The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1935, Page 3

| | | | | | | 1 UNIONS PLAN DRIVE FOR JOBLESS AID IN BLOOMINGTON Railwaymen’s Lodges, Building Trades, Socialist and Communist Parties and Unemployed Groups in Parley Agree on Program (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Jan. 31.—In the broadest confer- enee of its kind ever held by the labor movement in this city, forty delegates, including twenty representatives of seven railroad lodges of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and dele- gates of the Hod Carriers Union, the Plasterers Union, the Socialist Party, the Party, McLean County Unemployed Workers Alliance, the State Com- mittee of the Unemployment Coun- cils, the Illinois Workers’ Alliance met and endorsed a program of | action for unemployment insurance, | for adequate relief and for workers’ control of the distribution and/ handling of relief in McLean} County. Frank Meyers, member of the Sheet-Metal Workers Railroad Lodge and a representative to the Local Shop Crafts Federation, made the main report, dealing with the nu- merous evils in the present methods of handling relief, and proposing a concrete program of how to use the full power of organized labor in the community to relieve the situation. He was followed by Harry Shaw, editor of Railroad Unity News, who) had been invited by the conference arrangements committee to compare the various unemployment insurance bills pending before the present U.S. Congress, Harry Shaw, after a com- parison of the various measures, called for endorsement of. Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill H.R. 2827, because it alone pra- vided an adequate system of social insurance for the workers of the United States. His concluding re- marks, which were greeted with con- siderable applause, called for the use of the full power of organized labor to force Congress to act fa- vorably on H.R. 2627, Program of Action The main resolution, which was unanimously endorsed by the con- ference, proposed the following pro- gram of action on the part of all organizations represented: 1) The election of committees in each organization to handle the grievances of their unemployed brothers. 2) Election by each organization of delegates to a McLean County general unemployed committee to which will be invited representatives | Urged to Speed of all organizations of the workers in that county. This committee will handle all cases of a general char- acter affecting the unemployed in McLean County and also cases which the individual organizations are unable to settle satisfactorily. 3) After the general committee has met with the County authori- ties and presented them with a list of grievances, a joint membership meeting of all labor organizations will be called to hear a report of the conference with the relief au- thorities. To Back Workers’ Bill 4) The endorsement of H.R. 2627 and the use of the full power of organized labor in their community to force their Congressmen and Senators to back the Workers’ Bill in the present session of Congress, 5) To work out a concrete program for Public Works which will make possible a 30-hour week at union rates of pay for all unemployed. 6) The use of the organized power of the workers and their organiza- tions in McLean County to bring about the democratic election of workers’ representatives to handle the distribution and management of relief. The conference ended with the election of a committee of eleven on which a majority were repre- sentatives of trade unions, which ts te arrange for the election of un- employed committees, the visiting of other A. F. of L. locals and workers’ organizations in the county to win support of the adopted pro- if WELSH COAL STRIKE LOOMS BLAENAVON, Wales, Jan. 31—A strike of coal miners at the Blaen- avon coal mines, Wales, looms, due to a notice given by employers that all miners over 65 years of age are to be dismissed. Rallying in sup- Communist ¢ port of 57 men so affected, the miners declared that if the company insists in its intentions they will all go out on strike, Workers’Enemies Exposed CLYDE MORROW, of Detroit, Mich., has been expelled from the Communist Party as a stool pigeon and racketeer, Suspicions were aroused against him when it appeared that enemies of the Party were being supplied with information against various members of the section in which Morrow was working. These suspi- cions were definitely confirmed when he was discovered sending in- formation to enemy organizations. He attempted to conceal this, but without success. An investigation conducted by the Section Commit- tee of the Communist Party and by the District Committee of Detroit confirmed the fact that he was giv- ing information to spy agencies and is connected in many ways with employers’ organizations. It was also disclosed that, prior to his entrance into the Party (in December, 1932), Morrow had been engaged in various rackets, includ- ing that of playing deaf and dumb in soliciting: funds. Later he was earning money by selling sex litera- ture, His record shows that he has no scruples whatever as to the man- ner in which he earns his money. After his expulsion he has at- tempted to continue his disruptive work in the usual manner of a stool pigeon. Description: He is 32 years of age, about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, weighs about 170 