The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 1

Sergei Kirov ORKING, fighting for Socialism, seeing the giamt strides of our victor- ies, one would like to live forever,” exclaimed the Bolshevik Kirov in the midst of his report to the recent Seventeenth Party Congress of the Soviet Union. This was typical of Kirov. Revolutionary ardor made him exultant - with life, with enthusiasm and energy for the building of Socialism, for building a better life for all of hu- manity. And now this young Bol- shevik leader has been struck down by the hand of an assassin, striking in the interests of the class enemy. Kirov was one of the most gifted, most loved of the Bolshevik leaders. Bold, shrewd, tireless, and pos- sessed of a marvelous elo- quence, Kirov knew how to rouse the Leningrad prole- tariat with the irresistible force of his burning words. Stalin loved and trusted him. For us American work- ers, the blow that struck down Kirov, beloved Bol- shevik leader, son of the working class trained in hardship and want, struck us. Kirov was a soldier fight- ing for Socialism, fighting to destroy forever the hated yoke of capitalism, the yoke of the exploiters, the bankers, the landlords, the parasites who feed on the hunger and suffering of the masses. Kirov stood at the helm of the working class of the Soviet Union, side by side with his teacher and leader, Stalin, Under Stalin’s lead- ership, Kirov, fighting to build Socialism in the So- viet Union, was a valiant fighter for the world revo- lution. * WHE murder of Kirov has sent a shock of iron resolution throughout the working class of the world. It is not only grief that moves us. It is the grim resolve that our class ene- mies will not reap from this loss the fruits that they expected. It is the stiffening of our revolu- tionary determination that will press us on to deliver new smashing blows at this hidden enemy, that fires us with determination to spare nothing in defense of that edifice of Socialism which is rising to the skies under the Workers’ State. Lenin taught us that the proletarian dictatorship is not the end of class strug- gle, but rather, the bitter- est class war against the exploiters, against the poison of capitalism and its degenerate heritage. The body of Kirov proclaims to us how ruthless, how un- ceasing must be our vigi- lance against the class enemy. In the midst of the triumphs of Socialist con- struction, with Kirov’s ex- ultant proclamation “Ours is a congress of victors” hardly stilled, the class as- sassin struck. * * * * * ‘OW, more than ever, the class enemy, seeing the steady triumphs of Social- ist construction, dreams of the restoration of capital- ism in the Soviet Union, dreams of imperialist in- tervention, of division and colonial plunder of the Rus- sian masses. Here in this country, the fascist Hearst, with his immense machinery of newspaper propaganda, al- ready whets his teeth with the thought that Kirov’s murder heralds and insti- gates more assassinations and bloody counter-revolu- tion. Through the mouth of the despicable Isaac Don Levine, the Hearst press yesterday gloated over the body of our comrade Kirov, saying “Kirov was a sym- bol of the Stalin system of planned hunger and his as- sassination is a portent to the Kremlin.” Such is the counter-revo- (Continued on Page 2) also j $12,000 MORE MUST BE RAISED THE 360,000 QUOTA! Saturday's receipts . Total to date ..... TOWARD - $482.53 $48,371.88 Press Run Saturday—58,300 Vol. XI, No. 288 <a>* MASS PARADE Strikers Hail Contract} When Read by Vigorito in Armory Hall By George Morris (Special to the Dally Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 2—Mon- day, at 2 p. m., after a final picket patrol at every shop, striking dyers will converge at the Roseland Ball | thus mark the end of the strike | of 25,000 which began on October | 24. Dye houses are to reopen on Tuesday morning, as union shops. The contract which finally re- sulted provides recognition of the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers under a modified provisional union shop agreement, 66 cents per hour, which is a 16 per cent in- crease; a 36-hour week and 40 hours maximum in the rush season; two hours’ minimum pay if called to shop but no work; equal pay for equal work; and other import- ant concessions to the workers as compared to the original proposals. Substantial Gain Rank and file representatives on the Settlement Committee, in ad- vising approval of the new con- |tract, declared that under the cir- cumstances, it constitutes a sub- stantial gain. |. The higher: officials of the Dyers ‘Federation, Who sponsored a con- ‘tract previously rejected by a vote of the strikers, this time did not themselves read the contract. to the workers. This time when 8,000 strikers gathered at the Armory to hear the contract, Anthony