism has to subordinate itself to Russian interests.” The Japanese war lords speak of Russian inter- ests as “Red imperialism.” Is this what you mean by “Russian interests,” Norman Thomas? Or is it not the fact that the interests of the victorious proletarian revolution in the Soviet Union, with its inspiring socialist construction, with its mighty Red Army, with its growing world power, and its mounting influence among the world proletariat, are the interests of the world revolution? * . . Ee Soviet Union has no interests apart from the interests of the toiling and colonial masses of the whole world. It has no interests separate and apart from the revolutionary interests of the ex- Ploited in every land. Certainly, the American Communisis will sup- port the Soviet Union in every one of its revolu- tionary moves against the capitalist war mongers and for rallying the proletariat against their own imperialist powers and for peace. Unable to direct his attack against the Soviet Union point blank, Norman Thomas uses this roundabout method of attacking the Soviet Union's aims as purely Russian, national scheming. In this he is one with the Trotzkyites. The capitalist powers accepted the Soviet Union into the League of Nations not because they wanted to, but, because they were forced to by the growing general crisis of capitalism, by their own conflicts, and by the remarkable strength and power of the workers’ fatherland. This Mr. Thomas does not want to see, But every Socialist worker will understand and will join with the Communists in applauding the growing power and strength of the bulwark of world revo- lution. “There are thousands of employ- jboards in his charge that Richberg’s | | ers of two, five, ten and fifteen | pociri, vas “4 ical. niet * Fae jposition was “impractica}.” Green men,” Richberg stated, “in which]... j = the right to individual bargaining | 4 not point out that Raosevelt's may be a very real right and the |New NRA line-up is engaging in an essence of tranquil relations. In| extension of the drive against mili- | N. R. A. Change t . Extend Monopolies im |such cases employers and employ-|iant union policies which was be- os jees may work out their problems to- |gun with the fostering of the NRA (Continued from Page 1) | | codes. |sether and all may desire 1o be Mee wcvtes! Gaia. ina pela from outside control. | shop. Citing the Houde decision of | ‘This open attack on the closed the National Labor Board, Rich- Shop principle of trade unions called berg declared that this decision at- forth from William Green, a dema- firms the right of a majority of gogic reply in an effcrt to hold Workers in a plant to elcct beck rising rank and file resent- semtatives, but also guraniecs ment in the A. F. of L. at the top z minority the right of individual ¢adershin’s policies. logical “extension of the whole Green based himse!f solely on the Roosevelt program of protecting ‘rulings of the various NRA l2bod| monopoly profit Green sought to create the im- pression that Richberg'’s. open shop stand is something contrary to the Position of t he Roosevelt govern- ment instead of the celiberate and bargaining”, a clear justification for the open shop. Liebowitz Quits Scottsboro Case (Continued from Page 1) jests of the Scottsboro boys, or of jany other political prisoners, in have retained any but the ablest available constitutional attorney for the Supreme Court appeals, would have been false to the prin- ciples of the organization, and a | betrayal of the boys, and of the | whole struggle of the Negro people for national liberation, of which this fight is an inseparable part. “Mr. Liebowitz is out of the case because he has chosen to put his personal and political ambition above the interests of the Scotts- boro boys,” the ILD. statement said. “He is not a constitutional lawyer, and therefore completely unsuited to take the case to the U. S. Supreme Court. He has exe posed his motives of personal ambi- tion in the case by his withdrawal at this time, and by the vicious, un- warranted attacks upon the ILD., which has saved the lives of the boys for three and a half years, and which is continuing the fight for their lives and freedom. “Now, more than ever,” the LL.D. | statement said, “masses of workers |must be organized to fight to save | the lives of the Scottsboro boys and jobtain their unconditional freedom. | The case now goes to the U. 8. Su- |preme Court, which must first of |all be forced by the mass pressure of the workers all over the world, |to consent to review the case, and |then to free the boys uncondition- ally, which is within the power of this court.” Protests must be addressed to the U. S. Supreme Court and to |President Roosevelt, both at Wash- | ington. Alabama Kidnaps Two