The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 8

8 Page DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 Pee | | ith H War Dri New Light On Roosevelt Tie-Up with Hearst War Drive HEARST EDITORIAL HINTS AT PRE-ARRANGED SCHEME TO VIOLATE PROMISE ROOSEVELT MADE TO SOVIET UNI ARST, leading propagandist for a war against the day, and in four minutes and two words he sent the ernment would arrange a loan. “The word loan was and sword-rattling lies about the U.S.S.R. Is there Soviet U: sed with Roosevelt’s Secretary Tovarish on his borrowing round and stripped our Mos- ate H recognizes that what Hull is breaking off debt negotiations is to play right in with his own Hull’s light on of negotiations s unrestrained delight Hearst throws breaking off at new rude, provoca just how this was accomplished! In his the New York American, he points out cynically that when Troyanovsky, the Soviet Am- bassador, entered the hall to meet Hull, Hull “happily felt an attack of splendid isolation coming on him that paper, cow embassy of a few unnecessary comrades.” In this vulgar boasting, Hearst gives us some ink- ling of how Roosevelt's Secretary of State had appar- ently arranged the whole matter well in advance of the meeting! And the dispatch of Walter Duranty, New York Times correspondent this week, describing the feeling in the Soviet Union, gives us some highly significant information on the violation of promises which has distinguished Roosevelt’s recent policy toward the Soviet Union. Mr. Duranty lets us know that Roosevelt had defi- nitely promised Litvinov, Soviet envoy, that the gov- used in the protocol, the writer knows,” says Duranty, who apparently has unimpeachable sources of infor- mation, “And,” continues the New York Times correspond- ent, “there was no qualification to the word loan—no mention of terms and no statement as to whether it would be long or short,” pointing out, however, that it must have been long-term in order to take care of the debt payment by interest. Thus, it is fairly clear that Roosevelt had agreed to loan the Soviet Union a long term loan, and that somewhere between this first promise and Hull’s inter- view this policy was abruptly changed. The breaking of Roosevelt’s agreement with Lit- vinoy coincides with the rapid rise in Hearst’s callous more than a mere “coincidence” in this? Is it a “coincidence” that Hearst knows that Hull was expecting “an attack of splendid isolation that day” in the Hull-Troyanovsky interview? It would be blindness to think so. Hearst’s war howls against the U.S.S.R. are all the more sinister in light of Roosevelt’s policy and war preparation. Protest and alarm at this war-menacing policy must be roused throughout the entire country. It menaces the working class and the peace of the world. The tremendous anti-Hearst, anti-war demonstra- tion called to pledge aid to the Soviet Union in its peace policy, to be held Monday, February 25 should be followed by mass demonstrations all over the country, Daily,QWorker CIWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. double method of breaking strikes and smashing unions. If they cannot. betray them through National Labor Boards, they can always fall back upon the weapon of naked terror. They generally use these methods simultaneously. The workers will recall that the Na- tional Labor Board, with Wagner at its head, attempted to break many strikes, Telephone Cable Address Algonquin 4-795 4. “Dalwork,” New York, N. Y¥. Washington Dicom. "P54)> Maiomal: reed ing, | such as the Paterson silk and dye strikes, 1 tiated Hr Aen RTA eon ni Once on | by arbitration, at the same time that a rn 3981 terrific terror against the picket lines was Subscription Rates: in progress, (except. Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.08; : : e gertais $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents. The demagogic promises of majority 0 ai Canada: 1 year, $9.00; yori AG 4 Pct y penne Gee, pate ‘J rule and rights of collective bargaining, , 18 mts; monthiy, 75 cents. would result the same as the promises of section 7a of the N.R.A. have resulted, in the strengthening of the company unions and in strikebreaking activities. Saturday Edition: By mail, year, $4.50; 6 months, 75 cents. