The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1934, Page 2

—Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1934 We Continue U.S. Revolutionary Tradition, Says Communist WILLIAMSON SPEAKS Bridges Chosen TO 1,000 VOTERS 1 Head Militants ized the convention, “We, sélves, are the ones who are re- sponsible for the fact that there are not moré deélgates from thé basic|tion of work brought out the need | industries.” fesent, hot eleven states, but every olr- quickly as possible for its publica- tion. Part of the self-critiéal examina- for adopting a seal for the Rank/convention which speaks in the “Our next conference must rep-|@nd File Committee, delegate re-|name of the workers of the A. F. porting the ignoring of conference “This conference was not ‘recog- nized’ by Wm. Green or the A. F. of | L. Executive Committee, but we have proved here that this is the of L. HITLER | LAWS SEEN AS PART TAXATION “No keys were given to us by the | mayor of the city, nor did we hear | government officials talk on the} one of the forty-eight throughout | calls by many unions becaties of ab- | By TOM KEENAN ‘ which the workers are scattered.|sence of any séal on the iétter. (Continued from Page 1) Youth Resolution IN CINCINNATI, OHIO Capitalists’ Candidates Attempt to Keep Workers | From Hearing Communists — But Mass Pres CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. (Special fo the Daily Worker) 29.—More than 1,000 voters, | sure Wins half of whom were Negro workers, attended an election rally held here recently in the Stowe School for the Communist State candidates, addressed by John Williamson, district or- @anizer of the Communist Party. Ss “Not the Daughters of the American Revolution,” said Williamson, “nor the Sons of the American Revolution, nor the American Legion, but the Commu- nist‘Party continues the American revolutionary tradition.” William- son’s statement was made in reply to-the efforts of pattiotic bodies here -to prevent the Communist Party from using sehools for cam- paign- meetings. te Tried to Halt Rally ‘The Sons of the American Revo- lution, prior to the meeting de- mandéd revocation of the permit forthe use of the school ‘building and called for the organization of Vigilante groups. Nelson High, president, was quoted in local news- papers as saying: ‘When the Communists become sOpowetful that they take their Program. into the schools, it is high Browder Will | Head Mid-West VoteRally CLEVELAND, Chio, Oct. 29. Barl Browder, General Setretary of the Communist Party, will head a huge election parade on Sunday, Nov. 4th, The parade will follow a meeting at 2 p.m. where Browder will be the chief speaker. Masonic Auditorium, one of the best and the scene of a combined celebration fime ‘that vigilantes were organ-/ of the seventeenth anniversary of ized.” the Russian Revolution and the This agitation against the exer- huge election rally cise of basic civil rights by workers’ Following Browder, I. O. Ford. politieal organizations was aided @ditorially by the Times Star, organ of- the Taft millions and the Re- publi¢an Party, which said: »The use of the schools as Com- munist recruiting offices is contrary to.public interest.” t Opposed Permit e-Elmer Hunsicker, Board of Edu- @ation member and Republican candidate for Clerk of Courts, bit- teriy opposed granting of thé per- mit and voiced the Fascist senti- ments of his masters by saying: ‘We have to look beyond and deeper than the law.” The opposition of local ruling class forces to the meeting was de- feated by mass pressure and the Board of Education found itself obliged to grant the permit against its actual wishes “Democratic State Senator Wald- Vorél, candidate for re-election, ade a speech before the Fratérnal Order of Eagles here following the | fight on the permit boasting that | He. would sponsor a law in the next Seis, assetablyrprohibiting the use of the schools to any Communist organizations. | Ministers Bar ~ Boys’ Mothers (Continued from Page 1) the. Scottsboro moth from the gonference, Davis issued a state- ment in which he bitterly de- nounced the action of the leaders of the Ministers’ Alliance. “Rey, King’s heart bled so much for the Scottsboro boys that he made a special trip South as Leibo- witz's emissary,” Davis declared. “But when the Scottsboro mothers ¢ome from Atlanta, Chatanooga and other points in the South to present a plea for aid in the fight to save their boys these self-styled defenders of the Scottsboro defend- ants slam the door in their faces.” - Mass March Saturday “Defeat the most cruel and bar- arous lynch verdict in all history,” was the call sent out yesterday by the “National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee for a city-wide | mass march and demonstration in | Harlem on Saturday noon, Nov. 3, for the safety and freedom of the Secttsboro boys. «-Four of the Scottsboro mothers | Who at the Rockland Palace last Friday night exposed the traitor- OuUs alliance of Samuel S. Leibo- Witz, renegade defense attorney, William Davis, publisher of the Amsterdam News, and Reverends L. #H..King, Richard Bolden, A. C. Garner and