The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1934, Page 2

PAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FIGHT ON AAA RISES IN SOUTH AS TENANT-CROPPERS UNITE ALABAMA- ARKANSAS| Dyers Pin ii U.S. SEEKS TO TURN FARM GROUPS ACT In More Plants ALT, DIRECT RELIEF NOVEMBER 16, 1934 Page 2 | Meaning of ‘Labor Party’ Plans Of the Socialist ‘Old Guard’ 1 Page AGAINST L: x ANDLORDS —A historic st MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov ep toward the formation of a united front of sharecroppers and tenant farmers for struggle against the acreage-reduction program of the A. A. A. and landlord evictions that will spread over the entire South has been taken by the two leading toiling farmer groups in the So the | : “a Share-Croppers’ Union of Alabama | generally for the masses of toiling Tenant Farm and the Sonthern 's Union of Arkansas. In response to a formal proposal for interchange of legates, committees and joint ¢ landlord: of the experiences tenant farmers the big la the Negro i bama shore croppers’ Jackson, that } eager for unit The immedia which the two moving toward foliows orga pon. ganizations int action is as st the Bankhead Act in Tax 2 4 the Farmers’ Emergency Against the Bankhead Gin For Fo: repeal of the A.A.A immediate passage of R f Bill to organize the class Union and Farmers’ he 5. For the right Against terror. For of the Share Croppers the Southern Tenant Union A. A. Misery for Croppers Writing to Mitchell in Arkansas, Jackson, who has become an out- standing leader of the Alabama sharé croppers fighting the lynch terror of the landlords, stated To the Members of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union. We croppers addzess you tenants, and small farm oF who understand that the Roosevelt “New Deal” on the farm, with its Bankhead Act and A. A. A. acreage reduction program, has br ht to the poor farming people breed nor freedom from misery dekt and uusands of farmers who plowed their cotton under for the govern- ment had not the faintest idea what it was all about. They were told by the rich planters and the govern- nt that this progr: was to bet- : the conditions of the poor farm- and show them a way out of terrible economic situation in the wiie'’a they now live and toil Today, receiving benefits direct government piowed under. were sent direct not one share cropper is from the for the cotton that he The allotment checks to the landlords, f the allotme e s. Ten- ants and small farmers who for- tunately received checks in their hands were hollered at by the local bankers, time-merchants and other local grab-cheats, who plucked their debt-share out of the tenants’ or farmers’ checks, leaving them as penniless as ever before. A. A. A. Aids Only Landlords The A. A. A. acreage reduction program brought about the wiping out from normal existence (such as it was) more than a million ag cultural toilers, who at this very moment are flatly denied relief by both the landlords and the govern- ment The Bankhead Compulsory Act has sharply intensified the already existing miserable conditions of the toiling farm masses in the South. The Bankhead Act is, as we are fully convinced, an act of federal taxation imposed upon poor farm- ers’ cotton, for the main purpose of paying off the rich landlords for the land which they have returned to the government through the Ag- ricultural Adjustment Administra- tion. Furthermore, it is an act of squeezing the small farmers into the lowest capacity of cash crop production, thereby excluding their basic product (cotton) from the | market and forces them to sell to! the landlords at home for the low- est non-market prices Lynch Terrorism there arises before us the mn of terror. It is quite ob- vious that you watched the devel- opment of the recent struggle of the Share Croppers’ Union in this State as it led the si thousand cotton pickers to win their demand of one dollar a hun- dred pounds for picking cotion. Under the leadership of the union they won their demand in one county plus an increase in monthly allowances from $10 to $15. As usual, a wave of terror ex- isted at high degrees, particularly against the Negro strikers, Raids, beatings, jeilings and general in- timidetion developed against the strikers. The terror which was directed against the striking croppers and farm laborers in this State recently, followed the shoot- ing and killing of Harvey Scott, a white union share cropper, in your State, Sept. 11, 1934. All evidence showed that Scott's murder was committed under the direction of the High Sheriff of Pope County, Greenwood, Ark. The Share Croppers’ Union de- clares that only the united and or- ganited action of the bread masses of white and Negro share croppers, tenants and small and impoverished middle farmers can and will put an end to terror and defeat the further attacks of the “New Deal.” Force tipe repeal of the A. A. A. and the Bankhead Act and Gin Tax in 1935. Only the united and organized ac- tion of the suffering farmers can and will win better living conditions for | ike of almost one | |} farmers in the South bers of the Share Croppers’. Unio State Confe Montgomery, to you members Southern Tenant Farmers’ U to join with us on a united f pasis and in a solid against Deal” the far