pounds, is of stocky build and has sandy hair. Chicago C. P. SignatureDrive CHICAGO, Ill, Jan, 31. — A total of 100,000 signatures on nominating petitions are needed to assure the place of Communist candidates on the ballot in the municipal elections here William K. Gebert, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party said today. Gebert warned the workers, and particularly the Communist Party members of Chicago that failure to reach this total might result in the elimination of their candidates from the ballot by the legalistic treachery of election authorities, He cited the manner in which the Communist Party was ruled off the ballot in the State of Illinois in the Congressional elections last Novem- ber on a trivial technicality, “We must have our candidates on the ballot,” Gebert said. “Think Shirt Makers Win Increase In 3-Way Pact Agreement Is Major Vic- tory in Long Fight Against Bosses A three-way agreement between shirt manufacturers, contractors and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, in which the workers are granted a ten per cent increase and a 36-hour week, has been virtually concluded it was re- ported yesterday Alex Cohen, manager of the S) Makers Joint Board, announce: yesterday that workers are already being sent back to settled shops. The agreement affects 20,000 working for the contracting shoys in New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl- vania and Connecticut who were locked out for ten days pending a grant of higher prices to the con- tractors. At least 10,000 more work- ing in the shops of the large manu- facturers are also affected. One of the provisions in the agreement is a tri-party committee with equal representation from each to settle disputes. If labor questions are brought into that committee the union will be outvoted by the bosses two to one. The agreement is the first major victory in the struggle of 180,000 cotton garment workers for enforce- ment of the increase ordered last summer. It came as a result of the union declaring that the locked out workers will not return until it is granted. Glass Strike Keeps 2 Plants Closed Tight Pickets Patrol the Gates of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 31.—The strike of 4,200 glass workers em- ployed at the Creighton and Ford City plants of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company has kept both plants shut down tight since last Friday, when negotiations of union leaders with the company were broken off in Cleveland. The workers, members of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers of America (A, F. of L.), are demand- ing a general 20 per cent wage in- crease and the check-off of union dues. Mass picket lines guard the gates of the struck plants. Negotiations with the employers are entirely in the hands of A. F. of L. leaders, including Glen McCabe, Green- appointed president of the Federa- tion. McCabe was able to avert a walk- out last November by simply calling off a scheduled strike date, He told the workers at that time that the company could not afford to pay more than the scale then in opera- tion. The international president was slated to issue a “definite statement on the strike status” upon his ar- rival here from Toledo, Ohio, where he has been busy averting a strike of glass workers in the Libby- Owens-Ford plants in Toledo and Roosmore, Ohio, orgiinally scheduled for this week. Conyiction of Three what an answer this will be to the Fascist incitements of Hearst, Mac- fadden and others. When we real- ize what it means to the workers to get our Party on the ballot, no task can seem too great. There is less than a month left. We must use the remaining time to tle utmost.” OMILDREN IN TRANSIENT CAMPS WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 31.— Federal transient relief bureaus are “home” to thousands of American children, a study of the transient population, made by the F.ER.A. in thirteen cities, shows. Seven per cent of the transients in these cities were children, and families constituted seven per cent of the cases. Eleven per cent of the cases were women. Most of the tran- sients are native-born unemployed white workers; eight per cent were Negroes and five per cent foreign- born. 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 2nd and 3rd, Scottsboro Tag Days. All organizations are asked to send volunteers to the I. L. D. Sta- tions in their territory to help funds. Auspices LL.D. 49 N. Street, Room 207. Dance Friday night, February 1, Ga: rick Hall, 507 8. 8th St., for Work- ers School. Special Night Club Dance Orchestra, entertainment, _refresh- ments. Adm, 25c. 