The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1929, Page 1

+ men on the cutting and loading machines, The Working Class of New York Will Deliver Its Own “Note to Stimson” in Defense of the Soviet Union at Central Opera House Tonight he V. bushed da Company. 1 ‘Vo aily Entered as second-c! | the Post Office nt Ne w York. N. ¥., ander the act of March 3. 1879. FINAL CITY ¥* EDITION mprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥.' Ont , No. 234 The American Workers Must GREAT RESPONSE Respond Now to the — Back Up the Soviet Union Against the Imperialist Hoover nion of Socialist Soviet Republics in reply The Note sent by the to the insolent, ly Stimson, is the answer of the whole of the conscious working class of the world to these imperialists. Thousands of New York workers w add their rougher language of the same meaning at the Central Opera House tonight. The reactions of the capitalist agent voices in much at Washington and in several foreign capitals show a frenzy of an nd a sense of defeat. For, to the splendidly succe i “surgical” operation of the workers’ Red Army against the militarist agents of Wall Street in China, has now been added a. diplomatic defeat of the Washington paymasters of these bandits. The capitalist press is dismayed over the fact that the workers’ government “seized the opportunity” to exy of the whole world, over the heads of their g terms consistent with truthfulness, the re action of Hoover’s government. The whole world -knows that the Soviet Note speaks the truth where Hoover and Stimson were lying about “peace” to cover up their strenuous actions leading directly toward war. The government of the Union of Soc Soviet Republ cisely the only Great Power in the world that has never resorted to military action except as a n ary step for defense, due to direct attack or armed intervention he hypocrisy of the Wall Street gov- ernment which at this very time has just completed the bringing back rnments, in the politest nature of the belligerant is pre- @ the dead bodies of U. S. soldiers which were sent without legal sanction of any sort, in 1918 to make war ainst the workers’ re- public on Soviet territory! The Soviet Note, for all the careful observance of diplomatic lan- guage, makes a startlingly true picture of the criminal actions of the Chinese militarists against precisely the only big Power which has not violated the territory of China h unprovoked armed invasion! Against precisely the only State that voluntarily relinquished every unequal treaty, the Chinese bandit-government made a sudden and bloody attack without any warning or preliminary presentation of claims. The treaty coneerning the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria, to break which the bandit-government took violent action without ning to Soviet Russia but, doubtless, with the knowledge of the bankers who supply them with money, was entered into by China of its own free will without compulsion—in sharp distinction to ghe treaties which now exist be- tween China and the United States which were imposed upon China by force and which are now being maintained by Hoover with military forges now on Chinese soil! The monumental hypocrisy of these con- temptible imperialists who, with their own troops now quartered” by for¢e in Chinese territory, with bayonets still dripping with the blood of Chine#® workers and peasants, speak of “peace!” The Note of the workers’ government makes it clear that the motive of Hover’s Note was to stop the negotiations for peace and to cause the reopening of the war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Hoover intended to put “pressure” on the scared and beaten Chinese hirelings of Wall Street to continue the war which Hoover's masters in Wall Street have paid for and through which they hope to get a hold on the Chinese Eastern Rail To hell with your advice, Mr. Hoover! But Hoover has now put the United S front as the leader of the anti-Soviet imperialist war-front! And this needs an answer. The American workers must give the answer by working night and day to make our class in this country the most determined defender of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! Workers of New York! Come to the great mass meeting at Cen- tral Opera House tonight and let your voice be heard! tates government to the Illinois Strike! A strike is a test of strength, a positive thing, a battle in ihe class war. It is not, as the reactionary union leaders have so painstakingly argued for decades, a case of workers just exercising their ‘constitu- tional right” to cease working, and settling down to see whether they starve before the employers’ loss of profits decides the issue. The I. W. W. syndicalist ideal of “folded arms” was only a romantic ver- sion of the A. F. L. misleaders’ advice to strikers, “Go fishing, and leave the rest to us.” The Illinois miners at the Tri-District nvention of the National Miners’ Union voted Sunday for a state-wide strike, for the most ele- mentary demands: six-hour day and five-day week, rest periods, more ety conditions, for an end to the check-off swindle, and against discrimination in hiring and wages, also for