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a Page 2 DAILY WORKER, ‘W YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934 VAST GROWTH OF WELL-BEING MARKS CLOSE OF YEAR IN USSR DECREE WIPES OUT Radical Talk of Oneals and Lees ALL FARM DEBTS; | PLAN IS SURPASSED All Toilers Take Part in Elections and in Produe:| tion Triumphs in Industry and on Farms— Biro-Bidjan Leaders Elected (Svecial to the MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (By Wireless).—Heavy industry in the Soviet Union closes the cur rent year with great victories. Is Designed to Hold Back Revolution e By V. J. Jerome Article IT. So fearful is Oneal of the rum- blings of revolution, that he paints | a picture of an indestructible capi- talism. You would gather from the | gloomy prospect which he holds out is no such thing as a revolutionary situation, that there is no sich thing as the ripening of the condi- |"Their New ‘Left’ Phrases Belied by United Front | With White Guard Other Enemies of U. S. 8, R. Assassins, Spies and }an interview with the bourgeois press. | on Monday morning an attempt was | made in Linz to forcé an entrance into the workers’ homes they re- The production plan of the second year of the Second | tions for the revolution—the objec- | fused to submit and defended Five-Year Plan is clearly being overfulfilled. months the annual program is fulfilled 91.2 per c sequently only 8.8 per cent of the® plan remains for December, Gold-| mining, electric power, iron-ore,| coke, and organic chemistry are al- réady above the annual plan for December. ing to the plan the value of the gross production of all heavy} industry is supposed to amount to 19,900,000,000 rubles this year. In the past eleven months the value of | production has already reached 18,-| 200,000,000 rubies. The absolute in- | crease of production in comparison} with the corresponding period last} year is 3,600,000,000 rubles and the) relative increase is 27 per cent. Before the Sixth All-Soviet Con- gress in the early part of 1931 the/ gross production of heavy industry | in the U.S.S.R. was 9,100,000,000/ rublés; consequently in the period of four years between the two con-) gresses the gross production has mote than doubled.. This victory is} the result of the struggle of the working class under the banner of Lenin's and Stalin’s Party for the mastery of technique, economics and | financial system of socialist enter- prises. Steel Plants Overfulfill The report has just arrived of the) fulfillment of the annual plan ahead of time of plants producing high- quality steel. The current year has yielded a considerable growth in this industry: the smelting of high- quality steel increased 19.3 per cent, rolling high-quality steel 27.4 per cént, the production of calibrated | cold-rolled metals 32.4 per cent. Soviet industry created its own| strong foundry basis for the auto | industry, the airplane industry, trac- tor construction and ball-bearing in- dustry, the tool industry and other branches of special machine con- struction, The newest and most difficult branch of socialist industry — the aluminum industry—fulfilled its an- nual production plan ahead of time | and before the year’s end will de-| liver more than 1,000 ton of alu-/ minum metal more. This more than triples the production of last year. | However, next’ year the aluminum | industry will have a still greater| rise. The new aluminum plant be- ing built in the Urals will have an annual production of 25,000 tons. There are prospects of constructing aluminum plants at the Kama River and the White Sea Canal. Soviet Farm Debis Wiped Out | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (By Wireless).| —As a contrast to the American scene, where thousands of farm homesteads are daily sold at auction for failure to pay taxes and thou- sands of farmer families are de- prived of house and home to face; starvation, a decree of the People’s Council of Commissars of the U.S. SR. and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union abolishes all debts of Soviet collective farmers to the Agricul- tural Banks and declarés that nothing must stand in the way of a well-to-do life among them. At one blow a total indebtedness of 435,639,000 rubles has been wiped off the slate, allowing for the diver- sion of these flinds towards nurser- jes, schools, etc. In an editorial en- titled, “Which other regime in the world bestows such care upon its farmers?” Pravda, the Soviet Com- munist newspaper, remarks that the proletarian state has always ren- dered assistance to the collective farm and taken all measures to make: Soviet socialist agriculture flourishing, the most advanced and most cultured in the world. Through | this new decree concerning the can- | cellation of indebtedness each col- lective farmer is once again con- vineed that the Party and the pro- Jetarian state do everything in order to hasten the conquest of a better life. Village Soviet Elections End (Special to tae Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (By Wireless). —Elections to the village Soviets are ending. 