The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 an impe ers of th Hea S.R Union Every one of these photos is a cold-blooded fake! They are as false as it is true that Hearst is a Worker | Daily AQ ally. vad U.S.4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONALD Daily Newspaper” CPATRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. “America’s Only ALgonquin 4-795 4. Telephone Cl Address n Subscription Rates: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; ths, $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 o and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 $3.00. ly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. mn: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 The Pressure Is Felt! HE tremendous support which -has rolled up behind the Workers’ Bill, H.R. 2827, is reflected in the Kiplinger Tax Letter, a confidential news service sent to business and financial executives. “The bill most frequently mentioned in unofficial talk is H.R. 2827, offered by Lun- deen, Farmer-Labor representative from Minnesota,” the Kiplinger letter of last Saturday said. “The Lundeen bill,” Kiplinger con- tinues, “emphasizes the constant threat that ultra-liberals may force legislation going beyond the administration’s own liberal program.” While millions of workers will discount the judgment of big business that Roose- velt’s unemployment insurance schemes are “liberal,” as Kiplinger says, this men- tion of the Workers’ Bill reflects the mass pressure for real social insurance. Every worker should redouble that pressure. Flood Washington with the de- mand of the workers for H.R. 2827, the Workers’ Bill! A War Budget JHILE Hearst is screaming for war, particularly against the Soviet Union, Roosevelt is building the most tremendous war machine in American history. Yesterday, Congress received the re- port of the House Committee on appro- priations. While 16,000,000 American workers are starving, Roosevelt’s war budget pro- vides for another billion for immediate expenditure in the next twelve months. Out of this Roosevelt military program looms the menace of imperialist war and fascist reaction. General MacArthur, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff, makes no bones about it- He and Brigadier General Howard want a bigger army to break strikes and enslave Ameri- ean labor. And if there is any doubt about the brutal, reactionary drive toward fascism that is growing out of Roosevelt’s war budget then the following words of the Com- mittee’s Chairman should make the matter plain enough: “We are sitting on a volcano at home and abroad,” he said yesterday. “We cannot blind ourselves to the menace of radicalism within our borders and to foreign war-like activities.” Can a clearer confession be made that Roosevelt is preparing for fascism and war? Nazis in Toledo HEN a group of Nazis this week or- ganized a pro-fascist meeting in To- ledo, Ohio, they were met with a reception about whose meaning there could be no uncertainty. More than one thousand people crowded ~ ‘into the Civic Auditorium to protest the presence of the Nazi organizers in Toledo, pledging their united support to a fight against fascism and its advance in this country and their support of the Soviet Union. A feature of the meeting was its united - front character, with spokesmen for union, local, and civic bodies taking the floor. This is due to the good work of the Communist Party and the local of the American League Against War and Fas- Such energetic resistance against fas- cism should spread to all parts of the country. JOINS HITLER IN NOTORIOUS FORGERIES ON “‘s nto army uniforms and send them into laughter against the workers and farm- papers are printing a series of ghastly photos alleging to show present conditions in the Soviet inherited more than $15,000,000 from his mcther, and with this money-pile, stolen from the American people, is now engaged in Every one of these photos is a picture of another intervals during the These pictures were taken in Roumania and Austria! (See article by James These photos depict HERE no doubt to what William multi-millionaire parasite who Randolph Hearst wants 4% > , He wants blood! He wants war! 1 rs are now printing a series of forged new plunder and new robbery of American labor. re cold-blooded preparation for what will p! s crime of capitalism—a war of inter- country in Europe at. different Sox Union, the land that is last fifteen to eighteen years. order, Socialism 1 : to herd the sons of the American Casey in this issue.) what fascism and imperialist war will do to the American people if a man like Hearst succeeds in his war propaganda. The New York Times yesterday, through its corre- spondent, Walter Duranty, rips Hearst’s lies to pieces in a story headed “Soviet Farmers Celebrate Success.” Printing the Truth THE drive for increasing the circula- tion of the Daily Worker, it is impor- tant to point out that in the present period of growing censorship and distortion of