The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1929, Page 6

Page Six 9 Daily Sas Worker Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Published by the Comprodai junday 8 Telephone York only): nths $4.00 a year $2.50 New York): $2.00 three months Ny Worker, 26-28 Union Squat three months $6.00 a year Address and m U. S. War Propaganda Against Soviet Union. It is not a mere coincidence that in the army maneuvers taking place in New Yo New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the defending forces should be called “blue” and the attacking forces designated ‘red.” It is deliberate and part of the malignant agitation and war preparation against the Soviet Union on the part of the imperialists of the world. The man- euvers coincide almost exactly with the anti-Soviet serial running in one of the cheap magazines of the country and entitled “The Red poleon.” The story is filled with all the atroci s gl 1 from the lie factory of the staffs of the impe st the last war and describes the evacuation and bombardment of New York and other cities. In the ‘ >” conducted by the army the invaders landed on the Atle pushed forward to Rancocas Creek where they encounterec “defensive” force of 200,- 000. In a fierce engagement on a 40-mile front the “United States center” was \ ppled. Mt. Holly and Camp Dix fell into the hands of the Trenton. was annihilated by high explosives from bomb: planes. New York and Phila- delphia were exposed to attack with the invading forces dividing into two parts—one half to attack each city. But finally, under the leadership of Brig-General Cornelius Van- derbilt, in charge of the 154th Brigade of the New York National Guard, the “destruction of New York City was averted. One of the “lessons” derived, according to Major General Richard Hanson Ely, is the necessity for a “defense” corps of 200,000 in the second corps area, over which He has com- mand. - a Thus in preparation for imperialist war the jingoes try in the most elaborate fashion to create the, illusion of an im- pending war of defense against “red” forces. Nor is it acci- dental that these maneuvers take place simultaneously with the drive against the Soviet Union by the Chinese imperialist hirelings. Certainly the bellowings of the jingoes cannot be har- monized with the dirty sermonizing of Secretary of State ss in Soviet Union. The forgeries, the crude lies accompanying that raid are too well known to need recounting. Most amusing, though, is the attempt of the Post’s staff writer to draw an analogy between the Peking raid and recent local mass demonstrations in New York City. Here is one of Mr. Worth’s gems of wisdom: “There were riots in Peking, well organized riots, such ‘as those that took place at Union Square on the day of the police parade or the small demonstration before the Chinese consulate in Astor Place the other day. They were not spontaneous dis- orders, but carefully led uprisings.” In his efforts to villify the Soviet Union the Post writer makes himself ridiculous. He blames the Soviet embassy for “THE COURT IS CALLED” | eee ot Wjreaea ee vabe novetn gee eae ” Ha nts AMERIC "ATILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929 output of nitrogen had climbed up to | 600,000 tons, and. in 1929 it is sex- pected to reach 900,000 tons.* It has long been known that the Leuna Works alone will be able to throw nearly half. a million tons of nitro- | gen upon the market in the immedi- jate future. This is under “normal” conditions and no doubt without any particular straining of the machin- ery of production, and without any great call for nitrogen from the military machine. The dye indus- try is the source for the production of asphyxiating and poison gases. Up to the war it was Germany like- In what measure are the different | branches of the chemical industry adapted to the change over_to the production of the means of chemical warfare? Of the total chemical in- dustry 99 per cent of the plants have been adapted to these ends. These are the actual facts of the case and cannot be doubted in the slightest. The chemical industry may be transferred to war produc- tion within anything from 12 to 24) hours, at most a few days, and in very rare cases a few weeks. In its time what is known as the War Commission of the League of Na- nitrogen combine being built in Bil- lingham WILL BE TRANSFORM- ED, THE DAY AFTER WAR IS DECLARED, IN TO GIGANTIC Chemical Warfare, the Chemical Kings _ and Their Social-Democratic Tools By Jacob Burck By FEODOR CEMENT ciivrov Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh All Rights Reserved—International Publishers, N. Y. Gleb Chumalv, Red Army Commissar, returns to his home on the Black Sea after the Civil Wars to find the great cement works, where he had formerly worked, in ruins and the life of the town disorganized. Under the direction of Gleb and with the support of Badin, chair- man of the District Hxecutive of the Soviet, a man of commanding per- sonality, the reconstruction of the factory is stared. One of the most | faithful Communist Party workers is Serge, a different young intel- lectual. =a Polia Mekhova, secretary of the women’s section of the Party, is greatly downcast by the difficulties attendant upon the introduction of the New Economic Policy. : « . . 