The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1935, Page 6

pyge 6 D AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935 Socialist ‘Old Guard’ Echoes Hearst Anti-Soviet Propaganda ‘NEW LEADER’ PROMIS HE rising menace of an anti-Soviet war of interven- s, Hitl ng cla tion, incited by the Hear rs and Hulls, has rity. roused a great surge of work Socialist workers came in hundred the great Madison Square Garden me n Ne rk on Mon- c night to pledge their devotion ar alty to the Workers’ Fatherland, to the country \ s the guide and bulwark of the masses of the world. thi ocia Socialist wor ered their approvol when J. B. Matthews, a st speaker, cried, “We will defend the Soviet Union without any ifs, ands, or buts.” But the Socialist Party weekly, the New Leader, controlled by the S. P. “Old Guard,” has a different stand on defending the Soviet Union. It promises to defend the Soviet Union against an imverialist raid—but, it declares, in substance, that the Soviet Union is not worth defending! “The Socialists of the world,” it declares, “will of course, be ranged against the aggressions of Japan, Germany, and Poland, but it is also our duty to point out that the Bolsheviks, have not, by their conduct, earned this support of the workers of the world.” The New Leader goes further and vents its hatred against what it terms the “disruptive work of Bol- shevism,” slanderously charging Communism with being an ‘ally of the exploiting cl Is this not ominous and sinister? besmirch the glory of Socia S.R.? Is this not an insul ass.” Does not this list construction in the U.S. t to every Socialist worker who really defends the Soviet Union, to those who met in Solidarity at Madison Square? A Socialist worker may well ask the New Leader— if this country of the U.S.S.R. is so hateful, so “disrup- tive,” if it is even an “ally of the exploiters,” why then defend it? Is it not clear that this pledge of support to the 1 OF AID TO U. S. S. R. IS ACCOMPANIED BY CHARGE THAT SOVIET UNION “HAS NOT EARNED WORKERS’ SUPPORT” U.S.S.R. is only a temporary cloak that will be dropped as soon as the imperialists begin their war against ths Workers’ Fatherland? If the Socialist leaders violated their international- ism, how much more readily will they forget their “loyaliy” to the Soviet Union, which they have been he- smirching for 17 years? Socialist workers! We call upon you to awake to this insidious anti-Soviet propaganda with which the “Old Guard” is flooding your papers! Drive such Hearst-like propaganda out of the working class move- ment! Solidarity for the defense of the Soviet Union! Daily,QWorker CIWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.& (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: / 44-7954 New York, N.Y, 954, Ni D. C. Wells St., Press 39: Subscription Rates: By. M Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; , $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents Canada: 1 year, $9.00; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935 Profits and Wages MOST damaging indictment of the Roosevelt N.R.A. is the latest. report A of the N.R.A. itself. In its survey of the past two years, the N.R. research bureau reports that “while payrolls in December, 1934, were only about 60 per cent of the total in 1926, dividends and interest were 150 per cent of the totals in 1926.” That is to say: wages have been cut in half; profits have been more than doubled. Commenting on Roosevelt's promise to raise buying power, the report claims that “purchasing power remained constant,” an obvious untruth when one considers that the cost of living has risen more than ten per cent since Roosevelt took office! The 200 biggest Wall Street corpora- tions reaped a $430,000,000 profit in 1934, compared with half of that in 1933, and only $100,000,000 in 1932. Four hundred per cent profit increase in two years! The N.R.A. has not been at all bad—for Wall Street. N.R.A. has gouged these profits from the payrolls of American labor! The charge of the Communist Party has been proven correct—the purpose of N.R.A. from the beginning was to reapportion the coun- try’s income so as to increase profits at the expense of wages. —— Mass Violations HILE the anti-strike injunction of the open fascist, Justice Cotillo, is being appealed to a higher court, the injunction against the Ohrbach strikers, limiting ‘ picketing to two persons, is being smashed by mass violations. Mass picket demonstrations, especially over each week end, are breaking the Ohr- bach injunction, and most of those arrested were dismissed. The injunction issued by Cotillo goes even farther than the Ohrbach