The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934 Daily <QWorker | SUWTRAL ORGAN COMMUN: ¥ 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., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Add: New York, N. ¥. Daiwork. 954, Nationa Building, a a: Fi e: National 7910. Wells St 705, Chicago, Wl. Subscription Rates: | Bronx year, 6.00; year, 90.00; By Carrier ae oon MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934 The Dye Strike Victory HE DAILY WORKER hails the sub- stantial victory won by the 25,000 mil- itant striking silk and rayon dyers. The dye workers won their strike because of their great solidarity, their militant methods of mass picketing, their refusal to accept compulsory arbitration by government boards and because the rank and file controlled the strike Real gains were made in the settlement won dy the striking dyers. The strikers won increased wages to 66 cents per hour, a 36-hour week, union recognition and other worthwhile gains. They retain the right to strike against violation of the Griev- ance boards decisions. The sirikers took the right course on Nov. 10, when they voted down an unsatisfactory agree- ment which their lawyer Joelson, and such union leaders as Ammirato tried to force them to ac- cept. It was not the Joelson’s who won the strike. It was the militant fight of the rank and file, who controlled the strike, and it was such rank and file leaders as Thomas Vigorito, chairman of the settlement committee, who refused to accept the Nov. 10 agreement who gained the victory. The strikers took the right path when at the be- ginning of the strike they refused the plea of the Textile Labor Relations Board and other Roosevelt “mediators,” that they “return to work pending arbitration.” If the strikers had returned to work before their demands were settled, they would have lost all their demands. The strikers won for one reason, because they told the national leaders of the U.T.W., Gorman and ‘MacMahon, to keep their hands off the negotiations. The strikers knew that Gorman and MacMahon hed sold out the general textile strike, and they did not want similar betrayal in the dye strike. In spite of every maneuver of the bosses, the strikers stuck out sclidly, with mass picketing, until they won a satisfactory settlement. The employers tried to get the veterans to act as guards to protect scabs, and the veterans refused. The mayor was unable to break ranks of the strikers with his “citizens committee” and his strikebreaking confer- ences. The service clubs did not get to first base with their scabbery. Threats by the employers to move out of town, and threats of the mayors to open the miils with scabs and police were of no avail before the mass picket lines of the strikers. When Ammirato raised the red scare and tried to split the militant rank and filers from the main body of strikers, this splitting red scare was de- cisively rejected by the strikers. The Nov. 10 “settle- ment” favored by Joelson and Ammirato, was re- jected by the strikers. The strikers refused to accept the “secret ballot” maneuvers of the em- ployers and some high union officiais. Of course, even a more complete victory could have been won if the national leaders of the U.T.W. and the A. F. of L. had thrown the support of the A. F. of L. behind the strike. William Green did not lift a finger to raise funds for the strike, to call union conferences in support of the strikers. Gor- man and MacMahon gave no financial support to the srike. They did not do anything to support the strikers. If they had, certainly a more complete victory could have been won. But the dye strikers themselves, supported by the rank and file of the labor movement, through their militant methods and their rank and file control of the strike, gained a notable victory. The task now is to strengthen the shop commit- tees, to strengthen the union in every shop, under rank and file control, so as to guarantee that the agreement will be carried out. The Daily Worker and the Communist Party, which raised the correct course to win, which sup- ported the strike from the beginning, and was active in the battle every day, hails the victory of the strikers. We urge those militant strikers who now see that the course of militant class struggle and rank and file control is the road to victory, to join our ranks. A strong Communist Party among the dye workers will strengthen the union still further, and assure greater gains for the future. Build the Bulwark Against Fascism INANCE capital, unable to check the rising mass movement of the workers, is with lightning speed increasing its fas- cist measures. The Hearst press exudes its fascist poison in every issue. The dis- closures