The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1935, Page 6

t } | i & Page 6 st “Soviet agents in this country.” Th baaemeee DOUGHERTY of the Catholic Church : pee | yesterday warned more than 30,000 assembled lies lics, a large number of whom were workers, s, the fight of the Catholic hierarchy against the Government of Mexico has become, in the hands of breaking off debt negotiations with the Soviet Union. Y WORKER, NEW YORK. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935 Are they to be made cannon fodder and bloody pawns in the hands of the Wall Street war-makers and the schemes of the Hearsts? Mexico, who will soon con- What is it that Catholic workers and their families need most vitally? need. They need the American Catholic Church, a weapon for war against the Soviet Union and the Communist Party here lords fling them into the streets. It is sant fact that this anti-Soviet propa- lief, the bonus, ganda falls right in with the propaganda of William disease. Randolph Hearst and the recent action of Hull in Daily, EHWTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY ULS,4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “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. ¥. Teleph ALgonquin 4-795 4, Cable Ad s ‘Daiwork,” New York, N. Y¥. Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, M4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7910. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 708, Chieago, Ml, Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $46.00; 50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. ‘onx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $8.00; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935 $e Act in Every State! HE Communist Party has aroused na- tion-wide alarm and opposition to the Hearst anti-Communist “Red scare.” At the same time, however, that this national fight against the “Red scare” has developed, the Wall Street reaction- aries have been proceeding practically unresisted in their State anti-Communist campaigns. They are attempting to spread their anti-Communist, anti-working class gag laws step by step through the States! Therefore, it becomes an immediate duty of the Communist Party districts to rouse immediate united front struggles against the State measures aimed at the Communist Party and all militant work- ers’ organizations. The united front example of the Con- necticut Socialists fighting the State “sedition” bill should be followed every- where. All trade unions, civie bodies, educa- tional groups, should be won for united action to defeat the State “sedition” and “criminal syndicalism” schemes of the Wall Street exploiters and their agents. Educators Oppose Hearst EARST’S anti-Communist campaign is arousing great resistance among all sections of the population. More and more people realize that Hearst’s anti-Red drive masks a reactionary attack against all in- stitutions and organizations of a progres- sive character. On Sunday a thousand educators from all parts of the country, who came to Atlantic City to attend a convention of the National Education Association, cheered men like the famous historian, Charles A. Beard, when he denounced the “insidious influence” of Hearst. Professor Beard pointed out that “no person with intellec- tual honesty or moral integrity will touch Hearst with a ten-foot pole for any pur- pose or to gain any end.” The meeting of educators went fur- ther and passed a resolution asking the Nye Senatorial Committee to investigate “any relationship which may exist be- tween the Hearst newspapers, industrial and financial interests and the spurious anti-Red campaign now current in the Hearst press.” The educators also said, what the Com- munist Party has pointed out from the start of Hearst’s campaign of lies, that it is a threat to peace and may bring on war. Dangerous Delay Eos J. BAMBRICK, president of the Building Service Employes Union in Manhattan, has again postponed the strike *x the needle trades center for another twenty-four hours. This time, Bambrick delayed a strike of 20,000 workers at the request. of Francis Biddle of the National Labor Relations Board. Jeremiah T. Ma- honey, chairman of the Regional Labor Board of the N. R. A., has been brought in to “arbitrate Meanwhile, it is announced that elabo- rate police preparations have been made by the LaGuardia administration to break the strike and that the building owners are planning an injunction to outlaw the strike, While the employers prepare, Bam- brick continues to delay the walkout. The Building Service Workers can take a lesson from the strikebreaking activity of the N. R. A, government boards in other t i industries. It was these “Labor” boards which defeated the