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vAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1929 Call New Orleans Marine Conference British -U. S. Duel Over GERMAN SOCIAL | Right of “Neutrals” FASCISTS ARE wits ent See | | rifie speed-up and fass unemploy- Heralds of War STRIPPED B A R E ment, throwing out thousands. British “Labor” Government States There Can Be No Neutrals; Corrupt I. S. U. Officialdor Hoover Claim For “Foodships” Challenged; Kellogg |Take Lead in Attack “The so-called “International Sea- men’s Union,” is nothing more than ja strike breaking agency. The rank | and file of the LS.U,, whatever is Pact Exposed For What It Is, a Pact For War | on Working Class ine aa the pee Hidden in Words of Peace ae |in control are engaged in misleading |_ BERLIN, Dec. 17.—As foreseen | and crushing all militancy. As a |with certainty, the “socialist” party, | result of their tactics, since 1921 which is the dominant party in the | the 1.8.U, has dwindled from a mem- |German coalition cabinet, yielded | pership of 115,000 to its ptesent also in the Reichstag to the demands | handfl i of American bankers and German} «py, T.¢ vith its 4 POUR Sea toe a te athe |g The LS.U. with its absolute craft |lines is no more an international or- jstandards of the German workers | ganization than any of the other jin order to get a new loan of $100,- /«Internationals,” affiliated with the {000,000 from the Dillon, Read bank- |trepcherous A.F-L, officialdom, who! jers of New York to cover a bank- | have recently betrayed together with Tupt treasury. |the New Orleans street car owners, | and LONDON, Dec. 17.—The state- | the American capitalist press shows sont ef Senator Borah that “If|United States anger at British au- the British ‘White Paper,’ issued by | dacity in disrobing Hoover's sancti- the MacDonald ‘government holds|monious “neutrality” in such rude good, the Kellogg Pact is a war!fashion. One American paper hot- pact,” is causing British diplomats |ly retorts that: to laugh up their sleeves, since the| “No dictation freedom of the seas point of the “White Paper” was jbind the United States until it says precisely to deflate the American |so, and America will not be swerved claim for rights as a “neutral” to|from parity with England, Those cou Pa. send so-called “food ships” to any }two facts would appear to interfere vote of 22% B ge {county jail. Writing paper ne warring nation it chooses, largely with the practical effect of oie tole et ry io ah he coke | just as they sold out the textile BREA? A. ua i Hee ¥ ae This claim, asserted by Hoover in |the White Paper’s exposition of the | re1i, : workers’ Gf Marion, Blizabeth: and) tecout ble a tin cup and | 4 HOW . A “ jcellor Mueller, t the Reichstag’: ot his Armistice Day speech, is one of |subject of freedom of the seas until | vote of pave as oe uote | Tennessee, agent of the A. Fy of L. with the| Ee is written on pap secret channels b workers Pittsburgh, Pa., August imperialist war dem bowl, and is 2 Brutality Towards Workers in Allegheny | County Prison, Pa. he torn P one i pa’ iditer’s N. sent so) of out impri nty jail for p on (By a Worker Correspondent) ALLEGH a COUN (By Mail). —They t thing except clothes away when you enter thé ned t letter h ‘fage Three —= = WORKERS’ CORRESPONDENCE -- FROM THE Write to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York, About Conditions in Your Shop. Workers! This Is Your Paper! | q b from boo! n ough | of the five | “Alleghe tion in the (By a We JOHNS OWN, Pa. (By the workers surrounding and en bad. from Bethlehem Steel. They ng the are TY JAIL, men tk eve > a cell on » Correspondent) towns Will give an example | present the more they s and laid off 60 Mail). in Joh are | working hours in the Franklin open hearth. | 2 used to work three | s, and now the plant! ) » happened in other de- | Men working there for are laid off a week or | | | lhe touchiest questions . between |we agree with it.” le ba fank. |; tne recent raids of the M.W.L.) os) noe.” t asi Mia anne ae | ts (or rather of the American bank- \peadquarters in San Pedro and in|® “T@Rge.” t to keep them alive, For| a + SegRhmaze scree lers) la wfor “financial reform,” | x E apts eas |, & Yange is a long row aisle akfast, black, unsweetened chic- Donald, after his return from the| ne Ae? New Orleans clearly indicate the} ; hi 35 ; Fake “vy tenet Banad dell | which includes tax reductions@on | nited front of Andy Foruseth, into which open 25 small nine by a poor imitation of coffee) and } al peace tour” was questioned in F A ; |capitalists and corporations and in- ‘seven iron cells, Ranges are placed oggy, white bread. } the House of Commons about this fereased taxes on the necessities of | ,; sa ; % one above another all around the 3 . “ 44 % «| \city officials and American Legion, | matier of whether he had “made |life for the workers, with special | vn are the tools of the shipowners; (/#%8€ circular room where the pri any committments” as to “freedom |laws in prospect for cutting off un- ie Pe 3 Corrupt “loners are kept. of the seas.” At the time Mac-/| a bowl of e bread. soup and three pper, three slices Donald “shook his head.” It was undoubtedly to assert this claim of American imperialism pub- liely so that British imperialism | could not later say hat the Ameri- can claim was unknown to it, that Hoover made the attack on Armis- tice Day and dribbled a few croco- dile tears for “starving women and children” in warring lands by way of moral justification for “neutral” so-called “food ships,” which so often as not carry heavy artillery buried in bins of wheat—as a mem- ber of the British parliament re- marked, The assertion of Hoover to a claim such as this, which in practice could not avoid colliding with the traditional “right” claimed by Bri- tain to search and seize an yship carrying cargo to an enemy of Bri- tain, was brazenly put out by Hoover as “not a subject to discuss at the coming Five-Power naval | conference,” but as “solely a policy | of the United States!” This put Jngland on the defensive, and it vame back with the “White Paper.” * England blandly proposes that since both the League of Nations and the Kellogg Pact “prevents war” (an hypocrisy that America cannot well afford to deny), and since all nations have subscribed to one or the other or both, and: since these “pacts” and “covenants” either by specific rule or moral oblgation make it necessary for all nations to adopt a hostile position toward any nation violating them, there “can be no neutral rights be- cause there can be no neutrals in the next war.” Thus exploding in a neat fashion the Hoover claim of America’s right as a “neutral” to send “foodships” to any belligerent it chooses. This also is forcing American imperialism to come off its “high horse” from where it utters “rights of neutrals” in international affairs hile claiming that they are not nternational affairs and are “sole- ly policies of the United States.” Senator Borahr’s resentful remark at having Uncle Sam’s hypocritical fig leaf of the Kellogg Pact torn off in public was the first response to England’s maneuver. Additional comment cabled from 400 Staunton Miners Join Mlinois Strike! (Continued from Page One) return to the job. Even though the bulk of the miners were not pres- ent, the vote was only 96 to 55 in favor of returning. A few men are working in Mine No. 9 today, with a whole company of the Illinois na- tional guard standing guard along the road to drive away the picket lines. Some scabs have been se- cured for a few of the other mines in Christian County. Another Arrest. One picket was arrested today before Mine. No. 8, Peabody Coal Co., at Tovey. J. Bentall, attorney for the In- ternational Labor Defense, is ac- tive in the cases of the strikers jailed in Christian County. Many have been released on bail of from $500 to $800 apiece. Henry Cor- bishley, secretary-treasurer of Illi- nois district of the N. M. U., was ‘still in jail at Benton, at last ac- counts. — Ce Bie, 60 Entombed. McALESTER, Okla., Dec. 17.— The dangerous, gas filled Old Town Coal Mine of the McAlester Fuel Co. blew up today, and entombed more than 60 miners a mile down in the workings. Rescue crews were able to penetrate today only to the 24 foot level, because of the stream of gas and smoke pouring out. Little hope is felt for the men in the midst of the fumes, far down in the earth, The mine is just north of McAlester. Sending of men into such death traps as the Old Town Mine is pro- hibited by Jaw, but capitalist laws were made for capitalist use, not the other way around. Laws are violated with impunity by the bosses when the men haveyno strong ization of their own to defend elves with. The new militant onal Miners’ Union has never “ceased to struggle from the day of its birth for safer conditions un- IN ARMS RACE (Continued from Page One) ington conference to the 10-10-7 they ask today.” Reijiro Wakatsuki, former Pre- mier of Japan, and Admiral Tak- | rabe, minister of the navy, heading the Japanese delegation to the race- for-armaments conference, are in Washington conferring with Stim- son, Morrow, Reed and Robinson, American representatives to the Five-Power Naval Conference in London, There is a sharp division and struggle between the Japanese im- perialists and United States capital- ism over naval armaments, In the Washington naval meet in 1921 America was able to break up the Japanese-British nayal alliance. This was a stinging blow to the Ja- panese capitalists, At that time the ratio of 5-5-3 was agreed upon, This meant that United States and British imperial- ism would have the ratio of five capital ships each to Japan’s three. The Japanese are playing a differ- ent turn today. They insist on a higher ratio on all ships. They ask for a ratio of 10-10-7. The question of alliance between Japan and Great Britain in the Orient against the United States has assumed a vastly different aspect. United States imperialism is be- coming a formidable competitor for control of the Chinese markets. Its support of Chiang Kai-shek and the war threat against the Soviet Union, which was an attempt to get a foot- hold in Manchuria and control of the Manchurian railway, show that Wall | Street is pressing every effort to expand in the Orient. In this situation Japan is finding