The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JAN ARY 14, 1935 William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party MILLIONAIRE PUBLISHER SHOWS LITTLE SOLICITUDE FOR “STARVING PEASANTS” IN THE U. §. A. N HIS frenzied campaign against the Soviet Union result of the drought plus the organized program of the Roosevelt government (A.A.A.). As a result of this program the past year recorded the lowest crop in the past 30-40 years. carries on no campaign revealing the ruin and desolation on the American countryside. In the Soviet Union, despite the drought, this year’s crop was only two per cent less than in 1933, when the He is venomous against the Soviet Union because workers’ and farmers’ rule has driven out the rule of the capitalists. and the Communist Party of the United States, Mr. Hea shows great solicitude for the “starving peas- _— ants” of the U.S.S.R the fail Is Mr. Hearst concerned about the fate of the mil- lions of ruined farmers in the United States? re of the government to provide adequate relief, hundreds of thousands of acres were laid waste Twenty per cent of the livestock was killed off as tion, 2 In the United States as a result of the drought and in cotton cultivation. Daily QWorker CIWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only FOUNDED 1924 Working Class Daily Newspaper” of the whole American working class at the expense of the rich and Wall Street. Let us force Congressional action on it. A Good Decision As part of the campaign to restrict cotton produc- 10,000 tenant farmers have been driven from the land in the United States. for the elimination of 60,000 additional farmers engaged The present program calls As one of the most militant defenders of the capi- talist system which brings about such misery, Hearst | Party Life. Soviet Union achieved the biggest crop in years. This fact was reported by V. V. Ossinsky, vice- chairman of the State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R., in an address before the International In- dustrial Relations Institute in New York City. The millionaire Hearst is a benficiary of the system of capitalism which brings hunger and want to millions in the United States. “DO YOU SEE WHAT THOSE REDS SAY?” The issue is, which class workers or a handful of capi shall rule—the millions of talists. Hearst’s lying campaign against the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the United States is based on his desire to defend the capitalist system from which he has. profited so much. His purpose is to whip up frenzy for armed intervention against the only workers’ and farmers’ government in the entire world. by Burck | World Front WILLIAM ——By HARRY GANNES -— PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE ee oe Py COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. 50 E. 13th | MIMHE decision of the Amalgamated Associ- Prue NDOL PH | Atter the Saar Vote Street, New York, N. ¥. ation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers | Open Forums | "The Fight Goes On Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Organization | Daiwork eld al Press Building, National 7910. 708, Chicago, Tl Room Subscription Rates: and Bronx MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1935 Threatened Terror LARMING news comes from the Saar on the day the voting in the plebiscite takes place. Hitler, despite the flood of money he has sent to the Nazi organiza- (A. F. of L.) lodges, to call a joint confer- ence of steel, aluminum and mining local unions on Feb. 3, in Pittsburgh is of the highest importance. The workers of these three industries have common problems. They are all pre- paring strikes against speedup, against low wages and threatened wage-cuts, against company unions and for recog- nition. In all three industries, the top of- ficials are trying to prevent strikes, and are telling the workers to continue to have faith in the N. R. A. boards which have brought about these miserable conditions. Every local union in the mining, alum- inum and steel industry, whether A. F. of L. or independent, should respond to the | cess in distributing litera-| |ture to have threats made against me by the workers’ enemies, I will give other com-| AS I have had enough §suc-| lvades the benefit of my ex-| perience such as it is. My problem has been that of getting mass distribution of literature in a | section of the country where towns | are small and distances are great At such mass meetings as we have, that I am able to attend, I always manage to rig up some kind | |of literature table. Sometimes it | consists of only some rough boards | Placed across some boxes. But when they are covered with atizac- tive literature they don’t look so If the Saar Is Annexed OMETIME today the Saar plebiscite will be known, | Every vote recorded for the status quo is a vote against the stream, that is, a vote feast, despite impelling desire to return to Germany, for battle against German fascism, at the cost of declining immediate re- turn after 15 years of anxious and hopeful waiting. The end of the plebiscite is by no means the end of the Saar strug- gle. The fight now will assume even sharper forms, whichever way the vote goes. Should the majority vote for return to Germany, and the League of Nations decide to comply Pavey bad. vever, I that t- with this majority, new and more tions in the Saar, despite the threat of re- | call of the Amalgamated Association eats Oy Par eee