The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1935, Page 6

Page &- Daily .QWorker ERTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIOWAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 ©. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address Washington B: lth and Midwest Telephone ‘Daiwork By Mai 6 months, $: Manhatta: 6 months. By Carrier Saturday Edition WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935 — ne al A New Ruling Aimed to Trick Steel Workers | HE decision of the National Steel Labor Relations Board calling for elections in the Carnegie Company plants of the U. S. Steel Corporation emphasizes the growing unrest of the steel workers and their in- creasing demand for strike action. The decision is aimed to bolster the waning faith of the steel workers in the Steel Labor Board, and to take their minds off strike action Such decisions, even if carried through, are not of any benefit to the workers. As the Houde and Weirton cases show, these d ions only serve to increase rength of the company union, in- crease blacklist. and keep the workers chained to compulsory arbitration instead of preparing strike. nest of Amalgamated Association of | 1 and Tin Workers’ officials for elections in these plants were ignored by the Steel Board The Steel Labor Board was set up last June, with the approval of William Green, in order to prevent the steel workers from striking at that time. Since then, company unions have grown, discrimination against union men has increased, speedup has in- tensified, and there is rumor of coming wage cuts. Under the Steel Labor Board the conditions of the workers have grown worse, not better. Now, in view of these worsening conditions, the steel workers are becoming disillusioned with the Steel Board. They are beginning to see that their demands can be won and their conditions bettered only through struggle. The rank and file move- Ment in the A. A. is growing rapidly. Hence the | Steel Board makes an empty gesture in order to head off the growing strike movement Green and M. Tighe, president of the A. F. of L steel union, are agreed with Roosevelt and the steel companies on the basic questions of staving off strikes. To prevent the coming struggles, Green and Tighe are now carrying on a red scare against the militant rank and file of the A. A. Green and Tighe also agree with Roosevelt and the em- ployers on compulsory arbitration of the Steel Labor Relations Board. They did not agree to the “pro- portional representation” proposals of Roosevelt be- cause they knew the steel workers would not swal- low such open company union proposals. But the present decision for “elections” is aimed to serve the same purpose as the “truce” negotia- || tions recently held between the companies, Roose- | velt and the A. F. of L. top leaders. The present | decision is aimed to prevent strikes and to keep the workers chained to the compulsory arbitration Of the Steel Board. This would mean what it has meant since last June—still worsening conditions for the steel workers, the defeat of all their de- mands. The steel workers can win their demands not through reliance on “elections” which even if car- ried through will change nothing. They can win their demands only by preparation of strike strug- gle and the control of the union by the rank and file. | the Rally Against Attacks On Racine Workers HE increasing use of fascist-like terror to beat down the struggles of the working class against starvation and for unemployment relief is graphically dem- onstrated in the drive being conducted by Racine, Wis., police and vigilantes against the work- ing class and its organizations. For several months past, police and fascist bands of vigilantes and legionnaires have been raiding and | breaking up workers’ meetings in that industrial city of 67,000 population. Unemployed workers pro- testing cuts in relief have been gassed and clubbed by police, their leaders arrested and railroaded to | jail sentences. The right of free speech and as- sembiy have been brazenly trampled in the dust by the authorities. As usual, the fascist attacks on the working class are directed first and particu- larly against the Communist Party, with prohibi- tion of Communist meetings, arrests of Communist leaders and even kidnappings, as in the case of Sam Herman, who was taken for a ride by vigi- lantes, but managed to save his life by jumping from @ speeding automobile. These attacks are openly led by Grover C. Lut- ter, Racine Chief of Police, who is quoted by the New York Times as stating that drastic action is necessary to save established institutions. In true Hitler fashion, this minion of the bosses of Racine answers the protests of the workers against unem- ployment and starvation with gas bombs, clubs and bans on working class organizations. The Communist Party in Racine is resisting with the greatest heroism the attempis to destroy it. The workers of Racine are answering with a mighty united front movement the attacks on their rights and organizations. It is necessary to rally the toil- ing masses of the whole country to their defense, to the fight against the rapid fascist onslaught in Racine. Protests should be sent by all workers and their DAILY WORKER, NE fascists, to Governor Schme- n, Mayor William Swoboda and C. Lutter of Racine. Demand ic attacks on Racine workers and their ms, and a halt to the viola- on of their constitutional rights of free speech a bly nization If