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

Page 6 i (H the U Bank “a . the death penalty to speed of the “Zafr harv of work dictated by American Morgan National City Bank. Daily,QWorker CRWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Dafly Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ALgonquin 4-795 4. Daiwork Room ephone: Nation: 0. Room 705, Chieago, Ml. Subscription Rates: except Manhattan and Bronx 1 year, $3.59, 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. BS gn and Canada: 1 year, 5 88 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935 Comrade Krumbein’s Imprisonment By C, A. HATHAWAY HARLES KRUMBEIN is on his way to a Federal prison. He is sentenced to serve one and a half years for his revolu- tionary working class activities. He was deliberately technical charge; use of a fraudulent pass- port. But that is not the reason for Com- rade Krumbein’s conviction. He is jailed for loyalty and heroism in the working class struggle against capi- ta robbery; for devoted service in the most dangerous sectors of the battlefront. When the agent of American imperial- ism, Chiang Kai-shek, was butchering the Chinese masses in an effort to crush the struggle of the Chinese people for free- dom from imperialist domination and from native capitalist robbery and persecution, Comrade Krumbein fearlessly went to China as the spokesman for the American revolutionary workers to aid the Chinese people in their battle against imperialist slavery. His courage and experience gained in the struggle against Wall Street domina- tion here, he freely gave to the Chinese convicted on a masses in their struggle against Wall Street’s bloody henchmen there. His was an act of international class solidarity ch will be commended by every worker. But the bankers and manufacturers, and their miserable hirelings in Washing- ton, cannot appreciate such revolutionary working class devotion. They sought ways and means of bringing him before the bar of capitalist “justice.” They finally convicted him, not openly for his services to the workers, but for “use of a fraudulent passport’”—in the domain of the butcher, the callous mur- derer—Chiang Kai-shek! Comrade Krumbein, for technical reasons, admitted that his passport was not “in order.” But not as yesterday’s news report in the Daily Worker implied: because he had illusions as to the vicious- ness of capitalist justice. Comrade Krumbein knew very well a lesson gained from many bitter cla battles: capitalist justice always perse- cutes its working class victims. He knew in this case that nothing could be gained by denying what the agents of the Chiang Kai-shek-Roosevelt alliance were able to prove. Comrade Krumbein unflinchingly took his sentence: 18 months in a Federal prison. “Tell the comrades,” he said. “to dig deeper into the work. I will be back at my post to fight harder than ever in the front ranks of the working class.” “Dig deeper into the work!” I am sure that every comrade will heed this call of Comrade Krumbein. Only in this way can we end the damn- able system that sends such heroic work- ing class fighters to jail while the tyrants of capitalism rob and persecute the people. Comrades, build the Party! Strengthen its revolutionary work! Carry out with greater zeal and determination the tasks for which Comrade Krumbein has sacri- ficed his immediate freedom. Hasten the day of Krumbein’s re- lease! Fight Green’s Expulsions! ae national leadership of the A. F. of L. is attempting to launch a campaign of expulsions in steel and mining local unions. The Tighe-Leonard machine of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel { fNHE cane sugar that pours sparkling from its Batista has been decreed work or who are suspected of maintal est) season—the sugar $8.00; | ‘pATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1935 STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. neat ed in the Batista-Mendieta-Caffery who resent and efficient form of slavery t a-Mendieta gov The with the landing of U. 8S. to these fascist decrees. ise of Morgan) Ambassador, series of secret murders n the ganizers numan peed trust—the Havana Post threatens The death penalty has been put in force by the government for all workers revolt against this newest and most o the House of Morgan. the Cuban workers Marines if there is resistance The death penalty decree is paralleled by a whole of militant workers and or- Union headquarters are raided and closed. Those worker leaders they dare not murder at once are jailed. Wall Street imperialism, by a careful process of and Tin Workers and the Lewis-Fagan machine of the United Mine Workers have declared they will demand the expulsion of all locals and individuals taking part in | the Feb. 3 conference in Pittsburgh. This expulsion policy, backed by Wil- liam Green, exposes the hypocrisy of these leaders, who are now, in words, attacking the N. R. A. The Feb. 3 conference consisted of reg- ularly elected delegates from A. F. of L. | locals. It was carried out under the con- | stitutions of the two unions. The Feb. 3 conference took up the building of the two A. F. of L. unions into mass unions, and the preparation of strike against the attacks of the employers and N. R. A. boards. Green and Co. now denounce Rich- | berg and the N. R. A. boards. In words, | they say they faver “economic action.” But the very forces in the A. F. of L. which are trying to carry out such action and to strengthen the A. F. of L. are threatened with expulsion. | Every member of the A. F. of L. should | reject this expulsion policy of the Green machine, Every A. F. of L. local should pass | resolutions denouncing these splitting | tactics of Green and Co, Not a single expulsion. Not a single