The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1933 »# seventeenth anniversary of the JESTERDAY Red Army of the was tne Soviet Union. workers. And coming, as this anniversary does, in the midst of the Hearst ls for war against the Soviet Union, defen the land of Soc , it is with a feeling of heartfelt whore. he working class of this country T orkers in honoring their mighty ho RED ARMY IS PRECIOUS POSSESSION OF WORKING he New York Times Duranty, in his latest dispatch, speaks of the “great popularity of the Red Army and its close and enthusi- astic contact with the civilian population!” and all oppres ist attack every Daily EnWTRAL OMGAM COMMUNIST PARTY “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. ¥. 5.4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL? Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: * N Washington B ith and F St., Midwest Bureau Press Building, onal 7910. For this Red Army is no ordinary army. It is the first people’s army in ihe world! The Red Army is the army of Socialism. It is an army consecrated to the interests of the working class sed, an army supporting the peace policy of the Soviet Union, piedged to defend against imperial- ingle inch of Soviet soil. Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $4.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cen | Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $8.00; | 6 mol 35.00: 3 months, $3.00. By. Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 76 cents, Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75. cents. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935 Mass at Garden Tonight HE great Madison Square Garden dem- onstration in New York tonight will launch a campaign which is especially vital now because of the intensified slanders against the U.S.S.R., and because of the imminent danger of war. The Daily Worker urges all tv whom the safety and defense of the Workers’ Fatherland is dear to fill the Garden to the rafters tonight. Make this event a mighty and memorable demonstration of the determination of American workers to defend the Soviet Union against its impe- rialist and fascist enemies. Protest the break in U. S.-Soviet trade negotiations! Answer this blow against the American workers and against the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union! Denounce the anti-Soviet war moves of Japan, Germany, Poland and the other ene- mies of the Soviet Union! The Service Men’s Strike STRIKE of 20,000 building service workers in 640 buildings, in the gar- ment. fur and millinery districts today was declared inevitable by James S. Bam- brick, president of the Building Service Employes International Union, if owners of these buildings fail to meet the demands of the union by today. Threats of strike made before have in numerous cases remained empty threats. This brought about a situation where the realty owners, represented by Walter Gordon Merritt, the notorious open shop lawyer, hired by the Realty Board, are ig- noring these threats. They went as far as sabotaging the direct negotiations be- tween the owners and the union. With the membership of the union ready for action to improve their condi- tions, officials of the union, headed by Bambrick, permitted continual postpone- ment to the detriment of the interests of the men. This action of the union heads played into the hands of the realtors, They feel, now that every attempt of the mem- bership to strike has been blocked by the union leaders, that the union can’t call an effective strike. Now is the time for a show-down. The union is growing into a powerful organi- zation, The highly unionized garment center offers the union an exceptional op- portunity for a successful strike supported by the solidarity of the fur, garment and millinery workers, Failure of Mr. Bambrick and other union officials to take advantage of this opportunity and strike today the garment center buildings, the owners of which have not met the demands of the workers, should be condemned as forsaking the in- terests of the workers for “peaceful settle- ments,” which have proven futile time and time again. Building service workers, strike every building in the garment center which has not signed up with the union, whether or not leaders of the union find it permissible under the Mayor’s truce! No more arbitration, no more talking, let action of the workers make the bosses come to terms! Organize all the unorganized building service workers into the union and make it a powerful weapon in the hands of the workers! a The Red Army is the army not only of the Soviet It is the army of the working class and the oppressed peoples of the world, which by defending the fortresses of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., at the same time s the