The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1929, Page 3

sgn THOS ( I DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1929 | | FINLAND'S TRADE UNIONS CALL GENERAL STRIKE TODAY IN AID OF HUNGER STRIKING) PRISONERS Hundreds of Mieritacs tens iecucaiaan by the White | Terror Since 1918, Strike! | Political General’ Strike of Finnish Workers) Shows Masses Astir , | BULLETIN. ,ing political prisoners, HELSINGFORS, Nov. 15—Riots} On Monday, the political prison- and clashes with police in many Fin-|ers in Ekenas went on a hunger nish towns took place last nigh’ strike. They were joined by all the police tried to suppress the gen- | other political prisoners in Finland’s eral strike movement mobilization | va prisons. Some of these to close down everything Saturday workers have been held in prison for 12 hours. ng broke out at by | the white terror since 1918, They Kemi between police‘and 2,000 work- ng bitterly as well as ers demonstrating their support’ of asingly terrible prison wunger-striking political prisoners, ine conditions, ‘or which the str At| The Strikers demand humane Uleaborg worke; with | treatment and freedom from forced mounted police, who arrested 20./labor as the right of political pris- Great numbers of demonstrating|oners in supposedly , “civilized” workers ridicule the ployers to di join the gene * threat of }countries. Feeling is running high i among the whole working class, and powerful demonstrations are being held in all parts of the country. Labor deputies are interpellating the government in parliament, but the strike declared for tomorrow at 6 a, m. is the greatest demonstra- tion expected. The situation is (tense. Special Cable) (By HELSINGFORS, Fjnland, Nov. -A general strike Saturday of hours, throughout Finland has i called by the Trade Union Fe tion in support of the hunger-st STAUNTON MEET FOR NMU PLANS Watt Overwhelmed, Quits May Be Insincere union, and made this maneuver, We think the maneuver will not fool the miners in the rest of the coun- try any more than here, “The miners remember that Watt has done many things they don’t like. He has appointed organizers 1 Illinois and sent them to Ohio, out sanction of Illinois or Ohio national executive boards, has fused to work under the direc- tion of the national office, and has ,refused to believe that the N. M. U. is sincerely opposed to the check- off on principle, has tried to split » district convention, Arne Swabeck and Joe Angels, fol- folw otsky, are his close ad- or (Continued from Page One) convention, and Jopted all of then including t t for the six day five-day I inst check-off, for he: conditions ‘and wages, against discrimination, against penalty and docking clauses, against arbitration, st speed- the elo was at the conference be with him, and it is knovin that their up, for 15 minte rest periods every Hay hour, for social inssurance, ete. Policy is to keep their forces jnside They held back for re-drafting a|°! the militant unions, where they ey held back for re- s 8 can do as much damage as possible. | “Watt has been given every op- | portunity to defend himself, and the miners have repudiated him and program. They will watch him ‘om now on.” * proposed constitutional char “Watt's supporters, led by tried to show there are contradi tions in the demands, for instance between the section or national strikes, and the demand, that ‘a fight against the check-off must be carried even to the extent of strike by locals.’ The delegates could see no contradiction, however, they knew that the Watt objections were mere- ly ignorance or pettiness. * o* An error was made in one of the stories printed recently in the Daily Work, in which it was said that the | Livingston local refused to allow | Watt in the meeting. Watt was not Ne és rred. But the Livingston local, : Bor ee large one, is for the N. M. U. “There was much speculation and the Belleville convention, | to what the conference would think | ER i of the Belleville convention's ap- proval of affiliating the N. M. U. to the Red International of Labor Unions. Watt has been conducting a campaign against this affiliation. Delegates rose to explain the rea- WOLL LEADS AFL : STRIKE BREAKING (Contin lsons for the need of international and solidarity of miners, however, were able to show how in the British miners’ strike the unions filiated with the In tional Min- ing Congress scabbed on the British miners, while those affiliated with the R. I. L. U., the half million Rus- sian miners, refused to send Jump of coal to br the Brit e. The conference veted d from Page One) | c so on the committee | MeNally of the Federal Employees, who contracts and propa- ganda never to strike. Dubinsky, one of the chief gangster experts | of the International Ladies Garment | ri and Wharton, leader of | one for the affiliation is in the Machinists | “Watt was in ‘the hall the whole more hard boiled reac- | nine hours of the conference, tnti-labor crew could | when it was about to adjourn, elected even from | for and got the floor for ten mi e been utes, and apologized for anything he Everything. might have done to harm the move-| MeMehon | the aims of his A. | ment. He promised to carry out the|F. L. organization as: | decision of the Belleville convention ; and not participate in the work of the