The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1935, Page 12

Page 12 Leninism Shows the Way to End Capitalisi Rule of Wall Streei DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 THE WORKERS MUST TAKE POWER INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AND ABOLISH PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PROFIT IODAY we commemorate the memory of Vladimir llyitch Lenin Lenin’s name known, and more beloved by mil- lions of workers, farmers and colonial peoples than the name of any other man in history. Lenin was the revolutionary leader who devel- oped the teachings of the founders of Socialist prin- ciples, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Lenin showed the workers how to use thzse teach- ings and the best experience of the workers of the whole world, under the conditions of today, to free elves from the slavery of rule by a few rich asing self on the teachings of Marx and Engels, Lenin showed that miserable insecurity haunts the life of all workers under the present or- der in which the rich rule. He showed how the system of capitalism, the system of private property and private profit, breeds poverty for the toilers, the majority of the people, with luxury and ease for a handful of billionaires. Lenin showed how capitalism gives rise to mass poverty at a time when “too much” goods have been produced. He exposed how the present order of things leads to the massing of huge wealth in the hands of a parasite few, while those who have produced this wealth are condemned to a life of unemployment, insecurity, lower living standards, and general misery. Above all, Lenin showed how the working class can end this state of capitalist slavery. He showed how the workers could destroy the rule of the rich, and replace it by the rule of the workers, with the aid of all toilers. To free themselves, and to build a social order in which there will be no poverty, Lenin taught the workers that they must smash the powerful grip of the capitalists. The workers must end the capi- talist dictatorship, whether hidden by the mask of “democracy,” or the open form of fascist dicta- torship. To achieve this, Lenin emphasized the workers must set up a new form of government, a Soviet government; that is, the dictatorship of the prole- tariat, ruling through workers’ councils (Soviets), elected by the workers in the factories, mines, mills, railroads, offices and on the farms. This would mean the greatest democracy for all who work. It would mean, at the same time, the suppression of all who now exploit, oppress, and rob the workers. It was with these ideas that Lenin guided the Russian workers and farmers to revolutionary vic- tory in 1917, over ezarism and capitalist misery. After Lenin’s death it was his greatest pupil, Joseph Stalin, who became the great organizer and architect of the building of the new order, Socialism. The American billionaires, the bankers, indus- trialists, rich landlords, mortgage holders, and their chief mouthpiece at the moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt, all fear the growing influence of Leninism upon the American toilers, They know that in Lenin’s teachings the Ameri- can working class will be able to see through all the frauds of the New Deal and smash the rule of Wall Street. But neither Wall Street’s nor its most poisonous, yellow journalists, like Hearst, will be-able to keep Leninism from the American working class. Among the oppressed and poverty-stricken, Leninism is taking deeper and deeper roots. Lenin taught the workers how to fight for their day to day interests, for better conditions, for higher wages, for social and unemployment insur- ance. Through these daily struggles, Lenin showed the workers how to prepare themselves for their final emancipation, Lenin’s party is the Communist Party. The Communist Party, under the banner of Marxism- Leninism, shows the way to a Soviet America, an America, of, by and for the working class! ~ would mean inspiring the imperialists to “war against the Soviet Union. told before a Soviet court than the con- | _.fessions of these rogues whose actions led . to the assassination of Kirov. ~-ers in the Soviet Union and throughout ' ist dregs. ‘out by the Soviet court is indeed merciful + and mild for this greatest of crimes against | the toilers of the whole world. Daily QWorker | GHRTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY UL.S.4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERUATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper” | FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. | Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. | Cable Address: ‘‘Daiwork,” New York, N. Y. | Washington Bureau: Room 964, National Press Building, | i4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7919. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 796, Chicago, Ml. Telephone: Dearborn 3921 | Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronz), 1 year, $6.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, 92.