The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1929, Page 1

A “= — ee Fight Againsi Racial Discrimination! The Delegates to the International Labor Defense Convention Pointed the Way! Workers, Give No Quarter to Di crimination Against Your Fellow Negro Workers! nd-clans matter at the Post Olfice a . 254 Company. Inc. Published datly except Sunday by The Comprodatly Pabl 26-28 Union Square. t New York, N.Y. New York City, NEW YORK, MONDA Vol. VI., N Revolutionary Defense Must |NDIAN LEADER Smash All Attacks on the Soviet Union World imperialism persists in its plots against the Soviet Union. While the British “labor” imperialists are raising a great hue and cry about “the hand of Moscow in the colonie: about “Communist propaganda” in general and in particular, while the imperialist préss of the United States uses acres of space to spread the lie that the Chinese Eastern Railway was seized last July because the Soviet man- agers were “using their posts for Communist propagand: the im- perialists are supported in their attacks on the Soviet Union by the acquiescence or silence on these matters of all counter-revolutionary elements who pretend to be liberal “friends” or even “revolutionary” partisans of the U. S. S. R. Last week, after what the press notes as two days of “heated dis- cussion,” the diplomatic corps in Berlin, elected the representative of the Pope as head or “dean” of the diplomatic corps, although by diplo- matic usage the post should have gone to. Ambassador Krestinski of the Soviet Union. It is notable that the U. S. ambassador, Mr. Schurman, declared to the assembled diplomats, that he had instructions from Washington to support the representative of the Catholic church of Rome against the Soviet ambassador. * And though the German government, ruled by fake “socialists,” was not supposed to be consulted, the French am- bassador read a “memorandum” from the German Foreign Office say- ing that the German government desired the papal nuncio as dean of the diplomatic corps. Imperialist Japan and the imperialist tools of the United States in Latin America supported the agent of the Pope against the nomina- tion of the Soviet ambassador, made by the embassy’s Charge d@Affaires. Only Turkey and Uruguay supported the iet ambassa- dor as diplomatic usage provides, he being the seni presentative in Berlin. This distinctly shows the unity of the imperialist front against the Soviet Union. But it ig not all in diplomacy, which is a preliminary to armed attack. We have only to mention the assault made through Man- churia, to prove one example. Another is the exposure, made last week, of the use of Polish con- sulates in the Soviet Union as a headquarters for military spying on the Soviet Union. At Kharkov 33 persons were arrested. The vice- consul of Poland, Nezbszitski, and others, were proven to be Polish secret service officers, and were caught red-handed in collecting mili- tary plans of the Soviet Union from spies paid by Poland. These Polish spies were also financing count jutionary groups of kulaks, for whom the right wing in the Soviet Union Com- munist Party were so solicitous. Poland gets money from the United States loans. Its finances are controlled by agents of the infamous “Kemmerer commission” which has made a similar name for itself in inciting the Nanking, Chinese, government to war on the Soviet Union, in bossing a few Latin American countries, under covervof “supervising financial reforms.” The United States is up to its neck in counter- revolutionary plots against the Soviet Union. It has been said that “Hoover fed the Russian people” and that the Soviet Union is “impolite” and “ungrateful” while the Communists are downright villainous for accusing Hoover of plotting against the Soviet Union. But this is pure guff. The Soviet Union knows how many its officials quietly picked out of Hoov famous “relief” organiza- tion. The Communists “know what Hoover's game was, both there and in crushing Soviet Hungary, where he even boasted of such success. Mr. Hoover cannot deny his counter-revolutionary intentions. ». The Soviet Power will know how to deal with the spies and sabotagers world imperialism sends against it, as it knew how to de- feat the attack in Manchuria. But it is up to the American working class, understanding the danger of war on the Soviet Union, knowing the leading role of the American government under Hoover, to stand ready at any hour to throw itself into revolutionary defense of the First Workers’ and Peasants’ Government, the Soviet Union. unter-revolutionary elements Economic Crisis and the Crisis Among the Opportunists is in the ranks of the The economic