The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 3

| i | WILL LAUNCH FIGHT The Soviet Revolution and the Operation UNIONS IN ILLINOI: rt a DATEY WORKER, NEW YORK. THURSDAY. JANUARY 94, 1935 ™ Page 3 ~ CLEVELAND SPONSOR GROUPS CALL PARLEY ON WORKERS BILL FOR STATE LAWS /ON SOCIAL SECURITY | | } | | i ' | | Cenference Will Seek to Unite All Forces for Pressure on Congress to Pass H.R. 2827 at Once as a Federal Measure | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan, 22.—Calls were addressed to | traffic connection with Outer China Of the Red Army in the Inner China Area By Chie-Hua IN INNER CHINA and especially in the province of Szechwan the} Soviet movement has been rapidly developing during the last few) months, The province of Szechwan is one of the largest in China, rich in natural resources and very fertile. The number of its inhabitants is 60,000,000. The main trade and all working class organizations today by the Cleveland spon-| #4 with the Pacific Coast are the soring committee of the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance for a city-wide behind the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and surance Bill H. R. 2827. The conference will also take up the added task of placing the Work- ers’ Bill before the State legislature | and rallying all workers behind such a measure. The conference, which will be| held at the Painters Union Hall,| 230 Buclid Ave., Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p. m., will also be attended by ail the delegates from Cleveland | who attended the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance. | While the call is addressed to all | labor unions, fraternal societies and workers’ organizations, . especially | are the local unions of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and in-| dependent unions, and Townsend | Clubs and unemployed workers’ | groups urged to elect delegates. | Each local, branch and lodge 1s entitled. to send two delegates to the conference. ! | While the conference will work | out the future campaign in sup- | port of the Workers’ Bill, complete reports and minutes of the National Congress for Unemployment In- surance will be made available at | the Cleveland conference. Earl Browder Will Lecture in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan, 23,— “Why Kirov Was Murdered” will be | the topic of the lecture by Earl | Browder, general secretary of the | Communist Party, on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Engineers Audi- torium, Ontario and St. Clair} Streets. | Browder was in the Soviet Union when the heinous murder occurred, and will bring a first hand account of the entire counter-revolutionary plot ‘as revealed by the investiga- tion. Union Workers Protest Weiner Murder Charge DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 23.—Meyer Weiner, 27-year-old bakery worker accused of the murder of Harold Haftka, was ordered held for trial without bail after a preliminary ex- amination in criminal court here. The trial will center around the testimony of Joseph Haftka, bitter anti-union master baker and father of the dead-man. Despite the fact that Haftka was unable to make an identification for eight days after the shooting, he now maintains he recognized Weiner immediately. Body Presents Relief Demand Recognition of Relief Committees Set Forth by Rank and File CHICAGO, Ill, Jan, 23 (Midwest | Daily Worker Bureau).—At the re- cent meeting of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, on a motion of the delegates from Painters’ Local | 637, the Chicago Federation of La- bor, by majority vote, decided to. demand from the Illinois Emer- | gency Relief Commission the recog- nition of all relief committees of | the local unions. This is an im- portant victory for the left wing forces and now must be put into | effect. The Illinois Emergency Re- | lief Commission adopted a policy | not to recognize relief committees, either of the trade unions or or- | ganizations of the unemployed, | namely, Unemployment Councils | and Chicago Workers’ Committees. The Chicago workers fought bit- | terly against this in the last few} months. A number of demonstra- tions, in an attempt to force the reversal of the decision, were held. Now the Chicago Federation of La- bor went on record demanding the recognition of the relief committees. This must not remain on. paper. The trade union relief committees, \the committees of the unemployed | organizations and committees from other organizations must go on rec- | ord and force the recognition of the | committees at the relief stations. ‘Philadelphia Councils | Help Jobless Seamen | To Fight Forced Labor PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, Jan. 23.