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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-19

knows it-as evidenced in its adj
mission albeit made in reactionary
mockery of the revolutionary strug-
gle for proletarian internationahsm
and solidarity Of all toilers, that the
Communist program calls for the
wiping out of all color lines and ma
tional and racial oppression:
I'VE had enormously assumed
that in the Communist Valhalla
race lines would be obliterated: that
there would be no black or white,
but simply American workers skip
ping together in the streets and
tossing nosegays hither and yon."
/ The Communist program of self
determination and universal equal
ity for the Negro people has been
brought forward not merely in
words, but in hundreds Of struggles
led by Communist workers, against
segregation, lynching and all forms
Of Negro oppression, persecution
and inequalities imposed upon the
Negro people under capitalism.
Moreover, there is the living eX-
ample of the Soviet Union, where,
national oppression has been abolish
ed along with unemployment and
the exploitation of man by man.
Facts are stubborn things" and
before these facts the Courier edi-
tors are forced to reveal their fear
that they can no longer deceive the
Negro masses on the Communist
program, or divert them from the
necessary revolutionary struggle for
oEnualitV. Land and Freedon.n
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Coming Socialist
COnventiOnReveals
Confused Trends
Deepgoing Rank and File Discomfort Developing
Against Second InternationaFs Betrayals

influence were involved in spite Of
the sabotage Of the leaders. OF
considerable influence upon the
S. P. rank and file we're also some
Of our successful applications Of the
united front by which we estab-
lished closer comradely contact with
socialist workers who began to see
the correctness of our program and
the reactionary policies Of their
leaders California;. we allowed
the Communists to get some credit
for trying to bring about the united
front" complain many socialist
leaders TODAY.
e. The death Of Hillquit deprived
the S. P. Of a force able to keep the
party united and TO supply it with
leadership. Hillquit combined his
KautsEian orthodox "Msrxisn" with
anti-Soyist activity, cheap govern
ment policies Of the Milwaukes
leaders and the trade union buro-
cracv, and at the same time success
fully combattsd the leaderless va
cling "militants."
Present Trends
In the main the present political
trends in the S. P. are expressed by
the following groups:
A. The Revolutionary Policy
Committee. This group is the most
Left Of all similar groups Of the
past. It even talks about the die
tstorship Of the prole-arist the es-
Enlistment OF workers councils as
organs Of the new State. Of a gen
eraI strike against war, and Of the
united front.
b. The Committee for Democratic
Socialism. This group is under the
leadership Of Abe Cahan and the
Jewish Daily Forward gang. It en-
braces the most reactionary and
anti-Soviet elements. The main
aim Of this group is to combat all
those within the Socialist Party
who. as they say, have surrendered
to Lenin outright or went in for
compromise with Leninism."
cr The third political crystsllizs-
ton is definitely Of a nationalist
and fascist character. It is best
expressed in their pre- Convention
discussion by some socialist leaders
of Ohio.
The Revolutionary Policy Committee
Prior even to the formation Of
the Revolutionary Policy Committee
(RP.C0 and particularly since the
collapse Of German Social-Democ-
racy, the group centered around the
American Socialist Quarterly, head
ed by Hahn Kantorovitch. INDUCED
in occasional criticism of the Second
International. 1t is also character
istic Of the R.P.C. and its program.
that whatever criticism it advances.
is primarily levelled against the
Second International and almost
nothing is said of the role of the
Socialist Party Of the U.S.A. The
entire past history Of the American
S.P. is wiped out. The program Of
the RP.C. is studded with many
high sounding revolutionary
phrases. Many Of the S.P. leaders
have been labelled it "commu-
nistic" program. The renegades OF
all shades, too, have showered their
praise upon this revolutionary pro-
gram" Cannon, MARIAN pro-
gram" Govestone) while to Gitlow
it is like breath Of fresh air"
But what is the main aim of the
Revolutionary Policy Committee in
the present situation Of the Ameri-
can S.P. and the Second Interna-
tional? One Of their members, a
continued on Page 81
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de Valera Government Is Leading Country to
National Disaster and Fascism;'' Tells
Role of Irish Workers in u. S.