Ammirato, pres- ident of the Paterson local, intro- duced Charles Vigorito, who pre- sented the new contract before the workers. Charles Vigorito is vice-president of the local, chairman of the Set- tlement Committee, and is recog- nized by the workers as a most de- | voted and militant leader. Vigorito, who led the fight which (Continued on Page 2) SP ‘Old Guard’ ThreatensSplit Boston, Dec. 2—The Right Wing groups within the Socialist Party, led by Louis Waldman and Charles Solomon, would rather split off from their party than enter into any united front agreements of any kind on any issue with the Communist Party, it was made clear yesterday in a memorandum submitted by the “Old Guard” to the National Executive Committee now in ses- sion here. The New York State delegation, headed by Waldman and Solomon, demanded that the National Exec- utive Committee issue a _ state- ment that the Socialist Party once and for all declares that it will never enter into a united front with Communists at any time for any purpose. The New York State delegation also demanded that the recent Declaration of Principles passed at the Detroit Convention be not binding on New York, but only for those States which voted for it in the recent referendum. A committee of three, from the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party, Clarence Hathaway, James W. Ford and Ned Sparks, are now in this city with the pro- posal that the National Executive Committee meet with them to dis- cuss ways and means of laying a basis for joint action against war and fascism. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 2.— Thousands of complaints of steel|a workers against discrimination, blacklist and worsening conditions are piling up before the Steel Labor The company unions in the steel centers are growing. Not a single complaint before the Labor Board has benefited the workers. These facts were admitted by Mike Tighe, president of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) in an interview with the Daily Worker. And yet, Tighe told the Daily Worker, he opposes any strike prep- arations. He attacks the rank and file movement in the union, praises IN PATERSON AT 2 TODAY Room to begin a victory parade and | Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8 1879. KIROV’S DEATH STIRS MASSES aily Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Big Response To Congress On Insurance | Sponsoring Committee | Maps Intensive Delegate Drive NEW YORK —Half a million Congress for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance to be held in Wash- ington on Jan. 5, 6 and 7, will be distributed in the next ten days in an intensified drive for delegates |and funds for the Congress, the Na- | tional Sponsoring Committee an- nounced yesterday. Shops, unions and lodge meetings and neighbor- |hoods will be covered by the distri- | bution. conditions for our work,” declared Herbert Benjamin, executive secre- tary of the National Organizing Committee, “Large masses who en- tertained illusions about what might be expected from Roosevelt and Congress now realize that all the pre-election promises were out- right deceptions. Roosevelt an- nounced at his recent Conference on Social Security that he has no intention of sponsoring an unem- benefit those now unemployed. He has stated that old-age pensions are not on the immediate program of the administration. “Those who aim to win unem- ployment and social insurance can now see that only the grouped around the workers’ Con- gress and only by our own united struggle can we compel the govern- ment and employers to enact a sys- tem of social insurance. The im- portance of the National Congress is thus further emphasized by the events of the past few weeks. To make this clear to the masses in the trade unions, fraternal organiza- tions and among all other interested groups is the task of our sponsoring committees and supporting organ- izations.” Twenty-five thousand copies of the call to the Congress have al- ready been sent out to union, pro- fessional and fraternal groups as well as to unemployment organiza- tions throughout the country. Widespread Response Response to these calls has been widespread, involving church and fraternal societies as well as trade union and unemployment organiza- tions. Cities as far apart as Great Falls, Mont., and Birmingham, Ala., are certain of sending delegates to the National Congress. In Great Falls, the County Trades and Labor Council, and Carpenters Local 286 have endorsed the Congress, while in Birmingham, Locals 1789 and 1766 of the United Textile Workers, the Dairy Drivers’ Local of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Team- sters, and the Dairy Employes, a federal local of the American Fed- eration of Labor, have also en- dorsed the Congress. It is expected that more