The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1935, Page 6

Papeé6 , $ lying N HI Seat s notorious rovocations. He denounces every opposes the 50 a month He de scale abor, “red baiting” campaign, Hearst is every showing more clearly what his hand is. Number One of America, in ired yesterday in his papers all over s what he is driving at in his vicious American man or woman who € “work relief” wage nds that the workers, that organized accept this wage on all government works What does this prove if not that Hearst anti-Communist, anti-Soviet propaganda is leading the in the country? If Roosevelt can get will become e everywhere. in his sible.” —= => Daily,.QWorker cueraal OncAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ALgonquin 4-795 4. “Daiwork,” New York, W. Y “America’s Press Building, National 7910. 708, Chicago, Ml. Subscription Rates: anhattan and Bronx), 1 yi $8.00; $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents anada: 1 year, $8.00: monthly, 75 cents ar, $4.50; 6 months, 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1935 Redouble the Pressure HE seven members of the House Sub- Committee on Unemployment Insur- ance have unanimously voted in favor of the Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827. It now goes before the full committee. Tremendous pressure must be exerted at once upon all members of Congress, and especially upon the House Committee on Labor, demanding a favorable vote upon the Workers Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R, 2827. Demand that the Work- ers’ Bill be voted out of the committee and onto the floor of Congress. A New Leader Proposal HILE it gives lip-service to the Work- ers’ Bill “as the best of its kind before Congr ’ the Socialist New Leader, in the same issue, argues against the bill “as having no chance of passage” and urges all workers to support the Byrne-Killgrew measure in New York State. The Byrne bill is an anti-labor, strike- breaking instrument in the hands of the state with all the power of the bill dele- gated to the capitalist politicians. It gives the present unemployed not one penny. It proposes a minimum benefit of $5 for not more than sixteen weeks to certain workers and exempts others. Those fired for “misconduct” or those on strike or lecked out would be forced to wait for the payment of benefits. In all respects it meets the requirements of the Roosevelt measure, the Wagner-Lewis bill. The author of the bill, Senator Byrne, has frankly stated that the full cost of his measure would fall upon the workers. The New Leader asks support for this anti-labor bill, because, it declares, Con- x not pass the Workers’ Bill. And here the New Leader places itself in the camp of Roosevelt, whose intention, such a voice of monopoly Business as the Kip- linger News Service declares, is to get “something” on the record as a sop to labor. Yesterday the National Unemployment Council addressed an appeal to the Social- ist Party greeting their endorsement of the Workers’ Bill, and calling for a united front for its adoption, and for union wages and conditions on work relief jobs and for organizational unity of the existing unem- ployed groups. This is the program around which So- cialist workers and all workers should unite. Task of Service Men IONSIDERABLE gains have been made by building service workers in the gar- ment, fur and millinery districts, involving close to 20,000 workers in 640 buildings, on the basis of the agreement reached he- taveen the owners and the Building Service Employes International Union, Local 32-R, These gains, including a $2 a week raise, were made possible because of the strength of the union and the readiness of the workers in the garment center to strike, at the call of the union, This forced the realty owners fo concede some of the demands of the workers. An effective tie-up of all service in these buildings, as voted for by the work- ers, would have undobutedly brought still bigger gains. Both, the union leaders and the realty owners knew full well that a showdown in the highly unionized gar- ment center would have inevitably ended # = still greater victory for the workers. The task now is to consolidate the union, get every worker who is still out- side of it to join and to prepare the strug- gle to improve the conditions of the work- ers in every section of the city as well as in the garment center. Two Meetings T WAS a thrilling and inspiring meet- ing that filled New York’s Madison Square Garden with thousands of work- ers pledging their love and loyalty to the Soviet Union. st workers were there. Commu- nists were there. Liberals, intellectuals, teachers, professionals, and friends of the Soviet Union from every walk of life joined in this mighty expression of a de- termination to defend