news, it is the only newspaper that is giv- ing an accurate picture of class struggle events in the U. S, and in the world situ- ation, For example, in the recent weeks, the capitalist press has hidden from its read- ers such vitally important news as the uprising of the soldiers in Manchukuo, the secret war preparations against the Soviet Union, the strikebreaking developments in the steel and auto industries, and the real significance of the gold decision. In the New York elevator strike, the entire capitalist press placed itself at the service of the landlords and the Mayor’ to beat down the struggles of the elevator men. The Daily Worker, as a Communist paper, has become not only the organizer of the masses, but the only reliable source of information vital to the toiling masses. seman Two Statements on Steel HO are the ones that have the interests of the A. F. of L, steel union at heart? The answer to this question is seen in two statements issued in Pittsburgh. Mike Tighe, president of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, declared that he will continue his expulsion policies, throwing whole lodges out of the union if they dare dis- agree with him. He did not make a single concrete pro- posal for immediate action in organizing the steel workers. Tighe claimed that William Green supports him in his expul- sion drive. Against this, William Spang, Pitts- burgh district president of the union, de- clared that the lodges of the Amalgamated have one aim—to build the A. A. into a strong, mass union in preparation for strike for the demands of the 59th Convention of the union. Spang invited Tighe to join the drive to build the union. Tighe an- swered by repeating his expulsion threats. The answer is clear. Tighe and the International officials do not want to build the union—they are trying to disrupt the union and sabotage the organization drive. The rank and file, led by Spang, are going ahead to build the union in spite of Tighe and his expulsion threats, The question now is whether William Green will continue to be silent on Tighe’s expulsions and to delay the organization drive in steel. Where do you stand, Mr. Green? Newspaper Men Learn T A large meeting of its New York Chapter, the Newspaper Guild unani- mously voted a resolution censuring Roose- velt for his action in the Jennings case. In this case, Roosevelt quite openly entered the case in order to buttress the pesition of the publishers, the lying Hearst and others, In this case, involving the right of Jennings, a California newspaperman working for Hearst, to join the Guild, Roosevelt revealed the hollowness of his pretences on the NRA “right to organize.” The newspapermen, through their own experience, have learned that Roosevelt’s function is to protect the interests of the employers, not of labor. Subsidizing Destruction OOSEVELT’S A.A.A. has paid out more than $600,000,000 in direct subsidies, its latest report reveals. Most of it went to the big farmers. The small, mortgage-ridden farmer got very little. He could not afford to cut his acreage much. The $6006,000,000 came out of process- ing taxes and higher prices for bread, cotton, meats and other daily necessities. The working class paid. Roosevelt's farm program, therefore, has ruined the small farmer, and gouged $600,000,000 from the workers to subsi- dize the destruction of food—so that the rich landlords can raise the price of food still further! “Recently,” writes the New York Times corre- spondent, “there has been a fresh outburst of ‘starva- i | Party Life | | |Party Must Aid | Y.C.L. in Building | Factory Nuclei |M\HE-Y, C. L. has only seventy-five shop nuclei and many of these are not in basic industries, This shows immediately that the connec- tion of the Y.C.L. with the youth in the industry is very weak. Even in New York where we register such good results in build- ing the YCL, only three nuclei have been built alongside the Party. The jfact that in more than eight | months the whole Party helped the Y.C.L. in building only three shop | nuclei, shows that the most im- Portant decisions on youth work have not been carried out. | | What are the tasks confronting | the Party in overcoming this weak- | |ness? First: the League at present | jhas a membership of 8,000. It has | set before itself the task of reach- | ing a membership of 12,000 by July ist, in connection with the Seventh World Congress of the Y.C.I. Can | this figure be reached? It Can. | C39 Ss 1g will be reached if the Party will |" give full assistance in the con- centration districts, and in all those districts where the gaps in size be- |tween the Party and the Y.CLL. is| large. This means that in some | districts we must be determined to | |put over the ‘task of building the | |League into a real mass organi- |zation, Second: In the period from tod; until July the Party must under- |take to build at least fifty shop | nuclei of the Y.C.L. Every district must select factories to concentrate upon. This means the assignment. of