The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1934, Page 8

Page § ENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Oniy Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE SOMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ALgonquin 4-795 4. New “America’s Daily Newspaper” Press Bi Nationa’ Chicago, Iding. 0 m 706, m1. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934 For Solidarity Action URIOUS battles are still going on Spain against Fascism, despite the re- peated announcements of the Spanish gov- ernment’s complete “victory.” in For six days now the Spanish workers, in united front action of Socialists, Communist and Syndicalists, have put up a heroic, inspiring battle. We must come to their immediate aid. In fur- therance of task the Communist Parts, U.S.A., acidressed a letter to the Socialist Party executive, mediate steps for united front dem- joint Socialist end Communist support of the heroic Spanish workers. On the same day the Communist International and Young Communist International addressed the So- ¢cialist workers throughout the world for united front actions. Comrades were appointed to negotiate directly with the leaders of the Socialist and So- cialist Youth Internationals. . “Having in mind this decisive picture of the bour- zeoisie striving to shatter an embattled working- class, the Communist International calls upon all its sections, in common with other workers’ or- ganizations, to organize demonstrations in solidar- ity with the Spanish working-class.” This world-wide appeal for immediate united front support te the Socialists and Communists shedding their d against the fascist fiends in Spain should evoke quick response, should lead to definite steps for united front actions for our Span- h brothers. The letter signed by the Communist Party, Earl Browder, secretary of addressed to the’ Socialist Party National Executive Committee, urging the necessity of immediate action, declared “Can we allow more precious days, and even months, to slip by, while the whole capitalist world is drifting ever more rapidly into fascism and war, without a serious effort to build a united working- elass front?” The same appeal calied for such necessary steps as joint mestings and demonstrations in support of the Spanish worke:s, shedding their blood on the barricades against fascism. It is our international duty, it is the will of every worker whose heart is with his Spanish brothers, to speed the formation of the united front of So- cialists and Communists against fascism and against the growing danger of war. rtainly there should be no obstacles what- r to joint meetings to rally mass support in $s country for our Span comrades, who have joined their forces in a battle to the death against All hesitation. united front shou all hindrance, or delay io the . With the united front nee, with the united front in he stage of an armed strug- Spain having 1 gie, certainly there should be no excuse for delay in this country to united actions against fascism. Socialist the Socialist and Communist fighters of Spain! Thaelmann Must Be Freed! EWS published several days ago in the Daily Worker that Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of the Communist Party of Germany, is about to go on “trial” for his life, has been confirmed by official dis- s in the American capitalist press. mann, who hes been im: is came to po’ is now executioners’ ce;irt. Th Nazi scoundrels have long his death, but have been held back id mass protest actions. Now as quietly and kly as possible they are trying to rush our comrade to his doom. His judges are p d Nazi hangmen. His trial will be held in secret. The Nazi butchers may not even announce when he comes up for their judg- ment. They may only announce the dreadful exe- cution efter it has taken place. The Com ist Party of Germany has appealed to-all brother parties to go into action immediately for the freedom of our beloved and brav2 comrade Thacimann. j The campaign for the release of Thaelmann and all other anti-fescist prisoners has lagged. The slightest delay now in inaugurating a more energetic, more powerful mass campaign than has ever been seen before, will be extremely dangerous. Thacimann is picked for Nazi vengeance at this time because the difficulties of fas: are mouwit- ing terrifically. The Nazis want him out of the way before the coming winter of great anti-fascist to fac2 the battles. Thactimann is a nemesis to them, and they will go to any lengths to wipe him out. UR immediate jon must take the of dem- at of all N pro: resolutions, a bar- letvers, phone calis to the