the Workers’ Fatherland against the war schemes of Hearst and Wall Street. There was no mistaking the solidarity that burned like a flame in the hearts of all these workers and sympathizers. No Communist spoke at Monday’s meeting. But the mere mention of unity brought a wave of enormous enthusiasm. What a contrast this is to another meeting, held at Cooper Union several weeks ago to “protest” the “terrorism” of the U.S.S.R. Here Algernon Lee, Socialist leader, mingled with White Guardists. Here, with professional plotters against the U.S.S.R. the “Old Guard,” which hates the united front with Communists, found its place. And let us not forget that Norman Thomas at this time joined this hue and ery against the Soviet Union with a letter in the New York Times supporting Isaac Don Levine. But while Thomas and Lee chose the white guardists, thousands of Socialist workers rallied at Madison Square Garden Monday night. “There must be thousands of such meetings all over the country,” was the appeal of the speakers. And the roar of approval from twenty- five thousand throats is an inspiration to make this a fact. All districts should follow New York’s brilliant demonstration of solidarity with the Soviet Union. Soci The Scottsboro Fight AT TMIS time, with the U. S. Supreme £4 Court preparing its decision on the Scottsboro case, the International Labor Defense, tried and tested defenders of the boys, issues a warning against just sitting by and trusting to the “fairness” of the court. The I.L.D. has conducted a brilliant fight right up through the highest capital- ist court in the land. But, warns the I. L. D., this court will heed the unmistakable evidence of frame- up in the case only if the power of mass protest and demonstration is brought to bear upon it. It was this mighty world protest that saved the boys from death four years ago. It is this alone that can win their libera- tion. All sorts of so-called friends of the boys, the various Negro reformist groups, the Leibowitz American Scottsboro Com- mittee are trying to lull the masses with a false sense of security now that the Su- preme Court has heard the evidence of the I. L. D. lawyers. But this is precisely what will hurt the boys most! Now more than ever, the Supreme Court, which is only the servant of the Wall Street rulers, must hear the mighty voice of the people demanding the unconditional freedom for the nine inno- -cent Scottsboro boys! Increase the de- mand for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys! Picket the Butler Stores HE strike of about 500 workers of the Butler grocery chain in New York is now on. A walkout of 1,600 in the Daniel Reeves chain seems inevitable. Eight hundred stores are effected, and they are scattered in every neighborhood in the city. A great deal depends upon the outcome of the strike. It is the first time that these workers, who slave long hours at low pay, have challenged a powerful chain. If the strike is successful it will go a long way to building a strong union of the workers in grocery, cigar and such chains. It is of primary importance to organize large picket demonstrations in front of the stores. The Communist Party has already di- rected all its followers and members to render every possible aid to the strikers along these lines employers’ drive to smash all trade union wage scales away with his miserable $50 a month scale on government works, then it is a dead certainty that this officially recognized starvation pay club to beat down the trade union scales Hearst calls the $50 a month program of Roose- velt a “humane and sensible” program, Well, this at least gives organized American labor some idea of what Hearst considers “humane and sen- This gives organized American labor a clear | Party Life | | Philadelphia Section Shows How Finance Committee Should Work OW often in the Party is the work of the Finance Committee’ underestimated: or entirely neglected? How often do. we see comrades frantic with the effort of raising enough money to pay last month's rent for some Workers Cen- | ter. | Towards the end of December our West Philadelphia, Section 3, Fi- nance Committee comprised of five members, met and adopted a three months’ plan. At that time we had | eighty-three regular: monthly sus- taining pledges bring in $44 a} month. | The plan we adopted called for: 1, The securing of fifty new pledges, totalling $25 a month. 2. The sending of a political let- ter to all makers of pledges a week | before Lenin Memorial Meeting. 3. A meeting of pledge makers and sympathizers to be called after the political letter had been sent. 4, Enlarging the Finance Com- | mittee by bringing more non-Party members into the work. Formation of a sub-committee to arrange af- fairs for the Section. 