The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1935, Page 6

is his firm and clear declz the Soviet Union. It is a fact ace the univer: now be ta nd their sons. has worked for peace. rmament, at Geneva. partial ¢ Daily .QWorker cHwTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS,4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL} Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. Y. Washington Bu Room 954, Nation (4th and F D. C._ Telepho: “America’s Only Midwest Bure: Telephone: Dearb 31 Subscription Rates: 7 1: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; @ months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, "0.78 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, 98.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 75 cents. ie Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935 eee trikebreaker! LaGuardia AYOR LAGUARDIA emerged yester- il day as the leader of the employers’ strikebreaking forces against the water- front workers. The employers are alarmed at the great fighting power displayed by the teamsters and longshoremen in their fight against the injunction. The longshore- men are already picketing against scab trucks. LaGuardia fears another San Francisco general strike. LaGuardia, in secret conference with the employers’ newspaper publishers, promised that his police would be mobil- ized for strikebreaking duty. He plans to break the strike under the slogan of mov- ing food, fuel and newspapers. He knows this is an unnecessary slogan because the teamsters moved necessary food and fuel in their one day strike. In his strikebreaking moves, LaGuardia has the staunch backing of Ryan, Cashal and Co. These A. F. of L. national leaders have pledged their best efforts to try to strangle the developing strike on the waterfront. The waterfront workers must oppose the united front of the bosses with the solid united front of all the waterfront workers to prepare their strike under rank and file leadership. Through strike action the injunction can be smashed, union con- ditions maintained and the strikebreaking front smashed. For Every Reader NE HUNDRED THOUSAND readers! A special committee, including Earl Browder, general secretary of the Commu- nist Party, Charles Krumbein, and George Wishnak, manager of the Daily Worker, has been set up to organize the drive for this goal. In Wednesday’s paper, a special state- ment from the Central Committee of the Communist Party was printed calling for action in this drive. “In the Daily Worker is the strength of the working class,” states the Central Committee. “The goal of 100,000 readers can be achieved. The Daily Worker shows the way to win strikes, to make the work- ers strong, united, and successful, so that they can march forward to victories and their final triumph. The Central Committee is devoting its major attention to increas- ing the circulation of the Daily Worker.” It is now the job of every Daily Worker reader to get behind the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party. Equality F YOU'RE 2 banker, that’s different! So it seems from the action of Judge Donnellan in General Sessions who freed Philip Berardini, president; Michael Berardini, vice-president, and John W. Pul- leyn, a director of the defunct M. Berar- dini State Bank, although they had twice pleaded guilty to charges of misapplying the bank’s funds in 1928. Every day is field day for crooked bankers and public utility magnates who rob millions. The pirate Insull was freed despite a mountain of evidence against him. Kresel was likewise freed! But Mooney is in jail. The Scottsboro boys are in jail. Such is equality while capitalists rule! yn of the peace policy of - that if not for the Soviet Union and its slaughter o g the lives of m Step by step, Molotov showed how the Soviet Union The Soviet Union proposed universal When this was re- L jected by the capitalist powers, the Soviet Union then DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935 ~ policy, reali . ee she ction of the strove for peace by working for non-aggression pacts i with as y capitalist co ies as possi 4 peech which Premier Molotc U. R with 4 many car italist countries as possible. ; : ] , ss The Soviet Union was very successful in this delivered this week to the All-Union Congress of Soviets ng such pacts with Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Norwa and France. In addition, the recognition of the Soviet Union by fe the world. the United States, after fifteen years of open hostility, was a significant step toward maintaining the peace of These triumphs for the peace policy of the Soviet Union were the result of the fact that the Soviet Union was building tremendous power in its Socialist con- struction, while the capitalist crisis was weakening the and then among them. Right now, the Japanese War Moves Nhe ‘SE imperialism has been stead- ily moving inward, through Manchuria to the borders of the Soviet Union. It has been building military highways and avi- ation bases right at the borders of the U.S. S. R. Now it is trying to force a military alliance with the Chinese government at Nanking for a joint assault on the Soviet Union and Soviet China, Japanese imperialism watches with fear the growth of the Soviet power in the U.S.S.R. and in the Chinese Soviet Dis- tricts. This exploiting and plundering mil- itary-imperialist power also fears the ris- ing revolutionary movement among its own workers and peasants at home. It sees its bankruptcy and doom approach- ing And it thinks that it can save itself by plundering the people of the Soviet Union. Its plans are a menace to world peace and to the workers of all countries. For soli- darity of the workers of Japan, the USSR, and Soviet China! For solidarity of all toilers in defense of the Soviet Union. Build the A. F, L. Unions HE