crisis inevitably brought a ¢ opportunist renegades. It took away their last shreds of “nlatform’ and exposed them in their opportunist nakedness. In full flight under the barrage of hard facts, they would like to forget the banners under which they first marched out to fight against the Communist Inter- national. It is one of our tasks, in steeling the Bolshevik steadfastness of our Party for future critical periods, not to let these facts be for- gotten. Recall, for example, the Lovestone of just one year ago, when he was first sharply fighting against the line of the Comintern on its estimate of U. S. imperialism. Here is one gf his “gems” in «which he reduced his position to slogan form: d “American imperialism is approaching its Victorian day. Thus the same investor’s mouthpiece (Magazine of Wall Street) goes on to say proudly: ‘As Rome has its Augustinian age and Britain its Victorian age, so we are about to enter upon an epoch of affluence and magnificance, of peace and prosperity, that his- tory may well record as the Hooverian age.’ Translate ‘we’ into Wall Street and the truth is here.” (Lovestone in the “Commu- nist,” December, 1928). Well, less than a year later, we have already entered this “Vic- torian Age” of U.S. imperialism, to which Lovestone signed his name Now we have concretely this “epoch of affluence and magnificence, of peace and prosperity,” for which Lovestone so long acted as the press agent among the workers. The “peace” is an unprecedented preparation for war, and the “prosperity” is the sharpest decline in economy that has occurred in thé last 46 years, Lovestone’s renegade organ would be properly named “Victorian Age.” for it continues exactly the same line, resorting only to the erudest camouflage. The banner “Revolutionary Age” is put up, because the “Victorian” banner has been shot full of holes before the entire world—but the policy hehind it remains the same. It is the policy of Hoover, of American imperialism, under a “proletarian” mask. The miserable bankruptey of this renegade group is brought out sharply in No. 5 of their organ by M. N. Ray, leading international “theoretician? of the ovvortunists, where he pleeds for toleration of “differences within a Communist Party” in words of shameful but unashamed renegacy. He says: “Any doubt or deviation inside its (the Party’s) ranks is not the menacing voice of a hostile class. It rather represents a wavering on the part of a certain «ection of the revolutionary army, The weak and wavering can be shifted to a less difficult | point. of the battle front, and again infused with revolutionary » courage and enthusiasm in the course of the triumphant develop- ment of the, struggle.” _ Open defiance and slander of the Comintern, the splitting: of its sections, is to be tolerated and pardoned as,a mere “wavering!” The a Bucharin away from his errors back toward the Com- ional. ‘a preserve his status as a member of the Com- ries: cocylomned by Roy and Lovestone, who themselves awaveriny fighters for a counter-revolutionary line. ‘Bur erie continuing their fight, they propose “terms” to the Somiatern<crma of “tolerating” ‘heir fight inside the Party instead* cf satatds, 4 Ineide *he Party they want to be shifted to a less dif- inlet . ot or ane Sattle front! The rotten cowardice of the renegade om @. NAS cyparent, ras now become a point in their program! “te “Vs ocsegtst opportunists, usually so “bold” waited more than Ame pare Lefore they could pick up courage td utter a word of lyste ot @isis, The head office of the “Trotzky International” view eeldantiy rot working regularly enough to provide the necessary wistum, or ,efnaps too busy with articles for Hearst and Lord Beaver- lave Lecume | BETRAY REVOLT | | t } | Nehru, nationalist misleader and| peste: 5 ae false champion of complete indepen-|_ _ LUMBERTON « Dec. 29, dence. | ton, local of the Nat SPLIT ON HOWTO Majority to Cooperate, With British Bosses Against Masses Gandhi A Servile Tool, ran Spirit of Revolt Grows) f=. Among Working Class BULLETIN. | LAHORE, India, Dec. 29.