The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935 Hearst-Dickstein Drive Breeds Terrorism Against Unions TWO A. F, OF L, WORKERS SHOT IN CALIFORNIA STRIKE — FIGHT AGAINST “CRIMINAL SYDICALISM” LAWS GROWS WO striking agricultural workers were shot to death T yesterday in California. Two days ago armed with rifles, b atacked 300 striking n In Sacramento, ei The killings yesterday in California were killings of A. F. of L. workers striking for better conditions. How long will it take for this murderous violence and reaction to spread to the other A. F. of L. unions which dare to strike for better conditions? The smashing of the trade unions—that is one pur- are raising the banner of resistance to this enslaving and oppressive anti-Communist reaction. Whole sec- tions of the population are growing to see that the at- tack against the working class, especially against its revolutionary vanguard, is a menace of the monster of fascism against every honest, thinking person. It is in the unions that this fight must now find immediate practical organization. The tzole union of every A. F. of L. worker is in danger. Califernia shows ~< what this propaganda is leading to. The fights against the anti-Communist, “Criminal Syndicalist” laws, is a organized band of “vigilantes,” cks, clubs, and machine guns in the same state. workers are being tried hteen hae Moe their crime being that they pose that lurks behind the whole “criminal syndicalism” Yesterday, a leading group of American educators fight to preserve the unions as working class organiza- ie: sakes agricultural workers for and anti-Communist campaign! issued a statement branding Hearst’s anti-Communist tions. , Batic mandi Preparation for fascist reaction against the whole _incitements as preparation for Naziism in the schools. The Communist Party calls for a united anti- i These are more fruits of the Dickstein-Hearst labor moyement—this is what California ‘shows us is The yellow propaganda of Hearst and Dickstein Hearst front to smash his reactionary propaganda! da! the purpose of the Dickstein-Hearst anti-Communist _ is rousing rising resistance through the whole population A : propaganda! f 5 : Psi ‘ rage een For a united front to defend the A. F. of L. unions of These are the real purposes for which the Dick- propaganda. who sense in it what it really is—jingoism, race hatred, x YP’ f fascism! stein-Hearst propaganda is being issued, organized and The realization of this fact is growing. In Cali- chauvinism, reaction, hunger, strike-breaking, open the workers! For the defeat of fascism! For the de- paid for by Wall Street. fornia, ever wider sections of the lower middle class Daily <QWorker CUITRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAS) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. shop, and war-mongering. fense of the U.S.S.R.! ing the auto workers backward, prevent- ing a strike when the workers were ready | ° for it, and stopping the growth of the | Party Lite auto union. The members of the auto local in Mil- | waukee want to know why they should continue to rely on this policy when it has obviously brought such evil results for the | THE ELEVATOR STARTER by Burck World Front By HARRY GANNES XPRESS TO Report Contrasts HIGHER PROFITS Factory Work Of Two Party Units Foreign Correspondents Mr. Sweetland Complains : ‘ | Black Shirt Cortesi Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. auto workers. ae Corte ork,” New York, N. ¥ pa 4 é ; : ie Washington “Bureau: Reom 964, Minimal Prew Balding | ‘They demand the immediate organiza” | "THE folowing team exon tates DITOR AND PUBLISHER, x C_ Telephone: National 7810 | tion of a recruiting drive in the union and | - ga D Wells Midwest Bureau: 1 St., Room 708, Chicago, I. | 3 h of Section Ten, on the fulfilment trade organ of the Hearsts Telephone: Dearborn 3981 | preparation for real strike action. ef control tasks. We quote here d hi ‘ Subscription Rates: ee The policy of class struggle, of no reli- two examples of shop work: an and other newspaper dope oe ike except Manhatt dq Bronx) year, “ al nuclens which reay r Pmonths, 95.0073 months, $1.00: 1 month, ‘0.78 cents tooo, | ance on Roosevelt’s treacherous “labor ae sunt pls ibedavedlienice ‘eng peddlers, bellyaches because ee Se aa | boards,” the policy proposed by the Com- | struggles in the shop; and another the Japanese government ahoteg pe pap adticpagy ar da epg thn Maat munists as the only way to build the | which has no faith in the workers | cramps the style of American correspondents in Japan. The Feb. 2 issue of this sheet has an interview with Reginal Sweetland, Chicago Daily News Tokio corres- pondent, just returned on a fure lough after six years in Japan. Sweetland declares that the Jap- anese government doesn’t allow for- eign correspondents to report start ling events in vast districts (five or in their willingness to fight for conditions, AX example of where the 4% Party carried on work in the shop, reacted to the prob- | \lems of the workers, and es-| tablished itself as the leader of those workers, was the X Unit. | In the X factory, precisely because | |of the activities of our unit, the! unions—this policy is rapidly gaining the support of the workers in the A. F. of L. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935 The Tenants’ Safety | AGUARDIA is posing as the friend of 4 the tenants in the buildings where the | elevator men have struck, | He is worried about their “health and | The Paterson Victory HE Rank and File continues in its vic- torious march in the Paterson locals of the United Textile Workers. Elections of silk workers last Saturday resulted ini Safety,” and he will use the police as scabs to “protect the people.” This is the well-worn strategy of all official governmental strike-breakers. The real safety of the people demands, not that the Mayor use the police as sca but that the elevator men get what they are fighting for—better conditions and higher wages! LaGuardia knows that the striking union has offered to place a man in every building to take care of all emergencies involving health and safety! And yet when he was queried on this he refused to com- ment, because this blasts his whole pre- tence of “health and safety. LaGuardia’s attempt to break the strike is a menace, not only to the strik- ers, but to the whole population! What he is doing against the elevator men, he will do against any other section if he gets away with his strike-breaking now. La- Guardia’s strike-breaking shows that he will actually sacrifice the safety of the population to the profits and interests of the employers! Let all tenants in apartment houses let LaGuardia know that they see through his ruse, that they will not sacrifice their safety to landlord's profits. No riding on scab elevators. Demand safe, union- labor service on all elevators. Protest to LaGuardia against his strike-breaking! No payments of rent in scab buildings! Demand Boys’ Release HE hearing, now taking place in the United States Supreme Court. on the appeals against the Scottsboro lynch ver- dicts, occurs at a time of rising fascist re- action in this country, of widespread fas- cist plots to suppress the civil liberties and rights of the working class and the op- pressed Negro people. In this situation there is the greatest need for the vigilance of all friends of the Scottsboro boys. The desperate attempt of the American ruling class to carry through the legal lynching of these inno- cent Negro lads is part and parcel of the general drive against the working class and the Negro masses, aimed at forcing down our living standards, perpetuating the jim-crow oppression of the Negro people and smashing the growing unity of Negro and white workers. Every workers’ organization, every op- ponent of fascism, every friend of the Ne- gro people should flood the U. S. Supreme Court, Washington, D. C., with protests against the lynch frame-up of the Scotts- boro boys, and demands for the reversal of the death sentences against Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, for the un- conditional release of all nine of the inno- cent Scottsboro boys! Funds to aid the appeal should be rushed at once to the In- ternational Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. Auto Workers Speak N EXCELLENT example for all A. F. | of L. workers is given by the action | oz tne auto workers in Milwaukee who | have issued a leaflet presenting William Green, president of the A. F. of L., with some very pertinent questions. This leaflet, reprinted in part on an- other page of this issue, charges Green with being originally responsible for the way Roosevelt has been able to advance his oven shop code in the industry. The workers say that Green’s previous policies of reliance on Roosevelt and his ighor boards have succeeded only. in throw- the election of its three candidates for or- ganizer, by an overwhelming majority— six to one over the “progressive” Love- stone-Forward candidates. Results on the election of the general manager are still in doubt.’ The figure as announced by the election committee which was controlled by the reactionaries, gives Al Williams a slight margin over the rank and file candidate, Sarkis Phillian. The count is being challenged, and facts will be brought to expose fraudulent issuance of union books to ineligible voters. But how is a considerable vote for Wil- liams to be explained? For this he has to thank the Lovestoneites. Keller, the Love- stoneite, former general manager, who knew he has no chance, deliberately with- drew his candidacy to concentrate all the reactionary vote for Williams. Now, with a rank and file leadership in office, the workers will go forward in the fight against the wage cut. Fascism Breeds War N ORDER that Mussolini and Italian im- perialism may prosper, the blood of un- told thousands of Abyssinians and Italians will shortly announce to the world that the last Negro nation in Africa is being exterminated. In order that the vultures of Standard Oil may also feast on the fat profit of this murderous conflict, the oil-tankers of this imperialist corporation are now hauling the fuel for Mussolini's bombing planes toward Abyssinia. Fascism is capitalism grown desperate. The profits of Mussolini and his masters, for all their wage-cut prison-system at- tack upon the Italian masses, have spurred the construction of the most deadly com- petitive weapon of economic crisis—and for the fascists, the only one that remains —imperialist war! The hatred of the working class for im- perialist war is therefore impotent unless it becomes at the same time a wide strug- gle against fascism, wherever it exists and wherever it threatens. The defense of Abyssinia is a powerful thrust at fascism. All who will surely suffer by the growth of this breeder of war—all workers, Negro and white, professional and intellectual— rally to the defense of Abyssinia! War and Wages OOSEVELT has placed before Con- gress the latest proposals of his record-breaking war program. He wants another two and a half billions for immediate war construction. This is on top of the two billion he has spent already. But Roosevelt is preparing for this war in a special way. He is spending bil- lions with one hand, giving gigantic profits to such monopolies as the du Ponts who coined $46,000,000 in net profits last year on the Roosevelt New Deal war plans. But with his other hand he is smash- ing wages! He is making sure that his war program will indeed yield more fat profits for the Wall Street monopolies. In fact, Roosevelt's wage-smashing pro- gram, with his $50 a month standard set On government works, is part of the war program. It is to the interest of every American worker to fight this war program not only as a bloody sacrifice of the American masses on the altar of Wall Street profit. but as an immediate defense of wages and conditions. + . | workers began to realize the im- | portance of organization and when | the employer tried to introduce the | Boot and Shoe Workers Union the | workers went out on strike. Our unit was in the leadership of the strike. Non-party workers quite frequently consulted the Section Organizer on certain strike prob- lems because they recognized the | Party as their leader and trusted in | the ability of the Party to solve their problems. | It is true, the strike was lost and ‘while we, no doubt, showed certain | weaknesses during the strike, such as the failure to introduce economic demands at the very outset of the} strike, failed to mobilize the work- ers from other United Shoe and | Leather Union shops in solidarity | with the strikers, failed to bring the | role of the Boot and Shoe Union in |the X shop to the masses in the| | Boot and Shoe Workers Union, the | strike was lost for reasons beyond | our control, | At no time did the workers in any | way, even after the strike, lose any | respect or blame the Party for the lost strike. During the strike, our Party grew organizationally as well as ideologically. awe | THE question arises—how was it possible for some of our shop nu- | clei to react to the problems of the | workers, to win concessions from | the employers, to establish them- | selves as the leaders of the workers \in the given factory? 1. By keeping | with the workers in the shop. | 2. By being alert to the problems of the workers and, not only react- ing, but also giving leadership to the | workers and to help them solve their problems, 3. By keeping close contact with | the Party organization and report- |ing on the. events within the shop | to the Party. 4. By the Party, as a whole, tak- ing advantage of those issues to es- tablish itself as the leader of those struggles and at the same time | build the Party organizationally. |] ®2 us for a moment look at the |™ other side of the story. Let us take @ shop unit which did not re- |act to problems. Take unit 1-S, where we have the opposite picture. |In the last few months, the com- | rades have not reacted to one single | issue. The comrades have not re- cruited one single member for the Party. First the unit became stagnant. It developed the theory that the unit members could do tetter work in their residential clubs than in the factory in which they work, and they very sharply questioned the correctness of the Party form of organization. Such misconceptions flow from: 1, Lack of political understanding of the importance of building the Party in the shops. 2, Lack of faith in the ability of | the masses to fight for better con- | ditions even after a defeated strike. 3. Adopting a defeatist attitude | and conceding to the terror of the ‘combined forces of the employers |and the bureaucracy of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor leadership. 