Dr. George FE. Haynes, with Alabama lynch officials in the effort to disrupt the defense of the hoys will speak at the meeting. | Other speakers include Angelo E don and James W. Ford, Com- Munist candidate in the 21st Con- @réssional District. Unions to March Many organizations, realizing the eute situation created by the dis- Tuptive tactics of Leibowitz and the” Negro misieaders, have en- dorset the demonstration and eee. on their members to turn | en masse. Among these or- | Manizations are the Trade Union Unity Council, the Needle Trades ‘“TWhdustrial Union, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Wo- men’s Councils, International Labor | cae and a number of workers’ | b All workers and participating or- Banizations are asked to mobilize Promptly at 1:30 p. m. this Satur- May at Lenox Ave. and 126th st. for the demonstration and at the fame time to send telegrams and | esolutions immediately to Presi- dent Roosevelt, and the U. Ss. Su- preme Court at Washington, and to Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama de- Manding the immediate, uncondi- itional and safe release of the nine ‘Scottsboro lads. | : Vote Communist for a Soviet | “America! Communist Candidate for Gover- nor, A. Murphy, Communist Can- didate for Recorder, and BE. C. Greenfield, Congressional Candi- date in the 2ist District (Cuyahoga | County) will also speak. An excellent prograth is planned. An important feature will be a gymnastic act, staged by the D. T. |J. Gymnastic group; a group of so- |cialist, Bohemian workingmen, who | |will demonstrate their solidarity with the Soviet Union and the Communist Party, by taking part in Jargest halls in Cleveland, will be | collaboration and the labor boards. The building trades conference acted on the battle against Hutehi- son and the other sell-out leaders. the need to prevent breaking up of union conditions by the lowering concessions of thé bureau- crats. Resolutions on Vital Issues The report of the resolttions committee covered every major issue facing the American working class today. A 17-point program of action to be taken back to the local unions as a basis for carrying forward the rank and file fight. Resolutions for the struggle against the Jim- Crow, gangsterism, election-stealing, expulsions and suspensions, craft- wage- unionism, the sabotage of sympathy | and general strikes, company unionism, strikebreaking, injunc- tions, the use of armed forces in strikes, fascism and fascist ten- dencies Resolutions were passed for the right to strike, referendum, exemp- tion of unemployed from dues pay- ment, the release of Mooney, Bil—- lings, the Scottsboro boys, for fighting industrial unions, for the Workers Unemployment Insurance| Bill, the right to belong to any political party, autonomy, the con-| sideration of the problems of the youth in industry Shortcomings Pointed Out Throughout the discussion of rank and file problems which oc- cupied most of the time could be seen the frank recognition of short- comings and weaknessés of the tank and file movement to date. These shortcomings included: The failure to penetrate to any great extent a number of basic industries which offer a broad field for rank and file growth, industries which repre- sent the real strongholds of mono- poly capital such as steel, rubber, auto, transport, electrical manufac- turing, which are largely still sep- arated from the Rank and File Committee. Weinstock, in summarizing the discussion at the close of the ses- We must not be satisfied with the results we obtain, but constantly strive for more.” The rank and file committee rec- ognizes no defeat in the strangling | of resolutions @mbodying its pfo- gram at the 54th Convention of the A. F. of L. .. Not even. the efficiency of the Gren-Lewis machine will slow the advance of the rank and file movement—that was the sén- timent of the delegates assembled here: “We will now take thesé | rank anid file vesolutions back to thé | local unions, where the fight wiil jreally begin, and finally through \the pressure of mass action of thé rank and file workers we will force the consideration and enactment of |these measures by the Green-Lewis | officialdom.” Delegate Croon, of Detroit, pointed out the necessity of im- mediately exposing to the auto workers the compafy-tnionism of such movements as that of Greer, if the rank and file fofcés are to be broadened. Thacker, a delegate from the tex- tile shops of East Hampton, Mass., stressed the importance of halting | the herding of textile workers into |company unions following Gor- man’s disgraceful sellout, Rosenberg, typographer of New | York’s Big Six, spoke on the stra- | tegic importance of the printing in- |dustry, as proved during the Frisco strike, to which the Rank and File has only recently awakened; the nest to drain in all the printing trades workers; the importance |of keeping an organized record of |all rank and file material. On the question of the Rank and File official organ, the “Federation- ist,” a lengthy discussion took place. On the basis of experiences in the various sections in distributing the paper among the A. F. of