The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1935, Page 6

£ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JAN RY 28, 1935 By EARL BROWDER Madison Square Garden.) COMMUNIS W a passionate Lenin saved his country from the l mperiali nt er out xy capitalists, militarists, save our own | The pr lem of the revolutionary wa} dependence. Today’s Daily,.QWorker €AWTRAL ORCAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.5.4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. New York Room 954 lth and F Si ington, D. Midwest Burea South Wells St., Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 50; 3 months, $2.00: Foreign and 3 “Daiwork,” Cable Address year 36.00. 1 month, 0.75 cents. year, Bronx, Canada: 1 $9.90 $5.00: 3) mo ekly, 18 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935 (From Speech Delivered at Lenin Memorial Meeting in love our country, with the love which Lenin bore for Russia. in brought about so the raised the problems answered by the Declaration of In- problems can be answered only by the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin But let us not forget that revolutionary solutions ——— Pass On the Daily Worker! READER makes an excellent sug- gestion for increasing the circulation of the “Daily.” In yesterday’s issue we published his letter urging the adoption of the slogan— Pass On the Daily Worker! This reader cites his success in win- ning new readers this way. With the publication of the Marguerite Young-Spivak-Garlin series exposing Hearst and the Wall Street financing of fascist plots in this country, we have ex- cellent material for winning new readers, Make the Daily Worker grow by pass- ing it on to new readers! Treasonable Facts ONOMIC conditions have become so bad in Germany that some of the Nazi newspapers declare it is treason to publish foreign trade figures. And why were these facts considered dangerous to the fascist dictatorship? Be- cause they are an alarming indicator of the economic catastrophe to which the fascists have brought Germany. For example: Germany had an adverse foreign trade balance of $69,825,000 in 1934, That meant that the German capital- ists had to pay out to foreign capitalists that sum on imports over exports. When it is remembered that there was a favor- able trade balance of $172,480,000 in 1931, before Hitler came to power, the im- portance of this news can be realized. There was a big decline in exports, throwing the whole of German economy into a worse crisis at a time when some of the other capitalist countries had reached a stage of depression—that is, a stage not so bad as the worst period of the crisis, but still nowhere near out of the crisis, nor leading to a solution of the general crisis. There was a big decline in imports. That meant less food, clothing and other necessities for the German workers. Mainly, war materials were imported. Yet German steel and iron industries were ac- tive. They were producing war material day and night. The “‘treasonable” facts are being felt by the masses in lowered living standards, and under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party of Germany the discontent is being organized for the death of fascisra. Defend Rakosi! MERICAN workers will recognize in the framed lynch-trial of Matthias Rakosi, Communist leader, now taking place in Budapest, Hungary, the same boss savag- ery, the same hand-in-glove cooperation between the capitalist and his courts which here in the United States daily robs an ever greater portion of their bread and living standards. In 1919 Rakosi was one of those who led the workers’ and peasants’ government “of Soviet Hungary. For this “crime” Rakosi was judged “guilty” in 1927, sen- tenced, and fully served nine long years in prison. Rakosi is now being tried again on the same charge for which he completed his ninne-year sentence. This is proven by the fact that on Monday’s opening session of the trial, when the state prosecutor an- nounced that he had “lost” the new indict- ment, the presiding judge suggested that he use the old one, Every militant worker and every work- ers’ organization must send its angry pro- test to the nearest Hungarian consulate and to the Hungarian Embassy in Wash- ington. } ra 4 i \ William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party LET US NOT FORGET THAT REVOLUTIONARY SOLUTIONS ARE NOT FOREIGN TO AMERICA are not foreign to America. the only things vital and living in the American tradi- Today it is the Communists, following Lenin, who tion. On the contrary, they are remind the American masses of those great words of same Just must we clare: ises the prob- crisis of 1776 The Auto Code HE auto code expires on February 1. And William Green, A. F. of L. leader, knowing that the auto workers hate the code, is already