the attacks on the Racine workers succeed, it be a blow to the whole working forces elsewhere will be emboldened. as the A Fighting United Front In Milwaukee HE strike of 1,000 workers of the Boston Store, Milwaukee department store now in its fifth week. It has al- ready proven to be a demonstration of great significance for the working clas moveme organization of the hundreds of thousands in such who are among the most exploited workers in the country ke was called jointly by three A. F. of Attempts by certain officials to con- it in a bureaucratic manner have been resisted by the rank and file during the entire period. The nsignificant wage increase offered by the Store was rejected overwhelmingly at a mass meeting strikers. Despite efforts of such officials to main- tain picketing within the bounds prescribed by the Milwaukee police, mass picketing was organized. Not depending upon the officials, active rank and filers took the struggle to the entire labor move- ment and to the people generally, with the result that the pressure forced even the Federated Trades Council to declare its support for the strikers. The a of the International officials and of the Federated Trades Council to get the workers to surrender without winning any of the basic de- mands, or to conduct the strike in a manner that would have spelled defeat weeks ago, was averted due to the splendid spirit of cooperation which was developed between the active militants among L, unions. duct of the strikers, Communists and rank and file So- cialist Party members. The actions of Socialist Party leaders, among whom are some union offi- cials, such open support to the Boston Store owners as printing their full page ads in the Socialist Party daily, the Milwaukee Leader, have aroused many Socialist workers to openly oppose their party lead- ers in meetings of strikers. The united front is built despite certain reactionary officials of the unions and the S. P.—on the picket line and in the activity to win the masses, behind the strikers. International officials of the unions are again maneuvering to bring an end to the struggle which is slipping out of their hands. They want to end it any way possible. A secret conference with the employers has been arranged. They will try to ig- nore the decision of the workers that all unions on strike must be affected by the settlement before the workers return. They will be willing to wave wage increases or recognition of the unions, if the workers will let them do it. United action of all sincere rank and file work- ers among the strikers must be strengthened now more than ever. No settlement should be permitted unless the workers first approve it. The Boston Store strikers have carried on a splendid fight, they have won the mass of workers behind them, and have very good prospects for a victory if the mili- tant policy is continued. Roosevelt Hands the Vets A New Year Greeting HAT a bitter New Year greeting Roosevelt delivered to the hundreds of thousands of war veterans who sit to- day in bleak homes with their families facing hunger and evictions! “IT am impressed with the fact that 85 per cent of you bums die paupers anyway,” Roose- velt, in effect, tells the veterans and their families. So why not hold on to the back-pay certificates un- til 1945 when they fall due, he suggests. Why not, in short, starve quietly now, in the hope that you will be alive in 1945 to starve then? Is not this trickery the hallmark of this Wall Street tool, this President who always stabs in the back while he embraces? How unctuous is his empty solicitude for the ragged, hungry children and wives of the veterans! But how shrewdly this solicitude begins in 1945, ten years from now! Can one not see how this consummate actor will weep tears for the “boys” when he sends them by the thousands again into the meat-grinders of the next imperialist war? Can one not see how he will glory in the “sacrifices” of the “people” for whom he is at this very moment sharpening the bayonets of war massacre? Roosevelt's contempt for the veterans and their | crying need is only the measure of his contempt | for the masses, for all who toil, for all who are | loaded down by debt and misery! Roosevelt's blow at the veterans is only the sign by which he indicates how he will act toward ihe whole working class in the coming year, with the ruthlessness of a devoted Wali Street lackey spend- | ing billions for war and profits, and trampling on | the faces of the poor. Let the whole working class of America take up the challenge of this Wall Street agent! Support the vets’ fight! Pay the veterans their cash bonus! Stop the war funds and the bankers’ profits! For cash re- lief and Federal unemployment insurance! || Join the Communist Party | 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- | | munist Party. | NAME.. ADDRESS.... clared for recognition where the A. A. is in the majority. The com- panies and Roosevelt insisted on proportional representation and that | the A. A. deal through the company | union “works council.” Green and | Tighe knew that the rank and file | in the A. A. would not accept such | an open company union proposition. | Steel Poll Seen USSR. Set New As Trick of NRA «Seevinued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) went of the A. A. and William y See eye to eye with the Besser government and the steel regarding prevention of a Strike, and regarding suppressing Mmilitanj rank and file move- aa of