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|It is for all workers without ex- ception.” United .Front Parley Maps Vigorous Plan Against Measure State Publication Aims Aide Admits To Prepare Mood of ; ‘ | Hearst Is Liar Masses for War om Page 1) nes of the proseoution, and pre- a: SES: Se | Worker circulation drive, John Williamson, of the District seeing of solidarity which pervaded Page 2 WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1935 ~~~ F A { | | ef s | ° d | { JAPAN'S WAR OFFICE Blast Lies |Shock Briga es Needed 25,000 Score | ag r . . ' . | In Trial of 16 77 ad Daily Work Hearst Lies Be i ‘a o Spre aily Worker . | By Michael Quin ‘ > (Continued from Page 1) (Speciat to the Dally Worker) —— : arcane, Sae''ne «Among Workers in Ohio INCITI NG BOOK Testifying for the fifteen one Concluding, Lundeen stated, “It LAW AGAINST TO LERS = mento criminal syndicalism defend- | ‘s + : is obvious that th miti \f ae cterday, onall farmers ana| 3,000 Circulation Mark Set by Communists] the sovics non by the United : = 4 pickers from San Joaquin Valley in Cleveland, Youngstown, Toledo Area ced eee ines Cane te ; are a2 blasted the lies of the vigilante wit- s BF BEANE EE Ui; 8, A, they shut te friend”? | i pre-| CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 26.—Pointing out that the ctshdinc Gisela civell Bosses Spur mented 8 Se beihesopg aac leading industrial centers in this district are lagging far! speaking as a Socialist, J. B. prosecution, the finance companies| behind in the fulfillment of their quotas for the Daily | ssatthews roused the extraordinary Wage Cut Plan The court was tense with drama * + x y A Buro of the Communist Party here, yesterday issued a} in, ting to n immense pitch by ‘ 2 fn te tee pore Ted be the |statement calling for immediate, magi aise Guttaniing’ need (Continued from Page 1) SPRINGFIELD, Ill; Feb. 26— Delegates from many trade unions, language groups, the Socialist Party Speciel to the Daily Worker) PEIPING, Feb. 26. (By Cable) The Japanese War Ministry has is- é = =< my | is is the need for work- | tod, The Senat mail, man: : other importar icultural regions gefendants related with bitterness| emergency organization of shock| stustion, and, wheré good plans| that faces us jtoday. The Senators , Y | of Peoria, lll., the Communist Party sued another war-inciting pamph-/ in the Soviet Union, in the Sou feeling the true facts of the| brigades to reach the 3,000 mark ys ave to be adopted, “start a Tight | 108 class. unity. We are committed | admitted, contained as many, if not |of Tlinois and other organizations let significantly dedicated to the ‘Aine, ahd saw the new collect error unleashed by the armed vigi-/|s8et for the district. Zi for the fulfillment of these plans. | to that unity that se a t ie bed more, demands for union and pre-| met here in a united front con« “Thirtieth anniversary of the Muk- | farms ante bands of the planters against}. His statement follows in full: “We must put an end to a situa- | timid liberal up to the revolution-|\ailing wages than “support the'l ference on Sunday to plan a vigors den battle during the Russo-Jap- anese war.” This War Ministry book, of which 200,000 copies are being dis- tributed to . social schools, colleges, etc ‘This second > made even a still greater impression on me than the first. The number of observa- tions I made speak of the great gress of agriculture. All the way m Moscow to Odessa and Yalta, itinerant pickers and laborers strug- gling for decent conditions. Mr, and Mrs. Hershel Bowen and their 18-year-old son told how vigi- lantes had attacked them. Bowen was severely beaten up. All three “A month ago, the Party District Committee enthusiastically pledged to fulfill the sub quota of the Daily Worker and increase the daily circulation to 3,000 copies. Such a decision was the contribution of our tion where nine sections in Cleve- |land receive only 450 copies of the Daily Worker daily in bundles; or | Youngstown with 72; Cincinnati, | 77 Columbus, 14. Here we see | dramatized the absence of a Daily ary vanguard of the working class.” An extraordinary wave of feel- ing and enthusiasm swept over the meeting, with thousands of work- ers rising to their feet cheering, as Matthews declared: “We can | President” pleas. Congressional leaders were pondering some new maneuver to carry out the wage- cutting program of the White House. At the same time, the House Ways | ous Statewide campaign for the re- peal of the Illinois criminal syn dicalism law. Coming to the conference from eyery section of the State, in some cases traveling hundreds of miles, i ; 7 a pe district to 100,000 circulation, unite to build a party of the work- jand Means Committee let it bejthe delegate represented 1 stage in the official preparation of | both in towns and on railway sta-| worked as cotton pickers. The son | 4 | Worker consciotisness, a& well as the fs legate rep: a> real the Japanese masses for war. An tions, bread is freely sold. There| has worked in the fields. since he| Which our Daily Worker must ‘have. task of an organized Daily Worker | ing class, and this Party. sates va known that the Roosevelt Social |cross section’ of the. American earlier book, published in October, | are good signs - = Bea bY was seven years old. Drive Lagging | apparatus in the. units and sec-| oo“ feat bs igare he ais She ees pie ~ pe ee eons Pipe eee! »native lly revealed t militar’ f th Ollective farm, bazaars at a. y, il farmer, : | % esent ref ‘ecogni ployment-inst easul - | white an legro men and women ton rie jioanase matali ‘enone [eikiibat - Baanasitn ‘oll baeady wea ; bs re Si Pike reariaaian seal “To date, the sub drive is lagging eee ae one. ie party that does net'bo intinde” _|Cated to'stall off. the Workers Uns |eaa sepresmienics Peed dit omy and of the entire population, and dairy produce in great abun-| planned violence of the vigilante | badly. Only one section—Section 14 Party, we must build the Party's “We must unite to defend the|employment and Social Insurance language groups, Greek, Scandina- describing all this as preparations “for a big. war.’ Fear Anti-War Feeling The néw book is even more con- crete. All of its contents are di- rected toward one aim—increasing the military “Japanese spirit.” Anti-war feelings, which are ever growing, are a serious menace to the aggressive plans of the Japan- ese imperialists. A still more men- acing factor is the noticeable growth of anti-war feelings in the dance. Unplatined Visits “This means vhat there is suffi- cient icultural produce. “I visited collective farms not in accordance with any pre-arranged plan,” he said, after remarking that nowhere. did he see “any signs or traces of famine about which the foreign press likes to speak.” “During my stay in the Odessa region, I spent a whole day at the collective farm villages of Groslieb- tal and Kleinliebental. My first visit | bands, and told how Mr. Ellet of the | Hllet Cotton Gin, representing the finance companies, directed the ter- roristic activities of the vigilantes. He gave an appalling picture of the desperate circumstances of the small farmers. Pred West, president of the Win-| dow Washers Union, Local 44, of the| A. F. of L., San Francisco, testified | he was in Brentwood during the| apricot pickers strike to aid the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, He refuted the of Clevéland—has shown the proper |tempo and already has 43 per cent lof its quota, Other large Cleveland |sections lag behind, like Section 2 | with 30 per cent; Section 1 with 34 }per cent; Section 11 with 5 per |cent; and Section 18 with 17 per cent. worse, and that accounts for the district only fulfilling its quota 14/ per cent to date. In every city, there are maturing strike struggles and the Party is engaged in union and shop activity as never before. Yet Youngstown has only reached Out of town is even much} |foundations, one 6f which is tlie | Dally Worker. The voice of the | |Party must reach the. steel, auto, | |rubber, mining and railroad work- | |ers. Good Pians “Many good section plans have | been worked out. The best and| most ambitious is that of Youngs- town, which solemnly pledges by May 1 a daily circulation of the Daily Worker of 500 copies and ful- fillment of their sub quota of 15. Soviet Union without . any ‘ifs,’ ‘ands,’ or ‘buts’,” Matthews con- tinued. “We must unite against im- perialist war, against the further impoverishment of the American people. Our bill is the Workers Bill, the Lundeen Bill. This is the time for looking forward, and we can accomplish this unity if we hew to the task.” Frank Palmer, journalist and member of the International Tyno- graphical Union, speaking in the name of organized labor, declared: Bill, has been drastically amended, to make it even more openly anti- tunemployment-security. Great cate- gories of workers, such as farm and domestic labor, have been removed forever from the already restricted | scope of the bill. The Ways and | Means Committee made these | changes in secret sessions. It ex- | pects to bring the Roosevelt bill out on the floor next week. At that time, unless a special gag rule is applied, it will be open to pro- posals for amendment or substitu- Vian, Russian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Polish, Jewish, etc. Unions Represented Trade union representatives in- cluded miners, painters, bakers, coopers and cigarmakers from eight American Federation of Labor Lo- cals, totalling some 6,000 members; the Progressive. Miners Union and its Women’s Auxiliaries, together with resentatives from various unemployed organizations. The conference was also attended by the Communist Councilmen of army. For the restoration of the | was at the Spartakov district. This| lies of the prosecution witnesses per- 10 t: Akron 26 per cent: |To achieve