58,835 village Soviets were elected throughout the Soviet Union, according to data obtainable by Dec. 21. In the Ukraine, White Russia and Transcaucasia the elections are completely ended. Throughout the Soviet Union 83.6 per cent of all voters participated in the elections to village Soviets (in the last elec- tions 70.4 per cent participated). An overwhelming majority of the elec- ted deputies were collective farmers (73.5 per cent instead of 33.7 per cent in last elections). Among the elected deputies 19 per cent are members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, while in the last elections 14.8 per cent were members. Women compose 26.5 per cent of the deputies. Election to the Soviet ended in 67 towns of the Soviet Union. Eight-nine and nine-tenths per cent was the average attendance of elec- tors at these meetings. There were 24,404 women among 74,547 deputies. making 32.8 per cent against 25.9 per cent for town Soviet elections proviously. Biro-Bidjan F. C. Named (Spécirl to the Deily Worker) BIRO-BIDJAN. Dec. 24 (By Wire- Ise*).—The First Con-ress of Soviets of the Jewish Autonomous Region closed yesterday. After a conclud- ) | and Cohen as secretary. ‘Auto Union Mon | izations. For eleven ent; con- ing speech by Liberberg, the firat | Executive Committee was elected,| Kalinin heading the list. Others | elected were: Lavryentev, Krutov, Gerchikov, Dimanstein, Khavkin, } Liberberg, Anshin, and Stolov, alto- gether comprising thirty-nine, in- cluding collective farm shock-bri- gaders, factory and Soviet farm rs, The delegates to the All- Russian Soviet Congress were Liber- berg and Khavkin; to the All-Union: Congress, Liberberg; to the Nation- alities Council, Khavkin. The Congress adopted a méssage to the toilers of the Jewish Autono- mous Region, outlining concrete works of the plan based on the de- cision of the Council of People’s Commissars. The first session of the Executive Committee took place following the election of the Presi- dum, with Liberberg as Chairman, Khomiakov as first vice-chairman, | Pevaner as second vice-chairman, The report of the Credentials Committee showed that half of the miegates to the Congress were Jews, most of the guests being non-Jews trom various parts of the USS.R.. demonstrating the international solidarity and assistance for the Jewish Autonomous Region. Join A. F.L. Body, (Continued from Page 1) these struggles. It was only since ‘the spring of 1933 that the A. F. of L. again took serious steps to organize the workers in the in- dustry. Thousands of auto workers desiring struggle for better condi- tions joined the Federal locals of the A. F. of L. and the locals of the Mechanics Educational Society of America. At the last convention. the rank and file pressure of the| membership in the Federal Locals, | forced the top leaders of the A. F. of L. to soft-peddie on their craft union conceptions and made them come out for industrial unionism for the auto workers. But this conven- tion decision provides for the bu- reaucratic domination of the indus- trial unions by the top officials of the A. F. of L. (officers to be ap- Pointed from the top, etc.) Especially since 1933, the Auto Workets Union repeatedly proposed the formation of a united front to the A. F. of L. and M. B.S. A. We were always ready to join hands in calling a unity conference of all bona-fide auto workers unions | in order to form one industrial union controlled by the rank and file and struggling against the em- poyers for better conditions and the triumph of unionism in the auto- mobile industry. Workers Now Divided 3. The automobile workers are united in needs and aims. They are divided organizationally and the bulk of the automobile workers are | still unorganized. The auto work- ers know that the big three, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler which are backed by the biggest Wall St. bankers, can be defeated only by the united front of automobile labor aided by the other workers’ organ- Unitd struggle is the only way to defeat company unionism, abolish the speed-up, win higher wages, the 30-hour week, a guar- anteed annual wage through un- employment insurance, ete. The new attacks by the employers, the Sharpened struggle between com- pany unionism vs. bona-fide union- ism in the industry, the fact that the A. F. of L. has become the main union for the production workers and the M. E. §. A. for the tool and die makers, the fact that there is a growing radicalization of the members of these organizations re- quires a change of policy by the Auto Workers Union to meet the changed conditions. Our burning desire for unity under these new conditions leads us to take a his- toric step after a thorough delibera- tion by our membership, our na- tional, district and local bodies. We hereby call upon all our members and sympathizers to join the fed- eral locals of the A. F. of L. if they are production workers, and to