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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
co m m u mist Party of
Cuba Holds Its
End Congress

THE Communist Party of
Cuba Theld its historic
Second Congress on April 20
to p at time of great de-
velopment of and perspective
for the agrarian-anti- Imperial
list revolution in Cuba.
In spite of the ferocious
terror unleashed by the national con-
centration government of Mendieta,
in spite of the savagery of Col. Ba-
tista, army head, who attempted to
prevent the congress with bayonets,
ST delegates from the provinces, rep
resenting the lower organizations of
the Party, militant workers steeled
in the struggle against Machado and
the lackey governments which sue
ceeded him, gathered at the Con-
gress. This meeting marked a great
step toward the Qualification of the
basic tasks which confront the revo-
luticnary movement in Cuba, for TIE
preparation for and organization of
Soviet power.
Called at the moment when the
Mendieta government was con-
fronted with a wave of mass protest
against his fascist DEGREES evidenced
in a series of militant strikes against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Push H. R. 1898!

I asst week, the workers of Portland,
IL Oregon, forced the city government to
endorse the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill III R. 7598). This was a
signal victory. 1t forced the city govern
ment to petition Congress officially to
bring the Workers Bill out of the House
Committee on Labor and give it immediate atten-
ton, and to instruct the Congressman from the dis
trict to sign the round robin motion to discharge
the bill from the House Committee, bringing it onto
the floor of Congress for vote.
Yet, the city officials of Portland and the "a
other city bodies which have endorsed the Workers
Bill are no more favorable to the workers demands
than the bosses governments elsewhere.
Why, then, their endorsement?
Because genuine, well organized mass pressure
has been brought to bear upon the city govern
ment.
In Portland, the constant efforts of the mem
bers of the Multnomah County Federation of I'm
employed, united front of the Unemployment
Councils, the Civic Emergency Federation, and the
Unemployed Citizens League, forced the city to act
on the bill
Portland, the 35th city to endorse the bill, has
a population of 815. Other large cities to en-
dorse the bill are: Milwaukee 578249 Minneapolis
464,356 Buffalo 573,o76 Toledo, 29O,718 Canton
1049O6 In all 81 out of the S5 cities listed in the
1880 census have combined population of 5119413.
With Congress headed for early adjourn
nlent it is necessary at this time to intensity the
drive for the enactment of H. r. 1898 at this
sion of Congress The campaign must not be per-
mitted TO lag! Every Congressman must be forced
to sign the round robin petition until the
quired las signatures secured Every city body
must be put record the Workers Unem-
poyment Insurance Bill Oh. r. $685.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26

attacking the working class, the Republican, the
Democratic and the Famer-Labor Party stand
indistinguishably shoulder to shoulder.
When they are faced with the naked facts Of
the class struggle these parties invariably adopt
the same brutal methods of suppressng the workers
and in attempting to destroy their rights.
CUPPORTING the capitalist parties, by means Of
y left phrases and maneuvers is the Socialist
Party 1t was this party, in the ranks Of the work
ers that strove with might and main to get the
workers to submit their necks to the yoke of the
New Deal without struggle. 1t was Norman Thomas
Socialist Party leader, who, last summer. in the
coal and steel strike, issued a scab slogan Now
is not the time to strike"
The very latest issue of the Socialist organ, the
New Leader deliberately soft-pedals and plays down
the militant strike struggles throughout the country
and the brutal and vicious attacks against them
in order to block the indignation of the workers
and the development of still greater struggles which
may embarrass capitalism, which may block the
peaceful" methods Of the Socialists in cowing the
workers.
Only the Communist Party, from the beginning
has exposed the real intent and purpose of the
New Deal. Only the Communist Party has called
for unceasing organization and struggle against the
oppression Of the NRA. and monopoly capitalism
Only the Communist Party has been unrelenting
in fighting in the front ranks and in the interest
Of the workers, and in all Of their struggles.
Nor does the Communist Party rest here. 1t
calls upon all it's members and sympathizers to
increase their activities energetically, to take
their places in the front ranks of the sharpest
struggles TO expose the role of the capitalist state
and all its parties and to win the working class
for the revolutionary way out under the leadership
of the Communist Party.
The issue is clear. 1t is class against class with
the Democrat Republican, Farmer-Laborte, and
Socialist Party, each taking their stand the side
of the exploiters The Communist Party stands out
as the only Party Of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Glass Against Glass!

