The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 Some Liberals Who Find a Place in Anti-Soviet War Incitement GROUP, INCLUDING ROGER BALDWIN, WALDO FRANK, GIVES AID TO HEARST BY ECHOING SLANDERS ON KIROV ASSASSINATION COMMITTEE of prominent liberals, intellectuals A and write recently invited by Alexander Troyano bassador to this country, to test on the executions follow- ion. wa Yesterdav’s ports that this committee, headed by Roger iwin, and including Waldo Frank, nov Professor George S. Counts of Columbia Uni- wright, finds itself “un- explanation of the execu- ner Rice, Trovanovsky’s dwin, denouncing these executions, calls them uppression of opponents guilty of no overt act.” Who are these estimable “opponents” of the Soviet Union who find such zealous defenders in the liberal committee? Daily, CRVTRAL ORGAM COMMUMIST PARTY U.S. 4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIOMAL) the “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” | FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., IN Street, New York, N. ¥. | Algonquin 4-795 4. | tors. | sideration of $6.00; | $9.00; | and Bronx), 1 year, 00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. and Canada: 1 year, 33.00 monthly, 75 cents. year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. (except Manhatta: $3.50; 3 months, n, Bronx, Foreign $5.00: 3. mont: y, bill. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935 | For Action in Steel N IMMEDIATE drive to organize the A. F. of L, Executive Council by the Or- ganizational Committee elected by the lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, at the Feb. 3 conference. | The Organizational Committee de- clares, “THE AMALGAMATED ASSOCI- ATION MUST BE BUILT INTO A POWERFUL UNION.” The Executive Council of the A. F. of L. is called upon to carry out the decisions of the last convention of the A. F. of L. and launch an immediate organizational | campaign in the steel industry. William Green replied to the represen- tatives of the steel industry, according to press reports, “An organization drive in steel is on the immediate order of business | in the Exccutive Council of the A.F. of L.” | The proposal of the representatives of | the A. F. of L. steel locals is very concrete, that the Executive Council give immediate financial support and organizers to build the A, A. Every A. F. of L. local and member is ! called upon to help the organization drive in steel. The Executive Council is called upon to send its members personally into the steel field to organize the steel work- | ers, and to mobilize the State Federations and City Central Labor bodies for the con- erete support and action in the campaign. An immediate end of Tighe’s disruptive | expulsions is demanded. What will the A. F. of L. Executive | Council do concretely to organize the steel workers and prepare strike against star- vation conditions now existing in the in- | dustry as a result of the N.R.A.? | The Communist Party and the Daily Worker urge every member of the A. F. of L., every worker, to immediately act in support of the organizational drive, to get behind the Organizational Committee of the steel workers, and to build the A.A. into a powerful union. The Red Flag Rises! IHE Red Flag rose over one of the bar- racks of Vienna on Sunday. No fascist terrorism or police vigilance could stop the Austrian proletariat from doing honor to those who died last Febru- ary fighting the advance of Austrian fas- cism. No fascist murder could stop the Aus- trian proletariat, Socialist and Commu- nist, united in class unity, from meeting throughout the country to pledge and mobilize a fight to the death against Fas- | cism. | In France, a hundred thousand Parisian workers, Socialist and Communist in united action, marched for hours past dismayed and silent gendarmes, paying tribute to | Hibiite their dead, warning fascism that the | ie French proletariat will know how to meet it. rate, then a month now. action! “tragic.” Silk Election Saturday EMBERS of the American Federation | of Silk Workers in Paterson face a | great responsibility on Saturday. On that day they will elect the general manager of the union and organizers. | The fine work of the past few months which placed the union in the hands of the rank and file and prevented a wage cut ‘contract will be set back if the workers permit the election of such reactionaries ‘as Al Williams of the Jacquard Depart- | ment or of the Lovestoneite agents of the Jewish Daily Forward. | _ The Rank and File candidate for. | the landlords? violence? farmers? | union, and stop the wage cuts. “Prevailing Wages” RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has—to use a | phrase made popular by the movies— | ‘turned the heat” on a number of Sena- He has succeeded in getting recon- the amendment to the administration’s relief Roosevelt’s policy is crystal