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. Labor Defender Concert and Dance wrigey, Feb. 22 at Ambassador Hall, 1704 N. Broad St.; Nadia Chil in a series of revolutionary dances; th well known violinist; entire Fretheit Gesang Ferein chorus; _ excellent dance orchestra. Adm. at door, 50c; in advance through organizations 36c. Tickets at 49 N. 8th St., Room 207, Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. {s holding an affair Feb. 3 at Vasa Hall, 11th and John Ave. Good program, refresh- ments, dancing. Chicago, Ill, Organizations Attention: The Inter- national Workers Order of Chicago is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at the AshJand Auditorium on Feb. 23 from 6:30 to 2 a.m. program has been keep this date open, Kearny, N. J. A showing of the Soviet film “Diary of a Revolutionist” and a dance wiil be held at 134 Schuyler Ave. (near Hoyt Sta.), Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 P.m. as a Scottsboro Benefit by Br. 95 Russian Mutual Ald Society and Jim Connolly Br. LL.D. Boston, Mass. Kirov-Kuibyshev Memorial Meeting Saturday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m., Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Rox- bury, Ned Sparks will give analysis of and reply to slanders of Hearst- ‘Trotzky-Zinoviev against Soviet Union and Communist Party. Reversed on Coast SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 31. —Mass pressure has forced the ap- pellate court to reverse the convic- tions of Elaine Black, Joseph Wil- son and Harry Jackson, leaders in the San Francisco waterfront and general strike last summer. The decision stated that these de- fendants, arrested in the vigilante raids on workers’ headquarters and homes, were convicted solely of membership in the Communist Party, which is not illegal, and were not convicted of vagrancy, the charge on which they were osten- sibly tried. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 31,— Steady progress and important gains in A. F. of L. work in the basic industries were registered by the Communist Party in Ohio in its plenum held over the week-end. Checking over the control tasks laid down in the resolution of the August plenum, John Williamson, District Organizer, in his report on the present political situation, trade union tactics, Labor Party and im- pending strike strategy was able to show important gains in practically all activities the Party seriously un- dertook, The Party is definitely taking roots in the most important and basic industries in the Ohio concentration district. Reviewing the work in the six concentration factories primarily key war-material producers the comrades were able to report that the first steps in breaking through our isolations have definitely been made, Contacts Established Contacts were established, work- ers Got key positions were won over to join the Party or take a leading pars in pe eee file movement. reakieg e paralyzing op- Portunist theories of Zack and put- ting into life the correct trade union i DAILY WORKER =W YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935 IN THE WAKE Scene after police with axes rai in Chicago. mates of a disorderly house.” Thirty-four workers were seized, charged with being “in- OF THE COPS | ided a dance at the Workers’ Forum Seize 33 at Workers’ Forum CHICAGO, Ill., Jan, 31—Chicago Police raided the West Side Workers Forum located at 1118 West Madi- son Avenue, clubbed the assembled workers while a dance was in pro- gress, smashed the furniture, and arrested thirty-three workers. The thirty-three were held on trumped- up charges of “operating a dis- orderly house.” The police smashed heavy wooden benches, splintered chairs, tore a desk into fragments, scattered the refreshments. over the place. They did not wreck the stove for fear of causing a fire. The arrested workers were thrown into cells in the Maxwell Street Jail. A number were again beaten, espe- cially Sam Boyd and Eric Frank. The hated head of the notorious Chicago red squad, “Red” Murphy, came to the cell and threw a bucket of cold water upon the workers who ; were sleeping on the cement floor. A drunken police detective, before the raid on the workers’ headquar- ters, attempted to provoke a fight. He was ejected from the hall. This was the provocation which brought about the police raid. One of three workers who came to bring food to the prisoners was promptly put in jail. Out of the thirty-four arrested, thirty-two are being held on disorderly conduct charges with bail set at $25 each. The other two are being held on more serious charges The Chicago Civil Liberties Com- mittee is investigating the raid. All workers are asked to send protests to Mayor Kelly, calling for the im- mediate release of the thirty-four workers now helc. 96 Truckmen Held in Sirike At Fargo, N. D. Police and Vigilantes in Brutal Attack on Picket Line FARGO, N. D., Jan, 31.—Ninety- six truck drivers have been arrested in a police and vigilante attack on the picket line in the strike of truck drivers, organized into local union 173 of the A. F. of L. The strik- ets are demanding union recogni- tion and reinstatement of two work- ers fired for union activity. Police used tear gas to attack the strikers’ hall, which they closed up. Three hundred police and members | of the fascist “citizens’ committee,” acting for the emvloyers, were used in the attack on the picket line. Miles Dunn, union official and leader of the strikes of the last few months here was absent after the strike was declared and during the most critical period. The A. F. of L. Trades and Labor Assembly has stated it supports the truck drivers’ strike, but is opposed to any general strike activity. The local press boasts that the National Labor Relations Board has sup- ported the attack on the strikers in not interfering in any strike- breaking activity. Protests against the brutal at- tack on the strikers should be sent at once to A. R. Bergensen, state's attorney, Fargo, N. D., and to Sheriff Peter MacArthur, Oounty Courthouse, Fargo, N. D. COTTON STRIKERS JAILED CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 31.