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1 € 2 G i f . ~~ often more brazenly stated. Page 2 ..Hearst Host _To Fascist Ambassadors By Marguerite Young (Continued from Page 1) newspapers are thinking out | and thinking favorably—of Fa: .-dictatorship and the steps toward it In these journals any conscious reader can follow Fascist planning of Wall Street e+ Circulated mainly in “the street,’ they speak from the “among-our selves” viewpoint Soon after the San Francisco general strike, Barron’s Weekly car- Tried an article which declared “Ig history is a safe guide for those seeking a way to preserve a social order and a political re- gime, the dictators in Europe are certainly on the right track.” This bold suggestion of dictator- ship, to readers who can be in- terested in only one kind—capital- ist dictatorship—was made, st ingly enough, by Robert Hunt once a member of the Nationa’ Executive Committee of the So- cialist Party. He referred the above quotation, to dictators’ “rightness” tary question. But who has at least with Marxism can make such a statement in any connection with- + out implying more. In the past few months, Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal have put forward even more sharply characteristic Fascist ideas or more «truly, misrepresentations. They com- manded the “perpetual war” be- tween capital and labor to cease, precisely as Adolf Hitler did, some- thing by which they mean that labor must stop striking back. The Wall Street Journal’s “Review and Outlook” for October 5, 1934, com- plained of this “perpetual war” after saying that “increasing wage rates and shortening hours” is the cause of “out” trouble. What it did not explain is that the “increasing Wage rates and shortening hours,” the New Deal way of spreading- work and spreading-wages, didn’t fatten the pay envelope of the in- dividual worker. One of the most essential fictions of Fascism, is that the “govern- ment,” the dictatorship on behalf of the biggest capitalists, stands above the “perpetual war” between capital and labor, and arbitrates with an- gelic impartiality. Hence the Wall », Street Journal appreciatively re- ported the speech made by Secre- tary of Labor Frances Perkins to the American Federation of Labor convention: “The message which she pointedly referred to several times was that the government will not and cannot be expected to coerce either capital or labor in industrial disputes.” Justify Fascism In one breath these financial . Journals speak of developing a “new economic system”; in the next they militantly defend, in words, “the capitalist system.” In other words, they want a “new” but still “capitalist’ system. Or Fascist dictatorship! The conclusion is strengthened when one reads on. For example, in Barron's of Au- gust 20, a eulogy of the Warlord President Hindenburg of Germany drew a domestic moral: “It is true not alone of Ger- many, but of other nations in dis- tress, that only ‘step by step’ in orderly and logical progression, may the goal of stability be reached. It takes firmness, and, as Hindenburg so wistfully per- ceived, unification; and unifica- tion is a specific which is all- inclusive, and comprehends both Jew and Christian, banker and wage-earner, capital and ijabor. It remained for an ignorant (poli- tically speaking) old soldier to recreate this simple truth, pri-- marily for Germany, but actually for the whole world to ponder.” It was not Hindenburgs idea to force thi unification” of capital and labor in Germany, of course; it was the Thyssens and the Krupps. The “unification” means forcing of certainly none rubbed elbows labor all the way under the heel of | capital, with all civil rights abol- ished. While thus mulling over the methods and demagogy of full Fas- »Cism, these newspapers also mili- tantly promoted the preliminaries— the restriction of labor's right to + Strike, to demand higher wages, to reosive unemployment relief and ~ in other ways to fight off both the final and the intermediate de- pression. “Labor must purge its ranks of «= un-American demoralizing forces,” Barron’s prominently quoted Sen- -» ator Borah of Idaho on September 10. (Notice the Hitleresque word, “purge,” and the attack upon mili- tancy under the cover of chau- ~~~ vinism.) Would Bar Aid to Strikers “I would not say that federal re- lief should never be granted to men on strike,” the same paper empha- sized a statement by Henry I. Harri- «= man, president of the big business Chamber of Commerce of the United States, “but I do affirm that policies of the federal government should not be such as to encourage strikes and industrial unrest.” In other words, they don't admit denying re- lief to strikers, but they don’t want , it to be allowed in any except, say, strikes “authorized” by employers! Here we see the main organs of the first lords of the United States “and their journalist lackeys