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Manhatt Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 yenr, $9.06; | & months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By. Cerrier: Weekly, ts; monthly, 78 cents | Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 76 cents. — | SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 Eleven Years IHE Daily Worker is 11 years old. This edition is its eleventh anniversary edi- tion! During these eleven years we have been the spokesmen for the workers in | their struggle for improved conditions— for higher wages, for shorter hours, against speed-up, for social insurance. | We have been the agitator and propa- gandist for Communism, the spokesman for the Communist Party. Despite numerous shortcomings, of which the editorial staff is fully conscious, and is consciously striving to overcome, we have on the whole done our job well. | The workers, many thousands strong, have always given us their support. That is why we are alive today! They have given us their moral and material support. They have built the paper! Today on our eleventh anniversary, we | appeal for further support. We ask every reader of today’s issue to become a regular reader. We ask every regular reader to secure another reader. Our aim is 100,000 readers in the next three months. This is not a difficult job. It can be done with our readers’ help. We urge you to stibseribe, to buy the paper regularly, to boost the paper among your friends. bd Strengthen the NBC Strike! RAVO — National Biscuit Company workers! | New York and Philadelphia plants closed; Newark, Atlanta and York, Pa., plants partly closed. This is a splendid start towards organizing the factories solidly. But more must be done. There must be mass picketing—men, women, children. The strike committee must be broad- ened, with at least two workers from every | department. | The rank and file must be brought into the leadership of the strike to guarantee its success. A Just Decision HE criminals who inspired the murder | of Comrade Sergei Kirov, stalwart lead- | er of the workers in the Soviet Union, have confessed. } Nineteen of them, headed by Gregory Zinoviev and Leo Kamenev, came before the workers’ court and admitted that they carried on counter-revolutionary under- ground work whose aim was to overthrow the Communist Party leadership. This, they penitently admit, would mean the overthrow of the Soviet government. They shamefacedly and abjectly admit it No more miserable story has ever been The wrath and indignation of the work- the world has pilloried these traitors, these treacherous tools of fascism and the Czar- The sentence of imprisonment meted Stop the Terror! IHROUGHOUT the country the jobless, instead of receiving unemployment in- surance, are getting jail sentences. In Phoenix, Arizona, Clay Naff was sen- tenced to 1 to 2 years on the trumped-up charge of “rioting,” because he led a strike of 3,000 F.E.R.A. workers against a 51 per cent cut in relief wages. Twenty-seven others face similar sentences. In Denyer, Colo., 18 workers face trial for identical reasons. In Oklahoma City, Okla., 18 workers demonstrating against a stoppage of re- lief, were charged with “interfering with federal employes in performance of their duties.” In St. Louis, Mo., Samuel Duke, a Negro worker, was virtually kidnaped by the police, held incommunicado and threatened with shooting if he demanded relief again. In California and Washington, criminal syndicalist laws and deportation proceed- ings have been invoked against the jobless. This terror must be stopped! The fight against the terror must go on hand in hand with the fight for the pass- age of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill (H.R. 2827). Mass pressure can do both—stop the terror and force the passage of the bill. Lenin and Hearst ILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST does not like V. I. Lenin. Although Lenin died eleven years ago, Hearst still spews forth the vilest lies about Lenin. Hearst systematically dis- torts Lenin’s writings. Why? Because V. I. Lenin was a leader, organ- izer and teacher of the workers and colo- nial masses of the world. Lenin’s teach- ings and Lenin’s leadership were the guiding line for the workers and peasants of Russia in the struggle towards the over- throw of capitalism. The teachings of Lenin and his best pu- pil, Stalin, are becoming the guiding line for more and more workers of the United States. They—yes, these people whom Hearst dares to call “the incompetent pro- letariat”—will overthrow the robber rule of American capitalism by following the teachings of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Stalin. The Communist Party, which bases it- self on the teachings of these great revo- lutionary leaders, flings the lies of Hearst back into that worthy’s teeth. We are confident that the American working class will follow Lenin and the Communists— not Hearst and the fascist Two Class Bills d hee growing demand for the passage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H.R. 2827, is bringing this measure more and more prominently to the fore. This measure, providing for Federal cash relief, Federal unemployment and so- cial insurance, was first proposed by the Communist Party which opened the fight for unemployment insurance soon after the crisis broke out more than five years ago. Yesterday, the Minnesota Congressman, Lundeen, attacked the Wagner-Lewis bill of the administration as a reactionary measure designed to place the full burden of insurance on the backs of the workers, leaving the rich and their profits protected. The Workers Bill compared point by point with the Wagner-Lewis bill is far superior in every way from the point of view of the workers. Where the Wagner bill staves off all benefits to some future date, the Workers Bill begins benefits immediately. Where the Wagner bill ignores the mil- lions of jobless now out of work, the Work- ers Bill provides for all workers. Where the Wagner bill provides that the workers shall cut their pay through a payroll tax the Workers Bill places the full cost on the government and the employers. The latter is a working class bill, the other a capitalist measure. Support the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill! | | Agitation, Propaganda, | Patience, Persistence In Recruitment ANY of our comrades do! |4"2 not yet realize the im- portance of recruiting new) membes for our Party in| their shop, factory, or place | of work. We must daily carry on agitation and propaganda. | |In most cases we approach a} worker