The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1935, Page 6

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY. JANUARY 10, 1935 William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party “MNHE proletariat.” says William Randolph Hearst, “was ownership of the mills, mines and factories. have shown that they are unable to manage their af- This is the result of proletarian management of the lowest order of citizenship in Rome.” Con- Just how much “ability” did Mr. Hearst need in fairs. affairs. tinuing, the venal publisher declares that order to inherit $17,000,000 from his father, who made a _ The proletarian leaders of industry in the Soviet What-is ‘more/ithe advance in industry is -reflacted “This class was without property of any kind and ast fortune in mining operations and speculations in Union have led the way to phenomenal industrial prog- F A in the advance in science and culture in the Soviet Union. the West? Mr. Hearst knows that it is precisely the “ability” of the capitalists to exploit, plunder and rob that ren- ders the proletariat propertyless. The fascist Hearst denies that the working class is ress in the face of the universal breakdown of capitalist economy throughout the capitalist world. Steel production is an excellent index of industrial advance. Let us see what “Business Week,” a publica- tion which enjoys more prestige among the capitalists than even the Hearst publications, has to say on this score. The U. S. in 1934 produced 32.8 per cent of the world’s output of steel as compared with 45 per cent without any constructive or executive ability to acquire any “In Ru Dr. Carl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. returns from the Soviet Union with the announcement that the U.S.S.R. is construct- ing one of the finest systems of scientific research in the world. The proletariat of the Soviet Union has proved to the entire world that it has “the ability to rule’—in the interests of its population of 160,000,000. during the disorder which followed the World War, this class obtained by force and violence, complete control of the powers of government. Is this class, which is the least able successfully to manage its able to manage its own affairs. But life itself has shown own affairs, the best able to manage the affairs of a that the proletariat can manage its own affairs, and nation?” that it is the bourgeoisie that is bankrupt. Mr. Hearst taunts the workers with the fact that In the Soviet Union, under proletarian rule, ever- capitalists they are “without property of any kind and are without any constructive or executive ability to acquire any.” Why is the proletariat without property? Because brigands like Mr. Hearst and his fellow have robbed the masses of the natural re- sources of the nation and enslave the workers by their higher levels of production are being reached. In the United States the “best minds” of American capitalism, led by Roosevelt, are frantically destroying wheat and cotton under the A. A. A. and curtailing pro- duction to keep prices up! The “Captains of Industry” in capitalist America Daily ,.<QWorker QUPTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ILS.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daity Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. | Troops in the South HE mere announcement by the Rich- mond Hosiery Mills that their plant in Rossville, Ga., would open with scabs, was notice to the government that troops are required. Since Monday troops under com- mand of the same military officers who di- | Party Life | Recruiting Campaign | Election Follow-Up in the decade 1924-1938. This is the result of capitalist “management of af- fairs.” The U.S.S.R. in 1934 produced 12 per cent of the world’s steel output as compared with only 1 per cent ten years ago. The proletariat of the United States, which with their families comprise 70 per cent of the population of the U. S., will, despite the viciously impotent rantings of Mr. Hearst, demonstrate that it too will yet rule in a society which will drive Mr. Hearst and his fellow exploiters from the face of the earth! THE POLLUTER by Burck World Front }———- By HARRY GANNES -——' On Stalin-Wells Interview |G. B. Shaw, et al : 5 ocx A ss | “Linking Up” ‘Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. rected the shooting of strikers during the | 37 ¢ ay e tp ; The Class Struggle bane ia pee oS Ae ea a ae ke Ran ded | BY ©: M. Ore. Unit 32, See. 1, N.Y.) | QUITE soniiovers . has Was! Room 