The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929 ‘Socialists’ Aid Austrian Fascist War on Workers Agree on Fascist Constitution; Laws Projected for Protecting Scabs, Suppressing Workers’ Press and Disfranchising Workers; Tariffs to Raise Cost of Living; Un- employment Relief to be Cut ~ |] > VIENNA (By Mail).—The “Neue , the Protection of the right to work” Wiener Tagblatt” discusses the|is to make serious struggles for program of the winter and spring | wage increases impossible. sessions of the Ausrian parliament.| The same newspaper then declares The “favorable course” of the nego- |that there is no possibility of any tiations between the Prime Minister | reduction of taxation, but instead Schober and the social democracy |“there must be a certain reduction justified the hope that the parlia- of social burdens and economies in ment would adopt the new draft|the administrative apparatus.” within a week or ten days. (It has|T<ken in conjunction with the open since been adopted.—Editor.) After-|threat of the deputies of the Land wards a number of alterations |Bund to cut the unemployment sup- would be made in the financial pro- | port the meaning of a “reduction of gram. These alterations are the con- | social burdens” becomes clear. cessions made by the social demo- crats at the expense of the tax pay- | ers in Vienna in order to assist | Then comes the “Law for the Pro- | | A W A B L OW AT WORKERS tection of the Right to Work,” cr in other words, the hard labor law] Like Black Reaction Before 1848 against the right of the working | class to organize and fight for bet- | ter conditions, and the supplement | to the Press Laws, which is intended to dispose of the last remnant of the freedom of the pri as far as the revolutionary workers are con- cerned, BERLIN (By Mail).—The Reichs- rat in which the representatiyes of the various governments sit, intensi- |fied Severing’s new draft of the {Law for the Protection of the Re- |public to such an extent in its ses- jsion recently, that the draft now represents an unparalleled terror |law against the Communist Party. According to the same newspaper the spring session will deal with questions of economic reconstruction It is already announced that cus- | the state will be punished in the fu- toms will be introduced or existing |ture very severely. customs increased for the import of | ‘There is a heavy punishment for In autumn the parliament will deal with the new electoral law, which proposes the re-adoption of the single constituency seat and rep- resents a wholesale disfranchisement of the workers, whereby, in particular, commercial and political measures will be adopt-| Not only abuse directed against ed. This means that after the work- | the ie of the Reich and of the fed- ing class has been settled with, |eral states, against both living and fascism will reap its reward in the /dead Reichs-Presidents and Minis- form of increasingly high customs | ters, but also against the subordi- barriers. nate social democratic officials of grain, potatoes, sugar, wine, fruit, vegetables and clothing. The Austrian workers are there- fore threatened with a swift rise in the cost of living in favor of the rich agrarians and the fascist bour- geoisie. The aim of the “Law for Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! Severe Crisis in Argentina Worsened By Close of. Exchange BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 19.—The already severe economic crisis here has been intensified by the closing of the gold exchange office (caja de conversion). The closing of the exchange is one of the many developments growing out of the severe depres- sion in Argentine. There is a great leal of unemployment. The news- papers report many bankruptcies. Irygoyen’s government explains the closing order by saying “it is a measure to prevent further restric- tion of Argentine currency through the exportation of gold.” Recent . gold shipments restricted the cir- culating medium by nearly 2,000,000 pesos. This caused a crisis in the credit situation. * * 8 A despatch to a New York cap- italist paper quotes foreign bankers as stating that American export trade to Argentina will be curtailed as a result of the conditions cre- ated by closing the exchange, The poor families will be hit more drastically by the present cri- sis. Their conditions are already very bad. Reports recently pub- lished in The Daily Worker pointed out that in one district many farm- ers were actually starving. The crisis in Argentina is part of the world crisis of capitalism. The struggle between British and U. S. imperialism for the Argentina mar- kets is especially severe. President Irygoyen favors British imperial- ism and recently gi e them an ad- vantage over the United States cap- italists in the question of textiles. Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! Polish s “Socialists” Promise Full Support to Fascist Laws WARSAW, Dec. 19.—A_ confer- ence took place between the fascist Polish President Moscicki and the socialist representatives in the Sejm. The social-fascists promised Mos- cicki that they would work together with him in the new constitutional changes which impose more oppres- sive and fascist laws on the Polish workers. ‘ The socialists promised their gup- port and co-operation to any cabinet that might be chosen by the fascist Moscicki, Newspaper reports state 4at the conference between the so- wielists and the fascist leader “was of a friendly nature.” The severe economic crisis and the growing vadicalization of the Polish workers is driving the socialsts into open fascist alliances. Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Bpecial Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! | lany one who is a member of “any | secret organization or of any organi- zation ‘hostile to the state.” Under this paragraph any member of the Communist Party can be put in gaol for years. The Reichsrat also de- |cided that any meeting “calculated to disturb the peace” might be dis- solved summarily by the police. At the same time the Reichsrat decided to abolish those paragraphs ‘}which prevented the return of the | Ex-Kaiser to Germany and provided \for the punishment of high fascist state officials for violation of the \law and their subsequent dismissal {from the service of the state. Tha “Rote Fahne” declares that. the new law thrusts the politico-le- | gal situation of the working misses \back into the period of black reac- | tion prior to the March revolution | of 1848: “Bourgeois democracy commits suicide with this law. The coalition | government led by the social demo- |eracy has no other answer to the | growth of the Communist Party and its struggle against capitalism, than ‘a bloody bourgeois class justice. We appeal in the last hour to the work- ing masses to organize a powerful protest against Severings terror law |which is to be hurried through the | Reichstag. The Communist press |is at stake. The legality of the Com- munist Party is at stake. The free- |dom of thousands of workers is at stake!” | Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the | Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! Finnish “Socialists” Aid New Gag Laws to Suppress theWorkers HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dee. 19.—The demonstration of the work- eral strike to protest the mistreat- ment of the thousands of political prisoners held by the white guard government, has given a fright to the capitalists, who fear that their war plans against the Soviet Union may be upset. The government is, therefore, pro- posing new laws be passed by parlia ment to give it more repressive pow- ers, to restrict the press and forbid meetings. The cabinet threatens to resign if such arbitrary powers are not granted. In other words the movement is for further fascistiza- tion of the state. The “socialists” after some claw- ing the air for the purpose of fool: ing the workers, will undoubtedly vote for the fascist development and thus assure the passage of the pro- posed laws, Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! ROPOL Deposits Made ‘on or before | Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of Banking by Mail. Join Our £930 Chi ers who a month ago went on a gen- | me Address Over 75 Years ITAN SAVINGS BAN ‘ASSETS EXCEEDING $30,000,000 Interest Starts First of Each Month DECEMBER 4th 3Wit1 draw interest | 4% Open Mondays (all day) untit 7 P. M. Soctety Avcoun Page rnree _ WORKERS’ C Cy a Strikers Defense Co rps Dugan Bros. Baker Workers Slave 70 to | 75 Hours A Week| | (By a Worker Correspondent) NMU Has Come to Stay, Write to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York, About Conditions in Your Shop. Workers! This Is Your Paper! ‘Must Form a Shop Committee in Each Department Store (By a Wo er Correspondent) fight Miners Battles In the big bakery plant of Dugar : 12 for a f week, s., in Omer Village, a compa: (By a Worker Correspondent) !m ng, but after seeing the spirit! clusive of lunch hours, is actually which has several huge plants SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (By Mail),— of the miners, they laid down. satt| te, average sum paid: to the Bivg: the metropolitan area, they are not} A mass meeting was called by the ,,%,bunch of thugs outside the hall and ERE CERG BEOP tice Be etem only slave-driving the men, but are|National Miners Union here to ‘dn’t bh the nerve to attack our | New York City. The beginning wage also making young boys, many un-| 2 0@ Miners : e akers as they left the hall. in the Woolworth and McCrory 7 Shere ¢, i for the general strike. hows that around the! stores i pout $11; the regular bieve? f ; ae 17, work anywhere from 14, 15 | Mobi r the general I i store ;_ the Strikers’ guard before their headquarters building at the tent Bos anne lardae for wages of $18] The same day the U.M.W.A. locals ack the bosse nd fakers| maximum approximately $15, One ce 4 w 1 is e was taken. Bis chee ae ees egal Peay ouninects ry their hardest to wipe r eleven ye now gets the un- bea Se aoe toda a ghee - sda. tion school. |draw the crowd away from our meet try 1 sas years ; Second National Convention of the National Teatile Workers Union, TP ADEAR DEG ereeeial ucael bese aut inglend make-iv/eflop. tha AAG aonicthine which tevin erence or gta Onninerlenibe which led the Gastonia strike, meets now, and will sce that this r a | struggle was not in vain, off thé boats as they bring the boys 400 Kentucky Miners)NTWU Convention in| Join Illinois Strike |Atmosphere of Fight, Dugan’s, \t The pay is from $22 to $24 a week | s for the men bakers. The workers |t work a 70 to 75-hour week. \fro mEurope. There is no union in|empty hall for the m Some-|fool the miners. possible as the N.M.U. has come to| girls do not work for the company y