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

] DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929 GERMAN COMMUN ISTS EXPOSE A BIG STOCK SWINDLE BY BANKS The “Socialist” Leader, Hilferding, in Steal; Helped Bankers Grab $900,000,000 by Stock Sales, Re-purchase and Government Redemption $$ (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Dec. 5.—In the Reichs- | purchased the same securities, which the government is now taking up, . é y | anti-soviet article about the Tcheka, tag session Tuesday, the Commu- nist Deputy Torgler, accused the great banks of Germany of having re-valuing securities, the banks | assuring full payment on them ove! ;3 period of thirty years. This banking manipulation means | Getnnie Had Scheffer US Its Knickerbocker; | Both Liars; Both Spies BERLIN, Dec. 5.—The “Berliner Tageblatt” publishes a report, ac- |cording to which the Soviet Govern- |ment has refused permission for Paul Scheffer, the Moscow Corre- spondent of the “Berliner Tage- blatt,” to return to the Soviet Union, | Scheffer is at the moment in Ger- | many. The uses this occ: “Berliner Tageblatt” ion to let loose a wild |secret executions, prison horrors and all the rest of the trappings of conducted a swindle totalling 3,500,- la profit of three and a half-billion |normal anti-soviet propaganda, 000,000 marks, with the assistance | narks (about $90,000,000 U. S.) | of the government. with the government knowledge. n this article the chief editor, {Theodor Wolff writes, inter alia, During the inflation period, the |'The Communists in the Reichstag | “All strangers who came to Mos- banks sold securities at a tremend- | demanded that a committee of in- Cow, Germans, Americans, English- ous profit, without, the knowledge | quiry be set up, and that punishment | men and Japanese, went first of all of the security owners or the banks’ | customers, After inflation, and with the law! be administered to those responsible, including the “socialist” finance minister of Germany, Hilferding. Great Response to Call | to Strike in Illinois (Continued from Page Ore) Illinois. Local unions are pouring in letters telling of progress in the preparatory work, Strike commit- tees of rank and file miners, those in the N, M. U, and those not in it, are being rapidly organized all. over | the state. \ The district office is not at this | time announcing all of the points | at which preparation is under way | as past experience has shown that! when this is done, the forces of In- | ternational President Lewis of the | Textile Organization Goes Faster in South (Continued from Page One) terror against the mill workers. “The struggle in Gastonia and its rapid development into a political struggle of world importance shows the sharpening clashes between the workers and bosses and the need of the N. T, W. U, to increase its ac- tivity. The bosses in their attempt to smash organization have brutally murdered workers, have sent to a living death seven of our leaders, have used the state power and organized black hundreds, The | {to Scheffer.” The “Rote Fahne” suggests that |the reason for Scheffers expulsion may be sought in just this fact, and declares that Scheffer’s activity had developed into a sort of political | and economic espionage. The furi- ous anti-soviet slanders of the “Berliner Tageblatt” were nothing but a confirmation of the correct- ness of te Duvive decision, Map Wage Cut (Continued from Page One) body represents the industries of the | | United States,” and that they were | {being formed into an extra-govern- | | mental apparatus wit unlimited} political power in the form of a | fascist mailed fist. “There has necessarily been some | GIVES LIST OF WAR- MAKERS INTHE U.S.A Hurley Names Bosses Who Prepare War WASHINGON, Dec. 5.—War- making is in the hands of the big imperialists and industrial bosses the essence of a letter written Edward N. Hurley, war-time chair. man of the Shipping Board to M. Georges Theunais, president of the International Chamber of Com- merece. Capitalist nations are always ready for war, Hurley’s document reve “Modern industrial national ade- quately equipped with chemic metalurgical and electrical enter- prises are armed at all times with weapons of frightful power, pro- vided they can be assured of all the raw materials which those indus- tries require.” The big imperialists of the vari- ous. countries in whose hands war, making is lodged were listed by in- dustries as follows by Hurle; OIL—Walter S. Teagle, p' Standard Oil of New Jerse; ir Henri Deterding, managing director, Shell Oil Corp. COPPER—John D, Rye man, Anaconda Co.; E. Belgian copper magnate. RUBBER — Harvey Firestone, er 5 n. chair- Franque, I British Imperialism Makes Debt Collector Its Moscow Minister N THE SHOPS LONDON.