The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934 On the international Character of the October Revolution Cleveland C.P. Asks tor Unity With Socialists Speen Joint Fight To ‘Halt Reactionary Attacks on Jobless CLEVELAND, O!} 6.—Fol- Nov. lowing the police attack against a demonstration of jobless.and earls the erished workers on Monday, Communist Party here addr tter to the Socialist Party ship proposing that be elected to confer on plans for joint action against the reactionary attacks of the Davis ad- ministration against the workers in this city. “Tt is quite clear,” the letter states, ‘that the answer of Davis to the demands of the workers in this tisis year of unemployment ry is increased terror. To cover up this brutal fact, he tries to raise the ‘red scare.’ That dem- onstration Monday night was held by organizations whose membership | is overwhelmingly non-Communist. | These- attacks ate not aimed alone| against the Communist Party. They ate aimed against all workers, the trade unions, the Socialist workers as well as the Communists. These} statements of Davis are the threats of fascist rule right here in Cleve- lan “We appeal to the Socialist Party for immediate joint action with us to mobilize’ the broadest possible | front of all labor and liberal organ- | izations against this action of Davis. The fist of fascist action right here demands not a moment’s delay. The} action of your last N. E. C. meeting | which stated ‘Meanwhile we are| aware that there are questions aris- | ing from time to time, mostly in the} field of civil liberties, in which it is desirable that there shall be ef- fective local action for the defense of workers’ rights. We are, there- fore, drawing up a plan to govern possible cooperation in this field,’ gives you every inner Party author- , plus the needs of the workers, for this action. “We stand ready to meet with a committee from your organization, at any time, but we reemphasize the néed for speedy action. Our Dis- trict Committee has elected a sub- committee composed of John Wil- liamson, A. R. Onda and Maude White to confer with any of your designated representation!” Red Vote Gains Indicated in City, -~».(Continued from Page 1) and Lexington Avesj“had its Com- | munist levers jammed for some} time. The same difficulty was met | at the election place. at 112th St.,, between Fifth and Lenox Aves. | Brodkiyn Communist watchers | reported that a metal strip had | been placed across the names of | the Red candidates on # machine at | Public School 167, 1025 Eastern | Parkway. At Public School 83,/ Schenectady and Bergen Aves. Brooklyn, Communist watchers said that they were not permitted to ex- amine the backs of the voting machines. . Jam Olgin Lever | “The lever over the name of Mos- [Because of its fundamental importance, the Daily Worker today—on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution—reprints Stalin’s classic article, “On the International Character of the Oc- tober Revolution.” The article was writ- ten in 1927, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. —Editor’s Note.] 3 Re By J. STALIN HE October Revolution is not only a revolution within “national limits.” It is above all a revo- I n bearing an international stamp, a world revo- Iution, for it means a fundamental change in the whole history of mankind, from the old capitalist world to the new Socialist world. The October Revolution differs in principle from Il revolutions of the past. The aim which it sets lf is not the replacement of one form of ex- ion by another, of one group of exploiters by P another, but the abolition of all exploitation of man | by man, the annihilation of all and every group of exploiters, the setting up of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the setting up of the power of the | revolutionary class among all subjected classes which have arisen up to now, and organization of | a new, classless Socialist society. Precisely for this reason the victory of the Oc- tober Revolution means a fundamental change in the history of humanity. That is the reason why the October Revolution is a reyolution bearing an international character, a world revolution. Therein lies also the reason for the profound sympathy the subjugated classes of all peoples. cherish for the October Revolution, in which they see the guarantee of their liberation. A whole number of fundamental questions can be pointed out, upon the line of which the effect of the October Revolution upon the development of the revolutionary movement of the whole world pro- ceeds: ‘ 1, The October Revolution is characterized in the first place by the fact that it broke through the front of world imperialism, overthrew the imperial- ist bourgeoisie in one of the biggest capitalist coun- tries, and placed power in the hands of the Socialist | proletariat. The class of wage slaves, the class of the down- trodden, the class of the oppressed and exploited has for the first time in the history of humanity risen to be the ruling class, and by its example in- spired the proletariat of all countries. New Epoch That means that the October Revolution opened a new epoch, an epoch of the proletarian revolutions in the imperialist countries. It has deprived the landowners and the capitalists of the means and instruments of production and converted them into social property, and by this means opposes social property against bourgeois