The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1929, Page 3

itish Oppress | Japitalists Cannot Stop Revolt ors and Indian eerut Prosecutor For “Labor” and King George Terms Study of Leninism “Debauchery” ; Ghandi and Nehru in Pre- Congress Maneuvers; British Bar Saklatvala from ‘ Attending Lahore ONDON, vice.)—Dispatches from India e that in the closing speech on .alf of the prosecution in the erut trial the prosecutor refer- ig to the young non-party journal- ‘on, declared that Hutchinson had pears that Hutchinson organized iramatic society which performed it t he then persuaded the actors to n a study circle for the purpose seading Stalin’s “Leninism”. iorities would infinitely prefer Indian youth to spend their time eal debauchery rather than that fy should study Leninism. This ce of futile insolence and insult jlivered by the prosecutor is char- eristic of the intellectual level of » whole trial as far as the prose- yion is concerned, -Congress Maneuvres of Ghandi and Nehru. the Indian nationalist leaders andi and Javahar Lal Nehru are v trying to recover some of the stige which they lost as a result heir enthusiasm in accepting the sroy’s statement and the propos- round table conference, by ex- sing “doubts” about the prom- made. The attitude of the In- National Congress (By Inprecorr Mail] dian Trade Union Congress in decid- | jing to boycott the “Whitley Com- | mission” has made it necessary to put forward some opposition if they |are to hold their positions. Ghandi has written to Fenner and author Hugh Lester Hutch-| Brockway of the Independent La-| |bor party and a member of the ie to India in order “to debauch | House of Commons expressing a de- | life of the youths of India.” It| sire for some “guarantees.... the! J |two parliamentary debates contain | speech, |} lay entitled “Red Oleanders,” and | that would give me assurance that | ib |nothing, not even Benn’s |may approach the conference with | confidence and safety”. It is also reported that Nehru is is quite clear that the British | considering whether he should re-| | pudiate the manifesto supporting the | Viceroy and the proposed conference, jof which he was one of the signato- | | ries. Bar Indian Communist. The former Member of Parliament | for Battersea, S. Saklatvald, an In- | dian Communist, applied for permis- |sion to go to India as a delegate | | to the coming Indian National Con- | gress. Wedgewood Benn, however, | refuses to grant Saklatvala the nec- |essary permission on the ground | that “the situation in India is very delicate.” It must not be forgotten that | Saklatvala is an Indian and that | Wedgewood’s action is a refusal to permit him to return to his own native country. rikay-Othe Go With Many Crises (Continued from Page One) ts December 13 issue, “state has re prisoners now than at any e before.” 00 R.R. Workers California ACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. 3 ee thousand workers in the shops ee® ‘he Southern Pacific Railway in id Off in city learned more about Hoover | White terror in Mexico, a campaign | osperity” when they were laid- 4 on Christmas. The gradual clos: * - down of railway repair shops ac- npanies the growing decrease in “jight-car loadings, a sure indica- of the severe crisis in American ffitalism. | “Whe Southern Pacific shops are y almost completely shut down, only a handful of employees were affected by the lay-off order. he Trade Unon Unity League is ming an organization campaign ng the Sacramento workers, es- ally to organize the thousands of {| mployed, A mass meeting in Jan- y, date to be announced 4ater, start the drive. ‘. ¥. Jobbers Storm Swindlers he employment agency sharks, carrion crows which accompany Hoover “prosperity” era, are tening on the ranks of the unem- ved. \ Tnemployed workers in New York vy, Who told how they had been 4 ndled by false promises of jobs, terday stormed the office of the liable Employmeni Agency on the ond floor at 849 Sixth Ave. \ver 100 unemployed painters, oenters and laborers angrily onstrated their anger, and their og militaney, as Joseph Weiner, agency shark, and his assistants }ked the office doors and tele- 13 for police reserves. he numbers of the unemployed kers swelled and their militancy rapidly. Scores of voices told the unemployed workers had | premiums of from $5 to $20 to agency and in return had been they would get work. They told they had beer sent to a fake Agency acy, and found they had been ived. he abolition of private employ- ¢ agencies, which thrive on dling the workers, is one of the ands for the unemployed, by the munist Party of the U. S. A. ek ee: \DIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec, 30.