The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1935, Page 6

| | | TSR Page 6 DAILY WORKER. William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party WHO IS Ww) ry: very crime in the calendar Througt } stations, his newsreels, this modern ba vilest lies about the Communists. Who is this sterling patriot, Hearst? Does he come into court with clean He does not He is the who coldly, calm man planned to involve the United States into war. He is the man who helped send thousands of Amer- ican and Spanish workers to their deaths. He is that most hateful of all hateful people—a war-monger. THIS RED-BAITER, HEARST? Rese CHEE for the American capitalist class, iam Randolph Hearst, accuses the Communists newspapers, his magazines, his radio new. For that reason the Daily Worker feels it neces- ron shrieks the sary to recount a little history. It was the year 1898. Powerful sugar interests in this country, in alliance with other large capitalists, :. these. hands? were anxious to seize Cuba. Hearst was in the van of An excuse was needed. What matter if it cost the lives of American, Cuban and Spanish workers? Lives deliberately build campaign today. of workers were—and are—cheap to Hearst. So that worthy gentleman set about working up a war spirit in this country—exactly as he is trying to up an anti-Soviet, anti-Communist, anti-labor What happened is a matter of record. It was made YEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1935 DOES HE COME INTO COURT WITH CLEAN HANDS? To the older generation it is an old story; to the growing youth of this country, it may be something public by James Creelman, for years Hearst’s London correspondent, in an article in the September, 1906, issue of Pearson’s Weekly. Hearst had sent the famous artist, Frederick Rem- ington, to Cuba to get pict ures that could be used in the Hearst press to help whip up an anti-Spanish cam- paign in this country. Remington, arriving in Cuba, found that every- thing was quiet. He immediately sent Hearst the fol- lowing cable: W. R. Hearst New York Journal New York Everything is quiet here. There is no trouble here. There will be no war. I wish to return. REMINGTON. DOES HE REMEMBER THE MAINE? This is the answer Rem: Remington Havana ington got: Please remain. You furnish the pictures and Vl furnish the war. This, workers and farm HEARST. ers of the United States, is the man who dares to attack the Communist Party, which leads in the anti-war fight in the United States! This is the man on whose hands is the blood of thousands of the sons of the American working class. We will let the toilers of America judge as between Hearst and the Communist Party. We are confident of the choice that the American working people will make. Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address ‘Daiwork, New York, N. Y. Washington Bur Room 964, Nationa Press Building, iath and F ton, D. C. Telephone: National 7910. Midwest Bureau: 101 th Wells St.. Room 708, Chicago, Mi. Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Ma except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.60; months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Bro: Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00, $5.00: 3 months, $3 nts 75 cents. 1 year, $1.59; 6 months, 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1935 Demand Favorable Action On the Workers’ Bill! HE House Labor Committee of Congress now has the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill in its hands. In order to force it to act, every reader of the “Daily,” every active and militant worker in the country has the immediate job of letting the members of this commit- tee know where the American working class stands on this bill. Telegrams and letters should pour in to the offices of this committee from every state in the country demanding three things: 1. Quick action on the bill. 2. Endorsement of the bill by each member. 3. Recommendation to Congress ap- proving the bill. For this purpose the Daily Worker prints the full list of the committee mem- bers to whom workers should immedi- ately write or wire, in care of the House ef Representatives, Washington, D. C. The mass sentiment for the bill is grow- ing so rapidly all over the country that several of the members have already pub- licly endorsed the bill. including the chair- man of the committce, William P. Connery. The full list follows: Democrats: Chairman William P. Con- Jr., Massachusetts; Mary T. Norton, y Jersey: Robert Ramspeck, Georgia; Glenn Griswold, Indiana; Kent E. Keller, Tilinois; Matthews A. Dunn, Pennsylvania; Reuben T. Wood. Missouri; Jennings Ran- delph, West Virginia; John Lesinski, Michigan: Joe H. Eagle, Texas; Charles V. Truax, Ohio; Murcellus H. Evans, New York; James H. Gildea, Pennsylvania; Subert C. Dunn, Mississippi. Republicans: Richard J. Welch, Califor- nia: Fred A. Hartley, Jr., New Jersey; William P. Lambertson. Kansas; Clifford R. Fope. Kansas; Vito Marcantonio, New Vork City. Ernest Lundeen, Farmer- Labor, Minnesota: George J. Snyder, Pro- gressive, Wisconsin. Demand