The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 Macfadden Joins Hearst’s War on Militant Workers HEARST PRESS SILENT ON SUPPRESSED EVIDENCE OF FASCIST PLOTTING BUT SHREIKS THAT “REDS PLAN TO KIDNAP PRESIDENT” dent, Wit- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1935 = the Pre The dramatic expose of fascist activities in the when the Committee issued the “summarized” version to clamp a ruthless dicatorskip on the American ifies eadiines were em- United States now appearing in the Daily Worker showns of General Butler’s sensational testimony. people. n the He he testimony of how the Dickstein-McCormack Committed. while giving Neither Hearst nor the other magnates of American Hearst warmly approves the action of the Dickstein- Walter S. Steele onal Republic” capitalist journalism made the slightest effort to bring i 2 A x McCormack Committee in hiding the details of these > the Dickstein-Me( ck Committee credence to Mr. Steele's fantastic yarn, suppressed the this suppressed testimony out into the light. sinister activities from the American masses eele’s bogey-m he eighteen of California if convicted ahout the Communist plot xed up by the prosecu- nento workers who n terms under the Criminal Syndicalism most vital sections of the testimony of General Smedley Butler which implicated men high up in the financial and political life of the country. The Hearst press as well as the press throughout the country knew that evidence was being suppressed Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 “America’s PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., ENC., 5@ E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Press Building, Telepho: nai 7910, St., Room 705, Chicago, Ml. D. ©. South Wells 3931. For an Auto Strike ANY recent events show the growing 4 sentiment of the auto workers for strike in the near future. A rank and file conference of members of A. F. of L. auto locals was held in Detroit over the week- end to disc strike preparation against the growing company union menace. The sentiment of the auto workers for strike has forced William Green to an- nounce that the Automobile Workers Union has withdrawn from the Auto La- | Party Life Literature Work Of I. W. 0. Criticized Language Is Barrier 'N OUR challenge to the New York District to sell more literature per member by Aug. 1, we are making an earnest There is space—and lots of it—for raw lies about the Soviet Union and vicious slanders about the Com- munist Party of the United States. But there is no space in the Hearst press for the actions of fascist groups who are feverishly plotting | | | THE POISONOUS SPIDER The Dickstein-McCormack Committe: ing vital facts laid before it, actively assists the fascist plotters and gives support to the vigilante howls of Hearst and Macfadden, press agents for American fas- cism. in suppres = by Burck| | World Front | r Message from China | Chahar and Szechuan | For Our Own Struggles IHIANG KAI-SHEK’S main worry these days is to keep the mass indignation in —— By HARRY GANNES -—-~ Rates: arn Koop as E : Subscription a 1 year, $6.80: x attempt to set up functioning i a again Japanese a nade: 1 seth bas ent ee eee literature departments in all perialism’s invasion of Chahar Canada: 1 year, $9.00: board, which William Green himself signed | mass organizations. \ trom peal tn bie dee Cee ee on March 25, 1934. hs, 75 cents. MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1935 The Spirit of Kuibyshey MERICAN workers mourn the loss of the great revolutionary leader, Valer- ian Kuibyshev, in a deep kinship with the emancipated masses of the Soviet Union. As a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and as head of the State Planning Com- mission, directing the economic programs of the first and second Five-Year Plans, Valerian Kuibyshev clearly showed to workers in the United States how the building of Socialism may be reached only by the road of Soviet power. “Kuibyshev joined the Bolshevik Party in its great struggle against Czarism and capitalism when he was only sixteen years old. He died Saturday of a heart attack, still young—he was only 46. Every Soviet worker loved him as the “man who knew the inside of every plant in the Soviet Union.” The great fighter in the workers’ cause is gone. But the Soviet workers have been keen and eager pupils under the guidance of such leaders as Kuibyshev. And un- daunted, more confident than ever in their own creative ability, they advance further, day by day, to a classless Socialist society. On Roosevelt’s Head VEN in the carefully censored columns of the capitalist press, owned and con- trolled by the rich, the misery of the job- less and homeless breaks through, In Chicago, a mother and son, struck from the relief rolls, left to starve, in their desperation and hopelessness, murdered two relief officials and then killed them- selves, In New York, a 25-year-old girl, home- less and penniless after loss