The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1935, Page 8

Page DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, S ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1935 Macfadden in New Slogan Demands Open Shop and Low Pay RESSIN multi-millione SRNARR MACFADDEN the re A? owner of the magazine vho was branded ourt as a peddler of the right not to strike. That is a fancy way of calling for the right to scab! another idea. He declares proudly ability of business properly to reduce ed almost the entire business world from hen is Macfadden’s program—open shop and s working hand in glove with Hearst in the organized anti-Communist incitement rising all over the country. yelled for the “ Two weeks ago Macfadden editorially hanging of Reds.” Macfadden is a member of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers, which met in secret committees on Dec. 5 to 7 to outline a comprehensive program of union-: hing and wage-cutting. The Hearst and Macfadden anti-Communist howls are nothing but the carrying through of the campaign prepared in secret by these Wall Street employers in New York, and elaborated shortly after at the secret sessions in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Macfadden’s editorial in “Liberty” this week tells is the purpose of this drive. His editorial tells us why six anti-Communist and anti-labor bills have appeared simultaneously in six State legislatures, with a Federal anti-Communist law being hatched in secret by the Dickstein Committee. First, the right “not to strike’-—the right, in short, to scab and maintain the open shop—the right to smash the trade unions! Second, to give “industry the ability to reduce wages’’—to wreck the union scales all over the country! Here is the secret of the organized lynch incite- ments against the “Reds” and against the Communist Party. The drive against the Communists is the prepara- tion for a more intensive smashing drive against the trade unions, against all previously existing wage scales. It is the preparation for a drive against the whole labor movement. Macfadden—Hearst—Dickstein—the National As- CAMPAIGN WITH HEARST AGAINST COMMUNIST PARTY, HE CALLS FOR ‘RIGHT NOT TO STRIKE’ sociation of Manufacturers—Roosevelt—this continuous line-up, with one reactionary purpose. The “Americanism” of these people is only fear for their money bags and Wall Street. profit American labor is growing incr aware of the fascist menace that lurks in this organized anti- Communist drive. The yelping of the Hearsts and Macfaddens, which is nothing but the voice of the Wall Street corpora- tions, emphasizes more than ever the need of American labor to close its ranks for the defense of its trade unions and its political rights. United front to smash the rising atiacks on the trade unions! A working class Labor Party to fight for the interests of labor against capital! The Communist Party points to these as the vital needs of the moment! s all one gly Daily, Worker AGA COMMUNIST PARTY ULE. 4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL} “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 cieicoes york, a ph ith Wells St., Room 931 Subscription Rates: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $8.00; $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 8, $3.00. 8 cents; monthly, 75 cents | r, $1.80; 6 months, 75 cents. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1935 Exert More Pressure JITH the ending of the hearings on the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 2 before the House Committee on Labor yesterday, the sixth members of that committee has signified his intention of supporting the workers’ measure. Six more must be made to know the tremendous support which has been rolled up behind the bill in order that a favorable vote will be assured and the bill voted out of committee and onto the floor of Congress for vote. While all workers are vitally concerned with the passage of the Workers’ Bill, particularly does it concern the masses of the Negro people. Under the fraudulent Wagner-Lewis Bill, and all proposed State bills but the workers’ measure, which is | also being pushed on a State-wide scale in nine States, the Federal Workers’ Bill alone guarantees the Negro people full benefits without discrimination. The Wag- ner bill, on the other hand, states that do- mestic and agricultural workers shall not be accorded benefits. Significantly, 75 per cent of the working Negroes are employed in just these two categories. It becomes the task of all workers, the Negro people, members of the trade | unions, unemployed and fraternal organ- izations, to redouble their efforts behind the Workers’ Bill. Flood the House Com- mittee on Labor with resolutions and tele- grams demanding a favorable vote. The Progressive Steel Worker — HE “Progressive Steel Worker,” organ | of the Public Relations Committee of | District 6 (Canton, Ohio) of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, will