The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1935, Page 3

Page 3 vi v § PREPARE NATIONAL FIGHT FOR RELIEF WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The fol- lowing is the text of the speech de- livered by Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party, before the second session of the Nationa! Con- gress for Social and Unemployment Will Hold Convention in Washington on Jan, 8-9 | ™st=nce Row meeting here: », Lay Plans for Uniting * Rural Millions Ruined . % by New Deal Policies in the Countryside Re WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—Stressing the need for | | Fellow workers and friends: | The Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, which is the | main concern of this Congress, has the active and unconditional sup- port of the Communist Party, for unity and struggle against the New Deal policies, a call has | Which I am speaking. The President of the American been issued for a nation-wide conference of agricultural and | pederetion of Labor, William Green, rural small town workers throughout the nation to be held | has denounced this Bill, in a letter in Washington, D. C., January 8 and 9. Pointing to the heroic struggles: of the agrictit¥ural workers through- | out the countky, in Ohio, New Jer- sey, California, Florida and to the development of hundreds of local organizations among the rural work- ers, the Conference Call appeals to all agricultural workers in the fields, canneries and packinghouses, to the small town lumber and woodwork- ers, and to all workers in the rural communities and regions of the, United States to join together to} plan for national, regional and crop | programs of action and struggle. | In a statement issued today, the | Organizing Committee for the Na- | tional Conferemce of Agricultural, | Lumber and Rural Workers an- | nounced the opening of the Con- ference with a public meeting to be held atthe Masonic Temple, Tenth and U Sts., N.W Okey O’Deli, president and na- tionally known Ohio onion strike leader of the A. F. of L. Agricultural Workers Unian and Tom Crawford. | president and strike leader of the Seabrook Farm Union in New Jer- sey, with other strikers will de- | scribe the conditions »n their fields. H. 8. Mitchell, president of the) Arkansas Cotton Tenant Farmers Union and leader of the Alabama Sharecroppers Union will also! speak. Jack Walker, Florida citrus worker; Joseph\ Payne, president of | the Nebraska-Cllorado Beet Labor- | ers’ Association; Benito Sanchez, president of the Rio Grande Fruit Workers’ Union will be among the other speakers. A. F, of L., independent, and T. U. U. L, unions\and workers’ organ- | izations in over 20 States have al- ready endorsed this Conference and are planning to send delegates. Among these organizations are the Nebraska Beet Laborers Association, the Agricultural Workers Union, Local 19724, A. F. of L., the Gulf Coast Ses Food Workers Union, Local 763 of the International Hod Carriers Union, the Arkansas Southern Tenant Rarmers Union and the Alabama Sharecrappers Union, the Broom and ‘isk Makers Union of Nebraska, the In- dependent Fishermen’s Union | of Gloucester, the Cannery and Ag- ricultural Workers Industrial Union, the Rio Grande Valley Fruit Work- ers Union of Texas, and the Timber and Sawmill Workers Union, Local 19021, A. F. of L, Kimball, West Virginia. All delegates and organizations should get in touch with the Con- ference Committee at the Atlas Building, Room 509, 527 Ninth St., N.W., Washington, D. C. Pointing out that the Roosevelt ‘New Deal has spread ruin and pov- erty among the agrarian toiling Population, and that all attempts to wrest improved conditions for rural workers has been met with terror- ism and suppression, the call lays down the following program for dis- cussion at the convention: “This Conference must discuss | ways and means of combatting these conditions, of enabling us to unite our strength, of discovering | how we can work together to| strengthen our organizations, and) of taking steps to secure the sup- port of our allies, the city workers and the small farmers. “Four immediate problems face us at the start: “1. The problem of unemploy ment, adequate relief and insurance. “2, The New Deal policies of the N. R. A. and the A. A. A. and the planning and development of pro- grams of action so as to secure de- | cent wage levels and living condi- tions. “3. The problem of establishing co-operation on a local and na- tional scale to secure united action of all existing groups and organiza- tions in the countryside and small towns to aid each other in our struggles, in our defense work, and in mobilizing mass support during | strikes. | “4, Preparations for the holding ef regional and crop conferences to strengthen our existing organiza- tions and to build new ones throughout the countryside and in the small towns. “1, Elect delegates to the National Conference. Read this Call to your members at the first possible meet- ing of your organization; if possible, have copies made locally and spread them to all rural workers in your Tegion. “2. Inform us immediately of other organizations or individuals in your locality to whom we should send copies of this Call or with whom we should communicate in the future so as to develop this movement throughout the country. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. ORGANIZATIONS — Attention! All orgenizations are asked not to ar- range any affairs on April 26, 1935. ‘The Freihelt Gesangs Farein has date for its Grand ith Annual Spring Concert in the Academy of Music. | Workers’Enemies Exposed James Watson, Negro intellectual of Philadelphia, Pa., has been ex- pelied from the Communist Party as a petty-hourgeois nationalist and a elmann,” sound picture, lelphia. Nature ging + elety. All -" at Liebknecht-Kirov Memorial Meet- ing, Wed., Jan. 9, 8 p.m. at Gewerbe Feil, 2632 N. 2nd St. Adm. 30c. Auspices, Northeast Sec. 0.P. Only Showing in South Phila. A les of Ernst Thaelmann. Railway Employment Falls to 54.5 Per Cent of 1923-25 Average WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6, Dropping below the million mark, though it once stood at more than two million, railroad em- ployment in November fell to the lowest point since February, 1934, according to a preliminary report of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, A decrease of 3.1 per cent from the middle of October to the middle of November reduced em- ployment in Class 1 railroads (ex- cluding switching and terminal companies) from 1,011,683 to 979,- 176 workers, a loss of 32,507 jobs. The figure also represents a 1.84 decrease as compared to Novem- ber, 1933. The railway employment index (adjusted for seasonal varia- tions), shows a continuous de- cline since last May, when it stood at 57.9 of the 1923-25 aver- age. By mid-November, if, had dropped to 545. Florida Clearance Plan Seen As a New Attack On the Negro People JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Jan, 6.— ‘The Florida “slum clearance” proj- ect developed a new twist last week when it was announced locally that the government would approve the city’s plans to replace torn-down Negro shacks with a huge white park development. Former plans in the “slum clear- | ance” had provided for the removal of two tuberculosis-breeding Negro \slums, and their replacement with | government-financed homes for the families who would be driven out of the old buildings. Hasty inter- vention by the Mayor and Council, | however. brought to light. a “better” |Plan—the Negroes would be dis- possessed from the old homes, and |in place of new homes for them a | lily-white park would be created. With all Negro dwellings in the city already overcrowded, and Negro residence restricted to the jim-crow neighborhoods, the new “slum clearance” plans appears to “population clearance” to many lo- cal citizens. renegade, who went over te the) ;¢amp of counter-revolutionary | Trotzkyites, Already in the Willie Brown case, when the local police framed up a | young Negro worker and the Party fought it as an expression of the whole ruling class lynch policy against the Negro masses, Watson at first resisted this line of the | Party and refused to help in the de- fense of Willie Brown. Watson’s petty-bourgeois nation- alist view that the Negro question in the United States was only a ra- cial question, not that of an op- pressed nation, showed itself clearly in his practical work as the secre~ tary of the International Labor De~ fense, in which he consciously avoided to appeal for unity of the white workers and Negro people in the struggle for the rights of the Negro masses, To the patient efforts of the Party to bring Watson to an understand- ing and full acceptance of the Party line on the Negro question, he maintained an evasive position. Going from bad to worse in his petty-bourgeois nationalism he re- fused to recognize the role of the proletariat in the Negro liberation movement, but looked to the petty bourgeoisie to lead this movement. He even raised the slogan of “unity of all the dark races,” an openly counter-revolutionary slogan spon- sored by the agents of Japanese im- perialism in the United States. had become the agent and exponent of the theories of the Negro bour- geoisie within the ranks of the Party and removed him from lead- ing positions for his anti-Party ac- tivities and underhanded methods, Watson showed his real face and found a peaceful haven in the camp of Trotzkyite renegades. As a petty-bourgeois nationalist Watson did not recognize the im- portance of the struggle against white chauvinism and always found excuses for his failure to carry on this struggle for the unity of the white workers with the Negro peo- ple. His expulsion