N, M. U. until his case is settled) by the National Executive Board and the incoming convention. “He warned the miners not ‘to pay attention to individuals, not to pay attention to the ‘Red Scare,’ ad- fitted that the U. M. W. A. Journal carries headlines against the R. L. U,, and therefore is mist be good for the miners, and further stated that if the ‘Reds’ have the correct | program, the program should be The union desires to “rehabili- tate and develop, not undermine or interrupt the progress of the tex- tile industry.” ' 2. The union’s policy is to “deal | ly with manufacturers,” and make contracts gatisfactory to them. Southern manufacturers are referred to “recognized leaders in the cot- ton, worsted and woolen industry in New England, the upholstery and drapery manufacturers of Philadel- phia and vicinity, and the full fash- ioned hosiery manufacturers in New adopted. \Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delegates Doubt Watt. | Wisconsin and Massachusetts’ for “But many of the delegates pres- | evidence on the union’s policy. ent came over and stated that they; 3. The union offers southern do not trust Watt. They don’t be-| manufacturers “machinery for ar- lieve he is sincere now. He is just | bitration of disputes or differences badly outvoted in this conference, | to prevent stoppages of wok or in- and in the district. The general |terruption of production.” opinion is that he saw the impos-| 4. The union desires to put the sibility of carrying on the fight | southern textile industry on a against the rank and file of thei“sound business basis.” ANSWER THREATS OF GA, BOSS SHEET BY ADOPTING ATLANTA Workers’ Groups Join in Socialist Rivalry to Rush Daily. South: (Continued from Page One) fined to Communist Party units alone—but must spread thruout all working class organizations and groups. And point two, which we cannot sufficiently stress—there are over 10,000 mill workers in Atlanta, and $2.50 a week, which brings these mill workers 25 Dailies each day, only begins to answer these workers’ appeals for their fighting paper. And the same holds true of such mill towns as Elizabethton, Greens- bord, Greenville, Gastonia, Bessemer City, and other mill centers for which workers’ organizations have pledged sums to rush the Daily. So it’s into the Socialist rivalry to rush the Daily South! ~ And individual workers, you've not only got to respond to the southern workers’ aypealy for the Daily by sending your contribution to the Drive to Rush ihe Dolly South, but you've also got to see to it that your orgauization adopis a southern mill village! |Czech Mine Strike | discrimination, Spreads Fast; More | Pits Join Walkout; PRAGUE (By Mail)—The strike | jmovement of the minerg in the Komotau district is extending. Ap- proximately 5,000 miners are now ae riking; the Elli mine 600, Guido 1, 2, 3, and 41, 100, Center mine 500, Humboldt 400, , Columbus 600, Johann 1,000, Moritz 400 and For- tuna 340. A pit council’s confer- {ence representing the Northern Bo- hemian coal mining district decided unanimously to declare a sympathy | strike, Numerous yit meetings have decided to adopt the demands of the |Red Miners’ Industrial Union and of the committees of action, The | miners of the Johann and Moritz pits have appaeeld to all other pits | for a solidarity strike, The spirit | of the miners is very good. Every- where strike committees are being | formed in which unorganized min- | ers are represented, Armed Police Ready to Shoot Strikers in Czech Coal Pits, PRAGUE (by mail)—The Anna and Andreas pits are now being guarded by armed police. Striking | workers broke the police cordon, A number of workers were compelled to resume work under threats by the police. The members of the strike committee were taken by the police to the administrative building where they were compelled to open up negotiations in the presence of the reformist representatives. In the pit meetings the reformist re- presentatives appeared under police protection and presented a resolu- tion to end the strike under threat of immediate dismissal. Without any voting the workers were then driven into the pits. The indigna- tion of the workers is great. MWL FINDS GULF READY TO MEET New Cees Meeting | in Low Wage Territory | (Continued irom irom | 28 South St., the Gulf ports are ‘par ticularly in need of organization. There are no unions in the har- | bors of Florida and Alabama, or most of the other Gulf ports. Pen- sacola, Florida, has about 700 long- shoremen, half Negroes, and many of these left the International Long- shoremen’s Union when it failed them in the strike of 1921. The maximum wages paid here are 70 cents per hour. New Orleans, the second most im- portant port, as far as tonnage | shipped longshoremen, of whom but 2,000 |are members of the I. L, A. Two- thirds of these are Negroes, in “Jim Crow” locals. The Marine Workers’ eague will carry in here the mes- oe of full racial equality, 30 Cents Hour’s Wage. Banana ynloading pays 30 cents \per hour. This work is controlled by the big fruit companies: Cuya- mel, United Fruit, ete., and is non- union. But the M. W. L, will fight for a union, The most speeded part of the banana unloading is work on the lines loading the conveyor in the ship’s hold. This is 65 cents an hour, and very exhausting labor. The