The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1929, Page 1

Se Ve 8. — as Cer et oS OR 8 ee ot Oohmt @ The Kellogg Pact in Haiti Hoover and Stimson, by American ent when the world is yet ringing w United Stz Jesus Christ as “peace- ms ar-maker in fact, with the infamous “note to the Soviet Union,” is one of the most infernal pieces of brass faced gall that could be imagined even jn imperialist diplomacy. Litvinoff. in h ch to the Soviet Congress the day after the Soviet had flung down the challenge to world imperialism for its meddiing in Sovi fairs, struck the correc austic note in reference to the “me, too” joint notes from the Me n, Panama and Cuba colonies of the United States. These countries, said Litvinoff, had id | juuel better be inquiring if their peace and tranquility were not more # | endangered by something. nearer home than the Manchurian frontier. nA The Haitian people, and we leave out of reckoning the buffoon he | ‘whom the -U, S. has pot. in office as “president,” have exposed the pt devilish hypocrisy of American imperialist humbug about the Kellogg “5 |" Pact. The Kellogg Pact means war; and in that war the workers stand th | behind the Soviet Union! It means war, and in that war on the op- ns pressed of Haiti, the workers of the United States stand with the Com- ie or the Haitian people and against the.scoundrels and I, | hypocrites in Washington and Wall Strect! rm sh asic a eee 5 in| Organizing the Food Workers — tke Main “e Problem as the Amalgamated Feed le | Workers Convention Opens. ae i The Amalgamated Food Workers Union begins its convention to- Se day. he f The principal point on the order of business of the convention is j the organization of the unorganized, the fixing of demands for the in- Ww i dustry and the preparation for developing struggles. — The food industry is a low wage industry, Its wage average, id both in the trustified food packing section and in the restaurant and th | catering divisions, is below that of the working class as a whole. There ot is little organization in proportion to the number of workers although Ka the Amalgamated has made a good beginning and has led a number of ; \g sharp struggles. The American Federation of Labor specializes char- acteristically in gathering together only the most highly paid and favorably situated workers. It is a bosses’ organization from start “ to finish and has even developed extraordinary methods of corruption in ire | Make Your Donations Immediate to the Emergency Fund! We Must Extend Our Mass Work! Act Now! aily Eotered as secon ay the Vost Ultiee ar New York NY. PEACE PACT Resist Attacks of Hoover's “Grand Fascist Council” Thursday 400 big industrial capital to hear an oration by Hoover and to be organ as a “National Council of Business Men.” To say that Hoover is crystallizing a centralized body of the most powerful capitalists of this country, for the avowed purpose of ex- ercizing a directing function over national airs, is to say that the topmost members of the present ruling class are now beginning to rule the country, not more than before, but more direct and openly than before—and more frankly over the heads of the “democratie” in- stitution of congress. assembled at Washington zed into what is described The resemblance of the American ruling class’ methods t lini’s fascist dictatorship is obviou A correspondent of the Herald-Tribune writes: 0 Musso- New York “Thus the economic council, first of its kind in American history, will have two chambers which might be described rough- a senate and assembly, and they will have the active coop- of the Federal Government through the medium of the rtment of Commerce, if not the president personally.” Anyone who calls this an “economic” council is trying to conceal the fact that it is composed of the biggest financ -capitalists in the United ates in the “upper” section of the council, and a somewhat les: rray of industrialists in the “lower” body, referred to as the “assembly The strong push toward fascism is obvious. In the rapidly developing er Hooyer found the usual avenues and the other apparatus of the “democratic” capitalist rsome to on the quick and sharp battles that have been planned against the workers. ~* Unemployment is grow Production is going down all along the line. Capitalist economy ers from a slump from which Hoover thought imperialism immun To make his semi-fasc i more useful and anti-working Hoover enlisted dir y indirectly the support of the mis- ‘ederation of Labor, the railread brotherhood: pugh the various state governors a special Je with such.socigl-fascists as the leaders of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (a company union, y. in all but name) for a strike-breaking drive typical of the fascist of the tim e to find that the leaders of [loover’s new deyelop- ‘atus are the directors of the war industr A council actually carrying on war against the Soviet Unicn would be com- posed of precisely the same men that now comprise the “Grand Fascist Council.” It is these men who will direct the blows against the work- ers. 