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 Labor’s First Round OOSEVELT was riled Thursday when the Senate, by a margin of one vote, passed the “prevailing wage” clause in the administration’s work relief program. Tre- mendous pressure, echoing from thousands of local unions, forced through the vote. “New” N. R. A. OOSEVELT is now talking of a “new” N.R.A.. an N.R.A. that will be “anti- monopoly.” Of course, the fact that he must em- phasize the “anti-monopoly” character of Roosevelt had insisted on his demand of a slave wage on work relief as he out- lined in his speech to Congress on Jan. 4 when he declared that wages must be less on work relief than in private industry. Fear of a wave of strikes on the works projects, coupled with the demand of labor for union rates, spiked for the moment the Roosevelt wage-cutting scheme in this regard. But every employed and unemployed worker ‘must understand that “prevail- ing wages” do not represent prevailing union wages. In some sections, notably the South, the slave wage of $50 a month which was demanded by Roosevelt is the “prevailing wage.” Every worker must further be made conscious of the threats that Roosevelt will veto the entire bill, or Senate and Congress, as a face-saving gesture for the President, will kill even the “prevailing wage” clause in committee meetings. The fight for union wages and condi- tions on the relief jobs, and the struggle for the enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H.R. 2827, should be carried forward on the relief projects and on the P.W.A. jobs. Job committees should be set up on each project. Through the formation of democratically-controlled unions on the re- lief jobs, the demands must be carried forward. The fight has only begun. Only a small blow has been struck in round one. The Wagner Bill HE Wagner “Labor Disputes Bill” now before Congress, aims to accomplish the defeat of the demands of the unions by the establishment ef an all powerful National Labor Board. This bill would continue the demagogic pretense of giving labor its rights, by including a clause al- lowing representation of unions on the the “new” N.R.A. only emphasizes the strong menopoly trend of the “old” N.R.A. But what will be “new” about this N.R.A.? Only the methods. The Wall Street purpose remains the same. The union-smashing, the company unions, the wage cutting, the speed-up, all will be intensified if Roosevelt has his way in the “new” N.R.A. The “new” N.R.A. is only the carrying out of the orders of the Wall Street mag- nates who met in White Sulphur Springs a few months ago. In this issue of the Daily Worker there is a full page devcted to the N.R.A., old and new. It should be valuable to all militant workers now preparing to organize Amer- ican labor in one united force to beat back the attacks of Wall Street, and the menace of fascism and war that is looming out of the N.R.A.-New Deal. B Labor Party Questions gee THOMAS has stated, “The time has come for labor to break away from the Roosevelt administration.” “The only way organized labor can pro- tect its rights is to have its own political party,” he concludes. Yes, indeed, both of these statements are true. The Communist Party has fought against any reliance on Roosevelt from the day he took office. It was alone in this. Today, the Communist Party stands in the forefront of the fight to create a mass Labor Party, based on the trade unions, with a program of class struggle against Wall Street. The Communist Party has addressed a letter to the National Committee of the S. P. proposing joint action for the build- ing of the trade unions and a mass class struggle Labor Party. basis of majority rule.’Such a clause cloaks the strikebreaking intent of the bill. The seeming differences between Roose- velt and Wagner on this bill are only as § to what method is best to use in preventing strikes and in defeating the demands of the trade unions. There is no doubt that under this bill, the Nationa! Labor Board would be a body controlled completely by the employers. Its purpose would be to prevent and de- feat strikes through arbitration, Its- | method would be that of defeating strikes around the conference table. The employers’ government uses this Thomas says he is for ‘a Labor Party. He is for breaking away from Roosevelt. How can he reconcile these views with his refusal to work for the united front with the Communist Party? What kind of Labor Party would it be without the Com- munist Party? How can the broadest front be organized against Roosevelt and his policies without the Communist Party? To Socialist and A. F. of L. workers we say: Can any real fight to build the unions and a LaWor Party be successful without the Communists, who have proven them- selves in the front ranks of the class strug- gle? Acts to Spike Wage Fight sve wore sit 'cuigiee ts | made by Senator Joseph T. Robin- | | Son, The reason advanced for send- | ing it-back to committee was in or- | | der to split the bill up to make im- I Ph 1 a 1 es of build: hanics to | Mediate relief funds available. Plans i i = Sides ye hour, ahaa |were admittedly stated that -at- = ee phia Sunday : tempts would be made to split up| PTE Be te ee ees | the measure, delete the “prevailing; PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.