— etition in voluntary bankruptcy filed today in federal court here inst the Stutz Motor Car Co., America, by three Indianapolis itors. The Stutz Co. recently off thousands of workers in its st jess in Brooklyn, given by the’ Hoover-Rubio - Attack Rebels | (Continued from Page One) for the arrests was the growing ef- |fectiveness of the exposure of the | Ortiz Rubio-Gil-Calles regime as an appendage of U. S. imperialism in | Mexico. * |ORGANIZE MEXICAN WORKER | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—As part of the camp.ign against the ‘is being carried on to organize the | Mexican workers in the U. S., to- ) gether with the American workers. | 2 * & | | By LEON MABILLE | Over 200,000 Mexican workers are | living in and around Los Angeles. | These workers form one of the most |exploited sections of the American working class, They are working in | metal, railroad, oil, food and agri- | cultural, ander starvation conditions. | Long hours, low wages, are the or- | der of the day. In the agricultural | field men, women and children are | slaving 12 and 14 hours a day for | almost nothing. | Race Discrimination The Los Angeles Chamber of | Commerce is conducting a lying pro- | paganda campaign in Mexico about | the prosperity of American workers, | It fills the Mexican capitalist papers | with fake statements in order to _have Mexican workers inflating the |army of unemployed, this being a | good weapon to use, in order to | worsen the conditions of the working | class as a whole. | The American Federation of La- |bor bureaucracy is working hand in | glove with the Los Angeles Chamber | of Commerce by refusing to organize | the Mexican workers. They are en- | gaging in race discrimination | through their “famous” immigration | restriction. During the Upholsterers’ “general s' ership betrayed the Mexican uphols- tering workers who were the most inilitant strikers. The A. F. of L.! jsent them back to work under the same conditions os formerly. | Militancy of the Workers. | The events in the last few months |prove concretely that the workers | are ready to fight. The Mexican | workers are taking an aggressive | attitude toward rationalization, as \is best proven in the Imperial Val- ley, San Bernardind and Upland agricultural strikes. In the Consoli- dated Steel Corporation and uphols- terers strike, their response to Com- munist and TUUL meetings in spite of the persecution of the Red Squad the Chamber of Commerce, the A.F. of L. and CROM bureaucracy and the agents of Mexican reaction, proves concretely that the Mexican born workers are conscious of their position and are striving toward organization. A mass meeting was called in Los e” the A. F. of L. lead-| \Sympathetic Relations | TO THE POINT OF TEARS! The British “Labor” govern- ment boasts of its “sympathetic relations” with the native African masses. But in collecting taxes in South Africa it is using ma- chine guns and tear gas bombs. |Miners Digging in for Struggle (Continued from Page One) N. M. U. have taken up the stand |of battling by strike action against | every new encroachment, and to re- gain conditions that have been |taken away. These local strikes are, of neces- sity, directed twoard the abolition of the check off, since the check off is the operators’ favorite method of hog-tying the miners, since. the U. M, W. A. officials with their swarm of gunmen, are the fascist agents of the operators in making the miners accept every new attack on their standards and in preventing strike action against such attacks. Hence the present struggles are a series of fierce fights between the miners 'and the U. M. W. A. fascists, with |the miners battling the company ‘union gunmen to throw out the U. |M. W. and go over to the N. M. U. | Elected Committees Essential. | These local strikes, as battles of | the rank and file, are founded on Pit } Committees of the most militant | miners, elected by the miners as a | Whole, whether they are members of |thet N. M. U. or not. This is a key |point of successful struggle, and as such Pt Committees develop over wider areas a more general strike movement become spossible around | demands which arise not only from |the special conditions prevailing in | conditions in the industry from |which all miners are suffering. | The miners are determined to smash the rule of the operators that they belong to’ the company union, the U. M, W. A, While the bosses are seeking to fire every W. expel him, the miners where they meet such discrimination when re- turning to work, are again taking up the fight, not for re-instatement in the company union, of course, but for the right of the militant miners to work, and to break the check-off grip of the company union on the miners as a whole. N. M. U. to Correct Errors. The fighting spirit of the miners is