—Sir Esmond Ovey has ° been appointed British ambassador to Moscow. Sir Esmond has been in |the diplomatic ice since 1903. is last diplomatic post was as am- \bassador in Mexico, “where he con- {ducted difficult and delicate nego- tiations for the settlement of cer- tain debts” Times,” 18-11-29).| _ The following letter is from a The Labor rnment apparently Soviet worker who tells of the in- hopes that Sir Esmond’s ability to | tToduction of the five-day uninter- rupted working week in his factory, part of the five-day plan for so- ist industrialization: conduct “difficult and delicate nego- in tiations’ will succeed winning something for British finance capi- tal from the workers of the Soviet c Dear Comrades and Workers-Cor- respondents: I want to tell you in connection with the twelfth anniversary of the October Revolution about the suc- | cesses attained in the domain of our socialistic construction. Not long ago in our town (Bobruisk in White Russia) we had the inauguration of a large sewing-machine factory and of the timber works “Combinate.” Attend | our Central Worker Co-operative FIGHT BAN ON BYERS Many Workers +4 s passed to an “uninterrupted Detroit Conference | eek” system, and in. connection —— with this fact a series of new shops DETROIT, Dec. The “labor” ;haves been opened (especially in government of Great Britain was| workers’ quarters), so that many \denounced as ant lits plans to ban | tonia striker, by : |troit, Flint, Pontiac, Hamtramck and Grand Rapids, at the first dis- trict conference of the Detroit tion of the International Labor De- | fense. Our working class in shop assistants will get work. we igh Ss POSTPONE TRIAL OF GRAHAM INVA The conference, termed the Gas- | toniayAccorsi conference was par-| with 77 §'ployees p The 5 Year Plan Brings 5 Day Week to Bobrutsk ¥ section of the employ trade union has actually no more unem- ployed, Beginning from October 1 (the new budget year) the lower payed categories of workers and em- employees will ge an increase in wages. Besides, with the approach of the cold weather the workers’ co-operative is giving to all em- |ployees and workers fuel on long- term credit. Our country has passed t lay-working system four days and ch fifth day I we enjoy a rest eg Dear can’t tel what what ees reigned during the general assem- bly of our trade-union members, at com you enthusiasm, which the question of the uninter- rupted week and the seven hours’ working day (including one- hour for lunch) was discussed. This measure was unanimously adopted and approved for the successful |realization of the fiy r plan, despite the fact that according to the decision taken by our govern- mental bodies the uninterrupted week had to be introduced only from the first of December. But from the first of October all em- to the inter- It, is obvious that for sed over 1 1 we who are rupt |Packing House ‘Raise’ |Means Rationalization ‘ar Worse for Men (By a Worker Correspondent) SIOUX CITY, Iowa (By Mail).— Taking effect the first of the year, }Chicago packing houses gave em- ployees a ise from one to four cents an hour. This is in Chicago only, But what good is one to four cents an hour going to do? That means from 10 cents to 40 cents @ day. The packers find they can af- ford this raise because they have installed much new machinery and layed off groups of men, and those remaining get (he raise—but they must work all the harder and faster to keep up with the machine and slaye-driving bosses. The other plants got no raise, but the same new machines were in- stalled as in Chicago plants—so hard labor and faster will be the rule in these other plants, The packers give the one to four cents’ raise and gain hundreds of jdollars, One reason for the raise is because the packers see the Com- munist Party is making fast and steady headway in Chicago, and so the bosses are trying to blind the men by giving them a raise, Look what is happening in, the South. Let us all wake up and crawl