The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1934, Page 8

Page 8 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1934 Daily, SONTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone Cable Addre: Washington Subscription Rates: excep’ ttan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.60; rm $8.50; 3 $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Poreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 mon’ . By Cai ‘Weekly, 18 cel 5 cents rr 2 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1934 An Exchange of Prisoners T WILL be welcome news to the Amer- ican workers who have been demon- strating for the release of Mathias Rakosi from the dungeons of the Goemboes dic- tatorship in Hungary, to learn that the Soviet government is negotiating for his free- dom. News from Pague indicates that the negoti- ations will be successful and that Rakosi will be sent to the Soviet Union in exchange for a counter- revolutionary and saboteur. Once again the Soviet Union has come to the rescue of a militant leader of the working class in danger of his life. The international character of the workers’ fatherland is well illustrated by the solicitude of the Soviet workers for their imprisoned class brothers in capitalist prisons. Backed by the pressure of the international working class, the Soviet Union was able to force the German fascists to release Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff. When the brave fighters of the Aus- trian Schutzbund were stranded in Czecho-Slovakia, it was the Soviet Union who gave them refuge from their fascist enemies. The Soviet Union is the international guardian of the proletariat of the world. When one of the sons of the revolutionary working class is in danger, it is the Soviet Union that endeavors to snatch him from the clutches of the fascist jailors and execu- tioners. These acts effectively refute the slanders of the Trotzky renegades who, in their own service to capitalism, charge the Soviet Union with aban- doning the world proletarian struggle. Lewis Congratulates Curley | OW much opposition does the leader- ship of the Socialist Party really offer to the New Deal and its capitalist agents? This question must come to mind of every worker as he reads the following mes- sage of congratulations to the Democratic Governor- Elect of Massachusetts, James M. Curley, from Alfred Baker Lewis, the Socialist candidate for governor of Massachusetts: “Congratulations on your decisive victory over a banking-industrial machine which the people have come to despise. Your great victory is due to the support of organized labor and those persons who have felt the pangs of want in this depression.” Who is this Curley who scored a “decisive vic- tory” over the bankers and the industrialists? He is the head of the corrupt Boston Democratic ma- chine, notorious for its services to the capitalist class, and for its attacks on strikers, demonstrators ag ¢ fascism, and unemployed workers demanding relief. How could he have scored a “victory” over the machine whose tool he is? Curley ran on a platform that hailed the New Deal which raised the price of food of the Massa- chusetts workers. by 28 per cent according to the State Department of Labor. He praised Roosevelt who helped break the national textile strike in which so many Massachusetts workers were black- listed. Lewis, the Socialist “enemy” of the capitalist class toadies to this outspoken representative of the New Deal which refuses to give relief to the un- employed, who comprise one-third of the working population of Massachusetts, according to official figures. Having hailed the victory of Curley as a work- ers’ “triumph,” Lewis goes on to advise him not to disillusion the workers too quickly. He tells him to keep up his false promises, “to show your gratitude to the class which elected you by refraining from allying yourself with their exploiters and by sup- porting badly needed social legislation.” Here is a prominent Socialist leader lining up with a capitalist political boss, commending him for a victory that will lead to new attacks on the working class of Massachusetts, and at the same time creating illusions that Curley will carry out measures beneficial to the workers. Every Socialist worker should ask himself this question. Is this the way to expose the hunger poli- cies of the New Deal? Will bootlicking capitalist Politicians defeat the growing danger of war and fascism? Does not the real way to fight capitalism lie in the united struggle of Socialist, Communist and all workers against their common class enemy —the capitalists? In the daily struggles for relief, for higher wages, and against, the terroristic actions of the New Deal, we must forge the united front of the whole working class that will enable us to score a genuine victory over the bankers and industrialists, Such policies as are exemplified by Lewis’ tele- gram to Curley are obstacles to the united front against the capitalists that must be overcome, if we are to defeat the war and hunger plans of the New Deal. ——EEeE7Eeee The Weirton Trial HE farcical character of the United States government’s suit in the fed- eral district court in Wilmington, against the Weirton Steel Co., has been exposed by the statements of presiding Judge John Nields, in fayor of the company union. The United States government, through its National Steel Relations Board, and through its