'N pain and terror, Polia went to the Party Committee, all the time pursued by this trembling hoarse voice, amidst the groans and the stinking bodies and the pitiable squeals of the babies. “Hunger! And afterwards, every day, one saw these famished peasants, whole families or individuals, with sheep-like faces, coarse clothes and bast shoes, leading or carrying children, and groaning in their weak stam- mering voices through the streets: “Help the starving. . . . Brothers! Help us! Hunger!” At night Polia was tormented by nightmare and could not sleep . for hours. And at these times she heard that which she also heard during the day, distinctly, irritatingly, tormentingly: the string or- chestra playing, distant and appealing; the dice rattling; and under the window in the street, dull voices complaining, crying: “Help... . . Brothers. . - . Starving... . She would spring from her bed and rush barefooted and with beating heart to the window and look out into the night. Silence, dark- ness, solitude. She listened and then again returned to the warm closeness of her bed. She would fall asleep. Then wake again from some strange disquieting shock. Agaih the distant violins, the rattling of the dice, laughter—and the heart-breaking entreaty and the crying of babies, Hunger!” . eet N one of those sultry sleepless nights there happened that which she had long been expecting as inevitable. Somewhere in the corridor a door opened, releasing a din of voices and laughter. The voices resounded down the corridor, mingling with indistinct shouts. Again the door opened suddenly and the uproar arose; then the voices and steps passed out into the quietness of the night. Far away there was a melodious tinkling and phantom violins played softly in the night. She understood: it was only the sad vibration of the tele- phone wires outside her window. “Brothers. . . . Have pity. . She could not sleep. The songs of the working masses. . . Help. . . . Hunger!” Masses passing in whirlpool ularly called, is botained as a result of the treatment of toluol with ni- trogen acid. In peace time toluol 1s indispensable for the manufacture WORKS FOR THE PRODUCTION | | OF PLOSIVES AND PROBA- |BLY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN POISON GASES AS WELL. The manufacture of nitro- gen from the atmosphere by em- |ploying the Haber-Bosch method or the electric are method opens what are truly boundless possibilities for \hydrogen). The mass production of of various kinds of dyes. Carbolic acid, benzol and other substances serve for the production of dyes and at the same time furnish the necessary basis for the production | of such poison gases as chlorpicrine | and other gases. Aniline dyes, which |are widely used, are so produced | |that without any great changes the | the imperialists in the way of man-|Process of manufacture can be al-| ufacturing ammonia (nitrogen plus | tered to turn out such poison gases | as dyphenilchlorasene. MES did not notice when Badin went away. The dark gulf seemed to be revolving, groaning, and filled with sparks. Somewhere far away, a great crowd howled and roared like thunder. Yes, this was the north-east wind. This was neither rain nor thunder; it was the north-east wind. Now the sky was dry and transparent, decked with stars in dazzling colored clusters. , Had Badin been there or not? Perhaps this was the usual night- mare. Everyone knows that nightmares seem as real as life. Isn’t that why they are so dreadful and disturb the soul? Had Badin been there—or not? She lay motionless on the couch, all naked and crushed. Her chemise was pressed like a damp bundle above her breasts and smelt of sweat and of another nauseating odor which she had never known before. For a long time she could not sense her own body, as though she were only a head with no body. Everywhere was void and infinity: the black gulf. Only her head lived, swimming in the unendurable darkness. Oe ga |<) I : . S | By the Chemical Workers International Propaganda Committee of the Red International of Labor Unions. | and torrent, red faces, red flags, the Red Guard in a glittering rain of EM Stimson and President Hoover when they proclaimed the Kel- | bayonets s «| aComredsiLenit on’ the Rad’ Squate in Mcxeuwe nos a logg pact as the pacifist achievement of the ages. The paci- | pelled the Allies feverishly to de-|Can plants normally and legally |not new nitrogen producing plants| From far one could see his teeth glisten, his chin protruded, and he 25 fist gestures are calculated only to conceal the actual moves | 1, Fifteen Years Ago, and Today. | velop their ‘national” ind tries used for the production of chemical being built in greater number from} flung out his arms—calling on the people—with the fingers apart; how pe toward imperialist war against the Soviet Union. | In preparations for International |manufacturing dyes. In the U products be rapidly reorganized for year to year and where the mili- under his cap his face was set. It seemed he was laughing. Nothing th i ce - . |Red Day the Communist Parties and|in Britain and’in France huge works | the manufacture of poison gases? |tary estimates do not provide for! remained in the memory except these beckoning hands, the white By But while th bit w reparations are goin y pete lee ; | ut ut while these ambivlous ‘war prep SONS |the Revolutionary Trade Union |sprang up, literally over mght, for | (2) How long would such reorgani; | huge subsidies to the nitrogen indus-| glimmer of his teeth and his lined cheeks. How long ago! Like a J on the working class of America that will be called upon to | Movement have given particular at-|the purpose of supplying the imper- zation take? (3) Are there any |try. This applies equally to Britain| dream, like vague images of early childhood. The northeast wind th bear the brunt of the war, the working class that is heing in- | tention to the section of the prole- |ialist armies with poison gases of | means of preventing the use |and France as well as their agents; was sweeping the dust along the streets. . . . Dust and ashes. ie or creasingly exploited and facing wage-cuts, the speed-up, the |tariat employed in the chemical in- | home origin. According to incom- of ories producing chemical in the East, Poland, Cxecho-Slova- Why was there no dust -betorg; vwhy are the burning days and nights ev lengthening of hours and the consequent creation of a perma- |dustry. At this time there can be |Plete data, the mafufacture of dyes | products for the manufacture of |kia, Finland, and other countries (as | now choked with ashes? the wae shenig 8 een zt |no dotbt whatever as to the role|Was more than quadrupled in the U. poison g This last question | witness the construction of new} In Serge’s room there was also silence, hardly stirred by the tio nent army of unemployed, must organize a counter-offensive |the chemical industry of the capital-/S. A. in the period from 1914 to smacks of a fiendish glee and has!plants in Chorzew in Poland; the! rustling of paper. From time to time there were steps as of one who In against the war mongers. The first great mobilization Of list countries ia playing in the pres-|1925; while much the same develop- more than a pinch of satire behind |construction of plants in Cxecho-Slo-| paced his room in thought. Good Serge; he too was not sleeping. He ing working class forces against imperialist war and in defense lent feverish race in armaments, |ment took place in Britain; output |it. Of course bulge ae as vakia and the other countries), | measured his sleeplessness by the number of pages read. i a? > gov viet Union |Chemical warfare will undoubtedly doubling in France. Nes ect ing like an open and) Qn this head it és interesting to | of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet rug ‘he the fund 1 fe f fight-| The production of artificial silk true answer to any of these ques-|yead what Alfred Mond, the Kin, Me sa ee : 1 August Ist. That d t’ be the begi amental fgrm. of fight aie soe ir 5 eg , th will take place on August Ist. ‘at day must be the Degin- ling in the coming imperialist war.