5. A movie to be held in February, The first month i. now over, and| in reviewing the work during Jan- uary we find the following results: (1) Twenty-six new pledges se- cured, totalling $11.50; in other | | words, 52 per cent of quota in| pledges and 46 per cent in amount. | This was due to the efforts of the) | collectors who followed up contacts and got new pledges. | (2) A political letter was sent | calling on every maker of a pledge | to send in names of his friends who | might be approached for sustaining | contributions. A two-month cam- | paign was called for and a Lenin | set offered to the person who re- | |cruited the most new pledges. At | |the end of the campaign a social | will be held. (3) We have been unable so far | to enlarge the committee. | | (4) The movie and a Kirov lec- | | ture were held under the auspices of the Finance Committee. At the beginning of February our | | Finance Committee reviewed its work and decided on the basis of our accomplishments: (1) To fulfill the three months | plan in two months. | () To challenge Section 1, Philadelphia, Finance Committee to | draw up a plan and do better than ;our Committee. Other sections are | welcome to join in. |. ©) To follow up the political |letter by the collectors talking to the Pledgers and getting names of | new prospects from them. (4) To get every pledger to be a | Daily Worker subscriber. Most of | them are already. | |_ () To hold a house Party and | a movie during February for the benefit of the Section. Let us hear from other Finance Committees. Cc. R., | Section Financial Secretary, | Philadelphia, * * . have published the above letter because we feel that the po- | litical importance of our Finance | {Committees is not stressed suffi- | ‘ciently in most of our Districts and | | Sections, The best and ablest com- |rades often do not want to serve on ‘such committees because they feel | that this is not political work. The \fact is that this work of financing | | the activities of our Party is one of | the major political tasks, When we approach this work \from this point of view, and po- |liticalize the work of raising our finances, we will find that our financial problem will not be the |ittieut one that it is in many places. We have around our Party many jindividuals, clubs and other or- | ganizations, who, if approached on |@ political basis, will be glad to be- | |come financial supporters of the Party. We must cease our “rent- |paying approach,” and build up in- \stead a regular monthly fund from ‘our friends and sympathizers, who | support us financially because we ‘are leading the struggles of the | workers against hunger, fascism | vand war, because we are fighting for the Workers’ Unemployment In- | surance Bill, because we are fight- | ing for the rights of the Negro peo- | ple, because they want to help us | fight the attacks of the Hearst \press, and because they believe in |the Communist Party. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. |recently with idea of what lies behind Hearst’s “Americanism!” The poisen against the Communist Party and the war howls against the Soviet Union—this is one side of Hearst’s plots. The other side, for wh ich the first is organized, is to pauperize American labor, to smash the trade unions and put chains on the neck: There is a warning to s of American labor! every trade unionist in this. This means that to swallow Hearst’s rotten poison against the “Reds” and the his union-smashing, wage-c American labor! Tra SMOKING HIM OUT! Soviet Union is to step into utting trap! de unionists! Members of the A. F. of L.! dirty reactionary! See what Hearst Attacks Union Wages Behind ‘Red-Baiting’ Propaganda SUPPORTS ROOSEVELT’S $50 A MONTH SCALE—DENOUNCES AMERICAN LABOR FOR DEMANDING UNION PAY ON PUBLIC WORKS Be on guard against this cunning and is behind his howls against the Soviet Union and the Communist Party! It is the blood and sweat of American labor that Hearst feeds on. Wall Street, of the most greedy open shoppers. The Hearst press is the voice of ruthless, despicable and Unmask this arch enemy of the American trade unions! Fight for union wages and conditic ! Condemn Hearst’s war-mongering, anti-Commu- nist, anti-union drive! by Burck Letters From Our Readers Letter From USSR Exposes Anti-Soviet Slanders Rochester, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Certain sections of the capitalist press, whose owners shape the des- tiny of this country, have come out lies and slanders concerning the Soviet Union. Of course, we can guess the purpose behind these lies, but to whom does it do good? Not long ago a famous writer and travelér, Burton Holmes, | apartments built according to the| Becanse 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. |its appearance so rapidly that one jcan hardly keep up with it. Two jor