recognition of the miners’ own union, the N. M. U. Though the National Miners’ Union does not as yet include the majority of Illinois’ 50,000 working miners, and 40,000 unemployed mingrs, the popularity of these demands is obvious wherever miners come together, or express themselves in any way. Within the last two weeks, some thousands of the Illinois miners have expressed their ap- | proval by going on “wild-cat” spontaneous kes for th and similar | demands, ‘ | But a strike that has against it every reactionary force from the state to the misleaders of labor can not show its real strength in an unorganized, “wild cat” fashion. The National Miners’ Union, and all the striking miners have before them, as a most immediate problem, the bringing of order, of discipline, of the solidarity that comes from organization into this situation. Now is no time for slip-shod methods. The call of the Illinois district, N. M. U. Grievance Committee for mass picketing is correct. It means that every miner must enlist in a war, for this will be war. Marching miners going from mine to mine is the only way to get these 50,000 ail out at once. These marching miners, these mass picket lines will be met by the organized forces of the coal operators, by armed force, centrally di- rected. That means that if the miners want a ory, their own forees must be as well organized, as determined, their own organization as solidly united, centralized. Every striking miner join the National Miners’ Union! All out for mass picketing! Hold mass meetings at every mine and elect rank and file strike, relief and defense committees, of organized and unorganized miners! Keep in closest touch with, and accept direction from the district and national offices of the National Miners’ Union! ‘All workers, everywhere, send relief funds to the fighting miners of Hlinois! Social-Fascism Can Be Smashed by Bringing _Every Militant Worker Into Active Leader- . ship of Growing Needle Trades Struggles Tn its “story of the first day of the convention’ now being held in Cleveland, “Justice,” the organ of the fascist leadership in the ladies garment industry, says in headlines: “Governor of Ohio and Maver of Cleveland Address Con- g, war-threatening Note of Messrs. Hoover and | i} » to the working class | | strike starting Monday, and prom- | Mine Workers’ | Fishwick gang in other struggles jnois district office of the National | Miners’ strike of coal miners | ship | | | support material!y and morally 100 N.Y. WORKERS RALLY AGAINST U.S. TO STRIKE CALL Emergency Fund Appeal OF MINER UNION Active Preparations to] Mass Picket; Strike Committees Elected 3500 Already Walk Out Hail Aid from Unity League, Worker Relief) —_— i BULLETIN. CHICAGO, Dee. | general membership Trade League held in Mirror Hall here The first day’s response to the appeal for the Emer- gency Fund of the Communist Party has shown that many workers were already awake to the great opportunities for organization and struggle. Thousands of workers are only awaiting the opportunity 4o help, to join in this work, For example, a non-Party worker in Brooklyn writes: “Enclosed please find five dollars to help you (sorry can’t offer more) with your wonderful work.” We must have ten thousand such letters as this. And there are ten thousand workers and sympathizers to the Party who can be reached for such donations. And there are several hundreds who can make donations reaching into the hundreds of dollars. A great mass meet- | All such potential support must be reached, and the sup- port must actually be realized in dollars to be used in the class struggle. ing of the Union Unity | last night voted unanimously to Current events emphasize the enormous importance of giving the whole movement a big, special push forward just at this time. The intervention of Stimson to prevent the peaceful settlement under way in Manchuria, shows the grow- ing sharpness of danger of imperialist war against the Soviet Union. The growing economic crisis, with its attendant un- employment, is brewing great mass battles of the workers. The miners are already on the move in Illinois and the An- thracite. The South is seething with movement of workers, seeking organization, and welcoming our organizers. per cent the Tilinois miners’ ised to rally the Chicago working class for it. National Organizer tone of the T. U. U. L, and m Gebert, T. -L. organ- euthern Tlinois spoke. * * ” | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 5.