The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 1

ace —— i aceclieyptenanan aire Lae Congratulations! The British Communist Party Will Have a “London Daily Worker” on January 1. American Workers! Take This for a Signal to Build Our Own Daily Worker! Baily. tatered as sec se eset se matter at the tosr Oltee ar Neon Ine. 8-28 pany U. S. Imperialist Government Wants War, Not Peace! Every worker in the world who is loyal to his class should fix his eyes attentively upon the present developments toward the next World Imperialist War. Manchuria is the geographical center. The private offices of the biggest bankers in New York are the political center, with the depart- ment of state at Washington as a “bucket shop” to cover the operations. President Hoover and Secretary Stimson, acting as the agents of the finance-capitalists of Wall Street who control every act of the United States government, have made giant strides toward the next imperialist World War during the past ten days. They have succeeded in covering every step of this death-laden “progress” in the most skillful manner. Every step towards war has been screened behind words of “peace.” he present triumph of the criminal war-making diplomacy of Hoover and Stimson is in perfect- ing a world-wide war maneuver under the name of the Kellogg “Peace” Pact. That is what the Kellogg “Peace” Pact was originally intended for, by the imperialist United States government—a maneuver for the most favorable position for the coming World War. The Kellogg Pact was conceived as a means of American imperial- ist operations as opposed to the League of Nations under the influence of the rival British imperialism. Like the League of Nations, it was planned as an international instrument of imperialism against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, but under United States control instead of the British. What is the interest of the United States capitalist el; churia? It is and can only be the imperialist intere: of the populations of Asia and the seizure of natural resources, with, of course, the wider political and military considerations that go with these purposes. American imperialism is driven by the narrowing world-market to attempt to crowd Br ism out of its points of vantage in China and even to plan to take over the British colonies At the same time the greatest urge of the whole capitalist world, in- cluding the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, is toward the crushing the life out of the Union of So ist Soviet Republics—the free workers’ and peasants’ revolutionary government which takes one-sixth of the whole world out of the capitalist system. The present industrial and financial crisis in the United States has given the Wall Street government another warning that capitalism can live only by further imperialist wars and conquest, and the present crisis has therefore further sharpened the imperialist war appetite. ye, oe x Every informed person knows that the United States capitalists have spent many millions of dollars in financing Chinese mercenary counter-revolutionary armies. The American imperial have made many maneuvers in the past few months looking to establishing a hold upon the Chinese Eastern Railway. It was not only cheated of this by a sudden counter move by Japanese imperialism, but the basis of U. S. maneuvers, the Nanking government, was attacked by British and Japanese lackeys, and America faces a freeze out game which it hopes to break down by leading a war move and re-establishing itself on Chinese, preferably Manchurian soil. Thus, when the cut-throat bandit governments of Nanking and Mukden seized the Chinese Eastern Railway on July 10, the imperial- ist government at Washington felt itself nearer to the goal. When the mercenary armies of Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Hsueh-liang con- ducted wholesale slaughters of Chinese workers and Soviet Russian citizens, the state department at Washington merely rubbed its hands in glee. When bandit-troops commanded by counter-revolutionary Rus- sian officers crossed the frontier of Soviet Russia to pillage and mur- der—Hoover and Stimson were well satisfied—that was “peace” (for them) because it meant that the bribed militarists in the employ of the American bankers were tightening their hold on the Chinese Eastern Railway. It méant the possible conquest of a favorable position for the Wall Street government in the coming war, and at the same time it gave the basis for precipitating war on a bigger scale against the Soviet Union. But then the Red Army struck K. y swift counter-attack it scattered the mercenary armies of the imperialists like chaff in the wind, and the Mukden government consented to cease its warfare for the time being, to restore the status quo ante, and to negotiate. Then the Red Army ceased all hostilities and returned to its territory. For the first time during the whole affair there came