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

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934 \ il aily, “America’s Only Working Class Daity Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 JBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, OMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 EB, 13th Street, New York, N. Y. elephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. le Add shingt a and F st Sawest Burea New ¥ Daiwork R elephone: Dearb year, $6.00; ear, 9.00 6 months, $5.00 By Carrier: Week: FRIDAY NOVEMBER. 30, 1934 Support the Dye Strike HE conference of mayors of nine towns in the Passaic Valley, the center of the strike of 25,000 dyers, at which plans were made to protect scabs, is an ex- ample of the strikebreaking role of the government. The conference declared that it is the “sworn duty” of mayors to protect strikebreakers. Together with this, the employers have already made the first move in the courts for an injunc- tion against the strikers to prevent mass picket- ing. Police and guards are being mobilized to an unprecedented degree in preparation for reopening the plants with scabs. The Textile Relations Board has like- wise played its in this strikebreaking scheme. It was through this board that an attempt was made to take away from the workers their right to strike. The »oard has been helping the employers drag negotiations, and therefore prolong the strike in the hope that starvation will break the ranks of the strikers. But five weeks on strike have not weakened the determination of the workers one bit. Not a single striker has returned. The workers have more con- fidence than ever in the correct line which they have pursued thus far. Mass picketing; rank and file control; no settle- ment without approval of the strikers; no secret negotiations; appeal to the rest of the labor move- ment for support; and confidence in a fine group of militant workers, many of whom are active leaders in the strike—such is the strikers’ policy which will bring victory. The entire labor movement, espe- cially in New Jersey must protest against the gov- ernment’s strikebreaking role, The whole labor movement should give financial support to the strikers. This policy must be continued to the very end, Tt is bound to win. In answer to the injunction threats and conference of mayors, there will be a bigger mass picket line than ever. The workers know that this fighting policy will mean more wages, @ strong union, and better working conditions. Fight Hunger! Join the Communist Party HE central question before the toiling masses of the United States at this moment is how to meet the general at- tack now launched by the Roosevelt Gov- ernment. The masses face a mobilization of the entire gigantic N. R. A. bureaucracy. The attack is on every front, Relief work wages are being slashed; company unions are openly protected by the government; wage cuts are proposed in the building trades and other industries; the manu- facturers are assured a free hand in dealing with labor; the tax burden for workers and people of small means is becoming greater than ever. The American Federation of Labor officials offer their full co-operation in the carrying out of this program. Their chief function in the scheme of the bosses is to tie the hands of labor—to prevent strikes or mass movements. Only the Communist Party follows a program of Struggle against the boss offensive. This is why with the hunger drive goes the attack against the Com- munist Party and workers who follow its line. A strong Communist Party in every region of the country, in a shop, local union, farmers’ or- ganization, or any other workers’ organization, is the key to a real fight in the interest of the masses. Communists are workers or toiling farmers, who are the most militant, devoted and best trained in the Struggle against capitalist exploitation. A group of such people organized in the midst of a mass of workers, and under the guidance of the Commu- nist Party, is the best guarantee that every force at the disposal of the workers will be thrown against the bosses, and that no labor faker will be able to betray the struggle. The Communist Party appeals for members from the ranks of all who see the need for taking up the fight. Every class-conscious worker, especially the live wires in every organization or shop should join the Communist Party! Let the present Communist membership cam- Paign be a means of establishing a red group in every shop and organization! Socialist Leaders Comment On American Fascism WO Socialist Party leaders, Norman Thomas and Giuseppe Modigliani of the Socialist Italian Federation, have just given their opinions on the