954, National Press Building, general textile strike, have surroun TORING. the -élecdée: “campaign | a roversy tet ae St Wo ae wes Bt. Room 106, Chicago, m, | the Rossville plant. Sixty workers arrested [MJ our unit did very little recruiting. been stirred up in the Dearborn 3831 Subscription Rates: Felephone 36.00; were taken to the same Hitlerite concen- ration camp where strikers were impris- | Although at the beginning of the election campaign we had set our- on rate Soha ee stodgy liberal press in Eng- | land over the Stalin-Wells in« except Ma mn and Bronx), 1 year. ‘3 . | selves a recruiting quota as one of 5 9; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month. 0.75 cents. oned during the general strike. our campaign control tasks, we lost terview. ‘even sy ; When the great textile strike was called peace ed a END e ne eee pea | We are sure that readers Weekly, 18 cents. nthiy, 1s ts. : | we were so busy wi e details : shi Drciens Gy matt pears $1.80" 6 chante 6 Sonia off, and when many other strikes due last | arranging open-air meetings, getting of the Daily Worker, which September were postponed, it was due to | speakers, putting out leaflets, etc. | recently published fs i leeeiet f % i “ ” 7 Just another case of not seeing the full, will be interested in the fol- THURSDAY a six-month “truce” agreement between UARY 10, 1935 The C.C.C. Mutiny HE first mass mutiny in a C.C.C. camp at South Mountain Reservation, New Jersey on Tuesday was in protest against the military-fascist character of the camps. It effectively exposed the legend spread by the Roosevelt administration that these camps were “health and character building institutions.” The 125 boys who mutinied complained of mistreatment by the military officers Francis Gorman, William Green and the other leaders of the American Federation of Labor, But the “truce” as every worker can now see was intended as a disarma- ment period for the workers. But the hosiery workers in Georgia are proving that workers’ solidarity will not be broken by increased brutality. Three more mills are now out in solidar- ity with the Rossville strikers. Other mills should join the strike. All workers should protest against the mil- itary terror! forest. for the trees. | After election day, when we an- | | alyzed our unit's work in the cam- | paign, we pointed out our slowness | | in recruiting as one of our major | shortcomings, and decided to take immediate steps to remedy the sit- | uation immediately. First, we decided to carry out) some of the Section’s instructions | in order to make the comrades | recruiting-conscious: | 1, Checking up on each unit mem- | ber at the unit meeting. We find| that this stimulates the comrades to follow up immediately certain con- | tacts which they were allowing to| drag on indefinitely. Open Meetings lowing comments on the interview | taken from a series of letters writ- ten to the liberal weekly “The New Statesman and Nation” of London, First there is Bernard Shaw, who berates Wells for trying to teach Stalin a lesson or two about the class struggle. “Just contemplate the situation for a moment,” he writes. “Here is Russia solving all the problems which we are helplessly trying to buy off with doles, to frighten off with armaments, and to charm away by prayers for revival of trade, In the course of solving them polit- ical discoveries in applied political science of the most thrilling inter- | est and vital importance have been + pie tiem zs ——_——— 2. Open unit meetings. We ar- Rages sare tataatiad a in charge, and of discrimination and ar- * * ranged for a joint Party and Y.C.L. ‘He alin) is a sta bitrary punishments and fines. Imperialist Robbery open unit meeting for which one of | | unique . experience, compared to It is significant that the boys were especially bitter about the “degradation of not being treated like responsible human beings” and of being “put to bed like chil- dren.” The treatment of the boys at the C. C. C. camps is in full accord with the fas- cist doctrine that “discipline and order” must be drilled into everyone at the point of a gun; that human dignity must be up- rooted by terror, in order te have a com- pletely servile population which will carry out every dictate of their masters. It was against this imposition of fas- cist discipline and fascist servility that the boys revolted. The revolt was put down in typical WO capitalist diplomats conversing in Rome wrote an agreement which slices up the continent of Africa. Laval of France