land without the connections be-
tween the Irish movement and the
American movement, 1t will be q
difficult and long process to get
the masses of the Irish workers In
America under the leadership of the
Party. But I believe we can do this
and consequently at the present
time I think we should take off
our coats to the problem Of tackling
the irish workers and be able TO
report at the next Congress achieve
ments il this field equal to what we
are doing among. say, the Negro
workers snd the other sections. We
should tackle it, I think, along the
line of exposing how the bourgeois
nationalist in Ireland are leading
the workers to defeat how Ameri-
can imperialism has utilized the
Irish national position for its own
purposes, and is preparing to Use
it for its own war purposes in the
coming conflict. We should make
clear to the masses that the surest
guarantee for securing an indepen-
dent Ireland from British impe-
rislism will be the building up of an
independent working class move
ment and leadership.
The De Valera government Is
leading the country to national dis
aster and leading to fascist dc
tatorship. We have now to organize
the revolutionary forces of the
workers and peasants under the
leadership of our Party. and in this
WORK I believe the most tremendous
assistance. the most tremendous in
fluence will be made on the Irish
workers by the success Of your Party
in the present drive that you are
making to build up the Communist
Party of the American working
class This will be the message that
I can give to the Irish workers, and
( will be the greatest inspiration that
the Irish workers and our Party
viii receive, namely. that you are
/ successfully driving forward TO q
I Soviet US.A, which points to N
the peth to a Soviet Ireland. LAEL
plsuse,l ZEN
;at.&
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Formerly it used to be that revo-
lutionsry workers would say to the
republicans and nationalists,
You're for capitalist republic,
we're for a workers republic We
have gotten beyond that sectarian
stage and definitely put forward the
line that the Party stands on the
policy that the bourgeois national
lists cannot lead the nation to free
dom, cannot lead it to an indepen-
dent ireland, can only lead to COM
promise and capitulation with Brit
ain, and the only way the fight for
independence can be won is by the
working class headed by its own
party coming to TIE leadership of
the nationalist fight. The question
before us is what class is going to
lead the national struggle. And on
the basis of that policy and pre-
sented in this way We are able to
get to large numbers Of the workers
and peasants in the country.
Although Communism is weak in
Ireland, YOU would not think that by
seeing the capitalist papers. Our
enemies have organized pogroms
against the Party. They burned
down cur Party headquarters in
Dublin 10 try to drive the Party
out Of town. They failed-we arc
still on the same premises, still con-
Quoting our work and carrying on
fight in Dublin in spite Of all lap
plause.l 7 am glad to say that mem
bers of our Party, which is still num-
bered in hundreds, are not confined
to Dublin and Belfast. We are in
the main provincial centers. But the
difficulties are certainly tremendous
because Of the frenzy with which
tho enemy is now launching the at
tack
The American Irish Workers
Amidst sll the difficulties we are
confronted with VIC can. I believe,
in the present situation build up a
Communist Par5v in ireland, We can
get to the leadership OF the irish
workers. We can. l believe. uilz-
this as a definite lever for driving
into the American WORKING class be-
cause without a movement in Ire
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By SEAN MURRAY

lecretary of the Communist Party
of Ireland
Excerpts from speech at the 9Th
Convention of the C. P, U. S. A. at
Clcveland)
fOMRADE Chairman and
y Comrades:
!. l will take away from this
treat convention of the Com
nunist Party of the United
States something which will
ee a real encouragement and
aspiration to The Communist Party
Il Ireland and to the Irish work
rs. will take away very definitely
ne proof demonstrated by this
songress-that the American Com
lunist Party is on the way to be-
on1ing the revolutionary mass
ssr-y Of the American working
lass.
l have listened with the greatest
tfention to the reports of successes
8 the trade union movement, in
mine fields, in the big trans
stkt industries, and-wllat is still
slore important and significant for.
