The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 10

Dann e Page 10 T EARST—HULL—HITLER. anti- viet, pro-fascist provocation. year. “U. S.-Russian Rift Delights Germans,” announces the New York Times. Daily, QWorker CAMTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.5,4. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Dafly Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., # E. 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4, Dable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. ington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Bui \4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7910. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Chicago, Hl. Telephone: Dearborn 3981. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan ami Bronx), 1 year, 96.00; 6 mor 98.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 comts. Manhi Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, 99.00; | 6 mol $5.00; 3 months, $3.00 Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents. tion: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 78 cents. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 Protest! i apenas Japan’s Game” is how the New York Post characterizes the re- cent activities of the Roosevelt regime. “The blunt four-and-a-half-minute interview given by Secretary of State Hull to the Russian Ambassador in cut- ting short debt negotiations,” says the Post editorially, “will be greeted with pleasure in Tokio. So will the announce- ment of our intention to close the Amer- ican Consulate General at Moscow and to withdraw plans for the erection of a new Embassy. “These are not the actions of a friendly Power, and the prospect of ill- feeling between the U. S. S. R. and the United States will strengthen the hand of the Japanese generals who wish to push on from Manchuria into Mongolia, North China and Siberia.” It is time to register a vigorous pro- test. We urge our readers and all workers’ organizations to send letters and resolu- tions of protest immediately to Roosevelt. Demand an end to support for war- mongers, fascists and wreckers! Support N.B.C. Strikers HE strike of six thousand National Bis- cuit Company workers is now entering the second month. The New York Central Trades and Labor Council has gone on record for a consumers strike against the company. The decision is a month late, but all the forces in A. F. of L., T. U. U. L. and inde- pendent unions, should be combined to make that consumers’ strike effective in every city in the United States. Taking their fight to the entire labor movement is a big step forward for the strikers. But this must be combined with such steps within the unions as will make possible a more effective struggle. It must not be overlooked that especially now the efforts of every striker are needed. One of the measures to make that pos- sible and win the confidence of all strikers is a large strike committee, composed of most active strikers. The workers should be organized for mass picketing. Other unions should be asked for support with both pickets and funds. Only such measures will bring the strike to a quick and successful finish. ‘Friends of Labor’ LABOR PARTY in New York State— as in other states—is becoming more and more of a necessity. A party, based primarily on the trade unions and other mass organizations of the workers, that will unite the forces of labor on the politi- cal front, is a burning need. This point comes to mind when one considers the moaning, the wailing and gnashing of teeth that took place at the regular meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York last Thurs- day night. Official after official got up and wept at the fact that “the friends of labor” elected to the State Legislature in Albany with the support of organized labor had “he- trayed” them. As the Communist Party has pointed out time and time again: the policy of “reward your friends and punish your enemies,” the argument that one does not need an independent labor party, that one can elect “friends of labor” from both major parties—this policy is bankrupt. Only a party of labor, controlled by the unions and other organizations of labow, 4 4 1ese three names sound the grim song of rising Hearst, in his press, howls for the extermination of the Communists and incites hatred against the Hull, Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, responds to Hearst’s pleas by rudely and provocatively breaking off trade negotiations with the Soviet Union, violating the solemn pledges made by Roosevelt to Litvinov last And Hitler, fascist murderer and leading war- monger ef Eurepe, rubs his hands in satisfaction, and heaps praise on the Roosevelt-Hull anti-Soviet action. Ware xr DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 “Reich Press Jubilant,” this capitalist paper in- forms its readers. Yes, Hitler—already allied with Japanese mili- tarists now pressing toward the Soviet border—is de- lighted with Hearst and Hull; he is delighted with Roosevelt’s policy toward the Soviet Union, because he recognizes in this policy growing support for his own rapist policy against the U.S. S. R. Roosevelt is steadily coming into the open as the open supporter of the powerful anti-Soviet cliques in Wall Street finance capital, the most reactionary cliques in the country. age world-wide reaction. Litvinov warned that Roosevelt’s act cannot but have international repercussions, that it would encour- With extraordinary speed his prediction is being can unite the workers on the political front and can be an instrument of labor. To that task, the building of a Labor Party, all honest unionists should bend themselves. Learn the Lesson Well ENERAL MacARTHUR, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff, has announced that jobless boys in the C. C. C. camps may ap- ply for two months of military training if they