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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16

and farmers not isolate themselves
from workers in the army and navy
SO that they will not be isolated from
their fellows. So that they may
explain to their comrades why they
are being driven to slaughter work
ers Of other lands. In contrast to
the self-satisded, individualistic, i3o-
lationist, counter-reYolutiorary p2ci-
fism militant Or otherWise) OF the
Socialist Party, the Communist Party
guides the work of militant work
erS and farmers in uniform, SO that
they will really be able to con
vert The capitalist war crisis into
victory for socialism by turning
impenalist war into civil war against
their capitalist exploiters, through
such means as revolutionary mass
action in the rear of the army and
determination at the front. 1t points
out that such action resulted in
Russia, even against terrible abso-
lutisn, in the victory OF the workers
and poor peasants and the estab-
lishment Of the Soviet Union, the
fatherland and champion Of the in
ternational prolstariat.
Communists strive to show the
workers that such participation in
imperialist war will weaken attacks
on the Soviet Union, against whom
yr5O1.1r sy-aT4o7sf ,1 s-,,,
t h r ateningly, and thereby
strengthen the base for the estab-
lislment Of workers and farmers
government here and in other i'm
perialis5 countries. That is why the
slogan, Defend the Soviet Union, !"
is so vitality bound up with the vel
fare Of the workers and farmers all
over the world.
On the other hand, Communists
point out that the International
policy of the Soviet Union is a real
peace policy in that it serves the
interests of the workers and farmers
who are the Russian ruling class.
They explain that this class has
no territorial ambitions whatsoever,
that it serves the interests of work
ers and farmers throughout the
world by fighting against the threat
OF war, by offering its good Offices
to those countries who manifest any
desire to preserve peace, and b. re-
lentlessly exposing those countries
who are preparing for end provoking
war.
THE Enid
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Govt Won't
Intervene for
ScOttsbOrO 9
Roosevelt Ignores Facts /;
Secretary Prattles of
Estates Rights