— The Fishwick administration of the Ilinois Pistrict of the United of America has ued a statement that it will try to break the state-wide general strike called by the National Miners’ Union. The national office of the N. M. U. has replied with a statement exposing of the strike-breaking activities of the We must not fail to meet our Ks in this period, which is a turning point in world history. The American working class, under the leadership of the Communist Party, must begin to use its forces, mass agitation, mass propaganda. mass organization, mass movement—these must be realized on a larger scale. The Emergency Fund is the next step. SEND IN YOUR DONATION TODAY TO The Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New York City. cite miners’ mass meeting in «cso sc POSTPONE TRUAL400 BIG BOSSES “sya egal OF GRAHAM INVA. MAP WAGE CUTS = FOR WORKERS and exposing, with proofs, the con- nection between Fishwick and the coal operators. Secretary Pat Toohey, Frank and others will address the anthra- The strike cail issued by the Illi- | Pa. Workers Fight for: Bethlehem 3 NORFOLK, Va., Dee. |trial of Stephen Graham, Commu- nist worker held on charges of citing the Negro to rebellion,” and several other charges, has been con- | tinued until Jan. 13. Graham h: and all other meetings that were! |i been threatened with deporta- scheduled to take place tonight, are | tion. called off. The entire Party member-| Gv aham was arrested for ealling!| instructed to attend the Negro and white workers of the| Anti-Imperialist meeting to be held | Southern Spring Mfg. Co. together at Central Opera House. : (Continued on Page Three) state-wide starting Mon- day morning, is receiving enthusi- | astic response from all parts of (Continued on Page Three) Union, for a WASHINGTON, ‘Dee. 5 up the workers on less y smash strikes, was the key-note of Hoover’s message to the grand fas- cist council consisting of 400 lead- ing exploiters that met today in the Chamber of Commerce building. The PARTY MEME ATTENTION! The section membership meetings ; the misleaders of labor had prom- ised him that “not only would they use their utmost influence to allay labor conflict, but would also coop- erate with the employers in the pres- ent situation.” The imperialist president gave the 400 leading bosses a free field for smashing wage-cut drives. He informed the heads of the gigantic scab corporations that “this (Continued on Page Three) is yention—President Schlesinger Eulogizes Acting President Du- binsky—Convention Thanks Gov. Roosevelt and Lieut. Gov. Leh- man for ‘Their Services in Cloak Strike.” On the same day in Bryant Hall, New York City, hundreds of gar- ment workers gathered to prepare for struggle against the Cleveland conspir —a conspiracy in which the Schlesingers and Dubinskys do not hesitate to name as their leaders the highest officials of this state. This conspiracy is for the benefit of the bosses. Its intention is to put the ‘entire weight of the attempts to “stabilize” the garment industry upon workers already suffering from speed-up, low wages and increas- ing unemployment. Bosses, the state authority and union officials are the partners in this anti-working class plot. Courts, police and gangsters will try mercilessly to crush out all resistance. For a favored few (very few!) of the more highly paid workers, for the hangers-on of the machinery of social-fascism, conditions will be made more to their liking. For the great mass of the thousands of ~workers upon whose toil the industry is built, wages and working con- ditions will be worse. This is clear as daylight. There is no instance in history where bosses and their servants and lackeys have aided a union to raise the standard of living of workers without bitter struggle. The Schlesingers and the garment bosses and state authorities are able to unite only because all of them are against the interests of the masses. This is the seal of their unity. How is this conspiracy to be smashed? First, by exposing it. But far more important now, because most workers already understand the meaning of the union of bureaucrats, socialist party tricksters and gov- ernment, is the preparation of the forms and methods of struggle— the genuine mobilization of the garment workers for the fight that must be made. Rank and file organization committees, rank and file strikescom- mittees composed of both union members and unorganized workers, shop committees, worker defense units—the recruiting of new militant forces from the shops, the establishment of mass leadership, elections of rank and file committees of action—these are all indispensible steps. But these methods are something more than mere organizational steps. By the very fact of their introduction and acceptance by masses of workers as their instruments of the class war, by the stimulation and broadening of the whole movement which these methods bring, the political level of the whole conflict is raised and the morale is heightened. This is now the main task in the work of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union—the mobilization of the masses for the fight to smash social-fascism in the industry and the building of a far broader working class leadership right out of the ranks of the struggle. It is only by using every worker who is willing to take an active part in the struggle, only by seeing that every opportunity is given for workers to come forward into leadership, that the mass of work- ers can be organized and led in successful struggle against the power- ful combination of bosses, bureaucrats and government. Confidence of workers in their mass power-—confidence in the mass power and will to struggle of the workers—these will build the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and smash social-fascism in the needle trades, Delegates to Paterso) The National Textile Workers’ Union national office has issued