interests of labor and the oppressed every- correspondent, Walter This is because the Red Army, unlike capitalist Union, ing its armies where the workers are herded and tyrannized, is blood and flesh of the workers and farmers ofthe Soviet mingling freely with the population, and draw- strength from the masses. The celebration of this anniversary of the Red Worker For Unity in the Anthracite IFTY-ONE district and local officials of the Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania were ordered to appear in Luzerne County Court in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., next Thurs- day, to show cause why they should not be arrested for refusing to call off the strike of. the Glen Alden Miners. This ac- tion came after the Glen Alden Company presented Judge Valentine with a petition charging the union with responsibility for dynamitings and even with the killing of two strikers. This action of the company is the most drastic union smashing measure yet taken in any strike. The strike was simply de- clared illegal by the courts and the union officials are to be arrested. The officials of the United Mine Work- ers of America are very joyous at this ac- tion of the company. They have been co- operating to supply scabs and break the independent union, But the members of the U.M.W. of A. do not want to scab. They cannot fail to see that if the company is successful in its drive against the new union it will be suc- cessful in its drive to smash all unionism in the Anthracite. Members in both unions should not lose a moment to break with the splitting policy of the officials. United action of the mem- bers of both unions must be forced from below to safeguard the most elementary rights of the workers. It is futile to ex- pect action from the officials. Not a mo- ment should be lost, in organizing a united mass demonstration of all miners in the Scranton Wilkes-Barre area against these injunctions and arrests. The right to strike and organize is at stake. Protests should be sent to the strike- breaking judge from all labor organiza- tions including locals of the United Mine Workers. Slave Wages on Relief PEAKING for the administration, Sen- ator Robinson yesterday said that the fate of the work relief bill is “before the country.” He said that “the fundamental principle of the President’s proposal is that work relief employment shall be on a basis that will not invite and attract persons now engaged in private enterprise.” The excuse for a slave wage on work relief is given. In effect this says: “Pay less than private wages and the unem- ployed will flock to private jobs.” But where are these “private jobs?” Seventeen million unemployed are a very real testimony that such jobs do not exist. Roosevelt’s demand for a slave “secur- ity wage’ can only be labeled for what it is—a bare-faced attempt to drive still lower the wages in industry. The “Russell amendment” is offered by the Roosevelt gang in Congress as an alter- native to union rates on relief jobs. Briefly, this amendment gives Roosevelt power to raise work relief pay above the | $50 a month average in given localities if they endanger union rates. This is pure bluff. Once the slave rate is enacted, legislative machinery will not move fast enough to stop wage cuts in in- dustry. Roosevelt has also said that he would depend upon “patriotic employers” not to reduce wages. Again pure bluff. Once the administration points the way, every fac- tory in the country will follow. Meanwhile, the entire work relief pro- gram has been recommitted to committee in an attempt by administration forces through threats and trickery to bludgeon through its slave wage program. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, who demagogically claims to lead the fight for “prevailing wages” on work relief, has be- hind him the relief record of his state. Since the beginning of the crisis, Louisiana has appropriated exactly $1,697.16 for re- lief to the tens of thousands of unemployed of the state. Every trade unionist, every worker must redouble the demands upon Wash- ington. Deluge all Senators and Congress- men with the demand for trade union wages and conditions on all relief jobs! For the enactment of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, H. R, 2827] | it contains valuable sugges-| | Party Life | | | Shop Nucleus Program Proposals For Party Unit Reorganizes Work ‘J JE RECEIVED the follow- ing letter, and feel that | tions, | There is one point which, | however, requires comment. That | is point No. 1 in the proposals for | the District: The suggestions that | | regular weekly leaflets on a national | | scale be issued is not a practical | suggestion. It is obvious that such | a thing is almost impossible, and | would prove burdensome to the | units. It would also usurp some | of the functions of the unit and section. It is up to these (units and sections) to issue regular, fre- | quent leaflets, stickers, etc. ‘The District will be glad to give) every possible assistance to the units initiating such a drive. The units should not feel hesitant about do- ing this, nor should they feel that this is too ambitious a task. It | is a simple task that can be easily |handied. The Unit Agitprop, to- | gether with a committee of two | should be designated to take care | of this drive, DISTRICT 2 (NEW YORK) AGITPROP DEPARTMENT. ee) BOO We, the members of the M. S. G.