of work, jumps out of a window to her death on the pavement. Green and Dillon, Green’s agent in the auto industry, are now trying to put them- selves at the head of this growing strike sentiment, in order to behead it. Last spring Green prevented a strike by sup- porting the setting up of the Auto Labor Board. Green signed a pact which legalized company unions, gave free rein to speed- up, allowed for further wage cuts, and gave the Auto Labor Board, the tool of the employers, power to decide the auto workers’ fate. From the preparations very beginning, the strike must now proceed with all negotiations, all strike preparations, and all activities in the hands of the elected rank and file committees of the locals. This will prevent Green from repeating his be- trayal of March 1934. Another Ship Goes Down HE Mohawk is the third ship owned by the Ward line which has been wrecked at sea within five months. Other Ward line ships (like the Cauto) have had seri- ous accidents at sea. The steering geer and the telegraph of the rammed liner Mohawk “went haywire” when the collision with the Talisman took place, testimony before the U. S. Steam- boat Inspection Service indicated. The sinking of this Ward line ship cost the lives of thirty-five known dead and ten missing. The Ward line is heavily subsidized by the Roosevelt government. Its policy has been to increase profits by cheap operation in every respect, including lack of proper safety measures, union smashing, and low pay and abominable conditions imposed on its crews. In the previous Ward line disaster, to the Morro Castle, the Ward line tried to cover up its responsibility for the heavy loss of life by blaming the crew, and by The 1.W.O. agreed to set up a| |city central literature committee, | |with agents in all branches. The | city central agreed to undertake to | sell one thousand copies of Amter’s | “Why ‘she Workers Unemployment | |Insurance Bill,” during the month |of January. | On Sunday, Jan. 13, the L.W.o. was scheduled to have a concert | | and ball. The district literature de- | |partment, learning that the I.W.O. jhad not yet set up it’s literature apparatus, agreed to take care of | the literature work at this affair. A special drive was to be made from the platform with organized | literature sales on the floor, concen- trating on Amter’s pamphlet and |“Who Wants War,” the two for five cents. | On the afternoon of the ball, | when the district secretary of the | | I.W.O. was making out the program | for the afternoon and evening, and |when we reminded him to place \the literature talk and sale on the | jagenda, he answered “There won't |be any time for it.” He insisted that ;No room could be found for an or- | ganized literature sale from the |platform. The program was about ‘an hour late in getting under way. |It seemed as though something had | to be left out. To the district sec- | retary of the I.W.O., a leading Party | member, literature was apparently of minor importance. | An attiwude of this nature indi- cates a dangerous underestimation of the political importance of liter- ature distribution. The Central Committee of our Party is waging an energetic campaign to instill lit- erature consciousness into every Party comrade from the oldest member to the newest recruit. The Eighth National Convention of our Party adopted a resolution in which it says that “There must be a wider issuance and circulation of litera- ture on current political problems | and propaganda dealing with the revolutionary way out of the crisis. The mass sale of Communist lit- erature must be the normal part of | the day-to-day activities of every |Communist Party member.” | Way Out—page 56.) | The workers are hungering to find the way out of the crisis; they are |turning to the Communist Party |for the answer; yet the Party com- {rade who is the secretary of the Cleveland International Workers | Order, with over 500 people seated, (The |tade Lenin, We had trouble in | |getting this hall because the Hearst | Chicago Lenin Meeting Called Disorderly Chicago, Til. Comrade Editor: Chicago had a huge meeting at the Coliseum in memory of Com- newspapers were trying to use their influence to prevent the renting of | the haljl by the Communist Party. | Bob Minor was the main speaker. This meeting was the most dis- orderly meeting that I have ever seen. Can you imagine a great and Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can print only those that are of genera! interest to Daily Worker readers, How- ever, all letters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are weleome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. Admit Socialism Works In Soviet Union New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: There are millions of workers in |to “fight radicalism at its source,” all capitalists should get together to “add $6.34 more to the treasury price of gold to lift the average of basic | Producers’ prices another 