The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1929, Page 3

DI ATLY W ORKER,: 'W YORK, MONT __ Page Three Three , DECEMBER 30, 1 _ Polish Consuls i in U.S.S.R. a Caught in Anti-Soviet Plot ™~ es ~ ist spies, headed by the Polish Vice _ A large workers’ defense corps is Vi ice Consul and Others at Kharkov Proven Officials of Polish | sentative Barbour, Secret Service; Nabbed Red-Handed Buying Soviet Military Plans; Shouters of “Soviet Propaganda”—Please Note! Dispatches from the Soviet Union state that at Kharkov, the state poli- tical administration has uncovered an txtensive plot of foreign imperial- Consul Nezbszitski of the Polish consulate at Kharkov, Thirty-three persons have been arrested. The Polish consulate was the headquarters of the extensive spy system which organized a big staff of spies to gather military informa- tion and other reports on Soviet organization. Voltchak, are exposed as officials of the seeret service of the Polish gov- ernment. |tic privileges to bring money from. outside the Soviet Union to finance counter-revolutionary organizations that try to overthrow the Soviet | Government. Soviet authorities announce they have positive proof of the complic- ity of the Polish officials as man- agers and organizers of the spy system. They caught one spy hand- ing over certain Soviet military Nezsizitski and his chauffeur, Indian Leaders Split on How Best to Betray (Continued from Page One) | le tool for British imperialism, in| attempt to gut the revolutionary mass action of the Indian workers and peasant Gandhi s that many of the petty-bourgeois representatives at the congress were men “of violent thought and would not realize that they must be protectors of the Vice- roy and also see that not a hair of any English child must be harmed.” Gandhi exagerates somewhat on the} intent of these representatives of the Indian petty-bourgeoisie. The violent thought and desire to wipe out the brutal, military domi- nation of British imperialist pro- ceeds from the masses who have been repeatedly betrayed by Gandhi, as well as by those whom Gandhi oppo: While pointing out that “the mil- lions Britain pending on the army was not for defense, but to keep In- dians down,” Gandhi draws the very same conclusion that MacDonald and the British imperialists want him to when he says, “The only way} to justify the removal of the British Army is by non-violence.” In other words, in their growing mass strikes, the Indian workers should permit themselves to be mur- dered in cold blood by the imperial- ist soldiers of the “labor party.” The very strife within the ranks of the bourgeoisie shows that the masses are on the move against British imperialism and that their mood will brook no weak paliatives offered by the Indian bourgeoisie and their British masters. * * * Dispatches from London point out that the British ruling class are deeply concerned by growing revolu- tionary events in®India. J. L. Gar- vin, a capitalist authority on Indian politics, writing in The Sunday Ob- server, says, “That a vast problem, in a few weeks at the furthest, will begin to tower over every other is- sue and may effect parties and pol- ities like nothing since the World War.” Comparing the Indian ques- tion to the Irish question, Garvin says: “The Indian question is like the former Irish question, except that it is a hundred times larger and a thousand times more complicated, with imaginative emotionalism cap- _able of working itself to far higher pressure and with explosive pos- sibilities in proportion.” By which he means that the mas- ses in India have reached a high revolutionary pitch, are disgusted with the bourgeois leadership, and stand on the threshold of revolution. N. T. W. U. Oxganizer Drives Out Lynchers (Continued from Page One) the boss rule to all of the workers, saying, “Sign this statement if you want to go to work Monday morn- If you’re for the union, don’t ” sign. Scores of workers did not sign the statement, although it means loss of jobs. Some workers kicked out the bosses’ men when they came around with the statement. ‘Thursday night, there was a Na- ‘ tional Textile Workers Union meet- ing scheduled. The local secretary was warned that the company ‘planned a massacre that night. The lights were to be turned off in the whole mill village and the shoot- “ing was to begin then. Knock Out Gunmen. However, Caudle outwitted the bosses. One of the company hench- men named G. W. Fields, shot off his revolver at the beginning of the meeting and was promptly slapped down by a worker for trying to pro-, voke a riot. The meeting was then adjourned to another date, the