organization of the unorganized workers into the A. F. of L. is now a key question for every militant worker- The strike wave is rapidly rising, with New York waterfront workers, textile, food and metal workers already on the battle front. In the steel, auto, textile, coal, and rubber industries, the workers are prepar- ing for large strike actions. If these strikes are to be won, the masses of un- organized workers must be brought now into the A. F. of L. unions. Wiiliam Green and his lieutenants will not organize the unorganized workers into the A. F. of L. His refusal to carry out the decision of the last national conven- tion of the A. F. of L, to launch a drive to organize the unorganized steel workers is proof of this. It is vitally important for every mili- tant worker, in the first place the Com- munists, to take leadership in organizing the unorganized workers, The A. F. of L. unions must be imme- diately built and strengthened into mass organizations, led by the rank and file, eapable of conducting and winning the great strikes which lie ahead. Be Consistent! RITING in the Sunday Star of Colum- bus, Ohio, Ricard 'alliburton, writer of travel books, delivers himself of the fol- lowing opinion of the Soviet Union: “The mobs of people are the most hopeless looking human beings I’ve ever seen in any country populated by the white race.” But the very next week, this same Halliburton, writing in the Ottawa Eve- ning Citizen writes this scathing refuta- tion of himself: “In Moscow a thousand university students with a wave of cheering flung themselves on the job of paving a pub- lic square, and without compensation drove the job through till it was finished. This marvellous team spirit among the young Communists, this eagerness to efface themselves in order to uplift the communal whole, brings a lump to one’s throat and tears to one’s eyes.” A liar ought to watch himself for con- sistency, Mr. Halliburton, Jingo Talk . C., HUSING, legislative representative of the A. F. of L. in Washington, testi- fied before the “take-the-profit-out-of-war” committee yesterday. And what is it that worries Mr. Husing who is drawing a fat salary from the dues of hard-working members of the A. F. of L.? It is that “the presence of large num- bers of alien Negroes and Japanese in the Panama Canal makes it the weakest spot in America’s defense.” This is how an alleged representative of the workers in the unions takes his part in inciting war hysteria and chauvinism against Negro and Japanese workers! \ Soviet Union capitalist countries and increasing the antagonisms steadily offers | Party Life Concentration Unit Aided Workers in Defeating Company Union HRGUGH the activity of the I.R.T. shop concentra- tion unit, our Section was able to build a Party nucleus in the shop, around the first of last August. We are still few in number, but we have already gained considerable Party |experience and have some achieve- | ments to our credit, | In the first place we realized that |a Communist nucleus can grow only jin proportion to the efforts it puts forth to bring the role of the Party correctly to the workers in the shop. | How have we done this? 1—Shortly after the unit was or- | Sanized, we began to issue our own |shop paper, the “Red Express.” In this paper we gave the Party posi- tion on the Negto question which |had become a live issue through the | | work of the union; we answered | |the red scare; we exposed the Re- |sional Labor Board, to whom the | Trensport Workers Union was ap- | |Pealing for reinstatement of work- | ers fired for union activity. (They | have since been reinstated because | jof the militant support of the Transport Workers.) | 2—In addition, we distributed | leaflets and platforms during the | Election Campaign. | 3—We are now arranging to have | the Daily Worker sold near the | |sult of the correct position taken |by Communists in the leading com- mittee of the union, we find now |that the majority of the workers are |of the Negro workers in the system, |and are against discrimination in the talk about Reds in the union. On |these questions, we have won an | initial victory. in our work inside the company union. We have been able to use the legal apparatus of the company union for the development of the program of the Transport Workers Union, which up to the present time has existed illegally. We agitated the workers who were disgusted with the company union to attend the meetings of the union and to fight for the demands of the work- ers which we raised in the union meeting. In this way, the workers voted to reject the agreement which had been signed by the delegates of the union with the bosses, for a reduction of hours, but no increase in pay, which was the real demand of the workers, ie, the return of the ten per cent wage-cut. In ad- | dition, our proposal, to send a del- legate to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- |ance, was accepted by the workers |and at the very same meeting, two delegates were elected. We can be justly proud of this achievement. However, it has not been an easy |task to put over these measures, since the Company Union delegates |have maneuvered constantly to |railroad our proposals. Then, a |great deal of caution must be used in agitating the men for they are not yet revolutionary and in order to be recognized as leaders we can- |not afford to be too far ahead of them. At the present time, we are work- ing night and day to help build a real rank-and-file union in the shop, the Transport Workers Union. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Canadian Parliament Prepares to Adopt OTAWA,, Jan. 31—The Cana- dian Parliament today prepared to mass the most reactionary strike- breaking legislation, masked as an “unemployment insurance” measure, ever to be introduced in the west- ern hemisphere. It is very similar to the Wagner-Lewis Bill, now pend- ing in the United States Congress. The passage of the bill would not only mean that the present unem- ployed of Canada would be left to | starvation, but that those few cate- gories of workers who do receive the | “insurance”—and this for less than @ year—would ultimately pay this sum out of their own wages while working, | |Union, and that there is much less | | But we have been most successful | shop at regular intervals. As a re- | jnot antagonistic to the organization | Strike-Breaking Bill | | Of Hauptmann Trial | was being handled, made me con- Japanese and German imperialism non-aggression and peace acts, which these two countries refuse to accept. Obviously, they are preparing to attack the Soviet Union the moment they think the time is ripe. That is why the Soviet Union must divert part of its Socialist construction to the building of a mighty defense. Every class-conscious worker will be thrilled by the report made yesterday on the progress in the mili- tary defenses of the Soviet Union. The Red Army is a people’s army, loved by the workers and peasants of the U.S.S.R. and the whole world. Jt can never be an imperialist army, for the simple reason that exploitation and private profit, the source of all imperialist aggression, have been abolished forever in the Soviet Union. SMOKE IN HIS EYES ! Finds Flaws In Report New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I am sending the following letter | to you, because resentment among the comrades, especially among | German sympathizers, to the way | the news of the Hauptmann trial scious of the danger that lies in Comrade Allen Johnson's at times faulty position in reporting the trial. I would greatly appreciate it if this letter eould be published in the “Daily.” Comrade Johnson’s reports of the Hauptmann trial were, generally speaking, quite good. But certain slips towards a careless journalism is inexcusable. It is beyond my un- derstanding how the Daily Worker could unloosen in its columns a barrage of unproved accusations | and groundless assertions towards Hauptmann, Our reports should make happen- ings and persons, as revealed at the trial, subject to a Marxist analysis. Hauptmann, whatever he is, is just a miserable product of a capitalist society. Let us picture him as such! But it is none of our business to slander him still more by bringing unwarranted charges against him. This we could very well leave to these guttersheets and the prosecu- tion. a: © Fascist Laws Grow Out Of Lindbergh Case Gary, Ind. Comrade Editor: It may have occurred to some people that the Lindbergh kidnap- ping has a deeper significance than appears on the surface. It has al- ready resulted in a number of things amsig which may be enu- merated the Lindbergh kidnapping law, changes in extradition proceed- ings, and denial of habeas corpus. The connection of Hauptmann with the case, whether he actually by Burck Because of the yolume of letters re- celved 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. kidnapped the baby or not, is im- material. It is the higher-ups, the fascists, the reactionaries who are really responsible. Their scheme, | namely, the abrogation of certain liberties and the passing of certain | laws, has succeeded admirably. The | path is clear for the instituting of | open terror and the bringing of a fascism that will be a hundred times worse than even the German brand, for history proves that the Ameri- cam capitalists are particularly mer- cenary, merciless, relentless, and willing to do anything—and by | of the news. At times, when I miss- | “anything” is meant anything—for the sake of profits. Look at the trail | of death accompanying the rise of Morgan and Rockefeller. M. V. —Devotes Support To Daily Worker Philadelphia, Pa. Comrade Editor: It is about time we American workers should follow the most ef- fective lesson of the German com- | rades how to diminish publications of our enemy liars. Stop reading them. I have been reading the Daily Worker for the last two years. I find it enlighten- ing, encouraging, educational and most of all militant, a militancy that stays and develops with the reader. Some of my. friends argue that the secondary news which our pa- Per does not publish, is important. Yes, it is important. But let workers start buying their paper in numbers as they do other publications and I AND RED ARMY DEFENDING SOCIALISM Behind U.S.S.R. Peace Policy Stands Mighty People’s Red Army! SOVIET PREMIER REVIEWS VICTORIES OF PEACE POLICY—WORKING CLASS OF THE WORLD SUPPORTS U. S. S. R., The working class is made happy by the report of the As sistant Commissar of War to the Soviet Congress showing tremendous increases in tanks, in submarines, in aviation, in defense fortr Red Army to 940,000. The strengthening of t guarantee of the peace polic es, and in the size of the he Red Army is the best y of the Soviet Union, and a warning to all imperialist war-mongers that the 160,- 000,000 population of the U.S.S.R. stands united behind Stalin’s slogan: “We do not desire any territory of an- other, but we will not give up one inch of our own.” The working class of the world is proud of its Red Army, and will stand behind it with revolutionary de- votion if the imperialist war-makers hurl themselves against the Workers’ Fatherland. Makes Sure to Get “Daily” Regularly Ozone Park, L, I. Comrade Editor: I have been reading the Daily Worker off and on for about two years. With mounting interest I| have witnessed its development from a four page poorly printed paper to the present eight page New York} City edition. It has improved tech- nically by leaps and bounds, con- stantly added new features, and gradually increased its range of the news until now there is no com- parison. Up till the present time, my. read- ing of the “Daily” was done by bor- rowing it from my neighbor, or buy- ing it on the newsstands occasion- ally, The pleasure I got from read- ing each improved issue of the “Daily” was equalled by my depen- dence on it for a Marxist analysis ed an issue, I regretted it, and thought of taking out a subscription. The special trial offer the “Daily” is running as part of the circulation drive has given me that opportunity and at a minimum cost. In enclosing one dollar for a two months’ subscription, I urge all part time readers to follow my example and subscribe to the Daily Worker. B. B. One of the Country’s Bright Spots Peoria, Ill. Comrade Editor: I am sending one dollar in cash. Please renew my subscription to the Daily Worker for that much. I am also sending in a clipping and pictures from the Peoria Jour- nal. I hope you can write uy story that really goes with this ‘Tin Can City,” as they call it, of the unemployed Peorians. You see how the yellow press described the pic- tures: “Life and Virtue Come Cheap in Tin Can City,” and “Living Is a Ss a will wager anyone that the Daily Serious Business in Tin Can City.” ‘Worker will be the best all around daily the United States ever had. A. S. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst Do not forget that according to the local capitalist papers, Peoria is the bright spot of the country. O. 8, “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN, {World Front | By HARRY GANNES | British Elections in 1935 A Third Labor Government? | New Deal, Lloyd George | Model Ale political forces in Eng- | land are preparing for the | national elections to parlia- | ment, which every indication | goes to show will be held late |in 1935. This is equivalent |in importance to the presi- | dential elections in the United | State and raises all the questions of ithe class struggle to a high degree. The national government, headed | by the ex-Labor Party leader, Ram- |say MacDonald, who is his majesty’s | most faithful servant now, can re- main in power until 1936, if it chooses. But they fear that dmg- |ging their existence on too long with drastic issues agaiust the work- ing class pending would endanger their grip. Hence every move taken by the | government confirms the belief set \for the fall of 1935. For example, | the national. government has post- poned the operation of its scheme for a sugar monopoly, for a beef jlevy, and for an egg board. The | purpose of these schemes is to raise prices. The growing group does not | want to enter an election with food | Prices going up. The by-elections, also, have shown a tremendous dis- illusionment with the national gov- ernment which they do not want to mature for another year. ie ae hl 1935, also, the King’s Jubilee will be held. The capitalist press, as well as the Labor Party sheet, the Daily Herald, will just ooze loy |alty and servility to King George, | The leaders of the national govern- ment feel that this would be a splendid atmosphere in which to try to blur the main issues of ad- | Vancing fascism, of war prepara- |tions, of attacks on the dole, and of lowering the living standards of the masses. * roe Communist Party is now thoroughly discussing how its | tactics of the development of the united front against war, fascism, against lowering of wages and the dole, will be applied in the coms ing elections, The London municipal election, as well as by-elections for parliament hold out the strong perspective of the victory of a Third Labor Gov- ernment. That this government would primarily support the pro- gram of British imperialism, as fer- vently if not more so than the Sec- ond MacDonald government did, is already clearly expressed by the re~ sults of the last Labor Party Con- ference at Southport. There it was declared by the majority of the delegates that the Labor Party would support a war of “defense” \of British imperialism. They fought | agains; the left-wing’s proposals of | even mild “Socialist” measures. The | leaders of the Labor Party pledged | their loyalty to the imperialist pro- |gram of the British slave-holders jin the vast colonial empire, . * * NEW element of demagogy has entered the campaign. Lloyd | George is getting into the limelight with a British edition of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The way for this tripe was already well-paved by the Brit- ish trade union leaders. They weat Norman Thomas and Co. one bet= ter in praising the initial steps of the N. R. A. and all other anti- labor measures of Roosevelt in this country. The trend of Lloyd George's pro- nouncements were definitely fascist, He wants to restore the “old war cabinet,” in preparation for the coming war and to facilitate fas cist developments in England. A similar proposal was put forward jTecently by the openly avowed fase | cist Mosley. Besides establishing a “brain trust,” Lloyd George wants to strengthen the existing trusts. He is for a reorganization of capitalist industry (a la N.R.A.) “to take into account the opportunities afforded by our colonial empire.” He wants a heavy tariff weapon “to compel international free trade.” He makes promises to the workers that rang so familiarly in Roose- velt’s pre-election speeches. But in England the effect is to disturb the Labor Party leaders who see Lloyd George robbing their arsenal of jdemagogy with which to catch votes. The aim is, of course, to pre= vent the pressure of the radicalized masses, backed by the united front Projected by the Communist Party, from forcing great sections of th victorious labor candidates into tht line of refusing to follow in the rus of the last two Labor Governments of unsavory memory. Lloyd George's New Deal is really an auxiliary to aid the Labor Party, under the present sharpened situas tion of the class struggle, to hand the workers the good old American (dirty deal,