The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1934 Daily, TUNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIOWAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 BY THE , 50 E. 13th PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-795 4 New York, N 954, Na Midwest Burea Telephone: Dearbor Subscription Rates: 6 month: Manhattan 6 month: By Cc TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1934 | William Green’s Plan VEN Mr. William Green can no longer ignore the grim signals of a new down- ward plunge in the economic cri: Yesterday’s report of the A. F. of L. reveals this brutal fact: | The last twelve months of the “New Deal” have added almost one million more workers to the army of unemployed. There are now a million more jobless than last September. But this is not all. According to a report issued yesterday by the National Industrial Conference Board, hundreds of thousands of workers are doomed to lose their jobs in the coming weeks and months as the usual Fall upturn in business has fai‘ed to materialize, and production is pping steadily downward toward the all-time low of the crisis Yeached early last year. Thus Roosevelt's greatest promise to the Amer- 4ean workers—that he would solve the problem of unemployment—has been proven to be a total swindle. In an article in the New York Times of Sunday, Green also admits that up to the time of Roose- Velt’s election the working class of the country suf- fered a slash of 60 per cent in employment and in- come while the capitalist class succeeded in hold- ing its losses down to about 30 per cent. This, of course, was done through the intense speed-up which was instituted in the factories, and through the maintenance of monopoly prices. But why does Green stop with Roosevelt's elec- tion? Why does he not examine what has happened since Roosevelt's “New Deal” began to operate? | The reason is that the official figures show that Roosevelt's program turned the economic trend into @ 250 per cent increase in profits for the Wall Street monopolies and a 20 per cent slash in the real wages of the entire American working class! This basic fact of the recent twelve months of Roosevelt's policies Green is striving desperately to conceal, since he is himself part of Roosevelt’s N.R.A. machinery which helped in putting this Wwage-slash over. OW Green proposes that industry increase its production to stem the rising tide of unem- ployment, and proposes a 30-hour week along with it | Certainly every worker would like to see more jobs as a result of increased production, and a shorter week. | But will this shorter week mean a cut in weekly ‘wages? The Communist Party demands a shorter week without a cut in weekly wages. But Green is silent on this aspect of the case. And how does he propose to get these things? First by “arbitration conferences with the employ- and failing that, by legislation through Con- gress. But does he think that any one will be fooled by these ridiculous proposals? Every worker knows that the employers will not increase production, reduce hours and provide jobs just because Green asks them to. As for the legislation, Congress and the state legislatures are nothing but the rubber stamps of the big Wall Street monopolies and will do nothing that is against the class interests of the big capitalists. The only way to get more jobs, better wages, | and shorter hours right now is to fight for them right now through the organized struggles of the | workers in strikes and other mass actions. But | ft is just these powerful weapons of strike and | mass struggle that Green is trying to block. Finally, it is the capitalist profit system that tands in the way of opening all the factories and | giving every American worker an immediate job. The smashing of the profit system would imme- diately solve the problem of increased production and employment. But William Green shudders at | such a prospect. | REEN’S pfoposal, therefore, boils down to a scheme for cooperating with the employers to increase production and profits through reducing the costs of production, that is to say, the wages of the American working class. | In the coming elections the figures on unem- Plcyment and profits should be in the mind of every working man in the country, It is by voting for the Communist Party that the workers can proclaim to Roosevelt and the employers that they demand adequate relief and unemployment insurance against the curse of Capitalist unemployment, and that ttiey are organ- izing for the final overthrow of the whole profits system, which dooms the majority of the Population to starvation and insecurity. | QQWorker The New Deal in Steel | AS part of his election ballyhoo, Roose- fA velt claims that the new deal has bene- fitted the workers, that they are better off this year than they were last fall. The Communist Party has from the incep- tion