| shop nucleus of Section 3, after’a long discussion on the Party De- fense campaign — connecting this | with the recent events in Washing- | | ton (the severence of trade and debt negotiations with the Soviet Union), and the latest events in| | Europe (the overtures to Hitler by | Great Britain and France); all of | which clearly indicate the align- | ment of the imperialist powers in their preparations for war against | the Soviet Union, RESOLVE | 1. That we send a telegram of protest and indignation to the New| York American as one of the out- standing publications of the Hearst | chain. 2. To recruit two new members | to the Party within six weeks, and | | ten new members to the Union. | 3. That we immediately issue a leaflet in the shop exposing Hearst’s anti-Communist and anti-Soviet Union propaganda. And we propose to the District: 1. The Party, on a national scale |should print and issue regular} ‘weekly leaflets to all the units) throughout the country, and to all sympathetic mass organizations and | trade unions. This leaflet should) lucidly link up Hearst’s campaigns | |against the Party and the Soviet | Union with the policy of the Roose- | velt administration, | 2. The Party should call on all | mass organizations to arrange pro- | test meetings against the latest at- tacks on the Party and for the de- fense of the Soviet Union. 3. A monster mass meeting should be called as a culmination | of these smaller meetings on a wide | united front basis. M. S. G. Shop Nucleus. Pie er} After many months of unorgan- ized, sporadic activities, being a sub- section, we have finally become Sec- tion 23, District 2. We have also been fortunate in getting one of our best comrades as Section Organizer, and have started a three months’ |plan of work. With this readjust- | ment in the section to planned, or- | ganized activity, we have found that | many comrades, though of the very best composition—militdnt, sincere and energetic—are not able to carry | out their assignments even to their | own satisfaction, due to their ac- | knowledged lack of theoretical understanding of the Party, how to work in mass organizations as frac- tions in the trade unions, shops, etc. | Especially important to many of our comrades is the position of the Party on the Negro question, inas- much as there are 15,000 Negroes in our section, the third largest | Negro section in the district. | In order to overcome this very _ serious lack of organizational and | educational work, we have started |@ functionaries’ class, to be held every Sundéy morning, as an im- portant step in the direction of ful- | work, In this manner we hope to be able {to double our membership, build | the ¥.C.L. and other mass organiza- tions and establish an Unemploy- | ment Council and an I.L.D. A FUNCTIONARY OF SEC, 23. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAME | filling our three months’ plan of) Army is especially significant. The Hearst anti-Soviet propaganda is rising. The Hearst poison obviously has the approval of the White Secretary of State Hull’s breaking off of debt negotiations with the Seviet Union is proof of that. We know that Hearst conferred with Hitler. know that Hitler is like a savage dog straining at the House. leash for a war against the And Soviet Union. we can easily see that Hitler’s anti-Soviet Against this gang of war We and farmers. Workers Hail Soviet Red Army as Hearst War Drive Grows CLASS OF THE WORLD—DEFENDS WORKERS’ RULE—SUPPORTS FIRM PEACE POLICY plotters, the Soviet Union and its Red Army stand for peace! In support of the Soviet Union—the workers of the world, in every capitalist country, stand ready to de- fend the Socialist construction of the Soviet workers Tonight, thousands of workers and friends of the Soviet Union, lovers of peace, and haters of fascism, vropaganda finds its counterpart in Hearst’s steady anti-Soviet incitements in his press. Hearst—Hull—Hitler! war! working class in a despe murder! THE SEND-OFF This group is plotting It is plotting to shed the blood of the American rate orgy of reaction and Protest Tonight at Madison Square Garden! Letters From Our Readers Fight With Him For H.R. 