The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1935, Page 8

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933 William Randolph Hearst Lies About the Communist Party TIMES CORRESPONDENT REFUTES “STARV ATION” STORIES TOLD BY HEARST’S FRIEND, DR. EWALD AMMENDE e “starvation” Ammende is tied up with the fascist Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna. And it was at the very time that more than 1,000 Vienna workers were being murdered by the Dolfuss machine guns that Dr. Ammende and his gang selected to open up their vicious propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union! His letter to the Times several months later was part of this campaign. Several days later, on August 23, Harold Denny, the “Times” correspondent in the Soviet Union, cabled a categorical refutation of his statement to his paper. “This statement certainly has no foundation,” cabled Denny to his paper. “Your correspondent was in Kiev for several days last July about the time people were supposed to be dying there, and neither in the city nor in the surrounding countryside was there hunger.” gall to talk of “suffering, starvation and wholesale death in the midst of comparative plenty”! ; The whole history of Hearst journalism is one of lying sensationalism and fraud. ; And today Hearst—imbued with enthusiasm for Hitler and Mussolini—is seeking to popularize a fas- cist program for the United States. That is the basis for his camy name of chairman ign of slander of ere t Nat oe e ) which Hearst says that one of the sources of his informa- Later, on Oct. 15, Denny reported: “Nowhere oodles : inet fog ou : far hige: agile tarv of t¢ Committee r National Minc whi Be tte Ee eg » § 5 S ag s rty J; ary Of the” Von he a a ‘ se Birady i caene ct tion on “starvation” in the Soviet Union is Dr. Am- was famine found. Nowhere even the fear of it. Stat oe peso e Communist Party of the United in turn is connected wi h azi-Inspire League z 4 ‘ ; ; ; : ; i Z = ‘8 cee ‘ mende, Hearst cites the New York Times as authority. There is food, including bread, in the local open nee a jE n Foreign Co’ : ee 5 Hearst’s lies are beginning to be recognized for What more, Amr known to be in contact Let us examine the facts: markets. The peasants were smiling, too, and gen- what they are B with the Skoropadski group of Ukrainian white guards, In an open letter in the New York Times last erous with their foodstuffs. In short, there is no The best proof of this is the mounting wave of protest from workers, ministers, teachers and students in every section of the country! , like the Nazis, are deadly enemies of the Soviet Union. August Ammende coolly asserted that people were dying in the streets of Kiev, in the U. S. S. R. air of trouble or impending trouble.” Yet Hearst, in the face of this testimony, has the Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY UL.S,4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPROPAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address ‘Daiwork,” New Y Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, léth and F St., Washington, D. ©. Telephone: National 7910. Midwest Buregu: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Chicago, Tl ny, Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: | By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; @ months, $8.50; 3 months, $2.08; 1 month, 0.7% cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 6 months, $5.00: 3 months, $8.00. Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthiy, 75 cents. jaturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 76 cents. SE FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935 The Real Rulers VEN a fascist demagogue like Father Coughlin not afraid to admit this country ruled through a committee of fifty-two leading Wall Street industrialists and bankers. is now special This bunch of millionaires and multi- millionaires has been appointed by Roose- velt. And no single law can pass without the O.K. of this Wall Street committee. They are the real rulers of the country. This Wall Street committee, in short, telis Roosevelt what to do and what not to do! And he invariably obeys. This crowd is now organizing and fi- nancing fascist gangs, American Storm Troops to smash the labor movement. At the same time, they are preparing for this fascist dictatorship by now exercising their hidden dictatorship through their agent, Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. EEE F.D.R. Fights the Guild “M\HE newspaper publishers have cracked down on the President of the United States and Franklin D. Roosevelt has eracked up.” This is how Heywood Broun, president of the American Newswpaper Guild. char- acterized the decision of President Roose- velt to reverse the order of the National Labor Board for reinstatement of Dean Jennings, rewrite man, fired by