property. It has thereby exposed the lie of the capitalists regarding the in- violability, the sacredness and the permanency of bourgeois property. It has wrested power from the bourgeoisie, de- prived it of political rights, shattered the bourgeois state apparatus and handed over power to the Soviets, thereby opposing bourgeois parliamentarism, | as the capitalist democracy, with the Socialist Soviet power, as the prolétarian democracy. Lafargue was right when he said already in 1887, that on the day following the revolution “all former capitalists will lose the right to vote.” The October Revolu- tion thereby exposed the lie of the social democrats that a peaceful transition to Sotialism by bourgeois parliamentarism is possible. ‘TRIUMPH OF 1917 IS LEADING TO BASIC, WORLDWIDE CHANGES Bolshevik Revolution Has Raised the Fighting Spirit of Oppressed Peoples Of the Entire World, Stalin Declares But the October Revolution has not stopped short at this. It could not stop short at this. After shat- tering the old bourgeois order, it proceeded to build up the new Socialist order. Ten years of the Oc- tober Revolution are ten years of building up the Party, the trade unions, the Soviets, the co- operatives, the cultural organizations, transport and communications, industry and the Red Army. Socialist Construction ‘HE indubitable success of the Socialism of the Soviet Union on the field of cOnstruction have palpably shown that the proletariat can success- fully rule a country without the bourgeoisie and against the bourgeoisie; can successfully conduct the whole national economy without the bourgeoisie and against the bourgeoisie; and that it can suc- cessfully build up Socialism in spite of the capital- ist environment. The old “theory” that the ex- ploited cannot do without the exploiters, has now become the cardinal point of the political “phil- osophy” of the social democracy in general and of the social democratic policy of coalition with the bourgeoisie in particular. This “theory,” which has assumed the character of a prejudice, constitutes today one of the most serious obstacles in the way of the revolutionary proletariat in the capitalist countries. One of the most important results of the “October Revolution is the fact that it gave a deadly blow to this fallacious “theory.” Such generally known facts as the steady growth of Communism in the capitalist countries, the in- creasing sympathy of the proletarians of all coun- tries for the working class in the Soviet Union, and finally the flocking of workers’ delegations to the land of the Soviets demonstrate beyond dispute that the seed scattered by the October Revolution is al- ready beginning to bear fruit. 2. The October Revolution has shaken impe- rialism not only in the centres of its rule, in the “mother countries.” It has also delivered its blow against the outposts of imperialism, as well as against its border districts, and undermined the rule of imperialism in the colonial and dependent coun- tries. The October Revolution, by overthrowing the Jandowners and capitalists, has broken the chain of national and colonial suppression and, without exception, liberated from this yoke all the subju- gated peoples of this gigantic State. The prole- tariat cannot emancipate itself without emancipat- ing the subjugated peoples. The October Revolu- tion has accomplished these national and colonial revolutions in the Soviet Union not under the ban- ner of national hostility and of collisions between the nationalities, but under the banner of mutual confidence and of fraternal rapprochment of the workers and peasants of the nationalities, not in the name of nationalism but in the name of interna- tionalism. Precisely for this reason the pariah-peoples, the slave péoples have, for the first time in the his- tory of humanity, risen to the level of peoples who are really free and really equal, and who have by their example infected the suppressed peoples of the whole world. That means that the October Revolution has opened a new epoch, an epoch of colonial revolu- tions which will be carried out by the suppressed peoples of the world in alliance with and under the leadership of the proletariat. One of the most important results of the Oc- tober Revolution is the fact that it has shown by deeds that the emancipated non-European peoples who have been drawn into the process of Soviet development, are capable of producing real advanced culture and real advanced civilization which is in no way behind European culture and civilization. The October Revolution has shown by deeds the Possibility and practicability of the proletarian in- ternational method of liberating the subjugated peoples as the only correct method; it has shown by deeds the possibility and utility of the brotherly alliance of the workers and peasants of the most varied peoples on the basis of free choice and in- ternationalism, The era of exploitation and subjugation of the colonial and dependent countries without revolt and resistance on their part is past. There has commenced the era of emancipatory revolutions in the colonial and dependent countries, the era of the awakening of the proletariat of these countries, the era of its hegemony in the revolution. 