join the M. E. S. A. if they are tool and die makers. We call upon them to build these unions into powerful mass organizations con- trolled by the rank and file and through unifed struggle to lay the basis for one union in the industry. We do not join these unions to unite with reactionary bureaucrats, but to unite with our brothers, the membership of these unions to fight for the program and interests of the rank and file. We are confident that the fighting traditions and principles of the Auto Workers Union will live on in the activities of the rank and file of these unions. It is on this basis that the Auto! Workers Union as an organization leaves the eu‘omobile indusiry. AUTO WORKERS UNION. ii ’ tive conditions which brihg about | a “crisis on top”; and the subjec- tive factor. the preparedness of the | workers, when the majority of the! proletariat, allied with the toilers j of thé countryside and city, has been won over to the banner of the | revolutionary Party. | It was essentially with a prospect of such “power” as Oneal has given us that Austro-Marxism robbed the Austrian working class of victory in the February days of 1934, There wore definitely present in Austria elements of a revolutionary situa- tion. There was a crisis in the} camp of the rulers. The Nazis and the Fatherland Front were caught | in the throes of an intense struggle. Dollfuss and the Heimwehr were | visibly falling out. The proneness | of the former to enter into negotia- tions with the Nazis had brought about evidences of disintegration in the Heimwehr. Furthermore, the petty bourgeoisie was no longer a certain support. In addition, Aus- tria was strategically situated in the midst of surrounding inter-im- perialist conflicts that would have beset the efforts at invasion against the revolution with involvements and obstacles. The antagonisms be- tween the blocs favoring and op- posing the revision of the Versailles Treaty; the strained relations be- tween the two fascist powers, Italy and Germany, on the issue of Anschluss; the disagreement among the victor powers on the policy of rearming Germany; the opposition to invasion on the part of the pro- Versailles powers, by Germany or Hungary — these inter-imperialist contradictions constituted an exter- nal political factor contributing to- ward a revolutionary situation, Masses Disillusioned The workers were in the mood to take advantage of the crisis of the bourgeoisie. The masses had be- come disillusioned with bourgeois democracy. They were eager for armed resistance to fascism, to press forward in the struggle for power. But the decisive element in the subjective factor of the revolution was lacking—the factor whose pres- ence in Russia seventeen years earlier brought the working class of that country to power. Unfor- tunately for the armed struggle of the Austrian workers, the party which had succeeded in gaining the majority of the Austrian working class was not the Party of Bolshe- vism, but that of Austro-Marxism. Proletariat Needs Strategy For revolutionary Marxism, for | Marxism-Leninism, armed uprising is an art. In its war for the con- | quest of the earth the proletariat requires the military strategy of revolution. Lenin, the greatest strategist of the working class, thus formulated the guiding principles of | proletarian insurrection: “(1) Never play at insurrection; and, when it is once begun, understand clearly that it must be carried through to the end. (2) Collect, at the decisive place and time, forces which are greatly superior to those of the enemy; otherwise the latter, better prepared and better organized, will annihilate the insurgents. (3) Once the insurrection has begun, it is necessary to act with the utmost vigor, and to wage, at all costs, the offensive. ‘The defensive is death to the insurrection.’ (4) Make sure of taking the enemy by surprise, and take advantage of the moment when his troops are scattered. (5) Win successes each day, even small ones (one might say ‘each hour’ in the case of a small town), and at all costs keep the moral superiority.” It was because the Russian Bol- sheviks, guided by Lenin, applied these principles in leading the revo- lutionary offensive in October, 1917, that the working class is today wielding power in the former em- pire of the Romanovs, But the party of Austro-Marxism utterly rejected the military strategy and tactics of revolutionary Marx- ism, as it had long rejected every other Marxist principle. When the Austrian workers, defying the class- collaboration policy of Social- Democracy, took up arms against fascism, their Austro-Marxist lead- ership, in keeping with its consist- ent policy of truckling to the Doll- fuss regime, set itself up as a dam against the tide of insurrection. Workers Fought Despite Leaders It was not because of the leader- ship of Austro-Marxism, but in spite of it, that the Austrian work- ers engaged in insurrectionary struggle. Let the Austro-Marxist leadership stand branded in the eyes of workers of the