peace. But as soon as peace was restored, the United States government flew into a fury of activity to restore—“PEA ig? What the United States government wants is not peace but the Chinese Eastern Railway. Not peace, but a favorable position for the forthcoming war which is being planned in Wall Street and Washing- ton. Not peace, but the destruction of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—with the restoration of the old Russian landlords and capi- talists under the hegemony of the big finance-capitalists of Wall Street —is what Hoover wants. That is why it was that after every gun is silenced Hoover shrieks for “peace.” eae Now the workers of the whole world can see the Kellogg “Peace” Pact in action for its real purpose. First, Hoover has made a shrewd move by which the Kellogg Pact and not the League of Nations be- comes the instrument—under the leadership of the Wall Street govern- ment and not the British. Second—mostly important—Hoover has made a giant stride toward the formation of a united imperialist front against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—an international move against the working class of the world of tremendous importance. It is done under the “peace” cover throughout the world—and under the “socialist” cover of the yellow “labor” government of Great Britain —the most dangerous cover that could be found because it enables all of the dishonest or weak-brained “pacifists” and all of the slimy pro- fessional betrayers of the working class to support this bloody imper- ialist war, as they did the past one, among the working class with some success, ; + * * * The working class must stir out of its illusions of “peace.” Imper- ialist war is in the air. The most flagrant imperialist crime—a bloody world-war directly against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Every conscious. worker must work incessantly to win his class brothers and sisters over to the understanding that every sacrifice must be made to defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. There will be new Red Armies to come out of the impending war, in many countries, for the program of the conscious working class is to transform the imperialist war between nations into civil war between the classes—the overthrow of capitalist rule. hour, five-day week, for abolition | SHOE STRIKERS ‘of piece work, abolition of the con- EXTEND FIGHT ‘tract system, against wage cuts and masses in this industry for the 40- Vablisheé daily except Sunday by he Comprodaily Publishing Union Square ‘discriminations and for the recog- There will be a great mass meet- inition of the Independent Shoe ing of organized and unorganized shoe workers tomorrow at 5:30 p. My in Amalgamated Temple, 21 rion Pl. Brooklyn, to mobilize tle Workers’ Union shop delegates and shop committees. There eighteen manufacturing concerns struck, or in are now shoe with their employees locked out, New York, 2,000 wen being alfecied. New York City, N. ¥. INMU RUSHES ALL FORCES TO THE | | ened UMWAOfficialsBetray Strike of 1,500 in Anthracite Field N.M.U. Calls-for Fight Rally Around Illinois | Strikers, Own Union PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 3.—The National Miners’ Union national of- fice here is rushing all available | organizers into the Illinois field, where the Tri-State convention held | Sunday at Zeigler voted for a gen- jeral strike throughout the state, to start Dec. 9. National Secretary- | Treasurer Pat Toohey is leaving im- | mediately for Illinois. Acting Presi- dent Boyce is already thert. Vin-| cent Kemenovich, organizer for | ‘| Iinois, is returning at once. Thirty | thousand copies of the strike call are | already being distributed through N. |M. U. locals. | The strike is against the speed-up, | jfor rest periods in every hour, | against discrimination and unsafe | conditions, against wage cuts, for | equal pay for young miners and Ne- gro miners, for social insurance for | the unemployed, for bigger crews on |mining and loading machines, against the check-off, and for the x-hour day and five- -day week. Other grievances of the miners are also to be remedied. The strikers; | will .aass picket, and march from imine to mine to bring the 50,000 [Illinois miners all out on_ strike. | Miners of other districts will help. ie ae OLYPHANT, Pa., Dee. ‘strike of 1,500 in the Hudson Coal Co. mine here has just been betrayed |by the district administration of the ‘United Mine Workers of America, land the men driven back to work | {with a wage cut, , These miners held a meeting of |Local 1691 of the U. M. W. A. last { j | Friday, and voted the strike against a reduction of wages, and because | jof other grievances. The entire col- | jliery was shut down. | John Boylan, district president of |the U. M. W. A., immediately rushed | into the situation, called a special i (Continued on Page Three) GALLS WORKERS ~ TO DEFEND USSR Dist. 2 Mass Meet for | December 6 | The Communist