The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1935, Page 6

# 4 i fi Page 6 HE Hearst lurid tales of peasants in the Soviet Union and other “starvation” and Joseph Stalin Stalin is the beloved and trusted leader, tember 1, 1 the present anti in the Hearst press. Daily QWorker | CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.4, (SECTION OF COMMUMIST IMTARWATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING C@.,, IN€., 56 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: ‘Daiwork,” New York, N. Y. Washington jureal Room 954, National Press Building, i4th and FP St., Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7910. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 70%, Chicago, Ml. Dearborn 3931. Subseription Rates: except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00; $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $5.00: 3 months, $3.00. Carrier: Weekly, By Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 y 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. ear, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935 The Sacramento Case “Seventeen Radicals Face Long Prison Terms Under Syndicalism Act. “Led California Strike. “Working and Living Conditions Improved. But They Were Indicted.” * * * N THESE headlines, even the reactionary New York Times (Sunday, Jan. 20), is forced to admit the real causes behind the attempt of California employers and their courts to railroad the 18 Sacramento de- fendants to long prison terms. They organized and led struggles which won substantial gains for the workers. The answer of the employers and their gov- ernment was to indict them on a trumped- up charge of “attempting to overthrow the government of the United States by force and violence.” The employers, intent on removing all militant leaders of the working class, pro- ceed to use the framed-up trial of the 18 defendants to further their drive to out- law the Communist Party, as a prerequi- site for a fiercer onslaught on the whole working class. Protests should flood the court of Judge Dal M. Lemmon, Sacramento, Calif., from every working class organization in the country, demanding the unconditional release of the defendants, the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law, and a halt to the attacks on the Communist Party. More Socialist Expulsions N ENTIRE local has been expelled from the Socialist Party in Buffalo. A leading member has been charged with acting as chairman at a Friends of the Soviet Union meeting. He was also charged with stating that “categorically to repudiate armed resist- ance by workers would be to repudiate the most glorious pages of our history. . .” Thus, to follow the basic tenets of Marxism is a crime in the eyes of the S.P. leaders. From this they also consider it a crime to support the Soviet Union. Will Socialist workers accept this state of affairs where to follow the teachings of the Communist Manifesto and to support the Workers’ and Farmers’ government, the first Socialist government in the world, is considered a crime? A Splendid Action @ELDOM was the sleek hypocrisy of W “charity-giving” exploiters more dramat- ically exposed than on Sunday night when two Ohrbach strikers turned a dinner in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria into a forum for presenting the issues in heir struggle. The scene: 1,600 guests in evening dress are listening to Mayor LaGuardia at a dinner of the Jewish Hospital. Mr. Ohr- bach, take note, is a director of the hospital and chairman of the dinner committee. Suddenly, two girl strikers dressed in eve- ning gowns, and seated in a box, break into His Honor’s suave spiel with a bitter denunciation of sweat-shop conditions in Mr. Ohrbach’s store. Hotel attendants rush to the box to eject the strikers but find that they had chained themselves to the railing. We congratulate the Ohrbach strikers on this splendid exposure which was bit- ingly expressed in one of the placards which they carried outside the hotel dur- ing the banquet: “Mr. Ohrbach, starvation salaries send your strikers to sickbeds,” press is filled these days with the most “mass murder” leaders of the Workers’ are seule as monsters who nion for their own and Peasants’ Republic rule over the millions in the Soviet 1 elfish interests. The Communist Party of the U.S.S.R., is a terested only in reducing the Russian The editorial sheds some light on the character of oviet and anti-Commuinst campaign 30.00; DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935 = HEARST PRESS TWO YEARS AGO TOLD ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STORY of torial. torial: “This photograph of ‘Stalin in a hurry’ shows power, determination and of which bed as method