The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, bi: Bid MI HE nature of “liberalism” is once more revealed in the statement by Rev. John Haynes Holmes on the executions of the anti-Soviet plotters. these same horrors and perpetrated in Russia.” s, Holmes declares, he has defended Union against misrepresentation, and has of the revolutionary experi- But now, Holmes concludes, “the tyranny of issia seems to be getting worse rather than 15 the Soviet “prayed for the st is A DICTATORSHIP PROGRESS. ment.’ Soviet better.” Holmes says that he is “unwilling to condemn hor- rors in Nazi Germany and denounce dreadful crimes Daily,.<QWorker 5.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIOWAL) tests were dragged out of their homes at dawn last Thursday. The United States District Attorney has threatened drastic sentences. Simultaneously with the last arrests, a law was introduced in the State Senate to outlaw the Communist Party. Protests against the original arrests and the jailing of the other twelve should immediately flood the office of the District Attorney, W. C. Lewis, at Oklahoma City, Okla., and the trial Judge Edward J. Vaught, Federal Circuit Court. Answer this threat against the most CHNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Pr Washington, ©. Telephone: Ni eat: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Dearborn 3931 | Subscription Rates: | Building, 0, cS 1 nd Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; fe 7 en ag eee en elementary civil rights of the workers! Sn ee Send protests from every organization 8 cents; monthly, 75 cents, ' Be erat tae 8 antne 78 eents at once! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1935 Fight Fascist Bill! HE Washington State Assembly has just passed a bill which strikes at the very roots of the civil rights of the vast toiling majority of the American people. | Sponsored by the banker heads of the | American Legion, the U. S. Chamber of | Commerce, the pro-Fascist Hearst press and other reactionary groups, the bill would bar from the election ballots the The Hearings on H. R. 2827 | HE hearings on the Workers’ Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social Insur- ance Bill, H. R 27, will end Thursday. At the conclusion of the hearings, the | House Committee on Labor must either | the bill out of committee and onto | floor & yress rev 4 r the | ‘ s FS the floor of Congress for ee Ae. M | Communist Party and such minority par- Workers’ Bill is automatically killed in e ties as might refuse to pledge support to committee i. Raveoad ah | the existing system of mass unemploy- five members of the com- | ment and suffering, of wage cuts and at- repo Thus mittee, R e entatives eeay ane | tacks on the unions, of lynching and jim- nery, D Mar‘ anene an : fee sr eae OpRReeaIGn GPs Negrd ‘penble! See nee re Oe This bill is a sinister warning of the the Workers’ Bill. At least seven more drive to fascism in this country. It is a blow at independent political action by the working class. It aims to strengthen the political power of the exploiters of labor, Directed particularly against the Commu- nists, as the most advanced, militant and devoted section of the working class, the bill is designed as a “model” for a national onslaught on the rights of the working class, The reactionary groups of the State of Washington have mobilized their forces to rush this fascist measure through the State Senate. The working class must answer with a mighty counter mobiliza- tion. Every Socialist worker, every A. F. of L. member and local, every workers’ or- ganization should flood the Washington State Senate, Olympia, Wash., with pro- tests against this measure. will be nec 3 The National Joint Action Committee for Genuine Unemployment Insurance has called upon all workers and their organi- zations to send resolutions to the members of the committee demanding a favorable vote. These are: Representatives Mary T. Norton, New Jersey; Glen Griswold, In- diana; Charles Truax, Ohio; James Gildea, Pennsylvania; J. H. Eagle, Texas; Jen- nings Randolph, West Virginia; Robert Ramspeck. Georgia; Kent Keller, Illinois; Reuben Wood, Missouri; Marcellus Eva New York; Subert Dunn, Mississippi; Richard Welch, California; Fred Hartley, y; William Lamberston, Clifford Hope, Kansas, and George r, Wisconsin. Make these Representatives know of t that has been rolled up behind Bill, H. R. 2827. The Tobacco Code RESIDENT ROOSEVELT: has just struck another blow at the workers by signing the tobacco code which allows a minimum wage of twenty-five cents an hour. He tried to cover up this wage- cutting act by calling for another of his A Lower Wage Scheme RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in his “works bill,” is trying to enforce a starvation minimum wage averaging $50 per month. The “average” wage provision allows a loop-hole for an even-lower wage. If the “works bill” of Roosevelt goes into effect, it will go a long way towards aiding the employers’ wage-slashing drive which is now being put over by Roosevelt. “investigations” mditions i i famous Lg) US ss eet The demand of the A. F. of L. Execu- cue AndUstty. tive Council for a “prevailing” -wage on Roosevelt is following a consistent 2 Beier rot aitacking labor cahGie wanes | ba relief a instead Legend bse and smashing unions. He signed the anti- | 2)” (wage of $50.00), is not the demand labor auto code with its open shop merit | that labor should put up Benin’ ae ves clause. He is trying to cut wages on work cutting bill. What does the prevailing ee ee wage mean. In the South, in some indus- rel tries, “prevailing” wages are well below the $50.06 a month scale proposed It is high time that the A. F. of L. leadership launched the campaign, not for “prevailing” wages, but for UNION wages and conditions. Every A. F. of L. local The signing of the tobacco code, which is an attack on labor from beginning to end, is one more step in the union-smash- ing campaign of Roosevelt, being pushed through on behalf of the employers. ee The Steel Situation EGINNING this Saturday, an impor- tant series of four articles on the present situation in the steel industry will start in the Daily Worker. | Written by M. J. Olgin, author of the | well-known pamphlet “Why Communism,” these articles will discuss in detail the highly important developments now tak- ing place in the steel union (Amalgamated | and union recognition on all government Association), the fight against Tighe, and | and private jobs. the various paths now open to the steel | workers in their fight against the Steel Trust. All readers are urged to make sure A that they get their Daily Worker and this a series on steel. Answer With More Protests! invocation of a Federal law, “ob- ‘Structing legal procedure,” in Okla- homa City, under a count that carries a long prison sentence, after hundreds of Z workers throughout the country had pro- iste the arrest of eighteen workers who were seized after a march to a relief sta- tion, is a challenge hurled at the face of every workers’ organization. In Oklahoma City, eighteen unem- ployed workers were arrested last May. cutting Works bill, and demand union wages on all work relief and in all private industry as well. Every A. F. of L. local should demand that the A. F. of L. Executive Council launch an immediate drive to organize the unorganized workers into the A. F. of L. and prepare strikes for the demands of the workers. Demand union conditions He Sneaks for Hearst EARST, in his frenzied lying about the Soviet Union, has an ally, or, shall we say, a competitor, in the person of one Raphael Abramowitch, leading represen- tative of the Second (Socialist) Inter- national. This person is now in this country, es- pecially imported to make a tour before working class audiences, to spill his fan- tastic and vicious lies about the Workers’ Fatherland. This man is nothing more nor less than a professional counter-revolutionary plot- ter. His name occurred again and again in the 1930 trials of the Mensheviks in the U. S. S. R. who were caught red-handed wrecking Socialist property belonging to Béfore they came Up for trialfen a charge the Russian working class. which carries 5 ihe Or a he Daily | Let every Sorialist worker remember Worker. and : ie a: Tr adge led for that the hateful murderer who killed Com- protests to att e ae wea Twelve | rade Kirov got his support from just such ‘persons in Oklahoma Cit; ent pro- | gToUpss \ >» should protest against the Roosevelt wage- in my own country, and then remain silent when I see crimes, or even worse, being Nazi-Germany, ruled by finance-capital, has de- stroyed the trade unions, murdered and jailed thou- sands. of workers—and Jews and liberals as. well. ET AGAINST ALL~- SOCIAL Tihe “crimes in my own country” of which Holmes speaks are the crimes of the capitalist class against those fighting for a better world—such as the Soviet masses are now constructing, | | Party Life Harlem Leader Tells Of Section’s Work In Recruiting Drive | By L. S. Org. Sec., Harlem Section |N,)HE Harlem Section has | again succeetled in retain- /ing the recruiting banner | given by the District to the | Section. which is. most con- sistent in the important work of building the Party. During | the recruiting drive our Section has’ accumulated many valuable experi- ences which should be made the property of every Section in our District, For about eight weeks out of the 13 allowed for the drive, the Sec- tion did not display any signs of} intensity in recruiting. Recruiting was not pushed. A general spirit o* taking our permanent victory for granted was developed. When it became apparent that Section Three was doing an excel- lent job in beating us, the comrades were somewhat bewildered and_ it took some time to convince even the leading cadres that such a thing as taking away the recruiting ban- ner was possible. It was evident that if Harlem was to retain, its banner, which is more than just a piece of red .cloth—it is a sym- bol of fulfilling one of the most |important requirements of our Eighth National Convention, build- ing the Party—we would have to shake up the entire Party mem- bership | This we succeeded tn doing, first, | by convincing the unit. organizers of our Section that only hard de- During the past year between 30 and 40 assassin groups wormed their way into the U.S.S.R. from sur- rounding fascist countries. They plotted to murder Soviet leaders and hamper the building of socialism. THE SOVIET UNION HAS UNMERCIFULLY CRUSHED THESE FOES OF PROGRESS. Rev. Holmes must realize that it is precisely those in the U. S. and Germany who attack the workers and all true progress who also plot murder against Soviet leaders and incite war against the Soviet Union. It is against these people that the Soviet Union is defending its right to build a new society. Does Rev. Holmes Want to Aid Enemies of the Soviet Union TER’S DECLARATIONS ON SOVIET EXECUTIONS GET WARM RECEPTION IN THE HEARST PRESS Japan is geared for an Union in the East. Hitler is West. > C4 attack upon the Soviet preparing to strike in the In the U. S. the anti-Soviet forces are mobilizing to destroy eighteen years of S. R. Rev. Holmes is possibly the hands of the enemies of the Soviet. Union. achievements in the U. S. unwittingly playing into That is why his statement is displayed by the Hearst press. This is the logic of the “1 iberal” position. GO RIGHT AHEAD—IT’S 0.K. WITH ME | termination, political work and con- centration would bring results; that | |only. by politically presenting the importance of Party building in the unit membership would they be able | to swing the membership into ac- | tion. The second important task | was to cooperate with the active units and unit members in getting | the books speedily and assigning | the members without much delay. | | Here the Membership Committee | of our Section has done excellent | work. There was no trace of the | Previous stagnation in this Com- | mittee, The comrades worked from | early morning to late at night, | working with the unit organiza- tional secretaries, with the active unit members who were shock troop- ers in looking up all contacts and | recruiting new members. In our methods, as I have pre-/| | viously stated, our main approach | Was an intense revolutionary com- |petitive approach which resulted in |the units transforming themselyes into shock troops which covered every meeting, looked up all con- | tacts and spoke to all their friends land acquaintances in their desire | to lead in the building of the Party in the section, Secondly, on a sec- tion scale, the Membership Com- |mittee with the assistance of the Organization Department, called in a few of the outstanding comrades with good mass contacts and gave them specific responsibilities in the | various parts of our section, The most important reason for our ability to retain the leadership on the field of recruiting. was the collective work of all section de- |partments. The agit-prop depart- ment stimulated discussion on Party recruiting. The fraction depart- ment not only met with the: sec- retaries of the various fractions but |made it their business to cover every important meeting of every | Mass organization during the last |four weeks of the drive, A very interesting lesson that we must learn from this drive is that mass recruiting means tremendously increased responsibility to the ap- paratus of the section. To get 505 members within three months means practically the re-arrange- ment of the entire Party section. It means the creation, as in our case, of an additional 15 units, which brings up the question of the quick development of leadership for these units. This means that if the Party really wants to go ahead with mass recruiting it must in- tensify. its educational work by training new functionaries on a mass scale, by having special classes for organizers, for agit-prop direc- \ tors, for org. secretaries, etc, It further means that the group sys- tem must be functioning well to absorb and acclimate the members who try to join the:Party. — At the present time, in order that Harlem may be able to continue its performance of 200 members a week, it is imperative that we de- velop that leading cadre and that apparatus which is able to absorb the. incoming Party members and which will insure their activization. THE PARTY BUILDER, . District Two. Join the Communist Party || 35. East 12th Street, New York || Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Perty. Letters From Our Readers by Burck Articles on Hearst Bring Enthusiastic Comment New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: There are many workers who are sympathetic to the Communist movement, but yet do not buy the Daily Worker. new Hearst series to these workers, I clipped the first article out,of the “Daily” and gave it to fourteen different’ workers to read. The re- sponse of these workers to the ar- ticle was very encouraging, and I am sure that