both re- flecting and agitating for the im- _ Mediate steps toward Fascism, and mulling over the final set-up. I have cited these—instead of the general press which circulates ‘among the masses — because I wished to show how the decisive financiers are thinking among themselves. Any class - conscious . Sometimes more subtl; Division of Labor By Press ‘The division of labor for Fascism | ~ has been made among the great weapons of the capitalist While te Hearst sheets ca all ° f radicalism and mili- press, so many | |ing the necessity for building th | American reader can pick up any capitalist | 0 newspaper today and spot the same | See workers in masses into | iy a ‘ ( will become an open organizer for Fascism, espe- cially among le class s. The the entire | with memorable r unanimously blood- curdling strike-breaking during the San Francisco strike. The preva- lence of all this strike-breaking, “cooperation between capital and labor,” company-union, and pro-war propaganda in the press is striking objective evidence of Fascist offensive in the United States. Within general picture, the private showing by Publisher Hearst of “The President Vanishes” as- sumes additional significance. The story reported from Hollywood is that Hearst, after seeing the film which demagogically debunks a publisher like Hearst only to em- phasize false theme that the President can and will prevent Fas- cism and war, angrily complained to the producers. The movie there- fore was cut severely. I have no proof as to why Pub- lisher Hearst did this, or why he later attacked the movie editorially. But two obvious possibilities appear. One is that he did both to have an “out” in case it developed that he was directly concerned with the production and distribution. The other is that he thought the dem- agogy of debunking him went too far. President Okays Fascist Film Another outright Fascist movie, “Gabriel Over the White House,” was produced officially by Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures. According to an article by Iris Hamilton in the Pacific Weekly, this film was sent to the President, “who saw it—he ana his wife and his secretaries—three times.” The President offered sev- eral suggestions to make the pic- ture “present the program he in- tended to carry out himself.” Pro-war, pro-Army, pro--Marines, recently affiliated with Hearst's film duced by Warner Brothers, a giant , include “Here Comes the Navy, “Flirtation Walk,” and “Devil Dogs of the Air.” The manufacture of public opin- ion to meet the needs of thé Fas- cist scheme of things requires two processes, coordination of the shops producing such raw materials as news and movies, and centraliza- tion of control. The beginnings of both already are present in the United States. And Baron Hearst and the Roosevelt government, again, are leading in developing them. While the Mussolini - authored Pilgrim’s Progress of Fascism, “Man of Courage,” was flickering in empty houses, the Hearst papers were puf- fing it to the point of faking news stories headlined with the lie that “demand” was holding it over! And Roosevelt legislators have already presented a communications bill which, as the newspapermen’s union quickly protested, would open the way for government censorship of the press. Perhaps the most striking evi- dence of the Fascist trend of the main streams of capitalist propa- ganda is the fact that the same Fas- cist Army plot which the McCor- mack-Dickstein Committee strove to cover up was obviously “played down,” after the first unavoidably sensational break, by the major met- ropolitan dailies. I happen to know that several telephone wires were kept warm, on the day the story broke, by calls from the financial district to news offices. Thus “in- siders” volunteered to the news- papers the “low-down” that the story wouldn’t stand up. Meaning that Wall Street didn’t want it to stand up. One does not need to Prove or even know this, however, to recognize the fact that the Fas- cist Army story was dropped as gracefully as possible. Strike Wave Grows Anew In the U.S.A. (Continued from Page 1) many other industries, preparation of strike is on the order of the day. The basic issues in all the advance toward Fas- | low-wage | ‘Socialism Speeds On,’ Molotov Tells World In Speech Before Congress of the U.S.S.R. Great Gains in U.S.S.R.