The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1935, Page 6

: a HM Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935 ciation of Manufacturers, the U. S. mel f the American taal . the Silver Shirts, elements in the United States. -Communist, gh he are a —_tho reactionaries. era reduce the Ameri living in order to to maintain their dying capitalist to any lengths Daily,.<QWorker CHWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULE + (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5¢ E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Teleph “America’s Only ALgonquin 4-795 4. Add 1 year, $6.0: 0.78 cents. Canada: 1 year, $9.00: ly, 75. cents. 0; 6 months, 75 cents. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935 Action on the Workers Bill! HF; iact that the chairman of the House Committee, William P. Connery, has endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Rill, H. R. 2827, is an indication of how profound is the support which this vital working class measure has aroused among the entire population. Connery is no friend of the masses. He is the author of the reactionary Black- Connery wage-cutting bill on the thirty- hour week, which reduces weekly pay level 3ut Connery has his ear to the ground and he hears the tremendous voice of the masses calling for its adoption. All this proves how effective mass e is, and how necessary it is now this advantage and push the fight executive secretary of the Na- on Committee, Herbert Benj sing the fight by calling on all local Sponsoring Committees to organize nev local actions, putting pressure on local officials and the Federal government for the Bill. Wire or write to the House Labor Committee! Organize local relief actions and demand Federal unemployment and social insurance, to be paid for by the gov- ernment and employers. min, is p: Heading Toward Fascism ta mult:-millionaire Republican, Ogden L. Mills, charges Roosevelt’s New Deal ing toward fascism. So svparently the old saw about the truth appearing when crooks fall out still holds good, Certainly, this reactionary Republican capitalist is right about the fascist direc- tion of the capitalist Democratic adminis- tration in the White House. But he might have discovered this two years ago in the Communist press. The New Deal, since it is the program whose main purpose is to protect the prof- its of the higgest Wall Street monopolies, is heading for fascism, because fascism is precisely the terrorist rule of just these monopclies by open violence and reaction. As a matter of fact both Mills and Roosevelt are basically interested in the same thing, the intensified exploitation of the working class for higher profits. Both are helping to prepare for fas- cism, Mills by his Liberty League and Roosevelt by the New Deal. Their only quarral is on the methods and which Wall Street clique shall rule. A Significant Contrast IGNIFICANT news comes from the land where the workers rule. Production in the Soviet Union in 1934, final figures now show, was 127 per cent above 1933. In capitalist countries the problem dur- ing last year was how to destroy means of production and food, not to increase them. In fact, in the United States during that year more than a million workers lost ir jobs. In the land of Socialism the workers have grown and produced more food. They have expended the steel, machinery, railroad equipment, coal and iron in- dustry. Living standards went up in the U. S. * R. in 1934. They went down in the ,ced Siates in the same period. ¢ no parssitic capitalists, no Rockefellers, Morgans, Fords, or du Ponts, eyery rise in producticn in the U. S. S. R. meant an improvement in the welfare of those who produced the increased wealth, ; { { : ia lines are forming themselves rapidly On one side there wil! be found the National Asso- ate S. Chamber of Com- Legic anti-Soviet, They can workers to a coolie standard of maintain capitalist profits. stem, they will go ] the fascist only do they w . the pro- anti-labor, want to In order wide united front. Wi A Criminal System VEN the capitalists themselves are dis- E mayed by the crazy stupidities of their own system. The insane anarchy of capitalism finds the following dismayed admission from none ether than the ex-generalissimo of the N. R. A., General Hugh L. Johnson: “If we saw a squirrel starving to death in a knothole in his nut-filled hol- low tree, we wouldn’t believe it. And vet here are 125,000.000 people. gran- aries full, factories shut, hut with mill- ions of workers idle and hungry and shabby and afraid of the future and of everything and everybody about them, and monev galore in banks and deposi- tories. It just doesn’t seem to make sense.” Certainly, it doesn’t make sense, In fact, it is a menace to the welfare to the lives of the overwhelming majority of the population, the