The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1935, Page 6

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 Labor Girds for Fight Against Anti-Communist Laws UNITED FRONT GROWS AS WALL STREET AND ROOSEVELT PREPARE BIG OPEN SHOP DRIVE UNDER COVER OF “RED SCARE” Every day more people realize that the attack against the Communist Party, as in Germany and Aus- tria, is only a prelude to an overwhelming onrush against the welfare and rights of the whole working population, It means wage cuts, union smashing, job- troduction of anti-Communist bills In Cleveland, Ohio, where the State Legislature has received an anti-Communist measure, the A. F. of L. Central Labor Council has passed a resolution de- manding the repeal of all such measures. The Cleve- land City Council has joined in this demand. munists is meeting with most determined resistance by the steel workers themselves. The fascist attack, under the slogan of the “Red scare,” aims to put over the attacks on the workers’ living standards, an attack led by Roosevelt. latures, and the prey clear that Wall ily toward open fas- Street m cist reaction less relief cuts and increased poverty. In Michigan, the State Convention of the A. F. of L. In the South, Socialist and Communist groups have But st reaction is rising, the mass Against this anti-Communist anti-labor fascist Painters’ Union supports the movement for a Labor forged the united front defense against all terrorism resistance s g to meet it menace the united front is growing. Party that will “fight against capitalism and its agents and political reaction. The realizat owing that this ault against In California, ninety organizations from twenty in the ranks of the labor movement.” This resistance must grow. It must involve ever menaces the trade unions, all zations, and the living standards and fundamental political rights of the people. Roosevelt’s present anti-labor drive is increasing the Communist cities, including eighteen A. F. of L. unions, are now meeting in a united front conference to fight the crim- inal syndicalism laws and for the freedom of the Sacra- mento eighteen now being tried under these reactionary Throughout the A. F. of L, the resistance to the “Red scare” has been tremendous, with a large major- ity of the locals rejecting the Green proposal for mass expulsion of militants and Communists. larger sections of American life, who are also menaced by this rising wave of political reaction. But especially upon the trade unions, upon the Socialist Party does the fascist danger. | anti-Communist law, it is { ) rel { | | i { | Daily QWorker | TINTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO,, INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Ca Daiwork,” New Wa ut “America’s Address ing, 1 7916. Nat 705, Chicago, Hl Subscription Rates measures, The Elevator Strike HE splendid strike of elevator operators and other building service workers which broke out Wednesday afternoon, tying up service in 200 buildings in vari- ous parts of New York should be sup- ported by all New York labor. The suc- cessful settlement, in the first two days of the strike, in seven skyscrapers and more than fifty Harlem buildings is con- vineing proof that strike action and not Party Life | | Dock Nucleus Reports | Next Tasks Outlined | Proposals for Section E ARE submitting this) | resolution, which has) jbeen discussed and passed In steel, Mike Tighe’s hysteria against the Com- “THE STAIRS FOR YOU, MISTER!” by Burck| the duty fall to respond to the Communist appeal for joint action. World Front By HARRY GANNES | Rising Storm in Britain United Front Steps Maxton at C. P. Congress Pace shoving it into ob« scure corners, the Ameri- compulsory arbitration will improve the | can capitalist press has al- : Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; ns 4s 3 months, $2.00; month, 07 cents. | conditions of the workers. et at our regular nucleus |ready told of the nervous . Tinie Ca 4 The patience of the workers waiting |™eeting. ; NOLORD tremors shaking the British Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents, for the decision of the arbitration board Our nucleus has ‘been in) LA | parliament at the unparalleled, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 Force Congress to Act HE hearings on the Workers’ Bill (H.R. 2827) before the sub-committee of the Committee on Labor of the House have closed. Now the Workers’ Bill comes be- fore the Committee on Labor as a whole. It depends on this committee whether the Workers’ Bill will be reported out on the floor of the House or not. Everything now depends on mass pres- The National Joint Action Com- sure, is exhausted. The men took matters into their own hands and struck. Whether or not the officials of Local 