The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1935, Page 6

4 4 Page6 ¥ pAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1935 ve been i Yc In the ¢ of n the ntroduced states Washington, 1 Ohio ry extraordinary fact that whether introduced by hese bills Democratic representative same wau, almost word for word! ® 3 D advocate or carry which advocate or ca Daily,,.QWorker | ENWTRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY U.5,4 ECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) | “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. ALgonquin 4 atw THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, ee orkers, On Guard! in which the Exe f the American Federati | roaching the question of the | in the steel and auto | u hould sound the note of warn- throughout the entire A. F. of L. William Green, when confronted by > demand of the Organizational Com- r g the lodges of the A. steel union, did not dare to call d throw out the steel workers’ spo nen as did Mike Tighe, president of the / lgamated Association. Green was forced to listen to their demands that the A. F. of L. Executive Council throw its entire resources into the building of the Ar ted Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.). | The Organizational Committee did well in achieving this interview and forcing Green to drive in police a of L ive lip service to an organization eel. To that extent a “vict ington, but in going home to immediately take leader- ip of the drive themselves. far the Executive Council has only set up a sub-committee of three, which in- | cludes the react Tobin, to “make recommenda’ e Tighe has been called into consultation. | These delays and consultations show the reluctance of the A. F, of L. Executive Council to take any real to organize the unorganized steel workers and thus prepare for the coming strike struggles. ry recommendations have ganizational Commit- tee of the A. A. lodges—which outlined a concrete program for the A. F. of L. Coun- cil to organize the industry. | Every A. F. of L. local, every unorgan- ized worker, should support the campaign of the Organizational Committee to or- ganize the steel workers now. Seed Browder’s Speech HE fight for the building of a mass La- bor Party, based on the trade unions, and organized for the defense of the in- terests of only one class, the working class, has begun. The time has come when American | labor, rapidly seeing through the capital- ist class basis of the whole Roosevelt pro- gram, is preparing to act politically as an independent class in opposition to all capi- talist parties. It is this which gives such importance to Earl Browder’s speech on the Commu- | nist position on the Labor Party, printed in today’s issue. | In his speech, which every reader of the Daily Worker should study with the greatest care, Browder drives home this main point—that the Communist Party today emphasizes the need for a mass La- bor Party so that the American working class can march steadily forward in poli- tical offensive against its class enemies, _ It is the political class action of the workers that is the essential thing. Too long has American labor fought heroicall on the picket lines. only to fling away ail its gains by supporting, on the political field, the agents of the employers, To win the American masses, now be- coming disillusioned with the New Deal, for a program of struggle against capital- ism viz the path of a class Labor Party, that is the burning political task of the im- mediate struggle, which. will speed the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. Browder's speech, outlining the ways and means to carry through this policy, the mistakes to avoid. and the direction in | which to move is a call to action for Amer- ican labor, a call to organize the ranks of f i us fact that already troduced aimed at out- Party, and wiping it e k State legislature received osed by the Republican Assembly- h resolutions have also been Indiana, New a Republican or a is worded practically the The Bill introduced in New York is aimed at par m of on a program of sedition of in six state off the guage. treason, by radio, press, or speech.” Every one of the state bills is couched in this lan- It is clear that this campaign against the Commu- nist Party is being directed from some central head- quarters located, most likely, in Washington, D. C. And, as Earl Browder, secretary of the Commu- nist Party, charged at the House hearings on the Work- ers’ Bill on Tuesday, this drive against the Communist Party is being directed by the Dickstein Committee, every one of Congress. The The dition or capita n a political army fight- ing for the defense