menace of fas- cism in this country as revealed by the Butler charges. - According to yesterday's New York Post, this is what Norman Thomas thinks of the menace of the fascist bands which are being organized by the Wall Street banks: “J don’t know much about the shirt outfits. After I was convinced they had no strength, I forgot all about them. ... We just laugh at them.” And Modigliani, speaking, mind you, at an anti- fascist class demonstration to which he had invited the Wall Street tool Mayor LaGuardia as a guest of honor, spoke as follows, to quote yes- terday’s New York Times: “In his. address Mr. Modigliani maintained the New Deal under President Roosevelt was not a step in the direction of fascism because ‘it is founded upon the preservation of democracy and civil liberties.’ He predicted that the logical out- BY THE | Worker | ti it of a powerful labor movement in this country, would be a Socialist transformation of the United States.” ere can be no doubt as to the sinister of the recent Butler revelations. The Congressional Committee itself, which does not like to expose the advance of fascism too much, was forced to admit the unmistakable truth of Butler's charges. Dickstein Wal himself, who is trying to shield the Street monopolists and Roosevelt oned in the Butler expose, has had to he substantial truth of Butler's charges, and s become too frightened to print the full report made by Butler. But for Norman Thomas —he just “laughs at hem. Is there a class conscious worker who will not see that this opinion of Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, plays into the hands of the Wall Street monopolies just at this moment when they have been caught in the act of fascist plotting? The capitalist class of this country tried to laugh it off” when their brutal reactionary schemes were for a moment brought to light. And here we have a Socialist Party leader whose comment falls in with this hoodwinking tactic of ¢ Wall Street cliques. Since when is it the task of a working class leader to minimize the danger of fascism in this country, especially at this time when reactionary terrorism, organized by the employers and the Roosevelt government, is steadily rising? What does this do if not to permit fascism to advance upon a disarmed and unprepared working class? 'T WILL be noticed that for Thomas the menace of fascism comes solely from these private gangs, and not from the Roosevelt government at all! Thomas argues that if these gangs are not power- ful yet, then there is no danger of fascism. But is is precisely Roosevelt's entire economic program which is fascist in content, giving the big- gest Wall Street monopolies an ever tightening grip on the whole life of the country. And it is just these Wall Street monopolies, who dictate Roosevelt's economic policies, who have been exposed as the most active organizers of secret fas- cist-military gangs to smash the labor movement. Let us not forget the blunt statement of Mac- Guire, “It is to sustain him (Reosevelt) that we are organizing!” Is it now clear what Thomas and Modigliani are doing in effect. They are doing in this country exactly what the Social-Democratic leaders did in Germany, when these leaders supported Bruening, Von Papen, and Hindenburg “against” Hitler. They are concealing from the masses the MAIN SOURCE OF THE MENACE OF FASCISM, THE CAPITAL- IST GOVERNMENT. They are describing as “So- cialism” what is, in reality, the advance to fascism through the reactionary maneuvers of the Roose- velt. program. They keep the eyes of the working class looking for the menace of fascism in.one direction, while the actual fascist development, organized by the leading capitalist groups in the government, is rapidly stealing up behind their backs. They try to hide from the masses in this coun- try, just as vhe Socialist leaders in Germany and Austria did, that it is the White House that is the central headquarters of the advance of fascism. And this is what makes it necessary to form the united front of all workers ready to fight AGAINST and not for the Roosevelt reactionary program, to fight fascist developments at their source, in the Roosevelt New Deal. Pier Injunction Aimed at All Unions N the hearing on the injunction ap- plied for by shippers and merchants, to force longshoremen to handle non-union trucked cargo, the officials of the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Association and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are named as defendants. But it is not they who are being attacked. It is the thousands of workers in both unions. It is the whole trade union movement. The injunction is aimed at the very existence. of the union and