The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1929, Page 1

ILLINOIS MINERS ON GENERAL STRIK aily Support the Revolutionary Negro Workers and Peasants of Haiti in Their Fight For Independence! Down with the Marine Rule of Wall Street! Entered VA [RoE a> mates at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Among the many crimes of American imperialism, none is more brutal and bloody than the war being waged by the Hoover-Stimson adminis- tration against the Haitian workers and peasants. And no resistance to oppression has been more heroic and persistent than that of the im- poverished and disarmed Negro toilers of Haiti in the fight for their own republic, independent of imperialism and against its lackeys, such as the despicable scoundrel whom the bayonets of the U. S. Marines have made “president.” The Negro masses of Haiti have a record of over a century of brave struggle. It is their country, and they drove from its shores in the past the best troops which imperial France could throw against them. Con. tinual attempts by one or another imperialist power to gain control by corruption of Haitian rulers led to as continual overthrowal of these rulers, and in the drive of American imperialist expansion to make the Caribbean an American lake on the road to conquest of all Latin-Amer- ica, the United States armed forces invaded Haiti on July 28, 1915, And the United States Marines have remained in Haiti ever since, but not without meeting fierce resistance which the repeated blood baths and massacres of thousands of Haitian independence fighters have not quenched. True the movement has been rather formless and led by bourgeois politicians, but the deep fervor of the masses, always present, is again rising to struggle, rejecting the so-called “treaty” signed be- tween imperialism and the corrupt native puppet enthroned by imperial- ism itself. Sardonic indeed, it is, that the pasteboard angel of peace behind which Hoover advanced his war threat against the Soviet Union on December 3, so.soon revealed by Hoover himself, also to mask the ruthless butch- of the unarmed Haiti, The situation may well embarrass those who tried to adv Union on “maintaining peace,” and Hoover tries to escape from it by falsely claiming that the “solu- tion is obscure,” as though there were some third force that “prevents” him from ordering the Marines to get out of Haiti. There is a force, though Hoover will not admit it, and that force is the imperialist interests which he himself represents. American imperial- ist interests insist that the Marines, American working class lads from farms and factories where their families are having their wages cut, where they are speeded up and their farms lost by mortgage fore- closure, butcher their brother workers and farmers of Haiti to insure continued Yankee control. Such control is desired in Haiti, not only to rob and oppress the Haitian people, but to shut out America’s rival robber, imperialist England, and to fortify America’s position for war with England, against the British naval base in Jamaica, the neighbor- ing island. Obviously, the scope of United States imperialist interests have a wider range than this part. England, squeezed out of power but not out of interest in Mexico by United States intrigue, gaining control, is fight- ing back. All Latin-America is becoming, as China already is, a battle ground of imperialist rivals, whose robbery and oppression of the masses produces at the same time a rising tide of popular revolt against im- perialism by the toiling masses. The force which the hypocrite in the White House represents, then, is not a third force preventing him “z is will” from ordering the Marines out of Haiti. On the contr Hoover is the personification of the force of imperialism which keeps them there. That is why he orders more Marines and more airplanes to Haiti. But the workers and farmers in the United States have no-interest in supporting, but rather in opposing this imperialist banditry and murder of the Haitian people. The Marines themselves, sons and brothers of the workers and farmers who are exploited on American soil-by the same imperialism which sends them to Haiti, will learn that they have more interest in common with the Haitian people than with the American capitalist class for whom they are asked to shoot. The Haitian workers and peasants, whatever present revolt, will learn that they, and not bourgeoisie of Haiti, must take the leadership of their struggle. They will learn to unite their struggle with that of other Latin-American workers and peasants, and particularly with the workers and farmers of the United States It is for the workers of the United States to give every encouragement to the heroic fighters for Haitian independence