the | following statement on the increased | struggle to organize in the South, ‘and on its second national conven- | tion, December 21-22, in Paterson, |N. Ju: “The National Textile Workers’ | Union is intensifying its organiza- tion drive in the South. Throughout |the country the mill workers are \mobilizing for struggle under the | banner of class struggle. The South- jern District with sharpening strug- gles and bitter suppression is mobi- lizing our forces in every. textile center of the South to make a liv- ling reality out of the program of The Young Communist League will hold a demonstration to welcome Clar- ence Miller, Gas- | tonia strike lead- er and member of | the National Ex- ecutive Commit- tee of the League, when he arrives Cc. Miller, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929 Hoover gloated over the fact that| Miller Arriving Todav tor USSR Defense Demonstration SUBSCRIPTION RATES: tn je New York, by mall. $6.00 per year. New York by mall. $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents | Wall St. “Friendship” “The big imperialist powers, |whose troops parade their colonies, in spite of the Kellogg Pact,” said Maxim Litvinoff, of the Commissa- riat of foreign affairs of the L S. R., in a speech yesterday, not intimidate the Soviet Union, un- der the guise of peace.” The above pictures show American soldiers embarking for China to shoot down workers and peasants, HAITIAN STRIKE FLARES; MARINES IN MARTIAL LAW Strikers Stone .U. S. PORT-! \5.—The U. | E, Haiti, Dee. Marines who have |heen illegally occupying Haiti for | h mill Speed-| years have declared martial law, |tool of Japan in Manchuria, is now ges, and: under the command of Colonel Rich- |announcing that his representative, order to break a ian employes of iard M. Cutts, i |strike of the |the customs office. | However, the strike threatens to |spread beyond the custom office, where it began yesterday morning, when the employes entered all of- | fices with clubs to drive out any two Yankee bosses who tried to break the strike, injuring the two slightly. Spreading the fight to the street (Continued on Page Three) Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- * tom Up—at che Enterprises! National Textile Union on | Faster Pace in the South t i * jing it showed that he was deeply Invites Unorganized Workers to Send Their) m Convention, Dec. 21 action adopted at the Charlotte, N. C., Conference by 338 delegates. “The strikes of last spring in the South against the stretch-out, low wages and long hours was the open- ing wedge of the Southern workers, black and white, in the class strug- lutionary unions of America. The | textile workers led the way in the | struggle for better conditions and | against the bosses’ terror offensive. The industrialization of the South |brought with it speed-up and worsening of the workers’ conditions creating the basis for sharper class conflicts in strikes and a reign of (Continued on Page Three) —_-—— at the Pennsylvania station about 6.30 p. m. today. Miller, who was sentenced to 17 to 20 years in prison because he was one of the leaders of the Loray | strikers who defended themselves against the attack of the police on their headquarters, will go from the station to the demonstration for de- fense of the Soviet Union this eve- (Continued on Page Two) laggards throwing typewriters at| glé under the leadership of the revo- | WAR NOTE TONIGHT! Ea j SOVIET MASSES IN STORM OF PROTEST AT AMERICAN _ WAR NOTE ON MANCHURIA |N. Y. Workers Rally Tonight At Central Opera | House to Challenge Attack on Soviet Angered Workers Stand Solidly Behind Soviet; Mukden Haggles on Terms; U. 8S. Chagrined A mass demonstration to mobilize the protest and resis- tance of the American workers against Stimson’s threat of intervention in the Soviet Union will be held at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., at 8 p. m. tonight. Every class conscious worker should express his militant action against this imperialist threat by attending the mass meeting! Fight Wall Street’s threat of intervention against workers’ fatherland! the amo oe MUKDEN, Manchuria, Dec. 5.—As a result of the encom agement given by the American imperialist powers, the Mukden government has announced that it declines to “accept complete- ly” the terms of the protocol signed by its duly authorized envoy at Nikolsk-Ussurisk, and is de-® ; manding what it terms are e to the new world power of the revo- |lutionary proletariat which over- sential changes in the terms | threw all capitalist traditions along already agreed to. with Russian capitalism in 1917. | The protocol as signed contained | Stimson seems not to know that he I Seas oq. |and American imperialism is. not Tag Provisions, the follow-/toaiing with the capitalist diplo- That Lu Jung-Huan, the Chinese |™ats of 1899, but with Bolsheviks, “front” for Russian gounter-revolu- and cannot bitret and bluster against tionary white guards who seized con-|the Soviet Power nor overawe the trol of the Chinese Eastern Railway | Workers) end sbcareute Government when the Soviet management was |** Stimson hes done with Nicara- driven out, be dismissed; that the |S¥@ and the