The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 6

Page 8 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935 Roosevelt's Anti-Soviet Deeds Are Bearing Poisonous Fruit APANESE diplomacy is quick on the trigger. J One day after Cordell Hull’s demonstration to the world that the Roosevelt regime would encourage war where the workers rule, the against the Soviet Union, ter of War, General tely echoed Hull’s sentiments. the largest war budget in the history of Japan for specific use against the Soviet Union. 0, the Japanese Ambassa- s talk of war provocation against the right into the heart of the United States. Speaking before the Council of Foreign Relations in Chicago, this agent of Japanese imperialism, which shoots down the Japanese workers and peasants fight- ing for improved conditions just as readily as they do Daily,.QWorker CPETRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Subscription Rates: Manhat and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00; 00; 1 month, 0.78 cents and Canada: 1 year, $8.00; 75 cents. ; 6 months, 75 cents. MONDAY, FEBRUARY ll, 1935 A Labor Party-What Kind? -M,HERE is a “growing rift between the President and labor,” comments a lead- ing capitalist newspaper. Labor is unquestionably moving away n Roosevelt. But where should it go? liam Green is trying to steer it so that it will remain tied to the old capitalist par- ties. Thomas is trying to steer it so that it will form a “Labor Party.” But Thomas's new party will be a ‘“‘La- bor Party” dominated by the very same Greens, Wolls, Lewises and the rest, who hog-tied American labor the N.R.A. from the very beginning. In breaking from Roosevelt and the N.R.A., American labor must take the one step that can win it real benefits and real victories—the step toward a working class party, a Labor Party built on the trade unions from below, that will definitely break away from all capitalist parties and their policies. The Communist Party, in its recent Central Committee resolution, makes ‘it clear that in breaking away from Roose- velt the path of the working class, at the same time, should be a break from all capi- talist parties and dependence on capitalist governments. American labor must be warned against those who will attempt to steer it back into the very same capitalist poli- cies which permitted Roosevelt to carry through the dictates of Wall Street, to slash wages and promote company unions in the past two years, So arenes fro! Dn Sabotage! OOL and cynical sabotage! That is the only way one ean describe the action of Clarence Senior, national secretary of the Socialist Party, who has just sent a letter to all Southern State of- fices warning them against any united front actions, or if these already exist, to break them off. Think of it! Socialist and Com workers are now fighting side by side in Alabama and Arkansas; militant Socialist leaders, Ward Rogers and R. L. Mitchell face terrorism and jail. And all that Senior can do is to rush in to break this growing unity of the work- ers! Al, he can do is to attempt to split the worke:t, and in this way seriously weaken the defense of Rogers and Mitchell, as well as the whole fight against the Southern landlord terrorism, Senior uses a newly-passed, supple- mentary resolution of the National Execu- tive Committee to justify his actions. This resolution makes their meaning much clearer than they made it at Bos- ton. It shows that they will fight the united action of the working class against capitalism and the employers with all ‘Weapons and at every step. More, it shows that they will disrupt _ the unity of the working class in the midst of battle, in Alabama and Arkansas, where Socialist and Communist workers face ter- rorism in the fight against the common enemy ! The burning need which Socialist workers fee] for united front will not be stopped by such actions as Senior’s. __ The defense of Rodgers and Mitchell, the need for beating back the advancing _ waye of fascist reaction, makes the united _ frent a life and death matter for all work- ers. Communist work for this unity will go forward more than ever. The sabotage of a Senior and the N.E.C. only proves how vitally it is needed Working Class Daily Newspaper” | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR CARRIES WAR PROVOCATION TALK AGAINST U. S. S. R. TO UNITED STATES Hayashi, Chinese people. banditry. perialist rule! top Tighe’s Expulsions! a of the lodges and District *™ Boards of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) which have just taken place, prove that the expulsion policy of the reaction- ary A. A, national officials has been re- jected by the overwhelming