The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1929 Page ‘Three THE CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8TH Issued by National Women’s Department of Workers (Communist Party of America Working women of America! ] promise of organization and better conditions for women workers, as | | Educational League to fight the Right wing bureaucracy of the o e ; The fake Kellogg peace pact. Mobilize your forces! Fight Awerican imperialism—Wall Street world domination! The wars of Wall Street against the workers and peasants of Nicaragua and China. The im- perialist attack against the Soviet Union! Unite with the workers of other countries! With working women everywhere awaking to the class struggle! With the oppressed toilers of the colonial countries! With the workers of Nicaragua, Mexico and Latin America! With the masses of revolutionary China! With the victorious workers and peasants of Soviet Russia! Weld a chain of international working class solidarity. For the revolutionary struggle against imperialism and the war dan- ger! For the defense of the Soviet Union! ‘The only fatherland that the workers of Sil countries have! a Working women of America! Forward to freedom—as workers, as mothers and women of the working class under the banner of the Communist Interna- tional! Under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party of America! ‘ . * . Working Women of America: You, who are toiling in the factories and miils and workshops of American industry, working long hours for starvation wages, la- boring ever more inte y under the lash of the speed-up to coin out profits for the bos You, women workers, the most enslaved, the most exploited sec- tion of the working class, without organization, without security, with- out protection against the most extreme exploitation, you are the chief victims of the capitalist system! You, working women, struggling against the weight of tradition and custom, bowed down under the double burden of labor and moth- erhood, bringing your children into the world in poverty and suf- fering to become machine fodder in the factories and cannon fodder in capitalist wars. You are the chief victims of imperialism! Since the last world war the scramble among the capitalist powers for markets for goods and investments and the rivalry for cheap production has driven down the conditions of the workers in America as in other capitalist countries, has led to a concerted drive of the bosses against the workers, against trade union organization, for the lengthening of hours, reduction of wages, introduction of the speed-up and setting up of enslaving standards of production. This process of “rationalization,” the intensification of labor, the drawing in of the unskilled into mass production, putting a premium on low wages, long hours and lack of organization, fastens upon working women as its chief victims. Everywhere cheap, unskilled, unorganized woman and child labor is the readiest object of exploita- tion by the bosses. Everywhere the drive of the bosses, for the open- shop, for wage cuts, longer hours and speed-up is directed especially at the women workers who are least able to resist it. In the textile industry hundreds of thousands of women and child workers, Negro and white, in the North and South, are working under conditions of slavery. Starvation wages, wage cuts and speed-up are the rule, In the needle trades, old stronghold of women’s labor organizations, em- ployers, corrupt union officials, police and courts are united in a drive to smash the new needle trades union, the greatest hope and well as men, in the needle industry. Working women are forced to take part in the last world war to man the factories and produce the materials and munitions of war for the men at the front. Millions of women workers took the places of men at the lathe, the loom and the forge. In the new and greater war women and children are to be conscripted for war service every- where to become a part of the gigantic machine of destruction. In America as well as in Poland, France and other European countries bills have been introduced for universal conscription in the next war, including the conscription of women, Today, ten years after the last great war, the capitalists of the world are preparing for another slaughter incomparably more destruc- tive of life and productive forces than the last. The last war, which cost the lives of ten millions, mostly workers, and maimed another twenty million, which wrapped the world in a whirlwind of devasta- tion and destruction, was fought, not as its lying apologists stated, “to make the world safe for democracy,” it was not “a war to