of the new deal shown that Roosevelt's pro- gram is in the interests’ of the biggest banks and trusts, that the workers’ standards of living have grown steadily worse. The capitalists have bettered their position at the expense of the working class. The truth of the Communist Party’s exposure of the ruling class nature of the new deal is again verified by the latest report of the Iron and Steel Institute. This reveals that while the steel com- panies have made enormous profits, the wages of the workers and the number of jobs are much lower than they were last year. These facts are of the greatest importance, since conditions in the steel industry are typical of American industry as a whole. The number of workers in the steel industry was 6 per cent lower in September than in August, and 10 per cent less than in September, 1933. The number of workers fell from 364,583 in Augus’ to 343,064 in September. This compares with the 380,271 in September, 1933. Payrolls were also sharply reduced. In Septem- ber the total payroll was $29,142,892, as compared with $34,362,208 in August and $37,322,250 in Sep- tember a year ago. This is a reduction of 15 per cent from the August figures, and about a 22 per cent loss from the earnings of last year. The employers’ institute tries to disguise the loss in the worker's pay envelope by citing an increase in the hourly rates of pay. But since the workers have been forced to increase their pace of work, there has been a sharp increase in the number of part-time jobs. Consequently there has been a 14 per cent decrease in the amount that the worker gets at the end of the week. The average weekly pay has fallen from about $20.85 last year to $17.75 this September. We must also remember that these direct wage- cuts have been made even more drastic by the fall in the purchasing power of the dollar. Not only is the worker paid less, but he is paid in 59-cent dollars instead of 100-cent dollars. This means that the worker can buy less food, shelter and clothing, because he is earning less and because his dollars buy less. It is the capitalists who have increased their profits through this robbery of the workers. To vote for Roosevelt is to vote for more of such wage cuts, an even lower standard of living, and greater profits for the rich. The Communist Party has not only exposed the capitalistic character of Roose- velt’s program, but it is the one Party that leads the working class in a counter-attack against the New Deal. Vote against big profits and for higher wages. Vote for adequate relief and against subsidies to the bankers. Vote for the program of your own | class. Vote Communist! Defend Chinese Workers In New York AYOR LAGUARDIA’S administration, besides helping the bankers directly and financially, through turning over millions of city funds to them while work- ers starve, aids them in their attacks on the heroic Chinese workers and peasants. While Morgan and Company send bombing planes, muni- tions and military experts to aid Chiang Kai Shek in China, the LaGuardia regime opens a fascist attack on the Chinese workers in New York. The Chinese laundrymen here have already been forced to be fingerprinted to obtain licenses, and now they are being required to prove legal entry into the country before they can open their busi- ness. If the LaGuardia regime can make this measure stand, thousands of Chinese workers who have been in this country for decades will be de- prived of a livelihood. This is a preliminary attack on all foreign-born workers, and the Chinese work- ers here are singled out firs: for the heaviest attack, because they are weak in numbers. Who are these Chinese laundrymen? The ma- jority of them slave day and night by themselves; they do not exploit the labor of others. They are forced into the laundry business because they are not given jobs in American factories and are discriminated against in other work. Because of their status, their interests lie with the revolution- ary workers, in this country, and with the revolu- tionary workers and peasants in China. They are valuable allies of the Chinese Sovie‘s and of the American workers fighting against their own im- perialist exploiters. They should get the support of all workers, American and foreign-born, in their fight against LaGuardia’s fascist attacks, which is only the pre- liminary onslaught against all workers. A storm of protests should flood the Commis- sioner of Licenses and LaGuardia. Demand that fingerprinting of the Chinese laundrymen be stopped. Fight against the licensing of the Chinese workers. Protest against the move to force the Chinese workers to supply proof of “legal entry.” Circular protests can be obtained from the Chinese Branch of the International Labor Defense, New York, care of the “Chinese Vanguard,” 35 E, 12th Street, New York City. Picket Lines Keep iz" Dye Scabs Out (Continued printers, He reported tha’ before Ammirato from Page 1) Interested to find out about discus-| C@l! and News, | When the scabs sions on wages. negotiations, a fear has now de- veloped that an attempt will be made to end the strike with the for six months, Winant Board, against which a re-| the Printers Voice in 36,000 copies strike movement is now spreading.