charter revocation. | The Anthracite Strike HE strike called by the United Anthra- cite Miners of Pennsylvania, an inde- pendent union, of the 17,000 miners em- ployed by the Glen Alden Company, should receive the support of every miner and all workers. It is a fight for enforcement of union conditions and against the lowering of wages. The company fears the strike and has already applied for an injunction banning all picketing. Police are attacking | picket lines. | But what is the policy of the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, affiliated with the A. F. of L.? Jointly with the company they have tried to in- timidate the workers, in order to keep the workers divided. In their attempts to smash the U.A.M. of P. the U.M.W.A. officials are trying to organize their members to scab. They have instigated street fights in Wilkes-Barre between the members of both unions. The fact that the very existence of all trade unions in the anthracite is at stake, makes no difference to these reactionaries. | The membership of both unions must fight against this disgraceful state of af- fairs. Miners of both unions can and should unite behind the strike demands. Otherwise only the coal barons will gain. The rank and file program in both unions is to cement such trade union unity despite the ceaseless struggle between the reac- tionary machines controlling both unions —unity on the basis of a fight against the real enemy, the mine owners. Unity com- mittees should be set up in every colliery by the members of both unions. | Prepare the Auto Strike Now QEVEN hundred workers of the Murray tAuto Body Corporation are on strike in Detroit. The auto workers in every plant are seething with dissatisfaction as a result of Roosevelt's extension of the anti-labor auto-code. The auto workers are demanding immediate strike prepara- | tions. | William Green and his lieutenant Dil- lon, are meanwhile marking time. They are doing nothing to prepare a strike or to strengthen the union, Green is sitting in Washington, talking against the decision of Roosevelt, against the employers’ Auto Labor Board, and against Richberg. But in deeds, Green is holding the auto work- | ers back, | At the moment when the Roosevelt | government and the auto corporations are | carrying forward their plan to smash the A. F. of L. and foist company unions on the workers through the framed up fac- tory elections, Green delays action. Strike preparations must be made now. The unorganized steel workers must be brought into the A. F. of L. now, before the present busy production season is over. The rank and file in the A. F. of L. auto | locals must act now to build their unions and prepare the strike. Party Lite | | Weak Unit Meetings | Cause Fluctuation pe Membership | N our unit, and many others, | we have for a long time wondered why it has been im- |possible to get most of our |comrades active in the sale of |the Daily Worker, the distri- | bution of leaflets, street can- vassing, recruiting, ete. We | have also noted the marked fluctua- |tion of our membership. At the |same time, it is a matter of easy, | indubitable observation that our unit meetings have been apathetic, drag- ging, dry and highly detailed. | The continued presence of these conditions gave rise to certain | analyses and conclusions that may | be of value in stimulating our meet- jings, creating enthusiasm among | the comrades, and spurring them to |the carrying out of necessary tasks. The relationship between these fac- tors of our Party Life is a clear and certain one. That lack of activity and fiuctu- ation are intimately connected and proceed directly from the weak character of our meetings is un- deniable. Nevertheless, it is a fact that despite these weak unit meet- ings, we have a few comrades who are in the forefront of Party work. There immediately arises the ques- | tion—why do these comrades carry on vigorously? The answer must be that they have a clearer view of the class struggle, are more keen- ly aware of its daily intensification, more acutely understand the im- perative need for constant revolu- tionary activity. Concisely, these comrades are well developed politi- cally. It is precisely because of this that he weak unit meetings affect them least. However, it has long been the custom for the greatest majority of the comrades to come to few meetings, to sit inattentively through them, and rarely do any work. In- variably these comrades show the least political growth. Frequently these comrades, failing to under- stand the underlying political sig- nificance of organizational and edu- cational work, are at sea during the meetings. oa 8 'HE inability of the unit to func- tion as a further instrument for the greater politicalization of our comrades is its most serious defect. The unit thus far has failed to con- vert the initial enthusiasm of the new Party members into participa- tion in the activities of the unit. We have falied to understand that |the basis for revolutionary work is revolutionary understanding. In the past, in an exceedingly dry jand detailed fashion we have as- | signed tasks to our comrades, hay- ing neglected to explain carefully the political value of carrying out the assignment. It is evident to us today that each bit of organiza- tional and educational work must | be accompanied with its correspond- | ing political idea. | Thus, the comrades, instead of |being merely assigned to the tesk, | become an integral, vital part of the | whole revolutionary movement. It jis extremely important that the | comrades know this, for their recog- | nition of this conception will pro- |duce within them an enthusiasm which will serve as the principal | motivation for their activity. The application of this principle \during unit meetings should serve to activize both old and new com- rades and aid in the reduction of | fluctuation. R. C., Unit 605, Section 6, Dist. 3 (Philadelphia). Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. State Treasury Deficit Bigger Than Predicted Says Tax Commission ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 5. — The Mastick Tax Revision Commission estimated today that the State treasury deficit on July 1, 1935 Would be $99,000,000 instead of $74,- 000,000 predicted by Governor Leh- man, according to a United Press dispatch. To raise between $160,000,000 and | $21,000,000 in taxes, the commis- | sion is piling burdens on the con- | Sumer and small business man. The |Commission advocates increasing | the gasoline tax because “motorists are not paying their share of the tax burden which instead is being. \shifted to real estate,” selection, appears now to have picked its ideal govern- ment—a government which, while operating under a “liberal” front, is actually a government of Fascist murder terror against working people. Machado’s activities became too well known. He thereby lost his usefulness to Wall Street imperialism. But the conditions of the Cuban workers today are even worse than under Machado. We, American workers, intellectuals, professional people—everyone who hates bloody oppression and especially that financed and enforced by the agencies of their “own” government—we can stop this fascist drive against the Cuban workers, leading Roosevelt. | Unemployment Group Runs Child Center New York, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: May I point out an apparent er- tor in the recent article on the art work at the Tompkins Square Chil- dren’s Center, by Douglas McDon- ald? It is not carried on under the under the local Unemployment Council. Of the 70 children who frequent the classes, as yet not more than a half dozen are Pio- neers. Their ages range from 2 to 14 years, and they are spread over classes in painting, dramatics, car- pentry, dancing and rhythm. As a supplement to Douglas that the object of the place is to educate the children of the sur- rounding blocks through the crea- tive arts to class consciousness. At present they are raw material, ideo- logically unproletarianized. Later we expect to present the movement with widely educated proletarian children, conscious and expressive of their class. We hope that this center will be a contribution to a deeper educational development of the Pioneer movement. A full de- tailed account of the work and be- ginnings of this Center will be pub- lished in the February issue of So- cial Work Today. ONE OF THE TEACHERS, “Suggests Pamphlet On Indian Question Montpelier, Iowa Comrade Editor: The enclosed seventeen ballots are an indication of the interest here in H. R. 2827. I suggest that another pamphlet be added to fill a very large gap in our literature, entitled, “The American Indian.” I think the revolutionary effect of @ good analysis of the hardships and sufferings of the Indian mi- nority would be of benefit to the workers and a credit to the Com- munist Party. M.M.C. inhabit it. auspices of the Young Pioneers, but | | McDonald's article, I'd like to add | WASHINGTON SIDE-SHOW Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can print only those that are of general interest to Dally 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. Hearst Wants More |Cannot Fodder Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I notice that since Arthur Bris- bane has assumed the editorship of the Daily Mirror a new page has | been started to play on the ideal- istic instincts of the masses. Mr. Brisbane, Mr. Hearst and company are ardently advocating marriage to young people. Is it any wonder that this man is the highest paid newspaperman in the country? His technique at the fine art of mass corruption is masterful, indeed. What, does this seemingly harm- Jess sentimental trash mean: if not @ way to solve relief problems by shifting the burden of support of unemployed girls on the struggling | young men who work for starvation wages to turn the attention of the idle young away from dangerous radicalism; to breed children for cannon fodder for future imperial- ist wars? Let Mr. Brisbane depict the shabby company-owned huts in the Pennsylvania mine regions, the malnutrition of tenant farmers in the South, the slum districts of our own city or the tubercular sweat- shops all over the country. Let him take us into the millions of homes of tragedy which young dreams once built, let him depict the heart- aches, the broken lives of people, which must be the fate of those whom he is trying to sell in mar- riage! Mr. Brisbane, the devil should salute you for your un-American- ism, your hypocrisy and your Hearst-directed prostitution of the American mind. AN AMERICAN BOY, G. E. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst Stop Murders of Cuban Workers by Batista-Mendieta Regime LET US STOP IT! Picket the Cuban Consulate. question up with the “New Dealers.” Write to all publications where you think you can get a hearing. Take this issue of fascist terror in the front yard of U. S. imperialism into all Support the Cuban labor movement in its fight for liberation. This is our fight for liberation. This is our fight—their | NEWS ITEM: William Green and John L. Lewis accuse Donald Richberg of mis- Letters From Our Readers , Contrasts Two Radio Speeches Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I turned my radio on to station WABC an hour before Corliss Lamont was scheduled to speak so that I’d not overlook his radio ad- | dress. I heard Kate Smith intro- dueing a famous newspaper re- porter, Jack Lait. He related his past thirty years. murder, criminal