The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 Ohio Governor Saddles 60-Million Sales Tax on Masses lantes. This promiscuous raiding was unjustified.” However, he failed to even at- au» ea SOVLEL Pig Iron Quota Ohio League | estan with General Johnson, the | rf 1 0, 00 0, 0 0 0 Tons Fi lle d ae - d a U In Advance of Schedule ihe, +; uty Held Plan Red Drive ain by Fascists; | 10 Fight Labo Miners Remain Armee :2:0:s cosa: xs Communists Socialist Dep Launch Drive In Sp Against Plan | administration leader who gave the | signal for the vigilante attacks. | | In trying to get Green to go on | record in some way for an outright notorious Communist leader, Ben| attack on the Communist Party, i Gold” | McCormack tried to get around the j < : Prepare Mass Action to i tic eee Accuses Union | committee's failure to invite a rep- Groups in Muskingum Place Burden on _—| Hundreds of Workers Imprisoned on Ships in| ,Gteen_ supported —McCormack’s | resentative of the Communist Party. Ss s the Rich By A. LANDY CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 17.—The sales tax became Governor | (Special to the Daily Worker) his when BILBAO, Spain, Dec. 17—With ge White signed the Spaght;the capture recently of Gonzales saddling the masses with a/|Penja, Socialist deputy in the Cortes, million dollar “emergency” tax the next year. While for: ly presented as a 3 er x, t he workin “sh as cous “= shrpareegt 3 be Almost simultaneously, however, om 5 to 11 per cent on his|Asturian and national authorities Thus, with a 1 cent tax| declare that the mines of the prov- ince will not open until the 5,000 to 20,000 miners still armed turn over weapons to the “public forces” in . workers buying ten ar-|Conformity with numerous orders each worth 10 cents, but at|@nd the new law covering possession erent fimes, will have to pay 10|Of arms. taxes or 10 per cent on the| r purchase. | Martial Terror The Governor signed the bill at! BrtBAo, Dec. 17—Martial terror sought as the leader of the revolu- tionary forces in Asturias, govern- ment officials claim a “final victory over the revolution.” Barcelona and Gijon—Unions and Clubs charge that the fur department of | He declared: “It is well known that | the Needle Trades Workers Indus- | the Communists frankly admit that | trial Union had extracted a.3 per | their ultimate objective is the over- cent unemployment insurance fee|throw of the government. The Under Ban—Pa pers Suppressed untary” contributions to “la fuerza publica” (maintenance of order) to the tune of 1,500,000 pesetas. This is in addition to the present definite plans to “balance the budget” - by cutting the salaries of public em- ployees. Prisoners on Ships Here, as in Barcelona, Gijon and other ports, hundreds of prisoners are held in ships outside the town. Not only workers’ organizations proper, such as unions and clubs, but nationalist groups of any color brighter than that of the capitalist- landlord-clerical Tradicionalists have fallen under the ban. No Basque language newspaper may be published or circulated here. Even the Spanish language nationalist sheet has been suppressed, (Former- the last moment when the Legisla-|is visible everywhere in northern ly papers published in Euzkadi, the ture raised the tax on incomes from! Spain, even to the hurried traveler Basque tongue, were permitted so intangibles from 5 to 6 per cent. But|through Galicia, Asturias, and the long as they carried Spanish trans- the increase in revenue from this Basque provinces. lations side by side with the origi- source will not amount to more; In Vigo the Civil Guards with nals.) than $1,500,000 as compared with their comic opera hats dominate the’ An observation shocking to the sixty million dollars to be raised |scene; in La Coruna and Gijon there visitor here is the brutal method from the sales tax. Even while the|is the Foreign Legion; in Santan- employed in the local industtial Governor was demagogically threat-|der it has been deemed sufficient to towns to throw the entire tax bur- ening to veto the sales tax, con-| arm the municipal police with rifles, den on the laboring masses. If you tracts for printing the sales taX|while in Bilbao the Assault Guards buy a chicken, or sugar, or any other s were placed with four com- and the forces of the Seguridad com- commodity in Bilbao (and you must from employers. Saying that he/| had evidence from many employers to this effect, McCormack an- nounced that the testimony of the fur employers given the committee in secret session would be released to the public. | “Are you going to hear from a | representative of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union on these charges,” your correspondent asked McCormack during the luncheon recess, “No,” McCormack