| Weekly and a> the outset offered | the Strike Committee of the Dyers | will put out special edi- | But the capitalist | Papers were chosen instead. Ber-| workers that only rank and file| ger was told that an agreement! | with the papers was made by Bal- The rank and file elements in the g that they Dyérs Union are pointing out all} tions for t) : hem, Of these issues and are warning the control will insure a good settle- ment. They call on the dyers to} danzy that all his statements will stay out until they win. | be printed. The workers told Ber- | Today the strike army was| ger to come to the Strike Commit- Swelled by the calling out of all tee and they will insist that soli-; dye foremen, who thus far have re-| Garity with the striking printers be ported to work. | No Aid for two or three hundzeds dy Wvorkery te maignet Cae Gye | the efforts of a picket line of 5.000 Bt ies go into the plant, mmirato, he reports, replied that Hi With Gorman involved in the the newspapers publish the state- | uae ready nine Sore to Orr ments of the union and that he| to tt . is Cee een does not want to antagonize them, | * the strikers. The printers have been The opportunist | maintained. Berger, when he spok determination of| heard. Berger pointed out to the the workers for solidarity with the | workers how the striking printers |cooperate with the dyers and how Printers | the first crew of thirty-eight thugs t wien he cam-| {om New York was discovered and r i A ig wd the strike committee, and, through jast Friday, cleaned out. In line with this policy toward the striking printers, agents of local officials in the morning on. strike | At the Buser plant picket line They are issuing | Several were seen grabbing copics | out of the hands of the workers. At the Wagner Mill attempts were made to chase Young Communist League members out of the picket line. In one case it is reported that a union organizer pointed out Young Communists who were on the picket line. Thus far, no solidarity action came from the silk weavers local, over which Eli Kelter, the Love- stonite, is manager. Desnite tie decision at last Saturday's mem- policy of Ammirato, President of| before a huge stadium meeting |: ne e wi 2 the. large lec?] 1733, especially, Thursday, received a tremendous | 5 ol Ay eolioh v6 ane cide Ae came to light in the attitude to- ovation and a promise of soli-' been taen, ‘ Wotd the strikers of the two local, darity. e papers, Harry Berger, Vice-| Today, on the way from the Base 7G Gis I SE President of the local Printers| Buser Shop, the picket line of two A Vote for Communist Candi- Whion, told a group of dyers as-| thousand passed by the two news-| goo outside of the headquar- papers and thundered the loudest| ‘tes Is a Vote against Company TS that their officials are not| roar of boos these two sheets ever’ “Unions,” through their initiative, reported to! Experiences In Recruiting Steel Workers By S. C., Gary, Ind. |] WANT to give some of my experi- ences on the question of recruit- |ing workers for the Party. Firstly, we must realize that with the wors- lening of living conditions, by low wages and continuous rise }of the cost of food and clothing, |coupled with part-time work and lay-offs, the workers are starting to | Show definite signs of mass unrest. | The question of the future is bother- ing every worker today. This grow- ing unrest makes it possible to bring in large numbers of workers into} our Party. We must be able to approach ; Workers in the most concrete wa’ and to speak to them in the most simple manner. I find that to be| }able to convince a worker to join |the Party, the comrade must be able to understand the peculiar | weaknesses of the worker and why | he did not join the Party until now. We must find out what specific | reasons stand in the way of this worker getting into the Party. How | did I proceed in getting the workers of my mill to join the Party? I) did not approach just any worker | that I might have seen or known in my department. To do this might have caused a sad experience in | getting unreliable elements into the Party. The first thing that I had to know about the worker was | whether or not he was honest. In \the large U. S. Steel plant where |I work there are all types of work- ers. I know from experience that it does not require a lot of time to find out whether the worker is |honest or not. I would judge a worker's honesty by how he gets along with his fellow workers. When I would approach the work- ers (who have since been recruited) | with