The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1935, Page 6

r Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1935 “Americanism’ a la Hearst Is a Menace to All Veterans LEGGION COMMANDER AND HEARST “RED-BAITING” STRENGTHEN WALL STREET FOES OF BOUS FIGHT—AID “ECONOMY” DRIVE AGAINST VETS campaign In around the jobl bitter joke this i Hearst, the Daily <QWorker (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) CEWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY WLS “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 59 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone Cable Address: ALgonquin 4-795 4. ‘Daiwork, New Yor! Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: and Bronx), 1 00; 1 month, 0.75 and Canada: 1 3 Telephone year, $6.00; cents. year, 39.00; 75 cents. nthly, 6 months, 75 cents. 1935 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, War Moves in Mongolia EW light on Japan’s ceaseless drive into Mongolia and towards the Soviet bor- der is thrown by Premier Gendun of the Mongolian People’s Republic, He declares i oficial statement just issued that in ai when Japanese troops on January 31 seized the Lake Bor Nor section, the Mongolian troops, to avoid bloodshed, did not fire, but retreated. The territory taken by Japan was recognized as Mongolian land by the Chinese emperors as far back as 1734. Yet despite this Japanese imperialism continues to move on toward Inner and Outer Mongolia on a five-hundred mile stretch. From the Great Wall in China, up on through Dolon Nor and now Lake Bor Nor, the aim of Japanese imperialism is to seize the main routes through the Mongolian People’s Republic with the aim, in the event of their precipitating war, to strike a blow at the Trans-Siberian Railway. Japanese imperialism has a_ secret treaty with Hitler Fascism for simultane- ous action from the West in the event of war. And now the Roosevelt regime, through its State Department, takes some blunt action which the Japanese militarists will not be slow in interpreting as favoring their war moves. The Friends of the Chinese People have called for a mass protest meeting at Cen- tral Opera House, February 22nd, to rally ,the American people against these war maneuvers in Chahar, and against Amer- ican shipment of arms to be used against he Chinese people. This meeting should be a great demonstration against these latest and most dangerous war moves in the Far East. A Class Labor Party HE New Militant, organ of the new hatched alliance between the Trotsky sect and the Muste crowd. finds that the Communist Party “is trying to create a reformist labor party in the United States.” They accuse us of adopting the line of the Socialist Party “Old Guard,” which also calls for “a Labor Party.” In view of the crystal clear linc lcid down by the C. P. Central Committee in its resolution adopted at its recent sessions (printed in the Daily Worker, January 26), this is only deliberate distortion on the part of these slippery gentlemen. What kind of a Labor Party does the Communist Party want? Any kind? No. The Communist Party says plainly that it wants a truly working class Labor Party, built up from below on the basis of the workers in the trade unions, It wants a Labor Party that will help the masses along the road of class struggle, a Party which in its “revolutionary mass struggle for immediate demands goes he- yond the limits of the interests of capital.” Both the Trotsky-Muste crowd and the S. P. “Old Guard” have distinguished themselves in action as the hangers-on of the upper, reactionary A. F. of L. officials. The “revolutionary” phrase-mongering of the one, and the open opportunism of the other conceal persistent support for the policies of the William Greens, the Wolls, and the rest. Muste helped defeat the Toledo strike, Cannon aided Gov. Olson in Minneapolis, and the S. P. “Old Guard” helned Gorman break the textile strike. cant ' on the fundamental point emphasized by the Communist Party reso- veterans In the man who poured floods of poison Attorney for the Prosecution American Legion. , debt-ridden, war veterans—what a against the payment of the bonus—what a “friend” of the veterans he is! Communists are in the lead of the veterans’ fight. The Communist Party is the only party that officially demands the immediate cash payment of the bonus. Ceaion as rts ed to the The Daily Worker was the only paper that gave the Bee anim? bonus march unqualified and enthusiastic approval. A . Hearst knows that to fight the bonus he must fight the And he quotes a ly the statement : Communist Party as a leading