— | Every local of the Unemployment Councils here has rallied to the support of the unemployed seamen in their fight cainst government forced labor in return for beggarly | relief doles. Last week, more than one hun- dred unemployed seamen were thrown off relief by the officials at 129 South Second Street, the Sea- men’s shelter. A representative of | the Waterfront Unemployment | Councils was told ‘hat all seamen | | lishing Soviet power in the whole Shensi, on the northern border of Szechwan, and the tempestuous up- swing of the Soviet revolution in the province of Kweichow, the southern neighbor of Szechwan. To- gether with these two provinces, Szechwan now forms an. important centre of Soviet revolution in Inner China and has gained considerable importance in the fight for estab- of China. Red Army Grows More than two years ago, during the Fifth Campaign of Chiang Kai- shek, the Fourth Red Army had, for tactical reasons, evacuated the Soviet territory of Honan-Hupeh- Anhwei, which was under the con- tinuous bombardment of the con- centrated forces of the enemy. (The Soviet districts which were lost then have in.greater part been retaken again.) The Red Army, numbering 10,000 men, had marched to the North without losses, reached the province of Shensi. and in heroic battles, accompanied by peasant ris- | ings, it had established| another | Soviet territory. | The successful struggle of the Red. Army and the insurgent peasanta had carried the Red Army along | into the North East of the province of Szechwan, and the Soviet ter- ritory “Szechwan -Shensi” was created. At this time, ie. at its advance into Szechwan, the Red ¢ 2 {KWEICHOW- Z upper reaches of the Yangtze river, — k which runs across this province. eae i conference to unite all forces| Since it eame into being two years | \KWANGS) Social In-| 2g0, the Soviet revolution has been | \ ra eer He en RT ed ss able to build up a solid foundation | from which it goes on making con-| Army “had already increased to 'C i l A F L tinual and persistent further pro-| 99990 men. At present the Red entra ° * je}eress. To this is added the! army numbers 100,000 men, not advancing Soviet movement in| counting the numerous partisan in North-East Szechwan and the territory of the partisan struggle extend together to about one-fourth of the entire province. Agrarian Crisis Ever since the Soviet Revolution | penetrated this province, it devel- oped both in extent and intensity with special rapidity. This is due not only to the subjective factor, to the experiences collected in other provinces by the Communist Party and to fighting power acquired in long struggles by the Fourth Red Army. The objective factor, the revolutionary situation, long been present here: an inde- scribable agricultural crisis ravages the province. Great masses working peasants and workers are sunk in poverty, famines are fre- quent and the peasants are roam- ing in multitudes from locality to locality. Banditism is very wide- spread in this province, expressing the hopeless condition of broad masses. population of Szechwan is mon- strous, even according to Chinese standards, In addition to the rent due to the landowners and amount- ing to 60 to 80 per cent of the crop, the peasants must pay various taxes, contributions, military dues, etc. The ground rent is mostly exacted for years in advance. J ersey Relief Strike Sweeps Essex County | TRENTON, N, J., Jan. 23 (F.P.). |—Several thousand relief workers | | have struck throughout New Jersey, | |under the leadership of the New | Jersey State Federation of Unem- | |ployment and Relief Workers Or- ganizations, thus far in southern Jersey, partic- ularly in Vinealnd and Glassboro, and is expected to tie up Essex County and other counties near the New York area Complaints center around the fact that workers on state projects are paid in grocery orders, rather than cash. A minimum wage of $18 a week with full union scale for skilled workers is demanded. Plans for the strike were under way ever since the state conven- tions of both the Socialist and Com- munist Parties endorsed the de- mands of the relief workers about } The strike has been most effective detachments. The Soviet territory | Akron and Denver In Luipo, in South-Western Sze- chwan, for instance, the militarists collected the ground-rents by force for two years in advance and in| addition imposed a tax of 140,000 dollars on the production of opium. The peasants thereupon stormed the government buildings, disarmed the troops of the government and car-| jTied on the struggle in the shape of partisan warfare. White Guard Lines Broken | The fighting position of