majority. of the steel workers. Mike Tighe ordered the expulsion of lodges and delegates taking part in the Feb. 3 conference of A. A. lodges in Pitts- burgh, This conference decided on an or- ganization drive to build the A. A, into a powerful union and to prepare strike for the steel workers’ demands. The latest A. A. body to take action against the expulsions was the Fourth A. A, District Board, covering the great Gary, Ind., steel region. This board, as well as the A. A. lodge in the Illinois Steel plant, have just endorsed all decisions of the Feb. 8 conference and rejected Tighe’s expulsions. The McKeesport Central Labor Council had already taken similar action. Every A, F. of L. local in every indus- try should immediately pass motions against Tighe’s expulsions, which would tear the union asunder. The A. A. must be built into a mass union, The,strike for the demands of the steel workers must be prepared. Defeat the expulsion policy of Tighe. In the Open HE New York Home Relief Bureau has announced that it will use open and unbridled police terror to force the unem- ployed to accept its dictates on the case of all relief committees. Rather than re- move the police from the relief stations, spokesmen for the city have announced that they will increase the number of po- lice on duty. In thus bringing their terror policies into the open, the city officials are recog- nizing the power of the organized unem- ployed. At the same time in an open dec- laration they have declared their inten- tion of clubbing the jobless into acceptance of starvation. Such declarations as these, the recent complete stopping of relief while La- Guardia maneuvered to foist the wage- robbing sales taxes upon the masses, the whole program of hunger doles of the “liberal” LaGuardia government, must be made the basis of broadening the fight for the enactment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. Side by side with this must be carried the building of the Unemploy- ment Councils, and the uniting of all forces for joint actions to win increased relief and unemployment insurance. Steps must be taken at once to strengthen and broaden the local joint ac- tion committees for the Workers’ Bill. Every organization has before it the job of flooding the House Committee on La- bor with resolutions, telegrams and post- cards calling for a favorable vote on the Workers’ Bill and the placing of the work- ers’ measure before Congress for imme- diate vote. Aid Obrbach’s Strikers ORTY-NINE were arrested Saturday for picketing at Ohrbach’s Union Square department store. This is one of the many examples of the way the strik- ers were met at every picketing demon- stration during the three months since the strike was called. But the significant feature is that among the hundreds who were arrested, we find workers and sympathizers of every type of workers’ organizations—members of A. F. of L. unions, prominent writers, actors, artists, and members of many T.U. U. L. unions. Workers of New York realize that the strike of the Ohrbach workers is the struggle of all labor, The courageous and persistent activi- ties of the strikers, combined with the in- creasing mass support is bound to bring victory, Three months of striking has not daunted the spirit of the workers, But they need relief funds, Send it to them! And what pretext did he give? Japanese army and trusts must dominate the 30,000,000 Chinese in war-torn Manchuria. “danger” of the rising revolutionary struggles of the To hold and maintain their markets in China, he declared, it is necessary for Wall Street and Japanese imperialism to reach an agreement to smash the Soviet Union, the main enemy of imperialist the Chinese people, argued for a Wall Street-Japanese military alliance against the Soviet Union. He insisted the He pointed to the He declared the great crime of the Soviet Union was that it favored the freedom of China from im- Without breathing a single syllable about the fact that the war expenditures of Japan eat up 46 per cent Party Life Some Pointers On Election Work In Chicago Wards Qs JAN. 15, our Section membership handed in three thousand signatures collected for the various work- ers’ Aldermanic candidates. Today, three weeks later, only two thousand Mayoralty signatures have been turned into the District, while another two thousand are to be found among the comrades. How can we account for so few Mayoralty signatures? In Ward 34th our comrades re- ported that the members of the So-{ clalist Party, not only eagerly signed j the Communist Party petition, but offered their services to collect sig- natures for Karl Lockner rather than for Roy Burt, Socialist Party candidate