The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1935, Page 8

Novices eet DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935 Soviet It has reached the stage murder and organized lynch hysteria. on quac s ma. nion incitement re owner kery and pornography, zine issues the call— Macfadden follows this raw, fascist lynch howl the Soviet Union. This lynch blast in a magazine that sells over a is reaching a million copies a year, was planned behind closed doors on December 5 and 6 in New York at the sessions of the National Association of Manufacturers. It was at this so-called “Congress of American In- of organized deeds, of f “Liberty,” “Hang Daily,.QWorker CAWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.4. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) “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. ¥. ALgonquin 4 N. ¥ 7" 7910. h na t., Room Chicago, Ml. Subscription Rates: hattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; s, $2.00; 1 month, 0.76 cents. and Canada: 1 year, $8.00; months, $3.00. 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. % mail, 1 year, $4.50. 6 months, 7 cents, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935 The Relief Bill HE Roosevelt relief measure was forced T through the House by the overwhelm- administration ing of the nachine. . It Roosevelt exactly what he wanted, the power to spend $4,880,000 000 without having to account to anybody for le penny. This means three things. It means the tightening of Roosevelt’s immense and growing dictatorial power. It means, moreover, that the Army and Navy can now feel certain of getting the billion dollar ey asked for, so that a new enormous building program can he begun under the disguise of “work relief.” And finally, it puts the Government seal on the miserable wage of $50 a month (and even Jess) as the official standard for the wage level of the entire American working class. The relief bill, in short, instead of be- ing for the welfare of the masses is a brutal and reactionary attack on the living standards of the whole ing population and a war asure besid The miserable wage on the work re- lief must be fought. Higher wages can be strikes on all Federal work relief s for higher wages, and for union seales in all organized trades. pressure gives RRS Score Democratic Forms MHE steady trend to fascism inherent in Roosevelt’s New Deal finds new con- firmation almost every day Leading capitalist politicians, includ- ing Ogden Mills, have admitted this trend, and ni and Hitler have both ex- pressed admiration for the New Deal as being similar to their own programs. Yeste: Mark Sullivan, political com- n ater for the Herald-Tribune, com- pared the trend of the New Deal with the development of Italian fascism. Very shrewdly, this bour observer remarks that while all this is happen- ing “the democratic forms are being observed.” This is precisely the point that the Communist Party has been mat'ng from the very beginning of the New Deal. Communists warned that Roosevelt’s New Deal is a program of the Wall Street monopolies for higher profits, and that in defense of these prefits, Roosevelt would develop increasingly fascist. tendencies under the cover of capitalist democracy. The experience of the r s and the of capitalist political write are confirming this analysis of the Com- munist Party. How does Nerman Thomas's enth asm for the New Deal as being “socialistic now appear? Proletarian Heroes r WAS bitter cold last night and the night before. Zero blasts rpade it tough to be in the streets. } But that did not stop s -nd women workers, many. young, and many quite young,} 20 ‘om stand- ing at their posts through frfezing hours to sell the Daily Worker with lits exposure of Wall Street’s fascist plots. hese Red Builders are t proleta- rian heroes. They are “the tlousands of nameless proletarian heroes wahos: irit is unconquerable,” to use the wor f the Communist International glory§ne in the heroism of a Dimitroff. These workers hate fasci¢m. With the'r proletarian spizit the fine! ory is inevitable. ) L ‘6 | é Nm On Millionaires UEY LONG says he is going to re-dis- tribute wealth and make everybody a millionaire. Nobody should have more than ten million dollars, Huey says very boldly, thinking that in this way he can convince the workers that he is a terrible enemy of Wall Street and the banks. But examination shows Huey’s plan to be one of the phoniest gold bricks in American political history. For in Huey’s system, he says the work- ers will be guaranteed a “livable wage” if they are not made into millionaires. So we will have workers getting a “liv- able wage” working for millionaires just as before! In short, we will have, just as we have now, the rich millionaires exploit- ing the wage workers. And this set-up will inevitably breed the enormous concentration of wealth which now gives