forces, continuous follow-up, etc. Third: In connection with the | DAILY WORKER circulation drive, | the Party units must spread the | |Young Worker among the youth in jthe shops, unions, mass organiza- jtions.. The YOUNG WORKER. will jbecome the best means of reaching young workers, the best. means of recruiting for the Y.C.L. Fourth: The leading cadres must be strengthened in all districts. This means assigning of young Party members for youth work. The New York District in this respect has already decided to assign 100 young Party members for League work. This example should be fol- lowed by all other districts. We should not be stingy with the youth, Fifth: Inpthe next period there must be more attention and guid- ance to the Y.C.L. The Y.CL. is making the first beginnings of breaking away from its sectarian- jism, in connection with the broad movement around the American Youth Congress, The Y.O.L. is learning to connect itself with broad masses of youth, and as one of the comrades stated, we must help on a District scale to penetrate into the C.C.C. camps. Pr ae and guidance to the Y.C.L. must take the form of assistance in developing youth ac- tivities in connection with all the mass campaigns of the Party (unemployed insurance, work in the AF. of L., etc.). No Party plan can be considered complete unless it indicates how the youth are to be mobilized for the specific cam- paigns, and how the Party will aid the work among the youth in the campaigns. To the youth belongs the future. But the future, where the younger generation of the |American toiling masses will ac- \complish miracles is not far away, jand our task is to speed up. the \tempo in winning over this part of the working class. Why did we neglect the Y.C.L.? Why did we not fulfil the Fighth Party Convention decisions with regard to the youth? What do the districts intend to do in carrying out these proposals? Here comes the example of the New York District, of the Hariem Section, They have something that no one other section of the Party has: The HARLEM ORGANIZER. What is the main headline in its last issue? “The Party must inten- sify youth work.” The examples, the experiences of Harlem, of the New York District must be followed by the Party in all districts, Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. tion propaganda’ in the German and Austrian press, which appeals for charity of the Soviet famine.’ for the ‘unhappy victims The writer heard in Berlin that this campaign was supporied by photogranhs taken much earlier. Some were even said to date from the Volga famine of 1921. This is a favorite trick of anti-Bolshevist propagandists.” Hearst and Hitler's p now both carrying on an the Soviet Union. ropagandist, Goebbels. are identical campaign against Is it not clear that this anti-Soviet war campaign was one of the things decided on when Hearst visited Hitler last year? In the light of Hearst’s unabashed cry for an anti- Soviet war, Roosevelt’s recent action toward the Soviet Union takes on a sinister meaning. Letters City Employees Asked To Scab New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Iam a city employe. This after- noon an announcement was sent around from the head of our de- | partment asking tor volunteers to | run elevators. In other words, ask: ing for scabs. The realty groups have always been in the forefront of those de- manding wage cuts, layoffs and dis- missals for city employes. Yet the | moment they are threatened with a strike of their workers, they do not hesitate to come to ask us for help. I hope the city employes will re- | member who was responsible for the mass layoffs the ‘early part of this year, who was responsible for the wage cuts we received, and will show their solidarity with the build- ing workers by refusing to scab. A CITY EMPLOYE. Workers Recall Scottsboro At Lincoln Meeting Washington, D. C. Comrade Editor: At the Lincoln Memorial meeting held here under the auspices of the American Legion, some three hun- dred people gathered around, a few officiais, marine officers, sailors and many soldiers, and government em- ployees, including three colored workers, After the meeting I talked to the colored workers and asked them the reason for the absence of colored workers, since Lincoln was supposed to have freed their an- cestors from slavery. They replied: “Why should we colored folks bother to go to these meetings, when lynching is even worse now than it ever was. Why, just look what they're doing to colored boys in Alabama!” This shows the attitude today of the enslaved Negro workers. I am told that the Negro reform- ists held their commemoration of Lincoln last night in schools, churches and halls, but mostly chil- dren attended, and they were “en- tertained” with candy or fruit. JAC, Gold Decision Cuts Into Workers’ Pay New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Certainly the decision of the Su- preme Court on the gold question is going to affect the pocket of every worker in the country. Since the question of the rise of the cost of living is such a vital problem to workers, I would suggest that the “Daily” run a series of ar- ticles in ordinary, simple, layman language, explaining just how this works and affects the workers’ pockets. The capitalist papers are so confusing about this question, for obvious reasons, that the worker is in a state of indifference to 4 | “WE DEMAND THE WORKERS’ BILL!” 