of General Smedley Butler of the Wall Street plots to create a fascist dictatorship come at the same time as the mushroom-like growth of such fascist movements as Father Coughlin’s “Na- tional Union for Social Justice,” the “shirt” move- ments, the anti-Semitic movements, the Utopians, etc. As the Open Letter of the Central Committee pointed out, “The American bourgeoisie, which fears a development of great class struggles and clashes, is already making attempts to block this develon- “On the one hand, the bourgeoisie is attempting with the help of the reformists to establish all kinds of rallying centers for intercepting the disillusioned masses, and to set up barriers against Communism {the American Workers’ Party, Musteites, Socialist Party leaders, movement for a Farmer-Labor Party, a third party of capitalism, etc—Ed.] On the other hand, and at the same time, the bourgeoisie is intensifying direct terrorism and provocation against the masses and coming more and more to adopt fascist methods of violence and demagogy and to establish fascist organizations.” * * * IESE fascist moves are al! aimed first and fore- most at crushing the Communist Party. The employers know that in order to save their profit system, to force down the living standards of the «.Morkers, to install the company unions, to break up unions and to destroy the elementary rights of Communist Party must be dealt weapon to force the the the workers, with. Fascist t workers to bear all and fore- Easley fas- the tution, red scare against the t Party, and prepare the way for making amunist Party and all workers’ organizations Commt the Cor illegal. sts shriek their hatred mainly Communist Party? Because they the Communist Party is the main bul- the workers against black reaction, against hunger and imperialist war. ¢ do the f the know th wark of fascism, The Communist Party has from the first put forward the platform of the united front of all the workers and farmers against the attacks of the em- ployers and the Roosevelt government, against hunger, fascism and against imperialist war prep- arations. The Communist Party is organizing this united front; is playing the leading role in organizing the unemployed workers to resist relief cuts and fight for Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance, and is organizing the rank and file of the trade unions for militant struggle in the broad strike movements now taking place. The bankers and their government know that to crush the elementary rights of the workers, they must first and foremost strike a blow at the Com- munist Party. They know that the stronger the Communist Party, the stronger is the united front of the workers and farmers against fascism, hunger and war. The stronger the Communist Party, the more difficult is it to institute a bloody, fascist regime which suppresses all the workers rights and organizations and which saves the bosses profits at the expense of the workers. The employers and their government want to keep the masses divorced from the Communist Party and prevent the united front of all toilers, in order to prevent the workers from finding the revolutionary solution to the crisis, the solution of the crisis at the expense of the bosses. The employers and their government are preparing fascism in order to save the rotting profit system, in order to get out of the crisis, at the ex- pense of the workers, The surest way of strengthening the #ght against fascism is to strengthen the Communist Party—the party of the workers. The building of a mass Communist Party, with scores of thousands of members, based in the de- cisive heavy industries and large factories, is the guarantee of a defeat to the fascists, In its present recruiting drive the Communist Party calls upon all workers and farmers who oppose fascism, to join and strengthen the ranks of the Communist Party. For a united front against fascism, hunger and imperialist war! For a mass Communist Party! Winter Relief and the Social Insurance Congress HILE Winter relief needs continue to rise throughout the country, Roosevelt and his aides drive ahead with all possible speed their campaign to slash relief to the bone, thrust the so-called unemployables upon private aid and the local welfare units, launch a far-reaching forced labor drive and fabulous “homestead” projects, while bearing down upon the living standards of the employed. The “unemployables” are fast being abandoned by Roosevelt. The minimum wage rates hitherto established on work relief have been renounced. Every past promise for a Federal system of unem- ployment insurance has been broken. Widespread sales taxes cutting deeply into the bread and but- ter incomes of the masses