The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1930, Page 1

1930 Dawns in Flames of Class Sirueg! Throughout the World; the Red Flag Already Raised in India; tife First Workers’ Republic Speeding Ahead; Imperialist War Preparing. New FI NAL CITY EDITION Soviet Republics Are To Be Born! Hutered as eit b: = — nal = ser —_ . Vol. VL, No. 256 oe ee ee a NEW YO eg le ene a Price 3 Cents > a: | Ricietien the Class Front GHANDI LEADS in Illinois The strike in the Illinois coal fields marks the entry into open struggle, ‘of large numbers of mine ,workers, against rationalization, unemployment, and against the Lewis-Fishwick machine of the com- pany-unionized U.M.W.A., under the leadership of and for the program of the National Miners Union. The Illinois struggle became a political struggle on the first day. The striking miners were faced from the very beginning with a united front of reaction extending from the coal barons and their gov- ernment through the Lewis-Fishwick machine down to the I.W. and renegades from the Communist Party. One of the main e acteristics of the struggle is this united front of reaction which has developed definite fascist methods of suppression as in the struggles of the Southern textile workers led by the National Textile Workers Union. 4 The miners and their families have shown splendid courage and determination in the face of mass arrests and open fascist suppression. The struggle is a social struggle. It has involved practically the whole , working class—men, women and children—in a number “of commu- nities. A response of this kind to the strike call of the National ¢ Miners Union, in spite of the almost complete lack of preparation for the strike, and the serious organizational weaknesses of the strike itself, shows that the burdens placed upon the workers by the intensified drive of the coal barons against the living standards of the miners have be- come unbearable. é It is clear that had the correct program of the Trade Union Unity League been carried out by the leadership of the National Miners Union, instead of 10,000 miners going into struggle that at least double this number would have joined the strike and that the decisive coal producing counties—Franklin and Williamson—would have become the real center of the struggle instead of hanging on the edges of this class battle. The response of the strike shows that there was serious under- estimation by the National Miners Union leadership of the. will to struggle of the miners. To this basic error must be ascribed the failure to make the necessary preparations for such an important conflict. To organize a struggle a leadership must know when workers are ready , for struggle. A further weakness was the failure to carry out both before and during the strike the elementary task of organization of rank and file committees of action and struggle—to build such committees be- {Ghandi Turns Over Thru Gassy Gazette | INDIA CONGRESS Santa Claus Outfit | AGAINST ACTION iVote Down Only Move Meaning a Fight for Freedom GASTONIA, N. C., Dec. 31—The Gastonia Gazette, or the “Gassy Gazette,” as the mill workers scorn- fully eall it, tried to substitute the garb and long whiskers of Santa Claus for the lynching mask thi Christmas,*and aid the mill bosses \through its “Empty Stocking Fund,” |designed to fool the mill workers, a Narge part of whom are unemployed For Non-Violence Only |2"¢ “vine. | It scattered crumbs With an air of doing wonders for the self-same workers’ families, whom it had aided in reducing to starvation by slander- a ing the wor efforts to organize Lahore, India, dispatches indicate | under the N. T... for better condi- that the native bourgeois National- | tions. WwW ist Congress is backing the “holy”| In a recent issue, the “Gassy Ga- faker Ghandi in the votes taken so) zette” admitted that over a quarter far in the open assembly. Previous- | of a million workers in North Caro fy, the reported actions were all in|lina were unemployed. Men for Punishment committees. With pride, the Gazette, instiga- The assembly voted down anitor of the murder of Ella May, amendment proposed by Subash| writes, “It may be of interest to the Bose for complete severance from Great Britain and the establishment of a Nationalist Government of’ In- dia. This was an amendment tq Ghandi’s treacherous proposal for “gradual attainment” of independ- ence by “non-cooperation” and “‘non- violence”. This amendment was the cnly vital thing the congress could have done—but it did not do it. The presiding officer did not allow a count on the votte, The congress reflected the inher- ent cowardice of the bourgeoisie, in going out of its way to condemn the recent (and. probably framed bomb