The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1935, Page 6

Page 8 ra tise —— a DATCY WORKER, NEW YORK. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935 provocative way in which Roosevelt’s spokesman, 1, broke off debt and trade negotiations with icates that Roosevelt is steadily i-Soviet press re from the right. or Secretary of State whole understanding that had Hul been arranged between Litvinov, Soviet envoy here, and to go yn the Roosevelt for the block in the negotiations falls Full bla ctly on the Roosevelt administration di In his yesterday's ri printed in Daily Worker, Litvinov makes it quite clear that the Soviet Union lived up to every letter and sentence of the statement, agreement made with Roosevelt, and that the brand new demands suddenly put forward by Hull actually were a violation of this understanding. In the discussions with Hull, Litvinov pointed out yesterday, “one of the fundamental points in the agree- ment reached at Washington, namely, regarding loans, was put in doubt.” And while Roosevelt’s spokesman, Hull, thus went back on the earlier agreement made with Roosevelt, Litvinov emphasizes, the Soviet Union “kept strictly within the boundaries of this agreement,” going so far as to “carry concessions to the limit beyond which must begin a revision of the entire Washington agreement.” Even sections of the capitalist press recognize these elements in the situation, Roosevelt-Hull Action Encourages Anti-Soviet Incitements ABRUPT TERMINATION OF DEBT NEGOTIATIONS VIOLATES EARLY UNDERSTANDING, LITVINOV CHARGES—U. S. S. R. STRICTLY KEPT AGREEMEN The Scripps-Howard newspapers, for example, note editorially the “provocative manner” of breaking off the negotiations, and hints strongly at Roosevelt’s trend toward the position of Hearst, asking whether this means “that Roosevelt and Hull are running to cover before the blind and destructive isolationist drive which defeated the World Court resolution.” And the New York Herald-Tribune strongly hints that some official explanation is required in answer to the charge that Roosevelt has violated his solemn un- derstanding with Litvinov. Roosevelt's action, as Litvinov also emphasizes, vitally affects the international situation. This action takes place at a time when all the militarist-fascist cliques of the world are brandishing their naked bay- onets at the U.S.S.R., and when Hearst in this country is echoing their pro-fascist incitements against the Soviet Union. Roosevelt’s abrupt termination of negotia- tions can only mean the strengthening of these pro-fascist, war-mongering forces in this country and throughout the world. Thus Roosevelt's action is encouragement to the Hearst anti-Communist, anti-Soviet campaign. It is an encouragement to the advance of pro-fascist reac- tion in this country, as well as a direct, material blow at the interests of the American workers. The American workers must become increasingly alert to these changes in administration policies. Daily QWorker €1UTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S» (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5¢ E, 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Address: “Daiwork,"" New York, N.Y, Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, | a F Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7910. | Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells 8t., Room 708, Chicago, Dl Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; 6 month: 3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents. Manhattan, Brenx, Foreign year, $9.00; and Canada: 1 3.00. 8 monthi month! monthly, 75 cents r, $1.50, 6 months, 75 cents TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935 Relocation of Factories HE plan proposed by the Roosevelt ad- ministration for relocation of seasonal industries to isolated rural regions is an attack upon the living standards of mil- lions of workers, and is aimed against the trade unions. The proposal to come before the pres- ent congress provides for a special Federal agency, to which a $2,500,000 fund is to be allotted as a start, to promote the mov- ing of shops from large cities to places where their “overhead will be low.” Manu- facturers who agree to move will have their moving expenses paid, and loans ad- vanced to cover payrolls for the first three moths. Workers engaged in the manufacture of garments, leather goods, shoes, textiles, metal and many other products will recog- nize what that means. Employers in these industries have alree”-- been attracted to small open shop tov on the promise of guarantees against , escape from unions, and low taxes. R The “run-away-shops” leave increased unemployment, and from their new loca- tions they offer serious competition to the wages of the union workers. This menace is to be spread over the entire country, and its promotion will be organized and financed by the Roosevelt Government—with “relief” funds, as part of the “New Deal.” The answer to this attack which the bosses are making through their Roosevelt government can only be through widespread unionization, particularly in the open shop regions, and the broadening of the fight for unemployment insurance as pro- vided in H. R. 2827. Deeiving the President S THE workers clamor for strike action against the starvation wages of the N. R. A. codes, the leaders of the A. F. of L. try to divert the anger of the workers from President Roosevelt. Thus John L. Lewis blames Donald L. Richberg for “deceiving” the President, by holding secret conferences with the auto bosses before renewing the auto code. “Labor is not attacking the President,” Lewis said. “It is merely revealing to the President the unworthy liaison of a trusted servant.” To spread the lie that it is Richberg who “deceives” the President is to deceive the workers, just as the A. F. of L. offi- cials deceived them before, by