clear: he | wishes to establish work relief wages at an average of $50 a month. | ing trades, for instance, this will simply wreck union scales, even in private con- struction and, finally, destroy the unions. It will tend, sooner or later, to depress i ea a { wage levels throughout the country. eel industry was demanded of the | jn the $0 oh Weeueeoe saa Mah ing scheme, it must be made clear in every instance that labor demands union wages. If the “prevailing rate” is not the union union | UNION WAGES for organized and unor- ganized workers. Every worker knows that with the wage-cutting drives that have gone on, with the N.R.A; codes, “prevailing: rates” in some instances are even less-than $50 President Roosevelt’s proposal is that | a building trades worker on a relief job ; work 130 hours a month for $50, or 38 ; cents an hour. vailing wage’ must demand the union scale for these workers, which is $1.28 an hour at the present time. A Reactionary Menace N FRIDAY, it is expected that the Con- gressional Dickstein-McCormack Com- mittee will present its recommendation to the House that measures be taken to out- law all revolutionary activity of workers and the revolutionary press. This proposal, made by a committee allegedly investigating fascist activities in | this country, is aimed directly at the Daily Worker, the Western Worker, and the Communist Party, language press. This Committee. has protected the ac- tivities of Wall Street fascist plotters, as | the Daily. Worker has proved. | Its main purpose has been to carry out the orders of the big Wall Street bankers and industrialists for the throttling of the whole working class movement. ing Hearst and the pro-fascist war-makers. Its attacks Party can only be a prelude to wholesale reactionary assaults against all workers and their trade union organizations. Every Secialist Party worker, every A. F. of L. trade unionist, every progres- sive person in the country is menaced by this Committee’s proposals! Its proposals must be blocked by joint Appealing to Roosevelt see THOMAS, Socialist Party leader, has just wired to Roosevelt urg- ing him to step in and protect the Arkan- sas tenant farmers from the starvation of the landlords and the local officials. _ Thomas points out that the local of- ficials are subservient to the landlords, that the Arkansas workers face mob vio- lence, evictions, and starvation. Thomas is right when he declares the conditions of these tenant farmers as | He is right when he shows that the landlords control | But does Thomas’ appeal to Roosevelt | aid the Arkansas farmers? | the militant Ward Rodgers and R. L. Mit- | chell, Socialist leaders of the Arkansas tenants in their fight against the yoke of How can Thomas’s appeal to Roosevelt help these militant fighters when it is Roosevelt’s own A.A.A. program which is responsible for these evictions and mob Do not these Arkansas land- lords support Roosevelt; are they not the backbone of his Party? Is not Roosevelt himself directly re- sponsible for the pauperizing of the tenant To help Rodger. Arkansas farmers, it is not only the local officials but Roosevelt who must be exposed as responsible for the farmers’ “tragedy.” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935 They are the counter-revolutionary agents of Hit- ler, the Czarist dregs who plot sabotage and destruc- tion, the bitter and snarling class enemies of the Soviet workers striving to overthrow the workers’ rule. The committee speaks of those who committed “no overt act.” But ina murder it is not only he who struck the blow who is guilty. The executed White Guardists, as active members of an enemy class, plotting to restore capitalist slavery, were the emissaries of fascism and imperialist war! At what historic moment does the liberal commit- tee’s protest occur? At a time when Japanese imperial- ism stalks toward the Soviet borders with unsheathed bayonets, when Hitler and world reaction sounds the signals for an approaching attack against the Workers’ Fatherland, when Hearst in this country drums in- manager is Sarkis Phillian, a mill worker devoted to the interests of the workers. His election means to continue the prog- | ress now being made to building a fighting | Party Lite Gaining Recruits A Party for Seamen What the Seamen Said By E. C. NIT 7, Section 7, operates in the Red Hook territory of Brooklyn, During the sea- men’s strike the unit directed its forces toward the strike, with particular attention paid towards the colonial seamen, as our unit has the task of building the Filipino and Porto Rican Anti- Imperialist League. During this period the unit also |took up the important Party cam- paigns, such as the Fifteenth Anni- versary, election campaign, Daily Worker and recruiting. To link these problems up, the unit decided to hold a house party to which some of the seamen would be invited, at which also