The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1935, Page 8

Page §& DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935 WHO ARE ‘ LIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, liar extraordi- r the capitalist class of the United States, “the incompetent proletariat” in his infamous last Sunday Me WIL broadcast of You—who have dug the coal, laid the tracks and steel and stone structures that are industrial America—YOU are “incompetent”! You—engineers, architects, teachers, whose brain work helped to build industrial America—YOU are “incompetent”! No, not the bankers, the brokers, the stock specu- lators, the captains of industry are “incompetent.” They Daily QWorker | GHPTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) HE three “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 typical style. PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th They have Street, New York, N. ¥. actionary Re Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. actionary Der New York, . N. ¥. onal Press . lephone: Nation: 0. Room 705, Chieago, Tl Midwest B Telephone reau: 101 Dearborn 3 Subscription Rates: By Ma { Manhettan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00; | ‘ 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents the Legislati Poreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00: $3.00. They also monthly, 75 cents. ar, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. gument SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935 LaGuardia’s First Year of publican or PEAKING a radio network twenty-six broadcasting stations Thu over These are day night, Mayor LaGuardia boasted of supposed to the “achievements” of his administration. against the In today’s Daily Worker we begin a tive represen more detailed examination of these | Communists, “achievements.” Here it is essential to s k sentatives of make one basic point: Fusion has carried out the policies of the bankers at the expense of the masses of the city. | The bankers have been paid every nickle on their loans to the city. The sales tax was put over on the people | in order to meet the bankers’ demands for $180,000,000 for “debt service,” that is, principal and interest to the bankers. | The sales tax has meant an actual slash | ries of the would have to the capita that their action conflicts between a “Democratic Senate” and a “Republican House,” which would hinder the adoption of labor legislation. But who ever heard of either the Re- are not responsible for the breakdown of capitalist in- dustry. You—“the incompetent proletariat”—are. Men starve; wheat is burned. Women shiver; cot- ton is plowed under. Children grow wan; milk is dumped. Machines rust with idleness; the army of unemployed grows. And YOU, the workers, are incompetent. NOT the masters of industry. But IS the proletariat “incompetent” ? Let’s look at the situation in the Soviet Union, the ruling class of which Mr. Hearst terms “the incompetent proletariat.” There is no unemployment in the Soviet Union. In Unity With Reactionaries elected Socialist Senators in Connecticut have begun their career in formed a coalition with re- publicans against equally re- mocrats. They justify this on the ground that if they had not done this, they would be charged with “blocking the business of ure,” bring forth the ingenious ar- will prevent Democratic parties adopting | labor legislation? arguments of people who are be waging a class struggle capitalists and their legisla- tatives! as revolutionary repre- the working class, would have acted differently, Far from shedding tears over the wor- capitalist legislators, they deliberateiy seized on this deadlock between the capitalist legislators to win concessions for the working class! | As it is, the Socialist Senators gave in lists and received nothing in return for the workers, in relief for the approximately 1,250,000 people who depend on relief for their ex- istence. The Mayor admits “a most rigid, cruel and painful economy.” To whom, though, has this economy been cruel? Not to the or high-salaried political ap- | | their sons of two revol | the hands of Tt has been “rigid and cruel” to the mu- nicival employes in the low-wage brackets, to the teachers, the firemen, the tenement house inspectors. It has been cruel to the who need the social services ex- tended by these departments. That, in a nutshell, is Mayor La Guar- dia’s “achievements.” boldly called imperialist w | Though th did Lenin, t. were rapidly for his work working clas: Luxemburg, his challenge | Moment whe An Ally for Hearst | EELING, perhaps, that Hearst was not | doing a