unquestionable. It has over- whelmed the N. M. U. leadership which did not foresee such response and which did not prepare either itself or the miners properly. Hence |there has been considerable confu- sion, but no sense of defeat among the miners, who are through with the U. M. W. A. for keeps and know that the N. M. U. will carry on the struggle against all diffi- culties until the rank and file miners | have established thir victory against the operators and their company union. Thus the fight goes on with ‘many local demands such as the | following: | Against the check-off in all forms, in the form of dues to Lewis and Fishwick, or in the form of com- | Angeles recently under the auspices of the TUUL. In spite of only a short time notice through mimeog- raphed leaflets 200 Mexican work- ers were present. Comrade W. Sim- ons, délegate to the Montevideo Con- gress, spoke on the “Struggle of the Latin American workers against American Imperialism.” For over an hour and a half he exposed the fascist policy of the A.F. of L. and Crom, and stressed the tasks of the TUUL on the every day struggle of the workers. When comrade Simons asked the audience how many were local pits, but from the general | militant miner and have the U. M./ Page Three DAILY WORKER NEW YORK TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1929 FORCES SHIFT N. ESPONDENCE --- FROM T HE SHOPS Workers! This Is Your Paper! ew York, About Conditions in Your Shop. > THE ILLINOIS MINERS WIN INC THEM Write to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, SU Boss bh yd Illinois Steel Mills Laying Off by the Thousan¢ 1By a Worker Correspondent) IN MILITARIST CHINESE WARS Ww ang Ching-wei in 4 Sea fe loes r * BY SENDING CHICAGO (By Mail). — Fox New Maneuvers months the steel compar skew Corpo cane fo ene ber | been. cutting down on pr fis ee (By and laying off more and ; lers all the time. Here the average of steel wo SHANGHAI (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—The complicated and un- h n he mi getting s stable political situation in China , +f ys money. If ) there for ten - may be summed up roughly as fol-|Ployed is about 40 per cent, with ‘ ng in and out of | Jars they keep ten cents off « lows: about 10,000 laid off by the Illinois with parcels and smiling | (ollar and then after you receive the The Nanking government, which Steel in Gary alone. But they do not stop to look | “check” for ni ars you must for a time was prepared to resign In South Chicago and Gary the ttle boys and girls} to some ms 10 is in league voluntarily and place power in the | Illinois Steel Lasn’t hired in ov ront of the store win- |4yj the comp store, and they hands of Wang Ching-wei and his| two months. From the bos at the toys another cent off for every dol- followers, now considers that the | papers too it seems like its that They don’t stop to say eve So when you get your worst is past and that it can find |in nearly all the steel towns. an encouraging word to these half- you have paid them $1.10 f a solution to its many difficulties.| Many of the milis closed down com- fed hed children. S opebacar donne stereo; Bi Tang Shen-chi, upon whose troops | pletely a week or two before Christ-| In in Southern Illinois, |... nae company. stoke eee 600 and the Nanking government counted in|mas. But today I read how the exceptions to these con-|++ ihov pet anything to eat they its struggle against Feng Yu-hsiang,| Otis Steel Company in Clevel: Aree ea ind Serre nna Una ST EY succeeded in maintaining itself in|} worked its men all day Chr have to beg the company , No wonder the coal miners that's what. the Central China and interrupted rail-!] gues M \ I fe way communications between Pe-! mean when they talk about the an- eat. Most of them are} W*sine ot cay aah - au oe en jking and Tientsin and Pukau and archy of capitalist production yingon bread and flour |" 9 \7 a0, the Wasson (Mine jHankow. It is still not known | Unemployed Steel Worker. sravy. Yet they are working almost | \< hy? he Bone |whether Tang Shen-chi is sup-| — —— every day. You “Where f es : ee a seca ae es “ n * | Tr ae ell. rom three to eight dollars, | Although the insurrectionary) Skoda Metal Works in etimes more checked from ; reer | troops are operating in the name of . (aye ee y envelopes and goes to su ‘o get these men to strike they lWanw Ohldmwel, <i 9 doabital|. Victory Dy Striking | oe ey eee cls ac Lewis a7 fed. Already the Workers | whether the northern troops are be- ‘ ; - ck. Th of it goes mal Relief is busy sending hind him. It is possible that they |(By International Press Correspond- hoscbanee eo hets others And miners are becoming | will use his reputation in their own ence.) : Once you hay uraged by this show of solidar- jinterests and turn against him at} PRAGUE (By Mail).