saying that it was General Johnson, and not Roosevelt, who was responsible for strikebreaking and strike betrayals. It is not the President who is being deceived. It is he who is deceiving the workers in the interests of the manufac- turers and bankers. Ships for War al war-calloused General Hugh S. Johnson, in his current articles on the N.R.A., expresses surprise at the ease with which the Roosevelt government spends hundreds of millions for war. The latest wrinkle in war expenditures is the granting of huge subsidies to rich merchant marine corporations. Only one provision is required by the navy. That is that the ships built, with a handsome profit fo the shipbuilding corporgtions and the merchant lines, should “be constructed by navy basic plans so as to be of maxi- mum usefulness in event of war.” We have yet to hear the munitions makers and the warship construction manufacturers complain that Roosevelt was not spending enough for war prepara- tions. He exceeds their fondest hopes. Echoes of Hearst ORMAN THOMAS, Socialist Party 4% leader, stated at Columbia University that “workers here will never accept Cofn- munis mbecause they are opposed to the suppression of liberty and the terrorism of forced collectivism in Russia.” This “contrast” between American “liberty” and “Russian terrorism”’—is not this word for word like Hearst's anti- Soviet, pro-fascist propaganda? Thomas echoed another typical Hearst idea. “Many American workers,” he said, “have become reactionary rather than ac- cept slanderous attacks of the American Communist Party.” What is this if not an echo of Hearst’s propaganda that the menace of fascism is a result of Communist activity? Do not such ideas play right into the hands of the pro-fascist cliques now try- ing to outlaw the Communist Party? Does not this attack on the leading force against fascism and the advance of fas- cism? We earnestly ask of Socialist workers, where does this kind of echoing of Hearst lead to? Did not similar ideas lead in Ger- many to the triumph of fascism? Does not this justify fascist violence against fascism aid the advance of fas- ing something “alien” to the United States? Not So Fast, Please! IX THOUSAND men and women, “90 per cent of them prominent in industry, finance and society,” have voluntarily placed their fingerprints on file at the New York police headquarters, according to John J. Sullivan, assistant chief inspector of the Detective Bureau. These kind folks fear that they may be kidnaped, shanghaied or murdered— and they just dread being buried in Pot- ters Field, where so many members of the “lower classes” ultimately find themselves. According to the Herald Tribune, In- spector Sullivan “hopes that eventually every citizen in the city will place his prints on file, and believes: that the prac- tice will finally apply to the entire nation.” Not on your tintype, Inspector! Let the society folks photograph them- selves, front view, side view, and rear. But don’t try your blandishments on any- body else, Mr. Sullivan, because your pur- pose is clear. It is a sly scheme to fingerprint work- ers so that they can be ferreted out and persecuted for militant activity—and you won't get away with it! “Liberals” and the Drivers LONG with Percey C. Magnus, presi- dent of the Board of Trade in New York,, Mayor La Guardia, and all the oth- ers who are doing everything possible to break a strike of teamsters, the so-called liberal World-Telegram, in an editorial yes- terday expresses horror that the team- sters, instead of placing confidence in the courts, resort to the strike weapon. “There has been no era, we think, when unions had less reason to say they had no recourse but to defy the courts and seek to strangle a great city’s commerce,” says the editorial. There has been no era, we say,. when the government used such a complicated network of agencies designed to prevent the workers from fighting capitalist ex- ploitation. The truckmen found out that an effec- tive strike is the best argument of their representatives in the boss-controlled coun- cils. They ave also learning that liberal- ism, as expressed by the World-Telegram, is strikebreaking at every decis' Purpose or another, | Party Lite Working With Contacts | How to Use Drive For Fighting Fund MOST of the comrades are | familiar with the work of canvassing with the Daily Worker. In connection with this, I would like to relate my |method of work in making |contacts while carrying out! | my Daily Worker assignment. When I see that a worker is in- terested, I ask him if he would like me to come up to his home to dis- | cuss the matter. I continue visit- ing that worker every week with the Daily Worker, However. I do not stop at that, ; Even after the worker has sub- scribed for the Daily Worker, I continue visiting the worker, bring- ing to that worker new literature; ask him to donate money for one and discuss with him every-day problems, One of my contacts is a woman, a tobacco worker, who for one rea- Son or another is unable to join the Party. But since she subscribed to the Daily Worker, she has been taking in an extra copy of the Daily into the shop, also literature, which I bring to her. Through this work she has the prospect now of getting three or four more sub- seribers for the Daily Worker, Dur- ing the last Daily Worker drive, she collected money in the shop for {the Daily. I gave her my Red | Fighting Fund booklet, on which she has collected seventy cents in | two days, and promised to take the booklet anytime I give it to her. She now attends the various mass demonstrations, and other affairs, The main thing is to FOLLOW |UP_ CONTACTS AND BECOME | THEIR FRIENDS! | W. W. Unit Org. No. 5 Section 5, Dist. No. 2 . se From my personal experience I | find that the Red Fighting Fund is | | the easiest form of collecting money. |T was out twice with a book, and | each time