The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1934, Page 8

Page & \ Daily. CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. Worker TION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIOMAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED. 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934 A Cut, Not an Increase OOSEVELT, under the astute guidance of the Tammany-trained politician, Farley, misses no bets when it comes to picking up votes. Having just finished ex- ploiting, to the highest degree possible, the state relief allotments for vote-catching pur- poses, he now proposes to transform some 600,000 gove: t ctive Roosevelt election ing to restore t per cent wage cut that he put through last year. For campaign purposes he parades as a wage increase what is actually planned as a further cut in the real wages of the federal employees. What are the facts? Near the end of his ad- ministration, Hoover cut the wages of the govern- ment workers by 8 1-3 per cent. Roosevelt cut their wages by an additional 5 per cent, as part of his so-called new deal. Through his inflationary pol- icles, living costs were boosted 14.3 per cent accord- ing to the inadequate figures of the National In- dustrial Conference Board. This meant a further cut in wages, and a tre- mendous increase in the prices that the workers had to pay for the necessities of life. According to the source mentioned above, the price of food and clothing went up 30 per cent due to this robbery of the workers. Now Roosevelt proposes to return the 5 per cent wage cut. But when? In July of next year. And in the meantime he frankly states his intention of forcing further increases in the cost of living. In other words he proposes to reduce real wages. Roosevelt’s wage-cut disguised as a restoration of pay is typical of his whole program. To fall for this election campaign stunt is to help him put over his capitalistic program Help smash his hunger plans for the workers by electing Communist candidates to office. They would expose such fake moves as his proposed wage restoration. They would fight for higher wages, not only for the government employees, but for all sec- tions of the working class. On the Saar Question O far advanced are Hitler’s plans for the seizure of the Saar by either election trickery or armed force, or both, that the Nazi forces have already picked their vic- tims in the Saar for execution. As the plebiscite on January 13 draws nearer, the activities among German fascist armed bands in the Saar and on the German border become more feverish, creat- ing the danger of a new imperialist war, and a new fascist attack on the Saar population. Hitler recognizes in the Saar one of the great- est tests of the future of Fascist rule in Germany. A defeat for Hitler in the Saar will be a mighty lever speeding the movement for the overthrow of fascism in Germany. A victory in the Saar for Hitler with its subsequent armed invasion will bring war closer. The Communist Party in the Saar, working in the rapidly growing united front, calls for support for the status quo (the existing administration by a Commission of the League of Nations) in the ple- biscite voting as the best of the three alternatives for continuing the revolutionary struggle against fascism and for the ultimate inclusion of the Saar in a proletarian Germany. The other alternatives are union with the present fascist Germany or with France. In this respect we must point to an error in the news columns of the Daily Worker, which, referring to the movements of the French General Staff in relation to the Saar carried the headline: “French Army Is All Set to Grab Saar.” The French im- perialists now have control of the economic life of the Saar. The true instigator of the armed seizure of the Saar is German Fascism. The French im- perialists are using the pretext of the Nazis, armed preparation for seizure of the Saar to mobilize their army for action in the Saar. The main enemy in the Saar is German Fas- cism which threatens not only to extend the bloody rule of Hitler to the Saar, but to use the Saar as & source of strengthening Fascism in Germany, To defeat Fascism in the Saar, by fighting for the -Status quo, and against union with either France or Germany, is the main task from which _ base the revolutionary struggle can ‘be carried to higher levels, to greater tasks, to the ultimate overthrow of Fascism in Germany and the merging of the Saar with the victorious German proletarian rev- olution. (Continued from Page 1) freed, and the workers permanently solve their problems of starvation and misery. But until the majority of the workers see this also, until the poor farmers and the broad middle class supports these aims, the Communists would not attempt to set up a workers’ government. When the majority of the American working class has convinced itself of the correctness of the Commu- nist views, when the oppressed farmers