fighter for the bonus. Leg National Commander, Belgrano, who calls for Hearst beats his chest about his “Americanism.” nation-wide attack the Communist It is a strange fact that his brand of “Americanism” a big “preparedness program always turns out to be on the side of the money-bags, The multi-millionaire Hearst, putting on the side of the sharks in the National Economy Street “economy” boys are also the loudest mouthers of their “Americanism.” When it is a question of fighting for the rights and welfare of the Legionaires, for relief, for adequate hos- pitalization, for the bonus, then it is “radicalism” to Hearst. When it is a question of gouging the Legionaires of their just due, their cash bonus, then it is “Ameri- canism’”—a la Hearst! Hearst is a ruthless enemy of the rank and file veterans. He has lied about them, slandered them, heaped contempt upon them, and would as willingly send them today to another imperialist slaughter for When Belgrano joins Hearst in this “Red-Baiting” he is acting against the interests of the men who faced misery and death in an imperialist war to defend Morgan-Rockefeller profits. Belgrano, in beating the drums for a “big stick” Army and Navy is playing into the hands of the same Wall Street gang that fights the bonus, and smashes all veteran relief legislation. The Legionaires have tasted the hypocrisies of this “Americanism” a la Hearst, a la Wall Street. For them, if means unemployment, cruel inadequacy of veterans’ relief, and refusal to pay the bonus. League. Every Legionaire will remember with grim clarity lution—independent class struggle policy which goes beyond the interests of capital —that the Musteites and S. P. “Old Guard” find common ground, At every step, on one pretext or an- other, they will always yield the interests of the workers to the interests of capital. That is why both are trying to block the Communist Party line for the advance of a mass party, basing itself on an un- swerving fight for working class interests against the interests of capital. American Traditions HE shades of Washington and Lincoln will be dragged into the ballyhoo for a new war. service of Roosevelt’s high-powered war propa- gandists, ably assisted by the whole tribe of-yellow Hearsts, will whoop it up for war, deliberately distorting American revolu- tionary traditions. Washington recalls the revolutionary war of the American people against Brit- ish feudal domination. Lincoln is the sym- bol of the traditions of the Civil War against slavery. But the aim of the Roose- velt regime with its $2,000,000,000 war program is to pervert and blot out these revolutionary traditions in ‘Defense Week” for the purpose of speeding war for Wall Street’s aims. To counteract this campaign, every worker, every enemy of imperialist war should point out the American revolution- ary traditions, and how, today, these tra- ditions require extension into a war of the toilers against the tyranny of capi- talism, against advancing fascism, and against all efforts to plunge humanity into a new criminal, imperialist war. LBERT GOLDMAN, Trotzkyite-Social- ist lawyer for one of the Sacramento defendants, showed himself in his true colors last Friday. He exposed his dis- ruptive role in the trial by lining up with the prosecution against the I.L.D. defense lawyer, Leo Gallagher. When Gallagher was the victim of a planned attack by the judge and the special prosecutor, who is in the pay of the employers, Goldman, who had been silent for four days, suddenly piped up and joined in the attack. “T am not all in sympathy with Mr. Gallagher’s methods,” he said. “In fair- ness to my client, I want that to be made clear.” Goldman’s stoolpigeon action is the culmination of his career as a renegade from Communism. He was expelled from the Communist Party for disruptive activ- ities, He joined up with the Trotzkyites. Later he left them to join the Socialist Party. Now he turns up again with the Trotzkyites in Sacramento. His conduct at the trial illustrates the real role of the renegade Trotzkyites, They disrupt the fight of the workers against capitalism. Greetings, L’Unita Operaia HE DAILY WORKER hails the prep- arations of the revolutionary Italian workers to convert L’Unita Oberaia into a daily newspaper. In its two years of existence, this Italian language newspaper has conducted the most relentless struggle against the penetration of Italian fascist propaganda and against the persecution of Italian workers in this country by the agents of Mussolini. It has been the best guide of the Italian workers in all their daily strug- gles against