The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1935 Hearst Pu Father Coughlin, the radio priest, who holds secret the Uriah Heep ankers, is meetings with Rockefeller and Tartuffe of Wall Street. Coughlin uttered a prayer in his radio broadcast, ed the next day on the first page of every which appez Hearst pe er. This brings into the open the secret alliance of the yellow Hearst with the priest Coughlin! campaign Coughlin has joined the murder against all militant workers. blicity Shows Secret Pact With Father Coughlin COUGHLIN ROUSES WAR JINGOISM ON LEAGUE ISSUE—USES BIBLE TO INCITE VIOLENCE AGAINST COMMUNISTS 1es of Uriah Heep and Tartuffe are known to the symbols of fawning h ypocrisy. Using the phrases of This is similar to the Bible, phrases which have strong influence from ancient usage, Coughlin called down curses upon the Communists. the way the Russian priest, Father Gapon, led ten thousand Russian workers and peasants into a massacre Palace in 1905, When Coughlin calls trap before the Czar’s Winter for violence against the Com- munists, he betrays himself as an enemy of all who toil and a Wall Street tool. for fascist Communism is the philosophy and program of the working-class which declares that he who does not work shall not eat, that the capitalist system of Wall Street ° => Daily, QWorker | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPROPDAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. ALgonquin 4-795 4. 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Fight for real rank and file leader- ship of the strike. Spread the Daily Worker on the waterfront. The Daily Worker is the only paper giving correct news and anal sis of the strike, and guidance to the strike Mobilize all A. F. of L. and independ- ent unions in support of the strike and against the injunction. Mobilize all un- employed organizations in solidarity with the strikers. : Support the teamsters’ strike. Smash the anti-labor injunction. ET The Steel Conference SHE statement of William Spang, Pitts- burgh district president of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.), printed in this issue of the Daily Worker, exposes the “red scare” of the A. A.’s reactionary presi- dent, Mike Tighe. Spang clearly shows that the national conference of A. A. lodges, to be held in Pittsburgh February 3, with the partici- pation of mine and aluminum locals, is not a “dual” or “illegal” conference. Just the opposite: The February 3 con- ference, called in accord with the consti- tion of the union, aims to put into effect a fight for the economic demands drawn up by the 59th convention of the union. Mike Tighe, raises the red scare and shouts that the conference of February 3 is “‘illegal,’’ because he is attempting to overrule the will of the membership of the locals. Like a czar, he tries to stifle trade union democracy, and prevent the union from strike action for their just economic demands. As Spang points out, the locals will not fall for Tishe’s splitting “red scare” but will come to Pittsburgh February 3, determined that the union membership shall fight Tighe’s ruinous policy of reli- ance on the employers and on the Steel Labor Board. LaGuardia’s Relief Cut IN ONE month the New York Depart- ment of Public Welfare dropped 11,329 families, nearly 50,000 persons, off the relief rolls. On the same day that this announcement is made, Mayor LaGuardia has the effrontery to declare that a “new” normalcy” has been reached in the na- tion’s economic life, and that private wel- fare agencies must adjust themselves “‘to fill the gaps” in Roosevelt's Social Secur- ity program. Even if the Roosevelt work relief pro- gram is put into effect completely, it will provide jobs for not more than one out of five of the present unemployed at slave wages. Absolutely no provision is made to give them unemployment insurance. The Wagner-Lewis Bill, in fact, is a direct at- tack upon the living standards of the masses by forcing them to bear the full brunt of the expense. The Workers’ Unempioyment, Old Age nd Social Insurance Bill, H. R./2827, pro- ides full benefit payments for the present ¥ “4 ee J $9.00; | unemployed, insures the present working masses a measure of security, and places the burden where it belongs—on the gov- ernment and the employers. Force enact- ment of the Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827. Old Age N OLD woman lies dead in the Phila- delphia morgue. She was found frozen to death. Her husband lay beside her, life almost gone. In their bare rooms were found three sacks of coal, bought with relief tickets. But, the mighty capitalist government, with its glittering armies and navies, its marble halls and its machine guns, had forgotten to provide them with a stove. Roosevelt talks of “old age pensions.” He promises them—in 1938! Meanwhile bitter winter takes its toll of suffering and death in the hovels and shacks of the working class. Workers and Production RODUCTION for December was at 77 compared with 74 in November, rising somewhat, contrary to the usual seasonal decline, reports the Federal Reserve Board. Does this mean that the crisis is being overcome? Not at all! The fact remains that building construction and commercial loans, two key figures, show no let-up in the crisis. The rise in steel is definitely connected with the boom in war preparations. As for the auto increase, this figure only shows auto production. But who will buy all these new autos? Already stocks are pil- ing up again. These “boom” figures are for popular consumption. But in the New York Times “Current History,” George Soule, liberal economist, must confess that that increase in production under Roosevelt has taken place at the expense of the living stand- ards of the working