it quite convenient to renew a cov- ert alliance with Great Britain to protect each other’s mutual inter- ests in China ag against United States imperialism. While their am- bitions conflict, their interests are so diametrically opposed to the United States that it brings them into an alliance against United States imperialism, | The visit of the English prince to | Japan last summer was a social ex- | pression of the coming closer to- gether of Great Britain and Japan, |This new alliance knocks the ques- tion of “parity” into a cocked hat. Harold Brayman, special corres- ondent for the “New York Post” (Dec, 16, 1929), says: “The Japanese are interested in maintaining naval supremacy in Eastern waters for themselves. They regard this as justly due to Japan in any international agree- ment.” That the U. S. has the same am- bition which is equally shared by Great Britain is obvious to any one. Each power is seeking to arm against | the other for control of these mar- kets and colonies. There is a scram- ble for new alliances. Japan has moved closer to Great Britain against the U, S. By trying to make their utter | surrender to and collaboration with the capitalists appear as a‘sort of a “victory” or compromise gained after “stubborn holding out,” the “socialists” hope to disguise their attack on the workers’ standards in order not to lose prestige with work- ers. Hence the effort to paint their full agreement with the capitalists against the workers as a “formula of concord,” a term which gives the impression that two hostile forces retain an equilibrium as a result of the “conflict,” when as a matter of fact the amalgamation of the social- ists with the capitalists precludes any such “conflict” and both are fully agreed that the workers shall bear the whole burden of reparations payments. The only friction was upon a method of time and method of putting it over. As an example of the way the German capitalists pressed for im- mediate and decisive action, was the attack on the Reichstag by the Fed- eration of German Industries, whose president demanded tax cuts for capital and tax increases for the working class, In‘ the Federation’s meeting, George Mueller, a textile baron, bluntly said, “If we are to have cap- | italism, let us have it in its entirety without compromises.” This in a/| way of assault on the “socialists,” whose sole desire is to uphold cap- italism, but who wish to hoodwink the working class with the claim that they are leadng to socalism “step by step.” Hence the adoption by the “so- cialists” of the financial program of the capital elass, marks an end in the ability of the “socialists” to deceive the workers longer with promises and paltry reforms. Now they will have to lead in open at- tack on the workers. known treaty form, it is just as real and formidable as eyer, and secret treaties are just as much in fashion as they ever were between imper-| ialists. Wakatsuki, the Japanese delegate, speaking on the Singapore base, which was a fortification construct- {ed to strengthen British imperialism in the Orient, exposes the fact that there has been some agreement reached between Japan and Great) Britain on this point. He said: | “From the newspapers we gath- | er that England postponed con- | struction at Singapore because of the unfavorable attitude dected, in Japanese minds. We cant say tha Japan was glad to witness the fortifications of Singapore, but we will not bring up the matter at London. That England somewhat “delayed” | the fortification in Singapore be- cause of “the unfavorable attitude | detected in Javanese minds,” is mere |poppycock, The essence of the re- alliance is chown by the statement: “We will not bring up the matter | at London.” MacDonald has not stopped the} While this new alliance has no building of the Singapore base. This WE MUST HAVE a Mass Distribution of this pamphlet as a nm ‘organic part of the : Party Recruiting and Daily Worker Building Drive. wd WHY EVERY WORKER SHOULD JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY * 32 pages of mental dynamite for every class- conscious worker, Presented in simple style’ and in the language of the workers of the shops, mills and factories, Five Cents Per Copy Unysual discounts for orders in quantity lots. Rush Your 0: derground, and in the present Illi- nois strike, safety measures, are among the demands, But the Okla- homa mines are still outside N. M. U, of the Ne der with CASH to WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY | employment relief for the jobless. | the corrupt International Longshore- men’s Association headed by Ryan and Co., which is nothing but a dues collecting agency, especially on the Gulf Coast, where the Negro long- shoremen constitute the bulk of the workers and are viciously exploited, Many ports on the Gulf have Jim Crow company unions, In Mobile, Alabama, there is no union in ex- istance and where the Inland Water- ways Corporation (government in- stitution), exploits the Negroes at 30 cents per hour, in loading cotton, resulting in many accidents and maimings. In the port of New Orleans, which has ten thousand longshoremen, of which a small handful