Philippines, Soviet would recommend a new! Hoover and his Stimson are taken manager and assistant manager, in | aback, first by the stern rebuke of place of the old ones, Emshanoff|the Soviet, secondly by the lack of and Bismont, but that the Soviet support abroad, Germany showing | would claim the right to appoint |its unwillingness under the present yor two to other positions om the | circumstances to‘chaticé & tevolution | railway. |of its proletariat by any open war The chief terms of the protocol;manceuvers against the Soviet are, of course, the resumption of|Union, and thirdly, by the rain of joint Soviet-Chinese management |sarcastic “why didn’t we mind our and the carrying out of the 1924) own business,” editorial comment of treaty violated by Chinese seizure |the American capitalist press, even of the line. |in hard-boiled republican and ad- Chang-Hsueh-liang, the militarist ministration papers. SUPPORT USSR! be assigned to some other post na | FIGHT WAR NOTE! Eismont in any position is “not ae-| Rally Workers at NY jceeeable: Communist Mass Meet es 2 && Stimson Shows Charges. |Tsai Yun-sheng, is being sent back to the Soviet territory at Harbar- ovsk, to try to get better terms. Chang says that while Lu Jung- {huan will be dismissed as chairman |of the management board, he must WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The in-| Tonight at 8 p.m. at Central ternational horse-laugh being given | QP? House, 67th St. and Third Ave., thousands of workers will American diplomacy at its rebuff by s the Soviet Union dnd the inability Sather under the auspices of the of Stimson to save American inter- Communist Party in demonstration ests in China by the attempt to mar- | #8@inst the policy of the U. 8. gov- shall all imperialist powers against | ¢tnment which is leading the marct- |the Soviet Union, is showing its ef-|°f international capitalism against fect on the pompous Mr. Stimson, | tte Soviet Union. Secretdry of State. Stimson appear-| The Chinese Workers’ Alliance, in ling to read his “statement” of @ statement issued today denounced |cautiously worded but weak and/| the cliques of war lords of Nanking hypocritical defense of American|and Mukden who allied themselves imperialist meddling with Soviet- with world imperialism against the | China affairs. And Stimson in read-| Chinese workers and peasants and their friend, the Soviet Union. Earlier in the day a group of rich Chinese in this country who are stu- dents of Columbia University, and | who are supported through the ex- | ploitation of millions of starving American war threat, to which the| workers and peasants of China is- Soviet note was a stern defiance, | sued a statement in defense of the had itself caused the negotiations | nationalist butchers, This aggrega- |which Stimson triec to prevent. In| tion which styles itself the Chinese |fact Stimson expressed the hope | Students’ Patriotic League are all that the “whole Manchurian situa-|sons of landlords. The Chinese tion would be a closed incident.” Workers’ Alliance and the members | The sense of comment even in the | of the Chinese section of the Amal- capitalist press is that American| gamated Food Workers denounced diplomacy has been given. a black| these “patriots” as “part of the eye, and that “mortification in the |same clique which betrayed the state department’ is not wanting.” | masses into the hands of American, The failure to bring Japan into | British and Japanese imperialism.” the imperialist joint-war threat on | James Mo and N. Doonping will €x- the Soviet’ Union, is not, of course, | press the will of Chinese masses at |due to any friendship of Japan for | tonight’s meeting. Other speakers the Soviet Union, but is due pre-| will be M. J. Olgin, Robert Minor, cisely because Japan would not al-| J. Amter, Gil Green, and Otto Huis- low America to trespass on what | wood. Japan regards as its own zone of | Reports coming from other coun- influence in Manchuria. And one | tries all reflect the rising tide of of Stimson’s greatest defeats is the | sentiment of all workers against the inability to overcome this obstacle | imperialist acts of the U. S. govern- in mobilizing the world for war on|ment and for the defense of the the Soviet Union, together with the | Soviet Union. News of clashes in fact that America’s note, meant to | poja id, Fras d G (prevent negotiations between the pigeabethinonuie eden any Be |Soviet Union and Mukden, has seem- | ‘Ween workers and police reflect the Pl fact that the workers of the world { ingly only ths Japan’s militarist lackey at Mukden, to bargain for i joe dette at the attuation, the meet | The citation by Stimson, that the 5 = meeting a |practice of international capitalist | Central Opera House will mark the diplomacy “as far back as the Hague | beginning of new struggles of the convention of 1899” justified the | American workers against the policy meddling in Soviet affairs, is pointed | of its oppressing government and out as a flabby argument to offer | for the defense of the Soviet'Unio offended by the sharp rejection and | accusation of the Soviet memoran- dum. To cover up his wounded feelings Stimson tried to make out that the