Eager for United Action To this letter of Alabama, Mitchell of plied as follows | Now therefore, we, m New on Dear Comrade We appreci: letter of the 3rd much which I am mak- very your ing copies of and sending out to all Council secretaries, sugge ing | that they take action ims ately | on your program and your proposal | ; for united front on our common problems We have heard quite a bit about | your union down ti your letter is the first definite in- | formation that I have been able to | get. I would like for you to write me a brief account of your or- on and the troubles that you are having now as well as in| he past. Also I would like to have | a copy your organization set up | and any information that you] might send me that will be of help. We are rather in the dark as to the methods best to use as we have | {a mass demonstration set for the ‘last Saturday in this month, to pro- | test mass evictions that are at ened here, which we have reason: to believe are south-wide. Every union member ‘is to be thrown off the land on many plantations, and | in other sections where men have stood up for their rights under the A. A. A. contracts they told to find another place. In addi- tion to the proposed demonstration, with the American Civil Liberties | Union co-operation we plan to file a test case in the federal courts | on Section 7 of the 1934-35 Rental Contract, which will, of cov only give us an opportunity to prove to the share croppers that they can not expect the Federal government to force the planters to do as they ere supposed to do. I enclose a copy of our constitution and some other literature, etc., th been using | of are being | it that it we have | it the of- 2 of Labor unions with the ‘w of organizing a Labor Party ‘or the 1936 elections. t Party work as well wor! ing ciass cannot but est proposal of the leaders and what is behi is move is to create which will provide to the Demo- 1 need Ty need that will represent rests and will wage struggle for these interests. Not a Revolutionary Party vill require only a casual n to disc that t ’ Party as proposed by old guard” can never mass party of the wor! ed to a policy of ci st the capi ists and th be ing his ss dedic: ugele agi their system, against the Roosev New Deal and its policies in the} rests of the Wall Street monopo- lies The proposed nucleus for tt | new Labor Par to consist of the Socialist Party “old guard” leaders working in agreement with certain |of the top officials of the A. F. L. unions. The unions particulariy ingled out are the textile workers. the needle trades, the silk and dyers mions, and others still being dis- explains why Francis Gor- now notorious for his treach- rous retreat in the textile strike, was an honored guest at a recent Socialist Party symposium at the Rand school. This explains - why the bureaucrat who heads the New York State Federation of Lebor |was also an honored guest at the| me occasion. of L., at least certain sections of do not include the William Green crowd wi who are tied hand and | foot the Socialist | leaders are feeling their way ard:a bargain with the A. F. of | . officialdom. S. P. Losing Influence The recent election returns made hat the Socialist Party is net maki Face Terrorism We have faced the terror, too, but I believe to a lesser extent than you; have in Alabama. I suppose you saw the article in the Farmers’ Na- tional Weekly some time ago, | cribing the things we faced—such | as men beaten, organizers arr members who had their groceri cut off, intimidation of all sorts, threats to shoot up meet: I we only prevented by for them with armed guards posted and members with shotguns, and posters on the streets threatening retaliation and appealing to the Constitution of the U. 8. A.” in hort, bluffing, and at the same time backing it up with steel. We knew, or some of us did, what we were facing in the beginning and tried to work faster than the | planters. Having our own grape- vine that led to their own houses, we usually know just what they in- tend to do. Now they are stopping our sources of information, Out troubles will start this spring. I have myself been a target for them, having an old 1926 Moon auto that was very conspicuous, and they hate and fear me more than all the rest sinee they believe I am the cause of it all. Will you write me again scon? Yours fraternally, H. L. MITCHELL. Quick ActionNeeded To Save Nine Boys Page 1) (Continued from case that has ever been seen here. Recognizing the importance of the Scottsboro case to the whole strug- gle for Negro liberation, and the urgent, immediate need for funds, we are contributing $50 to the cam- paign fund. | We call upon ev working class organization in New York to follow the example of the New York Dis- | trict of the Communist Party, to jdevelop the broadest campaign to support the tag days for Scottsboro. organized by the New York District | for Dee. and 2, to collect and to contribute funds, for this campaign. What will the trade unions do in this camvaign? The Women's Councils? The Workers’ Ex-Service- men's League? The International Workers Order? The Unemployment Councils? The Workers’ Clubs? The foreign-language organizations? The |groups of professionals and intel lectuals who are sympathetic to t working class movement and to tl cause of Negro liberation? We call on them for immediate action, for immediate preparation for the most intensive activity dur- ing Scottsboro week, Nov. 26 to Dec 2. and for immediate contributions, from individuals and organizations Push funds for Scottsboro-Hern- ‘ion to the national office of the In- ternational Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. | tional scale. The sit American ion is such that the masses, in their move tower the left are not moving into the Socialist Party, the party v function it is to stand as a d Fed- | wonder what | il The top officialdom of the A. F.