A. F. of L. unions in this city will give their support to the Congress. Twelve A. F. of L, Unions were represented at a recent prelim- inary conference in Birmingham. Delegated conferences and mass meetings in support of the congress are being arranged throughout the country alll through the month of December. Tag days and house to house canvassing for funds are also being planned. The Memployment Insurance Review,” published by the Sponsor- ing Committee of the National Con- gress, has been received with great enthusiasm. Philadelphia has or- (Continued on Page 6) the Labor Board, and believes that “truce” with the steel employers is near. Tighe refused to divulge what the “truce” proposals are. He did state, however, that all negotiations with the employers are “entirely in the hands of Bill Green and our attorney.” In other words, the steel workers who are members of the A. A. are now enjoying the somewhat ques- tionable distinction of having the president of the American Federa- tion of Labor and a lawyer, Charl- ton Ogburn, as the sole custodians of their interests in a situation where not even their own union officials are sitting in on the con- ferences with the steel captains, copies of the call to the National | “Recent events have improved the | ployment insurance plan that can) forces | NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934 Dyers’ Strike Ends in . to right. Orjonikidze, reading left to right. A LEADER OF THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION H last in the front row, is Kaganovi Standing behind Kirov is Molotov, C.P.LEADERS PAY TRIBUTE | 7 TO COMRADE (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Dec. 2. (By Wireless). —Devoted to the memory of Sergei Mironovitch Kirov and signed by} Joseph Stalin, G. K. Ordjonikidze, | V. M. Molotov, M. Kalinin, K. E.| Voroshilov, L. M. Kaganovitch and | many other members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the following | article expressed the deep shock ex- perienced at his death not only by} the toilers of the U.S.S.R. but of| the entire world. Throughout there runs the testimony of a Bolshevik | life packed with the heroic thought and actions of a great revolutionist: “Our Party has suffered a great, misfortune. On Dec. 1 at the hand of a murderer-assassin sent by) class-enemies Comrade Kirov per-| ished. Not only for us—his nearest friends and comrades—but for all who knew him by his revolutionary | work, who knew him as a fighter, comrade and friend, Kirov's death is a loss not to be compensated by | anything. Exemplary Bolshevik “At the hand of the enemy per- ished a man who gaye all of his) bright life to the cause of the work- ing class, to the cause of commu- | nism, to the cause of the liberation | of humanity. Comrade Kirov rep- resented by himself the exemplary Bolshevik who knew no fear and difficulties in striving toward the great aim set by the Party. His straightforwardedness, iron firm- ness, his remarkable qualities of an inspired orator of the revolution were combined in him with that warm-heartedness and softness in his personal, comradely and friendly relations, that radiant warmth and modesty which characterize the real Leninite. “Comrade Kirov worked in var- ious parts of the U.S.S.R. both in underground times as well as after the October Revolution—in Tomsk, Astrakhan, Vladikavkaz, in Baku— and everywhere he held the banner of his Party high and won for the cause of the Party by his tireless, energetic and truthful revolutionary labors millions of toilers. For the last nine years Comrade Kirov had led our Party organization in (Continued on Page 2) Green recently objected to the employer’s terms only on the issue that “individual” contracts should include the majority rule principle —that the “individuals” could bar- gain collectively for all workers in a plant where a majority named them representatives. The truce is already in sight, in fact, for Tighe announces that top leaders and the employers “are not far apart—we are advancing slowly, by degrees” Tighe was asked what action is being taken by union officials to reinstate blacklisted workers who have been discharged for union ac- tivity. “We have,” he replied, ‘submitted 1 | Urzhum, jelementary school, og Cainer: 3 t Pays Tribute the beloved Bolshevik leader who was struck down by an assassin on Saturday, is shown next to the last figure The figure next to him, ch. Others seen are Stalin, and next to him is Kuibys' cond o Sergei Mironovich Kirov (Special to the Di MOSCOW (By Wirel the Communist Ini farmers and all toilers of the U. whole world deeply sorrow at the vich Kirov, Soviet Union, and the colleague of hands of the vile agent of the grad committee of the Party. “The example of the life of Comrade Kirov, unflinching proletarian revoluticnar letarian tribune, will