the Red) Army is the following: first the Red | | Army operating in the Soviet ter- ritory of Wan-Yuan in North- | Eastern Szechwan defeated Kuomintang troops led by Liu-| Hsiang and disarmed 30,000 Kuo- |mintang soldiers. Then parts of army were routed and the districts of Nankiang, Tunkiang, Batchun conquered. From there the Red Army advanced towards the south and occupied the districts of Shhan, Yunsan and Suiting. Further south the Red Army broke through the | entrenchments of Liu-Hsiang in| Kaikiang, where 100,000 Kuomin- |tang soldiers were concentrated. | The taxes imposed on the peasant |The next objective is the conquest | provinces. }of the important ports of Wan-/| Hsien, in Eastern Szechwan, and of | | Kweichow, a traffic junction of the| |greatest economic, political and| | strategic importance. The “Latest | News,” an illegal Communist news- | paper of Shanghai, reported on | this: | “Our Fourth Red Army had Fling Challenges to Neighbor Districts in Sub Drive Rubber City Challenges Youngstown and Canton— Denver challenges Salt Li on the subscription drive. These are the latest developments, |as the drive to secure 10,000 daily and 15,000 Saturday subscriptions for the Daily Worker by April 5, goes on, New Jersey Sleeps Mountain City Challenges Salt Lake City— Paterson, All Other Textile Centers Akron challenges Youngstown and Canton! ake City! On Sunday, Jan. 27, Paterson will hold a general meet-| ing of the Communist Party membership at which George | Wishnak, National Manager of the Daily Worker will speak , largest number of monthly and | trict, to be secured by house to | )house canvassing and monthly Red Sundays, It calls for increas- ing the number of Red Builders, broken through the united forces of the Szechwan military poten- tates and is again on the advance. The White Guard troops are dis- integrating in panic, The arsenals which fell into our hands at the conquest of Yunsan and Shunhan | contained a great quantity of mu- | nitions and are continuing the ture of arms and ammu- Through the recent conquest of| front conference on unemployment, to be he the districts of Baolin, Tun and Sanweikow the whole territory east of the Kalin river and north of the Yangtze are under Soviet rule. To- wards the south the Red Army is advancing in the direction of Tsun- king, the greatest port and most important economic and political centre of the Szechwan province, | One may say today that the whole front of the Kuomintang army, con- sisting of six divisions with a total of 230,000 men, are retreating in dis- | order and disintegrating. Liu- Hsiang alone has lost more than 90,000 men of his forces, formerly numbering 170,000 men. | | Struggle Spreads | In the districts of Natchie and Kiangan, on the upper reaches of | the Yangtze in Southern Szechwan, with the increasing support of the broad masses of the peasantry These struggles of the Soviets have Lutchow, an industrial and com-| mercial centre of Southern Sze- of}and others in Northern Szechwan chwan, on the northern bank of the Yangtze and on the great salt region farther north, where more, than half a million workers are em- ployed. The spreading of the strug- gle further south to Chang-Ling,| near the frontier of Kweichow and| Yunan, has its influence on the Peasant movement in these two! If one adds to this the operations in the west and south- west extending to the frontier of the province of Yunan, one finds that| the struggle has spread to nearly the whole length of the Szechwan frontier from the north over the | east and south, up to the west, and| that only the north-western region has not yet been involved. | | put its drive appratus in motion. Speakers aree already making visits |to unions and mass organizations to involve them in the work. Its units are challenging each other. “If every member of the Denver section,” its call stresses, “would ob- tain one annual subscription and one Saturday subscription, we would CALL CONFERENCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT |All Major Labor Groups in Bloomington Sign Call for United Front Conference to Deal With Local Relief and Social Insurance Bill BLOOMINGTON, Ill, Je 1 p. m. in Eagles Hall, South an. 23.