Hearst’s San Francisco Call-Bulletin for member- ship in the American Newspaper Guild. The President decided that all com- plaints of newspaper workers must he placed before the Newspaper Code Com- mittee, which is entirely composed of their bosses, the publishers! Roosevelt’s action is a direct blow at the American News- paper Guild. It is further evidence to show that even in cases where the N. R. A. “misses out” and there is a favorable de- cision for the workers Roosevelt can be counted upon to see to it that nothing like this gets by him. “Cracking down on the President” is a good way to put it. And the gentleman who cracked the whip is none other than William Randolph Hearst, the big gun in the United front of publishers in the Pub- lishers’ Association. It is Hearst who through his Call-Bulletin deliberately forced a showdown. The attitude taken by the Guild, as ex- pressed by its president, indicates that newspaper workers will accept the chal- lenge of the publishers and Roosevelt with a renewed drive to organize all newspaper workers in the country. Militant organi- zation will win concessions from the pub- lishers. Hands Off China! HE Japanese militarists are raining bombs and machine gun fire on Chi- nese villages around the Jehol-Chahar border in their drive to grab a bigger slice of China. At the same time, they draw closer and closer to the main caravan route to the Mongolian Peoples’ Republic, near the US.S.R. Just three years ago the Japanese im- perialists murdered over 10,000 Chinese men, women and children in the Shanghai war. The war-mad rulers of Japan, who butcher Japanese workers ang peasants resisting their imperialist war moves, are carrting out their long-pla’ : plot for { { at the seizure of all of North China and Mon- golia. Every worker, every friend of China, should join with the revolutionary Japa- nese workers and peasants in the fight against their oppressors the Japanese capi- talists and demand: Hands off China! On Sunday, at 2 P. M. in Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, New York, there will be a mass meeting to protest against the present invasion of China, and to commemorate the Shanghai war. Woll Joins Hearst Rees MACFADDEN has _ joined Hearst in howling for the blood of all militant workers in general and Commu- nists in particular. One by one, the propaganda engines of the Wall Street rulers are being drawn into line for the most violent anti-Commu- nist lynch hysteria ever seen in this coun- try. It is a sinister truth that Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., is also part of the pack. In this week’s “Lib- erty” he growls bloodthirstily: “The time has come for definite, drastic action. We have been somnolent too long.” Thus the top officialdom of the A. F. of L. is part and parcel of the Wall Street machinery for smashing the militant labor movement. Woll’s anti-Communist blood taunt is exactly similar to, and comes at the same time as, the howls of the National Associ- ation of Manufacturers speaking through Hearst and Macfadden! In his “Red baiting,” Woll is helping this ruthless gang of Wall Street indus- trialists to smash the trade unions or turn them into fascist prisons! Police Murder DOLICE COMMISSIONER VALEN- 1 TINE’S sadistic order to his police to “muss ’em up” when making arrests re- sulted in the death of James Toomey, 20- year-old youth, in Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday. Toomey. arrested Sunday on suspicion of participation in.a hold-up, had his stom- ach kicked in by three policemen, who beat him on the head and jumped on him when he fell. Such police brutality is nothing new. Workers striking for better conditions, and jobless men and women demanding relief have been jumped on by the police, slugged, kicked in the stomach and other- wise maltreated. The “muss ’em up” order by Mayor LaGuardia’s police commissioner legalizes police brutality and violation of civil rights. Directed ostensibly against gang- sters and gangster suspects, it will in- creasingly be used to justify police as- saults on strike pickets and unemployed workers. Withdrawal of the vicious “muss ’em up” order should be demanded by every working class organization and sin- cere liberal group. Roosevelt Cuts Wages OOSEVELT is rapidly taking his place as the leading wage-cutter in the coun- try. First he set the wage levels of the country at the N.R.A. “minimum” of $12, which rapidly became, in practice, a maxi- mum, with the average less than $10. Then he warned, in his “take the profits out of the war” speech, that wages must more and more approximate that of the army—$30 a month, Now his latest work relief plan pro- vides for not more than $12 a week for not more than 3,500,000 jobless workers. The other twelve million can starve. Roosevelt, by fixing this starvation wage level through the