most of them will purchase the “Daily” in order to follow up this interesting expose. ‘Today, I saw a most encouraging sight. While witnessing the March of Events at our local theatre, Hearst's picture was flashed upon the screen and he was roundly booed and hissed by the vast major- ity of the audience. After the completion of the Hearst series, I believe it would be a good idea to issue a penny pamph- let on Hearst’s despicable career. The cartoon by Suvanto showing Hearst in the framework of rats could be used on the front cover. S.R. oe New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: While I have frequently been on the verge of writing to newspapers upon a matter of public importance, nothing has ever stirred me from my laziness until I saw James Casey’s article on Hearst and the “Rats” cartoon. For both of these please accept my very heartiest congratulations. They were both excellent and worthy of the very highest praise. My first striking contact with the name of Hearst came many years ago in my freshman year at college when a professor of mine character- ized Hearst in a way which would spoil the appearance of any printed page. Since that time, I have found that not only did he not exaggerate but that he didn’t go far enough. Carry on your excellent work. You have many more well-wishers than you imagine. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. To. introduce the | Because of the yolume 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 weleome and whenever Possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. Looks for Exposure Of Huey Long New Orleans, La, Comrade Editor: The time has come for a complete, detailed, concrete exposure of Huey Long and his Share the Wealth movement. I am hoping that the Daily Worker will take the initiative in a concentrated attack on the Louisiana dictator who is using the discontent of the masses of workers, poor farmers, as well as the gradual degarding of the small business and white collar people and intellectuals, to obtain political prestige for him- self and to whip into line his polit- ical enemies. ad. Sees Historic Parallel In Lincoln Quotation Detroit, Mich. Comrade Editor: I want to add my bit of praise for the vast improvement shown in the past few months in the Daily Worker. I have especially recently enjoyed reading Letters from Read- ers. I-notteed one letter which maintained that we should make use of our own revolutionary back- ground through quotations from American figures, and in other ways: I came across this quotation from Lincoln in a footnote on Page 105 of London's “The Iron Heel,” which I think could be used in our columns. : “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high plages wiil fol- low, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the preju- dices of the people until the Wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” This seems to present what is oc- curring at the present time, the money power instilling nationalist prejudices in the people to enthrone fascism and destroy all vestiges of democratic rights. R. G. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst This Is The “Criticism” Of Class Enemies New Work, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Esther Junger, on Sunday night, February 3, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, presentation of “Waiting for Lefty,” danced “Soap Box,” in which she satirized a politician, a reformer (Salvation Army variety), and a Communist, as soap-bdoxers. I did not see the performance, but I have been told that while her technique and imagination were admirable, her satire of a Communist “soap boxer” evoked some justified hisses from the audience. The question, in a discussion with a liberal group, arose: Why do we enjoy the satirization of a politician and of a reformer while we hiss the satirization of our own agitator? The liberals in triumphant voices singled out our reaction to this in- cident as perfect evidence of our dogmatism. Several points arise here; 1, Certainly our class-enemies satirize us enough in this super- ficial manner without our devoting any of our energy in this direction. 2, This kind of criticism does not fall into the category of self-crit- icism, because satire, by its very na- ture, annihilates, and does not per- mit any constructive criticism. 