of living. They will find it incredible that one who could spend millions in a year without hin- What Is the Meaning? NTI-SOVIET propaganda is developing very openly in the leadership of the Socialist Party. Last week, the White Guard lady, Ta- tiana Tcherniavina, spoke under the aus- pices of the Socialist Rand School. This week, the executive secretary of the Socialist Party in Buffalo, denounced the Soviet Union as “a brutal and inhuman class dictatorship.” Finally, the New Leader this week an- nounces the arrival of R. Abramowitch, ac- tive and admitted counter-revolutionary Menshevik plotter against the Soviet Union. Apparently, William Randolph Hearst, the most open spokesman in the growing anti-Soviet campaign of American im- perialism, is not wanting in allies against the Workers’ and Farmers’ government. Socialist workers would do well to in- quire sharply as to the meaning of these developments. Section 7-a HE A. F. of L. Executive Council wants Section 7-A of N. R. A. to be made “permanent.” The Wall Street reactionaries of the Liberty League want 7-A “rewritten,” that is, with sharper teeth against labor. What did American labor get out of Section 7-A? Nothing but company unions, strike- breaking, and a general National Run- Around. Permanent N.R.A. and “rewritten” N. R. A. means permanent strike-breaking | by the government working with the em- ployers, The Path of Liberalism GROUP of misguided liberals have pro- tested to the Soviet ambassador in Washington, Troyanovsky, against the execution of the white guard terrorists and assassins. In this way, they unwittingly, but yet effectively, assist the Hearst anti-Soviet slander campaign. Among those who signed the protest dispatched by the “Interna- tional Committee for Political Prisoners” were Sinclair Lewis, Prof. John Dewey, Roger N. Baldwin, Arthur Garfield Hays, James Maurer. Whatever their wishes in making their protest, the result will be encouragement to the forces of fascism and war even now in the East and West driving for bloody intervention against the workers’ father- land. And who were the executed whom these liberals take under their protecting wing? “Some of the persons executed had trickled into the country, expecting an anti-Stalin revolution with foreign aid,” says the Hearst writer Percy Winner, in the New York Journal of the same date on which the “protest” is published. In short, the fascist Hearst admits they were counter-revolutionists, assisted by foreign imperialists, working for the over- throw of the Soviet government by but- chering the best defenders of the work- ers’ fatherland. The Contracting Evil IHE closing of 100 shirt shops employ- ing 20,000 workers by their contractor owners, yesterday, until the large manu- facturers pay them a higher price, is one of the crassest examples to illustrate that the N.R.A. and its codes bring about the return of the sweat shops evil on a greater scale than ever before. The large manufacturers are shifting the burden upon the workers. The small contractors, fighting with the bigger ones over the profits, utilize every known scheme to squeeze the workers. The unions cannot take an inactive stand in this situation. They must prepare the organizations, to fight against any at- tempts to settle such disputes by still fur- ther saddling the burden on the backs of the workers, “Here is Stalin of Rus- sia,” is the title of the edi- It is accompanied by a photograph of Stalin. Says the Hearst edi- termination and simplicity Many that read Emil Lu COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZI his truthful descriptions of St: clique i simplicity. masses to slavery “Many that read Emil ‘ear without hindrance, or send millions ing Yet—the Hea st press itself two years ago was Ludwig’s article about telling an entir different story Stalin in Cosmopolitan A Chicago worker who writes to us praising the Magazine will read with ditorial broadsides against Hearst sends us an editorial amazement his truthful clipping from the Hearst Chicago American of Sep- descriptions of Stalin’s | Party Life Y. C. L. in Crosby Bani “Too Much Talk” Organizer Wanted! N CROSBY Section, District No. 9, we have often seri-| ously taken up Party and Y.! C. L. relations, and have often | enough elected representatives to attend meetings of both or-| ganizations. A study of our| minutes will show that we have done | this, Yet our two organizations have | never had mutual understanding or cooperation with each other. Strug- | gles initiated by the Party lacked | clear-cut specific youth action be- | | cause the Y. C. L. was left out en- | | tirely. And the Y. C. L. in tumn| | made its attempts at medical and |dental struggle an paca secret to the Party. At last we