world with the crime of having failed to issue the call for a general strike and of having refused to support the gen- eral strike call sounded by the Com- munist Party. Let them stand branded with the crime of having failed to call out the railroad work- ers on strike, as a result of which the government was enabled to move its trops and fascist forces against the insurrection. Let them stand branded with the crime of having urged the workers to offer no resistance, of having prevented the insurrection from assuming the offensive, without which, notwith- standing the magnificent heroism of the workers, defeat was in- evitable. “I directed my efforts to the end that no résistance be offered under any circumstancss when a search was made,” declared Otto Bauer in ; Ebert and his “socialist” themselves.” In such words did the “leaders” defend themselves before the capi-+ talists of the world for having failed to Hold back the Austrian workers from armed struggle against fas- ism. Fear for Capitalism It is not their fear lest the prole- tarian forces will meet with de- struction that sets the Oneals against revolutionary action, but their fear that the system of capi- talism will meet with destruction. If their desire were really for work- ing class. victory, how will they ac- count for their attitude to the vic- torious October revolution of the working class in Russia? There, the proletarian forces, in alliance with the peasantry, showed that, led by the Leninist Party with its Bolshe- vik strategy, they could deal a deathblow to capitalism’s “enor- mous powers of destruction.” If the Second International chieftains were honest in their intentions to- ward the working class, they would glory in that victory and rejoice that at last a legion of the world proletarian army has shown that the forces of capitalism are not in- superable. But is this how the leadership of social-democracy has reacted to the Soviet Union? Or, has not, as the whole wotld knows, the International of the Kautskys, the Dans, the Abramovitches, the Hillquits and the Oneals conducted a ceaseless campaign of slander and hostility against the land of Social- ist construction, even leaguing itself with interventionist forces? Are not the Algernon Lees and the James Oneals at this very hour banding themselves with every stripe of White Guard and fascist to défend the cowardly assassins of Kirov and lending encouragement to the terrorist emissariés of capi- talism against the heart of the workers’ revolution? When the German working class seized power in 1918 and Workers’ and Soldiers’ Soviets were set up| in German cities, when capitalism’s “enormous power of destruction” had been scattered by the advance of the proletariat—who leaped into the breach to prevent the consoli- dation of the newly-achieved prole- tarian power? Read the revelations in the memoirs of Scheidemann, read the exposes made in the course of certain German libel suits, and stand appalled at the backstairs collusion of the “socialist” President co-minis~ ters with princes and Junkers for the bloody suppression of the revo- lution. When the sword was struck from capitalism’s hand in Germany, social-democracy lifted up the fallen blade against the werking class. And—on its banner, the Scheide- manns, too, inscribed: “What hope is thére for the workers . . .?” In leading us along his “road to power,” Mr. Oneal takes pains to assure us, however, that he is not all counter-revolutionary. For coun- tries under fascism, he tells us, an- other course of action is applicable: “In fascist countries there is little doubt that success can come only ‘shod in the iron sandals of revolution,’ as Lassalle once said. In the other countries the masses cannot make the program of force their own without inviting the use of the terrible powers of the modern state against them. In other words, they assure de- feat in advance.” Urge Class-Collaboration Behind this ostensible difference in method lies, of course, the social- democratic theory that between democracy and fascism exists 4 fundamental, qualitative difference; that the former denotes a State in which the working class has a por- | thugs against the strikers. tion and which it must therefore . “Perhaps this message did | guard against overthrow, while fas- | | before the working class that there | not reach them in time, for when | cism is a violent interruption of eapitalisin’s peaceful “growth into teach, the way of the working class | in non-fascist capitalist countries must be the way of Collaboration with the bourgeoisie in power; the way of coalition governments; the | way of averting and throttling strikes; the way of non-resistance and gracious accommodation; the way of non-ititerference with the match of ¢apitalism into Socialism! against such a capitalism, the work- ers are, by the retribution of justice itself, “inviting the use of the ter- rible powers of the modern state against them.” Clearly, the ofgan- ized violence of the bourgeois State forces