shot back. “Did you hear from a needle trades representative in secret ses- sion?” “No.” Hardwick opened the hearing by explaining that though the inves- tigating body “was created to exam- ine mainly Nazi activities,’ the {second section of the resolution creating the committee provides for an examination of “what is known as subversive activities.” He | added pointedly that “in view of the present situation we could not ; disregard Communist activity. And | because of the limited time and | | Money we can only outline the ex- | | tent of the Communists’ boring | | from within. ... | | “We have invited certain organi- | necessity of obtaining evidence as to that is removed for there are ublished documents showing that. .« However, assuming an organized minority operates within the law, have you any opinion on the right of an organized minority (the C. P.) to accomplish its objective outside the law?” “I must repeat the difficulty of meeting such an organization as the Communist Party by imposing legislation restricting the rights of freedom of speech and press in a democracy,” Green replied in char- acteristic demagogic form. “In a democracy you have great diffi- culties,” he added. “At the moment I can’t see how we can accomplish our purpose by legislation.” McCormack interrupted: “It seems to me that if we are agreed that they are operating without the pale of the law, we are supporting defeatism by doing nothing... . What would be your reaction to reviving the appropriations for the Department of Justice making an investigation of the Communists as they did during the war?” “There's a difference between war and peace,” replied Green, “T've never been much in favor (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 17 (By Wireless). j—In a keen race with time, the plants of iron metallurgy in the U. 8. S. R. today fulfilled the time of their yearly production plan, having | supplied 10,000,000 tons of pig-iron to the Soviet Republics. Production will push ahead at full speed to the end of the year. | | In his report addressed to Joseph Stalin, V. M. Molotov and Ordjon- ikidze, the chief of the administra- tion of the metallurgical industry states with pride that 500,000 tons of pig-iron, above the plan will be produced by the last day of 1934, \thus bringing the smelting of pig- ‘fron alone to record heights. In no year did any capitalist country show such tempos of increase. “Za Industrializatziu,” organ of the Commissariat of Heavy Indus- \try, declares, “This is the most im- portant landmark in the history of |the industrialization of the U. 8. S. R. The doubled production of |pig-iron compared with 1930 is the best sign of the colossal growth in | the strength of the U. S. S. R, | | | |Achievement Hailed As Important Step in Bol- stering Economic Strength; 500,000 Tons More Planned By End of Year the power of her potentialities and her limitless possibilities. “The whole Party of the entire country has a right to be proud of the results of the work in ferrous metallurgy for 1934, especially the work in the blast furnaces. The in- structions of the Party regarding the creation of a powerful metal- lurgical fist in the East have been realized. The Kuznetsk and Mag- nitogorsk metallurgical giants, con- structed upon the instructioas of Stalin and bearing his name with honor, have furnished about 2,000,000 tons of pig-iron this year. This means the production of our own coke, our own rolled metal. “The former metallurgical south is unrecognizable today, with its improved transport, its system of organization and its people. Proudly holding their heads high, the metal- lurgists are approaching the end of the year, the beginning whereof was marked by the Seventeenth Party Congress. Stalin’s banner is in strong, reliable hands, The metal- lurgists have made a Bolshevik re- ply, by deeds, to the call of its lead- er and friend ‘to liquidate the lag- ging behind of ferrous metallurgy.’ ” County Issue Letter to Affiliates ZANESVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 17— The Ohio Unemployed Leagues of |Muskingum County, which have jendorsed the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance and elected official delegates from their county committee and from the lo- cals, addressed an open letter to all Ohio Unemployed Leagues and to all workers’ groups to support the National Congress, “The most important issue now facing the unemployed of the na- tion is the burning need for unem- ployment and social insurance,” the letter states. “The cost of living has gone up 40 per cent and we are tired of paid welfare agents slowly starving us while at the same time they deny us clothes, fuel and medical care. President Roosevelt announced at, ‘nis recent conference on Social