attack on the train of public to know that a representative of The Gazette yesterday carried Christmas cheer, food, fuel and clothing to survivors of the Ella |May Wiggins family.” as a cheerful New Year thought it declares, “One of the first resolves this community should {make right here and now, is to per- |mit no more meddling around here |by these Communists and Nationa) |Textile Workers Union trouble makers...They. are threatening to come again in the spring. What*will this community do about it?” | The “Gassy Gazette” has taken off ASK RELIEF: FIRED ON “0reWhuteTerror BY “SOCIALIST” POLICE \Cologne,,Demonstration Attacked; | Wounded; 100 Arrests Include Reichstag Member, Communist iDocument “Exposing” } | (Wireless by Inprecorr) | BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Yester- iday evening 10,000 unemploy- |ed. demonstrated before the | City Hall at Cologne, in sup-| |port of the proposal of the Communist fraction in the City, | Council to grant special winter) | assistance to the unemployed. The police, under direct lead- jership of the “socialist”, polic | chief, clubbed the jobless work- fers but without dispersing their demonstration. | The “socialist” | hundred were also arrested, in- | cluding the Communist mem- ber of the German Reichstag, | Kollwitz. The City Council re- jected the Commis proposal. The German capitalist press has |published an alltged “secret” circu- ‘Now Admitted Forged; Excuse for Repression . e| then orders} | the police to fire, and many of | the workers were wounded. A} on His Return MEXICO CITY, Dec. —Ortiz Rubio is on his way to Mexico City, after his honeymoon with’ his im- perialist masters, Morgan and Co., Lamont, Morrow and Hoover, to par- take personally in further supres- sion of the Mexican revolutionary organizations. a The mass arrests here, including Many Communist Party Is tee of the Communist Party and Young Communist League, as well as a large number of Cuban and Mexican militant trade unionis followed conferences between Or' Rubio and the Wall Street govern- ment officials. Ever since the suppression of El | Machete, a campaign of terror of the most brutal sort has been di- wected against the leaders of the revolutionary workers and peasants. organization here. Recently federal troops broke into a meeting of the Workers and Peas- ants Block in Jalapa, Vera Cruz, arrested seven workers and dispersed the meeting In the Dos Carlos a riot was started by white s clements. Many miners Under “Socialist” Police Zz guardi s the criminals to remain at | In Viberillas, Vera Cruz, agents of the bourge attacked two rev- olutionary workers, Antonio Mon- doza and Dolores Parez, severely | wounding them. Five members of the Workers and Peasants Bloc in the city of Santa farta, Chichihualtepec, were ar- rested by the “chief of social de. | A typical scene of German poe 30 members of the Central Commit-! were wounded but the government} Lynch Mask Shows| 10,000 GERMAN JOBLESS ‘Rubio to Spread STRIKING MINERS NEED RELIEF TO GARRY ON FIGHT Stern Resistance in Face of Terror of Bosses and State ‘Open Relief Stations . Pit Committees Press -; Demands of Strikers WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Dee 31.—As the the mine strike continues in a stubborn fight Picketing is being systematized in the face of the &rmed guards of the coal bosses, the state militia and the gunmen of the | United Mine Workers of America. Attempts at terrorizing the miners, with their traditions of |struggle at Viren and Herrin, are failing. The National Miners Union s determined to win its demands, year closes, against the coal bosses. | The main support that the work- Jers in other parts of the country lean give to the striking Illinois | miners is relief funds. | ‘Pat Toohey, William Boyce and |Freeman Thompson, three of the leaders of the National Miners Un- ion, have appealed to the workers everywhere to support the campaign Ifor relief of the strikers now being conducted by the Workers Interna- ginning with the pits committees up to the strike committee in charge |UP) bomb at} : |its Santa Claus uniform and put on |lar of the organization bureau of| lice mauling @ worl The Ber- ” iv rox kere 44 i = ia 9 Of the whole struggle. Failure to carry out this fundamental tactic |the British Vieeroy, Lord Irwin, the |its tynching mask, It carries again |the Communsce Party, cigned by the | lin chi) wf police, the “ocataes fsnees s auie, Wesson nee (WOTkETS seu bopeatmaes aa BL of revolutionary trade unions has weakened the whole struggle and | Tosolunon on Mhis point aetutlhe In: its gun in hand—the gun that killed |name “Obuch”, providing for a gen-| Zoergieicl, had the police shoot | Jesus Castillo, militant