The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WUKKER, NEW YUKK, MONDAY, vCKMBER 16, 192! Build Monument ‘© gpm WORKERS | WORKERS’ CORRESPONDENCE —- FROM THE Ella May Wiggins fe i “| Write to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York, About Conditions in Your Shop. | RESIST POLICE Workers! This Is Your Paper! IN NEW YORK The Time Is Now Ripe for Militant on ‘camae fae a coe cos Organization, Say Worker-Wniters |the banners. Every Capitalist Govern- | ment Has Got Its Crisis In Germany a Revolutionary Situation Approaches; Cabinets Shaken by Underlying Decay of Capitalist Economy; Fascism Grows With Crisis and the Rising Counter Attack of the Workers TIME IS RIPE FOR WORKERS’ | STRUGGLE IN SOUTH. | (By a Worker Correspondent) | CHARLOT C. By Mail).- Just a few lines u know the |conditions of t :n_workers. | Comrades, the whole South is rot-| | | spe enn | | The government of every princi- pal nation in Europe is in a minis- terial crisis which is a reflection of shaken and decaying economic stab- ilization, This proves how vain and ridiculous are the claims of oppor- tunists of the international right- wing renegades from Communism and those who, as conciliators, pro-,| tect them from the expulsion they deserve. It is hardly necessary, in spite of the absurd arguments of the Love- stone-Cannon opportunist combina- tion in the United States, to go into great detail here to show that American economy is also in a cri- sis. Any ordinary worker can see what these counter-revolutionists cannot. And the Communist Party of the U. S, A., invites these ordi- nary workers to join it; it urges them to join now, and help the Party of their class make up for the time lost by the obstruction to Commu- nist work and growth these scoun- dieu follows Briand and the “social- ist,” Boncour, is foreshadowed as the premier who will take ‘the helm when the crisis is so sharp as to need a genuine fascist terror against the workers. Cabinet crises are “two for a penny.” | = Spanish Economy Sinking. Primo de Rivera, fascist dictator of Spain, is helpless to stop the steady fall of the unit of money, the peseta, which indicates an eco- || nomic depression. With the falling | of the money the worker gets that | much less for his money wage. Vast | | | discontent is brewing under the | surface, with strikes cropping out || 5 more frequently. De Rivera, who | | has been promising for years to re- | establish constitutional government “next year,” never does it. Fas- cism is needed to suppress the dis- } contented workers. The police busi- 4 ay | ness is the chief industry. But, as io | drels put in the way before they were expelled. | a wee | The Balkans are in a, chronic crisis, while fascist Italy lives only | on the financial handouts of Wall | Street, which is deeply interested in} maintaining fascism’s appearance ot stability as an example for fas- cist developments in America Bul- garian cities are like cemeteries, a | capitalist journalist admits, and its | rulers have been ordered by the Reparations Commission to fire 40,000 public service workers to cut expenses. Rumania is a_ beggar, stuffed up with loans to serve as a post in the war fence around the Soviet Union. It, too, has been ord- exed to fire 5,500 government em- | ployes. Yugo-Slavian fascism holds to} power only temporarily by the use of cruel terror against the masses. Czecho-Slovakia has just passed from one cabinet crisis to enter an- other. Fascist Poland under the hell of Pilsudski is bankrupt and would be declared so but for its value to imperialism in the war front against the Soviet. Even at that the Polish workers are on a sharp offensive that is shaking Pilsudski as half reflected in the fake fight of the socialist-fascists in the parlia- ment, while Pilsudski himself has become “ill’—a political illness. * * Germany in Growing Crisis. Germany has the sharpest form of erisis, which is being mirrowed in parliament and in the inner crisis of the ruling “socialist” party. One can see clearly the approach of a revolutionary situation. Austria, too, where “socialists” also are a decisive parliamentary group, fas- cism grows with the crisis and the amalgamation of the social democ- racy with fascism is an accomplished fact. The new terror is fascist Hun- . gary is the only answer, and a poor one, to the demands: of the