workers and toiling farm- ers. But any class-conscious, revolutionary worker could give the General a simple solution. a solution which has been tried with overwhelming success in the Soviet Union. Abolish private property, establish a Soviet America, inaugurate planned econ- omy and socialism, and the crisis would be forever solved, General. This solution, naturally. will hurt the billionaires. But it would be the beginning of a new life for the overwhelming majority of the pop- ulation. Richberg’s Advice ONALD RICHBERG, speaking before the National Automobile Dealers’ As- sociation, gave the auto manufacturers some advice on how to maintain profits and prevent threatening strikes. Increased political demands “for em- ploye rights” are made, Richberg said, when employers oppose “collective bar- gaining.” There is only one sure deterrent of increased political control of business along these lines,” said the head of the N. R. A. Emergency Council. “And that is increased reliance upon collective bar- gaining.” Richberg has already made clear time after time that by “collective bargaining” he means denial of majority rule, and legalization of the company union, with the real unions operating through a com- pany union “works council.” Richberg opposes, on behalf of the Roosevelt government, the thirty-hour week bili and similar labor legislation, His “substitute” is the company union, sugar- coated with nice-sounding phrases. The N. R. A. Boards have prevented auto strikes in the past, and are now try- ing to prevent another auto strike, to maintain the same miserable conditions and put off the auto workers’ demands with empty promises. Socialists Expelled IVE members have been expelled from the Socialist Party in Buffalo on the ground that they belonged to the Revolu- tionary Policy Committee, a group within the Socialist Party. Included in the group is a jobless worker, member of the Unemployed Coun- cils. The special “crime” of the five, as singled out by the executive secretary of the Buffalo branch, Robert A. Hoffme2n, was their alleged belief in the dictatorship of the proletariat and in “armed insurrec- tion” against capitalism. The “Old Guard openly in favor of expulsions. Socialist workers should give the most earnest consideration to the situ- ation where a belief in the class struggle and a refusal to accept the “peaceful path to Socialism” via the Roosevelt New Deal has become a political crime within the Socialist Party, subject to expulsion. The question now is, where are the ex- pelled members going? An earnest examination of their posi- ticn should convince the expelled members that a thorough-going revolutionary fight can be waged only under the banner of Communism. The Buffalo decision only proves how s the building of a united front of rs, Socialist and Communist, on on of class struegle for the needs f the workers, and against the menace of imperialist war and fascist reaction, ie) Not The mouthpiece of this motley crew of pirates is William Randolph Hearst, through his news- papers, magazines, radios and newsreels, But against Hearst and those powerful sections of capital for which he speaks there is already forming a hin the last few weeks an in- Party Life | A Report On ‘Recruiting In New York Section Three has outstripped Sec- | tion Four in the recruiting drive by attaining a quota of ninety-five per | cent of its nine weeks quota while |Section Four has only reached eighty-five per cent of its quota. Section Three succeeded in reach- jing the ouota by developing a real energetic campaign in the recruiting drive. The campaign has been un- der the direct supervision of the | section bureau and all leading com- tades actively participated in de- veloping the drive. Thev have raised the consciousness of the en- tire membership of the section | which has nroduced these favorable | results. Indications are that Sec- | | tion Three will go over the ton in| its quota and that the section may | win from Section Four tho prize banner in tho recruiting drive. Section Three has also fulfilled its guota in recruiting the longshors- men thev have decided to recruit \in competition wtih the other sec- tens—One and Seven. Other sections are still trailing behind, and some | sections show some snecific weak- | nesses, Section One has recruited (applications brought in) 214 for the nine weeks. and has only as- signed 122. This is a very serious weakness and the section must see | to it that it overcome: this at once, The vercentage of those that are not assigned is the greatest in this | Section. While on a district. scale only twenty-five ver cent have not |been assigned (1.743 application |cards and 1,320 assigned). In Sec- | | tion One the nercentage is as high as 100 per cent. | | Section en which has chal- jlenged Section Four in the recruit- jing