| Contrasted With Decay of Capitalism (Continued from Page 1) Soviet Union is prepared in ev material and moral way to defe des ely any such attempt. The diplomatic gallery of the Great Hall of the Kremlin was filled with ambassadors and ministers, with representatives of the Soviet and foreign press. The Great Hall broke out in a thunder of applause as promptly at five, Mikhail Kalinin, Joseph Stalin, L. M, Kaganovitch, A. S. Yenukidze, G. K, Ordjonikidze, V. M. Molotov, | K. E. Voroshilov and G. I. Petrovsky stepped to the tribune. | | Honor Dead Comrades | Kali a brief reference to the assassina- tion of Sergei Kirov and the death opened the session with of Valerian Kuibyshev. The audi- ence rose for a moment in their honor. There was tremendous cheering when it was pointed out that all the peoples of the Soviet Union, despite their different cultures and lan- guages, were building one united country of socialist construction and production. Kalinin’s calling for a presidium | resulted in a remarkable spontane- ous demonstration for all well-| known leaders. When Stalin, who has been elected at almost every workers’ meeting to their local so-| viets, by the soviets in turn elected | to congresses of soviets, and by} the regional and republic congresses elected to the All-Union Congress, was nominated to the presidium, the whole mass of delegates in- stantly shouted their approval. Loud cries of “Hurrah!”, cheers of “Long live our leader!”, and handclapping | as in a demonstration greeted Stalin, who seated himself only to be forced to stand again whenever someone shouted or when a cheer from an individual delegate released a new long roll of clapping. If any answers were needed for | those elements abroad, who specu- | late on imaginary divisions and jealousies or counter-revolutionary rebellious feelings among the Sovict | masses, this was the answer. from the representatives of ninety mil- lion electors, the delegates them- selves being mostly workers and farmers direct from the mills and farms. The Congress delegates, standing and cheering. left no doubt that every worker and farmer, Rus- sian, Ukrainian, Central Asian, and from every corner of the largest country in the world, grouped him- self firmly around the standard- bearer of the Communist Party. Significant demonstrations were given also to the others of the pre- idium of thirty ht, notably V. K. Blucher, commander of the Far Eastern forces of the Red Army, K. E. Voroshilov, Maxim Gorky, A. Zhdanov, who replaces Kirov in ingrad. M, M, Kaganovitch, M. Kalinin, Krupskaya, Lenin’s widow, V. M. Molotov, G. K. Ordjonikidze, | G. I. Petrovsky and P. P. Postyshev, both from the Ukraine, D, E. Suli-| mov, chairman of the Peopie's Com- missars of the RSFSR. and others. M. M. Schvernik, head of the trade unions of the Soviet | Union, was loudly applauded when} nominated. All were elected unan- | imously, Kalinin being elected chair- | man and Yenukidze secretary of the | Congress. | Molotoy Reports Then Molotoy reported as Chair- | these | strikes are similar, The N. R. A. | lectivized then. Here and later Mo- |T@ssed out over five years. man of the Peor Commissars of the Soviet Union. The first section | of his speech bore on international relations. | | Referring to the changes in the! four years since the last Congress, | | Molotov pointed out that although | socialist victory within the coun- | try was assured at that time, only | one-third of the peasantry was col- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1935 | Press, Radio, Films Utilized to Promote U.S. Fascism GUARDING THE U. S. S. R. Turkish Ambassador rose in his box and bowed to the Congress during long rpplause from the del- egates. Molotov also mentioned briefly the relations with the other major powers, including the U. S. A., whose recognition of the Soviet | Union he remarked upon with sat- isfaction because the United States formerly was the main country re- fusing to establish normal relations. He mentioned also the defeat of the English Ambassador at every attempt, as for example at the time of the Metro-‘ickers trial, to in- terfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union, a fact which caused tension and later improve- ment of mutual relations. Crisis of Capitalism “Not only the enemies,” Molotov said, “but even the supporters of capitalism cannot deny the fact that during all these years the economic crisis has torn capital- ist society apart and still con- tinues to do so. For this reason we must speak again and again about the economic crisis in capi- talist couniries, about 10 how low a level the economy of these coun- tries has fallen, of how work in the cultural sphere is heine cut short, how the strucrle betwrer the exploiting and exnloited classes is becoming more and more intense. We must also speak of how the strugele between differ- ent countries is growing sharper, and the war anger increasing. “New facts continually show that the special meaning of the present economic crisis is comprehensible only if we realize that the general crisis of the canitelist system | developing before our eves is al- ready in its second decade. The process of the decav of capitalism is becoming intensified more and more. The crisis has affecte+ all capitalist countries. Not only indus- | try, but every branch of agricul- ture is passing through a veriod of crisis. The crisis has affected com- merce, credit. and all other phase: of economic life in capitalist coun- tries. “The level of industrial production has never fallen so low as in recent years, and in the past there was never a situation when the crisis Last has served its purpose. It has in-|lotov raised the fact that now cap- | Yea" brought no important changes creased bosses profit, workers, and kept wages down. The growing wave of strikes is aimed to block the intensified sharp attack of the Roosevelt government on the workers. Wages are being cut, the company union legalized, and an attempt to smash the Amer- ican Federation of Labor unions is under way. The Roosevelt government has | increased the terror against the | jn; | tural land was collectivized. Molo- | tov contrasted, amid intense inter- est on the part of the delegates, | |the situation in the Soviet Union, | whose production had more than | doubled in the last four years, with |of the United States is still 33 per | | the continued crisis and depression |in the capitalist countries. He ex- | plained this as one key to the in- | ternational situation. With certain circles abroad speak- | ig more and more openly of con- | etablished | italism was eliminated from indus- |", the develonment of the economic } company unions, speeded up the| try and nine-tenths of the agricul- lerisis, although the world level of industrial output has slightly risen. as compared with the previous year. “No country has yet reached the level of 1929. when the ceisis had only begun. The industrial output cent lower than in 1929. The level of industrial outout in France dur- ing 1934 fell even below that of 1933, and was 29 per cent lower than before the crisis, while Italy has suffered a decline of 20 per cent. workers in order to put over this | quest, war preparations, and the |Germany shows an increase in in- union smashing. The influence of the rank and file|on the Soviet Union has of the American Federation of | creased. Labor. in these strike preparations | phases of the peace policy of the | lower than in 1929. In Great Britain | the great role of |the industrial output approached the | the output of the gold mines in- In auto and in steel, the national pacts and non-aggression treaties, nearest to the 1929 level, but even | | officials of the American Federation though these is greater than ~in previous strikes. | Soviet Union, of Labor carrying out William |Germany and Japan. search for allies, the danger of war | in- | He described the many | were rejected by | The Soviet | Greens policies, are attempting to Union's policy for world peace was prevent the members of the unions loudly cheered by the Congress and | of industrial production in the Sov- from preparing strikes. local unions and the district organi- zations (as in the steel industry) through the strike preparations. It is the | likewise the Soviet Union’s entry | into the League of Nations. | | The evidence of the strength of | which are initiating and carrying | the Soviet Union and the unity of | | the country around its foreign | dustrial output during 1934, but. neveretheless the industrial produc- ion of Germany is 14 per cent here industry has not reached even pre-war levels. “At the same time the volume jet Union during 1934 comprised 239 per cent, 1929. “Altogether, the volume of world | industrial production, not counting Every day's developments point Policy was Molotov’s open warning | the Soviet Union, is still 24 ver cent to the correctness of the position of |'0 Japan and Germany that any |below the 1929 level. These facts Federation of Labor yank and file movement in the unions, for organizing the unor- ese unions, for strengthening em and making of them real or- | gans of class struggle. The rank and file in the American ; Union strives to maintain peace taking | with Japan and German: direction of the unions into their |clared. The delegates der ent Green and | their approval of this Co. frora leading these strikes in | toy Federation of Labor, by own hands, can prev ie to defeat them, the Communist Party in emphasiz-|#m to seize Eastern Siberia, as if z e | Publicly stated in some circles in | Japan, or such statements as Hit- |the necessary conclusions and act ler’s “Mein Kampf” contains about expansion eastward and at the ex- | pense of the Soviet Union, will | cause the Soviet Union to draw| accordingly. In spite of all this the Soviet de- rated Molo~ particularly mentioned the friendship with Turkey, and the , / fully confirm the conclusions of Comrade Stalin at the Seventeenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | Vast Unemployment | “The lowest point of decline in industry, the greatest depth of the | industrial crisis, were reached in 1932. After this period, the crisis entered the denression stage, a depression which differed from that | during former indutrial crises. Red Cavalry on Parade in Moscow as compared with | | Well Prepared