and fight the miners’ battles, | jong enough to make more than $12 they are doing now in the big/o, $13, nois strike—K. é ane REAKING |is ,not detern but by the 1 What happened? Instead of an meeting, packed with all per- All the tricks that he crooks employ weren’t enough to The miners here he hall wa: sons standing. le in these chains d by the company ager of each store. wage s EXPOSING A STRIK NCY IN NEW YORK. times they start: work at 10 p. m. ze that the .U. is. their ig. Worker! Corvesuonfient) Naturally it is to his interest to (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) and work till noon the following / union and not the cor .W.A. capital- 'submit a statement showing great on strike. More mines will be on|stand the increase in looms from |4ay- They are not allowed to go) When the speakers ist paper is from a strike-breaking | profi Thus his workers suffer. strike this week. |four to six for each worker, jhome till the foremen tell them they |town there were four thugs firm which is in the New York Cen-| alesgirls are hired to work from “This response to the strike call] The meeting of the union at |¢an do so. : » jat their heels and following them /t,a1 puilding, 42nd St. at Madison | nine a. m. to six p. m. weekly with has struck terror in the hearts of | Woonsocket, R. I, in Bouvier Hall,| The foremen drive the men like| wherever they went. Their inten-| ; New York City. They hire |no lunch hour pay, and from nine the coal operators. The militia has|for Fred Beal last night, was | absolute slaves and the specd-up is |tions were to beat them up, but he- operators for all lines to get|a, m. te p. m. on Saturday. been called out in the Midland Sec-| banned on the grounds “that no per- | terrible. s ; ing like all other lackeys of the ion against the workers.| Actually k about thirty tion to break the strike. But every|mit had been issued for meeting,”| Bakers working in the Dugan|bosses, they hadn't the nerve, be Suder the wanielot Natletelaepce Ceectime: cacHadayeene miner walked out, refusing to work | Miller announced. |Bros. plants, you've got to organize |cause there were two speakers to- Teades. (Coison. the! second |steaintheningi stose and iclontie wee under the “protection” of machine| Among the three workers halted |into a fighting unon if you want to | gether. floor. Here's the strikebreaking |counts—this mind’ you without pay. ne Oke istributi aflets in|Work an 8-hour day, get living tans and bayonets. In Franklin|ftom distributing the leaflets in | Wor ay, 18 | eontis ite. aie broke the picket | Astoria was William McGinnis, an- iene a not be speeded up like line at Buckner and the next day|°ther of the Gastonia strikers, sen-|Cum> Orutes. Bee. the fakers of the U. M. W. A. with | tenced to 12 to 15 years. Teco ORC rity aera UAIONy| the sheriff, ejected the striking|, Immediately the strike was called |No. 3, of the Amalgamated Food| miners from the local meeting of| in Mystic, a picket line was formed | Workers Union, Labor Lyceum, 949 | the U. M.W. A. In Coella the sher-| about the plant and efforts are be-| Willoughby Ave. near Myrtle, iff’s forces smashed the picket line,|iN& made by strikers to spread the |Room 12. The office is open from | firing into the crowd with machine | |strike to all nearby textile towns|8 am. till 7 p.m, = | guns, injuring many miners, includ-| Where equally unbearable conditions —DUGAN BAKER. ing one woman who was seriously | &*ist- injured. Three strikers wer - F outer were 2") Miller declared, “The workers in|stock, one of the Federal scab | | all the textile towns in the v: ity |agents who has been busy helping “This shows ve clearly the} 4 4 unity of all the et of on ieee |of New London are on the point of Lae eee oo ene ree zi n, Tenn., and tors, the militia, the sheriffs, and|7@Volt, and the National Textile v the cfrlsaldam 0? the UMW. an in| W orkers Union is active in organiz-|England. In New Bedford victori- ik giles Broabhis' vale jing mill locals in all these towns. | ous department strikes in a number “The militia in Taylorville arrest-| “The banning of the meeting in|of mills have been led by the All Ready to Revolt. | dent of the U.T.W., and Anna Wein- ed the leader of the marching Woonsocket,” he said, “is simply |N.T.W.U. during the pas’ 12 days. | strikers, Freeman Thompson. The} sheriff of Franklin county arrested} another effort of the textile bosses to destroy the growing unionization |In Philadelphia the workers in three hosiery mills’zre out on strike to- When the speak@¥s were through and asked if there were any que tions, a few planted stool pigeons asked some silly questions, who are “We”—the spea that word in their talks when men- tioning anything about the miners. The stdol pigeons are granted , also without pay. S in |the Five-and-Ten- ent stores talk about their work- it not to the man- sing the job pre- sometimes ad: DIE SINKERS tir sterling ly, good xperience, experienced on ng condi ‘) ork | + out of work but Ti vonts th —A toolmaker don’t want that kind of a Iso had the gali ve m form shop commi S to say the miners don’t work here ——_ f We aaUae f ia she Son me on the mach and when this was, Send Greetings to the Workers |in each depar a sane said the miners were ready to knock in the Soviet Union Through the |how we salesgiris will finally on to better our wages Special Printing of The Daily | a big unic Worker in the Kussian Language! | and conditions.