demands of the steel and auto workers last year and which de- feated the demands of the general textile strike. The N. R. A. and government Labor Boards are boards of the employers which will give the building service workers just as dirty a deal as did LaGuardia’s “arbi- tration” board. BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS — Strike all buildings where the demands of the union are not met. Refuse to be bound by compulsory ar- bitration of the employer-controlled gov- ernment boards, Another Endorsement | pe ue: the action of the Ohio, Wis- consin, Louisiana and Minnesota dis- tricts in endorsing the recent resolution ef tne Central Committee Plenum, the New York District conference just held unanimously ratified the resolution. At the same time the New York dis- trict of the Communist Party organized the first steps toward carrying this reso- lution into practice, The very thorough discussion, involv- ing more than 70 speakers from all sec- tions of the city and from every industry, showed how correct was the line taken by the Central Committee for intensive work for the building of the trade unions, for trade union unity in all industries, for united front, and for the support of a mass Labor Party. To strengthen all Party activities and campaigns, the Party conference also de- cided on a serious drive to extend the cir- culation of the Daily Worker. In New York it was the emphasis on building the A, F. of L. trade unions into powerful class organizations that was stressed. “Make New York a union town;” was a main slogan, Gaining Headway MHE movement in the trade unions for a L Labor Party that will make a decisive break with all reliance on capitalist poli- ticians or policies is gaining headway. Two days ago the national conference of all the locals of the Federation of Silk and Dye Workers, meeting in Paterson, endorsed the movement for a class strug- gle Labor Party. This follows similar action by the Michigan A. F. of L. State Conference of Painters. In every A. F. of L. trade union the workers should make this a leading ques- tion for discussion and action. Too long have the trade unions been the catspaws of capitalist agents and capi- talist politics. Today, as the employers’ drive against the trade unions grows, with the co-opera- tion of their legislative servants, the need for a political mass party of labor, fighting Wall Street monopoly for the rights and welfare of American labor, is a burning necessity. The Conimunists urge such a movement. A ‘Great Power’ Policy EST anybody mistake Roosevelt's “good neighbor policy,” Secretary of State Hull hastens to add that the United States is also a “great power.” This “good neighbor” has armed to the teeth, spending more for war than at any time since the close of the last world war. Good neighborliness, a la Roosevelt, means shackling Cuba with the dictator Men- dieta, and mobilizing warships and ma- rines to keep the Cuban masses enslaved. Towards the Soviet Union it signifies provoking Japan and German fascism to war against the workers’ fatherland. Hull’s speech at Winter Park, Florida, on Sunday, in which he declared: “Our pol- icies must of necessity be those of a so- called great power,” is notice to the world that the “good neighbor” carries a rifle to enforce his “friendliness” upon colonial masses. The neighborliness that the American toiling masses must achieve is revolution- ary solidarity with the colonial people’s under Wall Street’s heel, and with the vic- torious proletariat in the land of victorious Socialism, miseries and horrors of the capitalist crisis. They need what all other workers adequate protection against the They need better wages, shorter hours—they need unemployment and social insurance when the employers and the land- They need cash re- and protection against accident and They need, as all other workers need, an end to the robbery and plunder of the profit-grabbers, the Wall Street exploiters, bankers and landlords, | Party Life Literature Sales Fail To Show Big Upward Swing By R. FRANKLIN District Literature Agent VY LINE with ,the slogan | given out by the Central Committee of our Party to reach millions with cur litera- ture, the District had inaugu- rated a special three month drive and contest among the Sections of the Party in District 2. A large and enthusiastic meeting of literature actives was held. The combined meeting accepted this drive and pledged to work for its | completion. Five weeks have passed | and we find instead of an addi- | tional distribution of literature, a | real retrogression, with the excep- tion oif Section Three (waterfront section), The main reasons for this failure were: 1. No Section Bureau or Section Committee took up this point at any of their meetings. 