The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935 HEARST §$ now We Communi government. We cal the tt now us for relief We Communists said—and say—that ers, but to save Morgan's loans. talist class for which he speaks furious. Daily <QWorker | CRITRAL ONGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S 4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 54 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. “America’s Only Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, 99.00: } months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00 cents; monthly, 75 cents. By Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 78 cents FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935 Fight Roosevelt’s Wage Cuts OW the N.R.A. cuts wages is revealed in H the fact that 7,500 shoe workers of Haverhill have had a 1214 per cent wage cut forced on them, to begin next Mon- day. This slash was put over on the workers by making use of the wage differentials | contained in the N. R. A. shoe code. Under this code, the rural areas in Maine and New Hampshire, and elsewhere, adjoining the Massachusetts shoe factories, were given a wage scale 1214 per cent below | the Massachusetts city scale. Of course, the Haverhill and other Mas- sachusetts shoe shop employers began to | use the club of the wage differential, and moved many of their shops to the areas for which the N.R.A. code provides cheap labor. The national officers of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union tried to dampen the militant struggle which the Haverhill shoe workers put up against the wage cuts. The combination of N.R.A. wage differ- entials, the club of moving shops, terror against the unions in rural areas and treacherous national officers of the union is putting over these wage cuts. The 7,500 workers have not given up the fight to stop these wage cuts. The rank and file in the union will continue the fight against Roosevelt’s wage-cutting scheme. Unparalleled in History HE educational system of the Soviet Union, where the proletariat rules (the class called the “least capable” by yellow Mr. Hearst), is receiving the high- est praise of the foremost educators in the United States. | A remarkable exhibit is now on display depicting the great cultural and educa- | tional advances of the U.S.S.R., at the | Museum of Natural History, 79th Street | and Columbus Avenue. We urge all our readers and their friends not to miss this graphic display of cultural accomplishments in the land of | Socialism. The exhibit will continue until February 22. We cannot quote all the high praise | uttered by American educators who viewed | the exhibit, but Dr. George S. Counts of Columbia University summed it all up when he said that “Soviet education had set a record unparalleled in history.” Class Justice OW quickly ‘and sensitively the Court of Appeals rushed to give the million- aire lawyer, Isidor H. Kresel, his “rights.” The fight between Kresel and the special | prosecutor Steuer was a reflection of the | fights that go on constantly between dif- | ferent cliques of capitalist politicians. Both Steuer and Kresel are tarred with the same life-long intrigue for profits and position. How differently do the capitalist courts respond to the case of workers! Strikers, pickets, starving men arrested as “va- grants,” militant workers seized as “aliens” —how granite-hard become the feelings of capitalist courts when these are in- | volved. Insulls, Kresels, Mitchells, and all the rest get away quite easily. The capitalist courts are at their service. But against the working class, every capitalist court is an instrument for the protection of the wage-slave exploitation of the workers by capital, ack the huge war budget of the irning over of the billions for battleships and cannons to the unemployed was a war to guarantee the loans of the American bank We say that American workers went across to kill German workers, not “to save the world for democracy,” This makes Mr. Hearst and the section of the capi- ‘REAMS FOR WAR TO COLLECT BOND DEBTS FOR BA HAT peerless patriot, William Randolph Hearst, has been fulminating against the Communists for weeks He is afraid that the American workers will not be duped very easily in the next war that the Wall Street-Washington government may decide upon. Communists, Thus his spleen, directed against the most active anti-war fighters in the United States, the But if any worker has any doubt about the truth last v the Hearst organ. of what the Communists say about the war plans of those who rule America, the financial section of yesterday’s N. Y. American, a There they will find a story that fully we suggest that they turn to confirms what we have said for many years. the headline. Fraud JESTERDAY