the intention of getting them into the Party, I would talk to them on concrete questions, of his daily grievances. If they speak quite frankly of the need of improving their conditions, then they were good prospects for the Party. On the other hand, if the worker would try to make excuses for the bad conditions, it was always advisable | to take it easy with him about join- |ing the Party. With this approach I was able to get five workers to join the Party. Individual Responsibility Te IS unfortunate that recruiting is in the_order of business only when a special campaign’ set in. It seems to me that recruiting into the Party must and should be in the mind of every Party member all year round. Recruiting will be successful to the extent that the District, Section and Units improve further the inner life of thé units— the basic organization of the Party. What is the condition today? Practically the same as two and three years ago. The unit or nu- cleus is not yet the political leader in the territory and in the shop that it should be. It is time that | We ask ourselves the following ques- tions: What do we demand from each | Party member? Every unit or sec- tion functionary will answer: “All ; your spare time outside of your work.” But the unit buro seldom discusses this very work, which is the basis for the individual party member's most important activity, Once in a while there is a spurt on the part of the buro, when an alarming communication comes from the section or District, and then | this is discussed for a week or two | and dropped. The unit buro, whose function is that of political leader and guide, must make an attempt to raise the | political level of the Unit member- |ship. This is well said, same has been said and urged three and four years ago, although some improve- ment is evident here and there, but the situation as a whole has not) changed. One most important question we must ask ourselves, that is: Where does the individual responsibility of each Party member Jie? You often hear Party members, including lead- ing functionaries, say, “My unit is lousy; I don’t blame the new Party members for dropping out.” And these comrades remain indifferent. They completely ignore their re- sponsibility to watch and guide the unit, at least in political discus- Sions. Let us see if such theory of individual responsibility is pos- sible even on the part of the most occupied functionaries? | We have today over 7,000. party members, and about 500 function- aries in every field of work, trade unions, mass organizations, sections, ete. If 300 functionaries who can attend unit meetings, insist on his or her unit regularly like clockwork discuss a political problem for one hour before the Unit meeting, we would have an entirely different pic- ture. (This has been said and urged before, but never carried out per- sistently) _Recruiting would not be a ques- , tion of every time starting a new campaign if the resolution of the 14th Plenum would have been prop- erly discussed. On the question of {Tecruiting, the resolution stated: “We must establish recruiting as @ normal part of our Party, so that every member of the Party con- |stantly strives to have one or two workers that he or she is in con- jtact with, helping them, teaching them systematically by bringing them Daily Workers, literature, gradually training them for mem- bership, until they are brought in fosice adjusted; and when the new : Tecruit is clear on his or her tasks, only then should the comrade relent his hold.” | We would not have the problem ‘of 75 per cent fluctuation today. Start this drive by cutting fluctua- | tion. Have systematic political dis- cussion in the unit before the busi- ness starts, regardless of whether there are 10 out of 20 or more | Present at the time the meeting starts, work in trade unions. mass organi- |zations, in their problems that are |taised in the organization. On to ew dues-paying members by Jan, st, 8. R., District No. 2. Party Life | caused | Guide the comrades who} had 9 Se The Governors: | TO UNB Joann GATES eM ny Pe Burek will give the original drawing of EVERYBODY WELCOME oS AUTHORITIES FAEE LICKER Contributions received to the credit of Burck in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Ann O.K. WITH US!” WITE ER AUSPICES his cartoon to the highest contributor ea GOV. MILLER ©F ALABAMA By Burck Gov, SHOLTS oF FLORIDA ch day towards his quota of $1,000, Barton, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. QUOTA—$1,000. Total to date eenccesccecescccess $108.07, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 29.— Here is a handful of news items gathered from one day’s papers: IVANOVO.—The rayon .