worker in|fia ee enunecea st once: dian people on his “escape’s When |" May—and it threatens to con-|eral alarm and Communist courier| down workers for parading tast \the pavers union, affiliated to the| Recently, the National Miners Un Where the correct tactics were adopted, ax in the Taylorville sec- Jone of Ghandi’s disciples, “Ansari, |{ tygg's Werk of death again if the |service on January 12th. The Germ-» May first. Now the “socialist” |Confederacion Syndical Unitaire|;on wired to the W. 1. R.: “Seor tion, the strike gained impetus from the very first moment and devel- |spoke for this resolution, students |‘extile Workers try to better condi-/an Communis# Party has no “Org-| chief of police of Cologne, also | Mexicana, who led the strike against | Pe danitiles hungey and eeae : parelecna tions so as not to be reduced to ac-|bureau” and the Prussian Diet mem-| orders police to shoot down un- Set) a ta : of families are hungry and practi- eped a mass character at once. in the enclosue waved red flags and | 1°" or ee ire e ; t the National Paving Co., was as- cally 7 f k d |cepting the “Empty Stocking Fund.” |ber Obuch rever signs circulars.| employed workers. The German inated abe by diwith 8S- ‘cally destitute. You must act quick. The strike struggle in Ilinois continues and must continue. shouted protests. seated | ; een ae. ar : i sassinated by a scab inethe service This situation is growing worse as ee The Natiqpaligt “volunteers” who | |The document is, of course, a clum-| work are getting a bellyful |of the company, who received the|the strike stretches out and the There can be no “peace” now eRrent the peace of slavery, broke the arm of a secret service sy forgery. of such “socialists. support of the local police authoti- | miners dig in for battle. The struggle must be extended until the battle line extends through- | spy who tried to arrest one of them, | The capitalist paper “Tempo” ad- | ties. | Rel - vel out the entire industry. In such a situation, where masses of workers |were turned over tothe police by mits the supposed “secret #Com- Deportatifins are threatened | Relief stations are setively at are confronted with the full force of the government power striving to prevent their winning the most elementary demands, and when the same condition exists in the whole gigantic mining industry, one sec- tion of the workers, as in Illinois, may open a smashing counter-of- fengsve while in other sections of the front the struggle procegds at a slower tempo. In all sections of the industry, the broader struggle proceeds from local conflicts arising around local demands—strikes in- volving a single mine, a group of mines, or a whole district. | There can be no such thing as an isolated struggle in the mining | industry led by the National Miners Union. Such a conception ignores the fact that the fight against the U.M.W.A. (the struggle against the: check-off), against the coal barons and their government and all the semi-official instruments of suppression can be carried on only by 2 leadership committed to the organization of the struggle on a na- tional scale and which utilizes every opportunity to begin and broaden even the smallest strike struggle and connect all of them into one united offensive of the miners. " The Illinois struggle must be extended. This is the immediate necessity and every possible measure must be utilized. The spirit of the workers is for struggle. There must be open acknowledgement of all the errors which have weakened the struggle and which have so far prevented its spreading to other districts and other states. Only in this way will the miners be won for the militant program of the N.M.U. and the class struggle union of the miners built. The Lewis-Fishwick machine is the first line of the forces of the coal barons. It must be smashed and the struggle must be directed just as sharply against the check-off, which is the economic basis of the Fishwick-Lewis machine, as against the coal barons. At the same time more. emphasis must be placed on the political demands which arise out of the struggle—such as withdrawal of all troops, uncondi- tional release of all jailed strikers, immediate government relief for the unemployed, disarming of the fascist bands of U.M.W.A. officials and underworld elements, ete. os “Ghandi’s order, though the volun- teers prepared to resist arrest. At Madras, the National Liberal Federation frankly endorsed i perialism, referring in humble tone |to the promise made of “dominion status”, and agreeing to participate in the London “round table” con- ference. (Other Indian news on Page 3.