Congress received the re- port of the Roosevelt Economic Secur- ity Committee, which rejects the payment of real unemployment insurance. Under this plan of Roosevelt, Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins is to be placed in complete charge of the Roose- velt four-point program. This scheme purports to provide: unemployment insur- ance, old age pensions, aid to dependent children, and grants for extension of pub- lie health service On the first point, unemployment in- surance, the present vast army of un- employed will receive not one penny of benefits; the system of “reserves,” ap- plying only to some of those now at work, will be contributory, in other words, out of the workers’ pockets. Old age pensions will be directly upon the backs of the workers and will pay meager starvation wages to some above 65, The other two points provide such meager funds as to be meaningless when compared to the mass misery which exists. Senator Wagner, who fathered the Senate Bill covering these points, put the question squarely when he said: “There is not a single dictate of business judg- ment that has been neglected in framing this measure.” H.R. 2827, the Workers Unemployment, Old Age, and Social Insurance Bill, the Bill which is backed by millions of workers, is the only bill granting real unemploy- ment insurance. Force Congressmen to act on the Work- ers’ Bill! Exposing U.S. Fascisr! HE series on “Wall Street’s Fascist Con- spiracy,” announced to begin next Fri- day in the Daily Worker, will be a deep- going exposure of first-rate political im- portance. The result of thorough investigation into the secrets of Wall Street, financial capital of American capitalism, the series has been prepared by the Daily Worker’s Washington correspondent, Marguerite Young, working in cooperation with John L. Spivak, whose exposure of the Nazis has established his standing as an expert in- vestigator, and Sender Garlin, whose work on the Daily Worker has made him famil- iar to all our readers. In addition, specialists in several fields. whose names, for obvious reasons, cannot be mentioned, have also been of constant assistance in getting the facts. In this series, the Daily Worker places before the American people what only a revolutionary, Communist paper can dare to print—the full, brutal truth about the steady organization of fascist terrorism in this country. Watch for this series! Urge your news- dealers to order additional copies! Arrange for wide distribution! ‘Harvest or Blood’ IONSTITUTIONAL guarantees in Cuba are made to suit the needs of the Wall Street. sugar barons. Just as the sugar harvest starts in that semi-colony of the American bankers and trusts, all constitutional guarantees are suspended for a period of 90 days. In other words, the Cuban workers will be forced to harvest the sugar and grind it under the rule of machine guns and bayonets. What better service could the American sugar trusts and the stock and bondholders wish of their Cuban puppet government, the Mendieta regime? No strikes against starvation conditions are allowed. The peasants are forced, by a show of military strength, to sell their sugar cane at the price offered by the American trusts. This is imperialist colonial oppres- sion. “Harvest or blood,” is the slogan of Col. Batista. That means the flow of gold into the American bankers’ cof- fers must be unimpeded or the flow of workers’ blood will be unloosed. Will we sit by and permit our Cuban brothers to be bludgeoned in this fashion? “Clark Claims War Is Only Debt Sanction,” says | Party Life Tribute To Kirov Recruiting in 1.W.0. How 28 Joined Party At a special meeting of the Trans- port Concentration Unit in Sec- tion 4, New York, a report on the murder of Comrade Kirov was made. Indignant over the assassi- |mation of one of. the most valiant jand beloved leaders of the Russian |workers and outstanding leader of |the international proletariat, mem- |ber of Political Bureau of the | Russian Communist Party, the unit resolved to intensify its work among the transport workers and most specifically that each Party mem- |ber will recruit at least one trans- |port worker into the Party by Jan, }21, Lenin Memorial Day. | This resolution was reported to an enlarged city-wide meeting of transport concentration units which took place Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1934, | The meeting resolved to ener- getically carry on a campaign William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist. Party _KERS—WOULD MAKE CANNON FODDER OF WORKERS We read further: “The only sanction to enforce the collection of foreign bond debts is war, Reuben J. Clark, Jr., president of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, informed the members of the Bond Club of New York at their luncheon meeting yesterday at the Bankers’ Club.” Do you get the point, fellow-workers? We workers must go out to die to collect the for- eign bond payments of the parasites lolling on the sands of Miami and Palm Beach. And if you don’t like versive element,” “a Red, the pay of Moscow.” it, you’re a “sinister, sub- “a Communist” and “in If you cheerfully go out and get your head shot off “to enforce the collection of foreign bond debts” you are a good American and w Hearst. And—who knows?