NEW Notwithstanding to per-
sonally take any stand in the
Scottsboro case, President Roose-
welt, ignoring his own request for
an account of the facts in the
Scottsboro case, sailed away on a
warship for a vacation, turning
over the letter and material sent
him by the I. L. D. to Homer
Cummings, Attorney-General.
This was shown in a letter re-
ceived by William L. Patterson,
National Secretary of the I. L. D.,
from Cummings last week. In the
letter also Cummings refuses to
take any stand on the case.
Cummings letter states that the
President turned over the letter
and material to Cummings.
Ignoring the precedent set by
President Wilson in the Mooney
case, cited in the letter, of presi-
dental Intervention in a case,
Cummings repeats the out-worn
alibi that the case "is one exclu-
sively within the jurisdiction Of
the state Of Alabama"
The Attorney-General, in cum
ningly-worded conclusion, again
avoids any definite stand, but
clearly shows his support, and the
support of the federal administra-
ton, of the murder plans of the
white ruling class of the South.
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convert the capitalist war crisis
into a victory for socialism"
Norman Thomas pays lip service
to the revolutionary Eugene Debs,
who stated clearly and firmly that
You cannot vote capitalism out of
existence" Nevertheless Thomas
encourages pacifism, during time
when capitalism is at war-during
War-a time when capitalism, in its
sharpest state of crisis, brushes OPP
position more cruelty and ruthlessly
than at any other period of its ex-
istence.
Pacifist Poppycock
In other words, Thomas and his
advisors try to explain away their
careful avoidance of anti-war work
in the army, on the docks, the
streets, ETC., by doing out the
poppycock that the capitalist ruling
class will allow him and his bre.h-
rem to convert the capitalist war
crisis into victory for socialism
by politely collapsing of it's own
weight.
Despite Debs. despite the brutal
ity, terror and wholesale violence
with which capitalism in Germany,
Austria and the United States meets
the growing solidarity of the work.
ers, despite the premeditated ma
chine gun terror instituted, for the
hundredth time, by N. R. A. Indus
trial Advisor Myron Taylor's United
States Steel Corporation against
steel workers bold enough to reject
the company union-despite all this,
Thomas and his flock proclaim that
they will change the system i.
by methods which do not compel a
resort to wholesale violence or die
tatorship" BY such pacifism does
Thomas strive to keep the steel
workers at the mercy and under
the dictatorship of the U. S. Steel
Corporation, rather than submit to
their dictatorship over the Taylors,
the exploiters of America! In
short, Thomas and his brethren
propose, on the eve of impsrialist
war, to desert workers in the army,
to isolate the most militant work
crs in their ranks, and to hide from
workers the fact that the general
strike, as the supreme form of the
mass strike movement, and SIS a
transition to the armed uprising,
constitutes a stage in the transfer
nation of imperiahst war into civil
war.
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phrases to prevent the rank and file
from boiling into the Communist
Party, where they can make a real
fight against war or from joining
hands with Communist workers in
a genuine anti-war united front.
Louis Waldnan, intent on adheTing
to what he called "the Socialist ira
ditional position against war;" that
is, the outright betrayal of the
workers into the hands of their
prospective murderers, is opposed to
anything that will make the Party
offensive to the capitalist govern
ment in war time. AS reported by
the New York Times, the journalistic
patron of Waldman, Thomas and
other Socialist Party bigwigs, Valid
man argued
81 am not opposing sensible
declaration against war: am not
opposing the traditional Socialist
position against war, a position
that we can present to the work
ers and on which we will get a
hearing. l am opposing this sui
cidaI declaration, the stupidity of
this declaration. What you are
doing in approving this resolution
is something that will bind us,
fetter us in our efforts to build
UP strong anti-war position,
something that will rouse tremen-
dous prejudice against us, some
thing that will be handicap and
not a help in fighting war. This
is a wild, irresponsible declara-
ton"
Worry not, little man! The big
boys, the Schwabs, Morgans and
Taylors, the Astors and Teagles,
understand that you and Thomas
are doing the best you can for
them, under the circumstances.
A day later, Louis Waldman, the
indorser of the New Deal under
which workers have been ground to
semi-starvation, shot dowr. bav-
onetted, tear-gassed, and literally
speeded up to es.ly deaths, said III
a statement issued on his return,
to New York City:
"As between the program OF or
derry, peaceabie, constructive and
intelligent political action and the
;nsurrecticrary. [Hcar! hear, hear
the darling Of inc New Yer
Tilnes.-S. WI destructive and
violent methods proposed by the
Left Wing, Socialists viii have no
difficulty in making their choice.
In common with progressive labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Detroit Relief.
Men Call Mass
March fOrW ed.
Conference Calls for
StOppage July ID
At II Noon