drive, in an officiel statement | printed in the Party Builder, has re- cruited only forty-five ner cent of their quota; Section Four inauires of Section Seven “was this challenge | of your section committee offered in real Communist seriousness?” This is the second time Section Seven is challenzine Section Four in the recruiting drive. We expect, Section Seven to send their reply | through ihe Porty Builder. | | . With Jess than a. week left until the Lenin Memorial meeting the sections are to speed up the drive and assign all those who have made applications. — These thousands of new members will be called upon to take the Party oath at this meet- ing. Sections are to inform all the new members who have joined the Party since the bevinning of the re- cruiting drive—Oct. 23 to Jan, 21— to report to the Madison Square Garden Lenin Memorial meeting. The district {fs nreparing a special | |invitation letter to these comrades and. the tions can get these at the district and supoly the comrades. | tvigou efaoie shrdlu shrdluec shr | ) Soviets Hail Recent Gains. Madein Siberia (Special to the Daily Worker) KAMCHATKA, Siberia, Jan. 16 (By Wireless)—This, one of the remotest districts of the U.S. S. R., will be able to report some réaliy heroic achievements when the All- Union Congress of Soviets opens on Jan. 25. Fishing is the basic elements of the national economy here. Eighteen fishing enterprises, with 16 canning plants equipped in the latest tech- nique, have arisen on the shores of Kamchatka. The catch of fish in 1934 equalled 45,000 tons. Fur is playing a no less important role. One of the rai: nurseries of the} werld is organized on the Com- manser Islands, which supply the | world market with valuable seal- | skins, blue foxes and beavers. While land cultivation has been considered impossible in Kam- chatka, 4,290 acres were planted | with vegetable cultures in the pre- vious summe, es against only 780 acres in 1930. Particularly great. however, are | the successes of cultural and social | constructions. Far off on the desert | tundra of the northern coast. where formerly not a single teacher cr| | doctor was available, there are now |117 elementary schools. eight high | | schools, @ teachers’ training school, | (51 hospitals and medical stations and 47 churches. CORRECTION A formulation in the editovial on} | the front page of Monday’s Daily Worker. dealing with the elec‘ions | in the Patercon silk union may be miscorstvusd to mean thet the Lovestoni*> Keller and the reac- tionsry Ammirato of the dvers union cre in the sam? croup. Both reprecen* the m: reaction? rye" ments in their lecals, but theiz | | methods for deceiving the workers differ. fluential group of Methodist ministers condemned Mr. Hearst and his lying anti-labor campaign most vigor- ously, Early this week a group of editors of some of the largest college newspapers in the country adopted a resolution condemning Hearst as the voice of fascism in the United States. Before that some of the best- known educators in the country attacked Hearst and his fascist campaign. People of the most divergent political views are being roused for the fight of the fact that the fight against fascism. THE VICTORY CUP against Hearst, conscious against Hearst is a fight William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party THE LINES ARE FORMING. BUT THE FIGHT AGAINST HEARST’S LYING ANTI-LABOR CAMPAIGN MUST BE BROADENED! The crushing of the labor movement, the most mili- tant elements of which are the Communists, is basic to the whole campaign of these reactionaries. h to crush the labor movement but, along with it, every liberal voice in the United States which obiects to oppression. This is good. We Communists welcome such a fight. But it is not enough. mus* penetrate deep into the labor movement. ists and A. F. of L. unionists must take up the gage of battle, Hearst and his arti-labor lies must not go unan- swered, The fight against Hears mouthpiece of American fascism, The beast of fascism is raising its ugly head in the ited States. Its fangs ar Hit back at the beast now! by Burck! Letters From Our Readers Newark Library Bans The Communist Comrade Editor: Evidently the Hearst gutter press is achieving some result in Newark. The Newark Library, which until a} few weeks ago, kept The Commu- | nist on its shelves, has suddenly re- moved all the issues, This is right in line with the fascists’ plans to re- move all working class literature from the public libraries. I went to the library recently and asked for the latest issue of The Communist, but I was told that it wasn't there. I looked in the shelves for the place where it was | usually kept. All trace of any issues, and the label telling where it was, had been removed, I want to call this to. the atten- tion of all workers in Newark. We should not