MOURNING their dead and preparing
4'A for still more militant struggles, the
workers must deeply learn the role of the
various political parties in the present
sharpened bloody class battle.
Ruling in Washington as the executive
committee of the capitalist class, par
ticusry of its dominant section, finance capital is
the Democratic administration led by President
Roosevelt, with the close support of and cooperation
on all basic questions of the Republican Party.
In Alabama, where Negro and white, coal and
iron ore miners are murdered: in Louisiana and
Texas where longshore strikers are shot dead
there the Democratic Party rules for the capitalists
In California where the Republican Governor Rolph
is in Office there is no hesitation about shooting
down strikers.
In Ohio where the latest bloodiest and most
savage attack was made on the workers Governor
White is Democrat. In Minnesota, Governor Olson,
who assists capitalism under the label of the
F5rnerLabor Party, has Just unhestatngly
called cut the militia against the truckers and the
building trade workers.
No matter how wordy their newspaper criticism
Of one another may be, when 1t comes down to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
We Are Here to Stay!

THE Southern Worker is here to serve as
the tribunal for the demands of the
Southern toilers It is here to give them
Communist leadership in their struggle.
We are here and we will stay"
Thus spoke the Southern Worker, or
gan of the Communist Party, in its first
issue of August 49, 1880, published in Birmingham,
Alabama
And it remained
In all the great struggles of the South of recent
years-struggles which were landmarks in heAmer-
lean revolutionary movement-this practically illegal
paper helped to fire the enthusiasm of the workers
to create the bonds of solidarity between white and
Negro, to give them leadersrship
Black and white workers are today uniting in
a common struggle in Birmingham, the biggest
heavy industrial center of the South! Here is be-
ing welded that power which alone lead 10 vic
tory both the workers in the cities and the poems
on the plantations. No wonder the bosses and the
planters have let loose vicious reign of terror kill
ing four strikers at Birmingham, three dock work
ers at New orleans and Galveston, bounding the
organizers of the Sharecroppers Union in the Ala
bama black belt, raidng working class districts in
Birmingham, seeking out Communist leaders, ach-
ing to throttle the Southern Worker.
But the Southern Worker, that doughty and per-
sistent fighter which is able to find its way into
the hands of the tolers despite all the vigilance of
the enemy, stays on
I'VE here and We will stay!" The financial
aid of the workers of the North made it possible
for the Southern Worker to fulfill its promise until
today. Today, it is more important than be-
fore that the paper stays and fights appearing
regularly matter how ferocious the struggle be-
comes The present is the most important stage
yet reached in the progress of the revolutionary
movement in the South. Our paper needs to stay.
Help it! Funds are needed Immediately!
Rush contributions to the Southern Worker
Emergency Fund, co The Daily Worker, Box 1876,
Station D. New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Greek Troopers Throw Do'On Rifles after 7
Strikers, l Woman Are Killed by Gunfre