and middle class sees this course as the only way out, then the American working class will seize power and set up its own government, But this is not now the problem, and the em- ployers’ press knows it. In the present dyers’ strike the immediate problem is the winning of all the demands of the dye workers’ strike. For this aim, the Communist Party mobilizes all its forces. All workers—whether Communists, So- cialists or other workers, should unite on this pro- gram—the program of winning the strike in the quickest and most effective way. Only by such unity and solidarity can the strike be won. The dye workers, to win their strike, must reject all efforts to divide their ranks by distorting the pro- gram and aims of the Communist Party. Mr. Ammirato! These Are the Aims of the Communists in the Dye Strike An Editorial They No Longer Need Upton Sinclair ae ago, Upton Sinclair basking in the sun of the Democratic Party endorsement for Governor. Today there is a rush of the Roose- velt politicians, off the Sinclair band- wagor weeks was doesn’t mean that the capitalist poli- are afraid of Sinclair or his program. It is the masses who follow Sinclair who frighten the capitalist politicians in the Democratic Party, the class forces stirred up in the fight which Sin- clair cannot control. For the hole point of the present situation is that the masses who rushed to Sinclair’s program are no longer in the same position where Sin- is. In the past few weeks Upton Sinclair has been yielding steadily to the pressure of the machine politicians in his party. Sinclair visited Roosevelt and got the blessing of this leading agent of Wall Street. He got Jim Farley's blessing. He dumped most of his “Epic” plan overboard at the California Democratic State convention. He did everything to win his coveted prize—the Governorship of California. But Sinclair is now being dropped like a hot iron by the capitalist politicians because in his move toward the right it is no longer a certainty that he can swing the masses back along with him. Sinclair's demagogy was useful to the capital- ists in that its utopian schemes for promising to solve poverty without hurting the profit system had the advantage for the capitalists of diverting the masses away from the road to Communism. But, at the same time, Sinclair’s radical promises also had the unwitting effect of placing before the masses the questioning of the whole present polit- ical set-up. And in the present period of crisis, with the masses of California just emerging from the great- est labor strike in American history, this demagogy becomes too dangerous to play with! INCLAIR wrote last week to George Creel, an- Swering the charge that he had gone too far “left” of the Democratic Party platform: “I urged them to vote for the Democratic ticket, I have even gone so far as to urge them not to vote for me unless they voted the Demo- cratic ticket straight, It is you who have broken faith with the Democratic Party of California and the New Deal which we support.” This shows how far Sinclair had travelled in the past few weeks from the early “radicalism” of the “Epic” plan, He shows himself a wholly sub- servient supporter of the capitalist policies of the Democratic Party. It is evident that Sinclair was placed at the head of the mass unrest in Cali- fornia not to lead it forward toward the left, to- ward militant class struggle against capitalism, but to stay with the movement in order to lead it back to the right, away from revolution, from the Com- munist Party. Sinclair’s letter shows how misled were those workers who supported Sinclair on the theory that a half a loaf was better than none at all! The point is that Sinclair was never even a half a loaf, or a small trumb! Behind all his radical phrases, Sinclair concealed the reactionary poli- cies of the whole Roosevelt capitalist “New Deal,” the policies which have made life worse than ever for the masses, * . 'VEN now, with the Democratic endorsement slip- ping from him, Sinclair still does service to the advance of capitalist reaction. By his praise of the Roosevelt “New Deal,” by his praise of this Wall Street program as a “social” program, Sin- clair is assisting the execution of all of the Wall Street policies of Roosevelt. Sinclair's failure shows the bankruptcy of all petty-bourgeois utopias as a solution for the crisis. The capitalist politicians in California now try to appear as “progressives.” This is necessary be- cause of the aroused resentment of the masses. But these “progressives” are only the reactionary wolves in sheep's clothing of “liberalism.” As the reactionary Merriam assumes more and more of the “New Deal” demagogy for his own uses, as the Democratic politicians rapidly desert Sinclair, the difference between Sinclair and Mer- riam becomes less and less. They both base them- selves on Roosevelt's policies. This is another reason the capitalists no longer need Sinclair, In