L. work- ers, the need for certain changes in content. A resolution was adopted embodying immediate directive for building the “Federationist” into an organ really expressing the rank and file committee's problems and pol- icies: the establishment of district quotas; a drive for subscriptions; the appointment of circulation A special resolution was intro- duced by the youth delegates, to- gether with a report on the work progressing among the youth. in various unions, providing for the organization of definite youth com- mittees and of a sub-committee of adults and youth to coordinate work in the youth sections. For the first time the problems of the militant young workers were expressed at jthe 54th convention, reported one delegate, in resolutions, (defeated of coursé), Which carried the line of the tank and file committee. “The addition of these forces of j young workefs will solidify the | Rank and File movement to a great extent.” Some idea of the broad character |of the conference can be gained |from an examination of the com- position of the national éxéctitive committee sét up at the close on the basis of the nominations committee's report: Bridges — San Francisco longshoremen; Weinsto¢k—New | York carpenters, Manic, New York hatters; Nagey, Akron rubber work- ers; Kruse, Pittsburgh blacksthiths; Brown, New York printers; Bohus, | Ohio miners; Majors, Pennsylvania | Steel workers; Edwards, New ‘York machinists; Croon, Detroit painters; Gerjoy, New York neédle trades workers; Moser, Philadélphia | Plumbers; Anderson, Washington | (D. ©.) carpenters; Alston, Detroit | coopers; Balya, Pennsylvania miners; Spagnoll, Pennsylvania miners; MacPherson, Pitts burgh steel workers; Massius, New York | cleaners and dyers; Thacker, Mas- | sachusetts textile workers; Killinger, | Flint auto workers; Brown, Butte (Mont.) mine and smelter workers; ; Allen, Michigan bakers; Warner, | New York bricklayer's; Phillips, Cin- cinnati machinists; Johnson, Chi- | cago painters; Taylor, Cleveland auto workers; Fleming, Philadelphia hosiery workers; and Genovese, Rochester hod-carriers. Two addi- ; tional seats were left purposely vacant for commmitteemen who may be added later in the year. In his sufimary at the close of the sessions, Weinstock sounded the | keynote for the fight which will be necessity for cooperation between ¢apital and labor, as was the case at Fris¢o; but this convention has | done more and said more in two | days than was done and said at the 64th convention in two weeks... . | we have seen here a cross-section | of the A. F. of L. “We know from the discussion and reports here tha: our resolu- tions will not remain on paper, that they will immediately be ptt into practice when we return to the local unions, for the délegates realize tha: we must start at once. “Our committee must not be sat- isfied with the report of rank and | file committees in every large city— we must have a functioning rank and filé movement in every town and city which has an A. F. of L. labor council.” | Around the issue of unemploy- mént insurance and the struggle | for enactment of thé Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill, Wein- stock called for the election of offi- cial délegatés from every possible | local unioh to the Unemployment Insufance Congress in Washifigton next Jafiuary, which is to convene simultanéously with Congress. He dénounced Green for the red | herring dragged out in the local | press yesterday concerning the con- ference, which warned “all bona fide trade unionists” to boycott the rank and file conference. Green’s statement he characterized as a | “plain slander and a lie to keep workers away from the conference.” The outstanding feature of the conference, the trade union sub- conferences, the secretary hailed as “a strong point for future building of thé rank and file movement.” Weinstock paid a tribute to the} young workers of the unions who helped to make the conference a success and for their activities in the militant union struggles which | are taking place; and pointed ottt | one major shortcoming of the con- ference in the small attendance of Negro delegates. “Our next conference,” he con-} | cluded, “must include every craft, | and industrial union, every State in |the union. We must have next time, OF VAS | ek Profiteers Fear are so drastic that the fascist have left the population dazed publication. The tax laws indicate, un Protests Hit State ' Aid to Lynchers (Continued from. Page 1) that the removal of the victim | from one state to another con- | , Stitutes an interstate crime, thts | challenging U. 8. Attorney General | Cuminings’ statement, made & | few hours before the lynching, that BERLIN, Oct. 29.