The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935 s Hearst’ i—and paid v Hearstian ima in Mr. Hearst’s New York Journal. There are many lies in Mr. ion repor o print in the Hears Reeently Mr. Knickerbocker w Union. He wrote a series of articles t what he saw there and partly tar ¢ on the figments of his These articles were published Knickerbocker’s ar- HEARST’S OWN CORRESPONDENT CITES FACTS ABOUT SOVIET UNION WHICH PROVE THAT HEARST IS A LIAR Mr. Knickerbocker is an experienced and accom- But the point is that Mr. Knickerbocker saw with nphant progress of Socialist con- ruction in the Soviet Union and felt constrained to lie somewhat less brazenly than his employer, and even, at infrequent intervals, to report something approxi- itr me forward to prove Mr. William ticles. $ oh ar. plished liar. This witness is not a Communist; not a “radical”; not na € is own eyes the tr H. R. Knickerbocker mating the truth. yrrespondent” to write lying the Soviet of January 14. ed par failure.” Compare the statements in speech of January 5 with the following statements from Mr. Knickerbocker’s article in the New York Journal Mr. Hearst's radio Mr. Hearst says that the Soviet Union is a “fearful Mr. Knickerbocker says that the Soviet Union “has strengthened its economic position enorm- Daily ~QWorker The Relief Fund Controversy EWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 “America’s Only PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO,, INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Ad “Daiwork, New York, N. Y. Ww: Burea Room 954, National Press Bi 2, l4th a: F st., W ton, D. C. Telephone: National 10. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 798, Chicago, Ml. Telephone: Dearborn 3931. 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Why wait for snow? 4 Destruction for Profits TIVE HUNDRED working class families, “men, women and children in the little town of Everson, Pennsylvania, are huddled today in miserable shacks with- out any water supply. Yesterday, agents of the Delaware Val- ley Utilities Company smashed all the water hydrants and pipes with sledge ham- mers to teach a “lesson to the town that did not pay its bill,” as a leading capitalist paper puts it. Ninety per cent of the families are on relief. The bill they “owe” the big utility monopoly is $750. Borough officials admitted reluctantly that a single spark in this freezing weather will inevitably set the shacks on fire—and there is not a drop of water available. Could anyone imagine such a monstrous destruction of water hydrants in the Soviet Union, where the workers and farmers rule through the dictatorship of the pro- letariat? They dare to call the Communists “de structive.” But what the Commun want to destroy is only this rotten capital- ist system which permits the criminal destruction by capitalists defending their profits. is Garment Strike Now! MHE decision by the District of Columbia 4a Supreme Court that the cotton gar- ment manufacturers must comply with the order for a 10 per cent wage increase and a reduction in working hours to 36 a week was neatly timed to fall on the eve of de- mands for a general strike. This decision very strangely gives the leading officials of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union just the excuse they need for delaying strike action still further. The way the I.L.G.W.U. officials and the government work hand in glove is re- vealed by the way Roosevelt’s order for a wage increase came j in time to call off the strike of 200,000 cotton garment work- ers last summer. | And now this very handy decision of the Supreme Court judge against the em- ployers comes again in time to cut off the impending strike. But the employers aren’t scared one bit by these court decisions. They know the government is theirs. What really frightens them is the pros- pect of a real strike that would shut the shops! A strike over the heads of the Dubin- skys and Hillmans is what will win higher wages and shorter hours for the workers! | OOSEVELT’S legislative caucus in Con- gress is lining up its forces to give him full power to spend $4,880,000,000 for the work “relief” program. The significant thing is that Roose- velt wants power to spend this vast sum without having to specify to anyone or anybody how these “relief” funds shall be spent. This will give Roosevelt an enormous club with which to smash all opposition, to browbeat and bully workers, to build himself a powerful bureaucratic machine, and to cut real relief expenditures to the bone. It is, in addition, another step in the fascist concentration of power into the hands of an ever smaller group of most powerful capitalists who control the gov- ernment. Finally, it will give Roosevelt full lee- way to build all the necessary military camps, ships, training grounds, and so on, necessary for his huge war program, “Socialists Come Next” HE hired thug of the Racine Association of Commerce dropped a significant phrase. After boasting that “all Communist halls will be smashed,” “Big Nick” Bins, the thug, warned that “Socialists come next.” This the Communist Party has re- peatedly, and with all seriousness, ex- plained to the workers. The terrorism, the raids, the kidnap- ings against the Communists inevitably means similar brutality “next” against Socialists and trade unionists. Is it not clear that the only safety against fascist terrorism lies in the unity of all workers, Socialist and Communist? Is it not clear that whoever or what- ever hinders this unity only prepares for the violence that will “come next”—against Socialists and trade union workers every- where? Now is the time to unite! Textile Strike J EADERS of the United Textile Work- \ ers of America have just warned that they will call a