—With the ery of “long live the revolu-| tion!” masses of workers and peas- | ants broke through the police cor- don and rushed the platform from | which Pandit Jawaharial Nehru, president of the All-India National Congress, was calling for mild measures to attain independence. Nehru, one of the bourgeois lead- is ish imperialism meeting at Lahore, want to stifle and peasants against the bitter ex, The Hindu workers are becoming mass strikes will grow into revolu Y, A Mass Strike in Indi Street scene in Bombay during one of the recent strikes. g resistance of the Indian masses, as pictured above, that tremble. DECEMBER 30, 1929 : Worker under the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail $3.00 ver yea Outside New York. by mall $6.00 per year FINAL CITY | EDITION ~— ——aeegers Price 3 Cent: a. It is The Indian bourgeoisie the mass revolts of the worke ploitation of the British master more and more militant. These tions. ers, is attempting to soften the rev- | olutionary ardor of the masses. In) this task, he has the help of B | imperialism and the “labor govern- | ment.” | | <3 LAHORE, India, Dec. 28—Already the Indian bourgeoisie, assembled here for the opening of the Indian Nationalist Congress, are developing differences on how best to frustrate the rising tempo of mass revolt. Subas Chandra Bose, lick-spittle| leader of the Bengal home rule par- ty, left the conference which pre- ceeded the opening of the Congress, much put out because of a sharp disagreement with Pundit Motilal last’ Friday night with a small rev ready to defend her union and her gang of 125 “bossmen,” to adyance one step. away and dispersed. Nehru favors complete indepen-! dence of India under the Indian! bourgeoisie, and the exploitation of | the Indian masses by the Indian cap- italists instead of by British capital-| ism. | | hundred had spent some time in the A section of the bourgeois Indian| hahah ; nationalists, forced by pressure of| 26" of the Mansfield mills, getting d their instructions, and probably , the masses, are attempting to put] (\* 5S a up an appearance of a serious en-| /iquoring up. counter with British. fmperialism.| This attack was part of a care) But the majority favor open co-| fully planned series of assaults, in operation with the Viceroy, Lord Ir-| the attempt to destroy the rapidly win, and the MacDonald “labor”! growing N. T. W. movement here. government against the great mass|It was a desperate attempt of the of Indian workers and peasats. | bosses to stop “the wave of union One of the forces at the Congress} organization that is sweeping over is Mathama Gandhi, who is a valu-| Lumberton mills and those in near- ‘Continued on Page Thre | by towns. ge LD ha Caudle has heen ancactives union worker in Lumberton. A union or- GENERAL SMUTS COMING. | panizer was here three days before General Jan Christian Smuts,|the gangster outrage and’ g former premier of South Africa,|members in 3 days. He under whose direction Negro work-| have obtained hundreds more if he ers fighting against British imper-|had a chance to speak to the ialism have been slaughtered, will| worke arrive in New York today and will| be given an official welcome by! Mayor Walker. Kick Out Yellow Dog. ; Thursday the bosses struck bac He will also be re-| with a “yellow dog” statement re- National Textile Union - Secretary with Revolver Drives Out | 125 Lynchers ‘Lumberton Mill Workers Joining Union; Build’ Big Defense Corps; Smash Thug Who Fired volver. His wife, also armed, and house, was beside hit. He told a Just before coming on the lynching raid against Caudle, the black am Turner, general man- | office of § NAVAL PARLEY PREPARES WAR Conference to Lead to Big Rival Navies As the five-power .naval confer- ence approaches its opening, the tion of the French naval. memoran- dum and the response of the inter- Refuse to Sign Yellow Dog Contract; Bosses Plan for Massacre of Unionists Defeated , | Torture MEXICAN TOOLS ILLINOIS MINERS 4) OF WALL ST. JAIL IN SERIES OF STRUGGLES 130 COMMUNISTS and Deport Working-Class Leaders. Fear Mass Upvising 2 | |Right Wing Renegades Help Mexican Jailers basic imperialist rivalries emerge in ot 60 . ase! ‘vould Unadorned sharpness. The publica | MEXICO CITY, Dec. 28—The thirty militant trade union leaders and members of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party and Young Communist League, arrested |by the Mexican Government on or- ders from Wall Street, are being | held incommunicado in military bar- |racks and police stations in the sub- | burbs. | The Gil-Rubio-Calles ruling clique |now hob-nobbing with the bitterest jexploiters of the Mexican masses, |has instituted a vicious reign of jterror against the leaders of the rev- | olutionary workers and peasant or- | ganizations who have exposed the cringing subservience of the Mex- Hoover, Lamont and Morrow. rulers have been subjecting Mexi- can and Cuban workers to methods of torture more fantastic than those of Torquemada of the In- quisition. Barreirro, Cuban revo-| lutionist, been driven insane. A number of Cuban Communists has already rf _29.