The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1935, Page 6

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1938 Ame cation in Germany.” This is dom of inquiry and expres ican education the terror w Hears the opinion of on and to impos ch characteriz Ss venomous William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party UNIVERSITY EDITORS ASSAIL HEARST DRIVE AS “VANGUARD OF FASCISM IN AMERICA” | A SWEEPING indictment of Hearst’s anti-Red cam- Brown University, the Da cB nat s 1 vesterdav by tt sditors of thir- ign was i ed yesterday by the edito . r A a ana, the Bulletin of New teen lending University Newspapers tonian, the Daily News of Thev charged that Hearst was attempting to “stifle Mr. Hearst’s pogrom “ Anti- Red” drive by the editors of the Columbia Spectator, the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, the Daily Pennsylvanian of the University of Pennsylvania, the Daily Herald of Daily ,QWorker CHETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS,4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Working Class Dafiy Newspaper” “America’s Only FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC,, 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-795 4. New York, N. ¥ t., Room 708, Chiearo, Tl. Subscription Rates: By Ma excep hattan and Bronx), 1 6 mon $3.50; 3 months, $2.90; 1 month, 0.7 Ma: Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 & 5.00: 3 months, $3.00. By 18 cents Bai By mail, 1 yea TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1935 Protecting Private Profits ESTERDAY, Secretary of Commerce Roper stated bluntly that the purpose of the Roosevelt administration was to protect the “private profit motive” and “save the country from Socialism.” This defense of Wall Street profit and capitalist rule has been no secret from the Communist Party, which from the very beginning of the New Deal branded it as the program of the Wall Street monopo- lies. Roper thinks that the people ought to be grateful for Roosevelt's defense of profit against Socialism. But it is just the system based on private profit that has brought the country to the worst crisis in history, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer all the time. Socialism would mean the end of private profit and the rule of the Wall Street mo- nopolies. Socialism would, as the Commu- nist Party stated in its recent convention, put an immediate end to the crisis by putting an end to private profit. Roper, in his statement, only proves that Roosevelt is fighting for the ruling class interests of Wall Street against the work- ing class interests of the majority of the population. Far from “saving the country from So- cialism,” Socialism is what the country needs to put an end to the crisis. Congratulations! ‘HE American Newspaper Guild gained an important victory when Mr. Lan- dau, publisher of the Jewish Daily Bul- letin, and director of the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency, was forced to accede to the strike demands of his editorial workers. The agreement between the publisher and the New York Newspaper Guild calls for payment of $1,363 of back wages, and regular payment of weekly salaries, the demands for which the Bulletin chapter of the Guild struck. There is to be no discrimination against strikers. The American Newspaper Guild is a growing and fighting organization. The victory at the Jewish Bulletin shows that the Guild is following the right road. More Deception ILLIAM GREEN’S leading editorial in the Jan. 12, A. F. of L. Weekly News Service, entitled “Social Security On the Way,” gives another unqualified endorse- ment to President Roosevelt's program in Congress. In this editorial, Green’s press service declares that Roosevelt is going to push (1) unemployment insurance; (2) old age pensions, and (3) widows pensions, through Congress. The actual fact, of course, is just the opposite. Roosevelt and Green alike op- pose real unemployment insurance. Green fights against the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 2827). Both Roose- velt and Green oppose federal unemploy- ment insurance and favor “reserves” plans, which offer nothing to those now unem- ployed. Both favor measures similar to the Wagner Lewis Bill. Roosevelt is cutting relief and taking millions entirely off relief rolls. Roosevelt’s program is a program of billions for war and for the bankers, and relif cuts to the unemployed. The workers and farmers will win un- employment and social insurance only by a mass campaign for the Workers’ Bill, as