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Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935 Menace of Fascism and War Looms in Roosevelt War Budget HEARST INCITEMENTS, BACKED BY ROOSEVELT ACTIONS, PREPARE INTERVENTION AS USSR DEVELOPS BROADEST DEMOCRAC n dollars IANDING of Congress another bil 2 aration largest appropriation in ory—Roosevelt’s war chiefs make no murder machine -the the count secret of what they want this immense for asons—for home use and They want it for t abro: me smash strikes, shoot to enslave the labor movement and lower living tandards by bayonets, and militarize the whole countr in short, for incr ng fascist reaction! want it to they They want it Abroad, they want it for imperialist war—to pro- tect Wall Street investments in China and South America. Above all, they want it for a war of inter- vention against the Soviet Union. ee : Fascism and war—these are the imperialist twins now being hatched in the Roosevelt New Deal war budget. Could the statement of the Chairman of the House Appropriation Committee make this any clearer, when he said two days ago, justifying the enormous war preparations: “We are sitting on a voleano at home and abroad. We cannot biind ourselves to the menace of radical- ism within our borders, and foreign war-like activ- ities.” Or when Brigadier General Howard of the National Guard justified the $25,000,000 appropriation for the National Guard on the ground of the “country’s strike situation,” could this be any clearer statement of fascist intent against the whole American working class and labor movement? True enough are the words of I. M. Ornburn, official of the A. F. of L. Cigar Makers Union, who ‘stated to the House Labor Committee: “With the N.R.A. now headed by one of industry’s chief night riders, labor can expect increasing doses of fascism from its decisions and activities.” Verv strangely, this top official then sees in Con- gress “as the only hope against fascism”—the very capitalist Congress that ushered it in! Out of capitalist democracy, develops fascism, the open, brutal dictatorship of finance capital) preparing for imperialist war! Out of proletarian dictatorship develops a new, higher, more profound democracy, and a firm policy of peace! Premier Molotov of the Soviet Union, addressing the recent All-Soviet Congress, proclaimed the extension of proletarian democracy, so that the Soviet workers and farmers elect their own organs of rule, the Soviets, 7 in secret ballots, in the broadest democracy the world has ever seen! This is true proletarian democracy, where the workers own and control the country’s eco- nomic life! The growing strike wave and the mass movement for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill show that the workers are resisting Roosevelt's fascist moves. Thousands all over the country are becoming aware of the war danger which looms out of growing Roosevelt reaction. The New York City Madison Square Garden meet- ing on February 25, Monday, will see a mighty counter- blast against Hearst and his war incitements! Let this demand for peace, for the defense of the Soviet Union, for the smashing of fascist reaction, echo and re-echo throughout the country! Dail Working Class Daily FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. U.S.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Newspaper” “America’s Only ALgonquin 4-795 4. York, N. Y. 54, National Press , D. C. Telephone: Nation: 7910, ‘Wells St., Room 705, Chicago, Ml. tat Midwes Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 86.00; $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; $3.00. $5.00: 3 months, By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents, Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935 Fulerum and Lever PEAKING before the Committee hearings on the Wagner- Lewis “unemployment bill Tuesday, Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, clearly set for- ward the Communist position on unem- ployment and social insurance. Senate Finance insurance” He laid down seven points which must be incorporated into any genuine system of unemployment insurance, and added: “The Communist Party opposes the Wag- ner-Lewis administration bill because it violates each and every one of these con- ditions for real unemployment insurance.” What are these conditions? Maintain- ing of the living standards of the masses; coverage for all persons; benefits to begin at once; payment by government and the owning class; no discrimination of any sort; trade union protection, and workers’ control. These are the very minimums which the millions who are mobiled behind the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H.R. 2827, demand. These conditions must be made the ful- erum of the lever that will