The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
War Preparations
IN Cleveland
BY L. MARTIN.

CLEVELAND Ohio.--Edgar E. Adams of the
Cleveland Hardware Co. is prominent figure
on Matthew VOLS committee of 100 driving
for war on the Soviet Union. This same Adams
is also chairman of the Cleveland Community
Fund. He manages very successfully to COM
bne the jobs of exploiter of labor, social denla-
gogue foe of the Soviet Union and would-be
war-profiteer. BY studying the motives and &C.
tivities of this capitalist leader, Cleveland
workers may understand how closely the August
l demonstrations against the threatening at
tacks on the Soviet Union are linked up with
their own immediate struggles against increas-
ing capitalist misery.
VOLS anti-Soviet committee seeks, among
, other things, the proclamation and enforce
ment of an international boycott against Soviet
goods and the organization of commercial
moral and patriotic forces in a campaign of
resistance against Soviet political and economic
entertainments" according to Vol himself. Why
is Mr.. Adams so interested in this "interna-
tional boycott" and this campaign OF resis-
tance"? For one thing, because he knows that
these are barely concealed war moves, de-
signed to line up the capitalist powers in an
attempt to overthrow workers rule in the So
Wet Union. And war would not be exactly
calamity for Mr.. Adams big hardware plant,
which is only working part time at present.
Doubtless his plant plays a strategic part in
the War Departments plans, already laid (and
even reported by the Chamber of Commerce in
its own publications. for turning industrial
plants to the production of munitions and other
war necessities at moments notice when war
is declared.
Through his other racket, the Community
Fund, Mr. Adams is also interested in "war
on the Reds In the Soviet Union, unemployed
sick. aged and destitute workers are not left
to the tender mercies of mean, nercenary, soup
line charity" paid for by workers on pain of
losing their jobs and administered by capitalists
to maintain themselves in power. There every
worker is entitled without any docking of his
wages, to all forms of social insurance proper
medical attention when sick, a pension when
too old to work and other benefits which make
charity unnecessary. If the American workers
once get wise to what the working class can
do for themselves once they have seized power,
as in the Soviet Union, ,thatyu be an end to the
Community Fund racket Adams fears.
Adams also realizes that it is only the Com
munists who have exposed the Cleveland char
ity racketeers, demanding that they furnish
adequate relief and cease their discrimination
against Negroes and radical workers. Then too
it is only the Communists who have carried on
an aggressive fight for unemployment insurance
instead of breadlines and charity" handouts
Or what about Adams own plant, the Cleve-
land Hardware Co.? He knows what conditions
are like there and he fears that his own work.
ers will turn Red and organize in the Trade
Union Unity League to fight for better condi-
tons.
No wonder that Mr. Adams is ant-Soviet
And no wonder Cleveland workers are getting
wise to the fact that Adams and the capitalist
class he represents are pushing for war against
the Soviet Union as part and parcel of their
wage-cutting, speed-up, starvation drive in the
United States.
All out to the Public Square, Cleveland work
ers. on August list at 2 p. m Join the parades
which will start from three points G051 Auburn
Ave-; SCOT st. Clair; and 55th and CentraD at
1 p. m, and march with them to the Square,
to demonstrate against starvation conditions and
capitalist attacks on the Soviet Union.