18 per | cent’! Of course, Karl Marx pointed out what this inflation and eleva- |tion of prices does to the working ‘class, but Harding wasn’t troubled about that. Among themselves the capitalists admit the truths of Marx and the achievement of Socialism. Then they step out into the street and shout against it so that the hungry, coatless workers walking by,. will stay away from our party, the Un- | war, | Letters From Our Readers | There is nothing so demoral- izing to the soldiers in the Kuomin- tang armies than to hear of Jap- anese troops killing their brothers in the North while they themselves are forced to kill their own broth- ers in the Red Army whose main | objective is to drive out the Jap- anese imperialist invaders, Besides, it becomes clearer and clearer to the Chinese people that what the Communist Party of China said when the Tangku agree- ment was made last year between Chiang Kai Shek and the Japanese government is absolutely true. Then the Communist Party of China de- |clared Chiang Kai Shek was selling |north China to Japan in return for support against the of China, weenie Sere Be in this situation we in the United States have an important |task which become one of the major factors in either the speedy victory of the Red Army of China or a pro- longed and costly battle of the Chinese Soviets. We want to quote a message to all Communists, all anti-imperial- ists, all friends of China by Wan Min, one of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. This message appears in the most bril- liant article yet written on the sit- uation in China (“The Struggle of the Chinese Red Army,” Commu- nist International No. 1, Jan. 5, 1935, obtainable from Workers Li- brary Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York City.) Com- rade Wan Min writes: “One of the major reasons ex~ Plaining the drawn-out character of the armed struggle between revolution and counter-revolution. in China in general and of the struggle of the Red Army against the Sixth Drive in particular, is the weakness and the almost com- Plete absence of real, direct aid on the part of the proletariat and of our fraternal Parties in the imperialist countries. The inter- national imperialists are the main enemies of the Chinese Revoin- tion and the organizers of Chiang Kai-Shek’s continuous anti-So- viet military campaigns It is therefore clear that effective and direct support of the struggle of the Chinese Red Army and of the Soviets on the part of the pro- jetariat and of our fraternal Parties in the leading capitalist countries is of first rate impor- tance, pa : Eck a « ” “« . | can’t find time on the program for | Most sincere revolutionary leader | this country who doubt that a So- employment Councils and the red eee, Sitting comfortably in the White House, tape a shies wd Beioead beageuastn Pe aie ar | cialist system would work. They are wrelone That to wake up, you work-| “JF the American, Japanese, Brit- Roosevelt slashes Federal relief, and then atin enterica : i" In our literature competition with |)" “We middle of his sp in|ers, who believe Hearst, Coughlin ish, German, Italian and been injected into the present disaster. | himself call for order? Did anyone | the ones whom Hearst and Coughlin suicide and murder, tragedy and misery, follow in the poverty-stricken homes of Thus are red scares manufactured. |New York we are bent on breaking through all resistance. ever see Comrade Minor put on | his worker’s cap in order to arouse are trying to incite against Commu- nism, But the thousands of capital- and Weak Willy Green! Cc. B.S. French workers came out under the banner of the united front of the working class and by means the masses. These tragedies are on his But the record of the Ward line speaks | At a time when Fascism fs rapidly ry ececne: ola eG fOr | ints in. this country, are not fooled, of a serious mass struggle (strikes, head for itself. The steamers Havana, Morro approaching, es we find increas- |sti peters Well. this cove’ | They know that Socialism can work.’ Honeyed “Comments? eater pens one 3 : ’ A is a y i aA Pied . These horrible penalties which the | Castle and now the Mowhak were wrecked, 8, flscrimination against Negro ya4es “happened here in Chicago I want to share with the Daily’ Radio Poison to stop their issuing of military masses pay for the capitalist crisis can be with many lives of crew and passengers | pution of relief in Harlem, more in- |during the Lenin Memorial meeting | worker readers a couple of convine- and “non-military” loans to the stopped by the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 2827). The Federal government and the em- ployers must be forced to guarantee a minimum living wage and insurance for every single worker fired by the capitalist class. Not suicide and murder, but im- mediate cash relief and unemployment in- surance! A War Measure T IS taking no time at all for Roosevelt’s “take-the-profit-out-of-war” scheme