outlined in the program of action of the recent National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, held in Washington. ie | of the College of the City the University of Pittsburgh, the Miscellany Vasaar and the Daily Orange of Syracuse University. is meeting with vigorous resistance. frame up liberal professors through garbled interviews written by reporters posing as “students,” Hearst has revealed an all-low in American capitalist journalism. ily “Illini” of the University of Illinois, the Daily Student of the University of Indi- York University, the Prince- Yale University, the Campus of New York, the News of News of upon teachers and students By his attempt to “We interpret Mr. Hearst’s onslaught as the vanguard of fascism in America,” the college editors declare in their statement. ‘We will use our edi- torial influence to help stem the tide, to challenge and oppose this crusade aimed at Hitlerizing American education.” It is significant that eight of the signers of the present statement attended a conference in Washington during Christmas week which was financed by Mr. Hearst. “Faced with this crusade of reaction and aware of the disaster it foreshadows,” the student editors declare, “we pledge our forces to combat it. Hearst’s ‘Red Scare’ and the s' devices he is employing to achieve his ends. tories to this document represent widely divergent, con- flicting political beliefs. We our opposition to fascism.” We condemn Mr. uper- patriotic, fraudulent The signa- are in accord, however, in During the past week fifty leading educators and 150 prominent ministers condemned the Hearst anti- Communist campaign. The present declaration by the college editors shows that ev er wider strata of Amer- icans are aware of the underlying fascist implications of the Hearst drive, and are prepared to fight it. Roechling’s Threat ROOF that the Nazis in the Saar have their murderous plans of revenge fully formed comes from the mouth of the richest capitalist in the territory, Hermann Roechling, iron king. Even before the vote was announced Roechling spoke in the threatening tones of the butchers Hitler, Goering & Co, Three thousand Communists and So- cialists, he thundered, are slated for con- centration camps. He did not say how many workers these rich iron and coal bosses, and their Nazi bloodhounds, intended to torture or murder in true Nazi style. Herr Roechling, in his interview with the London Express, surprised even the most hardened capitalist journalists with his threats of savage revenge against all anti-Fascists. He made it clear that the moment the Nazis clamp their bloody grip on the Saar concentration camps will spring up. Those catholic priests who fought for the status quo will have Nazi revenge meted out to them, and 40,000 unemployed workers are slated to go into Nazi forced labor camps. For the masses of workers there will be inaugurated the fiendish Nazi hell. For the Roechlings, and the other rich parasites, there will be the paradise of no trade unions, no legal workers’ organiza- tions. Roechling’s barbarous threat of revenge against the heroic Saar workers should meet with a quick response here from all anti-fascists. We must demand now: Hands off the anti-fascist fighters in the Saar! Borah’s Speech ENATOR BORAH, idol of the liberals, made a speech Monday night which William Randolph Hearst splashed all over his papers. Borah, defending the Constitution, warns “against both the methods of fascism and Communism,” and he states that “there is no place in the scheme of Communism for the common people except that of eco- nomic slaves.” But with these ideas Borah only shows that he is helping to prepare the way for fascism and is helping Wall Street preserve its capitalist rule, and its profits. For it is capitalism under which we are living which has turned the common people into wage slaves suffering the miseries of the worst crisis in history! It is Commu- nism alone which could solve the crisis and free the common people from economic slavery by taking power from Wall Street and abolishing private profit. As for method, Communism and fascism are as far apart as the poles. Communism represents the rule of the overwhelming majority, the working class, over the minority, the exploiters. Commu- nism would satisfy the needs of the millions of people. Fascism, on the other hand, is the ter- rorist rule of the Wall Street minority against the toiling majority. Fascism concerns itself only with the protection of capitalist profits. As long as capitalism exists there will be the