—During ged you may aswell from the working masses. some way | —Illinois Miner. jONE MORE REASON WHY UN- the last few weeks ther numerous demonstratic neous strikes on the the first convenient moment for the \leaders of these troops pursu |solely their own feudalist aims an Ss! IPS IS BOSSES’ jare hostile to the Kuomingtang and | various categories of workers in the G TO S CHRISTMAS. | EMPLOYED SHOULD ORGANIZE jin particular to its “left wing.” Skoda wor i s the Bal- = | 7 7 The so-called reorganizationists, | tic states al for use (By « Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) under Wang Ching-wei, have less-|against the Soviet Union. Having been for a long time un-} I went to look for a job at the ened their attacks on Chiang Kai-| ‘The cause of the discontent is that ployed, broke and entirely dis-|Tip-Top Cleaners and Dyers, 307 shek for the moment and are con- jthe management, which maintains 1 damn m of | Amsterdam Ave., y York. While centrating against Hu Han-ming, | ciose relations with the government, y I heard about|there I met a worker also looking the leader of the right wing of the |is planning a thorough rati s dinner which |for a job. He was about ions” Kuomintang and against Wang w ut | old. The boss came along 2 \tion of the workers involving the Cheng-ting, = dismissal of several thousands of ee what and there was about 18 applying for | The reorganisationists make Hu|workers, At the same time the j was advertised in the jHan-ming responsible for the| management also int: to intro- fully re of the . World. Seeing a couple of old- shameful aS of a hla duce severe wage cut: these “gifts” Ae a a) in the crowd, ue boss ence NY %, cont ie! on “ lw@Grecl ago the wi nt oY which is to aid Ls 2h ny oN x ee | “| : Si ‘tment, The| th Y on very rly, but E 0) B 2 iki i *.,.|duced in their department. The e missi ery early, | ae jking government, The reorganisa-| 6 ended yesterday with a com-| the line was so long on both sides | boss It’s none of your god |tionists hope for a compromise with leks aueeeaas He -de is of the of the hall that I ng to the | damn bu! .” The worker says, Raat Kai ae ecalse mee ee Wotkess have been granted, there Here also the same. Well, T want to find out. \that a victory o: ie North would |will be no wage reductions and the I got e and after At that the boss hauled off and |destroy the Kuomintang. | A conference of the generals hos- trike and asked all| hit the worker in the face. The |molders will be paid for the worker was so severely injured that stions, I was | tile to the Nanking government has 4@YS- lope with a jhe had to go to the hospital. If the taken place in Tsingtau. ‘he re-| The meeting which called off the Es Gt e|unemployed organized this stuff sults of the conference are not yet strike also adopted a re nee 2 Mola bes topped, a (4 3 dl and they brought | a pany stores. should the management or the filthy enough to | PLUME HELPERS STARYV- i f cial fascists make the least atte ‘ For pay for all dead work, taking couple of| ING WITH CONDITIONS up bottoms, moving rock, setting | t¢ break the agreement. lops. I didn’t | UNBEARABLE. timber, laying reads and pushing | = ioe meee | (By a Worker Correspondent. cars. PHILA. METAL LEAGUE oaching | Looking for a job as a eaeneee For employment of motormen and | STARTED e oppressing class will have |helper on a Monday is no cinch. | trip riders where motors are used. PHILADELPHIA, P: dishes and mop flc for | Due to unemployment in the build- Against the speed-up. More men) The Metal Wor to the least, like the | ing trades the majority of the work- on conveyors, 15 minutes rest per-| League of Philadelphia has offili- “nobility” of rist Russia. s are unemployed. Conditions are iod twice a day on machines. | ated with the International Labor —JACK A.|so unbearable that the majority of Abolition of docking. |Defense and will send delegates to — ‘the workers are starving. The RATIONALIZE ROCK HILL. MILL ROCK HILL, S. C. (By Mail). The Cutter Manufacturing Co. h mnomized” the workers’ ¢ There were three sweepers © card room, getintg $10 to $11 More wash houses, lockers and/+n6 national conference of the De- sprays. | ; ; |fense organization in Pittsburgh. | Cages provided for lowering ‘and | “Similar ation occurred in Seo We ana po er ey leareies section of the Necdle 1 eee ma taleting sBaft. | Workers Industrial Union which wil | nepolition of ‘waiting time 0) send two delegates to the monthly jenter the mine» hug light, more | conference of all LL.D. branches in | “ies NE NEA More | Philadelphia, at 7 rth Sixth |air and better ventilation. 