—T. M. Caudle, secretary of Lumber- | deported to Cuba, into the hands of jonal Textile Workers’ Union, stood in his doorway | jjoody Machado, the murde £ hundreds of Cuban worker of those now being held in ji thugs and guninen of the Mansfield mills not <jated for deportation. The company’s killers hesitated, and finally slunk | The list of those arrested follows: Of the Young Communist League Pino, Ana —Antonio Rodriguez, Jorg Luz Artezana, Raul Monzon, Feller, Solodeck, David Reyes turo Rosas, Con i Pablo Sanatamario, iago Diaz, Alfredo Vega, Esther Barreirro, Sa- turnino Ortega, Guillermo Enriguez, Raymundo Monsari, Carlos Vallo- (Continued on Page Three) YL EXPOSES LIBERAL'PROTEST" Weiss Case Unmasks ested powers had the somewhat un-| “F'ree Speech” Claim emonious effect of ripping the eil from the true character of the | conference. r Instead of being a milestone in ceived by Hoover at the White|jecting the union*and substituting : House. (Continued on Page Three) the direction of world peace, as the | ‘imperialists and socialists would Crisis Becoming Severest in 50 Years; 5,000,000 Jobless As the year draws to a close, the full effects of the sharpening crisis are revealing themselves more and more. Growing, devastating jevery capitalistic statistical agency reports drastic unemployment. Not one, however, has mentioned a specific figure of national un- unemployment is widespread. Wage | employment of th eworking class. cuts strike right and left. |The Daily Worker has placed the Even capitalist sources admit se- | number in excess of 5,000,000! The severe unemployment in every in- | number grows steadily, and the in- dustry. The United States Depart- | dications are that there will be the ment of Labor, the Federal Re- | severest unemployment in this coun- serve Banks, the Annalist—in fact, | (Continued on Page Three) a brook. Afraid, evidently, of drawing down the wrath of their great “leader” by getting the “wrong ling,” as they did on the Sino-Soviet crisis last summer, they remained discreetly silent week after week, filling ‘their columns with peurile gossip and slander about “new fac- tions” in the Party. But finally they have decided they simply must speak, even without the long-awaited directives from Constantinople. So, in the “Militant” of December 28, we finally receive the first word of Trotzkyist analysis of the economic crisis. On the first page, under the heading “Unem- ployment Grows with Business Decline,” is’ presented quotations from the financial journal, Annalist, picturing the catastrophic conditions of economy; the contribution to analysis comes only in the last para- graph, which gives the causes of the crisis in the following words: “Many employers devoted more time to stock gambling than to business before the crash. Now they are being forced to the wall. The long skirt has also caused demoralization. Women are refusing to buy dresses in the new style in expected quantities and the entire trade is in confusion.” . The logical program for meeting the crisis, following from this analysis, would be that employers should be forced to atend to business, and women must be made to buy long skirts. Perhaps it was only an oversight that this program was left out of the Militant. But really, the Militant need not worry about the lack of economic analysis, for it still has a certain division of labor with Lovestone and his journal, pending their formal amalgamation. Lovestone’s organ circulates among exactly the same little groups as Cannon's, and what they miss from one they can get from the other, The principle dis- tributor of both in New York is the Rand School; and both camry a lis} of dealers “Where to Buy the-——,’ which demonstrates fhat while the right wing and the Trotzkyites are still formally separated at the top, they already have a practical amalgamation of the machinery of dis- tribution of their papers at the bottom. We said that the economic crisis had brought with it a crisis in the camps of the opportunists. Perhaps that was a slight exaggeration. A crisis in their ranks, resulting from their obvious political bank- ruptey, would indicate some remnants of principle among them even though the principle was wrong.” But both camps have long abandoned any consistent principles, and their programs and policies are only a patchquilt, repaired from week to week. ee have the toiling masses believe, its professed wim of naval limitation is (Continued on Page Two) NEEDLE UNION ON SHOP BASIS Chairmen, Delegdtes to Meet Tonight on Plan A meeting of all shop chairmen and shop delegates in the Needle Irving Plaza to hear the report of | the joint board on reorganizing the union’ completely on the basis of the shop delegate system, The board’s plan is tentative, and will be made the subject for discussion. The union is engaged in a bitter