2. No attempt was made to bring this drive into the units, 3. The acceptance of this drive by the Sections as just another ges- ture instead of accepting it as a District decision and to be carried | out as such, 4. No check-up during these five weeks at all, Because of the above, the results were nil. Therefore, the contest will | be re-started March 1. During this | period all Sections are expected to | | do the following: | 1, To take the drive up in the | Section Bureau or Section Com- mittee. 2, A meeting of all unit litera- | ture agents and agitprops to be | called to discuss plans for the drive. | | 3, All units are to be notified of | | the drive and all units and Party | 'members are asked to accept def- inite quotas in the distribution of our mass literature. 4. All efforts are to be made to activize all mass organizations for literature distribution on a mass scale, Wah whale | ECAUSE of the issuance of a | pamphlet on Hearst, two cents; | | Why Communism, five cents; Com- | | munist Manifesto, five cents; A Let~ | | ter to American Workers by Lenin, | | three cents; Stalin-Wells Interview, | two cents (all large editions), there | will be no room for an excuse that | we haven't any mass agitational pamphlets with which to go to the | workers, A campaign of work, to be car- | tied on successfully, must entail | | planned activity, planned organiza- tion and constant check-up. With- out this constant check-up, no cam- | | aign can come to a successful con- clusion. Especially in the leftward | swing of the masses, where the cap- italists, through their demagogues, are trying to turn this leftward swing into safe channels for them- selves, it is doubly imperative for us to see that our literature distribu- tion gains in tempo. Distribution | of our literature at the present time cannot be separated from any other phase of the activity that the Party is carrying on. The work of mass organizations jin literature distribution certainly | must become much better than it is | at the present time. An organiza- tion like the International Workers | Order, with a membership of over 10,000 in New York, and their sale |of English pamphlets only one- ‘fourth of a pamphlet per member per month, cannot be judged as a | good distribution of working-class | literature, | Peek a | 'HE terms of the contest are as | | follow: The Section distributing | the most literature per member will receive $150 worth of literature; the | second highest section will receive |half the above amount; the litera- | ture agent in charge of the winning section will receive $50 worth of books; the Unit distributing the most literature per member will re- | ceive $50 worth of literature; the | Literature Agent in charge of the Unit will receive $15 worth of books; all second places will receive one- | | half the first prize. The results will be based on the average dues-paying membership in the Sections and the Units for the | | continuation of the drive. In order | | to be eligible for the prizes the Sec- | tions and Units must average no | less than 25 pieces of literature per | | month, per member. | Every member of the Party is ex- | | pected to enter the contest. District No. 2 Join the : Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAME It is just these needs for which the Communists or- ganize the workers. It is just this which the Soviet Union has accom- plished! It is the Soviet Union which has shown how to abolish the yoke of capitalist wage slavery, which has abolished forever the right of the rich to rob the poor! It has abolished unemployment and poverty forever. It has given the laboring man, the toiling farmer, the right to rule themselves in their own interests, in the interests of the great majority of the population, build- ing a new, happier, more secure life. The cry of Cardinal Dougherty shows how falsely he is guarding the interests-of the Catholic workers. is it not significant that Cardinal Dougherty is aiding SETTING OFF THE NEW BIRD Cardinal Dougherty Joins Hearst in Anti-Soviet Propaganda WELFARE OF CATHOLIC WORKERS AND FAMILIES MENACED BY HIS SUPPORT OF WALL STREET INCITEMENTS AGAINST U.S.S.R. AND COMMUNISTS But what of the Catholic workers and their fami- the “Red Scare,” which is supported by the same capi- talist multi-millionaires who rob the Catholic workers” He shows that he is all too willing to join the Wall Street war-makers, the corrupt and degenerate Hearsts and the money-masters in their infamous and reac- tionary fight against the labor movement and its revo- lutionary leader, the Communist Party. By his slander against the Soviet Union, Cardinal Dougherty shows that, like the priests of Europe, he is willing to betray the interest