The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1935 cite. The judge, Valentine, SST ae eae Daily,QWorker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 BUT PRO-FASC From the Dickstein report, Hearst has derived his latest slogan—break off relations with the Soviet Union! one of the most drastic and re- by In Pennsylvania, actio decrees ever handed down judge has been flung at the Glen Alden striking miners. has issued an injunction order- PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. ble Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. Y. Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, \4th and F Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7810 Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Chicago, Ml. | Telephone: Dearborn 3981. Subscription Rates: exeept. 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F. of L. and the company; (6) closed shop agreement. The auto workers are seething with indignation against Roosevelt’s extension of the anti-labor auto code, and the com- pany union decisions of the Auto Labor Board. The steel workers similarly are preparing for strike struggles. William Green, declaring in words for the same program, is delaying and dilly- dallying on actual strike preparations. He is delaying in the actual steps to get the unorganized steel and auto workers into the union and prepare the coming battle. Every local union in auto and steel should now get the strike preparations into full swing without waiting for Green. Build the A. F. of L. steel and auto unions! Support the six point program in auto! Prepare for strike! Labor Party and Strikes N NEW YORK, LaGuardia is getting ready to use the police as scabs to break the elevator men’s strike. Isn't this the same LaGuardia that so many high A. F. of L. officials urged the workers to support, as a “friend of labor”? In Washington, Roosevelt and his Con- gress are rushing through a nation-wide wage-smashing drive in their ‘““work-relief” program. Aren't these Congressmen and Roose- velt the same people that the national trade union leaders urged the workers to support in the last elections? In Congress, the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill is side-tracked for a two billion dollar war program. But were not these men elected with the support of the national trade union leaders? All these “friends of labor” turn out to be nothing but the agents of the em- ployers—strike-breakers, open shoppers, and war-mongers, Every day these and similar develop- ments drive home the need for American labor to break away from the capitalist parties, and form a mass Labor Party, based on the unions, and fighting the em- ployers and their agents. Such a Labor Party, that will fight against injunctions and all strike-breaking actions of the government, that will de- fend the unions and the right to strike, fight for the Workers’ Bill, and against all reactionary plans of the war-makers, is a vital need of the American working class. The Anthracite Writ HE latest injunction issued by Judge Valentine of Luzerne County. Court against the Anthracite Miners of Pennsyl- vania is the most direct strike-breaking order ever issued in a court. It orders the union officials, point blank, ‘ off the ~ ‘HEMES ARE MEETING WITH STIFFE ing the union leaders to call off their strike, and for- bidding the workers to utter a single word about the This fascist-like measure is just what the Dickstein In New York, Mayor LaGuardia threatens the use of police and firemen as scabs to break the militant ties. This open, official strike-break- ing by government is precisely what is intended in the subversive activi- HE Dicks Committee’s report, published on Friday, i eady reaping its fruits. a Hea e campaign against the Soviet Union strike to anyone. is directly with the Dickstein report, sweeps : has a headline s newspapers—‘Report Demands report is intended to encourage. Ban on Soviet R 4s Now the repo lf does not openly go as far as ef eetnn aneiia mine: this. But Hearst knows very well this the direction in which the report is leading, that this is just the kind Dickstein reports’ propaganda against “ of anti-Soviet propaganda the report is intended to in- ” The Dickstein report is, thus, already being used breaking, a capitalist strike, and the miners to return, without of course, winning any of their demands. 2 The Luzerne County judge, a known agent of the company, had the audacity to issue such order only because he knows that there are two unions in the field—be- cause he knows that officials of both unions have been carrying on a long jurisdictional struggle, meanwhile keeping the rank and file apart. Now it should be clear to every miner that the injunction is a fascist order di- rected agains the most elementary rights of the workers. The order cannot be per- mitted to remain! It must be smashed! The workers of the United Mine Workers and the independent unions must unite to smash the injunction, U.M.W. members! Don’t permit your officials to use you as strikebreakers! The very existence of your own organization is also at stake. Unite with the strikers for mass demonstrations to smash the injunc- tion! Set up united front committees of both unions in each colliery. Roosevelt’s Strikebreaking Bill HE open strikebreaking character of Roosevelt’s work relief bill came out into the open last Friday. It was admitted on the floor of the Senate that Appropri- ations Committee, which is in charge of the bill, had approved a provision which denies relief to strikers, and specifically disbars strikers from obtaining work re- lief. This makes Roosevelt’s works bill an effective instrument in the