to appear in its true colors—as a step toward further war preparations. Baruch, who made over fifty millions in Wall Street speculating in war stocks in 1917, praises the McSwain Bill “to take the profits out of war” as “being sufficient to place this country in a position immune against attacks ... it will greatly increase our strength for war...” he boasted be- fore the House Military Committee. Strange and significant praise for an al- leged ‘peace measure!” The whole Roosevelt gush about “taking the profits out of war” turns out to be exactly the opposite—a scheme to paralyze all attempts of labor to raise its wages to keep up with the steep rise in the cost of living during war days. Baruch) admits this when he says the McSwain Bill aims to keep “‘prices down to peace time levels.” By “prices” he means mainly wages. Roosevelt’s record war preparations are today giving Wall Street billions in new profits. When imperialist war breaks out, Roosevelt’s New Deal will become an open terrorist machine to protect profits and enslave the people, } ~~ lost, because of the shipowners greed for profits, The Huey Long Fight HE march of state troops and the or- ganization of special armed bands by opposing factions in Huey Long’s state only shows how the crisis is breaking down all traditional legislative customs and is giving way to evér-increasing fas- cist forms of capitalist rule. More and more capitalist legislatures are becoming obstacles in the swift execu- tion of capitalist policy. The whole ma- chinery of government is becoming cen- tralized and dominated by the direct agents of the capitalists who rely more openly on the armed forces. It should be noted that the cliques of Long and his enemies are very anxious to avoid, as far as possible, placing arms in the hands of the starving Negro and white workers and tenant farmers. The armed bands are under the direct control of the warring capitalist cliques. These armed groups, in fact, are a fascist menace against the toiling population. Both Long and his opponents are trying to make capital out of the deep discontent of the starving workers and pauperized farmers of Louisiana. Long quickly reduced the tax on oil when the Rockefeller monopoly put pres- sure on him. And the Standard Oil tried to call off the armed workers it had arous- ed as soon as it got its tax “compromise.” Their squabble is over “hich capitalist crowd shall get the lion's share of the spoils, which shail be first in the march to fascism. \tensive anti-Red drives, etc. | The Negroes and Latin-Americans should solidify their ranks against the common enemy, the white rul- ing class. We should not let the difference of language be a barrier. The enemy is ever alert finding loop holes to send his poisonous propa- | ganda into our ranks in respect to |the difference in color, texture of hair, ete. |_In the Lower Harlem Unemployed | Council (West) there is a grave sit- juation, the language question, which will only be remedied by the reor- |ganization of a strong Party frac- | tion within this mass organization | to guide the raw recruits of Spanish |and Negro comrades to the path of | Lenin and Stalin, | This is no time, comrades, for a |split in the ranks of the working \class organizations. We truly hope |that the section will give more at- tention to the situation. School System Faces Complete Shut Down In Albertsville, Ala. | MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 27.— If Alabama will not provide the | funds, the schools of Alabama will close rather than go on federal re- |lief rolls, stated S. J. Chandler, city superintendent of schools of | Albertville, in a letter to the Ala- |bama Relief Administration. The | schools will only remain open until January 31, and will then close their doors unless the Alabama legislature provides funds for further opera- tion. The decision to close the schools |is apparently based upon a deter- | mination to maintain “the pride of | Alabama,” to the detriment of the children of the state. For, added | Chandler, “We shall insist that our | state take pride in maintaining a _school system for her children.” The pride of Alabama is thus being used to widen the already extensive ‘G@iterncy predominating in the state, at which there was a greater at- tendance than ever before. I am writing this letter to give my impression of the causes of what happened so that in the future they may be avoided. Of course there is a certain group which is | disorderly (woman next to me had | apples for her kids), but this is | @ small number and when most of the audience is all right they, too, soon become orderly. Most of the audience consisted of workers; they were serious and cooperated as much as was humanly possible. In @ large hall there is always trouble with the microphones. Every speaker could be heard clearly, ex- cept one. And who was this one? It was Comrade Gebert, chairman of the meeting and district organ- izer. Comrade Gebert could ab- solutely not be understood by the mass of people. When Bob Minor rose to speak the people were tired of trying to hear Bill Gebert, and as a result Minor was faced with a tired and uninterested audience. Another thing. Why do people have to go around selling literature, while there is speaking going on? Instead of going home enthusias- tic for Communism, one went home disgusted. Enclosed please find 25¢ for your great paper and may I thank es- pecially David Ramsey for his en- lightening articles. 