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SSE RS FSIS SE ST TEETER MEINE ASTOR DACRE, SA RS ECRINEEED OTR EE PRPIOIT A SE RE EE TEESE NERF REI SS PNR: AORN ee ete OMNES ENN SENS SAO } j SOCIALISTS’ STAND IN FAVOR OF 2827 HAILED BY AMTER connii ton ree Unemployment Council Spirit of 29 Who Leader Lands Fighting Signed Resolution in Support of Workers Bill By I. There were seventy-three Socialists at the Amter National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, of whom five attended as delegates of the Socialist Party. One of these delegates is a state secretary of the Socialist Party, Maine; three are members of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Colo- vado. All of them are prominent and active in Socialist Party affaars in their states and communities. One of them, Broadus Mitchell, & professor at John Hopkins Uni- versity, and was the candidate of the S. P. for governor of Maryland in the last elections. In his speech at the Congress, Mitchell said: “While I do what lies in my Power to convince those of my party of the necessity of joining hands with every group which espouses these principles and these objects, I shall not cease to speak ‘o the widest audience that will listen to me, asking for a united front.” This statement was greeted by the Congress with warm applause. In view of the rabid position of the “old guard” Socialists on the united front—no united front with the Communists and militant workers, but with the bureaucrats of the A. F. of L.—the position cf Mitchell deserves commendation. All Active in Mass Work But more significant than this speech was the declaration of twen- ty-nine Socialist delegates from eleven siates. All of these delegates are active in mass work in their cities. All of them feel the urge and demand of the rank and file of the Socialist Party for the united front with the Communists first of all. All of them know the need of the united front as expressed by the workers in all struggles, All of them know that the fight for the Work- ers’ Bill is not a fight of ideas alone, but a life and death problem for the whole working class. They re- flect this struggle and expressed it in the following declaration at the National Congress: “Resolution passed by the So- cialist Pary members, delegates to the National Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance from Socialist locals, state execu- tive committees, districts, or from unemployed or other organiza- tions, and members of the Social- ist Party who are visitors to the Congress: “We, delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, representing entire Socialist locals, districts or committees, or unemployed _or organizations, or as visitors to the congress, want to go on record as endorsing the program of the con- gress, + “We pledge our support to carry out the principles and actions pro- posed by the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance, to work in our respective locals and organizations for the adoption of the bill, and for the success of the work started by this congress. Basis for United Front “We believe that this congress contains the basis for a broad united front of all workers and farmers. [Emphasis ours.] Signed: Broadus Mitchell, Baltimore, Md.; Leslie A. Richards, State Executive Committee, Mass.; F. H. Maxfield, State Secretary, Maine; E, P. Ormsbee, Committee, R. I.; George Barber, Somei ville, Mass.; Milton Pogorelskin, Washing- ton, D. C.; Fred Haug, Irvington, N. J.; Joseph Massida, Lynn, Mass.; F. S, Kid- neigh, Denver, Colo.; Howard Carwile, Washington, D. C.; Charles FP. Morrissey, Camden, N. J.; Spencer Kimball Binyton, Brooklyn, N. ¥.; Sam Spero, Jacksonville, Fla.; William Winters; Wilie Sue Glagden, Boston, Mass.; John J. Neads, Pittsburgh, Waldo McNutt, Secretary National Youth Congress; Doyle Glosner, New Castle, Pa.; Albert W. Smoyer; Lawrence Fritch, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; John Toces- ter; J. J. Vanecek, Cleveland, O.; Chas. M. Sandwick, Bethlehem, Pi Hardy, Camden, N. J.; Conrad V. Rheiner, member at large, Maine; Mrs. Mary B. Nelson, Reading, Pa.; Jack Ligg, Fayette City, Pa.; Lester Ruffner, Luray, Va.; E. J. Manuel, Rileysville, Va. This declaration is most signifi- cant, The Congress was based upon the idea of the united front of all organizations in the struggle for a common aim—the enactment of a genuine unemployment and _ social insurance bill. When