—S. hell out of them. These stool-pig- eons and thugs came to bust the jof the striking miners has already in the textile industry under the banner of the N.T.W.U. But they |will be unable to halt our strides forward. Our convention Saturday and Sunday in Paterson will gather together more than 250 delegates |from all parts of the land to go | through with the program. Neither ) arrests or attempts at intimidation | | by the forces of the employers an |halt this movement e most ex- | ploited of all industries | Within the last ten days there have been strikes in the Amoskeag | Mill at Manchester, N. H., in West- |erley, R. I, in Bradford, Mass., | where 330 dyehouse workers were | on strike for three weeks, only to | be sold out by Gorman, vice-presi- | George Voyzey the leader of the picket line of Coella. “But despite the arrests of the leaders, the strike is gaining and} new leaders are rising from the ranks of the fighting miners and the strike is going forward. Demands. “Miners! Join the strike! Organ- ize your forces in every mine and strike! Set up mass picket lines, Strike for: The 6-hour day, 5-day week, recognition of the National Miners Union, abolition of the bug- light and penalty system, demand social insurance for the unemployed, to be paid for by the bosses and the state, fight against the speed-up system, Fifteen minute rest period during every hour on machines, one} man on each job, a $35 a week min- imum wage, Smash the check-off, | equal wage for young miners. { We want a united front of all) miners in the struggle against the| operators and the treacherous of-| ficialdom of both factions of the} U.M.W.A., against both Lewis and} Fishwick; for the establishment of a real union in the mines; against | discrimination against Negro miners, | and for equal rights of all miners. “Railroad men! Truck drivers! | Refuse to transpott coal! Support! the miners’ strike The struggle of | a the miners is the struggle of the! Sh ld oin working class.” | ou * cause of the working clas Cu The Workers International Relief is on the job in the Illinois coal strike. The first $400 for the relief 82 pages of mental dyn conscious worker. Pre: and in the language o: bei t to the str area and! een seni Neko pede. shops, mills and facto1 more will be dspatched as quickly as contributions from workers and sympathizers throughout the country are received, the W.I.R. national of- fice stated today. Marcel Scherer left today for the Mlinois fields to take charge of relief | activities for the W.I.R. Relief sta-| tions are now being established in the most important sections of the! strike area and under Scherer's di-| rection distribution of food, clothing | and other necessities will be coor-| dinated. “Though we have sent all our available funds for the relief of the| striking Illinois miners,” Ludwig} Landy, executive secretary of the} W.LR. declared, “it is only the pro-| | | Five Cents Rush Your Orders WORKERS LIBRA 39 EAST 125TH STREET verbial drop in the bucket. Thou sands of dollars are needed at once to keep these striking workers, their | wives and children alive and fight- ing. The workers of this country who look to the Illinois strike as blazing a way in the struggles of the entire working class must not let the miners be starved into submis- sion. New York City has arranged Tak Days for this Saturday and Sunday. In every.city similar Tag Days must be arranged. Organiza tions are asked to hold affairs for miners’ relief and every individus! worker must send all he can in money and food immediately to the Workers International Relief, 94° Broadway, room 512.” Daily SIXTH in compositions by famous ee ALEXANDER Additional Program 155th St. and Tickets on Sale Now. | workers. “Only by becoming a member of the Communist || Party can you give your greatest services to the ber can you really fight effectively against the enemies of the working class”—-EARL BROWDER Why Every Worker | W.LR. Sends Relief. Communist Party ee Join the Race for Revolutionary Competition! CELEBRATION Saturday, January Il, 1950 AT 8:30 P. M. Conductorless Orchestra GLAZUNOW ROCKLAND PALACE day. The workers in the whole silk in- dustry are in movement and the{ response of the unorganized workers | to the convention call of the N. T. W. U,. proves this. Yesterday a number of delegates from the Blu- menthal Silk Mills in Bridgeport, Creditors Demand Cash THEREFORE WE ARE ARRANGING A Conn., were elected to represent the Waesaaesusecesesesenese, paired ame rat thousands of unorganized silk work- cain ee. 4 ie ers of Bridgeport at the convention The Paterson silk and dye wo have elected 35 delegates represent- ing organized and unorganized From Homestead, N. C., and Scranton, Pa., delegates will come from workers who have just been in the midst of important strike struggles, To Meet Their Demands We are forced to Sell Our High Grade Stock s. Only as a Party mem- SUITS . OVERCOATS TOPCOATS TUXEDOS AT *20 Formerly these garments were sold at $37.50 the amite for every class- sented in simple style f the workers of the ries. Per Copy seSPSesesesesesese: rear Sesesesesi esses With Cash to the RY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CITY ee Do not fail to come to see this won- derful display of men’s clothing. The latest styles! Each garment a master- piece! 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