Se- curity that health insurance and old age pensions are not on his pro- gram. He has no intention of spon- soring an unemployment insurance plan that will benefit those now un- employed. The election is over and promises are forgotten as usual. “Fifteen million unemployed shall not starve! We will fight to live! “The Ohio Unemployed Leagues, at the last State Convention, en- dorsed ‘joint congresses for united A ‘i | ving the government power to | action on common problems’ (Reso- panies in Chicago, Cleveland, Cin-| plete the picture. The impression buy your food outside the town) you Zations and Government represen- | Of giving - Pe y be : cinnati and Columbus. How Program Stands | As it now stands, the four-point program passed by the Legislature | and approved by the Governor, con- obtained in a walk through the are compelled to pay a duty in your |tatives to come here... to Pat] Sona Kegel d Pare a cee streets in the evening is that every own town as you get off the train./Us what they know about it and) second person seen is a part of the Thus, if you live in Sestao and work What they propose to curtail it so| “public forces,” for the British-owned iron and steel f4T as it is improper. . . In certain In this connection the fascist gov- plants, you are taxed for every |cases they will present legislative | ernment has added insult to injury municipal obligation, as the mills by compelling public employees— absolutely do not pay one cent of down to mail carriers—to make “vol- lccal tax. ‘A.F.L. Locals Back Reveals Aim Insurance Parley Ot Mussolini (Continued from Page 1) | Local | Canton. sists of: 1, ‘The general retail sales tax, which is expected to raise $60,- 000,000. 2. The Herner Bill increasing | the rate on incomes from intangi- | bles, which is expected to yield L N $1,500,000 during 1935. eague ote 3, Phe McCluskey Bill increas- | ing excise rates on gross earnings | of public utilities by 1 per cent | with a maximum yield of $3,000,- | 000. | 4. The tax on liquid fuel used by the masses, estimated to bring in ys tty ae expected to be| ROME, Dec. 17—In a short blus- raised from this emergency pro-! teting note addressed to the League | gram, not more than $4,500,000 will| Of Nations in which he attempted come from the utilities and the|to white-wash the invasion of Ital- bankers. Indeed, because of previ- ian imperialism into Abyssinian ter- ous tax reductions, the utilities will | ritory, Mussolini not only refused to actually make a net saving of $3,-| atbitrate the question of his terri- Sponsoring Committee of Mother Bloor To Speak PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Dee. 17. — In preparation for the National Un- |employment Congress the Jewish | workers of Philadelphia, are visit- ing every Jewish organization in proposals.” | Dickstein declared during the| Kirby testimony that “We ought to} |have a shorter form of deportation | |for aliens, cutting short a lot of red | jtape. . . . Let’s put ‘em in some} ,camp or something.” | Suggests Alcatraz Kirby suggested Alcatraz (the | strongly fortified Federal Prison in| San Francisco Bay now harboring Al Capone). “I wouldn’t go that jfar,” Dickstein replied. Dickstein, however, did not object to Kirby's} ;Suggestion to consult the Washing- ton Police Department “for infor- mation” on the Veterans National Rank and File organization. In addition to presenting the committee with his usual “docu- jmentary evidence” about the ac- tivity of Communists “to undermine \the trade unions,” Green declared 000,000, while the bankers, absolved| torial aggression through the from the real tax burden, will even | League, but insolently demanded an get $4,000,000 from the mass poverty | apology and indemnities from the tax for retirement of county poor Ethiopian government. | Telief bonds. At the same time, only; Italian troops are being rushed to $6,000,000 of the sales tax returns the Abyssian-Evithrian frontier as are to be used for relief. | rapidly as possible. Even apologists Communists Open Fight for Italian imperialism admit that The Communist Party in Ohio | 250,000 soldiers are expected to be has already taken up the struggle| Messed in Libya before the spring, against the sales tax robbery. Point- ing out that the sales tax cannot be fought by agitation alone, the Party | instructed all of its sections to use the next thirty days before the tax begins to operate in preparation for | ® series of mass anti-sales tax ac- tions, Point four of these instruc- awaiting orders to march on the rich gold and diamond mines of Abyssinia. A whole network of mili- tary roads has been constructed, on the orders of Mussolini, which ex- tend right to the Ethiopian border. | So rigorous and unendurable is the life of Italian