—your remains ill get the approval of Mr. may even be placed in an Unknown Soldier’s tomb. But if you fight against war and tell the truth about the last war and the present. war plans of Wall Street and Washington—and Hearst, their most blatant mouth- piece—you are a Communist. We Communists are wil ling to leave it to the judg- ment of the American working class. Which do you prefer to be—cannon fodder foliow- ing that sterling patriot, Hearst, or a fighter against imperialist war like the Communists? HOOVER among the transport workers to |clarify the role of the Communist | |Party of the Soviet Union in abol-,| ishing capitalism and under whose |leadership the Russian workers are | building up a new Socialistic So- ciety. In memory of Comrade Kirov | who was one of the best’ followers | jof Lenin, each comrade pledged ‘to | | build the Party in the U.S. A. and} to bring in at least one new mem- ber into the Party by Jan, 21, Penns aids | By H. SCHILLER | WHEN Party comrades are ap- proached in our International Workers Order branches about re- cruiting members for the Party, the | |reply is negative. They say that the |comrades are not yet prepared to) | join the ranks of the Party. In re- | jality it is not. the case. Our Party | fractions do not yet realize and / clearly do not understand the roie | and tasks of a revolutionary frac- | tion, and this hinders a lot in the} transformation of our Party into a mass Party. The objective possibil- ities of growth of our Party are much greater than we think, but | we underestimate our strength. | The leading fraction of the Jew- | ish Section I.W.O, in New York de- | cided to carry on an intensive Party recruiting drive. For this purpose | we called a meeting of all the frac- tion secretaries of branches, where jwe discussed the’ plan of work for | |the Party recruiting drive. | | 1. All fractions should call in- dividual branch fraction meetings | and work out a plan of work for \the Party drive in the. respective branch, 2. Open fraction meetings should be called immediately in every branch, to which non-Party mem- bers should be invited. 3. An ideological campaign should be carried on in every branch about the role of the Communist Party and why every worker should join the Communist Party. If all the above mentioned plans will be carried out systematically, Tam sure of positive achievements. | A good start was made, when | the leading fraction of the City Committee called a meeting of 200 L.W.O, active members, where the | ‘Party recruiting drive was brought | before them. The meeting was in- | teresting and constructive, and as | a result of the meeting 28 members joined the Party immediately. Fifty per cent of them belong to the A. F, of L. unions. With this we can | see the enormous possibilities in re- jeruiting hundreds of members through our mass organizations in- to the Party, when our fraction will {constantly bear in mind the im- |Portance of building the Party in | Mass organizations. Karlsruhe 4 | Comrade Editor: Finish Term | In Boston Jai BOSTON, Mass., Jan. tors, John O'Flaherty, Abe Kline, Charles Gillman and Leon Lapin, were released this week, and two | others, Burke and Belle Lewis, will finish their terms in time to attend | |the Lenin memorial meeting at! Dudley Opera, House, 113 Dudley | Street, Roxbury, on Jan. 19. | Albert Mallinger, who was brutally | | beaten by police and singled out for |the most severe sentence, will be | the only one still in jail. Militantly |refusing to pay the fines imposed \by a pro-Nazi court, they have been |in the Charles Street jail since Dec. 2, ordered to serve out their fines |at the rate of 50 cents a day. They | were arrested when police broke up a demonstration against the visit of | the Nazi warship Karlsruhe to Bos- | ton last spring. A “Coming Out Party” to cele- brate their release and the opening of the new office of the New Eng- jand District of the International | | Labor Defense at 5 Harrison Street, | and the speed-up in the Morning | 17.