the Wall Street monopolies their grip on the country’s life. For how will the ten-million dollar capitalist make his profits if not by robbing the worker getting a “livable wage?” The “livable wage” will be a starvation wage. Only the Communist solution can end the terrific concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. By abolishing private profit and wage- labor exploitation, the Communists would use the country’s industry and wealth for the welfare of the masses, not for the ten- million dollar parasites, Primary Consideration ERE are some facts that Mr. Hearst will not chew over. They concern health in the Soviet Union. For example, at a recent scientific congress in the United States it was reported that deaths among the unemployed in the land of Hearst, Rockefeller, Roosevelt, et al, were, in 1933 (the last year for which these figures were available) 40 per cent higher than for the rest of the population. In the Soviet Union, according to the report of Commissar of Health of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Repub- lic, at» the current Soviet Congress, the death rate for the entire population was cut one-third below what it was in the days of Czarism. The number of hospitals in the Soviet Union increased two-and-a-half times above the number before the revolution. Tuberculosis has been reduced. All the s which capit intensifies dur- ods of cri re being successfully fought in the Soviet Union. The health of the people is the primary consideration. “The development of Soviet medical science has reached an -unparal- leled scale,” declared Commissar of Health Kaminski. “The best and most sacred ideas which are born in the world are the ideas of health and happiness of the millions; and this must be our slogan,” he concluded. Health, cheerfulness and happiness for the toilers, that is the aim of Socialist construction. Misery, unemployment, star- vation, fascism and war, that is what Mr. Hearst and his class want for the American toilers. Nine Calm Men ate of the leading newspapers recently printed an article about the justices of the United States Supreme Court, cail- ing them “nine calm men.” Very soon these nine calm men will consider the appeal of nine innocent boys facing death because they are Negro workers. The “calmness” of the nine men on the Supreme Court Bench will make it all the easier for them te ignore the fact that the nine boys are innocent unless the cam- paign of mass pressure led by the Inter- national Labor Defense is redoubled. Every worker, in his own interests, must help the International Labor De- fense break through the “calmness” of the “nine calm men” to foree them to liberate the nine Scottsboro Boys. Contributions, large or small, should he sent at once to the International Lahor Defense, 80 East Eleventh Street, New Xork City dustry, where the country’s most reactionary employers went into a huddle behind closed doors, that Bernarr Macfadden, a member of one of the leading committees, received his instructions to turn his press into a sluice of anti-Communist, fascist howls for blood. New Member Tells Of First Assignment Daily Worker Drive JOINED the Communist Party three weeks ago. My first assign- | ment was to hand out leaflets at the | X—— Hospital at 6. a. m. on a Sunday morning. I wondered a great deal what it would be like. | Promptly at 6 o'clock in the | morning, seven comrades were at | the assigned meeting place. It was | freezing weather, bitterly cold. The comrades followed out the plans for | distribution. If any pseudo-revolu- | tionist wanted the answer as io | which Party would lead the revolu- | tion he should have seen us, eyes | flashing, not- with religious hope. but with revolutionary courage. | We each. took a couple hundred |leaflets and stationed ourselves at |the gates. Before long hospital | workers, nurses, porters, internes, | etc. started to arrive and leave. They were changing shifts. In our leaflets we were advocating joining |the Hospital Workers League |through which they would fight the twenty-five percent wage |cut they had recently received. | Such leaflets had been handed out | before and the hospital workers | were actually waiting for them to | come out again. Practically every | one of these workers thanked me in- dividually for the leaflets. One man | asked me for about fifty leafiets so he could distribute them on the in- side where it would be very effec- | tive. A young gizl came over and made the same request. * For a first assignment it was the | most encouraging experience I could \have had. I went away knowing | that T had at last found my place in life—the Communist Party. | P. M. Sec. 16, Unit 8, New York. | | The Daily Worker subscription drive, to continue until May first, is | under way. The quota for our Dis- | trict is 150 daily subscriptions, jand: 225 for the Saturday edition. This means