have been or are being instituted in all localities, Assurances of tapering off Federal relief expen- ditures, with no added taxes on the wealthy and the big corporations, “are very wholesome” and what “all business is waiting for,” Secretary of Commerce Roper hastened to assure Wall Street last week after a conference with Roosevelt. The Wall Street Journal, leading organ of finance capital, wasted no words in stating the meaning of Roper’s announcement. Thus it said: “Further indication that President Roosevelt is moving to rid himself of what is admittedly his biggest political problem were seen yesterday in Secretary of Com- merce Roper's statement that relief should be turned over to state and local governments as soon as possible.” In the same paragraph it made mention of the Board of Aldermen's approval of a 2 per cent sales tax on the masses in New York City—the bankers’ demand, which LaGuardia hastened to carry out for financial relief. . . . ree reports on the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, to be held in Washington on Jan. 5-7, which are printed on another page, show the sweep of the movement which is gathering behind the demand for adequate Federal unemployment insurance as embodied in the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, The preparations for the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance must be doubled in every locality so as to show the widest possible repre- sentation of the working population. Meanwhile, the Unemployment Councils and the Communist Party must take immediate steps to bring into ac- tion the broad masses who have shown their desire to struggle for their demands for real unemploy- ment insurance. Daily actions at the relief stations, city-wide mass meetings and symposiums must bring the Workers’ Bill to the entire working population. Direct appeals must be made to the Socialist Party locals for participation in the Congress. Side by side with this must go the widest pos- sible popularization and distribution of the Con- gress call and the magazine of the National Spon- soring Committee, “The Unemployment Insurance Review.” Unemployment insurance is favored and de- manded by workers everywhere. The task of the Communists remains to also clarify this demand by setting forth to the workers everywhere the pro- visions of the Workers’ Bill: 1—Insurance to all workers when unemployed; to the aged, sick and disabled. 2—The full cost of this protection to be made @ general charge upon industry and government without contributions by workers and farmers either directly or indirectly. Compensation to be equal to average wages when employed, and in no case to fall below a standard of health and decency. 3—Administration through elected representatives of the workers. 4—Benefit payments to beeome effective imme- diately to meet the present need of the employed and unemployed. Unite in action the forces behind the demand for genuine unemployment insurance! Unite all workers behind the National Gongress for Unemployment and Social Insurance! - | Party Life Some Pointers For Work Inside The Company Unions i OUR section there is a large |4 steel mill, never fully organized. | At present there is no union, ex- cept a company union. We recently organized a unit in the mill. Last week a ferment started ij the mill. circulated against the efficiency. A recently elected company union shop committee dominated by pro- gressives with a progressive chair- man is backing up and leading the | agitation. The question arose what should | the Communists do? We did the following: We had a meeting at) which were present the Section Or- | ganizer, Shop Unit Organizer, Com- | pany Union Shon Chairman and | two company union shop committee | members. There we agreed on the| following line: 1. Broaden petition movement to other departments. | 2. Organize outside plant de- partment meetings. 3. Company union chairman to lead struggle against intimidation of signers of petitions. 4. Pave the way for an outside A. F. of L. union, while not leav- ing company union. When we reported our action to the Section Committee a division of opinion arose. Most of the members of the Section Committee feel that if we gain concessions through a company union we strengthen the company union and make it mere difficult to organize an outside union. We would like the Party Life to| comment. | SECTION ORGANIZER. . Editorial Reply | HIS is an important question | upon which the Party has a defi- nite pol which has been dealt | with quite fully in the Daily Work- | er and in the October issue of Labor | Unity. Concretely our task in the company unions is to develop ac- | tivity among the masses of workers | in the