't is these enemies of labor that stand back of Stimson’s war threat against the Soviet Un y war every American wi er will feel the mailed fist ot Hoover and his “i t Grand Council” hould join in the militant res'stance to the wa: ts and union Smashing campaign of the ex ploiters fed by” the Com ist Party and ‘the Trade Union Unity Leagu The threat z threat against t hve Ker ‘ainst the Soviet U s hand in hand with the r dass organizations. and betrayal. The decisiye section of the industry—food preparation and packing } —is completely unorganized. It is here that the Amalgamated must | soncentrate—among great masses of terribly exploited Negro and white | workers. | There will be a struggle in the convention over the line of action. There are officials of the Amalgamated who are opposed to: mobilizing the union for its main task—the organization and leadership of the i workers. in trustified industry in decisive struggle. There are ele- | ments opposed to the correct program and tactics ofethe Trade Union | Unity League. be | The Amalgamated Food Workers Union has a long revolutionary | tradition and we are confident that the delegates will reject any pro- posal that may be made to turn thei: backs on the many militant strug- | gles of the union and embark on a career which can only weaken the workers and finally turn the union itself into another instrument of the bosses. ‘f Against all elements who refuse to strengthen the Amalgamated Food Workers for its coming battles by helping it to emerge from this convention as the champion of the masses in every section of the indus- try, against those who would divorce the union from the revolutionary \) advance guard of the workers in the United States, the most stern struggle must be carried on. : The convention of the Amalgamated Food Workers must reflect the will of the masses to struggle—it must reflect the hatred of the food workers for the miserable conditions under which they work and live. It can permit no tampering with its revolutionary integrity. Its convention must leave the union stronger and more consolidated—more closely bound to the American Section of the Red International of Labor || Unions, the Trade Union Unity League. Those of ‘the delegates at the convention who are also members || of the Communist Party of the United States have a great responsi bility. They must see that all attacks of the enemies of revolutionary unionism are repelled, ay jon Square PACT’--STI odaily Poblishing New Vorb City, N. ¥, E> NEW YORK , SATURDAY, MSON SENDS HAITIANS RISE dinois Mine | Struck Even ander the act of March 3. 1879. ‘DECEMBER 7, 1929 Major Struggles Demand SUBSCRIPTION RAT FI i HS: tp New York by mail $8.00 ver year Outside New York. by mall $6.00 per year INES AGAINST NAL CITY ** EDITION rice 3 Cents HAITI Meet, Protest CHANG BACKS MGAINST UNS. Botore Date IMPERIALISM | Hot Reply to Fishwick eee | Call fo: UMW Seabs Mini daw Gale ee WEST rraXkrort, Ill., Dee, 6 Stop Strike; 150 |—hree hundred miners at Moscou- Are Arrested jtah, Ill, have joined those already on strike ‘n other parts of the state. | The date set by delegates of |14 Years of Tyranny miners in Illinois, Kentucky and In- diana at the Zeigler conference for Revolt at Murderous a general strike throughout the | Marine Despotism 6. — 2 |Illinois coal fields is Monday, De- cember 9. But in some mines the |men are so incensed at the actions BULLETIN. lof the employers that they are al- i IOTAN ready out. One of these cases is the WASHINGTON, Dec. Kort Coal Mine, No. 2, at Moscou- Hoover is sending 500 (and tah, Ill, where the wages have just |maybe more) marines, together been arbitrarily cut to $5 a day. with a naval airplane carrier) The Kort Co, miners walked out, loaded with bombs to make held meetings, elected a strike com: war on the Haitian people, in a} advised by the National Miners’ |hypocritically worded to the Soviet Union for defend- ing its frontiers against the Chinese lackeys of imperialism, | And this only two days after giving a vague promise to withdraw