3. The October Revolution, by shaking imperial- ism, has at the same time created in the first pro- letarian dictatorship a powerful, open center of the international revolutionary movement, which the latter had never formerly possessed and around which it can now crystallize by organizing the revo- lutionary united front of the proletariat and of the suppressed peoples of all countries against imperial- ism. That means above all that the October Revolu- tion has dealt world capitalism a deadly wound from which it will never recover. Just for this reason capitalism will never again win back that “balance,” that “stabilization” which it had before October. That means that the October Revolution has also raised the fighting spirit of the suppressed peoples of the whole world to a certain height and com- pelled the ruling classes to reckon with them as a new and serious factor. If formerly there was no international open forum before which the hopes and aspirations of the suppressed classes could be demonstrated and formulated, there exists today such a forum in the first proletarian dictatorship. The destruction of this forum would for a long time darken the social and political life of the “ad- vanced” countries with the cloud of unrestrained black reaction. Even the simple fact of the existence of the “Bolshevik State” curbs the black forces of reaction and facilitates the suppressed to fight for freedom, End of Capitalist Stabilization ‘HIS is the reason also for that fierce hatred which the exploiters of all countries chérish against the Bolsheviki. Just as at one time Paris was the place of refuge and school for the revolutionary representatives of the rising bourgeoisie, so today Moscow is the refuge and the school for the revo- lutionary representatives of the rising proletariat. Hatred against the Jacobins did not save feudalism from disaster. There cannot be the least doubt that hatred against the Bolsheviki will not save capital- ism from its inevitable ruin, The era of stability is past, and there has gone with it the legend of the imperishableness of the bourgeois social order. The era of the catastrophe of capitalism has dawned, 4. The October Revolution is not only a revo- lution in the sphere of economic, social and poli- tical relations, it is at the same time a revolution of the mind, a revolution of thé ideology of the working class. The October Revolution was born and strengthened under the banner of Marxism, under the banner of the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, under the banner of Leninism, which is the Marxism of the epoch of imperialism and of the proletarian revolution. It means, there- fore, the victory of Marxism over reformism, the victory of Leninism over social democracy. Formerly, before the victory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the social democrats were still able to parade under the banner of Marxism, with- out openly denying the dictatorship of the prole- tariat, without however doing the least thing to bring this idea nearer to realization. For such an attitude on the part of social democracy did not mean any threat to capitalism. Today, after the victory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, after everybody has seen with his own eyes whither Marxism leads and what its vic- tory may mean, the social democracy can no longer flirt with the idea of the dictatorship of the prole- tariat without creating a certain danger to capital- ism. After it had long broken with the spirit of Marxism, it saw itself compelled to break also with the banner of Marxism and has openly and in- disputably proceeded against the offspring ‘of Marx- ism, against the October Revolution, against the first dictatorship of the proletariat in the world. Bankruptcy of Social-Democracy Between social democracy and Marxism there lies today an abyss. From now on the only bearer and stronghold of Marxism is Leninism,.Commu- nism. The October Revolution has separated social democracy from Marxism and driven it into the camp of the immediate defenders of capitalism against the first proletarian dictatorship in the world. When the social democratic leaders abuse the “Soviet regime” and laud parliamentary “dem- ocracy,” they thereby wish to say that they are fighting and will fight for the re-establishment of capitalist conditions in the Soviet Union, for the maintenance of capitalist slavery in the “civilized” States. Present day sotial democracy is an idedlo- gical support of capitalism. Lenin was indisputably right when he said that the present social demo- cratic politicians “will, in the civil war of the pro- letariat against the bourgeoisie, inevitably side with the Versaillaise against the Comrunards.” One cannot put an end to capitalism without putting an end to social democracy within the la- bor movement. Consequently, the era of the death of capitalism is at the same time the era of the death of social democracy in the labor movement. The era of the rule of the Second Ipternational and of social democracy in the labor movement is at an. end. There has commenced the era of the-rule of Leninism and the rule of the Third International. yesterday’s election, with its un- usually large turnout for an off- year, early reports showed a mili- tant current of working-class at the polls against capitalist prom- ises and capitalist oppression. Four men were killed and four- teen others were wounded at Kaly- res, Pa., anthracite mining town near Hazelton, when a Democratic parade was raked by the gunfire! of local Republican machine hench- | Bruno would lost political control | national economy of the so-| T viet Union has entered on the | |men who feared that Boss Joseph| fourth querter of the second year| the unexampled and inspiring co- of the Second Five-Year Plan. The! Operation of the collectivized peas- o Soviet Power Advances on the Eve Of Its Seventeenth Anniversary Gaiety Marks Eve Of Nov.7 in Moscow (Continued from Page 1) development in various branches of tional force behind collectivization, | the systematic sowing machine, by the weeding undertaken in dozens of millions of collectivized hectares. last year the sowing had reached only 31,700,000 hectares, The detailed results for this year municipal economy and the tremen- dous achievements of the red cap- ital in every field of economy and saye J. Olgin, popular Red candidate | at the polls. for Congress in the 23rd Congres- sional District, the Bronx, was jammed at P. S. 50, Vyse and Bry- ant Aves. Attempts to browbeat Negro voters ‘were reported in a number of elec- tion districts. Most of these were checked, however, by the interven- tion of Communist watchers who maintained the policy, laid down in instructions by the Communist State Election Campaign Committee, of defending the tights of workers, Communist or otherwise, to vote as they pleased. Frank R. Crosswaith, Negro So- cialist candidate for Congress in the 21st District, charged that his name was deliberately locked on machines in eight or ten election districts. Brodsky Praises Watchers Credit for the close guarding of Communist votes was given to the excellent watching by Carl Brodsky, chairman of the Communist State Election Campaign Committee, in a statement last night. Brodsky said: “If there were relatively few cases of violence against red vot- ers reported, it is due to the- splendid work of the scores of rank and file workers who were Communist watchers. They, by their militancy, protected the legal voting rights of hundreds of workers throughout the city. By their attitude of defending the Tights of the Sccialist voters as well as Communist voters, they set an example of unity in actual practice, a unity which shculd be broadened after Election Dov. “At 7 o’clock, one hour after the polls closed, the returns are just beginning to trickle in. We have instructed our watchers to take every precaution to see that the Communist and Socialist votes are all counted. We will fight vi- gorously against any attempt to Steal votes during the tallying period.” The Fascist claws of American capitalism broke through the silk gloves of democracy as wide- spread violence and heavy mobi- lizations of police and national en accompanied 30,000,000 voters to the polls yesterday. Six persons were killed outright, and scores more wounded by guns and other weapons as the major capitalist parties wrestled with the two-fold task of winning offices ahd suppressing, wherever possib'e. all militant expressions of resistance to the suffering imporsd by New Deal on the broad masses of} the toiling populaticn. Under this wave of gangsicrism and murder which characterized i | In Philadelphia, Pa. William | Rocks, Negro, was. shot to death ir | front of a polling place. | The ugly visage of Judge Lynch | was seen all over the South as rul- ing class agents tried desperately to | prevent Negroes from exercising the right to vote. “Disorders” were reported in a number of places. Press dispatches indicate an unusual storm of terror against the Negro people throughout the entire South- land, with a lynch mob gathered in Holland, Mo., in an attempt to mur- |der a number of Negroes who were on their way to the polls. One white man, Horace Ferrell, was slain by gunmen, who triéd to prevent | Ferrell from bringing Negro voters | to the polls. John E. Ferrell, father of the slain man, and Clarence Posey, another white farmer, were both critically wounded by the thugs. Two men were in a hospital and other were less seriously injured in election fights in Pittsburgh. Gun- fire broke out in the heavily pop- uplated Negro working-class sestion of Chicago. In New Mexico National Guard detachments wete brought into | Play and New. York City saw an unprecedented police mobilization at the polls. In California in the West, in | New York in the East and at many | important points in’ between, un- | precedented Communist votes were) rolled up. In Cleveland, 30 out of 33 wards in Cleveland and five surrounding | townships were covered by workers | supplied with Communist election | material. Hundreds of workers re- ported at ward centers at 5 a.m. prepared to carry through the final steps in the tasks of rolling up a Communist vote of unprecedented size. In Youngstown and in smaller | steel centers nearby, the same en- ergetic activity and enthusiastic re- sponse at the polls matked the! progress of the Communist vote through the day. | The Communist vote, while not| completely tabulated in such centers | as Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh and New York, showed every pos- sibility of living up to its pre-elec- tion promise of being the largest in the history of the Communist Party in_ those centers. In Illinois, where -almost all the! | Communist candidates were forced joff the ballot by a_ last-minute | legalistic maneuver of the State} election officials, the Communist vote resulting from the write-in campaign conducted by the Com- munist Party, will be more difficult in the steadily growing national economy of