the A.A. Green and Tighe,| more to turn the attention of the | economy, in recent “truce” conferences with | steel workers toward compulsory | eereit and steel company repre- | arbitration. sentatives, agreed to compulsory ar- | pitration of the Steel Board, agreed to a campaign against the rank and under the guise of a “red scare” 21 is already going on. ‘Waes> “trict” negotiations were see that to once more put their trust | on Steel Board arbitration, on such | elections, would once more defeat their demands, They. are organizing for control of the A. A. by the rank more Records in 1934 But now the top leaders as well as difficulties, and there will be diffi- the Steel Board and the employers | culties, but they are of no import- are planning to accomplish the same | ance as compared with those which end—of preventing the coming strike | had to be surpassed formerly. The struggles—through another Weirton | U.S.S.R. can boldly reckon upon a or Houde decision. They seek once | still tempestuous growth of its whole “This year is commencing with the | abolition of the bread cards and a The A. A. rank and file, however, significant growth in the well being of the toilers in the towns and vil-' tional Association—which publishes lages. We have a right to expect that the present year will hold still striking fireworks of mass heroism and records, In this respect , where all the greetings from organi- on the question of “ma- and file, in order to prepare struggle the past year is only preparatory joni tule, Green and Tighe de-| and thus win their demands \for further advancement,” Party Life Party Fractions And Recruiting Of New Members ye recent Party and League doc- uments stress the urgent need for shop work and the im- portance of paying more attention to work in the unions. Yet, we have neglected to bring into the Industrial unions and A. F. of L. oppositions workers from the revolutionary mass organiza- tions. There is an I. W. O. youth branch in the North West section of Chi- cago. At the last meeting of this branch, out of the thirteen young comrades, seven were shop workers, three working in metal plants, and the majority of them non-union members. These people were never approached to join a union, Similarly, we find in many of our mass organizations comrades work- | ing in basic industries or key shops. | These comrades are given no atten- tic: and involved in technical ac- , but never approached on the of their conditions in the fact is that in this very |I. W. O. youth branch there is a |comrade who works in a shop of 800 young workers. The Y. C. L. |has for the last six months tried to make contact with this shop un- | successfully, without utilizing this | worker, As it is, this young com- rade, though she worked in the shop for about one year, knows nothing of conditions outside of her own department, says there are no griev- | ances, but the average wage is from $13-$15 per week, and $19 for those who have been working there for fifteen years! If our mass organizations would pay attention to such shop workers and develop them correctly it would help us great deal in rooting our- selves in the shops and improving our work in the unions. | NORTHWEST SECTION, | YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, UNIT No, 9, District 8, Chicago, Ill. | Q\N November 12, Unit 1101 of the | Commuist Party decided to issue @ leaflet in the neighborhood to pre- pare for the United Front Hunger |March on November 24. The leaf- | let called upon the workers in the neighborhood to come to a meeting | to form a block committee. Thirty- | five workers were present at the | Meeting and a committee formed. | At this meeting, delegates were | elected to the United Front Con-| | ference which was held on Novem- | | ber 17th to prepare the November | | 24th Hunger March. | The meeting also took up the question of the relief cut then and | there and found two workers in the} meeting who were badly in need of | |relief. One of these was a Negro woman, who for two months was | denied relief and medical care. She |had no coal, clothing or food in her home. Workers at the meeting | | elected a committee of three, which | went next morning to the relief station, and in one hour succeeded in getting a doctor to go to the house | of this woman and some three hours later got the medicine, Next day they succeeded in getting clothing. food and fuel for the woman. A week later the same block com- | | mittee met and elected a perma- | nent committee to take care of needy | cases in the block. The results were | that we succeeded to bring in many | | workers from the neighborhood. A preacher in that territory offered |his church for the meetings of the | | block committee and accepted his | | nomination to be on the Executive Committee of the Block Committee. | |He made a speech a week later | | urging the workers in the neighbor- hood and his church members to | take a very active part in this Block |Committee, and that he would go ; With them to the relief station to| demand relief for his members. This enthused the Party com- |tades very much, and we succeeded |in recruiting tw members into the | Party. By starting such actions in |the neighborhoods we can carry through’ our recruiting drive and | build the Party into a mas Bolshev- lik Party. National Drive Is Instituted By Farm Paper | Farmers’ Weekly Plans! To Double Circulation in Three Months | | | | CHICAGO, Jan. 1—A_ three- | month campaign to help the