Weirton suit, has for months been stalling off the demands of QWorker | the steel workers while the com more strongly entrenched than ever, he Weirton suit for a “fair” union election is an attempt to maintain the illusions of the steel workers that they can w mion recognition through union was arbitration boards of the govern- It was through putting the demands of the steel workers in the hands of these government boards that the strike of the Weirton workers was broken last year. The Tighe machine of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) told the steel workers they would get a “fair” election under government supervision. What actually happened was that the Weirton steel workers were forced to accept the company union, The company union which was installed by the Weirton company and the workers were told they would have to accept it.. Scores of active union members were not only fired and blacklisted in the company town of Weirton, W. Va., but they were beaten up and otherwise terrorized. To forestall a re-strike, the federal government made the empty gesture of bringing suit for a “fair” election. How empty this gesture was is now seen in Judge Nields’ statements. The judge declared that the company union was not forced on the workers but was “an adoption of a plan by experimentation and approval... . It was a plan that had already been thought out years ahead . this was a plan that worked in Bethlehem and elsewhere they (the work put in the balance this plan (the company union) and they also put in the balance another idea, and the records show the re- sult . the motive behind all this was to get an effective agency to serve the workmen in ad- justing their differences with the management, or their difficulties.” The statement of the judge, in favor of the com- pany union, and in defense of the Weirton Steel Co., of course, flies in the face of all evidence brought into the trial by workers, that they were blacklisted and beaten, terrorized and fired, for ob- jecting to the company «union. The judge’s statement is one more proof that all of the agencies of the Roosevelt government, in- cluding the courts, are in the service of the em- ployers, and decide against the workers. While the Weirton case has dragged for months, and while the National Steel Relations Board has been sitting for months, the speed-up, low wages, the blacklisting and union smashing continues. The company union dominates under the protection of these Roosevelt; boards and the courts. The Tighe machine continues to tell the workers to have faith in these government boards, and in the Weirton trial. The rank and file of the A. F. of L. steel union are given another example in the Weirton trial of the fact that only by strike preparation, by strug- gle, can they better their conditions, defeat the com- pany union and win union recognition. As long as reliance on the federal government agencies, the arbitration boards and the courts, is maintained, so long will the workers be denied any improvements. The judge’s statement is only a continuation of the government’s strikebreaking policy which broke the Weirton strike last year. The rank and file is bringing increasing pres- sure to bear on the Tighe machine to prepare now for strikes against the anti-union drive of the steel employers and the anti-labor decisions of the fed- eral government's strikebreaking boards. The rank and file of the Amalgamated Association _ should build up strong opposition groups and prepare the strikes for their demands. ‘The Truth Never Bothered Them’ T’S ABOUT Ham Fish and the Socialist Party again! The New Leader, official organ of the Socialist Party, is kicking up some pale, yellow smoke again because the Daily Worker reported that the notorious Red-baiter was listed as a Socialist Party candidate for Con- gress in the 16th Congressional district, New York. Under a whimpering headline, “The Truth Never Bothered Them,” the New Leader declares that “the story (about the nomination—D. W.) has had considerable currency. It is not originally, however, a Communist slander, although the Communists have not been slow to pick it up and peddle it as a fact despite their knowledge that it is a lie.” It's pleasing to know that here at least is one “slander” against the Socialists that the Daily Worker is absolved from originating. This does not, however, prevent the New Leader from declar- ing that: “Needless to say, the Communist press made the most of the incident. Characteristically ignoring the facts, which were at their disposal, both the Daily Worker and the Jewish Freiheit have been attacking the Socialist Party for ‘nominating’ Hamilton Fish. Oh, well; you know how the Com- munists are!” Well, just how are the Communists? The one and only reference to the nomination of Ham Fish appeared in a box on the front page of the Daily Worker on Noy. 2. The story, it must be confessed, is one of the most dispassionate in the history of American journalism. This is how it read: “Checking on an Associated Press report from Washington that Hamilton Fish is listed as the So- cialist Party candidate for Congress in the 16th Congressional district of New York, the Daily Worker yesterday ascertained from the County Election Commissioner of Putnam County that the Socialist Party is listed along with the Republican and Law Preservation Party as the parties under Fish’s name on the ballot. “When questioned, the state office of the Socialist Party declared that despite the appearance of Fish’s name on the ballot, Fish had not received the endorsement of the Socialist Party in the cam- paign. “Hamilton Fish is one of the country's most no- torious reactionaries and ‘Red baiters.’” Where, oh where, is the “slander,” gentlemen of the New Leader? Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- menist Party. NAME..... NewFrenchPremier Is Pro-Fascist Meanwhile throughout at ting program, which Flandin has openly declared will be the basis of his parliamentary activity. broke out between workers and the were satisfied today that the reac- | tionary Flandin had succeeded in | Organizing a Ministry. United front several points | actions of the Socialist and Com- the country conflict munist Parties spread the recogni- | tion of the danger that Flandin, under the guise of a “reformist” (Continued from Page 1) heavily aggravated the political crisis. Next Tuesday Flandin will attempt to introduce the essential features of former Premier Dou- Mergue’s dictatorial and wage-cut- j Quarde Mobile, especially at Rodez, where many were injured and ar- | rested. In Paris the fascists and | royalists, who had ben massing in| support of a dictatorship and shout- | ing in provocation for the dissolu- | tion of the Chamber of a 1 \ coalition, will attempt to force through the Chamber the fascist decrees of ex-Premier Doumergue. Sixty thousand dollars will in- sure the Daily Worker for the next year. Concentrate on raising this sum by the end of November. | Plans Made For Recruiting Unemployed FTER reading the open letter of the Central Committee of Oct. 6, to the Party membership, the Com- munist Party Fraction of the Phile- delphia Unemployment Councils | | four meeting Sunday, Oct, 21, and | cided upon: 1, That a discussion be held in every Unemployment Couneil local this week on the relation of the Party to the Unemployment Coun- cil and the unemployed’ workers generally; pointing out how the |Party is fighting daily for the | Workers’ Bill, its official organ, the Daily Worker, fights daily for the of support of the Socialist Party | where they even refused to partici- pate with the unemployed for the for immediate relief for the jobless. 2. After this discussion it be pro- selected on the basis of their hard work in the local; their willingness, etc., to be sent to the Workers’ | School for a period of six weeks; the local to raise the fee, and after school these workers are to be pro- posed by the local, after a thorough discussion on the basis of their fit- ness to join the Communist Party. The City Committee voted on this proposal unanimously. This will not only add immedi ately approximately fifty new mem. bers to the Party, but will help train the very necessary cadres for jthe Unemployment Councils which are so much needed, and will help eliminate the cry, “We are short | of forces.” Also, by the entire mem- bership voting the workers in as members into the Party, it will eliminate the matter of anybody and everybody making application, and will raise the prestige of our Party in the minds of the workers. Leading Fraction, Unemploy- ment Councils, Philadelphia, Soper eee ACK in a little farming town in Indiana lived a man by the name of M., who was a Socialist |Party member and a revolutionary worker. Not far away in Marion, lived an ex-Socialist worker—a har- ness maker by trade. This man, after toiling away in his shop all day would pick up his favorite |paper—the Daily Worker—and read of the hardships that workers throughout the world were faced with. One day it happened that M., who was a friend of the harness talked of the old days when Debs | Was one of the militant leaders of the Socialist Party. It seems that M. had never heard of the Daily Worker, and so there began a discussion on what a good Raper it was, and what a valuable tool for the organization of workers to lead the way in the class strug- gle by mass pressure, and solidarity of the workers to win better condi- tions and prepare for revolutionary work. So M, became very interested in the Daily Worker and sent in his subscription. In his home in Gas City, the far- mers and glass workers faced many hardships — unemployment, farm foreclosures on mortgages, evictions, cuts in relief, starvation and the speed-up system at the factory. After reading the Daily Worker for a few weeks, he began to realize that something could be done by organized effort. M. also ran a bar- ber shop and often the workers would gather around the shop and discuss politics, One day he said to us workers that we ought to start an unemploy- ment council, such as he read about in the Daily Worker. An unem- ployment council in this town could win more relief. Right then and there about six of us workers de- cided to get together and draw up a@ manifesto of what the council would stand for. We looked over the Daily Worker for the demands to put into the manifesto—unem- ployment insurance, against evic- tions, cash payment of the bonus, no discrimination against race, creed or color, against child labor. In drawing this up we decided to set ourselves up as workers for the Communist Party. Being the most class conscious, we started as the vanguard of the workers to lead them in our struggles, Although not yet Party members, we knew it would be alright with the Party as long as we carried on the struggle for the correct