Against All Its Enemies | that the peoples of the Soviet Union, | Occupied with peaceful endeavors are worthy of really reliable de- fenses on the frontiers of their country? (Applause.) “During the last few years we | have built no small number of for- tified districts, with necessary arms, on our Western and Eastern Fron- tiers. But these armaments can- not be transferred from our ter- ritory to the territory of other coun- tries. They are intended to resist attacking forces. Our navy is grow- ing as a result of the building of defensive types of vessel, mainly submarines, whose defensive signifi- cance is well known, Our artillery, | tanks and aviation forces are grow- |ing in number, and we must admit | we have worked with special inten- | sity in this respect. (Applause.) “Our country, where there was not and is not economic crisis, is separated from the capitalist countries, where crisis has caused and still causes tremendous cala- mities, by the frontier of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies. (Applause.) “The workers now see that in the capitalist countries, with any system of administration, from parliamentary to fascist, that economic crises, with their baneful . Tesults, are inevitable. And con- | Formerly the transition of the crisis |into depression was not on!: |first step towards emerging from the crisis, but also the signal for a new industrial boom. But we are not now dealing with the industrial depressions of the pre-war period, when capitalisma advanced through crisis to a new boom, but with a de- pression of a snecial type, inherent in decaying capitalism, capitalism une lin its last stages. “We are particularly interested to know how this affected the situation of the workers and peasants, of all) toilers. The number of those un-| employed in 1933 amounted to from twenty-two to twenty-three millions. At the end of 1934 the number of unemployed was unchanged, that is, not less than twenty-two millions. Even in the countries where the volume of industrial production in- creased during the last year, wages remained approximately at their previous level, or increased an in- significant amount. This means that wages were reduced for many em- ployed workers. Thus capitalism is attempting to clamber out of the crisis at the expense of the workers, at the expense of the toilers. “Regarding agriculture in the capitalist and colonial countries, the year 1934 was a year of widespread crop failure and also a year of fur- ther decline in animal husbandry. With the aim of forcing up the prices of produce for the landlords and kulaks, the bourgeois govern- ments frequently conduct a policy of the direct reduction of the sown area and the policy of abandoning | machine technique in agriculture. the crisis by this pressure at the | But they thus only doom agricul- ture to degradation. In this con- nection the situation of the peasant masses of the capitalist countries | ments. The relics of parliamenta-_ and colonies still further worsened. “Thus all that the ruling circles did to ameliorate the crisis in capi- talist countries was done at the expense of the peasants, at the ex- pense of the toilers, for the benefit | of the ruling exploiting classes, are Huge Soviet Growth | “After this it is not difficult to | compare the two lines of world de- | velopment. The rise in national | economy, steadily going ahead year after year is the path of the USSR, | the country constructing socialism. The crisis of industry and of the | entire national economy, continuing jover five years and, despite some | improvement, not opening up pros- | pects for new prosperity, is the path |of development of the capitalist ‘countries, the path of decaying capitalism. “We here in the Soviet Union al- ready show a considerable excess income beyond our expenditures, at \home as well as in foreign trade, which was not formerly true. Large debts which had accumulated abroad in the past, have been reduced to one-quarter in recent years, and |now our indebtedness cannot be | considered large. Along with this, creased six times during the last four years. All this radically changed our currency situation, and in gen- eral, our position on foreign mar- | kets. The Soviet Union, moreover, | paid all commercial obligations and ‘bills in full and on time. Everyone abroad well knows that when the | Soviet Union makes a commercial | agreement, it will pay on it, not by token payment, as is often the cus- tom nowadays in many bourgeois | countries, but will pay promptly, not. | in promises, but in cash. (Applause.) | It follows from this that now, more than ever, we have the possibility of ensuring normal conditions for |our foreign trade. | “But while developing political and commercial relations with other countries, the Soviet Union well understands the significance of a reliable defense of its borders. Who can deny that not a single