California, as everywhere, it is class against class. No corn cure panaceas will help the masses. The program of the Communist Party alone, based on revolutionary class struggle against the em- Ployers and the capitalist system alone provides the solution for the way out of the crisis. Sinclair promised the masses “immediate” bless- ings. But his promises only concealed whole- hearted support for the Wall Street program of the “New Deal,” which brings the masses only increased misery. The Communist Party, because it fights capitalism, alone is capable of leading the masses in struggle for immediate gains and for the smash- ing of the whole profit system which makes life miserable for the majority of the people. Vote Communist! Class against class! Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. NAME. ADDRESS OES Mr, Ammirato think that the strike is being Strengthen when he tries to divide the picket lines on the basis of political belief and turns Com- munists and other militant strikers over to the Police? Does Mr. Ammirato think victory will be brought nearer by bringing Mr. Gorman, the betrayer of the general strike into the negotiations? Does it help the strike for Mr. Ammirato and other union leaders to hide from the strikers what general strike, into the negotiations? is Mr. Ammirato opposed to, or in favor of, a so-called “impartial” board (really a strike- breaking board) to have final say on the workers’ grievances? The workers from experience know that such boards are tools of the employers. But Mr, Ammirato has not taken a stand on this ques- tion. : In order to win the strike, the dye strikers must decisively reject the “red” scare maneuvers; the co- operation of union officials with the police. Unite to strengthen the mass picket lines, for rank and file control of the strike. Unite all strik- ers to defeat arbitration schemes and win every demand of the strikers, Group Meetings And Daily Worker In Reeruiting Party Life | | | | | I, THE letter to all Party mem- |4 bers, addressed to us by the Cen-| tral Committee, we were asked for suggestions on recruiting members into the Party. In our section, in Montana, we| | have been using the following meth-| }od for the last month with very| | Sood. success not only in getting members to sign up but in getting them to be active members through Ja real understanding of the Party. At a unit meeting the members| | discuss prospective members or peo- ple who they think would make good | Party members. Then two or three| members, together with the Section | Organizer, call at the homes of | these workers and ask the prospec- | tive member to at‘end a meeting at some neighbor's home to become acquainted with the Party activi- | ties. We explain that they are not | under any obligations to join. They are told to bring along any ques- | tions they would like to ask. At the meeting that evening the | Section Organizer explains the poli- | |cies of the Communist Party, also describing how the unit, the sec- tion and the district work. This is not done by making a speech, but | | just through a conversation, using language that the workers under- stand and will not resent as “high flown.” We find that even though the farmers and workers have read | many pamphlets there are many things they do not understand and they ask all sorts of questions which we make it our business to answer | as clearly as possible. 1 We find that after these meet- ings there are always some new members to sign up, and those who do not join go home with a friendly feeling toward the Party, and we feel sure they will join later. We find that very often when an individual member approaches a prospective member and gets into a discussion with him, he antag- onizes him and it takes a lot of work to overcome that antagonism. We must be very patient and try to convince and persuade workers into | joining our Party. At the group meeting of workers which we hold we also try to ex- | plain the importance of the press and pamphlets, try to get subscrip- | tions for the Daily Worker and) other Communist papers. We also discuss our Party election program and candidates. GEORGE REBO, Section Organizer. The New Deal Bares Fangs At Albany An Editorial (Continued from Page 1) |the shipowners, to slaughter {and slug the workers? When it comes to slimy hypocrisy, Mr. Moses gets| the prize. Moses’s only contribution to an under- standing of the situation— a contribution which arises out of Mr. Moses’s close con- |nection with all forces of cor- ruption — is his information \that Governor Lehman’s responsibility is undeniable because of his close associa- tion and reliance on the cor- rupt Albany Democratic Party city administration. But why did this unex- ampled terror of the Hitler type against unemployed workers take place just at this time in Albany? Is it an accident of mismanagement of the police department? Not at all! The Albany brutal attack is the expres- sion