The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DATLY WORKER. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1995 | HAT kind of a man is magazine “Liberty” of the Commu Whois thin % htly the peddling of filth and dirty pictures Listen to the verdict of the Federal Court in the case of Macfadden vs. The United States: Macfadden) convicted upon sufficient evidence. ... The story on “The defendant (Bernarr this Bernarr Macfadden whose this week howls for the blood s as “poisoning the schools” defender of “our youths in which the conviction is based is suggestively lewd and bad. ... It plainly caters toa prurient taste... associated as it is. with certain articles on physical culture ... to which ... no clean bill of health can be given, as well as the articles and advertisements there to be found . .. it is capable of doing incalcul- able harm since it is intended to circulate among the young. ... We are clear that the publication is their formative per whose minds, he fears, are being “contaminated by Communism’’? He is a convicted peddler of obscenity and pornog- raphy, condemned by the bosses’ own Federal Court as a poisoner of the minds of the young! e is a millionaire who got fat on quackery and deprave and corrupt.” was Supreme Court. Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) | “America’s Only Working Class Dafly Newspaper” | FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, \ith and F St., Washington, D. G_ Telephone: National 7910. | Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 708, Chicago, Ti Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Poreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; $3.00, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents mail, ear, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1935 Plain Language T IS becoming more evident every day that the whole trend of the Roosevelt New Deal is leading to fascism in this country. “The charge that the New Deal is heading for fascism is well founded.” ex- claims Lawrence Dennis, former Charge d’ Affaires for the government at Rumania, Honduras and Nicaragua. Dennis is openly organizing fascism in this country. “But what of it,” he asks. “Some form of state intervention is necessary. Com- munism would liquidate everybody... .” No plainer language is needed to de- scribe just what is happening and why. The “state intervention” of the New Deal is preparing the way for fascism in order to smash the revolutionary labor move- ment to protect Wall Street profits, “Liqui- date everybody?” True enough, Commu- nism would liquidate wage cuts, the open shop, speed-up, and the police terrorism against the working class. Communism would liquidate the Wall Street bankers, employers and landlords, the crew of para- sites now riding on the backs of the work- ers, and their profit sys Denni’s calm prediction of fascism in America is a warning that cannot be ig- nored. The building of the united front of all workers to defeat this monster is a life and death necessity. Delay means aid- ing the advance of fascist starvation, ter- ror and murder. Roosevelt’s Relief Bill USHED through Congress by the Roose- velt machine under a gag rule, the Roosevelt relief bill, which gives the Presi- dent unlimited powers in the administra- tion of relief, will not receive public hear- ings. The relief bill, intended to run for a two-year period, carries a rider limiting average relief wages to slave rates, will drive still lower the wages of the em- ployed, and provides for jobs for not more than one out of every five of the unem- ployed. In any event, the full plan will not become operative before one year has passed, The bill will mean the setting up of a huge political machine, and tightens poli- tical control of relief in the hands of the capitalist parties. Obviously, the whole program is rushed at this time to conceal the actual provi- sions of the Wagner-Lewis Bill, Roosevelt’s long promised “social security” measure, which gives not one penny to the jobless and plunders the pay envelopes of the working population. Every supporter of the fight for genuine unemployment insurance should be spurred into instant action behind the Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827. Deluge Wash- ington with demands for real unemploy- ment insurance—the Workers’ Unemploy- ment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827! A Long Way From Marx IHE editor of the New Haven Journal- Courier describes the understanding be- tween the Socialist Party and the Repub- lican Party as the “strange union of Mark Hanna and Karl Marx.” But the Bridgeport Sunday Herald of January 27 hastens to reassure Connecti- cut’s employers, bankers and_ landlords, that “The Socialist Party of Jasper Mc- Levy in Connecticut is a long way from Karl Marx.” What do Socialist Party workers think ) of the praise which a capitalist paper showers on a Socialist Party leader be- cause he has brought his state organiza- tion “a long way from Karl Marx”? The basis of Marxism struggle. Even the capitalist press recognizes that McLevy has long since given up any intentions of waging any class struggle, through economic and political fights, against the employers and capitalism. The bond of the class struggle is the United Front between Socialist and Com- munist workers, not with the Republican Party. United action of all workers fighting their common enemy—for relief and un- employment insurance, against fascism and war, this is the goal of united front which the Communist propose and work for. is the class Two Lenin Meetings N NEW YORK thousands of workers were delighted and deeply moved by the excellent arrangement of the Lenin memorial meeting at which Comrade Browder spoke. In Chicago thousands of workers came to the Lenin Memoria! meeting, eager to hear the message of Lenin. Letters sent to us complain of the poor arrangements of the meeting, the lateness of the open- ing, the too-great length of the speeches, and other deficiencies. It is clear that a serious attention to details, and a determination to overcome the faults of the past, enabled the New York district to win the sympathy of many new workers, and to bring thou- sands closer to the Communist Party. The inspiring results of the New York meeting should point the way to all other sections of the country. Beginning strictly on time, restricting meetings to reason- able lengths, and the other details of or- ganization are political tasks which must be attended to if we are to win the masses for the program of Lenin. A Criminal SIXTEEN year old worker’s son was caught stealing twenty pounds of groceries. There are seven in the family. The father is crippled by an industrial accident for which he gets no compensation. The family, like millions of other work- ‘ing class families, is starving. A capitalist judge sentenced this boy to carry twenty pounds of brick 24 miles every day, or be sent to jail for three years! It is with such refined cruelty that capitalist judges, the watchdogs of capi- talist property, act against workers. Who is the criminal? The starving worker’s son, or the capitalist class and its court hirelings on the bench? Thousands of New Readers HE publication by the Daily Worker of the behind-the-scenes picture of the financial backing, intrigues and conspir- acies of the American fascist movement is a surpassing opportunity for every worker engaged in seeking subscriptions for the Daily Worker—for every Daily Worker seller. Letters to the Daily Worker reveal the all-absorbing interest which the articles have to the American worker. Thousands of regular readers and subscribers should be the fruit of their publication. Subscription getters and other Daily Worker sellers need but see that thev cive the series the widest publicity, that they thoroughly acquaint workers with the articles’ content, that they show what the plots revealed mean to the American worker, to gain thousands of new readers for the Daily Worker. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party, NAME.......s000006 See eeeeereeseserecesececcons ADDRESS....... teeeeee lewd, obscene, and lascivious . | R.R., and metal shops. | be members of the A. | other unions. | pledge to bring back to the Party | state how many, but at least 50/ | 2, 1935. | lenge between these two sections. | trade union members in their frac- | tions should increase their recruit- ing from the unions. | in the southland of Section 4, (pre- | Party. To set a definite objective | We pledge to recruit and keep 40 .. the tendency is to And this verdict was upheld by the United States Even the hard-boiled, corrupt capitalist courts, Party Life Recruiting Challenges Cleveland Pledges Another Challenge Cleveland Dstrict N DEC. 15, Section 1 issued ridden with graft and servility to profit, could not stomach this vulgar peddler of pornography! Hitler-Fascism has Horst Wessel, the homosexual Roehms and Goerings. Ame able voice in the yellow He faddens. The Communism which which they wish to drown rican fascism finds its suit- arsts and the gutter Mac- they hate and fear, and in blood, is the liberating movement of the working class, the millions who now toil and get nothing for th security and oppression, eir toil but starvation, in- Communism is the mortal foe of these exploiters who hope to smash the trade unions, lower wages, en- slave the masses with ignorance, lies and terrorism, in a fascist-military