marines from Latin | America! Hoover has sent a message |was sent out. For Belleville Demands. The 300 voted solidly to continue their strike for recognition of the National Miners’ Union, whose or- (Continued on Page Three) “DEFEND THE |mittee and started mass picketing, | {moment, be it observed, when Union Grievance Committee in- Hoover has just ended the|structions to all Illinois miners | : “note” | When the December 9 strike call ganizers lead the present struggle | Major Sacrifices! The emergency appeal for funds is meeting with good | response BUT THE RESPONSE MUST BE EQUAL TO THE | BIG TASKS THAT FACE THE PARTY. é Fy | Every day the Communist Party extends its activities in the growing class struggles. The threat against the Soviet Union is a means of awakening many thousands of American workers. The danger of war under the leadership of Wall Street against the U. 5. 5S. R. is the first order of the day. Hoover with the help of 400 leading exploiters of labor has | organized a gigantic machine in an attempt to beat down the standard of living of the American workers in the present crisis. Only thesCommunist Party can lead the fight against the criminal drive. It IS leading the fight. But its resources ; are pitifully small. We must have immediate donations! Every worker, | Party member or sympathizer, must make major sacrifices | at this time. Our work cannot wait. Every important ac- tivity of the Communist Party is hampered by the lack of funds. When you donate, no matter how great the sacrifice, your action is a spur to the work of the Party in this critical | period of major struggles. ¢ Thousands of workers must contribute to the maximum. | We cannot fail to meet the tasks growing out of the war | danger, the severe crisis, the general mine strike, because of lack of funds. Push the work! The Communist Party is building a mass movement and we appeal to every Party member and sympathizer to send jthe eve of the trial of Salvatore on the Eve of | | Accorst Trial Nation-Wide Rally to| Smash Frame-Up DOWN; SOVIET GAINS TERMS |Mukden Fears Rising in Manchuria of Chinese Masses Chiang Kai-Shek Quits World’s Workers Rush to Defend Soviet; Nanking Topples * BULLETIN. TOKIO, Dec. 6.—Reports from Japanése sources at Nanking, China, state that Chiang Kai- \shek, the self-elected “presi- ent” of what is left of the } equally nebulous “government” |of Nanking, has told the “na- * | tional council” which he con- SALVATORE ACCORSI. | trols that he is resigning. The “Sound the Alarm to the Work-}same sourecés state that the ing Class! Accorsi must not die!” Nanking “government,” in or- These were the slogans issued by | g@ to maintain the fiction that the International Labor Defense on |the Mukden, Manchurian gov- to Congress, it is reported, deal- ing with the Haitian revolt jagainst American oppression. The State Department, still smarting from the Soviet re- buke, manages to summon new |reserves of lies, declaring at ‘one and the same time that the ‘situation is both “grave” and) “quieted down.” It is not known, by reason of the martial law censorship, | just how violent forms the re- | volt is taking, but the dispatch of the marines and airplanes i ; its depth among the mass ie | Reports that the leaders of ‘the movement, who are not Communists, have expressed regret that.it has “gotten out of their hands,” can rather be taken as an excuse to massacre the population than as having much foundation in fact. The airplane carrier, “Wright,” is now loading planes and bombs at Norfolk, and awaits marines in order to leave Saturday under secret orders, with 500 men, at least, though it is the custom of im- perialists to say 500 when they send 1,000 or more. * * * { Haitian workers in New) | York yesterday informed the | Daily Worker that messages | from.Haiti state that the work- ers of Haiti are on a general strike which is still spreading in spite of martial law, that , 150 Haitians who are known to! be opposed to American imper- ialist armed occupation have! been arrested and that a revo- lutionary rising against fur-| Ve? 600 workers participated, many | ther dominatiqn of Yankee im- | perialism may ensue. | the leaders arrested is Antonie | Pierre Paul. Haiti has been oceupied by SOVIET UNION” N. Y. Communist Mass Rallies Workers Over 2,000 workers jammed the ‘Central Opera House in a spirited demonstration against Stimson’s |war threat on the Soviet Union, “Defense of ‘the Soviet Union” |was the central slogan which ani- mated the meeting called by District 2 of the Communist Party. This is