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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Letter OF Communist International the British L. p Membership
Exposes Fenner Bockwas HghSounding Revolutionary Phrases

I racy is that all members of the
Communist Party and all Party
organizations should firmly carry
out the decisions of the C. /. con-
crosses, conferences and higher
organs of the Party. Discussion
prior to the decision, but after the
decision the united carrying out of
the decision adopted-that is the
principle of Communist organi-
zation.
In Communist Party there could
not take place such thing as has
occurred in the LIP, i.e., that after
the party Conference in Derby had
adopted a decision in one direction
Gin the direction of approaching the
CD members of the NAG worked
for months on end in an opposite
direction. In any case that is not
democratic centralism. Mr.. Sand
ham, a member of the NAG, had
unlimited freedom openly to sabo-
tage the decision for a united front
with the Communists adopted by the
Derby conference, but members of
the LIP. who issued a statement
in favour of affiliation to the CT.
are being threatened in the London
district with expulsion from the
LIP. The January meeting of the
MAC. instead of condemning such
an open reformist as Mr.. Sandman
on the contrary, showed him the
greatest confidence by approving his
parliamentary candidature. And the
same meeting of the MAC. APP
proved the slanderous letter to the
CT.
Therefore it is clear why Mr..
Brockway and others, in the letter
of the MAC, are complaining in
the name OF freedom of criticism
against the firm discipline in the
CT; this is the usual method of
opportunists (exposed by Lenin and
Stain long ago., i.e., to fight for the
freedom of their reformist policy
against the revolutionary policy of
the Communist International.
1t would be welcome step if the
forthcoming party conference of the
LIP. would throw clarity on the
question as to whether the mem
bers of the MAC. Of your party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04

A section of the British workers
already realize that only revolution,
only Soviet power, will bring about
the emancipation of the toilers. The
majority of the British workers,
however, do not yet realize this and
support bourgeois parliamentary
democracy. The reformist leaders
conceal the truth from them that
parliamentary democracy is only a
form of the dictatorship of the
bourgeoisie. They are using all
means to spread the illusion
amongst the workers that the third
Labour government will begin the
democratic development towards So
cialism through parliamentary re-
forms. That is, of course, only a
deception-that is the same thing
which the German social democ-
racy promised the workers while the
bourgeoiSie, with the support of the
social democrata transformed it's
parliamentary dictatorship into a
fascist dictatorship.
But what does Mr.. Brockway say
to the British workers? Does he
say to them clearly and unambigu-
ously: Instead of the parlia-
mentary system the Sovie t
Power? No, as a cleft" reformist
in the letter of the NAG. he in
tentionally does not say anything
against the deceptive illusion that
the dictatorship of the proletariat
can be established without revolu-
ton, through the reformist "pacifst
technique Of revolution" or legal
workers councils, but ISLANDERS the
Land Of the Soviets where the die
tatorship of the proletariat has tri-
unphed and where workers dem
ocracy rules.
If the LIP. really wants to be
a party that sympathizes with Com
munism, it cannot possibly at the
same time associate itself with this
position of the cleft" refornnst OPP
ponents Of the chief slogan of the
Communist International - Soviet
Power.
ProIetarian Discipline
The third question refers to the
struggle which the majority of the
national council in its letter actu-
ally carries on against afsiiation Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Shoe Workers on
Strike in PhiIa.
Walk Out in Protest on
Company Union

PHILADELPHIA, April 2 (By
MaiD One hundred workers of the
Keystone Slipper Company went on
strike today, under the leadership
Of the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union, in protest against
the coerciye measures Of the bosses
to force workers into the Central
Convention, company union, and
against discrimination of union
members, for complete union rec
per cent for piece workers, and 10
per cent for piec workers, and 10
per cent for week workers.
Through various tricks the bosses
unanswered the workers into an
election for union representatives.
On the day of the election, 95 mill
tant workers were laid off, and the
company union won the election by
three votes. Since then, skilled
cutters have been getting So and
S12 a week, and other workers the
same, in direct violation of the code
ADA 1llG 4AlQuoJly y. Oi1AOll 1iiCnlpCAo
and other workers who objected to
the company union and to the star
walton wages, were summarily fired
or threatened.
The negotiations comm TIT e e,
elected at the strike meeting Mon
day afternoon, was told by the
bosses that they would not yield to
the demands but would import
scabs and strikebreakerS.
The strike in this shop is Of
special Importance to the shoe and
leather industry in Philadelphia.
The 80 or so bosses are trying by
tricks and coercion to force the
5000 members of the industry into
company unions. The United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union (inde-
pendent, however, is gaining new
influence and following among the
workers. And if they can force rec
ognition of their union in the Key
stone shop, this strike may very
probably be followed by strikes in
other shops, to smash the company
union in the shoe industry in this
city for good.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
4. +. L. Locals and City
Councils in GrOwin Q.
Numbers Back HR 1898