strengthen the organization | drive of the A. A. lodges and districts. The February issue of this paper gives com- plete reports of the Feb. 3 conference of A. A. lodges and of the expulsion cam- paign of Mike Tighe, president of the A.A. One of the important decisions of the Feb. 3 conference printed in this A. A. | paper is the Ten-Point Organization Pro- gram for Building the A. A. This pro- gram calls for a nation-wide drive to build the union, calling for the support of other labor organizations. It proposes that joint A. A. Organizing Committees be set up in each town where there is more than one odge. Each lodge should elect an organization committee, the program states, to recruit new members, form women’s auxiliaries in each lodge, and work with the City Organization Commit- / tee. Educational committees should be set | up in cach lodge, as well as relief commit- tees to fight for the unemployed steel workers. This A, A. paper should be a factor in t building the union and combatting the at- | tacks of the steel trust. ‘Work-Relief? Money S THE man who is going to decide how the four billions of the “work relief” program are to he spent, Roosevelt has chosen General Robert E. Wood, president | of the multi-million dollar corporation, Sears-Roebuck. Wood is one of the most notorious haters of labor and the trade unions in | this country. __ He has been well chosen to carry through Roosevelt's $50 a month scale. fe will like the job. On top of this, Roosevelt's war budget to Congress includes more than cease clearly, not as a measure in the in- of the jobless, but as a carefully ogram to sh wages all over ‘v, to build the war machine, and to see to it that the profits of the Wall Street corporations are not interfered with. American labor has the immediate job of defeating this $50-a-month wage scale of Roosevelt if the hard-won union scales are not to be smashed everywhere. Hearst for Low Pay HE anti-labor purpose of the fascist Hearst campaign against the Commu- nists is revealed in an editorial on page two of Hearst’s New York American (Feb. 12), which praises Roosevelt’s proposal to pay low wages on work relief. This editorial, entitled, “Roosevelt Is Right,” demands that Roosevelt’s works bill be passed by the Senate with the Roosevelt proposal of an average wage of $50 a month intact. To Hearst, the fascist, Americanism means low wages, relief cuts, and enslave- ment of labor under the heel of the open and violent fascist dictatorship of the employers. “Tf the country, with its strained re- sources, its hesitating business, the near approach of taxpayers to exhaustion, is still able to provide SUSTENANCE AND WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED,” says this seabby editorial, “it is a great thing for which all should be thankful... . Re- viving industry must not be forced into an unequal competition against the slack and careless use of public money on projects of doubtful utility and on ‘made’ work of temporary duration.” The colossal and increased profits of the employers under N. R. A, have not satisfied the Hitlerite Hearst, with his profits of eighty million dollars in one year. The workers will not be taken in by Hearst’s flag waving, which drapes his propaganda for attacks on labor. A Labor Party and Thomas OTH Norman Thomas and Clarence Senior of the Socialist Party refused to appear before Congress to argue for the Workers Bill, H. R. 2827. Thomas did not even answer the invi- tation of the House Committee inviting him to testify for this bill which expresses the most crying need of the American working class at the present moment—un- employment and social insurance to be paid for by the Federal government and the employers. Now Norman Thomas has declared himself in favor of a Labor Party. He has even criticized the Waldmans and the Oneals for their too-eager willingness to base such a Labor Party openly on Wil- liana Green and John L. Lewis. And yet here we have Norman Thomas actually sabotaging the fight for the Workers Bill, which surely would have to be one of the main planks of a true mass Labor Party! How can Thomas be working for a working class Labor Party when he side- steps the fight for exactly the demands that such a Labor Party. would fight for? What kind of Labor Party can he be thinking of when he shows by his actions that he does not think the fight for the Workers Bill, H. R, 2827, would have to be part of its program? The Scottsboro Appeals PPEALS against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts are now being heard by the U. S. Supreme Court. The friends of the Scottsboro boys must be under no illusions. It was only the power of the mass fight, organized and led by the International Labor Defense, that forced the court to agree to review the Scottsboro verdicts for the. second time, The court’s decision will depend on the extent and speed by which the masses are now mobilized to the defense of the boys, to the fight against the systematic violation