for Mayor. In Ward 39, where Comrade Fimoff is our Aldermanic candidate of the total budget of Japan, that the Red Army and the Ambassador Saito declared “growing mighty defensive power of the Soviet Union was an obstacle to the im- perialists. He said nothing about t the Japanese capitalists to he openly avowed plans of seize not only all of Man- churia, Chahar, but also the Mongolian People’s Re- public and Siberia. He said nothing about the fact that the Soviet Union has offered Japan a non-aggres- sion pact which the Japane se militarists refused—be- cause their aim is aggression against the Soviet Union. Yes, Mr. Saito, the mighty proletarian state, build- ing a new world of Socialism imperialist plans. for the toilers, knows your And while striving by every means por peace, it is girding to smash back any of your schemes of bloody intervention. 'DO YOU C! and where 860 signatures were re- quired for filing, we found, two days before filing time, that only 92 sig- natures were collected. The mem- bership was immediately informed of the seriousness of the situation. The result was that two days later we were in a position to file the necessary amount of signatures. A similar experience is that of Ward 37; 1,035 signatures were required there. Three days before filing time we only had a little over 200 signatures. But in this Ward too, when the membership realized the situation, the necessary amount of signatures was turned in for fil- ing day. In Ward 34, where Russell Forbes is the candidate, the same was true. Experiences in these Wards prove fo us that once our Party membe ship is aware of the problem they will tackle it and bring results, 'HE reason why so few signatures have been collected so far for our Mayoralty ticket is because the Party membership, as well as the workers of mass organizations, did not sufficiently realize the impor- tance of collecting the necessary 100,000 signatures to place the Com- munist Party on the ballot Many comrades feel that there is an excellent opportunity to elect a Communist Alderman in a certain Ward, but since there is no oppor- tunity as yet to elect a Communist Mayor in the city of Chicago, they feel that there is no need to “waste” valuable time in collecting Mayor- alty signatures. These comrades do not under- stand that 100,000 signatures of workers and citizens in Chicago who say that the Communist Party should be on the ballot as a legal Party is the best answer that we can give to Hearst. and is an im- portant step forward in the struggle against Fascism. The Section Committee, therefore, called a membership meeting where the. problem was presented and the necessary organizational steps were taken to insure the successful ex- ecution of these tasks. Recent Changes Prove Party “Live, Flexible” | i} | St. Paul, Minn. Comrade Editor: I wish to applaud the Resolution | of the Central Committee of the Communist Party printed in the! Saturday, January 26 edition, This is moving in the right direc- | tion, It proves the Party to be a/ live and flexible Party, a Leninist Party capable of changing to meet new conditions, new situations. This | is the way to answer the Trotzky- ites, the American Workers Party, the Socialist bureaucrats. This is the way to combat fascism. | The policy of dealing with the A. F. of L. is an important improve- 1. The Party membership was divided into squads of four and five, with a captain placed in charge of each squad. This captain is to keep in daily touch with the members of the squad and to daily check on their activities. Unit organizers keep in touch with the captains twice or three times weekly, and on this basis make reports to the Sec- tion. 2. The involving of our mass or- ganizations was taken up and or- ganizational steps taken to mobilize our sympathizers for the signature drive. 3. Various members of the Sec- tion Committee were assigned to visit mass organizations to organize them for the signature drive. 4. All unemployed comrades were organized into three crews who go daily to collect signatures. These comrades are supplied with carfare and lunches. We appeal to the members of the Unemployed Councils, Karl Marx Club, Hirsch Leckert Jewish Work- ers Club, .W.O. and LL.D. branches to go forward with the Party as they have done in other campaigns and help place Karl Lockner and the other Mayoralty candidates on the ballot. = N, JAY. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAME ment reflected in the Daily Worker. Workers have told me, “The Com- munists are against the trade unions,” on the strength of having read headlines of articles that were meant as an attack on the bureau- crats and fakers among the leader- ship of the A. F. of L., but were too vague or too violent in their language, and created the impres- sion of a general attack on the A. F. of L. This is bad. The neces- sary exposures of the labor-fakers and reformists must be written carefully, quietly, precisely. They must “patiently explain.” The vio- lent phrase, the abusive word, the over-erphatic language is out of place—is a mistake. The A. F. of L. workers can be reached; our place is among them. Our paper must be such that we can circulate it among them freely, knowing that they will not be rebuffed by harsh or ill-directed attacks, The “Daily” must become the paper of all struggling workers and farmers, not only the paper of the vanguard. For all its good qualities, it has been in the past “oo much the organ of the vanguard and for the vanguard. It has not been broad enough in its appeai, it has not been POPULAR enough. JIM. S ITEM: General MacArthur, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, has announced that jobless boys in the ©. ©. C. campSs may apply for two months of military training. Letters From Our Readers Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers. How- ever, all letters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. Member of Elks Exposes Anti-Communist Drive Providence, R. I. Comrade Editor: I see the B. P. O. Elks is now mixed up with the “Friends of Hitler." The latest one of the caampious of anti-Communists is one Michael F. Shannon who has issued a pamphlet to all brother Elks to help stamp out Communism. The members of the Elks should realize that he is condemning the very principles which his order is founded upon, “All for one and one for all.” What is that but a united front of the masses? What right has Shannon to dic- tate to members of the B. P. O. E. who believe in a square deal and who uphold the Constititution of the U. S. in believing in the right to express their own opinion in religious and political affairs? The Communists have no apologies to offer to these un-American groups whose patriotism consists of waving the flag and shouting “Hurrah for the Fourth of July!” It was the “Reds” of 1776 who made that fight possible. When we workers of this nation become educated enough to know that the economic system is dying, that it is useless to run its dilapi- dated machine, and we see Com- munism as the only way out, all the Michael F. Shannons and Father Coughlins from here to hell will have nothing to say about it. Take tnis as an expression of the opinion of a Brother Elk and also a K. of C. Be Bio. Ey, Every American worker and every enemy of war should be alarmed at the em- boldened war talk of the Japanese militarists fol- lowing the Roosevelt government’s anti-Soviet ac- imperialist tion. This spells danger for the workers everywhere. It means that the arrogant Japanese will tread harder and more fiercely on the backs of the Japanese workers It means they will go ahead in their war plans against the Soviet Union confident of the support of the corrupt American bankers, We must be on our guard! deeds are bearing poisonous fruit. and peasants. rising anti-Soviet war front! the friends of the Soviet Union to repel the growing plans afoot for war against Hands off China! by Burck GENERAL Hac ARTHUR | Capitalist Propaganda In Text Books | Brooklyn, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: Did Mike Gold’s nephew ever show him his history text book? My nephew showed me his, “The -|History of the United States,” by Wilbur Fisk Gordyfi, used in eighth grade. In the prefare is this: “In the treatment of all phases of the na- \tional life and in the discussion of jall public questions, a sincere effort jhas been made to tell the truth | with no partisan bias and in a spirit |of fairness and justice to all.” When the Indians kill the whites, that’s “barbarous.” When the whites kill the Indians, that progress. The War of 1812 was fought because the vengeful English impressed our sea- men. The Mexican War was fought because Mexico was looking for trouble. The way to solve the race question in the South is for the Negroes to be good and industrious. The strikes during Hayes’ ad- ministration get half a page. The treatment can be imagined. Debs and Homestead are never men- tioned. the solution — arbitration, | cooperation, of course. But the most vicious part of the |beok is that on the World War or “Democracy Triumphs Over Autoc- racy.” The chapter ends as follows: “From the day when Congress de- clared that we were at war with \Germany, the American people, with a spirit unsurpassed in their history, showed a willingness to meet any demands that might be made upon their