starving but rising masses, while the de- mand for reparations from Hungary by the big imperialist powers threat- ens a new government crisis. The Allied Looters, commanded by the American, S. Parker Gilbert, and speaking through the financial dictator, Hjalmar Schacht, head of the government bank, demand their pound of flesh. But to demand it from all classes would unite Ger- many against them and their Young Plan, which is just as difficult to put through as the Dawes Plan w'-" had to be conveniently “for- gotten.” .. Crisis for Deceivers. Germany, with “socialists” in power who murdered Commu- nists that fought to set up a Soviet government, “socialists” who de- luded workers with promise of get- ting them to socialism without fighting, but whose most intense effort is to maintain capitalism by turning fascist and fighting these “same disillusioned workers is bank- rupt. It needs $78,540,000 right now, or the government cannot pay its December bills. The Wall Street bankers, Dillon, Read & Co., offer a loan of $100,- 000,000, but only if Hjalmar Schacht will see that the socialist-fascists put through 8, Parker Gilbert’s plan of “financial reform,” and ratify the Young Plan. The plan is to offer the German capitalists class a part of the robbery if they will help in loading all the reparations burden’ on the German workers. ‘Though the treasury is empty, taxes must be reduced—but only on cap- italists and corporations. Taxes on goods consumed by the workers are to be raised and existing relief given the unemployed is to be cut _ down and eventually cut off en- tirely. The Allied Reparation bandits press this program, aided by the German capitalists, The “social- ists” are in a dilemma, for if they reject it, they must acknowledge pankruptey at once. If they adopt it and cut the workers’ standards, they will lose workers’ support kept up to now by lies and promises. They are chosing the latter and fas- cist terror against workers who will rise in, resentment. * France: Political Turmoil. In France the cabinet is a foot- ball of clashing factions represent- ing a growing class differentiation and oncoming depression which its capitalists class hopes to meet by more rationalization—but this is al- ready causing a wave of strikes and _ x» 4sing proletarian movement. Tar- * * jers, the “labor” government is in a the Spanish proyerb says, “Tomor- | row will be another day.” | * The granite workers of West Con- leord, N. H., organized in the In-| 4 ‘ | ternational Labor Defense are build-| Even little Portugal is bankrupt | ing a monument to the southern la- and has to submit to the indignity | por martyr, Ella May. Ella May of a batch of bookkeepers from the | was murdered by the mill barons of | League of Nations to go over its|Gastonia as part of their terror accounts and “make economies” (at |drive against the National Textile the expense of the workers) before | Workers Union. Above: Elmer the fascist dictatorship of General | Johnson at work on monument. Be-| Carmona can get a loan to cover| low (Center) Walter Paananen. the bankruptcy a while longer. | * * # The “Labor” Party Turns rascist DOLITIC ALS IN | In England, who economy is de-| | pression in spite-of all the “Labor” | party and the traitorous leaders of | | the trade unions can do collabo- | | rate with bosses in getting more | work for less wages out of the work- | UNDER TORTURE | If its openly imperialist methods | | abroad have not awakened British ae eat workers to disillusion, its anti-labor | (Wireless by Inprecorr) | fascist methods at home is rapidly; VIENNA, Dec. 15.—Reports leak- | leading to that end. It betrayed the |ing through the fascist Hungarian Lancashire cotton mill workers to | censorship, state that on the 27th of | a wage cut. Now it faces a crisis | November six political prisoners ‘n parliament over its “Coal Bill.”