(county) executive committee and the politi- cal department of the Machine Tractor Station at Rostov have awarded 500 rubles and a paper of public thanks to Kulandin, member of the collective farm “New Life.” When fire broke out on the farm, Kulandin and his son, a Pioneer (member of the Communist organi- zation for children) rushed and saved the calves of the farm from the burning cowshed, and then hur- ried to save the stores and stables from catching fire, utterly neglect- ing thereby the danger to his own house. SVERDLOVSK—A housewife} here, Surovtsiva, was surprised to receive a letter of congratula‘ion and a premium consisting of a gramo- | phone and records from the Peoples Commissariat of Heavy Industry. It seems that when Peoples Commis- sar Ordzhonikidze was inspecting the Krasno Uralsk copper smelting plant here he noticed near the fac- tory a small well-cultivated flower garden with benches at which work- ers rested coming to and from the plant. Inquiry developed the fact that Surotsiva had made it all of her own accord. When she received the present she answered: “When I any reward, but I only wanted to pleasant corner to rest in.” To Publish Biographies KIEV.—During the period for the preparation for the Seventh All Union Congress of Soviets and Thirteenth Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, there will be published here an almanac of the famous people of present day Kiev. It will give brief biographies of all famous whose good work has earned them special mention and reward. These are the famous people of Kiev. TIUMEN, Siberia—In the nearby city of Ostako Vogulsk, central set- tlement of a Siberian tribe, a minor nationality, a new power house and a sound kino will be completed by anniversary of the Bolshevik revolu- tion. r MOSCOW.—The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the All Union Congress of Soviets orders all central executive commit-ees of districts and regions to establish one month courses before the elec- tions in November and December to teach women who are now volun- their daily work of inspection, lead- ing, regulating public institutions. The courses are to prepare the women for their new duties in case they should be elected as members of the town and village soviets in the new elections. Women are also to be trained for du'y as members of rayon (county) soviet executive committees. Special care is to be taken to train women belonging to minor nationalities. Make Pledge POLITIEVSKI—Collective farm- ers, in honor of the approaching > j aug 542 wells, began this work I did not count on : create near the factory a small) shock workers, inventors, and those | November 7, date of the seventeenth | teering assistance to the soviets in | November Seventh celebration, have - lovka greets Nov. 7th with two big new bath houses and a laundry combinat, two more hospitals, and a trading combinat (department store) with the best buildings in | the Donbas. It has built a new restaurant decorated with black and gray granite. It has built new dwelling houses, and hangars for the | air club to which miners and metal workers belong. It has built a new theatre for sound motion pictures at a collective farm twelve miles from the city. It has opened seven | new schools in new building this | year alone. In Gorlovka, a coal cutting ma- chine runner who overfills his task in the mine 400 per cent, also found time to raise a kitchen garden on | land furnished him by the city and | got off it for himself: 1,000 pounds | of potatoes, 1,000 pounds of beet | root, 300 watermelons, 64 pounds of beans, 84 pounds of onions. Many miners haye raised kitchen | gardens. Udarniks in the mine) proved to be udarniks in the gar- dens. When the drought threat- ened to destroy the gardens, they made 1,200 water holes, installed 28 pumps, 15 miles of water pipes, made 30 reservoirs, and saved the harvest on all the | ‘kitchen gardens. The secretary of the Communist Party Committee in Gorlovka, Com- rade Farrier, says: “Last year work- ers of Gorlovka destroyed the legend | created in the ‘dogtowns’ (the old miserable huts of pre-revolutionary Donbas) that it is impossible to keep a mining town clean. This year they have likewise destroyed the legend that there is no water in Donbas. Gorlovka is a city of flowers. Some have asked us, ‘How many tons output in coal will all your flowers give you?’ Of course, they mean by that all the complex of new conveniences and cultural conditions we have crea:ed here. The answer is that this year, during the first nine months of 1934, we raised our coal production 27.7 per icent over that of the same period | last year.” 600 Book Stores MOSCOW.—Six hundred new book stores have been opened in the | machine tractor stations that serve the collective farms. Total number of such book stores now operating is 1,500. In the first nine months of this year, 50 million rubles worth of books were bought by peasants. The most popular books were “Mother,” by Gorki, and “Redeemed Earth” and “Quiet Flows The Don,” by Shokolow. AKTUBINSK, Kazaks‘an.