The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1934, Page 4

ee oe LL aaa _ of anti-fascists and anti-capitalists, | Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934 [TALIAN UNITED FRONT IN U.S. FORMED ON 4-POINT PROGRAM Communis With Socialist Body |For 30-Hour Week With Full Wages In Fight on Fascism'— ig Both Groups Call on All To Support United ts Unite Affiliated Organizations Struggles to Free Victims of Mussolini Regime The first fruit of the rece joint action against Italian fas ian Bureau of the Communist and the Executive Commi € of America is a stir oc and Commun lly energe’ gle. the joint statement Statement The Joint Bu- and the of their re- es to “participate to- lian political 0 toward un- fascist regime in reached an agreement n struggle having the fol'owing concrete objectives 1, Compel the fascist government of Italy to allow the International Commission of Investigation — elected at the initiative of the Anti- f i ati of France, en- dors e Socialist Party and Commu: ‘ty of Italy and also Pi by cther organizations of E pe and America and by well-know: writers and scientists—to v the jails and the find out a ro For Amnesty 2. Demand that a real full un- conditional amnesty be given to the political of Italy—and particularly to Gramsci, Pertini and Gucetti who are near death—and demand that they be given in the meantime the freedom to receive and read book nd ni , to and to re- ceive food, medicines, etc 3. Arouse the masses against the Special Tribunal which continues to sentence thousands of fighters to centuries of jail-terms; to defend, generally, the p:isoners and the po- litical confines regardless of party Affiliation. 4. Collect funds to finance the absve - mentioned Inv ion Commission, to aid the families and to. relieve political pri Joint Mass Actions The struggle for these concrete and immediate objectives shall, above all, be one of mass struggle to be conducted by means of dem- onstrations before consulates, pro- test mectings, etc. It must not be limited to the masses of Italian im- the suffering of ners. the migrants but must involve the American masses and those of other nationalities. The delegation of the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party and the Executive Commission cf the Italian Federation of the Socialist Party of America, therefore, call upon the Sccialist and Communist workers to form in every locality, in every mass organization and partic- ularly in the trade unions, United Action Committees for the above objectives. Said Action Commit- tees, furthermore, wil call upon workers of other parties in order that they may participate in the] defense of Italian political prison- ers. The delegation of the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party and | the Itatian Federation of the So-j cialist party of America, pledge| themselyes to send immediately | precise instructions regarding the | above to a'l their respective organi- | zations. To work, then, socialist and com- munist comrades without time. Answer the call from the jails of Italy. | Call of itaiian Parties | Interpreting this app:7i for] United action of socialists and com- i immigrated in America, in sealing a pact for a common struggle against war and fascism, have decided to call upon “the respective organizations of the countries where Italians have im- migrated to join their forces to help | the struggles of the Italian prole- fariat in Italy and against the penetration of fascism among the emigrated masses and also see that ‘he emigrated masses are defended hreugh the nztive trade unions and political organizations.” Our answer is partly contained in| fhis ag-eement which is to be bap- tized in action. The agreement reached in Chicago undoubtedly i: not what the two parties were ask- ing. But it is the first step taken not only with the consciousness of | the duty of solidarity towards the| Ttalian political prisoners but also with the firm conviction that the first step will be followed by other | steps toward a b-oader united front etcetera. It is for this reason that the Italian Bureau of the Com- ntly concluded agreement for cism entered into by the Ital- Party of the United States sion of the Italian Socialist Fed- ng appeal signed by both, call- | estimation of the various social problems, cannot annul] the fact that both communists and socialists are firmly opposed to the regime of titution and slavery, of autocracy terror, that fascism has imposed pon the Italian people; these dif- ferences cannot prevent either the communists or the socialists from ng moved and aroused by the in- human treatment accorded by a so- called civilized government, to thousands of honest persons in | Italy guilty only of. not being con- | vinced that fascism “is the regime more suitable to a nation which brought light to the world with the | torch of science, of communal liberties, of art and of a civilization which educated the world.” While the cry of protest by all| the civilized peoples echoes ours, | the Italian dictator hesitates, stalls, | roctpones day after day, the giving | of the visa on the passports of the members of the international com- | mision who cannot go to Italy with- | out the visa to ascertain whether the Italian political prisoners are receiving, as the fascist govern-| ment affirms, a humane treatment, or whether as all those who have succeeded to escape from Italy, say, | they are being treated as beasts. | Commission Must Enter | It is our and your duty to do everything possible in order that the | above commission may fulfill its! mandate; in order that the civilized | world may know the truth regard- | ing who by the thousands populate | the penitentiaries and the deporta- | tion islands of Italy, because of the | capital crime of not approving of what fascism wants to impose. Only thus can we relieve their suffering, only thus can we create an international will and conscious- ness capable of forcing the “duce” to | understand the necessity of stopping his ferocious persecution of thought which in spite of the special tribu- nals and exile of today and the burning of yesterday, remain free and will always remain free. May this pact between commu- nists and socialists, the first in the United States, be an alliance of fighters in the battle for the same cause, may it be a clear demonstra- tion that temperamental and theoretical differences cannot and must not keep apart the soldiers who are marching against a com- mon enemy; may it be a shining proof that the proletarian army, ‘even though divided in regiments and batalions, can be one, as one is the enemy who must be conquered. Call to Communists and Socialists For Socialism, for the common property to national collectivities of everything indispensable to life, for the abolition of all class privileges, for the right of every one to work, for libezty and happiness, for the abolition of fascism, last contor- tion of social regime that is dying. the undersigned although inviting very member of the two parties to pect the discipline of his respec- ‘e party and retain his identity, invite the branches and isolated | comrades, communists and social- | bama arrangements committee for ists, to work and agitate togethe: for the above-mentioned common objectives. The undersigned ask them to know and respect each | other, thereby making it possible in the near future to establish a brotherly understanding of all pro- letarians ready to fight for the triumph of the cause of social losing | justice, regardless of any misunder- | Send delegates to the National Con- standing. Long live the Pact of Action for | the liberation of prisoners of Italy! Forward to the united front of general political action against the political ian Communist and Socialist | fascism and waz, against capitalism | ployees’ Federal Union No. 18477, and for a socialist society! The Delegation of the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party. By TITO NUNZIO. The Executive Commission of the Italian Socialist Federation. By C. CLEMENTE, Sec’y. Dutch Railway Men Attain Unity in Fight Against Wage Slash AMSTERDAM, Dec. 7.—The op- position groups of all parties among the Dutch railwaymen have achiev- ed unity of action against the threatened wage-cuts, and have is- sued a joint manifesto on the part of all railwaymen. These groups stand at the same time for the resto-ation of unity in the trade union organization of all railroad employees. In the manifesio they call upon the railwaymen io attend a joint demonstration at the | | William Green Betrays Workers’ Demand By Carl Reeve William Green, president of the A. F. of L. while at the present time demagogically favoring the ar week “without reduc- | tion in wages,” has in practice fa-| |vored only thirty-hour bills which | do not provide for corresponding in- | crease in weekly earnings. Con-| | eretely, Green has advocated only | a form of the “share the work” | plan of Hoover and Walter C. Teagle of the Standard Oil Com- pany. | Green, in his “Weekly News Ser- | vice,” sent out an editorial on No- | vember 10, since printed in a num- ber of A. F. of L. papers, attacking | the Daily Worker and defending an By —previsions which have so largely defeated spreading the work? In the forthcoming revision of the codes, will you strike out such pro- visions?” | In this speech, Green did not s0 | much as mention by one word that hours should be reduced with cor- responding wage increases. The Black Bill Green made an extended cam- paign for the Black - Connery Thirty-Hour - Bill. He made a) lengthy statement in its favor on Jan. 5, 1933, at the hearing before | the Judiciary Committee of the | United States Senate. | At this hearing, Green, in his | lengthy speech, said not a single | CARL | ing of hours over extended periods ; REEVE-- workers will produce more. In his | testimony, Green endorsed the speed-up as an accompaniment to reduced hours, He cited one firm, the Kellogg Co., which he claimed had voluntarily reduced wages with cor- | responding rise in wages, and con- cluded, “The Kellogg Co. found from an actual examination of the | records that there was an increase | duction in weekly earnings, serves merely as a demagogic shield to hide the fact that Green is carry- ing out the employers’ program of wage cuts and relief cuts, Green talks for the thirty-hour week to cover up his campaign against the Workers’ Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill. At the last A. F. of L. convention, |in efficiency, that the worker be- | Green opposed any federal unem- came more efficient. He produced | Ployment insurance. In the No- more, and they increased his hourly | Vember, 1934 Federationist, Green rate to correspond with that in-| Said: “To increase production and crease in efficiency.” | to develop new employment oppor- We find, therefore, that Green | tunities, are the only ways to re- favored the Black Bill, or reduction | lieve unemployment.” This means in hours with a reduction in pay.| that the Roosevelt employers’ pro- He then pleaded with the employ-| gram is the program of Green— ers to increase wages “voluntarily” | Only the demagogy differs—a pro- and told them they can maintain | gram of cutting down relief and article by Green in the New York | Word in favor of the thirty-hour Times of Sunday, Oct. 28. | week without reduction in pay. The) In this article on the thirty-hour | Black Bill, which Green endorsed | week, Green offers the thirty-hour | Without any criticism, provides only | munist Party and the Executive | Hague in their uniforms. A collec- Commission of the Italian Federa- {tion of signatures is being organ- | tion of the Sccialist Party of Ame-| ized among the railwaymen for an rica appeal to their respective par- | application to the committee of the ties that they mey ease the way reformist o:ganization, calling upon for a simila> united fr6nt of struggle | it to reinstate all expelled railway- | by reaching an agreement between | men. This committse has contrived | themeelves. to diminish the onc2 mighty union | Fellow workers! | to only 3,000 members, by means of The existing differences in the, mass expulsions, | | we without pay reductions, as a substitute for relief and unemploy- | ment insurance. Green says, “We | have considered and tried various | methods, all of which build up and | encourage agencies and tendencies | outside of our normal wealth pro- | ducing agencies and which do not feed them.” In other words, un- employment relief and social insur- ance is frowned upon by Green and his sole remedy for unemployment is the thirty-hour week, Speed-Up week can he Green Favors The thirty-hour made profitable to the employers, Green says in this article, by in- | creasing the speed-up. “Running | industries at a higher capacity | would at once decrease the unit | production costs so that increased | labor costs would not necessarily | mean higher prices, Volume pro- | duction would ultimately bring the | profits from which to pay the costs: Greater volume of output would | mean more wealth with which to Pay production costs.” | This is Green’s proposal: Em-| ployers could cut relief and deny unemployment insurance, which, Green says, will not aid the un-j employed, and increase the speed- up, then the thirty-hour week will be profitable. Green, in his concrete proposals, has time and again called for the thirty-hour week while giving up the demand for a corresponding in- | crease in wages. In the April, 1934, | American Federationist, official or- gan of the Executive Council of | | the A. F. of L., is printed a speech | | delivered by Green to the Code Au- | thorities (employers) on March 5, | | 1934. Green, speaking on the thirty- | | hour week, separated the question | | of reduction in hours from the ques- | tion of wages. He pleaded with the employers: “In the impending revi- sion of the codes, will you courage- | ously reduce hours to the general | level that will result in work for | all? What will you do with those | provisions which permit an averag- that no a:ticle shall be shipped in| interstate commerce “in whic | any person was employed or per- mitted to work more than five days in any week or more than six hours in any day.” For violation, a $200 fine is provided. The Black Bill makes