colonial soldiers this city and have called a confer-|that the A. F. of L. “is constantly ence to be held Sunday morning,/on the alert for evidence of in- Dec. 23, at 11 o'clock, at 431 Pine |creased Communist activities.” He Street. The following Friday, Dec.!attacked the A. F. of L. rank and 28, a send-off meeting will be held at the Broadway Arena at Broad file group as “deliberately mislead- | ing,” denounced the impending Na- | and Christian Streets. at 8 o’clock | tional Congress for Unemployment After all, in a republic there is no power like public opinion. . . . If public opinion veers toward Com- munism you can’t stop it.” Whitewashes Murders Asked whether there is “any doubt” that the Communists were responsible for the “idea” of the that the Communists were respon- sible. He also whitewashed the {murder of the striking longshore- men by troops and thugs. “The shooting down of some men,”- he said, “appealed to the passions of the men, There’s no doubt that the idea was to turn the general strike into a revolution. . .. Gen- eral. strikes always accompany revolution. .. .” “One of the methods of over- throwing the government is by the general strike,” McCormack chimed jin. “Yes, the general strike will al- ways accompany the attempt to overthrow the government,” con- tinued Green. “But I want to qualify that by saying that I can conceive of a time when the gen- eral strike would be justified ... in an extreme case. But there is a difference between a general strike of Communists and bona fide trade in the evenine, where Mother Bloor, |Insurance despite its endorsement Herbert Benjamin and Mary Van by thousands of A. F. of L. locals! Kleek will speak. jand four A. F. of L. International | Delegates have been elected to the |Union conventions and charged | Congress recently bv the Hosiery |that the Soviet Union has violated Workers Union (A. F. of L.), the|the Litvinoff propaganda pledge | Silk Workers Union, Plush Workers |though he failed to present a scin-| Union, Hatters Union, Italian Car-|tilla of evidence to support his venters, Suit and Bag Makers Statement. Minion, Greek Workers Club, Jewish|_ Green charged that the name of Esther Penn, executive secretary of that in his note to the League Mus- solini accuses the Abyssian army of | tempting the Italians “to desert to their own forces.” Italian troops have advanced into Abyssinian territory 75 miles. tions states: “The central aim of our struggle is to defeat the sales tax and place the burden of taxes on the rich under the slogan—‘All taxes on the rich, no taxes on the poor.’ Since the sales tax hits all sec- tions of workers and the small middle class, our aim should be to develop a real people’s movement in the neighborhoods, in all mass organizations, in the trade unions, ete. The fight against the sales tax can be successful only if we take it out of our own circle of in- fiuence and involve broad layers of new people. In developing the struggle against the sales tax it is not necessary to set up a new or- |\Communist Votes Gain In Swiss Elections (Special to the Daily Worker) ZURICH, Dec. 17 (By Wireless). jelections to the Zurich City Execu- tive Council received 9,327 votes, al- |thouzh the election votes have not yet been completely counted. Last “ |year the Communist candidates al- ncaagpaiey a ae scares ene jtogether received between 2,000 ‘The sales tax affects the masses | *0 3,000 votes. in the trade unions, the unem- Many Socialist voters refused to ployed organizations and the (follow party decisions during the home owners. It is these organi- (election, and instead responded to zations that should be involved jthe appeal of the Young Socialists first, with the Party playing its |and the left-Socialists to vote for own independent role.” |the Communist candidates as the In a five-point program of imme- united front representatives of all diate action, the Party calls for: | workers. 1, United front conferences tied Z development of neighborhood ac-| surance Bt tions around chain stores and big! In formulating these demands, denartment stores. | he following facts were kept in 2. Mass delegations to visit state | mind: assemblymen in every district, de-| 1. In 1933. the latest year for Manding the repeal of the sales tax.| which full figures were available, neighborhood, involving housewives —The Communist candidates in the | Werkers Glub. Philco Radio Union, Natura Frien’s, Republican Club of Frenkferd. Hermonica Club. Big Ben Club, Lithuanian Catholic Church. ; _A meeting to raise funds for the |felegates will be held Thursday, | Dec, 20, at 8 p.m., at 911 West Gi- |tard Avenue. under the auspices of the North ‘Philadelphia Unemovloy- , ment Councils, at which the Soviet Film, “The Road to Life,” will be | Shown. Boston Unions on Job BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 17.