shops, around the imme ate grievances of the workers, with | the objective of converting the company unions into shop commit- tees, through a struggle against the company unions and their domina- tion by the bosses. We shall carry on our work in the company unions for the purpose of destroying them by winning the workers in the company unions for the reyolu- | tionary trade union movement. | It is quite clear that the Se: ction | Organizer has in general the cor- rect position in the situation de-! scribed above. To rally the work- ers against the efficiency system, creating a broad movement around this grievance, can be the means of laying the basis for an opposition movement within the company! union, through which it can be con- | verted into a class struggle union | Certainly it is incorrect to take the | | position that we cannot work with- | in the company union because by doing so we will strengthen it. i The comrades, however, should | guard against creating the illusion | thet the mere presenting of a peti- tion to the company will gain the demands of the workers. A cam- paign should be developed around this issue, leading to struggle for the enforcement of this demand. The second point to be considered is the safeguarding of the signers of the petition, not only through struggle against their intimidation, but through safeguards, for example, | an effort should be made to have! all the workers of the various de- | partments sign the petition, second, the leaders of the movement, the most militant workers should not sign first, so that they can be picked upon for discrimination. In regard to the 2nd point of the program worked out, the organiza- tion of outside department meet- ings, if by this is meant meetings of the more advanced workers of the departments to work out plans for carrying on the work within the company union, this will no doubt strengthen the work. The com- rades should not, however, substitute these outside meetings for meetings of the company union within the plant, which would at once narrow the base of activities, and confine them within the limits of the more | advanced workers. We would suggest that the Sec- tion Committee initiate a discussion on trade union work, including work within the company unions, utiliz- ing the article in the November Communist by Comrade Stachel, and the article in Labor Unity by Com- rade Gebert as a basis for this dis- cussion. 11 Anti-Fascists In Boston Face SentenceToday (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 2. — The eleven anti-Fascists arrested here last spring after a brutal police at- tack on a demonstration against the Nazi propaganda cruiser Karlsruhe, face the danger of one-year sen- tences at the hands of Judge Hob- son before whom they appear this morning. Perjured testimony by prosecutor's witnesses resulted in a jury verdict of guilty against the eleven late last week despite the clear-cut case made by_the defense. * The victory for mass pressure won last week in the pardoning of the seven anti-Fascists sentenced for their demonstration against the Nazi agent, Ernst Hanfstaengel at Harvard, has given powerful im- petus here to a similar campaign to free the Karlsruhe prisoners. The International Labor Defense yesterday repeated its call to all working class individuals and groups throughout the country to deluge Judge Hobson, Pemberton Square, Boston, with messages of protest, against the convictions and with demands for the immediate free- Two departments were! |ler’s right hand man. | | Burek will give the o igmal drawing of his cartoon to the highest contriputor exch day towards his quota of $1,000. PROSECUTOR BURCK OPENS INVESTIGATION Burck demands proletarian justice. he threatens to expose those delinquent comrades who assured him they would raffle off his invalu- able cartoons at affairs, but who never turned the proceeds in to Specifically, Total their promise, or else F. W. Rogers Previously Rec'd. his credit. Let them make good »$ 2.60 500.53 « $503.13 By PAUL GREEN | sarah the attention of the world is focused on Yugoslavia. Sev- eral days ago the New York Times ;Published the memorandum which | Yugoslavia addressed to the League of Nations and in which she ac- cuses Hungary of being responsible for the assassination of King Alex- ander, the tyrant. Today we read| that Yugoslavia, Austria and Hun- ga.y are mobilizing. This threat is meant for Hungary. It is also re- |ported that France has demanded of Mussolini that Hungary extra- dite the Croatian criminals Pave- |lich and Kvaternik to France. This, however, Mussolini refused to do.