this, a Steuben Shock “A customer with a billion dollars | tion, Taylor Springs, Ill, as official rep- “Japanese spirit” the Japanese | Germa strict severe | taining to the speeches of Pat|10. per cent u > worth of jobs for American labor ys r military clique was raat 4a 10 use eceane ard ee iki ne Chambers and Caroline Decker, two| Canton 8 per cent; Toledo 22 per| Brigade has been organized. knocks on our doors, and the Wash-| A. F. of L. Heads In Huddle | Tesentatives of the Taylor Springs various energetic methods. The newspaper Dsidsi is the only paper giving extracts from the new publication of the War Ministry. Judging from these extracts, ene notices the usual demagogic anti- ger, General Araki, on “the su- periority and world significance of Japanese morals.’ According to the Shimbun Ren- go News Agency the pamphlet sets forth “the difference between Jap- anese culture and Western mater- | jalistic civilization.” The pamph- let has the main aim of “convincing the population of the primary im- portance of perfécting the de- fenses of the state during the present period of crisis and extra- ordinary times.” | Compiled by Araki Group Obviously referring to the Japan- ese-Chinese war of 1894-5 and the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5, the | agency fecalls that the “national! Power of Japan and the welfare of | her population increased whenever | the country overcamé an extraor- dinary period.” | The character of the book leaves no doubt that it was compiled by the Arakists, aggressive | elements of Japanese imperialism, who still insist on the immediate commencement of “a big war.” The enormous circulation of the new pamphlet demonstrates the in- creased activity of these jingoistic elements. i | of sowing crops right up to June there were no rains. Despite this, the collective farm ~ Grosliebental gathered in no less than 880 pounds | of grain per héctare (244 acres) in high harvest of grapes. Peasants Live Better “The collective farmers in Gross- liebental were living better than last year when there was no drought, but at the present live | like the average peasant in the Soviet Union. “Moreover,” continued Mr. Par- rott, “I found that 80 per cent of the peasants at Grosliebental were | poor peasants before the collectivi-| zation. The percentage of the poor | Was approximately the same as the percentage of illiterates. Now, in| the nearby Kleinliebental, for -in- | stance, there are ten schools estab- ished, and no illiterates. “The village is clean, the houses trim, weil built, painted in various bright colors. The collective farm- ers and their wives and children are dressed quite well. The horses are in goog shape, seemingly well attended and cared for. All farm machines are in sheds, sheltered from bad weather.” Further testifying to the grow- ing supply of food and answering | the “famine” slanders, Mr. Parrott | made it said: Increase in Livestock of the cefendants. Two small farmers, Burroughs and Karrer, gave similar testimony. farm. Naturally, the farmers did not “We were treated with pickled herring, with onions, vegetables, | pork and schnitzel with egg and | coffee. We also tasted good, rich kolhoz wine.” “In the light of these facts, there is the statement of Mertz, chairman of the local regional executive committee, that the col- lective farmers reject the help especially organized in Germany by the Fascist organization for ‘starving’ Germans in Russia and that Torgsin checks sent to the collective farmers are donated by them to the International Labor Defense for the assistance of victims of Fascist tertor in capi- talist lands. Gain Despite Drought “Although the drought was se- vere, it did not restrain the develop- |ment of the collectives,” said | Hearst's correspondent. “The farm- ers at Grosliebental, Kleinliebental energetically and in unison carry on their economy, Only persistence and mechanization which helped to cultivate the soil well and deeply possible to wrest 880 pounds of harvest per hectare from the land. cent and Cincinnati hasn’t secured a sitigle sub. “Unsatisfactory as this is, on the question of increase of the daily | sundle circulation, not a single sec- tion has taken an actual serious “The District Buro greets the action of the Youngstown comrades and calls for similar action by all other sections, We emphasize, how- lever, proper decisions are not }enough. Start a struggle within the Move toSpike Auto Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) DI ‘T, Mich., Feb, 26.