—A for a united ld on Sunday at Main Street, has been issued. call by all major organizations of the American Federation of, Labor here. ganizations: Machinis Local 342 Boilermakers, Local 175; Interna- tional Sheet and Metal. Workers. Local 100; Railway Carmen, Local 507; Local Federation, 29; Alton System Federation; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men, Lodge 40; Plasterers, Local 152; McLean County Workers Al- liance, No. 96. The Trades and Labor | Assembly has appointed delegates The call, addressed to organized labor, follows: “The homes, the families and the basis for the existence of thousands of workers in McLean County have been destroyed or seriously menaced the|red partisan groups are fighting|@% _® Tesult of unemployment and other causes that deprive willing workers of the opportunity to work and earn a livelihood for them- has also|/the Third and Fourth Kuomintang|a strong influence on the city of S¢lves and their dependents “Realizing the need for discus- $i rplus Relief Order Slashes Aid to Families Commodity Distribution Will Hereafter Be Taken Off Budget WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (F.P.).— | Relief will be reduced for many un- | employed by an order of the Fed- eral Emergency Relief Administra- |tion that hereafter surplus relief products may be counted as part of the regular budget for individual relief cases. In the past the sur- |plus commodities have been dis- |tributed free, in addition to the regular relief doles. The new order The call has been signed by the following ore. sues of the day realizing need to pul Policy as concerned with the: issues of our community, state and# nation, we call upon you to take Part in this conference. “The following points are those hich we propose for discussion: auper Relief Affidavits. “Unemployment Relief “Unemployment Insurance R. 2827. “We also invite you your ore ganization to add to tt Program” any points you may desire to dise« cuss pertaining to the social wel<* fare of the people of the community, “Therefore, the undersigned or ganizations call up 1 your organie zations to take part in a conference: electing as .your representatives” three delegates. This conference will decide upon the full program and action to be taken c “All organizations of the workers.’ in Bloomington and McLean County are requested to communicate with the chairman of the United Front Committee, addressing Chairman,” United Front Committee, 1012 North McLean Street, Bloomington, Ill. For all information concerning the conference and sending advance credentials to the conference.” sion of t the Bill” #H. or | Workers? Enter the | Special Subscription CONTEST Ist Prize—A Free Trip to the Soviet Union. easily double our quota of 70 daily provides also that commodities pro- | and 95 Saturday subs. We call upon| duced on work relief projects may every unit bureau to take up this! be distributed as part of the regular | question and organize the cam-|relief budgets. State administra- | Paign for a victorious fulfillment| tions are to submit their plans for of our part.” placing the order in effect to the yearly subscriptions in the dis- | Every unit bureau, every section bureau, every district bureau must organize the campaign for a vic- torious fulfillment. The Daily | Worker calls for more Socialist competitions among the districts and sections, All too few have | challenged each other. It calls | upon the districts to get more workers to register in the sub- scription contest. Only eight dis- tricts are represented in the con- test—not more than twenty work- ers. The subscription contest must be made the liveliest, the most PLE. R.A. canned goods and other products of quality satisfactory to themselves, the unemployed affected by the or- der will have to put up with goods which are often most unsatisfactory in condition. Farm pressure, expressed through the A. A. A. has been one of the chief reasons for the former policy of free distribution of surplus prod- |ucts, in addition to budget relief. |The farmers have naturally not j;wanted to have their market re- duced by the surplus commodities replacing regularly purchased prod- Instead of being able to buy | 2nd Prize—A Month in Any Workers’ Camp, or $50 in Cash. 3rd Prize—Two Weeks In Any Workers’ Camp or $25 in Cash. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Prizes— One Week in Any Workers’ Camp, or $12 in Cash. Workers here are vigorously pro- | testing the prosecution as a frame- up, designed to smash the strong} for organizing systematic sales before shop gates. | Paterson, furthermore, has who have not shippe. during the! past year would be completely de-| It is noteworthy that the Paterson | ucts. section of the Communist Party is | important feature of the drive! @ month ago. A harmonious united —Rules of the Contest— front has resulted, | nied relief. Jewish trade union movement, Silver Shirt Leader Convicted of Fraud ASHEVILLE, N. C., Jan. 23.