sufficiently effective job in his anti-Soviet campaign, the Rand School of Social Science has imported aid for him. It has just arranged a lecture tour for a certain lady called Madam Tatiana Tchernovina. | Who is this lady that the Socialist Party | Rand School should import her from her quiet home abroad? She is the author of one of the most poisonous, lying, and hate-filled books against the Soviet Union! And she is already justifying interven- tion by slandering the Workers’ Father- land, the dictatorship of the proletariat, as “fascism, ultra-fascism, super-fascism of a type that exists neither in Italy, Ger- many, Hungary nor Turkey She is already justifying bloodshed, | \ Today, we the instigati Let the A memory and seized 107 murder, intervention, against the Soviet Union with this vile talk. She even has a good word to say for Nikolaev, murderer of Comrade Kirov. Is it not clear how this ties up with the LaGuardia sinister anti-Communist campaign of Spat : Hearst? Does not Hearst talk the same | activities wit language? But the st: The Rand School’s White Guard lady | will make a zood ally for Hearst. He will Thousands appreciate her. son as they But what will the Socialist workers say? | conditions. ae Hy | of protests addressed directly to the Swiss Council Arrests | Swiss Federal Council at Zurich and Communist at Request to Swiss consulates in the United cee States is necessary to prevent the Of German Authorities murdercus extradition proceeding. ZURICH, Jen. 11.—The bloody! British Plan Air Base hand of German Fascism has N - ‘ Teached across the Swiss border, ear Soviet Territory threatening Heinz Neumann, former | Ms crabs: ana German| (Special to the Daily Worker) Communist leader, with death by! Meola ota > Jeni n Gy 3 ; Wireless) —The ceding today of extradition to Germany. Vasarat, a part of th ss The Swiss Federal Council has Bee ete. Caner tOe | Ok arrested Neumann at the request of | Gilgit in the northern Indian prov- the Nazi public prosecutor in Ber-|ince of Kashmir, to direct British jin and is holding him pending the} contzol, marked the probability that | transmission of detailed charges bY! an airplane base wil re Gahsan authorities, | ‘pla: ise will be constructed Should Neumann be extradited to| ®t this strategic point in the near Germany he would suffer the fate of| future. Vazarat is 100 miles from OPUr. workers who have the Asiatic territory of the Sovict vture or Who have been) Union. The administration of V2- murdered outright in German pris-| zarat will be under the ru'e of an on, |appointed agent of British impe- An a World-wide storm’ riplism, -Liebknecht and Luxemburg N a few days, American workers and and daughters will commemo- rate the sixteenth anniversary of the death utionary heroes who died at capitalist murderers. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg upon the working class youth to give battle to capitalist militarism and var. ey did not see the Bolshevik path to the seizure of power as clearly as hey were revolutionists who moving toward Bolshevism when murderers’ bullets cut them down. Liebknecht’s name is especially glorious in organizing the youth for s revolution. Together with he electrified the world with to the Kaiser militarists at a n the German Social-Democ- racy supported the war, cannot forget that it was at on of the Socialist leaders, Noske, Scheidemann and Ebert, that these two were shot down. merican workers honor their carry forward their work. Mass Arrests EW YORK police swooped down and pickets in the strike at the Majestic Metal Company. This is how LaGuardia’s police treat workers fighting for better conditions for themselves and their families, is showing himself every day as one of the most loyal servants of the employers and Wall Street banks the city has ever seen. He tries to disguise his strike-breaking h smooth talk. riking workers seized Thurs- day have learned to know Mr. La Gaurdia. more will learn the same les- struggle for improved living | Working Hours Rise In German Factories | Nazi Paper Reports BERLIN, Jan, 11.