the attacks of capitalism upon their standard of living and against the deportation weapon of the bosses. This ex- plains the popularity and growth of the revclutionary Italian paper. The paper has now moved to larger quarters at 37 East 12th Street, and plans to start publication as a daily by March 18. The Daily Worker urges all workers to aid the campaign for the initial fund necessary to put this change into effect. « that the most bitter enemies of the vets, the big Wall Party Life Peoria Workers Form Daily Worker Readers’ Club THROUGH a Negro comrade in this city, to whom the! Daily Worker is being mailed, another Negro comrade and! white comrade have gotten to- gether and have set up a “Daily Worker Readers’ Club” | of three. | None of them would have been able to pay full subscription price regularly, but all three have agreed | to form this club of three, reading the paper together. After reading | | the paper, they will pass it on to} |@ friend whom they will try to get | |to form another club of three, as | above. Next month they will each | pay 25 cents, their portion of the 75 cents monthly subscription price, |and continue to pay monthly, read the paper and pass a copy on to friends whom they will also try to | inducé to form the club of three. We are going to follow this up by mimeographing the “Daily Work- er Readers’ Club of Three” plan for general distribution among the workers, with occasional samples of the paper. Due to the fact that many workers are hard pressed for funds, this method perhaps will prove effective in getting them to | take it not as individuals at a com- paratively greater cost, but collec- tively greater cost, but collectively by three, spreading the monthly |cost among them. In some cases |half-yearly or yearly subscriptions may be secured on a like basis, spreading the cost among the groups of three, | In addition to distributing the paper, getting workers to read it, | this will also create the basis for | small discussion groups, which may \later form the basis for a street |nucleus, for shop connections, etc. This plan is being placed before our unit, then to the section and the 1 District. | If you on the staff think it ad- | visable, I would suggest that you | print such portion of this letter as you think necessary to establish 'such a circulation and agitational |plan in other parts of the country. |I am sure it will help solve some | | of our problems as to the paper. | Hundreds of workers want to get jthe paper and read it, but they | simply do not have quite enough | money to get it regularly. This plan | will help them cut down the cost and also offers us a way out to get \to the ear of many who could not take it otherwise, and in addition, | helps to draw them into collective discussion and activity. Peoria, Ml. | . Editor’s Note | The above plan is a good example for other districts to follow. Be- sides being a method of spread- ing and popularizing the Daily | Worker, it is a good method of | training the workers to study col- \lectively, encourages self-education, jae propaganda. Flu Causes 90 Deaths; | Closed Many Schools In New Jersey Towns. TRENTON, N. Feb. 6 (U.P.).—- Influenza in New Jersey during the month of December, causing schools in several major towns and almost all country villages to be closed, claimed a total of ninety lives, Dr. J, Lynn Mahaffey, State Director of | Health, revealed today. Dr. Mahaffey contrasted the} | ninety deaths fo: one month against | twenty-two for the period of twelve | months preceding. | The health director also pointed out there were 361 deaths from | pneumonia that month as compared | with 234 for the previous twelve | months’ average. | Soviet Republic Begins | ‘Dam to Irrigate Steppe | MOSCOW, Feb. 6—Work has been started in the Azerbaijan Re- public on the construction of a dam across the river Araks. This dam is to be over 4,500 feet long and ten | feet high. It will serve to raise the | water level of the Araks and so ir- rigate the Mugan steppe. which will | thus be transformed into a fertile | Oasis. From 80,000 to 100,000 acres | will be won for the cultivation of cotton, Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Wall Street profit as he helped send them in 1917. “Americanism” a la H earst is a trap for the vet- eran, a trap which he should at all costs avoid. | HIS HONOR—THE JUDGE Small Farmers Lose Land to Bankers Sallisaw, Okla. Comrade Editor: Just now people in Sequoyah Country are wondering how they are going to live another year, Tens of thousands of acres of land have been taken out of production here by the