I sold $2.80 worth of | stamps. This week is my turn | again, so I will take a book and |I am sure that I will sell $2.80 | |worth of Red Fighting Fund stamps. There are two ways of collecting for the Red Fighting Fund—the right way and the wrong way. As to the wrong way, I can tell you | that one evening I dropped in to | have a cup of coffee at a cafeteria, | and found there a comrade from my unit, and a woman comrade who I did not know. She took out a Red Fighting Fund book and |naturally I asked her from which | Unit she came. She told me that | She is not a Party member, A com- |rade from Unit No. 4, gave her a | | | book of stamps to sell. This com- rade from Unit 4, knowing her as a close sympathizer, instead of selling her a five cent stamp, and drawing her into the Party, took the easiest and wrong way by let- ting her collect money to his credit. T finished his job. After five min- utes talk, she signed an application. | Now she is in my unit, attends the unit meetings regularly, takes as- signments and is a member in good standing. This was a wrong way | to go out with the Red Fighting | Pund. The right way, I believe, is my way of approach. I am trying to | reach a portion of the 200,000 sym- | pathizers we have in New York by Offering the Red Fighting Fund stamps to workers in the trade in which I am working. I approach the workers saying, “The Red Fighting Fund is for the Communist Party; give me as much as you can spare today. You know that we are in the firing line in every battle of the working class, and you know that we are fighting for your immediate needs, for higher wages and better working conditions now. We are also fighting for full social security and better life of the future in a class- less society.” Not a single worker | ever refused to buy a stamp. I am |Sure that in times of emergency, | when it may be impossible to issue | stamps or receipts, I will be able to | approach the same workers for con- | tributions for the Communist Party ;and these workers will readily contribute. J. 8. Financial Secretary, Sect. 15, Dist. 2 Join the | Communist Party || 35 East 12th Street, New York || Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Letters From Our Readers Commends L.R.A. For Valuable Service Bridgeport, Conn, Comrade Editor: I wish to say a few words in ap- preciation of the valuable service that the Labor Research Associa- tion is giving to the American la- bor movement, especially to its most class-conscious section. The eco- nomic, financial and political data accumulated and analyzed by the L.R.A, and made available io the movement through its various re- leases and “notes” is really indis- pensable both to the field organizer of the revolutionary union and of the Communist Party. Comiades in the field who have not the access to source material and files necessary in prder to keep up with at least the most outstand- ing developments of an economic and financial nature will find “Eco- nomic notes,” “notes on N.R.A.,” “Steel and Metal” and “Textile Notes,” ete., are invaluable help to them, It is while sitting in jail with plenty of time for reflection, that I decided to call the attention of our functionaries to a weapon ‘hat can be very advantageously used and can be had for the asking, namely, the good office and services of ihe LR.A., 80 E. 11th St., New York City, SAM KRIEGER. First “Attack”—Then Merge With Muste New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Since its birth, the raison d'etre of the Trotskyist sect has been to slander and discredit the Commu- nist Party. To this end, almost every issue of their sheet, contains interminable “analyses” which re- veal the “bankruptey” of the Com- munist movement. Their own theoretical purity is maintained by their complete isolation from the working class and its struggles, and by their profuse use of labels such “This country, with its institutions, belong to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they can exercise their constituticnal right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow 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 recetved are carefully read by the editors, Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever Possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker, as “Bolshevik-Leninist-Internation- alist,” etc, A good idea of the un- principled character of their re- cent bloc with the Muste group is given by their estimate of the C.P.L.A. (Muste) in the Militant for Feb, 11, 1933. They say: “In all their dabbling with the Illinois miners situation, they have never failed to show this policy of halfwayness by which they blunt the sharp edge of all the issues and muddle up the progressive move- ment from within. It is in the highest degree thanks to them that the Farrington-Harvat betrayal was put over on the miners and the liberation movement against the Lewis bureaucracy was so long ar- rested and disorientated.” This was their estimate of Muste in 1933, Today the Trotskyists have revolved 180 degrees about their old “principled” position. These words are being carefully forgotten and a new set of “principles” are being evolved, more suited to the occasion. The “betrayers” and “pseudo-pro- gressives” of yesterday have over- night become the proletarian heroes of today. So what is more natural and more fitting than to find these two sects of unrecognized and un- known titans in each others’ em- brace? EN | Praises Editorials on “Fake Patriots” Bronx, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Bravo for this morning’s editorial on “Filthy McFadden”! The top spreads on the editorial page ex- Posing these fake millionaire patriots are just great. Keep up the good work. For a 100,000 circulation of our “Daily.” Required Reading for Mr. Hearst By Gropper CON Ae & Be Soyer ( 2 rai oa J, Necessary to Expose Reformist Plans