favorable action on the Work- ers’ Bill! The Steel Situation SPITE all hypocritical talk of “truce” in the steel industry, the class struggle between the workers and the big steel trusts grows sharper every day. The U. S, Steel Corporation is attempt- ing to intimidate the steel workers into the trap of company unions. But the steel workers are not stand- ing idly by. The Amalgamated Associa- tion lodges are vigorously preparing for resistance and struggle, and the Feb. 3 conference in Pittsburgh of steel, mining and aluminum locals promises to be very suecessful. -As the steel employers plunder the workers, they are, at the same time, in- creasing their anti-Communist poison in the press. In the Rankin plant of the American Steel and Wire Company, workers are forced to take company union cards. In Duauesne, the “Times” calls for lynching of Communists. And the U. S. Steel Labor Board of the Roosevelt government aids in this offen- sive against the steel workers by refus- ing to hold the elections demanded by the workers in the Duquesne and other mills. Tt has white-washed the terrorism in the Jones 2nd Laughlin mills. The steel workers are learning that Roosevelt “truces” only hide new attacks in the interest of the employers. The ‘Puzzled’ Man HE Socialist Party organ, the New Leader, describes Roosevelt’s message to Congress as the speech of a “puzzled” man. Is it not clear that this kind of talk by the Socialist leaders actually helps Roose- velt to carry through the plans outlined in his message, plans to smash all Federal relief and drive millions of workers’ fami- liesinto the streets? The New Leader, in this kind of political appraisal of Roosevelt. helps to spread the illusion that Roosevelt is a sincere man who is groping his way, torn by his sin- cere “social ideas” and the pressure of the Wall Street reactionary monopolies. But Roosevelt is far from “puzzled.” Roosevelt is the most conscious agent and tool of the reactionary Wall Street monopo- lies, especially placed in the White House because he knows how to mask his capi- talist loyalty with smooth “radical” phrases. Why is it that the New Leader and Nor- man Thomas will never brand Roosevelt openly as the deliberate and conscious agent of the most ruthless Wall Street the leading figure dictatorship? We ask Socialist workers: Is it not clear that the New Leader is helping to hide from the workers the fact that Roosevelt is the main enemy of the American work- ing class? And does not this aid this capitalist | servant to carry out his orders? in the capitalist | Destroying Potatoes Heys robbed the American masses of more than a billion dollars through the destruction of wheat, cotton and corn, Roosevelt’s A.A.A. is now getting ready to curtail the production of potatoes in order to raise potato prices. The A.A.A. will meet on Jan. 18 to lay down the plans for cutting potato acreage. Here is Roosevelt actually planning to destroy potatoes, a basic article of mass | consumption, so that there will be rising | prices and reduced supply! This is the most blatant and merciless robbery of the poorest section of the popu- lation. It snatches food out of the mouths of workers’ families to fatten profits. Does not this system stand condemned as a criminal menace to the majority of the | povulation? aes Does one need better evidence that the working class must wipe capitalism off the face of the earth, and start to build | Socialism in a Soviet America, where pro- | duction will be expanded for mass welfare, not destroyed for private profit? Seamen’s Relief Cuts | HE Roosevelt government has just ruled | Athat jobless seamen will be denied all ordinary civil rights and occupational status, and will be treated as homeless | transients. This ruling is aimed directly at slash- ing all the relief gains won by the jobless | seamen on the decks under the leadership of the Waterfront Councils and the Ma- | rine Workers Industrial Union. | It was made clear to the seamen by | the Roosevelt officials that jobless seamen | will be herded into flop-houses, or regi- mented into concentration camps where | they will be subjected to a regime of forced | labor for lodgings, food, and ninety cents a week, In New York this brutal regime goes into effect in a few days. All seamen should prepare to resist this Roosevelt capitalist scheme. | aa | Strikes on forced labor jobs for union | | wages, and mass demonstrations at the relief offices will win what the jobless sea- men need most now—increased cash relicf. an end to all discrimination against strik- | ers, and the nassage of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. H.R. 2827. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK. N. Y. Please smd me more information on the Com- munist Party. NAME.. > i} =] x ce) an n capitalists? Why do they not brand him as. Party Lite | Study Circles Needed | Hand Mimeograph Is Easy to Use A Study Circle in Every Unit |THE autstanding weakness in every unit I have worked in is jan ignorance of theory. An organizer has the greatest dif- ficulty in persuading comrades what | should be done in any situation, | and often he feels that the com- |rades are carrying out his sugges- | tions, not because he has been able ‘to convince them of the corresct- ness of doing so, but because he is the only one who does not appear confused on the issue. If he is not very careful he will find that he is making all decisions, thinking out problems alone, and just insisting that the others fol- low him | This they may do, but because |they are not convinced that such | or such is the correct course, they will follow half-heartedly and un- |certainly. If he is in the right, and success is met, they will depend more and more upon his judgment. If he is wrong, or else if they don’t energetically carry cut the decision, they will place the blame for failure jon his shoulders. In either case they are not devel- oping one iota. And, if they are | fortunate enough to have an ex- perienced organizer, they will be all |the more unfortunate if he is ever removed to other fields and they must fend for themselves. I have seen more units crippled | because of no collective develop- |ment, and more members drop. out of the party for this same reason, than for any other. , Also, and as another evil of theo- retical ignorance, there is the sharp division in some units of intellect- uals and workers. The intellectuals |have been schooled in studious | | habits, while most of the workers have not. Therefore the first named become the guides and the workers the followers. This is ob- viously verv bad. We don't thinkers on one hand and doers on | | other; we want the two merged and collective. | | The situation calls for more than | urgent anveals to study and ac- quaint ourselves with the rich back- ground and theory of the class | struggle. tI calls for a systematic building of study grouvs wherever | units exist. and at once. if our members are to become developed Bolsheviks. 4 3 = J. W. Hanover, N. H. Sic Ve Hand Mimeo, for Unit Use WANT to state the experience I have had in using the small| | hand mimeograph machine. This) machine contains evervthine nee- essary to make it ideal for use by every unit. | |. First. it is cheap (it costs only | $1.50) which makes it possible for | eevry unit to have at least one. When the comrades besin to use this ma- chine they will see that it is vos- sible to have three or four in each unit. Think what this would mean | if it became necessary to print material quickly. Secondly, it can |be operated verv cheanly. Jt uses only about one third the ink nec- essary in a recular mimeograph ma- chine. Tt will use an ink nad in- definitely. Due to the fact that there is no pressure of a roller. there is almost no wear and tear on the stencil which means that it is pos- sible to print at least 10.000 leaflets | without the necessity of making a new stencil]. It saves naver too be- caus? there are no double or bad sheets. The advantage of simplicity can be seen readilv. The machine can| be set vy anywhere and put to work in five minutes. All these things, ia My opinion, does away with the necessity for hectographs or any other kind of duplicator. I don't | mean bv this that these type of | duolicaters should be done away with. Not at all. Comrades j Should end must become femiliar | with all methods of printing, I | simoly mean thet the hand mimeo. | does everything that all these other things do, does them more effec- | tive! theapvly and simvly. I'd like to conclude by saving that all these | remarks are besed on experience | with all methods of printing. My | unit bought one of these machines | as soon as it anneared and we havo |been able to do some good work | because of this machine, hence this | letter. I'd like to impress on all | unit bureaus, on all Party members ; that they take action immediateiy by getiing one of these machines | and crzanizing a small unit class in erder to show the comrades how to | use the machine. Such a unit class | could also learn how to cut stencils, | ete. J. H., New York. Eitor’s Note | mimeo machines mav be through your District. or di- Ke) course, I was charged, with the | passionate as stee] in these matters.) BAITING THE JOBLESS by Gropper Letters From Our Readers Decisive Action of U.S.S.R. | In Kirov Murder | NOTE: The foliowing is an ex- cerpt from a letter from Thomas Bunker. Bunker is a political prisoner, a marine worker framed | on a cherge of felony, and sen- tenced to from 614 to 25 years in Attica State Prison. * | Attica, N.Y. | Dear Comrade; | ... The World War wiped out any sanguinary ideas I may have previ- ously held. I am not posing when 1) tell you that to me, even the maim-/ ing of birds and animals in the name of Sport is brutally stupid. others, of feloniously placing, etc.,; “with intent to inflict bodily harm” on an inoffensive worker. Even the District Attorney had his tongue in his cheek when he harped his swan song. None of which is what I what I-want to talk about except that I) want my attitude understood when I speak to you of the Kirov murder. Whenever