4. Being led by the opinions of of giving leadership. 5. Over-estimation of the terror | of the employer and influence of the American Federation of Labor | bureaucracy. | Complete failure to understand | present day events; the growing | militancy of the workers in the | struggle. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa~- tion on the Communist Party. NAME in close contact the most backward workers instead |, | | Mid-West Youth Congress | Pledges Struggle Minneapolis, Minn. Comrade Editor: I want to register a protest to the Daily Worker. Last Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10, there took place in St. | Paul, Minn., one of the most im- | portant events in the history of the | | working class youth movement of the Middle West. A Mid-West Youth Congress was held with a total of 350 delegates, representing ten different states and 39 organ- \izations. A program of struggle modeled almost entirely after that | jof the American Youth Congress | |was adopted enthusiastically. Aj genuine united front was achieved between youth of the Young Com- munist League, Farmer - Laborite youth, Progressive Youth League of Wisconsin, Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., St. Paul District of the Epworth League, Young People’s Socialist League, Farm Holiday Association, United Farmers League, a Negro settlement house of St, Paul, Cooperative Youth League, and a number of other organizations. A Continua- tions Committee was elected to carry on the work after the Con- gress and this committee was in- structed to work in closest coopera- tion with the Continuations Com- mittee of the American Youth Con- gress. A ringing Declaration of Principles was adopted by the Con- gress which stated among other things in closing: “We believe that by participating in building strong workers’ and farmers’ organizations, we shall help to enable them by their greater strength and the greater activity of their members, to gain concessions for the workers and farmers from the few who control industry. This will prepare them to face the ul- timate problem of changing this system and replacing it by a new social order base upon prouction for use rather than for profit.” Tbelieve that this was by far one of the biggest steps forward in the welding of the united front of struggle of Mid-West Youth, Not a single word was published in the columns of the Daily Worker! Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we ean 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. I hope that the Daily Worker will recognize its error in failing to pub- lish the reports of the Congress by publishing this letter. LEO TUURI, District Organizer, Young Communist League. Adds Facts to Review Of Bookshop Exhibit New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Letters From Our Readers “Transient” Hears Talk Of “Boloney vs. Facts” Topeka, Kansas, Comrade Editor: Enclosed you will find thirty cents in stamps, for which please send me a bundle of Saturday's and other issues of the Daily Worker, for that amount. T am stopping at the so-called Federal Transient Camp here, and as our richest government in the world has seen fit to cut our pay from $1 a week to 25¢ a week for 30 hours work, it is damn hard to even raise 30c. as we have to pay for our own tobacco, etc. out of that amount. There are several men here who have read the “Daily,” and I am sure the issues that you send will | see plenty of service around here, I In my review some days ago of | will try to raise more pennies next the Marx-Engels-Lenin exhibition in the Workers Bookshop, I unwit- tingly omitted some important in- formation which now I wish to add. I was unaware of the fact that the material—which originally for the most part was furnished by the Marx-En gels-Lenin Institute in Moccow—was arranged and put into its present form for exhibition pur- poses by a group of American com- rades. The arrangement and plan- ning, as well as the selection of quotations, were by Harry M. Wicks and V. J, Jerome, and the art work and lettering—in itself a three- months job—by the John Reed Club artist, Charles Dibner, as a club project. The material was sent out. last year by the Marx-Engels-Lenin In- stitute of Moscow to several coun- tries simultaneously, to commemo- rate the 50th anniversary of Marx’s death. This material, put into ex- hibition form by the comrades above named, was exhibited last year to many workers’ clubs and organiza- tions in various American cities during a lecture tour by Comrade Wicks. The present showing of the material at the Workers Bookshop is the first of the present year, but it will be on exhibition, I under- ce in Brownsville and elsewhere later. OAKLEY JOHNSON. week, I have just returned here from a trip through New Mexico and the government