8. R. ing proofs of this. A capitalist reporting agency, United Business Service of Boston, in the weekly bulletin of its Inves- tigation Department for last Oct. 27 says: “It is not true that a Socialist economy will not work. It is working now in Russia.” Of course, the bulletin ends up in flag-waving, slanders against “the below-average man, the shiftless and irresponsible,” and the assertion that “red-blooded ambitious young) men” will prefer “opportunity” to “security.” Father Coughlin is onenly allied with the Committee for the Na- tion, the inflationary band of capi- talists. On the radio he says Com- munism chains the people to a sys- tem of “terror, famine and living in cellars.” But behind the scenes, when talking before select capital- ist groups, his committee pays more compliments to Karl Marx and Communism than Norman Thomas would ever dare do. ‘Take the speech of Earl Harding before the Executives’ Club of Chi- cago, delivered last September 14 in the “Louis XVI Room of the Hotel Sherman.” Harding, talking on “Money, Profits and Communism,” pointed out the complete correctness of Karl Marx's analysis of money and profits under capitalism, ad- mitted “the breakdown of our money system,” and then urged that Required Reading for Mr. Hearst Amsterdam, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I would like to bring to the at- | tention of the readers of the Daily | Worker the Conoco news commen- | tator and “philosopher,” Jim Healy. Healy is continually making the against the Communists and the U.S.S.R, In one of his latest broad- | casts, he “commented” on the re- | cent executions of the terrorists in | the Soviet Union. He said that the new Russia, just like the old, is a land of tyranny and dark ignorance. He compared stalwart Stalin, our working class leader, to Ivan the Terrible—and the usual piling up | of lies. Healy's honeyed words (he poses as a great humanitarian) have poison- ed the minds of thousands of work- ers. especially in the Aloany area, | and will continue to poison many | thousands more unless the workers protest, vigorous protest, against | his anti-working class propaganda. | | I think that every class-conscious _ worker, especially those who live in and around Albany and Schenec- tady, should send cards, letters, tele- grams to Jim Healy (care of WGY radio station, Schenectady, N. Y.), and tell him how you despise his reactionary “comments.” W. F. “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.” air putrid with his venomous talks | Chinese militarists, if they would compel the imperialists to recall their military advisers and spe- cialists from China, if the work~ ers would succeed in stopping the transport of ammunition, poison gas, and airplanes to China, then the Sixth Drive would undoubted- ly have long been ended by a complete victory over Chiang Kai- Shek. However, up till now all of this remains only good intentions on the part of our fraternal Parties. And it is precisely in this, ie, in the support by the im- perialists, that Chiang Kai-Shek draws his main support. “On this question the Commu- nist Party of China and the Red Army have on more than one oc- | casion approached their class brothers. They asked that the fraternal Communist Parties in the first piace impress upon the minds of the workers that the struggle against the imperialists carried on by the Chinese Red Army under the leadership of the Communist Party is an integral part of their own ey May sims gle with their employers. Our fraternal Parties in the capiiaiist countries must explain to the massrs that the victory of the working class over the bourgeoisie can be achieved only under the condition that alongside of the militant united front of the work- ing class there will be cttablished militant unity of the proletariat and of its aliics, ic., the unity of the teilers of the capitalist coun- tries with the toilers of the col- onies and semi-colonies. The pro- letariat of the imperialists coun< tries must realize that in render- ing direct .upport to the Chinese Red Army it is thus helping its own struggle against imperialist war, fascism and capitalist ex- ploitation. We not only hope, we are convinced that the proletariat and suppressed peoples of all countries will in the future show in practice the significance of real revolutionary international solid- arity by epee’ the heroic struggle of the ese Red Army and of the Chinese Soviets.”