next night the company gangsters went tearing up and down he mill village streets, shoot- ing and yelling, “There atn’t gonna be no union here!” ‘Then they, paid their visit to the union secretary, saying it was “in the name of the good citizens of Lumberton.” They got such a hot reception from Caudle and his wife that they “slunk back like whipped dogs with their tails between their legs,” as the workers say here. Build Defense Corps, The union organization goes on. being organized and the textile work- ers are determined to defend their meetings and their right to organize at all costs. They are warning such bosses ‘agents as G. W. Field, R. A. Bain and A, B. Martin, gang lead- , to keep their distance. The workers all know that Ex- |the revolutionary worker: plans to Nezbsizitski. '30 Communists in Mexico Jailed (Continued from Page One) lid, Efrain Protot, Ceja and two members of the telephone syndicate, Eduardo Calero. Of the Communist Party—Fer- nando Junco, Alejandro Barreirrro, Concepcion de Barreirro, Julio Ros- sowsky, Manuel Cotono Valdez, Ma- ria Cuellar, Alfonso Cuellar. Houses broken into and searched— House of Gaston Lafarga, of the Barreirro family, and of the Cuellar family. The raid on the Communist Party and Young Communist League meet- ings was personally directed by General Eulogio Ortiz commander of the Valley of Mexico acting di- rectly for the Mexican Govern- ment whose chief agents are now being slobbered over by Hoover, Lamont and Morrow. Mexican government half-wittedly announces that those arrested are “anarchists,” and are suspected of | “plotting against the life of| |Calles.” Anyone attempting to | bring food to the prisoners is ar- rested. A Bolivian writer was ar- rested when he sought an interview with those who were being tor- tured by the Mexican government. The entire attack of the Mexican government is directed against the Communist Party, Young Commun- ist League and the revolutionary trade unions, as these are the only ing against the outright selling of the masses to Wall Street by the Rubio-Calles clique. revolt, have been relased. Rubio has made repeated attempts to con- ciliate the Vasconcelists, who really represent the same petty-bourgeois Mexican force. During his election campaign, Rubio offered peace and co-operaton to Vasconcelas, in order to unite against the workers and peasants’ movement, which they both ruthlessly suppressed. The at- tack on the Communists and rev- olutionary trade unionists is an at- tempted blow at the vanguard of 's and peas- | ants. Back of the vicious raids and ar- rests is the fact that the Young Communist League and the Com- munist Party have been carrying or a vigorous anti-militarist cam- paign. A leaflet was issued attack- ing Calles politically as the assassin of the Communist Party organizer in Durango, Guadeloupe Rodriguez, who was killed last Spring. The leaflet exposed Calles as a tool of Yankee imperialism. The obvious confirmation of these facts in the eyes of the Mexican masses by the delight with which Calles and Ru- bio were received by the U. S. imperialistic bankers and hangmen of the Mexican workers enraged the servile belly-crawlers at the head of the Mexican government. Young Communist League and revolutionists, the Wall Strret pup- pet government is getting the full support of the right-wing renegades led by Fritz Bach, Diego Rivera, who are handsomely paid by the Mexican government for their val- uable aid in misleading the masses in the interest of Wall Street. Part of this bloody money was sent to Lovestone to help him carry on the same work in the United States through his ‘Counter-Revolutionary Age.” The Bach-Rivera-Lovestone group have the support of de Negri, Minister of Indsutry, Commerce and Labor, one of the leading fores in the wholesale attacks on the revo- lutionary organizations. The International Labor Defense is co-operating with the Mexican Red Aid in a fight against the Mex- ican white-terror, Fight for the re- lease of the hostages of Wall Street in Mexico! Smash the united front of Wall Street, Ortiz Rubio, Fritz Bach, Diego Rivera and the Lovestonites! PRINTERS LOSE IN “ARBITRA- TION.” CHATANOOGA, Tenn. (By Mail) Altho the award of “Arbitrator” Judge Bachman means that the printers here suffer an actual de- crease in wages, the publishers are still fighting the award, seeking still worse conditions for the print- ers. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. the mill owners, and that the work- ers must rely on their own strength Governor McLean controls _ the vs rr, and police in een for Workers Union. and organize the National Textile They used their diploma- | To cover its terroristic deeds, the! political bodies exposing and fight- | | A number of followers of Vascon- celo, who openly announced armed } In its attack, tortures and ar-| rests on the Communist Party, | \U. S. Imperialism | Spends $500,000,000 More for V War Plans WASHINGTON, D Dec. 29.—Repre chairman of the | House appropriations subcommittee at a conference with Hoover, an- nounced that the appropriations bill |for war expenditures would be one lof the first measures presented to Congress after Jan. 6, when Con- gress reassembles. The bill provides for an expendi- ture for war purposes of $453,788,- |000. Two bills for war expenditures | have already been passed. The one to be presented after Jan. 6 is the third this year, making the largest jwar expenditure in the history of | U. S. imperialism outside the actual period of the world war. Crisis Grows Severest in U.S. in 50 Years (Continued from Page One) |class for the past fifty years! Every optimistic pronouncement | in the capitalist press is a fake. There is not a single fact that prom- | ises an immediate alleviation of the | deep-going crisis. In their diplomatic, vague lan- |guage, the more open capitalist papers see chaos ahead for Ameri- can capitalist economy. Says the Annalist (Dec, 27): “As to the business outlook after the opening of the new year, it seems pretty evident to the realist that some additional in- fluences of a repressive charac- ter will make themselves felt.” More crisis, more unemploy- ment, more wage cuts this means. Still further the Annalist says: “Another, and probably more powerful depressing influence, is the coming effect on speculative confidence of the much lower cor- porate earnings which will begin to be announced next month, rep- | representing the effects of the | current fairly severe depression in business.” The vicious circle of capitalist | jcrisis makes the Hoover-Green- |Lovestone cry of “nothing wrong |with the fundamental structure of American imperialist economy” | ‘ sound like the befuddled mumbling of opium eaters. In the Dec. 20 issue, the Annal- ist gives about the clearest picture of the present economic crash that |has yet come from a capitalist | spokesman: “The outstanding fact of the | business situation is the de- crease in activity which has al- feady occurred..This decrease stands, moreover, as the great- est which has occurred in any one month. in the entire post-war per- | iod; and in all probability it rep- | resents the most severe decline in business activity that has oc- curred in any one month in the dast half century, with the ex- ception of those which occurred in the years 1893 and 1907.” j Only twice in fifty years, says this organ of imperialism, has U. S. capitalism suffered such a severe | {slump as it is now undergoing—| jand it has just entered on the brink’! \of this crisis! This crisis “cannot be | set aside as likely to be temporary and inconsequential,” warns the An- | nalist to its capitalist readers, | | We pointed out before that all) \basie industries were severely hit, | | i} dustry at about 50 per cent of the total workers usually employed. In| some plants the entire working force is out. Another capitalist barometer of | the sharp crash in the productive | machinery is the use of electric| |power. And the New York Times | (Dec. 29) adds this fact among the; thousands proving the severity of | |the present crisis: “In the Middle West ,however, throughout the greater part of | the region between the Alleghan- | ies and the Missouri River, a sharp | | decline in industrial production ap- | pears to have taken place. While this is especially pronounced in the steel and allied products and automobile centres, the decrease in the use of industrial power would seem to indicate the exten- sion of curtailment into many other lines of heavy manufactur- er. The Rocky Mountain region showed a further drop in the out- put of electricity below the amount used the year before, re- flecting an increased curtailment in mining and smelting.” Another bourgeois financial writer crisply sums up the main features of the present crisis by pointing out that: “Steel produc- tion is almost down to 40 per cent of capacity; bank clearings are less than even in 1927, and railway net earnings are 24 per cent below 1928,” On top of this, wires from the Federal Reserve Banks show: “Tex- | tiles are sub-normal, according to} New England reports, while trade! is especially light in the southwest and in the St. Louis districts. Fac- tory production has been cut sharp- ly in St. Louis.” Mayor Miller in St. Louis has been forced to