Party of Amer- | iea, District No. 2, calls all New) York workers to join in mass demon- | stration Friday night, December 6, | at 8 p .m., at Central Opera House, | 67th St. and Third. Ave., against the | instigation of new attacks on the | Soviet Union by the United States | government as shown in the note of | Stimson sent to all capitalist coun- | tries, to utilize these countries for | war. | This will mark the first of a| ries of demonstrations to mobil- | jize the workers to defeat the war | preparations against the Soviet} Union. In a statement issued yesterday | by I. Amter, District Organizer of | | the Communist Party, he says: “The | actions of the United States govern- ment must be understood by the en- | tire working class as being the first steps in the preparations of open war against our Socialist Father- (Continued on Page Two) SUBWAY DIGGERS FORM NEW UNION Series of Meetings to Spread and Win Strike The Subway Construction workers yesterday organized their own union, | “the Subway and Construction Workers’ Industrial Union.” It has | its office at 286 W. 129th St. The) new. union was organized at a meet- ing called by the members of Local 65 of the Compressed Air, Tunnel (Conlimued on Page Two) <=. ‘NEW YORK, WEDN e LworKensy oF THEWORL 9) = THE WOR (oF TE WORE wane LS uSD. AY, DECE EMBER 4, 1929 “Worker ander the acy of Mareb 3, 1870 SUBSCRIPTION RA‘ VES: in New York by mall WORKERS! ILLINOIS STRIKE Help the Communist Party Organize the Struggle Against the Capitalist Attacks! ' $50,000 Emergency Fund Must Be Raised for Daily Worker and for Mass Cam paigns! Comrades: This is an earnest appeal to every worker active in the class struggle, and to every member of the Communist Party. It is an appeal to help the Party to meet the great tasks placed upon it by the sharp- ening class battles. by the necessities of or- ganizing the unorganized, by the forward s of workers, movement 0” great ma Compared with its tasks, the Party’s finan- cial resources are entirely inadequate and the struggles in which we are engaged, of histo- “yieal importance, suffer severely from this fact. Let us remind you of a few of these great tasks: We are driving into the South, not only with the revolutionary unions but also with the Party organization. The A. F. of L. said it must have a million dollars in order to be able to do anything, and with all its money it does nothing but sabotage the struggle— but our Party and its sympathizers, with the few stray dollars we could scrdpe together are ACTUALLY ORGANIZING THE SOUTH. The Gastonia struggle placed enor- mous burdens on the Party, at the same time that it provided the central rallying point of the movement in this period. The August First Anti-War Demonstrations, the Cleve- land T. U. U. L. Convention, the big develop- ments in the mining fields, especially Illinois —all these mobilizations of the working class, give opportunities and tasks to the Party which require the utmost mobilization of its resources, We have made gains in mobilization of our man-power. But we have lagged behind in mobilization of finance, which is one of the most necessary features of the work. Espe- cially in the support of the Daily Worker, which is our principal instrument for mass work, we have lagged behind. Added to these financial problems, has been the legacy of financial chaos left behind by the Lovestone renegades when they attempted to split our Party. The cleaning up of Love- stone’s leavings has been an added burden which will not be repeated, but which leaves the Party financially weakened for the time. Now the multiplication of opportunities for work, requires a real mobilization of the membership AND OF FINANCIAL SUP- PORT. The membership drive, for which a quarter-millior. leaflets and fifty thousand pamphlets have been issued, provides the first basis for this task. The reorganization of our dues-system, upon a weekly payment basis and the rate of two per cent of earnings, according to the international practice of all important parties, will stabilize the Party finances in the coming six months, and will relieve the membership of many irregular demands now made in the units. The econ- omic crisis and growing unemployment will hit many of our present members and sup- porters, but will greatly widen the circle of workers who are ready to listen to our pro- gram and join in our work; and the Party’s publication of 250,000 leaflets and 50,000 pamphlets on UNEMPLOYMENT provides the basis for a mass campaign, which will further widen our base and help solve the next problems. The improvements which are being rapidly made in the Daily Worker con- stantly help to enlarge its cirele of readers and supporters and lighten its financial bur- den on the Party. For solving all these problems, and pro- viding a strong central direction with strict ania of finances, a dee FINANCE tical points. Southetn Textile eile Workers’ Fake ‘Friend’ The action of