DETROIT, Mich, July 15.-Relief
workers throughout Wayne County
voted for a stoppage Wednesday,
July Is, at II noon, and for mass
march on the F.E.R.A. offices, 176
East Jefferson ST., at 2 pm, when
a committee of 25 will place the
workers demands before Ballenger,
relief administrator.
The mass march was voted
Thursday at the action conference
with 300 relief workers present, in
Guiding 40 delegates from so relief
projects and 40 trade unions. L.
Sabian, of the A. F. of L. Painters
Union was chairman, and John Pace,
secretary of the Unemployment
Councils reported.
The following demands we're
voted: ~ Immediate withdrawal
of the 81 to $3.50 weekly cut, and
guaranteed minimum weekly
wage of SIS a week; ~ rs per
cent increase in direct relief; ~
right to organize on the jobs; "a
reinstatement of fred workers; 90
for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
Ballenger and A. F. of L. officials
are trying to break the strikes on
the Wayne University and Ham
tramck projects after 200 painters in
A. F. of l.. locals AZ and 81 had
voted the strike. Charles Newcomb,
A. F. Of L. business agent, ordered
the men back.
The strike committee, with head
quarters at 2540 Park Ave, Room IL,
is trying to spread the strike before
the general stoppage Wednesday.
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and the lovers of democracy we
shall go on, confident that our
methods, no less than cur ideals,
will triumph"
Yes. He actually said that on the
very Gay that a delegation of steel
workers announced in Washington
that the steel corporations, the
most powerful lovers Of demo-
cracy'' in the U. S., were erecting
barbed wire fences, hiring more
thugs, setting up machine guns, and
Restocking their a-senals in preps-
ration for meeting the demands of
their slaves for decent wage and
their own union.
THE revolutionary anti-war posi-
ton, that is, the program Of the
Communist Party of the U. S. A.
and other sections of the Third In
ternational, applies Lenin's teach
ings on the proper way to fight i'm
perialist war. This program, for
mulated in the July-August, 1928,
resolution of the World Congress
Of the Communist International, in
contrast to the Intentionally vague
nd contradictory left wing
Thomas declaration OF June, 1884,
gives .pecific directives for the fight
against war and during war time.
The anti-war program of the Com
munist Party the forward line OF the
working class army, calls for patient,
ceaseless anti-war work in the fac
tories and on the farms, on the
docks and on the streets, in the
homes and in the schools. In doing
this it makes it clear that the fight
against imperialist war, if it is to
be effective, must not be separated
from the class struggle. That, on
the contrary, the fight against i'm
perialist war is a part Of the gen.
eral struggle of the workers for the
overthrow Of the rule of the bankers
and the industrialists, that war is
only the continuation of capitalist
competition by other means. This
it does. not by windy resolutions, but
by linking up the ceaseless fight
against capitalist exploitation OF
the worker with the day-today strug-
gle against imperialist war prepare
tons.
In the event of war, the Commit
mist Party directs the driving Of
the revolutionary fist through every
opening that presents itself. 1t pro-
poses that class-conscious worker;
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Clubs in every up sale Of "n sJTs
section in the district. Sellers of
the Daily Worker will then be
placed on the busiest corners in
these sections"
Each section will have to sell the
Daily" In front of factories and
other concentration points. Mass
organizations will be checked on
bundle orders. Each unit must
take an immediate bundle of five
papers to be sold at the above loca-
tions.
Will Hold RED Sundays"
While the drive is in progress,
three or four Red Sundays will be
organized to build routes and in
crease subscriptions. A check-up of
the districts activity will be made
in two weeks, promises the Org.
Secretary, and a full report will be
sent to the Daily" for publication.
This check-up must be thorough.
Seattle has agreed to meet its
quota in 80 days. This is the kind
Of determination that will put the
drive over . +. but Seattle must
not be satisfied with its efforts
until every worker has been
reached with our DAILY"
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stage, despite the betrayal
by the Amalgamated Assoc
citation and the American Fedora
ton of Labor offlcialdom. which
postponed the strike scheduled to
start on June Is. The strike vote at
Warren, Ohio, several days ago
point to the beginnings of a broad
strike movement in steel to realize
the demands Of the steel workers as
raisd at the April convention Of
the A. A.
The National Convention Of the
S. NJ. w. I. U. coming at this time
is in a position to become the focal
point of attention for all steel work
er5 in the rapid development Of
renewed strike sentiment among the
steel workers.
The National Executive Board Of
the S. NJ. w. I. U. has sent calls to
all the Amalgamated Association Of
Tin, Iron and Steel Workers lodges
and to all independent unions in
the steel and metal industry, to send
fraternal delegates to this conven-
ton. One of the main tasks of the
convention will be to establish a
close relationship with the rank and
file Of the A. A. and the indepen-
dent unions and the formulation Of
a policy on a united front basis
whereby the ranks of all the work
ers in the industry can be united in
a fighting front against the steel
trust and its agents, the Greens,
Tighes, Johnsons and Roosevelts.
The election OF delegates in the
locals Of the S. M W. I. U. have
been in process for the past month
and large delegations are expected
rom all branches in the industry
There is a serious handicap con-
fronting the National Board Of the
union in the organization Of this
convention. The recent campaign
preparation for the strike scheduled
for June 18th has depleted the
national treasury of the union. In
order that this important conven-
ton may be in position to accom-
plish the tasks before us it is Urgent
that all Sympathizers of our union,
that all workers organizations shall
contribute to the extent of their
capabilities to the building Of con-
vention fund to insure a successful
convention, and that every effort be
made to contact the independent
unions and urge them to send
fraternal delegates. Send all dona-
lions to the National ONCE, James
Egan, National Office, James Egan,
National Secretary-Treasurer 929--
5th Ave, Room Sill, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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On the
Strike Front
Rubber Workers On Guard
AGAINST Strike Sell-0ut