Strool, S. D, Comrade Editor: Will you lease send us all the information about duplicating ma- chines which you have? We believe | that if we had a mimeograph out | here we could do some good with it. That the ranchers and the farm- ers are looking for a way out of the crisis cannot be denied. When the Townsend Old Age Pension | Plan came along, the whole country went wild for a spell. There was an old man in every family and | that would do the trick. Had we | been able to issue a leaflet and | explain this plan it would have caused the farmers to look in our direction for other explanations. By correct explanation of such mis- leading reformist plans, the leader- ship of the Party can be built up. #H. A. Urges Fixed Place for Communist Platform New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I want to express my profound satisfaction with the way you have improved the appearance and nature of the paper. Recently I handed the “Daily” to | a few workers, and the keen en- thusiasm they showed after reading several issues is proof that all the anti-Red campaigns cannot cloud the burning issues of the days for the worker. Keep it up. I know your problems aze great but you can’t fail to surmount them, | As a suggestion, may I ask that} you consider seriously the proposals of maintaining a permanent box on one of the inside pages express- ing briefly and simply the basic principles and program of the Com- munist Party. Below that run the coupon for information to join the Party. 8. R. C. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN. World Front By HARRY GANNES From Paris to Algiers | Class Battles Grow | An Offer to Hitler HE new year is a little mora than a month old, but is already rushing on to mo. mentous world events. From one end of the world to the other the class struggle is sharpening. Anti - fascist clashes in France are expected ta reach a high point on Feb. 6, an- niversary of the Paris fascist riots, which were answered by the united front of Socialists and Communists, At Lille, France, the Socialist and Communist united front met the fascist provocation Sunday with a militancy that forecasts great strug- gles throughout France. Despite all talk of “recovery” in the capitalist world, the workers’ conditions are becoming so bad that no amount of reformist treachery can stop a new far-flung strike wave. In the United States the workers in steel, auto, transporta- tion, are girding for strike action, In France, textile, shoe, transporta- tion and other workers have been on strike. Strikes are becoming more frequent in Latin American countries, in Japan and China, Pe oe E ALGIERS native troops are mutinying. The French impe- rialist press tries to make the cur- rent riots appear to be anti-Semitic actions. Though Jews have been killed, the battles of the Algerian people is primarily against the French colonial masters. The rich Jews have been utilized as agents of the French overlords, and the Arabs, as in Palestine, vent their wrath first against them. What the French fear most now is the unreliability of the local troops. The Arab peasants are in @ miserable plight. With the crisis sharpening in France, the price of their products goes down. Their debts are heavy. The French im+ perialists have increased taxes. Hence, repeated riots break out which are essentially anti-imperial- ist in their nature and objectives, (ae sae ND with this intensification of the struggles of the workers throughout the world against their miserable lot, the ruling class rushes its war preparations, In the Far East, the Japanese militarist ruling clique is driving relentlessly for war against the Soviet Union. They are moving along every road towards the Soviet border. Their engineers work night and day to perfect railroads, mil- itary roads, auto and tank roads, all leading towards the Soviet bore der. Japanese troops in Chahar and near the Mongolian People’s Republic are moving on towards the ancient caravan routes leading into Outer Mongolia and thence on to Soviet Siberia. But these ancient highways are intended for a very modern purpose by the Japanese. They want them for aviation bases and for routes to Chita where the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Chinese Eastern Railway join. The British imperialists know that the war moves will become greater. Hence they are preparing alliances now in order to direct the war that is rushing on into channels they most desire—that is against the Soviet Union. ata SP U Nida the signing of the Anglo- French pact regarding German armament, all efforts are being con- centrated on Hitler. At first Hitler acted coyly. The capitalist press mistook this for coolness. But Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, reports that Hitler is quite willing to talk the matter over. The chief fascist butcher sees the substantial kernel in the diplomatic, demagogic shell. Germany is to be given the right to arm, to build up an air fleet. This is primarily a recognition of the main purpose for which German fascism is arming— for war in the East against the Soviet Union. Lord Lothian, for example, writ- ing recently in the London Times, declared that an agreement with German fascism was eminently de- sirable. Hitler has pacific intentions, he declared. He does not want war, He wants arms equality. As proof of Hitler's overpowering desire for Peace, Lord Lothian quoted the existence of German fascism’s “non- aggression” pact with Poland. The whole world knows that this pact was deliberately aimed at the Soviet Union, Despite all public statements on what was agreed upon in London, the most important achievements are being kept secret. What they are in detail can only be surmised, But that. their fundamental sig- nificance is a move to weaken the French-Soviet pact, and to strengthen the Japanese-Hitler anti- Soviet war front is beyond quese tion, i