— William Dudiey PeHey, founder and leader of the fascist Silver Shirt Legion, was convicted yesterday of defrauding his gullible followers through the sale of fraudulent stock in a bankrupt concern, the Galahad Press, Inc., following complaint by geveral stock purchasers. Robert C. Summerville, associated with Pelley’s fascist outfit as man- aging editor of the magazine “Lib- eration” (!), official organ of the Silver Shirt terrorists, was also con- victed, but a third defendant, Don D. Kellogg, secretary of the Gal- ahad Press, who acquitted. Pelley and Summerville are to be sentenced today. Get a sub a day in the Daily Worker circulation campaign! WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. All organizations keep Feb. 28 open. Scott Nearing, who just returned from Europe, will lecture on “‘Fas- cism or Communism,” for United Workers’ Organization. Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. is holding an affair Feb. 3 at Vasa Hall, 11th and John Ave. Good program, refresh- ments, dancing. Newark, N. J. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, former Minister of Justice of Prussi: id member of Reichstag, will lecture on “Germany Today,” Thursday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m. le Club, 901 Broad st, Memorial Meetings Baltimore, Md. Memorial Meeting at Elks Hall, 1528 Madison Ave., cor. McMechen St., Priday, Jan. 25 at 8 p. m, Main speaker, Manning Johnson, nation- ally known Negro Labor leader. Pro- gram: Freiheit Singing Society, High- land Vanguards, Acrobatics, Political Cartoons, W.LR. Band. Washington, D. C. Lenin Memorial Meeting at Masonic Temple, 10th and U Sts. N.W., Sun- day evening, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m. V, J. Those who could not show a discharge less than a year old were subsequently cut off and ordered to work at forced labor at 9 cents a week wages for 30 hours’ work, New Theatre Benefit in Philadelphia Sunday PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 23.— A benefit showing of “Poil De Car- rote” (The Redhead) will be given here this Sunday evening at 311 North 16th Street, by the New Thea~- tre. No tickets will be sold at the) door, There will be three showings, the first starting at 7 p. m., the second at 9, and the last at 11. Intimidation is charged by strike leaders against various project su- pervisors. This is also blamed for the slowness of the strike in getting under way in Essex County. Lack of organization previously prevented relief workers from combatting re- peated curtailment of their relief grocery ordérs, but a threatened general shutdown of all state proj- ects at the end of this month sup- plied the spark that started the ac- tion, CONCERT IN CHICAGO FRIDAY CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—A Russian music festival will be held here on Friday evening at Orchestra Hall under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Mischa Mis- chakoff, violinist and Anatol Ra- Paport, pianist will be the soloists. active, while the New Jersey District, as a whole, seems to slumber. Nothing has yet been heard from the District Of- fice. Nor from any of the other sections. Paterson, however, has already issued its own plan of work and has | pledged itself | in this drive to “lay down the basis of a mass paper among the dye and silk workers and all other workers in Paterson.” Its plan calls for establishing the | pledged itself to gain more sub- scriptions than any other textile | center in New England, the South, | Pennsylvania and its own district. Akron Enthused Akron makes a glowing promise. “We pledge,” it declares, “in addition to secugmg our quota to increase the regularly daily sale of the paper by 50 per cent, to build up neighborhood routes, sell the paper regularly in front of rubber shops, at union meetings, to place it on she newstands and cover the busiest corners of the city. With Bolshevik determina- ward!” The Denver section has already (This is the second article of two on the lessons of the strike of Boston Store employees in Milwaukee, Yesterday’s article appeared under the head line “Milwaukee Strike Holds Lesson for Workers.”) The rank and file group of the three unions involved assumed a mass character during the Boston Store Strike in Milwaukee. These | Workers realized that if they were to win it was necessary to go over the heads of their leadership, The activities carried on to strengthen the strike was under- taken by these workers. A special appeal to the other department. store workers in Milwaukee was is- sued by this group. The effect of this appeal was tremendous, and, though it criticized the American Federation of Labor leadership and was signed by the rank and file group, the leadership was com- pelled, after it was issued, to give it official recognition and even praised it. The rank and file movement is not a sectarian group, but is a genu- ine united