—Alex- 2. C. C. camps would be extended | We” clause, and rush it through ander Trachtenberg, a leading fig- : ot A a | as a face-saving measure of the ad- rf under the works bill—with fat pa- | ministration to make it unnecessary |U"@ Of the Communist Party, will tronage lists. This announcement | | speak at an open membership meet- was made despite the fact that last Sele ee By ee eee aan ae of the Philadelphia organiza- week Roosevelt assured Senator Nye | Th th =) dvanced. that ig | tion of the Communist Party on Of the Senate Munitions Investiga- | 400° soecce gee eet ee that if | Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Girard | tion Committee that no relief or | the measure was split so.as to pro- | P. W. A. funds would be used for | Vide for direct relief, it would be| 4 | impossible to write in the “prevail- can Aanelaeae ing wage” clause. | The announcement about the en-| Meanwhile, demands of A.T’. of L.| All Party members should at- largement of C. C, C. was made by | unions for trade union wages and | tend, the District Committee of the | Spea Byrnes of the House, who | Gonditions and wages on relief jobs|C. P. urges. ipathizers of the ina ‘ty caucus late yesterday said | &re flooding Washington, |Party are cordiaily invited. | 4 | that 10,000 jobs as superintendents | and foremen would be distributed | shortly. Plans are under way for a huge mass meeting at Irving Plaza on Saturday, March 2, at 2 p.m. to push forward the fight for union rates and conditions on the relief jobs. (Continued from Page 1) Trachtenberg to Speak cosine anne: aera case area Rene meee |The meeting will begin promptly at }2 p.m. Manor, $11 West Girard Avenue. | Party Lite 54 Recruits in 5 Weeks But Unit Gets No Credit Explanation Required ROM January 1 to Febru- ary 9 our unit (Unit 21, Seamen’s Unit of Section 1, New York), recruited 54 sea- men into the Party. We placed 43 of these into the unit, | Although handicapped by five weeks because of organizational changes, and with only five weeks to carry out the main slogan of jthe District which was: “Every member get another member,” we nee able to put this slogan into life. Each bureau meeting discussed recruiting as a part of our day-to- |day work among the seamen. We |raised the slogan: “No action in which we take part is successful un- | less we get organizational gains.” | This because the main slogan of the | | unit and all of our work on the | waterfront, and resulted in winning | new members for our Party. Every leaflet we issued brought new mem- bers. An-open air meeting against the slanders of the Hearst press brought. 300 seamen out into the cold to listen to our speakers, and | recruited four new members into the | Party. | | The Socialist competition spirit | ran high in our unit and a close | check was made on all units in the section. Although the members re- cruited by our unit were never men- tioned in the Section Letter, we re- | cruited more than any other unit, | and we naturally expected to win the banner and the set of Lenin’s | | Works. | But this didn’t happen! Two weeks before the end of the | | drive we told our Section Organizer how many we had recruited and asked him to give us credit. He said he would. From that time on no more records were published in the ; | Section Letter. We approached the District Membership Director, and! he notified the section that we had | recruited 50 in a few days before | the end of the drive. | | The final day came. Three new |members were elected to go to the | Section Banquet—t hese delegates | Were the shock troops because of the work they had done in the unit and all of them expected to get the ban- |ner. However, when Comrade Brow- der awarded prizes he found that Unit 34 won first prize with 39 new |members. Second prize went to an- | other with 28, and third prize went to a unit still lower, that is, with \less members recruited. Our organizer spoke to the sec- tion organizer, and he said that he did not know that we had recruited )SO many members, but he would |mention it in his speech, He failed to do so. | The excuse offered is that our |members who are seamen get their |books through the district because {of the nature o° their trade, and ‘no records are made in the section. Although three responsible comrades notified the Section Organizer and |the Section Membership Committee |—they didn’t see fit to find out about our recruiting. It is a fact that new books are being held in the section, new mem- bers are beginning to believe that \they are not wanted in the Party, jand if this situation keeps up it will |Mean new members falling out of the Party, which is very bad. | We challenge every unit in Ser- \tion One, as well as all other Sea- | Men's Units in New York to recruit |more members into the Party in the next period. |_ Forward to a mass Communist Party on the