country, small or large, has ever been threatened, or is threatened, with seizure by the Soviet Union? But on the other hand, who can deny \ cisely, they see that these evils are abolished in the country of socialism, The workers are now becoming convinced, not only by Marxist theory but by actual facts | before everyone’s eyes, which of | these social orders removes eco- | nomic crisis and opens up un- limited possibilities for economic and cultural improvement, “Just as Russia in 1917 with its Octeber revolution showed the path towards the termination of the world slaughter, drawing this country out of the war and thus saving mililons of people from death, so our country has shown during these last five years the way out of economic crisis and how the workers can attain this. (Leud applause.) Foreign Relations “Comparing the Soviet Union with bourgeois countries, especially during these last years, discloses the principles and world significance of the dictatorship of the proletariat of the U. S. S. R. as a state of steady economic and cultural im- provement, as the only state for which crises do not exist.” (Loud applause.) | Molotov passed on to the relations of the U. S. S, R. with the cap- italist countries and its struggles for peace. “There are no internal hindrances towards the further growth of our country,” said Molotov. “But mat- ters are dicerent with external hin- drances. The continuing crisis in may say, the political meaning of | capitalist countries has sharpened the danger of external complica- tions, the danger of war. In the search for a way out of the crisis and the long drawn-out depression the bourgeois classes are increasing their pressure on the workers and on the toilers. “The striving to clamber out of expense of the working classes and toiling peasants determines the in- ternal policy of bourgeois govern- rism and bourgeois democracy are being abolished, sometimes openly, sometimes in a concealed form. — | “The policy cf using direct vio- lence and terror against the toilers is becoming more and more popular with the bourgeoisie. This leads to a sharpening of the internal situa- tion of capitalist countries. At the same time, the relations between different capitalist nations are de- | veloping with increased intensity | in the direction of renewed struggles for foreign markets, passing more |and more frequently into commer- | cial and currency warfare, Pacifist | talk by bourgeois governments is | disappearing into the past. Pacifism |is no longer fashionable. In bour- geois countries the extreme im- | perialists among the business lead- lers are coming closer to the as- sumption of power, and are weigh- ing more and more openly the pros- pect of new wars for plunder, hoping to emerge from the crisis through war. | Steps Toward War “Despite the danger to them- selves of unleashing a new im- perialist war, the ruling classes in some capitalist countries have al- ready embarked upon active steps. Thus, Japan did not hesitate to make war upon China, occupied Manchuria, and. in general makes |itself at home in the country of the great Chinese people. Ger,- many, as well as Japan, has re- signed from the League of Nations, hiding the meaning of this policy from no one. This was done in order to set her hands free for in- creasing armaments and war prep- arations. Not long ago the well- known Washington Treaty, con- cluded thirteen years ago between America, England, Japan and other states, was shelved because this agreement began to serve as a hindrance in the race for naval armaments and for the preparation of new struggles in the Pacific. The diplomacy and foreign policy of bourgeois countries is being turned more and more to the sel-y.ion of allies for a new war to divide the world between the imperialist powers at the expense of the weaker countries. “We must reckon with the fact that the direct war danger for the U. S. 8. R. has increased. Some influential Japanese circles began Says That Soviets Are to speak openly of war against the Soviet Union a long time ago. We cannot forget, too, that several of the ruling parties of Europe openly jassert as their historic task the | seizure of territory in the Soviet | Union. Not to see the approach of |& new war means to close our eyes |to the chief danger at the present time. The Soviet Union replied to jthese threats primarily by in- | creased activity in the struggle for peace. Everyone knows how the on the question of non-aggression |pacts. During the period under re- port, the Soviet Union concluded pacts with the neighboring Baltic states and with a number of Eu- | Topean countries. The U. 8. 