class. Capitalist profits doubled under Roose- velt. How? By permitting the employers to chisel more work out of each indivi- dual worker, Soule reports. “Labor costs per unit of output were reduced,” he re- ports. Added to this, Roosevelt helped the employers to rob the workers by raising prices and the cost of living. The Federal Reserve Report admits guardedly that “retail prices increased considerably in December.” Stalin’s analysis of the course of the crisis is confirmed. The employers are increasing production somewhat. But only by robbing the workers. But all their acts can not overcome the crisis of capitalism, but rather deepen it. Babies in the News ABIES are very much in the news these days in the boss press. That is to say, more accurately, the dead Lindbergh baby and the baby of the two missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Stam, slain in China. The Stam baby was “saved.” We need not go into the fact that the Stams were most probably slain by Kuo- mintang forces, as proved by the admis- sion of the American missionaries in Tungjen, Kweichow province, that the Red Army passed them by unmolested while Chiang Kai-shek’s forces looted and _pil- laged their church. What hurt them is that after performing anti-Red deeds their allies betrayed them. But not a word is said about the tens of thousands of workers’ and peasants’ babies killed by imperialist and Kuomin- tang-imposed famine in China. Not a word about the children blown to bits by American bombs dropped from planes sent to Chiang Kai-shek. And what little con- cern the boss press shows about the 10,000 babies who died of malaria in Ceylon in the last month because the British slave- holders do not find it profitable to ship quinine to to the native masses gripped by an epidemic. private property, which dooms millions to hunger amidst plenty, is a curse which must go. It is for this private p rofit system that Coughlin speaks when he curses Communism! Coughlin wails about the Roosevelt overtures to the World Court. American imperialism i s flirting with the World Court because it wants a foothold in the councils of its rivals as they wrangle over markets. Certain Wall Street grou cause they fear that member: their fight for markets. the division of the world ps fear the World Court be- ship would hamper them in Party Life Winning a Strike Philadelphia Self-Criticism Reeruiting in Harlem WOULD like to relate some- thing that recently hap- pened in a Philadelphia meat and grocery store where I deal. There are about fifteen workers employed in this store. Whenever I go to the store I always take Daily Workers and Young Workers with me. By doing so I was able to sell the Daily Worker as often as four times a week and the workers knew that I was a Communist. They would ask me questions and I would answer, Then I would ask them questions and one of these questions was how many hours a week do you work? The answer was 60. How much money do you make a week? The answer was $7.00. When I asked them if they thought they were | being treated right, they said no. I wanted to know why they didn’t go out on strike for shorter hours and more wages. So they did. They went on strike without notifying us and they were on strike one day before we knew of it. We found out when I went to the store to buy. I saw the picket line there and joined with the picketers. They had the picket line out on the edge of the side-walk so that people could walk between them and the store and the people wouldn’t know what it was all about. When I got there I told them how to make a real picket line by picketing directly in ront of the store instead of near | the curb. When we did this the boss came out and said “Wy don’t | you fellows do as I told you.” So then I said, “We are not picketing the street, we are picketing your store and we are going to continue to picket your store. And we don’t care what happens so you might as well get used to it.” So then he called the police, When the police got there they came straight to me and asked me whether I ever worked in this store. And they said if I don't get away from here I would} | be locked up. The police were not | able to arrest me because the work- ers supported me. The workers ad- mitted to me that they didn’t know how to conduct their strike and I} promised to stay there until the strike was won. The strike was over | five days after I got on the picket line. All of the demands were won, Through the strike in this shop, there is a possibility of drawing five workers into the Party, and five young workers into the Y. C. L. I would like all Party members io follow this example of personally joining with the workers in their local struggles and thereby gaining influence among them. By doing this we will be able to protect our- selves from the brutality of the bosses and the police. E. W., Philadelphia. RESOLUTION We the members of the Commu- | nist Party, Unit 107, Section 1, Philadelphia, Pa., criticize ourselves for the failure of our members 10 show up for a Red Sunday, ar-| ranged for Jan. 13, to prepare for | the Lenin Memorial, without the permission of the Unit Bureau to be excused. Any Comrade failing in the future to live up to the decisions of the unit without the permission of the unit Bureau, which is to pass on the validity of any excuse, is to be disciplined. This Resolution to be sent to the Section and to the Daily Worker, A Harlem Unit Reports. We, comrades of Unit 413, Har- lem Section, New York are very jubilant as a result of some good work in the recruiting drive. How- ever, we, the non-Spanish speaking comrades must criticize ourselves since we did not do as good work as did the fraction of our unit working in the Chilean Obrero club, which is responsible for the