out from beneath the heels of the bosses and step on them from now on. Put them in a working man’s living in capitalistic countries, this will be astonishing. Firestone Rubber Co.; H. Eric Mil-| ticularly successful dele- | rison and | gates representing 42 organizations (Continued from Page One) |bosses have not succeded and will to a mass meeting, under the aus {not succeed, because the textile | unemployment,” admitted the Wall) . | Street political head, sweeping aside | ler, managing director Ha jharness like we are in and make | them like it, U. M. W. A,, and of District Presi- dent Fishwick of the same organ- izati me ‘ |workers are mobilizing for struggle |as unimportant the millions of un- | Crossfield, British rubber producers, ) in attendance. A Negro worker act-| pices of the Trade Union Unity |But you must consider the immense é ate Saban UNG alee |in the South and in every textile | employed who are tramping the | STEEL—James A, Faraell, presi- | ed as vice chairman. Teague. difference existing between the em- | Damen Cone Dee it, However, definite teports from joenter of the United States. In the | streets, jdent United States Steel; Charles) Arnold Ziegler, secretary of the Sa ces ployees of the U, S. S. R. and those la eaite Truipaeet Hieap id Springfield, Staunton Belleville and |‘, section, Petterson, Penn., the} Hoover’s main recommendation to|M. Schwab, chairman Bethlehem | district, reported that membership) ALLENTOWN, Pa. Dee. 5. who are exploited by the bourgeoisie. len ae warns Neda as leoen P West. Beanktors) tarsitones show [Workers are mobilizing for a gen-|the assembled imperialists was that | Steel; Willis L. King, president) had more than doubled since last| Delegates who represented 3,000/Our trade unions are attentively | talist yoke that is us down. that many local miners are pre- jets! strike movement, | they speed up the workers left on; Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.;| year—pointing out that paid up dues | workers in the Lehigh Valley region | watching over the fulfillment of the | —A CUDAHY WORKER. Union Grows. lthe job so that more profits could |James A. Campbell, president) stamps grew from 398 last Decem-| met in a conference called by the |collective agreements signed between | ee SE See TE sy “The N. T. W. U. and its pro-| be squeezed out of them in the pres-| Youngstown Sheet and Tube C gram’ met the bosses’ attack with | ent crisis. | Sir Hugh Bell, Renton Grange; Sir |success and has extended the organ-| “It is agreed,” said the president|4tthur J. Dorman and Sir Robert pared for the strike date, Decem- ber 9. ber to 809 this year. International Labor Defense and!the workers and employes and the made plans for the spreading of the | administration. At present the fight to release unconditionally the | trade union iscontrolling the fulfill- ‘tween us with the help of our news- paper, “Nash Gazeta” and to am- swer my letter as soon as possiblé. Y! J. Louis Engdahl, national secre- | tary of the International Labor I A New Day Dawns. | | | ‘ This date is on the lips of every one; it is the watch word the dawn- ing of a new day for the coal miners of America; it is the symbol] of the fight to push back the employers’ exploitation, to end the coal opera- tors’ company union, the old United | ine Workers of America, to re- venate the militancy of all coal diggers and to erect an industrial union, the National Miners’ Union, the champion of the mine workers. Applaud Unity League, Illinois miners on the eve of) their greatest struggle applaud the quick action of the national appara- tus of the N, M. U, and of the Trade Union Unity League to mobilize all miners and all other workers in théir aid. During the last two weeks, six lo- cal unions, numbering 3,500 men have gone on spontaneous (“wild cat”) strikes against coal operators’ abuses, The N, M. U. sees this, places itself behind their struggle, and. points out that the state-wide strike is the way to win, Picket Lines, The strike call, issued officially by the Grievance Committee of the Illinois District of the National Miners’ Union outlines the organ- ization of the strike, and stresses especiall ythe necessity of organiz- ing picket lines and strike eom- mittees. It states in part: | “This strike means immediate in- tensive organization of all the miners of the N. M. U. to spread the word