8. R. is not responsible for the failure to sign a non-ageression pact with Japan, | Soviet Peace Policy | | “The proposal of the U. S. 8. R. on the determination of an aggres- sor has become of the greatest im- portance, At international confer- ences, and in a number of interna- tional treaties, we may come upon | Statements about the necessity of taking special measures against the aggressor, the one who starts a war, but, despite all this talk, the governments of bourgeois countries | have not shown a desire to clearly state which should be considered as the attacking side, that is, the country responsible for the begin- ning of a war. Soviet diplomacy, because it is particulatly interested in guarding peace and in formulat- ing measures against military at- | tacks, had to take up this matter. | Soviet diplomacy fulfilled this task | with credit. (Applause.) We intro- duced such a proposal for discus- |sion at international conferences. In order that this matter should go | forward immediately in a practical manner, we proposed that a num- ber of countries sign such a pact; |that is, agreement on the deter- |mination of the aggressor. It is | well known that this pact has been | Signed by all states bordering the | Soviet Union in Europe, and also | by Turkey, Persia and Afghanistan. “We shall consider success in this matter as a step forward toward ensuring the peace of Europe. From all that has been said, it is evident | what is the basis of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. The basis of our foreign policy is the support of peace and the develop- ment of peaceful relations among | all countries. (Applause.) The role |of the U. 8. S. R. as a firm factor | for general peace is now widely | recognized. It has become the rule |that other countries appeal to the | Soviet Union when a question arises concerning the maintenance of peace. This is easy to understand. Not a single country, including the | smallest country on the borders of the U. S. S. R., has grounds to feel | uneasy regarding the Soviet Union, | which is a statement that cannot be made of the relations of some other big nations to their neigh- |bors. The authority and might of the workers’ and peasants’ state in international relations now serves one cause—the cause of general | peace. The Soviet Union has be- come the expression of the vital in- terests of the toilers of all countries in the sphere of international rela- tions. Whatever our class enemies the dictatorship of the proletariat ‘in the U. S. S. R. under conditions when the war danger becomes more and more real stands out more and more clearly. There is no more steadfast bulwark of peace through- out the world than our workers’ and peasants’ government.” (Applause, loud and prolonged.) A.F.L. Unions Plan Strikes In Auto Field (Continued from Page 1) workers and the management; (5) company unions, servicemen and spy agencies to be outlawed, no discrimination because of age, color, nationality or creed, senior- ity rights, compensation for occupa- tional diseases; (6) recognition of union shop contract. For General Strike “we call upon the National Coun- cil of our union to immediately convene a national auto workers’ conference with delegates from all our locals and invited representa- tives of all other unions to decide on a united general strike in the auto and auto parts industry.” de- clares the second main resolution |adopted by this conference. 'To show clearly that this is not | merely a gesture the resolution then goes on to outline a detailed pro- gram for starting these strike prep- arations at once in every city and plant. It calls for a wide discussion on the strike demands in the plants, demanding a strike fund from the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor and raising funds locally, for the setting up of united committees in every depart- ment combined on a plant scale to Jead these activities, the setting up of a broad organization committee in each city to lead a mass drive to organize the unorganized into the United Automobile Workers’ Union, that two weeks after the drive is well under way enlarged meetings of the City Councils should be held to finally ratify the strike demands and elect a negotia- tions Committee to present the demands to the companies. A combination of the rank and file elected organization committee and negotiations committee is em- powezed to set the strike date and issue the strike call according to the adopted resolution. The solid support of all locals for any indivi- dual plant strike is also called for. National Run Around In contrast to this militant pro- posal to start preparations for \ U.S. S. R. has taken the initiative | the United Automobile Workers of | America on the basis of a closed | ‘Drivers Ready For Restrike In New York (Continued from Page 1) the judge. But his decision to de- lay obviously was also prompted by a desire to give the shippers, truck- ing companies and the government more time to prepare a strikebreak- ing machinery and a move to halt the swinging start that the workers made. Meanwhile, the higher officials in the Brotherhood of Teamsters