The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1935, Page 8

Page g DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935 Japanese imperialism is growing more crude~and raw in its war provocations against the Soviet Union. And here in the United tes, the pro-fascist Hearst press lies about the “menace” of the Soviet m’s Red Army, and ¢ for the building of the big- nilitary machine in the world n’s Foreign Minister Hirota insolently demands that the Soviet Union withdraw its troops from its Si- berian borders and wreck its forts defending the Man- churi 1 r) the old Portsmouth Treaty as an “argu- ment” for this militarist demand that the Soviet Union itself defenseless on its eastern front. He got the reply he deserved from Premier Molo- leave its eastern defenses but will strengthen them. Molotov showed to the whole world that it was Japanese imperialism which had wantonly violated the Portsmouth Treaty by the military invasion of Man- churia and building military highways and aviation bases near the Soviet borders. The defense preparations of the Soviet Union are none too soon in view of the steady and cynical advance of Japanese imperialism into Manchuria and China. The plottings of Japan and Fascist Germany for an invasion of the Soviet Union are well known, That is why the Soviet Congress, and the working tlass of the whole world, is responding with enthusi- astic joy to the latest figures showing the mighty strength of the Red Army, would receive blows that will make them crack” if they dare to attack the Workers’ and Farmers’ government of the U. S. S. R. These blows will come not only from the Red Army, but from the working class, from the workers and farmers, in the capitalist countries themselves! The workers and farmers in the imperialist armies will turn their guns against the imperialists! Hearst. yesterday lyingly tried to give the impres- sion that the Soviet Union plots imperialist expansion. Hearst and the other American propagandists for fas- cism will discover that the American working class understands what is behind this lie—an attempt to strengthen fascist reaction in the country and speed tov, Ww. g r Daily ,QWorker SUNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.© (SECTION OF COMMUXIST INTERNATIONAL) merica’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 F. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address " New York, N. Y. Washington Bui National Press Bi {4th and F St., Telephone: Natio Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Chie: Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; 6 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 cents; monthly, 75 cents. Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935 eee A Danger Signal {hae action of Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, will serve to encourage many en- emies of the Soviet Union. Hull, in 41 minutes conversation, bluntly rejected all offers and discussion on the U. S.-Soviet debt question and future trade arrange- ments This is a danger signal that should alarm all friends of the Soviet Union in this country. It shows Hearst’s poisonous voice for war preparations against the workers’ fatherland reaches into high places. Hull’s action coincides with the threat of the Japancse against the Soviet Union in the Far East. And it will give great encouragement to Hitler’s simulta- neous war plans against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was ready to open up a billion dollar trade arrangement with the United States. But the Roosevelt re- gime, whose hypocritical hot air against the money changers is well known, in- sisted that the Soviet Union pay loans granted to the Kerensky government when it was defunct to help Morgan out in the last war. Roosevelt wants the work- ers in the Soviet Union to pay the millions of dollars spent by the Czarist counter- revolutionists for guns, bullets and shells used to slaughter Russian workers fight- ing for freedom back in 1918-21. Hull’s action is now encouraging the Hearsts, Wolls and Fishes to press their demand for rupturing relations with the land of Socialism. It will satisfy the rene- gade Trotskyites, who have long supplied world reaction with weapons against the workers’ fatherland. It will encourage the assassins of the counter-revolution. Stand guard for the defense of the workers’ fatherland. Fight against every hostile move against the Soviet Union. LaGuardia’s ‘Square Deal’ WHAYOR LA GUARDIA has again shown 47@ his real policy towards labor—one of police terror. This time it was against the taxicab drivers. The mobilization of large forces of police, the smashing of the cab parade on Fifth Avenue, the refusal to see the delegation of the Taxicab Drivers Union at City Hall yesterday—these are expres- sions