the National Unemployment Council issued the call for the formation of the Na- tional Sponsoring Committee, it in- vited also the Socialist Party, and WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Answer the vicious lies of Hearst and his press. Answer the lies of all enemies of the Soviet Union. Come to the Mass Meeting on Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. at Broad St. Mansion, S.W. cor, Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers. Adm. 20c. Aus- pices, Friends of the Soviet Union. February 3nd and 3rd, Scottsboro Tag Days. All organizations are asked to send volunteers to the I. L. D. Sta- tions in their territory to help raise funds. Auspices LL.D., 49 N. 8th Street, Room 207. Dance Friday night, February 1, Gar- rick Hall, 507 8. 8th St., for Work- ers School. Special Night Club Dance Orchestra, entertainment, refresh- ments. Adm. 25¢. Register now for all classes at Phil- adelphia Workers School, 908 Chest- nut St. Office open from 1 to 8 p.m, Term opens Monday, Feb. 4. Attend the Liebknecht - Luxemburg Memorial and Scottsboro Protest Meeting, Friday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m. at Liberty Hall, 2109 Columbia Avenue. Clarence Hathaway will be main speaker. A gala program has been arranged. Auspices, Young Commu- nist League. Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. is holding an affair Feb. 3 at Vasa Hall, 11th and John Ave. Good program, refresh- ments, dancing. Chicago, Ill. ORGANIZATIONS ATTENTION—The Friends of the New Masses is giving a bill for the benefit of the New ‘Masses on Friday, March 1 in the Grand Ballroom of the Steuben Club. Kindly keep this date open, state committees of the S. P., especially Norman Thomas, in addi- tion to Socialist controlled organi- zations to join in organizing the Congress. All of them refused to cooperate. None of the national leaders and only few of the state leaders, during the course of the preparations of the Congress, agreed to participate in the Congress. Nevertheless, there was a goodly number of Socialists at the Con- gress, some of them officially del- egated by their Socialist organiza- tions. The statement which they issued rings with the conviction that the united front can be formed and “this Congress contains the basis for a broad United Front of all workers and farmers.” Wage Terror Against Workers We do not expect the “old guard” leaders of the Socialist Party to consider this anything but heresy that has no place in the Socialist Party. of terror against the rank and file that is fighting and carrying out the united front with the Commu- nists is becoming history. But we ask Mr. Norman Thomas, who talks about the united front; who knows that in some parts of the country there is open rebellion against the policy of the national leadership of. the Socialist Party, which rejects the united front on a national scale; and who knows that the united front is being formed de- spite the position of the state com- mittees under “old guard” control— we ask Thomas: Why have you not the courage to fight for these rank and filers? Why have you not the courage to fight for your openly expressed position? The “old guard,” O'Neal, Waldman, Lee, Cahan, do the fighting. Their position is clear. Waldman praises Roosevelt’s “social security” program, and calls upon Socialists and progressives to sup- port it. Is this the position of the | national leadersnip of the Socialist Party? Does it also endorse the Roosevelt “social security” program? If not, then why does it not fight against it? Why does it not crack down on the “old guard,” who rep- resent the most reactionary senti- ment in the country? Fight United Front The answer to this surrender policy of Thomas, Hapgood, etc., is being given by the local and state organizations — organizations that not only accept the united front, as Thomas and Hapgood pretend to do, but FIGHT for it. The Congress “contains the basis for a broad united front of all work- ers and farmers.” Twenty-nine So- cialists from eleven states signed the resolution — Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. These workers not only saw in the Con- gress the basis for a united front of workers and farmers, but pledged to “work in our respective locals and organizations for the adoption of the bill (Workers Bill H. R. 2827), and for the success of the work started by this Congress.” support of the Workers Bill, The struggle