— The hand-picked National Council of the | A. F. of L. United Automobile Work- ets today continued sidetracking the strike preparations voted by thou- sands of members of the Federal auto locals. Francis J. Dillon, na- tional organizer in the auto indus- try and chairman of the Council, made public a letter to William Green, president of the A. F. of L., empowering him to seek a confer- ence with the auto magnates who have consistently rebuffed the A. F. of L. This letter is in direct violation of the decisions of the Detroit and Flint City Councils of the United Automobile Workers and of locals in Cleveland and elsewhere, calling for immediate strike preparations, with all the negotiations in the hands of elected committees. The letter to Green completely Italian Troops Land in Africa ROME, Feb. 26—The first bat- jtalion of Mussolini's imperialist | expedition against Abyssinia ar- lived today at Massawa, an Erit- |Tean port on the Red Sea, 70 miles |\from Abyssinia territory. Vast | stores of ammunition, motorized artillery, and full colonial combat equipment are now enroute and are reported to be in the Red Sea, The steamship Nazario Sauro to- |day joined the procession of Ital- |ian ships toward the East African | colonies, having sailed at midnight with about 1,200 skilled workers, fifty engineer officers and war ma- terials. ‘The DaVinci sailed from Naples yesterday with sixty officers jand 300 skilled workers in addition |to materials such as barbed wire, timber and building stuffs. | Italy is capable of mobilizing | thirty-seven classes totalling 7,000,- | 000 to 8,000,000 men in the crimi- |Nal war in Abyssinia, it was stated ington officials slam the door in his face.” “Organized labor,” Palmer cried, “resents that kind of treat- ment, resents this cold-blooded at- titude toward American labor.” One’,” Palmer declared. “Hearst hates organized labor. In the Soviet Union there is the most powerful trade union movement in the world. American organized labor will not stand for a war against the U. S. 8. R. Organized labor warns ‘Don’t try that war’.” An ovation greeted James Water- man Wise as he rapped Hearst’s al- leged “Americanism.” “These war- mongers offer us a choice. Either America or the Soviet Union, they say. But this is a false choice, The choice is between militarism and peace, between reaction and prog- ress. We say to them you shall not. Nazify America, you shall not Hit- lerize mankind. The campaign of Hearst, is a campaign against the American people. It menaces us with war abroad and tyranny at home. This campaign must be crushed. In rejecting this false Hearst ‘Americanism,’ we pledge the love and loyalty of the American people to the people of the Soviet Union.” Dr. Reuben Young of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights stressed the hope which the U.S.S.R. holds for all oppressed nationalities, showing by its example how to solve WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Seven members of the Executive Council of the American Federation of | Labor went into conference. this, issue, Protests Flood Washington WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—A move- ment to force the work relief bill back onto the Senate floor developed today as labor throughout the coun~ try besieged’ Washington demand- ing the payment of union wages on all work relief. The A. F. of L. executive committee was called to- gether by William Green, who yes- terday received a telegram from the Unemployment Councils stating that the Councils were calling upon all their affiliated organizations to arrange huge local mass meetings with existing A. F. of L. bodies in the fight for union wages and con- ditions on the relief projects. Roosevelt, who a year and a half ago had said. that “it seems to me equally plain that no business which depends for its existence in paying less than living wages to its work- ers has any right to continue to exist,” was reported at Hyde Park today as confident that his proposal for a slave wage could go through. Councils Urge Mass Meetings ‘The “prevailing wage” clause was outlined in a recent confidential City Council, The Red Bird Base- ball Club and Firemen’s Local of Taylor Springs also sent delegates, The conference elected a com- mittee of ten to go: before Illinois State Legislature-.to demand the capitalist slogans of fascism, to. | 3% ‘This is slightly less than the | expect us. But we met with a hearty | step. The total daily circulation of |Party for the fulfillment of every “Soab No. 1” afternoon to plan their next move! roe, ‘of the criminal syndicalist ~ gether with the often reiteratea | Sver@se harvest in the Soviet welcome and hospitality—and a|bundles remains at 1,200. Every |decision. Every Communist into| “We, in the trace unions, call|in labor's clash. with President’ statute. =: Slogan- launched by the war-mon-| pay") There was an exceptionally | good supper. section ‘must wake up to this serious | action.” Hearst ‘America’s Scab Number Roosevelt in the “prevailing wage”| «The delegates unanimously pledged to mobilize their organi- zations for the following program: (1) holding of mass open hearings on the law, inviting legislators from jeach district to attend; (2) further development of the campaign of protest resolutions tothe Governor, State Senators and