ATHENS, Greece (By MaiD.-
When soldiers at Kalmata learned
that seven dock strikers and one.
woman were killed in a strike
struggle here recently, they threw
down their rifles and refused to
continue to shoot at the workers.
After five hours of fighting
against 300 dock strikers, supported
by 5000 other workers, it was the
rank and file soldiers, despite the
orders of their officers, who forced
a stoppage to the massacre. Two
of the soldiers and sergeant were
arrested by the police for this
mutiny.
The history of the bloody events
at Kalmata is one of the most
dramatic episodes Of the class
struggle in Greece. Three hundred
lockers we're out on strike against
the results of the naturalization
measures speeding up the work of
loading and unloading the ships.
The shopkeepers along the quay
closed their shops for two hours as
a sign of solidarity with the strik-
ers. To this was added the strike
of hundreds Of mill hands for
higher wages. Five thousand work
ers were in the streets, proclaim
ing their solidarity with the strlk-
ers. The police called to their aid
not only the foot and mounted gen.
darmerie, out a regiment of in
fantry and two machine gun de-
tachments.
When the ship "Limni," loaded
with grain, ran into the harbor, the
strikers endeavored to prevent the
mechanical unloading. A group of
strikers took a boat and rowed to
the ship. Immediately the machine
guns were brought into action and
killed two of the men in the boat;
others were severely wounded, and
the rest plunged into the sea to
avoid the shots.
Hundreds of women and other
demonstrators made flags of their
red shawls (the ordinary headgear
of the women of KalmataD, and
demonstrated in the streets, carry
ing the bodies of the murdered men.
The bloody struggle had lasted for
five hours, and cost the demon
strators seven murdered working
men and one woman, Is demon
strators severely or mortally
wounded and dozens of slightly
wounded. The indignant demon
strators demolished the dwelling
house of the industrialist Patras
(who was not at home), and pushed
their way into the bank of Athens,
where they demolished the counter
hall.
/ There would have been an even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Program Is Outlined for
Agrarian Anti-Imper-
ialist Revolution

now entering on the road toward
the winning of the majority of the
working class.
The political thesis presented by
the Central Committee underlined
the fact that the development of the
Party has been possible only
through the heroic struggle carried
on against the dictatorship of Ma
chado and Yankee imperialism, and
through a ruthless struggle against
all the tendencies foreign to Com
munism.
The Party has achieved great re-
suits in its efforts to clarity the ap-
plication of the line of the Com
munist international in Cuba, pu-
rifying its ranks of oprortunist ele-
ments of the right or left The i'm
placable struggle against the Trot-
zkyism which sprang up in Cuba
little before the fall of Machado
and which held the counter-revolu-
tionary theory Of the inlpossibility
of a revolution in Cuba without a
proletarian revolution in the United
States. This has worked out in
practice as a constant collaboration
of the Trotzkyites with the govern
ments which followed Machado. in
their carrying out role of strike
breaking.
TO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Irish c. P. Leader
To Address Final
MeetinNY Mayo
Speaks Sunday in Jer-
sey on Irish Work
ers' Struggles

NEW YORK. returned from
an organization tour in behalf of
the Irish Revolutionary movement
and the Irish Workers Clubs of the
United States. Sean Murray will
address his final New York City
meeting at 8.45 p. m. Tuesday,
May 90, at Park Palace, 10th st.
and Fifth Ave.
Fire at the Lexington Hall, for
which the meeting was originally
announced, necessitated the trans
fer to Park Palace
Besides exposing the ODuffy blue
shirts (fascists) as agents of the
British empire and Irish capitalists
and cattle ranchers, Murray will
analyze the work of the new Re
publican Congress movement.
Jersey City Meet Tomorrow
Murray's Jersey City meeting will
be held at Fairmont Hall, 718 Ber-
gen Avenue, corner Fairmont Ave-
nue., Sunday, May 9th at $3.50 p. M
The farewell Murray banquet for
which organizations are still urged
to send contributions Immediately
to the Murray Banquet Committee
at so East 18th St., New York, will
be held at Irving Plaza, 18th st
and Irving Place, Tuesday evening
May %, Earl Browder, representing
the Communist Party of the U. S
A., Murray and a spokesman of
the Irish Workers Club of New
York will speak.
Inspired by Murray's tour, Irish
workers are laying the base for a
fighting Irish Workers Club move
ment in the United States. Out
of-town delegates and members
and friends of the New York clubs
ares preparing now for the confer
ence on Sunday, July 3. Lexington
Hail. announced as the meeting
place in the first conference call
will have to be cancelled because
of the fire. Delegates will be in
formed of the new center by the
committee in a few days time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Preparing for Souiet Po,oer in Cuba