| any headway on a na- | e| But his basic | between the ayowedly capitali: parties and the Communist Party, the party of working class revolu- | have entrapped the support of the messes, because they do not pene- trate behind to the shameless dema- |gogy cf Roosevelt which conceals his drive towards more reactionary, |more anti-vorking-class measures |in the interest of finance capital. On the other hand the Comm [nist Par he party which takes jan unequivocal stand as the perty jot proletarian revolution, as the | only party of complete and open opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal, |is gaining in mass influence. S. P. Leadership Supports N.R.A. Given this relation of forces at the present moment, the key to the ituation is thic—that something | must be done to prepare a political | machine that will catch the tre- mendous mass upsurge that must inevitably, and quickly, develop in the near future as the American masses discover the colossal fraud jw hich the Roosevelt New Deal has | perpetrated upon them. And no jone knows better than the Socialist Party and A. F. of L. officials that | this mass indignation will burst open elt | with a political impact that will be hard to hold! | it is in this anticipation of this | inevitabie disillusion with the Roosevelt New Deal that is to be found the motive for the new La- bor Party dickerings among the Socialist Party leadership and the bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. The Socialist Party leadership has from the very beginning of the Roosevelt New Deal played the part of a “left” support for the New Deal, standing somewhat to the left of the old capitalist parties by virtue of some minor criticisms of the N. R. A. couched in socialist phrases. Fundamentally, the Socialist Party leadership still supports in deed the major policies of the New Deal. |_ The formation, then, of this nev | Labor Party is for the purpose of providing a more effective mass basis for the New Deal demagogy when the American working class | begins to rise against it. This is proven to the hilt by publicly expressed opinions of |Secialiss Party leadgs who |Sponsoring the formation of new Labor Party. The basic position of the new Labor Party is given not only by the strikebreaking activities of the Gormans, Rieves, etc. of the A, F. of L. officiadom: These gentlemen take an openly capitalist positicn. & position of class collaboration with the employers. As for Waldman, of the Socialist Party “Old Guard,” who is the lead- | ing figure in the new political strat- jegy cf the Socialist Party group | dickering for a Labor Party, he still speaks in the language of ““So- cialism.” the the are the position on the °.. INTO FORCED LABOR | also other lies | cerning ck at the Warren Roosevet New Deal was given by © sans J ae % ‘ed ti a Bima 1b the Wanninagesy Conterenee |e the Nbie, peteiste ihvsuch ding (Oe, Rid: of Chiselers Who. Won't Work’ is Wai a huge picket line will be placed! ington Order—-FERA ‘Wages’ Are Mostly No Spring when he stated, as the rep- resentative of the Socialist Party i “We feel that the N. R. A. is |‘ front of its plent. Higher Than Direct Aid to Jobless a distinct step ferward and must Arrengemen re being made for | be a2garded in all candor nnd oa from all locals! = WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 15.—All State relief dis honesty as an important branch of social legislation.” It is at this point that the re- rectors were last night ordered immediately to broaden.the. forced labor scheme of the Federal Emergency Relief Ad» to finally clean out the few plants still operating actionary trade unien officialdom The Morning Call, the second of | ministration to embrac2 e able-bodied person now on and the Socialist Party “Old |the scab operated pg i ee aR hi lief lists. Guard,” whatever their superficial |the city, cartios 2 headline cver the | aah differences, meet—they both rep- | statement of the bos:e; deme i) co t t s be or Oo} “Get rid of the able-bodied re= resent ry bays in bree aoe} ing a seeret as on the rejected lief chisclers who don’t want to movement which are assisting the [contract shop by shop. The paper ame ee 5 aaa (= Roosevelt government to execute |claims thr! the workers do not ‘Plea bv Mother |“: igtrg tid ~ seins the capitalist policies of the N. R. |know anything abcut the agree- | ¥ 4 he and Federal administra A.