and International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation are already taking steps to direct the struggle of the workers into purely legal channels, and ap | peals to a higher court. Michael J. Cashal, vice-president of the team- sters, issued the following statement yesterday: “Members have told their griev- ances to us. They pointed out that hundreds of union chauffeurs have been discharged for refusal to ac- cept wage cuts since Judge Hum- | phrey’s opinion was given out. This | Condition, they felt, was spreading. They believed that Judge Humphrey was about to put them under an | injunction which would force them to work with non-union men and |that this would cause more dis- charges and wage cuts. They now realize that no injunction has been jissued against them yet. “We will do our utmost to pre- vent any recurrence of a strike, but we are very much afraid that if anyone tries to force them to work with non-union men, the situation may start all over a¢ain.” | During the months while the |hearings on the injunction were conducted, Joseph P, Ryan, presi- |dent of the I.L.A. and the officials of the teamsters have been doing jeverything in their power to arouse ja drive against “reds” in the union. |This was aimed chiefly against those militants who demanded a |mass struggle against the move to issue an injunction: Now they claim that technically the injunction is not in force yet, since it wasn’t signed. But during the weeks since the decision was made by Judge Humphrey, hundreds of workers have been fired, and wholesale wage-cuts have been attempted. Pointing out that the extension of the strike to every allied trade on the waterfront is of prime im- portance. the Rank and File Com- mittee of the L.A. in a leaflet is- sued during the strike. called upon the J.L.A. members to elect rank and file committees on everv dock to lead the fight against the in- junction. The workers are: called |uvon to demand that Rvan as head of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council call an emer- gency conference to organize the backing of the entire labor move- ment in the fight against the in- junction. Thousands of the Monday issue of the Daily Worker was distributed among the strikers, and in.virtually all cases the workers accented them with a friendly attitude. All team- sters reached by active militants and Communist Party members dis- tributing leaflets, and selling Daily Workers among them, have ex- pressed a determination fo strike next week. if necessary, consider- ing the strike Monday as only a preliminary demonstration. While activity hummed at all piers vesterday morning, the United Fruit Docks sti!l unorganized. and being picketed daily, were picketed with still greater intensity. The Orizaba could not sail on that ac- count. * Kaises Revolt Bogey Taking an example from the pol- icy of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce during the West Coast strike, Percy Magnus, presi- dent of the New York Board of Trade in a letter to Mayor La- Guardia yesterday, characterized the strike of the truckmen as “in- cipient revolution,” and demands greater police mobilization other- wise troops will be requested. “An open, brazen and highly publi- cized effort has been made to intimi- date the Supreme Court of the state,” he said. “The economic aspect of yesterdays strike is insignificant in comparison with the direct thrust at the foundations of American government. A strike against a de- cision of a court is revolution.” strikes in all cities one delegate read some dozen letters from govern- ment officials, research bureaus, William Green, etc., giving his local the National Run Around over a period of eight months in trying to get discrimination cases adjusted. The section of Green’s letter cau- tioning the local not to strike but to try to peacefully adjust the mat- ter was greeted with laughter by the delegates. For International Union Regarding the next steps in the struggle to build up one Interna- tional Industrial Union within the American Federation of Labor, con- trolled by the rank and file and pasing itself on a struggle policy the conference decided: ‘ 'To reaffirm its previous decisions for the International. To start a petition drive in every local upon the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. to grant an In- ternational charter. To address an open letter to the next meeting of the National Coun- cil of the union which meets Feb. 23 in Detroit and to send a delega- tion to this meeting to take up the question of immediately calling a constitutional convention to launch the International Union (adopt a constitution, elect International officers, etc.). Before adjourning the conference received and adopted a financial report and decided that its next session would be held in Toledo, Ohio with ‘the date 07 the session to be set by the Clavelind committee, i