revolutionary way out of the crisis. One Saturday we de- cided to call on workers and farm- ers to come to a meeting. There were six of us—one a poor lawyer, one farmer, the barber, two glass workers and myself. We went around to a lot of workers and farmers and called them to a meet- ing at a worker's home, That night was the beginning of a mass fight- ing organization. About sixty work- ers came—Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, etc. We elected a chair- man, read off the manifesto of what the council stood for, and all who wanted to join were asked to sign his or her name in a notebook, About forty some signed up that night. We formed a militant organ- ization which went forward, win- ning concessions from the bosses and their government; we forced the mayor and the city council to Brant concessions to the workers. The workers brought mass pressure to bear on the city council and re- lief agency and fought until we won and then started the battle for something else. We comrades are now all Party members and are carrying on the fight for the revolutionary way out, the only way out, and I thank the Communist Party for its paper, the Daily Worker, for pointing the way for us. The Daily Worker in every worker's and farmer's hand is one of the best stepping stones for a Soviet America. x oO. B. | Stop 2 minute to talk to your milkman, laundryman, gasman about the Daily Worker—then ask him te contribute to the $60,000 fund. | Party Life | took the matter up for discussion at | |the following was unanimously de- | jobless; compare this with the lack | right of Reyourn Plaza in the fight | posed that two or more workers be | 1|;\COLD FACTS! | | WE'RE STUMPED! Burck undeniably maintains the most ad- vantageous position im the $60,000 drive. His power- ful cartoons present a constant and irrestible lure for bids; he even offers cartoons for raffling at house parties. Yet, withal, Burck reaches only 26.8 per cent of his $1,000 quota, or 4 per cent higher than his fellow-artist, Del. Enlighten us, readers ... with Burck will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor ea ch day towards his quota of $1,090, concrete contributions! Max Mangel . C. Borah N. K. (gets cartoon) Southbury Unit Previously received .... Total to date .. maker, dropped in for a visit. They | 8 50 5.00 1.25 os 315 252.64 + 8268.54 By Joseph Bergson to a few months ago, fascism had been making great strides in England. With the worsening of economic conditions, with unem- ployment over the two million mark, with the growth of large “derelict areas” over many of the industrial districts of the north, and above all, with the closing up of other avenues of escape to the mid- dle class, England presented a fer- tile field for the fascist prop- agandists. Big business was more than ready to put up the money. Strong arm men and thugs were easily recruited from the econom- ically de-classed -elements of the bourgeoisie. Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fas- cists, began a campaign of large mass meetings, which were sur- rounded with all the propaganda | | devices perfected by Hitlerism. At | these meetings “order” was kept. by Mosley’s black-shirted mercenaries. Hecklers and interrupters were mercilessly and brutally beaten up. The young blackshirts, usually fighting with an advantage of five or ten to one, enjoyed themselves, During this period, the British Labor Party pursued the policy of the traditional ostrich, and buried its head in the sand. The fascists were too insignificant to be noticed. The best way to defeat fascism was to ignore it. Opposition, such as Was put up against fascism right from the start by the Communist Party, only served as an irritant. In fact, said the Labor leaders, the Communists, by irritating the fas- cists, really make fascism. much worse. This attitude of the Labor Party leaders aroused much opposition from the rank and file of trade unionists and from Labor Party members. All over the country, as soon as fascist meetings were held, as soon as the blackshirts were seen on the streets, the workers were clamoring and shouting to take ac- tion against them. They demanded the organization of counter-dem- onstrations. They looked for a lead in the fight against fascism. From Transport House, the national headquarters of the Labor Party, they got only advice to do nothing, to stay at home and leave the streets to the fascists, to boycott the counter-meetings arranged by the Communist Party. British Workers Make Successful OM the beginning, the Commu- nist Party took on, almost single- handed, the fight against the grow- ing fascist movement. Gradually more and more of the Labor Party workers shook themselves free of the “do-nothing policy” laid down for them by Transport House, and joined in the fight under the lead- ership of our Parity. At first this cooperation was spontaneous and unofficial. Then came a day in which the Trades and Labor Coun- cil of Bradford, one of the biggest textile towns in England, voted down the resolutions of the plat- form, and decided to back the united front protest demonstration organized by the Communist Party, and support a militant program against fascism. More recently, in London, Sir Oswald Mosley an- nounced a monster fascist rally in Hyde Park. The Party issued the slogan, “All out to the Park to drown fascism in a sea of working class activity.” Official Labor in its newspaper