struggle, which will develop into a number of sharp strikes in a num- ‘ber of dress shops as the season reopens after the first of the year, Trades Workers’ Industrial Union| will take place tonight at 7:30 at! to compel the bosses to recognize | the union, and to grant ynion con- ditions. Strengthen Organization. At the same time the employers and the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers will attempt by means of a fake strike, in which boss and I.L.G.W. cooperate, to in- _terfere with the strikes and organ- | years’ | Pennsylvania, \ization movement of the N. T. W.) LU. The N. T. W. I. U. needs the! (strongest possible form of organ- \ization with the membership par- | ticipating most completely ™ ‘the | | work of the union to carry through its camphign for union conditions _and to organize the workers. The ‘statement calling the meeting to- ‘night says: “The question of installing the full shop delegate system is a mat- ter of vital concern to our union, struggle in the dress trade and the campaign undertaken by our union | | particularly in view of the coming | IT A statement issued yesterday by the National Office of the Young Communist League exposed the reasons for the “protests” of petty- bourgeois liberal organizations re- garding the threats made by Magis- trate Sabbatino of the Court in threatening to beat David Weiss, a League member arrested for gathering contributions for the Workers International Relief. “There would be no ‘protest’ from liberal groups if Comrade had been sent to jail under the thin pretext of having violated some technical ordinance. The fact that the magistrate openly made his threats because of Weiss’ member- ship in the League does not conform with the claims of “free speech” and “demo- | eracy” made by liberal and “social- It ist” organizations. cant that the ‘socia murdered militant workers is signifi- who have by thou- ican ruling class to Morgan & Co.,| In retaliation, the Morgan & Co. | Flatbush | Weiss | Young Communist | ENGAGE WITH BOSS’ U.M.W. THUGS Unpaid Work, Long Hours, Danger, Rousing Whole Region to Need of Strike; Fight in U. M. W. Locals Strikers’ Halls Filled With Troops; Fishwick and I. W. W. Chiefs Lead Gunmen at Collinsville WEST FRA ‘ORT, lll., Dec. 29.—The southern Hlinois mine fields are seething, with a kind of open guerilla war in the Taylorville, Belleville and Franklin County territories where the miners have struck, with militia all over Christian County, and Lewis, Fishwick and coal operators’ gunmen, wear+ ing tin stars and called deputy sheriffs, in the other regions. — Everywhere the miners are dissatisfied, and more striker may be expected any time, with the leadership in the hands of ®rank and file strike commit- | tees, representing all the min- i ers at the mine, whether Na: ; tional Miners’ Union members, or .members .of .the .United Mine Workers of America. . A series of violent internal strug=, gles is going on in the U. M. W. Ay locals over joining the strike for the demands of the Nafta Miners’ Union, with the U. M. W. A. offi- Stage Mass Protest at | cials resorting to the use of gang- Hotel That Refuses sters and gunmen to preserve them= |selves in power, and try and pre- Negro Delegates vent the locals from going over of- (Special to the Daily Worker.) \ficially to the N. M. U. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 29.— Three hundred and twenty-eight | FIGHTS NEGRO DISCRIMINATION Long Hours. es The Illinois miners have many session’on Sunday of the fourth na-|the coal, with long perl tional convention of the Internation. | waiting in line in the winter al Labor Defense, adjourned and | er outside, before going dow marched in a body, together with! work and with speed-up appl nena ie anes eee | the machines, and lots of dead work demonstra f altar és : heady hela Hotel which refused: admission |.c7 ‘ose doing work iss aia |Miners have to build the “ks; to Negro delegates. Ps net’ tf a as x 3 without pay, set timbers it A police squad was lined up at pay, are oe site ; sm Hi abd the door of the hotel, but the work- ers entered and filled the lobby. nee Five hundred voices demanded the| The “bug light” isis®) registration of the Negro delegates |# menace to life. Th) and no discrimination against Ne Oe ee Cea groes. | The clerk, guarded by police be-| they. are run by elect hing the desk, refused. A strong | erated from a seven-pou... protest demonstration followed. J.