are organized into Negro and white locals, most of whose work is confined to Ship- ping Board ships, and in many cases |get paid below the scale. Latin Americans. “In the Latin American countries, jthe same bosses who are exploiting us, also own the means of produc- tion. They slaughter the workers in the Columbia fruit strike and in Mexico, Panama and Cuba, The United States Government sends marines to Haiti to shoot down the | workers who are struggling for bet- ter conditions. The Latin workers have just organized their Latin American Confederation of Labor and ask us for a united front. We must be organized to take our place in the ranks for this big struggle. Preparing For War. “The same picture is presented by |. | Prisoners are allowed to walk on he long narrow aisle of their respec- tive range from 7 p.m. After 4:15 p. m. i noon each prisoner is lo: next m small lights several feet y |the cells are not sufficient to 1 jup the cell. In their semi-dark jcells the prisoners try to while away the heavy hours by re but, due to the bad light this is d' ficult. The air in the very hot and dust-laden. Windows Jare never opened. The food doled jout to the prisoners is barely suf- jcell until the foul-smellin able bread and a small, | piece of hamburger. | Time is . Ripe to Organize in the Bethlehem Steel| one week. Men 's are demoted company could two and then work working there 35 yee in their jobs so the gyp them: of their ‘e the more the pension). Many men getting 15 to 35 cents an hour, So that’s the system in I shem Steel Co. in Johnstown, hop committ in the steel plants, led by the Communist Party, that’s the thing we need. —JOHNSTOWN WORKER. Be Our own nage, the oourseois age, ix distinguished by this—that it has simplifiid class antagonisma, More aud more, society is splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great and directly contra- posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letariat-—Marx. SHOPS 'Feudal Conditions | for Coal Miners in Johnstown, Pa. Correspondent) JOHNSTOV Pa. (By Mail)— The miners here are treated wor even than that of the steel workers, as there has been no union in this district since 1922. There never has been a union in Johnstown. The miners load three tons of coal and get paid for a ton and a half, They live under worse conditions, espe- (By a Work cially housing, than the days of f National Miners Union has got to come out here as soon as pos- sible and organize the coal miners in this section for the United Mine Worke: ers never care about doing any such thing, and, there- fore, it’s up to the militant union. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! General! Silk Strike Up With such food the men lose rap-| (Continued from Page One) idly in weight. It is doubtful| Bedford and a similar number will whether the food for the day costs|come from below the Mason and 5 |Dixon Line in the South. Thirty- cerated, bers of the Comr |the Young Communi for participating in demonstration, | serving 30 day the August xhtest offense a pris- t in double-loc ment for 15 days. s is the Allegheny county jail |many sections of New England, in- 2 Salvatore Acco k—in sol: was incar- | Here, too, the five mem- jton, Manchester, ete. t Party and | League are jing class has introduced the sev |hour day and are building socia’ | Marine Workers League. | “We need a militant industrial or- ganization. The Marine Workers’ League is building one. The follow- ing organizational steps have been taken: | “Two conferences have been held: one on the Atlantic Coast, jand 18 with thirty-one rank and file delegates from various Atlan Coast ports, and the recent W! ‘Coast Conferente in the port of Francisco, Noy. 9 and 10, 19: 19 delegates present. At th conferences a definite prog action was laid down and a National Organizing Committee was elected, which met and worked out plans for (calling a Gulf Coast Conference and {also found it necessary, due to the jgrowth of the M.W.L., to set the |date for the National Convention for trial union. Labo; and the I St Ship and Bu ‘The Marin n of Elee 6. tional Seamens Clubs on the Gulf | Amoskeag Coa: truggle against war. {92 n e lding our national paper, | knit goods and hosiery, woolens and|eager response of the textile work- Workers Voice.’ il Organizing Committee. : i The establishment of Interna-|meeting of mill worker is assured by the | ./eight functioning headqu: s, and | by having the correct policies of the | Trade U American section of the Red Inte x Unions which | ice and direction to the | | he marine indus- | tin Americans, | ngthening the Dock Committees. | members to the; | jeite, and imperialists, in spite of their dif-| | ferences, are forming a united front jeach other. |a slice of the world market and the ‘their war preparations—which ac-| at a more intense stage. Because of the sharpening struggle for world markets, fields of investments and | raw materials, they are making “Commercial rivalry betgeen Great |April 26 and 27, 1930, Britain and America has been been/meet in New York launching of the new union. “The M.W.L will succeed in its task of organizing the seamen and |longshoremen into