— Two striking cotton-dress workers, Rose Wichert and Robert Bane, were arrested and many injured when police attacked the mass Picket line before the L. N. Gross 500 Fobkess Demonstrate In New Mexico iRores Release of Eleven Arrested in Brutal Police Attack ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.. Jan. 31.— Fifteen hundred unemployed work- ers assembled at the Court House here last Saturday after a county march of 400 upon the relief head- quarters, presented a list of ten de- mands to the relief commissioners, and forced the release of eleven workers who had been seized by the sheriff in the course of the dem- onstration. Brutal and undisguised police terror was used during the dem- onstration, and only the strictest discipline demanded by the leaders of the Unemployment Councils pre- vented the workers from rushing headlong at the sheriff's deputies, | who were armed with shotguns, tear | gas and clubs, The march and mass meeting, which was led by the Unemploy- |ment Council of Bernalillo County, |was held to greet the returning | delegates from the National Con- | gress for Unemployment Insurance. | While the committee met with |the F. E. R. A. officials, police | seized every worker who took the stand at the mass meeting and | rushed him to jail, where each was subjected to a police grilling. Al- though their leaders had been seized, the workers held their ground and forced the release of all | prisoners, Do you know unemployed work- ers who can give some time to selling the paper and earning ex- penses? Ask them to write to Page 3 ‘Third Party| HEARST ONCE TOLD Silent on Plan To Aid Youth Self-Styled Defender of Chicago Young Vague About Program By Ruth Craw ford QHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 31—Newton Jenkins, head of Chicago's Third Party, has swanky offices on the bankers’ LaSalle Street. He grudg- ingly gave a few minutes of his bus: day to a representative of the visory and Action Committee, set up in Chicago to conduct a straw vote of youth between the ages of 18 and 21 The slo: rai. “Old Enough to Work: Old E to Vote.” Jenkins professes to have the in- jterests of America’s youth closest to his heart. He broadcasts weekly over the Chicago Federation of La- bor's station, WCFO, “The Voice of Labor.” “You should have heard what I had to say about youth,” said Jen- kins, emphasizing the pronoun. “Why, I made a Communist speech about youth—Communist.” “So then we are at least agreed that the problem of youth is seri- ous?” “Yes, yes. But I don’t like this non-partisan proposal of yours in connection with this straw vote of youth. I don’t want to divide the fire. We're getting the youth into our third party; we'll concentrate our efforts.” “What's your youth?” He hesitated. “Oh, we have a pro- ram.” “Well, what is it?” “Oh, we're bringing drawing them in.” “But what is your program? For instance, what stand are you taking on the C. C. C. camps?” “Why—why, what's your attitude? Are you opposed?” he asked incred- ulously. “Naturally.” “Why? I suppose because consider them militaristic?” After assuring him that his sup- Position was correct, the interviewer asked him what stand his party was taking on the establishment of the R. O, T. C, in the Chicago schools. “I can't go along with you on that,” he said. “I know more about that than you do. You see, I’m an old army man myself, and that’s not so bad.” “Not so bad? What's worse?” “Well, starving for instance. They're at least getting fed, aren’t they? No, I can’t go along with you on that question.” “So it’s all right, in your opinion, to make cannon fodder of these young Americans.” He smiled, and turned the subject aside again by explaining that he was an old army man. “But if you are an old army man, then all the more reason why you should oppose this militarization of the youth. Surely you've had a first hand opportunity to see through the lie back of this patriot- ism talk that kills the youth to pro- tect the profits of big bankers.” You should hear what I have to say about that over the radio.” Contrast this “old army man” and his lucrative law practice, with the Communist candidate for Mayor, 26-year-old Karl Lockner, Wisconsin University graduate, chemical en- gineer, who has taken his place in the vanguard of the working class. He and his Party fight for unem- ployment relief, for jobs at union wages, for an end to the C. C. C. and the R. O. T.C., an end to child labor, and for the right to vote for all over 18 years of age. The Com- munist Party is the only Party which has a program for youth. Support its candidates! program for the them in, you Expulsion Move Fails In Philadelphia Council PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 31.