wish. This once again emphasizes the true character of these camps, and brings forcefully to mind the statement of As- sistant Secretary of War Woodring, that the C. C. C. camps “will provide the Storm Troops of America.” These C. C. C. boys are working class sons. They are being trained by Roose- velt to be working class murderers. It is up to us to bring these working class youths the lesson of Lenin—They will teach you how to shoot. Learn the lesson well. And then learn to turn your guns, not against your class brothers and kin, but against the war-makers and the exploiters! A Correct Criticism HE Washington Heights (N. Y.) branch of the Socialist Party writes to James Oneal, editor of the Socialist New Leader: “The New Leader has not only failed in its Socialist duty of exposing the hol- lew promises of Roosevelt, but in the stand it has taken has assisted the ad- ministration in its program of hunger.” Oneal writes a caustic reply, accusing the Socialist workers of “dishonesty.” “We welcomed recognition of the prin- ciple of social legislation,” Oneal writes. “Nowhere did we accept the program it- self.” (Oneal’s emphasis.) Oneal boasts proudly: “We warned the workers of the ‘jokers’ in the bill.” Is not this masterly evasion of the Socialist workers’ arguments? He accepted Roosevelt’s program only “in principle,” says Oneal. But did he not also accept the N. R. A. codes “in prin- ciple” two years ago? How can a class conscious worker ever accept a distinction between a capitalist program and capitalist “principle”? Does not this “New Leader” strategy of accept- ing Roosevelt “in principle” actually help Roosevelt in carrying through his program? He will expose the “jokers” in Roose- velt’s bill—but he will never expose Roose- velt himself! He will “criticize” the government, but he will never expose the American govern- ment as the instrument of the Wall Street dictatorship, with Roosevelt as the leading capitalist servant! The Socialist comrades of the Wash- ington Heights Branch are one hundred per cent correct! Let’s unite in working class struggle for a real social insurance program, H. R, 2827! At Workers’ Expense IREACHERY to labor; servility to capital! That is the only way to stamp the ac- tions of Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters Union, who just gave James Farley, chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, $10,000 out of his union treasury to cover the deficit of the Demo- ‘cratic Committee. Whose money was it? It was the hard- earned money of truck drivers. Is Mr, Tobin satisfied? No. He wants higher dues in his union, so that he may, perhaps, hand out more presents to Jim Farley. Mr. Tobin writes in the official union magazine: “J have no use for the local union that carries on with cheap dues. ... The membership are not always to blame, because in their ignorance ... and with that spirit of selfishness that prevails in all classes, the membership will al- ways fight for low dues until they are educated otherwise.” Nice, isn’t he? If you want low dues you’re not “educated” and you’re “selfish.” Or, most likely, you’re a Red! Trade unions and, particularly, team- sters’ locals, should raise a storm about Mr. Tobin’s ears. Condemn the presenta- tion of $10,000 of the union’s money to the workers’ enemies, | member of a shop nucleus at Party Lite Initiative of Shop Nuclei in Developing Shop Paper tT following is an excerpt | from a speech made by al a Shop Conference in Detroit: “On the question of shop papers: We have a shop | paper, but as yet it is not) confirmed. The most brutal, sabre-rattling fascist war- monger, Hitler, finds increasing satisfaction in Roose- velt’s policy toward the U.S. S. R. Roosevelt’s action against the U. S. S. R. is inevi- tably encouraging the pro-fascist forces in this country. It is a literal fact that Roosevelt’s anti-Soviet act ties him up with the Hearst drive, and the Hearst drive, in turn, is tied with the drive of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers against the labor movement, against the trade unions, against the right to picket and strike! Reactionary, hostile policy toward the Soviet Union means reactionary policy toward the working class at home. The Soviet Union stands for peace. It is building Socialism. The multi-millionaire Hearsts with their yellow CLEAR SIGNALS what it should be, although it has improved somewhat, One thing that we have been able to do do_about the shop paper, is that we are get- ting every worker in our unit to write articles for it. The shop paper is now more of a paper that is gotten out by the workers in the shop rather than by one individual who gets his little information from the inside of the shop. “One of the major assignments to each comrade in the group is that each worker must write an article for the paper. If this worker is a foreign-born worker, and cannot write English, we assign an English speaking comrade to work together with him and help him write the article. This has been done with Great success. “Now, on the question of concen- tration: Our point is quite a large Plant. When we have organized this Plant, five steps will have been taken towards the revolution. Our work as yet, to a certain extent, has been routine work. The Unit ureau has discussed this, and has suggested that we involve all the mass or- in the work of our plant. lize that we have quite a 7s who belong to the very many mass organizations. We must work out plans to involve all mass organizations in this concen- tration work. “There is a great need in our unit for the theoretical and polit- ical development of the members. The Unit Bureau also discussed this matter and found that most of the comrades have had very little training. We have selected six courses in the Workers School and assigned the various unit members to these classes. The result is, that although many of the comrades