majority of our new members. The quota which we set was twenty new mem- bers; so far we have recruited fifteen. The Liberator and the Daily Worker are selling well. But as yet no Red Builder has been selected by the unit. We have a comrade assigned to sell Unidad Obrera and he is doing nicely. We held a dance for the benefit of the three working class papers, the Daily Worker, Negro Liberator and Uni- dad Obrera. On the whole our unit is doing Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS... good work but there is still vast room for impzovement. J. C., Correspondent, Unit 413, Readers are urged to send us clippings, cartoons and editorials from all Hearst newspapers— particularly items about the So- viet Union and the Communist Party. Indicate name of news- paper and date of publication in sending in this material. Address: Feature Editor, Daily Worker, 35 THE SOWER Hails Feature Page As Country’s Best Bronx, N. Y. Dear Editor: I wish to congratulate you for the enormous advance you have made | in your paper the last few months. | It now not only gives the truth, but | Presents it in an attractive form that should, and does, draw honest workers and intellectuals closer to the revolutionary movement. The feature page especially has been improved. I know that in my case, it is the most absorbing and | interesting page in any American newspaper. Mike Gold gives the tremendous emotional impact of the | revolutionary movement. The story | or poem usually found there, if not excellent technically or artistically, | moves one with its sincerity and | truth. The theoretical column clari- fies many knotty problems, and | David Ramsey presents science notes as they ought to be presented. Not hypocritically condescending to | teach the “ignorant” masses, he of- fers information in a lucid and in- teresting form that surpasses any analysis in a popular bourgeois pub- lication. As for Del and Little Lefty, I can only exclaim, “Wonderful!” Little Lefty is truly a great lovable char- acter whom every worker knows. What he and Peanuts and Patsy and Uncle John do brings me to realize the importance of cartoons. Little Lefty is surely combatting successfully the venomous propa- ganda of the bourgeois press. What you have done, therefore, is of the greatest importance to the revolutionary movement. To have a press that will at all times ex- pose the treachery of the capitalists and their governments and that will lead the workers to higher levels of struggles, means that we have the machinery for battle. America, an America free from ex- ploitation and hatred, beautiful and beloved, we will point to the Daily Worker as the instrument by which Leninism was spread and brought When we will have a Soviet | In either case, American membership or non-mem- bership, would not decrease, but increase the American capitalist robbery of the workers. But Coughlin uses the issue of the Court to howl for jingoism and war hysteri ia, in the name of “Amer- ican independence.” Coughlin tries to blind the workers to their growing misery under the New Deal, and pre- pares them to die for J. P. Morgan and Rockefeller in the name of “American independence.” Coughlin’s road leads to lower wages, fiercer oppres- sion, militarizing the factories, the smashing of the trade unions, to fascism and another imperialist war. The working class must d rive him out of its ranks! 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 | possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. Average Worker Will Never Get Pension New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The editorial “Who Gets the Balance?” in the Monday the 2l1st issue of the Daily Worker, very clearly showed the fraud of the so- cial insurance that the New Deal administration has concocted with the wholehearted approval of the ultra-conformist misleaders of the Socialist Party and the servile, high paid bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. The big capitalist life insurance companies use for their calculations of risks, among others, the “Meech’s Tables of Mortality.” According to these tables the average length of life in the U. S, A. of a man 21 years old is 40.25 years. That is to say, if one takes any large number of men who are 21 years old, the average age that most of them will reach would be 61% years. But that average does not mean that one man out of every twenty- but most likely one our of every eighty or a hundred will reach that calculated average age. Moreover, the life insurance companies have based their estimates of the span of life almost exclusively from statistics cumstances. The majority of the working people, laborers and low- | paid clerks, whose physical energies vare exhausted at a terrific pace, producing wealth for the capitalists, can hardly be expected to live as \long as the well-to-do people. Thus, | the difficulty of attaining the age of 65 set by the Wagner-Lewis Bill | deliderately makes it impossible for | the industrial workers and the | clerks of the nation ever to receive the slightest benefit from such legis- lation. It should be defeated by a to the attention of millions of the exploited. DB; East 12th St., New York. 4 mass opposition of the people who are in need of social security. The Required Reading for Mr. Hearst criticisms are welcome and whenever | five, nor even one out of every fifty, | of people living in comfortable cir-| by Burck Letters From Our Readers | only bill that should have their sup- |port is the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, known as H, R. 2827, A. G. D, | Communists Heirs Of | Revolutionary Past New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Allow me to offer congratulations on the amazing and continuous im- provement