general strike in the spring IF the Department of Justice does not prosecute employers who do not comply with the decisions of the National Textile Board, Lately both of these officials, Thomas McMahon and Francis Gorman, have been making similar fiery statements. But the textile workers remember that it was just these two who made “warning” speeches last summer while they held the leadership of the textile strike in their grip and then sent the workers back to worse slavery than before. As a result of the Gorman strike settle- ment, the misery in the textile towns is so great that the workers want to strike again. Gorman and McMahon do not want to call a strike. By their “warning” they are only show- ing the government how to stop another textile strike. Gorman and McMahon would seize on the first move by the De- partment of Justice as a pretense for call- ing off all strike actions. Then the matter would drag for months in the courts. This long drawn out court action would permit company unions, stretch-out and wage-cuts to go merrily on. Only strike action will improve condi- tions! Don’t Miss Them \N OUR feature page today we print two startling documents about how the bosses make wars. No worker should miss them. One is a private cable from Am- bassador Page to President. Wilson, dated March 5, 1917. The cther is an example of Wilson’s demagogy uttered April 2. 1917. We thank “Fight,” organ of the American League Against War and Fas- cism, for the privilege of reprinting these significant documents. ously”; that “the Bolsheviks have successfully Party Life | Building a Nucleus Unit Discussions | Interest in Literature SHOP unit was establish- ed in our Section, (Sec- | tion 1) about four weeks ago, in a food shop which employs about. forty-five Negro and white workers. The nucleus was organized through the correct work of a comrade who ap- plied correctly the Open Letter of | the Central Committee to the Party | mem hip. First, by contacting one sympathizer, a Negro worker, drawing him closer to the Party, by discussing conditions in the shop | and linking it up with the Party activity in general, we thereby gained the full confidence of this ; Worker. When this worker joined | the Party, various Party campaigns | were brought into the shop, such as, Scottsboro, the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, sale of litera- | ture and the Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill campaign. | As a result, another worker joined | the Party. In a short time a Shop Unit was established. Shop Unit 4, at the last meeting, decided to challenge another food Shop Unit in our Section which has an equal number of members, in the | spirit of revolutionary competition, | to the following: Lenin Memorial meeting, Jan. 1, To recruit one member into the Party from the shop by the 18th. 2. To obtain at least two Daily Worker subs in the shop. 3. To bring a group of workers to the Lenin Memorial Meeting | attained the first objective of their first Five-Year Plan: To industrialize Russia to such an extent that, if necessary, she could carry on and perfect her industrialization by herself without help from abroad. By this means they have ABOLISHED UNEMPLOYMENT.” Mr. Hearst dramatically proclaims that “starva- tion stalks starkly” across the Soviet Union. Mr. Knickerbocker says “The Bolsheviks have made an impressive start towards the fulfillment of the second Five-Year Plan’s principal objective: To double the food supply; triple the amount of consumption goods, and continue the process of in- dustrialization at a speed but slightly less than that of the first plan.” Mr. Knickerbocker says, “The Bolsheviks have or- ganized the farmers in a way which, in the opinion of || HEADING TOWARD FASCISM ROOSEVELT even hostile foreign experts, tion considerably superior dwarf farms which formerly the farms.” Mr. Hearst says that William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party ought to result in produc- to the produstion of the constituted 90 per cent of “government by the pro- letariat” is “government by ignorance.” Mr. Knickerbocker reports, “The Bolsheviks have taught nearly everyb ody in the Soviet Union to read and write and have aroused among the youth a hunger for knowledge w any other country.” In his radio speech Mr. Kossior and the Soviet press in the Soviet Union. We say to the workers thich has no parallel in Hearst accused Comrade of lying about conditions and farmers of America: Compare Mr. Hearst’s statements with those of his udge WHO IS THE LIAR. own correspondent and then ji by Burck i | World Front By HARRY GANNES -—— When Abyssinia Is News Caribbean Strike Wave 2,000 to 1 OU’LL never find it in Rip- ley’s “Believe It or Not” column, but it is true that Abyssinia never seems to get into the news unless the im- perialist powers sign a pact concerning that country. Then | things begin to pop. It seems very strange indeed that nomadic tribes of Abyssinia, near Gobad, which is on the border of French Somaliland and Abyssinia, should suddenly take it into their heads to kill a French colonial ad- ministrative official, and 15 of his native police. Then you get all the details from the capitalist press. The Assai Imaras tribesmen were sup- posed to have used 1874 rifles and curved knives to kill the heroic, dashing young French officer who came to Africa, perhaps to save the world for democracy. * * 'OBAD happens to be on the bor= derline of Abyssinia. This part of the last independent Negro coun- try in Africa has been a free-for- all territorial hunting ground for the past few months. But recently the French and the Italian impe- rialists signed a pact, which virtu- ally makes of Abyssinia a colonial preserve of these two countries. What undoubtedly