the enslaved masses gained power, they have invariably erred in the matter of decisive ac- tion, During the Commune, even the bourgeois gold was held as a sacred cow. The Italian workers in- sisted upon extreme gentleness, and how they were repaid! Of course, it was the leadership that fell down, but a really advanced proletariat is not easily betrayed. The boss class has no mistaken ideas. That class believes in law and | order as exemplified by the Austrian) butcher in his attack against the Karl Marx Apartments, and those other dogs, Machado of Cuba, Hitler, the U. S. steel and coal bosses, etc. Now the US.S.R. owes a duty not| only to the 170,900,000 within its borders, but also to the world pro- letariat, and in liquidating those cancer spots of counter-revolution bv means of the firing squad, the US.S.R. not only performed a sur- ‘ical operation that will give the workers’ fatherland a measure of relief, but gave added assurance to the international proletariat that} the victory of the October Revolu- tion will not readily be relinquished. The Soviet Union must be as diz-| and every worker throughout the world will easily recognize the ov: tone of fear in the strident ser: ef the bosses’ press. Many thanks for your numerous | kindnesses of the past year. | THOMAS BUNKER, 1674. | HE dictatorship of the proletariat is a They Are International Because of the voiume of letters rr- ceived by the Department, we ean print only those that are of generc) interest to Daily Worker readers. How- ever, all letters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are weleome and whenever Possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. Answers to Hearst Are Effective New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The new feature that has ap- peared on the top of the editorial page is excellent. Although the two | I have seen are concerned with refuting Hearst's attacks on Leninist teachings, I believe that the form they have taken is extremely effec- tive and should be valuable for use in many connections. The idea of taking up a single important point, bringing factual material in its sup- port, and its position at the top of the page. are impressive. Iet's have | more of the same! We'd also like to add our word of approbation of Littlé Lefty. Tell randpa Del about this, ALS. H.M. J. Working. Class Words Newberry, Mich. Comrade Editor: Ever since I've heard some of your spiels about ‘“bugg-o-see” and! “pro-lee-tary” I’ve wondered, who, be them fellers? I had to admit that T never met either one in this country. If those two words had been} deleted from the propaganda voca- bulary for the last twenty years and| the American “capitalist” and “worker” substituted, who knows. maybe the Daily Worker would be ticking off forty million instead of a measly forty thousand, and Washington would have a million house guests next Sunday. i J.V.K. A Good Meeting Needs Good Audience Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I attended the anniversery of the | Daily Worker. The program started too late, but what was even worse, | th Hails Improvement in Editorial Features Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I wish to congratulate you on the | improvement in the arrangement of | Page 7 of today’s issue (I would | suggest that the Laboratory and Shop feature be placed in the column with Questions and Answers); and particularly the marked improvement in the set-up of today’s editorials (the larger print, emphasis by heavy italics and more white space). The set-up of Bill Dunne’s article is especially | good. The content of the editorials are beyond criticism; simple lan- guage, short, free of r-r-revolution- ary phrases, with wide appeal to different sections of the masses. I read these editorials right through. I usually read the first paragraph of the usual type and glance at the rest. Please stick to today’s line! I suggest a series of sho:t state- ments on Hearst of today’s length, exposing him; for instance on his role in the Spanish-American War; his pro-Kaiserism in the World War; description of his financial interests; how he treats his em- ployees; his colossal political in- competence in failing to get elected though he ran for many offices; his morality; an essay on his yellow journalism. Perhaps groups of liberals. intel- lectuals. socialists, etc. may be per- suaded to make use of this series as a farum to express their viewpoint on Hearst. R. 8. Unemployed Ex-Soldier Sends Donation Chicago, Ml. Comrade Editor: My wife and I are unemployed, have been for two years. I am an ex-soldier; have not been well since | my revurn irom France in 1918. Just returned home from the hos- | pital after being treated for ulcers’ of the stomech. Once in a great while I am able’ to do an odd job to earn a few pennies, so I am sending what we c3n spare, three times. and we wish it were three hundred dimes. With se dimes we send revolutionary gzeetings to the Daily Worker, tne organizer of the American working class, the leader in the fight for a there was too much disorder