| again went on a hunger strike, de- Though it promised before election |manding the distribution of food to restore the seven-hour day for| parcels sent in from the outside, but miners who lost it when they he- | denied delivery by prison author- + 8 crisis much like Germany’s. trayed by the ‘trade Union Con- gress, it now proposes to reduce the present eight-hour day .to seven and a half, with lots of pro- visions to see that the miners and not the owners bear the difference | lin costs, and secondly, some schemes for “co-ordinated selling” by the owners. ‘the Liberals, upon whom the “la- borites” depend for a majority, have shrewdly taken a position that looks more “radical” than that of the “labor” government itself, by attacking the last part of the bill as being “for the owners.” The Conservatives (Tories) attack the first part, with the frankly capital- ist proposal that the miners must continue to work eight hours. So while the Liberals may kill the last part, the Tories may kill the first, and all three, including “labor,” will see that the miners are cheated, and if they strike will jail them and shoot them if need be. While employment grows rapidly the best that the “labor” minister can suggest is that relief to the job- less be cut down. ing done by denying thousands of jobless the relief they ask, while pretending to add to relief by a measure providing a stingy few pennies to a small category. 1000 MORE JOIN IN MINE STRIKE (Continued from Page One) the miners put up a spirited resist- ance. The women of the miners’ families who were with them to help picket. particularly slapped down and scratched the faces of the mili- tiamen. Militia Outwitted. The picket lines which pulled out the Springfield mines yesterday out- witted the militia and deputies. The announcement went out that there would be mass picketing at Auburn, near Springfield. The N. M. W. A. gunmen, the soldiers and tin star deputies rushed to Auburn and the pickets converged on Springfield. The expected Auburn battle did not take place Wednesday, when the U, M. W. A. and the bosses boasted | that they had 600 scabs, motorcycle police, American Legionnaires, and deputies ready to break the picket lines there. During the heavy fog, the National Miners Union marchers | from Taylorville slipped in, mingled with the Auburn miners, and they all came out on strike. When the picketing started yes- terday at Livingston, Mayor Gorri of that town drew his revolver and attempted to arrest Pat Toohey and Joe Tash, National Youth or- ganizer of the N. M. U. The crowd aboslutely refused to permit the ar- rest, and succeeded in freeing both of the coal operators, intended vic- tims. Hundred in, Jail. About a hundred strikers are held in jail, Deportation is threatened against all foreign born miners in the group of 66 miners and 16 wom- en and girls arrested during the latter part of last week in Christian county, Taylorville sub-district of the N. M. U., where all the mines only | This is now be- | ities. The guards beat up the prisoners frightfully, and left their cells open to the view of other prisoners to serve as a “warning” to others. The six prisoners were then bound up {the cell bars and the strike thus | | crushed. Despite the promise of the minis- | ter of “justice,” when the first hun- |ger strike occurred, that, if the prisoners would cease the strike the government would stop punishments ordered against the strikers, the punishments, including the refusal to deliver food sent by outside friends, are maintained. Johann Gosztola, a political pris- | oner, lies at the point of death in the Szeged prison, as a result of the prison sufferings. An operation has been performed upon him. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! are out on strike. The first, they will try to exile are four women. In Franklin county, George Voy- | jzey, president of the Tllinois District, | |N. M. U., who was arrested last | {week while leading marching min-| jers upon the Coclla mine, and was | confined in Benton jail, has been lyeleased, and with him Secretary Treasurer Henry Corbishley of the |N. M. U. Illinois district. Corbish- ley had been arrested by Sheriff \Pritchard of Franklin county when he went with Attorny. Bental of the {International Labor Defense to ar- ivange for the release of Voyzey and \others in jail at Benton. Corbish- ley was arrested in a restaurant. Boyce on Firing Line. Negro miners are striking shoul- der to shoulder with the white, and mass meetings at the Pana and Tay- lorville sections. Boyce and his wife snoke to a crowd of 800 miners at Kitchell Park, Pana. Boyce spoke on the demands of the Belleville Convention of the N. M. U., which are the slogans of this strike: The 6-hour day and the 5-day week ja week minimum wage; recognition \of the National Miners Union; no |check-off; no more “bug