— An attempt to carry out William Green's order for the expulsion of Communists was decisively defeated in the Building Trades District Council, No. 21, on Jan. 29. After Louis Weinstock, national secretary of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance, spoke, and after a discussion, the motion to expel M. Cohen, president of Painters’ Local 306, for participation in the Washington Congress for Un- | Daily Worker, 50 Eeast Thirteenth Street, Communist Party Registers Gains in Ohio By SANDOR VOROS tactics of the Central Committee, the Party was able to get a strong foothold in many important steel and auto locals, became a factor in mining and beginning to exert greater influence in the rubber in- dustry. In spite of the numerous weak- nesses still existing, the Party, through its correct trade union pol- icy, was able to mobilize its forces to help develop the growing rank and file movement in steel and.auto which may be of decisive impor- tance in the maturing strike strug- gles in these industries. The plenum noted the importance of the successful fulfillment of the control tasks in connection with the Chicago Congress against War and Fascism and the Washington Un- employment Insurance Congress; the recruitment of over 2,000 mem- bers in the I. W. O.; the successful fulfillment of the election campaign, almost tripling the Communist vote; the work in a systematic and planned manner in the district, ac- tion committees and the units in the Party; the improvement in both the number and quality, systematic appearance of shop papers; the ef- forts made to raise the political level. of the entire Party member- ship, Tackles Fluctuations In contrast with the achieve- ments, the plenum noted with alarm the great fluctuation of the Party membership; the slow increase in membership, 500 new members in contrast with its growing mass in- fluence in the union and shops and among the unemployed; the unsat- isfactory and slow growth of the Daily Worker circulation; the great contrast between the numerical strength of Party membership and that of the Young Communist. League and set itself as one of the foremost tasks to remedy these weaknesses, Strong political discussion devel- oped on the question of the Labor Party with over 30 comrades par- ticipating, following Comrade Wil- liamson’s report. Hailing it as the further extension of our united front activities, the plenum unan- imously endorsed the resolution of te Central Committee on this ques- ion, Work in Unions The correctness of the Central Comimttee’s tactics on the trade union question was dramatically brought out in the discussion when employment Insurance, was with- drawn. worker after worker from key shops and industries told about his ex- periences, how the Communists, ap- plying the correct tactics, because elected to key positions in their A. F. of L. locals and how they were instrumental in crystallizing the growing sentiment for struggle among the rank and file, becoming at the same time the most active builders of the unions. After expressing its sympathy over the loss of Comrade Kuilbyshev, member of the political bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet, Union, the plenum solemnly pledged to increase the circulation of the Daily Worker ‘0 3,000 paid sub- scribers in Ohio in the shortest pos- sible time. The plenum with all the regis- tered gains and marked shortcom- ings showed the further march of the Communist Party in Ohio along the roads of Bolshevization—with a clear perspective of growing mass struggles and mass strikes in auto, steel and rubber—with the full rec- ognition of the historical responsi- bility on the Party in these strug- gles to give effective, unwavering, Marxist-Leninist leadership to the masses on the road toward Soviet Power, Editorial in Workers’ District Organizer, ezara thrown into the d lly, operated succe flouting the critic ten years. Ir def a nation that Workers’ Nominee GEORGE RACZ 26 Candidates Chicago Poll Machine Politicians Seek to Block Aldermanic Slate of Workers CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 31—The nominating petitions of twenty-six of the twenty-nine Workers’ Al- dermanic candidates here have been challenged in an effort to keep them off the ballot in the coming city elections. Immediately mass protest move- ments were organized around the hearings, which by law, are to be held today at 10 a.m. in the City Council Room, City Hall. Telegrams and letters are flooding the office of the Board of Election Commis- stoners. Mass delegations are being assembled to march on City Hall for the hearings. The candidates and those who signed for them are in a fighting spirit. This protest must be continued. For some “unexplainable reason” three Workers’ candidates were not ruled off the ballot. It is all the more mystifying since one of these, George Miskerik, of the Twenty- first Ward, is a concentration can- didate. Because of the united front support which has built around him, he stands an excellent chance of getting elected. The other two who were unchal- lenged, are also popular candidates. One is Hyman Dolinky of the For- tieth Ward; and the other Alfred Stocker, of the Tenth Ward. Their campaigns are going strong. The workers’ candidates were not the only ones challenged, however. Ten out of eleven candidates who are receiving the support of the So- cialist Party, were challenged as well, In the Eighth Ward, where George Racz is the Workers’ con- centration candidate, every single candidate in the Werd was objected to. Detroit Labor Attorney Sends Protest Telegram On the Automobile Code (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 31. Maurice Sugar, noted labor attor- ney and candidate for Judge of the Recorder’s Court, today wired Presi- dent Roosevelt protesting against the extension of the open shop auto code and demanding an open hear- ing on the code. His telegram follows: “Detroit automobile workers greatly resent past denial of their right to be heard on extension of vicious Automobile Code and pro- test vigorously against further ex- tension without labor being given an opportunity to present views publicly, Workers insist on right to show inhuman practices of em- ployers under code.” “OFF A CAPTAIN” MADISON, Wis., Jan. 31.