for the Bill will be a struggle also against the Lees, Wald- all who capitulate to their policies. The struggle will raise many issues —issues that were touched upon by many delegates at’ the Congress. This was brought out in sharp form by Comrade Earl Browder, who pointed out the possibility of a Labor party in this country and the will- ingness of the Communist Party to cooperate in the formation of such a Party based upon the immediate burning needs of the masses and having its organizational base in the trade unions, the unemployed and farm organizations, etc. A fighting labor party—not the “labor party” proposed by Waldman and O'Neal, a party made up of them- selves and the reactionary burocrats of the A. F. of L., a party to sup- port the program of Roosevelt, as Waldman has done. Will the National Congress go in this direction? Although this does not concern here, we know that the struggle for the Workers’ Bill, the struggle against the use of Section ‘A, against labor the struggle of the farmers, the struggle for Negro rights, will link us together more closely, Afraid of Old Guard? How then explain that Paul Ras- mussen, Socialist, member of the state executive of the Ilinois Work- ers Alliance, refused to sign the So- cialist resolution, because, although he agreed with it in general, he dis- agreed with the last sentence. But the last sentence is only a general- ization of the call for the Congress. It is only an emphatic repetition of the foregoing parts of the resolution. Why did Ramuseen refuse to sign? Is it because the “old guard” controls Tlinois—and the young fellows, fol- lowing the manner of Thomas, do not dare to defy their “old guard” leaders? In the other states they do defy them because they are fighting for 2 principle—a working-class principle. We hail the fighting spirit of the twenty-nine Socialists. The Commu- nists in the localities where they live, must cooperate wholeheartedly with them in mobilizing the rest of the Socialists, in penetrating the unions, unemployed and other or- ganizations, in broadening the united front in a victorous struggle for the Workers’ Bill and for working-class unity, The “old guard’s” campaign | The work of the Congress was in| mans and O'Neals, as well as against | WAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TAURSDAY. TANCARY 9, 1535 Fascist Groups Seek To Ensnare Veterans, ‘Daily’ Interview With Curran Reveals ORFERED TO WINNER — OF ‘SUB’ CONTEST |in other words, not unemployed vet- erans, not rank and file leaders. L, is . . . “of some substance.” Em- | met J. Larkin, New York state com- |mander, owns a large upstate mail | order house and several stores. The |Mational officers include Louis T. | Grant. A gentleman by the name |of Louis T. Grant, presumably the same, was appointed director of the Federal Veterans’ Bureau in 1925. Others are J. St. Claire Favrot of Louisiana, lawyer-cog in the Demo- cratic machine; and several bearing | military titles. The very physical pattern and Program of this organization pre- |pare it for the Fascist mold. Un- |doubtedly a great number of the |membership, sincerely opposed to the anti-labor program of the bank- jers, do not realize that its leader- |ship, while supposedly opposed to the bankers, in reality is working for them. Pre-Hitler Program The very fact that business and inducing working class veterans to |Organize in such a group, devoted ostensibly to “the oppressed,” and flinging out phrases about reform, |but not even promising specific an- swers to their immediate or ultimate needs, is evidence of the advance of the Fascist offensive. It is typical of the pre-Hitler and pre-Mussolini days. So is the present effort to typically Fascist. The platform, reproduced with | this article, calls for the immediate |redemption of United States bonds following the issuance of currency notes backed by “scientifically and |correctly valued” gold. It calls for |a Central Bank and the elimination jof the Federal Reserve System, | along with “fads, theories, Dictator- | ships, Brain Trusts,” ete. While all | this may seem to be contradiction |and confusion. it is clear on one point: it would mean inflation and |plenty of it. It would amount to printing press inflation form calls for “heavy taxation—for |public safety and welfare—on all |concentrated wealth to reduce swol- len fortunes,” something which sounds like “radical” taxation of the rich, but which might be merely |® restriction of such taxation to | the needs of whatever “public safety |and welfare” needs the big bankers who control Congress decide. While the whole program is full of muddled language which might be interpreted as a reflection of the confusion of its writer, this much is strikingly clear; it evades unem- ployment insurance, the right to strike and every other hard-won and oft-defended right of the work- ing class. But—Who Pays? Knowing that the Veterans’ Vot- ers’ League membership is non-dues paying, I asked Dr. Curran who finances the national organization expenses. “Each Congressional district at- tends to its own wants,” he said. “But you have a national organ- ization. Who pays for sending out your literature and correspond- ence?” “Well,” he hedged again, “we de- liberately belittled the national idea to make our organization local.” “Just what do you want to get through your third party?’” I in- quired. “Currency reform! A Central bank! Eliminate the private banker out of control of the American peo- ple’s living standards!” he said. Long in Politics Dr. Curran’s emphasis shook his | fleshy figure. He is a former presi- dent of the King’s County Lawyers’ Association, Brooklyn, He has been honorary member of several District Democratic Clubs, and acted like a Tammany ward heeler. “Why eliminate just the bank- ers?” I asked. “Don’t the indus- trialists actively hold down the workers’ living standards?” “The banker is the one that’s re- sponsible for all the trouble in America. He controls credit and won't give us any.” “How much new money and credit do you want?” “Well, “We could issue new money on half that amount and have an adequate currency, and people could start getting one leg out of the grave.” Would Cut Wages The issuance of such an amount of paper money would mean rock- eting prices, leaving the worker in the hole with a wage which, his- torically, never keeps up with ascending prices. It would mean much greater misery to the work- ing and salaried people. “What will your organization do to defend the rights of the people from the immediate threats?” I |asked. “What will you do to de- fend the right to strike?” | “Why,” he hedged, “I understod influential military-minded men are|_ jbring in farmer and worker mem-| |bership—on a program even more | The plat-| Savings deposits call for | $42,000,000,000,” he replied casually. | 2 To thereatear scieetiically and correctly value said Gok 1} US. Treasury thereupon to ise Currency sates is the redeem by purchase ALL Interes-Bearig. Tax Exempt U with its “national commander, COMPLET FARUER.LABOR-VETERAM PARTY, rat | SEEKS TO ENSNARE THE VETERANS And so the leadership of the V. V./ PLATFORM the | Smmediate Nationalization and Tile by Purchase with US. Corrency of al Manetary Gold 2 US at $0060 a2 ounce * ounce—for what is worth at the present rine ato OF SS. to $1. t= Gold. With said gold secured Carteney 5. Bonde Balance of Currency on hand tn he promptly spread et nmonger the people tn the form of public improvements, Soldiers’ Bonut tte. et t U.S to ows and control » Central Bank to execute ALL the Basking 5 Blieination of Fada, Theories, Ditstorships: Brain Trusts: Surphon Bure 4 to the Practices and Procedure of our UL. S. Constittion: Congress ns af the Government Private Bankers disguised as Federal Re surpluses and ceserves—the huge profits made tnd private gain. We favor, wherever possible rath to reduce awolhen Inemonen 18. Democrats and Republicans are both alte. Theie rotation in office in w sham. A Third Party is easetial to restore Government to the people: ad pot the Bankers in their place ‘Sapper ie Mattos by joining the Parmer-Lator: Veteran Party, compomd of Loyal Americans who love thir Constry ADORED: S48 BROADWAY. NEW YORK <2 The “platform” of the Veterans’ Voters’ League. Marguerite Young describes the fascist purposes of this outfit in an interview Edward T. Curran. ‘FRIEND’ OF VETS | | | | | | EDWARD T. CURRAN National Commander of “Veter- ans’ Voters’ League.” everybody had the right to strike— to walk out if he wants to.” “But the right to quit isn’t the right to strike. Don’t you know |that the theoretical ‘right’ is no right at all when strikers are at- tacked by armed strikebreakers, armed vigilantes working with the police and troops?” | “Oh,” he hedged again, eyeing me | suspiciously, “that’s just a matter | of procedure.” “What will you do to protect the | right to really strike?” I