dictatorship. || THE REAL BABY KILLER a challenge on recruiting new members to Section 4 up to Jan. 20. In the comment of the District in forwarding the | | letter to section we have asked that Section 4 when accepting, | the challenge of Section 1 should be more specific. Section 1 was very vague in for- | mulating the question. They chal- lenged Section 4 to recruit “more” members, not indicating from where | and how many. The following is the | answer from Section 4: | “To Section Committee of Sectior 1, | “Dear Comrades: “Section Committee of Section 4 received your challenge in the re- cruiting drive and discussed the same at the last meeting. We de- cided to accept your challenge and in our drive pay main attention to recruiting from A. F. of L. unions, “We undertake to recruit at least | 50 new members by Jan. 20, 1935, | out of these at least 20 per cent to F. of L. or “We pledge to increase our dues | payments compared with the last three months in 1934. We also members who dropped out. during | the last nine months. We will not| per cent of these on or before April | “We further pledge to recruit and keep more members than your sec- tion by April 2, 1935. Our objective | is to recruit at least 70 new mem- bers in the territory south of North | Ave. before April 2 and to establish | a new section there. “Comradely yours, “SECTION ORGANIZER.” antes ae We are glad to see these chal-| lenges, although coming late in the | drive. We will keep all sections in- formed as to the status of this chal- | But it is already clear that the re- | cruiting in both sections is proceed- | ing too slowly to achieve the quota by January 20, The standing date is: Recruited 12-22 12-29 1-2 | Section 1 0 0 4—4 Section 4 2 0 2—4 We also want to ask Section 4 why only 20 per cent of the recruits to be from the trade unions, when 50 per cent of those that have so far registered in Section 4 are mem- bers of unions? A little more at- tention to the function of these Another Challenge in Section 4 This one is from Unit 495 and reads as follows: “To Units 407, 710, 415, “Dear Comrades: “Unit 405 believes that it is prac- tical to recruit sufficient members sumablly for the purpose of building & separate section there—Org. Dept.) and that such a step would greatly | benefit our Party and the workers, “Therefore we challenge the above units that we will recruit more members than they do by Jan. 20 and continuing till April 2, and that we will keep more members in the members by April 2nd.” To accomplish this, Unit 405 must recruit at least three members each week, which does not reflect itself in Section 4 recruiting, who have | Tecruited altogether four members | | in three weeks. | United Front Pact Is Made | In Vancouver VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 29. — | Giving an example to the whole | Dominion of Canada and making an historic stride forward in the fight for the united front of the entire Canadian working class movement, the Socialist and Communist Parties of the province of British Columbia have formed a united front to fight | against the denial of votes to relief camp workers by the Bennett gov- ernment. |The agreement concluded between the two parties in this province lays | down the line for a united campaign against the provisions of the last | Federal Election Act, carried through by the Bennett government, | don’t know about it. | which is a blow to the civil rights | of all Canadian workers, k ROBERT F DAVIS ace & DIED oF THE PROF! Macfadden, ‘School Defender,’ Fined for Dirty Pictures SPOKESMAN FOR FASCIST VIOLENCE AGAINST COMMUNISTS CONDEMNED BY HIS OWN CAPITALIST SUPREME COURT AS POLLUTER OF THE YOUTH The triumph of the proletarian revolution in the Soviet Union has swept into tory all these capitalist robt spokesmen. Under the banner of Communism, the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union a happy, free life, with unemployment and exploitation gone forever! The menace of the Macfaddens, Hearsts and Cough- It threatens not only the revo- lins is a fascist menace. lutionary vanguard of the wor Party, but through this, it th and enslave the whole life of the country. Build the united front and degenerates! by Burck Ks SYSTEM GEORGE SMITH ace 3 peo OF EXPOSURE Letters From Our Readers Each Reader Becomes Red Builder Battle Creek, Mich. Comrade Editor: As a reader of the Daily Worker, I cannot imagine how a worker's home can be without the Daily Worker. Our staff of editors has proven its ability to edit the work- | ~ ers’ press. When I read such articles as the | Wells-Stalin conversation, and) Dutte’s Teachings of Lenin, I al- ways look around for someone to give my paper to. But that does not help much. If we