Assemblymen; (3) inclusion. of a “Repeal the Criminal Syndicalist Law’ section in every May Day celebration and parade; (4) wide. sale of, “Repeal the Criminal Syndicalist Law” but- tons. Andrew Newhoff, District, Secres tary of the International Labor De- fense, in the main report to the conference pointed out that the law “threatens all workers who exercise their constitutional rights of free speech, press. and assemblage in order to improve their conditions.” Delegates reviewed the wide- spread usé of the-crfminal syndi- ealist laws since, the introduction of the NRA, particularly in Cali- fornia, Oregon .and Illinois; as well as the traditional use of. frame-ups of working-class fighters and the oppressed Negro people, such as Mooney, McNamara,. Billings, the Scottsboro Boys. Protests against these frame-ups.were sent to the “The amount of livestock in the|..“At present, the farmers are oc-| ignores these decisions and makes / officially today. collective farms has increased from | cupied with prenarations for spring | 0 mention of the word “strike. 3.500 head to 5,000 head in two/sowing. They are carefully pro-|, The National Council letter opens | years, | tecting the winter harvest, using | >Y Pointing out the attacks being, the national question. responsible authorities and warm letters of solidarity to the victims in the penitentiaries. Dr. Charles Kuntz, in the name report to its members by the New of the Icor, organization working | York State Economic Council. Fi Arkansas Legislature with the USSR. in building Biro. | Under its definition, in New York - Union Forces POA bases ee Sa NUE RRA te ERTIES aE : | te, the Commissioner of Labor Assail Deportations | “In the village we heard th 5 n ‘i snow | made by the auto companies on the’ Presses Drastic Bill | Bidian, an autonomous Jewish | State, io ; - | sound of church hells which are ae | patie igs My cue ane Sele ae unions, the discrimination 3 region, protested against the Hearst | Would be empowered to set pzevail-| Deportations and other attacks i “e oncessi i The | re ir | against workers for union activity, To Halt Labor Action | campai ing wages” by averaging those paid|on foreign-born workers wére pro- | Y longer heard in the cities. e| “Young trees are planted. In their | #8 mpaign. y Ot tae eerabltatiaente 4 4 Aa tor the é ee Lutheran and Catholic churches | own laboratory, the collective farms | the intimidation and terror of the The audience contributed $2,300 | in 40 per cent of the estal tested and demands mai : “= Wolf, (Continued from Page 1) | executive secretary of the N. L. R. B. and Samuel C. Lamport, | industrial member of the national | and regional boards, The union was supported by James J. Bambrick, president of the union, Edward C. Maguire, at- | torney for the union, and: members of the Executive Board of the union. The majority of the owners in the garment, fur and millinery districts were represented at the conference. The agreement, which according to union officials ‘will be signed in- dividually by owners as a closed shop agreement, in part, provides: A blanket $2 increase in wages for all workers with a minimum set at $24 for Class A, $22 for Class B and $20 for Class C; no | reduction of wages now paid; | overtime to be paid at the rate of time and a half; at least one week's vacation with pay for all employed one year or longer; 48 | hour week including the relief time, which consists of two twenty minute periods each day; work Week to consist of six days; no employe to work two shifts in Succession; employes hired to re- Place other workers to receive the rate prevailing at the time: watchmen not to perform more than six hours of active work in the work week limited to 72 hours; charwomen to receive 50c an hour and window cleaners $36 for a 40-hour week. Wall Street Still Left The settlement applying to the garment sector only, still leaves the union with the problem of improv- | ing the conditions of the workers in the financial district, hotels and apartment houses in Manhattan as | well as the Bronx, Brooklyn and | other boroughs. | A mass meeting of the Brooklyn | locals 51 and 51B of the union has been called for tonight at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Wiloughby and Myrtle Avenues, at which | Bambrick will speak on the settle- ment in the garment center. | ¢ Manhattan local called a/| mass meeting for Friday night at | the Star Casino, 105 East 107th | Street, where a detailed report will | be submitted by Bambrick. | continue to exist. But along with | this, there is the appearance of big |of which a large and sufficient public buildings of a new type. “About half a million rubles were svent on the main building. In the Grosliebental. bread shop bread is sold as freely and at the same prices as in the cities. “T happened, by chance, to sit at a table with a collective farmer and | tasted the food put on the table at | collective