union conditions on the waterfront. The employers have hired their most talented forces for this case, Walter Gordon Merritt, their lawyer, is the most prominent open shop attorney. The move for an injunction is in perfect line with the drive of the Roosevelt government generally to outlaw strikes, prevent 100 per cent unioniza- tion, and to establish company unions. The officials of the LL.A. and L.B.T. have thus far confined the fight against the injunction to legal dickering. They have enlisted Senator Burton K. Wheeler in the court fight. Among the workers the idea has been instilled by the officials that Wheeler's able arguments will defeat the injunc- tion, Thus far no mass action of the workers has been aroused. It is not Wheeler, or any other prominent offi- cial, who could defeat the attack. Wheeler devoted a whole day to showing that the LaGuardia- Norris anti-injunction law makes such injunctions illegal. He has cited a mass of legislative and judi- cial records to show that injunctions against labor unions are considered illegal. But he has failed to explain that since 1932 when the law was enacted there were numerous injunctions issued just the same, Ryan, president of the I. L. A, in “reply” to the injunction, instead of organizing the local unions and workers’ organizations to protest, attacked the militant workers who are the life blood of the trade union movement. Ryan raised the red scare, and told the bosses that if they wanted to continue to suppress strikes they should rely on his leadership. Ryan played into the hands of the ship owners and, in effect, told them that they did not need the in- junction, that he is an effective strikebreaker along the waterfront. He told the bosses that the injunc- tien would “help the Communists.” Only if the thousands of workers in the unions are aroused to mass protest against the injunc- tion attempt will it be defeated. Such action will be decisive, not the arguments in the courts un- supported by action. Every local of the waterfront unions should take action to protest and denounce this move of the open shoppers. Supreme Court Justice Humphry’s court in Brooklyn should be jammed with protesting workers when the hearings are resumed. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. NAMB. i. ease ADDRESS.... | Party Life |New York Section Issues Challenge on Dock Recruiting ECTION 1, District 2. of the Com- munist Party, which is concen trating on a large area of the New York waterfront, has \ssued a chal- jlenge of the Philadelphia District shoremen into the Party. The challenge was contained in the following letter sent by the New York Communists to the comrades in Philadelphia | eae | District Buro, District 3, | Philadelphia, Pa. | Comrades: We are enclosing a copy of a pact of Socialist competition in ercruit- ing longshoremen, entered into by Sections 1, 3 and 7 in New York, and published in the New York Daily Worker of Nov. 13. The factors and conditions cited |in this statement emphasizing the | tremendous importance of recruit- |ing longshoremen into the Party hold good for the ports of Philadel- | |phia and Baltimore as well as for on the question of recruiting long- | “WE THANK THEE, F. D. R., FOR the port of New York. The long- shoremen all along the Atlantic | | Coast are faced with common prob- | | lems—and a common struggle, the | | struggle against the sell-out Ryan! machine in the I. L. A. and the | shipowners whom it serves. | The great West Coast strike of the longshoremen demonstrated that | {only by mobilizing the broadest | | front of struggle against the ship- | ;owners is it possible to win con- | cessions. The task of the Party is hes prepare the Atlantic Coast long- | shoremen to act unitedly and under | | militant rank and file leadership in| the coming struggles, and joining with the fighting dock workers and seamen on the West Coast. In view of Ryan’s recent threat | to revoke the charter of the mili- |tant Frisco local, in view of the | growing attack of the Pacific Coast | shipowners on the longshoremen and seamen, it becomes more urgent | than ever that the Party establish | leadership among the marine work- ers, that the Party mobilize all | forces to help build the rank and | file movement in the I, L. A. The rapidly growing danger of Fascism also emphasizes the decisive impor- | tance of rooting the Party among | the basic industrial workers. | | } Section 1, New York, has pledged | | itself to recruit 15 longshoremen | into the Party by Jan, 21, Lenin | Memorial Day. Already, comrades, | |we have fulfilled one-third of this | quota and we fully expect to achieve our full quota by the given date, In| order to help stimulate this recruit- ing