three months ago a vacant field, | now a several-story brick building, |@ workers’ settlement, is rising, its ,in a weekly mentioned a professor | who ‘had found a way in which to | turn salted arid lands into produc- | tive fields. It is very hard for you | living in a capitalist eountry to | keep in touch with our rapid prog- | tess!” Ne Ts | cain oe | Anti-Communist Measures Menace S. P. Workers New York, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: The present sedition bills pro- proved to a full house at the East- | last word in technique. Here you | Posed by the McCormack-Dickstein man Theatre the miraculous trans- | can find electric irons, electric boil- | Committee offer a serious challenge formation of backward Czarist Rus- sia in the industrial field. As final proof, the next day I received a letter from a relative living in the U. S. S. R, who has traveled the country from Vladivostok to Kiev, from Leningrad to Northern Cau- casus. His letter follows: “Congratulations to E.! After a few years she may write something of her own, but I am sorry that she | does not live in the U, S. S, R., for it would be so easy for her to be- come a writer over here. We keep constant watch over promising, tal- ented young people. Our old writ: ers are helping the young ones, training them in every possibie way. The field for her activities is a thousand times greater than in your capitalist country. If she learned the Russian language, she could work here. We have more work here than we can do our- selves. We have neither unem- ployed nor people living on the prof- its scraped from the sweat of others. Conditions are improving every day. We are constantly mov- ing to a higher standard of living, while you are moving to a lower standard. “On the first of January, 1935, we abolished the ration card system and now we are buying all products at the stores and markets freely. Every day sees more and more goods on the markets growing cheaper and cheaper. The hour is not far off when no one will think of bread—there will be more than we need, Our country !s changing lers, electric stoves, radios. Already | to workers are living in just such vhouses and in the near future | we shall have much better. | “As for the ‘kolhoz’ (collective | villages), what an improvement over those individual farms! Just the change from those wasteful strips of land to cultivation with |the tractor has brought much bet- ter crops. When I was in Kislo- vodsk last summer, I was interested | in the life in the kolkhozes of |Northern Caucasus, Most of the members received for every work- ing day one pood (36 pounds) of \grain, some meat, vegetables, ap- |ples, grapes, etc. Now, figure for | yourself, if one family consists of | two or three workers, it would aver- |age 500 or 600 warkdays, ie. 500 |poods of grain (nine ‘tons). Besides |the products, they receive several rubles per day. That is why our vil- lJages are now asking the cooper- atives for automobiles, bicycles, peasant runs from a bicycle as used to be the case when you were here. Automobiles and aerovienes are common to the peasants. In any village you can find someone who knows how to run an auto or even an aeroplane. One of the sons of John Gabri finished the school for pilots and has been fiying for many years. ‘T am afraid you are too late with your project. For a few years elready we have been irrigating arid lands, Just recently an article On Dictatorship of the Proletariat sewing machines, etc. Nowadays no | the Socialist Party despite the | fact that it is not specifically men- tioned in the proposed legislation. The Communist Party should direct an open letter to Norman Thomas asking him some of the following questions: | Does he believe that a bill that | Will outlaw the works of Lenin and | Stalin will permit the works of | Marx and Engels? Does he believe that Communists would be forbidden to quote Marx but that Socialists would be allowed | to continue to do so? | Does he think for a moment that | a drive on subversive literature will Jeave the shelves of the Rand School library untouched. | Does he think that Socialists will | be permitted to sing the Inter- | national while that privilege is de- nied the Communists? Does he believe that Department of Justice spies will stop to inquire whether Socialists advocate violent or non-violent overthrow of capital- | ism? Does he think that these forces will be impressed with the evasions of Revolutionary Declaration of Principles? Does he imagine that the statutes | forbidding anti-war propaganda | likely to reach soldiers, sailors or re- | serves will apply only to Commu- | nists and leave unhampered the |anti-war propaganda of Socialists and pacifists? These are a direct challenge to the Socialist Party. What we ae | Hence there are three