supply our friends with literature and paper free, they will not value it, as they think that what is free is not good. | And so time goes on and our paper | stays at the same number of} readers. Therefore I have another plan. | Let every reader survey his neigh- | borhood and pick out ten different people whom he would like to in- troduce the “Daily” to. The names of these people should be sent to, the Daily Worker and each one of | them should receive a sample copy with an introductory letter and sub- scription blank. I do believe in this | way we could double our circula~ tion and our paper would be reach- ing every corner of the U.S.A. When this has been done, it will not be hard to talk Communism. “Why Communism” A Masterpiece Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I am not a book reviewer. In fact, I am not a writer of any kind. Yet here I am, writing, and nothing can stop me. I must express my enthusiastic admiration for M. J. Olgin’s pamphlet, “Why Commu- nism?” I do not know of any piece of lit- erature worthier to be called mas- terpiece than this pamphlet. If ever an author succeeded in conveying a thought, an ideal, a truth, in such perfection, as Olgin succeeded in his page ninety-six page pamphlet, I If I had the possible means, I would buy a large quantity of these Because of the yolume 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, pamphlets and distribute them free to the masses. For I firmly believe that it is impossible for anybody ‘to read this pamphlet and not become a Communist. The exceptions would be those who, enjoying special privi- leges under capitalism, and having no heart to feel others’ miseries, re- fuse to become Communists. To you, Comrade Olgin, I extend the heartiest handshake. May you live to see the fruits of your labor. ¥. FF. Eminent Attorney Sells Everything New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Max D, Steuer, eminent legal light, speaking recently at Temple B’nai Jeshurun, advocated the ac- ceptance of restricted matricula- tion in the event that American universities establish entrance quo- tas. (See item N. Y. Times, Decem- ber 31, 1934, entitled, “Race Quotas upheld in Law and Medicine.”) In giving such counsel, Mr. Steuer convicted himself of the gravest charge, by bourgeois standards, that can be levelled against a lawyer, namely, that he “sells his clients.” His hearers had a right to expect something better than that of him. How did he dare to advise them to submit supinely to injustice? How can a prospective student’s religion or lack of it determine his fitness to enter the professions? | Tammanyite and opportunist that | he is, Steuer is far more interested | in feathering his own nest than in maintaining a principle. When it serves his own purpose to do so, he | like many another Democratic dem- agogue, forgets all about “America, Mike Gold’s Column Hits the Spot Comrade Editor: Mike Gold's articles knock me “ku ku,” as my native Southern friends express themselves. I send them marked in the Daily Worker to some of my friends, and believe me, between what he, the rest of the Daily Worker and I have to say, all is sure having its effect. Most of my contacts are working. Some are teachers, state workers, domestic workers and white collar workers, with quite a few shop workers who are getting mad as hell about these damnable slave chains. Mike's articles hit the spof with me better than any of the other comrades who contribute to the Daily Worker, although I always liked the cartoon and the last col- umn of the last page very much. Some time back he had an article about “brotherly love.” I had just. answered one of my _ religious friends on this subject, and when I got his article I never rested until T sent it to her. Revolutionary spirit is felt in every one of his columns, and as time passes I expect that they will continue to grow better and to be- come a driving force in the course of the proletarian revolution. #H.S. Oroville, Calif. Protest Radio Lies About Communists Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editoz: I listened last night to The March of Time, a regular weekly feature over station WABC sponsored by Remington-Rand. They showed the way Lenin and Zinoviev were exiled from Russia during Kerensky’s regime and that Lenin looked up to Zinoviev for advice, and how today Zinoviev is getting a “raw deal” in Russia under the dictatorship of the big bad man Stalin. Each Friday night this program tells the most vicious lies about Com- munism, and now they are playing it as a feature in the movies. the melting-pot of the nations.” I. Ss. Lets them hear from us! A COMRADE. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst “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.” sah —ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ! td the garbage dump of his- pers and their degenerate are marching forward to king class, the Communist reatens to pollute, debase against these murderers |World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— Two Congresses | Molotoy’s Speech Anti-Soviet War Plans Kees in mind the hypo- critical hooey of Roose velt’s message to the current U. S. Congress, we urge all readers not to miss reading jevery word of today’s exe clusive and full report on Comrade Molotov’s keynote speech to the 7th Soviet Congress which ‘pened in Moscow Monday. / Among the 1,974 Soviet represen- tatives, coming from every factory in the land of Socialism and the collective farms there were no Con- | gressmen such as you find in Wash- ington representing the duPonts, the Morgans, Raskobs, Mellons. In the Soviet Union the class for which the Hearsts and the Roose- velt’s speak have been driven out and every drop of fetid economie | soil that could possibly produce them is being destroyed forever. In other words, the proletarian dictatorship against which Mr, Hearst rants so furiously declares that only the toilers of hand or brain, those who build society and provide the necessities of life and culture, shall have the right to vote and rule, Rie heap ND the contrast of the two Con- gresses is shown in every phase of life. While production in the United States, the most advanced capitalist country in the world, is 35 per cent below the 1929 figure, in the Soviet Union, the country of the proletaran dictatorship, produc- tion is 139 per cent above 1929. Nor js that all. The United States has been in crisis over five years, Recently there has been a rise in production in the United States. But what was the effect? Profits in some instances doubled and tripled. But unemployment in some instan- ces doubled and tripled. On the whole the wages and standards of living of the workers were driven down. In the USSR. every ad- vance in production means an ad- vance in living standards, security and cultural advance for the masses, “We cannot speak too much about the crisis in the capitalist world,” declared Molotov. Never in the history of capitalism has there been such a devastating crisis, he pointed out. No matter if produc- tion in some countries does move above the lowest level—that is the lowest level in all their history— still it does not proceed along the path to prosperity. In fact, the course of capitalist economy creates so many new contradictions that its path leads only to fascism and war, s 8 8 IN the Soviet Union, Molotov re- ported, all capitalist elements have been eliminated entirely in industry, and nine-tenths of agri- culture has been collectivized. Socialist construction in the So- viet Union is bringing to 170,000,000 people not only a greatly improved material life, and the perspectives for the quickest development to the ‘highest standard of living the world has ever known, but it has in- creased the cultural outlook far beyond anything that can be seen on the black horizon of capitalist decay. Molotov's speech is too rich in content, in facts, in political signi- ficance to be dealt with adequately in this short column. Even the Daily Worker lengthy cable is only a resume of this speech, the full text of which will be published later. ae iM We want to deal now only with two more issues brought up by Comrade Molotoy. First, is the warning to the capitalists of the whole world, particularly to Japan- ese imperialism and German fas- jcism, that the Soviet Union has built up its mighty arm of defense to an extent which, with the help of the proletariat in the capitalist lands, will hurl any invader from the strong borders of the workers’ fatherland. The Soviet Union ceaselessly strives for peace—as ceaselessly a3. Hitler drives to war and the Jap- 'amese imperialists openly declare their intentions of slicing up parts of the Soviet Union. But no worker should for a moment forget the fact that the capitalist world can never rest con- tent, can never for a moment stop its active preparations for an at- tempted destruction of the Soviet Union, The very advance of So- cialism counterposed to the deeper decay of capitalism is the motivat- ing force which drives the capitalist rulers to undertake plans for this major and what they consider de- cisive war of all human history. And out of this grows the fervid defense of the capitalists for ever¥ counter-revolutionary clique that even by a hair’s-breadth tries to weaken the proletarian dictatorship and its stalwart leadership, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and its general staff headed by Joseph Stalin.