drive along the Atlantic Coast, Section 1 hereby challenges the Philadelphia District to recruit 10 longshoremen into the Party by| Lenin Memorial Day. In case this quota is too modest for the Phila- delphia District, we stand ready to increase our own quota of 15 in | proportion to any quota boost you may care to make. We shall watch the columns of | the Daily Worker for the reply of | the Philadelphia District to this challenge. | With Communist Greetings, | SECTION COMMITTEE, SECTION 1, DISTRICT 2. | Joseph Brandt, Section Organizer. (From The Harlem Organizer, Bul- letin of Harlem Section, N. ¥.) For the life and strength of a Unit, we have found that it is nec2s- sary from time to time to make a thorough examination of the gen- eral activities of the Unit as well as the response given by the com- rades in the Unit to the program of work decided upon. In the past our Unit accomplished | very few of the various tasks set before it. There was more than one Treason which caused this awful neglect, but one of the most dam- aging influences to the life of the Unit we found to be the monotonous and dragged-out meetings which we} had to attend every Unit night. | This alone kept many of the mem- | bers away from the Unit meetings. To attend a Unit meeting should be made a pleasure. It is really very boring to attend the meetings of some Units. Owing to the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the comrades in our Unit (the lack of which is caused by not reading sufficiently, so that we may understand the struggle and realize that we the individuals | are part and parcel of the struggle) our open-air meetings, which have been very few, were always a fail- ure to a great extent. Our Daily Worker sales fell to an alarming de- gree and the attendance at Unit meetings was always poor. To remedy these conditions we have applied constructive criticism and analyzed fully the methods which we applied in the past. We found that it was necessary, | first, to reorganize our Unit. We |mext decided to make our Unit meetings more interesting and thereby attractive. After which we planned a systematic way of selling | our Daily Workers and other litera- ture, We shall also endeavor to make our open-air meetings suc- | cesses in the future. The flame of our Unit's life is beginning to burn once more. We all want to be worthy of the name Communist, because we realize that there can only be one Communist, and that is a good Communist. ORGANIZER, UNIT 419. Demonstration Closes Arms Plant in Spain (Special to the Daily Worker) MADRID, Nov. 29 (By Wireless). —The arms factory at Trubia was shut this afternoon in a series of lightning demonstrations organized by the Communist Party of Spain throughout the country. Workers |marched by the factory in red shirts and with raised fists. Trust in the leadership of the Communist, Party is increasing tremendously. THE AGITATOR! “In appreciation of the agitational power of your drawings I am donating to the ‘Daily’ fund through your department the $5 I received for a lecture last Saturday from the New York Workers OUR DAILY BREAD!” by Burck School.”—Max Bedacht. E. Stanley Kurt Bottcher . Max Bedacht ....... 5.00 Party at 4710 Ave. I, Brooklyn...... 5.00 11.00 Mike Swan . » 1,00 6 $ 1.00 Previously received » 475.05 nn 25 Total ...... +. - $481.30 Fascisi Demagogy Used As Legal Argument For Thaelmann Frame- The International Release Com- mittee continues in the following article the publication, in popular | form, of the results of the judicial examination of those “crimes” which the fascists are inventing in order to be able to frame-up a | case against Thaelmann. The arti- | cle is an appeal to the masses and the press to support the particular- ly difficult work of the Interna- tional Conference of Jurists, The article therefore deals solely with the legal aspect of the matter, while the international tasks of the general release action are set forth in the brochures written by Henri Barbusse (International Release Committee), Georgi Dim- itrov (World Committee Against War and Fascism), and Wilhelm | Pieck (International Red Aid), as | well as in former articles in the | | | International Press Correspond- ence, *% * z ° “Individual Terror’—a Typical Nazi | Method | 'HE Nazis have used buckets of ink and reams of paper in accusing the Communist Party of Germany of having planned murderous at- tacks, dynamite outrages, bomb at- tacks on railways; that there ex- isted special “Terrorist Troops,” “Murder Detachments” of Commu- nists, etc. “Keep on spreading calumnies, some of the dirt will sure to stick.” Even this plan of the political desperadoes proved a failure. The world has too good a memory. It