farm. On mv way to town, my automobile got deep in the snow. It was y to return to the collective back neces: TRADE UNIONS ARE BACKBONE OF LABOR PARTY MOVEMENT GEORGE MORRIS (This is the first of two articles | on Communist Party's role in the movement for a Labor Party.) The resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Pa:ty, |adopted at the recent plenary ses- sion, points to four types of parties which may develop out of the grow- ing trend for a mass break-away from the two traditional capitalist parties. These are stated as fo- lows: “(a) A popular or ‘progressive’ Party based on La Follette, Sin- clair, Olson, and. Long movements and typified by these leaders and their program; (b) a ‘Farmer- Labor’ or ‘Labor’ Party of the same character, differing only in the name and degree of dema- gogy; (c) a ‘Labor’ Party with a predominantly trade union basis, with a program. consisting of im- mediate demands (possibly with vague promises about the ‘co- operative commonwealth’ a la Olson) dominated by a section of the trade union bureaucracy, as- sisted by the Sociaist Party and excluding the Communists; (d) a Labor Party built from below on a trade union basis but in con- flict with the trade union bureau- cracy, putting forward a program of demands closely connected with mass struggles, strikes, etc., with the leading role played by the militant elements, including the Communists.” | test the germinati di eee ee of the companies to drive the work- ers into company unions through the elections of the Automobile La- bor Board. It fails, however, to draw the necessary conclusions from this—the conclusions already drawn by thou- sands of auto workers and confirmed during the past year by the brazen | betrayals of the Roosevelt govern- |ment—that only through militant strike action can these inhuman conditions be changed and higher wages and other improvements won. | quantity have been planted. | “There is no doubt that if the | drought occurs again, the collective | farmers will meet it even in a more | organized manner than in 1934.” | Mr.. Parrott finished his talk, | which lasted nearly an hour, with the following remark: “I don’t know how the kulaks | feei, but I am convinced that the poor peasants in these collective | farms have begun to lead a well- to-do life.” By [tants in the labor movement, and| system through which they could in the first place the rank and file | auction off the votes of the workers | movement in the trade unions. The to the highest bidders in either the need for a Labor Party must be | Democratic or Republican parties. made apparent to the masses out | The “non-partisan” policy, so of their own experiences in Strikes | carefully nursed by the union bu- and similar struggles. | reaucrats, has been responsible for | | keeping a majority of the workers Policy Mapped in 1825 tied to the Republican and Demo- | The above directives of our. Party | cratic parties. In evecy case the on the Labor Party are not stated | workers find that they were fooled for the first time. This policy was| into cage aed an one, but by | Testated several times in 1925 when} aie AE Is ee aes cee | the Communist International made and fresh demagogy, the disillusion- | thorough analysis of the question. | ment is directed into channels that | Mo 5 | drels in e secon ty. America the regular work of the, |Party members in the trade unions| Political Independence Essential must be considered now as the fun-| It is clear that independence of | damental work on which depends | the American working class from | the success of the Party in most of | the capitalist parties is an elemen- (the other fields and especially the | tary pzerequisite towards liberation | struggle for a Labor Party.” | from capitalism altogether. This | The Sixth Congress of the Com-| therefore becomes the basic aim of | |munist International, as our Central | the Communist Party at this state. Committee cites, resolved “that the| It is only in so far as we can more vicious spy system, and the attempt) the work in the trade unions, on organizing the unorganized, and in this way lay the basis for the practical realization of the ganized from below.” A real Labor Party will be an outgrowth of our trade union work, the Communist International points out. But what is the traditional official policy of the Ameircan Federation ete.,| slogan of a broad Labor Party or- |Party concentrate its attention on quickly and more easily tear the masses away from the capitalist parties and teach the working class to act as a class that we aim towards the formation of a Labor Party. There have been previous move- |ments for @ Labor Party. During the 1923-24 campaign, the Commu- nist Party took an active part. But the movement was still too much |confused with capitalist third party |and middle class movements, and | was unable to survive. This cir- MENA, Ark., Feb. 26.