take up the unem-} ployment problem — unemployment indeed must be severe when a capi- alist mayor takes note of it! As in Detroit, the mayor is “studying” the question. The Federal Reserve board re- ports still further indications of crisis. Debits to individual ac- counts in banks dropped 24 per cent preceding week and 14 per cent be- low the total of last year. To the propagandists of prosperity, facts like these are like the slash of a razer at their threadbear attempts to drum up optimism. try ever experienced by the working | |the Polish authorities. |hands of the Polish fascists and of |the renegades Yaremitch, | viteh and their friends who sup- | ants |the bank clearings show there was jnow of the theory of exceptional- below the total reported for the | » FASCIST POLAND! SAVAGE AGAINST RUSS MINORITY | |Polish White Russian + People Oppress sed WARSAW (B Servee)—At a Communist parliament with the White Russian deputies, the association lrob,” and the Peasants Mutual Aid Asso- ciation, a declaration concerning the situation in the Western Ukraine and in West White-Russia was adopted. The declaration points out that the Polish buorgeoisie regards the two districts in question as its col- | onies. | Following upon the coup d’Etat of | Pilsudski in May, 1926, the terror against the working population of the districts occupied by the Polish | buorgeoisie increased tremen- | dously. The struggle of the West White- s and peasants fa linate national and social freedom was one long chain of plocty senphven i torture, imprison ar }labor. There was not a lage in West White-Russi did not sorrow for some of " Inprecorr Mail int session of the fraction ommunist bers murdered by the Polis or military or flung into Polish | prisons. ian schools have been completely destroyed. All cul- |tural and educational institutions |can hardly live at all under the grip | | which Polish facism has placed on| their throats. The West Whi Russian workers and peasants press | has been completely destroyed by | Mass ar- rests of workers and peasants ar carried out again and again. "| All delegates who journeyed to| the Soviet Union were arrested on their return for no othe’ Every attempt of the White. parliamentary deputies to sy their constituents ended in The White-Rus Russian blood- Shed owing to the intolerable prov- F ocations of the police and military There was not a single White-Rus- | sian worker or peasant deputy who! had not been wounded and 1 handled by the police or military at some time or the other. The blood of the WhiteRussian workers and peasants stained the Stanke- ported the Polish fascist bourgeoisie |and its dictatorship of terror. These {same people, however, were indig- | nant because the workers and peas- of the Soviet Union had placed a number of counter-revo- Ivtionists on trial. The young White-Russian bour- *|geoisie aims at a block with the © Ukrainian compromisers who dem- onstrated their agreement with I lish fascism during the raid on the Soviet Consulate in Lemberg. This | fascist raid once again sh real nature of the Ukr prorisers in the preparation of war against the Soviet Union, and in particular against Soviet White- Russia. The treachery of the West-White Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish and Ger- with unemployment in the steel in-| man cocial fascists will not hold up these joined to terroriz the joint struggle of the working | mes against their common en-| emy, Polish | fascism. business indications, bank clearings. Bank clearings show the amount of | business done in a given Hoover announced himself with the Christmas _ busine: |a drop of at least 12 per cent below last year, and a drop of 25.4 per cent below last week! Business during Christmas week was 25.4 per cent below the previous week! That a severe ci in capitalist economy exists is not denied -by anyone—even Lovestone will soon begin to see “sppttyness” in the economic situation, What is left ism, which is based on what Love-} stone considers the exceptional | economic position of American econ- | omy? | All capitalist agencies, including | the right wing renegades try to ‘ameliorate the effect of the severe crisis in the eyes of the masses, This is done to attempt to allay the fighting spirit of the workers against the barrage of wage-cutting attacks. It is an attempt to sooth the unemployed into the belief that work will soon come. The Communist Party points out) |to the workers that unemployment | lis just beginning in its present | severe and acute stage, and that the | workers must immediately organize; for unemployed relief, Jinking up this fight with strong resistance to wage-cutting campaigns now being undertaken by the bosses under the | guidance of the A. F. of L. mislend- | ership. The Rev. A. J. Muste is already | holding out the life net for the A. F. of L. He says that in 1930 gi- gantic mass battles of the workers are sure to arise, and he fears that | the A. F. of L. will not be able to} stifle or mislead the workers. He rushes into the breach trying to soften the blow of the workers and to save the A. F. of L. as a valua- ble tool of American imperialism— especially in the present crisis. SAW | MILLS CLOSE. COLLETON, S. C. (By Mail).