of the rights of the Negro people, against legal lynching. From every corner of the country pro- tests must pour in on the U. S. Supreme Court, Washington, D. C., demanding re- versal of the death sentences against Norris and Patterson, demanding the lib- eration of the nine Scottsboro boys. Funds to aid the fight for the boys must be rushed to the national office of the I.L.D., 80 East 11th St., New York City, x , Party Life | Using “Party Life” | Negro Organizations Must Be Penetrated ROM now on we. must use the columns of the Daily | Worker more for the purpose of organizing the paper’s cir- culation campaign, in bring- ing forward. the results and experiences through which the campaign will be stimulated. This is true not only in regard to the Daily Worker campaign, but in | all other organizational activities. We have the Party Life column. We must ask ourselves: Are we utilizing this column, or others at our dis- | posal to raise the organizational | | problems, to make this column the | guide of the daily organizational ac- tivities, to bring forward the ex- periences on recruiting, on the life of the shop nuclei, fractions etc? Here we have, besides the Party Organizer, a powerful instrument at | our disposal which we do not utilize. | How many of the Section Organ- izers, Organization Secretaries, unit organizers, etc., are writing for this | column, are getting others to write for it? Very few. Most of the ma- terial has to be prepared in the Center on the basis of reports and | letters of individual Party members. | This must be changed. nae cae | Into the Negro Organizations | The comrades here have spoken |about the: necessity of making a | jturn in our Negro work, of learn- | \ing from our experiences in the trade union work, on how to con- |nect ourselves with the organized |masses. While the influence of the Party is increasing among the Ne- \gro masses, yet organizationaily |they are still detached from us, In the United States there are five | million of the Negro population or- \ganized in fraternal organizations, | ten million in churches. The prob- | jlem of how to penetrate these or- ganizations is of the utmost politi- jcal importance. It is not only a | political, but also an organizational | problem. United front conferences do not | give results, and cannot give re-| sults if their decisions are not | brought down into the branches of these organizations. But in order | for decisions to go down, there must be somebody down below to fight | for these decisions, and mobilize the |masses around these decisions. Therefore, if we want to mobilize the organized Negro masses, we |must have forces inside these or- | ganizations. The street units: those that are |composed of Negro workers (because | jof the territory) the units where (the percentage of Negro members lis high, must see to it that these | comrades join, or rejoin the Negro | organizations. At the Y. C. L. Bureau meeting one of the young comrades (one of the yoting Negro [comrades reported that he left one of these organizations when |he came into the Y. C. L., think- ing it was correct and that his other friends are inclined to leave \in order to be able to join the VO.0G; We must stop this. On the con- trary, we must see that Party mem- bers are sent into these organiaa- tions. It means that the units, while working in the neighborhood, jat the same time shall act as Party | Fractions inside these organizations, which have headquarters in the same neighborhood. Along these lines we will connect ourselves or- |ganizationally with large Negro masses, we will succeed in building ithe League of Struggle for Negro Rights into a real mass organiza- tion on the basis of affiliation. The problem will be solved by going into these organizations, working among these masses from within. (From speech of Comrade F. | Brown at the last Central Com- | mittee Plenum.) | Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Spivak Speaks in Boston BOSTON, Mass., Feb, 15.—An ex- hibit of anti-labor and anti-Semitic pamphlets, leaflets and documents being widely distributed in Boston and vicinity will be on display at jthe Franklin Park Theatre, Blue ‘HN Avenue, Dorchester, on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The occa- (Sion is the lecture by Jack Spivak |on Fascist Conspiracies in America, Colston Warne, professor at Am- |herst State University and chair- (man of the Boston Branch of the - American League Against War and Fascism, will preside, | Letters | from door to door everywhere I go. “THEYRE SCRAPS OF PAPER!” FIGHT FOR THE WORKERS’ BILL, (H.R. 2827) From Our Readers | Coughlin Is Workers’ Foe, Irish Worker Says Detroit, Mich. Comrade Editor: I am one of the homeless army that came to this country from Ire- land to seek an honest living, but | to my sorrow I found it was the | same here as in Ireland. The only way I can exist is by picking up odd | jobs whenever I get them, | As for Father Coughlin, I know him too. He's