no mention | of wage increases. It would mean, if put into effect, that the workers would receive a wage cut with the shortened hours. It is an out and out stagger plan, a share the work proposal, which would take workers off relief and put them to work on part time, at even less wages. It would not solve the problems of the millions now totally unemployed, or the millions now already on part time work, who could not “share the work” with anybody. What About Wage Increases? Green testified in this senate | hearing, “Let us see what could be done with this situation if we would apply the shorter work day and the shorter work week—the re- employment of at least 6,500,000 by | shortening work hours to thirty per week is an essential basic adjust- | ment for future progress.” (Pg. 11— | Judiciary Com.) Green, in fact, in his testimony, uncritically and approvingly, | quoted the platforms of both the | Republican and Democratic parties, | showing that they both favored the | reduction of hours and the shorter | work week (neither, of course, men- tioning corresponding increase in wages). | Green did not mention wages at | all until he was asked by Senator | Black—‘In most of the instances where there have been voluntary re- | ductions in “hours, there has been | a proportionate decrease in wages, | has there not?” Green replied, “Yes, | I think there has, although I have | reports of some industries that have | not reduced wages.” Not only did Green favor the re- duction in hours without mention- ing higher pay, he laid down the line that the employers will vol- ja week, | code authorities and in favor of the untarily inerease pay because the | the thirty-hour week profits by increasing the speed-up. | denying i under cover of talk of “increasing | | production and developing new em- | | ployment opportunities.” Green Opposes Unemployment Insurance In every case, the immediate | program of the employers has been | carried out in labor's ranks by Wil- | liam Green. During Hoover's day | Green endorsed the “share the work” program of Hoover, to force | the workers on part time and thus reduce their weekly earnings. Un- der this stagger plan, endorsed by Green, thousands were taken off re- lief, and given less pay than they had previously received from relief agencies. There are now nearly 20 million workers on part time, most working already less than 30 hours in addition to approxi- mately 16 million unemployed. The proposal of Green before the Black Bill for reduced hours with- out increased pay is merely a repe- tition of the Green-Hoover stagger system. Green previously openly endorsed this “share the work”) plan. Green proposed this in the Vancouver A. F. of L. convention in 1931. In the Sept. 3, 1932 issue of the A. F. of L. Weekly News Letter, Green endorsed the Hoover- Teagle stagger plan, in a story headlined, “Green endorses Action of Hoover's Business Conference to Cut Hours.” Of this plan, Teagle admitted, “True, the method does not provide more money for spending, but the distribution of the money is ayail- able among more people, more spenders.” Louis Weinstock, in his testimony before the senate com- mittee, quite properly called «this plan the “share the misery plan.” ~ At this time, Green’s demagogic At the present time, the National | Assocation of Manufacturers and | the N.R.A. are preparing a sharper | wage cutting drive. They oppose any restrictions to limit hours and set a minimum wage. They op- pose granting the unemployed} workers any unemployed insurance, and are putting into effect drastic | relief cuts. | unemployment insurance for a Minimum Wage The thirty-hour week, if it is to benefit the workers, must be accomplished without any reduc- tion in wages. Accompanying the demand for the thirty-hour week, must be the demand for higher wages. The wages of the workers have been further cut by rising living costs. This must be given back to the workers in higher wages. The demand for the thirty- hour week withont reduction in pay goes side by side with the demand for the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill. The thirty-hour week will not abolish unemployment. Mil- lions of workers would still be unemployed. The Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill is the only measure now before the workers that would give these mil- lions some measure of security. It is this bill, which calls for une- employment and social insurance to all unemployed at the expense of the government and the em- ployers and administered by the workers—which is viciously at- tacked by William Green. The rank and file inside the A. F. of L., in studying the record of Green for years past, find that he opposed federal unemployment in- surance, and in helping set up the | N. R. A. and