front composed of work- ers of varied affiliations, including Socialists and Communists. The rank and file group was in- Jerome will be the main speaker, strumental in def*ating the original proposals presented by the union Officials and the government medi- ators which would have meant total failure of the strike. Although the rank and file group fought mili- tantly and courageously to the end, they were unable to prevent the calling off of the strike. The leadership of the three unions, determined to break the secret negotiations with the man- agement for days. The originally elected negotiations committee was ignored and sidetracked. The nego- tiations proceedings were never brought to the floor for discussion at strike meetings until the night that the strike was called off. These tactics of the officialdom were calculated to demoralize and wear down the strikers. The lead- ership hoped that by keeping the membership in suspense, not in- forming them of the proposals, they could catch them by surprise and put the agreement over. The Com- munist Party, as well as the rank and file group, forewarned the strikers of this coming treachery. Meetings Undemocratic Why is it that in spite of the in- fluence of the Communist Party and the rank and file group, the official leadership was able to put over an unfavorable settlement? The strike meetings were run militancy of the strikers, carried on | Milwaukee Store Strike ‘Oilers Ma j arbitrarily by the officialdom. The |strikers would make motions and proposals, but they were ignored or sabotaged. On the night of the so-called vote | to call off the strike, the chairman |of the meeting used a baseball bat |for a gavel. Whenever a rank and | file worker would get up to speak in opposition to the calling off of the strike, strongarm men would | surround him. When a militant striker would move across the hall he would be followed by at least ten machine men. The settlement was never put to a vote. There was no ballot. The chairman merely asked for a vote, his henchmen yelled loud, stamped their feet, shouted, and the chairman declared the vote car- ried. Discussions were closed, the meeting adjourned and the picket line ordered disbanded. Strikers Discouraged by Officials It is obvious that such tactics had a demoralizing effect on the pessimism, and it would not be very easy to mobilize the picket lines again at this time, or to continue the strike in the face of the oppo- sition of the officials, the employers and the government, The Party leadership was not yet strong enough nor experienced to carry on this fight over the heads of the bureaucracy, : workers, causing a great deal of | ny Lessons The settlement signed does not grant a single one of the original demands of the strikers. There | were no wage increases promised, jexcept that pay schedules will be | reviewed and adjusted to eliminate “{nequalities” which may exist. There will probably be a revision of the pay scale to the N. R. A. mini- mum for those who received less | than the minimum. Now there are rumors that the | Boston Store is orrganizing a com- pany union. Article five of the agreement allows the company to discriminate against militant strik- ers by stating, “employees guilty of unwarranted violence shall not be considered as eligible for re-em- ployment.” In the Boston Store strike we saw the Party acting as a force, and establish an organization, only after the strike began. How |much stronger would the influence of the Party be if we had our or- angization prior to the strike? This means that our recruiting must be intensified, precisely among workers | belonging to the American Federa- tion of Labor. These recruits give us the possibility of extending our | work in the American Federation |of Labor, the central trade union task of the Party today. A stronger Communist core in the union could have prevented the betrayal of the Boston Store strike, of 60 yearly and 90 Saturday subs, _ have at least two Red Builders to | tion and tempo we will go for- | . +» An international service.” | HUN REV GER and OLT: || Cartoons by BURCK A pictorial history of the wor! | ful drawings of one of America’s JACOB BURCK, staff cartoonist || Limited! | This beautiful, De Luxe editi | signed copies. Printed on heavy Id crisis, as revealed in the power- outstanding revolutionary artists, for the Daily Worker. Autographed! ion is limited to 100 numbered and art paper, in large folio size and containing 248 pages. HUNGER AND REVOLT will be ready on I] February ist. Orders accepted ni | | Henri Barbusse Earl Browder William F, Dunne H Michael Gold | Clarence Hathaway ow! 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