highest rates paid are on Shipping Board docks, where they | get 80 cents per hour. Other docks |pay in between the 30 cent banana rate and the 80 cent rate. Negroes |make up two-thirds of the whole | longshore force, The port of New Orleans is cer- tain to increase in importance with the completion of the southern in- land waterways system, especially the canal that will run from Mobile to Corpus Christi, Texas. New Orleans is a most important port for class conscious workers to contro] because of its dominance of the Gulf trade, wherein lies a large section of the American imperialist prey. Fight Anti-Negro Terror (Continued from Page One) against the Negro workers, to en- able the bosses to keep up their op- pression of Negro and white work- ers alike. The Communist Party has de- clared for full race equality and for a united front of Negro and white workers against the bosses who ex- ploit them. The Communist Party has protested against the above two acts against the Negro workers. Demands for the abolition of race of all Jim Crow liaws, of all Jaws barring Negroes from voting, laws whieh bar Negro children from public schools, and also a demand for equal opportun- ity for employment, wages, hours and working conditions for Negro and white workers, equal pay for equal work, are the points around which the Communist Party will rally both Negro and white work- ers for a fight on the terror against Negro workers, INDONESIA TERROR. AMSTERDAM (by mail). — In Bandoeng in Indonesia (Java) 9 whole meeting of Indonesian bour- geois nationalists was arrested. The governmental terror is being inten- sified all over the country, Build Up the United Front of the Working Clans From the Bot- tom Un—at the Enterprises! | 6. | homes, |worker, without warrants. is concerned, has 10,000 |" JAIL OVER 100 FOREIGN-BORN JERSEY WORKERS, Hackensack _ Police e| Raid Homes (Continued from Page One) workers, arrested over 100, perhaps several hundred, and held many of them for probable deportation to Spain and Portugal, where fascist dictatorships reign. The workers had just returned to their homes after a hard day of slavery in the various huge open |shop plants in the vicinity, when at 30 p. m., while many of them were |at supper, the police broke into their } and seized worker after The police demanded that the workers immediately show proofs |that they had entered the United States “legally.” Those who were not at once able to show such docu- ments, were bundled off into wait- ing patrol wagons. The raids on the workers homes appear to have been a systematic affair, pre-arranged, the police mov- ing with great rapidity. This is the second occurrence of this nature here. The police indicated that the raid | last night will not be their last ac- tion in the reign of terror against the foreign-born workers here and in this section, Just before 6.30 p. m., the police began to assemble in a concerted body, to carry out their raids, They went rapidly from one house to another, forcing the workers to leave their homes and wives and eee immediately, and forming he workers in single file. All workers who could not pro- duce immediately proofs that they had entered the country “legal were taken to police headquarters, to be taken from there to Ellis Is- land. Deportation to fascist-ruled |Spain and Portugal faces most of |them, The police displayed the utmost ibrutality in man-handling the work- ers. That the raids and arrests are luavt of the general terrorist ac- tivities being conducted thruout the country against militant or foreign- born workers, in order to crush out all resistance to exploitation, is made evident because the police forces of Hackensack, Elizabeth, Bayonne, Kearney, Harrison and all indus- trial centers in Northern New Jer- sey are directed by such open shop jconeerns as the Standard Oil, Ford Motor, General General Motors, etc, Electric, BUILD TURKESTAN RAILROAD. (Continued from Page One) is that it will open up a new market for the produce of the Siberian soil and that it represents a considerable development of the very one-sided connections of Siberia with the out- side world. Apart from a few branch lines, the railway communi- cations of Siberia were limited to the great West-East line from European Russia into Siberia with its terminus in Vladivostok. This line is not able to offer the stream of Siberian commodities a sufficient- ly broad bed, and as a result berian grain is loaded with relative- ly high freight charges. The plans for the development of Soviet economy are to open up a way across the polar sea (through the so-called Sea of Cara, which is already commercial proposition), and in the South to open up a new railway network. The Turkestan- Siberian Railway uses the branch line from the main Siberian Rail- way near Novosibirsk to Semipala- tinks, which existed before the war. The line will then proceed in a South-Westerly direction parallel with the Chinese frontier through Casackstan and Kirgistan to the town of Frunse in the heart of Cen- tral Asia where there is then a con- nection with the existing Soviet Cen- tral Asian railway net. The length of the new line from Semipalatinsk to Frunse is 1,400 kilometers. The new line will transport chiefly the much-needed timber and grain from Siberia to the federal republics