the codes, surrendered the interests of the unemployed and employed workers by accepting low minimum wages and worsened con- ditions. At the present moment Green is sabotaging the fight of the workers for unemployment in- surance, is surrendering their de- mand for the thirty-hour week without any wage decreases. The rank and file of the A. F. of | L., despite Green, should form the united front of the workers against wage cuts, for adequate relief and unemployment insurance, and for the thirty-hour week, with higher statement that he is in favor of | minimum wages and without any Weskare Bill ‘Parley Pushed In Birmingham Delegate Conference on | Dec. 16 to Support | National Congres BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 7.—A dele- | gate conference in preparation for | | the National Congress for Unem-| | ployment and Social Insurance to | be held in Washington Jan. 5, 6, | and 7, has been called by the Ala- Dec. 16, with Roger Baldwin of the | American Civil Liberties Union as | the main speaker. | The main purpose of the confer- | ence will be to gain wider support surance Bill and to rally labor unions, unemployed organizations, | workers’ clubs, churches, etc., to | gress. In the Birmingham area the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill has been endorsed by Locals No. 1789 and 1766 of the United Textile Workers of America, the | Daily Drivers’ Union, the Dairy Em- the Relief Workers League of Tar- | rant City, and the Ensley Colored Ethos Expigate Club. In Bessemer, Unemployed Local No, 1 of the In- i ternatioal Union of Mine and Smel- | ter Workers and Federal Labor Unions No. 18434 and 18435 have endorsed the bill and signified their | intention to notify their represen- | tatives and senators in Washington. Mass Action Gains Delay for 5 Seamen in Toledo Court Fight TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 7.—The trial | of George Neiber, organizer for the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and four other workers, who are held for “obtaining food under false pretenses,” was again postponed until next week. The court room was so packed | with workers that the trial has been continuously postponed on the grounds that “all available jurors were either members of the Unem- ployment, Councils or otherwise pre- judicee”” If every reader, member of mass organization and trade union does his part to raise as much as peccible for the Da'ly Worker drive, the campaign will be a sne- | | peat. | some one to fight for their rein- | for the Workers’ Unemployment In-! THE FIGH We go to press this week sur-) rounded by deadlines. In fact we) have just passed one. For the ben-| efit of those who did not hear my warning last week, I want to re-| December First marked the | end of the city’s generosity to those | unfortunate workers and yeterans on Home Relief. All single vets and workers were checked for the axe; that is if they did not have statement. But some vets found a champion in the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League. On Monday the W.ES.L. took up the fight for im- mediate relief right down to the door of the Mayor himself. Now the Mayor is a “friend” of the vets, at least that’s what he wants us to believe. So the vets laid a list of 12 demands before him. The first and most important — enforcement of the State Welfare Veteran Law, especially Article 14, Sections 117- 19, This calls for Cash Relief for ex-sefvicemen. The Mayor knows about this, so does the Governor. But do they enforce it? Are they going to enforce it? Yes—if the rank and file vets of New York get together and join in the fight with the W.ES.L. This is a clear-cut case and one that should not be hard to put over. It involves a LAW already onthe books. Mass pressure will enforce it. Every vet- eran taken off relief and forced into a labor camp should get in touch with the W.E.S.L. They are the boys who won't sell you out. Every vet in New York should pro- test these removals from relief as a VIOLATION of the LAW. How They Do It in France Paris, One thotisand war veter- ans, each with an arm or leg miss- ing, braved a cold rain yesterday to march down the boulevards at noon shouting demands for payment of their full pensions. Our French buddies aré having trouble with an “Economy Act” similar to our own As we can séé by the above, they are not sitting on their hands. Paris is the home of the I.A.C., the In- ternational of the rank and file vet- erans of the world. Like the W. E. 8, L. in America, which is an afMfili- ate of the I.A.C., it is in the fore- By H. E. Briggs | Los Angeles, was recently beaten | some permanent value. TING VET | front of the fight for the rights of the rank and file veterans. While the vets in the East are fighting