|has developed by leaps and bounds. tions from an institution created by of Britain’s chemical industry, has | GOMEONE knocked at the door gently—she did not know who. pe ning of an extensive drive to organize the unorganized work- | ‘The gas attacks we have all heard|In the U. S. A. “rayon” production the imperialists themselves, but|to say regarding the plant. being | “Who is there?” fo ers in the war industries, the steel mills, the mines, the [of which occurred at Ypres on the | has increased 48 times (from 700 phot sat: given ne ae built in Billingham. He says: In a| Badin’s voice; and by its sound it seemed that he was smiling. sa i : 4 ee “ Western front and on the Skerne-|to 33,500 tons), from 1923 to 1927; | noting. alism’s experts (which | very short time we have created not mney - on i ies fing chemical iad ube Lie eas poneaecnee RO a in|in Italy 116 times (from 150 to|included Frossard, himself Director F pie | __ “Polia, little Polia, are you asleep? Dress and come out for a él ad and In th tion the Cleveland conference of | Witz sector on the Eastern front in y ‘or |only plants but an entire factory t. h k to do.” th ee Bee | ns Conner ies | 17,500 tons); in Germany the in-| of the Kuhlmann Concern, the big-| town under sk directi ee } aes : 1915, and the subsequent develop-| 17, ) 3 | E q { n under the skilful direction of | oe ; : eye > de { the Trade Union Educational League to be held August Bl . | aaah ot dbamleal mache from 1915 |crease was only from 3,500 to 18,-/gest French chemical combine), were | Colonel Pollit, We have, as far as | I can’t, Badin. Wait till tomorrow. ys for the purpose of creating a trade union center to coordinate to 1918 will appear but a mere piti-/000 tons; in Britain from 3,000 to compelled to admit that: (1) fac-| explosives are concerned, safeguard. | “Impossible, Polia. Get up and come out.” tn the work of the left forces is on the order of the day. ful rehearsal compared with what 17,300 tons); in France from 1,500 Be 5 ay ud te a ay |ed Britain against the terrible dan- | His voice became obstinately insistent, The latch clicked and the St " 7, 7 is: ii ialism is i 7 y Ss . ons. the production of chemical prod- ger to which she was exposed in| door opened. A dim light shone in from the empty corridor. What AY he war maneuvers is: Forward! To |imperialism is getting ready to let|tons to 11,000 tons or ger ic posed in | pe g] pty y 4 ere See ae dali : loose in the coming war. | That is how the chief branches /ucts can be adapted for the manu-' the last war, and forever enabled| was this? How did it happen that she had forgotten to lock the door St i August Ist, and the fight against imperialist war and the | “But what, strictly speaking, was|in’the chemical industry have devei- facture of poison gases IMMEDI-| her to maintain her position on the| that night? Then she saw Badin. He looked unusual: half of him to } defense of the Soviet Union! |the chemical industry at that time,|oped. The figures given are quite | ATELY or “more or less speedily”; fields of battle. | was white, half black. an Down with the imperialist war mongers! |the source from which the means | sufficient to enable anyone to real-|and (2) that it is impossible “to 6 2 nat . “Well, it’s better like this, You are a little bit difficult.” were drawn for the mass destruc-|ize the COLOSSAL POTE LI- | P t the production of poison| 4. Women’s Dyes Become Poison peered ls di a m : si TIES IN THE PRODUCTION OF gases being manufactured at the Gasen. : He shut the door and turned the key. Again the wa Is disappeare: ; i a |tion of these thousands of men? In sy No Rae hich had bi limitl And in this deni - h: 11918 G ys |cHEMfCALS FOR WAR USE in- present time by the chemical indus- | in the darkness which had become limi less. 1 this dense un: pl ; syicens fi “ps ” Uni Ss } Germany produced 121,000 tons lnevent tn the ebemieal indus ss ton ery.” ? Coming now to the manufacture| bearable shadow, he moved towards her—inescapable, inevitable. : | Responsibility for “Riots” at Union Square of nitrogen, the basic product ON eee atten cee ars ae neat of dyes, one may well ask where the She held out her hands in terror, breathless; and whispered: un- sary for the manufacture of, explo-|day. These figures give us a plain From. Nitrog Fixplosivi Pecauctt : ag cole i and Astor Place ee u , land direct answer ae to what “op. 3: From Nitrogen to Explosive. | production of the thousands of tons| comprehendingly. é : \ed sect Spee sat ot the mosis |erations,” to use Ludendorf's phrase,| Where, in modern capitalist chem- |°f. immocent dyes and kindred sub- “What do you want, Badin?’ What do you want?” F * Oe ‘ P de See ae ed nearly 16 per cent of the world’s es jure ats he gee ere, In modern capitalis - | stances i ch wide use i i r i is fri i In a stupid, vicious article in Saturday's New York [Froduction. It is trae that during humanity is preparing to undergo] ical plants, does “peaceful” produc-| stances in such wide use in peace| She had not time even to, lower her hands. With his frightful J } Evening Post, a certain scribbler who calls himself Cedric |the war itself German imperialism | 15 years after the beginning of the tion stop and where begins the pro- |1i5, of dbadly: Sauce Regis weight he fell ie M ae bed, sivas her to the pillows. in | F, Abe * ri Ini y i | idly’ bui ; last i vialist war, all these prep-' duction of th st terrible ‘s % 4 | “Be quiet, little Polia. . . . Be quiet, quiet... .” re | Worth tries to slander the Soviet Union by charging that TR aStdte Ter me enTeR ser asine lHeatiote’ eng caried. on aster hast, ctdall deacrn dot ttaa seen | Dire: tle edoh tie: Be Gereakay| 1) Ge Mecca trees ccd icenh Gye (arsleeanle weight of this per- ar organized rioting by the representatives of the Soviet em- Work nitrogen (Leun: linnocent. screen of “pence time’|imows? combine for the production of dyes) .+i55 ¢lesh and the di ditch BlcOhOL:. She did Hot vestee eouahed te $ i yoked the infamous raid in 1927. | Works), but the output of even : 3 pane * ; in Lewerkusen was adapted to the spiring flesh ani e dizzy odor of alcohol. st, crushes bassy in Peking evoke: Unfa: al. 3 |those war days cannot be compared |Chemical production, | The fact cannot be disputed, for duction of trinitrololuol, the| i the shadows; she could not resist: how could she when this was = 4 It is useless here to again expose the fact that the Peking |in any way with the production of salists Age | Stance, that the German Leuna Nic | "Ass Dro cee ‘ ae oluol, the | inevitable and unalterable? et } raid was a part of the general imperialist campaign of pro- | post-war years and especially of the |" What the League Specialists Ad- | tpo¢en Combine with’ its 20000 to | 8S for the production of explo- Pe eps w | vocation against the workers’ and peasants’ republics of the | present moment. In 1925 Germany’s me oe |25,000 workers or the big British |*ives. TNT, as trinitrotoluol is pop- | fe i onstrations and risings which he calls “riots.” i are ‘ 3 | ammonia, in turn, furnishes the key| An innocent substance like chlor- n And out in the darkness was this crashing thunder and the v the Chinese dem: at I igs wh 4 ier adee aes the absolute monep- tions gave an extensive SORE Oe ea Statin GP a cack important |ine which used to be produced at| howling of the storm. It was so nice and peaceful: and nothing y But there is no Soviet embassy in the United States. Whom /oly in this industry. The war im-|the following three questions: (1) De s “ 7 ‘i ‘ PS aces he bl for thin Naw York “riote’’? problem: that of obtaining ammoniac | he time simply from evaporated| existed any longer, and time had ceased. te then does ie ame tor tne ow OrK | FiOUs: ¢ . i . ‘acid (by acidizing ammonia), in| salts is now prgduced from caustic She heard Serge’s step approach her door and then stop. Why 1 There is only one comparison made by the Post that is 3 |huge quantities. Ammoniac acid is|soda. At the same. time chlorine| did Serge approach her door? Polia heard the steps and her heart accurate—that is the charge that Communist risings and ros or less prominent people, among house the daughter of a essential for the production of ex-|has now become the basis for the| beat quickly; suddenly her blood began to rush Gee te veins and Ps ions 4 ormer governor of the state, were taken in the police raid. plosives and various proisonous | production of a huge number of poi-| she was convulsed with wild cramps. Her body hurt dully. Badin! cringe ero: Poet a Gre that - om "the h oh 4 x . 4 products, That is the evolution that | son and asphyxiating gases all used| Yes, his door was in her wall, by her head. He had come and gone. ; countries without Soviet embassies is alone evidence of the The capitalist press, that as a general policy, applauds | has been taken in the production of |in the 1914-18 war. From chlorine| Now there was no terror—there was nothing. And deep down in her Ww fact that Soviet ambassadors are not the organizers of such | every attack on the workers, waxed indignant that the |the most terrible chemical means of |combinations there is obtained that| heart there was a trembling and a shuddering, and her throat was demonstrations. daughter of a governor should be thrown into jail. The,super- | warfare that can be produced in ni-|most terrible of gases known as| clutched by hot pain. é But then capitalist newspapers are not expected to tell | intendent of police, Mills, tried to cover his retreat by placing 5a manufacturing plants. is Le ay te Mire acre tae (To Be Continued.) i * * A ema + = (poalhh th change over requires no special sup-| which possesses no smell and can the oe, “gate the Soviet