of the policy of the Roosevelt government in its herculean efforts to smash down relief, to save profits for the employers in the face of the coming winter of growing unemployment, and consequent rise in the strug- gles of the unemployed. That is why the Roosevelt government is now trying to cover up its leading role in the Albany butchery by ex- pressing sham indignation at the treatment of the unem- ployed after they were as- saulted. The Federal Emer- gency Relief Administration sheds crocodile tears now over the fact that the wound- ed and blood-dripping work- ers were forced to sleep out in the open on a wind-swept hill. No, that can’t cover uf responsibility, Mr. Roose- velt, The attack in Albany coincided with the police at- tack on striking F. E. R. A. workers in Colorado, It fol- lows threats of LaGuardia’s police against unemployed demonstrations in New York. It is of a piece with the new DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934 v | POLICE CLUBS DO 2 5 Surek will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of Contributions received to the credit of Burck in is Socialist competition with Mike Gamnes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Ann 3arton, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive ‘or $60,000. QUOTA—$1,000, T STOP U Gold, Harry Members of former Progressive Club ..$ 1.00 Plainfield Jack London Club 14.25 Section 4 of Chicago .... Morris J. Motz .. Bensonhurst Unit, ¥. C. L. Previously received Total to date $1,000, + 9.00 + 4.95 1.00 + 140.37 Second Interuational Spurns Unity Proposals To Aid Spanish Workers | o- By BELA KUN (Conclusion) We shall not contradict the chief principle of this appeal, since the organization of united international action of the working class has been a difficult problem for longer: than the tragic history of the last ten years. Imagine, the Communists, however, have aggravated the diffi- culties of this problem, as for in- stance, when they made proposals for united action to that party from which Noske and Zorgiebel are des- cended. We shall not contradict as well the other ideas that in France lengthy proceedings were necessary to bring about unted action in the working class, Why these difficulties should stand in the road of united proletarian action can be better ex- plained than by the generally recog- nized leader of the French Social- Democracy, Leon Blum, who in a self-critical mood declared: “For a whole year, whenever unity of action was spoken of, we always pondered and said: ‘No, no united action or organic unity,’ and sought to delay every oppor- tunity for partial or occasional unity up to this day and to evade complete or uninterrupted unity wherever possible. I myself was of, this opinion and spoke in this manner. I have the feeling that this point of view is no longer tenable and it is no longer pos- sible to draw any difficulties out of this simple subterfuge.” It is not neccéssary to contradict the principle in this appeal that “in the international sphere the dif- ficulties of overcoming great dif- ferences are naturally greater than in individual countries.” Precisely because of this the Com- munist International in the preyi- ous year after Hitler’s rise to power broadcast an appeal for united ac- tion against Hitler-fascism and fas- cism elsewhere to the Social-Demo- cratic and Communist Parties in the individual countries. The Second International is compromised to the highest degress in connection with this new acknctyledgement in that it did not last year disavow and recall in every country its prohibi- tion of organizing united action. The explanation Vandervelde and Frederick Adler gave Com- rades Thorez and Cachin is the answer frequently issued by dip- Jomats when they will not say “yes” and cannot say “no.” In the language of diplomacy this treatment of a burning question is called dilatory. These words of deploring the impossibility of any common greund concerning Spain and the fair hopes held out that “our meeting may produce impor- tant results,” are unintelligible to the workers who are members of the Socialist Parties, and to the bleeding workers of Spain they | Stamd as signs that the Trade Union Committee of the Second International is unwilling to ful- fill the two most important sup- positions of effective help for the workers of Spain, is unwilling to concede the urgency fer the uni- fication of all action of the inter- national proletariat, * * . Deliberate Delay We: prevents the Executive of the Socialist and Labor Inter- national from convoking their ses- sion immediately instead of waiting for the 13th of November? The parties of the S.L.I. are, with very few exceptions, legal parties whose representatives will find the borders of all bourgeois countries open to them. In the ranks of the Second International are influential politi- cians, who, inside and outside of the bourgeois® governments, as well as the hunted representatives