to en- Jey it. Cc. M. Soviet America. py a rectly from A. Benson, P.O. Box 87, Station D, New York, N. Y. special form of class alliance between the proletariat, the vanguard of the toil- ers, and the numerous non-proletarian strata of toilers (petty-bourgeoisie, the small masters, the peasantry, the intelli- gentsia, etc.) or the majority of these; eu it is an alliance against capital, an alliance aiming at the complete overthrow of capi- tal, at the complete suppression of the re- sistance of the bourgeoisie and of any at- tempt on their part at restoration, an alliance aiming at the final establishment and consolidation of socialism.” Lenin's Collected Works, Vol. XXTY. | World Front HARRY GANN! Blood Speaks, Says Hitler What Now in the Sarr? | We Are in the Fight | acto ——— By a Ee voice of blood spoke,” was Hitler's comment on |the Saar as he prepared to shed the blood of those who did not speak in favor of re- turn to fascist Germany. | Continuing the battle | against Fascism in preparation for | the new conditions, both the Social- j ists and Communists in the Saar called upon the workers throughout the world to come to their aid in the face of open savage threats of | revenge from the Nazis. | Braving attack, the anti-fascist | united front is calling for protest demonstrations against the crooked plebiscite and the terrorist threats | which rolled up a 90 per cent vote— not for Fascism, not for Hitler—but for a return to Germany. | An example of the effectiveness (of the threats of reprisals made against the Saarlanders if they should vote for the status quo is shown in the results by cities. In Voelkingen, the town owned and controlled by Hermann Roechling, tre richest iron king in the Saar, chief Nazi treasurer and slated for highest Nazi honors. the vote was 10 to 1 for return to Germany, | reece had planted his spies | throughout the steel mills, He had | financed the organization of Nazi troops. He had been able to sano more effectively than in some other sections of the Saar. |The vote in Saarbruecken for ins- tance, was 7 to 1. oe Sete i RerenuN: after the voting and |** before the count was announced, was the first to threaten, in the | most detailed way, what would hap- | pen to the anti-Pascists. He is now followed by Nazi Min- ister of the Interior Prick. Fricie ‘declared that the Germans in the | Saar who voted for return would |now have a “free” choice to join |the Nazis or—he did not go into | details on the alternative. This is a clear indication that the Fascist | butchers do not have too much con- fidence in the political beliefs of | the 90 per cent who voted for return | to Germany. Even the French imperialists, who | put no obstacles in Hitler's way in | the matter of regaining the Saar, according to Associated Press, de- | clared that the plebiscite voting was | “unfair and conducted in an atmos- | phere of terror.” The “Arbeiterzeitung” ‘Workers’ Times,) Communist organ in the | Saar, right after the announcement of the plebiscite result stated: “A (new stage of our fight begins.” * ee FACT, the end of the plebiscite * will see the beginning of a wider and deeper struggle in the Saar against Fascism. It will be asked? Isn't there a fundamental contradic- | tion here, a victory for return to | the Germany of Hitler, and yet the perspective of a more embittered fight against Fascism? That con- tradiction is at the basis of the out- jcome of the Saar plebiscite. But ‘the component elements of the con- |tradiction which went towards _piling up a big vote for return to Germany, and yet contained within itself a mass hatred of fascism, will now shift with the solution of the future status of the Saar. Overpoweringly the desire of tha Saar population to return to Ger- many for the moment became the dominant factor. But now that that issue has had its expression, the more fundamental factors of the | class st:uggle, of imperialist con- flicts will work to the surface and become the determining issues. | For the moment, the Hitler gov- ernment will make the most dem- enstrative use of the Sacr to bolsi-r up its chauvinist campaign, and to speed its war plans. The tonic \ effect will be extremely transitory, |The body of fascism, after. the spree, will slump back into a worse state of despendency. Being within Ger- many that i bs dead in the Sa2r, but the issue before all Saar- landers, will be the newly gained | Nazi misery, concentration camps | and gallows. * pea imper‘al'sm has blocked the frontier on the Saar border. The French bosses do not want the Sazr enemies of capitalism to flock into their country. They prefer them to be finisted off by Hitler. The French capitalists, it will be vememb:red, turned back Spanisn | revolutionists who fled from certain death at the hands of the Spanish \fescists. We must demand the right jof asylum for those to whom it mo-=5 certain death or mutilation _to stay in the Saar. Our task in (the United Stotes against Fascism ‘in the Saar begins now in real earnest with the new situation ree ‘sulting from the Saar plebiscite. as Te