Nezi Emba: in Washingion. We must send a stream of cabies to the so-called “People's Court,” to the G tate Po- lice}, to the Nazi officials, voicing. the ‘éemand of millions of Amezican workers and anti-fascists, *“Thselmann must be freed! Free all anti-fas priseners! Down with the Nazi execution courts ‘We must now rally all of the forces previously drawn into actions on behalf of Ernst Thaelmann, apd resch new hundreds of thousands of workers slid others to express their protest against the threatened execution. ‘Thaelmann’s death would be a blow to the anti- fascis: front. The Fascist fiends know this, and are speeding his inquisition. Freedom for Thael- mann, which can be won by the world protest of all anti-fascisis, by our energetic action in arousing the millions of worksrs opposed to fascism in this country, would be a great blow to the Hitler regime. - Speed the demonstrations and other actions for the- freedom of Ernst Thaelmann! Let the Nazi butchers know that the American worke-s are mass- ing their forces against the threatened execution of ‘Thaelmenn, Thacimann must be freed! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934 Daily QWorker Rubbish in the A. F. of L.| N AN unguarded moment, D. J. Tobin, International president of the Teamsters’ Union and right hand man of William Green, told the A. F. of L. convention exactly what the A. F. of L. bureaucrats think of the workers. “We have 135,000 members without taking in the rubbish that has lately come into other organizations in the last -year,” said He referred to the thousands of militant ve recently joined the A. F. of L. * Tobin said when his re- a roar of protest. ‘upt A. F. of L. bureaucracy takes the tude towards the rank and file.as is taken the employers. They want .to admit the new members only so that they can behead their strikes and collect their dues, They consider the new members as a source of income to pay for the offi- same a by cials’ fat salaries and expense accounts. Why Tobin considers the new A. F. of L. mem- bers as “Rubbish” can be seen from his activities in his own union. Tobin ordered the Minneapolis Teamsters not to strike and they struck in spite of his orders. Tobin, together with Woll, is Green's leading captain in creating the hysterical red scare against all militant rank and filers. teen, in attempting to overcome the bad im- pression created by Tobin's speech stated that the A. F. of L, welcomes all workers. But the members of the A. F. of L. all know that Tobin is following out Green's policies against the rank and file. The A. F. of L. bureaucrats oppose unemployment in- surance, protect gangsterism in the unions, follow @ no-strike policy of co-operation with the employ- ers. They sell out every strike they get their hands on, as in the auto, steel and textile industry. They try to split the workers and suppress militant ac- tion through their “red scare.” They keep the rank and file from controlling their own trade union movement. They pay themselves fat salaries out of high dues drained from the pockets of the mem- bers. There is a lot of rubbish in the trade union moyement. But this rubbish is to be found on and around Green's throne, The rank and file will have to clean this rubbish out and take over the con- trol of the unions themselves. The road to this housecieaning is the building of rank and file oppo- Sitions in each local union. What Is Industrial Unionism? HE pressure of the masses of the work- ers for an aggressive fight for union conditions has forced the leaders of the American Federation of Labor to pay lip service to organization of the unorganized and to the question of industrial unionism. But the Green-Lewis bureaucracy in the A. F. of L., in the resolution passed in the San Francisco Convention, attempt to pacify the demands of the rank and file with an empty gesture. ~The reso- lution adopted by the convention, in fact, eulogized the craft form of organization. It declared the in- tention to “fully protect the jurisdictional ri all trade unions organized along crafi line: The resolution, upon which Green, Lew:s and the whole A. F. of L. bureaucracy agreed, declared further, “Experience has shown that craft organization is most effective in the protection of the welfare and advancement of interests of the workers where the nature of the industry is such that the lines of demarcation between the crafts are dis- tinguishable.” Right at the start, therefore, the “industrial un-onism” resolution, which was hailed by Green as a ciep forward. embraces craft unionism and not even the empty form of industrial unionism. The