an average of one subscriber for each member of the | Party for the daily and a slightly jlarger number for the Saturday | edition. During this drive the Daily Work- er is offered at the svecial rate of | two months for $1. The Saturday edition is offered four months for | fifty cents. This drive is not a campaign | separate from the other work of the Party—recruiting, etc. To get | 150 new daily subscribers plus 225 | subcribers for the Saturday edition | will mean 375 excellent prospects for the Communist Party. Of course. a number of the new subscribers will be from among the | present members of the Party. A are now regular readers of our daily paper. District Sixteen has challenged our neighbor District of Alabama | (District Seven‘een) to fill its quota (the same as ours) before we do. Every unit and every member must help our District win this race! The following are some of the steps to be taken in the drive: 1, The unit must see that every member is supplied with the special subscription blanks; 2. The Daily Wozker drive should be on the order of business at every unit meeting. Discuss your ex- periences—find out what local | metheds can be used—sover your unit territory in house to house calls. The unit in the district getting the largest number of subscriptions (per member) will get a set of Lenin’s complete works (8 volumes) and the units holding second and third places will get sets of the Little Lenin Libzary. Comrades. forward to action! | Let us put District Sixteen over the top in the Deily Worker drive! | As a means for spreading the Daily Worker and making it known | to workers with whom we have no | personal contact, I suggest that oux comrades who ride on the stzect | cars and subways make a practice | of leaving their Daily Workers be- | hind them. To carry this idea fur- ther—to acquaint the finder with the information as to where they could get a Daily every day, I sug- | gest that each Section Daily Worker agent should ‘have little stickers vzinted with the address of the local | book shops and neighborhood stands on it, and should suvpiy there stickers to all known readers, to be stuck on the heading of the front | page. These stickers could also be used on canvassing days. These ideas came to me by actual practise and personal observation. Every time I go on a street car, I always manage to leave a paper on t, and I have noticed that it is picked up and read, and in cases, the finder puts the in his pocket to read it at By suggesting where he could get eno*he- covy in town, it | would sure'y help enlarge the cir- culation of the Daily, Worker and eventually result in many sub- scribers, L, T., Cleveland, very small per cent of our members | Even more sinister is the fact that the very Wall Street industrialists who were present at these secret sessions, Pierre du Pont, Sloan, and other Morgan-R John J. Raskob, Matthew ockefeller agents, are now the leading figures in Roosevelt’s specially appointed advisory committee of fifty-two! Macfadden yells for brushing aside all pretense at law, and for organizing American Storm Troop gangs to riot and rage through the streets against “Reds.” It is with such contempt that these capitalists look upon their own hypocritical law, which they use for the enslaving of workers, the framing of Tom Mooneys and the murdering of Saccos and Vanzettis. | | TWO POINTS OF VIEW ABOUT COPS NOTE: Comment on the two following letters and the answer to the question, “What is the Com- munist attitude toward cops?” | in Questions daily feature. + and Answers, a iS ce Says They Can Be Won For Struggle New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Reading Comrade Gold’s column of Jan, 14 in the Daily Worker, I was somewhat surprised at the con- cluding remarks in which he claims that it is folly to think that you can | influence the cops (to quote -verba- | tim). Certainly we shouldn’t be allowed to believe that the police | are as easy to educate as other workers, but I am writing this to ask sincerely whether you believe that they are members of the capi- talist class and quite incapable of being approached by workers. He disparages any attempts to agitate among them, yet I have my- self on a few occasions made ad- vances which I had reason to be- lieve were not without effect. What about the Seattle cops whose refusal to deal too stzongly with the harbor strikers and whose subsequent dis- missal we read of in the Daily Worker? What of the cops of whom the Police Commissioner complained to his masters as being “unwilling to protect their persons” against women and children? Isn’t the recently formed rifle squad an} indication of some fear among the) capitalists that the police may not be 100 per cent reliable? Commun- ists from Nazi Ge-many have told | upon the regular police as possible allies against the SS and Reichs- wehr. Is all this to be