—The number of hours of daily labor in most indus- tries has been increased to ten hours and ten minutes, including | twenty-five minutes fo: lunch, ac- cording to “Der Deutsche,” che newspaper of the ‘Labor Front” which takes the Weserhutte ar- | mament plant as an example of ‘he | mew plan. Saturday is to be a free | day for the present. It it clear that the main object of this arrangement is speed-up for the benefit of the employers. The eight-hour day as a principle to be , P:acticed anywhere is abolishe | The ‘compensation’ of the free Scturday will soon be eliminz ed since it is obvicus work will be re- sumed on Saturdays whenever the imanasers of thee lant ses fit a \ Party Life | | ee Action In Rural Districts Urged in Letter HE following letter has | 4 been sent to all the units | in the countryside by District | Nine, in order to activize the | |Party members in the rural | |districts. We are printing) this as an example to other | districts, as a first tep in activizing | our farm membership: Comrades: It is time that every Party mem- ber becomes an active Bolshevik. We can no longer be passive and | watch events and opportunities go | by. The Communist movement will | not grow and the revolution will not come with watchful waiting. Action is the key to success. You and the farmers around you |are in distress. The crying need is| | for effectiv: struggle for feed relief | and for other relief. There can be and will be no effective struggle un- less all Party members in the coun- | | tryside will actively engage in or- | ganizing and leading the struggle. | “To the masses!” was Lenin's! slogan. You must visit your non-Commu- | nist neighbors. Talk to them of the | feed and relief situation. Call to- | gether small house groups. Develop | these into local mass meetings. Write vo the District office: of the | Party or the state office of the | U.F.L. for specific advice and assist- | ance. Do something! Don't be dead timber. Prepare for the State Re- | lief Conference. | When you go to your farmer neighbors take along the Farmers National Weekly and the Program of the U.F.L. How many of your unit memkers read the Farmers Na- | tional Weekly regularly? How many | of you have studied the Program of | the U.F.L. so that you can explain | it to other farmers? It is only by informing yourselves, through the Weekly and othervrise, that you will be able to educate your neighbors. The Weekly has had a subscrip- ‘tion drive and has. started another | | drive. Have each one of your unit members made a serious effort to get at least one subscription? Has your unit made an effort to get ad- vertisements for the Farmers Na- tional Weekly, and greetings? What have you done or what are Wherever there is a Party unit in the countryside there must be a local of the U.F.L, or an active op- Position group in some one of the cld line farm organizations. The District Office is getting out a leaflet in the name of the Party on the feed relief situation. This leaf- let must secure wide circulation | among farmers, Send funds for the printing at once. And inform the | District Office on how many you can distribute. This .equires immediate | action. The leaflet will be a means | of bringing to the farmers the in- | dependent role of the Communist | Party in the struggle for relief for the farmers and in our struggle against the Farmer-Labor Party. In many localities there will be school and township elections in the spring. The Party, locally, | must put forth its candidates and its program in these local ~lections as a means of bringing Communism |and the Communist Party to the | farmers. Develop a house to house mass campaign with literature and Speakers, Make your problems and your difficulties known, and the District | will do the utmost to give you assist- | ance in your elections and in your other activities. Once again we repeat—aciiion! | | This letter must be read at the next and the next and the next unit meeting; discussed and acted upon; | and the activities reported regularly | | to the District Office. | istrict Buro District 9, Minnesota. A New Member's Impression | AS @ reader of the “Daily” for a | 4% little over a year T’d like to give! | you some of my impressions. |" At first I used to go to demonstra- |tlons announced in the “Daily.” These demonstrations taught me) | that the working class is the most | | potent of our society. | | One month later I made applica- ‘tion for membership in the C.P. U.S.A. At the time I was a little | surprised, if noé a little disillusioned. I expected too much, I believe. It didn’t take long to find out that | half of the members of my unit were | not long-time revolutionisis, but raw elements of the working class like myself. My disillusionment vanished completely and reading Party litera- ture became my favorite pastime. | Also I feel that the slogan on to a mass Communist Party is nearing its fulfillment. Everywhere I have contact with people I find that new people take interest in our strug- \gles, people who find ‘common ‘ground with Communists on its un- | compromising struzgle against War jand Fa, mm. Others join our un- employed organization, ready to | fight for