-New Deal. ment which was rejected and| - s t night by Lawrence West- To Restrain Masses printed it in full. There is 1i Of Julio Mella! ik, feet: Aasintat to arse Sep From the stated policy of Wald-|wise a letter supposedly from some | Kite Bede eae ee eres man and Re actual strikebreaking |“qisinterested” part”, proposing | ee nn me Hace si Bn deeds of the Gormans and Rieves,| that a secret ballot be taken. At ‘ stan ook told the relie the program and platform of the|ineir mass haat, Wile pi Se eae EP e the adminis that you are to newly proposed Labor Party already |in Roseland Ballrcom the workers, ste 1d behalf of ihe S exert every effort to make direct re- stand clear in its basic form. It/ denounced this effort of the Call,| tor bore and. thus mmathene wag {lef in the country -unnesessary.” will be = party for the support of | ii ated oul sana onion tron s and their mothers Was | westhrook is in direct. charge of the capitalism in general, and of the| oon ail str to pay no atten. | 7ccved yesterday from the mothe='| rural rehabilitation: program of the Roosevelt New Deal in particular. 1 ti5. ig the capitalist. newspapers. eg Mella, heroic Cuban Com- |p, ®, R.-A. The arguments which these revo- 5 ct A RTE hist Jeader who was murdered | since with hardly an exception, lutionary gentlemen will manufac- ture to conceal the true meaning of their action will be somewhat as follows: The American masses are not yet politically class conscious; the majority of the advanced wor! ers are in the A. F. of L.; ther fore, we cannot wait to conve them to Socialism, but we must join with them now through agreements with their lead in this new col- laboration “we will not attempt to Play the whole show” (Solomon). The class treachery of this argu- ment is apparent. It is to fling overboard even the pretense of class struggle. It is to seize upon the growing class consciousness of the Today five more silk shops are | reported on strike against the cuts, as the move tcwards a general o by the gunmen of the former Wall Street-Cuban dictator Machado: “The heart of every mother must bleed for the courageous Scottsboro mothers the F. E. R. A. jobs pay only the varest subsistence wage figures on the basis of individual and- family needs, acts as a precedent for employers to slash wages in indus- try. In outlining the _polic: F. E. R. A. work relief, wi been expanded tremendousls recent period, Jacob Baker, assistant administrator of the F. E.R. A, recently declared: ‘Last, year we sot our minimum rate of work re- lief at 30 cents an hour. We let a man on work relief only as: many hours as are necessary to keep him- | Self alive and clothed.” strike in the silk industry is gain- ing morning momentum, at On Saturday Carpenter's. Hall, a will decide on It is a foregone con- clusion, however, that it will simply be a matter of organizing a strike apparatus and setting the time. Hii Keller, manager of the Fedéra- tion of Silk workers, stated that it is possible that a general. strike may be called for Monday. of the ever constant threats to of their innocent boys. mother can remain What silent and in- joctive in the face of this terrible injustice? “I appeal to every mother: Come to the aid of the Scottsboro boys and thelr mothers! Support. the Inter. national Labor Defense in its fight for the lives and freedom of these | Mother Bloor to Speak PATERSON, Nov. 15. — Mother'| — —— masses, not to drive this conscious- : 9 oee! 2 5, ness forward to higher, revolution. |Ell2 Bloor, will epeak at, a, solidarity jariogen Saracen oie one aoe Language fractions, mobilize cassette Pe eeting in support of th jof the lynehers! Prevent the con-) ‘ ary levels, but to sidetrack it into] tris ake place here om Sua,| templated legal murder of tro of | Your organizations to complete support of capitalist policies under the guise of a Labor Party “opposi- | tion.” It is to make a trade in which the A. F. of L. leaders will | provide the masses and the Socialist Party leaders will provide the neces- sary “left” demagogy! The fight for a mass party of the working class can only be waged on the principles of class struggle, on the principles of Marxism-Lenin- ism, of Bolshevism. The Communist Party has com- mitted mistakes of sectarianism, But it alone has fought uncom- promisingly for the class inde- pendence of the proletariat against any rotten compromises. with capi- talist. policy. Today, the Commu- nist Party alone represents the true party of the “American. workers, fighting in and out of the union for a policy of class struggle for the day to day interests of the| masses and for raising of the mass struggle to’ its highest level, the path of revolution for the over- throw of capitalism. Only a policy of class struggle against the Roose- velt New Deal can build a truly mass party. of the American work- ing class. thoir quotes in the $60,000 drive before Dec. 1! day, 8 p. m., Noy. 18, at Junion Order Hall, Smith and Union’ Sts. these boys on Dec. 7. | “MADRE DE JULIO MELLA.” Please mention the Dainty Worker when Roosevelt Proclaims An Offensive Against the Jobless (Continued from 1) “unemployment insurance” plan of the Wall Street ruling class, cold-bloodedly calculated to dump the Page burdens of the crisis and dts miseries upon the racked shoulders of the masses. W:th what hateful cynicism does Roosevelt pledge to the Wall Street banks that his plan will not cost them one cent in increased t: ! Do not fear, gentlemen, he promises, my pian will not cost you a single