once or twice and if he| | does not give the proper response, | We give the matter up as hopeless | and let it go at that. But this is | wrong, comrades. We cannot expect a worker to see everything clearly by speaking to him a few times. We | must realize that the worker has been drugged with capitalist illu- sions for a number of years and we must be patient but persistent. We want to cite an example of how a comrade in our Section re- cruited a worker for the Y.C.L. and through him gained many others for our movement. This comrade is working in an automobile repair shop where three workers are em- ployed, one of them being a young American-Italian worker. The com- rade began to concentrate on this young worker who was of a very raw element, and knew nothing about the revolutionary movement and its leader, the Communist Party, but in him burned the fire of hatred against the hidden enemy who placed the heavy burden of economic worries on young should- ers and deprived the youth of all its pleasures. Very patiently and simply our comrade explained to him the | class division and through concrete | daily examples, proved to him that the Communist Party was the only | | party that fights in the interest of | | the working class. |. The comrade not only carried on | his agitation in the shop but in- vited the worker to his home where they were able to talk more freely. Soon the young worker brought two other friends along and they would ask questions and discuss things. After six months, the three young workers joined the Y.C.L. These three workers had a lot of influence over other young Ameri- can-Italian workers and they start- ed to bring them to our headquar- ters. Their friends, in turn, brought their friends until now we have from 75 to 100 young workers com- ing up to our headquarters every day. Of course, this involved certain problems for our Section how to handle this mass of youth as they are all of a very raw element and quite difficult to handle. But these young workers are precisely the ma- terial needed by our movement and unless we win them over for our side, they would have been caught in the net of the black reactionary forces. So you can see, comrades, how much we can gain for our move- ment through recruiiing one worker. MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR, SECTION 11. ‘Mother’ Bloor Greets Birthday Of Daily Worker | By Ella Reeve Bloor At this time, as we face the great- est crisis in the history of the work- ing class, with the darkening clouds of war and fascism all around us, every staunch Bolshevik in America must not only greet the Anniversary of the Daily Worker. We must also pledge our utmost support for our strongest Com- munist defense and protect our revolutionary paper. We must pledge ourselves to spread its pow- erful influence to the masses every- where. Make it in reality our pa- per. Put it in the hands of the toilers everywhere—farmers, work- ers, youth. By this determined ef- fort to build the paper, we shall build our united fronts, our unions, and our Party. ZERO WEATHER KILLS 7 Seven deaths were reported from the cold wave and 56-mile gale which swept across the midwest this week. Three died in Chicago and | five in Oconomowoc, Wisc. One man was killed in Williamsburg, Kansas, by fire whipped by high winds. The temperature in the midwest hovered around zero. Travel was paralyzed, Popular Red Press Fights Red Scare New York, N. ¥. Comrade Editor: Although it is a simple matter to criticize others, we still find it ur- gent to send you the folowing sug- gestions to achieve a mass circula- tion. The Daily News has something that commands the attention of one million readers every day. We know that stuff is pure “dope.” However, it is administered in such a subtle manner, in such simple Janguage, as to captivate them. For example, every capitalist Paper was featuring the wedding of the English prince. The masses gobbled it up but not a word in our Daily Worker. It was left to the British Daily Worker to take that news item and expose it and they sure did a good job of it. We must watch the usual run of murders, scandals, etc., which fill the capitalist press and see if we can’t class-angle it for front page featuring. The worker in the street who picks up a Daily Worker is highly confused at the headlines and cap- tions. The Daily Worker is a won- derful paper — for the class-con- scious worker, but it is a confusing maze for the man in the street, especially victims of the “red scare.” Put Del’s “Gutters of New York” on the front page. The man in the street likes a picture or a eartoon. He follows Mickey Mouse’s adven- tures avidly. Also sports, and a humor column. What's happened to “Red Sparks?” TWO WORKERS. | i | THE SPIRIT OF LENIN | Party Life | Letters From Our Readers Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we ean print only those that are of general interest to Dally 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. Daily Worker Shows The Way Out New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I am a constant reader of the Daily Worker. It is the finest and truest publication in this country, where most of the press is any- thing but true or fine. It rises far above the sordidness, depravity and falseness of the capitalist press; it holds about the same posi- tion to them as Russia holds today above the rest of the world. It is through the medium of the Daily Worker that the millions of starved, depressed and enslaved workers will eventually find their way out of this hideous nightmare, this black hell of capitalism, and create for themselves the happi- ness, peace and security of a workers’ state and proletarian dic- tatorship. So it is to the Daily Worker that I turn to for guidance and truth. I give thanks and praise and all my aid (no matter how hard