| the miner carries on the back, Louis Engdahl, national secretary of | 2¢id from the battery slops out the International Labor Defense,| bums a miner’s clothes and mounted a chair and introduced as| Because the light is advertisec speakers, Frank, Negro member of | safe,” the company feels fre the workers’ jury in Gastonia; Har-|™ake its men work in almost old Williams, of the American Ne-#mount of gas, and explosions gro Labor Congress;. Pat Devine, | !ow, from the defective lamps, district organizer of the Communist SPatks made by the cutting Party; Robert Minor, editor of the’ loading machines, from breakas Daily Worker; Fred Beal, one of | high-tension wires, ete. the Gastonia defendants, and Ella} N. M. U. Local Demands Reeve Bloor. Thé National Miners Union The demonstration lasted for one) clares for certain general loca hour in the lobby. Ringing cheers | pay. greeted the demands for Negroy (Continued on Page Three, equality, the International Labor Defense, the Communist Party and the Communist International. | Pat Devine called for applications FIGHT AGAINST for membership in the Communist Party. Many workers joined the Party. The workers then sang the! International and displayed their protest banners. Five hundred dem- | onstrators then left the hotel,and|(Q)yver marched in a solid body back to the Over 300 at Mass Mc ‘convention singing revolutionary | Many Join AAAT songs. | The police, with their patrol; Over 300 Latin-Amerieaf sands in many countries join with! the Civil Liberties Union in regret- | ting the fact that Magistrate Sab- batino was too open’ in his attack “In reality the threats made against Weiss in court are but an- other example of the growing at- tacks against the workers, as shown |even more conclusively by the Gas- tonia sentences, the senténcing of Lil Andrews, Tom Johnson and Charles Guynn in Ohio to 5 to 10 imprisonment under the Criminal Syndicalist Law, and ar- rests and sentences in California, the Tlinois fields, ete. real enemy and foe of the workers— | the whole capitalist government.” Negro, White Toilers Fight _ Police Who Attack Affairs CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dee. 29.—) ers of bot! Workers resisted the action of the ‘leveland police in breaking up the as well as white workers took part in the affair. The workers fought back when to organize the unorganized work-| the police attempted to drive the Ne- ero workers from the hall, the work- ers,” | jury, and Harold Williams of the A. mine | To criticise only the) individual judges is to divert the at-|ing against Negroes was unani- tention of the workers from the! mously adopted, affair of the Labor Sports Union and! munist Party, who spoke against race! ing American aviators, rade Union Unity League, which! discrimination, © was dragged from) Sent by ‘the Soviet gove the police attacked because Negro, the platform by the police. The sol-| Northeastern Siberia in | the attempt of the police to arrest wagons lined up, threatened arrests, but they could not break the dem- onstration. Cheers greeted the. de- mands of the speakers for race equality. Banners bearing the slo- gan: “Struggle Against Race Pre- judice,” were displayed. Engdahl said: “We have been in jails before in Pittsburgh. If nec- essary we will go again.” The Ne- gro member of the Gastonia labor |Negro workers attended a me |of the N. Y. Branch of the jAmerica Anti-lmperialist Lt |Friday at New Harlem Casi protest against the wholesal |rests and torture of workei (Mexico. It is the first of at jot meetings to rally the wo |of this country against the ine ling wave of White Terror in ico. oy Leonardo Sanchez and Gon speaking in Spanish, both bre cut the great need of or the Latin-American workers in |U, S. in support of te s' of the workers and peasants i |colonial countries. When Ford, of the Trade Union (Continued ov Page 7% 3 More Soviet ‘Play N. L. C., demanded a united strug- gle against race discrimination. Fred Beal, Ella Reeve Bloor and McLoughlin scored the Melon- Grundy reign of terror in Pennsyl- vania. The Monongahela Hotel boasts of an Abe Lincoln room. A_ resolution of boycott of all hotels and restaurants discriminat- At the convention hall, the I. L, (Continned on Page Tw) Ben Eielson; BERLIN, Deé. 29.—T! | steamer Stavropol sent a | terday reporting that Gi Ejelson and Earl Borland ~ lieved to have been sig! Tchukotsky Bay in N Siterie? h races fightin, Three more Soviet ai to shoylder. sabe ark sar addition to the three € A speaker, a member of the Com-/ signed to the search for the to find Bielson and structions have been radio stations to bi weather reports to search, idarity of the workers present foiled this speaker, The police, displaying brutality, cleared the hall. The (Continued on Page Three) ght | grievances. The work day is often — y delegates who attended theopening |cight hours or more at the face of Z RS va