waterfront! | H. J. F. Pa a | - Editor’s Note: If the facts stated | \in this letter are correct, it is un- ‘fortunate, to say the least, that this unit was not given credit for its excellent recruiting. The method in |which the records are kept should not be permitted to interfere with keeping a proper check on the re- cruiting done by the individual units, especially during = major re- ‘cruiting drive. Perhaps the organ- izer of Section One will explain how this happened, and through a letter to this column, give proper credit to this Seamen’s Unit. | We are glad, however, that the /comrades in this unit have a true Bolshevik spirit and are not per- mitting this incident to discourage them, but are instead issuing a chal- | lenge to Socialist competition in | recruiting to every unit in Section One and to every Seamen's Unit in Ne w York. | Join the | Communist Party | 35 East 12th Street, New York Please.send me more informa-. tion on the Communist Party. NAME . res i ADDRESS | i | SIGNING HIM UP FOR TWO YEARS MORE by Burck ™ WS | Letters From Our Readers | Veteran “Sick of Swivel Chair Legionnaires” Lutz, Fla, Comrade Editor: | I can't“renew my subscription to | the Daily Worker as I am broke | and there is no money in sight to | pay for them. There are only a few | political cockroaches in this burg who have any money at all. My family is on “relief.” Under separate cover I send you “Tampa Trader,” for an account of American Legion Hooey on the last page, Iam a World War Navy vet- eran, and those swivel chair Le- gionaires are plum sickening to me. E. Hearst Is Mobilizing The Youth Easton, Pa. Comrade Editor: I've been reading Hearst’s Sun- day New York American. He’s been waging a campaign to get members into a potentially fascist organiza- tion that he can use when needed, the “Junior Birdmen of America.” He devotes a whole. page to the youth, apparently trying to put avi- ation across to them. After you read the page, which is skilfully arranged to get you interested, and there are millions of youth who are, you send 25 cents in coins well wrapped in an envelope and presto, you get a pippy looking emblem. This is something for the Young Pioneers to think about. Ww.s. | High School Student. | 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. Miners Want Leadership Of Communist Party Peoria, Ill. Comrade Editor: I would like to call your atten- tion to the situation among the coal miners in Illinois. March 13, 1935 the present agree- ment between the coal operators and the two unions in the field ex- pires. Therefore, in view of the possible struggle in the mining fields, I see the need of the Com- munist Party and the Daily Worker jto begin at once taking an active | part in leading the miners of both |unions which are under reaction- ary leadership, We militant miners, most of us reading the Daily Worker, will do our best to follow your instructions as closely as possible. I am in the United Mine Work- jers of America, but the rank and file here is just as ready to take action as the rank and file miners in the Progressive Miners of Amer- jica. We need honest men as lead- that we have at present. Please then, have some of the Rood leaders in the Party, well in- formed on the problems of the miners start a series of articles in order to show the best way out for them. Ss. Capitalist, Economists Say Wages Are Too High | New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: An an editorial on Feb, 19, the N. Y. Times declares itself in favor of lower wages for, the masses. Said the organ of exploiting capi- | talism: “There is an important | school of economists which holds the scale of wages now prevailing is too high in: the interest of the |great body of the workers them- | selves.” But what a coincident that the Times does not publish editorials, ‘neither does it mention the exis- |tence of an “important school” of |capitalist economists charging that |monopoly capitalism is constantly jincreasing its profits at the expense ee the living standards of the work- ers. In a society in which a very small group of multi-millionaires are per- \mitted to accumulate huge fortunes | while vast zones of the population |are reduced to live an existence on ‘the borderland of death by hunger, organs of publicity as the Times and the venomous Hearst press are its ‘inevitable poisonous growths. ‘ers, not the type of office seekers} The workers of America, THE |PEOPLE WHO MAKE the wealth, | must abolish their ghastly state of affairs by taking the government in | their own hands, for then only can |they make this country THEIR OWN country. AD GED; | On Dictatorship of the Proletariat Hence there are three fundamental aspects of the dictatorship of the proletariat. (1D 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- . lution in all