economic slavery of the common people. And Borah is one of its defenders. Soviet Marksmanship IRELESS reports tell of a “mail order” rifle match between the Moscow Snip- ers’ Club and the Portsmouth, Ohio, Rifle Club. The competition was won by the Mos- cow Club. Each team competed on its home firing ground and results were forwarded to the National Rifle Association in Washington. According to the tabulations, the Rus- sian team totalled 2,729 points, while the Portsmouth Club scored 2,504. Seven Russians shot better scores than the highest man on the Portsmouth team. This shows that the Soviet workers are keenly aware of Stalin’s warning to the imperialists: “Keep your snouts out of the Soviet garden!” They are preparing to repel all attacks! PRM LOMAS ATLA Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK. N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party, ADDRESS... | Party Lite | . . | California Parley | | | Four Point Plan Radio Broadcast UILD Twice as Strong!” With'| | this slogan, the workers and) |farmers at the Communist Party | | Conference adiourned their meeting in Fresno. California on Dec. 23, and returned to all parts of the staté| to carry out the program of work they had enthusiastically discussed | and adopted. | At least three times the number | of comrades were present at this | | meeting than met in Fresno in 1931. Workers representing many nation- jalities were present, but the out-/| standing characteristic of the as-| samblage was the distinctly Amer- | | ican work and farmers brought in through struggles in California during the past ye | The Conference opened with a re- | port by Sam Darcy, District Organ- | izer, After reviewing the past achievements, including the elec- tion campaign. which resulted in} Comrade Anita Whitney polling more than 100,000 votes, and the victories on the waterfront and in| the agricultural fields, he showed the impossibility of capitalism to | stabilize itself. “The policv of the | Roosevelt New Deal government will be continued attack on the working class to squeeze out the | Profits which the bosses demand,” | Darcy said. “The Communist Party will continue to fizht back these at- tacks, stronger and stronger.” After the report various sub-con- | ferences met. working out a program for the coming period. which the lassembly after discussion adopted unanimously. | The vrinciple important points in the program were: (1) intensifying the present membership drive so as to double the membership of the | Party in District 13 by March 1,| with particular emphasis on estab- lishment of shop units: (2) to carry through successfully the drive for 3.000 new subscriptions and the $7,000 guarantee fund for the West- | ern Worker for 1935; (3) building a | united front movement to include | Epic workers, militant Socialist Party members. and other workers |in @ common struggle for the four | basic points in the proposal recently sent out by the Communist Party; | (4) building the movement. for real | unemployment and sociel insurance |and for greater relief to the un- employed. | | The four points in the call are: 1. Repeal of the sales tax. 2. For unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the | besses and the government. | | 3. Repeal of the criminal syn- | dicalism law and all anti-labor laws; to fight vigilantism; and to free Mooney. 4. Reduction of power rates, es- | pecially the working farmers. The fifth point, was to strengthen | the trade union movement. In this | regard the plan was stressed of each member eligibie to do so. joining a | trade union in his industry. | |. These and many other points were | hammered out into a real program) of action, and the comrades left to |return to their sections determined | to begin at once to bring this plan of work into reality as the best | | means of fighting the approach of war and the rising wave of fascism. an Mes workers write to us about the broadcasts of Father Cough- lin, and ask why the Communist Party does not broadcast over the radio to counteract the influence of | this demagog among the workers. |The reason why ‘the Communist Party is not on the air. is because in general the radio is closed to the Party, except by payment of tremendous sums of money. | However, we are glad to note that in California, the Workers School broadcasts the news of the week each Wednesday from 6:45 to 7:00, with Lawrence Ross, co-editor of the Western Worker as the speaker. | It would be good if the California | Workers School would advise us of the station and the wave length, so that the comrades with short wave sets throughout the country can listen in. Irish Workers Asks Freedom PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14.