Havana; the preparations for a gen
eral strike of the railroad workers;
spontaneous uprisings of. the peas
ants, especially in Oriente; the bat
ties of the omnibus workers of Ha-
vana, demonstrate the inability OF
the Mendieta government success
fully to apply its anti-strifle DEGREES
All this, together with the wave of
popular sympathy for the hunger
strikers, first victims of the DEGREES,
proved the appreciation of the Con-
gress of a greater revolutionary up
surge for which the Party must
multiply its forces in order to give
political and organi2a bional direction
to the decisive battles which are de-
veloping.
The report of the Central Com
mittee was very informative on the
tremendous advances made by the
Party since its first constituent con-
gress in 1925. During a profound 81
lence marked by the concentrated
attention of the delegates, they lis
tened for two and a half hours to
a report of all the stages of develop
ment of their Party.
Since its beginning the Communist
Party of Cuba, which was then only
q sectarian group, isolated from the
masses, has forced itself through the
struggles of the proletariat and un-
der tire leadership of the Communist
Internal onal, applying in Cuba the
great experience of the world prole-
tariat and especially the experiences
of the Russian Bolsfeviks, into a
Party with mass influence which is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26

the DEGREES, the Second Congress
drew up a balance sheet of the
period of development of the Cuban
Party since, the First Congress. 1t
made a critical analysis Of its ex-
periences through TIE revolutionary
battles of the Cuban masses headed
by their leader, the Communis.
Party, toward opening UP the road
toward the agrarian anti imperialist
revolution.
Struggle for Soviet Power
Conlrade Martinez. general secre-
tary of the Communist Party, in his
penetrating analysis, pointed out as
the. central perspective the rapid
sharpening of developments leading
to decisive struggles for Soviet pow
er in Cuba. calling upon all the
Party through the delegates to forge
Bclshevill Party as the only force
capable of leading the proletariat
in alliance with the peasantry and
Negro masses to the overthrow of
the power of the exploiters and the
yoke of yankee imperialism, to the
only way out of the crisis-the revo-
lutionary way. The development OF
strikes during the Congress confirms
the perspective given by the report
of the Central Committee in the Ma
tional Congress.
The strike Of the telephone work
ers accompanied by tremendou-
mass sympathy end violent DISPUTES
with the armed forces of Mendieta-
Batista; the occupation of the Aus
tria mill; the militant strike Of the
workers and employees of Sara in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
FOREIGN BRIEFS

LONDON, May 25. - Confirming
the increasing war preparations of
the German Nazis, aided by the
British die-hards, against the Soviet
Union, is the arrival here of the
Ukrainian Hetman Skoropadsky.
Skoropadsky will confer with high
British officials. His trip follows
that of the Nazi envoy General
Ribbentrop, who was cioseted with
Sir John Simon for several hours
BRUSSELS, May Is. = Belgian
miners who went on strike Wednes-
day against dangerous mining con-
ditions, and for higher wages, re-
turned to work yesterday, it was
reported here.
Fire still RACES in the long no
torious Paturages au Fief mine at
Lambrechies that claimed the lives
of So victims on May Is, in addl-
ton to a number of injured.
The disaster occurred on a day
set by miners in the entire mining
region of Belgium for a strike vote
against a proposed five per cent
wage cut to take effect on May 90
Reminded that the Paturages
mine had bad reputation follow
ing the death of seven workers in
a fire-damp explosion five years
ago, the operators countered that
they had hesitated to close the
mine because it would increase
unemployment.
Forty eight miners we're trapped
in the first explosion of whom five
were brought out alive and forty
dead.
The mine was ordered flooded
but seepage is gradual and tons Of
earth have not put out the blaze.
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more disastrous massacre of the
workers had the soldiers not thrown
down their rifles during the fifth
hour of the fight. Two soldiers and
a sergeant we're arrested by the
police. After this terrorist action
was carried on chiefly by the gen.
darmerie and the police. Groups
of strikers stormed the belfries of
the churches, flew flags from them,
and rang the bells in an endless
tolling for the dead. During the
afternoon a number of demonstra-
ton professions marched through
the streets under the slogan of
Down With Fascisml"
All over the country the utmost
indignation has been aroused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26