demanding modification of the open-shop “merit clause.” But it was Green himself who endorsed this clause in the original code, and hailed it as a “victory.” Whatever happens to the code, whether it is extended, or modified, by the dicker- ings of William Green, Roosevel€ and the auto manufacturers, the net result will be against the interests of the auto workers. If the auto workers are to win better wages, improved conditions, and union con- ditions generally, this will depend on their own fighting organization, on using their own united strength in preparation for strike action, Unite on H. R. 2827 N THREE states, Washington, Massa- chusetts and Ohio, actions have been undertaken to build mass support for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. These state and local movements will swell the nation-wide fight for the enact- ment of the Bill, which is the only measure before Congress that will give the Ameri- can workers immediate cash relief and Federal unemployment insurance benefits, In New York State, however, Louis Waldman, state chairman of the Socialist Party, has taken a stand against this mass fight for H. R. 2827 by publicly supporting Roosevelt’s fraudulent “social insurance” measures, and urging that labor endorse them as “an epoch in social legislation. By this, Waldman is hindering both the local and national struggle for the Work- ers’ Bill. But it is only the Workers’ Bill that is a working class measure, providing real and immediate ‘benefits. For Socialist Party workers to follow Waldman in sup- porting Roosevelt’s measures is for them to fight against their own interests, for measures that will give them nothing. More than ever, the united front of Socialist and Communist workers for H.R. 2827, for Federal Unemployment Insur- ance, to be paid for by the government and the employers, is a vital need, ee Arkansas Croppers OOSEVELT and his agents are rapidly learning that the sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the South will not take his A.A.A. crop destruction program lying down, Already mass demonstrations and strike preparations are taking place with Negro and white croppers uniting to de- fend their homes and their families. In Alabama and Arkansas, this mass resistance to being driven off the land by the landlords has been met with terrorism and lynch threats by the landlords and local officials. Organizers have been arrested, and one of the active Arkansas leaders, Ward H. Rodgers, a Socialist, is now in jail, seized when he tried to give a report of the dele- gation that went to see Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace. The Arkansas croppers are being seized “for subversive activities.” This shows that all militant workers and farmers, fighting for their daily wel- fare, are immediately menaced by the charge of “subversive activity” now being used to attack the Communist Party. The workers and farmers, Socialist and Communist, must unite in defense of the harrassed croppers. “By Their Deeds...” wut every new step in its tax program the City administration shows itself to be carrying out a bankers’ policy. First the masses of New York were presented with the sales tax. Now Comptroller Frank J. Taylor’s Ad- visory Council on Taxes for the Relief of the Unemployed, headed by the well-known red-baiter and Tammany luminary, Grover Whalen, has gotten a new idea—to exempt manufacturers from the two per cent sales tax and to repeal the 15 per cent tax on the Federal tax on incomes earned in New York in 1934. Who will these proposals help? Mainly the large manufacturers and the bankers, : “By their deeds ye shall, know them.” the Declaration of Independence, which we must again and again bring into every city, every factory, every village, every workers’ home, those words which de- “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new govern- ment, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its power in such forms, as to them shall Party Life | White Chauvinism Oriental Worker Writes Recruiting Success HE struggle against white chauvinism in our Party is one that must be carried on without ceasing. We must remember that as we recruit new members into our Party, many of them bring with them the prejudices and opinions that have been planted by the cap- |italist press, the schools, and all | the organs of opinion, which strive to keep the workers divided on race lines, It is, therefore, necessary that we do not relax in our struggle against white chauvinism in all its manifestations. Today we are print- | ing two letters, which show clearly |that this evil still exists in our Party. Our white comrades must |take the lead in struggling against every manifestation of white chau- vinism, not only within the Party, but also in the unions, and in all pene mass