| The reason for this refusal is obvi-| ous. To simply say that Hungary is responsible for having kept and supported these terrorists would not | be all there is to know about this) crime. The fact is that the assassi- nation of King Alexander is linked up with fascism in other countries. Fascist Italy, the Croatian, Mace- donian terrorists, Nazi Germany, Hungary, the fascist leagues of France, especially Croix de Feu, and | Switzerland, were all guilty of com- plicity and directly responsible for the murder of Alexander. First, the Oustachis, the Croatian terrorists, were harbored at Inka- Puszta (Hungary). It is here that the O. R. I. M. (Macedonian fas- cists) and the Oustachis spend their time drilling with bombs and pis- tols. This Inka-Puszta belongs to Count Bethlen of Hungary, a close friend of Gomboes—the fascist pre- mier of Hungary. It is with his knowledge and with his support that these terrorists plotted their murders not only against Yugo- Slavia but also against the anti- fascists and especially against Com- munists. It is a well known fact that Georgiev, known as Kelemen, assassinated our comrade, Deputy Dimoy. Close Association Now, just as there exists an al- liance between fascist Italy and fas- cist Hungary against Yugoslavia, so is there close association between these fascist terrorists and fascist Italy. We find Pavelich, the leader of the Oustachis, a guest of Musso- lini, We find another one of these, Novak-Popsichil, arrested at Anne- masse and finding asylum in Italy in 1929 after the Zagreb attempt against the same king. Nazi Germany is also closely al- lied with the Oustachis. Pavelich \vesided in Berlin; he was a good friend of Alfred Rosenberg, Hit- It is there that Pavelich published his news- paper, subsidized by Hitler. It is there that he organized the Croa- tian fascists. The pistol Mauser 7 m-m 63, which belonged to Kele- men-Georgiev and which killed Al- exander and the French Foreign Minister Barthou, was made at Oberndorf and obtained at Mu- nich, The pistol is of very recent make. Switzerland, whose fascist Pre- mier Motta spoke so vigorously. Yugo 5 lavia — Another ‘Powder Keg ® peter the admission of U. S. S. R. into the League of Nations, is an- other of these countries where these | terrorists worked hand in glove with the Motta-like fascists. The famous | Kraemer, the chief of the expedi- | tion, the organizer of the crime, the , one identified by the Yugoslav po- lice as Eugene Kvarternik, right- hand man of the fascist Pavelich, | was in Switzerland and under the protection of Motta organized this crime. While Mr, Motta deports the anti-Nazi and other anti-fascists, he, this reactionary and crime- complitiste “par excellence,” gives sylum to these terrorists. When the French police agents, | Petit and Maramuto, went to Swit- \zerland, it was because they knew |that Lausanne was the center of ithe plot. The police (the French and Yugoslav) declared that they that “they have the impression that the leaders have remained there.” L’Humanite has pointed out that the “Croatia Presz,” the organ of the Oustachis, was also published at Geneva and the address of the fas- cist headquarters there is Antun Zidar, Postfach 532, Lugano, Swit- zerland. Lugano is close to the Ital- ian frontier, which makes it possible to immediately communicate and co-operate with fascist Italy. Now we arrive at Marseilles, the scene of the assassination. It has been proven that the police knew of the entry of the terrorists. The chief of the Marseilles police, a member of the Croix de Feu, sent away the Corsican agents and the Cyclist Guard, which was to protect the royal car. The same fascists thought that by instigating this crime they would bring about an- other February 6; they even tried to accuse the Communists, but the indisputable’ proof which Comrade P. L. Darnar (of L'Humanite) j brought against them silenced them, International Ring Thus we see that the whole in- ternational fascist ring worked to- gether. The question we must put to ourselves is, why did the differ- ent fascist governments take such a keen interest in subsidizing, har- jboring and aiding these terrorists? Barthou in the last few months, due to the advent of the Nazis, made an attempt to unite with and support the peace policy of Soviet Russia. He tried to bring France closer to the Little Entene as well. Such a policy was entirely detrimental to the fascist governments of Italy, Germany and Hungary. Alexander's visit to France might have made Yugoslavia a more difficult game for Germany and Italy. What these fascist forces tried to bring about was a new war camp in the Danu- bian countries. Litvinoff said that such forces “worked to change the map of Europe by the sword.” We find the same forces, that is, the fascist forces, assassinating Kurt Eisner, Erzberger