3. In the Soviet Union, where the Communist Party is in power, the population can enjoy humor at their own expense (Charlie Ghaplin variety); but in the Unifed States, at a public performance, where many politically backward elements as well as class enemies are present, we must use the opportunity to win their sympathy by educating them to the basic fact of the oppression of the masses and its only solution through the leadership of the Com- munist Party. In this letter, I have not been concerned with the political devel- opment of Esther Junger. I am con- jeorned with the taunt of the lib- erals that we have balked at self- satire while approving satire of our enemics in “parallel” situations. The question remains with those considering it, whether the grafting, hypocrisy of a politician, and the patronizing, misleading, sentimental- ity (and often insincerity) of a re- former, can be paralleled with the heroic, courageous, scientific Marx- ism-Leninism of a worker rebound- ing against those forces that are trying to destroy him. -y -y “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they con exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN, | Fascist historical in conjunction with the | World Front By HARRY GANNES Mussolini Protests The Gangster’s Lament Hitler and the “East” USSOLINI has not filed the Franco-Italian pact in the archieves, Hardly was the ink dry on this piece of imperialist thiev- \ery when Italian troops be- gan invading Abyssinian ter- ritory. We now learn, because | Mussolini has mobilized 75,000 ad« ditional troops, that for the past 12 days, fascist armies have been marching further into the last. in- dependent country in Africa. The original agreement between France and Italy provided that in |return for Mussolini’s relaxation of his war moves against Jugoslavia, |France would grant Italian fascism a freer hand in Africa, particularly Abyssinia. Mussolini's protests to the Abys- sinian government because some of his soldiers were killed near Ualual (pronounced Walwal) is like an ‘| American gangster protesting that his intended victim shot at him | while he was caught rifling a safe, According to Italian and League of Nation's maps the fascist troops are already 100 miles within Abyssinian territory. piste eee | QUT as we mentioned in this ogle umn on numerous occasions, the particular incident is of no mo ment whatever. They will be re« peated with greater rapidity in the coming months. The main factor is Mussolini's ayowed intention, and the French agreement, to seize as | much of Abyssinia as he can. Un- less the toiling and colonial masses of the world can be aroused against the fascist war plans in Africa, Mussolini will continue his war in | Abyssinia until he has ‘achieved. | what the Japanese have accom- | Plished in Manchuria. | The capitelist press reports train- |loads of troops leaving for Italian |ports. This news leaks out only | when the movement is well under | way, and when whole fleets of |Dlanes, tanks, soldiers have already reached Abyssinia. A major crimie it war is under way NOW in Abys- sinia. : Ch erie | QMUICKENING of the war fever is [NM not restricted to Abyssinia Bione. The Franco-Italian pact was but one of a whole series of similar moves, on the basis of imperialist juggling, in order to spur the major war of all of the imperialist powers against the Soviet Union. The Franco-Italian pact was fol- lowed up by the London proposals to Hitler. Hitler is now considering them, and recognizing the main kernel in the British aims, asks for an air agreement which will grant the German fascists sufficient arms for an attack on the Soviet Union, From South Africa comes the | bid of the “pacifist” statesman Jan | Christian Smuts that the U. S. and Great Britain “co-operate” for the peace of the Pacific. The American State Devartment grasps at the idea avidly. Having indicated to its chief rival in the Pacific, Japan, that a war against the Soviet Union is emi- nently desirable, it welcomes the opportunity of working out some similar arrangements with its chief world rival Britain. The cementing force would be anti-Soviet hostility. The latest disoatch from Berlin to the New York Times by its cor- respondent Guido Enderis, shows that the whole question before the fascist government of Germany is how best and most rapidly to trans- form the London pact into an im- mediate war alliance against the Soviet Union. “Officiai consideration,” cables Enderis, “seems to have veered from the proposed five-power air convention to the general sub- ject of security, in which connec- tion the Russian angle appears to have largely pre-ocenpied Ger- man official thoughts, “Tt is largely out of such con- siderations that the Reich gov- ernment in the coming negoti« ations will stress its demands for sccurity in the East, especially to the extent of being allowed an air force of sufficient size and mobility to insure the defense of the Eastern frontiers.” “Security in the East,” according to Hitler's book, “Mein Kampf,” means the securing of the Soviet Ukraine and whatever other Soviet eae Hitler feels his armies can grab. Meanwhile, Japanese imperialism is working hard to force the issue by its actual war provocations in the Mongolian Peoples’ Republic and all along the Soviet border. A Correction The Saturday, Feb. 9 edition of the Daily Worker stated that the testimony of Clarence Hathaway on unemployment insurance was made before the House Committee on Labor. This should have said that the testimony was made before the House Ways and Means Committee, the committee which heard reports on the Wagner-Lewis Bill, PSNR ANON oo Lome