against the wo:king class, the mowing down of strikers, the burn- ing and hanging of Negroes, the imprisonment of revolutionary lead- ers and the destruction of workers’ organizational headquarters, the onslaughts of governmental and extra-governmental fascist forces— these are not to be charged to the oppressive class domination of the bourgeoisie and the drive toward the fascization of its rule, but are to be blamed, according to Mr. Oneal on the wnruliness and the growing will to revolt of the work- ing class. Really, why can’t we all get together like brothers? ... Thus preaches social-detmocracy. This is the power that the Oneals hold in store for the American workers. The power that German social-democtacy and Austto-Marx- ism and British Laborism proved they could foist upon the working class when, by the grace of the bourgeoisie, they were permitted to assume governmental office. Power of “Sovialist” Cops’ Clubs And in this country, in those cities where the municipal govern- ment is Socialist-controlled, the worke:'s have had a foretaste of the power that would be the lot of the American working class if the Oneals had their wey. In Milwaukee, in Reading, in Bridgeport, we have seen “Socialist” administrations in action; we have seen the m&aning of their power. We have séen the power of swinging police clubs and blackjacks let loose by order of the Socialist Mayor McLevy upon the skulls of jobless workers assembled before the Bridgeport City Hall to demand relief and back wages for shovelling snow. We have seen the power brought into action by Mc- Levy’s police when they slugged and arrested demonstrators against Ger- man fascism in connection with the public appearance in Bridgeport, under the Socialist administration's Protection, of the German Consul General of New York. We have seen the power of imported gunmen and “Socialist” city cops hurled against the Milwaukee street car strikers last June; the power of tear gas bombs and flying charges and mass arrests by the minions of the Socialist Fire and Police Com- missions; the power exerted by the “Socialist City’ administration to guard the electric utility company property against strikers and pickets; the power which the “left” Socialist Mayor Baxter of West Allis gave in a written reply to the elec- tric company’s request for the pro- tection of their prope:ty: “You are hereby advised that the City of West Allis will furnish such lawful protection to property and life as it is possible for us to supply. This protection, however, in my opinion, is not adequate for the present emergency. You are therefore further advised to take such steps as are necessary to secure the added protection.” In plain words, the power and the advice to hire gunmen and There is no denying there is power at the end of your road, M:. Oneal, You have shown, beyond any gain- saying, that you are prepared to Santa Gives More- To the Capitalists (Continued from Page 1) Christmas Day will be very dull in- deed. There may be peopie who will shout “Commercialism!” “Hypoc- risy!” But they may be disregarded as vile Communists. Of course, there is Dr. Harry F. Ward and the Methodist Federation of Social Ser- vice who said as their contribution to the Christmas spirit that the for- gotten man had fared worse under Roosevelt than the bankers and big business men. Dr. Ward also pointed out in the first half of 1934 402 in- dustrial comvanies increased their profits from $57,380,000 to $355,870,- 000, an increase of 600 ver cent Gver the same period in 1933. Here we may ne sure can be found the “sinister hand” of Mos- cow. Ward may call himself a Methodist, but the long arm of the League of the Godless is only too visible here. Hearst will soon “ex- pose” him, we may be sure. Nothing—nothing—can mar the Yuletide spirit. TAG DAY FUNDS NEEDED The New York City Sponsoring Committee for the National Unem- ployment Congress yesterday asked that all workers in the tag day campaign turn in their collection- boxes today at 80 East Eleventh Street, Room 64h, Workers Fight Move to Ban Lenin Meeting NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec, 24.— socialism.” Accordingly, the Oneals | | lead the working class into the | power of the bourgeoisie. | It is nothing short of cynical mockery for an Oneal to adopt a pose of “revolution” against fascism | in power. The purveyor to fascism | who endeavors to discouvage the | working class from militant strug- gle against the forces of fascization, | declaring “what hope is there for | the workers if these powers are d!