The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1935, Page 6

{ | Page & BAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935 William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party HOW HEARST, ADMIRER OF HITLER METHODS, HELPED SMASH WEST COAST GENERAL STRIKE URING the fo or more that Mr. William Randolph Hearst has been in the publishing busi- ty years ness he has been one of the most vicious enemies of or- ganized labor in the United State He is a union-hater par excellence. Hearst figh ooth a l against any attempt to yyes so that they can achieve higher iditions. vorkers and peasants drip with lurid, imag- organize his em wages and better working c Yet his heart bleed of the Soviet Union. H inery details about the “oppression” of the masses in the U.S.S.R Mr. Hearst pretends to show great solicitude for the millions who live in the only Workers’ and Peasants’ Re- public in the entire world. Yet he helps break strikes in the United States aimed at improving the conditions of the American workers. Consider Hearst’s notorious role in the great Gen- eral Strike on the West Coast last July. This was the publisher who organized the press campaign of lies and slander against the strikers and their leaders which, with the aid of the treacherous old- guard leaders of the A. F. of L., ultimately smashed the heroie strike of the San Francisco workers. The full, unvarnished details of this strike-break- ing activity were unblushingly reported in the July 28, 1934, issue of The Editor and Publisher, trade publica- tion of the newspaper publishers of the United States, under the heading, “Dailies Help Break General Strike.” The first step was the organization of a “Newspaper Publishers’ Council,” under the leadership of John Ney- land, chief counsel for the Hearst newspapers. The fas- cist Hearst had previously telephoned from London laying down the policy for the press barrage against the strikers and their militant leaders like Harry Bridges of the longshoremen. “Under Mr. Neyland’s leadership plans were made to crush the revolt,” reported the Editor and Publisher. “Newspaper editorials built up the strength and influ- ence of the conservative leaders and aided in splitting the conservative membership away from the radicals. ... The strategy of Mr. Neyland and the publishers’ coun- cil now began to work. ... On Thursday the general strike was called off in San Francisco and the next day in the East Bay area. ... As the strike collapsed the publishers’ council endeavored to get things moving again.” By use of the most extreme terror, with fascist bands and police raids, arrests, shootings, and with the aid of the reactionary A. F. of L. officials, the strikers were driven back. It was William Randolph Hearst who agave leadership to this fascist-like attack against the working class, against the rights of the workers to organize, and to strike for improved conditions. This is the man who now leads a holy crusade against the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the United States. His actions in helping to smash the San Francisco General Strike should be sufficient to reveal the motives behind his present “anti-Red” campaign. Daily QWorker CHETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.4. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONALD “America’s Only Working Class Daily FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ALgonquin 4-795 4. ‘Daiwork Ro Telephone Cable Address Washington Bureau (4th and F Midwest B 101 So Telephone: born 3 Subscription Rates: | By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; 6 months, $3.50; 2 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 6 months, $6.00: 3 months, $3.00. nts; monthly, 78 cents. 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. ier: Weekly, 18 y Edition: By mail, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935 Act Ni JiGe full might of all organizations that have backed the Workers Unemploy- ment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, must be swung into immediate action to force the enactment of the Work- ers’ Bill. The Roosevelt steamroller is bearing down like a huge juggernaut to rush through the fraudulent Wagner-Lewis “Reserves” Bill. The mighty force of the working class—A. F. of L. trade unions, independent and T. U. U. L. locals, all fra- ternal and unemployed groups, veterans, farmers, Negro, women, youth organiza- tions are called upon to act now on the bill which they support—the Workers’ Bill. Wire your local congressman! Send post-cards, letters and resolutions demand- ing enactment of the Workers’ Bill to each representative and to the House Commit- tee on Labor and the House Ways and Means Committee. Send copies of all reso- lutions and deluge Roosevelt and the Sena- tors with post-cards and similar letters. Act now in each organization for the en- actment of the only genuine unemploy- ment bill, the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827! Who Gets the Balance? HE New York Times of Friday, Jan. 18, in a news dispatch from Washington, gives a damning indictment of the Wag- ner-Lewis “security program.” “A store clerk who goes to work at the age of 20 in Jan., 1937, and earns $100 a month until he is 65, will get a monthly pension of $40 from then until he dies, under the plan introduced by Senator Wagner. “During that time he will pay 50 cents a month for the first five years, $1 a month for the next five years, $1.50 a month for the next five, $2 a month for the next five, and $2.50 for the next twenty-five years. His employer will have made similar payments for him. “The two will have paid a total of $2,150. “Insurance actuaries have figured out that the average young man of twenty may be expected to live just a little less than a year beyond 65.” In other words the average young man of 20, under the Roosevelt-Wagner scheme, pays into the old age insurance fund, $1,075. He draws out after the age