end war,” but it was only the beginning of greater and deadlier wars “to make the world safe for imperialism.” Today the conflict between the capitalists and their governments for world domination, world trade, markets for goods and invest- ments, colonial lands to plunder, rages more fiercely than ever. All the capitalist countries are at each other’s throats in the struggle for power and wealth. Armaments are being piled up on an un- precedented scale, poison gas and death-dealing chemicals prepared to destroy whole peoples, new armies organized, new navies con- structed, new air fleets prepared, new paths of war marked through the air, over the oceans, over the north and south pole, The imperialist powers, while preparing to fight each other, are launching a vicious offensive against the colonial peoples, setting up a new regime of terror of the workers and peasants of China and other colonial countries to throw off the yoke of capitalist im- perialism. American imperialism advances with giant strides into Central and South America, in order to enslaye the peoples of the Americas under the rule of the Yankee dollar. Th Soviet Union, that federation of self-governing Workers’ Soviet Republics, building the new Communist society over a vast area of Europe and Asia, liberating the peoples of the East and leading them in the struggle against imperialism, leading the workers in all countries in the world struggle against capitalism, the Soviet Union is naturally the object of the bitterest hatred and fear of the capitalists of all countries. Against Soviet Russia they are today all united, plotting a combined attack. Versailles, Locarno, the Anglo- French agreement, the Kellogg “Peace” Pact, these are all steps to- ward a war ofall imperialist powers against Soviet Russia. In the race for world power the new American empire takes the lead today. With the most favorable position, with the greatest wealth and power already in its grasp as a result of the last world war American capialism is reaching out for world empire and world domination. Wall Street; gorged with the bloody profits of the last world war, is preparing for another feast of slaughter. And the American government, its slavish lackey in Washington, follows its orders, provides the instruments of war, armies, navies, airships, munitions and the machinery of negotiation, propaganda and diplo- macy. The American plunder government attempts to conceal its war plans behind a smoke screen of pacifism. The more intense the con- flict grows between American and other powers, the more direct and open the armed interventions in Nicaragua, China and other colonial countries, so the more luxuriantly bloom the phrases of “peace” and cludes the Women’s Voters League, the National Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs, women’s religious and temperance societies and the Wom- en’s Trade Union League, These hypocritical pacifists try to coriceal rather than discover the cause and cure of war, and support imperialism ‘and the program of national defense under the cover of phrases of peace. In their efforts to reach the women of the working class with their lying peace propaganda they are aided by the socialist party, the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and its handmaid in labor betrayal, the Women’s Trade Union League, all of whom support the Kellogg Peace Pact, the League of Nations and the whole program of national defense and seek to blind the working class to the danger of these imperialist and pacifist maneuvers. The working women, however, are awakening to the menace of imperialism and the danger of war. The efforts of the bourgeois pacifists and feminists to mislead the women workers are meeting resistance and a counter-offensive from working women who are or- ganizing a nation-wide struggle against the imperialist war danger. The recent demonstration of working women’s organizations, unions, councils, federations, under the leadership of the Workers (Com- muist) Party, against the Kellogg Peace Pact and the national con- ferences of bourgeois women, pacifist and fascist, who supported it, against the Senate that ratified the pact, is an important step in the organization of the struggle against pacifism, imperialism and the war danger. } The working women of America are awakening to their terrible conditions of life and work under the system of capitalist imperial- ism and the rule of bosses and bankers, and are organizing to re- sist the attack of the bosses. The capitalist offensive against the workers results in an intensification of the class struggle and a growing power and determination for resistance in the working