of the poverty-stricken Catholic workers and their children in the interests of the heartless landlords, the moral degeneracy of a Hearst, and the plots of the unholy war mongers. Catholic workers, like a the Soviet Union! by Burck ‘Letters From Our Readers BAMBRICK FOUGHT STRIKE DEMAND “Daily” Role Hampered By Faulty Sales New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: I want to point out some mis- takes of our Party and the Daily Worker with reference to the strike of the building service employes. This letter is being written im- mediately after the meeting of the Mennattan workers held at the New Star Casino, Wednesday night. The Wednesday edition of the | “Daily” correctly carries the head- line: Elevator Truce Angers Work- ers: with a leading article sup- porting this statement. And this | Was correct. There was a great | feeling of discontent with the arbi- tration proceedings, of distrust and opposition to the leadership of Bambrick, and a strong re-strike sentiment was prevalent among the men. However, there was no lead- ership for this rank and file op- Position. The rancor in the minds of the men was not crystallized and consequently they were easy prey for the slick demagogy of Bambrick and his henchmen. Bambrick did not come in with his report of the arbitration meet- ing at the Hotel Holland until about two hours after the start of the meeting. During this time the men were being prepared by the various speakers on the platform to expect the worst, but by all means to observe the sell-out agreement of. Bambrick and the real estate own- ers, “Stick by the union,” was the slogan they raised. “Accept the ar- bitration. When Bambrick arrives, be satisfied with a ‘partial vic- tory.” In short, the union officers knew of the strong discontent of the men and were breaking it down, confus- 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 Justice Holmes jOn Legal Lynching New York, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: | “Tt is our duty ... to declare lynch law as little valid when prac- 1 workers, should defend World Front By HARRY GANNES A Cardinal’s Memory U.S.S.R.-Mexican Relations | His Worthy Company Tee who take up the pro- fession of lying, said Mon- taigne, should at least have good memories. Fat-jowled Denis Cardinal Dougherty of the Philadelphia Archdiocese of the Catholie Church, in his slanders against the Soviet Union Sunday, did not heed this advice. The holy man in his fervent de- sire to whip up war against the Soviet Union and to slander the Mexican people simply forgot the most elementary historical facts about the relations of the USSR. and Mexco. “For the last number of years,” said his prevaricating eminence, “twenty or thirty Communistic Rus- sian agents of the Third Interna- tionale, financed by Russia, have been received into Mexico by its government, and in conjunetion with the Mexican officials whom | they guide and encourage along the | path of Communism, are promoting | the Soviet plan of uprooting re- ligion, morality, respect for legiti+ mate authority, and are showing how to plunder the rich in order to line one’s own pockets.” This church dignitary, who on the contrary, believes in lining the pock- ets of the rich and the church at the expense of the poor, should at least know his history of Mexico |@ little more accurately, | The main force which plays the | tole of “guiding and encouraging” | the Mexican ruling class is the Wail | Street bankers, oil companies and | rich land owners. | are | WAS the American bankers, and the Hoover government, with its J. P. Morgan agent, Ambassador Morrow, who prevailed upon the Mexican government, then ruled by the same Calles-Rodriguez-Bubio- Cardenas clique, to break off diplo- |matic relations with the Soviet | Union in 1939, And, Monsignor, you surely must |not let it slip your memory that relations have neyer since that time | been established between Mexico | and the Soviet Union. In other words, the Cardenas gov- | ernment of Mexico is just as vicious ing the men and laying the ground | tised by a... jury as when admin- | 2" enemy of the Soviet Union as for the acceptance of the sellout | arbitration award. This was the time for the Daily Worker to appear on the scene—to | concretize, to clarify the minds of the building workers, to give the | rank and file the leadership that was missing at this meeting. The early Thursday edition which at | that time was off the press should have been circulated among the men. There should have been Red Builders at the door as the men came in. The “Daily” would have galvanized that opposition into a majority of clear, articulate advo- cates of strike action. But, alas, no “Daily” was present, except for an occasional copy of