of the real policy of His Honor, that peerless ‘‘friend of labor,’’ Fiorello LaGuardia. In 1938 when he was running for of- fice. he promised “a square deal for the hackmen.” Today he shows what he really he is— an enemy of the cabmen, a friend of the General Motors-controlled fleet operators and the bankers. The hackmen will only get their just demands—an end to police persecution and the right to earn a decent wage—by mass organization, by further struggle. Their experience will prove to them that they must strengthen their ranks, organize po- litically against Mr. LaGuardia, the agent of the bankers and the large fleet operators. Every honest worker will give the hackmen his earnest support in this fight! Chicago Elections (MHICAGO is witnessing wholesale viola- ‘\ tions of the most elementary demo- cratic rights as its aldermanic elections draw near. More than 181 of the 200 aldermanic candidates in the wards have been sum- marily challenged by the boss-controlled election machinery. These are the candi- t ¢ ! { o, in his final speech at the All-Union Soviet Con- of the U. S. S. R., informed this Japanese impe- st that the Soviet Union will not only not weaken dates which have not received the stamp of approval of the Democratic and Re- publican machines. Twenty-six Communist-supported can- didates of the Workers’ Ticket and 10 out of the 11 Socialist Party candidates have been challenged in this way. It is obvious that the capitalist parties, in control of the whole state official ma- chinery, have made a pact to drive all opponents off the ballot. The hearings opened yesterday and will continue from early morning till 11 p. m. all this week until Saturday, February 9. The mass protest of thousands of Chi- cago workers, crowding into the City Council Hall, will force the withdrawal of these challenges of workers’ candidates. It is the duty of every Chicago worker interested in protecting his rights to make his appearance at the City Council Hall some time during this week! The Sacramento Fight HE fight of the eighteen Sacramento defendants held on charges of ‘‘crimi- nal syndicalism” is attracting nation-wide attention. “Criminal syndicalism” is the famous California trap for oppressing all militant workers who dare to fight the brutal ex- ploitation of the monopolies and the big landlords. Vigilante bands, the hysteria of a cal- culated “Red scare,” and the enlistment of the notorious militarist Colonel Mittel- staedt as special police chief indicates the extent of the terrorism in the trial. The capitalist courts have joined in this terrorism against the working class defendants facing long prison terms be- cause they dared to struggle for better living conditions. On some hair-splitting technicality the judge has refused to accept the ninety thousand dollars in bonds offered as bai Mass protest from every part of the country is the best defense the eighteen Sacramento workers have! Come to their rescue! Defeat the growing fascist re- action in California! ™ A Significant Conference OMORROW a significant union confer- ence takes place in Pittsburgh. Dele- gates from A. F, of L, local unions in the steel, mining and aluminum industry will meet to discuss the fight for their de- mands and the building of their unions. This conference was called by lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.). The conference of these A. F. of L. locals assumes special significance in view of the fact that in all these industries, as well as the auto industry, the workers are demanding strike action in answer to the miserable conditions imposed on them by Roosevelt's N. R. A. codes and Labor Boards. In all these industries the A. F. of L. national leaders are attempting to. block strike action, are attacking the rank and file, and are sabotaging the organization of the unorganized workers into the A. F. of L. The Feb. 3 conference in Pittsburgh will mark progress in building and strengthening these A. F. of L. unions in preparation for necessary strike action. A Weekly Young Worker N FEBRUARY 12 the Young Worker, official organ of the Young Communist League, will come out as a weekly paper for the youth of America. The increasing impoverishment ef the youth, their growing role in strikes and struggles of the working class, the danger they especially face of war and fascism— all make this step necessary. The new weekly Young Worker will be a lively paper with many attractive fea- tures. It will be a paper that will find a place in every working class home where there are young workers. The D; Worker warmly urges its readers to aid in spreading this new Com- munist paper for the youth. Send sub- scriptions, orders, donations, to the Young Worker, 35 East Twelfth Street, New York City. Ls Bluecher, the famous Soviet commander, recently