the’same as all those priests with pampered belly, and swelled head who never did any- thing for the working men and women. The Irish people have to fight against them too. The leading clergy of the dif-/ ferent denominations. will go hand in hand with the Fascists to over- throw Communism and the Soviet | government. Our only chance} against them is the united front of | all the working class. I preach that I also put the Daily Worker on doorsteps. READER AND SYMPATHIZER. Soldier Urges Party Work In Army and Guards Boston, Mass. Comrade Editor: In the Daily Worker of February 8, 1935, a National Guard comrade ventured the assertion that there were possily Communist sympathi- | zers in the Regular Army. He is right—there are. However, the Regular Army cém- rades are ina very difficult situation, First, the great majority are sta- tioned in posts. deliberately con- structed away from the large cen- ters of population, this in order that the men may not become “contam- inated,’ that they may continue in their pristine “neutrality” be- tween labor and capital, in other words remain as ignorant as ever. Second, it is impossible for a soldier to carry literature of any sort into an Army post and have it remain concealed for any length of time; inspections, during which all sol- diers’ personal belongings are pawed over by young snobs, do not con- duce to secrecy. Third, a soldier caught can be tried for sedition (as were Trumbell and Crouch) under the 66 Article of War and sentenced to any degree of punishment up to} and | opportunities. | are union members, | be taken to meetings. Last, bu’ including death, depending 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. upon whether the nation is under | | martial law or not. These conditions prohibit the} Regular Army comrades from | spreading much literature except in| ‘very safe places: their work is much | more subtle for it is not one bit of | juse going to Leavenworth or ree | traz for forty years or so. On the other hand, comrades in| | the National Guard overlook many Here the feliow sol- diers are also fellow workers out- | side of the armories; many of them members of the | same fraternal organizations, etc. | All members of the N. G. are, workers or are unemployed. In! either case they are excellent mate- | rial for Party members and sym- | pathizers to contact. They can be} interested in literature, they can | not | least, National Guardsmen. should | fight against the name of “strike- | breaker”; any worker understands its implications. If this was clearly | brought home to the men, I am sure} the majority of the mwould refuse to| | fulfill their primary function for the bosses—that of driving underpaid workers back to the rotten condi- tions against which they strike. But do not leave the Guard, Comrades! Theze you are right.! Stand by your post, keep up with the latest developments, think, rea- son, for the time when you will be) a vital cog in the machine of the Workers and Farmers Government of America is soon here! A SOLDIER. | War Costs Could Buy Homes for Millions Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The late world war. all told. cost, apart from 30 MILLION LIVES— 400 BILLION DOLLARS. With this money we could have built a, $2,500 house, furnished it with $1,000 worth of furniture, placed it on 5 aczes of Jand and given this home’ to each and every family in the U. S, | Canada, Australia, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, France Advice to Those Who “Ask for More” New York, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: The letters from our readers | moved from the inside to the back Page is a good eye-catcher on sub- ways. Redfield’s “The Rulin a) Clawss” is swell. ‘All these things that tend to draw the as yet uninterested masses to read our paper should be watched and emphasized. I have seen the mlane ion that the headiines be) worded to catch the outsider’s in- |terest; also that we have more “secondary news,” and so on. These comrades who ask for more | are right. But it is also a very hard fact that so long as many of them | buy one Times and one ‘Daily’ in- | ‘stead of two Daily Workers, they lare not giving all they can to make | ‘that more possible. Capitalist pa- pers can always be picked up some- where, somehow, even if they can’t ‘be found the first thing in the! morning. Two Slogans should be true for all regular “Daily” readers: “Pass lon the Daily Worker” (leave it in} subways, give it to conductors, por- | ters, elevator boys, your fellow- workers), and “Don’t buy the capi- talist. press!” Cc. B. Sympathizers Disappointed By Disorderly Meetings Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Because of terrific economic pressure for years, my #usband and I lately awakened to the truth and sincerity of your Party, and we have been successful in getting many of our friends to think along the same lines. were persuaded to atiend a mecting or a lecture, at the seemingly bad behavior of the