—Lists WAR PLANS Nazi Party Launches Campaign “To Dispel Publie Fear” of Increase of Living Cost; Masses’ Protest of taxes and incomes, whieh government has dared to print them only by cautious releases, bit by bit for two weeks, and breathless with their final mistakably enough, the trans -¢forma‘ion of the German economy into one vast industry for producing ‘wart materials, one of which is man power, i. é., cannon-fodder. A heavy impossible tax burden is placed on all unmarried individuals and a des creasing tax sale is applied -.to families which provide German im- perialism with future soldiers. . But since the decrease does not apply until after -thé second child, most workers will pay heavy tribute fo fascism anyway, unless a wages earner undertakes the responsibility of feeding another mouth for years in order to obtain a slight tax coms there was “no basis for Federal jection.” The paper further admits | that virtually: all other lyncthings | | have gone unpunished, and that “lynchings are almost impossible Without the connivance, open or, tacit, of thé local officers of the) law with the mobs.” Florida Guardsmen Terrorize Negroes MARIANNA, Fia., Oct, 29.—Na- tional Guardsmen, called out by| Gov. Dave Scholtz only after the | fiendish torture and lynching of | Claude Neal, who was held captive | | by his murderers for filly 36 hours, are still patrolling the streets of this town in an effort to intimidate the local Negro population and- crush their resentment against the | White ruling class and their fascist lynch terror, Communist Candidates Are iy the anniversary celebration of the sions, expressed founding of the Soviet Republic. the critical approach which character- same self-| managers in each section; to con- struct a sound financial base as (Continued from Page 1) he was personally in favot of this loan. \1 want personally you are damn nice fellows; but col- you are scoundrels.” lecti Politicians “Collective” Scoundrels So it is with these politicians. Personally, they may be fine fellows, and their hearts may bleed for the suffering workers, but just get them together collectively to make policies and decisions, and in every case, the decision goes against the workers and in favor of the bankers. Collectively, they are capitalist politicians, so it doesn't do any good to vote for the good man. And then the worker asks, “Is there any use in voting for the Communist Party? Their candidates haven't any chance to get elected. You will waste your vote when you vote for Communists.” In the first place, is it possible to waste your vote more than to vote for the Democratic Party and the Blue Eagle? You may be casting your vote for a winning candidate but you will be casting your vote for something that is very bad for you. Surely that is the worst waste in the use of a vote. The same thing applies to voting for any Party that doesn’t stand for what the workers want and need. A vote for the Communist Party may not élect the candidate yet, but it will be a vote for what we want, not a vote for what we don’t want. But who said that Communists can’t get elected? It is true that there haven't been any Commuinists elected to Congress yet but we must remember that there are hundreds of thousands and millions of workers who are just waking up to the fact that the Communist Party is the only one that brings for- ward & program which is in favor of the workers. Of course, if we would ail wait until we saw a Com- munist elected, Communists never would be elected, but if all of us would begin to vote Communist who are thinking along Communist lines, we would be electing Communists on November 6. “Possible to Elect Communists” It is possible to elect Communists, but voting Communist is a very practical thing even when we don't elect Communists. You may not know how practical it is but the capitalists know. They know these things better than some workers. Just sup- pose you run up a strong vote for a Communist candidate? Do you know what would happen the day after election? There would be an emergency meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and the Bankers Association. The capitalists would be frightened and they would say, “The workers are turning red! They are turning Communist! It is necessary for us to do something for them in order to keep them from making a revolution.” This is not an argument out of my own head. I am speaking from experience. It was only a few months ago in the State of Illinois, that we had an example of this. They said there, “We have no more money for relief. We are broke. We can’t give you any more.” They prepared to close up the re- lief offices. The Communists made a United Front with all the unemployed organizations and brought 50,000 workers into the streets in a big demonstration of protest. The Mayor of Chicago sent a telegram to the Governor of Illinois. The Governor called a special meeting of the legislature immediately, say- ing, “We must have $40,000,000 at once! If we don’t get it we will have a Communist uprising.” The same legislature that had said a week previ- cusly that there was no money in the State, inside of twenty-four hours, found the forty million dollars! Voting Red Is Practical Move It is possible to win relief! It is Possible to win unemployment insurance! You don’t even have to Progress so far that you elect a majority of Com- munists in Congress. A majority is not necéssary to get the Unemployment Insurance Bill in. Just C. P. ELECTION PL earn By EARL elect one or two, and stipport them by mass actions and the capitalists can be forced to pass the Un- employment. Insurance Bill (H. R.