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. Macfadden Plots for Wage Cuts and War New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Mr. Macfadden, in his editorial in Liberty, has found another way to solve unemployment, and at the same time not only enable us ta compete for foreign markets, but with Japan, Japan, due to her former worship of American imperialism, is very highly industialized. She is a dangerous competitor because of her extremely low wage scales he argues, What we could do, he argues, on the dole to manufacture goods for the foreign market. The unem- ployed, and prison labor, could be utilized to win back our foreign markets. The foods manufactured could be put under bond to prevent its being sold here and interfering with our high wages and grand liv- ing scale, He closes with a self-concealed plea for war with Japan by pro- claiming that we would be “d----- fools” to go to war for the sake of European manufacturing interests, although we would be worse than fools if we “fail to prepare up to the hilt” tor it. The readers of Liberty are work- many of them unemployed or sup- porting unemployed relatives on their meagre wages, The menace of Mr. Macfadden’s scheme for getting cheap labor from the unemployed and prisons must be made clear to them, Workers must be made to realize that this slick scheme and all the other schemes which the capitalists ‘will try to put over on us are well thought out moves in the fascist plan. It is ridiculous to imagine for one moment that if the bosses could manage to get cheap dole and prison labor, they would save it exclusively for the foreign mar- ket. On the contrary, all wages would be reduced to this same less-than- subsistence level. Unemployment would increase still more. Misery, suffering, starvation would be on the upsurge, and war ever a nearer goal, We American workers must al- Ways be on the alert for such sug- gestions. We must point out to our friends and shop-mates who still read such magazines and news- papers what actually lies behind these schemes, what new suffering it would mean for the workers. We must combat the deadly poison of matter which is very vital to him. R. F, the bourgeois press, bring us that much nearer to a war | would be to allow the unemployed | ers, exploited, driven. speeded-up, | | Hearst Forges Pictures to Rouse War Fever Against U. S. S. R. TARVATION” IN THE SOVIET UNION—THOUSANDS PREPARE TO FIGHT WAR GROWING M ACE Jt means that Hearst is not alone in his drive for an anti-Soviet war, that this drive is the organized plan of Wall Street with the support of the Roosevelt admin- istration, They want to spill the blood of the American people for their own capitalist profits! Hea to make pawns of our lives We cannot permit war must be organized every of the working class and t must be forged in the trade all mass organizations. ywhere! The united front he people against Hearst unions, in the schools, in New York City will stage a tremendous anti-war, anti-Hearst meeting on February 25 at Madison Square Garden. The whole country must follow this example. by Burck From Our Readers Letter from US.S.R. Tells Of Rapid Growth Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The enclosed is a letter from a friend who is now in Russia, that I think will interest the readers of the Daily Worker—F. S. Moscow, US.S.R. Dear Comrade: It was a great surprise to receive a letter from you, but you may be sure I welcome it as news from home. Russia is surely making progress at the rate not only of 100 per cent but 1,000 per cent. People are dressed better than last year, and in spite of the little time given to light industry, I feel sure that be- fore the second five year plan is over Russians will be better dressed than Americans were in the days of prosperity. The cost of living is becoming | cheaper each day. Prices of prod- ucts went down about 30 per cent. Bread cards are being discontinued, and that means there is plenty of fiour to produce enough bread to supply all the new stores that open everywhere in the U.S. S. R., Mos- cow, Leningrad, etc. If only war was not threatening like a frightful gathering storm |from black-clouded Japan, and the other black and bloody clouds of Fascism and Capitalism ready to burst and break out in Europe any day, life here could be made a real paradise on earth. But Russia can not enjoy perfect freedom until the whole world is set free. I. Ww. Chrysler Movie Shows Speed-Up New York, N, Y. Comrade Editor: Workers who have never seen the interior of an automobile plant ought to avail themselves of the