organizations. crane teh | From An Oriental Worker “I am calling your attention to| & grievance in the interest of my | fellow Oriental workers, which is | manifested in a series of observa- tions and personal contacts in all | kinds of social gatherings, under the auspices of the revolutionary organizations. I have unearthed an | attitude very inimical to the course of revolutionary unity and brother- | hood of all workers. | “At every social gathering that I attended, indifference, discrimina- |tion, and undue consideration is preeminently present. Of course, this created in us a feeling of ab- | horrence towards our unsympathetic comrades. We are ignored and this | inevitably brings about seclusion. Is |there not a way to bring about a |real unity? All we ask is equality in the true meaning of the word. ‘We do not welcome disguised con- | sideration and treatment. W. M., New York.” Salers te From a Negro Worker “I am a Negro worker, also a member of the Communist Party, | {and I watch some of the moves of comrades towards the Negro work- | ers when a Negro worker comes to | an affair of a working-class popula- | tion. Some comrades look at us as | though they never saw a Negro be- fore in their life. I know this is not the teaching of Lenin and Stalin. But when the Negro goes out among the Negro workers, they ask, how they are treated, because the Negro misleaders are always preach- ing to them that they cannot ex- |pect the Communists will be any | different from the rest of the white jtace which always jim-crows us, discriminates against us and per- | Secutes us. Don't let the word of | the Negro misleaders come true. “Yours for a Soviet America, “W. V. New York.” cleent aie) Correct Approach Important in Recruiting We have printed a number of let- | | ters in this column dealing with an incorrect approach to workers and the consequent failure to recruit. Here is a good example, which shows that with correct methods, | Workers can be recruited for our Party. |“On Saturday, November 17th, | the Communist Party Unit No. 5 of Queens, New York held an af- fair in Corona Heights. Many young people attended and when the speaker, a member of the Sec- | tion Committee, started his appeal, he addressed it particularly to the |youth. At the end of the appeal the rest of the comrades contacted | the workers, and the result was five | new members to the Party and two | to the Y. C. L, J, Section 10, New York. Nazi Paper Admits Farm Labor Horrors, FRANKFURT, Jan. 22.— Revela- | | tions concerning the system of | “agricultural assistance” were fur- nished in yesterday’s Frankfurter Zeitung, when the fascist paper con- | fessed the nation-wide enslavement of the peasantry. _ “Even those who have no illusions about the system,” admits the Nazi sheet, “and arrive prepared for any- thing, are horrified when they first come. Such primitive shelters were not expected... . A group of girls who arrived in the best of spirits were reduced to tears in a few hours. . . . Even if one manages to get |accustomed to camp life, it is only| to be transferred from one to an-| | other every two or three weeks. But | deprival of a single meal is usually | enough to make the recalcitrant see | reason.” Street units: Workers in your territory will respond more readily to organization for relief, against evictions, against the high cost of living, etc., if they read the Daily’ Worker. Strengthen your unit work and build the circulation of the Daily Worker, seem most likely to effect their safety and happi- BRE. ci We will again recall those words of the Declaration of Independence: “It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off a government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” We followers of Lenin will never cease to quote these words. Nor will we ever cease to point out that, today, in 1935, such new principles can only be those of the dictatorship of the proletariat, such a new form can only be that of the Soviet Power, that safety and happiness for the masses can only come from the aboli- SCOTTSBORO NEXT? + MOONEX DECISION tion of capitalism and the building of a Socialist society. We are the Party of revolution. we can only repudiate with Dicksteins and the Hearsts, That means that scorn the slanders of the who try to picture us as conspirators, as bombers, as criminals, as those who plan to “kidnap the president,” and similar nonsense designed to frighten the elderly “Daughters of the American Revolution” and the uneasy pirates of Wall Street, whose consciences bother them. We are the Party of revolution of the masses, in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, brought up to date in the light of the scientific teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, by Burck am i 4 Beptdy Letters From Our Readers