noticeable in the Daily | | Worker. | Especially gratifying is it to find that you have decided to make greater use of the American reyo- lutionary tradition, as evidenced by the quotation from Lincoln. This will have a good effect. I would suggest that such a quotation be run for about two weeks straight. Then another. American literature, political and otherwise, is replete with this spirit. These quotations |ought, perhaps, to be run daily, |alongside of others of more inter- national significance by Marx and Lenin, Let's make more use of revolu- tionary traditions. By doing so we cut off the sprouting fascist cliques | from their only source of ideological nutriment, and this without yield- ing an iota of the Marxist-Leninist principles upon which our move- | ment is firmly based. LS. | Disappointed With One Of Mike’s Columns New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: In Comrade Gold’s column on Dahlberg and Hicks, we were very much disappointed because he used words which we don’t think every worker understood. We would like to inform him that not only pro- fessors and college graduates read the “Daily,” but also the plumbers and street cleaners. Comrade Gold’s column is usually | the most interesting thing to us. So how about it, Mike, give us plumbers and street cleaners a break and write the English that we were taught. Thanks very much. A GROUP OF WORKERS. “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, World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— | Hitler's Eastern Aim |“Path of German History” Danish Cattle | ERR GOERING’S trip to Poland is not an isolated Nazi jaunt. It is the high point of complicated Fascist maneuvers to try to rupture the Soviet Union’s efforts for an Eastern Locarno pact, that 1s, a move for the preservation of peace in Eastern Europe. Some of the threads going into this rope which the Nazis believe they are weaving to strangle the Soviet Union will make this clear. Early in January the Polish foreign Minister Beck visited Copenhagen and Stockholm, to sound out these countries on their relation to the Soviet Union, This itself was inspired by a war conference of the Scandinavian countries which con- cerned itself with the Aland Islands, a strategic Baltic base for attack on Leningrad. Moving secretely behind the scenes was British im- Pperialism. After Minister Beck's visit, the Finnish foreign minister, Hackzell announced that he, too, was going to Warsaw to discuss the Eastern Locarno pact. The Finnish Fascist | government makes no bones about. the fact that it does not desire to see the Eastern Locarno pact per- fected, and gives great hopes to the Nazis. But all is not rosy for the Nazi Plans in Poland, Poland for the German Fascists is the pivotal rock on which they hope to smash all Eastern European peace efforts, The aim is to break the Polish-Franvo alliance, and to use Poland as the largest eastern wedge against the’ Soviet Union. It was the growing criticism in the Polish press that forced Goering to transform his diplomatic mission into a “hunting trip.” And, of course, Goering’s great popularity in Poland inspired the “protective” measures unknown in Poland since the last visit of the Czar. Sa ey | pe enenees is becoming nervous over its Nazi alliance. It didn’t pan out in economic benefits which Hitler had drummed up. Besides, it is straining its relations with France, Ozecho-Slovakia and the U. S. S. R. After analyzing the “benefits” of the Nazi alliance, the Polish paper “Veczer Warzawski,” exclaims, “God preserve us from such friends!” But the Nazis themselves place tremendous importance on Goe- ring’s trip and all their maneuvers in East Europe, in the Scandinav- jan countries and the Baltic states. The first 1935 issue of “Der SA Mann,” a storm troop paper, dealing with the future foreign policy of Hitler contains an article by Eugene Schmidt on the territory which is “essential to the life of Germany.” “The great path of German his- tory runs from West to East,” de- clares Schmidt. He goes on to explain: “The new political constitution of the East has struck us a severe blow. The most valuable German londs, the oldest colonized territory belonging to Germany has been de- tached from our State. This has called for the rise of Hitler in Ger- many and of Pilsudsky in Poland. . , They alone can point to the goal? united front against Russia.” Re apes 2 fected, and givesvbvb?t end of the Saar Plebiscite has not brought any great consola- tion to Fascism in Germany. This is particularly shown by -the fact that no celebrations have been pre- pared for the second anniversary of Hitler's. assumption of power in Germany, nor for the return of the Saar. The main effect has been to spur Hitler to pay all of his attention to war maneuvres in the East—that is, against the Soviet Union. And for this end he has many irons in the fire. One is an attempt to rupture the peace pact of France and the Soviet Union through Poland. Brit- ish imperialism, also, is maneuvering in this direction by discussing the basis for the legalization of the tre- mendous and rapid arming of Ger- man fascism. The idea being, of course, that if Hitler’s collossal armaments can be guaranteed for exclusive use against the Soviet Union there can be no objections to it. And what transpizes in the Far East is becoming decisive. Japanese imperialism is moving along an- other path towards the Soviet Union, which will be a great talking point for Herr Goering. eee en ENMARK, which has a Social- Democratic government, during the past year destroyed 300,000 cattie, Instead of being made into food, they were transformed -into fertilizer or soap. More than 80 per cent of the cattle were sound, which is more than can be said for their destroyers.