the special strike edition which the men carried from the day before. At meetings and demonstrations, where the preponderance of the people are already Communists or sympathizers, you will always find plenty of “Dailies” on sale, At this | meeting of 8,000 workers, many new | to the trade union movement, you could not get one! However, the majority of the men are not satisfied, even though Bam- brick got his vote of confidence, and on the streets after the meeting the talk was of strike in six months and re-organization of the union with rank and file control. The Party members within the union must be in the forefront of. the impending struggle. The Daily Worker must be on the job to give the building service workers proper leadership. c. B. | istered by one elected by a mob in- | tent on death.” The above quotation is taken from the dissenting opinion of Justice Holmes in the case of Frank v. Mangum, 237 U. S. 309, page 350. Justice Hughes (the present Chief Justice) joined Holmes in voting in this case for the reversal of the con- viction. . I suggest the above quotation be printed in the Daily Worker under | the title “Required Reading for the | Supreme Court” in view of the | pending decisions in the Scottsboro case. A FRIEND. Suggests Pamphlet To Lead | Anti-Hearst Drive New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Casey's articles were fine. Now to get to those people who still read Hearst's rags. How about get- ting a pamphlet out containing these articles or at least the proofs embodied in them and distribute | them free of charge to everyone |Teading a Hearst newspaper on every train, street car, bus, etc. If | central organizations cannot stand the cost, appeal to all local branches of any organization interested in ‘fighting Hearst to buy them at cost and distribute them to readers. From personal experience in the Friends of the Soviet Union, Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism, and other mass organizations, there is no more complete unanimi- ty on any question than there is on the necessity of fighting Hearst, and /none that would get more active and financial support. J. G. On Dictatorship of the Proletariat 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 enlist 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. ~—STALIN (“Problems of Leninism”) 4 4 you and Mr. Hearst are. So much love does the Mexican government have for “agents of the Third International” and Commu- ‘nist Party members of Mexico that the Tres Marias Islands in the Pa- cific Ocean, one of the worst prison hell-holes in the world, is full to overflowing with Mexican workers and peasants accused of fighting for a Soviet Mexico. But what is truth to a cardinal whose aim is to whip up a war of intervention against the Mexican people in order to preserve the an- cient oppressive and corrupted pow- | er of the Catholic Church in Mexico, | It is true that the Cardenas-Cal- | les government of Mexico has un- | dertaken a wordy attack against the Catholic Church in Mexico. But the aim of this drive is not to destroy the church or its feudal | grip. The whole purpose of the ‘campaign is to divert the growing | mass, revolutionary struggles of the | Mexican workers and peasants into innocuous and safe channels, | aS) aa | (HE effect of the cardinal’s vicious assault against the Soviet Union as the main culprit in Mexico, enunciated at this time, is to stir up religious support for the war | plots against the Soviet Union. Since | the Soviet Union, according to the |cardinal’s way of thinking, is the main danger in Mexico and to the United States, then this infidel builder of Socialism and a new and better life for humanity, must be | wiped off the map, | In his cry for a holy war against |the workers’ fatherland, the car- ‘dinal has worthy company. That \paragon of truth and decency and honor, William Randolph Hearst is his chief companion in arms. The ‘fascist barbarians of Germany are | with him. Those kindly saviors of _ civilization, the Japanese militarists, _who never hesitate to slaughter thousands of Chinese men, women /and children, cry “Amen!” to the Catholic invocation of Monsignor. | Catholic workers! Do not let these agents of the American bankers poison your mind for war against your brothers in the Soviet Union. Echo the cry: “Hands off Mexico!” Defend the Soviet Union! Affair for ‘Dailv’ DETROIT.—A gala dance for the benefit of the Daily Worker will be held Sunday, March 3, at 8:30 P.M., at Finnish Workers Hall, 5969 14th Avenue, near McGraw. An enter- tainment program is being arranged and there will be door prizes. One of the objects of the dance is to raise funds to buy a motor- cycle to aid in delivering the Daily Worker, Admission is 25 cents,