present wage- cutting drive of the employers. First, it contains provisions for wages that are lower than prevailing union wages, thus setting the precedent for a general cutting of all wages. And secondly, it places a club in the hands of the bosses which they can use to smash unions that are fighting for higher wages and better conditions. Thirdly, it cuts the amount of relief now received by the unemployed. Not only must the workers fight against this strike-breaking measure, but | they must intensify their fight for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- ance bill (H. R. 2827). The Workers Bill is the one bill whose purpose is to take care of the unemployed and not to cut re- lief and wages. It specifically provides that no discrimination can be practiced against strikers. If the bill is passed, strik- ers can obtain unemployment insurance, instead of being denied relief as would happen under the works bill, It becomes the task of all workers, especially trade unionists, to redouble their efforts for the Workers Bill. Flood the House Committee on Labor and your Congressmen and Senators with resolu- tions and telegrams demanding favorable action on the bill. Arrests in Cuba oF puppet Mendieta government of Cuba has already taken its cue from the Dickstein-MacCormack Committee. The editors of the magazine, “Las Masas” have been ordered to appear before an Emer- gency Tribunal today. Heavy prison sen- tences are demanded by the prosecution in order to stop the publication of the anti- imperialist daily, “La Palabra,” the four defendants also being editors of this news- paper. They had dared to attack the ex- ploitation of Cuban peasants by the same sugar trusts and capitalists that exploit the American masses. For the backers and controllers of the Dickstein Committee report this is only the beginning. Unless checked by imme- diate united action, Wall Street, acting simultaneously in Cuba and in the United States, will now move to crush militant leadership in alt unions in the United States, will attempt to drown their best and most powerful voice, the Daily Worker, and will begin to clear the decks of all haters of war and fascism before firing the first gun of imperialist war! The arrest of these leading Cuban anti- imperialists is the first grip of Wall Street on the shoulder of all American workers. Strike at the hand of Wall Street by mass- ing before the Cuban consulate! Send let- ters and cables to the Mendieta regime! as the preliminary propaganda for wholesale strike- union-smashing, and for jingoistic war hys- teria against the U.S.S.R. Thus the Dickstein report ties together all threads of reactionary propaganda which have been issuing from the Hearst and Macfadden press. the | Party Life | Party Unit Reviews | Shortcomings And | Maps Future Work UR unit, last year, which | was Unit 5, District 2, in’ reviewing work has come to the conclu- sion that the basic shortcom- | ings of the unit are: 1. The unit had not ‘estab- lished itself as a leader on the block | of concentration. 2. The unit had not done suffi- cient r(cruiting. 3. The unit had failed to carry |on real organizational work among | the unemployed. Today, for the past six months, we must admit that we have not yet com- | ings. Communists have increased their prestige, and individual members of this unit are known in the neigh- | borhood, the unit, as a unit of the {Communist Party, is virtually un- |Known. On recruiting, we have in this period brought fiften members |into the Party. | . ‘HERE we were weakest in our work in the past, we have made the most progress today. Here we | refer to the work among the unem- ployed. The Tompkins Square Lo- | cal, due largely to the work of this unit, has today a stable member- ship, \ (N the Daily Worker, we have ob- | We raised almost $200 during the | financial drive, and up until the jend of November our daily sales were good. Since this time, how- ever, our work has failed Our work during the election campaign was particularly good. We distributed and sold a large amount | \ literature; we held as many as | three open air meetings a week, and | |did some canvassing. \election period our sales of the | Daily Worker reached the peak of |comings in this campaign were: 1, We did not issue either a leaflet or a street paper; 2. We did not carry on regular, systematic can- | vassing. In the struggle against war and |fascism, we held weekly street | meetings for the release of Ernst Thaelmann and we participated in the building of a branch of the American League. In preparation for the National | Congress for Social and Unemploy- ment Insurance, we held a mass meeting to support the Congress, and in this campaign we issued one of the two leaflets that we got out | the whole six months. | Our unit, we feel, has done well in an important phase of Commu- nist work—the training of cadres. | The division of the unit is possible ‘only because we have developed | new members able to fill the duties |of unit functionaries. a Sake the basis of our past work and in order that the units may be better able to carry out their tasks as leaders of the working class, we propose the following plan of work for the next three months, from Feb. 1 to April 30: 1, The immediate establishment of functioning groups in the units. 2. To have regular reports from comrades active in trade unions and mass organizations 3. To approach all clubs, social and political, in our territory for action on H. R. 2827, 4. To build a mass organization for the protection of the foreign born, | 5. To cooperate with the Young Communist League toward | strengthening the youth section of |the Tompkins Square Local of the Unemployment Council. | 6 To build the women’s aux- \iliary of the local. 