from the Party will clarify the position of the Party on the Negro question, it will help to mobilize the whole Party in the struggle for Negro rights, to in’ sify the fight against white chauvin- anti-fascist struggles in U, England, Friday, Jan. 1, 8 p.m, at) 41208 Tasker St. Adm. 25¢, ism and petty-bourgeois national- ism, When the Party saw that Watson , to all trade unions of the A. F. of | | L. which cites two main arguments in opposition. These are, fi t | the Bill was written and proposed by the Communist Party; and sec- ond, that it is unconstitutional. As to the first charge: It is true | that the Communist Party worked out this Bill, after long consultation | with large numbers of workers, pov- | ularized it, and brought millions of Americans to see that this Bill is | the only pronosal for unemployment |insurance that meets their life needs. | But that is not an argument against |the Bill: that is only a recommen- ‘dation for the Communist Party— | for which we thank Mr. Green most | kindly, even though his intentions | } Were not friendly. | We Communists have no desire to keep this Bill as “our own” pri- vate property; we have tried to make | it the common property of all the toiling masses; we have tried to | bring every organization of workers (and also of farmers and the middle | classes) to look upon this Bill as “their own.” Thousands of A. F. | of L. locals, scores of Socialist Party | organizations, dozens of Farmer-La- bor party locals, claim the Bill as theirs. That is good. that is’ splen- | did; the Communist Party, far from | disputing title to the Bill with any- one, agrees with everyone |claims the Bill. We are ready support any better proposal, no mat- ter who should make it. Of course the Bill is yours; it belongs to the | entire working class, to all the toil- ing masses of America. In this fact ; We find our greatest triumph. | Argument About Bill’s “Constt- tutionality” Mr. Green’s second charge, that | the Bill is unconstitutional, is a | more complicated question. This is | will be said by the Supreme Court, a small body of elderly gentlemen who are famous for their obstinate defense of capitalist property and profits rather than for defense of the | vital interests of the masses. But | we can warn the Supreme Court and | the capitalist class for which it speaks, that on the day when the| court declares the Constitution for- bids the only measure that promises | |to remove the daily menace of | starvation from over the heads of | millions, on that day it has struck |a blow against the Constitution far | deeper and more effective than any- | thing revolutionists have ever done. | If the Constitution prevents the principles of the Workers’ Bill from becoming law. then millions will conclude, not that the Workers’ Bill must be given up but that the Con- stitution must be changed. They will remember the words of the | Declaration of Independence, that | “whenever any form of government | becomes destructive of these ends | dife, liberty, and the pursuit of | happiness), it is the right of the | people to alter or abolish it, and to | institute a new government, laying | its foundation on such principles, | and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and hap- piness.” . . . “It is their right, it jis their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new | guards for their future security.” This revolutionary spirit, which ; gave birth to the U. S., still lives | and grows in the working class, Never was security more shattered for the masses of the people than today; never were new guards for security more needed; and if the the Declaration of Independence to “throw off” this Constitution and write a new one in keeping with modern needs, The toiling masses must prepare a new Declaration of Independence—this time indepen- dence from the capitalist class. Capitalist Profit Blocks Mass Needs Of course, the real obstacle is not the constitution but the greedy in- terests of the profit-makers, of the capitalists, of Wall Street. Unem- ployment and Social Insurance must be paid for; it will cost great sums. There is plenty of wealth in this great, rich country to pay for it—but it is all in the hands of the rich, the bankers, the monopol- ists. These gentlemen know this full well, that the poverty-stricken masses cannot pay, because they, the rich, have stolen all the accumu- lated wealth and natural resources of the country. That fact is itself the cause and basis of the crisis, of unemployment. These gentlemen are determined not to pay one cent; instead, they wriggle out of | paying even the present legal taxes, and indeed obtain hundreds of mil- lions of dollars in tax refunds. | The Rich Must Pay The Workers’ Bill, and the Com- munist Party, declare that the cost of full insurance for all must be paid by the only ones who can pay— by the rich. Instead