higher relief and jobs. But as I sa‘d. we are on our way to a amass Communist Party, H.H | |you doing to build the U.F.L.? T the United States the unem to figures of the A. F. of L.) 1933, and October, 1934. In the Soviet Union th (maternity, health, old age rubles in 1930 to 4,610,000, ployed increased (according by 500,000 between October, e fund for social insurance ) grew from 1,810,000,000 000 rubles in 1933. In the U. S. there is no federal social insurance. Wages paid workers in the Soviet Union grew from 13.5 billion rubles in 1930 to 34 billion rubles in 1933. The real wage of the manufacturing workers in the U. S. declined 1.1 per cent between June, 1933, and June, 1934, according to Donald Richberg. In 1929 the sown area i ROUND ONE! News Item: Mayor La Guardia reviews Fusion record for the first year. Murderers of Kirov Of the By Karl Radek THOSE who read the Soviet news- papers of December 17 noticed in them two reports from the life of the Soviet Union. In one report it is stated that the Soviet smelting industry already today, before the end of the year, is able to record an output of 10,000,000 tons of pig- iron. The other zeport stated thai the scoundrel who, on December 1, had killed the leader of the Lenin- grad Bolsheviki, one of the leaders of the Party, Comrade Kirov, had been instructed to carry out this murder by the cgents of the class enemy, the vile dregs of the former Zinoviev anti-pa:ty group. The first report aroused fresh en- thusiasm among all workers and collective peasants of the Soviet Union, and showed the foreign pro- letazians the tremendously increased forces of the U.S. S. R.. ie., the forces of the Soviet proletariat and of the collective peasants, who, un- der the leadership of Lenin's Party, under the leade=ship of Stalin, have achieved such world-important vic- tories. This report completely con- firmed Comrade Stalin’s words, that there are no foztresses which ihe Bolsheviki cannot capture. The second report came to all Commu- nists, to all honest proletarians as a heavy and painful blow. Work of Class Enemy When the shot was fired which took the life of the courageous leader of the Bolsheviki, nobody doubted for a moment that this was the work of the class enemy of the proletariat, for only a fierce, maii- cious enemy of the prcletazian dic- tatorship could direct his revolver against the collaborator of Sialin. But the class enemies who had used the scoundrel Nikolaeff as a tool proved to be not the direct repre- sentatives of the openly white- guardist troops who had _ hitherto carried out tervoristic ascassina- tions, and who will attempt to com- mit further terroristic deeds if they are not crushed by the hand of the proletarian dictatorship. It tran- spired that among the class enemies there were to be found the dregs of that gzoup which, as a result of differences with the Party leader- ship on a number of fundamen’al questions, had cémmenced fraction work years ago and formed a bloc with the Trotzkyists. This group, which was comp!ctely defeated by the Party, furled its banner, but in the further development its dregs sank to the depth of organising at- tacks on the Soviet Power. Will Crush Dregs Every workcr knows that the Party will with an jron hand drezs of the former Zinoviev Party group. They have proved by the shot fired on December 1 how deyigerous their existence is, ie MN’ a in the Soviet Union was 105 Cesspool of Reaction | William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party NCOMPETENT”’—THE CAPTAINS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY ?—OR THE PROLETARIAT OF THE SOVIET UNION ? millions of hectares (a hectare is about two and three- quarters acres); in 1933 this rose to 129.7 millions of hectares. In the United States we bounties to farmers for keeping their acres uncultivated. It is clear again by these simple figures that Mr. Hearst has lied. He lies because he knows—and fears—the fact that the Soviet Union, the country of rising Socialism, is an inspiration to ever-larger masses of American toilers. Let toiling America know Hearst for what he is— a liar! by Burck But it is very important to ascer- jtain the greatness of this danger. This danger is clearly revealed in tories and achievements of the Soviet Russian smelting industry as an important factor of the deyelop- ment of Socialism in the Soviet country. The general economic importance of the fact that the U.S. S. R. has attained an output of 10,000,000 tons of pig iron, whilst pre-war Russia had an output of only 4,000,000 tons—the U.S.S.R. reached this pre-war level only in 1929—the economic importance of