the Soviet Union were unknown in previous years, either as regards quality or quantity. For the first three quarters of the current ‘year Soviet heavy in- dustry—as compared with the same three quarters of the previous year —marked a productive increase of from 28 to 29 per cent. Within the bounds of these figures for all heavy industry may be seen cross- sections of the most important branches, whose towering produc- tion reaches to much higher per- centage levels. The nonferrous metal industry, which in recent years has not kept pace with even the ‘superfluous departments of the national economy and had come to a hopéless impasse, was worked this year with remarkable results. Ore- smelting outreached itself for the first three quarters by an increase of 49.7 over the previous year, ac- complishing 75 per cent of its year plan. Coke products climbed 40.6 per cent over last year, iron-ore production 49.1 per cent, and steel- smelting 42.6 per cent. From month to month the qual- ity as well as the quantity of pro- duction of light industry rose greatly. More and more did it be- come possible to satisfy the de- mands of the population for all sorts of necessary articles, although these demands, in consequence of the steady risé in the living stand- ards of the working class, became more exacting every day. The results of the first three quarters prove the colossal achieve- ments and point to the future pos- sibilities of Socialist economy. These results give one the conviction that the tremendous national economic plan for the second year of the Second Five-Year Plan will be ful- filled without the slightest pause in production. * ae E country has to its credit for the last quarter unsurpassable victories in more fields than heavy industry. The achievements in agriculture for 1934 will not be fully apparent until the 17th anniversary of the October Revolution. But | already indications are that the present year, which for agriculture is an exceptional one, will show a measure of productivity by far ex- ceeding last year’s record-breaking performance. In early 1934 drought seized the! entire Soviet Union. Even in the moist and setmi-tropical zones rain to tabulate. had not fallen, Only the excep- | princi ly con- | principal decisive departments of | 2Mt masses, for whom the only Socialist economy in the last quar-| ceTn was the fateful outcome of ter showed production figures which | the drought and the carrying through of their program, only the activity of the associated factories, could have lifted the threatening danger of the drying out of all standing grain. While the final re- sults paint the prospects as being no worse than those of last year, nevertheless they are better in a good many regions than for the record harvest of 1933. A considerable check-up of those farms which had suffered greater losses than others during the drought, undertaken in the Middle Volga region, disclosed a greater harvesting of crops than for all previous years. Areas like Asov, Schwartzmeer, Gaues and Kim, which had been given up for lost, turned out a surprising amount of Profit. In the Central Asiatic Re- publics produce was stored in such huge quantity that it would have been impossible to consume all of it in half a century. The Moscow, Ural and Siberian districts pro- duced comparable harvests. The collective farms of the Moscow dis- trict give instances of having sown 20, even 22 centners (4 centner is approximately 100 pounds) of win- ter wheat, winter sowing having never been undertaken before, but now intensively practiced by col- lectivized peasants. Sincie, Sle E any critical examination of the results of the agricultural year of 1934 it is very important to keep in mind the fact that the state seed- ing plans for the main products un- der cultivation were far exceeded. Specifically they are summer wheat (estimated at a million hectares—a hectare is 2.5 acres—sown above the plan) and oats (900,000 hectares above plan). The planned sowing for barley was as strongly exceeded, with some 200,000 hectares over. The correspondence between the amount exceeding the state sowing plan and the fact that there were such good harvests is especially to be noted. The successes gained in Socialist agricultural economy stand in direct line with the unparalleled features of collectivization, which itself gov- erns the entire fate of agriculture, especially as concerns the swift rise in field-cultivation. These suc- cesses were anticipated by the in- crease of acreage of fallow and idle lands made — productive, accom- vlished through collectivization, by the transition to deeper tractor- plowing, by the sowing of snow- covered regions tothe extent of six million hectares, by the triumph of A serious factor was the very early sowing, which in 1934 in various sections of the country embraced an area of over four million hectares, and above all the quick completion of the early sowing. These newly won victories reveal the collective economy in the light of its vast potential abilities, its brilliant tech- nical achievements at the machine and tractor stations. Me coded | tesa ined with the striking ex- ample of the rapid completion of the earliest sowing is the record of the beet sowing in 1934. The entire Ukraine had completed its beet sowing by April. The organi- zation of the sowing, too, was in- comparably better than last year. The result was a rich sugar-beet