move even greater masses behind the campaign for the Workers’ Bill. Bring the campaign into the shops and picket lines, into all organi- zations, wherever workers gather. Building, | ness, wants to increase these profits still further, at the expense of further wage cuts and unemployment for the workers. The workers can better their conditions by building up their unions and fighting for union conditions. The chiseling em- ployers’ codes must be smashed by the mass fight of the workers. Growing Picket Lines HE strike wave against conditions im- posed by Roosevelt’s New Deal is rapidly growing. In Western Pennsylvania, 3,000 soft coal miners in the Vesta mines, owned by the Jones and Laughlin Steel Co., are striking. Ten thousand garment workers are out in Chicago. Twelve hun- dred shoe workers are on strike in Lowell, Mass. Rubber workers are on strike in Willoughby, Ohio. In California and the South, miners, agricultural workers and textile workers are walking picket lines. Thousands are striking in scattered areas throughout the country. In all basic industries the demand of the workers for strike is increasing. In the A. F. of L. steel, auto, coal, textile, building service and other unions, the membership have already gone on record for immediate strike preparations. Only the delay maneuvered by national A. F. of L. officials is holding the workers back from strike in many of these industries. The workers will not much longer stand for the company union anti-labor decisions of the employers’ boards set up by Roose- velt. It is imperative, especially in view of these approaching struggles, to build the unions, especially the A. F. of L. unions, into mass fighting organizations, to or- ganize the unorganized workers, to prepare the coming strike battles. Aid the ‘Southern Worker’ HE Birmingham Age-Herald, unofficial mouthpiece of the steel and other in- dustrial interests, comments upon the new | Party Life The Chicago Elections Miskerik for Alderman Party Tasks in Ward 21 ARD 21, Chicago, is a dis- trict concentration ward. |Comrade Miskerik, the work- ers’ choice for alderman was one of the three aldermanic candidates (out of twenty- nine endorsed by the Commu- nist Party of Chicago) whose peti- tion was not challenged. A Ward Election Campaign Com- mittee has functioned regularly and well since the opening of the cam- paign, This committee was the first in the city to issue an alder- manic platform. Ten thousand plat- forms in English, 4,000 in Bohe- mian, and 6,000 in Polish were printed and more than half of them have already been distributed among the workers in the ward. This platform deals not only with the general problems facing the workers, professionals and small home-owners, but with concrete is- sues such as the slum district, the garbage-filled alleys, the lack of playgrounds for the children, the one-man street cars, etc. Precinct captains haye been ap- pointed in a number of precincts. Sympathetic mass organizations have been contacted for help in the signature collection drive and for financial assistance, The Slovak- Democratic Club has endorsed our candidate. A thousand posters with Comrade Miskerik’s picture have been printed and they are to be seen in scores of windows of homes and stores in the 2ist ward. A num- ber of meetings and affairs have been arranged where our candidate has spoken and where also Carl Lockner, Communist mayoralty can- didate, addressed the audiences on the problems of the city-wide elec- tion. The aldermanic candidate spends | every afternoon visiting the workers in the ward and acquainting them with his program, Several other workers are helping in this work. | From all reports there is a splendid sentiment among the workers and | small storekeepers in this ward in favor of Comrade Miskerik. The following tasks must be car- ried out during the remainder of |MADE IN AMERICA! | EN domon, by Burck HEARST | Letters From Our Readers Abolish Ownership By Capitalists ; New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I am one of the heroes of 1917 | and 1918, and now one of the bums of 1935, I and many tens of thou- sands living in breadlines, flop- | houses, subways, hallways and what 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. Quotes Twain’s Definition : | Of Loyalty ) Hearst-Owned Papers Should Be Named Detroit, Mich. |Comrade Editor: dust a friendly suggestion from a thorough sympathizer in the anti- Hearst campaign. World Front By HARRY GANNES Hitler Lets the Cat Out British Cabinet Nervous The Soviet Note | ieee is queering the game of the British die-hards whose aim jbehind the: Anglo-French proposed European pact was to drive it, more or less speedily, in the direction of a war front against the Soviet ; Union. The chief fascist