of 65 and before his death, $480. Who gets the balance? Who benefits? New Party Decisions ae statement on the four-day Central Committee plenum of the Communist Party in today’s issue is a document of the greatest importance for the whole work and life of the Party. With real Bolshevik flexibility and keenness, the Party is making adjust- ments in its tactics in accordance with the requirements of the new situation in the United States. What is necessary now is for every Party comrade to master the-contents of the plenum discussion ‘on the three vital problems that were discussed in Comrade Browder’s report, on the trade union tac- tic, on the question of the Labor Party, and on the immediate problems of the United Front against fascism and war. Newspaper” | The Textile Report HE Roosevelt “survey” of textile wages is finally out. It is not only a damning indictment of the misery and wage-slavery of capitalist exploitation as carried out by the Roose- velt-N. R. A. program. It is a blazing and terrible accusation of treachery against Francis Gorman, U. T. W. official, who sent the textile strikers back to their slavery and poverty just when they were striking the strongest. blows against it. The government survey, giving a pic- ture of wage-cutting and robbery hard to find anywhere even under capitalism, is a blistering accusation against Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party leaders who supported Gorman in his betrayals. The report is a challenge to new class struggle for better conditions. The thread of class struggle, broken by the Gormans and Greens in September, must. again be formed. Life in the mills is unbearable. The tex- tile workers have shown their mighty strength. The lessons emphasized by the Communists stand clearly as the surest guide to victory. These lessons of rank and file control, with the greatest possible mobilization of picket lines and m strikes, can force concessions from the employers. The textile workers should begin to col- leet their forces for new struggles, with the lessons of the last strike in their minds. Norman Thomas Again R. RAYMOND MOLEY, who ought to know, told the National Association of Manufacturers that the “New Deal from the very beginning was an attempt to save capitalism.” But Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, will have none of this evidence, even if it comes from the very men who organized the New Deal and are carrying it out. Norman Thomas hailed the New Deal eighteen months ago as giving “real bene- fits’ to the workers and providing “a peaceful path to Socialism.” So we have the capitalists praising the New Deal for its capitalism, and the So- cialist leader praising it for the opposite, for its “Socialism”! In this week’s New Leader, Thomas writes: “It will need pressure to keep the New Deal from becoming pure and simple good medicine for big business.” What do you mean by “becoming,” Mr. Thomas? Isn’t it a fact that the New Deal has from the very beginning been nothing else but “good medicine pure and simple for big business’? All this “critical” talk about Roosevelt “becoming” a tool of Wall Street only serves to hide the fact that he has never been anything else. This Is Our Fight GENERAL STRIKE of all sugar work- ers and stevedores in Porto Rico for higher wages doesn’t even get the space in the American capitalist press used to describe the hat worn by Betty Gow, the day she testified. Why? Who would expect the Hearsts, or even the more “dignified” press of the American bankers to tell the American workers that throughout Cuba and Porto Rico workers are fighting bitterly against starvation wages? It is not the function of this press to arouse a chord of sym- pathy here between American and Cuban and Porto Rican workers who suffer the oppression of the National City Bank, or J. P. Morgan & Co. These same trusts also slash wages of steel workers in Gary, Pitts- burgh, and Sparrows Point. Troops are used against the Cuban sugar workers, and the National Guard against the Porto Rican strikers. In one case, the Cuban army staff acts for the American sugar trusts; in the other, the American flag flies over the strikebreak- ers. American workers can not allow these Wall Street bankers to succeed in their strikebreaking attacks in Cuba and Porto Rico. For if they do, these bandits will be strengthened in their wage-slashing drives right here at home. x | hd | | Party Life | Philadelphia Unit ie Criticizes “Leftism” In Unemployed Work There is a disease present within the leadership of the Unemployment Councils that threatens the continuance of an effective unemployed movement in Philadelphia. This disease is Left Commu- | nism. It anpears today that leader- | ship constitutes itself chiefly in the | ability to lead militant demonstra- | | tions. The demonstration is looked upon rightly as the high-point of | | organizational and agitational acti- | vity but its relation to continued | organizational and agitational activ- ity is lost sight of. There remains only the isolated demonstration in its relation to and its effects upon | the capitalist class and its represen- tatives. As a result the demonstra- tion does not assume an integral position in the ever-rising tide of | revolutionary action. The tendency is always to make this demonstra- tion the strongest. the most militant that we have yet had. Consequently {one of two things happens—either the leading comrades are able under certain conditions to whip up the jappearance of a fighting spirit which does not truly represent the | | political level of most of the work- ers. What must be the tactics of the |leaders under such circumstances, |demonstrations, etc.? First, the leaders must at all times be thoroughly integrated with ithe workers, in the closest spirit with them, knowing their true reactions and desires. Second, if a mass spirit of assured resentment and militancy is present then the lead- ers must use the demonstration