remembers the following facts: What a cry there was of “the Communists have done it” when the half-crazy Matuschka derailed rail- way trains and blew up bridges in Germany and Hungary. This cam- paign ended ignominiously, when Matuschka himself declared that he was an anti-Bolshevist, that he wanted by means of his crimes to| encourage the police to proceed more drastically. His connection with fascist organizations was plain- | ly established. During the trial at Budapest, Matuschka gave the court the Hitler greeting. What a miserable and precipitate retreat Goering and Goebbels, to- gether with their whole court of law, had to make on account of their slander that Dimitrov had taken part in the blowing up of the Sofia Cathedral. How brilliantly Dimitrov proved that this outrage was the work of the fascist provo- cateurs in Bulgaria, Everyone will remember how, in the Buelow Square trial, even the special fascist court was compelled to acquit the chief accused, Albert Kuns, member of the C.C. of the C.P.G. Why? Because the main point of the accusation, namely, that the C.P.G. had organized terrorist groups and murder detachments, and employed individual terror, ab- solutely collapsed and turned out to be a pure invention of Goebbels. The fascist Public Prosecutor him- self had to move that Kunz he ac- quitted. Saviors of Europe The “saviors of Europe from Com- munism” have no time to glance through the history of the workers’ moventent. They want to cause anti-fascist “heads to roll.” For this purpose every means is justified. But their thirst for blood does not alter the fact that everybody with the least knowledge of politics knows that Karl Marx conducted a ruth- less fight against Bakunin; that Lenin fiercely fought the social rev- olutionaries as agents of Tsarism; that the Russian revolution has swept away the anarchists and so- cial revolutionary assassins. The case of the Tsarist provocateur Asev will be a warning example to all Marxists for decades, It is equally well known that the Communist In- ternational, under the leadership of |by him was printed in February | draw the organizational | ly-proclaimed fight against police; spies, provocateurs and terrorists. {| a Like vultures the Nazis have seized upon the speech delivered by World Front ——By HARRY GANNES -——' Prosperity in the U.S.S.R. Food Cards More on U. 8S. Elections ECENTLY the capitalist press has given some prominence to reports from |the Soviet Union showing the tremendous increase in the living standards of the mass But these reports have been | fragmentary, and even grudgingly given. We have just recieved some figures from the U. 8. 8. R. which show to what extent the material well-being of the people has been raised. First of all, there has been an ;|uninterrupted rise in commodity turnover. Goods manufactured is immediately swallowed up in use, It does not lay on the shelves, add- ,|ing to overproduced stocks as in the Capitalist countries. The turn- over of what is called retail trade increased by 27.3 per cent, in the first nine months of 1934, as com- pared wtih the same period last year; and in the third quarter shot up 34.3 per cent over 1933. | Thanks to collective farming, the |state was able to collect its quotas lof grain this year. much more rapidly, and with better organiza- tion, than in all former years. This furnished the basis for the more rapid turnover of foodstuffs. | Enormous quantities of food are concentrated in the hands of the workers’ state. Besides, there are huge quantities of industrial goods and luxuries. ei, 8 Doe products, a 20 per cent ine crease over last year, are being distributed almost twice as fast as last year. For instance, contrast the follow ing facts with the now disappearing reports of “starvation” in the So- viet. Union. The Soviet Union, besides the great increase in the amount of goods distributed, has an increased {reserve of 25 per cent of meat, 30 per cent of butter, and 111 per cent of cheese. The stores of canned | goods are 1,000 per cent higher than ever before. There are mil- jlions of tons of potatoes, large |quantities of eggs and other pro- visions. What, therefore, was the attitude Thaelmann on October 21, 1932, to/ These stores of foodstuffs now at of Ernst Thaelmann, who is a dis-|the workers of Paris against com- the disposal of the workers’ father= ciple of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, to| petition in armaments and in de-|land enables the development of a individual terror? A report delivered | 1932, in a 100,000-edition pamphlet and reprinted in newspapers with a total circulation of 300,000. In this report Thaelmann stated: “There are people who are of | the opinion that