injunction, prohibiting white collar workers from pick- eting altogether or fighting for union rec- ognition. The joint Board of the Dress and Waistmakers’ Union rightly declares that be taken before the U. S. Supreme Court, is issued at the moment when the Amal- gamated Association lodges are preparing strike and are carrying through an or- ganization drive. The decision is timed to enforce the company union in the entire steel industry and to hamper the building of the A. F. of L. union and its strike prep- arations. The decision is designed also, to influence the new legislation regarding N.R.A. and to legalize, even more than at present, the activities of the company unions. The sections of the decision which back the company union have as a precedent the decisions of President Roosevelt which legalized the company unions in the aute industry by means of the “merit” clause. Under section 7-A itself, as in auto and rubber, “elections” have been framed to favor company unions. The current decision of the federal court still more openly and brazenly sup- ports the fascist, company - controlled unions. The ‘Daily’ in Strikes HE recent elevator men’s strike in New York was a tremendous opportunity for the Daily Worker to prove to the work- ers that it is the only reliable and trust- worthy guide in their struggles for better wages and conditions. Certainly, the Daily Worker was the only paper that unqualifiedly supported the strike. More, the Daily Worker gave excellent and concrete advice to the men on how to guarantee their victory. If properly dis- tributed the special 100,000 copy strike - edition might have played a decisive role in warning the men against the maneuvers of Bambrick. And yet the New York Communist Party district in its report on the Daily Worker circulation drive must state that while 75,000 copies were distributed, “no arrangements were made to follow up the meetings held by the elevator strikers.” The New York district emphasizes the lesson that “when workers are on strike or preparing strike that this is precisely the time to reach them with our paper.” More energy, more skill, and more steady work in bringing the Daily Worker to the masses! A Victory IHE State Senate of New Mexico has just. defeated a criminal syndicalism bill aimed against the Communist Party and all labor organizations. The defeat was due directly to the vigorous protest aroused by the Commu- nist Party. Many labor unions, and other workers’ and liberal organizations sent delegates to protest the measure. Similar mass protest can defeat the “se- | Party Life Navy Yard Nucleus Tells How Shop Paper Was Distributed HEN our unit was formed, in October, 1933, condi- tions in the yard were pretty good, and the grievances of | the workers were not so great. | Especially at the time the unit | issued its first shop paper, just six months ago, the yard had | just hired over a thousand men or |more and the work in the yard was | \so plentiful that the workers prac- | tically had things their own way, | as far as conditions were con- |cerned. The only lively grievance that we had to fight was the ar- |senic poison generated by welding | on galvanized plates, on the five new [destroyers they are building here. | During this time we were point- jing out to the workers that they must organize to maintain these good conditions, and telling them that these conditions could not last at a time when the standard of living of the entire working class is being steadily dragged down to a |lower level. Our shop paper has always been welcomed by the yard workers and |Was passed around the yard and read by them. For a long time our paper was issued outside the gate at |noon time and quitting time, and, jalthough the workers accepted | them, the fact that they were dis- | | tributed outside the gate, kept them from being accepted as a real yard workers’ paper. At a District Bu- | |teau meeting a few months ago, our | unit was discussed, and the District Bureau pointed out the mistake of issuing the paper outside the yard, pointing out to us that ten shop papers inside the yard had more effect than a hundred distributed | joutside. The unit immediately re- | |acted to this correct advice, and the | llast two editions of our shop paper have been planted in strategic places within the yard. | During this period the effects of jthe crisis were felt in the yard. | There were mass lay-offs, the help- | jers were more and more forced to | do the work of mechanics, and more work was being forced upon the | low-paid enlisted men of the navy. These issues were stressed in our | shop paper, which has become tre- | mendously liked by the