harvest, gathered in long before the date set. The collective farms are already occupied with the necessary chores preparatory to the 1935 harvest. ‘The preparations will include in the first weeks of the new year the enormous task of getting all fallow lands ready by March, which not even the Ukrainian steppes could have accomplished before collectivi- zation. The major part of the fal- low land of the Soviet Union had not been organized before April and May. The total area embraced by the May fallowing comprises 16,- 000,000 hectares, as against 9,000,000 hectares last year. The plan for the spring plowing was raised in the course of the year from 36.5 to 41.8 million hectares. The signifi- cance of the spring plowing is gen- erally understood. The ground covered by the spring plowing soaks up the moisture and absorbs all the fertilizer. As a rule sum- mer-sowing reaps a greater harvest after a good spring plowing. The rich harvests in the Volga district, in West Siberia and other regions of the Union for this year are by no means unconnected with the timely and successful spring-plow- ing of past seasons. ark spring-fallowing, which be- fore the establishment of col- lectivization was hardly ever in use, had become the best weapon in fighting the drought. The last estimate, at the 15th of October, gave even at that time 20.5 mil- lions of hectares set aside for the spring-fallowing. The present year’s winter-corn sowing has been car- ried out much bstter end more quickly than in 1933. By the 15th of October the plan for winter corn-sowing had been 92 per cent fulfilled: 34,553,000 hectares had been sown, while at the same time of collectivization and Soviet pro- duce, as well as their organizational and econortiic bases, will unfold themselves strikingly enough in the course of the whole develop- ment of agticulture. The state agricultural plan for this entire year will be altogether fulfilled in a very short time from now. Al- ready, Le. using the figures of Oct. 15, the agricultural plan of the Union for the whole year has been achieved by 94.9 per cent, one of the collectivized area by 97.9 per cent. Last year at the identical period saw only 83.8 per cent of the amount fulfilled. The plan for the month of October was com- Pleted by the 15th of the month. In the process of distributing the profit of the collective farths among their members and in the face of detailed grain surpluses of the col- lectivized peasants the huge amount of agricultural purchases from state and cooperative organi- zations stands out above everything else and already outstrips the agri- cultural plan. These organizations themselves turned ott by the 15th of October almost 50 million poods (a pood is 36 pounds) of corn and 15 million poods of other food- stuffs. All these accounts show that the collectivized town has made a mighty step forward on the a of culture and living stand- ards. Oakland Delegates Demand Freedom For Ernst Thaelmann OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 6. — A representative delegation from 11 organizations, union, fraternal and religious bodies, crossed the San Francisco Bay from the East Bay District on Oct. 26 to pre- sent resolutions to the German Consul in San Francisco, de- manding the release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Ger- man working class, Mill Virginia Ward, spokesman for the delegation, told the Nazi Consul that the people of Oak- land and Berkeley, whom they represented, protest Thaelmann’s imprisonment of 18 months with- out trial. They demanded that the protest be forwarded to the Hitler government in Berlin. Indicative of the mass protest movement against the Hitler ter- ror, the reactionary “Oakland Tribune” felt impelled to the action of the delegation, culture. All Moscow is living an exuberant life on the eve of the holiday. This is shown in large and stall things. A characteristic feature is that the demand in the stores has greatly increased for neckties and various articles of dress, The proletarains of the Soviet capital want to meet the great revolutionary holiday not only with a great productive up- surge and fighting songs, but with good suits, new neckwear, elegant footwear, etc. Stores everywhere are full from morning to late evening. One big department storé alone, “Mostorg,” during the last four days sold goods valued at five million rubles, Yesterday it had a record turnover for its entire his- tory—one million, six hundred and seventy thousand rubles. In ten days this store sold sixty-one Pianos, all of them to working families. This instance alone il- lustrates the growth of the ma- terial and cultural level of the great masses of the workers in the Soviet Union. On the seventh of November all the world will hear Red Square. Bubbling over with hatred and Tage, the enemies of the Soviet Union, but first of all the workers of all countries, full of joy and hope, will listen to the triumphant march of the columns of the Mos- cow proletarians, These columns will pass before Lenin’s mausoleum, saluting the workers’ and peasants’ government with victories on all sectors of Socialist construction. In this great festival millions of free eng greet the Socialist Father- Dyers Reject NRA Board Arbitration (Continued from Page 1) declared the union statement, “re- fused to consider the agreement in whole or in part, stating that they had no power to act until they went back to