for relief, the boys on the | West coast are not lying down on the job either. Ex - Serviceman Quinn, a member of the W.ES.L. in up by thugs for participating. in the relief committee for the strik- ing car workers. Quinn, a disabled vet from the Sawtelle Home is an example of the growing solidarity of the veterans and workers. The. veterans working with Workers In- ternational Relief, the Women’s Council and the Workers Protective Union are supplying hot lunches to} the strikers and helping on the picket line. This stand of the vets is convincing the workers every- where that the ex-servicemen are not a “mercenary minority.” January Second is the dead-line for all applications for the Adjusted Service Certificates. All those who have not filed application by this date will be out of luck. Veteran Song Contest The Workers Music League and the W.E.S.L. are launching a song contest. The winning verse will be selected by a joint committee of the WES.L. and the WML. It must be a marching song, There is no limitation as to the number of verses, but the chorus must be of a general nature, one that will have The song must embrace the rank and file veteran movement in America and the struggle around the three-point program. It must contain some ele- ment of the last war and deal with the conditions of the vets today. The New Deal and the vets, the “Economy Act,” Bonus, Unemploy- ment Insurance, etc. The winning verse will be printed in this column. The W.M.L, will put it to music and it will be widely distributed. The contest closes Jan. 5, 1935. REMEMBER THE DATE. The contest is open to all. Here's your chance. Workers, intellectuals and veterans, clean the rust off your pen and get to work. Send all contributions to the FIGHTING VET, Room 523, 80 E. llth Street, New York. Japanese Colonization Effort Proves Failure | the stubborn resistance of the Man- churian peasants, who have taken up arms against the Japanese colonists SHANGHAI, Dec. 7.—With refer- ence to the new Japanese plan for in Manchuria, the Asiatic Agency states: “The plan for military coloniza- cess by Dec, 15 settling 200,000 Japanese reservists Partisans are utilizing every oppor- ‘coming to occupy their land. They have thus prevented these settlers from carrying out the plan. The ‘tunity for attacking the Japanese. Subscribe to the Daily Worker, tion has proved a failure, owing to) the only workers’ paper in the U. S. without re- | decrease in pay. Many Picket In Detroit Relief Strike Men at Fisher Lodge Compel Reinstatement of Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 7—A larger picket line was set up yes- terday at the building of the County Welfare Commission, 176 East Jef- ferson Street, as the strike of un- employed single men at Fisher Lodge, a municipal institution where over 1,600 are quartered, en- tered its fourth day. The men ace striking the relief projects on which each of the in- mates is compelled to work one day in every two and a half weeks. Indications are that the bulk of the workers at the Lodge are being involved in the walk out, which is being led by the Unemployment Councils, As a result of the strike, Roy Duquette, Supervisor of Fisher Lodge, has been compelled to re- instate a number of workers who were thrown out of the Lodge be- cause of their militant activities. The men, who get only one dollar for their forced labor, while one day's work inside the Lodge is en- tirely unpaid for, are demanding eight dollars work relief or six dol- lars direct relief and the right to live where they choose. Amter to Speak Sunday At Wilkes Barre Parley For National Congress WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Dec. 7.— I. Amter, national secretary of the Unemployment Councils, will speak at the United Front Confe-ence here Sunday which will prepare for the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance. The conference will be held at the Cryste] Ballroom, 325 East Market Street, Sunday at 2pm. Local trade unions, benefit or-| ganizations, church sccieties and branches. of the Unsmployed Leagues have elected delegates to the local conference. Have you filled, your collection list and sent it in to the Daily Worker office? Every available cent should be rushed in imme- diately to help raise the balance to complete the drive. [The following article appeared in a supplemental issue to the “Robotnik Polski” (“Polish Work- er”), No, 41, the organ of the Polish Socialist Alliance of the U.S.A, which was published by the largest branch of the P. | “Spojnia” in Detroit, Mich, after | the Executive Committee of the P.S.A. transferred the publicatien of the paper to New York, | Protesting against this high- | handed action and the ruining of | | their own printing plant in De- troit, the branch demanded