have not been able to attend because of the split shift, that six comrades are attending the Wokers School. Some of them are taking Fun- damentals of Communism, Trade Unionism, Marxism-Leninsm, ete.” . As our part in the Young Worker drive, and in the anti-Hearst cam- paign, we have arranged a large mass meeting to expose Hearst’s lies and to popularize the Young Worker. Part of the money raised will go to the Young Worker drive and part to our section. We have distributed the leaflet is- sued by the district, and are fol- lowing with a general leaflet of our own. The following week we will issue another leaflet, calling the workers to attend the meeting. Our Party unit, Unit 1515, is carrying out the Party’s line on Party-Y.C.L. re- lations by giving us their direct as- sistance in popularizing our meet- ing—they are issuing a leaflet and rallying the mass organizations of the neighborhood. RS. Organizer Unit 10, Sec. 18, ¥. C. L. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. ADDRESS . Seattle Capitalists Rule Communist Party From Election Lists SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 8.—The reactionary political machine here today steamrolled a bill that bans the Communist Party from the elec- tions in this state. The vote was 94 to 2. The bill now is in the hands of the State Senate, where, if it is passed, the Communist Party will be deprived of all electoral rights. Hitler Rejoices in Hearst Propaganda and Hull Policy HITLER-JAPAN WAR PLANS AGAINST U.S.S.R. STRENGTHENED BY GROWING ROOSEVELT HOSTILITY TO SOVIET UNION jingoism, their hatred of the trade unions and the labor movement, their desire to stifle and enslave the whole population, are girding for anti-Soviet intervention, for imperialist war. Hearst—Hull—Hitler! This is a sinister war-menacing combination which Roosevelt is weaving. Now we have Hearst and Hull. If they do not meet with the overwhelming resistance and indignation of the American working class, the American Hitler can- not be far off. The Communist Party sounds the alarm! It calls for the uniting of all anti-fascist forces in the country against war and fascism! It calls for the united de- fense of the trade unions against open-shop reaction! It calls for mighty defense of the Soviet Union, bul- wark of peace and Socialism! by Burck . CORDELL HOLL Letters From Our Readers L.S.N.R. Organizes Negro and White New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: On page 3, column 1, of the New York Daily Worker for Feb. 1, ap- pears the following heading: “Ne- gro League to Mark Frederick Douglas Day. Meeting on February 12.” This heading is over a news item from the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. On its very face this heading marks out the L. S. N. R. as an or- ganization for Negroes only, thus labeling it a jim-crow nationalistic outfit. Although the L. S. N. R. fights primarily for the rights of the Negro masses, we seriously in- vite white workers and sympathetic elements to join and we make the fight for Negro rights an organic part of the working class fight against capitalism. Such a heading would serve to give an incorrect political slant to the undeveloped members of our own organizations. I do not need to suggest headings, but I do want to emphasize that the important thing to bring out about the L. S. N. R. is that it is a League for Negro Rights. The comrades on the Daily Worker undoubtedly understand this criticism. They probably fell into a little “headline opportun- 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 Tead by the editors, Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever Possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. News in Boss Press Hides U.S. 8. R. Triumphs Brookiyn, N, Y, Comrade Editor: Today’s headline in the Daily Worker reads: “Soviet Congress Cites Gains.” Today’s headline in all capitalist newspapers is: Bruno Hauptmann this and Bruno Haupt- Ku Kluxer. He never gave a line ; mann that. to the workers’ cause, not even as demagogy, and now he makes his debut with a scurrilous red scare. Is there no end to the mental gar- bage that the capitalist press sees fit to dish out daily about the He has done this because of late the ; Hauptmann case? There must be a workers have begun to organize and demand enlightenment on the revo- lutionary cause, and are rapidly re- volting against submission to the Yankee landowners. (All the ex- ploited class here is Mexican). The attack on the strikers will be found in the Spanish section of the copy I am sending you. J. G. Debate On Townsend Plan Evades Real Issues Idaho Falls, Idaho. Comrade Editor: I read the Daily Worker and the letters from all over thé United States. I want to tell you about a debate I heard on the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan. It was de- bated from both sides in a bour- geois way, neither side coming to ism” which is a gaping pitfall for}the real issue, why we face such all editors of revolutionary publi- cations, BEN DAVIS, Editor, Negro Liberator. Red Scare Used Against Mexican Workers Laredo, Texas, Comrade Editor: Under separate cover I am to- day mailing to you one copy of a local semi-political weekly (against the local government) which has been published for some years, ex- clusively in the interest of the jJandlords and realtor-bankers, by the main leader of the New Party (bourgeois) here. This editor is a religious fanatic and, it is said, alS. 8. R.! The Communist Party warns all workers that this action, as part of the whole nation-wide campaign against the Communist Party, is a menace against the working class. All workers and workers’ groups are urged to wire at once to the State Senate at Olympia, Washing- tion, demanding full righte for the nding for the Communist Party, a depression in a land of plenty. They did not mention the real bill for social