inspire millions of toilers and opp out the world for the struggle a: SSR, one of the best leaders of the Communist Party nemies of the p: says a telegram sent by the Communist Int The ith the ecutive Committee ot proletarians, colle along with workers of the death of Comrade Sergei Mirono- of the the national, together Lenin and Stalin, who died letarian dictats ational to the Lenin- the life of a noble, ry internationalist, a pro- ed through- gainst fascism, reaction and im- | derialist war, and for the banner of the Communist International.” Kirov, Tireless Fighter: For Bolshevik Principles MOSCOW (By Wireless), Dec. 2. —Sergei Mironovitch Kirov was born in 1886 in the little town of former Viatka province. He lost his parents in early child- ‘hood. His grandmother took guard- jianship over him and his two little sisters, But the grandmother was | unable to feed the grandchil- dren. At seven, the grandson was igiven to a children’s home. Com- rade Kirov spent a year there. In the children’s home he already | showed surprising abilities and a Sunday” in Petersburg, keen mind. He successfully finished | and then. the, town high school. On completion he | was able to enter Kazan technical | school. The first stage of Kirov’s inde- pendent life begins here, and it is here the thread unravelled which} later firmly bound Kirov’s whole life | with the revolutionary struggle. The town of Urzhum was one of | the numerous points in Viatka) Province where the Czarist govern- ment exiled revolutionaries. These were the first real teachers of Com- jrade Kiroy, | Formed Views Early In early youth he was already per- sonally acquainted with many of them. Coming for summer holidays from Kazan, Sergei Mironovich gradually extended his contacts with political exiles, getting illegal literature from them, and had lengthy talks. This was the Politi- | cal school preparing Kirov the stu- every complaint to the Steel Labor Board.” “He admitted that of all the eases of discrimination and com- plaints handed over to both the | Steel Board and the old N.R.A. Labor Board, “not one has been settled favorably for the workers.” “Why,” he declared, “i have stacks that high (he measured ten inches) of cases which have been turned in to both boards.” “But if the old board did nothing, why expect the new Steel Board to be any different?” “Oh! The new board has powers. It can, for instance, subpoena the | payrolls of a company to hold an election.” further political activity in the cles of the Kazan student revolu- tionaries. Comrade Kiroy was thi barely 18. But his revolut Social-Democratic views were al- ready definitely formed. In the autumn of 1904 Kirov went to Tomsk. There he was very soon in the center of party work. He participated intensely in the organ- ization of the January armed insur’ rection of 1905 answering “Bloody The caarist | Police pursued him on Feb. 2, 1905, and he was arrested at an illegal) |Party meeting and was held for sev- leral months in prison without trial. |to a small group of Bolsheviks in Tomsk. Tirelessly he worked for party from day to day. He distrib- jamong the workers. Revolutionary circles in Tomsk knew Kirov well, and he soon became a member of sian Party. Given Responsible Work The Party Committee entrusted him with very responsible work—to |manage the illegal party printshop. | Throughout the year of 1905, Ki- irov spent working in Tomsk and at jthe Taiga station. There he organ- ized the railway men’s strike, which Social-Democratic (Continued on sie Set 2) } “And after that?” “Weil, after that it is up to pub- lic opinion.” Not One Agreement , |petitions and complaints submitted |to the Board, not one agreement or | contract has resulted for the work- ers in the union?” “Not. one agreement,” answered | Tighe. “No agreement” either, he ad- mitted, in the West Virginia Rail ,;Company plant at Huntington, W.| Va., although A. A. officials were named as representatives of the em- |ployes “by a large majority” in the} \one federally-supe! election, |held there, Also, “the company ae | | | dent at Kazan Technical School for | This time Kirov already belonged | juted illegal literature, worked as an | agitator in small circles. He spoke | |the Tomsg Committee of the Rus-| Labor) “It is true, isn’t it, that of all the| ‘\ATIONAL EDITION 5 FALLEN species J the front row reading in the front row, Voroshilov, IS REPORTED: BY SOVIET CP. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec, 2 (By Wir —Tne statement of th Committee of the Commur Soviet Union 's assassination, is “The Central Col sorrow informs the Party working class and a 3 US.S.R., and all tollers of thi the at the treacherous | fend of an enemy ing class there perished nding leader of our revolu- a beloved leade and all Ler committees of the Com- Ae of the Boviet Union| whole working class of the USSR. Party man, a one who gave the whole of his striking and glori- ous life to the cause of the working | class, to the cause of communism, | is the most heavy blow dealt to the} whole Party and the country of the| Soviets of late years, “The Central Committee believes that the memory of Comrade Kirov n emblazoned example of a fear: fighter for the projetarian revo- | lution and for the construction of of the working class. “Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” MANY FIRED IN HAMBURG HAMBURG, Germany, Dec. 2— Large scale firing of workers have | taken place in Hamburg shipbuild- | ing yards and freighting firms in| ‘the past month. Tighe Admits Secret Parley to Conclude ‘Truce’ With Steel Bosses By TOM KEENAN junion is still strong there,” and the company is doing nothing toward signing any contract, simply ignor- ling the Amalgamated, even though the majority of the workers are | members. The rail company employes are, of course, “greatly dissatisfied” with the situation. This Tighe explains las due to the fact that “the workers ldo not understand the company’s | position as do men of broader ex- perience.” Tighe is somewhat proud of the Steel. Board, pointing out that Amalgamated officials were largely responsible for “creating it” at the (Gonsinued on Rage 2) x Pages) DEATH NEWS y of the Ce ch and|$ who was, a crystal-clear and un-| socialism in the US.S.R.. will in-| spire millions of proletarians andj all toilers to further the struggle for} the triumph of socialism, for the} final extermination of all enemies} Price 3 Cents ictory —|LEADER SHOT BY ASSASSIN INLENINGRAD Workers Express Anger and Grief in Many Resolutions A capitalist press dispatch from Moscow reports that the assassin of ei Mironovitch Kirov was Leonid Vassilie Nikolayey. 30, was a for employee of the Leningrad branch of the now dissolved Commissariat of Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspec- tion. In announcing the identity of the ass: was said that the investig inte circum- stances of the murder is proceed- ing. y Vern Smith the Daily Worker) leaders ‘of gei Mironovi his post in the for ite, where whiclt is the nerve center of the entire administration and economy of the city of Leningrad, is now ned wi ved by the Party and the work- | One: of the old the Commur Bolshevi Party in revoluti , and only 48 of his death, Kirov y since of 1905, he was imprisoned for five 1x ars, A Leader in the October Revolution He took a leading part in the | Oct tober Revolution and serv ed in j the Red Army all through the war. Afterward he was secret of the Communist Party of Trans- and from 1926 on had been 'y of the Leningrad n y committee. He was a mem- ber of the Political Bureau of the 1 Committee of the Commn- | nist Party of the Soviet Union. In | the Soviet Government he served }as a member of the presidium of | the Central Executive Committee. “His fearless, tireless struggle for the proletarian revolution and for the construction of socialism in the U.S.S.R. will inspire millions of pros letarians and all toilers to further struggle for the triumph of social- , for the final extermination of all enemies of the ‘king class," These were the last words of the | Teport in which the Central’ Coms- mittee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union announced the news of Kirov’s death to the toilers of the world. “Best Comrade,” Say Workers “He was our best comrade, friend | and teacher to the end,” say the | workers of the Leningrad factory Red Putilov, in their manifesto to all toilers. “Under his leadership we defeated the enemies of the working class, the traitors to our Party, the Trotzkyite-Zinoviev oppo- | sition. He was a leading spirit in | the creation of the tractor indus~ try. Under him the Red Putiloy factory produced its first tractor, under him it gave tens of thousands of tractors to the country and mas< tered a new complicated industry, In our most difficult moments he inspired us, taught us how to cons quer, Kirov especially clearly dis- | Closed before us the intensity and complexity of the class struggle. “But our ranks are not shaken, We know that the class-enemy ig (Conti | Spanish Workers Call Nation-Wide Walkout In the Metal Industry wed on Page 2) MADRID, Dec. 2.— The Spanish workers, despite defeat in the armed uprising, are valiantly resisting every fascist attack of the reactionary Lerroux-Gil Robles government as proven by the second country-wide metallurgical strike just called. The strike follows directly upon the publishing in the Official Ga- zette of orders requiring the indus- try to go on a 48-hour week, sup- planting the existing 44-hour week, It was planned here for the strike . to begin at Vizcaya, thence spread= ing throughout the country, and eventually including other allied ine dustries, y