the fact that the U. S. S. R, had doubled its output of pig iron since 1930, is clear to every class-conscious worker and peasant. The Soviet country is producing pig iron in such quanti- ties that the further development of socialist industry, of agriculture and of the defensive capacity of the country is assured. It is also clear to everybody that the Soviet Union had advanced to the first place in Europe in regard to the output of pig iron. Pig iron is one of the main factors for the indus- trialization of the country. To at- tain first place in Europe in regard to the output of pig iron means to catch up to the capitalist countries on this important sector of the front. Those who ‘attentively followed the discussions on the smelting in- dustry at the Party Congress, at the Plenum of the Central Commit- tee at the end of 1933, know that the working class of the U.S. S. R., the Party and its leadership have achieved these 10,000,000 tons of pig iron only at the cost of enorm- ous diffieuities. These 10,000,000 tons are condensed energy of the workers, the foremen and enginters, condensed energy. of the leading economists, and undaunted energy and far-sightedness of the Party leaders, who have been adle to bring the masses to realize the fact that independence and_ socialism cannot he secured without great vic- tories in the sphere of, the iron in- dustry. The achievement of these victories necessilated the help of all other sections of the proletariat —the coal and iron miners, the transport workers, the workers in the engineering industry; and it wes also necessary to got the broad masses of the collective peasants to understand that there can be no bread without iron, and also that there can be no iron withcut bread. Victory of Party | The years of struggle for the First | Five-Year Plan, the commencement of the struggle for the Second Five- | Yecr Plan are years of the great- | css consolidation of the Party. This | consolidation has been ac’ a only \on the basis of Sta!in’s policy, which defeated the Trotzkyis!, the Zino- vievist and the Right opposition, It the light of the tremendous vic- | | :Was achieved as a result of that policy which crezted the firm, | ideological basis for the tremendous | new constructions, for the gigantic work which gave the country ten | miilion tons of pig iron. Therefore, these ten million tons of pig iron / are a symbol not only of the growth lof Socialist industrialization, not} only of the growth of that force} which transformed *the individual | peasant farm into Socialist agricul- ture, a symbol not only of the in- crease in the defensive power of the country, but also a brilliant ex- | ample of the victory of the Leninist | Party under the leadership of Stalin. | In these ten million tons of pig iron there is expressed that growing | force, which is called by history to! build up the first State of the toil- | ers, the first land of Socialism, | which is called upon to be the lead- er of humanity in its struggle for | its emancipation from the letters of | capitalism. Ten million tons of pig) iron produced by Socialist industry | are a symbol of the general ten- dencies of development. Tore the Mask from Groups In face of these ten million tons of pig iron what have the miszrable remnants of the Zinovievist and Trotzkyist opposition, the Right op- position, and all oppositional middle groups to show? All oppositional groups, expressed in one form or another, behind one mask or an- other, the pressure of the. petty- bourgeois sections of the population of the U. S. S. R. upon the pro- | letriat. The Party tore the mask from all | Oppositicnal groupings; the Party defeated them in the ideological sphere; the Party flung. them out of the ranks of the working class | and reduced them to the level of small groupings behind which there are no sections of werkers whatever. Already at the time of the First Five-Year Plan the card on which all oppositional groups hed put their stakes was completely outtrumped. All the sound elements with a ro- bust faith in the living forces of the proletariat enthusiastically rallied | |round the Leninist Central Commit- tee and realized that the Party, led by Stalin, is leading Socialism to triumph, The defeated opposition split un into various groups. These elements, which were recruited from the ranks of honest proletarian revolutionaries who had temporarily deviated from the correct path, re- turned to the Party in order to make | good bystheir honest. work their po- jlitical mistakes, which developed jinto crimes against the proletarian State, against the interests of intes- national