the Toad) to Comrade Hathaway, the editor, and our many other great- hearted and fearess leaders, in their struggle for a better world. Enclosed is ten cents for the cause. SEAMAN ON RELIEF, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat by Burck | Du Pont Makes Gift To Senators Boston, Mass. Comrade Editor: When Irenee du Pont, president of the biggest munitions company in the United States, wanted to hand out a little Christmas gift to the Senators on the Investigations Committee, what did he give them? Well, I don’t know what he gave them on the side, that they may have found more valuable, but he did give them each a copy of “Ca- Poot,” by Carveth Wells, this book was really du Pont’s answer to the munitions makers, not what he made public to the papers about being a good boy in the next war and not making too much profit out of the deaths of American workers sent to the front. “Capoot” is one of the most vicious books about the Soviet Union ever written. Every anti- Soviet writer manages to get in somewhere this gag, which each writer claims to have experienced himself. He is supposed to have talked to somebody in a border country about Russia, and that somebody is supposed to have said, “Russia—capoot” (capoot meaning worthless). By its very title you can tell what the author's intention is. His in- tention is to discredit the Soviet Union to the workers in the cap- italist countries, and du Pont’s in- tention, in circulating the book, is equally clear, to incite and justify imperialist war upon the Soviet Union, LE. “Te 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 (petty-bourgeoisie, the small masters, the peasantry, the intelli- gentsia, etc.) or the majority of these; 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. | World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— Wall Street’s Cuban Gunman Sugar Is King Against Mussolini’s Rule pagercloaren cs ‘CIO BATISTA, head of the Cuban army, is ace high with Wall Street, Nor is he taking the slightest chances of not being No. 1 gunman for the surgar trusts during the present harvest. Now that all “constitutional guar- antees have been suspended for 90 days, Batista is free to shoot down strikers and peasants without even the formality of a sealed document, In Cuba sugar is king. The whole country has been turned into a sugar factory, and the life of the workers and peasants revolyes around this commodity. Everything 4s regulated to suit the profits of the American sugar magnates, and their real estate, railroad, banking and utility subsidiaries, At harvest time the class strug- gle is aways sharpest, because then most battles take place on the price paid to the colonos (peasants) and wages paid to agricultural laborers and central (grinding factory) workers. Roosevelt is doing everything he can to bolster up the rule of Men- dieta and Batista, and the best way he can think of is to insure the profits of the sugar magnates and their Cuban landlord - capitalist Puppets. But this can be done only at the expense of smashing down the wages and living standards of workers and peasants. ee d bg Cuban workers and peasants did not live through the terrible reign of the butcher Machado and forced his overthrow only to be thrown into worse slavery by Roosevelt's tools. They are fight- ing back. And Batista is answer- ing with the slogan: “Zafra o Sangre!” “Harvest or blood!” In other words, strikes are to be met with machine-gun fire. The whole destiny as well as the very conditions of life and rights of the American workers are closely linked up with the outcome of the struggles of the Cuban workers. A fascist victory over the COuban workers would mean strengthening of the power of our big trusts and bankers, giving them more strength to carry on the assault against the American workers. We cannot stand by and let the Cuban hired gunmen for Wall Street shoot down our brothers, (Spee ea | iy IS COMMON knowledge that Mussolini is faced with the great- est economic and financial difficul- tes. It was for that reason that he was forced to come to an agree- ment with French imperialism, Italian Fascism’s bitterest enemy. But what the outside world has not been apprised of is the growing symptoms of working and peasant class resistance to the depredations of Fascist rule in Italy. At most only driblets of this information gets through. More recently the items of resistance have been coming out thick and fast. We print only a few here. When an attempt was made at Paganica to seize the property of peasants for non-payment of taxes, men, women and children seized the trucks loaded with their goods and drove the armed police out. It was only when re-inforcements were brought up that the confiscation was carried out. In Snidarscina, near Fiume, the Peasants revolted against higher taxes. At Kavran, 22 peasants, after slaughtering their pigs to avoid paying taxes, prepared to defend themselves with arms against re- prisals, Pa aes Vee A meeting of the fascist trade union at Ronchi a group of workers, men and women, protested vigorously against the reduction of piece work rates and the abuses of the working hours by the bosses. Fifty relief workers in Venezia Guila who were not able to make more than 5 or 6 lires on piece work, struck and beat up the leaders of the fascist union in order to en- force the contract which sets the wages at 1.75 lire per hour. . In the towns of Gradisca, Aum sina, Sagrado, the unemployed dem onstrated in front of the municin: buildings, sent delegations to the Podesta and succeeded in most in- stances in getting relief in cash or food. Women of Cesari surrounded a patrol wagon which was trans- Porting their relatives in jail, At Lanisce, Bovec and Rupa un- employed men and women forced the distribution of flour in Rupa by invading the town hall, J