- rected against them, or if they are ranged in suppo:t of fascism?” is the same _ counter-revolutionary when fascism has attained ascen- dancy. The misleader who declares that the masses “in the other [bour- geois democratic] countries,” in ris- ing in armed struggie against the forces making for fascism, “assure defeat in advance,” is no less the traitor when his work of preventing proletarian victory has temporarily achieved success. But whence this sudden talk of “revolution” from the lips of re+ formism? (Oneal voices, of course, the “new” theory of the Second In- ternational). The International of the Vanderveldes and the Adlers must indeed have fallen upon hard times to be compelled to utter the hateful phrases of the Communist program. But you do not know the social-democratic leaderships if you do not know them as die-hards. If we must have revolution, then let us have it properly! We will march to power through revolution, but— only when we have fascism. And So, workers, we do not, like the Bol- sheviks, restrict you to a rigid for- mula. We lead you on diverse paths to power. We show you how to march with Hindenburg to Social- ism without a revolution, and back again to Hindenburg with a revo- lution! For the “revolution” against fas- cism of which the Oneals speak is not directed against the system of capitalism. It is, on the contrary, the desire of social-democracy to bring about the stabilization of cap- italism and with that its own stabi- lization. It is an attempt to rescue both capitalism and itself from the throes of cvisis. Such talk of “revo- lution” is in reality addressed to the “more sober” sections of the bourgeoisie—a hint of what is in store for capitalism unless it in- vites the dismissed social-democracy to resume its previous role and re- tains it in its service where fascist rule is in preparation. This is the main strategy of the Prague and Bruenn leadership: manipulation on the basis of the differences between the bourgeois groups. As for the working class, social-democracy of- fers no program of struggle for im- mediate and partial gains to be wrebted from the fascist regime. The Prague leadership which speaks so much of democratic rights, is refusing to build the united front of the working class under fascism for strike struggles; it is refusing to adopt fighting measures against the fascist terror, against the carry- ing out of death sentences, against the oppressive Nazi labor laws; it Is refusing to arm the proletariat for revolutionary overthrow. Its talk of “revolution” is a talk of “whens” and “ifs: “. . . when the sonstantly sharp- ening class contradictions of capi- talism unfold themselves, when discontent and disillusionment shake the foundations of the Na- tional Socialist regime . . . then it becomes the task of the revolu- tionary elite .. .” (from the recent Declaration of the 8. P. G.—bold face mine—V. J. J.). Until then, let us not spend the energy of the working class+ “Revolution Against Revolution” Its present talk of “revolution” is social-democracy’s feverish effort to forestall and prevent the real revolution against fascism—the rev- olution against capitalism, for which the Communist Party is organizing and leading the working class. The “revolution” of the Oneals is revo- lution against revolution. It is the old counter-revolution in a new dis- guise. The road to proletarian power is not the road of the Otto Welses and the James Oneals. It is the road which social-democracy has blocked to the working class and is still en- deavoring to block in a series of lands. It is the road which Ma:x+ ism-Leninism has charted for the toiling masses throughout the im- perialist world. It is the example of the victorious October Revolution, the road to Soviet Power. Outside of Soviet Power, there is no power for the working class. All other xoads lead to the strengthening of bourgeois power. There can be no peaceful, primrose path to power. Representatives of eight organiza- tions visited the mayor and secre- tary of the School Board last Friday to protest the attempt by the school board to bar the use of the Commer- cial High School for a Lenin Mem- orial meeting on January 19. Although the Commercial High and other schools have been rented in previous years for Lenin Mem- orial meetings and are regularly rented for political meetings, the application of the Lenin Memorial Committee for the-use of the school with evasions and delay. Applica- ction was filed on December 1, The delegation denounced these tactics as deliberately dishonest and aimed‘at denying New Haven work- ers the right of free assemblage and free speech. It demanded immediate permission for the use of the school. The delegation included Robert Linn of the Communist Party, who is secretary of the Lenin Memorial Committee; Willlam Clark of the | Young Communist League; Russeil Bong of the John Reed Club; John Anderson of the Scandinavian ‘Workers’ Club, Morris Alpert of the International Workers Order, James Viera of the League of Strucgle for Negro Rights, School board this year has met the; There can be no victory for the working class save through the rev- olutionary destruction of the capi- talist State and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This truth is increasingly penetrat- ing the consciousness of the masses. It will not be so easy for the suc- cessors of the Scheidemanns, the Eberts and the Noskes to repeat their crime of 1918-20. The