we were to raise money |for the Daily Worker. To make |sure that the party would be within the reach of the seamen, we ar- ranged it in the house of a comrade right near the seamen’s headquar- jters. We decorated the house, hung up appropriate pictures and slogans. A committee of comrades active among the strikers invited those | ; whom we wanted to approach on | joining the- Party. About twenty ;Seamen came. The comrades made | them feel at home in no time. The words of ‘our revolutionary songs were soon taught to them and soon they were drawn into collective singing, dancing and games. The chairman, too, was not appointed, but elected from the crowd and sure enough a seamen, who was a favor- | ite of the strikers, was elected. The chairman called on people to make impromptu talks. The strike “prevailing wage” In the build- labor must insist on The fight for the “pre- |“Daily” in this and other strikes | was brought out. The Fifteenth An- niversary was linked with joining | the Party, for which an appeal was made. for Daily Worker funds. Fifteen dollars was collected for the “Daily.” | Twelve seamen joined the Party, | The meeting at which these new members were introduced was full of enthusiasm. It made the hearts of all our comrades swell with joy. | The proceedings of this meeting were all translated from English into Spanish and vice versa. In | their acceptance talks the new com- | rades expressed important ideas and |I would like to quote some of them. A Spanish seaman talks; his black eyes burning: “I'm twenty-eight |years old. I'm an able-bodied sea- |man. Abuse and discrimination is all I met on my job. I want to be | united with all fellow workers who suffer just like me. Through the | Communist Party I can achieve it. | Iwill be a member straight, and always.” : A Filipino: “I came to help in the strike and saw that the Com- ;Mmunists are the most active, most organizational and devoted people. |I'm glad to be admitted in the Communist Party.” An Irish seaman: “You guys are | pretty lucky. So young and walking right into the Party, just like this. \I gave fifteen years to the 1.W.W., | International Seamen's Union, never was I explained the importahce of |@ political party. In the. last strike led by the M.W.LU. T learned that the workers need not only a union | but also a political party. I wanted to join the political party of the workers, therefore I joined the Communist Party.” , A young Filipino seaman: "I want that the shipowners, bosses and po- lice could not suppress us forever ‘and ever. On my trips I heard | talk that there, in Russia, all .Work- \ing people of all races and nation- alities are treated equally. I want to belong to the Communist Party, So that I can learn about the move- | ment, so that when I get back to my country I can apply it to help my people to get freedom and inde- pendence.” The unit organizer, a Young Porto | Rican fellow, greeted these new members into the ranks of the |Party, and brought himself as an |example to whom the Party was a | School—something that saved him from degeneration and despair. We “linked” up our campaigns and succeeded. Now our big task is to help these new members, to and the foreign: It is aid- against the Communist fhe local govern- Does it aid cate them, to keep these splendid ; new elements in the ranks of our Party. THE PARTY BUILDER, Dist. 2. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. and Mitchell and the NAME. ADDRESS cessant anti-Soviet hysteria for an intervention war against the U.S.S.R. Let the members of the liberal committee look about them as they protest. They will find, with some misgivings we hope, that all around them are the war- mongers, the fascists, the White Guard plotters, who are now sounding, in one key or another, the war cry against the Soviet Union. Presumably, the members of the committee are interested in defeating these forces of fascist reaction and imperialist war, But the implacable logic of the class struggle, of the present situation, is placing them unwittingly in the camp’ of pro-fascist reaction and imperialist war, in the camp of counter+revolution. The provocative act of Roosevelt in breaking off debt negotiations, the anti-Soviet howls of Hitler, the steady advance of Japanese troops along the Siberian borders,—is the committee blind to the sinister meaning of these acts? Does it wish to align itself with these forces? Whatever its intentions, its “protest” places it where it probably does not wish ‘to go—into the camp of White Guard intervention. The working class of the world is fighting against a remorseless class enemy. The Soviet working class is defending its Socialist construction, and through this, the interests of the working class, the oppressed colonial peoples of the world. As the issues daily grow sharper, there can be no in-between position. The mem- bers of the liberal committee must choose. vas brought forth. The role of the| An appeal was also made | work with them collectively, to edu-' Abyssinia Proposes Supplement On Fascist Exposures Philadelphia, Pa. Comrade Editor: I am suggesting that at least the sailent points of Margaret Young's Series of fascist exposes should be reprinted. 