Farm- |ers Weekly, national farm paper, | has been launched in a letter sent | by Henry Puro, national secretary of the United Farmers League, to | farm organizers and workers all | over the country. | The campaign starts today and | will last until Mazch 1, with the | aim of doubling the present cricula- | tion to 12,000 and strengthening the financial position of the paper, | $5,200 Deficit Yearly | The present circulation brings a $5,200 déficit every year, Puro points | out, and adds that a 12,000 circula- tion would wipe this deficit out and make the paper self-supporting. The campaign for increased cir- culation also commemorates the first anniversary of the founding of the paper. | Puro’s letter follows: | “Enclosed please find the First ; Anniversary Campaign Bulletin of the Farmers Weekly. This campaign will start Jan. 1 and last until March 1. The purpose of this cam- paign is to strengthen the financial position of the Weekly and to make our militant farm organizations members of the publishing associa- tion—the Farmers National Educa- the Weekly. This campaign will culminate with a special enlarged anniversary edition of the Weekly, BEDTIME STORY by Limbach By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Jan. 1— When one realizes all that the mil-| lions of workers and farmers in the Soviet Union have gained from their assumption of power, from the Soviet system, it does not seem in any way unnatural that the first | threat in recent years against that | system should have called forth the | blaze of passionate defence, the torrent of pledges of loyalty to the| Soviet government, that resulted | from the assassination of Kirov. This outburst of loyalty by millions marching in the streets and tens | of milions in innumerable meetings | startles one only by its universality, unanimity and vigor—even though the threat which stimulated it now appears to have been largly the work of expatriated conspirators, worming their way in across the border for terrorist purposes, nec- essarily futile terrorism as far as any larger aims are considered. Practically every speaker, on whatever subject, and there are many workers and farmers speaking | now in connection with the elec- | tion workers and farmers speaking | peat, as fervently as he knows how, his feelings of gratitude and loyalty | to the “Soviet Power.” The expression usually used is Sovietski Vlast, which may be and often has been translated, “Soviet | System,” or “Soviet Regime.’ But | Viast actually means “Power,” and | the connotation and inferences are | a little different from those of | “Regime” or “System.” The masses , know the power is in their hands, whereas before it was in the hands | of the Czar, or of capitalists and landlords. | What the peasant or worker in| the mill or on the fields expresses in direct and simple words mention- ing as reasons the difference be- | tween the way he lived before and| | the way his father lived as com-| pared with the way he lives now, | the workers who have mastered the | | arts of literature, the young Sovist worker intellectuals put in phrases of poetic eloquence. expressing with | | their greater ability what all are| | feeling. | | A Worker Novelist | Take for example, | “titer A Avdeyenko, whose first | Novel, an autobiographical work, en- | titled “I Love” has been translated | into English and many other lan- guages. Avdeyenko still works as a locomotive driver. When a meeting of writers was recently called in the heavy machinery manufacturing city of Sverdlovsk, in the Urals, to discuss the issues in the election, Avdeyenko was invited, and came. What he said was reported in the Soviet press, as follows: “A few days ago I received this invitation card, calling me to a meeting of ‘intellectuals.’ I looked at. it several times, repeating the word, ‘intellectual! I am now one of the intellectuals.’ | carriage the Soviet | helped the owner to dismount. uthor Talks About | The Old and the New Life ka, now Stalino, we met, and came back through the ‘French Quarter,’ the ristocratic part of town, where the engineers and specialists and capitalists lived. “I remember music, and smartly dressed people coming out of their houses, and flowers, such things as | we workers never knew or expected | to have. “I remember the prevailing col were white and pink: white smocks on the men, white dresses, or pink dresses, and pink shawls on the women, “My father would push me along angrily when TI stopped to stare. “Once I heard him snarl like a curse, and this word was ‘Intel-| lectual!’ It was caused by the ap- pearance of a man in a white coat, | with crossed copper hammers on his | cap, the badge of the engineer, He was talking to a woman in pink,| talking so close to her that his mustache tickled her bare shoulder, and she laughed. When this man went on talking and tickling the woman with his mustache. That was why my father muttered, ‘Intellec- tual!’