—A large delegation of trade unionists is ex- pected to attend the National Con- vress for Unemployment and Social Insurance from this city, the Ros- ton Trade Union Committee for Un- employment Insurance and Relief announced. Two A. F. of L. dsle- gates. one from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and one from the building trades have alreadv been elected and it is expected that all fifteen A. F. of L. unions, which en- dorsed the Congress, will send dele- sates, The shoe workers union in Boston is sending one deleeate and the Shoe Workers Local in Lynn | two delegates. FT. SMITH, Ark., Dec. 17.—A sec- | tional conference on behalf of the | National Congress for Unemnlov- ment and Social Insurance will be | held here on Dev. 22. All farm. fra- ternal. and trade union organiza- the Federation of Government Em- ployees, was placed on the sponsor- {ing list of the National Congress for Social and Unemployment In- surance without her permission. When acquainted with this charge, Herbert Benjamin, executive secre- itary of the sponsoring committee, told your correspondent: “In learn- jing this I appeared in the hearing |room and told Dickstein that we have on file authorization to in- clude Esther Penn and all others, whose names appear on the list as sponsors.” Benjamin also informed Dickstein today that he will place jon record “the correspondence showing that we have the proper authorization.” “Send it in to me by mail,” Dick- stein replied. However, Dickstein failed to notify the press of Ben- jamin’s notification. Makes Provocative Appeal | When pressed by Dickstein for a recommendation for the outlawing jof the Communist Party and when |reminded that the notorious Fish | \red-hunting committee hadn’t sub- |mitted “a bit of legislation as a re- sult,” Green rested upon a provoca- tive appeal for a “healthy and aroused public opinion.” He said: “The A. F. of L. has no recommendation along that line. |We're not clear in our mind that) the correction of the danger could! be obtained by legislative action. . ; We can’t see at this moment as to how the evil could be eradicated by jlegislation. We must rely upon 3. Anti-sales tax hearings in every the. total indebtedness of Cleveland, and organizations, with invitations} Cuyahoga County and all other) tions in the vicinity have been in- healt id Ohio governments amounted to vited to send delegates. aden SHUR SUBIC Opinion. . .” to the state assemblymen to attend. | $861,891,000. On this debt, the gov- | 4. A resolution and petition cam-| ernment paid to the bankers $83,- paign in all mass organizations with | 786,580 in principal and $40,960,800 the aim of outlawing the sales tax! in interest, making a total payment! and forcing its repeal. to the banks on indebtedness of, 5. The organization of special | $124,747,380, Suspension of these | anti-sales tax committees in the| payments alone would more than neighborhoods and wherever pos- | meet the emergency and provide for, sible to lead the fight under the slo-! relief needs. Don’t pay the sales tax!| 2 The present utilities excise tax Against starvation by taxation! Tax is 1.35 per cent. In demanding the the rich, feed the poor! | tripling of the public utilities tax, Make the Rich Pay | the Party calls for absolutely no ex- While thus combatting the capi-|¢mptions on any part of utilities,' talist tax program, the Party has | capital or profit. | announced its own working class; 3.In 1933, inheritance taxes program, whose central aim is to brought in $1,751,000. This rate make the rich pay all the taxes. In| could be easily doubled. line with the experience of the New| 4. Federal income tax rates York workers, the Party here has ranged only from 2.39 per cent for Taised the following demands: incomes from $5,000 to $10,000 to 39 1. Suspension of the debt service! per cent for incomes over $250,000. (approximately $124,000,000) pend-/ On the basis of official N.R.A. esti- ing the passage of adequate federal mates of the national income of unsmployment insurance. 