°7598). The most practical thing in the world ‘today in ‘the fight for immediate gains is to vote Communist. The next most practical thing is to organize Un- employment Councils. And the next most practical thing is to organize into the Trade Unions and put forward militant Communist leadership. These are the practical ways of getting better conditions. If you depend upon the N. R. A., the Blue Bagle, and the codes, you will get just exactly in the future what you have been getting in the past year. You remember what they promised us a year ago. The N. R. A. was going to bring back pros- perity quickly. It was going to solve the crisis. The Blue Eagle was going to lay golden eggs in the pockets of the workers. The Blue Eagle laid the golden eggs, but they went into the treasuries of the big bankers and what the workers got out of the Blue Hagle was not golden eggs at all. We must not have any faith that any improve- ment in our condition will come from any Party thet is trying to uphold the capitalist system. The only Party, the only organization, that will léad the fight for immediate betterment of our condi- tions, even if it entails the ending of the cap‘talist system, is a revolutionary Party. _ Communists Prove’ Sincerity “They say that the Communists are not sincere in fighting for better conditions, for unemployment insurance. They say we use these demands merely as a means of preparing for a bloody revolution. As a matter of fact, only those who are revolution- ists will really fight for these better conditions now. Those who are affaid to press the capitalists and force them to give more, are not fighting for better conditions. The Socialist Party, in spite of its name, always comes to the point where it betrays the demands of the workers just because it is afraid of revolution. That is why, when the So- cialists were in power in Germany, they didn’t build Socialism, They carried cut a policy which led to the victory of Fascism. The same thing hap- pened in Spain. But who ever heard of the Com- munist Pariy being in power and allowing the capi- talists to come back again? It is true the Communists are revolutionaries. Our program is a program of revolution. What do we mean by revolution? We have no illusions over this question of our getting into power. When we invite you to vote the Communist ticket in the elections, we don’t tell you that that is going to” make the revolution. That is going to help, among other things. It will help win some immediate de- mands, It will help to improve conditions, but it won’t solve the problem. ‘ The developments in every country have proved that the capitalists will never give up power with- out a fight and when they see the workers getting into office the capitalists demolish parliament and set up a fascist dictatorship. They are going in the same direction in the United States, and be- fore you ever have a chance to elect a Communist Congress, they will abolish Congress and set up a fascist dictatorship in the United States. We warn you not to have any illusions about that. The Communist Party warns you that we will finally have to destroy capitalism in the United States by our organized struggle. We will have to prepare for it in the same way that they did in Russia when they established a workers’ and farmers’ government, a Soviet Power. This is not far off, even in the United States. The revolution is not ‘fifty years off. Capitalism is breaking down. It can’t last. Mil- lions of workers, 17,000,000 in the United States alone, can’t get jobs and have to depend upon char- ity, cut off from all human conditions of living. Do you think such a system can continue? It is |earried on upon the return of the delegates to their local unions: BROWDER impossible. The workers have stood this for five years how; it i8 the beginning of the sixth year of this ctisis. “How many years longer can it drag along, with millions of people starving? . U. 8. Needs Socialiem In the United States, we have the richest coun- try in the world, There is no excuse for anyone to be out of a job or to lack for clothing or shelter in the Unitéd States. We are first in all the pro- ductive forces of the entire world. We have mil- lions of skilled and trained workers. We have everything that is necessary in the United States to make a good living for everybody, if we all just worked a few hours a day to produce it. But we can’t do it now because all of these production forces, all of this wealth, is the private property of a little group of capitalists who hold it away from us and refuse to allow us to produce. We have everything we need for a prosperous Socialist sys- tem except one thing: a workers’ government, Soviet power. Does anybody think today that there is any truth in the old argument of the capitalists that they have to control the industries, in order to show us how to keep them running? Does anybody be- lieve that workers don’t know how to run the in- dustries? But it is the capitalists who have shown they don’t know how to keep the industries