happened is that Administrator Bernard was sent with his police to push on into Abyssinian territory. The peaceful from the shop. | 4. To establish a shop or Trade Union group in the shop. | The Section Committee is to | check up on the progress and achievements of these two units and help stimulate the work. The results are to be reported at Letters From Our Readers “Must Be Example for Future Meetings” | villagers didn’t like it, and resorted |to the only means of defense pos~ sible for them, | The French imperialist robbers, having already signed what they inlicte wi allow |consider the death warrant of Ratierentereg ee ae Rasy to | Abyssinian independence, use it now |act in such a way as to accomplish | 28 ® Pretext to mass more troops Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can | print only those that are of genoral a house party given jointly, where | funds will be raised to send two} | comrades of each unit to the Work- | ers School. M. B, | Unit S-4, Philadelphia. | Unit Activized Through Discussion | Our unit has been having diffi- | culty in making our unit meetings | interesting; it was an effort on the | part of our comrades to attend the meetings. The business part of the | meeting would take up most of the time and by the time we should have been having a discussion, the comrades were tired and wanted to leave. We didn’t have a discussion for our meetings; comrades would come late, etc. | As literature agent of the unit, | two weeks ago I proposed having a discussion on the theories of the Socialist Labor Party, and to use as | & basis for the discussion: “Capital- ism Preserves Itself Through the |S. L. P.” by M, J. Olgin. At the last meeting I proposed that we | start the meeting with the discus- | sion on the first order of business. Only half of the comrades were present when we started and when Brooklyn, N. ¥. Comrade Editor, One of the most inspiring and en- couraging indications of Party dis- cipline, efficiency, planning and) general good conduct was the man-| ner in which the Lenin Memorial meeting took place. The program was particularly fine and well ex- ecuted, this being the opinion of all the people I have spoken to and} all those seated around me. How- ever, the most significant and ef-| fective thing was the fact that at exactly 8 p. m. the meeting was of- | ficially opened and at promptly| 10:30 was adjourned. One got the feeling that everything was timed to the second and ran with machine like efficiency, This cannot but have its effect on our future work. It must be an example for future meetings. If a meeting of twenty thousand can be run so well, there is no excuse for any more sloyenliness in any of our | future meetings, from unit meetings | to mass meetings. Keep it up, com- rades, and I am -ure that all of our} work will tighten up as it should at | interest to Daily Worker readers. How- ever, all letters recelved are carefully tead by the editors, Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever Possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. esting that a friend of mine, who for the ftrst time witnessed any Communist affair, was so impressed, she not only used superlatives, but showed anxiety to know more about the Communist Party. A fine beginning. Let’s keep it up. An excellent way to recruit new- comers, H. S. Criticizes Behavior of Symposium Audience New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: On January 18th I attended the symposium at which Ford, Cross- waith and De Priest spoke. the meeting with the conviction | that our Party, Party, had not been able to most I left the Communist | the same results in relation to So- cialist speakers? | As a result of the confusion | caused by our comrades jeering, the second rebuttal was omitted and many vicious insinuations of Cross- | waith against the Communist Party were left unanswered. I think that | those members of the Socialist Party | who were present, and there were | quite a few, left the meeting in an | antagonized frame of mind. Cer- tainly such meetings cannot help | our Party win over these rank and file members of the Socialist Party to the united front. If anone previ- ously not convinced of our position was won over to our Party during} this meeting it was because of the} fundamental correctness of our position on the Negro question,| which had its effect despite the! | nature of the meeting. I think that if we are in the \future to carry on joint meeting | | with the Socialist Party, or debates | with their sneakers, we must be able to conduct ourselves in 2 man- jner which will win over rather, (than antagonize the rank and file) in Somaliland. Mussolini is already rushing shiploads down the Red Sea. The borders of Abyssinia from now on will be demarced by the moving infantry lines of the French and Italian troops. And Abyssinia will be more prominently in the world news. . ae. 'HE strike wave in the Caribbean area is rising high, and with it the anti-imperialist battles sharpen, A general sugar and transportation strike has gripped Porto Rico, Physicians and nurses have just completed a strike in Cuba. The sugar harvest has just begun in the latter country, and despite the heavy concentration of armed forces, strikes are breaking out. Mexico is gripped by one of the most important strikes in years, Oil workers have been carrying on |a bitter and effective battle for a number of weeks against Standard Oil and British Dutch Shell, and have the promise of 25,000 other workers in Tamaulipas to join a general strike, if the oil workers’ demands are not met. * ESIDES, there are dozens of other ced thes other comrades came in and | this stage. heard us having an interesting dis- cussion they were angry because we had started without them, but