and, with the leadership of the Communist Party, to go forward to the revolutionary overthrowal of imperialist government, not only in Haiti, but in the United States. Down with American imperialism! Withdraw the marines from Haiti, Nicaragua and China! Fight the imperialist plot to make war on the Soviet Union and on oppressed nations! Fight for a Soviet Gov- ernment of workers and farmers in the United States! the outcome of the The Collapse of Chiang Kai-Shek In the tremendous events now going on in China, one must see throug and behind the foreground, the surface of events, to the great moving forces which are preparing’ for the next step forward of the Revolution. The collapse of the militarist adventure in Manchuria (the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway at the inspiration of the imperialists), gave a deadly blow to the Nanking regime, which had made itself thoroughly hated by the toiling masses. At the same time it stimu- lated the upward surge of revolutionary activity of the workers and peasants, recovering from their defeat of 1927, and preparing new assaults against the militarists and their masters, the imperialist powers, These developments are a severe blow against international im- perialism. At the same time, England and Japan are attempting to gain a relative victory for themselves, out of this situation, as against the United States. American imperialism has suffered the most im- mediate blow, through the crumbling of its center of power in China, the Nanking government of Chiang Kai-shek. The military revolts throughout China against Nanking (Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan in the Northwest, the Anhui generals, Teng Shen-shi, and others in central China, and Chang Fa-kwei with the Kwangsi clique in the South, constitutes the mobilization of all the agents of the Anglo- Japanese bloc, and the desertion of the mercenary militarists of the second order from the U. S.-controlled Nanking, to the rival imper- ialist powers. The imperialist powers, united in their hatred of the Chinese revolution and of the Soviet Union, are yet so torn with their own rivalries that they are carrying on actual war against each other byqmeans of Chinese agents. In China we are witnessing the first stages of the imperialist war which must inevitably become a World War; and in it we see develop- ing simultaneously the war of imperialism against the Soviet Union and the war between the imperialist pow hemselves. The unknown factor as yet in the ation is, how quickly will the revolutionary masses be able to mobilize their forces and begin the organization of the revolutionary power of workers and peasants— the Soviet Government of China? Approaching the Second Anniver- sary of the Canton Soviet of December 12, 1927, which showed the road which the Chinese masses must travel, we are at the ie time ap- proaching a new revolutionary situation, with a new ing wave of revolutionary activity. What the capitalist press notes as the activity of “bandits” who have occupied an important area in Central China, including the im- portant city of Kanchow, is the rising power of the workers and peas- ants under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. These risings of the masses furnish the broad background of the current developments in China, and will soon fling aside the squabbling militarists, drive out the imperialists who oceupy Shanghai, Hongkong, Tientsin, Hankow, and other port cities of China, and begin the reor- ganization of China upon a proletarian basis. The next stage of the Chinese Revolution is the struggle for ihe Soviet Power, Stand by Haitian Revolution! MINE MEETINGS Unorganized USHER IN STATE - WIDE STRUGGLE | Sherife Openly States Will Defend Fakers and Coal Operators | Fishwick in Threats Boss Press Hysterical Over “New Gastonia” | WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Dec. 8. | | —Strike mass meetings in do of mines all over the state of Illi- nois, scare heads in the local papers, the frantic preparation of the sheriffs and the coal company, gun- men to do strike breaking, the dec- laration of the United Mine Work- ers of America officialdom that \they will try to send in scabs, a call by the National Miners Union on the working class of the whole country for funds to win the strike, featured yesterday and today. Rank and file strike conferences |are arranging final details. Tomor- row morning the general strike in |the Illinois coal fields begins; the mass-picket lines will march down (Continued on Page Three) FOOD MILITANTS URGE ACTIVITY Half of Amalgamated Convention for TUUL The Amalgamated Food Workers’ {convention which met in Labor Ly- }ceum, Saturday and yesterday and may continue today, showed a sharp clash on principles and