feel difficult problems arise for German Siials ee, i-feansy Shs rising anti-Fascist | lodges. In unity there is strength, and a |who are close to the Party and a| fascism. Hitler will make the united front that he is now preparing for the most bloody attacks on all Socialists, Communists and Catholics who have dared to resist efforts to hand the Saar over to the Fascist rulers of Germany. The Daily Worker is in receipt of cables from the Saar anti-Fascist united front declaring that 8,000 Nazi Storm Troopers and many Hitler Secret Police have crossed united fight of the locals in all three indus- tries will strengthen the fight of all for better conditions. No longer can the top union officials keep these workers divided. His True Companions ROTZKY is an old, experienced hand at utilizing the most scabby capitalist press few others through mere curiosity. Therefore I see some of the lead- ers at the meeting and ask for a few minutes time on the program. | This has always been given me. I then select an inexpensive pam- phiet that seems appropriate for the occasion and usually ome or more papers and magazines. Im- | mediately after speaking a few min- | utes on this literature I it | directly to the people at the ‘ It _always results in good sales. | greatest demonstrative use of a majority plebiscite result for return to Germany. The Nazi press will go into frenzy. But the festivities. will | be short-lived. The most serious economic. and | political problems will then confront German fascism and the Saar popu- |lation. The economic life of the Saar will be ripped to pieces, Whereas the Saar virtually had a free market in both Germany and . A . | | France, tariff barriers will be put the border into the Saar. “L’Humanite,” | to utter his slanders against the Soviet | Before the meeting opens and | |up at the French border. The Saar . a % declares Union. He has never hesitated to write | while I am getting my display ready | ‘steel industries will be torn away French Communist newspaper, de ¥ |I usually meet persons who are! that the Nazis are planning an armed in- vasion in the Saar after the plebiscite on the pretext of a torchlight “victory” par- ade in Saarbruecken. Whatever the outcome of the plebis- cite, the fight against Fascist rule in Ger- . many will grow sharper and more bitter, for Hitler knows that the majority of the people in the Saar, though they are for re- turn to Germany, are against the murder- ous rule of Fascism. We in the United States must be ready for sti]l more energetic action against any threat of the Fascists in the Saar. We must be ready to assist our brothers in the Saar to continue their fight against Fascism and to resist the new bloody plots of the butchers being sent in by Hitler. The Block Appointment R. S. JOHN BLOCK, Socialist lawyer, was appointed on Saturday to the Charter Revision Commission of New York City by Mayor LaGuardia. The week before another Socialist lawyer, Jacob Panken, was officially in- ducted as a judge of the Domestic Rela- tions Court, a job to which he was ap- pointed by Fusion Mayor LaGuardia. The job, by the way, pays $10,000 a year. B, Charney Vladek, business manager of the Socialist Jewish Daily Forward, is a member of Mr. LaGuardia’s Municipal Housing Authority. Abraham Cahan, $20,000 a year editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, hails Mayor LaGuardia as “one of ours.” Let the workers in the Socialist Party think it over. Where are Block, Viadek, Cahan and their bosom friends, Algernon Lee and James Oneal, leading you? They fight bitterly against the united front with the militant workers, with the Communist Party, for the immediate needs of the workers. But they accept the jobs offered them in the administration of the capitalist politician, LaGuardia. Think it over, comrades of the So- cialist Party. Make Congress Act ITH the historic National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance now over, the next steps must be taken. The Congress, representing more than two million American workers from trade unions and professional groups, laid down as Its final action a full “Plan of Action,” to carry on the fight for social and unem- ployment insurance. This Plan of Action of the congress calls for “broad mass meetings and demon- strations; mass marches and mass delega- tions to legislative bodies and their mem- bers as well as federal, state and other executives; individual resolutions (in the form of post cards, letters, petition lists, etc.). The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, unanimously adopted by the workers’ congress, provides for the immediate needs \ , for the Saturday Evening Post and the New York Times, assisting them in their campaigns of hate against the victorious land of Socialism. More recently, trying desperately to deny his implication with the assassins of our Comrade Sergei Kirov, Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union, Trotzky makes use of the press of the Czarist scum who fled to Paris when the workers took power in Russia. The latest issue of the Russian white guard weekly, ‘Seven Days,” displays as its leading article an “explanation” by Trotzky. In this mouthpiece of the very gang who instigated the murder of Kirov, Trotzky actually defends the assassins by charging the whole thing is not a plot of the imperialist powers to provoke war against the workers’ fatherland, but is a Machiavellian plot by Stalin. No