of the unions, for poli- tical rights, for the interests of the work- ers. the working clas Slum Clearance OR years New York politicians have used the sweet phrases, “low-cost hous- ing” and “slum clearance.” Now we hear the dulcet voice of Mayor LaGuardia sing- ing the same words—to the tune of $150,- 000,000. We, of course, are heartily in favor of slum clearance, just as we support every move towards improving the conditions of the masses. But two points must be made in this connection. Firstly: union wages. The building trades workers of this city must not per- mit their unions to be wrecked by the hir- ing of workers on municipal housing proj- ects at wages under the union scale. This would depress the whole wage level in the industry and, sooner or later, destroy the strong building trades unions—an end greatly desired by the real estate sharks and large building contractors. Secondly: Slum clearance projects must provide homes for the people now living in the slums. It must not be made a means of forcing the present slum-dwellers into new slums. This means that the city cannot pay high rates of interest on money it bor- rows from the government nor can it pay the robber land values demanded by the real estate interests. Clearing of slums without guaranteeing that the slum-dwellers will move into the new apartments will simply be a colossal sham, a fraud perpetrated upon the masses of New York in the interests of the real estate owners A Reactionary Danger HE fact that the Dickstein Committee of Congress is secretly and stealthily scheming to outlaw the Communist Party came with something of shock to the chairman of the House sub-committee now holding hearings on the Workers’ Bill. Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, testifying for the Workers’ Bill, confronted the House Labor sub-committee with this fact about the Dickstein committee. Every day, inspired news reports, hint- ing at such action by the Dickstein com- mittee, appear in the capitalist press as trial feelers to test the sentiment of the people toward such action. Browder, with his beld accusation and challenge to the Dickstein committee, has brought this reactionary menace into the open. Matthew A. Dunn, chairman of the committee, on hearing of the secret pro- ceedings of the Dickstein crowd, their re- fusal even to permit the Communist Party to state its position before the Committee, indignantly denounced such action as “un- American.” Actually, it is a big step toward fascist reaction. It will take more than the indignation of a Congressman to block the Dickstein schemes. The Dickstein scheme is a grave menace to the whole labor movement. Right now the Dickstein committee must be informed by the working class, Social- ists, trade unionists, and others that its scheme will meet with overwhelming re- sistance. HE auto workers cannot be satisfied with the steps so far taken by the A. F, of L. Executive Council to organize the auto industry. The local unions of the United Auto Workers (A. F. of L.) are demanding strike preparations against the anti-labor code and the company union Auto Labor Board. They demand an im- mediate drive to build the A. F. of L. auto union into a powerful mass union. But Green and the Executive Council propose only to unite all the auto locals under the domination and appointive power of the Executive Council. This will strangle democracy within the union and hamper the organization drive. ' The auto workers demand that the locals shall have some- thing to say as to how they. shall govern their union, in the forming of the new In- ternational. Build the A. F. of L. union into a powerful mass union! Defeat Roosevelt’s attack on the auto workers! Win the de- mands of the auto workers! | Build the A.F.L. Auto Unions which itself is preparing to propose such a measure in meaning of all this is clear enough, Wall Street ruling class, the Roosevelt gov- ernment, are preparing to disfranchise whatever sec- tion of the workers and farmers dares to fight the ist program of the New Deal, | Party Life | Worker in Small City Wants One Organization For All Purposes |THE recent textile strike brings to us the import- | ance of the small towns as | places to reach important |strata of workers, In the small towns and small indus- trial cities we have the. need | of organizations that will cover the | needs Of the uneviployed, defense, |rélief and cititural work, We would like to have an organ- | ization that would take in all the | functions, except that of the Party, | Young Communist League and | trade unions. We are all native |born here, so that the language | Problem doesn’t exist. Our organ- ization would base itself