class and among women workers, as is shown by the heroic battle put up by the women in the miners’ strike against hunger, cold, starva- tion, against the brutal attacks of the cossacks on the picket line, against the injunctions, the open shop drive and the betrayal of the bureaucratic machine, the great struggles in the textile industry in Passaic and New Bedford where the women workers were the van- guard of the labor army, the prolonged, persistent and determined struggle carried on by the women needle trades workers, dressmak- ers, milliners and others, against the efforts of bosses and bureau- crats to smash the unions, and now the dressmakers’ strike conducted victoriously by the National Needle Trades Industrial Union, which has made a check to the offensive of the bosses and has raised a bulwark of organization not only for the needle trades workers but {or women workers in every trade and industry. These recent great struggles of the women workers show a new and growing power of resistance among women workers to the drive for capitalist ra- tionalization, eagerness to join in the class struggle and fight in the battles of the working class. Women workers! Organize yourselves in trade unions to resist the exploitation of the bosses! Build the new unions in the textile and needle industries which are creating for great masses of women workers the basis for organized struggle against extreme and in- creasing exploitation. Defend the unions you have already built from the attacks of the bosses and the labor bureaucrats who are trying to smash them! Unite under the leadership of the Trade Union trade unions and its central stronghold, the American Federation of Labor, which resists every effort to organize the unskilled and un- i Unite in struggle against the threatening war danger! eae Uk past pices beh svermaliles see woes “good-will” on the lips of Coolidge, Hoover, Hughes, Kellogg and the organized masses, especially the women workers, who have found 5 Organize against the bosses’ drive against your wages and be alill ad a! chemet aebeltate ee acs bak Emmitted 4 other puppets of American imperialism. This bare-faced and cynical every possible obstacle thrown in the way of their organization by hours! ans eahaantite peed 4 i VARIG Tabti Leceine connie ra official “pacifism” is supported by liberal sentimental pacifism out~ the A. F. of L, and its bureaucrats, : fi Iu 17 ii tin Renee Raw, : ‘ ‘i side, particularly that of bourgeois women’s organizations such as Women workers! Rally to the aid of the striking’ dressmakers! Resist the speed-up! Unemployment! The open shop! in the heavy industry, in the production of munitions for the last war ; ; : nea ; ; i Si ; ay he un aoe’ A 2 3 - : the ruins left by the Sigm S Fight the war-makers and their billion dollar navy! and will be still more important in the next war. the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, which in. Build a stronger and greater union on y igmans, the Schlesingers and the bosses! Make the dressmakers’ strike today a great and victorious struggle worthy of the first great dress- makers’ strike twenty years ago which led the way to organization for hundreds of thousands of sweated workers in the needle trades, Women workers of America! Organize to defend yourselves against the exploitation of capitalist imperialism, against wage-cuts and longer hours, against capitalist rationalization and the speed-up. Demand equal pay for equal work. Demand higher wages and shorter hours, Demand better conditions for your children, better housing, better schools, the abolition of child labor! Demand the protection of motherhood, materrity benefits and leave before and after childbirth for working mothers, factory nur- series for children, Demand social insurance for working women as well as working men, insurance against unemployment, sickness, accidents, old age, maternity. Fight the high cost of living, the super-trusts and mergers that throttle the working class! Fight the open shop drive of the bosses, the use of police, the courts and injunctions in strikes, the union smashing campaign of employers and capitalist government working together. Women workers in factories, mills‘and workshops! Organize! Build the new fighting unions in the textile and needle industries! Spread the message of organization and class struggle in the shops and factories! Win power for working women through or- ganization. Women workers! Fight the war danger! Fight pacifism and patriotism that lead to war! Fight the world domination of Wall Street and its domination of the American workers at home! Fight the capitalist attack on Soviet Russia! Stand side by side