—Following |on the heels of terroristic attacks on meetings of Negro and white share- croppers and the “investigation” of Commonwealth College for “un- American activities,” the general assembly of Arkansas is now trying to rush through an iron-clad sedi- jtion bill—the most vicious anti- labor bill ever presented to a legis- jlative body in America, The bill has passed the lower |house by a vote of sixty-three to) twenty-two, and is before the to the campaign in defense of the Soviet Union, and unani- mously adopted three resolutions, one to Roosevelt demanding the resumption of trade negotiations, and support for the peace policy of the U.S.S.R., one to Senator Pitman of the Foreign Relations Committee with similar demands, and one to Michail Kalinin, Presi- dent of the All-Union Congress of Soviets, pledging complete sup- port of the Soviet peace policy and work for the resumption of nor- ‘judiciary committee of the Senate. within the capitalist parties and an; increased trend towards a third | capitalist or middle class party. The forces which aimed for a genuine! Labor Party were still too weak in| each case. They were never yet firmly established on the basic or- | ganizations of the working class, | especially the trade unions, LaFollette in 1924 In 1924 the American Federation |of Labor bureaucracy and the offi- cials of the Railroad Brotherhoods joined behind a “progressive” LaFol- lette ticket, but this was only to give way partially to the tremendous pressure from below for a mass break-away from the Democratic and Republican parties. Following | the 1924 elections, when Robert LaFollette, candidate for president, polled five million votes, the Com- munist International stated as fol- lows in its analysis (Daily Worker, May, 1925): “The La Follette movement as a genuine petty bourgeois phenome- non was of a double nature: on the one hand it was an objective symptom of disorganization in the camp of the bourgeoisie. On the other hand, in the prevailing cri- sis of American capitalism, its ob- jective purpose was the support of capital; to divert as a political safety valve the awakening class consciousness of the proletariat from consolidation of its indepen- dent class movement. Gompers (president of the A. F. of L. then) | | mal trade relations. did not yet demand an indepen- dent proletarian class policy: they rather preferred to accept the guardianship of an opposition party of the petty bourgeoisie.” The role of the American Federa- tion of Labor bureaucrats in rela- tion to the developing political cur- rents is explained by the Commu- nist International in clear terms and holds as well today as it did ten years ago. : Tt would be a serious mistake for us to confuse the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota with our objec- tive. While that party had its ori- gin in the revolt of farmers, middle class people and workers against the two old parties, it survived only as a third capitalist party, although it uses a name that makes a popular appeal in that chiefly agricultural state, F. L. P. Defends Capitalism — The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party continued to carry out all the essential policies of the capitalist class and shifted the burden of the crisis on the workers and poor farm- ers. During the strike of truckmen in the Twin Cities last summer, Olson, the Farmer-Labor Governor, sent National Guards against the strikers. More recently, in the strike of auto mechanics in Minne- apolis, workers were shot down. The Farmer-Labor representatives in Wr shington cannot be distinguished from any of the others by the way they vote. They are fully behind the “New Deal,” as is Governor in a given locality. No restrictions would be placed upon his choice— open shops and lowest paid could be chosen. As opposed to any “prevailing wage” rates, the Unemployment Councils called upon all groups to initiate mass meetings in all local- ities for pushing forward labor's | demand for the prevailing trade | union rates on all work relief. The Councils called further for individ- ual and mass resolutions and tele- grams on Washington demanding the trade union rates, veloping a8 a result of the disinte- gration within the Democratic and Republican parties, and confusing the workers, it would be a mis- take merely to call for a Labor Party. Under certain conditions even the La Follettes and Greéns would agree to such a name. Green is already making such a “threat.” We aim for a Labor Party built from below. In the same manner as we raise the slogan for rank and file control in the unions so we aim for a Labor Party controlled in the locals and labor organizations, Otherwise it will not prove to be a means for training the workers for independent political action. As in the case of the English Labor Party, reactionaries on top will be able to throw the support of the workers to the capitalist hunger and war pro- gram. The Central