Attorneys CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 5. —Throwing a federal writ of ha- beas corpus served on them out of | |the car window, Alabama deputies Thursday kidnaped two attorneys, | Daniel Swift and Sol Kone, and spirited them across the border. The two attorneys were charged | with “bribery” in a crude frame- |up in which Alabama authorities |charged an attempt to bribe Vic- |toria Price, whose perjured testi- |mony hes been used as the basis for the conviction of the Scottsboro boys, and a sentence of death against two of them. They were arrested in Chatta-| |mooga on request of Alabama au- thorities, who claimed that a man named Pearson had told them the attorneys were coming to give him money, as a go-between, for Vic- toria Price. A hearing was held before Gov- | ernor McAlister of Tennessee, here, | and extradition ordered. Before the order could be exe- | cuted, an attorney had obtained a federal writ of habeas corpus, based jon the fact that the extradition | was illegal, no specific date or spe- | cific offense having been charged. | | The writ was served on the Ala- jbama authorities as they started l|away with the two attorneys in their car, and was legally binding | |upon them. They threw the writ out of the window of the car, Stepped on the gas, and proceeded to Huntsville, Ala | their fight for life and freedom. To | | the telegraph office and wired, “All YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934 ‘ HANDING DOWN THE VERDICT. by Burck International Children’s | Week, Oct. 8 to 15, Stresses Issue By MARTHA CAMPION In a school in Germany a boy softly hummed the “International.” “What is that song?” asked his neighbor. “That’s our song,” he answered. “Oh,” said the other, “show me the badge of your party.” The first drew a hammer and sickle on a piece of paper, and the second said, “Your hand on it, comrade, We will form a cell here.” When all the strike leaders were arrested in the recent mine strike in Gallup, New Mexico, a fifteen- | year-old miner's daughter, weut to | | leaders in jail. ately.” Send help immedi Spanish Workers | Seize Many Towns (Continued from Page 1) son and captured it. Less of life was reported on both sides. OLVIEDO—A number of Civil! Guard garrisons were attacked by the workers, and severe fighting is | going on. BARCELONA. — Rightist | Fascist newspapers arriving here |from Madrid were seized by the workers out on a general strike and | burned in the streets. and OYONIEGO.—Barracks of the Civil Guard were burned to the | ground by the rebels. A motorist passing through by a roundabout way reported that the streets here were filled with barricades, and flerce fighting 1s going on. SERGUARA—A truck carrying Civil Guards sent against the rebei- lious workers was forced to turn back when it came upon a detach- ment of the workers’ militia, The armed workers are marching along the highway with red banners floating in the breeze, shouting for dictatorship of the proletariat and vowing death to the Fascist gov- ernment. Socialists, Communists and Syndicalists, wearing red arm bands, are marching and fighting side by side for the victory of the workers’ cause, BARCELONA.— The Catalonian | government is reported to be ready | to issue a manifesto declaring Catalonia an autonomous republic. In Basque, 300 railway strikers | |Siezed a train, armed themselves jand headed for Olviedo where they | |planned to join forces with their |fellow workers in that city. They Were stopped on the way by a heavy concentration of Civil ;Guards and after severe fighting were forced to retreat, SAMA DE LANGREO—Armed miners seized a huge quantity of explosives and are proceeding to at- tack the entrenched Civil Guards. and soldiers that if they do net give up their stronghold they will be blown up. SAMA.—Revolutionists siezed the town officials and proclaimed the workers’ government. Troops were sent against the town. Severe fighting is now going on. The out- come has not yet been reported. CUETA, Spanish Morocco.—The | general strike movement spread to | this Spanish colony when workers |here joined in the fight against the | Fascist Lerroux government, MANZANEDA.