wonder the Czarist dregs who work for the overthrow of the Soviet govern- ment in order to bring back the rule of the landlords and capitalists are anxious to print Trotzky’s article. Can one wish for greater proof than this of Trotzky’s connection with the forces of black reaction working for war against the Soviet Union? The N. B. C. Strike PPROXIMATELY six thousand em- ployes of the National Biscuit Company are on strike for union conditions and rec- ognition, in the company’s Philadelphia, Newark, New York, Atlanta, and now York, Pa., plants. The strike is led by the Inside Bakery Workers local unions (A. F. of L.) It is necessary to spread the strike still further, to all the numerous plants of the com- pany, in order to win. So far the A. F. of L. officials (as in New York) have insisted on one man lead- ership and have kept the women away from the picket lines. To win the strike, mass picketing should be conducted. The women and girl strikers want'to picket and they should picket, to strengthen the strike. In every struck plant, the strikers should insist on election of rank and file strike committees, so they will have some- thing to say about negotiations. Alabama Reaction A YOUNG Communist, Raymond Harris, twenty-two, has just been sentenced to six months in jail in Alabama. His “crime” was the possession of leaf- lets urging the workers not to fight for Wall Street in the event of war. The fact that this is a “crime” shows how far this country has already moved on the road to fascist reaction and terror- ism. The South is Roosevelt’s political stronghold, and on him rests the blame for this reaction. Now more than ever must workers of every political belief and affiliation unite to defend all elementary civil rights against the advance of fascism. | especially interested in literature and its distribution, After the meet- ing these persons often help me in | One way or another in making sales. | | When I was tied down most cf | the time in one small town I sewed a large pocket on the inside of my vest. I then filled a large manila envelope such as we get fromm Work- | ers Library Publishers with small | pamphlets. This way I always had something at hand to sell when I got into conversation with people. If pamphlets are carried loose in |& Pocket they are likely to become worn and _ soiled. Organizers can help literature | agents immensely if they will tell us as quickly as possible about meetings to be held in the vicinity, | also something about the’ nature of | the meetings. On short notice it is |sometimes hard to get to meetings where distances are great and it is | often hard to have just the right | | kind of literature there. Of course, j we can he‘p organizers by trying to | | get out especially the xind of lit- erature that will best prepare the ground for organizational work and to strengthen organizations where they already exist. We can inform | organizers of new contacts we make. | I should like to see some criticisms | | of literature distribution work from the standpoint of our organizers, LITERATURE AGT., Sec, 26, Hecla, South Dakota. yen tes. Open Forum in Shoe Center For the last two Sundays I at- tnded the Open Forum lectures held by the Binghamton Workers’ Edu- cational Club and with a great deal of satisfaction listened to Comrade Fred Biedenkapp (of the United | Shoe and Leather Workers Union) lecture on, “Why the Crisis.” ‘These were the first of two lectures of a series of lectures Comrade Bieden- kapp promised to give. The meet- | ing was attended by over 45 workers the first time and nearly double the number at the second lecture, | all of whom left the lecture in a spirit of enthusiasm It is my sincere opinion that the Open Forum is a step in the right direction and should have been car- vied on long ago. Lectures such |as Comrade Biedenkapp presented will go far toward reactivizing the many forces in the ranks of the Binghamton workers, who, because of the lack of leadership, have been | inactive for a long time. Binghamton, Johnson and Endi- cott cities form a great shoe cen- ter, having over 20,000 unorganized workers, most of whom are em- ployed in the Endicott-Johnson fac- tories working under conditions akin to chattle slavery and I am certain that many of these workers can be enlightened and brought to the realization that organization | will help them to improve their con- ditions. This also goes for the un- employed council. Comrade Bied- enkapp should be induced to re- main in Binghamton for a long time. With his help we could, no doubt, develop our forces and carry on some real organizational ac- tivity and develop some of our own forces to the point where we could continue with the work in the fu- ture. Needless to say that these lec- tures, besides being a stimulant and of educational value, offer a good opportunity to canvas literature and spread the Daily Worker. It is up to the class conscious workers of Binghamton to get on the job! A SHOE WORKER. { Finished with your Daily Worker? Leave it on your street- car seat for someone else to read. | oaths of allegiance, but it sufficed to | glance at the faces of these murder- Of the Cesspool of Reaction By Karl Radek IL. | 5 insignificant number of opposi- | tional elements openly remained | outside the Party: they insisted upon their errors, degenerated more | and more into counter-revolution- | ary bourgeoisie. Another section, | however, returned to the Party, not