2827! Camp Hill, Ala. Comrade Editor: I am a sharecropper and a mem- ber of the Sharecroppers’ Union, I was born in 1869. Please help me to get old age insurance. I need elp. I have seven in my family and we have not got any clothing to wear through the winier. Not one of us has underwear this winter. Please write me at once how to get this insurance. L “March Of Time” A Fascist Newsreel New York, N. Y, Comrade Editor: There is a new feature being shown in the movie theatres en- titled “The March of Time.” It is @ newsreel with all the fascist trim- ming, as was evidenced in the first. of the series I saw last week. There was a very sympathetic narration and pictures of the Japanese statesmen, their war ships, etc., ending with a view of Soviet air planes, which the narrator implied might menace the peaceful aims of the Japanese. It was the most brazen piece of lying, and at the end of the performance, I sought out the manager and told him my opinion of the new feature. He informed me that as it was the first of the series they had signed for, he is interested in com- ments about it and promised he would report them. He atso ex- pressed himself as having no_use |for Hearst and the rest of the fas- |cists. I told him who was behind “March of Time,”—andé how Rand is a munitions makers, etc. I urge all workers who see this newsreel to immediaetly protest to the managers of the theatres and see if we can’t take some of the poison out of the theatre. R. K. 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- lution in all countries. (2) The utilization of the power of the proletariat in order to detach the toiling and expleited masses once and for all from the bourgeoisie, to consolidate the al- liance of the proletariat with these masses, to enlisi these masses in the work of socialist construction, and to assure the state leadership 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 to a society without classes, to a society without a state. 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. | Describes “Riot Practice” Of Maryland Guardsmen Baltimore, Md. | Comrade Editor: Last night I met a friend who | belongs to the Maryland National Guard. He told me that the 5th Regiment has been having riot practice during the last few months. He says that he and the other men don’t like the prospect of being told | to shoot or strike down men who | are struggling for a living and who may be their neighbors or friends or | fellow workers. But he’s heard that | “orders are orders.” | In riot duty the important thing | is to look business-like. They are | told: “If you forget what you are | supposed to do, do something else | quickly. Keep in action, don’t let the crowd see that you are doubt- ful. If this happens, you are lost, as the soldiers are almost always | outnumbered.” In riot formation the men are placed a half pace apart, and the | ranks are at an angle of 45 degrees to the line of march. The idea is that by going down a street this way the troops will force a crowd from the street and pack them along one sidewalk. Or by forming a V the crowd can be penetrated to cap- ture a leader. Tear gas assists in in the maneuver. The officers say: “If the crowd doesn’t depend on | just one or two leaders, these meth- ods don't work.” The officers have pointed out that “improper methods have been em- ployed in the past in the use of gas.” “Tear gas has been used when it was not sufficient; its effects last ‘placed on the front page of the | their class position as well as boost the Daily Worker, a powerful cud- | will meet in a great demonstration at Madison Square Garden to protest the Roosevelt breaking off of debt negotiations, to greet the Soviet Union and its Red Army of Socialism and peace. Answer the Hearst war propaganda! Soviet Union! Defend the by Burck World Front By HARRY GANNES Cuban Political Typhoon “Have Gone to War for Less” Havana and Pittsburgh Re Havana we learn that the private wires between the U. S. Embassy and the Presidential Palace have been hot the past few days. Presi- dent Mendieta’s emissaries are in almost constant touch with Wall Street's Ambassador Caf- fery, very much as in the days be- fore the downfall of Machado, when Sumner Welles took over receiver- ship in the name of the Cuban landlord-bourgeoisie, to protect the sugar trust’s empire in Cuba, The movement developing against | the Mendieta-Batista dictatorship is | taking on the aspect of a people’s | anti-imperialist revolutionary up- |surge. More than 350,000 students and teachers are out on strike, with |the strike definitely transformed into a political movement for the end of the Mendieta-Batista regime, | The C.N.O.C, (Cuban National | Confederation of Labor) has suc- | ceeded in establishing a united |front of workers’ organizations, somewhat on the order of the Ali- anza Obrera in Spain. The Cuban united front is called Proletarian Defense. | The aim of the united front is to repulse the sharpened military- dictatorial attacks on the toiling |masses, and to protect the trade {unions and the workers’ standard | of living against the ferocious as~ | sault initiated with Roosevelt's Cu- ban reciprocity: treaty. aig ENDIETA’S regime will never be the same after the present polit- ical typhoon. If the storm now en- gulfing Cuba does not wreck his | fascist attacks, it will be followed by others, more powerful and more | fateful. Though we do not have news of | the matter, we can put it down as ‘ | unquestionable that from the State we have something better. The | 5, ment where Sumner Welles latest improvement is Adamsite. ie ea ot Shoat (ence. Onder This is a combination of tear gas | ‘Wes the Caril Sten i for “preventive action” have gone and vomit gas. It not only releases ‘out. U. S. battleships, cruisers and the contents of the stomach, but | marines must be flocking year of the bladder and bowels also. It | ravana Bay thicker than sharks puts a man out for at least four |when Machado used to fling bodies hours.” ves Hy Tn the last few weeks the Fitth | °f Poiltieal prisoners into the cecan. Regiment has been drilling with gas | American masses can stay Roose- masks, and they have been told that | yelt’s war machine, which is ready clubs will be issued in case of riot i. holster up the Mendieta-Batista duty, ‘This is so that more damage | dictatorship at the cost of spilling can be done “without making any | the blood of the Cuban people. Vig NOS sa STUDENT, The American bankers’ stake in- ‘ : . : . S “A Powerful Cudgel” Says — | 12)'the saturday Evening. Post’ in- N. B. C. Striker |formed us that any threat to U. S. New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: j imperialist domination in Cuba is |more than a cause for war, Thanks for publishing news that’s | Here’s how they put it: fit to read, news that any reader| “There is no question that can clearly understand. My dad is| our (!) financial interest in Cuba one of the National Biscuit Com-| is much greater than the average pany workers now on strike. He American realizes. We (!) have and I are doing our bit in promot- | invested there almost $1,500,000,- ing the reading of the Daily Work- | 900. More than half of it is in er among the workers of N. B, C,| Sugar properties. [That accounts and we always find plenty in it | for the death penalty against concerning N. B. C. that gives us| Workers and peasants interfering room to talk. | with the sugar harvest when in- And by the way, everybody likes | terference is necessary to raise the new cartoon series, “The Ruling | Wages—H. G.J. . . . Under normal conditions, the capital thus in- vested in a foreign country should return better than 6 per cent per annum — that is to say, around $90,000,009 a year. ... Nations have gone to war for less.” gel in the hands of the American | CPOE etd working class. 'HE references to “our financial A STRIKER'S DAUGHTER. interests” and “we have in- vested” should be startling news to the American workers whose wages are being sliced by the N.R.A., and | the 17,000.000 unemployed on the | brink of starvation. rr é What happens in Cuba is of the The article on Lincoln in the | greatest importance for all Latin February 12 issue was fine, but the ; Daily Worker should have named (Serer eine ore and John Brown as the forerunner in tewention in the greatest secrecy Clawss,” and I feel it would, if Daily Worker, be a contributing | factor to awakening the masses to! A Revolutionary Leader Against Slavery San Antonio, Texas. Comrade Editor: only about fifteen minutes. Now On Dictatorship of the Proletariat —STALIN (“Problems of Leninism”) the fight for the abolition of chat-| .4q with the slimiest demagogy. tel slavery. WG. If we can arouse sufficient sup- port in the United States for the Cuban masses in their struggles, not only will this strengthen the libera- tion fight in Cuba, but it will en- courage supporting movements throughout Latin America. Every weakening in Cuba of the big Wall Street banks who own most of the investments there will Strengthen the fight of the Amer- ican workers in steel, coal, auto. The same trusts who refuse to grant union recognition to American la- bor are responsible for enslaving the Cuban masses. A blow at them in Havana, Oriente and Camaguey, means more power to labor in Youngstown. Pittsourgh and Detroit. This is the common battle of American labor and the Cuban peonle in which the victory of the Wall Street trusts in Cuba means they will be more able to defeat the demands of the American workers. All help to the Cuban masses against American imperialism!