2. Trip- | July and August, 1934, which were ling the present utilities tax. 3. practically on a level with the av- After a “study of the situation,” Farmers Elect Delegate Green stated, “there is a danger NORWICH, Conn., Dec. 17—One that a severe law would make mar- i delegate has been elected by the tyrs of Communists. Communism Farmers and Dairy Group here to can be counteracted through educa- the National Congress for Unem-'tion and through the people who Ployment and Social Insurance. ae democracy being ever on the alert.” ANDERSON, Ind.. Dee. 17—Seven| “Don't you think we've been) delegates will attend the Nationel Patient enough in allowing the Coreress from this city as repre- Third International to undermine sentetives from the Relief Work- cur Government, in allowing people ers Leavue, an organization with 4 Ranh Mabey ee under our noses?” | 450 members. jected. |" “T still have faith in Congress | JOHNSTON CITY. Ill.. Dec, 17— and in the general love of our peo- The Workers Unemployment Insur- | Ple for democratic ideals. We meet ance Bill and the National Congress | the Communist test every year. We for Unemplovment Insurance has, Met it this year at San Francisco been endorsed by a mass conference/@nd found the heart of American of Lithuanian societies in this clty.|Iabor sound. ‘The influence of the The organizations represented at Communists at our convention was the congress were the Lithuanian smaller than ever before... . The Workers Branch 12, Kiestutis Communists had very little to do Branch 103, American-Lithuenian With the West Coast strike. They Literary Association Branch 199, also had very little to do with the unionists. When we get a strike settlement, we're through. .. .” “But they're (Communists) never through,” Hardwick interjected. “That’s right,” Green declared. In fact, Green told the commit- tee, “it was the Communist agita- ism. And the same thing in Italy.” 5-Year Prison Term Given To Kyle Pugh MEDFORD, Ore., Dec. 17.—Five years in prison on a charge of “criminal syndicalism” was the sen- tence handed down by Judge Nor- ton here against Kyle Pugh, follow- ing a trial before a picked jury of rich farmers, business men, and wives of leading American Legion- aires, The charge against him was based on his circulation of working class literature. This is the second long term im- posed in Oregon within a month on criminal syndicalism charges. Dirk DeJonge, Young Communist League leader, was sentenced to seven years in Portland in November on a simi- lar charge. The literature, which the court | ruled advocated crime, physical vio- lence, and sabotage against the State of Oregon, includes: “Understand the Soviet Union,” by Corliss Lamont. “Work in the Rural Districts,” by . | Stalin. “Farmers Call to Action.” “The Soviet Union, Your Ques- tions Answered,’ by Margaret Cowl, “Farm Dollar Blight.” “Why Communism?” by Moissaye Olgin. “Daily Worker,” “Western Work- er,” and “Moscow Daily News.” Relief Worker Killed In Pit By Landslide CORNING, N. Y., Dec. 17.—Un- dermanning of a relief project here caused the death of James Garnett, five children, living at 397 Wood- view Avenue, and injuries to Ray- ;mond Fish and Robert Northrup. The three were caught in a land- slide at the Deckerton gravel pit last week. Great indignation has been aroused among the men, who claim that they were forced to do the work that required fifty men with only fifteen. Gornett was caught under twenty- five tons of frozen earth when the side of the pit in which the men were working caved in, his chest West Coast strike, Green replied | Communists List Demands at Detroit (Continued from Page 1) | 7598) can the auto workers have a guarantee of a real annual income.” | Prepare for General Strike! | Phil Raymond, national secretary, |spoke for the Auto Workers Union. | Raymond showed how the Ford | slave-driving system resulted in a \large number of accidents and ex- posed the swindling of the workers jin compensation cases, He also re- vealed that women in the automo- bile industry were being worked far beyond the maximum hours pro- vided by State law and the State refuses to prosecute the violators. “The A. F. of L. leaders,” Ray- mond said, “have talked here about ithe employers and workers being \partners. If this is so, it must be the partnership of a hold-up man and his victim. This committee that jis conducting these hearings, like |the Winant Board in the textile \industry, is designed to prevent the workers from taking action. But |the only way the workers can bet- ter their conditions is through organ- ization in one industrial union that Will prepare for a general strike in |the industry. The only code that |means anything is one written on C. P. Drive To Spread Leninism (Continued from Page 1) nized by our enemies,” Tribute to Trachtenberg Stachel paid glowing tribute in his speech to Alexander Trachtenberg, head of International Publishers, as the person through whose efforts the publishing house has become an important force in the production and distribution of revolutionary jliterature. Trachtenberg, widely known as a Marxist-Leninist authority, spoke briefly of the efforts for accurate and complete translations of the works of Marx and Engels which , were begun: by Lenin’s exposures of distortions at the hands of Social- Democratic editors and translators. He gave examples of the distor- |tions and outlined the