—A detachment of They have warned the Civil Guards | To make this spirit live in our youth is the task we all must be conscious of during International Children’s Week (Oct. 8-15). This week is being celebrated for the fourteenth time, in all countries where workers and their children are organized. It is a time, here tn the United States, not only for celebration, in spite of the fact that there are 12,000 children organized into work- ing class organizations (Young Pioneers, I.W.O. Juniors, Young De- fenders, Nature Friend Scouts, etc). It is equally a time when all work- ers must consider very seriously what their responsibility to the children means. Children and Politics Let us note what lack of re- sponsibility to the children has meant in the past. Before the war, very casual atten- tion was given to the training of proletarian children. In the ranks of the revolutionary workers there | existed to a large extent the atti- tude that children should have nothing to do with politics. Child- hood was supposed to be a time} only for play. | The serious consequences of this | attitude can easily be seen. Those children who were carefully guarded from the “evil effects” of working class training went to war; they killed working class young people of other countries; they themselves died “for God and country.” The reason for this is not only that they received little or no political training at all. They did receive in the schools, the churches, through all the agencies of bourgeois democracy a thorough anti-working class training. They were indoc- trinated with nationalism, chauvin- ism, militarism. The class in power was not so foolish as we were. They | saw that the children received ex- actly the political training that | would be of benefit to the class in| power. The “liberals,” with their attitude that “children should haye nothing to do with politics,” dis- armed the workers, and the child's | mind wes left open to the schools revolutionary workers attacked a bus containing Fascist reinforce- ments, killing a number and effec- |tively preventing them from pro- ceeding against the revolutionary workers. News coming from Spain does not clearly indicate the methods or or- ganization of the armed struggles and whether any central dizectives were issued for the establishment of @ workers’ government. Nothing has been reported on the actions of the peasants, who face sovere attacks under the Lerroux regime. Francisco Largo Caballero, presi- dent of the Socialist Party and sec- |retary of the General Laborers Union, issued the call for the gen- eral strike, which was joined in by jenergies to the education of the | | Possible for fascism to win our | worker. He went through high jcorners with other boys like him- Capitalists power. The schools gave the chil- dren a solid anti-working class edu- cation, and the organized working class gave them nothing to coun- teract it. Children and Fascism A second serious consequence of the lack of working class education | given the children is the hold fas- | cism has been able to get upon some | sections of the youth. It is true that this is not as yet as observable in this country as it is in Italy and Germany, where many young peo- ple who have just graduated from childhood, so to speak, are brought inte the fascisis bands. That fas- cism does not have a mass base in this country yet is all the more reason why we should bend our children. We must make it im- | young people. Who will be the Storm Troops of this country? Some will be boys like Johnny. Johnny is the son of a school, and when he came out, could not get work. He spends his days and nights hanging around the self. These boys are full of the energy of youth, but there is no outlet for this energy. For amuse- ment they go to the movies which daily becomes more nationalistic and more antagonistic to “reds” and Communists; they reat cheap maga- zines in which a “red” is the villain and a young policeman or the United States Army the hero more and more frequently. These boys have never had any working class education. They have never had any experience in industry or labor organizations. Their minds are still full of the education they have re- ceived in the schools of the ruling class. And they are full of energy, and no outlet for it! Let a Hitler come along, and give them guns, and drills, and orders to raid homes, and shoot up workers’ demonstra- tions, and what will happen? The Example of Germany Let Germany, where the Social Democrats were in control of the schools for a decade, and where the school children still paraded before Hindenburg and learned from mon- archist textbooks, be a lesson to us. Our youth must not be ready to follow Hitler as so many of the German youth did. Let us learn also from the acii- vities of the youth and even of the small children in our own country during the last war. In that war, as we saw, war propaganda found fertile ground in our young people. And look at the activities of the children themselves. The Boy Scouts sold more than $200.900,000 worth of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps! The masses of children in | the schools, besides, as you all re- member, were regimen’ed to‘ sell bonds and stamps, to knit inittens for the soldiers, to propagandize | ANS Ae Pee REY If We Don’t Train Working Class Children, Surely Will’ which were run by the class in |Class Point of View the! Only Defense of the New Generation their parents and neighbors in favor of the war, etc. The Boy Scouts in this country are a real challenge to the revolu- tionary workers. in the Boy Scouts the ruling class and its executive committee, the government, has built up a reserve, so to speak, for the next war and for the service of the ruling class even in time of “peace.” There are well over a million Boy Scouts registered in the United States at this time. And the Scout movement is at present embarked on a Ten Year Plan of Recruitment. nanced and directed by the big industrialists and high government officials. And these members the ruling class know how important for them the Scouis are. Here is a quotation from an ad- dress made by Secretary of the ner of Boy Scout officials in 1929: “Two great contests are going on in the world. One we are staging here. Russia is staging the other. Russia is dealing with its youth, trying to teach them to think new ways, new methods of working to- gether. It is succeeding to a re- markable degree. . . . We think the ideal with which the Russian boy is confronted is not the best, but the greatest contest in the world today is between those (working class ideals—M. C.) and our ideals (capi- talist ideals—M. C.).... One of the questions of most concern today is, which will win, the American idea or the one in Russia? confidence that ours is better. Cer- tainly it seems to be better for us, and in developing in this country these ideals, these standards, these feelings, that we want our youth to have, we find the Boy Scout move- ment one of the most significant of all the institutions that we have.” (My emphasis—M. C.) When in the Boy Scouts more than a million children are being trained physically and ideologically for can- non fodder and against the working class surely our 12,000 organized working class children are not a cause for celebration alone. Every indifference toward the education- of workers’ children in the past has been paid for thrice over by the working class. And indifference to the children at the present time, with the rise of fas- cism and the danger of war any day, is a crime against our class. Will our children be cannon fod- der in the next war, and Storm Troopers when the American Hitler comes along? Or will they be our allies in the struggle for a workers’ world which we shall conquer? The answer depends on us. nist Party long before the downfall of the Samper government urged a united front of the Socialist and Communist Parties in preparation for the armed uprising. The united front, however, was formed in the general strike and in the fighting throughout Spain against the attempted institution of the fascist regime. Growing difficulties among the ranks of the capitalists and land- lords was seen in the protests of |the heads of the Republican Pariy |against the establishment of the Lerroux cabinet. Former Premier |Manuel Azana, and many of his followers, broke all connections with the Lerroux government on the ground that these “political ele- |ments delivered the xepublic to its enemies today.” More recently the Socialist Party the Communist Party, The Commu- writing in favor of the dictatorship of the proletariat and against fas- cism, but took no concrete steps to unite the ranks of the workers for the achievement of these ends. A united front was formed between the Communist Party of Spain and the Young Socialist League, which recently was able to mass over $0,000 workers in the Madrid Sta- dium in a demonstration against Fascism. The Socialist Party has the larg- est proportion of organized workers in its ranks, while the Communist Party, from latest reports, had over 40,000 members in its ranks. The Anarcho-Syndicalist leaders only half-heartedly entered the armed struggle, being forced into action by their membership who went into the general strike and into the |armed struggle along with their brothers in the Communist and So- leaders. have been speaking and cialist Parties, The Scouts are fi- | of | Interior Wilbur at the annual din- | “We do not know, but we have | government, the builders of the new | On the Worl Front By HARRY GANNES Whither Spain? United Battle What We Must Do ILL the next crack in the capitalist world come in Spain? All eyes are on the Spanish proletariat in their heroic revolutionary general strike against efforts to instie tute a fascist regime. The Soe cialist leaders hesitated long before they entered into a united front with the Communist Party. Now the masses are united on the streets. Every Socialist should ask, why must the united front be dee layed until the day the ruling class throws down the gauntlet for the bloody battle? The Communist