Pariy members: to mention a few examples, their con- tinual walking around while Earl) Browder was speaking at the Lenin | Memorial mecting at Madison Square, the disturbance and noises while Mr. Krumbein was talking at the same meeting. A very similar attitude spoiled the John Strachey lecture (which must have surprised Mr. Strachey himself); also at the anti-Hearst meeting, and several others. if I have such a fervent anxiety for the continuous prograss of the only Party for the workers, that I make this suggestion in the hope that something may be done to rectify and Germany. J. P. things that stand in the way. F.B, Required Reading for Mr. Hearst “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” —ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (From Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.) by Burek | These people have | | been quite disappointed, after they | World Front By HARRY GANNES Manchurian Map-making | Borders to Order | Portugal’s A.A.A. VERY tographers make maps of Manchuria and Mongolia, the [borders change. This is ex- jplained by the fact that the {extent of the new colonial territory is limited only by the military arrogance of the Jap- janese war lords and the power of |resistance of the people whose ter- |vitory is included in the new maps, | For example, the Shanghai | time Japanese car- newspaper, “China Press,” on Feb, 12 published two maps of Manchu- ria, These were originally in- [cluded as a supplement to the “Re- |port on Progress in Manchuria” for 1932 and 1934. The “Report” is | Published in English by the power- ful Japanese South Manchurian Railway administration. On the 1932 edition of the map, the boundary between Jehol and Chahar, and between Manchukuo jand the Mongolian Peoples Re- | public near Lake Buir Nor, differs |considerably from the boundary |iven in the 1934 edition. : eee | HEREAS the earlier map | showed the northern part of |Lake Buir Nor belonging to the | Mongolian Peovles Republic, the later man indicates the boundary touching only the southern part of the lake. In the earlier edition the boun= dary of Jehol is identical with that indicated in current Chinese maps, In later editions the boundary is | indicated as moved all the way down to the Great Wail. “Evi ” comments the “China Press,” “any act of unceremonious aggression can deserve justifica- | tion by presenting the necessary pas at. the required moment to |Prove that the territory belongs to Japan. If such maps do not exist, the Japanese can easily make | them.” * . * Te protest the war against the Chinese people in Chahar, Jehol, and against the Mongolian Peoples Republic, as well as to support the growing mutinies in Manchuria and anti-imperialist struggles in China, a huge mass meeting will be held in | New York Friday, Feb. 22, Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party; Professor Aoy- jang Hsin-Nun, formerly of Peking University; Maxwell S. Stewart, As- |sociate Editor of the Nation and T. Y. Yang are among the speakers, The meeting, under the auspices of the Friends of the Chinese People, which is carrying on a vigorous campaign against the new war developments in the Far East, will be held at Central Opera House, 205 sya 67th Farece (TAce of iron on Portugal is now partly made up for this jcolumn by an American student jnow in that country. This corre- Spondent writes us that it is almost impossible for him to pursue his | study of foreign influence in Portu- | Gal because the Fascist state does | not supply much information on | its allies. “This is the anniversary of a great Fortuguese ‘victory’ in Mo- zambique (Feb. 2),” he writes. All officials of the Carmona-Salazar dictatorship celebrated by grandilo= quent speeches the restoration of |Portugal’s imperial glory. They boasted of the new war vessels under the Estado Novo (New State) —40 in all, “They quoted the Colonies lago initi: Minister of poech made a few days & a new Governor Gen= eral of Angola. Even , Winston |Churchill wouldn't have said die |rectly as Armindo Montiero did, that the chief function of the mis< sionaries in Angola was to create needs among the Negroes becaus9 that reacts favorably on Portuguese industry. tepekcrie MONG the glories of the New State is its remarkably original solution of the problem of over-= production. Wine is Portugal's chief industry. The 1933 wines are unsold, so it is forbidden to sell the 1934 product. On the A.A.A. plan, the government ordered the de- struction of ‘direct producers’ (cheapest and most abundant vine) with poor compensation, and of- fered bounties to those who would deliberately reduce production of the better grapes. ‘Plowing the farmer under’ is universal. “The National Guard usually has to be called out to put this scheme into effect. There is absolutely no provision for unemployed vine workers without land. .. “Other workers, however, feel the beneficent influence of the Estado, Novo, Witness the minimum salt fixed for workers of the water 1