fundamental aspects of the dictatorship of the proletariat. (1) The utilization of the power of the proletariat for the suppression of the exploiters, for the defense of the country, for the consolidation of the ties with the proletarians of other lands, and for the development and the victory of the revo- 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”) World Front By HARRY GANNES Fighting in Spain | Cuban United Front News from China, Japan | | sh eae the state of alarm nor the heavy concentra- | tion of assault troops in Ma- | drid and other parts of Spain could halt the united front, | Socialist and Communist, | demonstrations on Monday, |against the threatened executions jof the Asturias revolt leaders. | In a dozen places in the heart of Madrid workers gathered, At Plaza del Angel and Cuatro Caminos Police fired at the workers, One was killed, eight wounded. The fascist Lerroux-Robles gov- ernment is becoming increasingly |nervous. The Supreme Court has |before it decision on the death | Penalties against the Socialist and ;Communist leaders, Gonzalez Pena, Teodomiro Mendez, Luis Garcia, Anibal Roces and Manuel Lopez. | In the United States the Socialist |Press recently has heen silent on |the threat of death against the So- |cialist leaders in Spain. Socialists! } cated Action in this country now can help save our Spanish brothers from the executioners bullets! To | hesitate is dangerous! a ia Pe | Woes and peasants in Cuba | i" are rallying behind the 350,000 students and teachers in their po- | litical strike against the Mendieta regime. Monday night a huge del- egate meeting was held in Havana where the “frente comun” (united |front) between workers, peasants and students was established. The objective is the end of the Men- dieta-Batista regime, the with- drawal of the death penalty in the sugar fields and mills, civil liberties, |protection of the workers’ living standards, Present were representatives of all trade unions and delegates from the famous Realengo 18 Soviet in Oriente province. In Camaguey, | the strike is assuming the aspect of civil war. Never before in Cuba has there | been such united and powerful rev- |olutionary action. And the struggle jis only beginning. eee | A PRIVATE letter from China in- |£4 forms us that the Red Army in |Saechuan province is advancing | both from the North and South. The important city of Luchow on the Yangtze has been captured. In Anwhei and Honan province, the anti-Japanese vanguard is moving Northward against the Japanese invasion. Chiang Kai Shek is fran- tically ‘rallying his forces for a new assault. The new anti-Red jheadquarters are now established at Ichang on the upper Yangtze, with supplementary bases at Han- kow and Chungking, Szechuan. Pee we 'ILOOMY news on the economic | and financial situation in China | fills the Japanese press. ‘China is |on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of the long financial panic, | which has prevailed since last | year,” writes the special China cor- |respondent of the Osaka Mainichi. | Banks are closing. Industries are tied up. Peasants cannot get loans |to purchase seeds or other neces- sities to begin the spring planting. | After a conference between Chiang Kai Shek, Finance Minister H. H. Kung, and T. V. Soong, it was de- |cided to inflate the currency by | 100,000,000 through the Communi- cations Bank. Se was also decided to plead with Wall Street and London, as well as with Tokyo, on bended knees, for loans. In return they offer concessions in China which will further enslave the Chinese people. As between the advance of the Red Army and the threatening economic and financial crisis, Chiang Kai- Shek willingly chooses the golden noose of imperialism with which to strangle China. i cecaner 'HE 30,000 Tohoku province girls who were sold into slavery in Japan went either into the houses of prostitution or the factories. The Japan Weekly Chronicle now re- ports that those in the factories are suffering a worse fate than the prostitutes. At the Sano Mill, Osaka, where 500 of the girls were sent,. they are forced to work 18 hours a day and to sleep next to their machines. At the same time they do not get enough food to keep them on their feet. “It's not much use trying to convince the world how well the girls are treated in the first class mills,” comments the Chronicle, “when this sort of slavery still goes on with ime punity.” Minister Kidnaped Ashton B. Jones, prominent At- lanta, Ga., Congregational minister, told newspapermen here today that jhe had betn kidnapped, beaten and threatened with death at Fort Smith, Ark., Thursday night when he visited Rey. Claude C. Williams who was sentenced to 90 days in jail last week for aiding the strug= gles of Arkansas share croppers DEQUEEN, Ark., Feb. 26—Rev. |