with the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia who have won free- dom through the revolution! Unite to defend the Soviet Union! Women workers! Demonstrate on International Women’s Day, March 8th! Together with the women workers of other countries: Of Latin America, China and the Far East crushed under the heels of Yankee imperialism. Of Great Britain, France and Ger- many, victims of rationalization and capitalist imperialism. With the women workers of Soviet Russia who freed themselves through the revolution and are building the Socialist society today. Demonstrate your international solidarity and unity as women of the working class! Join the class struggle against the employers! Organize the millions of unorganized women workers in unions! Struggle against the war danger and against imperialism that breeds wars! WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. NATIONAL WOMEN’S DEPARTMENT. ;Nominations are not pending before eontinue as secretary of t ;|Zaporozhye. Further prospecting | national office of the Negro Work-| Station, New York City. ae : poomaagt ae ot aos ie nen - ee out along these |org’ Relief Committee, at 169 West oat = GEORGE SPIRO 3 oe : pee ‘roops Drown , a Norris, although an avowed enemy (TE RABIES 4 In Savannah, Ga., Mr. B. L, Rob- Pp 1 , An eyewitness’ own story of the {fe "of Mellon, held the Senate has not| NEW SOVIET SHIPPING. |erts collected the sum of ten dol-| Kurd Revolt in Blood heroic struggle of the Parisian i the Senate. HOOVER REFUSES TONAME MELLON Wants Him in Cabinet | Senator Couzens, Rep., Mich., told the Senate he intended to fight Mel- lon by opposing confirmation of the secretary of treasury’s appointive aides such as collector of internal revenue. A Mellon Dynasty. The “private business interests” Moncada, U. S. Lackey, Annoyed by Mediation | Attempts in Nicaragua | SAN SALVADOR, March 4.—The | “Independence Association of El} Salvador and Nicaragua” is annoy- ing the Yankee lackey “President” | Without Senate Act of Melion include his czardom over | 0f Nicaragua, Moncada, by its rath-| (Continued from Page One) professional politicians. Hoover an his Wall Street masters feel strong Aluminum Co., and his reputed own- _ resolution until the nomination is enough not to make any sentimental concessions to “popular will.” | Stimson On Way. ership of extensive distillery inter- | ests. With kim are a numerous family |non-union coal mining, his large con- | &T futile efforts to get the presidents | |trolling power in steel companies, | Of other Central American govern-| ajhis ownership of the American|™ents to “offer their friendly medi-| ation in the internal conflict of Nica- ragua, in order that it might soon) end in an honorable and peaceful | form.” (Continued from Page One) worked out, as suggested in a recent issue, whereby the Daily Worker can be put on a solid foundation.” Old workers, who have heen ex- ploited all their life and still have to struggle along as best they can in the face of accentuated speed-up, know the value of a fighting paper. Comrade Ed Gutzman of La Grosse, Wisconsin, writes: “Enclosed find $5 as a contribu- tion to the Emergency Fund. Would gladly give more, but I am an old EMERGENCY FUND of Co-operative Trading Co., Waukegan, IIl., as thei tion to the Daily Worker.” Collected by William Sonkiw, $1; Nick Didunyk, $1; John Textile Bosses Shower Praises on McMahon, of |Batty, Binns, of UTW contribu- (By L. R. A.) Pres. Thos F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers, Abram Binns and Wm. E. G. Batty of the New Bedford Textile Council won the praise of textile bosses for their services during the recent lobbying at Washington to gain higher tariff on imported goods. Textile World, employers’ paper, congratu- lates the labor officials for their col- laboration in these words: "= 8 6 March 5, 1929. Camillus, N. Y.—Ukrainian Progressive Club, $15; Wm. Sonkiw, $1.50; John Rusko, $1; G. Shomotkiw, $1; Mike Osak, $1; H. Pastuch, $1; Jokn Lachansky, $1; Fred Dydyk, 25c; W. Kuchoravy. ria, Egypet, ancient Greece, Rome, Red Army Exhibition, “War in the World’ Art,” Opens in Moscow MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., (By Mail).— In connection with the eleventh an. niversary of the Red Army, an ex- hibition to be known as “War in the World’s Arts” is to be opened in} Moscow, on February 24. The exhibits will embrace the whole historical period from the fourth millenium before our era up to the present time. The expedition | will have pictures of war in Assy-| Visit Russia Complete Tour and Return $375 Free Russian Visas — stopover privileges — every tourist covered by ability insurance with- out fe — weekly sail- ings —no delays American - Russian TRAVEL AGENCY, INC. (Amer.