of the Roose- velt New Deal volicy, which is tax- ing the poor in order to further subsidize the rich, which increased profits while lowering living stand- ards, we demand that the govern- ment shall tax the rich to feed the poor, It is not alone the unemployed and their families who need and demand the Workers’ Bill. Also the workers in the factories, in the trade unions, need it just as much, to re- move the pressure of the starving millions, to prevent their recruit- ment into the factories at lower | wages, to prevent strike-breaking, to help build poverful trade unions, lip hold up the whole: standard of who | to | | a legal point, on which the last word | Constitution stands in the way, then | points out the right, nay the duty, | ; living of all the masses as the pre- condition of holding up the stand- |ards of even a part. It is needed by the farmers, who cannot sell their produce to millions without income, and who are therefore told to destrov their crops while these millions go hungry. It is needed by the middle classes, professionals, } small business men who are being also crushed into nvoverty because with the imnoverishment of the | masses their own field of business is | destroyed. Everyone needs the Workers’ Bill except the bankers. monopolists, big capitalists, Wall Street. Roosevelt’s False Promises President Roosevelt. when appeal- ing for election in 1932, promised | unemployment ‘insurance. Two years have passed, and nothing has been done about it. Last summer he | renewed his promises, in anticipa- tion of the Congressional elections, and broadened it into the high- | Sounding phrase of “social security.” | But with the elections over, he has discovered once more that “soctal security” must wait upon the secur- |ity of private profits of the rich. Once again we are given the mock- ery of the Wagner Bill and forced labor for a part of the unemployed at subsistence wages, the systematic forcing down of the living stand- ards of the whole American people: | once again we are told that insur- ance can only be in the form of “reserves” collected from the work- ers by the various States for future | unemployment, ignoring the 16,- 000,000 now out of work. Th forget that if present unemplo’ | ment is not met by real unemploy- ment insurance, all their measures | for the future will also become meaningless, for the masses will rise and throw off their power and write a whole new set of laws. Wall Street Controls Capitalist Parties | The Democratic Party. controlling Congress, 1s against real unemoloy- | ment insurance. The Republican Party, which would like to control Congress. is even more unanimously | opposed to it. Both these parties are owned. body and soul, by the | | capitalist class. They will do noth-| | ing—until we convince them that| the masses of the people are “fed | up” with their old two-party sys-| tem, and are preparing to “vote! with their feet” by walking out of | the old parties in million masses, | Millions of toilers already showed, | in the great strike wave and in| the November elections, that they! are getting tired of the old game.| It is not an accident that 7,000,000 | who voted Democratic, and 3,000.000 | who voted Republican, in 1932,| stayed away from the polls entirely in 1934, Millions of voters could see nothing in either narty to jus- | tify the effort of walking to the| ballot box. And some enthusiasm | in the elections could only be found | (aside from the followers of the| still small Communist Party) only | where the voters thought they could | see something “more radical” than | Roosevelt. That is the meaning of | in California; of LaFollette and the| of the Farmer-Labor Party victory | in Minnesota in spite of the vicious | record of Olsen; and even of that | half-fascist demagogue, Huey Long! in Louisiana, with his moratorium | and similar measures. Dozens of | similar though smaller examples | could be cited. The strikes of marine and textile workers, the Toledo, Mi)- waukee and Minneapolis strikes, and above all the great San Fran- cisco General Strike, point the same road. Millions of toilers are beginning | to look for a new path. They are! taking the first steps to break away from the old two-party system, which denies unemployment insur- | ance and every other measure in| the interests of the toiling majority of the people. A mass break-away | from the old parties is in prepara- | tion. It is this great movement of strikes and demonstrations, and the | | break-away movement from the old parties which gives promise of forcing the adoption of the Work- ers’ Bill. | Mass Movement Toward Revolution- ary Party | This great mass movement is still | confused and ineffective. It has not yet found itself. It will have | to go through many bitter disap- | pointments and disillusionments be- | fore it finds the right way. It will have to