efforts of In- ternational Publishers to present the complete and accurate texts to ' American workers. He told the meeting that in its ten years, International Publishers has increased its volume of produc- tion 700 per cent. In the crisis year of 1929, 50,000 pieces of litera- ture was issued, while in the first tion in Germany that led to Nazi- | . ten months of 1934, International Serpe an |Publishers brought out 530,000 books Ford’s Blacklist ‘and pamphlets. Testimony was heard from the! “The publication of 100,000 copies Mechanics Educational Society of of ‘Foundations of Leninism’ by America, independent union of tool Joseph Stalin, was a big job,” he and die makers. The high point said, “but its only a beginning. We was the speech of Maurice Sugar, look forward to editions of revolu- 42-year-old worker and father of | Double the present inheritance tax. 4. A state income tax on high in- ames equal to the federal income erage income throughout 1931, we can safely take the 1931 income tax collections as a basis for estimating Do you want to help the Daily Worker achieve its goal in the Los Angeles street car strike. That was an uprising of oppressed peo- jple. . . tax. 5. A 10 per cent intangibles tax.| the return that could be secured by 6. Increase in relief with a lump the state of Ohio on 1934 incomes. sum of $40 for special winter needs.| On the basis of this, the state could 7. Endorsement by the state govern-| raise $21,819,000 for 1935. x ' financial drive? Collect dollar bills Has “Confidential Reports” from your shopmates, friends, fel- low workers, and send one in your- |I want to say that I have no sym- “I've got my confidential reports. | was crushed in and his lungs punc- tured by the slide. Raymond Fish was shoved under a truck by the frozen earth and suffered a bad bruise on his hip. Both he and Northrup, who was also injured, | self. pathy with these so-called vigi- were badly shocked. noted labor attorney. Sugar, who was frequently interrupted by ap- plause from the audience, charac- terized the situation in the auto, plants as “industrial slavery,” laid particular stress on the black list, and industrial spy systems by which | the companies terrorize the workers and smash labor organization. He exposed the fact that the companies had photographers at the hearings and were trying to photograph wit- nesses. “After the Ford hunger march in 1932 in which four men were killed and from fifty to a hundred wounded because they dared to ask for bread, workers in the Ford plant who tried to raise money to bury their fallen brothers, were discharged.” “Proposals for a guaranteed an- nual wage,” Sugar said, “may read- ily become a fraud and a delusion | unless supplemented by real unem- | ployment insurance, There must be established a wage which is not a! mere subsistence wage, but which ‘ will give the American workers a/ living plus the comforts of life. Recognition Crucial Question Sugar struck at the N.R.A. Com- mittee’s exclusion of all questions relating to Section 7-A and declared } | after worker proved that his ques- | tion was the most crucial of all and lay at the heart of the prob- lem of improving conditions. “The only way to improve condi- tions,” he said, “is through labor organization, and this question has been ruled out; this hearing is therefore childish and sterile; it is merely staging a show for a purpose other than that of improving the conditions of the workers.” Matthew Smith, general secretary of the M.ES.A,, revealed the slave conditions in the shops for the high- ly skilled tool and die makers, the “aristocrats” of the industzy. deciared that the average annual wage for these men during the past six years was from $300 to $700. Smith echoed the militant senti- ment of the M.ES.A. rank and file, indicated by the testimony of sev- eral members who spoke after him, and attacked the codes. He gave no explanation, however, of why he himself last year created all kinds of illusions about the N.R.A., why He| tionary classics of a. million.” Hathaway Presides Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, who was chairman, opened the meeting with an ex- planation of the part played by In- ternational Publishers as the chief source of the literature necessary to the labor movement. Choosing for his subject proletarian dictatorship ‘as taught by Marx and Lenin, Hath- \away spoke of the example set for workers the world over by the peo- ples of the Soviet Union, and made reference to the execution of the 66 white guard terrorist conspirators who were recently executed. “Let me tell you,” he said, “that as Communists and as workers you have no apologies to make for the executions. It is the job of the working class to take and hold pol- itical power