warned the capitalist countries of the world that “they | Party Lite | Trouble in Terre Haute A ‘Mock Debate’ The Editor Comments N THE past two years, Sec- tion Terre Haute, in Dis- trict No, 8, has suffered a severe setback, The trouble has been that we were not able to develop |a Marxist-Leninist approach to the difficulties which naturally develop in a spontaneous move- ment. Our Party has become ex- | tremely sectarian; completely iso- | lated from the basic sections of |the workers. Our political outlook is no broader than the narrow state | of Indiana. Up until now we could not’ speak |of planned’ activity. All our plans remained on paper, and all we could see was defeat. To criticize, no matter how tactfully, was the )gong for a personal battle. | Needless to say, with such a low | political level, and the lack of a | persistent, or ganized, educational | agit-prop apparatus we could not |convince the members of the im- portance of the Daily Worker and |its distribution among the masses, |along with other mass Party liter- ature. The capitalist poison is hav- ing the effect of developing and creating extreme opportunist ideas jin the minds of our members. But the great difficulty was to find out |to just what extent such ideas ex- | isted. Hold Mock Debate A Section member took this ques- tion up with the Bureau of one junit and arranged that a leading |comrade would lead the discussion |on Unemployment and Social In- surance and that, another leading |member should tactfully oppose it. Of course, the members did not know that it was a mock discussion, The results were wonderful. One member, whom we least suspected, fought to the last against the bill, on the grounds that it would stifle |the militancy of the workers; that it was impossible to win unem- ployment insurance; that his ex- perience among hundreds of F.E. | R.A. workers proved that the work- ers didn’t want unemployment in- |Surance; that the workers were ex- tremely ignorant and would not fight until they starve more. Every member wanted the floor at the same time and those who opposed the bill got what was com- ing to them. The discussion not only showed that there was oppo- sition to the bill, but it showed that none, except leading members, rea- lized the political significance of a |united front struggle of the entire |toiling population: led by the Communist Party. In conclusion, we wish to state | for the first time our members were given a task of going before the |masses at the first opportunity and | prove themselves by trying to con- | vince the masses of the importance jof H. R. 2827, At the same time | they were offered assistance in un- derstanding all the decisions of the Party and their application. | B. L. | Agit-prop, Section 3, Terra Haute. Spears Editor’s Comment The results of your method of discussion may be “wonderful,” but your method of provoking such discussion is, to say the least, somewhat peculiar, It is certainly not a Communist manner of stimulating discussion to create sham opposition. There is sufficient opposition outside our ranks, and the issue is a suf- ficiently burning problem of the workers, for a correct method to bring about very interesting re- sults. It revolves about the manner in which the discussion is led, If the leader relates the issue to the workers’ daily lives, and if he himself. takes in, as part of his talk, the various oppositional points of view, showing the incor- rectness of each, then there would be a lively discussion which would create enthusiasm in carrying out the Party’s line. Finally, a vigorous campaign of action fer H. R. 2827 would have brought out any hidden opposi- tion in the unit, if there had been a good check-up on the members. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York | Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. the war plans of Wall Street imperialism. The Soviet Union stands for peace. But it is “ready to answer with triple blows the incendiaries of war,” GETTING CLOSE Hearst Echoes Japan Imperialists in War Calls Against U.S. S.R. PREMIER MOLOTOV REBUFFS DEMAND THAT U.S.S.R. SPIKE ITS DEFENSES—‘TRIPLE B LOWS AGAINST WAR MAKERS,’ HE WARNS to quote yesterday’s “Pravda,” the official paper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Against it are arrayed the forces of fascism and imperialist war. The pro-fascist Hearsts are trying to strengthen fascist reaction in this country through war incitements against the Soviet Union. Hitler in Ger- many calls for a fascist world front against the U.S. S. R. The fight against the Hearsts and their fascist plans is a fight to defend the Soviet Union, the bulwark against world imperialist war and fascism. The American working class will support the Red Army in its defense of Socialism! We will join