—As the | collective farmers sell their grain to | the state they place orders for what they want to buy. Already a ton- siderable number of wedding robes have been ordered py young people of the collective farm “Karakuge.” (The Kazaks are an Asiatic people.) MOSCOW.—This year $3 All- Unicn sports records were broken, 37 of them by women. So many in one year is unheard of before and is taken io indicate a great increase in physical development. MOSCOW.—Heavy industry has fulfilled its 1934 plan 73 per cent during the first nine months of the made a pledge ‘o keep the track of a certain s2ction of the Southern Ural railway clear of snow, and call on other collective farms to do the came. CORLOVKA.—In this city of the Donbas coal fields, a conference of representatives of ten cities is tak- ing place to share experiences in ci y planning and to arrange terms of a competition in building the most public improvements. Gor- year, the highest parcentage yet attained for the first ‘hree-quarters. ; The production drive in honer 0: the Seventh Congress ef ©" erlls on all plants to fulfill and everinlttl the plan by the end of the year. New Delicatessen | MOSCOW.—Moscow’'s newest and, | largest, delicatessen was opened up Oct. 4 and visited that day by | tee. No Bank Failures, Morro Castles, Kidnappings in Soviet Newspapers nom No. 1” and is located on Ulitza | Gorkova. Two more like it will soon be opened. Gastronom No. 1 employs 350 clerks working in two shifts. - It has 1,500 different items of food for sale, including 50 dif-| ferent kinds of pastries, 38 varieties of cheese, and other articles in similar range of choice. Orders can be telephoned from 9 a. m. to mid- | night and will be delivered to apartment. 2 aie That is the sort of news that you read daily in the Soviet press. Per- | haps the Western capitalist is right in complaining that this press is [ “dull.” Not a single nice juicy kid- naping, no “despondent father, out of work, slays wife and three chil- dren.” Not one bank failure, no lockouts, not one interesting specu- lation about “crisis will lighten soon, says So-and-So.” No Morro Castles and no Stavisky cases. But the workers of the Soviet Union seem to like the sort of news they read. So would any worker. You will have noticed that a con- siderable number of the items men- | tion an increase of output or some ' feat of construction, by the time of the November Seventh celebration, or by the time of the meeting of the Seventh Congress of Soviets. That is a phenomenon that always occurs | before one of the great revolution- | ary holidays or before the meeting | of some important government body, like the Congress of Soviets, or its Central Executive Commit- Every day brings fresh news | of more and more factories, more | and more mines, railroads, farms, pledging an increase of production in honor of either the congress meeting or the anniversary of the Revolution. f The reason for this, the reader can see for himself in the list of items from a day’s news given above. They show a whole people developing at a terrific rate their | productive capacity, developing their culture, their education, their physical streng’h, raising their standard of living daily, under the leadership of their Communist | Party, through ‘their organs of Prol- etarian dictatorship, the democratic- | ally elected and: democratically con- | trolled soviets and congresses of sovie's. | Here is a whole world, 170,000,900 ; pecple, speaking over 200. different languages, living in equality and harmony, one people, a united peo- ple, all together putting through the | Second Five Year Plan, constructing socialism, When they yote in No- vember and December for their new soviets, they will pick from among themselves the men and women who have shown greatest ability in this construction of socialism, and place them in the seats of government. |Foreign-Born Worker Faces Deportation for Activity in Detroit (Special to the Datty Werker? may be the beginning of a de- portation drive against Soviet citi- zens who are active in the lebor movement of this country was seen in the arrest yesterday by Federal Immigration authorities of Joseph Kowalsky, Michigan district organ- izer of the Polish Chamber of Labor. Kowalsky was arrested despite the fact that nobody can be legally deported to the Soviet Union be- cause of the absence of an extra- dition treaty between the United States and the U. 8. S. R. 35,000 people. It is called “Gastro- The International Labor Defense | up anti-fascists. \didn’t dwindle by itself. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 28.