— Over 400 families are thrown out of employment by the closing down And then Sowtes that gospel of ) of eight big saw mills of the Ritter Co. in this section, ‘ crime. k WORKERS’ CORRESP SPONDENCE : - FROM THE SHOP* ERE s, About Conditions i in Your Shop. Workers! This Is Your Papeg jf aed |Buffers Strike at Gen. Bumper; Lacking § FARMERS AIDING : COAL MINERS INSTRIKE! Unonthe Bore | CHICAGO (By Mail).—The Gen- feral Spring and Bumper Corpora- ’ ‘Write to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square r 'wo Examples of Hoover “Prosperity” for the Workers (Bia Warler Carrennanaens) MONE ROVIA, C s old ¢ fail).—I ild get them organized and months. My last HA SRS ET GI a Maan ee tion at 1455 West 38th St. 1s very Ford plant in Los Py Mesa tectt doing cone rn oine to Kentucky to or-|PUSY slashing the wages of the dees I have been doing some am going to Kentucky to or-|PUSY ashing Wie Wawes or see the National Miners’ you send Daily Work- and addresses I people never get apitalist paper? are ready to do W work ions near and a nh very 1 gave them declares war These .farm on the worke: All of them liked |their part if they think it is the it. right thing. I think they will sub- They something scribe to the paper as the miners rs’ International Re made three cuts. The buffers used to make $1.10 an hour only a few months ago, but now they make only 50 cents an hour, Last Monday about 100 buffers went out on strike, but they had no organization and no leadership to lead them, and boss told them to go worse Union. to the end in, as tt a penitentia I was a mer f the union for 24 years, and out of w , they won’t do a: for me. hav Hoover agains’ ers mes Engineers I am now but a any paper are (By a Wi Rice ; ar 3 ; 4 ect to the devil. Some of them went MT MORRI t from what they have. 12 joo; When & man Who gers i. (thers, and some of them woth y am hike a pubes of em 1 them The Daily Worker misses one issue he is | ‘ere» an Worker and some other literature lletting it be known.—R. G. MINER. The only way for workers to stop the slashing of wages and pre- vent themselves from being worked 12 hours a day is to join the Trade Union Unity League, the only work- ers’ organization in America which is organizing the workers into mths we haven't 3 | bers who are port, and w monthly pay are all of fe that we can’t send an. COMMUNISTS ORGANIZE | VANCOUVER JOB 3 | (By a Worker Correspondent) ~| VANCOL ve R, B. C. (By Mail). can ment to the x Fight Police Who Try te Break Up Negro, White Workers Affair uni nine. ena »mploymen ohana i : —HOD Grith é oe ae Sania) | fighting industrial unions. p would be especially good just now| (Continued from Page One) The shop above-mentioned has ; | Hot St Stru heats Caeireen: ; 3 workers left, singing the Interna-|some employment shark-hiring men SURUSS zed over 1,000 un - during | 4 for them, and every one that gets a job must pay this shark $15. —WORKER. ROCKEFELLER CO. UNION SIGNS FAKE WAGE AGREE- MENT. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (By Mail).— The Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana s Championship Meet, has gone through the motions of is association but another! signing a “collective agreement” the bourgeois chain of sports| covering workers in the Tennessee- ions controlled by the A.A.U,| Arkansas district, designed to fool itself directly controlled by| the workers through its company of the U. S. Wi ar Depart- | union. statement say is one of a long series of WANT UNTHINKING SLAVES. ninations by the bos-| NEW ORLEANS, La., (By Mail). ¢ ‘s They aid] —“‘We need morons in industry,” the bosses to maintain Jim-C rowism | said Dr. R. N. Bond at a “vocational | and thus attempt to keep the Ne-|experts’” meeting. “They do the nd white workers divided. | work we don’t want to do,” Bond abor Sports Union, which! said, the only real amateur s' (a that stands on t vin-| Labor Defense auspices, at which cla truggle, is the) both Negro and white workers were rgal tion which fights| present. ull political, economic and social Before