action, forced the City Council of
Brooklyn Village, Ohio, to endorse
the Workers Bill. Half of the
workers in the village belong to the
League.
TorringtOn, Conn, Workers Endorse
The Fraternal Federation for So
cial Insurance held the first mass
meeting in four years in this COM
pany union industrial city. Four
hundred workers, representing Is
fraternal organizations, filled the
City Hall meeting room, which the
city administration was forced to
grant to the workers. The Work
ers' Bill was unanimously endorsed
at the meeting.
Because of the widespread sup
port among the rank and file, the
Farmer-Labor Wornen's Convention,
which met in St. Paul, endorsed the
bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
MiIitarists Aim to Set
Up Permanent C.C.C.
to Train Boys forWar

some 40 of us. We walked two
miles back from work in the rsir.
The lieutenant met us at camp,
white as a ghost. !, He readily gave
in and supplied W with work clothes
and wooden underwear (our first bit
Of decent clothing. Next day We
got boots.
Subsequent struggles conferred
about bad food, work in the snow
and cold, against the suicide squad"
type Of work, etc.
The first Of our major strikes oc-
Cured early in December. It
against working overtime. c
Saturday morning, when We
called out to work, we went
strike. That afternoon we were
formed we we're being docked 81 49,.
refusal to work. The Indignation
over this caused a letter to be writ
ten to Robert Fechner, including all
our grievances. The letter required
Is large sheets Of paper One hun
dred and three men who were in
the camp that evening signed it.
A committee Of three presented It
to a platnclothes inspector who took
it back to Washington, and promised
US an investigation
Washington Investigates"
The investigation did come, but
who do you suppose was investi-
gated? It was we professors, A
grating ior had a fellow en-
rollee and myself summoned into
headquarters. where we were grirled
IS minutes apiece, about our private
life and if there we're any leaders
or "sgitators" around.
This whole incident proved to the
fellows that this government is not
interested in their well-being,
Our next struggle, in February
was against working in the cold and
snow. The men stood together, de-
spite the threat to call the state
troopers. We won coffee in the
woods, no work until it's 10 degrees
above, no discharges for those
threatened with them, and to II
days off in March.
The men Of the Civilian Conser-
Walton Camps need organization in
the worst way This is the only
way they can better their conditions.
Four months has taught me this.
The government is forming fas-
cist Forest League" which pub
hshed the magazine, Happy Days"
to fight against organization. But
the C.C.C youth are forming their
own national organization. the c
c. G. Boys Protective League, which
publishes Camp Spark" and fights
for better conditions.
Our role in the next war. one of
ficer explained to US, is to build
bridges, dig bitches, etc. all under
fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Only Workers GOU't
Can Break Yoke That
Binds Small Farmers

The draft Manifesto of the
Communist Party, at its Eighth
National Convention, denounces
the destruction of American
agriculture solely in order to
maintain Wall Street monopoly
and rich farmer profits. The
Communist Party Manifesto de-
clares that a Workers and Farm
ers Government, established
through the abolition Of the cap
italist government, would act so
that:
Cali claims to the ownership of
the means of production, includ-
ing stocks, bonds, mortgages, ETC.,
would be relegated to museums,
with special provisions to pro-
tect small savings.
Such a government would
Immediately begin to reorganize
the present anarchic system of
production along Socialist lines.
1t would eliminate the untold
waste of capitalism; it would
bring to full use the tremendous
achievements of science, which
have been pushed aside by the
capitalist rules from considera-
ton of private profit.
Such a Socialist reorganiza-
ton of industry would almost
Immediately double the existing
productive forces of the country.
Such a revolutionary govern
ment would secure the farmers
the possession of their land and
provide them with the necessary
means for a comfortable living;
it would make it possible for the
farming population to unite their
forces in a cooperative socialist
agriculture, and thus bring to
the farming population all of the
advantages of modern civiliZa-
ton, and would multiply many
fold the productive capacities of
American agriculture"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
1000 Farmers Hear BENTLEY.
Militant Farm Leader, Flay
Wallace Misunderstanding Plan
Would Raise Milk and
Butter Prices To Aid
MOnopOlies