Party of Spain has been fighting valiantly for the united front. It was able to ese tablish the united front with the Young Socialist League of Spain | Several months ago. The Commu- |nist Party of Spain long ago | Pointed out that the Samper gov- jermment was paving the road to fascism. Now Samper has stepped out, and Lerroux has mobilized a concentration government of the most reactionary forces in Spain— |@ government of the capitalist re- action, of the feudal landowners, | and of the Fascist Catholic Action, sipieriear bles proletariat recognized this as a signal for a fascist assault on the entire toiling masses, and forced the leaders of the Socialist Party and of the Syndicalists to call the revolutionary general strike, The new cabinet, rests on the bayo= net point, but the gun is wobbly. A developing offensive by the pro- letariat, without vacillation on the part of the Socialist leaders, would not only seal the political death of the Lerroux cabinet, but would drive forward to the proletarian reyolution, to the establishment of Soviets in Spain. Every factor favors the victory of the proletarian uprising in Spain. The bourgeoisie is rent by |@ hundred contradictions. It is weak, despite its attempted show of strength through its Fascist con< | centration government. The prole- tariat has reach a high pitch of revolutionary ardor, enthusiasm, and initiative. Only the decisive will, the revo- lutionary united front, the deter- | mination of all the proletarian par- | ties to unite solidly with the Com- munist Party for the only program that can defeat fascism is yet lack- ing. : SS wae, NE need not read the Thesis of the 13th Plenum of the Com- munist International, written be- | fore last December, to see now that | the world is faced with a new round {of wars and revolutions. Class | against class to the point of the | revolutionary armed uprising is the | question of the day in Spain, Ger- | many, France. Premier Doumergue hurls the defiance of civil war | against the united front of Social- ists and Communists. The development of revolutionary | events in Spain will have their echoes throughout the world. The proletariat is going inte the offen- sive against the fascist butchers. Fascism is leading world capitalism to deeper crisis and to war. Victory for the proletarian revo- | lution in Spain will rock all of |Burope. It will set off an explo- sion that will not leave fascism in- tact in Germany or Italy. Pee Si [AT must our task be in the United States? In support of the revolutionary struggles of the Spanish proletariat we must imme- diately form a united front of So- | cialists and Communists to bring every assistance. to our Spanish brothers, to the Socialists, Syndi- calists, Communists of Spain. As the proletariat goes into ac- tion against fascism, the fascist dogs, such as Doumergue already threatens, will, drive to a new im- perialist war. Viewing the rising revolutionary tempo in Spain and elsewhere, the capitalists in every country will | speed their fascist measures, their attacks on the whole working class, Therefore, now more than ever, we must speed the united front against our own imperialist govern- ment in their attacks on the worke ing class. ey een AT THIS moment, time becomes & a tremendous factor. Failure to éstablish the united front in the United States now will have an in- jurious effect on the struggles against fascism where the prole- tariat are taking up arms or are about to take up arms for the over- throw of the fascist dictatorships. The establishment of a united front of Socialists and Communists in the United States would hearten and strengthen our brothers there in their present critical situation. Socialist workers! Why do your leaders delay the united front? Has not Germany, Austria, and now | Spain, taught us the lesson of the necessity of fighting all delay. Every moment of delay plays into the hands of the bosses. Every moment of delay means more lives of work ers gambled away. When the whole world proletariat is moving towards a united front of Socialists and Communists, why do Norman Thomas, Oneal, and the other Socialist leaders in this coun- try, forge closer their bonds of unity with the strikebreaking Greens and Gormans? Are these gentlemen the fighters of socialism against fas- cism? Or are they the agents of the fascist employers? Our Spanish brothers are enter- ing a battle to the death against fascism. Socialists, Communists, Syndicalists are shedding their blood to defeat fascism, to establish a workers’ government. Can we per- mit enemies of the working class in this country from forming @ united front at this time in sup- port of the Spanish working class, against fascism in this country, against the growing danger of war? i a f