the first of a series of six meetings which is aimed to mobilize {the American workers against U. S, |imperialism’s threatened attack on the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publies. | I. Amter, District Organizer, jopened the meeting calling on the workers to mobilize against the war |danger. “Defend the Soviet Union,” was his appeal which was enthusias- ‘tically greeted by the audience. James Mo, secretary of the Chi- |nese Workers’ Alliance, spoke on (Continued on Page Two) DRIVE OF FOOD WORKERS UNION | The Daily Worker sends greetings TODAY! ‘ADD TO SUBWAY * Tomorrow at 4 The subway strikers have doubled their picket lines at Grand Con- course, Bronx, and are stopping any going to work on that job by ap- pearing with signs from 6 to 8 a. m. and a p. m. are Negroes. The police were also doubled, but the picketing went on yesterday and will continue today. | The contractors now realize the Strike is on full force. The picket- ing has been sabotaged by the treacherous officials of Local 63, of the Compressed Air, Tunnel and Subway Workers who did their best’ to sell out and break the strike. At a recent meeting of the local, the officials set gangsters on the rebel- lious membership, and 250, of the men left the hall, repudiated these officials, and elected a rank and file strike committee, establishing head- | | Half of the pickets | One of! |ing in the food industry on account | quarters at 235 West 129th St. * This committee has distributed in all sections some 15,000 leaflets call- ing a big mass meeting of all sub- way workers and strikers, tomorrow at 4 p. m. in Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. There the strike com- mittee will propose immediate or- the food workers by the Hotel, | ganizational steps for enrolling all Restaurants, Cafeteria workers’ | the subway and construction work- branch of the A. F, W. is showing | ers in one industrial union. The favorable results. Since the an-| workers have organized a defense nouncement of the beginning of the | carps which will prevent the gang- drive made in Bryant Hall on No- | sters of Local 63 from smashing the vember 14, at a mass meeting where | meeting. The corrupt officialdom of Loval 63 and Local 753 have been (Continued on Page Two) Workers of, Warsaw Battle With Police; . Who Kill One Toiler to the Amalgamated Food Workers national convention which opens in New York ‘today. Forward to ths establishment of a strong industrial | union in the food industry! P ered The mass organization drive of new members have come into the union. The mass discontent prevail- |of the intense rationalization by the employers of the industry at the ex- pense of the workers bringing in its wake a tremendous army of un- his donation immediately to the Emérgency Fund. SEND YOUR HELP FOR OUR MASS STRUGGLES Send your donations now to: The Communist Par- ty, 43 East 125th St., New York City. ‘FORM BUILDING STRIKE PICKETS: SERVICE UNION’ | Mass Meeting For All, Conference Starts Big | Organization Drive | One hundred and ten delegates, representing 66 buildings in various parts of Greater New York, at an | enthusiastic conference last night at \Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, organized the Building Main# |tenance Workers’ Union, a militant, industrial union uniting window cleaners, porters, firemen, engineers, floor scrubbers, superintendents, | janitors, ete., and affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. The conference was called by the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, and the Amalgamated Building Service Workers’ Industrial Union. exist independently last night and became part of the new industrial union. | Unorganized and Negro Workers. A significant feature of the con- |ference was the large representa- | tion of unorganized workers and of |Nc-ro workers. Also present were several members of reactionary Americfén Federation of Labor locals. | The two thief speakers were Har- |ry Feinstein, secretary of the win- |dow cleaners’ union, and Fred | Biedenkapp, general manager of the | Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, | Who spoke in the name of the Trade (Continued en Page Two) | Shoe Workers General Strike Committee in Drive on Open Shops | the Independent Shoe Union, a hundred members repre- These two*unions ceased toi U. S. marines since 1915, andj employed, creating a furtile field has been the victim of an/for organization. Thé workers in| “Americanization” ruthless to|the industry are showing greater | BERLIN, Dec. 5,—Reports from | senting