—-and I can still see how my} father’s fist clenched, and I can} still remember the look of black hatred in my father’s eye. I have | |Temembered all these years of my life this look of my father, and his fist, and the contempt on the face | of the man in the white coat. | “I never knew his name, but I met that intellectual several times | more, Service in a Factory “Once at the factory of this Bel- gian-French company, a new blast furnace was to be started, and there | was divine service. I saw t ‘friend’ of mine, going side by side | with the priest, holding an ikon in his hands, and whispering some- thing, probably repeating the pray. ers and asking long life for the Belgian blast furnace, | “In the evening I saw him in a smart carriage with a fat man in a hat and with a. pipe between his teeth—one of the owners. This ‘friend’ of mine jumped out of the when it stopped and} “Then I saw him during the| strike, when he was holding tight| to the sleeve of my father and| shouting something in his face, with foam covered lips. He kept pushing my father in the chest until my father lost patience and shoved him into a wheelbarrow full of crude oil, and then the whole crowd began to cover him with iron shavings, “But in a moment, Cossacks were pouring through the gate. and their whips began to whistle. I saw how my father fell down, and that a horse stepped on him several times. “For the last time I saw, not ex- actly the same man, but his twin, his fellow, at the trial of the wreck- ers. He was sitting with his head “And I remembered, how, one day, going to meet my father at the gates of the steel mill in Hughesov- down, unshayen, and from time to |time he shrugged his shoulders as lif from the cold of the bayonet of |meeting. But why? v (country. I go to theatres. I don't saw us look at him, he turned his! qreaq tomorrow. I myself elect my back contemptuously on us, and! own Power ‘ | ica, and I dare to dream so because the sentry that he felt behind his back. “Now, here, today, I am called an | ‘intellectual,’ myself, and quite offi- | cially called so; the Soviet Power has called me so. I repeat all over | again this euphonious singing word, Intellectual,’ and I try to find the answer to the question: ‘How did it| happen that T am now called an in- tellectual?’ “I don't protest against this defi- nition; I quite agree with it, and I am coming quite joyfully to this “But I don't want to think of all the word meant before. I am too full of happiness to think more of darkness and froth. Today I want to think of happiness. “I Enjoy Life” “I come to the meeting Gevoted “I come to the meeting devoted to Soviet Power. I am an intellectual. I write books. I learn. I enjoy life. I love a girl. I live in a big, strong “And for all this, thanks to you, Soviet Power! “In the early morning I jump from my bed. I wash with cold water. I do my exercises. And then I run up and down my room and sing and lalgh because of so many emotions, because of so much strength, “And all this is due to you. Soviet Power! “I may become a good writer. I will live in a socialist society and all people will be my brothers and I will dwell in the world of happy people. “And for all this, thanks to you, Soviet Power! “I dream to create something im- mortal, or to fly to the moon, or to go around the whole world and see socialism in Europe and Amer- nobody suppresses my creative fan- tasy. “And that, Soviet Power! “My hair will become gray. My skin will get wrinkled and brown. I will reach the age of 100 years, but still I will smile, I will love the sun and the air and Man. “All because ot you, Soviet Power! “I am courageous, buoyant, ireamy, strong, curious: I like every- thing .that is beautiful, healthy, truthful and geod, I am like my comrades and my comrades are like me. “All due to you, Soviet Power! “When I shall write a book about this gratitude, I will lead my hero to the grave of his father who hated intellectuals, I will make him say: “Do you see me, My Father, do you hear me, do you understand the new meaning of this word that you hated so much, this word (Intellec- tual?’ iS “And I will make the father to rou are happy. My Son, and enjoy life for yourself, for your children and for your grand- children.” too, is due to you, | an: 6 “The Farmers Weekly still has | about $100 weekly deficit above the circulation income, It is therefore necessary to take steps to cover this | deficit so that we can continue to publish the paper, which is so vital for the struggles of the toiling farmers. We hope that through this anniversary campaign we will be able to raise a reserve fund. This will only be possible if our leading organizers who are in the position to give guidance and stimulus to ‘his campaign, will really do their duty, “vo emphasize the importance of raising the circulation it is well for you to know that with 12,000 cir- culation the Weekly could be self- supporting. By uniting all our ef- zations and individuals are to be published, forts we can easily double the cir- culation Aid oan tia byGovernment MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 1—| In a characteristic New Year's gift | to the working class. children of Alabama, the Federal government ing class ‘oes not permit schooling has ordered the cutting off of Fed- eral aid for Alabama schools after Jaborers for the cotton fields, can- January, 1935. The order wes re- ceived by the Alabama Relief Ad-| ministration from Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, Meantime, while the Federal aid lasts, teachers are to be paid a max- | ‘imum of $15 weekly. This, however, | iprieitt ‘Schools Ended does not apply to the Negro teach-| Church's foundations, ers. ‘The order specifies that those teachers whose “normal income” is less than $15 a week, are to receive their normal rate. Many Negro teachers are paid as low as $5 a week, and that only for two or three months a year as the Southern rul- to interfere with its supply of child ning factories, etc. Only rural counties and cities