of the illegal Communist Parties, are able to make the journey. to an immedi- ately convoked council, meeting with the Executive of the S.L1. * * * Action Demanded iE Communist International has set no special conditions to the accomplishment of united action. The sole condition for the unifica- tion of action is action itself, the | struggle for the Spanish proletariat | and against the murderous Spanish government. In the event that the leaders of the Second International deny or avoid the Communist critique or the Communist handling of the question, let them read in the appeal of the Comintern of March 5th, 1933, with which they are well enough familiar, that the Commu- nists desire “to consider means of approach with the Social-Demo- cratic organizations for the time of the common struggle against capital and fascism.” * They are also familiar with the lessons ‘of .united action in France. They can at least apply to the French Socialist leaders for infor- mation as to whether or not the Communists have loyally -carried through their agreement. The Com- munists—the Communist , Interna- tional, as well as its secticns—are only opposed to drowning united action and the united deeds of the proletariat in a wordy sea of dip- lomatic negotiations. The international proletariat will find the road of united interna- tional action in saving the lives of the Spanish defenders of freedom, who are faced with the bestiality of the Lerroux regime. The Commu- nist Parties, which allow themselves to be frightened as little from the battlefield of united action by coarse refusals as by diplomacizing, will undertake everything possible to prevent further bloodshed by the} myrmidons of the counter-revolu- tion, and this before the 13th of November, They are turning also to individual Social-Democratic parties and to individual Social-Democratic organizations. These may well fol- low the example of the French So- cialists and in spite of every prohi- bition of the Second International, create the conditions for an imme- diate and united successful struggle in behalf of the Spanish proletariat against the bloody rule of the mon- archist-fascist counter-revolution. The Communists are turning to all Social-Democrats who consider themselves fighters of capitalism, who need hold: only this supreme precept before their eyes: The in- terests. of the proletarian class it- |self, the international solidarity of the whole working class, Who are the ones if not the leader- ship of the Second International, to Postpone critical decisions without any basis, by tricks of formality and negligence? You are the disioyal ones. You carry on only maneuvers. You are anxious to slip into our or- ganizations. You are willing to enter united action with our membership with the proviso that. they break party discipline! Who are the ones to be con- cerned about loyalty? To whom shall the workers be loyal? Shall the international working class be loyal’to the heroic class of the Spanish proletariat, whose lives’ interest, whose naked lives require an immediate foundation for united action? Or shall it be loyal to these—we say—who are afraid to oppose the hangman’s regime of Lerroux in the face of: their own bourgeoisie, either in or out- side of parliaments? The Communist and Social- Democratic workers will advance, without any decisions on the part of the Second International, to- ward united action for the sup- Pert of the Spanish proletariat. international instructions given to the police in Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh and many other industrial centers to treat the unemployed “rough.” That is how the Roosevelt government hopes to put over its policy of greater starva- tion for the masses, coupled with greater profits for the bankers, by beating the un- employed into submission and into non-resistance. This time it did not gain its end, due to the action of the Communist Party. This time Lehman is caught with the goods, as the instigator, acting for his close friend Roosevelt, of the bloody at- tack on the unemployed. This time the response of indigna- tion, of protest was so great that Moses made it the main point of his political speech | the next day in order to garner votes which were be- ing ripped away from Leh- man. But the protest campaign is only beginning and should grow, not only in the form of telegrams and letters to Leh- man, but in the arousing of the anger of the workers against the New Deal, against the whole program of the capitalist parties, Republican and Democrat, against the Socialist’ Party leaders who did not take a part in the united action for the march. It will become a real force by supporting the program of the Communist Party in the elections. To stop the fascist attacks on the workers, vote Commu- nist! y Burck| | World Front i——— By HARRY GANNES British Elections C. P. United Front Fight | Mass Arrests in Spain |pronranr elections will |~ take place in Britain in November. Though the vot- jing will be for borough and |county candidates, these elec- |tions have national signifi- cance because they.are con- | sidered preparatory, to the national |elections. Municipal and county elections take place on Nov. 1 in England, and Noy. 7 in Scotland, | The Communist Party, while en- | tering the election with its own | Candidates on a wide front, is pro- | posing united front actions to de- |feat the National government's fascist proposals. The Comm! | candidates are fighting under the | slogan: Forward to a_ Soviet | Britain.” Everywhere, they are emphasizing the fact that inside | and outside the Borough Councils | the workers can achieve success | only by mass action. 