—The Irish Workers Club here has sent a telegram to the United States Supreme Court demanding an im- mediate decision for the release of Tom Mooney, after 18 years of il- legal imprisonment following his conviction on perjured testimony and in the face of overwhelming ‘proof of his innocence. | The court has not yet decided whether it will grant a hearing on the writ of habeas corpus brought by Mooney. Workers’ and sympa- thetic organizations are urged to rush telegrams to the court, rais- | was too busy with other matters. I The Communist Party on the Air | | THE REPTILE INVADER | Letters From Our SOCIALIST AT INSURANCE CON- | Because of the volume of letters re- GRESS WISHES TO JOIN C. P. | ‘tlved by the Department, we can | print only those that are of general Luray, Va. | interest to Daily Worker readers. How- ever, all letters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever Comrade Editor: I am working up a strong petition | asking my respective Congressman | possible are used for the improvement and Senator of this district to vote| of the Daily Worker. for H. R, 2827. I am also anxious| __ to have complete returns from the| ‘ | HITS HEARST THROUGH HIS Washington Congress. | ADVERTISERS I have been a Socialist ever since | Philadelphia, Pa. Eugené V. Debs went to jail. I ran |Gomrade Editor: Pa, for Congress in 1934 in the Seventh | 7 am a subscriber to your paper, District of Virginia. I polled several though not a Communist. hundred votes. When I attended why not hit Hearst where he is the Washington Congress for the|vymerable—through his advertsers? establishment of unemployment and| would it not be possible to con- Social insurance, it broke my heart sumers to sign protest lists to be Rhen I failed to see Mr. Norman| sent to advertisers in the Hearst Thomas, our champion, not lead- (papers, pointing out that further ing this meeting for fear of break-/ads in those journals will result in ing the constitution, or maybe he |ioss of patronage from the writers? o concerns along these him a vacation for at least ninsty-|lines and received prompt replies. nine years. |Surely mass action should be ef- Please send me information on /fective. joining the Communist Party. | Enclosed find two dollars for a) three months’ subscription. | With best wishes to the Daily) ASKS MASS TRIAL OF HEARST Worker and all its readers, | Syracuse, N. Y. LESTER RUFFNER. | Comrade Editor: (Signature Authorized)! It nauseates me everv time I read a Hearst paver to read his vicious A. U. 8. GOVERNMENT WORKER. MAKE USE OF SCOTTSBORO STAMPS | Union and the Communist Party. New York. N. Y. As a worker and a friend of the Comrade EAior: * "| Soviet Union, I can see great harm. 1. would tikes to suggest one way done by this vicious propaganda to to. use ‘and ‘popularize the use of | instill in the people of this country stamps, stich as the Scottsboro Fund a hatred of the Soviets. It is up send them on every leter they sena | f2detship to expose this plot aimed Ways necessary exceptions). ‘These | 2 — stamps may be cold to sympathizers | As.a friend of the Soviet Union, for this purpose. I do not believe | f would like to propose a public it would be against government | 2! Hearst, just as the Com- regulations, as Xmas and other |™unist Party exposed Hitler during kinds of advertising go this way. the Reichstag trial to free Thael- a mann (which, incidently, is the way ; I became interested in the C. P. and began to read the Daily Worker regularly to keep me informed of conditions in this country). The Brooklyn, N. ¥. | Working class, through # public | trial, would learn the truth about Comrade Editor: |this monster who has secretly al- I see by the papers that the Uni- lied himself with Hitler as his chief versity of San Francisco, inspired | Nazi propaganda agent in this coun- by the vicious attacks of Hearst's | try. : yellow rags on the spreading wave | I hope the Daily Worker and the of Communism on the West Coast. Communist Party will foster this | has established a reguiar course of idea and take immediate steps for | study in order to present the case Ge public trial held in New York against Communism. City. This in my opinion is the The courses are being presented My, Seay, Res err, cen Be under ‘the guidance of Reverend | ganz to retract their statements, ex- \Feeley, who, in announcing the i 5 presentation of his anti-red probe he resi