stand for this barring of Communist literature from our library shelves, while’ fascist. organ like The National Republic 1s per- mitted to stay. We must force the Newark Library, through mass ac- tion, mass protest, the only weapons of the working class, to place; The Communist back on the shelf. Comrades, send protesis to Bea- trice Winser, Librarian, Newark Public Library, Washington Street, Newark. YONNG WORKER. Urge Dealers Display Daily Worker NEW YORK, N. Y. Comrade "d‘tor* I would like to appeal to those readers of the Daily Worker who buy their paper from a candy and stationery store located at the couth-east corner of Plimpton Avenue and 172rd Street, the Bronx, | to insist that this storekeeper dis- Play the “Daily” as he docs all other papers. This storekeeper hides the Daily Worker inside the store; thus not giving those who pass an oppor- Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Depertment, we can print only these thet are of general interest to Daily Worker readers. How- ever, all letters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever Possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. Shows Source of Income Of Kept Press NEW YORK, N. Y. Comrade Editor: What a splendid newspaper the Daily” has become. I began read- ing it consistently about a year ago |and look forward eagerly to each | stirring issue, For some time I continued to read the capitalist sheets as well, in spite of a thor- ough awarness of their venomous nature and hopeless corruption, but | | can’t go them any longer. Recently the writer atiended a! little gathering where Communism was discussed. Of some eighteen | persons prescnt all but three were avowed Communists or sympathiz- ers. I spote very briefly on the folly | of reading the capitalist press and| kicking In our good money for the privilege. One of the speakers of the evening—and a rather compe- tent chap he was—decried my at- titude, insisting that one should read the prostitute press (in his c2se he bought the Times and the News every day) to keep in touch with what the bourgeoisie is doing. I want to point cut that allowing five cents a day for a morning and} evening paper, plus another fifteen conts spent for miscellaneous crvi- | talist mazazincs, making A wotkiy! total of fifty cents per person, or| twenty-six dollars a year, this wnen | multiplied by the fifteen clas3-con- | scious people present would come to} appreximately four hundred dollars) a year. Think of it, four hundred | dollars a yeer freely contributed | iby this small, politically mature group to the maintenance of this Hails Policy of Truth |On Anniversary EAST GREENWICH, R. I. Comrade Editor: : Greetings to the Daily Worker on its 11th Anniversary. A few years ago I saw the Daily Worker on a newsstand in Provi- dence, R. I. Later I subscribed for it and have read it almost daily| since. It surely is of yery great importance, for without, papers of the type of the Daily ‘Worker, the truth is not spread absut impor- tant economic and. political ques- tions. The capitalist press always twists the truth, and never informs the people about any important is- sues. “Keep the people misin- formed,” has always been the motto of the privileged class. The Daily Worker is doing impor- | tant work in breaking down the brutal hold of ‘the’ capitalists on the minds of the people. Let the good work go on until victory is won. A. J. H. “Twice As Good,” Says Reader NEW YORK, N. Y. Comrade Editor: ‘4 I am a constant reader of the Daily Worker and a member of the Young Communist League. Lately the Daily Worker has become, in my opinion, the best paper today. It is twice as good as it was, and whereas before it was educational, but not interesting enough, now it is so interesting that I know of no other paper that can compet2 with it. However, I woutd like to point out one thing. The Daily Worker would be much better if the proof reading were more accurate. It.makea very. bad impression when reading en articie to find-a:number of words so incorrec*ly spelled, that in many cases it is impossible to make out what the word actually is. you will accept this criticizm to tunity to see it and possibly buy the| colossal, capitalist prop2ganda ma-| make the “Daily” a better paper paper on sight. READER, | chine. | PARTISAN. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat «SPHE dictatorship of the proletariat is a than it is even nov. Y¥.C.L. MEMBER, it is an alliance against capital, an allixnce T. hope | special form of class alliance between the proletariat, the vanguard of the toil- ers, and the numerous non-proletarian strata of toilers (petty-bourg2oisie, the small masters, the peasantry, the intelli- gentsia, etc.) or the majority of these; aimirg at the complete overthrow of capi- tal, at the comolete suppression of the re- sistance of tie bourgeoisie and of any at- tempt oa their part at restoration, an allisnce aiming at the final establisment and consolidation of socialism.” The fight against Hearst Social- t is the fight against the e clearly labeled “Hearst.” | World Front |'——- By HARRY GANNES -—— | | 9 Old Fogies and Gold A Jittery Decision | Its World Import | pees nine old fogies wearing the solemn black | robes of Supreme Court Just« | ices of the United: States are |about to pronounce on the validity of the gold clause Payments in contracts valued at | $100.000,000,000 the whole financial relations of world capitalism go | jittery. A The dollar rises on. the. world | money market. The foreign gold currencies plunge downward. Stock, | bond and commodity prices in Wall Street gyrate and get dizay. The whole situation shows how “sound and stable” the financial structure of world capitalism is. It is so rotten, so undermined, so rent with contradictions, that if the judicial breath blows the wrong | way it may all topple into a mo- | mentary panic. What is behind the whole thing? Normally under capitalism the rock . | Of ages, the only ultimate stable, | Sure guage of wealth is gold. Dur- ing the present crisis, the gold | standard had to be wrecked. in | order to advance inflation in a | desperate effort to save capitalism jfrom collapse. Each capitalist country tried to get into an ad- vantageous position as against an- other by lowering the gold value of its currency in order to unde:se!l on the world market, in order fur- ther to slash wages at home and raise prices and profits, oe ce | DUT just to meet such an. emer gency, because capitalism's his- | tory is fuller of crises than a Swiss cheese is of* holes, contradicting | parties, especially on big deals like tens of million dolloy bond issues, inserted a clause declaring that final payment must be made in | gold of existing fineness, Now Roosevelt under his New Deal cut down the gold content of the dollar. So that if a contract said previously that $35 should be | paid in gold today, the Roosevelt | government has so inflated the dol- | lar that the recipient gets only $20 in gold equivalent value. No gold | at all is allowed to he paid out. In | other words, a contractor gets $35 in paper money, which has a gold value as of the time the contract Was made, of $20. He now insists, in appeal to the court, that he be paid not $35 in paper money, but jin actual gold, which would mean at least 70 per cent more in paper | Money than he now gets. Sova ese | JN the meantime, al! of the un- |4 certainty of the capitalist finane | cial crisis is cropping to the sur- | face, and almost. panic. conditions | are gripping the world money mare kets and the stock exchanges. | Actually, the big finance. capi- | talists have nothing to fear. A de- | cision in favor of the gold clause | would temporarily knock the stock | market for a goal. It would tie a knot in. business and. further dis | organize the price structure. But Roosevelt, Congress and the Treas- ury Department would quickly come to the rescue with inflationary measures to even matters up. More likely, the nine austere juse tices, who Mr. Dooley said, always have their eyes on the election re- turns and, we add, their fingers on - the pulse of diseesed capitalism, will uphold the Roosevelt inflationary measures. Thei> only hesitation is the fact that. precedents may be set which are dangerous for capi- talism. Whefr it: comes to unem- ployment insurance, the Greens, for example, taking their cue from the most renztionary capitalists, yelp about its “unconstitutionality.” If a decision is made by the court to affirm the elimination of the gold cleuse, they are afraid it would open the door to many arguments on the constitutionality of othe: is- |fues which the capitalists do not want. In short, the whole development of the economic crisis creates the most interminable contradictions for the bostes. They are forced to distort the whole financial basis of capitalism, gold. They rush into inflation, but inflat‘on creates more contradictions for them. The con- tradic‘ion between the legal pre- ceden‘s and legal phrases (the whole juridicel st-ucture) and the necessities of immediate action by the Rocscvelt regime in the intere est of finance capital crops up. But whichever way the decision gocs, .the toiling - masses’ will lose, Sheu'd the gold cleuse be. sustained, the impact will for the moment create a panic, throwing many workers out of werk. Should it not be susteined, there wi'l he an added dier inflation, with for the masses, as monetary conflicts higher prices weil es sharpe- en the world marke’, with a lower- | ing of the standard of living of the workers, No wonder the nine doddering oldsters in the basement of the Lenin's Collected Works, Vol. XXTV.Capitol building are worried, { .