'HE main immediate demands are | 4 against the starvation of the un- | employed, against the relief econo mies of the National government, | for a vast public works program of | restoration of towns and villages, |mew sanitation works, construction |of schools, hospitals, clinics and | playgrounds, | On the eve of the nominations | for the municipal candidates, the | Communist Party of Great Britain jissued a statement withdrawing | some of its candidates, in order to strengthen the united front strug- gle. Drawing attention to the situa- |tion in Spain and Austria, the statement says: “It is clear that these events necessitate the building up of a workers’ united front, and this is now the paramount urgent consid- eration overriding every other ques- tion facing the working class.” “Municipal elections,” the state= ment poin‘s out, “are not some= thing apart from the class struggle, having only a passing significance; they occur at the very moment when the British working class can show it has learned from Germany, Austria and Spain, when they can give a mighty demonstration to the workers of the world that they are also building unity in action and taking steps to organize their forces for an advance against the capital- ist enemy.” Pa raga OINTING out that the fight | against capitalism can best be carried on by the return of Com- munist candidates, the statement declares that the Communist Parity is prepared to wholehear edly sup- port and work for the return of Labor candidates in places where there are no Communist candidates, providing that such candidates will pledge themselves to fight on such questions as forced labor schemes, for lower rents, refusal to opera e the means test, extra winter relief, withdrawal of the Sedition Bill, the fight against the unemployment act, and for the uni‘ed front against war and fascism. Proposals were made to the In- dependent Labor Party for with- drawal of Communist candidates or I. L, P. candidates in places where both are now running, in order to strengthen the possibility of victory of one or the other, wherever such arrangements can be made on the basis of a united front program. Peue daar ‘HE Communist Party proposed the calling of conferences of the Labor Party, the I. L. P. and the C. P. to select one candidate on the basis of the united front program. The statement makes it clear that the C, P. still holds to its criti- cism of the Labor Party program, and that no change in the political line is involved—Class against class still remains the order of the day. The new move is dictated solely by a desire to help toward united ac- tion of the workers. * * ASS arrests of Communists, So- cialists and Syndicalists are be= ing made all over Spain. The thou- sands of revolutionary workers, in= tellectuals and soldiers imprisoned in the bull-ring in Madrid are suf- fering frightfully from the icy cold nights (Madrid is situated on a high plateau, and notorious for the extreme difference of temperature day and night). The fact that the Socialist leader Ldrgo Caballero has been taken to hospital has caused the populace to conclude that he was maltreated by the police when arrested. His ar- rest is en‘irely illegal, for the im- munity of the Deputies has not been cancelled by any law, and can= not be. In Gijon the Socialist Deputy Teodomiro Menendez was arrested, Mass arrests are being made con- tinually in every part of the whole Province of Oviedo, in the places occupied by the government ‘roops, Conditions are indescribable in the overcrowded prisons. The Cata= lonian Deputy Augustin Casade- munt has been arrested in a village in Catalonia. In Bilbao over 900 persons have been arrested. In the Province of Cordoba work is stated to have been generally resumed, with the excep'ion of Belmez, where the miners continue on strike. In this province, too, there have been numerous arrests, including the leaders of the trade unions of the telephone workers and the office SBYy ay Jey} Sazeys ULT SBqES UBS JO Jepuvuro0d AreTUL syL “StoyxIOA interned 100 persons in the fort of San Marco. * Contributions received to the credit of Harry Gannes in his 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. Total to date ...........$114.67