against its class enemies. “If necessary, the workers of the Soviet Union will answer again, with the same decisive blows, the threats of the coynter-revolutionary agents of imperialism. who seek to endanger the building of Socialism. The executtons were a blow struck in warning to all the imperialist enemies and counter-revolutionary enemies of the Soviet Union in terms which the bourgeoisie of the that the testimony given by worke> \world can understand.” Charles Krumbein, District Or- ganizer of the Communist Party, | Stressed the role of the Communist Party in all of the struggles of the workers, “The Communist Party,” he said, “must be the sum total of all the organizations of the working class by the fact that its members are active integral parts of all working class organizations. Blasts Misleaders Krumbein energetically and real- ‘political group save the Communist ‘Party to claims of working class leadership. He reminded every individual member of the Party that “we are |the general staff of the working class in the class struggle.” Speak- he tried to substitute negotiations gle, why he served on the N.R.A. Regional Labor Board and why he helped knife the general strike movement last March by wiring the National Labor Board that a general strike woule be “a national calam- ‘ity and a severe handicap to the President's recovery progzam.” Smith is a leader of the Socialist ir Washington for militant stzug-~ DEC. lution 4), and ‘stands ready to en- gage in united action’ (Resolution 6). H. R. 7598, the Workers’ Bill for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance was endorsed by the National Unemployment Leagues, and was one of the demands on November 24. This bill will form the basis around which the future action of the un- {employed will be determined. “Action is needed. Without action we can ‘peaceably’ starve. There- fore the Ohio Unemployment League of Muskingum County, through their regularly elected offi- cers of the County Committee, is- sue this call: “we, the Ohio Unemployed Leagues of Muskingum County, call upon all other organizations of the Ohio Unemployed Leagues and upon all workers’ organizations to immediately take action and: 1, Endorse the National Con- gress for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance to be held in Washington, D. C., January 5, 6 and 7, 1935. 2. Elect delegate or delegates thereto who will attend, 3. Hlect two members of each organization to serve as part of the arrangement committee (na- tional). 4. Set up a local Sponsoring Committee by calling upon all other organizations composed mainly of workers and their friends, to elect delegates to take part in raising funds to get the delegates to Washington and to defray the expenses of the action of this Congress. 5. Send full information at once to the National Arrangements Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 624, New York City. “Signed: FRED PAYTON, County Chairman, Roseville, O., R. R. 2; J. C. WILSON, Vice-Chairman, 8. Zanesville, 0.; FLOYD MOODY, County Secretary, Cannelville, 0.” ing of how and where the workers are to be reached by the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, he urged the realization of Lenin's slogan, “Every factory a fortress for Communism.” James W. Ford, section organizer of the Communist Party in Harlem and a member of the Party’s Cen= tral Committee, outlined the devel< opment of Communist influence among the Negro masses and re- viewed the Marxist-Leninist method by which the American Communist Party arrived at the conclusion of an oppressed national group. Dr. Abraham Markoff, director of the Workers School, outlined the growin of proletarian revolutionary education, picturing the develop- ment of a network of schools throughout the country and the growth of the New York Workers School from a small institution to one with five branches which are attended by a total of more than 19,000 students a year. A resloution adopted by the meete ing was sent to the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union expressing the revolutionary indignation of Amer- ican workers over the loss of Sergei Kirov, and voicing solidarity with the Russian proletariat in its de- termined action against the coun- ter-revolutionary terrorists and sa< boteurs. ; For two hours before the meet- ing opened members of the audi- ence visited an exposition of the books and pamphlets published by istically blasted the claims of any |International Publishers held in the building. Hundreds of dollars worth of literature was purchased by those who visited the exhibit. A total of $200, representing box office income in excess of expense, was contributea to the National NEW YEAR'S EVE. 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