insurance, the Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827. They did not lay the blame to the profit system where it belongs. They did not men- tion the fact that there is no way out except setting up a new eco- nomic system. It is plain to anyone Who has studied the situation that we cannot patch up the old sys- tem, that Socialism, as in Russia, is the only way out. The people in Idaho have a very weak organization still, but we are struggling along to become better organized. method to their madness. Obviously their intention is to keep people excited over this case—and if they could help it, they would stretch it out ten years. Being excited over Hauptmann, Lindbergh, Gow, Jafsie, Reilly, etc., will naturally keep you from reflecting over the depression, fascism, war, hunger, unemployment and the opposite in the Soviet Union. What a contrast over the two types of papers! And what hope you inspire in your readers, when you feature such material as the con- vention of the All-Union Congress of Soviets. I hang on every word in that account. I feel “I have seen the future and it works.” ‘ F. M. R. Lincoln Quotation Shows Revolutionary Duty New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: It is gratifying to note the con- tinued improvement in the Daily Worker. May I suggest that on Feb, 12 you display prominently on the first page the quotation from Lin- coln, and in its place on page 8 another of equal :mportance, so that workers may learn from Lin- coln that revolution is their “Amer- ican” duty—that they owe this duty to their class, and for the sake of humanity, and not to that minority, the capitalist exploiters, who now Long live the Fatherland, the U |rule in the name of the State. I. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst A MARINE WORKER, “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” —ABRAHAM LINCOLN, } World Front By HARRY GANNES A Spanish “Monstrosity” Dole Trouble in England And the United Front PANISH fascism is floun« dering in the heavy sea of its own weaknesses and con- tradictions. Repeated cabinet crises have hit the Lerroux- Robles outfit. Always it has the fear that the working class, some of whose advance guard it massacred, is preparing for new and greater battles. Recently a cock-and-bull story came out of Spain about a plot to unite Portu< gal with Spain, and that it was for this reason that the Asturias up« rising started. Now the Cortes, Spanish parlie« merit, is grumbling and squeaking over a proposed bill for the censor ship of newspapers, motion pictures, wireless and photography under all circumstances. Newspapers, it te provided, can be founded only with government permission. Some of the facist supporters of the regime had to call it a “mon- strosity,” and others admitted it was a “muddle.” All of the news- papers, except Gil Robles‘ the Spanish Hitler, attacked the bill, Even Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the leader of the more open fascist gang, the “Phalanx,” declared that the government's “own weakness ‘was responsible for the strength of the measure.” Bee He Ww GET the following interesting letter from Spain on the situa- tion of the working class: “The reign of terror, subsequent to the revolutionary events in Spain, still continues. But now it is taking the vindictive form of fascist reprisals against the work- ing class. This is but natural since two of the state ministers are members of the C. E. D. A. (Gil Robles’ fascist Catholia party), and particularly the pivotal post of Minister of Labor is held by a C. E. D. A, man, Anguera de Sojo. “Recently a ministerial order raised the hours of work m the metallurgical industry from 44 to 48. This is a very important in- dustry in Catalonia. Accompany- ing this decree came the warning that any workers, individually or organizationally, who intefered with the social peace by agitating against this edict would be dealt with by military authorities. “Utilities and banks were given the liberty to fire any number of workers they want to. Previously, when a worker was told he was no longer required, he was given a hearing before the jurado mixto (mixed jury). “The effect of this decree was felt almost immediately. In Ma- drid, 437 street-car workers were fired.” A cress TREMENDOUS mass movement is developing in Britain against slashing of the dole rates. On Wed-_ nesday, a particularly high point was reached when thousands of workers in Sheffield battled the po- lice. Nine cops were injured, and 30 workers arrested. The police charged into the crowd when the delegation came from the City Hall to report on its conference with the authorities. f The initiative of this gigantia movement which is sweeping Bri- tain, breaking through the obstacles of His Majesty’s Labor Party offi- cials and trade union leaders, is given by the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, at the head of which are Communists. Wal Han- nington is the outstanding leader of - the movement. Just two weeks ago, more than 40,000 workers marched in Glasgow and Pontypridd against the Unem-— ployment Board’s slashing of relief scales. The movement is gaining greater momentum all the time, and will be a powerful factor in the forthcoming national elections and in the united front struggles of the | Communist Party of Great Britain. maw 5 hee erux of the fight is against the newly-appointed National Unemployment Assistance Board, which is following Roosevelt's more fascist measures in slashing relief, — instituting forced labor camps, and centralizing the relief apparatus in) order to cut down the total of the doles by a series of complicated — maneuvers. } The New York Times admitted that the united front demonstra- tions have forced a partial upward revision of the doles; but the fight’ is still going on. & It was this same measure which? the American capitalist press sen-. sationally distorted, and which