-Europe Travel Bureau) 100-5th Ave. Chelsen 4477-5124 New York City of blood relatives, living in Pitts-| The presidents of Honduras and /|ivan, 6€ years old. My home is at Dimond, $1; D. I. Kolman, “Union labor officials have _ap-|Middle Ages, Renaissance, World Stimson, first in the cabinet, is a| burgh, and dominating thru owner-|of E] Salvador have answered in’St. Paul, but as I could not get any 50c; Cc Tkatch oc: P. peared oi some former occasions} War and Civil War in Russia. Py former secretary of war, one of the ship cf banking, mining and steel|the affirmative, promising their co-|work I had to leave and ecme here,| Sushereba, 50c: 1 inhi, when tariff bills were pending, but most hated men in Latin America for his dictation of offices in Nica- ragua and his extortions and tyran- ny over labor while governor gen-| eral of the Philippines. He left Tokio today, having arrived there a day or two ago on his way from Manila to the U. S. The others have all displayed at ‘one time or another a strong anti- labor stand, and are integral parts, of the capitalist class, as capitalists. | The names of Mellon and James) John Davis, secretary of labor in| the Coolidge cabinet and destined | for the same post in the Hoover) family, were not offered to the Sen- ate, the president taking the stand! that they are already ratified (under | Coolidge). | Question Mellon Legality. Immediately after the Senate con- firmed the Hoover cabinet appoint- ments, the legality of the president’s action in continuing Secretary of Treasury Mellon in office without Te-nomination was questioned by Senator McKellar, democrat, Ten- nessee. | McKellar introduced a resolution) authorizing the Senate judiciary committee to determine whether cabinet officers could be held over from one administration to another | as in the present case of Mellon and Secretary of Labor Davis. “Private Business Interests.” . It is understood the judiciary committee, headed by Senator Nor- ris, Rep., Nebr., who opposed the resolution onthe floor today, has, the authority to conduct the inves- | tigation starting at once, to deter- mine: | 1.—Whether a department head | may hold office after expiration of | term of the president who appointed him, and 2.—Whether Mellon may legally the authority to delve into the sec- ond question brought up by the getually before it. | _. Senator Walsh, Dem., Mont., held| ‘that the Senate has the right to in-| and contracting companies, the in- dustrial and political life of Penn- sylvania. Mellon acouired considerable no- toriety recently when he was charged in the Senate and the House with giving up millions to his com- panies from the U. S. treasury in the form of “iax refunds.” He is charged with contemplating the gift of nearly a hundred million dol- lars to the U. S. steel corporation, which he partly owns. This gift will not have to be reported until next year, if it is ever publicly an- neunced, Arrest Half of Town for Stoning Fascist Serbian Burgomaster SPALATO, Jugoslavia, (By Mail) —Half of the population of the town of Drnis, near here, were arrested recently and charged with murder. They were said to have been part of a crowd of over 1,000 workers and peasants and their families who stoned to death Zozo Ajdanic, bur- gomaster of the town, who oppres- sed them on behalf of the fascist Jugoslav government. Geological Survey of Dnieprostroy MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The geo- logical prospecting work carried on in the Dnieprostroy Region last year was concentrated on the locating of sufficient supplies of suitable min- eral building materials for the large construction projects. Large deposits of granite suitable for building purposes were found. | Limestone and kaolin in large quan- tities were located in the vicinity of ODESSA, U.S.S.R., (By Mail).—A Near Eastern steamship service was started in November at Odessa. A Soviet merchant steamer left for the Near East with a load of cattle, cement and peas. A new freight ser- ‘vestigate the qualifications of cab- ; officers, even though their vice has also been inaugurated be- tween Odessa, Gerioa and Marseille: | operation to such an end. The presi- dent of Costa Rica, Gonzales Viquez, however, answered by expressing a pious wish that Nicaragua might | have peace, but adding that he could not intervene to that most desirable | {end as Augusto Sandino was not |considered as a belligerent govern- | | ment, and remarking that the pres-) ent situation is not one of differ- ences between two governments. Te president of Guatemala has not as yet replied at all. As