-eland--I have listened to reports
{ the powerful work and successes
Oh have registered among the Ne
no masses of the U. S. A. From
MS we can draw the important
onclusion that the Communist
arty Of America has conquered the
roblem of how to approach the
ational question within its own
.;rritory as we'll as how to drive
20 the industries and conduct the
onomic struggles. I think this is
Y important because the ma
.eAlal question is not the strong
ONT of the Communist Parties of
ne International in the imperialist
ountries. And so I will now have
> raise the skeleton in the cup
.oard, namely, the Irish ques ion
zhich is possibly the weakest point
a our error at tho moment.
N7.ic-rl T~7ue IN ireland
The national issue Is the it3ue
onfronting the irish Party. And
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BY MARTIN YOUNG


THE Socialist Party Conven.
i ton will take place in De
troit early in June. The So
cialist Party is at present ir
a state of great theological
confusion. Various politica
trends have developed in the
past year. In the lower ranks there
is deep discomfort with the policies
Of the American leadership and the
tactics Of the Second Interns tional.
The S. P. itself admits that at
present it has no official national
party program Various groups
spring up in the organization. Some
S. P. locals have adop ed their own
policies, independent and at times
contrary to the views Of their Ma
tional and State orgsni5s ton
Neither has the S. P. a united
leadership, looked upon and &C
cepted by the membership as such.
As an organization, the S. p. stands
today TO a very large degree ideo-
logically and politically disarmed
because. as some Of the leaders say,
Roosevelt stole our show" Prom
inent party leaders like Wsldman
call openly for a radical overhaul
ing" of the Party. As matters
stand now" writes Reinhold Me
buhr, one of the editors of The
World Tomorrow and leading so
cialist figure, the party is lacking
morale and actually faces disin-
tegration." Similar is the tone Of
complaint coming from many sec
tons of the party In this sense
we can speak Of a crisis in the
Socialist Party.
Causes of the Situation
What caused the present situa-
ton in the Socialist Party? The
divisions inside the Socialist Party,
the developments of various polit-
ical trends and capitalization Of
groups are in the main caused by
the following factors:
a. The economic and political
consequences Of economic crisis and
the rising wave Of struggles in the
country. The defeat Of the social
fascist theories Of the crisis proof
American capitalism. of a contented
working class and the impossibility
of developing revolutionary mass
actions of the American proletariat.
b. The collapse Of the Second In
national as world organization.
The entire Socialist Party is very
much agitated with questions of
tactics. strategy and program of the
Second International, particularly
as expressed in the German and
Austrian situations. Considerable
sections Of the Socialist Party mem
bership raised serious doubts con-
corning the correctness Of the tao
tics of the Second International and
openly express their criticism and
disagreement.
g Continuous successes Of So
ciahst construction in the U. S. S..
r., appearing before the S. P. MEM
bership, not merely as socialist
achievements, but as a result of the
correctness of the policies of the
dictatorship of the proletariat and
as the fruits of Soviet power, as
against the counter-revolutionary
attitude of social democracy to-
wards the Soviet Union.
d. The achievements of our own
Party in participating and leading
numerous struggles, strikes, mass
unemployed movements, anti-war
and anti-fascist campaigns, etc, in
which many workers under socialist
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Did you have severe haro-
ships?"
mo. We had warm undercloth-
ing, fur and so on. 1t got exactly
40 degrees below zero. The chief
difficulty was the weather Also,
every night our astronomers took
our position to radio it to the
airplanes. But the fact that the
drifting ice changed our position
in few hours made the work of
the aviators difficult"
Were the women and children
taken off first?'
THE first selected were the wo-
men and children, but the women
would not go. Some stayed with
their husbands and many insisted
on staying as a matter of principle. -
The women, Schmidt explained,
declared that Soviet law gives them
equal rights and that therefore they
had the right to remain. He seemed
pleased to recall this incident.
How did you happen to have
women and children slong?"
1--WE we're bringing eleven men to
Wrangel Island to operate our
meteorological station there. Many
were married. One woman had a
year-old baby; the other baby was
born here indicating spot on the
map approximately halfway be-
tween Archangel and Cape Chelyus-
kim, and I think it is the farthest
point north a baby was ever born.