At-} torney Jimison, who seized the bail | money of the Gastonia case defend ants and conspired to keep Maj COMMITTEE with wide powers is sup ing and controlling all income and expendi- ture of the Party and its institutions. Order and system are being brought into all our financial affairs. = But the full realization of the résults of our growth, our mass work, and our reor- ganization measures, will take many months to materialize. In the meantime, the neces- sities are great, and a special fund must be built up to guarantee the successful execu- tion of all these tasks. Sitch a fund must be realized at once! Comrades! This appeal is made to every individual member of the Party, to every mpathizer, and to eve arty unit. Take YOUR part of the task of solving this financial problem. We must raise $50,000 within the next six weeks. We ask every in- dividual member and sympathizer to IMME- DIATELY SEND IN A 5 DONATION TO THIS FUND AT ONCE. Every member of the Party is going to be assessed an amount, according to his ability to pay, as his part of this task, All dona- tions sent in directly to the National Office will be credited against the assessment which will be levied by the Party committees, so that no member is called upon to pay twice. District organizations must immediately prepare their assessment upon each individ- ual member for the Emergency Fund. Every individual member, without waiting for the assessment, must send in a donation at once, which will be credited against the assess- ment. This appeal is also directed to sympathiz- ers, not only to Party members, Every worker who reali: the importance of the work we are doing should especially be ready to donate to the Emergency Fund, because his contributions in the past have not been So great. Workers’ clubs, fraternal organizations, trade unions—all such organizations should take up this question, and make substantial donations from their treasuries to the Emer- gency Fund. This Emergency Fund is not a part of the day’s pay ass ment, which was a uniform assessment on all members. The present Emergency Fund is an appeal to and assess- ment upon every one WHO IS ABLE TO DO HIS PART IN OUR WORK BY HELPING PAY the BILLS. Hundreds of our comrades are daily risking their lives and liberties in the class battles; this is an appeal to those not in the front lines to back them up with money. SEND IN YOUR CONTRIBUTION AT ONCE TO THE EMERGENCY FUND! HELP ORGANIZE THE WORKERS OF THE SOUTH! DEFEND THE GASTONIA FIGHTERS! BUILD THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNIONS! FIGHT AGAINST UNEMPLOY- MENT! HELP ORGANIZE THE FIGHTING MIN- ERS OF ILLINOIS AND. THE ANTHRA- CITE! HELP EXPAND THE DAILY WORKER! DEFEAT THE REFORMISTS AND RENEGADES! BUILD THE COMMUNIST PARTY! (Signed) Central Committee, Communist Party of the U.S. A. Send all remittances to Communist Party of U.S. A. 43 East 125th St., New York City. Greenville, where a small town law- yer, Plumer C, Cothran, after join- ing the International Labor Defense + and occasionally speaking at mass JOSEPH STALIN Who writes of the ments of the first year of the Five- Year Plan in the Soviet Union plan for the building up of Soc ism in the fatherland of the world’ worke the Soviet Union; the plan\ which is laying the basis for the| establishment of the new classless Communist society. Sce the article: by J. Stalin, of the Great Change” | on Page 4. U.S. ARMS FOR WAR, HOOVER. MESSAGE SHOWS holiness Fascist Plan | of Trusts WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 3. Undew a heavy smoke screen of pac fist phrases, President Hoover, in} his message sent to congress today, exposes the vast war preparations of American imperialism. Using the same lies which Stim- son employed in his note which cov-} ered the threatened armed attack |against the Soviet Union in Man- \churia, Hoover drapes the war man- euvers of United States imperialism} | with the soiled rags of the Kellogg | pact. | “Our army and navy,” boasts the imperialist chief, “are being main-| tained in a most efficient state un- der officers of high intelligence and) zeal.” War expenditures have grown from $267,000,000 in 1914, the mes sage revealed, to $730,000,000. “Pro- grams now authorized”, said chief capitalist executive, ill car- ry it to stil larger figures in fu- ture years.” While libly talking of alleged | high hopes for “peaceful” results of the London n: conference, Hoover reports that billions will be spent for naval armaments. “If we shall be compelled to undertake the naval construction implied in the| Washington arms treaty, “threatens | the president, “. . . we shall be com-! mitted during the next six years to/ (Continued on Page Three) FORD'S “RAISE” IS. ‘SPEED-UP DRIVE |More Production With | | Less Workers By PHILIP BART. Following the Hoover business conference in Washington Ford again issued one of his “famous” | all A announcements, that wages of his workers would be increased. close