Ho Me eens scene U. OF SAN FRANCISCO GIVES COURSE IN HEARST-FASCISM The writer has himself written | | think the Socialists had better give|to several |and atrocious lies about the Soviet | |to the masses and the Communist | by Gropper Readers STUDENTS PUT SPIVAK’S NAME ON HONOR ROLL | Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Today an injustice was commit- ted in my high school which is | worthy of your attention. Last year the Abraham Lincoln High School established the Lincoln Award, the purpose of which is to | honor the citizen who has made the |most outstanding contribution to | the cause of public welfare within the current year. | The nominations for the award are made by the students in the English classes and clubs of the | school. Among those nominated for | this year’s award by many of the classes | Spivak. I am sending you a copy of the “Lincoin Log,” our school pub- lication, to verify my statement. Today the voting took place. To the surprise and indignation of many students, the name of John L. Spivak was omitted. (The names of Damrosch and Valentine were omitted also, as a blind). Why was this done? Because the school authorities were afraid of the possibility of Spivak’s being selected by the student body for the award. This occurs in a school whose principal. Dr. Mason, boasts of be- ving a liberal, but whose acts in- dicate to thinking students that he is just one more tool of the powers that be. In closing. I should like to say that many of us protested by writ- ing the name of Spivak on the bal- | lot. | Three cheers for Spivak. who does ‘not need the hypocritical Lincoln Award to add to his laurels! AN INDIGNANT STUDENT. ON ITALIAN FASCISM Cleveland, Ohio. Comrade Edito:: In the Daily Worker of January 1, I read an interesting article by Andrea Mareabini, on Italian fas- cism. It is interesting because it deals with a phase of fascism very rarely touched upon. This phase is the blood sucking exploitation by taxation which is an outstanding character of fascism. To say that the taxes in some cases increased a thousand per cent, afte: Mussolini was given power, is not a bit exaggerating. New items added to taxable goods. In my opinion, it is also important to stress the purposes this money is used for. In Italy, there is an al- most unbelievable number of non- producing people, such as Musso- and clubs was John L.!| of consumpéion are constantly being | | World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— Oil Flows in Irak A Bit of “Democracy” | China Loans HAT German imperialism | sowed in its Berlin-to- | Bagdad scheme, British, French, American and Dutch | The final piece of pipe in the Mosul oil field line has been laid in Irak to suit the needs of the conflicting powers, and the black gold now flows as copiously as the workers’ blood spilled on the battlefield to achieve it for the masters. More than 20 years ago, the | Kaiser obtained a lease on the fab- ulously rich oil fields in Mesopo- |tamia. After the war, those who sent 10,000,000 to their death to fight “for democracy,” began to squabble over the control of this |tangible bit ‘of democracy. Stand- ard Oil demanded its share and got it. The main battle was between the French and the British. The French wanted the oil pipe line to terminate at Tripoli, Syria. The British insisted on Haifa, Jerusalem, Each of these powers had prepared the road for the line beforehand, The French with their bombing Planes had pacified the Syrian vil- lages by bombing the route of the Prospective oil line. The British, with the assistance of che misled Zionists, had taught the Arabs 4 lesson that pipe lines come before the right of the Arab peasant to to his land. A 0” TOP of it all, to safeguard the oil fields and the pipe line for British imperialism, his Majesty's dislomatic service and air forces | have been active for 15 years shack- ling Irak with a treaty which makes it a dependency of Great Britain, dotting the whole country wth sta | tions of the Imperial Aid Force. | Irak is now entirely patrolled by British bombers. ‘The opening of the pipe line means & concentration of greater imperial- ist forces in this vital spot of the Near East, forecasting more inten- sive drives against the Arab, Egyptian, Syrian, Turkish and other Near Eastern people. Then, too, Trak has always been looked upon |by the British military experts as an admirable air war base for at- tack on the Soviet southeast. A SIXTH-MONTH bitterly fought trade conference between. the Japanese and Dutch at Bavaria, Dutch East Indies has