and organize strong strike commit- tees and mass picketing, Call im- mediate local meetings where your delegate to the Zeigler Conference will make a complete report on the proceedings of the conference, Organize strike committees not only | with N, M. U. members, but include | sympathetic miners who still be- | long to the U. M. W. of A, | “Arrange for mass picketing. Have all miners go down to the mines on Monday morning with everybody they can get—their wives, sweethearts, sisters and their children, Do not underestimate this, Strikes were never won with- out mass picketing, and women and children on the picket line have won many battles. Your call to strike to eyery miner should be smash the check-off and recognize the Na- tional Miners’ Union as the only union of the miners, Fight for the Belleville Convention demands!” | | ization through the South. We are now consolidating this power against the bosses. The United Textile Workers followed the workers’ struggle with the sell out in Green- ville, Elizabethton and Ware Shoals. | the workers struck sell-out” contract of In. Marion against the Hoffman & Co, and were massacred | by the bosses’ state force. The A. |E. L, is now following the N, T. W. U, southern drive in an attempt to stem the tide of revolt, to prevent the workers from following the program of the Trade Union Unity League and are attempting tp build a bulwark against the organization | of the unorganized msses of un-/ skilled Negro and white workers of the South. “The A. F, L, will not succeed in doing what the united attack of the vest of the bosses’ force has failed to do, The bosses’ A, F, L, will not succeed in directing the workers’ struggles in to “safe and sane” channels, Send Delegates to Paterson, “Reports received every day by the National Office from all dis- triets, north and south, show that the workers are rallying in great | numbers to the militant leadership of the N. T. W. U, The mobiliza- tion of the mill workers for strug- gle is gaining tempo under the sharpening erises of the American economic system, “The second annual National Con- yention of the N. T. W. U,, to be} held in Paterson, N. J., December 21 and 22, calls upon the textile workers to send delegates, Work- ef unorganized mills are invited to send delegations to our convention’s big organization drive, HAITIAN WORKERS STRIKE. (Continued from Page One) the strikers met an American ma- rine officer coming on the scene with marines, and gaye him a beat- ing with rocks and bricks. The U. 8. marines are the only supporters of an imposter who calls himself “president of Haiti,” who was elected by nobody but ‘the rifles of the marines and who is a busy bootlicker of American imperialism and its agents great or small. His name is Luis Borno, and he is so cordially detested by all Haitians that his “presidency” would end |to his new fascist political appara-| | tus, “that temporary speeding up to | absorb otherwise idle labor brings! | great subsequent benefits and no| | liabilities.” This was an open in-| vitation to speed up the worker on} the job to the limit on reduced} wages. the “democratic” government their function as a grand fascist council, Hoover said: | | “It is a request from the gov- | ernment that you co-operate in prudent measure to solve a na- tional problem, A great responsi- bility and a great opportunity rest | upon the business and economic | | organization of the country. The task is one fitted to its fine initia- | tive and courage.” | William Butterworth, president of | the U. S. Chamber of Commerce was given the leading task in the | new fascist political body. | Hoover will step aside and permit | lthe U, S. Chamber of Commerce | |with its 400 leading exploiters of | labor a free hand in their planned | {attacks on the standard of living | ‘of the American workers. The heads of the new fascist) jorganism are the direct exploiters jef the American workers, Their jnew state machine will be used to grind more work and profits out of | the American workers and to at-| tempt to smash the growing mass | resistance, This is their solution of | jthe present depression. | The new political bosses at the | head of the fascist machine are! Bernard M, Baruch, banker; Gerard | Swope, General Electrie; Alfred P. | | Sloan, General Motors; W. W. At- |terbury, Pennsylvania R. R.; P. E. | Crowley, New York Central; Roy P. | Chapin ,Hudson Motor Co.; Pierre | ldu Pont, du Pont war industries; | bJ. A. Farrell, president U, 8, Steel |Corp,; General J, G. Harbord, Radio |Corp,; P. W. Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, All, without ex- jeeption, scab employers of hun- |dreds of thousands of workers who labor under terrific speed-up, condi- tions already and are threatened with renewed pressure and wage | cuts. It is these enemies of labor | A. Hedfield, Great Britain leaders, Dr. Albert Voegler and Dr. Frit: yssen, Germany; Eugene Schn Francois de Wendel and Alex Jacques von der, ander Dreux, France; Hoegarden, Belgium. CHEMICALS—Pierre du Pont, | United States; Carl Bosch and Dr.| ya, Handing the 400 capitalists a | August Diehn, Germany; Lord Mel-| ty political charter and the support of |chett and Sir William Alexander | in| Barta, Great Britain and M. Donat-} Agache, France. ELECTRICAL AND TIVE INDUSTRIES — Owen AUTOMO- Dz | Young, chairman of the board of| three of whom are Negro workers, General Electric; Gerald Swope, | president General Electric; A. W.| City central committees will be es- Robinson, Chairman of the Board Westinghouse Electric and Charles | F, Kettering, vice-president of Gen-| organized into various departments, eral Motors Research Corp. Unite d Fruit Trust Swallows Cuyamel Co. | in Latest Merger The United Fruit Company of | Communist fraction presented emer- New York, the leading imperialist fruit trust in the world, has taken over its only serious competitor, the Cuyamel Fruit Company. The United Fruit Company car- ries on its operations in every Carib- | bean country, while the Cuyamel Fruit Company has centered its ac- tivity on Honduras and Nicaragua. Several years ago severe compe- tition for the control of the fruit territory of Honduras was carried on between these two companies. Each controlled a substantial sec- | tion of the Hondurian government. | Now the United Fruit has a clear | field for its imperialist operations from Guatamala to Panama. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! pekoiees Aen isabel eS that the A. F. of L, is now united with. | That the American workers, toil- | ers will answer the challenge of | Hoover and his 400 scab bosses is | proven by the growing resistance to | wage cuts and the betrayals of the | labor fakers. | fense reported for the national of- cases. He congratulated the Workers Educational Association of Detroit for providing $5,000 to get Joseph ison, one of the Gastonia ers, out on bail. re 1 police and broken up. m Negro Workers on Executive. Three delegates were chosen at the conference. triet executive committee represented, for the three. directly | Ad of 23, of the trial, on Dec. | three defendants will speak, was selected to function in Detroit. : is defending the three workers. * ae tablished in all the cities of the dis- trict. The district I. L. D, was re- Sentence 7 Workers in Calif. S ANGELES, Cal. (By Mail) | ineluding the youth, Negro, bail and agitprop. rested at an open-air meeting the night before he Twelfh Annivers- ary celebration here, have been sen- tenced, Frank Spector and L, GERMAN SOCIALIST (Wireless by Inprecorr) FASCISM. fe BERLIN, Dee, —The Luebeck town council met Tuesday, and the cach; four Japanese workers were fined $25 or 5 days each, Joseph Arizpe, a Mexican worker rested at the Twelfth Anniversary mass meeting here, is out on $1,000 bail, charged with “attempting to overthrow the U. S. government.” He, was first charged with “illegal entry,” and the charge was later increased, The International Labor | Defense is defending him. 6 WIR_ is sending relief to the Leakeville strikers, gency motions for the stance of | the unemployed workers, but the socialist, irman ferbid the Com- munists from putting up a speaker for the motions, and when one tried to speak, had the police eject him. When other Communists protested | the whole fraction was ejected by the police. is taking care of blacklisted Gastonia workers, is making a survey of pellagra in the South and plans to establish a pellagra clinic to help the southern workers to get rid of this starvation disease, is helping to organize the unorganized. helps us carry through these tasks. RUSH FUNDS TO Workers International Relief 949 BROADWAY, Room 512 NEW YORK CITY Mass meetings will be held in Al- .