see how the Progressive Party of LaFollette clings in Prac- | tice to the Roosevelt. apron-strings, | and uses its “radicalism” to catch votes, but not even to write laws. It will see its Farmer-Labor Con- gressmen voting with the Democrats against their demands, and its Ol- sens calling out the National Guard against strikers. It will learn that it must find a program and a lead- ership which frankly and openly | comes out in struggle against the | big capitalists, who own 90 per cent of the country, in the interests of the toiling masses, the 90 per cent | of the people, who do all the work. | | It will find that it must become an anti-capitalist party, a Labor Party. Just imagine what a different | situation in Congress we would have on Capitol Hill, if the millions of workers had been organized to vote | for their best strike leaders, the un- employed to vote for the builders of the Unemployed Councils, the| | farmers to vote for those who led | their picket lines and “Sears-Roe- buck penny sales,” the Negroes to vote for those who lead the fight against lynching and jim-crowism and for freedom of the Scottsboro boys. Just imagine in U. S. Con- gress a strong group of these lead- ers of the masses supported by a mass movement, and imagine how much quicker we could force Con- gress to enact the Workers’ Bill into law. How different such a Congress Would be from this one composed entirely of lawyers, bankers, and. the hired-men of Wall Street! Every honest fighter for the! | Workers’ Bill must realize that) » Precisely this is the only sure road, | |of being Sinclair and his E.P.1.C. program|¢ “Progressive” Party in Wisconsin; |j the road of mass struggle support- ing parliamentary action, to the enactment of real unemployment insurance The Communist Party is a Party of Labor, of all those who toil. And it is not an ineffective party. In comparison to its membership and vote, it is the most effective party that ever existed in the United States. A vote for the Communist Party registers deeply; just think, for example, how much easier it would be to “ ‘suade” even the present Congress to adopt the Work- ers’ Bill tomorrow, if they had been | frightened to death by the ghost of a few million Communist votes last November, and by a greater mass ike movement, by greater street demonstrations, by wing mass organizations. But the Communist Party Is a particular kind of a Labor Party. Our program goes far beyond Un- employment Insurance, which after all is only an emergency measure. We propose a revolutionary solu- tion of the crisis of capitalism, by abolishing the whole rotten capi- talist system. by setting un in its place a socialist system which would put everyone at work, not at the New Deal slave-labor, but with the most modern machinery producing | the goods we all need for our own use and not for capitalist profits. We propose to travel the same road already shown by the glorious vic- | tories of the Russian working class and with rapidly expanding the Socialist system. It is unfortunately true that the millions now prepar- | ing to break away from the old parties are not vet prepared to go the whole way now with the Com-| munist program. | We Communists are often accused | “unrealistic” and “sec-| tarian,” because we bring forward! such a far-reaching revolutionary program. But we are convinced that our program is the only real-| istic one. the only program which can solve the problems now vex- ing humanity. We are sure that all of you, all the broad masses, will be convinced in the not-distant, future. by experience. We do not| propose to “make a revolution” by | ourselves. as the fantastic lies of | the Dickstein Committee and Hearst | tell vou. not by absurd conspiracies. | not by “kidnapping the President,” | not by bombs and individual terror, | all of which we denounce as police | provocations. but only with the| majority of the toilers, by mass ac- tion, when they have been con-| vinced of the Communist program. | And we do not sit idly waiting until the masses are convinced of our program. We Communists work and fight together with all of you. | among the broad masses, for all} these parties’ demands, for the} deily life-needs of the masses which are already understood. It is not| an accident, for example, that it was left for us. the Communists, | to formulate the Workers’ Bill, Offices excluded.) April 5, 1935 (midnight). the Daily Worker. credit of the contestant. or their equivalent. must secure a minimum of equivalent, KA 4 Saturday subs equal 1 which is the center of the great mass movement represented in this Congress. So also, when mass break-away from the old par- ties, which will play such a great part in finally forcing the adoption of the Workers’ Bill. We would wel- come these masses at once into the Communist | Party But we are real: We know that for a time they will stop