Federal govern- ment, and by establishing an army of jobless workers getting no relief at all, is helping Wall Street industry to smash American wage levels to new lows. The work relief program will not solve the problem of the jobless. The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, alone provides for cash relief, and for immediate insurance bene- fits for all jobless workers without ex- ception. Demand union wages oy all work re- lief! Demand the passage 5f H. R. 2627. of ithnew the | Party Life | Units Must Realize Political Import Of Red Fighting Fund pee FIVE, Section Fifteen, was the first in the New | York District to turn in the | little receipt book on the Red Fighting Fund, which shows |twenty-four comrades col- | lected $22.20, only $1.80 short of the minimum of one dollar per | comrade, | This shows that the Bureau of | Unit Five and the unit as a whole | | Understood the political importance of the Red Fighting Fund, and ap- | plied the correct policy. It shows | that the secretary carried out the| instructions of the section by taking | up the question of the Red Fight- | ing Fund every week at his unit. | “Fund” Used in Recruiting Drive Unit Five did not consider itself as a collection agency for the Party, but understanding the Political | points of the Red Fighting Fund, | used the contacts to good advantage and brought eleven new members to |the Party during the recruiting | drive, | We informed our section member- | ship through a special letter about | Unit Five, challenging them to beat | the figure of $22.20. And here we! are: Another shock brigade unit brings in their complete receipt | book. Unit Fifteen, Section Fifteen, | has sent out twenty-four comrades, who collected $26.65, or $2.65 above the minimum. Socialist Competition Between | Sections Proposed | Though Section Fifteen is still | first on the records as far as the | | largest sum of money collected on | | the Red Fighting Fund is concerned, | it recently lost its first place to Sec- tion Seventeen. Section Fifteen is now challeng- ing Section Seventeen and the two largest section, One and Two, to a| Socialist Competition, both on the amount of money to be collected and percentage according to the | units on the Red Fighting Fund for | the next three months. The count | began Jan. 4, and will last until) | March 27. | _ Section Fifteen has inaugurated a | Socialist competition on the Red | Fighting Fund among the units. | The contest started Jan. 15 and | ends Feb. 26. Two prizes, books by Lenin and Stalin will be given out to two winning units. | ‘The conditions are that not less than $18 must be collected by a unit, and that any unit which fails to turn in two books every week, | with a minimum of $2, drops out of | the contest. | Iam deeply interested in knowing | why the result of the Red Fighting | Fund is not 100 per cent successful. The answer probably is, because our membership, and even our unit |leaders do not fully understand the political importance of the Red Fighting Fund. They look at it as/| another collection of money, and in |the units we are usually trying to avoid such collection. Therefore, a) Political education on finances and | | Special discussion in the units is} | necessary, J.8. Sec. 15, Dist, 2. (Lynch Gang ‘Behind Jailing Of Socialist MARKED TREE, Ark., Jan, 24— | The sentencing of Ward H. Rodgers, Socialist Party member and vice- chairman of the Southern Tenant | Farmers’ Union, Inc., to six months land a $500 fine on a charge of | “anarchy” followed threats by rich planters to run him out of town by_a lynching mob. Rodgers had been active in the fight to prevent the eviction of | croppers and their families from the Plantations under the N.R.A. crop reduction plan. He took a promi- |nent part in the injunction suit |against Planter Hiram Norcross to jeeerent him from ousting 25 fami- | lies. When Rodgers, 24-year old FERA | instructor, became too involved in this work to suit the planters, he was told his FERA class would be abolished, At a meeting of Negro and white farmers here last week, Rodgers re- ported this development, and the threats of the planters to run him out of town. If the planters resort to violence, people will be killed, he told the farmers, adding that in such cases it would be necessary not \to shrink from using force. It was for this that Rodgers was arrested as an anarchist and Financial Se: | Prove very educational as well as charged with “conspiracy to over- m@overnmant.’ — | WHO IS BEHIND YOU, MR. DICKSTEIN? Letters From Our Readers | For Real, Intelligible Front Page News New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Your letter by J. V. K, in the Jan. 16 issue of the Daily Worker, voices the view of hundreds of com- rades who sell the Daily Worker. We cannot get people to read the “Daily” because they don’t under- stand it. They are floored by the first sentence of a front page article. | They don’t know what I. L, D., 8. P., | United Front, stand for, so that often the Headlines are Greek to them, The first page must be real and intelligible to them and should not | have Party news. Let inside pages take care of this. The day that the Daily Worker carries “Girl Faints from Over- work,” as the main headline on the front page (or something similar), then will it be possible to start to compete with the News, Journal and American, whose readers must be reached. Perhaps this is extreme, but until there is a change in this direction, the “Daily” will never reach and take hold of the workers we desire to reach, J.C. R, Young Communist League Aids Cuba New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: In Friday’s Daily Worker, on the last page, there was an editorial about Cuba. This editorial ended with the following question: Will we sit by and permit our Cuban brothers to be bludgeoned in this fashion? Among the different activities the District Committee of the Young Communist League is initiating to help the Cuban comrades, is the following: On Saturday, Feb. 23, we are holding a Cuban Dance in Irving Plaza, We have .2quested Mike Gold_to be master of ceremonies, and Harry Gannes to speak on the situation in Cuba. We will have an exhibit of youth publications since | the founding of the Young Commu- nist League, This exhibit should entertaining for all those who will 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. the Royal Savannahans. Tickets will be 40 cents at the door and 35 cents in advance. | From this affair, 25 per cent of| the proceeds will go for the Cuban | Young Communist League to help them carry on their fight for a So- viet Cuba. Therefore we request all your readers to be present at Irving Piva Saturday, Feb. 25. JOHN LITTLE, ‘Young Communist League, N. Y. I.L.D. Members Honor Memory of Linden Portland, Oregon. Comrade Editor: We are very glad to be able at this time to tell you that the Theo- dore Jordan Branch, which for a long time has been idle and neg- lecting to carry on the activity of the International Labor Defense, has been reorganized. Our first meeting was not so large in num- bers, but all of the members took @ very sincere and energetic atti- tude, and pledged themselves to Work hand in hand together, and we feel that a few good active mem- bers can in due time bvild up in numbers and have a real fighting organization after all. We, the members of the Theo- dore Jordan Branch of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, wish to ex- press our sincere sympathy in the loss of our beloved Comrade Emil Linden, formerly Section Organizer of the Portland Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense. It was a great loss to our organization. There is work for the rest of us to do, and we feel that it is our duty to fulfill the last wish our Comrade would have left with us. Fight on, struggle on, and work to- | gether, colored and white worker, | that we may carry on all working class struggles. view it. Music will be provided for by the Three Cuban Guitars and by “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 ALFRED J. THOMAS | (Signature Authorized) | Required Reading for Mr. Hearst | Political liberty, is that wage slav-| | tatorship of the capitalist class—on | or overthrow it.” —ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by Burck | | Coughlin Warns His Capitalist Friends Casey, Il. Comrade Editor: What worries Coughlin at this time, as he sees the laboring class | struggling for economic, social and ery will be dead—no more profits. | Therefore, in the same breath that | he shouts, “The system of Capital- | ism must be destroyed,” he screams, | “The Catholic Church stands four- | square behind the capitalist. . . ./ When his voice is silent and weak, | and his hands unclean, we will con- | front the Communist and Socialist | in his defense, and if necessary, die in defending the Constitution under | which he gained his wealth.” | Some one has said that the last | refuge of a scoundrel is the flag. Here he appeals to patriotism, the | upholding ‘of the onstitution, to/ defend a system which enriches the | “unclean” hands of the few at the} expense of a starving humanity. But does this sly old fox believe in| what he preaches—the upholding of | the Constitution? He does not.” | With the baliyhoo of dying to de- | fend the Constitution, which is sup- posed to guarantee free speech, he | is trying to save capitalism, to slip over fascism—the open, brutal dic- | the working class. | He warns his capitalist friends | that. the walls of capitalism are crumbling, that the workers are| struggling for an economic, social and political freedom, that wage slavery will be dead. It is a warn- ing against the rising of a militant