resolution calls for “the Executive Council to issue charters for netional and international unions” only in the “automotive, cement and aluminum’ industries, and other “mass production industries” to which the Executive Council might give its consent. But even in these three industries, the “vertical” form of the unions is not real industrial unionism, but an empty husk. The resolution of Green- Lew-s makes sure that the Executive Council of the A. F. of L, is to be given complete domination of the new “vertical” unions. It declares, “In order to protect and safeguard the members of such unions chariered, the Federation, for a provisional pericd, shall direct the policies, administer and des- ignate the administrative and. financ‘al officers of the newly organized unions.” HE last paragraph exposes the real intent of the Green-Lewis burcoucr an yor of this resolution, including Lewis, Howard, admitted that Was. Girected caisciy ashe t t at the Communists and against independent unions, The resolution strengihens the cr UNIONS -2 at, aims to strangle any struggle or fighting policy on the part of the newly organized workers, and fur- thers the red scare against militant workers. It strengthens the no-struggle poiicy of Green, Lewis and Company, and is aimed against rank and file fighters. Real industrial mere structure. The real industrial union wipes out craft lines in order to cement the solidarity of all the workers in the industry, so that the fight for the workers’ demands can be made stronger. The rank and file oppositions inside the A. F. of L, demand real industrial unionism—the indus- trial form of. organization, coupled with ‘and -in- separable from a program of fight for the workers’ demands, and of rank and file control of the union. unionism includes more than Join the Party! HF working class in the United States faces a winter of desperate struggles. There will ke strikes for higher wages and better working conditions. There will be the struggle for tne Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill. There will. be the great. fisht against. the menace of war end fas- cism. In all these struggles the eorrect. and incorrup- tible leadership of the Communist Party will play an important role. The Party will expose the sell- outs of the-labor fakers of the A. F. of L. It will be in the forefront of every fight that is waged in the interests of the workers. The influence of the Communist Party can be immeasurably strengthened if every militant worker who has watched it in action against the bosses himself becomes a member of the Party. In joining the Party he strikes a blow against the whole capi- talist system, since this action signifies that he has become en integr ‘al part of the militant leader- ship of the work There is nothing the capitalists fear so much as the growth of the Parivy. They know that every new Party member es the development of a new working class le: Workers of Americ: capitalist class that the build the Communist Party into the political party that will liscrate them from the curse ef capitalism, Show the join your Party! | Party Life | Geant Work Carried On |tn A Summer Camp— | Bive Workers Recruited |i port in the Daily Worker about the successful financial work of Camp Croton for our left ment, but not enough organiza- tional and political work. Why? ; Because there was no Party Unit or Y. C. L. to lead and guide the work. Although there was a won- derful field to do work, the Party and Y. C. L. Unit did not begin.to function until a few sincere Party members that came to the camp | to continue their Party. work got together, elected functionaries and | got to work, Before the unit was organized, a class, conducted by Comrade M., in fundamentals, was ; organized by the camp committee. | It lasted six weeks with an at- | tendance of 30 to 35 persons. | As soon as the unit was -or- | ganized it was our task to help in | the work. Although the unit func- tioned only four weeks the follow- ing work was accomplished. In concentration: recruited five work- ers into the Party, recruited ten | women into the Women’s Councils, This is how the basis was laid for the future, a unit, Y. ©. L. and Wemen’s Council because most of | the recruits except the old mem- bers are coming to this camp next summer, Financially: $6.50 for the | Daily Worker drive, $4.00 for the | WLR. camp, $16.95 for section 12. | We are sure if we would have! begun our work from -the begin- | ning of the summer our work would be double or triple. Let this. stand }as a lesson for the comrades in |Camp Croton and other camps to {have in mind, that