tacties be- tween the representatives of the New York bakery local 1 and 3 of jhighly skilled workers, opposed by |the hotel, restaurant and cafeteria the food clerks and other led branches of the union. The cafteria workers who have {waged a militant strike in New | York brought in 1,000 new members, land the forces which last year were jheavily in favor of the conservatives, ;are now nearly equal. Out of the 3 delegates present, nearly half |were ready yesterday to vote for | worke semi-ski (Continued on Page Two) SUBWAY DIGGERS | To Increase Picketing; Hold Open Air Meets Subway workers filled the hall at Stuyvesant Casino yesterday and voted to endorse the formation of the new Subway Construction | Workers Industrial Union, started |when the members of Local 63 of the Compressed Air, Tunnel and Subway Workers, an A. F, L. union, | caught their officials selling out the | Bronx Concourse strike. | They voted with enthusiasm for \greater activity in the Bronx Con- course strike, The strike commit- tee announced more picketing there | today. It was also decided to organize |the other sections of the subways for the purpose of spreading the |strike to all the ‘sections which | would embrace the fifteen thousand {subway workers. Rank and _ file workers spoke in favor of a new | union which would take in all crafts jand make no distinction of race or nationality. They urged those sub- | way workers who are not members jas yet of the new union to joing and {strengthen the organization. The spirit ran’ high. Representatives of the Scandina- !vian Workers Club reported their jorganization had elected a strike re- |lief committee of seven and decided to call meetings in the Scandina- vian section of Harlem to get Scan- dinavian workers in the Bronx on strike. The strike committee consisting of fifteen members, met after the mass meeting and decided upon fur- ther organizational work and to hold open air meetings throughout the city. The strike committee will meet again tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the strike headquarters, at 235 W. |129th St. | Relief is being given out to the | strikers by the Workers Interna- jtional Relief, which established a kitchen at the strike headquarters. A sub-committee was elected to consult with the T. U. U. L. on the question of immediate affiliation, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1929 ‘SOVIET PRESS to be at NTW Convention | Not a convention of handpicked \delegates such as are the A. F. of L. textile unions’ affairs, but a jmass conyention, representing a mobilization for the coming great struggles of the mill workers—this is what the Second National Con- vention of the National Textile Workers Union will be. It will Jopen December 21, in the Union Hall, 205 Paterson St., Paterson, Delegates are being» elected every mill center—both North and South, for the convention. A mini-) mum of 50 delegates elected by the} NANKING GAME Only Socialists Cover Up Stimson Attack on Soviet Union anking Collapses As Mutinies Spread BULLETIN | southern textile workers is expected.| SHANGHAI, Dec. 8. hang Kai- Although the skilled workers, | shek, the head of the Nanking “gov- jsuch as loomfixers, warpers, etc.,| ernment,” denies that he intends to |will be represented, the convention | resign, and asserts he will fight as will chiefly represent the bitterly |long as there is “one soldier.” This exploited unskilled workers, the cot-| is the statement today. ton spinning workers of the South,|he may have a completely different jthe mill workers of New England, one. Today, also, claims are made |the dye workers and silk weavers ' that the troops are “loyal,” that “au- of Paterson, Allentown, Easton and thorities are supporting Nanking,” other centers, the young workers from the anthracite throwing (Continued on Page Three) in| and that everything is all right. But British gunboats are being sent to every Yangtze river port to take off British citizens as the re- volt gro Nanking itself is under | martial law and a warship of Eng- | land on hand to ‘protect foreign- € when Nanking falls. In the out- skirts o2 Shanghai itself, soldiers } ‘21 TRIMMERS ON Tomorrow | that the “rebels are being defeated,” | HAITIAN MAS SES IN REVOLT AGAINST PILLORIES U.S. J. §. IMPERIALISM, BATTLE MARINES, WHO FIRE ON PEASANTS, MURDER FIVE | Hoover, the Fake “Peace Angel,” Sends More Marines and A Mes- sage to Congres Chinese Masses Rise!) WASHINGTON, Dee. 8. ped jialism, and that |clash at Aux Ca S. Marines es during w ants have risen in a nation-wide revolutionary Borah Snivels Approval of Imperialist Massacre —It was admitted yesterday that the Haitian workers and movement to drive out American imper- have murdered five Haitian peasants and wounded twenty in a hich the peasants, armed only with machetes (sugar-cane |kniyes used in cutting the cane) and stones, had heroically thrown themselves into hand-to- ers in Haiti! | i} ‘Peace-Pact’ Messeng.