countries. (2) The utilization of the power of the proletariat in order to detach the toiling and explcited masses once and for all fram 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 Wie state Icadership of these masses by the proletariat. (3) The utilization of the power of the proletariat for the organization of socialism, for the abolition of classes, and for the transition fo a society without clasdes, to a society without a state. —STALIN (“Problems of Leninism’’) |a trip to Manchukuo. | World Front By HARRY GANNES | Hearst on British “Recovery” | The Lira Slips | “More Serious Than Reported” | QYILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST often gauges his propaganda to his own be- | lief that his readers are foola lor idiots. On Friday, for ex- | ample, he prints very promi- nently, an editorial by Robert | H. Hemphill, described as a “finan- | clal authority,” wherein he speaks |of “the secret of England’s rapid recovery.” For the past week the entire caple talist press has been filled with news which factually proves British capitalism is on the economic tobog- gan. To Hearst an increase of the unemployed by 250,000 in one month | may be considered “recovery,” just as a 100 per cent rise in food pro- duction in the jet. Union is con- sidered “scarcit: A few days ago we quoted the statement of Sir William Beveridge, | economic authority in the London School of Economies, in which he showed the highest point of British | “recovery” that Hearst crows about was 17 per cent below the 1922 level. At that time we pointed to the fact that this confirmed Comrade Stalin’s estimate of the snecial nature of the depression. We said Comrade Stalin made this estimate six months ago, when in reality it was over a year ago, On the very day Hearst boasted about British “recovery” as an ex- ample for the American bosses, the British press headlined the collapse of Francis Wiley & Co., the largest wool dealers in the world. At the head of this company is Lord Barnby, of the Federation of Britisn Industries, recently returned from The Wool Lord urged British cooveration with Japan in Manchuria, thereby in- spiring Japan’s war plans against the Soviet Union. The Lord re- turned home to find his woolen | firm sprawled beneath his feet, Ceci seas | 1 Meta wool collapse is but one of a series in tin, peanuts, shellac and wheat. What is more, the lead- ing London banks are involved, and there isn’t the slightest doubt that a new downward plunge in the British crisis is on the way. Britain and America are not ex- ceptional in this resnect, as is the wont of Lovestone to say. In Italy the financial situation is becoming openly desperate. The lira has ac- tually plunged off the gold standard. Mussolini has not only stopped the outgo of foreign exchange and se- curities in Italy, but as well the income of foreign commodities. At the French border, all freight trains are stopped. The lira is dropping on the foreign exchange markets. Here the basic cause is quite involved: First the crisis of Italian fascism drives it to war moves against Abyssinia. The cost. of the Abyssinian war maneuvers intensifies the financial crisis. ee ee 1 ise same situation is driving Hit- ler to war against the Soviet Union. Unemployment is growing by leans and bounds in fascist Ger- many. The banks are top-heavy with Nazi paper. “Banks have been so loaded recently,” writes the New York Times correspondent, “with short term government obli- gations, that they were in danger of being unable to finance ordinary private business, unless the Reichs- bank indulges in inflationary meas- ures.” So far has the financial crisis progressed in Germany, that Hitler will not even make the next budget public. If the United States is sitting on a volcano of internal class struggle, the fascist lands are already slidme down the lava of a smouldering eruption. ei Ree. IN JUGOSLAVIA, the mass dis- content has broken out into open struggle. Thirteen peasants have already been slaughtered. Veba Popovich, Minister of the Interior, blames “extremist. propaganda.” But again the New York Times corre- spondent sees the situation as more serious. To quote him: “Your cor- respondent learns that the riots were far more serious than was reported Officially. More than 1,500 peasants participated. At times on Tuesday and yesterday local authorities were in danger of falling into the hands of the rioters. Excitement is run- /ning high, with the nossibility of | Tenewal of trouble by the peasants, Who have been greatly aroused. hy the bloodshed.” ‘ This is Hearst's idea of British and European recovery. No one can deny Hearst's loyalty to fascism. So far as fascism is concerned Hearst's orders of the Spanish-American war still hold. “You paint the pictures, I'll make, the war,” LLL LLL LLL EN NNN it f