Communists don't take a transfer to take a | Test and pleasufe of eight: to. ten weeks, but to continue Party work wherever they are, A. E., Section 14. M. A., Unit 3, Section 11. Peekskill, N. Y. | Sn ee Y¥. C. L. Overcomes Sectarianism 'HERE are many camps and re- | 4 sorts around this territory. Also Camp Smith and a few C. C. C. camps, are in this territory. For a few years there was a League Unit in Mohegen Colony, which is three and one half miles from Peekskill. It stayed within the colony and was unknown to everybody. This year, with the in- auguration of Section 13 (West- chester County), a few new units jof the Y. C. L. were organized near |this territory. Through the initiative of the sec- tion orven’~er the colony unit started to do some work. Con- tacts were made in the C. C. C. camps; a few strikes were con- ducted. with the units’ (colony) aid, Contacts and fraternization was made with soldiers from Camp Smith, when they maneuvered near the colony. etc. | In the city of Peekskill, the Vet- |erans of Foreien Wars, advertised the fact that they would hold an Anti - Communist demonstration. | Peekskill is one hundred per cent Ku Klux town. non-industrial, et Imm-dieteiv. the rection. errs got up leaflets and mobilized the | League Unit to distribute the leaf- lets to the citizens of Peekskill, who were watching the parade. The dis- tribution was successful. The leaf- | let was signed Communist Party of Peekskill and told the workers not to be. intimidated, not to be afraid to organize into unions, ete. | This should be an example for jevery League and Party Unit to follow. | M. Ww. Peekskill, N. * . “How Not to Build A League.” 'HE situation in Racine between the Party and Y. C. L. is a very serious one. The relationship is not @ very close nor favorable one. This |we think fs due to the Party's at- titude towards the League mem- bers. They make most of the League members feel as if they were not | capable of doing the work and as lif they would have better results |minus the League member. | We |have taken this up with the Party | but so far they have taken no steps | to overcome it. That is the reason | why we are writing this letter to | the “Daily.” | The Party in its section commit- | tee meeting, shortly after the Oven | Letter was issued, took up the question of building a strong Y. C. |L, in Racine, inc-rasing its mom- bership, ete—so far it has done exactly this: (1) It has not taken up the question of the Y. C. L. seriously in the section committee meet- ings, ner unit meetings, since the National Youth Day demonstra- tion. (2) So far the Party has not as- signed any Party. member to do youth work. They ciaim they have not the forces to put any- one in charge ef youth work, | This merely shows they do not realize the importance of britdin~ a vous ‘and *f, 1+-~ do realize it, they choose the path | of least resiz.ance and ienors it.- In connection with youth work they heve assi¢ned a Party mem- ber to act as Party Rep at League meetings, whe takes an irre-- sponsible attitude toward ‘the work. (3) Tt has not taken. un the question of recruiting. league members. Fer instance Unit 4 of the Party was assigned to recruit about forr members. No concrete steps were taken to recruit these four members. The Party, up to date, hasn't recruited any—not only in Unit 4 but thronshout the city. (4a) The question of Interna tional Youth Day was almost comp'etely ignored by the Pa-ty, The Party took up the question ef I. ¥. D. the night before of the J. Y. D. meeting, during which the Porty erganizer and a few other leading comrades refused to They finally shoved it on espencib’e Party Rep, who {riled to show vp anyhow. (b) The Party was snnposed to issv> 1509 leaficis, which they faiied to do. (c) The meeting being a very Iroverment, SHORT time ago we read a re-| move- | VERTICAL—BUT NOT Yureniey. "Spikes. Lies | About Railroad Wrecking Acts (Specicl to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 10 (By Wireless). The exchange of notes between Soviet Ambassador to Japan Yure- niev and the Japanese Fore.gn Min- ter Hirota were published here to- day, revealing on the one hand a clear explanation of recent Jap- anese provocations centering around alleged Soviet wrecking on the Chi- nese Eastern Railway, and on the other hand a blustering series of fabrications. In his note to Ambassador Yure- niev, Hirota repeated practically ell the ant:-Soyiet fables about the par- ticipation of Soviet employes of the C.E.R. in “conspiracies having the Object of wrecking Japanece military trains” and declared that victims during these attacks “n the