mortgage companies. Land |cannot be rented, yet the farmer is told that he should raise what he needs to eat another year. The best land is beyond the reach of the poor farmers. In short, the poor farmer is land- less, yet he is told that if ‘he does not raise what he needs to eat another year, he must starve. I take it that the same conditions face the poor farmers over the entire United States, to a greater or less extent. Even if the poor farmer has land, he must have money or credit to get the wherewithal to make an- other crop. Under capitalism, the money is owned by financiers and credit is likewise owned by the same bunch, And under capitalism, when the Jandlord has a crop planted, it is not for the feeding of humanity; it is for profit, which purpose often works directly opposite to that of feeding the people, as for instance, the destruction of hogs, cotton, wheat for profit, under Roosevelt. This brought profit to the landlord, but misery and starvation for the poor farmer and wage earner. Every time T write what I think is a good article, you come back at me by saying that I should be con- crete and not deal in the abstract. Now comrades, take that advice home to the Daily Worker. Tell the masses plainly how this crop situa- tion would be handled under the Soviet America. Perhaps the masses are not so far from being radical, if you would only show them con- cretely how Soviet America would enable them to live better. Much of the stuff that comes out in the “Daily” is Greek to the masses. What a field is open to Mike Gold in the CHANGE THE WORD col- umn! He could show up the side of in- inhabit it. Letters From Our Readers | Because of the volume 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. dustry, how the workers could take over the factories and work full time, making shoes, hats, caps, blan- | kets, and furniture, while the farm- ers were producing all the goods and things these workers needed to eat. Show in a concrete way, that | factories, farms, mines and credit would be seized by the workers, and made to serve the masses. Show |how over-production would be im- |possible under such a system. This would at the same time show that crises would be forever abolished. Don’t take it for granted the masses understand this simple fact. The masses don’t understand any- thing except hard work and suf- fering. Hold up to the poor farmer been one of the greatest factors in pushingt he world forward. Show how simple the revolution will really be, There is so much of the “Daily” that could be better, even though it is now the best paper in the country. PASO, | Coughlin Supports Private Profit Chicago, Ill. Comrade Editor: Comrade Gold is right when he | says that Father Coughlin is a} misleader of the people, for when Fascist Coughlin says he doesn't wish to see the abolition of private property he shows you what he is. | ‘There is only one way out for the | workers, and that is to join the} that he can seize the land, and | don't forget. that land hunger has | The drive against the Communist Party and the drive for a big war machine is a drive against the interests of all veterans. The “Gentleman Chairman” | Again Presides New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Mr. Algernon Lee, so-called So- | cialist, a gentleman chairman of Madison Square Garden who likes | to slug peoples’ heads, a boaster of democracy who refuses to give the floor to workers while making a united front with fascists, — this |same gentleman again showed his | colors at Cooper Union when he said Stalin and Hitler are alike | and compared .the execution of counter - revolutionary terrorist White Guards in the Soviet Union | with that of terrorist execution of | workers in Hitler Germany. | What? No Socialism in the So- viet Union? Well, Mr. Algernon School show window, but Socialism | that workers are building with iron and steel! Socialism, the working class of the | Soviet Union, under the leadership | of the Communist Party, is defend- ing Socialism. A WORKER. |Good Lenin Meeting Wins Sympathizers Tacoma, Wash. Comrade Editor: After the Lenin Memorial meet- ing in the Eagles Hall here, the writer was approached by a worker | who said: “Ten days ago, I hated |you people. Then I decided to |learn what it was all about. Now {I’m for you 100 per’ cent.” “You don’t remember me, but two months ago you gave me ‘Why Communism?’ Now I’m a Commu- nist sympathizer and pretty soon I expect to be more than that.” These were just two of the many Communist Party and take away | from the capitalists the means of | to the workers. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst “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. production which rightfully belong | good speakers as a well organized R. C. H. | meeting. expressions of friendiiness from a good-sized audience which heard R. J. P. Another worker told the writer: | World Front By HARRY GANNES Norman Thomas and theUSSR His Place on the War Front TheBrayeMan and theCoward: E ARE sure Norman Thomas would become violently indignant if his name were linked with Hearst and the Japanese militarists, each in their own way provok- ing war against the Soviet Union, Norman Thomas, the So- cialist leader, would insist he is against such a war. Yet Norman Thomas’ actions and propaganda against the workers’ fatherland be- come one of the powerful cogs of the anti-Soviet machine in this country working to rupture diplo- matic relations with the Soviet Union, It is not just a question of this Socialist leader making a speech at Columbia University insidiously con- trasting American “liberty” with “Russian terrorism.” Norman Thomas is not living in a vacuum, but in a world in which the war tocsin against the U.S.S.R. sounds louder every day. Hearst foams at the mouth yelp- ing for war moves against the Soviet | Union. Hitler constantly prepares for a drive to the East to assist Japanese imperialism. The Japanese imperialists along a hundred roads in Manchukuo, Chahar, Mongolia and on the border of the Mongolian People’s Republic move ceaselessly toward the Soviet jand, And on top of all this Secretary of State Cordell Hull demonstrates to the entire world that the Roose- velt government would not be averse to a war against the workers’ father- land. ek tae arent Ae in this scheme of things Nor- man Thomas lends his assistance to besmirch the Soviet Union, to encourage and justify war against “Russian terrorism.” For Wall Street, for the most reactionary and fascist elements in the United States who are openly for war against the U.S.S.R., this is the greatest single service that could possibly be performed in the ranks of labor. Were an open fascist to speak in this manner, the workers would dis- trust him and be on their guard. But when Norman Thomas, with his unctuous pose of pacifism and love for socialism, takes up the anti- Soviet cry, the fascists feel he is doing them the greatest service. “The brave man does it with « sword, the coward with a word.” Secretary of State Hull has his own dirty way of provoking the anti- Soviet war front. He rakes up the old Czarist and Kerensky debt ques- tion, and in a four and one-half minute conyersation rejects all of the Soviet Union's offers of nego- tiations. These debts have the slimiest record in the whole unsavory history jLee, there is no such Socialism | of war debts. The U. S. government jthere as you peddle from the Rand wnder Wilson loaned $187,000,000 to Kerensky to keep Russia in the war in order that Morgan could be sura of getting his war profits. When the Thus while you, Mr. Lee, defend | Soviets took power, the Wilson gov- the White Guards, the enemies of |ernment turned this money over to Kolchak’s agents to buy guns and |ammunition to kill revolutionary | workers and peasants. Wee IONGRESSMAN McFADDEN of |“ Pennsylvania, just before he took |a $25,000 bribe from Hitler's agents in the United States, discussing the Johnson Bill, admitted that the Kerensky loans never went to Rus- | sia but went to the American bank ers for ammunition to Koltchak, | Whose agent in the United States was a Czarist grafter by the name jof Bakhmetiey. Here is the fascist |McFadden’s statement, contained in the Congressional Record of the ‘73rd_Congress: “Yam frank to say that the ex- amination which I and other mem- hers ef that committee made in- dicated that very little of the $187,009,000 went to Russia. It went to nev the ea-t-ots of *he = geal agent. ia. ““s country for munitions, and the bulk of the money was used for the purpose of paying these muni- tions contracts which the fiscal e-yent had placed bere. Then the goods did not go to Russia, and were resold and manipulated by Mr, Bakhmetiev, Kerensky’s agent and Mr, Serge Ughet, the liquidat- ing agent; and what became of the money? When we started to investigate there was over $60,- 000,000 in deposit with the [Mor- gan] National City Bank of New York, and when we completed our examination, in about two weeks time funds had been drawn down to one million doilars.” | And this is the “moral” reason |for Hull’s “rebuff” to the Soviet Union used by every enemy of the workers’ country to provoke war. And Norman Thomas does his bit,