as a weapon for mobilizing, organizing, and pointing this spirit in the cor- rect direction—for greater relief, for defense against police attacks, etc. Third, if the leader of the worker remains at all times simply a lead- ing worker, therefore one of them, responsive to them, presenting their demands, and offering correct guid- ance, should be quick to note the| temper as well as the pitch of the spirit manifested by workers Thus, even with a large group of workers it would be correct to avoid carrying tactics to such a point as would provide a pretext for a police attack (if it be at all preventable) as by refusing to give a name or address, determination to hold a meeting without a permit, etc., when the temper of the workers’ militancy is not yet sufficiently substantial for the undertaking of active defen- sive measures. R. C. UNIT 701, Philadelphia, Pa. ence i} Comment by Comrade Israel Amter The issues that the comrades raise are correct in a certain sense. In all of our work we must lay the | Sreatest stress upon the leaders be- ing in the closest daily contact with the masses so that they not only understand the need of the masses, but also through their contact they are able to educate the workers There is a great tendency par- ticularly in unemployed work to de- pend chiefly upon demonstrative ac- tion as a means of arousing the un- employed masses. It is true that such demonstrative actions tend to dramatize their struggles and en- able us to establish locals of the Unemployment Council through the mass mobilization of the workers. However, this can only take place on unusual occasions. A mass dem- onstration should not be the begin- ning but the climax of hard day- to-day plugging work in organization in_the locality. It certainly is incorrect to “pro- voke” police attacks. We do not say this from the standpoint of the Police, but because the workers are still filled with the idea of legalism and cannot understand why such technical details as getting permits, etc., are not complied with if this | makes easier the possibility of carrying on work. Thus, the re- fusal to ask for a permit not only plays directly into the hands of the police but also confuses the work- ers. We should at all times ask for a permit and then, if such permit is refused we will be able to better mobilize masses of workers to de- mand their rights than otherwise. We must at all times put down as a basis: (1) The leaders must be in the closest contact with the workers in their daily struggles (2) Basic work is in the organi- zation and in the locality taking up the daily needs of the workers, (3) Demonstrations except on special occasions— sudden relief cuts, strikes, etc, should be a cul- mination and not the beginning of | activity. | (4) Technical requirements should be complied with provided they do not interfere with the rights of the workers and the denial of such rights should be used as a means of moblizing larger masses, HITLER’S STORM TROOPER sin rrr iie-t | NEw are Sales Tax Robs Poor To Protect Rich New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The New York City Retail Sales Tax, described as a tax to provide aid for the unemployed, is really motivated by the desire of Tam- many and the banking interests to find a substitute for the City In- come Tax Law! This is so apparent that even the capitalist press admits it. (See news item in New York Times, Jan, 11, page 3, under the head, “Mayor and Taylor Study City Income Tax Repeal.”) Like others before him La Guar- dia has found it easier “to widen the tax base,” that is, to exploit the workers, than to stand as a cham- ;Pion of the people against the crushing demands of the greedy capitalists! And like those others, too, he has forgotten the lessons of history! 1 8. Workers of Tampa Get Fascist Dope Tampa, Fla. Comrade Editor: In the enclosed clipping from the Tampa Morning Tribune you will find some of the dope which is fretly administered to the workers of this city. Otherwise, any sort of literature which a worker may please to read outside of such stuff has to be done very carefully, lest you be taken out at night and given @ dose of “Rinsin” oll, accompanied by _a beating a la Ku Klux Klan. Such are conditions here. No militancy allowed, unemployed re- ceiving 30 cents a week for a fam- ily of three. Cigar factories stopped for the regular Christmas holidays, which last about a month or more; in the meantime, no aid. Such con- ditions prevail even in “boom time,” authorities claim. Workers here are terrorized to such an extent that |if you talk to them about Com- munism they run away. A COMRADE. Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers, How- ever, all letters received are carefully rend by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. Denounces Hearst as Workers’ Enemy New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Your editorial dealing with the biggest and most dangerous enemy of the working class deserves the fullest appreciation of all those suffering people who are either un- aware or ignorant of the fact that they are exploited throughout their lives. It is regrettable that only a small percentage of all these millions, who listened to or read the speech of our “foremost citizen,” Mr. William Randolph Hearst, can be reached by your fine reply to this exploiter’s insults, Your editorial deserves more than recognition. I am sure that it was a great relief to those sincere work- ing men and women who resented these unscrupulous and unjustified attacks by a man who dared call them his friends, over a great net- | work, whereas he is one of the few | who help to exploit millions and render them unhappy. National Guardsman Asks Information El Paso, Texas. Comrade Editor: I’m a member of the National Guard in El Paso and I want to get in touch with some one in the Y.C.L. Also I want to know the sub rates of the Young Worker. If Possible please send me a