32B, Building Service Employees International Union continue disclaiming responsibility for the strike of their members, as they did yes- terday, the strike must be spread. In order to strengthen the union and the strike and get all building service employees to join, every honest union member should fight to establish real democracy in the union. Shop meetings should be called immediately in every building to elect delegates to represent them on a broad strike committee, |lay the basis for rank and file or- | ganization, and to move in the di- existence only ten weeks. We now have ten regular members (nine of them working on the dock), and good prospects of drawing in at least five more during the next month. We have been getting out our dock |paper, “Longshore Unity” pretty | regularly, and it is having a good effect among the men, creating a |lot of sympathy among them for the Communist Party, Although the work is hard and slow, we can honestly say that we | are making progress in winning the workers for Communism. We have succeeded, through our bulletin in winning some small improvements for the men and we are beginning to | militant, fighting movement |of millions of workers against the starvation changes in the Unem- | ployment Act. But what has not come out is the |remarkable development of the united front for which the Com- munist Party of Great Britain has long been fighting. Like a sudden storm, the furor of the British working class has | been unloosed. But the clouds have long been gathering. The patient, | untiring and brilliant work of the Communist Party of Great Britain is now materializing in a united front movement that is worrying his Majesty's servants like MacDonald, | Citrine & Co. rection of organizing the dock into ne an Rae alent taney nee 4 Is : sity ——— |the I. L. A. one y mittee calls attention to the necessity of M aes N : nals | We. know, and wish to @tate:.that |sent a joint letter to the Labor exerting the utmost pressure on the mem- | I utiny y. gainst Imperialism this progress would have been im- Party asking them to join the bers of the Committee on Labor, so that they will vote to report the Workers’ Bill | out favorably. This pressure should be exerted, first of all, by the workers’ or- ganizations in the Congressional districts from which these Congressmen come. The National Joint Action Committee asks for WO THOUSAND Manchurian soldiers, mutinying against their officers, have set the Japanese military command in alarm. It is well aware that this mutiny is more than a symptom. It is the fore- runner of the great liberation movement possible without the assistance and guidance of the Section and par- | ticularly Unit 34, which has been working with us, and the comrades who attend our nucleus meetings. |The policy of the Party in setting up special street concentration units | for dock work has proven abso- lutely correct. It has shown that Be aa United Front. The letter was signed by H. Pollitt and W. Gallacher for the Communist Party, and by F, Brockway and J. Maxton for the 1 AS OS More than that. Maxton was ap- pointed by the I.L.P. as a fraternal delegate to the Congress of the Communist Party. A | t shines fi tside a flood of telegrams, resolutions, post | ° the Chinese people. sucsis (er EE Cone oan are | wer ewe cards from unions above all, and from 5 S cuncult and heroic struggle | important role in developing the EFORE quoting from the united fraternas, unemployed, veteran, church, | against the bandits of imperialism, the |Party among the marine workers, |B tront declaration, we wish here ca if heli dn ae Red Army of China has th 1 n- It is our understanding that one briefly to mention a few of the mass Negro organizations, from every mass | ; : Pee Oy | of the main purposes of the division meeting. In addition, resolutions should be sent to the Congressmen from each Congres- sional district. The Ways and Means Com- mittee of the House and the Finance Com- sistent force to declare eternal warfare against the Japanese militarists. This declaration of war has received the sup- port of Madame Sun Yat Sen and scores of prominent defenders of Chinese inde- pendence. of our Section into two parts, is to establish a more workable Sec- tion for waterfront concentration. We members of the nucleus |realize that we must carry a large | share of the responsibility for actu- ally carrying the Section’s water- | \front concentration. Iy will be up| Letters From Our Readers actions which led up to it. Hardly |a day has passed since the passage |of the new Unemployment Act, which shamelessly slashes relief (in the style of Roosevelt's works act proposal), that the workers were not. out on the streets in scores of cities. | Fifteen thousand workers met in mittee of the Senate, are