come to an end. The Dutch, fearing the flood- ing of the D: E. I. with Japanese products called a halt. The Jap- anese threatened reprisals against Indies sugar. Hot words passed back and forth. At one time a Japanese naval fleet demonstrated in the D. E. I. waters. Now the Jap- |anese representatives have sailed back to Tokio, without arriving at |any agreement. Just another small , but potent war spot in the Far East, | Re eee ‘ALL STREET has been unusually active in the Chinese invest- ment market lately, seeking for vast outlets, at huge rates of profits, for | its great stores of capital gathering ;Moss in Morgan & Co. vaults. The All-America Trade Council, which is co-operating with the Sino-American Trade Council at Shanghai, has decided to send a | mission to study trade and invest- |ment conditions in China. The Canton government is nego- tiating with American capitalists for the construction of an iron foundry in the locality of Juichi to cost 100,000,000 yuan, or about $35,000,000. The news comes from. Hongkong via the special corre- spondent .of the Osaka Mainichi. |General Chen Chi Tang's. agents approached representatives of the U. S. Steel Corporation and got their approval of the scheme. Now Canton is conferring with Nan- ‘king. “It is reliably learned that the Nanking government has agreed to the plan with certain reserva- tions,” says the same correspondent, Nanking itself, through its ex- finance minister, T. V. Soong, of oil magnates are now reaping, created to force Hearst and his | lini’s Black Shirts, all kinds of the famous Soong dynasty, who, secere’ services and the police and | through its great banking house other forms of militia. There are and its women (the wives of Chiang tzemendous war expenditures, Some | Kai-shek and other leading min- For Mooney aganda, fairly eulogised Hearst, work in combating the spreed of Communism. The good reverend neglected to mention that this monster's chief method of attack is to completely distort passages from the works of great revolutionary leaders in his miserable effort to confuse the growing class conscious- ness of the great American working class. I suggest that the Party contact Reverend Feeley and offer him the cervices of an authorized speaker in order to publicly debate the care against Communism. I have grave doubts that he would avail himself of this service. Nevertheless our fight this new attack with evary means at their disposal. t \ing the demand for Mooney’s free- \dom. ¥F.B, the mass murderer, for his noble | |com:ades on the Wes‘ Coast must | | A FRIEND. ADVICE TO RED BUILDERS New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: ‘Will you please print this in the Daily Worker for the benefit of the Red Builders all over the country? ; It is very easy to sell the Daily ‘Worker if the Red Builder shouts slogans. Last night I was selling the Daily Worker on Times Sq I was shouting the following slogan: “A billion dollars for war prep3re- tions and net one penny fer, uncm- ploymerit insurance, is rulic: of Presiderit Roosevelt.” With this slogan I succeeded in selling a Daily Worker to some psople who had never heard of the Daily Worker before. : RED BUILDER. of it is supposed to be spent on construction projects, but if these projects are investigated, it is found that almosé all of the works are de- signed for future wars. I would like to read more articles like Marabini’s on Italian fascism. cde a LAST ACT FOR STRUGGLES OF HIS CLASS Comrade Editor: Before his death, he willed $30 to the working class movement and press, of which $10 is to go to the Daily Worker as the most important working class paper in the Amer- ican language. J. Zubricki in life always sup- ported the workers’ movement as’ he did in death, F A FRIEND. “4 Saturday, Canuary 5, Joseph Zu- | bricki died at the County Hospital. Uisters), actually rules China, has approached the Roosevelt govern= ‘ment for a loan. Nanking says it wants to estab- lish an automobile assembling plant in China, in co-operation with American capitalists, and asks the sum of $6,000,000. eee JAVING learned from the Com- munist Party of Germany how to organize ana circulate its revolu- tionary press, the Communist Party |of Spain has shown remarkable | Speed in fiooding the country with a mass of literature. Almost the day after the armed battles of Oc- tober were ended, the revolutionary press began to circulate. Sine then, the Daily Worker has receiv scores of copies of the Communist Dublications. A reproduction of Some of them appears on another page today. * ]