are changing this. We! have a very good beginning of co- | Ordination of the adults and youth jin class struggle activit; In the | broad relief conferences initiated by | the Communist Party and the United | | Farmers’ League in the four coun-| ties of our section, we now find the | | Y. C. L. beginning to display an ac- tive role, issuing leaflets under its | own name, bringing up youth de- | mands, putting up its speakers, etc. | Section Committee members of the | Party are helping the Y. C. L. in every phase of this work. Now, several matters which be- | | fore were never thought about have | come to our attention. One small | Point is that the Y. C. L. members | | did not know a single song which | ; could be sung at a mass meeting of raw workers discussing every-day needs. There were no songs of fore- | closures, of fighting evictions, of getting more relief. They only knew songs of revolution, of guns and | | barricades, of Red Armies and Crim- | son banners. We are changing this | situation, so that when we go into} united front meetings, we will have songs which even the Peo | workers will sing with us. |. The eagerness of the Y. C. L. to| |take a part in everyday battles also |taught the Party a lesson. Here iwe have two Y.C.L. units held back |in their plans because the Party | members are continually putting off the calling of a county-wide re- lief conference. Would it not be em- | barrassing if the Y. C. L. called this conference and then asked the Party |if it would participate? | In trying to settle the question jof Party-League relations we have |too much talk and not enough ac- tion. If we start a struggle for one single need of the workers around us, common ordinary intelligence will point out to us how this situ- ation is to be handled, and we will find the Party members and Y.C.L. members w orkieotnggeth shrd she | members working together harmoni- | ously, and the work of both organi- | zations co-ordinated. Y.C.L. SECTION ORGANIZER, Crosby, Minn. COMMUNIST ORGANIZER ASKED |FOR IN MINNESOTA TOWNSHIP In Silvercreek township, Wright | County, Minnesota, twenty-six Com- munist votes were cast in the last election. Yet there is neither a United Farmers’ League nor a Com- munist Party unit in that town- ship. These Communists ought to | be activized without delay. Here | would be a fertile field for an or- ganizer. In fact these farmers are ; Waiting for an organizer to come | and set up a unit, for they are ready | to go. FARMER CORRESPONDENT. Philadelphia Councils PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 21— The Unemployment Council has taken up the case of William Mc- | Griff, aged Negro worker and father relief here because his son was in aC. C. C. camp although the son was sick and unable to send home any money. the relief office and pointed out to) | the officials that he was pennyless |and that he had a wife and five children at home who were starving and that he wanted to work he was old. The councils are making this case a part of their drive to fight the lowering of the standards of the | unemployed and ‘he struggle for the Workers’ Bill. They are sending bn the world, a nation that spreads out of Europe to cover vast areas in Asia. CWIASO: AMERICAN This photograph of “Stalin in V3 pe shows power, de- will find it incredible that one who could spend millions ip 2 -~ Emil Ludwig finds that stories about Stalin, like other successful men, are not exactly accurate. “Thad d expected to see agrand © guarded by armed Cossacks Fight Discrimination | Of five children, who was cut off of | today. | The Dictatorship of the Proletariat When Mr. McGriff appeared at | SEL 4, /932 dwig'’s article aboyt Stalin in NE will read with amazement alin's methods of living. They CLOSING IN! ‘Mother of Julio Mella Remembers Jan. 10 Rutland, Vermont. Comrade Editor: How I dreaded the 10th of papers. It was the first year since his death that there was not some kind of attack on our comrades in Cuba. I worry when they are fight- ing and I worry when they are quiet. You seem to have forgotten lately about Cuba. I will watch in your columns for news of it. And the Julio Mella Club. How is it making out?