farm relief programs that were
worked on us in the past" Bentz-
ley said as the farmers applsuded
stOrmily. we find that this pro-
gram is class program, repre-
senting the interests Of the rich
farmers, the COW jockeys, land
lords, mortgage holders, bankers
and the Dairy Trust.
Against this hunger program, we
propose a program in the interest
Of our own class; in the interest OF
the small farmer and the city
worker. Our program is designed to
increase the buying power of the
small farmer and city worker, who
constitute the overwhelming ma
jority of the population.
81. We demand the cancellation
of secured debts, mortgages, back
rents, delinquent taxes and feed
and seed loans of the impoverished
small and middle farmers.
2 We demand adequate imme-
date cash relief for all needy
farmers in order to live and con-
tinue production until our whole
population can enjoy liberal diet.
SO. We demand that the price
of all Grade B milk, 3.5 per cent
butterfat content, shall be 5 cents
quart to the farmer on the farm
and that the price charged to
the consumer shall be lowered to
8 cents a quart.
"a. We demand the abolition Of
the basic surplus and classified
ton systems of buying milk.
SO. We demand that the Federal
government buy all so-calIed sur
plus milk at cents a quart on
the farm for free distribution
among the unemployed workers
and undernOurished children.
'6. We demand the passage of
the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, H.R. 1898.
This new milk program is attack
ing the wrong surplus. 1t is at
lacking the so-called surplus OF
milk, COWS, and farmers, but it is
not attacking the only real surplus
we know about-the surplus of
profits.
I'VE consider this program as
further guaranteeing the profits OF
the trust. We intend to fight this
program by organization and mass
action" Bentley concluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
LIP. Heads Sabotage
Decision of Own
Conference

ing that the tried Bolsheyik Party
Of the land of the victorious pro-
letarian dictatorship plays, through
its revolutionary experience and
authority. the leading role in the
Communist International. All Sec
tons Of the CT. consider this lead
ing role Of the CPS.U. as one Of
the most important guarantees of
their coming victories.
The members of the LIP. have
recently taken some practical steps
along the path of cooperation with
the Communists in Great Britain.
Your party has now the task Of
deciding for or against afhliation
to the Communist International as
sympathising party, lie, of choos-
ing between the camp of the pro-
letarian revolution and that of de-
caying refornism to which also the
phrasemongering heroes of left"
reforn1ism belong.
Those who really sympsthize with
the Communist International can
not but unequivocally reject the
Brockway letter.
The most important thing for the
British workers at the present time,
not only for many members of the
LIP, but also the members of the
Labour party and the trade unions.
is to hberate themselves from the
influence of refornism of the right
as well as the left Only this can
guarantee the victory of the British
proletariat over capitalism. The re-
cent Austrian example has once
more shown that where the liberia
ton of the workers from the in
fuence of the reformist traitors has
not been accomplished in time, the
working class, despite its great
heroisn. is deprived of the posi-
bility Of victory in the struggle
against the exploiting classes.
Fraternally yours.
6signed) o, w. KUUsrNEN.
For the Political Secretarias
of the e. G. 9. L
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04

taxes are taxes on the consumer.
They tend to raise retail prices, re-
ducing the real wages of the in
dustrial workers, thereby further
narrowing our markets"
Brings Misery
A reduction program similar to
the one proposed for the dairy farm
ers has been in operation in the
South for nearly a year with terrible
effects on the poor cotton famers.
I will quote from an article by
Webster. Powell and Addison T.
Cutler printed in the February issue
of Harper's magazine that has never
been refuted by the officials of the
A,AA. The article says:
The government plans for 1884
calls for 40 per cent reduction
in cotton acreage from the pre-
ceding five-year average, that is,
reduction from about al to rs
million acres. Applying the 40 per
cent figure to the two million
southern cotton growers of all
clasSificationS, we find 100000
families involving about 100000
men, women, and children, who
are in danger of losing their
means of existence. 1t is probable
that not all of these will be actu-
ally released. 1t is certain that
large number of them will be-
THE government now proposes to
buy COWS for these southern share
troopers who cannot even afford
SIS for a COW, after a seasons work.
Helps Rich Farmers
This new milk program Is funda-
mentally the same as the other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04

The second question concerns the
attitude of the MAC. to the chief
slogan Of the Communist Interna-
tional-the slogan of Soviet Power.
Mr. Brockway and others from
the majority of the MAC. formerly
fought for "a pacifist technique of
revolution" and for the setting up
of workers councils without revo-
luton, i.e., for the legal reform of
the capitalist state Without having
ASSOCIATED themselves from the re-
formist principle, they now suddenly
announce, in the letter of the N. A.
c., the new high-sounding slogan.
Dictatorship of the proletariat ex-
pressed through working class
democracy"
What kind of a State form is
this? The class-conscious workers
OF all countries know that no other
form of the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat is possible than that of So
Wet Power. They know, too, that
a genuine workers democracy is
only possible under the Soviet power.
But obviously the authors Of the
letter of the MAC. did not mean
that or they would have written:
Dictatorship of the proletariat ex-
pressed through the Soviet power"
The members of the MAC. by no
means wanted to write that. Why
notP Because they are not for but
against the Soviet power, which can
not be achieved through playing
with revolutionary words, but only
through real proletarian revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Var Decorations To
Be Atparded to C.C.C.