the Daily Herald cried out, day after day until the meet- ing, that the Communists were Playing the game of the fascists, that no worker should attend the counter-d&monstration, On the Sun- day morning of the meeting the workers began gathering. Proces- sions a thousand strong started marching on the Park from the working class districts. By two in the afternoon a hundred and fifty. thousand workers were in the Park. Less than a thousand fascists, pro- tected by five times that number of police, tried in vain to hold their meeting in the shadow of this ter- rifying manifestation of proletarian strength. Mosley stood inside the police ring, making futile gestures. No one heard a word that he said. Soon afterwards, the fascists marched out of the Park under po- lice protection, with their tails be- tween their legs. This was not only a Mosley fiasco. It was also one of the most strik- ing victories of the Party in its fight against fascism. The Party’s course was completely vindicated. The sabotaging attitude of the La- bor Party was completely exposed. And to a hundred and fifty thou- sand workers the role of the Party, in taking the offensive against and defeating fascism, was made plain. Since Sunday September 9th the Struggle Against Mosley Fascists fascists have been unable to hold any outdoor meetings in London. a Ne DIFFERENT story comes from the town of Leicester. The Leicester Labor Party has raised the cry of “Free speech for the fascists.” A pretty exchange of courtesies has been taking place. In response to what the fascists de- scribed as the “gentlemanly” atti- tude taken by the Labor Party there, they last month called off a meeting which had been scheduled on the grounds that it would clash with the Labor Party’s campaign week. The fascist meeting was therefore postponed for a week. Gentlemen on both sides. - Both from situations such as this, and from the successes won in Lon- don and in the big towns of the in- dustrial north, the importance of the Party’s leading role, in the struggle of the working class against fascisth is plain. Under the well- directed attack of the workers England’s first fascist movement is already showing signs of collapse. Serious splits in the fascist ranks have taken place in Bristol where fighting broke out among the fas- cists themselves. The fascist na- tional organizer, Dr. Forgan, has just been compelled to resign “for reasons of ill health.” A well-known Brigadier General, who has more than once looked for work with the Socialist Party, recently offered to organize the blackshirts of the London and Home Counties area on a military basis. He asked a salary of $4,000 a year plus an expense account and a small car. This was’ refused. An ex-major of the Royal Air Force, however, is still at the head of the fascist air unit. Mosley disposes of large sums of money, though his financial resources are not any more as large as they were a yoar ago. The automobile manu- facturers, particularly the head of the Austin Motor Company, remain generous supporters. Though money is getting tight, though many of his own’ dupes are beginning to see through him, though Mosley’s egomania is having disruptive effects on his party, Mosleyism remains a potential menace. The fighting leadership against fascism has been given and will still be given by the Communist Party of Great Britain. Thaelmann Group Expelled by Nazis (Continued from Page 1) us that a delegation from the Saar had already seen Thaelmann, and that was enough. He also stated that Thaelmann was quite well, and holding faithfully to his Party, Delegation Arrested “Proud to hear that Thaelmann was still the old inflexible revolu- tionist, we insisted that there was no reason why we should not see him, finally Dr. Walther told us to apply to the public prosecutor, Wer- ner, presiding judge of the so-called People’s Court, who has his head- quarters in the former Prussian Diet buildings. Here we were re- ceived with amiable speeches to the effect that perfect peace and order BR ren everything runs wonderfully since Hitler has been in power. Just as an official was proclaiming: ‘We hope that you will take the best of impressions to the Saar!’ the door opened, but it was not the long-waited-for Dr. Werner who ap- peared, but a body of plain-clothes policemen. Their leader roared, “You are arrested, gentlemen, and will be taken away at once as police prisoners.’ The delegates from Czechoslovakia and Switzerland wanted to inform their embassies of their arrests, but were not al- lowed. When they continued to in- sist on. this right, a detective shouted at them, ‘Hold your tongue, and don’t answer until you are spoken to!’ “After hours of waiting the dele- gation was taken to the State Secret Police headquarters in the Prince Albert Strasse. We were welcomed by a voice in the doorway: ‘Well, what rabble are you bringing us now?’ A Guard Corps man in a now reigns in Germany, and that black uniform relied with a de- risive laugh, ‘They want to see Teddy!’ plenty of room for such fellows.’ We were kept for a short time in the notorious cellar, and then examined separately. The detective taking down our statements wanted to know to what party we belonged, how the delegation had been organ- ized, what organization was ‘con- cealed behind it,’ and who ‘had really given the money.’ Threat of Concentration Camp “The unanimous declaration of the delegates that they were only acting in accordance with their in- ternational duty of solidarity, and | that the delegation was financed by ;money collected from workers for | the purpose, was met with incred- ulous smiles and threats to send us to concentration camps if we would not tell the truth. One of- ficial permitted himself a particu- larly impudent insult to our leader Thaelmann with the question: “Why don't you ask to see the mass-mur- World Front ——By HARRY GANNES ——' A Communist Leader Buichered in Spain Finances IOGETHER with the news that renewed fighting has broken out in Madrid, and that a general strike was called by the Syndicalists, come details of armed struggles which swept Spain recently. As “L’Humanite” points out, the call for a general strike by the Anarcho-syndicalist leaders of Sars ragossa comes a month too late, When the rest of the Spanish pros letariat moved into action, the Syndicalist leaders, especially in Catalan, tried to hold the workers back. Now. they are forced into ac tion in protest against the execue tion of workers who took part in the fighting. The republican newspaper in Madrid, “El Sol,” tells of the mure der of Dolores Ibarruri, known to them masses as LaPassionaria, Come rade Iburruri was a member of the Central Committee and of the Sec- retariat of the Communist Party of Spain. She took an active part in the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International last Septem- ber. She spoke before the 17th Con- gress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and was a lead- ing figure at the International Paris Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism. Comrade Ibarruri was slaughtered by Foreign Legionnaires and Mor« rocan troops at Ovieda. These mer- cenary cut-throats occupied the prison buildings in Ovieda and sought to advance towards the North railway station. Their moye- ments were severely hampered by sharp rifle and machine gun fire from the revolutionists who had en- trenched themselves in a street near the railway station. gy Sia MRADE IBARRURI was one of those who commanded a mae chine gun near San Pedro church, In this group there were two women, Tbarruri and a girl called LaFuente. When the Legionnaires were about 120 feet away, they opened with machine gun fire, then fixed their bayonets and charged the barri- cades. The two women were ripped to pieces. La Passionaria, as Comrade Ibare ruri_ was known to the toiling masses, was revered for her bravery in the fight against the Spanish landlord-bourgeoisie. She died fight- ing to the last agsinst superior forces. The axample set by her brave fight to the death w'll spur the workers to continue the strug- gle and to win the final victory over fascism. + ie IN the past two weeks, we have . observed several days go by with- out any contributions to the Daily Worker $60,000 drive to the credit of this column. Originally we were challenged by the Medical Advisory Board, Mike Gold, Jack Burck, Del, and the other columns in the Da‘ly Worker, to Socialist competition, and set a quota of $500. We realized that this was no easy task, especially when it is remem- bered that Burek entices the high- est bidder with one of his splendid cartoons, and the Medical Advisory Board is recognized as a “mass or= ganization.” Nevertheless, we are not even within hailing distance of Mike Gold and Del, who is a comparative newcomer in the race, is treading on the heels of the “World Front.” We have had some faithful fol- lowers and many encouraging words from readers, but unless we can deliver the goods in cold cash, the value of this column will not be rated very highly in the business office, * . this financial drive, because of the tremendous struggles that have gone on during the course of it, the Daily Worker has not been able to devote sufficient space for appeals to its readers, Our appeals began with the necessity, not only of wiping out the heavy debt hang- ing over the Daily Worker, but with the greater necessity of the Daily Worker to meet the situa- tion of rising struggles. Money came in so slowly that the Daily Worker is in danger of being forced to re- trench, to give up some of the great gains it has made. We urge all our readers, and even those who have already contributed (because they are most self-sac- rificing supporters) to do everything they can to help the Daily Worker out of its financial difficulties. You do not have to send the money to the credit of this column, but our rating in the Dunn & Bradstreet’s of the business office will go up if you do. * ADDENDA: We can only urge followers of World Front to consider the above earnest appeal, and help the column emerge from its Contribute to temporary shade. Total to date ............$169.07 derer Kurten? Why precisely Thael- mann?’ We informed this insolent Nazi that no insult to Thaelmann can alter the fact that in the Saar, and everywhere in the world where there are proletarians, the name of Ernst Thaelmann is known and honored as that of an undauntee leader of the workers. “After this examination, which was more of the nature of a political dispute, we were informed that we were expelled from Germany, and et we must leave by the very next rain.” ‘Those members of the delegation who were not yet in the Interna- tional Labor Defense have now pub- licly declared their intention, after their experiences in Germany, of joining this organization of inters national solidarity. Soya eager