1. In a Saturday issue of the “Daily” run a four page supplement containing the whole series. The make-up of this supplement should be bold, with a front page cartoon or cartoons taking up a large part of the page. The articles should be edited to read simply in every day language. There should be editorial comments explaining to workers that the Daily Worker is “their” paper and contrasting it with the “bosses’” Papers; showing how the fascist plot means an attack on each and every one of them. 2, This same supplement should be printed in the tens of thousands for a general distribution campaign, free of charge, from door to door, at subway entrances, street corners and at all strategic points. I want only to add that the dis- tribution should be organized. s. Workers Look to Coming Writers Congress Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The announcement of a Writers Congress, cut of which I hope good results will come, is very interesting and timely. I believe that persons of literary ideas and ability will find plenty of material, if they will try to understand and feel, us, the working class. Consequently re- wards must come to them, ~ ‘Professional writers and actors at present mostly give service to those who criminally destroy everything worth living for. But the working class wants to read how to get out | of its misery. Quite often I buy @ magazine or pamphlet instead of a meal because I know that its con- tents speak for the welfare of the majority of the world. Yours for enlightenment. e . A. inhabit it. |GO RIGHT AHEAD—IT’S O.K. WITH ME 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. Congress Marks Growth Of Socialism in U.S.S.R. Brooklyn, N, Y. Comrade Editor, After carefully reading Molotov's speech on the changes in the Soviet Constitution, I have to express my irrepressible joy. What can be more inspiring than the fact that. the Soviet Union is moving nearer to a classless Socialist society? What worker can read that Com- rade Statin initiated the proposals of these changes into the Central Committee, and not see in him a “new” Lenin! What worker can tread how every word of the scien- tific analysis of Marx and Lenin is CARRIED INTO ACTION, and not see in this same analysis the way out of capitalist oppression. I believe that the profound changes in the constitution, (re- Placing many-stage elections by di- rect élections; equal vote for peas- ant as well as workers) is a true picture of Bolshevism. We, who are in “the camp of (Soviet) friends,” should greet this historic triumph of Socialism, as our Russian comrades expect that we will, by “a new surge of energy and faith in the cause of Com- munism,” ‘ B. W. Letter From a Reader Helps to Convince : Mason City, Iowa Comrade Editor: Please send me twenty-five copies of the Daily Worker of January 28 and twenty-five copies of the Jan- uary 30th issue, the former for dis- tributing among Doubting Thom- ases to show “Admit Socialism Works,” by C, B. S. in your Letters From Our Readers column, and for Molotov’s address in the latter. I enclose $1.59. A. R. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst _-—AB by Burck Appeals For Relief For Political Prisoners Portland, Oregon Comrade Editor :— At the Dirk De Jonge banquet on January 26, it was voted to send a telegram of greetings and some money to Kyle Pugh, still in jail, pending raising of bail on the ap- peal of his five year sentence for criminal syndicalism in Medford, Oregon. Following is a copy of the Istter received in answer: Jackson County Jail Medford, Oregon Dear Comrades: I received your welcome letter and the $2. I am not in immediate need of money for my own personal self while I'm here and I am sure there are hundreds of our prisoners who need it more, so please send it where it is needed. I appreciate what you folks are doing for me. I know you would do a great deal more if it was in your power, and I am proud to feel that the working class are my friends. I don’t know just what you mean about the donkey, but I’ll bet mine had that old burro that J. Slim Tode through Bethlehem skinned a country block, Yes, I get the “Daily” occasionally. The farmers from Grant's Pass do all they can to make my vacation pleasant as possible. KYLE PUGH. The reference to the donkey was cause the state confiscated the burro that Pugh used when he sold literature. The feed bill is about $100 and the state does not want to pay it and wants the defense to take the burro back and pay the bil!. This letter is evidence of the type of Comrade Kyle Pugh is. It