—Four | be directly traced to revolutionary of the anti-Karlsruhe demonstra- | literature. \\**YOU USED THE WRONG GUN, HERBY.” by Burck Corrects an Omission In Reviews Cos Cob, Conn. Comrads Editor: Ed Smiii’s review of The Com- munist International, No. 23, in the January 3 issue of the Daily Worker is fine. It should compel any reader to obtain a copy, if they knew where. — This information was left out, and | generally is. Personally I know the address of the Workers Book Store in New| York, but that cannot be found | every day in the Daily Worker. Why | not publish an address at the end of every review? Such an omission | makes one feel that the author is/ talking to New York only, where | the C, I. is sold even on news stands. c. M. S. NOTE: This is an important correction which will be observed | im the tuture. ihe Communist International, as well as all Com- munist publications, should be bought through Workers’ Book- shops which now exist in nine- | teen cities throughout the country, or through the Workers Library Publishers at 39 East 12th Street, New York City. Literature Speeds Mine Union MULLAN, IDAHO. Enclosed you will find one dollar to apply on my account. It's slow work to get workers to| read, but they're gradually learning | Mine is helping to the end that our} union, the International Union of | Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, is growing. It’s A. F. of L. but the rank and file are taking control fast, Much of our union activities can Though we could use | Hanighen, magazines and papers on} | more “Dailies.” the workers haven't | learned that they cost money and I} Because of the volume of letters re- celved by the Department, we can Print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers. How- fully read by the editors. Su criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. | Capitalist Inhumanity Exposed Bréoklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I wish to call to your attention an amazing paragraph in the re-| cent speech of Senator Clark’s on) the munitions investigation as re-| ported in the Congressional Record | of January 10, 1935 and, as far as) I know, not mentioned anywhere | else. I have read Engelbrecht and) the munitions racket, and so I don’t | think I am particularly naive about | it, but this disclosure is almost in-| credible. Senator Clark says (I will give the entire paragraph), “We (the in- vestigating committee) learned that American manufacturers of poison -ases had engaged in every sort of intrigue in the promotion of revolu- tion in Cuba and South America; that one of them had actually em- ployed an alleged Christian mis- sionary in Central Amovica as an agent and demonstrator of his wares; that another actually had) the hardihood to approve and de- | fend before our committee the con- duct of one of his agents in taking helpless prisoners from South American dungeons and making them unwilling subjects for demon- stratiors of his gas¢s.” (P. 277). Who is the agent and by whom is he employed? Which South American country is it? What, ex- actly, was done to these prisoners? Who were these prisoness? |does that mean | Letters From Our Readers | For Simple, Everyday Language Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Commenting on your editorial of this morning on Hearst, may I offer a criticism of the style and lan- guage of this editorial We all know that millions of average American workers read the Hearst press and the Daily Worker has to reach these workers and win them away from the lying Hearst press. For exampie, the line: “As one of the most militant defenders of the capitalist system which brings about such misery, Hearst carries on no campaign revealing the ruin and desolation on the American countryside.” What in the world to the average American worker? I’m afraid not much. On the other hand, he would be eager to learn and to know that Hearst is unscrupulously defending the rich bosses, that he is attack- ing the standards of the American worker in any and every possible way, that he is presenting only the policies of the bosses who oppress and choke, starve and brutally beat anyone whose mistake is only that he is not a Hearst but a plain worker selling his hands for a piece of bread. In building the circulation of the Daily Worker, it is absclutely essen- tial to use simple, clear, every-day language, even, if necessary, follow- ing Hearst's own methods, in order that when an American worker picks up a Daily he will be inter- ested in reading it from first to last page and will understand every- thing be reads——A WORKER. Cc. C. C, ENROLLMENT REACHES PEAK WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 17— The Civilian Conservation Corps yesterday reached an all-time high ‘enrollment of 360,000. ©. C. C. | Director Robert Fechner announced | the subs will come in. ‘ will be held Saturday night, Jan. 26. can't buy them because I'm fired} This (union activities). But as they learn, | | Seoms heavens. K. M. 6S7\HE dictatorship of the proletariat is a special form of class alliance between the proletariat the vanguard of the toil- ers, and the numerous non-proletarian strata of toilers (netty-bourgeoisie, the small masters, the peasantry, the intelli- gentsia, etc.) or the majority of these; The Dictatorship of the Proletariat astounding exhibition of |that more than one million young capitalist debauchery ought to be. it’ men had thus far passed- through to me, blazoned on the’ the canms during the entire term —H. A. of operation. 