- I want to express how much I enjoy and appreciate the Daily Worker. I never read any other paper that told the facts and truth, and so plain. I feel it could not be improved upon. All success in its new year and that in the coming year it will double the present num- ber of its circulation. MOTHER OF JULIO MELLA. A Lefty to the Ribs —By Dsl Comrade Editor: Last night I almost choked to death while eating grapes, when I turned the page to see what was happening to Little Lefty and found him chased by a cop and swearing to “fix Peanuts for telling me this cop had a weak heart.” Guess I'll have to stop eating while reading Del’s swell educational comic. Seriously, I feel that the paper is getting better and better every day. The Wells interview with Stalin, Dutte’s book on Lenin, Michael Gold’s brilliant column, etc., etc., all make me feel that the “Worker” must be read every day if one wants to get a true picture of what's going on in the world A. K. January. I was afraid to look at the | William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party ABOUT THE SOVIET UNION drance, or send millions in gold abroad for future safety, as the King of Spain and other rulers have done, should prefer to live at home simply, leading the life of the aver- age comfortable workman, his only relaxation, as Lud- wig says, ‘sitting down once in a while with a few friends to a glass of wine.’ “Ludwig, who is not a Bolshevik sympathizer, describes Stalin’s char- acter and his purpose in life thus: “For thirty-five years there had been in his mind one single thought to “Secuaiy which he sacrificed youth, security, health, all the gifts of life, not in order to govern, but in order that there might be a government in accordance with his own con- ception. ‘The problem of my life’ he said to me, ‘is the improvement of the working class, not tie strengthen- ing of a national state, but of a socialistic one that will take care of all the workers of the world. If every one of my steps did not lead to the strengthening of this state, I should have to consider my life senseless’.” The above was broadcast in the Hearst press less than three years ago. nf Today, Hearst, fresh from a visit to Hitler and alert to the growing discontent of the American masses as the crisis deepens, becomes the spearhead for fascist propaganda in the U. S. and for inter- vention in the U.S.S.R. Hence the present campaign of lies and distortions in the foul Hearst press—a campaign which will not succeed because the workers of the U. S. will see its real purpose and defeat it! PROGRAM: 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 read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improyament of the Daily Worker. Says “Pass on the Daily Worker” Cleveland, Ohio. Comrade Editor: In connection with the present | Daily Worker subscription drive, | and in reading the letter by a} Policeman of Chicago which was) printed in the Daily Worker of January 4, in which he stated how | he got acquainted with our move- ment by picking up a Daily Worker someone left on a train, and through personal observation, an idea came to my mind which may not be new, but I believe could and should be utilized to further popu~ larize and spread our Daily Worker. The suggestion is thus: 1, The Daily Worker should popularized the slogan, “Pass on the Daily Worker,” and some similar slogans, throughout the paper. 2, Every Daily Worker reader should make a habit, after reading | the Daily Worker, of passing it on| by giving it to a neighborhood worker, shop mate, union brother or by leaving it in a street car, etc. 3. To acquaint the finder where he can get a Daily Worker every day, I suggest that each section agent should have little stickers printed with the address of the local workers’ bookshops and stands, and should supply these stickers to readers to be pasted on the front. page. Colored stickers would be best. These stickers could also be used by canvassers. On to a mass circulation of our Daily Worker! Letters From Our Readers. | Eddie Lewis Branch, I.L.D., |Is Formed New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I read in Mike Gold’s column his beautifully told and gripping story of the murder of Eddie Lewis, the youngest martyr of them all, This revolting example. of white ruling class inhumanity to the Negro worker and his children has stirred me to action and I and other sympathizers are organizing the Eddie Lewis Branch of the In- ternational Labor, Defense. This new branch of the LL.D. will serve the threefold purpose of | perpetuating the memory of this infant martyr, murdered because his parents were workers, poor and Negro; to exist as a permanent re- minder of the deeds of the baby- killing capitalist American “civiliza- tion” (workers’ babies, black and white), and above all to help our great International Labor Defense do its large share in fighting to make such crimes impossible. Since Comrade Gold has inspired the creation of this branch by giv- ing us this story, I feel sure he will gladly accept charter member- ship in the Eddie Lewis Branch of the International Labor Defense. Any readers of this story who wish to join this branch should send their names to the District office of the I.L.D., at 870 Broadway. ADOLF WOLFF. (Name authorized) Street units: Workers in your territory will respond more readily to organization for relief, against evictions, against the high cost of living, ete., if they read the Daily Worker. Strengthen your unit work and build the circulation of the Daily Worker. told by the officials that he was too} «sMMHE 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 | delegations to every councilman and other city officials demand’=~ that they act on the bill. small masters, the peasantry, the intelli- gentsia, ete.) 