from the Executive Committee of the P.S.A. to call an extraordinary convention, and when the demand was disregarded and the branch ordered dissolved, proceeded to call the extraordinary convention by itself. The convention is to be | held in Detroit on January 12-13, 1935. The above-mentioned branch of the Polish Socialist Alliance en- | tered into a united front agree- | ment with the Polish Bureau of | the Communist Party of the Michigan District and conducts on this basis common activities against fascist and war prepara- tions and for the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance | Bill] Who really thinks about the struggle against fascism, against the | of the working class and against the preparations to a new war, must as a matter of course acknowledge | the united front of the workers as | a question of life and death for the | working class. Experience has shown | that if there would be a united | front in Germany, there would be |no Hitler. If in a number of other countries the Socialist leaders would | look for allies amidst the working , class and not among the allegedly friendly inclined part of the bour- geoisie, there would be today no trace of fascism in Europe and in other parts of the world. Such lessons cannet poss un- noticed. Such lessons cannot be forgotien. Comrade Barr, a member of the Socialist Party, who was recently in Germany and talked with Ger- words which she was asked to tell to the American workers by a cer- tain German working woman. This is the message: that I have lost my son under Hit- ler's regime. My son perished from the hands of fascist executione:s. As a mother, I am grieving about the loss of my only son. But what I am regretting much more is that I did not understand the necessity of the united front before Hitler came to power. When my son, who was a Communist, explained to me the importance of the united front, I, being a Socialist, did not want to listen to his reasons. Now, how- ever, I see what a heavy mistake I have committed. I lost my son, the German working class lost fzeedom and groans in the chains of Hitler- ism. The workers of other countries should learn from our experiences and immediately build the united front. Because if they would not do it now, they will have the same kind of the united front that we have now-in Germany, that is the united front in jails and concentration | camps.” These. words of the German So- | cialist woman speak for themselves. |Doumergue made an_ extremely | sharp speech against the Socialist- Communist united front, there was immediately held a_ tremendous meeting of protest, called jointly by: the Socialist and Communist Parties in Paris. Over 50,000 workers were present at this meeting. Socialist and Communist speakers addressed it. A very significant speech was made by the Socialist leade: Blum who is known to be very moderate in his opinions. He said: “I know very well that there are things which divide the Socialist Party from the Communist Party. If not for these differences, I wou'd be in one Party with Cachin, the Communist. But the historical In Philadelphia School PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 7.— The children in two classes of the Hamilton Public School at 57th and Spruce Sts.. are on strik® for prope: conditions, including adequate heat, and light, Seventy-five out of 92 pupils were absent from their classes yesterday and the children and their mothers who are on the picket line with them aze determined to stay out until proper conditions are won. The children were forced to at- tend classes in tin shacks that have no electric lights and insufficient heat. They had to stay through | their classes bundled in sweaters and overcoats. PHILADELPHIA FUNCTIONARIES CALLED PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17—The District Bureau of the Communist Party has called an emergency meeting of all fraction secretaries, unit bureaus and language bureaus for tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at 431 Pine St. An especially urgent. task will be outlined at the meeting lowering of the standard of living | |man workers, repeated to us the |. “Tell to the American workers | When the French Prime Minister | Children Out on Strike! Polish Socialists In Detroit Stress The United Front | Organ of Polish Socialist Alliance of U. S. A. Published by ‘Spojnia’ Between Socialists and Commun Cites the Local Actions Ss events weld us together more and | more, and now, I think, the only | thing which divides us from the Communists, is the organizational structure of our parties. The only way to victory is the organic unity of the proletariat. What’s more, such unity is necessary in the interests of the Soviet Union. I declare categorically that the