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, XXIV, é | World Front HARRY GANNES -—— nena Loans to China Guns Go Too Agnes Smediey in Danger UIETLY but intensely all the leading imperialist powers are concentrating in and around China for a big push to slice that country to | pieces or to grab its markets. ; Both, from conversations with several business men who have just returned from the Far Kast, and from the Japanese press, I get | Some startling news of the activities of French, British and American capitalists in China. | A person who had occasion to pass from Indo-China, the French |Colony, to Yuan, the extreme southern province of China, tells me that every French boat sailing out of Marseilles to the Far East jis loaded to the gunwhales with ammunition and guns. Besides, |@reater contingents of troops are being sent to this part of the world, |}So that in the melee the Fren¢h |can extend the Indo-Chinese border into Yunnan. In the very center of the im+ | perialist drives for greater domina- |tion of China, the Red Army of | China is massing to block the moves of these robber powers. The main body of the Red Army from Kiangsi has crossed the border of Szechuan Province, and. according to latest |cable reports from China, is girding for attack on the leading industrial city, Chungking. It is precisely in Szechuan Prove ince where American and British will see. 'HE Japanese imperialists, who seized Manchuria and are now edging into North China, are very | much worried by the action of their | competitors in other parts of China. Hence they print news, gathered by their secret agents, not obtainable |elsewhere. The Osaka Mainichi, | organ of the biggest trusts in Japan, for instance, reports the following: Wall Street is now negotiating a 50,000,000 yuan loan (or about | $20,000,000) to the Canton governs |ment. Besides, they are planning a 20,000 yuan loan for the exploita- tion of the oil fields in Szechuan and Shensi provinces, and another loan of 10,000,000 yuan for the establishment of a gasoline plant |as a Sino-American joint enter- Prise. A British syndicate is negotiating bith with Chiang Kai-shek and General Liu of Szechuan for a 15,000,000 loan “for the development of Szechuan ‘province.” Actually this means that the British are to furnish the war supplies for Chiang Kai-shek against the Red Army in return for a substantial grip on Szechuan province. * . . | AGNES SMEDLEY, famous author MV of books on China. who has just | returned to that country, ts threate ened wih assassination. The Kuomintang press. as well as the Japanese imperialist press in Shanghai, the Shanghai Nichi Nichi. are openly provoking her murder. Chiang Kai-shek's per- sonal propaganda organ, the organ of the Fascist “Blue Shirts,” is printing lying stories about Agnes Smediey whose main purpose is to justify her murder. In a letter appealing to the American press to expose this plot against her life, Agnes Smedley writes: “The utterly vicious and un- scrupulous lies circulated by the Jananese. and taken up by the official Chinese press, are most @angerous to my life. I regard them as but an ideological prep- aration fer an attack upon my Jife. If I could sue for libel in any decent, court, T could prove the lies. But if I sue the Japan- ere paper. the trial would come up in Japen: and I would not have a ghost of a chance in a Japan- ese court. In China. the courts are little tools of the leading poli- ticians or militarisis, and a libel case there is utterly useless. My only hope ts to expose the lies nublicly. If you can help me in doinr this I would be giad. “Of course, the reason for the press campaign against me and for the discussions about the possibility of chooting me is the publication of my two latest books in America—“Chinese Destinies” and “China’s Red Army Marches.” Both books expose the situation -in China. In a way it is a com- Pliment that my books are taken so seriously that the Kuomintang Fascists consider I am a danger to them. They are particularly furious because my books ap- peared abread, chiefly in Amer- ica, where they try te pose as a modern nationalist government instead of what they are—the bubs running dogs of the Nae powers, and .| butchers of the Chinese people.” | imperialism are most active, as we