run- ning, If we had the industries, we could give everybody a job. They say our trouble is over- production, that we produce too much food. This is why millions are starving. We produce too much clothing, and that is why we cannot buy a new shirt. We produce too many houses, and that is why we aré doubling up in flats and moving from flats into cellars, That is the logic of the capitalist system. Soviet Union Shows the Way This is not true everywhere in the world. Over in the Soviet Union they were fighting difficulties because it was a backward country. They have built it up through hardships and sacrifice. They have fought victoriously against starvation. They have no crisis, no unemployment. But over there, the more wheat they produce, the more they have to eat; the more clothing they make, the better dressed they are; the more houses they build, the better apartments they move into. They have hope! They are progressing! Everybody is at work. Every- body is full of energy. Production is mounting 20 to 25 per cent every year, and every year things get better and better. The more they produce the more they have, because they are producing for them- selves. In the United States, the more we produce, the worse off we are. overproduction in the United States. We can solve it in 24 hours. We say that all that is necessary -to get rid of all overproduction, is just to opsn up the doors of the warehouses and let everybody who needs these storéd up goods, to come and get them. I will guarantee that in 24 hours the warehouses will be emptied, and there will be no more over- production, And will that be a disaster if the warehouses are emptied? No! That just means » that we will have to open the factories again and solve unemployment and fill the warehouses up again. The only reason we can’t do this sane and simple thing is because the factories and ware- houses are owned by the capitalists. The Commu- nist Party proposes that we shall take them away from the capitalists. They shall belong to the workers. The workers shall operate them. Workers Must Seize Power This is the program of the Communist Party. This is what the Communist Party will do when it has power. It will take all of this wealth and all of these factories and use them for the benefit of everybody, and in a few weeks we will have plenty for everybody, that is, after we have power. not 170, but 500 or more delegates from the A. F. of L. unions.” The Communist Party has a program to solve Leaders in the Fight for the | Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. ATFORM IS THE ONLY ONE FOR WORKERS | Yes, we will end starvation in America, but not with empty phrases, such as Sinclair and other politicians of the exploiters’ parties use, But in ofder to gét power, we have to begin now to. fight the capitalists. We have to organize this fight in every field. The capitalist never gives anything unless it is foreed out of him, That means organ- ization and struggle. Today, it looks as if the capitalist is very strong. That is only because we workers are divided. The capitalist is strong with the strength that we give him, but the moment we decide to unite and fight, we take that strength away from the capitalist. ‘When workers begin to organize and act together to that extent, we get the power and then capital- ism becomes weak. That is the program of the Communist Party. Working class organization, working class struggle against the capitalists means moving toward work- ing class power. Power begins with the beginning of organization, and when workers get fully organ- ized and fight against the capitalists, then we take all power, State power, into the workers’ hands. It means the setting up of a new kind of government, a Soviet Government. What Are Soviets What are Soviets? Somé say, “What a strange word!” We use this name to describe what has already happened over in Russia where the work- | ers succseded in setting up their own power, a gov- | ernment of councils of workers. The Communist Party will never be satisfied until we have this kind of power in the United States, because this kind of power, workers’ power, is the only thing that will solve the crisis, that is the only thing that will end starvation in the United States. So, as we approach Blection Day, November 6, the Communist Party says, if you want more re- lief, the only way to use elections to help get it, is by voting Communist. If you want unemployment insurance, Workers Unemployment Insurance, the Bill H. R. 7598, the only way to use the elections to help get it, is by voting Communist. If you want to get higher wages, the only way to do that is to vote Communist. The Communist program has been worked out of the best experience of thought of the working class over the last 80 yeats. The Communist pro- gram was first written by Marx and Engels in 1848 in the Communist Manifasto. The Communist program ‘was wotked out in the first successful working class revolution in Russia under the lead- ership of Lenin. The Communist program is being worked out today in the successful building of So cialism in the Soviet Union and the