| *hand fighting. At the same time, a U. S. | warship, the cruiser Galveston, |was ordered rushed from the |U, S. naval station at Guan- WAGE CUT PLANS |perialism) to the Haitian port Committee of 20 Starts ‘of Jaemel, while the airplane : learrier “Wright” is ‘speeding DriveAgainst Workers |South with 500 marines to re- WASHINGTON, Dec, 8.—Fearing inforce the 700 marines NOW exposure of the fascist nature of his joccupying Haiti, and bombing organization »f the 400 leading ex- planes meant to spread death ploiters of labor, Hoover announces |and destruction among the Hai-| that this new grouping of crisis ex- tian towns to hold the so-called | Pets: under the leadership of the STRIKE; NEEDLE \have beer on the loose, looting and! | robbing. | * 8 * | BERLIN, Dec. 8.—While 10 more de ndenendenterepublic tit the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, “is not in grip of Wall Street. |” For months, the administration of Hoover has ‘concealed the rising | wave of popular anger at the des @ permanent body.” While Hoover was creating an ex- ecutive committee of 20 bankers and industrialists who will make the letailed wage-cutting plans and at- UNION IN DRIVE | nations, including one which Ameri- ‘ean imperialism must boast of—its navy-ruled colony of Nicaragua, IndustrialUnion Fights to Win Conditions have now joined the “Kellogg Pact |note” of the United States to the Twnty-one trimmers belonging to | Soviet Union, making 29 nations in the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | all, reports from Moscow show that trial Union, at the Fairway Hat Seale Soviet press is not’at all taken 49 West 37th St. formerly the |in by the silly rejoinder of Secretary Trucikan Mat Co., of 49 West 38th | Stimson that his “note” helped to St., are’ on strike today as a result|make peace between the Soviet, of a complitated maneuver and sell | Union and the Mukden, Manchurian out by the Officials of the Cloth Hat, government. § Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union| The Soviet organ, “Economic The sell out didn’t exactly succeed, | Life,” for example, editorializes as and the members in this shop of | follows: . the C. H. C. & M., Local 24, opera-| “Apparently Mr. Stimson sup- tors, are expressing solidarity with | poses his hearers and readers know the'left winger that their organizer, nothing of the facts of the case. Yet Mendelowitz tried to throw out of | the whole world is aware that Sec- a job.« |retary Stimson began his feverish When the shop moved, the block- | diplomatic activity, not when a Chi- ers, Local 42, of the C. H, C. & Mz|nese general seized the railroad and W. granted him a reorganization, raided Soviet territory and with four blockers instead of eight | mines in the out rivers. as formerly. | “It is true that in July he issued oes |a secret memorandum to the powers Bargain With Boss. | proposing an international commi: Mendelowitz, for the operators, | sion and a ‘neutral’ director for the then made an agreement with the settlement of the railroad conflict. boss that three out of the five who | We cannot imagine that Secretary had been working in the shop| Stimson was then ignorant of the should be kept, and that Victor Ci- | Soviet conditions for a conference— bulski, the left winger, who organ-| conditions, be it noted, which we set American marines who have al- ‘ready commenced the butchering of |the workers and peasants of Haiti | by ng into a group on the out- skirts of the city of Aua Cayes. The ‘kers and peasants of Haiti are ghting for independence from Wall St.—Washington imperialism. Toilers Demand; Form |Committee at Meeting New York Italian workers formed a “Save Accosi” committee yes- terday at Irving Plaza, when rep- resentatives from 19 workers’ or- ganizations met at the invitation of |the Italian section of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. The delegates passed a resolution |demanding that A be immedi- ately freed and pointed ou |frame-up nature of the case They jelected two delegates to the Fourth | National Convention of the I. L. D. to be held at Pittsburgh, December 29; 30 and 31. Louis Candella, secretary of the Italian I. L. D. section, stated the |organization would be permanent to Save Accorsi, Italian’ the | FOR NEW UNION (Continued on Page Twe) | maintained from the outset and have —_———— {not changed one jot after the com- (Continued on Page Three) U. S. Imperialism Enters World Court; Struggle for Markets WASHINGTO: 8.