lights”; no penalty systems; social insurance for all unemployed, paid for by the bosses or the state; no speed-up; equal wages for young miners; 15 minute rest periods in every hour o>» the machines; one man on each job; no discrimination against Ne- gro miners. Boyce’s wife spoke on the neces- sity of organizing the women in the N. M. U. women’s auxiliaries. At the conclusion of the speeches, the whole crowd voted to strike both the Penwell and Pana mines, They also threw bodily out of their meet- ing one Frank Davis, international organizer of the U. M. U., a Pana alderman for twelve years, because he made it plain in one minute the crowd listened to his speech that he wanted them to scab. Boyce spoke Wednesday in Tay- lorville. “Strike!” he cried. “Men, go on the picket line. Women, go on the picket ‘line, and send your daughters on the picket line, and in three weeks we'll have them down on their damned knees begging us {to load ‘em a ton of coal.” “ William A. Boyce, Negro miner, and |- acting president of the National |‘ Miners Union, is addressing great ; More and more police from City Hall and elsewhere dn an effort to scatter the fighting work- ers. Even when a dozen attacked small groups of workers who had been cut off from the main demon- stration, they met with stern re- sistance. By this time a dozen arrests had! been made, the police venging them- | selves on the arrested workers by | cilessly, after they were able to pull) a few of the workers out of the} ranks of the main body of Hiei | demonstration. Several speakers mounted the | elevated steps across the street from | |City Hall and the main crowd of | workers in the demonstration massed in front of them to with- and the attacks of the police. I. Amter spoke for several min- utes with 30 or 40 police trying to break the ranks. Several traffic jcops joined the others and they met | more fight from the workers who prevented them from arresting the speakers. James Ford spoke in front of the Federal Building and was arrested. A representative of the Spanish Workers Club was pulled down after ; the crowd surged across the street lin front of the Woolworth Build- ing. Whenever the police saw a few demonstrators leave the crowd, after the meetings were “drawing to a close, they woufd pounce on them, | beat and arrest them. Those arrested and beaten were James Ford, Edward Childs, Totaro Hari, Sophie Beebe, Jack Schwartz, Herman Hinkel, Shirley Linder, Ada Ginsberg, Helen Herman, Sylvia Daniels, Ann Wolf, Gussie Razinsky, James Mo, Victor Ricardo, Beninto Gerion, Echo Wella and Nathan Singer, Other workers were beaten vi- ciously, but managed to pull them- | selves out of the cop’s clutches. One cop suffered a dislocated shoulder when he attempted to beat one of the workers. defeat he told reporters he had “slipped on the ice.” (There was no ice Saturday.) Several of Whalen’s “finest” did a little rolling around in the muddy street. Two or three others plunged with swinging clubs into singing groups of workers and emerged a moment later without clubs or badges. Others were roughly han- dled in spite of their clubs and horses when they tried to trample down. men, women, and. children, Following the demonstration in Park Row the workers assembled in front of the Co-operative and in Union Square and persisted in their | protests. Several speakers addressed the thousands who participated. When the arrested workers were | brought before Louis B. Brodsky he hypocritically informed the prisen- érs that “Any citizen, or any num- ber of citizens, has the right to gather, but it must be done in an orderly manner.” He did not say anything about the brutal and dis- orderly conduct of the police when they strove with might and main to break up the unyielding ranks of th demonstration. Comrades Ricardo and Gerion were sentenced to one day in jail; Schwartz received a two-day sen- tence. Ford and Childs got one day in jail. Comrades Razinsky, Lin- der, Wella and Singer were re- leased on a suspended sentence, and the others who were well trounced by the police were discharged. I, Amter, district organizer of the Communist Party, District 8, issued th following statement after the demonstrations: “The purpose of our demonstra- tion was to protest the sending of marines and warships to Haiti and to protest against the savage mur- der of the workers