every shop that is organ- Warsaw state that in a large street fized, including 22 on strike, or locked demonstration of Workers, led by | out, met Thursday afternoon to con- the degree that it sought to up- ‘root even the language used for three centuries, French, by ‘forcing English on the unwill- ing people. i has become a Yankee planta- | tion, and over a course of yéars those Haitian patriots who re- sisted have been massacred by the thousands by American mar- ines, as U. S. Marine Corps reports themselves admit. The strike reported is laid to “labor agitators,” beginning in the schools, where the teachers first Huiti, like Cuba, | ‘willingness then ever to be organ- iad. The union has laid out plans for a campaign on a mass scale, \covering the entire industry to fight llong -hours, wage cuts and build an (Continued on Page Two) | Communists, the police tried to dis- perse the paraders and in the fight | | which ensued the police attacked the demonstrators with revolver fire, | killing one Communist and wounded | several other workers. Georgia Workers Demand to Be Organized; Conference Held ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 5. — The | elected a committee to carry on the Georgia conferences of the National work of organization after it had dis- Textile Workers Union and the In- | banded. It endorses the Southern struck at the slashing of the educa- | ternational Labor Defense, both held tional allowance. This spread to over | last week, were fine examples of the 13,000 school children, and then to | ability of Negro and white workers the Haitian employes of the puppet | to show solidarity, in a section of the “government” of the scoundrelly conference of the International La- sider intensification of the struggle. The fight started in New York ‘with a letter from Commissioner Woods of the Department of Labor, | asking all employers to lock out the |union, Many employers broke their contracts with the union and started the lockout, others just broke their contracts and started discrimina- tion, piece work, wage cuts, etc., ‘and the workers went oh strike. | Some previously unorganized shops | have joined the strike, fighting the bad conditions. The general strike committee, re- cently formed, elected at this meet- ‘ing nine sub-committees, one of which is the Shop and Mobilization J. Louis Engdahl, executive sec- retary of the I. L. D., has just re- \turned from Pitsburgh, after mak- ing final arrangements for the trial | {and the mass campaign being ec |ried on in that district. Plans were laid out in conference {with Pat Toohey, secretary of the National Min Union; Max Salzy man, I. L. D. District Organizer, and others for a nation-wide and (Continued on Page Three) BOSSES ISSUE LIES ON CRISIS Wage-Cut Plans | WASHINGTON, |the scenes of Hoover’s Ghamber of | Commerce grouping of 400 leading exploiters in a step towards open | Dee. 6.—Behind fascist dictatorship, the real nature | of the present is was brought out. { The capitalist press is bubbling} over with a frenzy of enthusiasm | Acco coal miner, who goes on| ernment is “loyal” to Nanking. it for his life, Monday, Decem- | has “approved” the peace terms ber 9, on a framed up charge of the | made by Mukden with the jmurder of a state trooper. Soviet Union—which Nanking did everything possible to pre- vent. It is freely stated that the @ason Chiang Kai-shek is re- tiring is because he could not “keep’ China peacéful” while making. war on the Soviet Union, was taken advantage of by rival milijarists aided by British and Japanese interests, to beat down Chiang Kai-shek. the outstanding lackey of American imperialism. * Mukden Yields; Soviet Wins. MUKDEN, Dec. 6.—The “politi- cal council” of the Manchurian gov- ernment has sent a telegram to Moscow, accepting in full the terms previously signed on Dec. 3, by Mukden representatives and Soviet representatives for restoration of the Chinese Eastern Railway to joint Sovjet-Chinese management. The futile effort to inject a little “Chinese bargaining” ito the af- fair, by Chang Hsuch-liang, the “governor” of Manchuria, who “re- jected” the terms after having au- * ‘ i thorized representatives to sign over the synthetic optimism that | them, given up, as the political Hoover is trying to instil] into the} ouncil at Mukden fe: ved the rising masses to hide the severe state of unemployment anf wage cuts, But in conferences not given so much publicity reports of James A. | Farrell, president of the U. S. Steel | Corp., show that steel production is | dropping rapidly and now averages