and kidnaping trials he had covered, admitting this country had more crime than |any other, but that love and ro- mance would overcome that. long as we have people like Kate Smith and our new Deal President, America would be safe, with his clear decisive facts of the Soviet Union’s progress, both in- dustrially and culturally, claiming |to be no Utopia, but a land of hope and promise. This proved to me as it should anyone else listen- ing to these two people, what a farce this land of “Democracy” is. Let us have more broadcasts like Corliss Lamont’s, the most interest- ing I have ever heard yet. R. F. | Approves Vigilant Counter-Attacks Amsterdam, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I am thrilled by your exposure of the rotteness of such fascist mouth- Pieces as Hearst and MacFadden. I believe that your vigilant counter- attacks against these swine are ex- tremely valuable. The American People owe the Daily Worker a great debt for its work in con- stantly exposing hypocrites, dema- gogues and fascists. I look forward with great in- terest to extensive use of the rev- olutionary traditions of America. My heartiest thanks for your great and successful efforts to pro- duce an even better Daily Worker. K. G. “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who 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. Central Committee, C. P., U. 8. A. experience on newspapers for the | He spoke of the | ‘As | Then, Corliss Lamont’s broadcast | Take this whole unions and factories, enemies are our enemies! World Front By HARRY GANNES | Hitler’s Kiel Air Base Bankruptcies in China Political Links in Finland HE greatest has shrouded Hitler’s military aviation program. Some secrecy French military authorities declare that within a few months, German fascism will |have 60,000 planes available for war purposes, Agreement on air armaments is the nub of the Anglo-French proposals, now up to Hitler. News from the underground route in Germany that reaches us gives some details of Hitler's feverish de- velopment of air armaments. A new airplane and seaplane base has been established at Kiel-Hotenau, and is being steadily enlarged. New barracks and hangars are springing up every day. New flying material arrives continually. The Kiel forts (Moetort, Schoen- kirchen, Moncheberg, Heikendorf, Laboe, etc.), which were dismantled in accordance with the terms of the Versailles Treaty, are being put into service again. . ee 1 Ne the men engaged in this work have been sworn to silence on the pain of death. Not all keep their oath, hence this information. The military troops recently ar- riving at Kiel did not wear the Reichswehr uniform. Instead, they were fitted out with special war gear. They wear two crossed an- chors and the roman No. 1 as a badge. These men were formerly in “labor camps.” So intense are air war maneu- vers at Kiel, where the canal con- nects the North Sea with the Baltic (that is, the sea gateway to the East, to the Soviet Union) that 80 airmen haye been killed in the | past year while making training | flights. The authorities attributed |some of the deaths to sabotage and made many arrests. Geel. Aerts news not published in the capitalist press: The ecanomic situation in Shanghai grows worse daily. A number of factories have |closed down, due to the currency crisis, Textile production fell 25 per cent in the last few months of 1934, Silk production dropped 70 per cent, and iron and steel output 50 per cent. There is an acute rise in the number of unemployed. More than 30 banks and 70 factories in Shanghai have been declared in- solvent, The Canton Chamber of Com- merce announced that more than 1,000 Chinese firms in the Province of Kwanttung have ben forced to jclose down. Similar information comes from Tientsin, Peiping and other leading industrial centers. The Shanghai Times announces that all the branch offices of the leading banks are being besieged by clients anxious to withdraw their deposits. | * The De VUSSIONS in the Finnish par- liament brought out the fact that the government was supplying the Social-Democratic Party infor- mation about the illegal activities of the Communist Party of Finland, The Minister of the Interior, arguing for the need to extend the Ochrana (political police patterned | after the Czarist organization), read off directives and decisions of the Communist Party of Finland, deal- ing with work in factories, the united front and trade union ac- tivity. He then said: “AS soon as the changed tactics of the Communists became known the Ochrana informed the leaders of the legal Social-Democratic or- ganizations on it in order that they be enabled to work against the ac- tivities of the Communist groups, But not only the workers’ organiza- tions, but also others have to be aware of Communist activity. Re- cently, a leader of the defense corps was arrested because he was at the same time a leader of an illegal Communist local... .” Cee Siar London Daily Worker re- cently carried a report of British justice to the Negro natives of the Kenys colony, South Africa. Seven natives of the Lumbwa tribe were executed at Nairobi recently for having killed a white settler. In the same month in which they were sentenced, a white woman was sentenced to six months’ imprison- ment for ordering a Negro to be flogged to death. The seven who were hanged had been robbed of their land, driven to starvation and robbery. Fire Sweeps Hotel Hampered by nera zero tempera- tures, firemen from three commu- nities fought a blaze at the Hotel Cleveland on the shores of Onedia Lake today, bringing the fire under control after it ‘had spread to ad- jacent buildings. Damage to the hotel was estimated at $10,000. ONEIDA, N. Y., Feb. 5, (UP)— 5 t