7. Each unit is to issue at least one leaflet each month, 8. The units together are to is- |sue a street paper each month, 9. The units are to have social- (ist competition on recruiting, the quota to be ten new members, as- signed to a unit, 10. The units to have Socialist competition on the Daily Worker sales, the quota for each unit to be fifteen regular readers, Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Section 1,) its | when analyzing our work | pletely overcome these shortcom- | In the first point, while the | |V tained thirty-five subscriptions. | |of both agitational and theoretical | During the | twenty-five daily. Our main short- | Macfadden’s “right not to strike” not the moral support for LaGuardia against the elev: injunction against the coa Hearst propaganda menace: with similar measures, —what is this if the strike-breaking of a ator men, or the tyrannous 1 miners. The Dickstein- s the whole labor movement This union-smashing and strike-breaking is only the other side of their incitement against the Soviet Union. Both are part cf the capitalist offensive against the working class and all toilers, But this organized reactionary propaganda is meeting with rising resistance. A powerful wave of counter-attack against this rising pro-fascist menace is out the country. In the trade unions, on the political field, developing rapidly through- in the universities, these Wall Street agents are discovering a stiffening of resistance to their reactionary schemes. THE MAN ON THE WHITE HORSE | Times Carried Ad for N. B. C. Seabs New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The following is an ad extracted from the Sunday Times which I think you ought to reprint in the Daily Worker, as many of our com- rades think the Times is the best Paper to read, “MEN—To deliver crackers to gro- |cery stores in New York and Brook- lyn; former delivery men have left their work in sympathy with a strike of bakery workers in Phila- delphia. We desire only a good class of men as these jobs will be permanent where new men em- ployed show ability,” etc. I am a Pioneer eleven years old and even I realize what an enemy the Times is to the perkins oe Urges Further Exposure Of Coughlin Cleveland, Ohio. Comrade Editor: Just a few lines to let you know that I think the “Daily” is getting better, but you'll have to keep after those fourflushing demagogues. Coughlin is one of the slickest of them. I neve heard anything like his speech this Sunday. And the hell of it is there are thousands who believe he is okay. He claims to have about tventy million followers al- ready. Huey Long is another one, and so is Hearst. Now is the time to fight them. Do we want to be caught up like Germany and Italy? ‘We've got to cover the small towns and the country, the CCC camps and other forced labor projects with the Daily Worker. I'm a former Socialist, but now one hundred per cent Red. Us poor devils know we have nothing more to lose only our chains. Our lives are not worth a damn if we got to live this way, JA.L. 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. Roosevelt Aids War Front Against U.S.S.R. Philadelphia, Pa. Comrade Editor: | Abyssinia, the Auto Code, Mooney, | Scottsboro, Coughlin, are all sec- tional parts of the whole devilish system, but last week when the duction of the Moscow Consulate, world fascist imperialism united and coalesced in one gigantic thrust, not only against the U.S. S.R., but against the liberties and Peace of the peoples of the entire world. The coming world war will not be fought in Abyssinia, nor the Gran Chaco, but on the Ukrainian border and in Siberia. We have organized protests at the Italian Consulates, but we are not picketing our own State Department. We run notices asking people to protest to the Pres- action to organize the churches, peace, student and other societies, unions and other workers’ organiza- tions and liberals and progressives into smashing protests that would flood Congress with such a sea of aroused mass indignation as would | force the ousting of rats like Kelly. I do not say that our other ac- tivities must cease, but I do say that a hundred million Americans, regardless of whether they favor or oppose the Soviet Union are vitally and fightingly interested in not be- ing made the puppets for another State Department announced re- | ident, but we have taken no direct | Required Reading for Mr. Hearst Thousands upon thousands all over the country are meeting to pledge their support to the Soviet Union. In New York on February 25, the immense Madison Square Garden will be the scene of a tremendous dem- onstration for the U.S.S.R. a nd its peace policy. In the South, Socialists and Communists are fight- ing the “Red-baiting” The growing fight for a side by side. mass Labor Party fighting capitalism for the immediate interests of the workers is a powerful counter-offens Hearst propaganda. The trade unions, whos ive against the Dickstein- e life is menacedsby this propaganda, should stiffen theiz ranks, and follow the example of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, the Michigan A. F. of L. Paint ers convention, and fling back into the teeth of these reactionaries their pro- fascist challenge to the whole labor movement. by Burck| 5 ad Nee Letters From Our Readers mass slaughter (the World Court jand Literary Digest Student Poll definitely prove this). When even our mildly liberal papers rise in a storm over this action, steps can and should be taken to immediately organize this protest and to further expose this bloody conspiracy that. even now is giving rise to