working class and its vanguard, the Communist Party; against Social- ism which is enveloping the world. It will do you no good, Mr. Coughlin, to warn your friends. So- cialism, Communism are historical moyemenis. You and your kind may retard it by fascism, you cannot! stop it. It will do you no good to cry out) to the masses, “The Communists | want to take your God and your; country.” They cannot lose what. they do not have, and instead of your nationalism, we offer them their internationalism. The coming generations, under Communism, will accept science as their guide, which will make them a healthier people and give them a better world. F. 5S, | anese planes and artillery, World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— On the Chapei Anniversary | Swedish War Budget Danish Destroyers Be fale four idaya before the third anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Chapei, Shanghai, Japanese imperial- ist troops are again slaughter- ing men, women and children, jin their march through Cha- har. Three peaceful Chinese | villages, Kuyuan, Tungshatze and Tushihkow, were bombed by Jap- The number of dead is not even a mat- ter of concern for those reporting the event. There is no limit to the imper- jalist apetite of the Japanese big bankers and trust owners. They want to swallow the whole of North China. They want all of Mongolia. But even all this is only the hors doevres, the appetizer for the, piece de resistance, Soviet territory. Great indignation and a rising anti-imperialist furor is spreading throughout China, Hallett Abend, New York Times correspondent re- ports. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek a long time sought to keep the news of this latest invasion in Chahor from the Chinese people. Chieng Kai-shek has been assist- ing the Japanese in their war prep- arations against the Chinese people, Not only has he made secret agree- ments with the Japanese war lords, aiding them in their plans, but he has been carrying on war against the Red Army of China and iis anti-Japanese invasion armies formed for the purpose of repelling the invasion of Japanese imperial- ism. hale eax A’. this anniversary of the Chapel war it is well to remember that Chiang Kai-shek deliberately gave Japan the victory, at the expense of more than 10,600 Chinese lives at the Woosung-Kiangwan battle line in 1932. The 19th Route Army, and other Chinese divisions were hero- ically beating the Japanese troops back. The whole working class population of Shanghai was ready to go into battle against the im- perialists, A general cotton mill vike was called. If the masses wera given arms, the victory would have been on the side of the Chinese people. What did Chiang Kai-shek do? In order to save his bombing planes to kill the Chinese workers and Peasants, he had them sent to Places of “safety.” He did not use them against the Japanese invaders, In fact, he turned over to the Jap= anese general staff the plans of de- fense of the Chinese armies. He left unprotected the town of Liuho, the gateway to the rear of the defend- ing Chinese army. And when the heroic soldiers of the 19th Route Army, after the order for retreat had been given, refused to leave their trenches, Chiang Kai-shek himself ordered them to be fired | upon. yee 'WEDEN has a Socialist Minister of Finance, Now when the ques= tion of the united front against war and fascism came up at the last session of the Second International in Paris, the leaders of the Swedish Socialist Party fought against ap- proval of any such action, They even went so far as to declare that the Spanish workers should not have taken up arms against the Lerroux-Robles fascist government, But when it comes to arming the Swedish bourgeoisie, than that is a horse of a different color. In the Reichstag (Swedish parliament) session now on, the Socialist finance minister proposed a budget include ing 119,400,000 crowns for arm: ments, an increase of nearly 9,000,< 000 czowns over last year’s war budget. Is it all right for the bours geoisie to take up arms, Herr Sociale Democratic Minister? In order thet his royal highness should not suffer. the indignities of an unrepaired palace, the same finance minister proposed sn ex= penditure of 1,729,000 crowns for keeping the king’s house in proper order. This was an increase of 100,000 crowns over last year. abe 0. the very day that Hitler an- nounced that the Nazis would “consider the problem of the reore ganization of the Storm Troops neces essitated by the new aims set for them,” the British Fascist Mosley declared he would organize Storm Troops in Britain similar to those which helped bring Hitler to power. Hitler's purpose is to disband the Storm Troops, and replace them by more reliable forces, now that the Storm Troop leaders have been butchered because they realized they were duped, ” Ae