AKRON. Ohio, July 15.-StrlKlng
r7ibber workers, remembering the
Steel and auto industry seI-outs'
have rejected by vote Of 100 to
60 the proposal of the General
Rubber and Tire Company, a settle
mgnt which met all wage demands
but which provided for equality Oh
the A. F. Of L. and the company
unions in representing the work
ers. 49,. o,;d
despite the efforts of the company
to provoke violence which Will give
them an excuse for unloosing the
army of gunnmen now held in read
mess. Rubber workers in otner
plants not on strike are using tnelr
free time to keep the picket lines
going.
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How nicely Thomas and his staff
would lead workers into the nav
of the imperialist general staff by
calling general strike irrespective
of the. existence of a revolutionary
situation-that is, irrespective of the
amount Of participation by the
workers in Snti-war demonstrations,
the number of partial strikes, the
capacity Of the workers for mass
action, etc.
now it is possible ito make the
II waging Of war a practical i'm
possibility" without entering the
army and navy and winning over
the armed forces who necessarily
wage wer and without whose sup
port the working class cannot smash
the exploiters' capitalist state, how
it is possible to convert the capt.
talist war crisis into a victory for
socialism without first raising the
workers banner in civil war inside
the regiments and on the decks of
warships?-ell this is ignored by
the phrasemongering Socialist Party
oilers of the New Deal war ma
chine, who are SO eager to fool the
rank and file and thus keep them
from joining hands with their
Communist fellow workers who are
performing practical basic anti
war work.
Louis Waldman, the New York
State Socialist Party chairman, who
endorsed the detectives and pur-
poses of the N. I. R. A. New Deal,
was correct when he attacked the
Thomas declaration as "bombastic,
unreal, unconvincing. !" How
ever, he made himself ridiculous
when he added that this declaration
was, among other things, illegal,
Communist doctrine" Waldman
certainly knows that his colleague
Thomas is a million miles from
Communist doctrine IRON any
thing Lenin ever said about anti
war work.
Nevertheless, Louis Waldman was
much more honest in stating his
fundamental anti working class
position than was Thomas. Neither
one wants the workers to make a
real fight against inperiaiist war,
since this is a vital part Of the
struggle to overthrow capitalism,
and hence themselves, capitalism's
Socialists in the ranks of the
working class. Thomas takes refuge
in tricky, seemingly revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
NegroJanitor
Murdered By
Boston Con
Mass Funeral Tuesday
Workers Demand Ar
rest of Inspector

BOSTON, July 15.-A mass fu-
neral organized by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense for George
Borden, Negro ianitor, murdered
by Everett Gardner, motor vehicle
inspector, last Sunday, will raise
the demands for the arrest and
conviction of Borden's assailant on
Tuesday. l pm, starting from
Shawmut and Massachusetts, AYES
The Negro and white workers
will march to the new Interna-
tional Hall where final services
will be held for Borden.
Borden died Friday night while
a protest meeting of 200 workers
in his behalf was going on. He
was shot by Gardner when he re-
fused to accept a summons for an
alleged automobile violation.
The LID. is demanding that
Gardner be removed from his po-
sition and tried on charges of
first degree murder. The Negro
and white workers are also de-
manding the arrest of Officer Har-
mon, who was an accessory to the
crime and the removal from Of
flee of Police Commissioner HUT
man and Judge Hayden, notorious
Negro and labor hater, who re-
fuse to hold the attackers of Bor-
den and are trying to whitewash
the case.
The National Association for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Chicago Workers Protesting
City'sG mcroaV Rule, Defy Gas