copy. GUARDSMAN, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Letters From Our Readers , He Wouldn’t Dare | To Show Up Detroit, Mich. Worker's Editor: I heard Coughlin’s speeches and have read the articles by A. B. Magil in the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker is doing everything in its power to expose this agent of the Pope. The majority of the people that read the Daily Worker are class conscious, I believe a more thorough way of exposing this hyp- ocrite would be to challenge him to a debate, and give this debate the widest publicity it is possible to give. In that way we can enlighten those who are still in the darkness. A. B. Looks Better and Reads Better Chicago, Ill. Comrade Editor: I noticed other Daily Worker readers of the paper, have com- mented on the new appearance of the paper, especially the front page and the editorial page. If you have too many such letters then put this one in the waste basket. I won't mind. I am only writing to let you know that I have noticed it and a lot of my friends have noticed it and whoever I talk to about the paper says, did you notice how the ew print is easier to read, and hen it looks better, it reads better. Yours for a workers’ “Daily” that will be the best newspaper in looks and style as well as in material. E. 8S. Shows Truth for = *. All To Read New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I buy your Daily Worker every day. I am an American born wo- man who sees the truth in your paper. I hold it up in subways and let all eyes look upon the truth. Success for the New Year, a 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 -—— From East and West New Anti-Soviet War Moves Memel and Chahar S THE Nazis settle down to systematic blood-letting in the Saar, two simultaneous | war moves take place in op- posite ends of the earth that seem to have a strangely uni- fied origin and aim. The fascist press in Berlin an- nounces now that the Saar is re- turning to Germany, the greatest attention must be paid to the East —that is, to the road towards the Soviet Union. This is the crux, the beginning and the end of Hitler's “foreign policy.” The Nazis openly announce now they intend to take Memel, a small slice of Lithuania jon the northern border of East Prussia, Japanese imperialism is behind the other war move. Cable reports from Shanghai and Peiping declare that Japanese army trucks are rum- bling forward from Chasigteh in Johol provinces, on the road to Dolan Nor in Chahar, Mongolia. The Japa- nese have openly declared their in- tention of driving the small Chi- nese military for from this por- tion of Nerth China. “Once there,” cables Hallett Abend, New York Times Shanghai correspondent, “they would be astride the great caravan route between China and Russia and they could cut the main commu- nications between these coun- tries.” Be NOR pea IN other words, the Japanese mili< tary bandits are opening up & new road for war against the Soviet Union, precisely at the time Hitler prepates to do the same thing from the European side. = Are these moves concrete provi= sions in the secret war agreement between German fascism and Japa~ nese imperialism? The Japanese militarists recently though dealing secretly also with Chiang Kai Shek, have been in- sisting on a more positive policy of | direct actlon in North China, even if it injures this willing tool of the imperialist power that kicks in most. The Japanese press has been showing great signs of nervousness over China. First of all, Chiang Kai-Shek is failing utterly and mis- erably in his promises to destroy the Soviets and the Red Army. The main body of the Red Army hes |now reached Szechuan Province, and becomes a menace to Japanese imperialist drives into Northern China through Inner Mongolia. The Soviets are now near Kansu and Shenshi Provinces which are bor- dering the Szechuan Province, not far away from Japan’s intended field of plunder. 4 Secondly, the other imperialist powers have been working fast and furiously in the Central, Eastern, Southern and Western parts of China to insure their domination. We have already published the fact that hundreds of millions of dol- Jars in loans are pouring in for specific projects to be controlled by the foreign capitalist powers. The British are fortifying Hong-Kong; the French, the Southern portion of the Chinese border; the Amer- icans are setting up air bases, as are the Italians and Germans, i) ae SEEMS as if Japanese imperial- ism has decided to act now, in- stead of waiting for the attempted solution, or maturing of certain oth- er major problems, such as the naval conflict with American im= perialism. Reports from both Germany and Japan emphasize the fact that the economic crisis in these countries is growing worse by leaps and bounds, The inner conflicts in the ruling cliques mounts to the point where Hitler, it is conceded, prepares for new purges while the Japanese a+ triotic and super-nationalist sos cieties plot a series of new assassins ations. eae anaes b bert is a ceaseless, relentless drive to war, particularly on the part of both these capitalist powers. They never rest for a moment, and cannot rest in their provocations, Dolifuss’s slaughter is followed by that of King Alexander’s. The seizure of the Saar merely opens sup the question of the seizure of eastern European territory. The Japanese let-up in provocations on the Chinese Eastern Railway is counter-bslanced by a direct march towards Soviet territory through Chahar Province. It is these restless war moves that jand counter-revolutionary bandits in all parts of the worid. And no matter what the immediate situas tion may appear to be in the capie talist press, no matter whether sen< ;Sational incidents be lacking, every friend of the Soviet Union must recognize that from East and West the war is ever in preparation and threatening against the workers’ fatherland, go on constantly around the Soviet © border that give hope to the Czarist © eee