workers, |who eagerly look forward to its | publication. |] AST week the battleship Califor- | nia was literally plastered with | “Yard Workers,” the Daily Worker, | the Moscow News and small pam- | phlets of vital interest to both yard | workers and sailors alike. That is- sue of our shop paper contained an jarticle on sailors doing the work |of civilians, and was therefore put \aboard the ship in great lots. It |immediately caused a great stir on |the ship and also through the yard. The yard officers, along with the | ship officers, made futile attempts | to stop its distribution, The men working on the night shift were immediately watched by |armed patrols of sailors. And the |men on day shift were forced to THE SOVIET § Pine q Letters From Our Readers \. B. C. Strikers Ask Boycott of Automat New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: The National Biscuit strikers I 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 Dally Worker. know thank you for writing about | the strike every day. There are | many workers who can read only Italian and Polish, so their friends translate for them, Please tell the readers of your paper not to eat in the Automat restaurants because they are selling N.B.C. products to break our strike. c. Ss. “The Yanks Are Coming— To Their Senses” New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: reclaimed His army posters “The posters proclaim Head,” “Liberal” Press Masks Its Anti-Working Class Stand East Carnegie, Pa. Comrade Editor: Although W. R. Hearst is un- doubtedly the spokesman for Hitler and his type of fascism in the U.|Ples and paupers.” In reference to Julian Hoffman’s able review of the “The Man Who | and the! in Union Square: | that the| Army, or is it the Navy, makes men. T always want to put stickers over them, correcting them to read, “War | makes widows and orphans, crip- | Not Foreign-Born, But Hearsts Are “Aliens” New York, N. Y. Comrade Editor: In an article which appeared in the Daily Worker on February 2*, deportaiinn cases, misquoted my re- marks to the Commissioner of Im- migration. In particular, I did not use the term “alien,” in speaking of foreign born workers who are the allies of the American workers in the struggle against the exploiters. Where: it is necessary to desig- nate the foreign-born workers who are not recognized as citizens by the capitalist government, the term “non-citizens” is to be preferred. So far as the welfare of the Amer- | 3 | World Front By HARRY GANNES Symptoms of World Revolt From London to Algiers | Communists in Bulgaria | ()N THE widest world front, and in the most diverse lands, there are signs of a growing mass upsurge which | in many countries will soon | break out into serious battles. Most recent reports tell of the ever-mounting struggles of the British toilers to such an extent that the ruling class of this im= perialist colossus is considering war- time measures. J. H. Thomas dropped the hint that instead of holding general elections in the fall, the British ruling class would con- sider extending its present National Government power for another three years under the Pretext of a “national emergency.” ‘1\e “mother of [capitalist] democ- racies” turns to ever more fascist measures to maintain the rule of the colonial slaveholders, Going on down the line, in every type of capitalist land, and in every degree of colonial country, the | Symptoms of incipient revolt are cropping to the surface. In Spain, the revolutionary forces are already beginning again openly | to test their forces with the Fascist Lerroux-Robles regime. The same is true in Austria, Rumania and Bulgaria, Paes eee’ “QN Bulgaria,” reports the Christian Science Monitor, “Communism jhas assumed the most formidable | dimensions. And the more ruthless the repression the more determined the opposition.” The same paper reports the fact that in Philippopolis, second largest Bulgarian city, though the most ferocious terror has been unloosed against the Communists and their press, “yet 15,000 copies of the sec- | retly printed workers paper are cirs cufated.” Communism has penetrated into the Bulgarian army and schools, | adds the Monitor correspondent. In | Many cities of Bulgaria, open fight~ ing has taken place between the workers and peasants against the State police and soldiers. Cig . aE EEING to the colonial and semi- colonial countries, we can see |what powerful blows are being | struck against imperialism in the African continent as well as in Latin America. The Algerian riots, |David Levinson, attorney in recent | Which began last summer in the form of anti-semitic actions, are now more clearly becoming