days are gone when the Bauers and the Renners could hoodwink their fol- lowers with faity tales about a Viennese “Socialist Island.” The Socialist workers are everywhere tearing down the fences which their leaders set up between them and the Communists. In the United States, front appeals of the Communist |Party are evoking ready responses from the rank and file members and following of the Socialist Party. The King Canutes of social-democtacy will be swept away by the advanc- ing tide of untfied struggle. The splendid united working class ac- tion in France, in Austria and in Spain; the establishment and glori- cus defense of Soviets in Asturias— these are not localized exceptions, but are flaming symbols of the for- ward pressure of the world working class for unity and power will present demands for em Bieittes of USSR. Flayed at Rally (Continued from Page 1) Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker and the main speaker of the evening, declared. Their pres- ent terrorist campaign against the lives of the leaders of the Sovitt Union is an admission that they recognize they cannot accomplish their policies through any other means. not faii pefore assassins’ bullets, Hathaway declared, amid tremen- dous applause, Kirov's assassination is the be- ginning of an offensive by all ene- mies of the Soviet Union, he warned. The capitalist press and the Hearst press, in particular, are trying to whip up anti-Soviet sentiment and to turn the situation following this cowardly assassination against the Soviet Union. Not only known white guards, but leading officials of the Socialist Party are aligning themselves with the Isaac Don Le- vines against the Soviet Union. The Algernon Leés, he continued, were silent when the Spanish So- cialist and Communist workers were being shot down, but when the So- viet Union replied with proletarian determination to the terrorist at- tacks against its leaders, these gen- tlemen have shown themselves ready to align themselves with its white guard enemies. Under the pressure of the Socialist rank and file they were forced to pass a res0- lution at the last Socialist Party national convention pledging sup- port of the Soviet Union, but al- ready now they betray the Soviet Union and the Socialist rank and file. The Soviet Government is a class dictatorship, just as the American government is a class dictatorship, Hathaway pointed out. The dif- ference is that in the Soviet Union the dictatorship is exercised by the toiling majority of the population in their interests, while in the United States and other capitalist countries, the dictatorship, whether open or concealed under democratic formulas, is exercised in the interests of a small majority of exploiters, as the working class and the Negro people have cause to know. The fellow-conspirators of the executed White Guards and the Hiter Nazis and Japanese imperialists, Hatha- way declared, have had occasion to again discover that there is a pro- Jetarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union. His statement was greeted with stormy applause. Dr. Reuben Young, treasurer of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, paid a glowing tribute to Kirov as a firm champion of the national minorities. He told of his trip, several years ago, to Africa and the Orient, and reported the greatest interest on the part of the colonial masses in the Soviet Union and its successful solution of the National Question, with the com- ete emancipation of the nation- alities formerly oppressed under Tsarism. He visited the Soviet Union before returning to this country. Herbtr Goldfrank, National Sec- retary of the Friends of the Soviet Union meters gg erie delegation sponso: v ‘SU, Goldfrank, who was in Leningtad at the time of Kirov’s assassination and later attended the huge mass funeral in Moscow, told of the deep grief and anger of the Soviet masses over the assassination of one of their most outstanding leaders, and of the pledges by workers in the factories and peasants on the col- lective farms to overfulfill their quotas for the coming year as an answer to the enemies of the Soviet Union. The meeting received a telegram of greetings from 2,000 members of the New York Icor branches, ex- pressing their anger and sorrow over the assassination of Kirov, and pledging to mobilize new sections of the American masses to the defense of the Soviet Union. In stormy unanimity, the sudi- ence voted by acclamation to send the following cablegram*to Mikhail Kalinin, president of the Soviet Union: “Five thousand American friends of the Soviet Union in New York City, meeting in memorial of Sergei Kirov, express their anger at the dastardly act of the enemies of the as elsewhere, the united | p Soviet Union in assassinating one of the leaders of the U.SS.R. and ledge their unswerving determina- tion to defend the Soviet Union and to stand behind the Soviet Union in their present efforts to smash the white Guard elements.” Mr. Roosevelt has a kind heart. ‘Wall