grc \~% strug- gle for Socialism in the capitalist countries, under the leadership of Stalin. This revolutionary program of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, this is the program of Bolshevism, the program of the Communist Party, the program: of the Communist Parties of every country, the world Party of Communism, the Communist In- ternational, This program.is the only way out of the crisis for the workers ,for the ‘poor people gen-: erally, for the farmers, for the ruined middle class. There is no way out for anyone except this road of revolution, the program of the Communist Party. ‘The only alternative to this is the continuéd stran- gling of the human race by @ dying capitalist system. There is no other choice—either along this road pointed out by the Communist Party or else along the path of Hitler and Nazism, of fascism. Don’t think that fascism is not also the enemy in the United States. It is springing up fast in this coun- try. Along with Hitler and fascism and all the black reaction of dying capitalism, is the growing menace of a new imperialist war. The only way to fight fascism and war, and the only way to improve life immediately today, is to take the road of Bolshevism. That means, on Election Day—Vote Communist! mutation. But for the average German worker and peasant, married or un- married, taxes have assumed crush- ing proportions. . Any family. which earns $7.75 per week immediately and automatically has lopped off one-third of its income by the tax |ax. Even the poorest. paid agricul- tural workér, who earns less-than 560 marks a year ($224) must prac- tically starve to death in order that military expenditures may continue and grow. The announced, wage | tax, it must be remembered, does not include all sorts of grafting or- ganigational levies and insurance premiums. wage tax exceeds the income tax applied to individual and corpora- tive wealth. While the income taxes are fast bleeding the middle class to death, everyone here is. well aware that the huge corporations and capitalists do not pay-a cent of income tax. : The feeling on the part of the fascist profiteers that under no'cir= cumstances will the German masses accept this incredible robbery “of their starvation level of existence haé caused the government to de- clare, beginning ‘from the secont week in November, a “Nazi party | campaign, “to dispel public fear of an increase in the cost’ of living.” As a result of the impending infla- tion of the mark a parallel aim of the campaign will be to>counteract the inevitable hoarding of goods. A. & P. Strike Spreads to Wise. 1) state chairman of the union, de- clared, “The A. & P. company has refiised to bargain collectively with any local or recognize the union as such, We have been trying to negotiate with them for weeks, but to no avail. One store has heen picketed in Canton, and fourtee: in Dayton.” roe ‘The Cleveland Federation of La- bor, in a statement on the closing ‘of the stores by the company, de- clared that the A. & P. threat to abandon its Cleveland stores was a further attempt at “intimidation.” The N.R.A. boards are trying to intervene to end the strike, Ralph Lind, director of the Cleveland Labor Relations Board, has beén directed by the National Labor Relations Board to try to end the walk-out. James Wilson. of Cin~ cinnati has been appointed by Green to represent the A. F. of I. leadership in these arbitration moyes. Threats of the company fo move out brought a pledge from Mayor Davis to use the full police force to smash the strike. Seven were immediately arrested. The Amer- jean Federation of Labor officials charge the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company is. against the policy of the city and national govern- ment and thus uphold the strike- breaking machinery of Davis and Roosevelt. The union statement shows their support: of. these strike- breaking’ officials, declaring the “effort of this compariy to inti- midate the public of our. city. and the city administration” and “the company has continually violated the edict of the government.” Sid- ney Yellen and other. Socialist Party officials are a party to-this treachery. eae The A. F. of L. officials refuse to carry on a mass picket line or take up other burning issues of the workers as a result of the. lock- out. of The A. P. roeee aot fight = the right to organize again: the splitting up of the workers into. crafts which means for one’ united union of all A. P, workers against the speed up, for shorter hours,. for full wages during the period of lock-out and against the N.R.A. strikebreaking machinery _ of .the city government, for the right to strike and ‘mass picketing. ie workers must demand that» the company deal directly with ~an elected committee of the men and call upon all local unions for sup- port of the unions taking part in the strike, These union ate Bak- ers: Union, Meat Cutters, Engineers Union, Auto Mechanics, Warehouse- men, Managers, Clerks, Firemen’s Union. (Continuea from Page A Communist Vot ‘ e Is a Vote for Immmediate "Payment of Back Wages to All Veterans * Even standing alone, however, the :