was in- vited to come in on the deal, in return for legalized re-arming. But because the proposals were enshrouded in vague terms of |“peace,” and because the French signers had also signed a mutual assistance peace pact with the So- viet Union, Hitler sought bluntly to Press the issue to an open, brutal anti-Soviet end. In newspaper ar- ticles and diplomatic notes, the Hit- ler gang declared they would accept on condition that German Fascism be allowed an air force sufficient |for war against the Soviet Union, | This idea was further encouraged by the fact that the London pro- posals neatly failed to mention a |Single word about the Eastern Lo- jcarno pacts for peace which the | Soviet Union had sponsored. | Besides, Hitler appealed to the | British imperialists for a private |conference in which the whole plot | Would be worked out more con- cretely. | The Soviet Union immediately be- | gan to spike this drift by exposing |the trend to the entire world. | ier ona | THE Soviet Ambassador to London, |4 Comrade I. M. Maisky, branded | Hitler's maneuvers around the An- | glo-French pact as a dangerous war |move, aimed at the Soviet Union, His reference to the Eastern Locare |no pact touched the sorest point in jthe whole business. Without peace |in Eastern Europe, Maisky said, | there could be no peace anywhere, And the Soviet Union was working | for peace in this area by its mutual | assistance pacts against war. Maisky’s speech, followed up by a short but a many-barbed diplomatic |mote to England and France, had its effect. The London Cabinet met |to discuss the situation. Hitler was | told not to come to London to dis- cuss his anti-Soviet war aim, as that would be too obvious. “There is a strong desire,” re- the campaign if the Chicago City | not, The name “Hearst” means To.do this, the most significant lesson of the result of Browder’s address must be clearly portrayed to the workers—not one mention of Browder’s address found its way into the employers’ press. To bring this campaign forward, workers must build the circulation of the Daily Worker as the instrument of the workers’ strug- gles, as the spokesman of the workers in their demand for genuine unemployment insurance. These lessons are all the greater reasons for building the Daily Worker cir- culation to 100,000, making of it a power- ful weapon in the fight for genuine unem- ployment and social insurance. National Run Around RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has called upon congress to extend the N.R.A. code for two years more. The N.R.A., which went into effect in June, 1933, cut down the real wages of the workers 3.2 per cent. In 1934 alone the cost of living went up more than 14 per cent. Unemployment has so obviously in- creased under N.R.A. that Roosevelt, in his message, makes a lame excuse that “It is now clear that in the spring and summer of 1933 many estimates of unemployment in the United States were far too low.” This is a feeble attempt to bolster his claim that the N.R.A. gave employment to four millions. Actually, more than seventeen millions are now unemployed, and unemployment has increased under N.R.A. Even the A. F. of L. officials supporting N.R.A. admit this. Under N.R.A., terror against strikers and unemployed increased, and dozens of workers were murdered on the picket lines by government armed forces. The N.R.A. has spurred fascism all along the line. The N.R.A. increased profits of big business rapidly. The profits of the biggest corporations increased 70 per cent in the first nine months of 1934 alone. Roosevelt, representative of big busi- Eee en Sedition Bill, now before the Alabama Sen- ate: “It could readily be used to Hitlerize the State. ... If there were some way in which to dispose of them [the Commu- nists] without encroaching upon the free- dom of the main body of men and women, the preblem would be solved.” They sug- gest that until such a time, present methods be continued—implying the extra- legal activities of K.K.K, and company deputy gangs. At the same time the drive against the Communist Party and the militant unions, increases in force and viciousness. Every effort is being made to find the printing plant of the Southern Worker, and to stop its distribution. Terrorists, hired by the big steel companies, realize the danger to them of this most vital organ of the white and Negro southern toilers. The Southern Worker, published in undergreund conditions, is the bond which is welding solidly the unity in struggle of the southern workers. Facing the spear- head of the New Deal drive toward fascism, these icilers need this bond and guide in their daily fight. If the mass protest of workers and sympathizers everywhere, and our support materially, can aid this struggle, we cannot afford for a moment to hesitate or withhold that aid. A Trotskyite T IS Norman Mini, the Trotskite, one of the eighteen Sacramento defendants, who is speaking. The District Attorney asks him, “Who was Kari Marx?” The Trotskyite answers: “He was a German Jew.” This is how a Trotskyite hero, a cow- ardly stool-pigeon who gives the police the names of Communists, regards Karl Marx, revolutionary genius and leader. of the working class. This Trotskyite is the star witness of the prosecution against working class leaders. “A German Jew!” How well Trotsky- ism prepar2s one for fascist rottenness and service to the police! Council is to have at least one. workers’ representative in its midst | |for the next four years. 