because they had realized the in- correctness of their views, but be- cause they were defeated; they re- turned to the Party in order to wait | there “for better times”; they went | there with a dagger up their sieeve. These people were prepared if need be to make declarations, to swear ers in order to realize that they— these empty heads without any po- litical program—have remained offi- cers without an army, but with a) longing for officers’ epaulets. These | dishonest political charlatans, these | people without any belief except be- lief in their “great historical im- portance.” have become an element of disintegration among their non- | commissioned officers and rank and file soldiers. These elements pos- sessed no influence in the Party, The Party judged these oppositional ele- |ments who wanted to work honestly, | |according to their deeds and the zeal which they displayed in social- ist. constructive work, according to the optimism, which they shared with the struggling masses of work- ers, regarding the overcoming of all difficulties. No Faith In Double Dealers The Party did not put any faith in the double-dealers. But the double-dealing meant, as regards the lower links of the former oppo- sition: do not give up your arms, we, your leaders, are compelled to | Maneuver, but the struggle is bound to come, But it is impossible to maintain even the smallest cadre if one is un- able to show them any perspective based on real facts, an actual de- velopment. What, however, could the Zinoviev double-dealers show to the Youth, the grouplets which still kept in contact with them, what could they oppose to the great vic- tories of the Five-Year Plan? They | were hollow within, they did not | not flung out of the Soviet build- | outside of the Party they belong to | Possess any perspective, could not imagine any perspective. Hence, they were bound to exaggerate all difficulties, educate their people in a defeatist spirit, instil in them the abominable hope of the defeat of the working class, the defeat of the Communist Party. In order to achieve this they had to fan their hatred against the best of our class, against the best representatives of our Party, All this resulted in such an ideological muddle, evoked such inner conflicts that the people thereby lost their sense of honor and their belief in everything, they became traitors to the proietariat, the Party, the revolution, and sank ever deeper inio the morass. Many of these people also sank into the moral swamp even before they finally sank into the political quag- mire. In orde® to fire a shot from | a revolver all that is necessary is aj little powder. But for people who at one time had connections with the labor movement, people who had | once read Lenin and Marx, for such } people to aim their revolver at a} leader of the Soviet power, at a leader of the Party, meant that they had sunk to the lowest depths. ‘They Were Dregs The direct social force of this) group is aptly characterized as “dregs” in the resolutions of the Leningrad and Moscow organiza- tions. They are not backed by any worker or peasant. Those Lenin- grad workers who formerly followed Zinovievy for a time have long been working enthusiastically in building Socialism under the leadership of Stalin. These dregs are renegades of the Party, putrifying while alive, who have seized the revolver and become murderers of the proletarian leaders in the interest of the bour- geoisie. They are dangerous if they are | ing, for, under cover of their Party card, they are able to commit such vile deeds as the murder of Kirov; the cesspool, where all remnants of | the defeated class enemy gather. The Party will crush them, anni- hilate them, sweep them from the earth with the convinced support of all those who have the cause of the working class at heart. The fascist press will greet this murder as @ proof that the inyin- ciple Stalinist-Len.nist Party 1s eaten away within. That is the heartfelt wish of the warmongers, but they have wished a lot and their wishes have not come true. time also they will be disappointed. The dregs of the former Zinovievist anti-Party group represent the dirt originating from the decomposition of the split-off small parts of our Party, which has grown in the meantime and is full of health and vigor. These dregs are the inevitable enemies of the woring class who have wormed their way into the Party by deceit and, screened be- hind their Party card, have emerged as the agents of the class enemy, as intelligence officers of the worst enemies of the Party and of the proletariat. The Party will ruth- lessly smash this pack and proceed on its path, solve ever greater tasks every day. Should the enemy ven- ture to stretch out his feelers to the |U. S. S. R. he will realize the sig- nificance of the ten million tons of pig iron which will soon increase to fifteen, to twenty million tons. | Neither the social order of the U. |S. 8. R. nor its past contain the pre-conditions for a split between the working class and the peasantry. The Socialist industrialization of the country, the collectivization of agriculture, and the liquidation of the kulak resulting from it consti- tute the overcoming of those tempo- Yary contradictions which have been able to arise between the working class and the peasantry. The Party of Lenin and Sialin, which is proceeding on the broad historical path of the abolition of the renmants of the class, towazds the classless society, which is over- coming all difficulties in the strug- gle, which is fighting against misery, for 2 prospersus life for the masses of the people, and for the first time in history has created the basis for @ real human existence, is an in-| vineible power... The <erious loss Which is has suffered through the deed committed by the dregs of the former Zinovievist, anti-Party group will be only a signal for increased vigilance, for the consolidation of the Party against all enemies of the Proletariat. Ford Workers in Mexico Fired After No Reprisal Promises Are Violated MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13.