eco- nomic and political struggles against French imperialism. The most alarming feature for the French Slaveholders is the fact that the native troops are showing signs of | mutiny, and with more serious out~ breaks they will turn against their masters. Nor has the French idea |of bringing in Negro Senegalese | troops been greeted with any great | enthusiasm, | The revolutionary unrest in Al- jSiers and Morocco at a time when British, French and Italian impe< lism are striving to enslave Abys< 4 dition” and criminal syndicalist laws now being smuggled through in at least seven legislatures. Vigilance and action in every state is show their badge on leaving the ship and coming aboard. In spite of all these maneuvers to hamper the workers, going to the extent of spreading rumors that the ship was the injunction re-writes the constitution, suppresses the right to strike and to picket. “The decision, in attacking the rights of | any group of workers to peaceably picket, # |sinia, the last independent Negro ican people is concerned, not the | ~ Ujichs, Carlsons and Richters, but haces, in Africa, may set off a the Hearsts, J, P. Morgans and liberation movement on the African jf continent that the capitalist powers ee of Immigration ate | ever dreanied of, 5S. A., we must not neglect to expose the so-called “liberal” newspapers, which in their insidious way are just as reactionary and anti-labor as Dirty Willie and his fascist Hoffman stirs me to an idea. The | anniversary of the United States’ entrance to the war is approaching, April 19. Suppose on that date the i The Algerian battles are becom= 3 i a ‘ being guarded because the Com-| thugs. |country were to blossom with stick- Fraternally, is attacking the rights of all workers | Necessary to block these reactionary meas- | munists were going to blow it. Up, | weccst is definitely out and out|ers on army posters, pasted on DWIGHT C. MORGAN, | 7 ihe most serious because the everywhere,” the vwnion states. “The ures! the workers realize what is the real | fascist, and is easily recognizable as Proletariat, the dockworkers and Iéarned justice seems to feel that under- paid and overworked salespeople are so cialized that they must be denied rights | ‘ freely granted dressmakers, locomotive en- } gineers, elevator operators and other skilled crafts.” The injunction of Cotillo strikes at the | right of all white collar workers to or- . ganize, strike and picket. It must be smashed by mass violations, by mass pick- ‘). eting, and by the united protest of all New York labor. .. The Weirton Decision IHE ruling of Federal Judge John Nield that Section 7-A of the N.R.A. is un- constitutional, openly upholds the Weirton company union and attacks the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. The Weirton case is accepted as a test case, which will have a bearing ‘on all industries. _ _ Nields, denying the government’s ap- plication for an injunction, puts the ap- proval of the federal circuit court on the firing and blacklist, strikebreaking ter- ‘ror, put through by the company union in ‘the Weirton plant. “The plans of employe “epresentation at the defendant’s plants eer effective and satisfactory” said the Federal judge. . . “In all respects it com- ilies with the provisions of section 7-A of “ye N.R.A.” a decision of Judge Nield, which will 63 ‘a , ids 154 Homes FE: IS now a full year and a half since Roosevelt launched his housing program. Yesterday’s N.R.A. report reveals that with the $150,000,000 at its disposal, the housing program has thus far provided only’ 154 homes for workers! During this period, the war-building program was far more efficient. Roosevelt has built more than 2,000 bombing planes since he took office. Has ever a bubble of capitalist promises collapsed so shamefully as this vaunted “housing program” of Roosevelt? More Evidence [HE links that bind Wall Street’s fascist plotters with the White House are once again exposed in the latest state- ment cf General Smedley Butler. Butler, who gave testimony before the Dickstein Committee on Wall Street’s fas- cist conspiracies, declared two days ago that Gerald P. MacGuire, agent of the Wall Street banks in the plot, “was able to foretell administration actions weeks before they occurred.” Butler also revealed that the Dickstein Committee still keeps from the public vital information involving the guilt of promi- nent higher-ups, close to Roosevelt, é truth and don’t fall for the “bomb- ing” stories. And although the close watch kept on the workers leaving the ship at night made it difficult for some of them to catch their boat home, they appeared to be pleased that the “Reds” were able to get their literature aboard ship and really feel now that the “Yard Worker” is their paper. The next issue of our paper, which will be out in a few days, will answer these bombing stories. | NAVY YARD UNIT, Bremerton, , Washington. Pa ee ae Editorial Note: Good luck to you, comrades. You are doing difficult and important Communist work. We will expect more good reports from you. What are you doing about recruiting into your shop unit? Although recruit- ing must be carried on carefully, 0 that your members are not exposed, \it must not be neglected. We |would like to have a letter from you telling us your methods of re- |cruiting, how you safeguard your members, and concretely how you carry on struggle against war and fascism. Join the Communist Party 35 East 12th Street, New York Please send me more informa- such by all haters of fascism and its terrorism of the workers. How- ever, such “liberal” papers as the buildings, in buildings, everywhere, | stating the facts about war, and why we shouldn’t fight one another. Secretary Committee for Pro- sailors are joining with the peasants tection of Foreign Born. in the fight against French impe- rialist rule. Jews first bore the Scripps-Howard chain, which claim to present “both sides,” are often bought by workers on the theory that it is “fairer,” or “not so bad as Hearst.” The freedom of the press is guar- anteed just as long as one writes on abstract subjects, such as the “Mellon interests,” the “Steel Trust,” etc. But the moment any criticism is specifically directed against the big advertisers of the papers, then the sham of free speech is exposed. No worker should support any capitalist paper. There are no half- way, liberal newspapers, They are all anti-working class because they are capitalist papers. Cc. N. Here are some slogans: Who wins in a war? gobs’ and doughboys’ families. eration, not crutches. our work to do. —see stars! march! Hep, hep, hep! kit bag and smile, smile, smile! senses. now on! E. 8. lution in all countries. tion on the Communist Party. proletariat, classes, to a society without a state. Not the We want work for the next gen- Let the bankers enlist, we have Munition makers! Join the Navy | Politicians platoon! Backward | Why fight to keep social slavery? Pack up the bosses in their old The Yanks are coming—to their Are we downtrodden? Not from On Dictatorship of the ne cb Boston Reader Shocked By Hearst Slanders Boston, Mass. Comrade Editor: The Hearst anti-Soviet campaign has reached the mark of unbeliev- able slander and distortion in today's Boston American, (Feb. 22). Pictures appear in this issue of dirty-yellow press which are an ab- solute falsification and must be counteracted in the Daily Worker by explaining their source and origin. In my trip to the U. S. S. R. last year, I saw no such scenes, NEWSPAPER REPORTER 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- (2) The utilization of the power of the proletariat in order to detach the toiling and exploited masses once and for al! 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 (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 --STALIN (“Problems of Leninism”) brunt of attack because the wily French masters, many decades ago, when they first established their rule, gave the Jews a special posi tion as agents for the imperialist overlords. In other words, though | the majority of the Jews are among the poorest peasants and urban | workers, the most strategic positions lin trade and industry and impes | rialist dealings are held by Algerian | Jews, | In the recent riots of the unem- | ployed in Mosteganem. as predicted by L'Humanite. French Communist organ, the battles did not assume | an anti-semitic aspect but were die | rected against the chief enemy—the Mavor, staff army officers, and sube prefects, the direct representatives | of French imperialism. . | Wee ee iT other great, ouistanding upe surge in a semi-colonial coune try. directv affects American ime perialism. Never in the historv of Cuba has there been such a unified, and so powerful a movement, against the Wall Street puppet gov= ernment, as is now sweeping that Island. That it will have its re« Percussions throughout all Latin America is also certain, especially as the class battles in Mexico, Chile, Peru. Brazil. Paraguay. Bolivia and rapidly maturing to revolutionary / pronortions. ( China, which has long been in) the van of anti-imperialist revolus tion, now with the frightful eco- nomic and financial crisis hitting that country, will soon see a hune dredfold intensification of the nae tional liberation struggle, other countries are rising’ hich and / {i