a Bo is their ng ya i the blame on subordinates, claiming they had exceeded their plementary expenditure on the re-|deal death to living beings or create li unperial 16)’ wer-mongers in: the) Grive agains ae authority. This is nothing more than plain hypocricy. Mills, equipment of machinery, installa-|runnign sores on the flesh which | that terrible compound nitro-glycer- poses have not been studied in full. u Union. : himself, over a period of years, has persistently subjected to | tion, etc. with the introduction of|take a long time to heal, besides |ine? Just as successfully can cer-|On the one hand, this indus P The masses of New York and vf every other important | arrest and imprisonment working class speakers for holding | methods for obtaining artificial ni-|which it can produce temporary |eals, by undergoing a special pro-| opens up the greatest possibilities in d center in the United States will reply to such lies by partici- pating in the worldwide strikes and demonstrations on August 1st against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Smash the Police Permit System! Ever since the world war there has been maintained in many cities in the United States a system. of police censor- ship of meetings. Philadelphia is one of the worst examples of this sort of thing. Friday evening’s police raid on a meet- ing of the Workers’ International Relief in that ¢ity, called on behalf of the Gastonia victims facing trials for murder today, the latest of a series.~ It so happened that a number of | that a number of | permit system and fight to destepy jt ‘ meetings without a permit. Had it not been for the presence in the audience of people of the upper strata of Philadelphia society the workers present would have been kept in jail and Mills would have commended his underlings for their acts as he usually does, This case serves to emphasize the necessity of working class organizations waging a fight to abolish the system of police censorship of meetings. This policy of pleading with such people as Superintendent of Police Mills or any other such official for a permit to hold a meeting fn a hall, or any-— where else for that matter, must be abandoned, and a deter- mined fight put up to hold meetings without police censorship or interference. Workets everywhere should defy the police trogen, the dependents of. the im- perialists upon Chilean salpetre which was, prior to the war, the |main raw material for the produc- tion of fiitrogen. Britain, France, Germany, and other countries have by this means completely freed themselves from the need for im- porting this salpetre and thus from dependents upon the U. S. imperial- ists who hold the chief mines in Chile. In peace time the nitrogen industry is the almost sole supplier of arti- ficial fertilizers, The output of this fertilizer already far exceeds the de- mand, Yet there is not a single blindnegs and produce a number of difficult complications in the human organism that only pass several days later. . é Cellulose factories have a direct connection in regard to the .produc- tion of nitro-cellulose, the most im- portant constituent part in the pro- duction of explosives. Without alco- hol it is impossible to conceive of the development of the explosives industry. And do the millions of consumers of sugar know that the sugar industry using beet as raw material can be transformed the day after war is declared into an industry for the manufacture of gly- cess of fermentation, be made into a means of producing alcohol and hydrogen in huge quantities, the latter chemical, as we have already said, being most important for the production of ammonia, We have already dealt with the extensive potentialities of the chemical industry in regard to the production of artificial oil, lignite P ppaies, at the Leuna Works and jewhere), with the military im- portance of the rubber industry, the production of cinematographic film lengths which are made of cellu- loid, the production of sulphur acid, etc. The uses™to which articicial ‘capitalist country where Shere are.) cerine used fog the nroduction of allk max be put for military pur) ;“The War of the Future” which if! the way of supplying the imperialist armies on a mass scale with a cheap textile material. On the other hand, there is no doubt whatever that the production ‘of viscose, acetate, ané other silks opens up enormous poss? ¢* bilities for the production of dyne * mite. —OSCAR, Secretary, Inter- national Chemical Work- ers’ Committee for ganda and Action, “The statistical data givep here {_. stein’ ee! excerpted from M. Rub now Preparing for the press, .