ma- jority of cases were Japanese or Manchurians, while at the same time Soviet citizens seldom suf- fere Yureniev in his reply (Oct. 5) cites the following officially estab- lished data: 2% Trains Wrecked For. the period. from. Jan. 1 to Sept. 5, 1934, there took place 22 train wrecks, of which only one— wrecked 17th cf June—was a mili- tary train. The total number of military trains which passed during the above mentioned eight months along the Eastern Line was sixty. It is true that Japanese military supplies were also sent in mixed freight trains. A total of 6,949 cars with Japanese military supplies and ed military trains, were carried on the C.E.R. during the period from Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, 1934, according to the orders of the Japanese military command received by the managing board of the C.E.R. According to the written statement of the Jap- anese military command dated the 9th of August and addressed to the manager of the C.E.R., Rudy, only twenty-six cars were injured and destroyed out of this number. If we take into consideration these data, then it becomes clear that the first and basic statement contained in Hirota’s note, dated Sept. 4, con- cerning the frequent wrecking of Japanese military trains, doesn’t taliy with the actual fact. The same is also true in connec- tion with h's second statement that when trains were wrecked on the Eastern Line allegedly mostly Jap- anese and Manchurians suffered and only very rarely Soviet citizens. Only Two japanese Wounded According to these same official ta, during those twenty-two train wrecks which toox place upon the Eastern Line of the C.B.R. during the last eight months, as well as during bandit attacks on railway stations of the Basiern Line, only two Japanese scldiers were wounded, Contributions received to the credit of Burck in his socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen troops, including the above mention- | ON THE LEVEL! by Burck VERTICAL UNIONISM i while among Soviet citizens, dns | ployes of the C.E.R., there were nine killed, 171 wounded, 43 kidnapped by bandits and thirteen robbed. Thus, offical deta entirely: refute the statements of the Japanese side and thus corroborate the causeless- ness and illegality of the arresis of Sov.et citizens. Official documents of the C.E.R. published at different times clearly established that the Soviet Part of the Board of the C.E.R. did every- thing possible to secure safety on the C.E.R. and especially on its stern Line. Soviet employes of the C.E.R. often made especially heroic efforts in this direction. A number of wrecks, including Jap- anese military trains, were prevented precisely by Soviet employes, whd sometimes acted at the risk of their lives, | Did Not Guard Road At the same time the Manchurian author.ties not only did not fulfill their obligations according to agree- ments on guarding the Road, but systematically reduced the same, especially for last year, and com- mencing with the 19th of May, this year, entirely removed the guard from freight trains of the Eastern Line of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way. No wonder that as a result of such a situation precisely in the lete months increased attacks tcok place on the Eastern Line of the C. E. R., as Hirota’s note points out. | It is quite natural that the decrease | of safety down to ca‘astrophic limits gradually led to almost ; complete paralysis and that the | traffic which remained on the Eastern Line, freight as well as pas- | senger traffic, was extremely ham- pered on this important section of | international significance. ' Yureniev Replies Dealing with Hirota’s statement in his note wherein he refutes all responsibility for anti-Soviet cam- paigns of the Japanese press, point- ing out sta‘ements allegedly ex- pressed by prominent persons in the U. S. S. R. and directed against Japan, Yureniev in his note says: This part of your note cannot but | nrouse great. si Indeed, although the government of the U. S. S. R. cannot be re- sponsible for articles and reports appearing in the Sovie: press, it, however, can state that the Soviet press, reflecting the aspiration of the peoples of the U. S. S. R., al- ways uMswervingly supported and supports the peaceful policy and! reasonable understanding conducted by the Soviet Government in i's‘ relations with Japan. ‘s The Soviet Government knows no case when even the smallest pro- vincial newspaper in the U.S. S. R. | advocated ‘war with Japan or the conquest of territories belonging to | Japan or occupied by her. Cites Japanese Attacks | At the same time I need not enumerate aggressive and militant | expressions against the U. S. S. R. Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily $69,000, QUOTA—S1,000, Total to date | will take measures tow Worker drive tor + § 40 Notes of Soviet Envoy and Hirota Reveal Japanese Lies, Provocation ‘Data Proves Only One) of 22 Trains Was a Military Train in a number of prominent Japanese newspapers, as these are well known. Equally so the Soviet Government knows of no aggressive expye of “prominent persons in the U. S. S. R. against Japan.” The mention- ing of it in your note I attribu; eto apparent misunderstanding. On the contrary, the aggvessive statements against the U. S. S, R. on the part of prominent and by no means unofficial public men in Japan is well known. Thus I consider unfounded all the accusations cited in ihe Japanese reply to my thoroughly proved note. 167 Soviet Citizens Jailed I must state, at the same time, that, fully approving those accuse tions which were put forward as a justification of the illegal action of Japanese - Manchurian authorities, | the Japanese government sanc- tioned these actions and actually stimulated the further arbitrary rule of the local autho: in| Manchuria. The result of such an a titude on | the part of the Japanese govern- ment is that instead of 22 arrested, concerning whom I spoke of in my note dated Aug. 22, at the present moment 167 Sovie: ciizens have been arrested, including 142 em- 'ployees of the C. I. R. incarcerated in the prisons of Manchurie. Moreover, as I have already ex- plained, after handing in my note, those arrested were during their examinations subjected to inhuman beatings and tortures and the So- viet Governmen: was obliged on Aug. 31 to lodge a special protest with the Japanese government co: cerning this question, the basis for which was corroborated still more by subsequent facts, No Action On Protest However, although since lodging ; this pro est, already over one month | has elapsed and although it was a | question of most inhuman actions of Japanese local authorities which contradicted elementary laws, the Japanese government did not find it necessary to take measures against such actions through its organs. Considering the above-meniisn2 a | fects there is no doubt of the r: sponsibility of the Jan>nece gov ment for these actions on the p nehurian authori- | 0 of the Japano-}* ties of the C. E. The Sovie Government instructed | me to lodge this repeated protest | |with you on the continued err sts | and tortures of Soviet Manchuria and inform you that it! expects the Japonese gov mediate release of all Soy r Dloyees cf the Chinese Eastern Ra! way, who haye been innocently ar- rested. important political meeting, not onc of the leading Party members showed up. Out of all the units in the city. enly four Party members attended. (5) But for any Party work which must be done immediately the Party utilizes the League to mobilize the Party members. In case the League member refuses he: receives 9 lecture en: AP r,t portence ef the League doing it, And then they werder why the League cdeesn’t grow in Racine. Comzedely yours, (Signed) O R.. J. V., ¥. C. Liers, Racine, Wise W. K, ‘ S | Fifteen Anti-Imperialists 1 Seized in Haiti Face, Death or Prison Terms. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 12.—To: simply being mentioned in the anti-imperialist paper of Hilti, the “Cri a Peuple,” 15 men and \ today reporiet to be arraicned be- | lroxe a military tribunal on charges |°7 ecrrying penaliies of life-imprisor- | ment or death. |. The |Paris and while the paper de- nounced the new terroristic meas- ures | pecple, it did not mention. |rested as engaged in’ tivities, as the goveznn Four writers, six journe! ists, two lawyers, two workers and a Sin Oct.) ae made up the grou? sized is ‘She Vincent administration. The Military Tribunal is a ter. ey drum-head eels 2 way all the finperiaiiee exploi o: the Vincent Government. fore in the history of the c {has theve been a ferocity of workers = — |pronouncements of taken against the Haitian cu “Cri du Peuple” is printed in| tion circeted egainst the Haitian| World Front |I—— By HARRY GANNES ——I | “New Leader” on Spain | For Green, Not Barricades | Omit United Front week every honest er has been stirred Social |to his v depths by the herois struggle of his brothers in Spain united with Communists and Syne dicalists in a glorious bettle against fascism. He waits hopefy for the next issue of the Socialist organ, “The New Leader,” to utter its first words on this united front armed struggle against the fascist dogs of Spain, He takes up his