with our Japanese working-class brothers in fighting Jap- anese imperialism! Above all, we will fight the war plans of the Roosevelt govern agandists like Hearst! by Burck ment and its fascist prop- World Front By HARRY GANNES A “New Deal” for China Against the Soviets Starvation in Indonesia EPORTS from Geneva and Tokio reveal that the Ja- panese government, at the very time its troops were shooting down Chinese on the Chahar-Jehol border, was making secret deals with Chiang Kai Shek, generalissimo of the Nanking government. The crux of these deals, as ane nounced in Geneva by official Ja- panese spokesmen, is, first, direct Japanese assistance to Chiang Kai Shek in the war on the Soviets in Szechuan province. Japanese com- mercial boats of the N. Y. K. and N. K. K. lines on the Yangtze River are to transport Kuomintang troops against the Red Army. Japanese gunboats are to accompany them and shoot down Chinese workers Letters From Our Readers Comments on Series of Fascist Exposures Comrade Editor: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Iam sending you my subscription to the Daily Worker for two months. I have just finished reading the Fascist expose by Marguerite Young. I think that it is very good work. Keep it up, fight the profit-taking class to a finish. Stop all their plans like this one, while they are thinking them up, and we will beat them to it. JDL ere ae New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Marguerite Young’s series of arti- cles are very enlightening. They helped me to make three of my A. F. of L. union comrades steady readers, but I also think that these articles exposing Fascists in Amer- ica should not be so long, so that whole pages are devoted to one thing and nothing else. This is not good for the circulation. MANFREDI. eh ck New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: With our increased pressure di- rected at Fascist activities, there should follow at the heels of these exposures sufficient constructive in- formation to enlighten all those to whom such information is an in- centive to action. M. R. Circulation Is Measure Of Improved Paper Bronx, N. Y. Comrade Editor: On many occasions I have noticed in the Daily Worker where the edi- tors emphasized the need of im- provements in the Daily Worker. I say this: If you know that there is room for improvement, improve -it. Admitting that the paper can be made better does not help the paper any. x The Daily Worker is miles and miles better than it was a few years ago. But as long as there is no marked increase in circulation, it is not good enough. The important thing, I say, is that the Daily Worker must be a mass paver instead of a narrow Party organ. D.R. inhabit it. Because of the volume 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, Sees Communism as Road to Freedom Brooklyn, N. Y, Comrade Editor: Here are my reasons why I am a Communist. 1, Because I am of the working class and know from experience the conditions of slavery under capi- talism. 2. Because I have a free spirit and cannot tolerate these conditions without protesting. 3. Because I have an active mind | that has always sought solutions. 4. Because I have a scientific mind that is content not with half truths, but with facts of history. 5, Because in my search I have but a series of class struggles. 6. Because today, I see conditions preparing for the final conflict that will usher in the era of working class power for the establishment of the classless society. 7. Because I have the courage to affirm what I see. regardless of per- sonal consequences, 8. Because much reading and deep thinking to which I have been driven by my class experience, has given me that vision which rerders | human considerations of first im- portance. 9. Because, owing to these things, I find a greater measure of satis- faction in the triumph of the masses than in any personal victory. 10. Furthermore, because I am a lover of order, a lover of peace, a Jover of love, a lover of work in freedom, of life in security and am convinced that there is but one road that leads to these things—THE | ROAD TO PROLETARIAN POWER. That is why I am a Communist. os come to recognize that all history is | Hearst Accuses Himself In His Own Words Dakota City, Nebr. Comrade Editor: There should be literature for mass sale or distribution concretely exposing such war-mongers as Hearst. ‘There is a great mistake made by older class conscious people in not realizing how little the younger peo- ple know about things which hap- pened before their time. Because Hearst's record is an old story for the old class conscious worker, is no reason why it is not new for most young people. We must remember that farmers and workers are not moved by allegations; allegations to them are only political