a figh which will for the ference! “Orgar tees! ‘or a fighting Marine | Industrial Union! ng indus- e Ship and Dock Commit- | Workers frantic war preparations under the} cover of disarmament schemes and/ peace pacts. At the same time, the | to attack Soviet Russia, the First! Workers’ Republic where the work- | “delay” is a mere pacifist maneuver | to cover up this open warprepara- | tion. Plans are perfected for both} the Singapore and Halifax naval! bases. | Besides being a frantic race for | more efficient naval armaments in| preparation for the next world war, | the London conference is a struggle for a realignment of forces. The} big powers are looking for valuable alliances in their struggles against] 4% The British openly announce “in| the next world war there ean be no neutrals.’ The “smaller” powers look for alliances that promise them largest share of new colonies in the resubdivision which would be the ob- ject of the next world war. All the capitalist powers look upon the So- viet Union as a valuable territory which could be divided amongst them—they feel that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics as the re- volutionary vanguard of the workers | of the world is the main obstacle to! counts for their unanimous agree- ment in hostility and war prepara- tions on the workers’ fatherland. SIXTH Tickets on Sale Daily ANRNIVERGARY. CELEBRATION Saturday, January II, 1930 AT 8:30 P. M. Conductorless Orchestra in composition by famous Soviet Russian composer aan GLAZUNOW in compositions by famous Soviet Russian composer ROCKLAND PALACE 155th St. and Eighth Ave. Now. : Te, $ i CARNEGIE HALL, HERE AGAIN FROM MOSCOW! Saturday Matinee, December 28, at 2:45 P. M. TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DAILY WORKER, 26 UNION SQUARE 1,00 and $1.50 VSSCUTU STS FVVSTTFTGCVFIVIFTPOTVTVSEVIIVIIISEE ‘ five delegates will represent Pater son; 10, Allentown; 10, the Anth le ns will come from A- cluding Providence, Pawtucket, Bos- Philadelphia will also be well represented. The national general st: in the , centering chiefly in Paterson, J., is a big item on the agenda. This section of the industry has the most speed-up, the longest hour: and its dyeing process is easily con- vertible to a war industry, to the plosives, Negro Workers Sent. Negro delegates, from the cotton mills of the South and the dye of the North, will attend the The seven Gastonia strikers who s confronting the |have been sentenced to as high as | Twent vorkers on the Gulf Coast |20 years’ imprisonment, will all be|the convention from New Bedford on hand as delegates. Sub-conferences will be held follows; national youth conference of the union; cotton, silk and rayon, worsteds. Martin Russak, organizer of the N. T. W. U., reports that a mass from the Manchester, 13, at December mills New Hampshire, other meeting is caled for December 18. The Amoskeag mills are the largest in the world, and now em- to Textile Convention ploy 10,000 workers. The textile workers are eager and anxious to struggle for better conditions is evidenced by the fact that an u organized and spontaneous ike broke out last week in one depart- ment under the leadership of a fill- ing boy, a you worker. This leader has now joined the N.T.W. and will go as one of the three dele- gates to be from Manchester to the I ‘on convention. ‘The |workers here are so anxious to or- ganize that three shoe workers came to this Manchester meeting and asked to join the N.T.W. A good meeting of Nashua, N. H., xtile workers, held December 10, te: n Unity League, the|™anufacture of poison gas and ex-|with Fred Beal, Gastonia strike leader sentenced to 20 years in the Gastonia case, formed a mill local of the N.T.W., and is sending dele- gates to the convention. Russak was in New Bedford, and reports a series of fine mill local meetings continuing all this week. ve of the 100 delegates to |will_ be young workers. | Wires were being received all day erday at the N.T.W. national from the South, telling of off jers to the convention and organiza- |tion call. Amy Schechter, one of the defendants charged with murder in the first Gastonia trial is in | Tennessee, and states that mill lo- Jeals are formed in some of the Forward to the Gulf Coast Con-|formed a local of the N.T.W. An-|largest rayon plants. Every effort is being made by the N.T.W. to |raise money to bring these South- jern delegates to the Paterson con- | vention. of STR THE WORKING Campaign Literature Greetings Now greeting lists to prese! we send you? Large Fund Needed tary contributions. Quarter Page $50. 26-28 Union Square DAILY WORKER BUILDING PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE Into Shops, Mines, Mills! Into Labor Organizations SECURE GREETINGS FOR THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION DAILY WORKER GTHEN THE BOND OF SOLIDARITY BE- TWEEN THE WORKERS IN ALL INDUSTRIES, THE WORKERS IN ALL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND THE DAILY WORKER. MAKE THE DAILY WORKER A MASS ORGAN, THE AGITATOR, EDUCATOR, ORGANIZER OF Greeting lists to circulate in your shop, f are off the press. 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