— Editor.) ILD CONFERENCE OUTLINES WORK Prepare Mass Fights on Growing Oppression PITTSBURGH, Dee. 31—T fourth national conference of t) International Labor Defense sum- med upon today with discussion and resolutions. The discussion showed that the I. L. D. was developing in- to a mass defense organization in the revolutionary movement. All the Negro delegates, and workers from many industries par- ticipated in the discussion, and the he he |framing of the resolutions. A course im- | ? munist circular” is a-forgery. | W | N VI CT0 RY Reports trom Moscow quote the | “Pravda” as declaring that such |forgeries always crop up immediate- | — ly prior to a climax of capitalist \Court Forced to ra iv @) attac! on the workers. The “socia’ | Up Injunction Plan ists” needed some color for excuse for the new exceptional law and to a {prepare the public opinion for out- | Effort to obtain an injunction |!awing the Communist Party. jagainst the Independent Shoe Work-; Capitalist figures show that Ger- lers Union, to “outlaw” any aid|Many's unemployment has |directly or indirectly, to these strik-|reached the two million mark. Ber- lers by the union, failed in court |tin alone has 270,000 unemployed now | | when Judge Callahan failed to grant one. | The militanacy of the shoe work- ers and their declaration that they | would violate all injunctions the ‘court might issue convinced the au- thorities that injuctions would not defeat the shoe workers of force \the union to make any retreat in | the struggle, and tat the courts | would only expose themselves more |openly as tools of the bosses. | The attack on the Independent |Shoe Workers Union is being con- | ducted directly under direction of |the Department of Labor of the U. S. government. “Conciliator” Wood y,of the Department, in a letter to |italist statistical the shoe companies, definitely in- | structed them to break their con- |tracts in an effort to destroy the union, workers. GREEN ISSUES i LES ON 1930 |Aids Bosses in Wage} | Cutting Drives | | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—With the unemployed workers numbering well over 5,000,000, and every cap- agency pointing jout one of the worst crisis in over |fifty years, Willftm Green ,pres |dent of the A. F. of L., taking f |against them | Sabbatino, were inter ‘ed by the Daily Worker on their jail experi- = TARIFF GRAF “We were collecting funds for | striking mine and _ needle} | was irl |nouneng the Co ¥.C.L, MEMBERS EXPOSE COURT Berate Class Justice of | Vicious Judge David and Miriam Weiss, mem- bers of the Young Communist League, who have been the object of a lot of liberal bosh in the capitalist press because of th of violence Sylvester revolutionists arrested in Mexico. For the Cuban workers deportation means long terms of imprisonment or death at the hands of the bloody Machado, the murderer.of Mella and hundreds of other militant workers. At the International Labor De- fense conference in Pittsburgh, or- ganizational measures were taken up |for the mobilization of the Ameri- can workers in a drive against the | white terror in Mexico, GEN. CROWDER IN by Ju shoe, trades worker w cn the B, M. 7. sub- ,” said Miriam Weiss. “We had|On Sugar Barons’ Pay j started when Patrolman Robert : Cotter tried to stop us. We showed| Aided by Machado him our credentials, but he insisted WASHINGTON, Enoch H. Crowder, former on taking us to the police station. “On Tuesday we came before Sab- | eral batino. Sabbatino was not interested | American Ambassador to Cuba, was ason we were arrested but |Tevealed to be on the payroll of sd over the fact that we were {the sugar robber lobbyists, headed both members 1e Young Com-|by the Cuba Co. Hoover ewas im- munist League. He flared up de-|Plicated in the graft of his personal inists. When he| attorney, Edwin Shattuck, who re- heard we were Communists, he sent |Ceived $75,000 for getting Hoover's in the r of against the Cuban and other foreign | Dec. 31.—Gen- | work in the main centers of the strike. The first relief station was opened at Eldorado. Another is !being opened in Christopher. This | will -be the center for Coello, Buck- |ner, Herrin, Ziegler, West. Frankfort, | Benton, Orient and other point Franklin gounty. Rank and file pit committees is |being stressed by the union leader- ‘ship. The local strikes, as struggles lof the rank @nd file, are founded jon pit committees. These consist of |the most militant workers, elected | by the striking miners. | In the face of the strong mobiliza- tion of the strike-breaking forces, the courage and determination ot he miners is great, and the strike is being conducted on a scale that | has aroused the operators and their jlabor agents in the United Mine Workers of America. pi The main demands of the strike jare the 6-hour day, and the 5-day | week, and