about 60 per cent of capacity. °| Unemployment is being covered up by keeping some of workers on the job on part time. actual preparation for wage cuts. Walker D. ‘Hines, cotton textile institute, and Paul Derbry, of the | Du Plan Silk Corporation, declared | that there was a severe crisis in the textile industry. Lumber industry | camitelists gave their story of slump conditions. | In fact, every indu: |admitted a severe cri: The ma- |chinery for nation-wide wage cut- |ting, naturally, is kept strictly se-| | cret, crisis smashing drive on the standard of living of the American toiler: The Chamber of Commerce or- | ganization of 400 leading exploiters is to be a permanent body with gov- ernmental functions, It will carry jon Hoover's ‘recommendations to speed-up the workers left on the job {and will organize the capitalists’ fight against unemployment relief. Plans for wage-cutting will be directed by the officers @f the Cham- | ber of Commerce in their new role | of developing fascists. For weeks the Chamber of Commerce will now | carry on an intensive “prosperity’ mptives. | | workers, This is the | represented | ® Out of the Chamber of Commerce | val Strik * f meeting is growing a gigantic pro- The General Strike So, | Paganda machinery to cover up the "i and direct the capitalists’ | propaganda drive to hide their real |. of Manchurian workevs aud _cas- ants in a fight for a Soviet dan- churia x.ould be the immediate re- sult of amy poss’.'> new advance of the Red Army or even i* the pres- }ent demoralization of Mukden au- | thority continued, with its troops | going over wholesale to the Red Army and no’ force of repression possible. | The one pqint which Chang Hsueh- liang had quibbled over, the replace- | ment of the old railway managers, Emshanoff and Eisemont, by the | Soviet, wag surrendered by the Muk- | den council, while the demand of the | Soviet that the Chinese chairman, {Lu Jung-huan, and the Harbin mili- tary governor who engineered the raids on the Soviet consulate and the | railway seizure, be removed, has | also been complied with by Mukden. In short the Soviet Union has won | a complete victory. The Chinese try to “save face” as usual, by saying |that the Soviet has given in by promising to abide by the 1924 jtreaty, but as it was China which violated and the Soviet which kept ‘the terms of the treaty, this effort to “save face” can be easily seen for what it is? | * | Revolt Against Nanking Grows. | SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.—With re- volt flaming throughout the Yangtze | Valley, Nanking faces the most crit- i¢al moment gf its existence. The 24th Division which mutinied at Pukow, is holding the Tientsin- Pukow railway fifty miles north of Pukow, at Pengpu. Revolt and mutiny is Yeported clear up the river as far as Ichang, where firing is stillegoing on. General Shih Yu- | shan, head of the revolting division, ee | from all organized and unorganized has circulated a telegram against Those pledging loans at Nanking, charging its foreign policy | the last mass meeting should get in as being a “miserable failure,” by | rf &- Committee. This sub-committee wi bor Defense, which meets Sunday, in | Charlott » N.C, It pledged to ot- very soon, ganize the southern textile workers | struggle. ; make a drive on the open shops to lead them into the touch With Mershon, 16 West 21st this means seeking to draw the mass St., New York, |resentment st the attack on the So: The union is giving a concert and | viet Union, to the side of the anti- ball in conjunction with the Workers | Nanking militarists. | “president” Luis Borno, who is cor- dially detested by the whole popu- ‘ation. The customs employes stru (Continued on Page Three) country where the employers train | every, nerve to keep them antago- nistie and exploit both, stated Si Gerson, N.T.W.U. organizer here. | The N. T. W. Georgia conference | in their own union, the N. T. W., in | spite of all the efforts of mill own- lers, the state, and “the campaign against the militant union waged by i (Continued on Page Three) 6 Loans and Concert. The strike committee calls for | f@ds to support the struggle, which jis in the interests of all shoe work- lers, and should receive donations International Relief on Sunday af- ternoon, January 5, at the Central Opera House, with excellent talent promised. and see that their friends come, At Canton, reports state that an lalarm is felt because the Kwangsi forces, backed by Nanking influ- Workers should come |€nce, are only a few miles from the (Continued .on Page Threa)