considering the fake Wagner-Lewis Bill, which denies un- employment insurance. Let your Congress- man know that you don’t want this bill to us not only to bu¥d our move- | ment on our own d7k, but to help the Party to spread to other docks. | We pledge ourselves to do our best | |in this respect also. We wish to | Pledge to this Section Conference, | | Maesteg; 30,000 marched against the cut in relief scales in Aberdare, or two-thirds of the entire popula- tion; in one day over 50,000 work- ers in two cities demonstrated against the slash in relief, etc., etc. The cause of the struggling Chinese nation is basically the struggle against all imperialism. Hands off China! [worse simone Because of the volume of letters re- ecelyed by the Department, we can print only those that are of general Moabit Prisoners Victims Of Nazi Degeneracy Undaunted By Arrests SESE RRSP Re a RRM TIO nS ra aba ORS RIES Toward a Labor Party T IS a most significant action which has been taken by the Michigan State Con- ference of the A. F. of L. Painters Union, passing a resolution calling for the for- mation of “United Workers Tickets” based “on a fight against the attacks of the capitalists.” This action of an important A. F. of L. body, calling for a break from the “non-partisan” policy which has tied the workers in the unions to capitalist politics, confirms overwhelmingly the analysis of the Communist Party that the immediate need is for a mass working class Labor Party, as a step that will speed the de- velopment of the working class movement. The A. F. of L. group in Michigan strikes the basic note which is emphasized by the recent resolution of the Communist Party passed at its Central Committee meeting—that the basis of the Labor Party must he a serious fight against capi- tal and capitalist policies. Such a mass party, based on the trade unions, will be a powerful defense against the open shop, anti-union drive growing out of Roosevelt’s program. The Communist Party greets this ac- tion of the Michigan A. F. of L. Conference and urges that concrete steps be taken toward building such a party, based on the trade unions, Labor Party and Farmers E movement for a mass Labor Party is a movement that will fight for the interests of all toilers, workers and farm- : ers. An incorrect formulation was made in yesterday’s Daily Worker, where the edi- torial on “Browder’s speech” limited the fight of the Labor Party to that of “only one class, the working class.” The working class, of course, must lead the movement, have hegemony over it. The proletariat as a class leads the whole toiling population, especially the farmers ruined by Roosevelt’s program, in the struggle against the yoke of capital. Therefore, the Labor Party, led by the working class, would include farmers and all exploited and oppressed, and would fight for their interasts. { ‘ YK Defeat the Streit Measure! NEW attack on the elementary civil rights of the workers is being under- taken in Albany. Tammany Assemblyman Saul S. Streit —of the same political party as Governor Lehman—has introduced amendments to the Election Law, one of which states that a party must have received 50,000 votes to be on the bailot in the forthcoming elections. Actually, this means an attack first and foremost on the Communist Party. The Communist Party received in the last campaign 45,878 votes for its candidate for governor. This is a conscious attempt to force the Communist Party off the ballot. As such it is an attack upon. and a restriction of basic democratic rights. Such attacks are being made in a number of other states, notably Ohio. Every workers’ organization, every group of people interested in fighting off the encroachment of fascist attacks upon civil rights, should wire their immediate protests to Governor Herbert H. Lehman, The Capitol, Albany, N. Y. Scottsboro Hearing HE announcement that the U. S. Su- preme Court will hear arguments to- day on the Scottsboro appeals places be- fore the working class and all friends of the Scottshoro boys an immediate duty. This is the necessity of quickly rallying in a mighty united front demand for the reversal of the death sentences against Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, for unconditional release of the nine Scottsboro victims of capitalist justice and national oppression, The recent rulings of the U. S. Supreme Court, denying a hearing to Tom Mooney, must serve as a warning to all friends of the Scottsboro boys and the oppressed Negro people to intensify the fight for their lives and freedom. Protest demonstrations should be held at once in all parts of the country. A flood of telegrams and resolutions must go for- ward immediately to the court from work- ers’ meetings and organizations, from sympathetic groups and individuals. Funds must be rushed to the Paternational Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York City, to help press the fight in the U. S. Supreme Court, | the following: 1. That by May Ist we will have at least 15 good standing, active Party members on the dock. | 2. That we will have two dock | nuclei instead of one—one of these |on the banana dock and one on the | orange dock. 3. That we will haye some form of rank and file organization on | these docks, drawing in 40 to 50 workers, 4. That we will have made seri- ous efforts to organize the dock into the I. L; A. under rank and file leadership, of course, 5. That we will try to carry through a couple of dock actions. 