should be printed so that readers may re- member that our political prisoners are some of the best fighters of the working class and that they can be helped through the Prisone:s Relief Fund of the I, L. D. LAURA LAINE International Labor Defense. “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.” RAHAM LINCOLN. | World Front By HARRY GANNES Strikes in Colombia Secretary of War Acts Wholesale Arrests SERIES of strikes have been going on in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Porto Rico, |Cuba, and many other Latin America countries that never leven reach the light of day in the U. S. capitalist press, For instance, when 30,000 coffee | Pickers in Colombia go out on strike, that’s not news in the Wall Street press. We are fortunate to receive the | following interesting letter from Colombia, written by an American | Worker who has lived in that coun- | try for some time and knows the | conditions “At the moment, two great strikes | shake at the very roots of this semi feudal economy. The banana work- | ers and the coffee workers are on | strike! The banana workers, em- | Ployees of native producers as well as of the Magdalena Fruit Co—that is, the United Fruit Co—are on Strike the second time in two months. A 100 per cent solid strike in December, fitting celebration of the sixth anniversary of the mas- | Sacre of the banana workers, ended in an agreement signed by the pro- ducers and the Minister of War a9 the workers’ ‘reperesentative.’ “At a reformist-organized assem bly of the workers, this gentleman had been elected by a majority of one vote over Adan Ortiz, militant banana worker. But after this ‘set- tlement’ the workers discovered that the producers openly and flagrantly violated the terms of the agreement. Their ‘representative,’ the Minister of War, whose authority and mears are unlimited on certain occasions, | did nothing to enforce the carrying- out of the pact. “Reformist proposals for arbitras tion were swept aside; a second strike was called. A militant lead- | ership under the direction of the | Communist Party of Colombia was set up. The government, a member | of which signed the pact, answered | the strike to enforce it, by declaring | it illegal. It immediately arrested Adan Ortiz—six months in the penal colony of Goapira, on charges of vagrancy and subversive activi- ties. Vagrancy — although Ortiz | works his own parcel of land. The newspapers print nothing of this strike. They were equally silent about the victorious banana strike of Costa Rica, afraid lest the work- ers follow this example of militant struggle. And they are. * “THE coffee pickers are women. Thirty thousand of them are on | Strike. Out of a total exportation | of 123 million pesos in 1934, coffee covered 84 millions. It is the basis of the Colombian economy. This is a militant strike. Already there have been bloody clashes between | the strikers and scabs, strikers and | police. Faced with such determina- | tion on the part of the workers, the | producers have decided to suspend | the work. This strike has also been declared “fuera de la ley’-—illegal, | And it also is being directed by the Communist Party. Workers’ organs izations of that region are mobilize ing to aid the strike “Six years ago it was a conserva- tive government that murdered 2,000 banana workers, and today it is a Liberal government that de- | clares these strikes illegal, jails their leaders, and sends the armed forces to occupy the regions. “There is terror in the ‘liberal’ republic of Colombia. Adan Alvarez, organizer of a peasant league, is in jail on framed-up charges of mur- der. Another peasant organizer, on | charges of robbery. Victor Merchan, | Communist Councilman, is finishing an 18-month term in the penal col- onies, on charges of “vagrancy.” Thirty Indians, militant members of the Peasant League of Natagaima, are in jail, also accused of “mur- der.” In Cucuta, near the Venezue- lan frontier, scene of rivalry be- tween the Royal Dutch Shell and the Standard Oil Companies, terror “assumes mass proportions. A Co- lombo-Venezuelan war to settle the | question for them, is not impossible, And with the Colombian. govern- ment spending 13'2 of a 45 million budget for armaments, possibilities become probabilities. “The U. S. and Japan are in a sharp tussle over markets here. In 1928, Japanese exportations here to- taled 710,000 pesos. In 1934, over four millions.” * BOOK recently published in Poland accurately reflects the purpose of Nazi Goering’s visit to that country a few weeks ago. Writ- ten by the well-known Polish Jour- nalist, Ladislaus Studnitski, the book entitled, “The European Sys- tem and Poland,” advocates the partition of the Soviet Union, with Japan taking the Far East, Turkes- tan and the Caucasus, The author cist Germany in order to achieve the slicing up of the Soviet Unien, advocates a war alliance with fas-.