the Central Com- mittee adopted this decision against individual terror solely for tactical reasons, in order to secure the legality of the Party. Com- rades, in face of such views we | must make it perfectly clear that | our decision against individual terror is meant quite seriously, and that we are not afraid to | conse- quences from it. The party does | not tolerate any social revolution- ary tendencies in its ranks! “By ruthlessly fighting against acts of individual terror and against thoughtless and adventur- | ist putschist tendencies in general in our movement, we at the same time see to it that the bourgeoisie is not given an easy pretext for prohibiting the Party. “Lenin taught us quite clearly that we Communists are opposed to individual terror, not because of any servile, cowardly attitude towards the bourgeoisie, but be- cause this attitude of ours corre- sponds to the real interests of the revolutionary mass fight.” “Thaelmann’s high treason” is proved to be pure demagogy. Tie “C.P.G.’s plan of insurrection” has proved to be a patchwork of for- geries. Now a further main pillar of the “case” for the prosecution, the | charge of “individual terror,” has | collapsed. We declare quite openly and} plainly: It is no use your trying to besmirch Ernst Thaelmann with) your own shame and disgrace. It is you who are the individual ter- rorists! You have fascist murder-detach- ments in every Brown Shirt Troop, in every police presidium, in every concentration camp! You beat the member of the Reichstag Schutz in Koenigsberg into a mass of bleeding pulp which could only be carried away in a sheet. You flung the member of the Reichstag Funk out of the window of the High Court so that he was smashed to pieces on the pavement below. Beat Stelling You beat Stelling, a member of the Reichstag, to death, sewed his body up in a sack and sank it in the water, In the Columbia House, in Gen- eralpapestrasse, in Oranienburg, in Brandenburg, Dachau and Papen- burg, you set up torture chambers in comparison with which the In- quisition was a paradise. You sent out murder detachments who shot down not only General | Schleicher, but also his wife, and also killed the Catholic Klausner, You tortured John Scheer to death and arranged a_ shooting competition, using his body as a target, in order to “shoot away” the traces of your terror. Thaelmann the “Traitor” yhise fascists, who realize the weak- ness of their position in the ‘Thaelmann trial, are dragging in a further “crime”: Treason! This charge may, in certain circumstances, even mean a death sentence if the Nazis succeed in taking interna- tional public opinion by surprise. Ernst Thaelmann fought pas- sionately against the danger of war, in defense of peace, against im-_ perialist armaments, against the, plundering of Germany by the dic- Stalin, conducts an energetic open- (all opponents fense of peace, Seizing on his demands that the huge sums expended on the upkeep jand arming of the German Reichs- wehr and the French army shoula and misery of the war victims, the unemployed, the pensioners, small peasants, small holders, fishermen and the middle class—demands which are raised in all countries by of war—the Nazis want to charge him under the sedi- tion laws: with spreading disaffec- tion in the army, destroying the |defensive power of Germany. Thael- in with the plans of the interna- tional war-mongers. Here we have an obvious and shameless twisting of the law. The speech delivered by Ernst Thael- mann in Paris, four. million copies of which were distributed in Ger- many, did not offer even von Papen or General Schleicher any grounds for prosecuting Thaelmann. Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, however, want to attempt this two years later. Against this outrageous intention we cite a man known to the whole world, Karl Liebknecht: “Gentlemen, if that is treason, if to champion the idea of peace is treason, if the proclamation of the international proletarian class struggle is treason, yes, gentle- men, then I repeat: it has become an honor to be branded as an in- ternational traitor, (‘Hear, hear’ from the Socialists, laughter from the Right.) . “But do not the judicial author- ities realize that it is the height of self-mockery by present-day society when work for peace against the murder of the people is described as high treason? Is there equal rights for all? For Peace demonstrations and peace propaganda one is persecuted with fire and sword. On the other hand, war propaganda and incitement. to mass murder is regarded as the duty of every patriotic man.” (Liebknecht’s Reichstag speech, March 1916.). The murdered Karl Liebknecht rises up as a witness on behalf of Thaelmann. To