dollar of reduced profits; my plan makes the starving pay their own relief burdens; I will take it out of their own pay envelopes. This is not the unemployment insurance pro- gram for which the masses are striving. This is not the plan they need. What the jobless and toiling workers need is a working class program that will force the Wall Street parasites once and for all to cough up their hoarded billions to feed and guarantee security for every American worker in the country who loses his job. Roosevelt delivers his poisonous warning against “fantastic schemes” that are “actuarially unsound.” He is referring to the plan of the Communist Party, proposed for discussion at the coming National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance. This is the plan of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill demanding the following immediately: 1. The average wage for the industry, but at no time less than $10 a week, to all unemployed with- out any discrimination whatsoever. This to be paid for by the Federal government and the em- An Editcrial Pployers. Workers to be exempt from all payments | Or assessments. (2) $3 additional for every dependent. (3) The funds to be raised by taxing the rich, by diverting war funds for the unemployed and yy stepping payments to the bankers. It is clear at a glance that this bill is directly in the interests of the vast majority of the people of this country, It applies to every worker right now. It is intended to go into effect immediately, It is administered by the workers themselves, pre- venting the wholesale graft and waste of official | capital'st relief. It places the burden of the crisis | on the backs of the rich, the capitalists and their government, For Roosevelt this is “fantast:c” because this will | Place the burden of the crisis upon the rich. But for the millions of hungry jobless, for the American working class it is Roosevelt’s plan which is a “fan- tastic” piece of capitalist crookedness, that gives empty words where it should give bread, that gives false and rotten delusions where it should give se- curity against the curse of capitalist unemployment, And if Roosevelt thinks that the masses will ine definitely swallow his sugar-coated lies, he is mis- taken. If we fulfill our tasks in mobilizing the working class for struggle against hunger, then will he get his answer when the January 5 to 7 Congress for Social Insurance opens in Washington and lets loose the voice of the American working class de- manding a real program of unemployment and I. not the price but the VALUE that makes this remarkable record possible. The critical public has proved that it's what you GET for your money that counts. Crawford invites you to check the fabric. Check the workmanship. Check the styling. It's easy to make clothes for a low price but it's an achievement to produce Custom Quality clothes for $18.75! And that is exactly what you'll find at Crawford! A practically unlimited selection of Suits, Sport Suits, Overcoats, Topcoats and Tuxedos—all at $18.75. 18" No Charge for Alterations Spanish Fighters Urge World Unity (Continucd from Page 1) carry through certain great changes. They are not agreed, however, on the nature of these changes. “Democracy for Exploiters” The “Lefts” would be satisfied with a Soviet amnesty of Russian | Socialists. Vandervelde is for the legalization of the Russian Socialist Party notorious Menshevik, Abram Abramowitsch, and the wily English Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, and the Swe- | dish S. P. leadership have proposed the condition that the Soviet sur- render the dictatorship of the Proletariat and return to “democ- racy,” racy for the remnants of the ex ploiters and counter-revolutionaries, since the Soviet masses enjoy the most complete real democracy in nistory. For the great mass of Socialist rkers the negotiations for united cretion hang so hopefully in the hal- ance that no maneuver of refusal and the pardoning of the | counter - revolutionary | which can only be democ- | social insurance, would cloak their great disappoint- ment. So far as the Communists are concerned, the answer of the Second International will not be the | last word in striving for the accom- plishment of the united front. Le Monde, French magazine, re- Ports that two editors who re- turned with the appeal of the im- prisoned Socialists for a speedy rap- prochement of both Internationals, | in a visit last Sunday to the fascist dungeons, found the workers ac- tively discussing and anxious for the consummation of unity. Meet in London LONDON, Nov. 15.—The Com- munist Party and the Independent Labor Party have been meeting to |decide on ways and means of ren- |dering practical assistance to the Spanish workers. It was decided to launch a proposition for sending a food ship, containing food subscribed | by the British workers, for thé re lief of the workers in Spain. The appeal is to be sent to all sections of the labor, trade union, and co- | Operative movement. It is an ap- | Peal which recalls the tremendous enthusiasm aroused when in 1913 the British workers sent a food ship to Dublin for the. relief of the dock strikers of that city, Who's “hard to fit”? 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