Lenin Memorial Meeting Arouses Enthusiasm New York, N. Y. January 21, 1935. Editor Daily Worker: Bravo showmanship Lenin Me- | morial meeting. Browder’s address a gem. More such meetings and Yankee Stadium will be inadequate. LEITMANS. Matthew Woll, Betrayer Of the Working Class New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Hardly had the poisonous war- monger, Hearst, vomited his noxious fluid into the masses of the Ameri- can people, and the hypocritical screaming little Father Coughlin retreated to think about another scheme of how he could, via his spiritual power, lead the masses into still deeper misery and slavery, when along comes another square- headed idiotic mug by the name of Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L, who serves as the mouthpiece of the crooked Hearst. He starts another series of evil ar- ticles in the Liberty magazine, a series of distorted facts that aim toward the destruction of the Work- ers’ Fatheriand and mean a step further toward fascism. Realizing the strength of the unity of the workers, he wishes to destroy everything that imperils the rotten capitalist system, He clam- ors about the misguided people, in- forms the uninformed just how the Red wave is spreading from one end of the U. S. to another, and tells his readers that the best way to peace ond recovery is simply to lie down, and not strike back at their benefactors, the capitalist class, who are our daily bread-givers. It is becoming a tough job for the exploiters nowadays, The work- ers are no longer ignorant of their venomous weapons; they are catch- ing on to the trickery. It will not help much longer o croon catch- phrases into the ears of the masses, | such as “Prosperity is right around | the corner. All to save the rotten capitalist system! But capitalism is groaning in its winding sheet. W. G. | The Dictatorship of the Proletariat 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 improvement of the Daily Worker, Exposes Anti-Semitism Of Fascist Press New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: May I suggest to the comrades | how to prevent the spread of Mo-| lJey’s Today and other fascist publi- cations. I find that man: of the candy | store owners unknowingly sell this| poison. I explain to the owner of the store at which I do my trading the anti-Semitic nature of such publications. Although he may not be even a sympathizer of the Com- munist Party, still being a Jew, as many of them are, they are inter- ested from a Jewish standpoint, So far I can claim 100 per cent ex-| termination in my neighborhood. I. feel sure that all of the comrades can do the same—very easily—so get started. CCMRADE. NO. 11. Editorials, Features Call To Action New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: As one who has been extremely critical of the Daily Worker jour- nalistically, may I now congratulate you for the great improvement in the paper? I especially want to point out the new style of editorials with their shorter paragraphs, | bolder type and sharper pointedness. Your editorials should be clarion that now than over before. Ramsey are enriching the paper, on Party Life. The Question Box is a great attraction and very en- lightening. Best wishes for a greater and | Comrade Editor: as well as Gannes, and the column | greater circulation, L. 8. Lovestoneites Don’t Like Them Tough New York, N. Y. The other day a bunch of Love- | stoneites came to our Party section | meeting to distribute their counter- revolutionary leflets. As I came in I heard them say, “Shall we give | him one? He don’t look tough.” It is true. I don’t look tough. I felt like being tough after they made that remark, but remember- ing Party instructions about un- disciplinedactions, I merely shoved away the one who tried to hand me a@ leaflet. What did their remarks show? Kither that they were cowards, or | Provocateurs. About six of them | were there, all scared of getting a | beating. No wonder they go back | howling about being mobbed by us rough-house artists. They give | themselves nightmares, just stand- ing near us. a N. J. Commemorate Anniversary Of Revolutionist Los Angeles, Calif. Comrade Editor: On the first anniversary of the death of our beloved father, Isidor Brooks, former member of the Los Angeles Section Comr.” stee and ac- tive Party member since 1919, also prominent as a leader of youth and children’s groups, we, the four members of his family, commemo- rate his life's activities by sub- scribing to the Daily Worker. think that this is one of the best | ways of building a monument to the memory of our dear Comrade who died as a result of injuries sustained four years ago when he was ar- rested end beaten by Hynes and his | calls to action and they are nearer | Red Squad. We call upon all the | friends Michael