4 ne oe |on the first Monday of each month. ' workers would be glad to put in more than six months a year of work if it was possible with union es. But the F.L. officialdom n't care at all. So today we will find union plumbers competing with . The management took two | helpers for a $4 a day job that may off and cut the re- a week. Today there sa wage 10 per cent.'crowd of 200 looking for such a t to Equal pay on the tonnage basis |behind all under-cutting machines. | Man ways and adequate protec- ‘tion for abulage and high tension | wires. | & | Against all wage cuts proposed, i. | whether direct from the company or} | through the U.M.W.A. | & | In the fight for these and other demands, the miners, knowing the | scab character of the U.M.W.A. of- | ficials, of necessity are preventing |these traitors from “leading the \strike,” since such “leaders” very deliberately betray the struggle as they are agents of the operators. Sixth Anniversary Celebration Saturday Evening, January Iith TUUL, the majority of the workers os present raised their hands. The out- come of this meeting resulted to 20 TUUL applications. Lack of Spanish Literature! The Los Angeles TUUL Center is issuing a monthly agricultural bul- letin in Spanish. This bulletin wil] be a great help for the organiza- tion of the tens of thousands of agricultural workers. $3 Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a in accord with the policies of the Worker Correspondent. TONIGHT NEW YEAR’S EVE WORKERS COSTUME BALL . ROCKLAND PALACE 155 TH STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUE VERNON ANDRADE NEGRO ORCHESTRA WORKERS INTERNATIONAL Admission 75¢ in advance. $1.00 at door CONDUCTORLESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NAOHM BENDITSKY, Cellist DORSHA, Interpretive Dancer Speakers: : ROCKLAND PALACE 155th Street and Eighth Avenue. Prices: 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 i Tickets on Sale: Daily Worker TAYLOR GORDON, Noted Baritone in a group of Negro songs Auspices: WORKERS SCHOOL ROBERT MINOR ALFRED WAGENKNECHT JAMES FORD MAX BEDACHT RELIEF Local New York RELIEF! {But also to learn how to If Fighting Wage Cuts Means Being A Bolshevik She’s One! (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail). —I was working in a dr shop of about 200 workers, located on Los Angeles St. It was a week before Christmas when the boss was to arrive from New York, not only ‘where he got samples for garments, squeeze workers more profits fro mthe through rationalization. The forelady, boots, collected licking the bosses’ money from the | workers to give him a “happy recep- tion” on his arrival. Two militant workers seized the opportunity to explain to their fel- low-workers why we shouldn’t do- nate for the bo: That on his ar- rival he will cut the prices on the garments, not only to cover his ex- penses, but to make bigger profits. “Oh, don’t talk so, that is not right, he wouldn’t do it,” claimed the forelady. “But is it right to deduct 3 cents from a floor girl who gets $16 a week, because she was late several minutes,” I replied. On the following day a worker was collecting for a Christmas pres- ent for the forelady. I explained to the workers why we shouldn’t do- nate. The forelady represents the interests of the bosses, and let the boss, whose watchdog she is, buy her a present. Upon arrival of the boss, the | prices on certain garments were cut. |A workers’ commttee was gotten up |to protest against it. The following day I was refused work. Upon asking the forelady |why I was refused work, she re- |plied, before all the workers, “You are too much of a Bolshevik.” | If fighting against reductions | means being a Bolshevik, then I am one.—B. R. Our own age, the sourgeots age, in distinguished by this—that It has simplifive class antagonisms. More and more, avciety | ap into two great hostile camp { Into two great and dir posed classes: bourgeo: letarint —Marz, job. Boys 16 years old without ex- perience to plumbers of 45 years. | Away with the labor fakers of the | A.P.L, Let’s us organize under the true banner of the T.U.U.L, TH | Anniversary Daily Worker | SEND | GREETINGS |FROM THE WORKERS IN THE SHOPS AND FROM ) YOUR UNION, YOUR FRA- | TERNAL ORGANIZATIONS. | DISTRIBUTE THOUSANDS at shop, mine and mill gates, }i. we “ingeiass neighborhoo. | Place Your Order Now! get subscriptions |Ask your fellow workers in your shop to subscribe. Visit workers who live next door to |you for subscriptions. Subscrip- | tion blanks have been sent to | every party uni | celebrate in your city | Organize a mass meeting, hold a concert, an affair of some kind to celebrate the Sixth Anniversary of the Daily Worker. Elect Your Daily Worker Representative Every party unit, section, dis- trict must have a Daily Work- er representative. 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