bunk. I opened the eyes of a group of farmers and workers when I read to them facts on Hearst in Wednes- day’s Daily Worker. Why? Because the convictions were Hearst's own words in an indisputable telegram in which he boasts of starting a war in Cuba. Where we have in print the words as spoken by the accused, then we have fact, not allegations. I think our trouble is to get the average worker to understand the difference between sincerity and and peasants supporting the Soviet territories. Second, in return for this more direct military aid against the Chinese Soviets, whom Chiang Kai Shek more than once announced he had completely destroyed, the Japanese militarists are to have a free hand in North China, par- ticularly in Mongolia in their war Preparations against the Soviet Union, They are to have the dominant imperialist role in China. The merger of Chiang Kai Shek’s anti-Communist war and the Ja- panese invasion of North China is a counter-move to the main ob- jective of the Red Army of China, The Red Army is the vanguard of the anti-Japanese invasion army directed against Japanese imperial- ism, and its chief native agent, Chiang Kai Shek. * ww # AMAU, the Foreign Office spokesman (Tokio),” cables Hugh Byas, New York Times cor- respondent in Japan, “said today that the Chino-Japanese conver- sations had been started on Gene eral Chiang Kai Shek’s initiative and were not an outcome of any instructions sent to the Japanese minister.” Now with this bit of information at hand, and another fragment published in the Osaka Mainichi on Jan. 6, that is, three weeks be- fore the Japanese troops began their march into Chahar, we can well ask: Was the invasion of North China against an indenend- ent Chinese army, resisting the in- vasion of Japanese imperialism the result of a definite agreement be- tween Chiang Kai Shek and Jaq panese imperialism? Every fact goes to prove this to be the actual situation. The issue of the Osaka Mainichi referred to on Jan. 6 declared: “From now on Kasumigaseki (the Japanese foreign office) is expected to deal directly with Chiang Kal Shek, instead of through his satel- lites, as has been the practice.” The deal has been made, signed and sealed with the blood of Chi- nese men, women and children to the north of the great wall. keh, SH we MPLETE silence is maintained demagogy. Wey Get Members of Elks to Read “Daily” South Haven, Mich. Comrade Editor: The item you are running on the back of the Daily Worker entitled “Required Reading for Mr. Hearst” and containing the quotation from Abraham Lincoln, is I think one of the best arguments we have’ to refute the charge that the Commu- nist Party is “un-American.” ‘I think it would be a good plan to have this printed just as it is in the paper, on gummed stickers, which could be put up in all kinds of places. This would be timely” here be- cause the Eiks are circulating a peti- tion locally to make the Communist Party illegal and bar its literature from the mails. I presume this is also being done in other places. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst “This country, with its institutions, belong to the people who Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- A. E. A. ment, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” —ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 4 u in the capitalist press of Holland on the famine raging in large sec- tions of the Dutch East Indies. In the pseudo-parliament at Batavia, the so-called People’s Council, it is quite frequently announced that the natives lack money, but there is no shortage of food. Quite true. The workers and peasants in the Maos, Kroja, and Sumpiuh district have no money. And the ware- houses are bursting with rice. Yet thousands starve to death. The families which do have a few conts to svend cannot afford to buy rice, but live on what is known as “gaber,” a waste product of the cassava root. This fills their be! (the slogan of the Dutch imperi: ists has always been, “fill their’ bel- lies and keen their heads empty). But if does not keep them from starving. eel rik Indonesian newspaper, ‘Suaram Umum,” recently re- ported an interview with the Sec- retary of the National Revolution- ary Party of Indonesia. He was hendeuffed and sent to the prison at Gank Tengah (Batavia). In the same prison 60 Indonesian sea- men, charged with having. taken part in the mutiny on the cruiser “Seven Provinces,” are being held. When this evolutionist entered the prison the warden demanded that he kneel before him. He re fused. Then he was knocked down. His feet were chained. ‘ He was then forced to trudge in the burn- ing trovical heat to another prison at Tyiponang. There prisoners are virtually tortured to death as an example to those who resist the arvation rule of the Dutch over. 4