repeated. “Now, listen!” he exclaimed, “I’m no more in favor of proletarian ‘At Hosiery Mill CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 30. —The Richmond Hosiery Mill, Daisy branch, was granted an injunction limiting the number of pickets to only fifteen within 150 feet of the plant. Each picket must show a credential from the union, the writ provides. Since removal of the Na- jtional Guard at the Rossville, Georgia, mill of the company, | been increased, The American Federation of | Hosiery Workers, conducting the | Strike at the four mills of the com- pany, has issued a statement yes- terday charging that attorneys of the Richmond Hosiery Company | are attempting to file suit against | the union, charging that its strike | is a “conspiracy to deprive the com- | pany of its competitive advantages.” | The suit, it is expected, will rank | with the famous Danbury Hatter’s | case, when the union was forced to pay damages. 1,400 Return in South i HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Jan, 30.—, Fourteen hundred textile workers, | | who went out on strike when the | Merrimack Miils made a move to} hire non-union workers, returned to work Monday after a settlement re- ported as satisfactory to the work- ers. All return without discrimina- tion. ‘U.T.W. Organizer Imprisoned | LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 30.—Con- | tinuing to mete out sentences to workers active in the General Strike | last September, Judge Benjamin | Atlee sentenced Herman Stein, | United Textile Workers’ organizer | | ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 30,—A call was issued here yesterday by the Unemployment Council, stration on Feb. 7, in support of the demands that a delegation of 300 forced the City Council to en- dorse on Jan. 21. The City Council endorsed the demands of the workers when Mrs. Mabel Koropov, organizer of the Unemployment Council, presented figures showing that workers on re- lief received 30 per cent less than those on work relief, which amounted to a 10 per cent cut for those on relief, and demanded that: the City Council endorse the elim- ination of the 10 per cent cut; the restoration of the thirty-hour week on work relief projects or compen- | sation for those who had been cut St. Paul Jobless To Rally _ For Relief on February 7 urging | workers to rally to a mass demon- | to a fifteen-hour week, and the dis- | crimination against Negroes and | ‘single men be stopped. | Squads of police were mobilized | | to meet the delegation when they |came to the City Hall and When | they called on Relief Administrator Zimmerman, but the workers were so orderly that no opportunity was given the police, who were armed with clubs, tear gas and machine guns, to attack. Mr. Zimmerman was forced to promise to send the demands to Washington and to give them his endorsement. He stated that the | demands were “reasonable and sen- | sible” and blamed the lack of county appropriations for the cut. The | county appropriations have fallen | | from $243,191.16 in December, $225,- | (000 in January and to $150,000 for February. e-rorsiug to Zimmerman. | (Writ Restrains| Strike Pickets special deputies and police have | control than I am of millionaire control.” | Noticing this crude application of | the Roosevelt “middle-of-the-road” demagogy which has covered up ruthless attacks upon labor, I asked Curran what he thought of the Roosevelt administration. “Against Roosevelt,” he said. But |not because of the effect of his |program upon the working class, but because he hasn't provided | enough inflation! Curran com- | plained, “Roosevelt hasn’t played fair. He left the bankers in control |of our currency. .. . If he doesn’t |take them out, he'll wind up the same as Hoover.” Opposes Insurance | ployment insurance?” | “I don’t know anything about it. | I don’t know whether it’s ever been tried——that is, I understand it’s a success in Belgium, and, if so, it could be easily copied.” I asked him whether, since he | thought there were no Communists in America, he thought there were |no Fascists either. “Oh, there are some frightened financiers—” He caught himself and began to thump the arm of his chair. “But they just think they’re Fascists. I don’t think they are.” Typical Fascist Tool Here spoke the typical tool of | Fascism, the would-be mass leader, |boasting influential _ connections, |ranting against “bankers’ while | promoting a banker-class