6. And finally, and most im- portant, that we will do our utmost to bring to the workers on the dock the policies of the Party We also would like to place be- fore the Section Conference the fol- lowing proposals for adoption: 1, That we set ourselves the goal of having four dock nuclei in Sec- | tion One by May Ist, two on this | particular dock, and one on each of |the decisive docks on the water- front. 2. That a Y. C. L. nucleus be as- signed to concentrate on our dock in cooperation with Unit 34, and that this Y. C. L. unit concentrate |on other docks. 3. That we set ouselves the goal of organizing rank and file groups, committees, etc., on each of these four docks. 4. That we set ourselves the goal of doubling our longshore member- | ship from 15 to 30 by May Ist. | 5. That two additional street con- | centration units be set up within _ four weeks, to work on two import- | ant docks. | 6. That one longshoreman frot jour dock be put on the new Sec- tion Committee. We propose our nucleus organizer who has shown the greatest devotion and energy in | building up our nucleus, to be a | member of the new Section Com- mittee. In closing, we pledge our fullest support to the leadership of the | new Section One in carrying through | its central task—that of building a strong Communist Party and rank and file movement among the long~ shoremen. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I should like to call your atten- | tion to the letter appearing in the Feb. 2 issue of the Journal of the | American Medical Association, from \their regular Berlin correspondent, dated Noy. 26, 1934. In this letter is reported the efforts of Dr. Schlegel, director of the state hos- | pital connected with the Moabit | Prison, to enforce the Nazi steriliza- | tion law of Nov. 24. The doctor characterizes this law vaguely not as a punishment but as “regulating means of protection and improve- ment” of habitual criminals and a inals. Hitherto we have been led to be- lieve that this law provided only \for the sterilization of “criminals,” but now we learn that instead its victims are being castrated. .We are assured that 20 of those “pre- pared” for the ordeal have been studied for a complete physiological picture of their ailment and an “opinion” formed of their “intelli- gence.” With characteristic Ger- man thoroughness records were made of their voices to see how they changed after the operation. The doctor neglects to assure us that only those of low intelligence and not those who may fail to please the Nazi sadists and degen- erates politically or otherwise suffer this torture. At any rate, 111 men | between the ages of 20 and 60 have so far been castrated, The fact that these “experiments” are being carried on at Moabit ‘ison, where so many of our com- rades have been imprisoned and tortured, must make us very sus- picious that this is the public an- nouncement of the Nazi method of preventing the spread of Marxism. No civilized country countenances castration even of the feebleminded and its use at this time is a com- mentary on the depths to which fas- cism has degraded German civiliza- tion. MEDICAL WORKER. . inhabit it. protective measure for the people | who may fall vietims to sexual crim- | | 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. Contributes to Fight Hearst Slanders Cambridge, Mass. Comrade Editor: I have read in the Daily Worker that you want your readers to send clippings and editorials from the Hearst newspapers, concerning the Communist Party. from the Boston American. I don’t buy the Hearst papers my- self, but I often see them ying | around. I am enclosing one dollar. I would like you to use it to combat Hearst's vicious attacks. I hope it starts a campaign to raise money to fight this slander and fascist propagandist, broadcast over the radio, if possible. I am always greatly happy to be able to oblige the Communist Party in any way. To me it is the one vital, honest thing in a world of graft and crime. L, H. Sends Subscription For Eleventh Year Oakmont, Pa. Comrade Editor: Enclosed find check for six dol- Jars for my subscription. It is my eleventh yearly subscription. I have never missed a copy of the Daily Worker since it came out. But, to tell you the truth, this subscription was the hardest one, because I have worked very little in the past five years. Some readers say that they like the “Daily” because it has improved lately, For my part, I always liked it from the very beginning. I can never forget those articles by Comrade Engdahl. I have always liked the Daily Worker because it is the only work- ers’ paper in English in the United States, and a worker can’t be with- out it. c. P. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst Here are three | Sells Daily Worker | Skeels, Mich. | Comrade Editor: I am 72 years old, have been ar- | rested five times for distributing the Daily Worker, but I’m still fighting. I think the Daily Worker is the only paper. Everybody should read it and I give it to everybody I come jin contact with. But don’t forget, |most of the farmers in Sherman Township are also on the “hell- fare.” Good wishes, from an OLD SEA PILOT. Holmes Has Attacked U.S. S. R. Before | Brooklyn, N. Y¥. | Comrade Editor: You report John Haynes Holmes as saying that for fifteen years he has defended the Soviet Union against. misrepresentations and has “prayed for the success of the revolutionary experiment.” I say Holmes lies. More than five years ago Holmes took part in a four-cornered debate (with Barnes, Eastman and Wise), in Carnegie Hall on the subject of religious persecution in Soviet Rus- sia. In the course of this debate, Holmes viciously attacked the U. S. S. R. in the offensively inflated style which clergymen habitually assume. Like today, Holmes pointed to his great sympathy for the “true” revolutionary cause and ranted on, | with the peculiar logic of the lib- | eral, with an attack on the Russian | revolution. The horrendous description which | Holmes recited of religious persecu- (tion in Soviet Russia, we know now to be false, The atheist meets more persecution in the United States than the theist does in Russia. ‘ | Anyone who looks up this debate \and other remarks Holmes made in the past ten years will find that he is and always has been an enemy of the Soviet Union posing hypo- critically as a friend. S. W. K. “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, a ¥ In Wales the miners called for a general strike on Feb. 25 against | the Unemployment Act. | The Communist Party of Great Britain is now preparing for a huge nation-wide demonstration on Feb, 24 that will draw millions of work- ers in struggle against the cut in | relief, and against the increasingly fascist measures of the National Government. * ee HE Labor Party officials at first thought the Act would go over without much struggle. The Labor Herald declared soon after the pas- sage of the Act: “In most cases there will be no immediate altera- tion.” The workers discovered dif- ferently. Then the storm broke, The Labor Herald began to see its | mistake, and declared: “In district | after district, the unemployed find themselves not a little better off, | not even as well off, but much worse off.” Lansbury, spokesman for the La- bor Party, when he saw the rising united front movement, was forced to Geclare in parliament: “That all sections of the British Labor move- ment will unite against the whole- | sale starvation of men, women and children,” The united front declaration to the British Labor Party of the Com- munist Party and the I.LP. stated: “Never in recent times has the working class movement of this country been faced with such an attack as has now been launched through the national Unemploy- ment Board, and the new relief scales, This protest is not con- fined to any one particular sec- tion of the movement. Members of Parliament, county and local councillors, trade union officials, as well as local Labor, Cooperative, trade union organizations have been drawn into the effort that is being made to force the with- drawal of these iniquitous scales. “Everywhere the demand is for united action. ...The I. L. P. and the Communist Party urge you at this critical moment in the his- tory of the working class, to make this need for united action the major consideration.” British capitalism is growing un- easy at the rising united front movement, the mood of struggle of the workers, the new downward dip in the depression, the signals of rising class battles. Butchers Ordered To Court PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 14— Ten striking butchers, members of the Food Workers Industrial Union conducting a strike at Irv- ing’s Meat Markets; have been or- dered to appear before the labor- hater Judge McDevitt, tomorrow morning, at Room B, City Hall, on charges of violating a year-old in- junction,