and Rathe- Jnau in Germany, Stambouliski in “were on a very serious trail” and, Bulgaria, Doumer in France, Inu- kai in Tokio, Duca in Bucharest, 'Dollfuss in Vienna and Comrades Vorowski and Voikov in Lausanne. But having said this, we have not said all. One must also remember jthat a Croatian killed the chief of} the Yugoslav dictatorship. The iron dictatorship of this king | tells a story of cruelty and murder that reminds one of the massacres, | murders and slaughters that befell; jthe Paris proletariat during the last days of the Commune when Thiers and his bloodhounds fell upon men, jWomen and children. Yugoslavia is the name Serbia took when the Treaty of Versailles dismembered the Austrian-Hunga- rian Empire of the Hapsburgs, Since | 9. that time the minorities, originally suffering the oppression of the ;Hapsburgs, passed into the terror- istic hands of the Karageorghe- | vitchs, These minorities consisting of ‘Croatians, Slovenes, Montenegrans, Macedonians and, of course, the Serbs, comprise mainly poor peas- ants, who from the very beginning ‘revolted against this oppression. These Croatian and Slovene peas- ants were butchered and murdered ‘in cold blood. The prison of Glay- niatcha tells a story of wholesale murder that could be compared only to the “chambre introuvable.” In the heart of the Yugoslav Par- liament, the man who had organ- ized the Croatian Peasant Party, Stephen Raditch, was shot dead by direct orders of King Alexander. Eyer since King Alexander got rid of Parliament in January, 1929, and inaugurated his fascist dicta- torship, the reign of terror has in- creased a thousandfold. We find, according to L’Humanite, that “285 Political trials were held in this pe- Tiod of time, These trials zesulted in the condemnation of 1,278 per- sons to no less than an aggregate of 3,468 years of prison, 10 to life im- prisonment, 15 condemned to death, 140 Republicans, Socialists and Communists were assassinated with- out even the semblance of a trial. In other words, the origin of this murder can be traced back to this king’s rule of terror and crime. It was a reign of absolute murder, where no semblance of liberty could be discerned. We mention these facts not to justify this individual crime. We Communists absolutely condemn such individual acts. of terror. We rely on the action of the broad masses of the proletariat. The peasants and workers of Yu- goslavia, however, have been learn- ing. The revolutionary party of Yugoslavia is growing stronger ev- ery day in spite of the terrorist methods used against it. It is these peasants and workers who fight against war and fascism and it is under the banner of the Commu- nist Party of Yugoslavia that they are marching towards a Soviet Yu- goslavia, where the minorities will be free to develop their own cul- ture in a free land. ‘Big Response to Insurance Meet (Continued from Page 1) dered 25,000 copies. It is expected that the circulation of the first is- sue will reach the 60,000 mark, Local Meetings Planned GRAND RAPDS, Mich.—A local unemployment and social insurance conference will be held in this city et the Labor Temple on Dec. 19 at dom of the 11, 8 p.m. The sending of a Western Michigan delegation to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance will be discussed at this conference in which all A. F. of L. and other workers’ organiza- tions have been invited to partici- pate. . DETROIT, Mich.— A delegate conference in support of the Na- tional Congress on Unemployment ‘and Social Insurance will be held in Detroit on Dec, 19. A similar con- ference will be held in Grand Rapids on the same day. BIRMINGHAM, Ala—Mass meetings for the National Congress on Unemployment and Social In- surance will be held in Birmingham on Dec. 16, Benjamin on Tour NEW YORK. — Herbert Benja- min, executive secretary of the Na- and Social Insurance is making a flying trip through the middle west jon behalf of the Congress. His schedule is as follows: © Dec. 3, Detroit; Dec. 4, Chicago; Dec. 5 and 6, Minneapolis; Dec. 7, | Omaha; Dec. 8, Kansas City; Dec. 9 and 10, Oklahoma City; Dec. 11, ‘St, Louis. | Lenin. by Burck| |World Front | By HARRY GANNES -——| | A Leader Is Dead |The Victory He Fought For Money for Spain’s Butchers HE desperate enemies of the Soviet Union, enraged |by the growing invincibility of the mighty Land of Socialism, have resorted to assassination. Our comrade Kiroff lies dead in the historic Smolny Insti- tute, storm center of the October revolution, where Lenin led the Russian toiling masses to victory, Kiroff was one of the youngest of the old Bolsheviks, trained by He was shot down in the 46th year of his life. He was the epitome of the heroism and enthus- jasm of