Socialism. Start a competition with your comrades to see who can collect more greetings fer the Daily Worker on its Eleventh Anniver- sary! « plow under crops and pay World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -——' The Saar Votes New Anti-Soviet War Base Beware of Julius Caesar HE decisive center of the world struggle against fas- cism will be in the Saar to. morrow. On Sunday, Jan. 13, more than 500,000 voters in that little slip of important industrial territory between Germany and France will go to the polls. Foreign bayonets, machine guns and armored tanks, sent by England, Italy, Holland to police the Saar, will stand over them men- acingly. On the German side, the Nazis have concentrated their troops, ready when the occasion arises for armed invasion. The central issue in the Saar is, recognizing the burning desire of the whole population to return to Germany, whether that step should be taken now with Hitler in power. The fascists, through their Deutsch front, call on the Saar population to vote for a return to Germany, The united anti-fascist front, also known as the Freiheitsfront (liberty front), urges all workers, Socialists, Communists, Catholics to vote for the status quo, the existing League of Nations Administration, as a blow to Hitler, as a means of aiding to free Germany of the bloody rule of the Nazis so that the Saar can at the shortest possible moment return to a Germany, with the Nazi shackles struck off. ¢ #8 het results of the plebiscite will not settle the issue. The League of Nations Saar Annex to the Ver- sailles treaty provides that the re- sults shall “guide” the League Coun- cil in determining the future of the Saar. The Nazis are preparing, in the event particularly of a vote in favor of a return to Germany no matter how slight the margin, to rush in with their armed forces and establish the rule of concentra- tion camps and the gallows to pre+ sent the world with an accomplished fact. Whatever the outcome, the fight against German fascism will grow more bitter. A thousand and one new contradictions will arise for German fascism in either event. er aay 'HE British imperialists in India have taken a step which is an out-and-out. move for war against the Soviet Union. They have in- duced the government of the Indian province of Cashmir to hand over Vazarat, a part of the district of, Gilgit in the extreme Northwest of India, to British administration. Vazarat is situated near the frontier of the U. S, S. R. and Sinkiang. This was the only part of Gilgit not previously under British adminis- tration. Henceforth Vazarat will be under the jurisdiction of the British political agents. It has long been known to the British military specialists in the North of India who have their eye on the Soviet Turkestan, Tadzhic, Azerbeijan, that this particular sec- tion of independent India would make an ideal military air base for attack against the U. 8. 8, R. Now they have it in their hands, and they will not be slow to con- struct the aviation base they have long contemplated. Sr des DISPARAGING article on Julius Ceasar in the Turin (Italy) periodical, “La, Cultura,” resulted in its confiscation. Mussolini con- sidered the emphasis on some of the less heroic aspects of the chare acter of the ancient Roman dicta- tor as insinuations against himself. Mussolini has become extremely sensitive to all criticism, even of dead dictators. which might in the least reflect on himself. oye ‘THERE is a sort of competition on between the Prince of Wales and Goering, the Nezi Prussian premier in the maiter of titles and new uni- forms. The Prince of Wales scored over the new blue uniform of Goers inz during the New Ycar’s holidey. At one fell swoop he was’ created an admiral, a general and a chief air marshall, with the three new uniforms of his rank added to the many scores he now has. Goering will require at least two morphine injections to meet this piece of news. English Worker Jailed For “Preferring” Dole LONDON, Jan, 11.—The’ sheer demagogy behind the nsw legisla tion of the British bourgeoisis, uns der which it guarantees to main- | tain every unemployed worker who normally earns less than $25 a wesk, was strikingly shown in a police court today. The regulations provide the gov- ernment with an easy loop-hole throuzh which any worker may be cut from the relief lists. Those dr-win relief must “make an hon- est effcrt to find work.” Frederick Heed, uncmployed father of five children, was sentencsd to one month at hard labor on the “ine oredibie charge of preferring the miserable amount of the dole to regular job. , aoe! exe SATIRE TENTAI