there is closing up the transient camps. The roads are full of young and old men just wander- ing trying to find those jobs and improvements that they read about in the papers. Believe me, the na- tives are beginning to see the light, and the main topic of discussion everywhere you stop is the old boloney vs. the facts. It seems to me that an empty stomach is a great thing to make a fellow wake up and think for himself. I trust you will grant the favor of sending on a bundle, and wish your wonderful paper a long and healthy life. TRANSIENT. Funds Always Necessary And Welcome New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Enclosed you will find’ a money order for ten dollars, which the E. & L, Youth Club is donating for the benefit of the Daily Worker. We realize the fact that funds are always necessary and are welcome. Required Reading for Mr. Hearst THE ESTONIAN & LAVONIA YOUTH CLUB. “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 Lincotn’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.) | provinces in all) where the peasants are selling their daughters more than their meagre crops, and where “the people are on the verge of starva- tion.” Strange, Mr. Hearst. hasn’t made a radio speech about that. But we are sure that the New York Times can have no complaint. Their Tokio correspondent Hugh Byas (should be spelled B-i-a-s) has learned how to outwit the Japanese censors. He cables only such news as the Japanese militarists would desire to see printed in the Amer- ican cavitalist press, deliberately suppressing the more important hapnenings, Thereby he saves him- self the annoving embarrassment of having a military censor inartis- tically slash his copy, as if with a clumsy sword. ree wee | 'HE Times evidently makes it a policy to pick correspondents who are persoma grata, that is, ex- ceptionally pleasing, to the various Fascist dictators and military cliques ruling in the various countries. For example, its Rome correspon- dent, Arnoldo Cortesi, writes with that passion for “peace” so charac- teristic of Mussolini's war depart- ment. Cortesi cabled (and the Times printed it) the lie that Mussolini called for only 30,000 troops for Abysinia. Every other capitalist newspaper admitted 250,000 had been. mobilized, and even Cortesi himself was forced later to admit that 70,000 were actually being sent to Abyssinia, Cortesi wrote about peace and nego- tiations when Mussolini was talk- | ing about Abyssinia as the war | front. But these minor details are not brought to the attention of the read- ers of the capitalist press. The Daily Worker has been the only English language newspaper in the United States printing the world- significant news that 5,000 Man- churian soldiers mutinied against the Japanese army and its militarist leaders. They fought furiously around Chinchow and near Mukden. This is at least as important as the Duke Wedding, or what Hauptmann ate for breakfast. But not a word about it has been printed in the capitalist press to date though eyery newspaper in China is full of it, And there is no censorship on this news out of Shanghai. RT IN FACT, there have been a whole series of mutinies and armed struggles against Japanese imperial- ism in Manchuria that never merit some of the precious space devoted to the usual filth that fills most of the Hearst and other newspapers. The latest issue of the China Weekly Review (Jan. 19) to arrive here tells of the 48th drive of Jape anese imperialism against the Mane churian insurgent forces and withe out success. “The imperial Kwan- tung army,” says this newspaper, “has not been able, after three years of strenuous effort, to put down re- velts against their regime in Man- churia.” And now when the revolt reaches their own armed forces, as 500 Japanese soldiers joired the mutineers, Mr. Bias of the Times, and the rest of the gentlemen of the American press, fail to utter a peep about it. hea ae ,OM Shanghai we get the follow- ing cable: “Noting activization of the Japanese military policy, the China Weekly Review Writes: ‘Only a few weeks have passed since Gen= eral Minami became military dic- tator of Manchuria, and events are happening in this periced which show the existence of dangerous tendencies. We mention the Cha- har offensive, and the new occupa- tion of over 1,000 square miles of Chinese territory. and the contlic> with the ponulation of the Mon- golian Peoples Republic near Lake Buir Nor. Soon after Minami’s an- pointment, the Japanese Army of Occupation onened an office in Shanghai under Col. Kages. Kages has a large sum of money at his disposal. He has sixteen assistants spying. Doihar has arrived in China. His name is synonimous with all Japan's Far Eastern intrigues. The Manchurian Daily News published. an interview with Gen. Minami stating the Northern provinces in China will proclaim their ‘indepen dence’ and join Manchukuo.” —