all those who have still any illusions regarding fascist ‘“admin- istration of justice,” regarding “jus- tice” as Hitler, Goering and Goeb- bels understand it, we must say: Thaelmann is to be brought be- fore the second senate of the so- called People’s Court of Justice, What is the composition of this court? In addition to reliable S. A. leaders, there sit on the judges’ bench flight-commanders, majors, captains and naval officers—people to whom war is a profesz:on, repre- sentatives of the War Ministry, rep- resentatives of the aircraft industry, ‘those groups of capitalists who make millions of profits out of arma- ments, who are driving headlong to war. The so-called People’s Court is a court of militarists and war contractors. It is in a double sense of the world a military court against the defenders of peace. Does the world now realize the great danger threatening Thael- mann in the shape of the People’s Court? Herr Jorns, the Public Prosecutor, who acquitted the mur- derers of Karl Liebknecht, has been selected by Hitler and Goering to appear for the Prosecution. We, however, must not only pro- tect Ernst Thaelmann against the military court, but wrest him from ‘the clutches of the fascist betray- ers of their country. For if the sen- tence does not satisfy the war in- citers, Thaelmann will be in danger tated peace of Versailles of being foully murdered by fascist assassin LL be used to ameliorate the suffering | mann’s fight for peace does not fit| |more efficient distribution of goods jto the masses. Not only the closed | cooperatives are able to provide the | workers with a greater variety of goods at lower prices, but the so- called “open stores,” those catering |to anyone, have increased their \trade considerably. | This means that with the tre- mendous increase of all sorts of foods, foods, clothing, luxury ar- |ticles, furniture, etc., etc., the ques- ition of rationing, due to backward- Iness and slowness in production, |becomes less and less necessary. |The well-being of the masses is |increased with every turn of the ‘wheels of industry. The reserves against drought, and war adven- ‘tures of the imperialists, is in« _ creased. | * Sine N EXAMPLE of the growing \44 speed of commodity distribution, |is shown by the fact that the open | stores sell 44 per cent of the total |bread supply, 25 per cent of sugar, |30 per cent of the confectionery, and 28 per/cent of the tinned goods. |. When more and more American | Workers get their measly starvation ivations on relief cards, in the So- |viet Union the advance of Sociale [ist construction is rapidly destroy ing the card-rationing system. American capitalism, because of its highly developed industry, is forced more and more to introduce the jcard-rationing system (in the form |of relief), while in the Soviet Union, where it was introduced because of the backwardness of industry and jagriculture, it is rapidly being elim- \inated and will soon be eliminated forever. , 'HOUGH a little late, we think it important to quote from the Danish leading financial sheet on the recent elections in the United States. The Copenhagen “Finan- stidende” declares: “It was unem- ployment which gave Roosevelt the same powers that Hitler has. But if he cannot master the situation, what will have to be done? After he has tried all possibilities, only more rapid armaments will be left to him, the excuse for which is already sup- Plied by Japan. So far, most of the steel production has already gone into armament. “The elections in the United States made a big step toward distatorship, but on different issues and in a dif- ferent way than in European coun- tries.” That makes it almost unanimous, The capitalist press in every coun- try, whether it be fascist Italy, fas- cist Germany, or “democratic” Eng land and “Social Democratic’ Den- mark, come to only one conclusion So far as the Roosevelt regime is ,concerned—it .is moving rapidly made a big step toward dictatorship, toward an open fascist dictatorship, hold out against the whole world ‘and the obvious. SAVED—BY $1 Now that his readers have lured Gannes back to the fold, contribut- ing more than $25 in one day, they apparently are leaving him in the lurch again. Luckily, H. Bitter- man saves him from complete dis- grace. Henry Bitterman Previously received Total $307.72 With the $48 contribution from the Scandinavian Workers Club, Bosten reached 100 per cent of its quota, The Maynard unit raffled a Turkey, raised $37, and gave the turkey to an unemployed family, However, the Finnish, Lithuanian and Lettish organizations in Boston — are still far behind. Speed action for the $60,000 fund! seeeeeeS 1.00 306.72 Gasp: (as, LNG ORS ECU BR VE PITRE