—The be- havior of the Administrator of the Ford Assembly plant in Mexico City has proved highly embarrassing for General Cardenas, Mexico’s new President, who has begun his term of office with a series of “pro-labor” | antics. In response to the complaint of a Ford worker, the President-elect, in true demagogic style, made a sur- Prise visit to the Ford plant. He went directly,to where the men were | at work. Cardenas asked the work- ers to air their grievances freely to him, promising that no reprisals would be taken against them. More than a score of workers spoke up. The President left and all of the workers who had complained were promptly fired. More than two weeks have passed and they have not been reinstated. A vast number of appeals and pro- tests have reached Cardenas from workers’ organizations, but the Pres- ident has practically declared that the men need not hope to get their jobs back and that the matter has been closed. Soviet Films to Mark Lenin Memorial Day In Perth Amboy, N. J. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Jan. 13.— On Friday, Jan. 25, there will be a showing of “Three Songs of Lenin,” a new Soviet film with English ti- tles, and a short, “A Day in Mos- cow,” in addition to a musical en- tertainment and an excellent speak- er in honor of the great leader, Lenin. The meeting will be held at the Schulem Aliechem Hall, corner of Smith and McClellan at 8 p. m. Admission is 25 cents. This | from their ore supply in Lorrain, owned by French imperialism. The catastrophic economic crisis which hangs over all Germany like a pall will blanket the Saar. | (OSE who voted for return to Germany as the lesser evil to risking what they thought the pos- sibility of never again getting an opportunity to express themselves, will then be confronted with the greater evil of being at the mercy of the hangmen of Germany. There~ by German fascism will incorporate into itself a new anti-fascist virus of deadly potentialities, with a j united front against fascism already | formed, which will continue its bat | tles after return to Germany in con= | junction with the great and growing mass anti-Fascist front already in Germany. Even the American capitalist journalists in Europe recognize that whatever enthusiasm for return to Germany there is -revalent in the | Saar will turn into its opposite once the great proletarian population of the Saar has been forced under the yoke of the bloody Hitler regime, | Pape a | 4 LARGE minority for the status quo will clearly sharpen the | struggle against return to Germany. The decision then rests with the League of Nations, as the vote it~ |self is not the determining factor, but is considered to be primarily a ‘ suide in helping the League Coun cil arrive at its final judgment, Here world mass pressure can help | tremendously. With a very close | vote, or a considerable minority, the demand can be made that return to Germany can be staved off until such time as the people of the Saar /can be guaranteed that this section ‘of the population who voted against | Hitler will not be met. with the cer- tainty of concentration. camps or death, The fight can then go on not ‘only for delay in the actual hand- ‘ing over the Saar to Germany, but for safeguards, for the protection of the rights of the workers’ organ- izations, for the right of asylum for the leaders, for encouragement to the Saar proletariat to continue even © more energetically their fight. On the other hand, the Nazis , recognizing this situation will at- tempt to provoke the most bloody conflicts, Their armed hordes, al- ready at the Saar border, will cer= tainly attempt in some places to march over and establish their mur- derous rule in order to attempt to avoid the inevitable world struggle that is sure to follow against Hite ler’s grasp over the Saar. The whole structure of the Nazi secret police and execution squads will begin their work within the Saar, which will provoke the sharp< jest clashes. i ae: i be war danger will be heightened throughout Burope as never be- fore. Italian fascism has already demonstrated that it fears that the Nazi moves in the Saar will be ace companied by simultaneous action for the seizure of Austria. And should the Saar vote in the majority go for the status quo, with Austria blocked as a road to new plunder for German fascism by the Franco-Italian pact, then Hitler will follow the line expressed in his book, » “Mein Kampf,” and turn to the © East (that is, to the Soviet Union) for the greatest efforts for a war of plunder. By that time, Hitler reasons, the passes over the Khin- gan Mountains in Manchuria will be thawing, and his Japanese im- perialist allies will be ready for the bloodiest adventure against the workers’ fatherland, always the last trump in the hand of desperate Ger= man fascism, f '