first on the | fight for unemployment and social insurance and the struggles of the | unemployed. It will have a de- | fense committee that will have the | | | functions of the I. L. D. In time of strikes, it will organize solidar- jity and relief for the strikers; it will organize a woman's auxiliary as soon as practical; it will conduct an open forum; it will conduct | classes in trade unionism, history |of the working class, and political | economy; it will have something doing almost all the time, without |the confusion of a dozen names and dozens of membership cards | . As for affiliation, we can affiliate as the situation warrants. We in- | tend soon to affiliate with the Na- | tional Unemployment Council and |the International Labor Defense. As soon as our influence warrants, | we will ask for seats on the Central |Labor Union as fraternal delegates. | We are calling our organization the Workers’ Protective Association. I believe that the Organization Commission of the Central Com- |to study the organizational prob- | lems of the small towns and cities, N. §&., Section Organizer, Sec. 12, Dist. 3 (Philadelphia). aw ce Editor's Note ‘OUR intentions are good, com- rades; but you should ask your-. | selves—Do you believe that through building one organization that will | become everything, can you solve | your problems? , If you ask yourselves—Do we | reach the majority of the toiling | masses in our town, or are the’ ma- | | jority of the workers of Lancaster | organized under our influence, then , you will come to the conclusion that ; this is not the case. You | know that the majority of the | workers are not yet ready to join | Teaction and would like to organize themselves into a branch of the International Labor Defense. We cannot build one organization that one day will fight for relief for the unemployed, the next day will take over the tasks of the I. L. D., still on another day take up the struggles against war and fascism, etc. its own program and proper func- tion, and so has an I. L. D. branch, What is the main task for the Party in Lancaster? 1, To build the Party in the fac- tories (shop units). 2. To penetrate the American Federation of Labor locals; lead the | struggle for workers’ democracy, for |rank and file leadership; to build the opposition against the bureau- these unions, that are under the control of the bureaucrats, into in- struments of serving the interests of the working class. 2. To organize the masses of un- {employed into the Unemployment | Council of Lancaster for the pur- the unemployed; of strengthening the struggle for the Workers’ Bill, ete. 3. To build a strong International Labor Defense Branch, In this ;connection you have a vasi field As for building other organiza- tions, it would be sufficient if you woilti take the initiative in build- Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. mittee should appoint a committee | the Party, yes many maybe inter- | ested in assisting the victims of | An Unemployment Council has | |crats with the aim of transforming | pose of winning the demands for | Is | It is an act of terrorism aimed at political awaken- ing of the American workers, aimed at the growing movement for a mass Labor Party, a party that will wage the political battles of American labor against Wall Street! From the wording of these measures, it is obvious that the attack is intended n Party, but for the Socialist trade union movement, It is aimed at terrorizin ot only for the Communist Party and for the whole g the workers against any resistance, against strikes, against picketing, against any struggle for higher wag The Wall Street-Roosev: es and better hours. elt government is rapidly organizing to crush the workers politically, to deprive them of all political activity in their own interests. And the men who are carrying through this anti- labor, reactionary program SINGING HIS PRAISES | Letters From Our Readers | Wants Vivid Stories | Of Daily Life New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: | If the Daily Worker is a Party organ, then it is almost ideal, read eagerly by thousands of comrades. If intended for a proletarian news- | Paper, then it misses the mark al- | most completely. What is news for us comrades has for the average adult no meaning. | | “Benjamin Gagged,” “U.S.8.R. Par- ley,” “Writ Defied,” may as well be higher mathematics. The millions of tabloid readers who devour every word of the Hauptmann trial can be reached | only through the human interest | | appeal. been dropped from relief rolls says | nothing to them. Instead, let them hear the story of the Smiths, the Cohens or the Sullivans; how father lost his job and little Mary