HAVANA, May 25.-A one-hour
strike demonstration was staged in
various parts of the city here
against Secretary of Labor Miguel
Suarez and the fascist anti-strike
laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26

SHANGHAI, May 25.-Five thou
sand workers went on strike, pro-
testing the lockout of number of
workers in one of the British Amer
lean tobacco factories here.
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bama Who was fined one dollar and
costs. The costs were aeventy-five
dollars. AS the officials derend on
arrests and convictions for their
livelihood, they are always jealous
" On the alert for criminals. Let
a shabbily dressgd, friendless stran-
ger wander into town or an unem-
ployed worker get caught riding a
freight train or a hungry Negro
steal pound Of butter-tne Law
draws in all such as an electric
magnet draws IN stssel.
Frame-ups Used
And If no criminals are found
the sheriff sends out an undercov.
er man to engage a group Of Ne.
sfoes III a crap game. The game
is then raided. The mill Of crimi-
nal Justice grinds most Industrious
y when men are needed for a bis
matchmaking job"
Mr.. Wilson declares that evel
since the Civil War. huge profits
have been made out of convict
forced labor, pointing out that II
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Sunday evening, Rev. Vaughn.
'pastor of Wayman Chapel A.M.E.
Church, preached on 1.-THE Expec-
.tation and Hopes Of the Christian
Church" Quarterly conference with
Rev. J. Flutcher, presiding elder,
was held Monday evening Rev.
]. Flutcher. presiding elder, was
guest Of Rev. and Mrs. Vaughn
during his visit here.-The Domes
tic Science department of Phyllis
Weatley Club was entertained at
the home Of Mrs. N. w. Biving on
Tuesday evening. Pastry was dis
cussed and demonstrated with Mrs.
Emma G. Harris winning first
prize for a cocoanut pie and Mrs.
N. w, Biyins winning second prize
with lemon pie.-The Music and
Literary department met at the
home Of Mrs. Beatrice Melton on
Friday evening THE Value Of
Domestic Science to Young Won-
en-" was discussed Reported i'll
this week are: Mrs. Walter Chase
and Mrs. A. W. stradwick. Mrs.
French Is convaiescing from an OPP
eigtion.
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MissOuIa, Mont.
EVELYN COLEMAN AND
Massey RHiNEHART WE'D

Massey Rf7tNEHART WE'D
Miss Evelyn Coleman, daughter
of Mrs. Mable Coleman, Missoula,
became the bride of Naseby Rhine
hart son of Mr.. and Mrs. N. M.
Rhinehart, Milwaukee, Wis, in a
wedding ceremony held at the re-
sidence Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Sims, Saturday afternoon. Rev. w.
B. Williams, pastor of the A.M.E.
church, performed the rites.
The bride wore a pale blue dress
and picture hat to match. Tho
bridesmaids were Misses Esther
McNorton and Ruth Harding. Lit
tie Miss Francis Hardin was ring
bearer. Mrs. Sims played the we'd
ding march and Mrs. William
Moore sang, II Love You Truly"
Naseby Rhinehart was gradual
ed from Lincoln high school in
Milwaukee, where he was renown-
ed as an athlete. At present he Is
a junior at the State University,
majoring in physical education.
During the past three years he has
been a member of the school foot
ball. basketball, and track teams
Mr.. and Mrs. ;. w. Sims, Mr.
and Mrs. N. Rhinehart and Miss
Ruth Hardin motored to Kalispeu
Sunday.