for the abolition of the check-off; Sor a $35 minimum wage: for bigger crews on the machines, aad rest periods every hour; against penalties and discrimination; for {equal treatment of youth and Negro | workers. UNEMPLOYMENT ~ Another weakness of this struggle has been the failure to put | Was laid out for mass defense work F sil : _ ® jcue from his, imperialist masters, aN Ce ; with |aid for the sugar barons. + : . - * A : 8 nstead of being driven back to} . ETM M us back to jail, threatenihg us with ei 8. forward demands for the unemployed and to bring them directly into jin this period of greater struggles. | ot thous ation conditions; the |ocver ond Lamont, predicts a pros-| se nortation, despite the fact that we| Crowder’ was’ recommiended for | A resolution for a broad drive to {perous new Undoubtedly, the ranks, side by side with the employed miners. Every effort must be made to overcome this shortcoming. The Communist Party is in the front ranks of the Illinois struggle. Some of our comrades have made serious errors and this must be acknowledged frankly to the workers. Our Party will not hesitate to take all necessary measures to strengthen its leadership in this im- | portant struggle and will fight in the National Miners Union for a sharpening of the whole line and the correction of its political and organizational weaknesses. + The Illinois strike, struggle is only the beginning of ewide mass struggles in the coal mining industry. f Already the Lewis-Fishwick leadership and its satellite socialist party and Muste group elements have been exposed before thousands of miners as agents and allies of the bosses. The extension of the struggle will weaken them still further. Illinois is the last stronghold of these social straitors in the coal mining industry. ) - Their defeat in Illinois means a rapid upsurge of militant battles in the entire industry and the development of the Illinois struggle ) into. a national strike against rationalization, unemployment, for the save the seven Gastonia defendants and intensify the drive against the terror of the bosses throughout the land was passed. A_ resolution against lynching and discrimination, and for Negro and white workers defense committees was passed. Re- solutions were pas##d on the war danger, international white terror, fascism,, unemployment, Accorsi, Foreign born workers, the youth, women, the Shifrin case, the Labor Defender, Daily Worker, and against Police terror, scoring the coal and workers rallied more energetically to the union when the hand of the | government in the lock-out became |obvious, and soon the courts were convinced that injunctions could not break the militant spirit of the workers . Camp Nitgedaiget is coming to the aid of the shoe workers, and last week began to tax its visitors ers. fifty cents a week to help the strik- | Walker Signs Bill iron cops, criminal syndicalism, Lat- in America, the Mineola case, and Haiti. A resolution was passed sending greetings to all class war prison-| municipal assembly bill increasing ers. Greeting were sent to the f&m-jhis salary from $25,000 to $40,000 Mayor Walker yesterday signed a For His Salary Raise} year. | Green is thinking of his own pocket- |book. He and other misleaders in jthe A. F. of L. find their work as agents of imperialism highly profit- | | able, | Green deliberately lies in his new j |year statement, saying that building | was picking up. The last report of | thee Dodge Corporation showed a} |drop of 27 per cent in building op- | erations all over the country. | | The A. F. of L. leaders will try | to make 1930 a prosperous year for | the bosses with all the means at | their disposal by being in the front jranks of the mass wage cutting drives that the bosses are already |letting loose. e are citizens of the United States, |the sugar lobby by President Ma- “We were held incommunicado, |Chado, of Cuba, the murderer of not even our parents were permitted | Mella sie ne ae aes ve to see us. | tant’ workers, urelio Portuondo, “Friday we again appeared before [ee Havana, an official of the Cuban the Judge and he said he was sorry | Trading Co., disclosed the fact that he could not deport us. He threat- ) Crowder. Viet a ae is lobby (Continued on Page Two. |payroll in a letter akin, presi- SAGO BOE 9) euetceat Nhat CubedCal The! lsttes an IN MOVIE) Part reads: “T am sorry to trouble you, but Seventy-two children were Killed |! mo “DOG. enn wi vente ata eee ee: and over 150 more injured in a ma-!ing Crowder. If the mills can do tion picture house fire in Seary,|"thing, I shall try to get money Scotland. The fire started in the |S™Mewhere, because I know Crowder projection booth and quickly spread |COUld not afford to