visited Mussolini of Italy to talk over the question of the relations of the two coun- tries. Italy and France were previously in conflict over Jugoslavia, Hungary, and North Africa. But now in Italy, the fascists fear the rapid onward march of the economic crisis. Mussolini is faced with a financial collapse. For this reason he is now ready to flirt with France, for a good consideration. The French imperialists, fearful of German Fascism’s war plans in Austria and Hun- gary, have won Mussolini over to an alli- ance for the preservation of Austrian “‘in- dependence,” and against any revision of | the comrades volunteered to lead| jthe discussion on “Why Every Worker Should Join the Communist, | Party?” We are not following the | Suggestion of issuing a leaflet to the | workers in the neighborhood invit- | ing them to this meeting because | the workers would regard it as just | another mass meeting, whereas| | when they are personally invited to} a unit meeting at which assign-| | ments are given out, business taken | up, etc., the newcomers feel that they have attended < real, authentic Communist Party unit meeting. The | unit comrades have a number of) contacts whom we hope to sign up at this meeting. | Secondly, we decided to arrange a | series of mass meetings in the neigh- borhood for the purpose of recruit- jing and in connection with our va- rious campaigns. The main speaker | at these meetings is to be the Com- munist candidate who was most rene aa File Delegates Report On Experiences in Jobless F ight whom the rulers of the western | powers, hanging on to an automatic and evil system with an equipment | of emoty phrases, fictitious histories, and obsolete routines. seem like rows of rickety figures in a worn-out wax-works. The privilege of an in- terview with Stalin is an honor and an opportunity of which the most eminent social philosopher might well be proud.” Oe ae te NOTHER contributor, Barter, writ “The first thing which strikes one with startling suddenness on read- ing Mr. Wells's conception of So- cialism is its considerable similarity to the Socialism of two other think- ers (!), who profess distaste for the Marxist conception of class war. I refer to Goebbels and Hitler, whose | cooperation with the Ruhr capital- ists leads them to refer to this type John ry ra 2 ap | of society as specifically ‘German style. Forty of the most militant were the boundaries of Europe set by the Ver- | popular during the election cam- ee >. a | Socialism,” anslogous to Mr, Wells's 4 dubbed “ringleaders” and expelled from | saities treaty. Fas vy Howard Boldt State Committee of Action; Relief try. Terror and the vigilantes op-| he of couee, unfair to clasify. Mr the camp. The remainder were fined $3 In return for this European set-up, ‘ae we HE Gomeaae praiilaeano WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. -9,—| Workers Protective Union of Iowa; | erate openly with the co-operation | wells with them. in any other of the $5 that they receive for personal i ‘ “ maak the “Ti ti t th Assembled as the highest governing | Citizens Welfare of Hackensack, | of the police and attend demonstra- respect, as with ‘Al Capone; but his # Siac France has made many concessions to Mus- | speak on the “Importance of the body of their organization, delegates | N. J.; New Jersey State Federation|tions armed with blackjacks, he i { , 4 expenses, and threatened with immediate nie WN ri yg | Communist Vote.” The attendance el . fee : + he | failure to understand the issue is 3 fats : solini in North Africa, and around Abys- | |from twenty-eight States and an| of Unemployed and Relief Workers; | said. A fon thes iene mene expulsion if they protest again. | sinia. This means no good to the Abys- | eae daeone pdeser A sei outpost _of American imperialism, | Unemployed Relief Workers of Iowa;| Deane of Shamokin reported on|tererctation of it, The officers in charge said that “grow- | sinian people. Mussolini is given every | tions were signed and handed in, |POrt© Rico—grim leaders of the | Crawford County Labor Association | the Nov. 24 demonstrations called| “In his statement that Stalin's % ‘ 5 gee ete given ever) Italian, English’ Pastors unemployed struggles in the neigh- | of Iowa; United Farmers League of| by the Socialist and Musteite un- | class war propaganda has not kept ing boys need sleep, hao it was “pure opportunity to prepare a war against the | yoy we mre TIRRRIp OES hid borhoods—rank and file from the| Minnesota; Public Works Unem-| employed leaders. “It