paper, his heart palpitating. He wants to read words of encouragement, of inspiration to struggle. On Friday, the sixth day of the armed struggles which have swept Spain, with the Red Flag of the proletarian revolution flying in | Many towns in Spain, with a life {and death battle of over 30,000 {armed miners going on in Asturias, with trogps coming to the side of jthe workers, he looks at the main |headline of the “New Leader,” and |reads: . F. of L. Fights Fascism.” Workers shedding their blood on the barricades; Communists and Socialists, uniting the working class of Spain in a heroic struggle to smash the landlord-bourgeois rule of Spain, must make way to the phrases of William Green, agent of American imperialism, HEN the “New Leader” refers to the A. F. of L. fighting fascism, they have in mind the strikebreak- ing bureaucracy, the Mathew Wolls of the pro-fascist Civic Federation; the Gormans and Greens who sup- ;Port the fascist attacks on the Communists. It would be wrong to say that the “New Leader” has utterly neglected to treat the revolutionary general strike of Spain and the armed up- si That stalwart defender of jthe armed struggles of the ‘prole- tariat against fascism, James Oneal, writes the leading articles, |which takes second place to the Citrine, Green, | Dubinsky and Co. | Every capitalist paper repeated, \s ressed, reiterated and re-empha- d the fact that the armed strug- gle was led by the united front of Socialists, Communists and Syndi- |calists. Oneal sees fit throughout |his entire article not even to men- tion the Communists. Oneal strives | by the use of printer's ink to wipe ;out_a united front against fascism |in Spain that is sealed in the blood jof thousands of workers. “Their struggle” he ites of the | Spanish proletariat, “was similar to the fight of the Austrian working class against fascism last Febru- ary... par, ee ET us mention a few points of dis: 1) Capallero, lead Socialist Party, repeatedly, in words at least, ree buked the Austrian Socialist lead- ers for their reformist mistakes; Caballero at least talked for the dict: hin of the preletariat. 2) The united front of Socialists and Commun: had been achieved in the Spar battles, where it had /not in Austria until afterwards. 3) The Spanish Socialists did not offer |@ compromise to Lerroux-Robles | providing for a period of dictatore \Ship, as Bauer did to Dollfuss. 4) The Spanish proletariat wes jnot disarmed,, as was the Austrian Netariat with the aid of Bauer end Co., but took the offensive in the battle when the right regime was insvalled. 5) Both Sccialist and Communist leaders joined in cell- Jing a general strike that was 100 per cent effective, when the Aus- jtrian Social emocratic leaders |sapotaged the calling of the gen- eral strike, which was one of the decisive causes for the defeat and the slaughter of the Austrian work- ers, ers seized power in many places and set uo barricades. 7) The Spanish proletariat has not yet been de- feated, is continuing to carry on its struggles, with the bourgeois press admitting thet the battle may go on for a long time. re NEAL is noi alone in neglecting the “small detail’ of the Soe |c:alist-Communist united front in \the Svanish uprising against fas- ism. William M. Feigenbaum stue |diousiy avoids mentioning what jevery worker who has followed the news already knows. | “The civil war means: the shed- |ding of much blood,” complains Feigenbaum. “It is possible that if the Socialists had seized and en- deavored to mainiain power when ithe elections showed they were in a minority the bloodshed would have been infinitely worse.” The only vrovlem it appears here when is the + time to shed in a hopsiess battle. ~ concludes Feigen- “the hearts cf Socialists ev- where are with their gailant and her Spenish comrades.” is that 2li? Are wo to sit ph'locophize over the batties of the Spanish pro- viat? Whet about some ac- tion? Whet about a united front in cefense ef the heroic Spanish workers? If their battle goes down to defo: thousands face execution er impriconment. if they go on to victory. we will | have to battle against the efforts ef the capitalists everywhere to destroy them. ‘The immediate tack now is the esiablichment of a united front of Socialists and Commeuzists for the support of the hereie Spanish’ wer! . Contzibutions received to the credi. of Harry Gannes in his so- cialist comsetition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medic2] Advisory Board, Helen Luke, Jacod Burck and David ily Worker drive Totat to date .....sas0eees- 84115 6) The Spanish Socialist work- « es NTE i | 3 » t i i € 1 pines