We were then in the Kara Sea, so
the child was named Karina, "
Schmidt replied, smiling happily as
he spoke me name Karina.
who was the last man off the
ship?"
Just before the ship sank only
three were left on board the ship,
the captain, myself and a young
man, the only one we lost. We all
jumped, but he was caught by the
falling deck. On the ice I looked
at my wrist watch gazing at it for
a second, I remember and it was
just So seconds after I jumped that
the ship sank. But the Chelyuskin
was kind to us, as kind as she could
be. After she went down, the bar
rels of oil and the wood for fires
that We had on the upper deck
f1oated up again, so we did not suffer
from the cold the two months we
lived on the ice"
"UOW did you spend your time on
III the ice?"
1--WE passed the time working,
doing such things as building bar
racks, a kitchen, tower TO show
the aviators our position and level
ling off place for planes to land.
We were always busy. We had to
move our tents on the shifting ice
to avoid the crevasses all the time
No, we never doubted that We would
be rescued.
Every day our government gave
lis short digest of the news of the
day"
On April 18th the last of the ex-
petition had been flown to the
mainland. Schmidt had expected to
be the last one to be taken over,
but he contracted pneumonia and
was the fifty seventh to be removed
the order having been decided ac-
cording to the strength of the mem
bers of the expedition. He was car
ried by plane to Nome and placed
Immediately in hospital.
What I liked about that fellow
Schmidt" said one of the news
papermen as he passed through
the Embassy door leading into
18th Street, was his absolute lack
of heroics In telling a great story"
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struggling on a national and poll
tical field against British imperial
ism. but are fighting their own cap
italists for economic demands.
At the same time, the situation
among the farmers is serious. just
as the American inpcrialists nc
longer need the Irish workers ane
have stopped immigration, so the
British irnperiali3ts no longer need
the Irish farmers cattle. An eco
nomic BLOCKADE" Of the Southern
Irish area is now two years in ex-
istsnce. They have put such tariffs
on importation eli cattle into Britain
as makes it impossible for ths
Irish farmers to sell their cattle. The
De Valera government has to spend
millions in subsidies to the cattle
export industry in other words
pay the English for buying the
cattle! And this is the basis CT
tie rise for the fascist movement
led by ODufTy. which is cne OF the
erestest problems facing the Irish
F5"ty end the workers at the pres
ent time.
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~ 49, - 80 49, - 49, - $50 -
ear old scientist, Arctic ex-
orer. mathematics profess
Dr. at the Moscow State Uni
arsity, head of the Chief
administration of the Northern
"a Route and, among other
aings, the holder of the priced
rider Of Lenin and the Order of
lie Red Star, sat down and un-
aldsd the stark, amazing story
4 ne recent Chelyuskin expedi-
DIi attempt to negotiate the
SoI4neastern passage from Lenin-
ad to the Pacific in one season.
Z Perhaps an American or Soviet
-tist will some day give per-
anence to that warm scene, that
gan as a press conference, by
acing it on canvas. At one end
the table, Schmidt seated deity,
ngering pencil over the dotted
,utes on the maps spread out
fore him, his manner easy but
it'll a commanding dignity. Near
z, on the side of the room, the
white bust of Lenin, elbow
esting on several books, with
atch in hand as if timing his
marks to the conference. In
lck of and facing Schmidt. news
apermen, noticeably excited, and
nbassy officials enraptured and
'oud Of this brave countryman
no talks of narrowing expert
ices with such arresting self
ssness, equanifnity and quiet hu-
lanness. just behind Schmidt
ould be the younger Ushakov,
be chief Of the recruiting party
no is also a distinguished ex-
orer and Arctic scientist, intently
blowing the progress made by
is chiefs pencil.
Now, so, so, here" the Professor
ould say as he marked q spot
4 the map. The heads following
i'm bent lower.