was a cold|pace with the facts, Mr. Wells Communism and insubordination” when Negro people in the last independent coun- | simi! American Federation of Labor, the | Ployed Union of San Francisco; and| day, but the work: bled,” irtsel the 0 e : : | ar meeting, to be well prepared | ; 4 Ys rkers assem} »” he | reveals hirvself as the incorrigible the boys yelled “stick together! eee nae | with’ a’ good. distrienreind “Ge Vaarieta independent unemployed groups and| three local. of the Stick-Together | said, and when the secretary of the | Panglossian optimist. He overlooks ys y : | ve . : ea posters in‘ Ttallan ane seietish, the Unemployed Leagues recounted | Club of Florida, Unemployment Councils appeared, that the facts have kept pace with Well, the C.C.C. boys are learning to | Every worker should protest and fight | ot rion the same comrade. will pert ane and the perspectives! Delegate Payton of the Central) the workers demanded that he lead|the propaganda. Like Pangloss, stick together. And by sticking and fight- against this imperialist robbery. Every | speak on the Washington Congress eet oe loved be arte oe a ple ne ont civbad Roamer ea a Capa mens Svat y i Ree ae . aati . 4 jdooe nal ay |for Unemployment Insurance. lose Nunez, an unemployed to- | Unemploys eagues declared that | Councils had been denied a united | the best (‘mentalitv changes,’ says ape, together they, will change conditions. | ae eyety assistance should be giv be the This Testing will be part of our | bacco worker, who was elected at an| the membership of the locals Mone-| front by the leaders. The workers | Wells to Stalin). he pais the They will also become convinced of the | y ssinian people against the vicious im- unit work in preparation for this|ll-island conference of the unem-| gan county overwhelmingly support | demanded that the Council secre-| class war as a nineteenth-century need for Communism. erialist plot cooked up against them in Ployed of Porto Rico, and who|the Workers Unemployment and|tary speak, and they cheered his| survival even when it p Pp Pp ag: Congress. It will also be used for al even n hits him a Rome. recruiting. It will also serve to keep planned to attend the great Na-| Social Insurance Bill and demand|appec)s for unity. The rank and stinging blow in the face with the —_—___ “ the Communist candidate before| tional Congress for Unemployment | the united front of all unemployed | file of these groups are ready for! occurrence of everv strike. shakes ‘ | the workers in the neighborhood so|1nsurance, reported on the condi-| groups. “I was informed just. before | the antes front and even for or-| him violently by the shoulders in Gramsci Released | : i that when he runs again next year,| ions of the unemployed masses of|I left that Bill Traux of the Na-| Sanizational unity.” The leaders of | the recent sporadic civil war in the | M arxist Education the ‘worketa- Will kdow hha: Porto Rico. tional Unemployed Leagues ‘iad de-| the Unemployed Leagues had been| United States, and virtually anni- { N THE past few days in quarters of | Eo yee va we af Bae ee es party eat ald not sana oa woolly a out pe Ke ee Hack race atel hee Oe saute so) ue * * ry * ‘. | racti very. e different campa’ = unemployment insurance ue if le crescendo of attacks on Italian anti-fascist exiles, in workers’ | HE practical every-day struggles of the ling. justice to haan alk We intend congress,” Nonse his “put the | Congress for Unemployment Insur-| elected by a mass meeting of the| working class which we hive aaa neighborhoods of Paris the news spread | workers and other sections of the toil- | to hold each recruiting meeting in penis nee up ie money for my | ance,” Fayign nn 2 soe but they refused, Deane a Sats Austria and Spain ,, ’ i ramsci Ww. 1 oe s sfully eon- | connection with all our campaigns.| transportation which was sent by is of Trickery 5 ese last two yeers.” u that Comrade Antonio Gramsci was a pita: oi be nese us m8 | ERLE hy & wes ave: inking. coc Eke AMNt es iecea a) William Friend, organizer of the| Kelleher of the Waterfront Un- pie Sek : iy from a pte oe w v3 perc ive d he es a eo ema political under- | cruiting a part of our other cam- “The nasees of Porto Rico,” he Richmond, Virginia Unemployment eres Councils called upon all| 1 M. KEYNES, the liberal econoe ‘ih . in a village of Southern Italy or Sardinia. standing 0: e struggles. | paigns. continued, “are doubly exploited—| Councils told a story different than | the local groups represented at