Street vouches for him. Read the Daily Yorker and learn the story cf the happy partnership between Mr. Roosevelt and Wall Street. Become a subscriber of the Daily Worker! Get your friends to subscribe! But the Soviet Power will | MINNESOTA FARM RALLY TO LAUNCH | FIGHT FOR RELIEF' | Delegates At Preliminary Parley Criticise Gov- ernment ‘Aid’ Program, Adopt Demands to Present to County Commissioners AITKIN, Minn., Dec. 24—A county-wide mass meeting at which workers’ and farmers’ delegates will be chosen to meet with the newly-elected County Board of Commissioners will be held here Tuesday, Jan. 8. The workers and farmers ergency relief and livestock aid —Saceording to the demands formu- lated at a recent county-wide re- | lief conference held at the Finn Hall, Palisade. Eighty-four elected delegates from twenty-two townships met at the | | county-wide relief conference in Palisade on Sunday, Dec. 16. Some 200 workers and farmers jammed the hall to greet the delegates and to take part in the proceedings. Delegate after delegate took the floor and exposed the rotten starva- tion relief. One reported that upon inquiry he had found that the max- imum relief allowed to the farm- ers in the county was $20.84 a month with $8 deducted from the budget of those with livestock and vegetables. Unless the livestock and home are mortgaged, no relief at all is given. A delegate from Hill City told of getting a relief check of $4.12 as three weeks’ relief to a family of five. Out of this $4.12 he was forced to pay $1 for water, $1.50 for elec- tricity, and at present his family is living on potatoes alone. Livestock is starving, Every farm» er reported that he was in immedi- ate need of hay and feed. After the report of the delegates, & committee of nine was elected to draw up resolutions and demands, With minor changes, the reports and resolutfons of the committee were adopted unanimously. These called for the immediate enactment of the Workers Unemployment In surance Bill and the Farmers Emer- gency Relief Bill; payment of the soldier's bonus. Demands were made upon the State legislature calling for the cancelling of delinquent taxes on the homes and farms of the ruined farmers. For local relief the demands, which will be presented to the county commissioners at the mass meeting here on Jan. 3, call for food, clothing, medical, dental, op- tical and matetnal aid; immediate abolition of the transiént camp and relief aid to those now living there; and immediate issuance of hay and feed for the maintenance of lives stock. Ih closing the meeting, a county committee of action was elected, The county committee, which will be enlarged by the election of dsle- gates at city and township miass meetings, will co-ordinate the work and the decisions of the County conference, Factories Fire 126,000 More (Continued from Page 1) so that their credentials can by regstered and arrangements made for their transportation. CAMDEN, N. J., Dec, 24—The Labor, Tradesmen, and Consumers League here has elected two dele- gates to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance. Hartford Conference Planned HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 24.— Nine delegates have already been elected here, and a campaign has been organized for a housé-to-house canvas to raise funds to support the Washington Congress. Volunteers from all organizations have been re- Sete to get in touch with the jponsoring Committee for the col- lection which will be held next Sun- day, Dec. 30. It was incorrectly stated in the Daily Worker recently that an of- ficial delegate of the Young Circle League was present at a conference held in New Haven. The statement should have read, “An observer from. a Young Circle League was pres- ent.” ‘ ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 24.— The conference for the National Unemployment Congress is making rapid progress in gaining the sup- of the rank and file of the A. . of L. here, despite the attempts of some local leaders who have been carrying on @ campaign in the papers attacking the Workers’ Bill. The conference has 40 delegates representing 25 organizations, many of them A. F. of L. locals, and has been able, through Joseph Sten- ein, of Local 14 of the Bakers introduce the Workers’ Bill and the Tfational Congress into that body. Plans for a city-wide action on Jan. 7, to support the W: Congress, have been mad ie Conference is also planning to make itself a permanent united front body to carry on the struggle for unem- ployment insurance and to organize the fight for immediate needs on a State-wide basis. ‘Daily’ Salesman Trial Date Set for Januar PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 24—Trial of Edward Denny, Daily Worker salesman charged with criminal synidicalism because of his chair- manship of a meeting on July 27 to protest the terrer against the West Coast strikers has been post- Poned to Jan. 14, 1935. Denny is the third criminal syndi- calism defendant to go on trial in | Portland, + —