then I wish to particularly praise the speech of Comrade Browder, which to me was the acme of clarity and . |Socialists. I-urge the Daily Worker intended i Beaten fe | to carry on an educational campaign | the Negro question because of the |f0f our members and sympathizers | Fase ah on how best to conduct themselves | actions of the audience, which was at meetings, to insure more effec- strikes throughout Mexico. Since nearly all of these strikes are against American imperialist in the majority sympathetic to our realized that it was their own fault, by coming late. As a result, our unit is becoming literature conscious. The comrades are beginning to come to the meet- ings on time; we are holding regular discussions, and this way are (creating a new interest in the work of the unit, which helps put a stop to fluctuation, | H. H. Unit No. 1, Hartford, Conn, Unted Front Defense Of Framed Up Baker Broadened in Detroit | DETROIT, Jan. 23—Steps to’ | broaden the united front recently established between the Jewish Bu- reau of the Communist Party and the Jewish Branch of the Socialist |Party are now being taken for the purpose of defeating the murder frame-up against Meyer Weiner, member of the Jewish Bakers’ Union, Local 78, and the attempts of the bosses to destroy that union. The committee of seven that was set up, consisting of representatives of the Jewish Branch of the Social- ist Party, the Jewish Bureau of the Communist Party, the Workmen's Circle and the International Work- ers’ Order, is now visiting Jewish organizations throughout the city in |an effort to enlist them in the | united front movement. The com- | mittee will meet this Thursday night and make plans for a broad conference the following Thursday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m., at the Workmen’s understanding, T will do all in my power to util- ize the lesson learned at this meet- ing for the growth :f the Party and the struggle for the establishment of a Soviet America, L.B. “Way To Recruit Newcomers” New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor, Madison Square Garden? have stayed on for more, The singing, acting and speeches (especially Comrade Browder’s) were program, When Ford and De Priest spoke, the audience did not interrupt. When Crosswaith attempted to Maybe I be the first to congratu- late’ you (if that is possible, since hundreds of others will probably write in), on the excellent program at the Lenin Memorial meeting in Everything on the program was timed so efficiently, that at 10:30 Pp. m., just as you promised, the meeting closed, although I could | speak, he was interrupted so many times by the comrades that only | through the intervention of the) chairman was he able to continue. | Of course the very nature of | Crosswaith’s speech proved conclu- | sively his demagogic and reaction- ary role. I admit, I myself felt an almost unconquerable desire to boo his vicious attacks on the Scotts- boro boys and the Soviet Union, | But I think that his betrayal of the | Negro masses could have been much | more effectively exposed by Com- jeering of our comrades. It is true that we Communists cannot merely listen to and not express our senti- sues as the Scottsboro case, but I |tive progress towards the united front, and to the exposure of our enemies and the winning over of the masses to our program. M. W. Let Advertisers See Results of Ads ‘ Elmhurst, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I suggest that all comrades keep a, personal “red book” of those who advertise in the “Daily” and other | revolutionary publications. Every time I notice a new adver- tiser, I note, it down under a gen- eral heading in my list and when I rade Ford than by an unabated| need to purchase something of that | nature I can quickly find a seller who is friendly. Of course I men- tion the Daily Worker when I go ment on attacks made on such is- | to purchase anything. Let our ad-| vertiser know that their “Daily” ads | conerete, penetrating and so inter- Circle headquarters, Holbrook, near Bruch. believe we must learn to allow our opponents to speak. We have repeatedly charged the Required Reading for Mr. Hearst “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” —ABRAHAM LINCOLN. get results! F. M. BENSON, (Signature authorized.) bosses, the strikes are of the great- est political importance, because they will draw in their wake all of their colonial and semi-colonial peoples into a more energetic fight against their chief oppressors, which are the Wall Street bankers and trust owners. The Porto Rican workers in New York have already taken an excel< lent step to aid their brothers in | their home country. They are pick- ‘eting steamers coming from Porto Rico, urging the workers not to un= load the scab cargoes. But unless more American workers take part lin these struggles, it means the greatest allies of these colonial workers are failing them in the fight against the common enemy— our own exploiters, ew COURT trial to ascertain who killed the baby of the million aire Col. Lindbergh has already been given space enough in the capitalist press to fill at least two volumes of the Encyclopeadia Brit- tanica. But these papers can’t find a single line to report of the death of 2,000 children and 1,000 adults in the Kagalle district, Ceylon, from a malaria epidemic that grows every day. Owing to lack of quinine, the death rate is particularly high, ‘There is no profit for British ims perialism in shipping quinine to a country whose masses do not even have enough to buy sufficient rice to keep themselves alive, OS ee re Red Aid of Greece, itself fighting against fascism, has successfully raised 10,000 drachmas for the defense and assistance of the arrested Spanish workers, by | sisi