the proletariat in its: revo- lutionary struggles. His post was always in the most dangerous sec- tors of the class struggle. In the October revolution he took a lead- ing part in organizing the armed insurrection, and from 1918 to 1920 braved death a thousand times to defeat the white guard enemies of the Soviet Union. Kiroff was a model Bolshevik, containing within his own being the best genius of the revolutionary proletariat. He was an iron fighter, a splendid organizer, and one of the greatest orators in the Soviet Union. His words of fire, born of his deep understanding of Marxism-Lenin- ism, of his turbulent and ceaseless battle in the front ranks of the pro- letariat, of his determination to win victory over all obstacles, never failed to arouse the toiling masses to the highest pitch of enthusiasm and action, rae UIs death is a great loss, not only to the toiling masses in the Soviet Union, with whom he fought shoulder to shoulder, but to the working class of the entire world. | To us in America Kiroff’s life should be the greatest inspiration for build- ing a party of Bolsheviks of his Stripe. In the great grief we feel for the death of this sterling Bolshevik, we will all grit our teeth in the de- termination that no matter what crimes the desperate, fiendish ene- mies of the workers’ fatherland may resort to, we will with greater energy than ever rally our forces for the defense of the Soviet Union. Hail and _ farewell, Comrade Kiroff! We will always remember your heroic deeds on the stormiest barricades of the revolution, and in the great task of socialist construc- tion. “This is a Congress of Victors!” you declared at the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Your death, which was an attempt to weaken this vic- tory, will inspire us to a more re- lentless struggle against all ene- mies of the workers’ fatherland, for @ more energetic struggle to win that victory in the United States. Sate, Het? 'HE “Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce,” at 501 Madison Ave. New York, an organization com- posed of Americin business men dealing with Spain, has addressed a letter to other American capital- ists asking for subscriptions to a fund to reward the butchers of the Spanish workers. This letter, a copy of which was given to the Daily Worker by one of the recipients states that 5,000 pesetas have already been contrib- uted by the organization. It further states “at the same time that the members be advised as to this reso- lution, with the request that, any- one wishing to contribute to the subscription may send his donations to this Chamber, in whose offices a list. of subscribers would be made up and published in the newspaper ‘La Prensa,’ of New York City.” We see here that the forces of reaction in this country are losing no time collecting funds to aid and reward the fascist hangmen in Spain. Also, we would ask our Spanish and Latin-American com- rades wouldn't it be advisable to visit the editors of “La Prensa” and find out what support this paper is giving to the forces of Fascism in Spain? Cree am § d hat enemy is quick to organize its international support for reace tion. But our campaign for sup- port of our Spanish brothers, So- cialists and Communists, 60,000 of whom are in jail, has indeed been slow. The Socialist Party up to this time has refused on a national scale to enter into joint, united front actions for support of the Spanish workers. Every day brings news of new assessinations. Only interna~ tional action can stop them. We cannot wait until the leaders of the Socialist Party find it convenient to act ina united front for the Spans ish workers, Every local, every branch and every city organization of the Socialist Party should be visited by Communist organizations for the proposal of immediate action in support of the Spanish proletariat. This means saving the lives of our brothers, Socialists and Commu- nists; it means inspiring and en- couraging them with the knowledge and confidence that the workers everywhere are fighting with them; it means we can defeat the enemies here acting to support the hang- men of the Spanish proletariat, HANDICAPPED! Gannes’ duties as associate and foreign news editor of the paper prevents him from making personal appeals before organizations and enticing supporters to World Front, Readers, it’s up to you to prove tional Organizing Comm. for the Na- | youre bebind him! tional Congress for Unemployment | Total to date .... Quota, $500 A $1 contribution was raised by A. F. B. of New Bedford, Mass., by ‘means of a hammer and sickle sewed on a sofa pillow cover made by herself. There are man; other methods for raising collections for the $60,000, Send funds now!