—Wha+ | ——By HARRY GANNES ——' | Mosley’s Decline | How It Came About |“Mopping Up” In Spain HATEVER mass influenee Sir Oswald Mosley, Brit- ish Fascist who strove to ape |the role of Hitler, had is dwindling, according to re cent cable reports to Amer= ican capitalist newspapers. |The American newspapers, how- jever, seek to get their readers to believe that the “healthy, natural democratic instincts” of the British public are responsible for the decline |of attendance at Mosley’s rantings. Nothing is farther from the truth, Mosley received the support of lead ing finance-capitalists in Britain, The police helped him by beating His mass support It was smashed by the persistent mass struggle against him, led by the Communist Party of Britain. That only 2,000 came to Albert Hall last Sunday, as against 6,000 last Spring, is due to persistent an- ti-fascist struggle carried on by the Communist Party which strove to organize the united front against fascism, while the policy of the Brit- ish Labor Party leaders was to let the fascists breed their murder gangs without hindrance from the labor movement. te Rees Ane oe stormed Mosley’s first Albert Hall meeting and battled the police and Mosley’s thugs in their efforts to expose his role, On September 9th, the anti< fascist united front — foremost among which was the Communist Party—mobilized 150,000 anti-fase cists at Hyde Park in @ counter« | demonstration to one arranged by Mosley. Mosley was driven away like a beaten dog. From every industrial center in England reports were arriving be< fore Mosley’s last meeting of grows ing anti-fascist actiivty, In Plyme outh, on Oct. 12, when the Black shirts met, the workers mobilized a crowd of 10,000 blocking traffic. Not a single blackshirt was allowed to speak. The fascists had to flee for their lives. ee a | T STEPNEY, London, 3,000 work< ers arrived at a spot where a blackshirt meeting was advertised to be held. Not a single fascist had the nerve to show up. The police thereupon drew their clubs and as« saulted the crowd. The successful anti-fascist agita- tion in North Shields has made it impossible for the fascists to con- tinue there. A “to let” notice was hung out on the local fascist bar- racks. That's how Mosley’s mass influ- ence “dwindled” in England. But that by no means signifies the end of British imperialism to build its fascist reserves. Mosley will be re=. habilitated or another “leader” chosen to revlace him. The fight goes on despite the Labor Party leadership's sabotage of the united anti-fascist front. 'HEN the armed miners of As- turias, Socialsits, Communists and Syndicalists, were defeated in their uprising against the Fascist Lerroux-Robles regime, the picked cut-throats of the African Foreign Legion were sent into the district to “mop up.” In their thirst for work- ers’ blood they shot men, women and children who had taken no part whatever in the fighting. General Lopez Ochua, who commanded the troops against the Asturias miners, wants the world to believe that the Foreign Legion was sent ahead by some accident. But history shows that the en« raged bourgeoisie whenever it de# feats the workers in an armed struge gle, always picks its most relentless cutthroats to “teach the workers a lesson.” In the Paris Commune every tenth worker arrested was Picked out and shot dead in the gutters. Women and children were not exempt. ‘The Spanish bour« geoisie did not dare to use the rege ular troops for this job, but picked out its armed criminals. Murderers and the werst condemned criminals, foreign mercenaries and adventurers compose the African Foreign Legion, They are sent to Morocco to tere rorize the colonial peoples by thi worst show of savagery and brutal< ity. Early in the fighting these troops were rushed to Asturias, when the government did not dare risking the regular army against their brothers on the barricades. After the fighting was over, the brave Legionaires entered workers’ homes and without trial or question shot the inhabitants. The New York Times correspondent, who in all of his stories has shown his pro-fascist sympathies, is forced to report at least one of these depredations. When the African Foreign Legion entered Ovieda on Oct. 13. they seized 24 men, women and children in one house. All the neighbors say not one of them took any part in the fighting. They had locked them- selves up in their home because they were afraid of the Foreign Legion, ‘They were dragged out and, withe out trial or question, shot dead. Still the Socialist International and the Socialist Party in the United States refuses to form a united frent in defense of the heroic Spanish workers who are battling against fascism. Contributions received to the credit of Harry Gannes in his So- cialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, Ann Barton, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. CM +. $1.00 Total to date -$110.17 is taking steps to secure Kowalsky’t release and is sending a protest | wire to Secretary of Labor Perkin: Kowalsky has been arrested ant subjected to other forms of perse+ cution many times during the ten years, but all efforts to d him were defeated. ; ———