the The news now appears confirmed. “Revolutionary practice gropes in by the American monopolies and by that of most delegates, He is a convention to support the seamen’s J. mist, comes intn the discussion, in his support of Wells as against rs | their own bourgeoisie. A family of | sturdy well-built Negro—a tower of | Struggles. “Already in New Or-| Stalin. end receives the followit The freedom of Gramsci, outstanding the dark unless revolutionary theory German Pay five gets seventy-five cents a week| strength. “We have not much ter-|leans the seamen haye _ struck| renlv from Dora Russel: se throws a light on its path. But theory for relief which is paid in voucher,” | ror,” he zaid, “but the relief offi- | @gainst forced labor,” he said. Yes- leader of the Italian revolutionary prole- tariat, is a great victory for the workers in all lands. We hail his release with joy. The international working class has been abie to force open the heavy doors of the prison of Italian fascism. But the victory is only a partial one. Though out of jail he is exiled. Gramsci, along with Terracini, Scocimarro, and others at the well-known trial of the Cen- tral Committee members of the Commu- becomes the greatest force in the work- ing class movement when it is insepar- ably linked with revolutionary practice: for it, and it alone, can give the move- ment confidence, guidance, and under- standing of the inner links between events; it alone can enable those en- gaged in the practical struggle to under- stand the whence and the whither of the working class movement.” (Stalin— | Lower Than Former Dole BASLE, Jan. 9—‘“The average wage of the German worker is lower today than the unemployment ben- | efit received under the republic, | while part of the sum which used to be given to the unemployed is now used to subsidize armaments.” and he produced the relief checks. “Yet on the island, food costs are as high or higher that here in America, since most of the land has been taken out of food production to swell the profits of the sugar and tobacco barons. As a result most of the food is imported from America.” At the conclusion of his address, the assembled workers sprang to their feet and sang “Solidarity.” From 29 States The 330 delegates assembled here at the Fourth National Convention cials resort to insidious trickery and subtle schemes. The newly-devel- oped leaders are bought off, if they are weak. Bringing the white work- ers into the Councils is one of our most important problems. The Rich- mond Councils are almost entirely Negro organizations, and the relief officials try to perpetuate this by telling the white workers that this is a Negro organization. However, we are making progress.” Ricardo Diaz of Florida declared terday I was on a delegation to the F.ER.A. I asked Aubrey Williams, assistant federal relief administra- tor, if it was the policy of the F. E. R. A. to compel the seamen to work at forced labor. He said that it was, I then asked if strikers were given relief, and again he said yes. But when I asked if the seamen, who are striking against forced labor would continue to get relief, {he asked me to come back Jater. | Last night he said that relief would be denied them.” “In Fngland todev no one has personal vower. (Mr. Keynes's words). Have not the landlords personal power, the bankers, the heads of armament firms. the law- yers. the heeds of B.B.C. and the press? Why cannot we adopt a new economic policy drawn up by Mr, Keynes tomorrow if nobody is extrting power to vrevent it? As en economist. Mr. Keynes must be well aware thet, our valués being what they aro, the measure of every individual's power in our society is | i} | pie i that the only force stopping them The seamen are | his bank balance or credit.” et Party of Italy, had geveral more-vea: | Leninism, Vol. I, p. 94.) Such is the outstanding statement|of the National Unemployment! from winning the majority of the | Striking against forced labor ditch + es ae y Hie santa Latbctbes e years: | The teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, | of am article in the bourgeois “Na-|Council came from twenty-nine| workers to the Unemployment digging at one dollar a week, he| Wells, it appears, is no prophet serve on his sentence. | He was illegally condemned by the application of an excep- tional and retroactive law. Two more years in prison would have put Gramsci in his grave. His life even now is in danger. Stalin, etc., must become the property of the advanced sector of the working