disregarded? Please don’t conclude from the above that I’m too optimistic about the police. I have spoken with many, and I’ve found some pretty bad ones among them. Only re- cently while waiting for a bus, an officer of law and order engaged in conversation with me, telling me with no mean joy that he loved to arvest ® woman and call the patrol, so that after he got inside with her will be made in the next few days | _ \|ON THE MARCH AGAIN! Party Life | Letters From Our Readers 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. and hit parts of her body which hurt most. Although this is about the worst recent example, I’ve come into con- tact with others pretty bad, yet I can recall several cases in which the reaction of the policeman to my re- marks was such that I would con- sider the conclusion of Comrade Gold’s column of this date as rather more harmful on the whole in dis- couraging all attempts of agitation and fraternization, than valuable in warning of the hopeless pathology of perhaps the majority of capitalist police, W. E. Cites Brutality and McLevy’s Attitude New Haven, Conn. Dear Editor: A short while ago Mayor McLevy of Bridgeport delivered a talk at Trade Council Hall. He said that policemen as a whole were a crowd of good fellows. What is the use of blaming the cops; they are only workingmen the same as ourselves, he said. On Jan. 13, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, I had a chance to s*= cne of the good fellows. A cop was standing on the corner of Church |and Elm Streets. Of course, he was well-fed looking, nice warm clothes, warm gloves, and so on. A poor narrow back came along the side- walk going north. No cyncical cap- | me that the workers are looking | italist newspaper ever cartooned a | Dear Editor: tramp with all of his degradation than this poor misfortunate. His poor body was emaciated from starvation and suffering. His rags hung on his body like ribbons. When he reached the car tracks, | this good cop spied him, he rushed out and grabbed him by the neck. He then yanked him on to the sidewalk, and he shook him in the most violent manner, the poor wretch. I thought he would die. He looked like a reguiar bean pole. I thought the cop was going to lock and out of the view of the “damn inhabit it. him up. He then shoved the man fool public,” he could beat her up'in the most brutal manner in an/ Macfadden Joins Hearst’s War on Militant Workers URGES MOB VIOLENCE, LYN for “Hanging the Traitors” by more stupid lies about ‘HING AND MURDER IN FASCIST PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN Let there be no mistake about Macfadden’s and Hearst’s anti-Communist incitement. It menaces every single worker in the country. Party worker, every A, F. of L. member, every honest and forward-looking individual. To these fascist mon- gers every fighter for a better world automatically be- comes a haied “Red” to be violence. Every anti-fascist, every person can ignore only at serious risk the ques building of the only bulwark wave of fascism, the united front of the working class. by Burck jeastern direction and told him to beat it. Isn’t it a fine thing to be born in these United States, as this fel- |low was? The Communists take the right attitude in regard to the cops. The Socialist McLevy and other Socialist peace-makers are punky when they try to make love |to the cops. Did you ever notice |them on the street, how nice and |polite. they are to the politicians |and the sky pilots, when they come jalong. You bet, | ners for the well-to-do, another |Set for the down and outs. WwW. L. | Hails Party Leadership |For Labor Party Policy Vineland, N. J. Comrade Editor: | The Hearst exposures are swell. | Keep up the style. We like the way | the new editorials are written. The “Daily” becomes more popular and more indispensable to workers every day. The papers of recent weeks have stirred enthusiasm for the different campaigns. Every issue mobilizes for action. We think the Labor Party line is the hot stuff and we are already making plans. Already I can see the consternation and fury that this line of our Party will make for the bosses. The new plans, trade union pol- icy and Labor Party give us more }and more confidence in the leader- |ship of our Party to outwit the reformists and capitalisis at every step of the way toward Soviet America. The masses will follow this leadership. Vineland Unit. ‘Museum Exhibit Model | Of Soviet Education New York, N. Y. | The most effective means to com- bat the abominable lies and slanders of Hearst and his gang, besides the daily exposure in the Daily Worker, is to go and see the exhibition on Soviet Education in the Museum |of Natural History, 77th St. and Central Park West. Every worker and _ particularly |teachers and young pioneers should {8° and see the exhibition without fail. It gives one a thrill down the ‘spine. After seeing