| lentown and in Easton on the eve 3, at which the | —The seven workers, members of the Communist Party, who were ar- Mabille, were fined $50 or 10 days three workers, Bill Murdock, Anna) ment of the collective agreements, ice, pointing out the vital import-| Burlak, and William Brown, who|and in case of the violation, even ance of the Gastonja and Accorsj Will be tried in Northampton County |of one article, of one clause, the 5 Court Monday, Dec. 9, on charges} guilty administrator will be dis- of sedition, arising out of their ar- | missed from his post and even sub- when the Bethlehem May 1] jected to trial. ng was attacked by steel trust A resolution was passed unanimously pledging a fight to the finish by the workers Comrades, terminating my letter I am asking you to answer my re- | quest to establish a connection be- | Your international duty will tell you to give an answer to my appeal, I am sending you heartily prole- ltarian greetings, | Address, U. S. S. R., Moscow It. Palast of Labour Room 18, 12, Solianka. A. DRABKIN, (Bobruisk, White Russia) The International Labor Defense | CREDITORS SALE | To Meet Their Demands We are forced to Sell Our High Grade Stock SUITS 2 OVERCOATS TOPCOATS TUXEDOS \* $20 Six-Hour Day. The demands of the Belleville convention are for the six-hour day and five-day week, abolition of the wage cuts, the speed-up, the check- very suddenly were it not for the} presence of the marines. So much has been stolen and looted from the | public treasury that the customs employes are suffering in their | Sound the Alarm MOBILIZE AGAINST REACTION! ‘ASSETS EXCEEDING $80,000,000 Interest Starts First of Each Month Devosits Made DECEMBER 4th !!! draw interent on oF before from December 1st These Garments Formerly Sold Up To $37.50 NE f y off, the bug lights and dangerous conditions underground, They de- mand that the bosses and the state provide $35 a week unemployment pay; give 15 minutes rest period in every hour and put bigger crews on conveyors. They demand the end of penalty and docking systems, and no more discrimination because of age, color, creed or nationality esper cially they insist in full social, in- dustrial and political equality for Negro miners, They are against arbitration and for settlement of disputes by ag a committees. * _ Welcome Workers’ Relief. The call ends with burning slo- gans; “Smash the check-off” “Fight for the Belleville Convention de- mands,” “Fight the yellow mislead- ers, the Fishwiek and Lewis ma- chines,” “Fight Pha the recognition of the Nationa! Miners’ Union.” “Organize strike committees,” “Rally the miners for mass picketing.” - The miners of Illinois are enthu- siastic over the official reports that the Workers’ International Relief and the International Defense have pledged their support, These or- ganizations are remembered for their great service to the 1927-1928 strike wages, In addition the dictatorial school system has eaused a strike of 10,- 000 students—all the way from kin- dergarten to university students, All attempts at compromise have failed, and the sehool strike con- tinues. ' Last Quarterly Dividend paid | on all amounts from $5,00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays ay Banking b; Join 4% ay 7 P.M. TONIGHT 3000 or maybe 5,000 people wi colorful New Masses Ball in years. Meet your comrades, writers, plumbers, poets, teamsters, artists, sailors, play- wrights. There will be dancing until 3a,m. A riot of costumes, color and a few novelty surprises. NEW MASSES BALL ll attend the greatest, most Come in Costume to This Get Tickets In Advance ONLY $1,50 (at the door $3.50) NEW MASSES 112 EB. 10th st. Ale, 4445 OFFICW OPEN TILL 8 P.M. ow WORKERS BOOKSHOP 30 UNION AQUARE, N, ¥. ©. TELAT DECEMBER ISSUE NEW MASSES JUSTOUT Stephen Graham is on trial today (Norfolk, Va.) Accorsi goes on trial Monday (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Murdock, Brown, and Burlak go on trial Monday (Bethlehem, Pa.) Tapolchanyi’s case comes up Wednesday (Philadelphia, Pa.) Gastonia and Mineola appeals now being prepared. Graham faces ten years prison charged with “Tneiting the Negro populace to insurrection against the whites.” He urged organization of white and Negro workers into industrial unions and into the International Labor Defense. WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR HIM? 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