examination of his carefully 00 per year Outside New York by mall $6.00 per year great achieve-| the} FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents -WALLST.MOVETO BLOCK PE AGE IS NO FRIENDLY AGT |U.S. War Threat Upon Soviet Encourages Renewed W Warfare |Get 300 White Guards S, Presses for War; Nanking Collapsing BULLETIN. | Reports late Tuesday state \that the Soviet Government | had handed a memorandum te /the French ambassador at ) Moscow rejecting the American “note” concerning the Soviet- | Chinese* dispute and sharply lattacking the action of the Hoover administration as “not ja friendly act.” | Litvinoff, acting for the | Commissariat of Foreign Af- | fairs, in thé communication |emphatically accused the | United States of an unjustified ‘attempt to influence Chinese- Soviet negotiations. At the same hour, Moscow | announced thegsigning of a pro- | tocol between the Soviet Up‘on jand the Mukden Chinese gov- jernment, providing fully for |return of the status of joint Soviet-Chinese management of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the full carrying out by the Mukder government of th« | | treaty of 1924, violated by Chiwa last July in the seizurc jof the railway. The protocol, together with | the Litvinoff memorandum, is a slap in the face of Americar |imperialism and an equal victory |for Soviet diplomacy over worlé | imperialism. Litvinoff accepted the point that the United States had injected itself }into the dispute at the very moment | negotiations were being carried on |The Soviet reply to the attempt of America to bl peace and inter- vene under the guise of a “neutral” er, Was sternly answered by the Manchurian con- statement that the flict led no such meddlers and lcould be settled only by direct ne | gotiations between China and the | Soviet power, and on the terms |agreed to already by Mukden. | In a conclusion of scathing sar- casm, the Soviet memorandum is reported to express astonishment | that the United States, which by its jown desire has no relations with |th eSoviet Union, finds the gal! nec! to dare to offer instrue- tions and advice to the Soviet Gov- |ernment as to how the Soviet Gov- ernment should conduct its interna: tional affairs (Bulletin) (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Dee. 3.—Three hundred | Russian white guards, counter-revo- |lutionary mercenaries and support- ‘ers of attempts to overthrow the |Soviet Union and re-establish ezar- lism, were captured by the Red Army when it took Manchuli on the Man- churian frontier. These scoundrels |who had been Jeading the invading jraids into Soviet territory, and prepared statement and observing |among whom are included notorious the conditions in the auto industry | counter-revolutiy y leaders and today, one can easily see that this|torturers of Soviet citizens, are is a scheme to further intensify the|taken into the Soviet Union to be already vicious speed-up in the Ford |tried by court martial. plants and throughout the industry. s False Statements Well Ford’s reputation for, fake nouncements is well known here. In| Sept., 1927, 5-day week basis. The labor fakers | re jubilant and looked upon this as a great achievement for the work- rs. The Detroit Free Press reports: (Continued on Page Three) MEMBERSHIP DRIVE EXCEEDS an-| we were informed that the Ford plants would be put on a The perilous pe on of Nanking, and hence of American interests, is {seen in dispatches stating that the | Twenty-fourth Division of Chiang Kai-shek’s army mutined today at | Pukow, just across the river from Nanking itself. This division has just returned from Honan, where also, and in spite of the $10,000,000 bribe given by Chiang Kai-shek to Feng Yu-hsiang commanders, fight- ing is still going on. The division w aiting steamers to transport GREENVILLE, S. C., Dee. 3.— | Bulwinkle and Gastonia City Soli The textile workers of the South, tor Carpenter from being exposed are rapidly finding out and losing) 48 leaders of a lynch mob that at- all their respect for those “liberal” | tacked National Textile Workers or professional cl elements which ganizers, convinced many workers flirt with and dally about the labor | (Mat such men cannot be trusted. then betray it A further proof has apjtared in| movement and al meetings to textile workers, wrote a letter in a local paper attacking h> union, the Communists, and the ion of Socialist Soviet Republics. nis enemy of labor tries particu- larly to create orejudice against the (Continued on Page Three) QUOTA Pare esis it to Canton, where also heavy fight- BERL Dec. 3.—The member- jing bal meported with wounded ship drive of the Berlin district pe | eronmine into the oy which f the Communist Party, aimed to se- | S°Usht for capture by Chinese mili- cure 4,000 new members for the | ‘tists Hacked by Britains Party by December 1, The aim; At last reports, Japan was still iwas excelled by 600 over the 4,000.4 (Continued on Page Threg) '