the exhibition ‘one realizes what we would do in a | Soviet America. Jd. AL Required Reading for Mr. Hearst “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who 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. ; one set of man- | It menaces every Socialist crushed by brutality and worker, every progressive ion of that can block this rising | World Front ||\—— By HARRY GANNES -—— Goering Goes A-hunting Spanish Fascism in Crisis | Mussolini Fires Himself j t4 F a revolutionary artist were | to portray some leading | Nazis meeting representa- | tives of their allies at a diplo- matic conference with rifles in their hands, the critics would call it crude symbolism. Yet that precisely is the setting of the next anti-Soviet conversation arranged by the dope fiend Prime Minister of Prussia, Herr 4 and several members of the Polish cabinet. Now the Polish ruling class, though it flirts warmly with the Nazis, does not always want to be seen in the company of Hitler’s agents under circumstances which the rest of the world may consider of ‘political importance. So they resort to old Polish aristo- |cratic dipomacy. A friend sends Herr Goering an invitation to go hunting and shooting in the Polish | forests. The same friend quite ac- .,| cidently, quite without malice afore- thought, with not the slightest vul- iv | gar thought of politics or diplomacy | iIn-mind, sends a similar invitation to leading members of the Polish Cabinet to join the same party. The Nazi-Polish “non-aggression” pact—non-aggression between the two powers but for aggression against the Soviet Union—now one year old, of course will not be dis- cussed between the swilling and the guzzling. The present Japanese drive in Chahar towards the Barga caravan route, and the road to the Trans= Siberian Railway will, of course, not | even so much as be mentioned be- |tween the rabbit, deer and fox | hunting. No Polish gentleman or German hunter in his gay uniforms could ever think of what bothers them night and day while chasing animals in the crisp air through the deep glades of a Polish forest. ear ives ‘OR the past week, the Lerroux Fascist regime in Spain has been undergoing a crisis. The conflict of the ruling forces is making it diffi- cult to establish a cabinet that can stay in power more than 10 days. |Lerroux, of course, is only the facade who uses liberal phrases, to cover the real fascist forces. Behind him | stands the wire-puller Gil Robles of “Popular Accion,” a Fascist alliance, directed mainly by the Catholic Or- | der of Jesuits, Gil Robles is Father Coughlin’s ideal and model—a sort of a second-rate Torquemada, Mae chiavelli and Hitler rolled into one, Gil Robles does not yet want to step out into the open as the dictator of the Fascist government, because he has not yet built up for himself a sufficient mass base. He feels the government would be too top heavy and collapse. The cabinet crisis, very much like Mussolini’s cabinet crisis, is a reflection of the fact that the maneuvering field for Spanish fascism is narrowing even in this short period After, its “victory.” ese must be pretty bad for Fascist Italy when Mussolini has to fire a cabinet in which he holds 7 out of 13 portfolios. The other six, of course, are mere puppets, What could they do to incur the wrath of Mussolini when they never do anything without consultation with the Fascist leaders, But things are getting so bad in Italy Mussolini has to give the ap- pearance of disgust and action. Hence he fires everybody, including himself, and reconsitutes the cabe inet, taking again his 7 portfolios. This, however, will not stabilize the lira, It will not increase Italian for- eign trade. It will not make the masses satisfied with lower wages and lowered living conditions. Mussolini was the guy who about six months ago said, in justifying war preparations, that humanity had no idea of its ability to suffer, He said the masses were becoming more sto‘cal and would have to undergo tortures that mankind never dreamed it could live through bee fore. But the self-immolation that Mussolini is planning for the Italian people will be paradise to what he has in store for the Abyssinian Negro masses. While the French were ready to accept the Abyssinian ambassador's “regrets” over the little killing incident on the French Soe mali border, Mussolini insists that doesn’t satisfy him. He hasn't got the patience to wait for some better pretext. He wants to invade Abys- sinia now. SOVIET WAGES TRIPLED (Special to the Daily Worker) MCSCOW, Jan. 25 (By Wireless). —Earnings and wages in the Soviet Unicn increased during the pericd 1930-1934 from 13,600,000 rubles to 41,690,000 or 300 per cent, the Soviet Communist Perty organ, Pravda, announced today. The average yearly earnings per worker and em- | ployee in 1934 was 1,791 rubled | against 936 rubles in 1930, an ine crease of 91 per cent.