rumors in Washington that Ambassador Bul- litt will never return to Moscow. Hitler demands a huge air force, Japan invades Soviet Mongolia, Japan militarists openly demand new budget to invade Russia, Goer- ing visits Polish nobles. The ring is forged and now the United States openly joins, but the spirit of 1776 and of the Abolitionists is not dead. The embers of the traditions of freedom still glow and but need stirring to flare into a blaze that will force back the guiding hands of our 400 per cent duPonts and Hit- ler-loving Morgans. Meetings, telegrams, protests, or- ganized pressure, now, before it is too late. The State Department must reverse its position and noth- ing takes precedence over this task. O. M. R. Glad To See Use of Good Cartoons Lancaster, Pa. Comrade Editor: The cartoon on the front page of | to-day’s “Daily,” is a pip. The new series called “The Ruling Clawss” is also good. Nothing can take the place of good cartoons—one doesn’t have to wade through a lot of words to catch their drift, as is the case with newspaper articles, pamphlets, books and so on. Let’s have more of these sharp indictments of this rotten system. H. D. “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.) | World Front By HARRY GANNES | Express-Train Events | War Against Whom? | They See the Handwriting hie speed of the develop. ment of world events in the past few weeks is amaz- | ing. Not even on the eve of | the outbreak of the last world | war was the situation so tense jas it is now, |. War is on the order of the day in | Abyssinia. Mussolini is determined to enslave that country, All Africa will feel the shock of Abyssinia’s yesistance. All Arabia will shake at oe Prospect of a battle against scism’s new chains aroun: Red Sea. cas War against the Soviet Union is more uppermost today in the minds and deeds of world capital than at ny time since the days of civil war and intervention in Russia. The very haste of Roosevelt’s turn in Soviet relations is a thermometer reading showing the rising war fever, Japan is marching more ar- rogantly towards the Soviet border for inspired reasons. Britain, while underwriting Mussolini's war adven- ture, is aiming at greater battles, Hitler took the cue. He has accepted the Anglo-French pact in principle, He asked for an exclusive confer- ence with the British war-makers, He knows they will understand. He knows the real aim All these maneuvers are not timed for long drawn-out affairs. They are gaged for rapid-fire action. The ground is beginning,to burn beneath the feet of world capitalism. In some places like Spain, the fire is white hot. “El Debate,” organ of Spanish fascism, recently raised the |alarm of a new maturing uprising | of the Spanish toilers. Strikes, un- employment demonstrations of gi- gantic proportions are engulfing England, France, Belguim Rumania, and other European countries. ial aaecr pee which prided itself on being the soundest economically of the lot, is developing rotten fis- sures. Scandal, fraud, bankruptcy, crop to the surface. A Stavisky-type scandal breaks out in England, Hardly had the British press puffed itself up over British capitalism's “recovery” when a financial crash answers “liars!” Reginald McKenna, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, head of the powerful Midland Bank; Sir Hugo Cunliff-Owen, head of the $170,000,000 British American Tobacco Co., are found neck-deep in the mire of one of England’s great est financial scandals, But like the Stavisky scandal, this is only a symptom, a perpetual re~ minder of the instability of capital~ ism in its apparent strongest point, It is a warning to the masters that the slightest jar near the top en- dangers the whole delicately-shored structure, In a previous column we briefly discussed the rising struggles of British labor which are sending tremors down the spine of Parliae ment. British capitalism, in this situas tion, accelerates fascist and war de= velopments throughout all Europe and Asia, 3 hhome fascism is encouraged. Mussolini is egged on for African bloody adventures. Hitler is invited to arm exclusively against the Soviet Union. Japan is pressed to strike the first blow, the signal for that war that British imperialism has never for a moment left out of its every major consideration, Time is short. The world anti-fase cist front is growing bolder, stronge er, more on the offensive. In the Soviet Union, socialism bee comes mightier, a towering giant in development and in defensive ability. British capitalism is faced with elections and the prospects of a third Labor government—a third only in number, but not in the tem= per of the masses behind it. Hence the British slave-holders pray and work for war to try to turn the tide internally and externally. Roosevelt has done his share. But mass strikes loom as one of the greatest plagues of Wall Street. How the New Dealers must hope and strive for a war to help them out, The question for Wall Street is war against whom? And that question has been answered by Roosevelt— against the Soviet Union! A war of Japan against the U. S. S. R. Dole lars, guns, boatloads of goods would stream across the Pacific. Japan would be obligated, mortgaged and Union, the main enemy, would be assaulted. Wall Street finds the prospects desirable. The next few months will see this whole situation, much _ broader, sharper, deeper, than sketched here, intensified. A new round of war and pea the capitalists have bake ultimately weakened. The Soviet: tions are the handwriting on the Scabbing, Injunctions Grow Out of Dickstein-Hearst Propaganda | NG RESISTANCE BY WORKERS, TRADE UNIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY 4