with a population of less than 5,006 | | |World Front By HARRY GANNES -—— | Mexican Crisis Who Are the Red Shirts? | A Little Catholic History ECAUSE the anti-clerical forces in Mexico, who de- | fended themselves against an jattack by Catholic fanatics, | whipped up to religious fren- zy by the priests, wore red shirts, the American capital- press is trying to make it appear icy were Communists. For example, the New York | Times prints the headline: 62 Reds |Are Held in Mexican Killing. The fact is that the Communist Party |of Mexico has been vigorously ex« posing the trickery of the Carde- | Mas government, which not only does not carry out an honest fight against the feudal, reactionary ele- ments hiding behind the Catholic | Church, but actually uses fake anti- |clerical propaganda to conceal its failure to solve the economic prob- lems confronting the workers and peasants of Mexico, The five fanatics were killed in |Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, jafter a carefully prepared vicious propaganda campaign in the United States against the Mexican govern- |ment. One of the leading forces in this most poisonous campaign of lies against the Mexican people was none other than, Father Coughlin, who tock time out a week ago from his pro-fascist propaganda here to spit filth against the Mexican work- ers and peasants who do not relish the idea of letting the church shackle the Mexican people in ig- norance and feudal exploitation. FoR example, Coughlin told of the “humanitarian” priests who ac- companied the Conquistadors to Mexico and Latin America in the days of Cortez and Pizzaro. Actually, these priests were sent over to help rob, rape and slaugh- ter the native peoples who had reached a high stage of culture. The brutalities, the wanton slaughter, the unparalleled robbery, commit- ted by these priests, which have stamped the history of Latin Amer- ica, are only now being imitated by the Nazis and fascist scum through- out the world. Prescott’s book, “The Conquest of Mexico,” tells how the fiends of the Catholic inquisition implanted their system of brutal- ity, degradation and ignorance in Mexico and Latin America in order to help the Spanish grandees build up huge feudal empires in Latin America. The Mexican people have been struggling against these forces of darkness and superstition and frightful exploitation for centuries, and have managed to make some progress, despite the reactionary governments of Mexico. It is for that reason that Cardenas today, in looking for an issue to arouse the people of Mexico, brings up the anti-clerical fight—not in order to land a final blow to the church, but. to divert the masses from a. real struggle against feudal-capitalist relations which alone would for- ever wive out the terrible traces of the Catholic-landlord hierarchy. * Ringe 5 Gs Cardenas government realized that this shadow-boxing against the church reactionaries wouldn't hurt them much. Yet the American Catholic leaders let loose a cam- paign of filth and abuse against the Mexican government which was deliberately designed to arouse fa- natical Catholics, some of whom are armed, and many of whom are bandits covering their banditry with the sign of the cross, to take pro- vecative measures. That is precisely what occurred at Coyoacan. The Red Shirts, a pro- Cardenas youth organization, hav- ing nothing to do with Commu- nism, or the Reds, as designated in the American capitalist press, held an anti-clerical demonstration in front of the Coyoacan Cathedral. The religious zealots, prepared by their priests to become martyrs, as- saulted the Red Shirts. The Red Shirts revlied and five of the re- ligious opium-maddened gang were killed. One Red Shirt had first been beaten to a mass of bleeding flesh and battered bones. The Communist Party has time and again pointed out here and in Mexico that it is against any form of individual violence, that these tactics of the fascists—and particu- Jarly the tactics of the Catholic fascists in Spain, of the gentlemen of the Order of Jesuits, whose chief politician is Gil Robles, oustanding Spanish fascist; they are the tac- tics of the Austrian Catholic-fascist regime. Now the Cardenas government, after it has reaped its distraction, is publicly disavowing its own cre- ation—the youthful Red Shirts. These misled youths are to be sac- rificed by Cardenas to appease the enraged paval politicians in the United States, where the real power and rule over Mexico resides in Wall Street. ee eo Te Catholic reactionaries, more then anyone else, welcome this kiting of a few of their members because it gives them an opportu- nity to hide the fundamental issues of the Church in Mexico. Every: revolutionary struggle of the people of Mexico against feudal slavery has of necessity always been at the same time a struggle against the church. The Mexican people cannot stand without shaking the The Church was always the greatest landowner, the greatest oppressive force in Mexico, as it is now in Spain; it was always the church which not only itself exploited the peasants, but filled their minds with the. blackness of the dark ages to keep them from breaking their fetters. The Church has readily lent it- self, in more recent days, to any imperialist power which would help it retain the firm grip it still has cn untold wealth in Mexico. | All greetings to the Daily are at present eligible for Federal aid, Worker on its Anniversary should be in before Jan, 12th}