had no | warm clothes for school. Show un- | dernourished Charlie sick in bed, | and tell about the relief investigator, | with description and two columns of | conversation. Then lead up to the Unempleyment Council, ete. This should be front page stuff, | Last week there was a splendid story of an Ohrbach sales girl dis- rupting a banquet of charity boys. | This should have been on the first | pege, with a two-column picture of | the young lady, who, I understand, | was attractive. Imagine the thous- | |ands of shop girls (who need or- | ganizing) who could have been reached through such a story! j | Does this mean that the readers | would not become politics the contrary, 97) “g - conecret« by. c'.n they | be reachet . There is not a/ | single story that could not be given | 'a class angle. i | We are losing precious moments. | have a circulation of millions and teach Communism. The time was) | Never more ripe. | | J.0,R, i inhabit it. are the very Republican 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. Minnesota Farmer Asks For News of U.S.S.R. Lake Cystal, Minn. Comrade Editor: I have been reading a great deal of the U. S. 5. R. but like to know! more. I think the Communist movement. is gaining ground, because more and more people that I talk to have a more fayoarble attitude toward the To state that 3,000 persons have | U. S. S. R. I-know this is true of | |my brothers and several of my) neighbors here also. I know our) country under our capitalistic polit- | ical parties will never get anywhere. I am at present studying the Rus- sian language from a text book I sent for from the Amkniga Cor- poration. It is a very good text book. One of my friends whom I knew out in Wyoming visited the U.S.S.R, this winter. He isn’t back yet but) is also visiting Sweden. He plans to stop off here on his way back and I will hear what he has to say. Visitor to Ukraine Saw Bumper Harvest Vancouver, B. C. Comrade Editor: ~ Having read™Mike Gola’s column mtx of Jan. 29, in ~v famine” conditions in the ~e.aine in 1933, I should like to add the following: “I was visiting in the district of Kiev in August, 1933, for several days. Not only did I not see any signs of even malnutrition (let alone ing, for example, a committee of | A truly proletarian newspaper could | starvation), but as a matter of fact, | the American League Against War and Fascism, composed of represen- tatives of the various working class organizations (the Party, the A. F. of L. unions, the I. L. D., ete.). this too much? there was a bumper harvest that year and reeny urban workers were volunteering to help get it in. b 29 = Required Reading for Mr. Hearst ;Good Meetings Symbolize | Suture Society | Comrade Editor: Anti-Communist Bills Aimed At Political Rights of SIX STATES GET MEASURES TO WIPE COMMUNIST PARTY OFF BALLOT—-ROOSEVELT FEARS GROWING LABOR PARTY MOVEMENT Labor and Democratic agents whom the American workers were urged to follow by A. “non-partisan” policy. F. of L. leadership in its This “non-partisan” policy stands revealed now as aid to the grossest agents of political reaction, as aid to the most dangerous enemies of the working class movement, of the working class, in a ma a burning need! The present anti-Comm The need for independent political action ss Labor Party, is clearly unist campaign calls for immediate united front action of the Socialist Party, A. F. of L. trade unions, and the defense of the political ri the Communist Party for ghts of the working class! It is against this organized thrust toward fascism, coming right out of the Roose ican labor must build the united front! by Burck New York, N. Y. I wish to thank Michael Gold from the bottom of my heart for his reference to badly organized, long drawn-out meetings, which did more harm than good. And I know I am not the only one. All Party members will feel pride and joy if all of our future meetings are con- ducted in a way becoming our great movement and symbolizing the planning and thoughtfulness of architects and builders of the future society. E. v. Prostitution At C.C.C, Camps Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Here is an extract of a part of a letter I received ftom a friend of j mine in a C.C.C. camp. It shows | how far the capitalist system has degraded workers. The letter fol- lows: Knoxville, Tenn. “This city is about thirty miles away from our camp. I was there |last Saturday. The trucks take us there each week. I was disappointed. It was dirty and drab, This city does |mot seem to have the languorous | beauty we associate with Southern | towns. Most of the fellows go there for things they need, for movies | and most important of all, for the | prostitutes. I