AS you know our purpose was
D come once more through the
rctic Ocean as in 1882. In July,
1872, I went through Archangel,
nd through Vladivostok. In
1913, with Chelyuskin Here
round Cape Chelyuskin-that was
ne first time ships came to the
Aouth of the Lena The first
/ September we were here, so
marking the place., so, and the
rst of November we we're here,
b, So"
How did the ship sink?" a cor
respondent asked.
80, So" Schmidt replied as
he held the pencil at sharp
angle to demonstrate Just how
The stern looked before disap-
pearing below the drifting ice.
"A great pressure of ice-and
n one moment two-thirds of the
ship opened. In two hours it
sank. OF course, we were pre-
pared for such a thing. Every
Sing was on the upper deck.
Messages, yes, every quar-
6 of an hour we sent a short
sgiegram to Moscow. We took
off six small motorboats IA small
airplane, tents and so forth. In
every tent we had a stove. Chel-
yuskin Smiling as he looked
up at his nsteners) was very
kind TO u.s."
WHAT was the purpose of the
!" trip. professor"
ITO increase the network of
olar stations, to make road
I'm our western to our eastern
is and to explore the northern
1t of our country, Here We
ave coal, here we have oil, lum-
er and 50 forth"
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& WALL STREETS
CAPITOL
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN

WASHINGTON, May 18-Last Tuesday afternoon tall,
slim, mpressively bearded figure entered the sitting
pom adjoining the small office of Ambassador Alexander
/. Eroyanovsky of the Soviet Union
After ntroductons to the members OF the press Otto
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lecretary of the Communist Party
of Ireland
Excerpts from a speech at the 8th
Convention of the C. p, U. S. A. at
CIcveland)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-03
MORE TALK ABOUT
 | POLICE CHANGES
Started Over a Few Minor Transfers in Effect
 To-day

Minor assignments in the police department has started another agitation concerning possible shake-up in the police department. Today's rumors were only rumors, however, for neither Superinten- dent of Police Joseph H. Mclean or Attorney Henry w. Minor, chairman of the board of police commissioners, would issue 8 statement which would give an official complexion to the reports.
 Today's changes included the as- signment of former Traffic Officer Patrick Foley as City Hall police man. He will be stationed in the main corridor of the municipal building to keep an alert eye on the tax collectors office which handles considerable money daily and to answer all requests for in- formation on the part of visitors to the City Hall.
 Officer Foley replaces Patrolman Simon Mccarthy, who has been de- tailed to police headquarters. In the future he will work with Ser geant John Brickel and Sergeant Patrick Hayes in city court and will then assist the desk officer on any special assignments.
 Patrloman George Knowles has been reappointed member of the traffic squad and has succeeded Patrolman Patrick Foley on the corner of Bank and Grand streets. Another appointment will be made later to fill the vacancy in the ranks of the traffic squad by the promotion of Serga0nt William Duggan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-03
CONVENTION OF
 YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Will Be Held at Hotel Taft,
 New Haven on January 20

The state convention of the Young Democrats of Connecticut will be held at the Hotel Taft in New Haven on January 29th. The Roosevelt-Cross club of Waterbury officially associated with the state organizat ton will be entitled to rep resentation at the convention. John F. Robinson, president of the local club, is chairman of the leg islative committee and as a mem- Der of the executive committee will attend a conference scheduled in New Haven next Saturday after noon. The program of activities to be discussed in the convention will be outlined at the executive meet ing.
 A meeting of the executive com- mittee of the Roosevelt-Cross club was held here last evening at which time the matter of selecting dele gates to the state convention was taken up. The representatives will be chosen later in the month.
 Reports of officers op member ship and finances were rendered last evening and a tentative pro- gram mapped out for the clubs active participation in the coming state elections.
 The Roosevelt-Cross club came into existence prior to the state an6 national campaigns of 1882. Wher other clubs were organized throughout the state 8 Connection association with affiliations witf the Young Democrats of America was formed. The first state meet ing was held in Meriden. Attorney Vincent D. Glynn of New Haven, i, the state president.