Moncada him- self was also addressed by the as- sociation, Anastasio Somoza, his sec- retary, yesterday replied as follows: “Referring to your telegram, President Moncada asks you have the good will to address yourself first to the presidents of Central America, in such manner that it! may be thought in common accord in | our situation, not against the United States, but in order to arrive at an understanding of our duties on the continent.” Nicaraguan dis- patches add that Moncada and his gang do not consider the matter of any importance. Support for Hurricane Victims on Increase (Crusader News Service) In answer to the warning of the Negro Workers’ Relief Committee that for the Negro victims of the recent Florida hurricane the need still exists for immediate help in the way of money for food, and re- habilitation, workers throughout the country are responding with dona- tions and collections. In California, the San Diego branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had Florida relief on the agenda of its last meeting and collected the sum of $19.06, which was immediately transmitted to the lars, most of it donated by workers on the M. P. S. A. L. Railway. iE because I got to work to live. Hop- ing all workers who have the cause zt heart will rally to support of the Daily.” Foreign-born workers, who labor in the industries of this country. know what capitalism means to the working class and rally to the sup- | port of the only Communist daily in the English language. The Finnish Federation writes: “Enclose herewith check for 350 Revolutionary Poetry Anthology to Appear at End of This Month “An Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry,” compiled and edited by Mar- cus Graham, is scheduled to appear the latter part of this month. This anthology, the first of its scope in English, will include translations from 15 languages and original Eng- lish poems of the past and present. Many of the poems have never be- fore appeared in book form and have been gathered from sources not generally accessible. The anthology also includes the work of many contributors to the Daily Worker. Some of these are Sterling Bowen, Vera Bush, Martin Feinstein, Joseph Freeman, Michael Gold, Aron Kurtz, A. B. Magil, John Ramburg, Henry Eeich, Jr, Rose Pastor Stokes, Jim Waters, Henry George Weiss, Robert Whitaker, ‘Robert Wolf and Adolf Woiff. A special offer by which both the regular cloth-bound edition and the de luxe edition can be bought at a reduced pre-publication price has been extended until March 25, it is announced, All those desiring infor- mation should communicate with Marcus Graham, Box 3, West Farms TEHERAN, Persia, (By Mail).— Kurd tribesmen recently rebelled and tried to set upon independent state in Kurdistan. The revolt was quelled with a great massacre of the tribes- men. The rebels were defeated in a battle at Sujbulaks a. jidégs ddan 50c . Collected holtz, Banmholt vich, $1; Vincicovich, Collected by D. Prosperi, Dun- | hartz, 25e; C. Dominic, 70c Collected by 5F, 3C, City—B. idge, A. Choski, Detroit, Mich. . Karl Wallenius, Buffalo, (cor- usually for the purpose of opposing the pleas of manufacturers for more adequate duties, or to emphasize the fact that the later had failed to di- vide the benefits of protection with labor. . .But last week and in hear- ings upon schedules prior to ‘Cotton | Manufactures’ they have not only |lined up squarely with manufactur- jers, but in many instances have made a far more impressive appeal for adequate protection.” That the so-called protection of a high tariff is protection only to the bosses and never to rank and file workers “well known fact. But officials of the A. F. of L. tex- tile union were busy “linjng up squarely with the manufacturers” and disregarding labor’s side in the class struggle. H. Banish, y Frank Bau Midvale, — Ohio—F. $1; V. Mravka- 519, W. C., Chicago, Ill.... Ohio—O, Kon- Bonavich, 25c; canwood, 50c; J. Glif, 25¢; S, Dutzer, 10c; J. Phicholtz, 50c; R. Mortinovich, 50c; O. Plo- Id, $1; A. Schwartz, oS rection) proletariat in defense of their dictatorship (1871). WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 EAST 125TH STREET yVVVVVVVVV VV N VVVVVVVVVVVYV International Labor Defense Annual Bazaar TO AID CLASS WAR PRISONERS! Opens VVvVVVVVYT Tonight SLAVIC NIGHT! FOLK SONGS and DANCES BIG DAYS WED., THURS. FRI, SAT. and SUN, MARCH 6 7 8 9 10 Marching Guns a one-act Play by the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre Music Exhibitions Concerts Restaurant CONTINUOUS SPECTACLE DANCING EVERY NIGH 107th Street and Park Avenue yVVVVVVVVVV YS Mi paaaAsadsss~4 VVvVVVVVYV Join and Support the International Labor Defense!