and the peasants of Haiti. ~ Sees i t “The second purpose of the demon- | stration was to mobilize the work- ers in defense of the Soviet Union, this being our answer to Stimson’s impertinent note to the Soviet Gov- ernment. We declare that Stimson’s stand showed the hypocrisy of the | Kellogg peace compact. “While Stimson warns the Soviet Government to settle the Manchuri- an dispute peacefully, he, at the same time, sends marines and war- ships to Haiti to shoot the workers and the peasants, “The third object of our demon- stration was that the Hoover Gov- ernment, which is representing Wall Street, has dispatched more marines and warships to China to back up the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek government, which has butchered ived = punching and clubbing them mer-| ae to admit his | \lof the workers DAILY WORKER SIXTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION JANUARY 11TH ten. The mill barons claim we} _ g those with higher wages, who are ee ae Lay-Offs Ave — |teine aroppet to make’ way tor | inots Miners : “young fresh blood and energy,” The te at 6 o'clock and they not sup- posed to go to work till ). They get us workers for 30 minutes th and they m that they give hour for lunch. But comrades the le workers go to work Spirit Spreads to W. Virginia (By a Worker Correspondent) Va. (By able to stand the strain working for the $5 a day. What more do we want after all | this we got from leaders of | “prosperity.” |__Why all this asking a worker? Daily in So. Chicago, Ill. B 3 e. an machinery never stops, they want ae ; MORGANTOWN, W. ts to work all through the lunch| (By:a Worker Correspondent) | Well, there are no orders, they B85 | acme ene tints Na taee hour, and they get us for an hour.| go, Chicago, Ill + mail) {77204 1 heard there is enough steel} 0° To sershin of National , y So. Chicago, Il, (by mail)—|30 45g. to last more than two years. |the leadership of the National So, there the workers make 11% | South Chicago district, as the cen-| 5, thore are, We. produced more Miners’ Union, encouraged _ the hours a day and get pay for 10. —jter of the steel industry of Chi-| thar pean viele a g heh SE miners in northern West Virginia, Comrades, the only way we can | cago, has a beautiful panorama, the iste hi Sage Eye ‘ Heeatan we |District 81, 100 per cent. The | better our conditions is through the |face of the capitalist system. Just |CVe'YTDDE Ue UONeS Mead Mh MS |further fate of the N.M.U. and the National Textile Workers’ Union | g eye here: are eng ie the bie leaders of | U-M.W.A. depends on the Illinois Spa belp alt orgenizeyhe: Su | First, Illinois Steel, where 20,000 pr have everything in| strike. | fellow-wor! if you have! workers have been slaving, is work- the state. machinery It is the duty of every working | the be sure and ; 4 “\man and woman to help the miners | Bee jing 6 cent and still the pro- | and all our products. , and if there and financially organizationally you a 7a 4 2 sive lay-off is going on every oer lolip! are yo © make isn’t an organizer where you are go | as P| Homplone, srsawegomng. mane athena Win che: serke led 3 lay. this big profit and steel in reserve | and to help them win the strike led to the nearest town where there is. a en ive gp eae 5 by the N. M. U. Wisconsin Steel, of the H for | bY eg Join and help us get better condi- | and| Negro and white miners and their \tions in the South and stop these |C® has about 3,500 work I : d low wages of $7.20 to $11 The r now 60 per cent misery for us? wive: _ attended a local meeting of |time is ripe for a | > going on. —<————— |the N.M.U. at Riversville, W. Va. la TEXTILE WORKE Interstate Steel Co. SOVIET AMBASSADOR ARRIVES | All the members of the union voted s workir IN LONDON |to support the strike. Wages and 2 ally” over 2,000 worke ARE CUT IN | per cent, is ex to be | down at the end o month. ne Central Railroad repair had LONDON, Dec. 12.—Gregorie Y.