program, |and denying the need to defend the | rights for which millions of work- |ers have picketed and faced bullets |in the past year! Denying also the Fascist aspect of the financiers’ | militant drive toward reaction. When I mentioned the specific | |Fascist-army plan put up to Gen- | eral Smedley D. Butler, he looked | knowing. Indeed he said he heard {of Lancaster, to six months in | prison and a fine of $500 and costs. rested during the fight at the Mari- |etta Mills with deputized thugs last | September, when strikers attempted to stop the shipment of scab goods. | Six other workers were fined $25 and costs. The prosecutor, As- sistant District Attorney William B. Arnold, has made a big point in court of the fact that two of the workers who were fined, Killian Steffan and Paul Napolitano, are not American citizens. Howard Stauffer, Jr., of Annville, | Pa., who participated in the picket- |ing at the Stehli Mill, was fined $10 and costs, During Iunch-time speak to your shopmates about organizing for better conditions; pass around your copy of the Daily Worker. { Ask them to buy it regularly. “Where do you stand on unem- | Stein was one of the fourteen ar- | from the General about the thing. I later checked this with General Butler — at least, that Butler had told Curran that the Wall Street bond salesman, Gerald C. MacGuire and Morgan-broker Grayson M P. Murphy wanted Butler to make |a monetary speech for them at an | American Legion convention. Still }Curran said he saw no Fascist threat. Then I pointed out to him the similarity between his and Mr. Vanderlip’s Central Bank proposal, and suggested it seemed queer. “Well,” he said, turning around in his swivel chair, “there's two kinds of bankers—and I'm not op- | posed to the liberal kind, like Mr. | Vanderlip.” Contact With Vanderlip “Do you know Mr. Vanderlip?” “I've communicated with him. | Yes.” | “About your Farmer-Labor-Vet- erans party. When did you com- municate with him?” “Oh, a few times.” He looked | wary. “Don’t you know,” I finally | asked, “that inflation such as you are proposing on behalf of the masses can only hurt these masses?” He got up, silent. “Are you not going to answer this?” I persisted. “Listen, if I've got a house, I can’t sell it for a dime today. I’ve got to get something for it!” he exclaimed | with some irritation. “But you must know that the mil- lions of the working class have no houses. Even those who have jobs | would get less to eat and wear with your inflation program in opera- tion.” | He stepped over to his costumer, | Put on his coat and said, calmly patting his belly, “Well, there’s about a hundred million paupers in this country today, and there'll be a lot |more if they don’t give us more money.” “The question I asked you is | whether you don’t know that this inflation program would mean more | mass suffering.” “Yes,” he said. Then, “No, no, i wouldn't make prices go up a damn bit.” “You Gotta Read Everything” As I walked by his office table, I saw a copy of The New Masses. I | asked Dr. Curran why he he read it. | He replied that he “occasionally gets | a good idea from a financial article jin it.” “But you certainly don’t get any financial ideas that would suggest that the people of this country would be helped by inflation!” He put on his hat and spoke with | some finality. “Listen, Lady, in times like these, | you’ve gotta read everything, and | that’s what I do. In times like | these you've got to keep your eyes | open—that’s what I do.” is eae | | TOMORROW: In her article to- morrow Marguerite Young will show the financial background of fascist development in the United States, PENNSYLVANIA JOBLESS ACT PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 30.—-A | State delegation of one hundred | workers will go to Harrisburg on Thursday, Feb. 14 to demand that the State legislature endorse the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, and that the State petition the Federal government for suffi- cient relief pending the enactment of the Workers’ Bill. HATHAWAY TO SPEAK PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 30.— Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will be the main speaker Friday evening at a joint Liebknecht Memorial Meeting and Scottsboro Rally at Liberty Hall, 2109 Columbia Avenue, here, Always have a few Daily Worker sub blariks in your pockets, = Workers Club and others. 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