Gold, Del and David and jelatives of Isidor Brooks to do likewise and help} build a strong revolutionary mouth- ; piece, something Comrade Brooks | worked very hard for. Comradely, WIFE, BESSIE BROOKS, and DAUGHTERS, | it. But then words in diploy We} World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— Hirota’s Imagination Bed-Time Peace Stories Watching Red China NE would make a great mistake if he thought, after reading his speech, that the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Koki Hirota, nad a very weak imagination, True, the speech itself asserts cy are used to conceal thoughts and aims, Hirota more than once empha sizes that war between Japan and the United States is “unimaginable.” yet the whole content of the speech shows the contrary, Hirota, discusses the primacy of Japanese imperialism in the domi« nation of China. The foreign min- ister concerns himself more with the internal conditions of China than with the starvation districts jin North Japan. He talks about navies, about armaments, always around the central question of which power, the United States, Britain or Japan will dominate the Far Eastern markets. Of course, Roosevelt when he ins creased the United States war aps propriations by over $280,000,000 in his last budget message in Congress did not consider war with Japan “unimaginable.” When the Vinson Bill was passed the idea of war with Japan had gone far beyond the sphere of the Brain Trust’s imagi- nation. It was a matter of reality in preparation, BOUT 30 days before the out break of the last world war, Professor Schultze-Gavernetz, one of the outstanding European eco- nomists, declared, echoing scores of diplomatic speeches, that the idea of humanity being plunged into a new war “was unimaginable.” He pointed to industrial “progress” and the peaceful relations of all the leading powers. He showed, very much as Hirota now does, how the economic “interdependence” of countries would make a violent con- flict entirely out of the question. And then only about a week ago Senator Nye, chairman of the Arms Investigation Committee, declared that the United States was closer to war than the European countries were 30 days before the outbreak of |the last world war. The Senator, who has heard many intimate war secrets that have not yet been made public, stated that the United States and Japan were leading the world in war armaments. We can see the Japanese naval staff laughing up its capacious kimona sleeves just as heartly as the Navy Department in Washington does up its gold-braid. U. S. naval and air bases are springing up in islands all along the Pacific up to the northern-most points of Alaska, di- rected against Japan. OOSEVELT is not spending bil- lions for war, while refusing real unemployment insurance to the American workers, just to dampen the imagination of the American war and navy staffs. Hirota, of course, had a word to say about the Soviet Union. “Our government is planning to accel~ erate the peaceful development of Soviet-Japanese relations by re- doubling its efforts for the solu- tion of other [that is, other than the Chinese Eastern Railway ques- tion] problems,”’ said Hirota, the chief foreign salesman and arms expert for the Mitsui and Mitsu- bishi trusts. It would be rude to ask Hirota why 250,000 Japanese troops are in Manchuria near the Soviet border; why Japanese military railroads and auto roads are being built all lead- ing towards the Soviet border; why over 400 Japanese bombing planes have been sent to Manchuria, and air bases dotted strategically for at- tack on the Soviet, border. And why, some of the Communist leadezs in Japan, will say to the Japanese masses, Mr. Hirota, are Japanese troops, at the very moment you were speaking, driving Soviet-wards through Jehol and Chahar province deliberately aiming for the main road to the workers’ fatherland thzough Mongolia? But since more than 10,000 Communists are in Japanese prisons for fighting ‘against just such actions, we are sure there never will be an answer | from Hirota. * dealing with China, thé Foreign Minister of Japan, expresses his happiness over Chiang Kai Shek’s “victory” against the Red Army in Kiangsi province, but expzesses more concern over the fact that the Red Army is becoming a greater és7NHE 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- gentsig, 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 ple: Works, Vol. XXIV. menace to Japanese imperialist am- bitions in Szechuan and the North- west of China. “In view of this fact [the Red Army’s advances in Szehcuan],” he says, “the Japanese government will be obliged to con- tinue to watch with concern activs ities of the Communist Party and armies in China.” Japanese imperialism has never been distinguished for its watchful waiting policy,