WASHINGTON, D. Chine
companies of the C.C.C. through
out the United States will re-
ceive the awards of the Army
and Navy Journal, it was an
nounced Monday by Robert
Fechner, CC.C. director.
The competition for the awards
was conducted by the War De-
partment, with the approval of
C.C.C. Director Fechner. Gold
medals will be given to the C. C.
c. officers for their work in
militarizing the youth of C.C.C..
subordinate officers will be given
silver buttons, and to bolster up
the war spirit, which the officers
have drilled into them, the G. c.
:. workers will be given bronze
buttons.
One company in each corps
area of the War Department has
been so awarded"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
"Class Program of the
Banks, Rich Farmers"
Farmers State

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April a.
In a 25-minute speech that was
greeted by storms of applause from
the 1000 assembled dairy farmers
who came from all parts of the
milk shed here, Lewis Bentley,
President of the United Farmers
Protective Association, tore the new
Understanding program of Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace to pieces
at the first open hearing on the
proposed plan.
Wallace is now travelling the
country, speaking at open hearings
on his new plan to raise the prices
of milk and butter by destroying 10
per cent of the country's dairy sup
ply through a program Of curtailed
production. This would raise butter
five cents pound and milk one
cent quart.
Speaking at the Broadwood Ho-
tel where the 1000 farmers had
gathered to hear him defend his
plan, Wallace outlined his pro-
possls. When he had finished
speaking, Bentley, who is we'll
known to the farmers as q militant
fighter against foreclosures and
evictions, and for the rights Of the
small farmer, rose to speak.
Farmers Score Starvation Plan
His speech created q sensation
and aroused the farmers, who had
listened specifically 10 Wallace's re-
dictionary proposals, to high en-
thusiasm and great applause.
I'VE are opposed" Bentley said,
ITO any production control plan, be-
cause we realize that under such a
scheme the small farmer city work
ers and the undernourished chill
dren are the victims of it. We are
against any reduction of the pro-
duction Of food while millions are
going hungry.
How can the Department of
Agriculture attempt to force such
an inhuman program when its
own experts admit that in order
to give our people an adequate
diet at a moderate cost we need
15O00,000 more cows than we now
have. These figures were given
by Mr.. TOIley of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration in his
speech Of Jan. 81.
This is a starvation program that
is designed to drive 1000 900 per-
sons off their farms, who will have
to be absorbed by other occupa-
tons This is from statement by
Mr.. Tugwell on Aug. 4.
Those who favor the new milk
policy contend that the checks for
benefit payments will more than
make up for the loss sustained
through curtailment Of crops. This
might be so. if the small farmer got
the check in the end But he does
not. Our experience in the West
and South shows that checks are
Immediately levied upon by the
bankers, COW Jockeys, landlords and
other creditors. This is banker re-
lief disguised as farm relief"
Form Strike
Continuing amid applause Bentz-
ley said:
We resent the attempt of the
administration TO intimidate us by
threatening to deprive us of one
of our strongest weapons against
the milk trust, our right to strike.
49,"
We further object to the admin
istration's policy of making the poor
take care Of the poor, by means of
the processing taxes. Processing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Demand School Investigation

NEW YORK. - The Teachers
Union has demanded that Paul
Bianshard, Commissioner of Ac-
counts, institute an investigation
into the school system to discover
the source of abuses and unfair
neSses."
The letter sent to Blanshsrd listed
promotion by political perferment,
lack of educational leadership on
the part of the Board of Superin-
tendents, and arbitrary disciplinary
measures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Mass Meet Called To
Back Philly Workers

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting, in
support of the striking knitgoods
workers in Philadelphia, will be held
Wednesday, at $50 pm, at Irving
Plaza Hall, irving Place and 18th
Street.
Over 1000 knitgoods workers of
Philadelphia are on strike against
the hunger code. They are declaring
a 35-hour week, living wage, and
recognition of their union. The re-
Spouse to the call of their union
for general strike was a splendid
demonstration of unity.