patriotism. . . . |We were all “comrades” in defend- |ing cur country against autocracy (and in upholding cur faith in lib- (otty and justice throughout the world.” the HA. “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. Roosevelt's anti-Soviet Smash back the Mobilize the forces of all the workers’ fatherland! World Front '——— By HARRY GANNES A Crusade Against Mexico Bullfighting Tactics “Hands Off!” N THE House and Senate a move is under way for a holy crusade against Mexico, Like the ancient Crusades to win the holy land from the in- fidel Turks, the present in- tervention plans clearly con- ceal their aims. The shiboleth of “religious freedom” in reality covers up the most petrified bigotry of the Catholic Church, It is primarily a desire to hold on to its lands and to stop the waning of its power over the minds of the Mexican peasants and workers, To achieve their aims, that sec tion of the American capitalists as- sociated with the Catholic Church go to every extreme to hide the real situation in Mexico. They invoke the assistance of the dead infidel Thomas Jefferson, just as readily as they do their saints. But more dan- gerous still they drag in the be- fuddled windbag, Senator Borah, to introduce a resolution in the Senate for “investigation” of Mexico, while Congressman Connery does the same thing in the House of Representa- tives. It’s not “investigation” they want. They know the situation. They want intervention—pressure, force, the army used against Mexico to pre- serve not the heavenly aims of the Catholic Church, but its earthly huge tracts of land, its rich income from the superstitious and_priest- ridden workers and peasants. [OW here’s a hitch for them, The Calles-Cardenas government of Mexico is primarily a tool of Wall Street. But Wall Street is com- posed of different capitalists, In order to get their ideas over, the American capitalists who fayor in- tervention in the interest of the Catholic Church go to the most ridiculous extremes in distorting in the American press what is happen- ing in Mexico. For example, we have that bright gentleman, Mr. Connery ask: “Does the American Ambassador favor Communism in Mexico?” So much does Ambassador Jo- sephus Daniels favor Communism, that in 1919 he utilized American transports and battleships to send armies to Siberia in order to shoot down Communists, Connery’s idea, of course, is if you can label anything Communism then the limit’s off and you can resort to any sort of skullduggery. There is about as much Commu- nism in the educational laws of Mexico, which are under direct at- tack, as there is in Roosevel strikebreaking N. R. A. The Mex- ican government, in fact, has def- inite fascist tendencies. Just. like Hitler, it covers these fascist trends with “Socialist” demagogy, in order to win the masses. It even organizes its Storm Troops. But in Mexico, which has undergone a long period of revolutionary struggles, and in which the Mexican government still calls itself “revolutionary,” it is nec- essary to give the Fascist bands red shirts, to make them. believe they are fighting capitalism, the Cath- olic Church, and for “Socialist” ed- ucation—even the right to “study Marx and Lenin.” Ne ee Te fascism of a bastard type Was mobilized by the governing party of Mexico to divert the grow- ing struggles of the Mexican work- ers and peasants. When the Mex- ican workers demanded more wages, and the peasants more land and less taxes, President. Cardenas an- swered with “attack the Catholic Church.” This is sort of bull fight- ing strategy where you hold out a red banner so that the force of the bull's horns is dissipated in thin air, insiead of hitting the tormentor. The new “Socialist education” laws went into effect on Dec. 1, 1934. The church resisted. Car- denas was able to mobilize large Masses against the corrupt Church, Serious clashes took place in which Catholics killed Red Shirts and Red Shirts retaliated. But the American Catholic Church and the capitalists connected with it, want war against the Mexican people to make sure that in the internal scuffle in Mexico, not a cingle link of the Church’s enslaves ment shall be broken. aoe Coughlin Ape aed the crus le by spilling lying poison over the radio besmirching the whole Mexican population. Borah begins to trumpet for “re« ligious freedom” in Mexico. But whatever the pretext, inter- vention in Mexico in any form would tighten the grip of all the big American trusts, would strength= en the huge land ownings of the Fascist Hearst, and bolster up the Powe? of oppressive Church. To these great enlighteners and freedom lovers, we should sayt “Hands off Mexico!" eet | RARER TSN RERRII A Bs oN