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 oes HARRY GANNES -—— Accused Trotzky “Answers” | Why White Guards Liked It | A Hearst Reeruit E CAN well understand why the Czarist white |guard sheet “Seven Days,” published in Paris, considered Trotzky’s “answer” to the Kirov assassination indict- ment, splendid material for its purpose. Trotzky’s article was published as the leading item on the first page of this organ which calls for war against the Soviet | Union. We should not be surprised if Hearst uses it. It excels Richard Washburn Childs, and Isaac Don Levine in that it has the elements of a shyster and a detective story writer, all so dear to the heart of Mr. Hearst. Trotzky, of course, sheds no tears over the assassination of a Bolshe- vik. To him a “Stalin agent” has been sent to his well-deserved grave, eset) sees in the whole situation ‘ie plot on the part of Stalin |fo confound his enemies. And to buttress this second rate detective story, S. S. van Reeve Trotzky has to weave a tale which makes of Dr. Fu Manchu seem in reality a historical figure. We can well understand Trotzky’s embarrassment in the eyes of the world proletariat when the facts after the assassination of Kirov showed that the Trotzky-Zinoviev group—that is, all the rag-tag and bob-tail of the counter-revolution- ary dregs who had been flung into one corrupt dung heap—had. in its desperation, inspired terroristic ac!s. and had received the assistance of foreign imperialist powers. ho Trotzky concentrates his answer on two points. First, on the connectins between himself and the consul referred to in the original indictment. Secondly, on the complicity in the murder of the Zinoviev-Kamenev group. It is just too bad for Trotzky— though excellent for his new field of endeavor, detective yarns—that since his article was written the 19 members of the Zinoviev-Kamenev group faced a proletarian court and poured out their own filthy confes- sions. For Trotzky makes a big point of the inability of the Soviet Union to prove the Zinoviev-Kame- nev’s cliques counter-revolutionary deeds. The whole world has since read the confessions of Zinoviev, Kame- nev, and especially of Evdokimov, as well as the sixteen others who have been tried and sentenced. Each of them admitted he was carrying on counter-revolutionary activities against the Party, against the lead- ership, against the international proletariat. Only Trotzky denies it. Kamenev doesn’t, Zinoviev doesn’t. Before the world’s toilers and be- fore all history, these individuals protected by Trotzky stand self- convicted and condemned of the ~ assassination of Sergei Kirov. Trotzky will have to write an- other detective story to account for the confessions of these rogues. * . . IS next nightmare is the foreign consul. Now Trotzky, as @ detective story declares first, there probably was no such person, and, second, if there was, he was an agent, not of foreign imperialism, but of Stalin, or of the G. P. U, Still more, the foreign consul, ac- cording to ‘Trotzky’s detective thriller, did not pay Nicholaev, the assassin, and did not have connec- tions with Trotzky, but he was paid by the Soviet Union. Since Trotzky’s serial detective yarn was published by the white guard press, and later by the Can- non-Muste sheet here, a few facts have come out: The consul involved was none other than the Latvian Consul, Bissenecks, who received his training at the Court of St. James and Henry Deterding, the most vicious enemy and inspirer of war against the Soviet Union. The Consul came from a country with a Fascist government in which Hitler has great influence. Not a single capitalist press in the world denied the complicity of this Consul and a foreign imperialist power working , e : i 5 ‘ white guards in the Soviet : with counter-revolutionists and who desired war for the destruction of the proletarian dictatorship. The worst scoundrels among them argued only that this showed the growing “weakness” of the Soviet government. And in all this Trotzky stoops to the lowest type of fiction to defend a counter-revolutionary clique (which no longer defends itself). While denying his own complicity — he is taken up as a brother by the { degenerate remnants of Czarism, —