Commitee says on this point: ¥ “The Communists enter the movement for a Labor Party only with the purpose of helping the masses to break away from the bourgeois and Social-reformist parties and to find the path to a revolutionary class struggle.” While, as the Communist Inter- national pointed out, in 1924. the Party still proved too weak to sur- vive, during the decade since, im- portant political changes have taken place in the United States. These contribute greatly towards th- e the forces which make for a movement for a genuine Labor|. dismissal of the charges against Eric Becker and Fred Werrman facing deportation to Nazi Ger- many. Other anti-labor laws, now being introduced in the Illinois State Legislature and the U. 8. Congress, such as the “pauper ‘laws,” des mands for teachers to take the “patriotism oath,” etc., Were pro- tested by the conference. Delegates to the conference car- rid on a sharp fight against the practices of jim-crowism and seg- regation with which the State cap- ital, Springfield, is infested, and compelled several jim-crow restau- rants to serve the Negro delegates, Exports of Scrap Iron Set All-Time Record; Japan Big Customer (Daily Worker Washington, Bureat) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 26.— Exports of scrap iron and steel from the United States during 1934 set a new all-time record of 1,835,554 gross tons, the Iron and Steel Divi- sion of the. Department. of Com- merce announced today,.This com- pares with 773,406 gross tons in 1933, an increase of 1,062,148 tons. U. 8. scrap iron is being used chiefly by Japari for war preparations pure poses. ‘These figures emphasize the threat of the Japanese war preparations against the Soviet Union. Japan took “1,168,796 gross tons or ap- proximately 63 per cent of the year's foreign sales of scrap,” the Com- merce Department stated, _ The Commerce iment ane nouncement reflected also the ex- tensive military railroad building program now being initiated by Japan in “Manchukuo” and other | parts of China. Railway Men Support Auto Workers’ Strike at Plant in Waukegan WAUKEGAN, Ill. Feb. 26.—The splendid support given to strikers of the Johnson Motors. Corporation here by employees of. the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway and by members of other labor unions here, will force a quick victory for | ' » understood this and allied himself 5 A the|genuine Labor Party, and develop- ticipa' Ministers Protest Invasion The Party declares that the Com-|of Labor on the political field? It|cumstance faced each attempt for! with La Follette. pi semi-con- Cag ibe ene: Sioromie fe the class enacts of ee ee ahs haba een of! RE iccinene tows: Pb: 28 Keg tg tte a es ne ince eA moe ies aoe a een Gee rau ees scious labor movement saw in | nant force within that party, al-| working Gyese tate Party, eeeenn the United Automobile Workers io 1 q RO 2 : es le econom: VOlOp-| La Foll standard bearer = | will and aside and let the} on § = ‘The Des Moines Negro Ministerial | must be divected against efforts to| enemies” in either of the two cap-| ments in the capitalist system which ene hes ane ele i ate eel oto Sag All Se Federal local, went.on strike after Alliance has forwarded an indig- | mislead the workers into any of the nant protest resolution to the Ital- | first three types: fan Embassy. at Washington, | From the above it- is apparent against the armed attack on the that the key to the building of a A butcher Mussolihi, italist parties. The class basis of | politics is not recognized. Although experience’ has time and again proved that such policy is bankrupt, byssinian people by the fascist} real Labor Party in the United f \ i , q ) the American Federation of Labor States is in the activity of the mili-| bureaucracy maintains it. It is the push forward the need for inde- pendent political action of the wo:k- ing class — increased exploitation; | fascist terror; monopolies; ruination of the small producers, farmers, etc. —are paralleled by a disintegration against big business, and followed operated with the middle class, rich him blindly, for the farmer-labor movement still lacked political in- dependence to a certain degree. The majority of the workers in this movement desired the forma- tion of a Labor Party, but they 4 farmer and independent capitalist elements within it. The Minnesota party resembles very much the sec- ond type mentioned in the Central Committee resolution, With several political currents de- capitalist politicians and labor bu- reaucrats again mislead the work- ers from an independent class po!- icy. Our Party can and must guide this trend into channels that will actually lead to a real Labor Party. (To be concluded tomorrow.) the discharge of three workers for union activity and, refusal by the company to recognize’ the union. An_ entire shift came out. The walkout of the second’ shift was prevented by the activity of a Pany spy.