class, the toiling farmers as well as the radical- ized section of the inteilectuals. The Workers’ Schools in New York, tional Zeitung” here, devoted to the situation of the German workers and titled: “The Bonds Tighten.” “As a result of taxes and cuts of every desoription,” the article con- | tinues, “wages have reached a real States and Porto Rico. Two hun- dred and seventy-two were from locals of the Unemployment Coun- cils, twenty-seven came from fra- ternal and cultura] organizations of ton States, nine come irom trade Couiwils is the lack of organizers. “Spurious ‘gi¢ups have been formed by local politicians who seek to profit out of the organization and lead the workers into defeat,” he said. said, James Hannon, a member of the U. M. W. A. and of the Unemployed Leagues, made a stirring appeal for unity for the basic rights and needs of the working population. in his own country, and least of all in his own political family, ged Se UE ts FS eS Ges Aes at convention set up a National Board of fifty-six members who come : starvation level (a petty-bourgeois/ union locals which included four| Bluff and boast is not a part of | “Defense squads are needed on|from twenty-nine states, Isracy The struggle must continue more ener- Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco | employee touching a monthly wage) Pennsyivania United Mine Workers| these veterans of the unemployed | every demonstration we hold,” the |Amter was unanimously re-elected getically for the freeing of others, for the ‘and other places base their work on the | of $115 has to pay out twenty-three | of America, ten were fraternal del-| struggles. They criticize sharply, | delegate from Los Angeles reported. | national secretary, and Herbert liberation of the Communist leaders Ter- racini, Scocimarro, of the Socialist Pertini, of the Anarchist Lucetti! Forward to the struggle for the libera- tion of all class war prisoners in Italy, for _ the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, of Com- rade Rakosi and the thousands of political prisoners tortured and rotting in fascist dungeons! teachings. of Marxism-Leninism. The Workers’ Schools offer the opportunity of acquiring the theoretical knowledge for the understanding of the practical prob- lems. The Winter term in the Workers’ School is about to commence. Classes fill up rapidly. We urge our readers to reg- istex. dollars a month at Isast for sub- | scriptions and various “charitsh!e” | projects). | “The wages at the armaments fac- tories in Thuringia have been re- duced to a scale of five to ten dol- lars a week; the average weekly wage in the Ruhr collieries is $12; in the Rhineland textile industry $6 to $8. The unemployed receive on an average of $2.20 a week, ie., they have to live on thirty cents a day,” ogates, and eleven represented un- employed groups other than the Unemployment Councils. In addition to the representation from the Unemployed Leagues, other independent unemployed groups rep- resented included the Workers Pro- tective Union of Mansfield, Ohio; Relief Workers Protective Union of Denver, Colo.; Workers Protective League of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Workers National Union of the World of Oklahoma; Los Angeles 0 Vy eut like a scalpel into all causes, pry into misiakes in order that they might rectify them. Allen of Den- ver, Colorado, reported on the four militant FER.A. strikes, and de- clared that insufficient organiza- tion had resulted. Yet budgets for the relief and unemployed workers in Colorado run as high as $140 a month, Joint struggle, ever alert to any attempt to iower their relief standards, had won some of the highest relief budgets in the coun- Relief had been increased from $8 to $48 a month by militant demon- strations and all cases of sending the single unemployed workers to concentration camps at wages of $5 a month had been stopped. From all sections, for several hours, the grizzled veterans of un- counted thousands of unemployed struggles reported at the fourth na- tional convention of the Unemploy- ment Councils, Before adjourning last night the rH Benjamin, national organizer of the National Unemployment Council. Dick Harrington was elected chairman of the board, and Phil Frankfeld, who is now serving a two-year sentence in Blawnox Prison for his leadership of the Pittsburgh unemployed, first vice- chairman. A Negro leader from Alabama was elected second vice- fede aay com Mrs. Darlevice from the Pennsylvania coal fields, third vice-chairman,