1. The Party membership in this ward particularly, and the mem- bership in Section 1 in general, must respond conscientiously to bution of leaflets and platforms. 2, One hundred workers (citi- zens) must be mobilized as watch- ers in the booths on Feb. 26. 3. The Polish quarter of the ward, where the present Alder- man Lagodny may still hae some support, must be thoroughly can- vassed by competent Polish com- rades. 4. The language press and the language organizations in the ward are asked to help sell tick- ets for a big pre-election affair (dramatics, dancing, etc.) to be given for Comrade Miskerik in the | National Hall, Feb. 24. 5. Twenty-five cars must be mo- bilized for the night of Feb. 25 for a torch parade in Ward 21. One week of concentrated work | on these tasks and America may re- sound with the news of the election of a workers’ candidate as alder- man in the city of Chicago. Out of the six workers’ candidates left on the ballot Miskerik is one E. D. Section 1, Chicago, Ill. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion ‘on the Communist Party. ADDRESS .., Conference on H. R. 2827 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb, 21.— Calls were issued today for a West Philadelphia conference for the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. The conference will be held Sunday, March 24, at 2 pm., at Kings Hall, 507 North Forty-first |Street. The conference will serve the two-fold purpose of taking steps _to defeat Gov. Earle’s tax program | and to mobilize pressure behind the Workers’ Bill, Now on the question of abolishing Racine, Wisconsin all calls for help in mass distri- | who has a real chance for election, | private property, all the American workers know or should know that eighty per cent of us haven't any property to lose. The only thing we have is misery and poverty. Therefore there should be articles in the Daily Worker every now and |then on this subject. There are why abolish private property, and |many of our comrades do not ex- |plain the correct idea of private | ownership. A lot of the American workers think that private property means the furniture or his automobile that. he has, or his wife or his children, his little home, if he happens to have one. Therefore, we should make this question very clear: that we mean the factories, the mines, the mills, all the means of pro- duction and distribution. If we do | that, we will gain more of the con- \fidence of the American workers. | ALR, Corrects Error Of Omission New York, N. Y. \Comrade Editor: | On Wednesday, February 13, on Page 5, there appeared an article jentitled, “Textile Workers Demand Strike Call.” Somewhere in the ar- |ticle is a parenthesis that says, “See my article of . . .” Since there is no indication who the author of the article is, I think you will agree that more care should be exercised in this direction. J.C, NOTE: The article referred to is one of a series by Carl Reeve, whose name was by error omitted from the February 13th article. lution in all countries. | proletariat. classes, to a society without a state. | Comrade Editor: I submit the following quotation from Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee” for additional reading re- quired for Mr. Hearst: “You see my kind of LOYALTY |many workers who ask the question, |S loyalty to one’s country, not to | lits institutions or its office-holders. “The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal jthing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; in- stitutions are extraneous, are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to |be comfortable, cease to protect \the body from cold, disease, and | ‘death, | “To be loyal to rags, to shout for \tags, to worship rags, to die for \rags,—that is a loyalty to unreason, it is pure animal, it belongs to monarchy, was invested of mon- archy, let monarchy keep it. “I was from Connecticut, whose Constitution declares, ‘That all po- litical power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit, and that they have at all times an un- deniable and indefeasible right to such a manner as they may think expedient.’ “Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the com- monwealth’s political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace is disloyal; is a TRAITOR.” A FRIEND. | On Dictatorship of the Proletariat alter their form of government in nothing to thousands of men and |women workers here in Detroit. Your paper and literature must emphasize the fact that liar Hearst owns the Detroit Times, a fact which surprisingly few people know. You must inform thousands in Pittsburgh and vicinity that Hearst owns the Sun Telegraph. In fact, you should print a list of all Hearst |publications, so workers will know \what papers to ban, when they ban |Hearst papers. Such a list should |appear at least twice a month in ithe “Worker.” M. T. B. | Every Workers’ Center Needs Sub to “Daily” New Haven, Conn. Comrade Editor: | When the National Biscuit Com- pany went on strike, a driver for that company came into Party head- | quarters asking for a Daily Worker. Here is a case of a worker whom no one knew except that I saw him driving the N.B.C, truck from time to time. Here is a case where we were asleep. Instead of going to them with the only paper that is | carrying news of the strike, he came | to us looking for a “Daily” (and not j one comrade in the hall had a paper with him), knowing that our press carried news of strikes, etc. He is nowhere near our movement, and yet he knew where to come for the paper. Let’s remember, everyone is a | possible contact for a Daily Worker. I propose that all workers’ organ- and does not agitate for a new suit, | izations contribute toward a sub- scription for every workers’ ae Hence there are three fundamental aspects of the dictatorship of the proletariat. (1) The utilization of the power of the proletariat for the suppression of the exploiters, for the defense of the country, for the consolidation of the ties with the proletarians of other lands, and for the development and the victory of the revo- (2) The utilization of the power of the proletariat in order to detach the toiling and exploited masses once and for all from the bourgeoisie, to consolidate the al- liance of the proletariat with these masses, to enlist these masses in the work of socialist construction, and to assure the state leadership of these masses by the | (3) The utilization of the power of the proletariat for the organization of socialism, for the abolition of classes, and for the transition to a society without -—STALIN (“Problems of Leninism”) |marked Frederick T. Birchall, N. Y. Times’ London correspondent, “to urge upon the German government \that future exchanges should cover | the entire field rather than the air proposal alone.” He further declared that the So- viet Government “is beginning to |make itself heard regarding the |German attitude toward the Anglo- |French proposal in no uncertain | terms.” | Hitler's objective was to rupture the Soviet-French peace pact; and |in this respect he was aided by the British imperialists who want a speedy war against the Soviet Union. es * UT the British cabinet, sensing the growing upsurge among the British proletariat, did not dare to continue along this path of open provocation of a Fascist war against the Soviet Union. Their diplomacy is now one of a zig-zag—an appeare ance of cisowning Hitler’s idea of a solid European-Japanese united front for war against the USS.R, The sharpest barb in the Soviet note is precisely the weakest point in the Anglo-French pact. “The organization of security in Europe,” says the Soviet note to England and France, “can be at- tained through realization of all the accords and pacts cited in the Lon= don communique, and that to fore get this or that accord, far from serving the consolidation of peace, might serve as provocation to open violation of the agreement by an interested party.” The Anglo-French pact merely “forgot” the Eastern Locarno pact, Hitler saw in this a “provocation to open violation” and war against the Soviet Union. Concluding, the Soviet note, with the knowledge that capitalist dipe lomats always say the opposite of what they mean to do, states: “In saluting the accord reached at London the Soviet Government hopes that it will be brought to re+ alization in the spirit it suggests.” Maisky’s speech and the Soviet note is meant, above all, for the at- tention of the toiling masses in those imperialist countries who are maneuvering for an anti-Soviet war front. Jail for Singing STRALSUND, Germany, Feb. 21, —Laughing and keeping his hands in his pockets while a band played the Horst Wessel Song, dirge of Hit« Jer fascism, meant two weeks’ im= prisonment for a Stralsund here,

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