—A Wis- consin gas station in Polk County proudly exhibits a pair of army pants hanging on the wall, a relic of the days last year when the militia was sent against the milk strikers. This pair of pants is par- ticularly noteworthy. “Them there pants came off a captain,” the pro- prietor proudly says. PHILADELPHIA YOUTH MEET PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 31.— A preliminary conference of youth organizations was held here yester- day to plan a broad regional con- ference of youth organizations on March 8 and 9, to map a permanent program of action on social, eco- nomic and political questions Challenged in, Are Learning To Follow Soviet Example By Bill Gebert Communist card as ism of our powerful nation was called bankrupt, he (Stal |A DIFFERENT STORY 1930 Acknowledged Advances of Government—U. S, Workers Party, Chicago “The new government of Russia, succeeding that of the result of the hig war, has all Europe and incidentally for more than ms ef real do! development of Recently, in less ‘© weeks he spent forty mile in this country, buy« achinery for the That is more than the the United States Government ever e men, and others liké them, y the driving power that makes uccessful in industry, and is transforming small, isolated, un- profitable farms into gigantic co- e enterprises, with the most ve and efficient agricultural machinery used anywhere in the world.” These words are taken verbatim from an editorial of the Hearst- owned and _ controlled Chicago American of Saturday, Sept. 6, 1930. How fferent words sound in the | | Hearst papers of 1930 as compared with the slanderot unscrupulous lying campaign against the Soviet Union today! Correct for Once In 1930 Hear: in this instance, gave a more or less correct picture of what is taking place in the Soviet Union. Since these :vords were written, the Soviet Union has made gigantic strides forward. It has ended its first Five-Year Plan and entered into the Second Fives Year Plan, further imoroving the conditions of the masses, further industrializing the country. Hearst, in 1930, also sooke about those for whom today he sheds crocodile tears: “They [Bolsheviks] have. held Russia united against the world. They have driven ont invaders, including those whom they call ‘traitors’ in their own ranks.” Yes, the success of the Soviet Union precisely depends upon “driv=- ing out invaders” including the types of fascist Hearst and his col= league, bloody Hitler, and “traitors in their own ranks,” the Trotskyite- Zinoviev group, because any toleras tion of white guardists, any tolera- tion of the Trotzkyite-Zinoviey group, would have made impossibie the gigantic strides of builditig So- cialism in the Soviet Union The Hearst editorial ends with the statement: “These men are worth watching. They are FREE FROM THE TRAMMELS OF TRADITION and believe that nothing is IM~ POSSIBLE. “If they can change the brutish, illierate masses of Russia into ed- ucated, intelligent and prosperous men they almost will have proved that nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.” Yes, the workers the world over are watching with admiration and readiness to defend the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union, under the leadership of the great Stalin, the true disciple of Lenin, made this success possible. And the howls of fascist Hearst upon the So~ viet Union and its beloved Stalin will have no effect. They will pro- ceed further “flouting the criticism of our powerful nation.” U. S. Workers Draw Lessons More than that. The workers of the United States, from the expe- riences of the Russian workers, are also drawing lessons. They know, and in their minds there is the ma- turing idea of storming capitalism, of replacing it exactly as in the So- viet Union, by the dictatorship of the proletariat, which will put an end to hunger, misery, starvation, death from starvation, put an end to fascism and war in this country of ours, the United States of Amer= ica. Yes, the Communist Party follows the footsteps of the Bolshevik Party of Russia, concretizing Marxism- Leninism to America, preparing here, too, to achieve the very same aims, to establish a revolutionary workers’ and farmers’ government as the only way out of the present chaos and anarchy produced by capitalism. 4 Cleveland A. F. L. Gives I Support to Seamen_ Out on Strike} By Daily Worker Ohio Bureau CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 31. — Two hundred delegates representing all A. F, of L. local unions votec full support to the strike of the seamen at the last meeting of the Metal Trades Council in Cleveland The strike against forced labor ot the lake front coast guard station | for one dollar a week wages called by the joint strike committe! of the Marine Workers Industria Union, International Seamen’ Union and the Unemploym: Councils. Besides endorsing the strike. Metal Trades Council pledged if support to the unionization of wo ers on all government projects fight forced labor. The demands of the seamen clude 60 cents hourly wages, common labor; the 30-hour. and trade union wages for skille work. : Ask regular readers to ENTER THE DAILY WO SUBSCRIPTION CONT subscribers of the Daily em J