Socialist Pazty will do every thing to defend |the U.SS.R. The defense of the | U.S.S.R. will be secured best by the unity of the workers. In this mo- ment we must strive to build an invincible wall against fascism.” Do we need stronger arguments for the United Front? Alas, there were such in our midst who did not understand the new times and are reluctant or de- lay the conclusion of the united front with the Communists. We, the Polish Socialists in De- troit, Mich., have a considerable experience with the United Front. When we arranged jointly on Sept. 27 a public trial against the “Daily Record” (a Fascist Polish daily) in the Workers’ Home in Hamtramck, Mich., over 600 Polish working men and women attended. The enthu- siasm of this meeting was in- describable. Every mention of the necessity of the united front of the workers by the Socialist, and Com- | munist speakers was covered by a long applause. Those of us who even had some doubts about the need to form immediately the united front with the Communists, watching. this large mass of the workers demanding unity, had to drop our hesitations and to prom- ise to bring about the united front. The mass meeting in Hamtramck gave to us, Polish Socialists in De- troit, one valuable hint besides. Looking over the memories of the past years, we remembered the fall of the “Dziennik Ludowy” (“Peo- ple’s Daily,” a Polish Socialist daily paper, which was issued in Chi- cago), the ruin of our organization and a complete isolation from the broad masses of the workers. See- ing this large mass at this meeting, we understood that the only way to reach the masses of the workers and to push them into the struggle is common action with the Commu- nists. Finally, the Hamtramck meeting has shown to us the source of our weakness. We remembered the {words of the Italian Socialist, | Nonni, who said: “As long as there was no united front with the Com- munists, we looked for allies amidst the so-called democratic part of the bourgeoisie. With the moment we entered into united front with the Communists we started to look for allies within the working class, we started to look to the left.” The same was the matter with us, Polish Socialists. Too long did we look toward the right. We looked around for so-called pro- gressives, democrats and liberals, | and we observed unconcernedly how | they loot the toiling masses. We were trailing behind those who | were on the side of the bourgeoisie, There is no wonder that into our | ranks wormed in, or bustled around , us, such types who had nothing to | do with the working class and its | Struggle for emancipation. That's | why we have a Pilsudskyite Poplaw- | ski in the Executive Board of the | Polish Workers’ Aid Society (a So- | clalist controlled sick and death benefit association). That's why there could bustle around us ;such a one as Gwiazdowski who calls the workers ‘“hu- man_ chaff.” [Professor A. | Gwiazdowski, formerly from Ann Arbor, Mich., University, now teach- ing at Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio, was made the president of the Socialist controlled Polish Mechanics’ So- |ciety, which soaked the Polish | workers in the United States for | around $2,000,000 for the purpose of building an allegedly co-operative factory in Poland, where the con- ditions were such that the workers had to wheel out the dear Pro- | fessor, who wes acting as the Gen- (eral Manager, in a wheel-barrow; | the factory was, finally, taken over , by the Polish Fascist government ‘for war purposes. In an inter- (cepted letter of Prof. Gwiazdowski to the editor of the “Robotnik Polski,” W. Kucharski, he exposes himself as an outright Fascist and | & rabid anti-semite—Ed. Remark.] That's why the Socialist ideology | effaced itself among us. To give us the spirit to strug- gle, to rebuild the faith in the | possibility of the victory of the | working class can only the united frent, only the joint struggle with Ihe Communisis. United front of the workors is the necessity ef the day. It is impera- ‘tive in the interests of the working lelres, It is imperative in the inter- ests of Socialism. The Executive Committe: 6f the Polish Socialist Alliance, which had and has nothing in common with Socialism, does not understand the need for the united front, Being out of contact with the masses, not j knowing what is going on among |them, it disregarded the issue of the united front. We, Polish So- cialists of Detroit, are proud of having started joint actions with | Polish Communists, and we believe that it will bring tremendous re- | sults to the Polish workers in this { country, as a whole. We call upon | all Polish Socialists to follow in our tracks. We have to build every- where the united front with the | Communists. A. ZANCZYNSKI, i