the meeting was officially lity for the Negro race. The{ opened there was also a dance. Labor Sports Unich calls upon both} About 10.30 p. m. a squad of police » and Negro athletes to join! entered, and threatened to arrest s in our fight against all) the whole house as a “disorderly of racial discrimination and| house,” because Negro and white workers danced together, The work- ners; Gunmen of Negro Players. ment issued by the Labor Union in New York yester-} sailed the action of the bour- n Tennis Associz ro tennis play onal Junior Indoor ed froin Page pplying all (Con One) miner ; Manc to | which are: 1. Fight 2 all forms, wick Company s 2Pay for all Theatre were growed ets and mimeo- d out its st arely a shi ff in vis, Fish- otherwise work of all aphed le moving to th [If we only and make < sible. Los down and jobs will be hen’: how the work left in this period. | n take advantage of ity Vink mistakes as pos-| , 3. Where motors are used in |mines, employment of motormen and trip ride: & Abolition of » More wash Hees sprays. 6. No overtime work . Cages to be prepared for the lowering d raising of miners at jall air shafts as well as the main he few |My hich ng camps are about to close | s scarce as slope this york has all been c the Communist Party s are falling in line docking and fines. hi facilities, an mption of men waiting in ’ halls, ylorville, ; and in both in Co- continue to the hands .M.| Paylorville the Il- gainst the speed-up. teen minutes of rest per 10, Abolition of bug light 11, Equal pay on the tonnage | V basis behind all undercutting ma- chine: ciple of only sports the of the oper AS tection from h sion electric forms for full social and political equality a ae be ee a for the Negro race. ers present were not over-awed by vith these go general demand : the police, and the latter finally had for the 6-hour day, ay week, MORE, Md. (By Mail)—| to Jeave.” Ly |No discrimination against Negro solidarity of workers, | and young miners, recognition of being promoted in Balti- the N. M. U. etc. more by~ the Communist Party, makes the bosses and their courts ! RE. Sia Gunmen at Coello. | sperate every time it is dis- | s speakers. } Saturday, a checkweighman at will be a step toward s f jone of the struck mines at Coello,|ing the terror of the operat who had approached the mine tipple, | the deputized gunmen of the f of this is seen in the action of the courts in sending a squad police to break up a meeting was driven away at the point of leveled at b by the deputized | A. \ fy) xen of the United Mine Worl Must Feed Strikers. and dance, held under International | e” of America, chief strike-break- | BURGH, Pa. Dec. * ers of the operato from the Illinois s revolt cf the Arthracite 1.iners de- . i t Allied with the is the inue to pour into the na- Is that or Anni Tt I. W. W. These have te vIquarters of the National! that field also. With the ¢ ve Sar y nion. of the Anthracite agreemen Fall cf 1930, there will begin the to crush tive part in the attempt the strike of the mine nds of dollars are nebded perintendent of the t once for organizers, for the ex- most bitter national struggle of the} ¢ No. 1 at Collinsville recently ale pansion of the struggle, to pro-| miners in the history of the Amer- | ‘a orker upon two of the local leaders of vide relief for the striking miners, ican working class. | y the T. W. W. and the chieftains| their wives and childven, and for) All funds should be sent at once | of the U. N. M. A, and together | bail to free jailed pizke to National Miners Union, 119 Fed- the stri At the same time t kers, ! 2 growing /eral street, N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. | SEND GREETINGS | FROM THE WORKERS IN: THE SHOPS AND FROM | YOUR UNION, YOUR_FRA- es AL ORGANIZATIONS, DISTRIBUTE. | THOUSANDS at shop, mine and mill gates, Jaturday Evening, January Iith | woe atcinss ‘usleee "Place Your Order Now! get subscriptions | Ask your fellow workers your shop to subscribe. Vii workers who live next door you for subscriptions. Subserd tion blanks have been sent every ,party unit. celebrate in your city Organize a mass mee a concert, an affair kind to celebrate the Anniversary of the Worker. Sixth ih cae Celebration ho ae Elect Your. Daily Worker Representative Every thd unit, pegtie trict must have a D. er representative. a where the party has meml ship must name a represent | tive. " CONDUCTORLESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NAOHM BENDITSKY, Cellist DORSHA, Interpretive Dancer JAMES FORD Sbeakers: MAX BEDACHT ROCKLAND PALACE 155th Street and Eighth Avenue. 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