wouldn’t have be- |-lieved it if I hadn’t seen it with my | own eyes. As we got off the trucks ‘we walked awhile and before us (came fathers, brothers and even ‘Mothers trying to sell their daugh- | ters or sisters for the mere pittance | of a quarter, sometimes fifty cents. I’m no goody, but the sight that I Saw revolted me.” I want to add thet this person is not a sympathizer to the movement, yet even he was able to see how j rotten this system is. iF. “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN. velt New Deal, that Amer- | World Front | By HARRY GANNES | Tainted Abyssinian News | Mussolini’s Plans China Red Army Advances | /NJEWS purporting to come |4*% from Abyssinia, via the |capitalist press, should be | scanned with the greatest sus- |picion, Every avenue of in« formation out of that coun- try, now the target of a huge fascist army, is controlled by the imperialist powers whose colonies | surround it. The only railroad goes | through French Somaliland, Tele- |graph and cable news is filtered through British censors. Most of | the vurported news is manufactured |by that paragon of truth, Musso- |lini’s propaganda agency in Rome, Here is the setting for the juiciest batch of atrocity stories ever to be manufactured by a war-hungry im- | pertalist bandit power. Mussolini can create no end of pretexts and “dneidents“ to suit his needs. The guiding principle of the war now under way in Abyssinia was | developed in Manchuria by the Jan- | anese militarists. The idea is to | make war but not to declare it. The |next sten is to seize the country |and declare it “independent” and “free.” | . * | JJAVING withstood the whole |#2 epoch of imperialist expansion, |retaining its independence of the of world imperialism, is slated for colonial slavery. It was only by the stalwart, heroic, fierce fighting qualities of the Ab; sinian Negro people that Aby: is to date not shackled. Tr rv is rising again in Abyssinia, with the supvort of the proletarian and colonial masses throughout the world, Abyssinia can retain its in- dependence. and help the toiling | masses of Italy to turn the imper- ialist war into a civil war, to destroy Italian fascism. At Adowa, in 1896, the Abyssinian | armies inflicted a crushing blow on the Italian imperialist army. In 1935, the proletarian masses in all countries should help the Ab sinian people to deliver the final death blow to Fascism’s imperialist aspirations in the heart of Africa. re wa T the other end of the world, the heroic Red Army of China is | harrying Chiang Kai Shek in Sze- |chuan province. Here is the latest jnews from the British imperialist daily in Shanghai, the “North China | Daily News:” | “Considerable nervousness is be- ing felt in Chungking (largest in- dustrial city in that province with nearly 1,900,000 population) owing to the threats from Communists, | who are making their way north- | wards through Kweéichow, to enter Szechuan and attempt to cross the Yangtze to join their com- rades already in the north-eastern parts of the province.” And just as British gunboats at Aden, Arabia, just across from Ital- ian Somaliland, assist the Italian troops in their march into Abys- |sinia, the British Tern, Falson, ‘Aphis and Scarab stand by at Ichang and Chungking to assist | Chiang Kai Shek shoot down | Chinese workers and peasants, res Tita M the latest issue of the Chinese Wo-kers Correspondence we learn the following about the movements of the Red Army in and around Szechuan. The Red Army is closing in on Chunking from three sides: From Worth Szechuan, from South of the Yangtze River, and from the West of Chungking. Comrade Hsi Hsiang chien is commanding the army from the Chinese Soviet base in the North. Comrades Hsiao Keh and Ho Lung are moving upwards from Hunan province. Comrade Chu Teh, commander-in-chief of the Red Armies, is leading 40,000 men from Hokiang, a city located between Luchow and Chungking. A In Anwhei province, the anti- Javanese vanguard of the Red Army advanced to a point 25 miles of Anking, capital of the province. The Red Army in West Hunan i* still holding the important cities of Tayung, Yinshun, Kutsang, Sanchi and Lungshan. They have succes- sively defeated six divisions of the | Kuomintang army. When this army entered Szechuan, they took Yuyang and Shushan, and affected a junc- ture with the 6,000 Red Army sol< diezs under the command of Come Peiling opposite to Chungking with the Yantze River bevween. : Thus the “defeated” Red Army is massing greater forces on the most important industrial city in the largest province of China. Save the coupons. Fifteen cou- eo me rade Liu Pei-chen in Nanchuan, ; They are now ready to march on © 4“