CHICAGO, July Is. - We've
TODD the stencil of capitalism this
long, Wen stand its tear gas in our
fight against jim crowism."
Claude Lightfoot, young Negro
worker and Communist candidate
for state assembly Friday night
spoke those words in a gas filled
room where a mass meeting for
Negro rights was being held, stop
ping a possible panic. A gas bomb
was thrown by a hoodlum working
for one of the property owners asso-
citation in Hyde Park which is
leading the fight to drive Negro
workers from the South Side
Beaches.
Workers who had packed the hall
of the John O'Neal Branch of the
I. L. D. to protest against q police
attack on Negro and white workers
on the jackson Park Beach, Sunday
July 8, remained in the hall, al
though the mustard gas caused
them to gasp, choke and weep.
In spite of the disruptive action,
the meeting was a success. Work
ers packed all available space to
hear speakers protest the police en-
forcement of jim-crow rules on the
public beaches. Besides Comrade
Lightfoot, Arthur G.. Falls of the
Inter Racial Commission, Dean
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Balduff of the Y. M. c. A. College,
Virginia Bash of the National
Students League, and a representa-
tive Of the l. L. D. spoke. Phil
Terry, secretary of the Youth Sec
ton of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, was chairman.
Resolutions for the elimination of
discrimination on the beaches were
passed as we'll as protests against
the terror used against the last
beach party.
Plans were MADE and approved en-
thusastically to hold a mass Soil
darity Beach Party in Jackson
Park on Sunday july Is, on the
same. spot where the arrests took
place last week.
The meeting Friday night is part
Of long struggle. On July LIST, for
the first time, open mass violation
Of jim-crow rules took place. Negro
and white workers, massed at an
open air meeting in what was called
the Black part of the beach, de-
cided to march across the color
line They were greeted with
friendship by white workers, games
were played, and another open air
meeting held.
10 opposition to this move was
found among any Of the white
workers on the beach, and the
party did much to increase the
unity Of Negro and white.
The following week, July s, a
similar beach party took place, with
games, singing, and so on. With alb
solutely no excuse, except the state
ment the organizers Of the party
were trying to mix niggers and
whites" police charged into the
party and jailed eighteen workers
and students.
Both the beach parties we're held
under the leadership Of the Young
Communist League.
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Metal Union to Raise Strike Issue at August Convention
Picket Lines Keep
Dividend Payments
From Stockholders

AKRON, Ohio. - Stockhold-
ars of the General Tire and
Rubber Co., diligently engaged
in escaping the heat by the va
rious pleasant means available
to those with money, might
never have known that there is
strike in the plant if their
dividend checks had not been
delayed.
The militant mass picket lines
around the plant have COM
plete crimped clerical opera
lions. Officials Of the company
have been compelled to send
out notices explaining that it
was impossible to get through
the mass picket lines to obtain
BOOKS and other records neces-
sary for sending out the divi-
1end checks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
"KohIer of Kohler' Gets
Strike Ultimatum

KOHLER, Wise, July IA. - This
company owned town, named after
the plumbing fixture manufacturer
who dominates it, felt the force of
workers determination to fight
against New Deal conditions when
1900 employees vote to go on strike
beginning Monday. A meeting of
the workers rejected the answer Of
Kohler to their 14-point demands
and determined not to submit to
company unioniSm.
Walter j. Kohler, president of
the company and former governor
of Wisconsin, has long made it his
boast that his town is model in
dustrial village where 80 per cent
of the married workers own their
own home" This is the first strike
in the history of the community.
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AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN
FRANCE REFUSES TO SEE
SCOTTSBORO DELEGATION

PARIS, France (By Mail) A
joint delegation representing the
French International Labor De-
tense and the Union of Negro
Toilers residing in France called
on the American Embassy to pro-
test against the lynch verdicts
passed upon Haywood Patterson
and Clarence Norris, and to de-
mand the release of all the Scots
boro boys.
The Ambassador refused to re-
ceive the delegation and also re-
fused to accept protest resolu-
ton. But the delegation insisted,
and finally one Of the embassy
secretaries accepted the resolu-
ton.
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Ohio Onion Weeders Set
Mass Picket Lines

MGUFFY, Ohio, July 14.-Onion
weeders on strike here for shorter
hours, wage increases and recogni-
ton of their union have set mass
picket lines again to prevent pick
ing of the million-dollar crop by
strike-hreakers. Last week scab
weeders managed to work in the
fields under heavy protection of
deputies and private thugs in the
pay Of the growers. Barefoot, clad
In ragged overalls, the strikers have
declared themselves ready for a
fight to the finish