| Working conditions here are so bad Sokoln arrived here Thursday | that the northern W. Va. miners are night as ambassador of the Soviet |only waiting for a chance to belong Union to Great Britain. He said|to a good miners’ union, under hon- he would issue a statement in a day |est leadership, to save themselves or two. and their wives and children from starvation by inches every day. |They realize the only union that lean save them is the National Miners’ Union. —C. HOW WAG CHRYSLER'S (By a Worker Correspondent) | DETROIT (by mail)—The method | |of cutting wages in our department | jin Chrysler’s is to hire new men {in at a day rate of 54c per hour. | {In this manner the older men do not know how many men are doing | the work and when the bonus was | Ut 40 to 50 per cent previous to the | ——— new model 23 per cent is the best bonus paid since the opening. | CHYSLER WORKER. | Tili- hop 3,000 men before it shut down. Hegeswich Ford plant is hut down too, and Ford announced a “raise” of wages to his workers. But he didn’t announce the speed- up system he maintains—throwing exploited workers—especially ‘ Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! \French Imperialists Admit Plans for Big | ee Creditors Demand Cash Sol fo, Onnte'see DP HEREFORE WE ARE ARRANGING A lreported to the Chamber of Depu- wWanagesesaqesesese Tease seca seses ese se seseseTCSETESeS ties that the French imperia were building “a powerful organiza- | ion of France’s defenses.” It was | in this way, said Maginot, that the | |French would maintain ‘peace. Maginot admitted great war penditures in the form of outla: for fortifications of frontiers. While Stimson hides his war preparations jbehind the flimsy ‘Kellogg “peace” \pact, Maginot has another story jabout “peace securities” against Germany. He urged the speed-up SALE To Meet Their Demands We are forced to Sell Our High Grade Stock SUITS OVERCOATS TOPCOATS TUXEDOS AT *20 Formerly these garments were sold at $37.50 jof war preparations. | | “T believe that with well-equipped | frontiers and a well-organized air [force aggression against us will be | | difficult,” he declared, “but this pro- |gram must be accomplished before | | 8984 if the country is to feel secure.” Is Your Paper. It Distribute w Workers! for It. | Among Your Fello Write |hundreds of thousan [+ “As for the demon | we called upon workers to protest |front of the Federal Building and | announced the meeting openly. | “The police were fully prepared, and by the scor ticks against the w who were dem- onstrating. The mounted police, continuing their practice of a few months ago, trampled on men, wo- men and children. “This was a demonstration of sav- ; age brutality on the part of the po- |lice. Heads were cracked a eral beatings given to the Commenting on the policy of the Hoover regime as ex- pressed in the brutal attempts to |break up the demonstration, the In- ternational Labor Defense, issued } \the following statement: | “The brutal attack on the demon- {stration at the Federal Building is another fruit of the iron-fisted pro- |gram of oppression of the working class decided upon by Hoover and jhis fascist ‘business council.’ In |New York, as in Haiti, the protests | are greeted with] |clubs and arrests. “The Tammany police, as usual, co-operated with the Federal Gov- Jernment with fascist savagery, ex-| | posing the hollowness of the so- called ‘democratic liberties,’ free speech and assemblage. “The New York District of the International Labor Defense, which |participated in the demonstration, will defend cvery one of the ar- rested workers. “We protest against these savage attacks on workers’ demonstrations and demand that they cease. We |pledge our solidarity with the op- pressed masses of Haiti and the lother countries that are being plun- |dered by American imperialism, and demand the release of all those ar- rested in Haiti, in New York and elsewhere.” SeceS flr ky lar ier Do not fail to come to see this won- derful display of men’s clothing. The latest styles! Each garment a master- piece! Finest materials and best work- manship! iasesesesesabasesessceseseseresesesresese ese ae Ses ou Other outstanding values from $22.50 to $37.50! Bargains Which Will Bring the Greatest Surprise! This Remarkable Sale Takes Place in the Following Stores: 871 BROADWAY 151 EAST 125th ST. 605 WEST 181st ST. (Cor. 18th St.) (Near Lexington Ave.) (Near St. Nicholas Ave.) ‘1875 FIRST AVE. 17-19 WEST 125th ST. 517 7th AVENUE (Cor. 74th St.) (Near 5th Ave.) (Near 38th St.) The following stores are open evenings and Sundays: 1652 MADISON AVE. 1047 SOUTHERN BLVD. (Cor. 110th St.) (Near Westchester Ave.) 3851 3rd AVENUE. 969 PROSPECT AVE. (Near Claremont Parkway) (Near Loew’s Blvd. Theatre) 1002 SOUTHERN BLVD. (Near Aldus St.)