of Turkmenistan and Usbekistan (for- merly called Turkestan). The former railway connections of Soviet Central Asia were repre- sented by a line from Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea to Tashkent and then on to Frunse. The freights from or to Krasnovodsk therefore needed transport over the Caspian Sea, There is a further line from the Volga district from Samara via Orenburg to Tashkent, etc. Com- pared with these lines the new Turksib line gives the possibility of transporting grain from Siberia to Central Asia and diverting the grain from the Volga district to Western Russia or to the world market. The | great rationalization of the grain transporé and other transport not only for Siberia but also for other districts of the Soviet Union needs no elaboration. the Turkestan-Siberian Railway be- | fore the original time planned will Page Yhree i THE SHOPS iC ‘aldwell, O., |, Mine Will Lay Off Many Men; Slacking Down (By a Worker Correspondent) CALDWELL, Ohio (by The Caldwell mine is workir but there rumors t lacken down to a few d If that happens t will be ready vict se or wherever mine has mail).- lay will are for the you please een operating on about The a nearly basis for seven months and there are a num-! ker of people that can’t keep the j wolf away from the door. Can't make enough money, that’s the rea- friend of mine, also me against A young miner, approached ani Vm up yes: it. He < like a mule but I can’t SORANTON MILL. WORKERS, WATCH OUT FOR STOOL (By a Worker oiilebnen agteny SRANTON, Pa. (By Mail) —| About a month ago the National | Textile Workers’ Union came into} Scranton to organize the thousands | of workers who are slaving in the | Anthracite silk mills. The work- | ers, who are mostly young girls and | boys, are so disgusted with ae conditions that they welcomed the union with open arms. At the same time the bosses and | their lackies became busy and t- ed their campaign of terro! the workers who started to join the | N. T. W. U. They got their stool | pigeons on the job to report to them any one who joined the union, In| this way the bosses of the eee | man & Mitchell mill and the bosses of the West Park mill succeeded in getting three of the good union fighters fired. The union members have succeeded in finding out who | the stool pigeon from the Katter- | man mill is and take this oppor- | tunity to make him known to all of | the militant workers of Scranton { and vicinity so that these worke have nothing to do with him since | he has proven himself a traitor to the working class. The stool pigeon this article re- fers to is John Casper, who lives in | Dickson City and works in the Kat- | terman & Mitchell mill. This Cas- per is about five foot nine inches tall with medium brown hair and weighs about 155 pounds. Although he pretends to be a friend of the boys who work in the silk mills at | the same time he exposes them to| the boss, who in turn takes measures | against these same boys, and not! only fires them but also black balls them in the city of Scranton, There-: fore the members of the National | Textile Workers’ Union appeal to | all silk workers of Scranton, Dick- | son City and Dunmore to have noth- ing to do with Casper and treat him | as a stool pigeon and an enemy of | the workers. Also if the silk work- | ers from this city know of any other | {suckers in the mills they should at | once report him to the N, T. W. U office, so that we can exp: ? iit as such to all of the silk workers here. Down with all stool pigeons. |Let’s build a strong National Tex- |tile Workers’ Union, tion of cotton, and the of cotton instead of other crops, grain, rice, etc. The last of these possibilities is the one which offers the swiftest and most effective re- sults under the given circumstances. | In other words, the import of grain, rice, ete. into Central Asia must be guaranteed regularly, punctuall and cheaply in order that the pea ants in Central Asia have an in- centive to increase their production of cotton at the expense of these | other crops. The general condition | for this is a secure food basis. Tke rather widespread production of grain, rice, ete., upon land which | is suitable for the production of cot- ton could therefore be abandoned | and cotton substituted. The solution of the problem can be carried out by Siberian grain with the assist- | ance of the Turksib railway to the benefit of the interests of the Si- herian economic system, the Central Asian economic system and the economic system of the Soviet Union as a whole whose textile in-! dustry will receive a broader raw material basis and which will have to import considerably less cotton and be able instead to import in- creasingly machinery and _ other necessities. The complex of all these economic possibilities shows what a} great achievement the completion of production | be for the economic system of the Soviet Union. The full significance of the Turk- | sib line is however only clear when | the importance of the grain trans- | port to Central Asia is recognized. | Central Asia is the main cotton | growing district of the Soviet Union and is yf first-rate importance for | the textile industry and for the state of the foreign commerce bal- ance of the Soviet Union. 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