the employers they repre- sented and laid the matters before them. The employers once again repeated the worn-out proposal, previously turned down by our membership, to go back to work and through this scheming. It now ap- pears very clearly that the employ- ers ate trying to use various gov- ernment agencies to break this strike.” Reiterating the determination of the workers to settle their own dis- then arbitrate. The workers see} ‘Woll, Hillman Hail Dubinsky: At Banquet, Socialist Is Praised for His Support of The N. R. A. | Celebrating the inclusion of the, | Socialist, David Dubinsky, into the executive council of the A. F. of L., a meeting (and later a banquet) was held Sunday night, at which Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., and official in the fas- cist Civic Federation; Frank Mors rison, secretary of the A. F. of L., and Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Association, were speakers. Dubinsky was elected a merjber of the enlarged executive council of the A. F. of L. at its last con- vention in San Francisco, and typifies the united front of the re- actionaty leaders of the Socialist Party with the top leaders in the A. F. of L. who hayé broken strike after strike. Woll had only the highest. prais for Dubinsky, who, as president the International Garment Workers Union, has worked close with the N. R. A., atid its New Deal anti” labor policies. ~ Woll, who has spread fascist prop- aganda for the Hitler government in the United States, as an official of the Civic Federation, declared: “We have shown that we have no use for Hitler and Hitlerism, and - we hurl defiance at the fascist en+ emies of the labor movement every= where.” This is how the Socialist leaders form the united front “against fas- cism,” by holding a love feast with an outstanding friend of the fase cists who at one time spreads their literature, and at another mouths phrases against fascism. Sidney Hillman, a member of the reorganized National Recovery Ad- ministration, praiséd Dubinsky for his support to the N. R. A. ‘ Toledo Unemployed Storm Court House (Continued from Page 1) the climax of a two-month con- tinuous battle, during which the men have twite advanced upon the county relief headquarters in a body, and once before took over the County Court House, forcing the County Commissioners to accom- pany them to the Ohio State Relief Board in Columbus, Effective United Front An efféctive fighting united front has been established between the Socialist Party, Communist Party, American Workers Party, Young Communist League, Young Peoples Socialist League, and every unem- ployed organization in the ¢i'y around the demands-of the single men. A strike has been called ih the city-owned flop house with the result that the forced labor has been smashed. A. F. of L. locaf unions and the Central Labor Union have endorsed the men’s demands, and many unions have contributed to their fighting fund. The men are demanding $8 a month cash rent relief, $3.50 weekly cash food allowance, $5 a month for clothing, and adequate medical aid. Lucas county’s November re= Hef allotment for jobless single men at present amounts to about $8.14 for all relief needs. C. ©. C. Boys Imprison Officers WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 6.— Incensed at being arbitrarily trans ferred to Southern camps, 250 C. G, C. boys held their armed army offi- cers prisonérs for three hours here yesterday and held up progress of the troop train, in which they were being taken from Maine to Virginia, for three hours. Only after 150 police had re- sponded to a “riot” call, were the officers released and the troop train permitted to proceed. ‘The troop train of twelve cars is carrying the C. C. C. youth from Maine to Fort Hoyle, Md., and Ben Hur, Va. Conductors, who reported that many of the army officers had been bélabored by the boys, said that the C. C. C. boys had been ree sentful against the transfer since the train left Maine. pute, the union declared that it learned that the Cotton Textile In- stitute and the Silk Code authori- ties are bringing pressure to bear against a settlement that would re- sult in a 100 per cent union shop and substantial improvements for the workers. “The forces of reaction feared that gains by labor in the dyeing industry would be reflected in a short time in other textile fields and as a result are opposing the dye workers in their historic struggle for decent conditions,” declared the union statement. ' Try A. and P. Trick : Trying the same trick against the workers that the A! and P. used im Cleveland, when hit by a strike, the dyers’ institute declared that the “operators feel that further con- tinuation of the dyeing industry in the Passaic Valley is ‘economically unsafe,’ in view of present condi= tions and union activities.” The bosses claim thet their work is be- ing diverted to Pennsylvania, New England and the Southern States, The statement of the dyeing bosses is apparently the first blast to mo- bilize an hysteria against the strik- ers among the small business peo- ple and middle class people gen- erally. Yesterday, only a few hours after Charles Stettin tried to tell the strikers that there is 10 chance for $1 an hour for a 30-hour week and. was shouted down, he was removed from the Settlement Committee. The workers thereby served notice on what awaits any official who dares to deviate from instructions. || | | ERE