op- portunity afforded by the Chrysler auto agency in the Chrysler Build- ing, New York City. They have a miniature film show- ing all day long, free of charge. This film shows the manufacture of a Chrysler auto, If you want to see speed-up, danger on the job, and reasons why an auto company doesn’t want men over 40—go to see this movie. After this appears in the “Daily,” the New York police Department will probably notify Chrysler to re- move this revolutionary “ms 5 Greets “Best Revolutionary Fighter in America” Kalamazoo, Mich. Comrade Editor: The Kalamazoo Cultural Club is herein enclosing post office order for one dollar, with greetings to the Daily Worker, the best revolutionary fighter in America. Forward with the good work. MELS KALAMAZOO CULTURAL CLUB 4 rst and the war-mongers ' Meetings and demonstrations against Hearst and World Front By HARRY GANNES | Treachery in the Saar Rake’s Progress of Recovery Maisky’s Warning A MARCH 1 draws near, the date set for the com- plete blanketing of the Nazi | plague over the Saar, the united front of Socialists, Communists and Catholics, remains firm. Despite all difficulties, the “Ar- beiter Zeitung,” the anti-Fascist |Paper, still continues to appear. In one of its latest issues to arrive here there is the story of the treachery of the Social Democratic leader Pfaff. Herr Pfaff declared, after a visit to Berlin, that the Social Democratic Party in the Saar will be dissolved as soon as Hitler rides in, “Self-evidently,” says the ‘Arbei- ter Zeitung,’ “the appeal made by Pfaff to the Social Democratic workers, to maintain ‘loyalty’ and ‘neutrality’ towards. the Hitler dic~ jtatorship will be rejected with con- tempt by these workers. The words of a traitor are nothing to them. The Social Democratic workers will continue to fight in the united front with the Communist workers.” Max Braun, Socialist leader whose part in the united front has |earned him the undying hatred of he Nazis, speaking to the capitalist |press representatives at Geneva, | said: “The united front is still there, the fight is going on.” +. fe & 'HEN Comrade Stalin said we are \ i a | now in a depression of a special kind, leading not to a new era of prosperity, but to a further deep- ening of the general crisis of cap- italism; that this depression, while above the lowest levels of the crisis, is not leading to the previous levels of “normal” capitalism, some people were confused on the meaning of this characterization. Now, about six months after Stalin's brilliant estimation, we have a concretization of this theo- retical characterization of the pres< ent stage of the capitalist crisis. England was the country which best illustrated the depression of a Special kind. That is to say, in England, the capitalist had gotten out of the deeper rut and believed and confidently proclaimed that they were heading for a new era of “prosperity.” Let’s see what is happening now? Sir William Beveridge, director of the London School of Economics, in a radio speech last Tuesday night, asked the question: “Is Great Britain on the brink of another depression?” Here the word “depression” really means crisis. And his answer is quite definitely and emphatically, “Yes!" He said that the “recovery” which was in evidence from the middle of 1932 had “come to an end.” He pointed to the increase of 239,558 in the number of the unemployed, “Our last recovery,” he said, “has brought us back to 17 per cent of what we are being asked to call the good year of 1984—to 17 per cent, the bottom of the depression in 1922; that is our rake’s progress of unemployment. “If 17 per cent is the top of the recovery, where will we be in the next depression?” In other words, each “recovery” brings the capitalist economic sys« tem to a level below the last crisis, A few more of these Pyhrric “ree coveries” and the past lowest: level of the crisis will seem like “pros+ perity.” Pisa ise ITHOUT mincing words, the So= viet ambassador to London, Ivan M. Maisky, declared that Fascist Germany and Poland were delib« erating working for war against the joviet Union. Speaking in London, where tha British diehards are working for a united war front against the Soviet Union, Ambassador Maisky showed that Germany and Poland wera maneuvering with Britain for a war alliance while speaking about “peace.” If* it’s peace they want, Maisky said, why don’t they sign the Eastern Locarno pact. Without peace in Eastern Europe there can be peace nowhere. He said the reply of Berlin to the British pro- posals “is rightly the cause of very serious apprehension.” Every friend of the Soviet Union in and around New York should be sure to be present at the Madiscn Square Garden meeting Monday night where Congressman Lundeen and others will speak on the growing war danger directed against the Soviet Union. Shoe Werkers Injured AUBURN, Me., Feb. 20 (UP) — Ten workmen were burned or other= / wise injured today in an explosion | in the cement room of the Venus: Shoe Manufacturing Company's plant,