—Today | representatives of United States im- ‘perialism sign for entry into the | World Court. American capitalism is endeavoring to establish its hege- mony in the struggle for word mar- kets ‘nd the entry into the Wor!d Court is a maneuver against Brit- | ish imperialism. The brought up in the Senate. The*World Court has no power to enforce a de- cision, but is a ground for maneuv- ering between the imperialist powers | kets. Beal to Speak on Textile Struggle Fred.Beal will speak on the strug- | gle to organize the textile workers | Monday, December 9, at Astoria, L. L, Bohemian Hall, 2919 24th Ave., at 6:30 p. m. All workers are in- vited to hear Beal tell about the jelass struggle in the South and the efforts to unionize the textile work- ers in all parts of the country. The police in Long Island pre- vented the workers from distribut- ing leaflets @nnouncing the Beal meeting. FOOD WORKERS ELECTION MEETING. Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union will be held Monday night at 8 p. m. at union headquar- on the election of officers. “GUARDIANS OF THE POOR” field Council, with a “labor” major tion of the sanitary inspector ot evict At the same time, a Council house was refused the workers’ family. question of entry will ‘be | |in their fight for colonies and mar- | Monday in Astoria | A membership meeting of the. ters, 133 West 5ist St., New York, | LONDON (By Mail).-The En- | ity, decided to act on a recommenda- | a family of six herded in one room. | |help, not only Accorsi, but the G |tonia strikers and all class-war prisoners. What Are You Doing? The forces of history are moving fast in these days. Wall Street moves its emergency government into Washing- ton, preparing for a fascist dictatorship; Latin-American re- volt against Dollar Imperialism rises again, this time in Haiti; the house of cards so laboriously built up by Ameri- can intrigue in the government of Chiang Kai-shek in China, crumbles and falls; Hoover, MacDonald, and gonsorts, parade their forces in threat against the Soviet Union, while Mukden capitulates; the struggle between Britain and the U. S. breaks out in Mexico in a government-subsidized strike on the British-owned railway to Vera Cruz; the course of U. S. economy plunges further downward. Truly the past weeks have underlined our correct estimate of the present period us one of crises, upheavals, sharpening class struggles, leading | to revolutions, On our domestic class-struggle front, the A. F. of L, and socialist party complete their amalgamation with the gov- ernment and the bosses, in Green’s pledge to Hoover to aban- don all demands for better conditions for the workers, and the Schlesinger-Green compact in the Cleveland I.L.G.W.U. meeting with the employers and state in the garment indus- try. The miners of Illinois and the anthrayite are moving into battle against the joint forces of Lewis-Fishwick-Far- | rington, the bosses, the state, and the renegades. And ina | dozen cities, our comrades who have been leading the battles | are going before the courts, some to be tried for their lives, some to face 10 to 20 years in prison, hundreds to serve 6 to 12 months. In three states, attempts are openly announced to outlaw our Party. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE FIGHT? There are tasks for everyone. If you are not on the picket line, if you are not one of those in court, if you are not receiving directly any of the blows of sapitalism against our thovement—still, 7 there are important tasks which you should help perform, Not the least of these tasks is to BUILD UP THE EMERGENCY FUND of $50,000, now being collected by the hat HAVE YOU DONE YOUR PART? IF NOT, DO IT Send all remittances to Communist Party, St., New York City. “ie ‘ i 13 East 125th ih a potism of American imperialism, | tempt to lift U. S. imperialism from and the so-called “impartial” news| the bog of depression, William agencies of the capitalist press have{Green at the International Ladies’ hidden it from knowledge in collab- |Garment Workers’ Convention in oration with the military forces of | Cleveland repeated his support of repression. Now Hoover's message | Hoover's anti-labor program. | to Congress merely tries to justify; Green said the A. F. of L. will | the present war against the Haitian | not rock the imperialist boat. This people with evasive indications that | means Green and his cohorts will something has been wrong in the | not disturb the wage-slashing cam- past and a pretense that the “solu-|paigns of the big capitalists—in tion is obscure,” when the solution | fact, will give them hearty support. The mass of reports which were handed to Julius Barnes and Will- |iam Butterworth, head of the Cham- ber of Commerce, by the assembled big bosses Friday, were not eom- pletely made public. These reports marines and warships and bombing |Show @ severe slump in every in- planes—and a “commission” is|dustry