short of full Com- munist program, We do not arate ourselves from this mass movement for that reason. We en- courage and help the movement in every way. We call upon all of you to do the same thing. We propose that all of us ge in a great effort for unity, in struggle for immediate de: against the capitalists, unity upon the broad basis of the class of those who labor against these who exploit our labor, unity on the basis of every-day need: unity of the poor egainst the rich, of the pro- ducers against the parasites. We Communists are prepared to join hands, with all our force, all our energy. all our fighting canac- ity, with all who are ready to fizht against Wall Street, against mon- opoly capital, in the formation of a broad mass party to carry on this fight. into a fighting Labor Party based upon the trade unions, unemployment councils. the farm- ers’ organizations, all the mass or- ganizations of toilers, with a pro- gram of demands and of mass ac- tions to improve the conditions of comes to the together unity the masses at the expense of the} rich, for mezsures such as the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. the Negro Rights’ Bill, and the Work- ers’ Unemvloyment and Social In- | surance Bill. Working Class Unity Can Win The Congress on Capitol Hill, to which you will tomorrow present the Workers’ Bill, is packed against us. It is composed of the paid agents. of the bankers and mo- nopolists, of Wall Street and the parties controlled by them cannot convince them by arguments. You can change their votes only by threatening their power, by more unity, more organization, more now- erful organization of the workers. | The mass movement in support of the Workers’ Bill is potentially such a threat. We must, from this Con- gress, go out to the country to rally millions for the necessary nex step—to build a great, broad, unite: front of Labor, economically and Politically, which will begin to take up the question of State Power, of control of the government, which will begin to fight to end the power of Wall Street, to realize the poli-| tical power of Labor — which will launch the struggle that, begins with the Workers’ Unemployment and Social ance, can end only with a complete Workers’ Society, that will abolish forever even the terrible memory of hunger, misery and unemployment. Bill for the | You | hough it} Insur- | QUOTAS DRAWN UP IN DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE Success of $60,000 Drive Shows Thousands of New Readers to Be © ‘on—Communist Party Must Be Driving Force in Campaign With every district Worker publ today swinging into action, the Daily the quotas set for the districts in the campaign to gain 10,000 new subscriptions for the week- day, and 15,000 new subscriptions for the Saturday edition of the Daily Worker in the next three months. for each district is a modest one.@ With the proper activity on the part of all with the proper modi. tion of the mass or- ganiz s, trade union hosts of individual of the “Daily,” the goal can be reached and exceeded wiihin the time set Never before has the time to gain new readers—new subscribers—for the Daily Worker been so advan- tageous. The success of the $60,000 drive is proof of this. Thousand new contributors were recorded. These thousands are only a minor part of the numbers who are ready for our revolutionary message. With class battles ng in number and intensit; hundreds of thousends of workers can be made regular readers of the Daily Worker. The paper, too, much better paper in and appearance than before. and the nicer in the United States, it ever was Party Must Lead The Communist Party districts, sections and units must realize that they are the driving forces in the campaign, that the Communist Party members must be in the fore- front of those working to get subscriptions. Each Party member must set himself or herself a quota of new subscriptions—and get them! Reguler check-ups, encourag' | ment and directions should be given | to the mass organizations and trade |unions so that they perform their | work correctly. | new The readers and supporters of the “Daily” must not only be convinced jof the necessity for every one of | them to seek subscriptions but un- employed and part-time workers must be convinced that an energetic nd concentrated effort to get new | | readers and subscribers is a means | of making expenses. | Workers who take part in the drive can also win any one of the| ten prizes (see details in another space) offered by the Daily Worker. The first prize is a free round-trip to the Soviet Union! | Start Socialist Competition Socialist competitions should be | sections, units, organizations and | started at once—between districts, individuals. | Let us put the Daily Worker in WIN A FREE TRIP to the SOVIET UNION and sympathizers. 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