in the country. Latest re- asked from Congress, in the hope|Ports of bank clearings and. rail- that if it will not placate the Hai-|toad loadings point to a further tian masses to learn that they are | depression. ‘ jto be “investigated,” it will fool the | Robert Lamont and Hoover will | American workers into believing that | Work very closely with the 400 big the comm n will “do something.” | bosses in their semi-fascist machine, | is very simple and plain—to get out | of Haiti and stay out. Imperialist Commission. But as getting out of Haiti is far from the thought of the imper- ialist Hoover, he is sending more Stimson’s Buncombe. “It should be clear now to every American worker and friend of the Soviet Union that these statements are merely so much more buncombe, made in vain attempts to hide the aggressive policy of the world im- perialist powers in the Far East, particularly in China and Man- churia. It is equally clear that the interest of the United States capital- ist class in China and Manchuria is only the interest of all imperialist (Continued on Page Three) The commission is meant to “do |In spite of Hoovers pronouncement, omething”; it is meant to serve as | these scab corporation heads are as- a camouflage behind which the|Suming government functions in Haitian people will be slaughtered | their drives against the working and the depotism of Wall Street im- | class. perialism will be whitewashed after| The executive committee of 20 years of “investigation.” will press the fight for world mar- All the pretenders of “opposition” | kets and prepare for further armed to imperialist crimes, led by hypo-|support of American penetration in jerite, Senator Borah, are rushing | Latin-America and China, as well |into print to “criticise,” but to ap-| as against Soviet Russia. |prove of the warfare against the} An insidious means of covering up (Continued on Page Three) |mass unemployment and of prepar- |ing the way for lowering the stand- | ard of living of the American work- DEFEND if ers is the plan advocated by the im- | | perialists in Hoover’s “grand fas- | |cist council” of keeping as many workers as possible on the job un- UNION SAYS FSU =: speed-up conditions on short- § jtime employment. In this way the | workers pay is cut in half or more Exposing the hypocritical nature | #74 his production increased, of the Stimson note and the Kellogg | This is a means of trying to elimi- pact (waved by every imperialist | N@te militant demand for unemploy- power as it trains its guns on the |™ent relief and of drastically low- U. S. S. R.), the Friends of the|eting the worker’s living standard, Soviet Union, U, S. Section, yes-| Green and the A. F, of L. heads ac- terday issued a statement in which | tively support this most vicious plan it called:on American workers to |°f the bosses. rush to the defense of their social- ist fatherland and fight every move the capitalist imperialist powers Yetta Stromberg To Be make against it. Delegate to National “Once more the imperialist pow- oa |ers of the world have disclosed their | Labor Defense Meet war machinations against the Soviet | \Union,” the eee declares. ‘| Yetta Stromberg, 19-year-old fire- ‘ihe! Hotelsaentects tua Soviet | brand of Los Angeles, Calif., who Union and China by Secretary | {Aces 10. years’ imprisonment,- | Stimson, shows that the U, S, A. Paere Pig wolating She: ac } ; - + “| flag law” is preparing to make a jhas assumed the leading roll in im- 3,000-mile tri A rary ; a 8,000-mile trip across the continent perialist aggression against the U. to Pittsburgh, Pa del t |S. S. R. This statement is a futile |(o .{Soursh, Va. as a delegate to | n the fourth national conference of jattempt to prove that the signers the International Labor Def of the Kellogg pact, led by Uncle|" "sue will make @ counter wid |Sam, are able to ‘secure to all na- \t ‘J bh aoe cguntsintes iy tions a lasting and permanent ‘our on beralf of the five women peace’?! ihe note continues workers who were convicted and <f face five to 10-year terms. They were tried and found guilty of*fly- ing a red flag at a summer camp and for discussing Soviet Union. . Yetta is not the only West Coast worker who will make the trip across the continent to the conven- tion. Three workers of Seattle, Wash., have already sent in their credentials; Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, one of the three, will tour the farmlands and industrial centers (Continued on Page Two) NTW NEEDS VOLUNTEERS. Volunteers are wanted at the Na- tional Office of the National Tex- ‘i tile Workers Union, Room 1707, 104 Build Up the United Front of Fifth Ave., any day or evening to help in preparation for the National Convention, ‘ the Working Class From the Bot- J tom Up—at the Enterprises!