work three or jto the auditorium where over fifteen | f0U" months without pay, though he would be patriotic enough to Cuba's |thousand children were packed. | | ‘cause to do so.” | LOVESTONEITES CALL POLICE | 72 CHILDRE DIE FIRE, | _ INCREASES IN US Capitalist Experts See Increase for 10 Years | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec.31—The | Westinghouse Electric Co, has laid off 15,000 workers. Unemployment in the steel mills is especially se- vere, with 40 per cent of the usual number of workers unemployed. The large steel mills are running at about 60 per cent of capacity, with some of the smaller mills as low as 30. A number of mills are completely cut down. | | In ordey to hide unemployment, building and recognition of the National Miners Union—the union of the |& af fy ¥. | CAPITALISM MAKES | @lass struggle whcih opposes its revolutionary program to the class- ilies of the murdered Marion woreae year, and then was sworn in for eae eS iano | PROSTITUTES Hel cl have envolved a scheme | Peace and fascist program of the bosses and their U.M.W.A. agents. ers, to the Meerut prisoners in In-/four more years as mayor. Other iL egies oy ie po: | DETROIT, (By Mail.) — Two in the steel industry of alternating dia, and many other class war vic-|Tammany officials share the raise lice to their aid at a banquet held ‘ Z shifts from week to week. The the march! . The Red Flag Rises in India News dispatches from India report with great alarm the fact that the students “waved red flags and shouted protests” against the policy of the leaders of the Nation! Congress. | This incident, like all the happenings in the All-India National | Congress at Lahore, is of deep significance. The waving of the red flag, and the slogans of “Down with imperialism” and “long live the ‘ revolution,” are the signs that the masses have broken with the sur- | vender policy of the Indian bourgeoisie. True, the masses do not have | their own -wpresentatives in the Congress, and those wavering elements whe <oday try to keep their hold over the masses by gestures of “fighting” which they will abandon tomorrow in face of battle, are among tite most dangerous enemies of the revolution. But these facts mest not bind one to the historical fact, that the events in the Lahore are taking place under the pressure of the masses outside a Congress. - fp Lahove ts taking place a prelude to revolutionary struggle. As “ar as the rourgeoia Jeaders are concerned, the British official attitude \eported from London by the United Press, is quite correct, namely, ‘at the resclution for independence is “merely a political gesture.” i" political gasture which was made because the masses de- } ‘he masses are really in earnest and ~ “4 The \ The miners are on i} i tims. 3 with Walker, and even the Borough Much cheering, singing and en-|Presidents will get $20,000 a year, thusiasm marks the proceedings of |not inclusive of graft from many the conference. Special conferences sources, were held on different subjects. | The salary increases for Tam- The conference adjourned at 5 p. many officials comes at a time when m. with Daisy MacDonald, Southern wages of workers everywhere are delegate, and Negro workers sing-|being cut and thousands thrown out ing mill songs written by Ella May. | o¢ employment. —)______¢ bourgeoisie leaders made the gesture in order to get time to prepare a new betrayal. A headline in the capitalist press yesterday reported that “Powers powers worry. While they worry, of course, and prepare joint actions to crush the revolution, they are not averse to taking advantage of one another's troubles; this was exemplified yesterday in the statement of Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, who announced that when Congress re- convenes he will present a resolution for recognition of the independence of India, ®his4s another “political gesture,” which is not intended to be followed by action, but has its own significance in revealing the joy of one imperialist ineanother’s troubles, at the same moment when they are striving for a united front against the revolution. . The ‘red flag in Lahore, and the cheers for the revolution are sparks from the flame that is sweeping the masses of India, and that will soon blaze forth in revolutionary actions. Lahore is only the baro- meter, registering in a distorted way some of the heat of revolution. Worry Over New Year News from Asia.” And well may the imperialist | TAMMANY-THUGS in Vitale Case It is only through the dispute now said to be raging between two fac- tions of the Tammany Hall organi- \ zation for control of the rich plums |to be gathered in graft, that has made possible the revelations of | close connections of Tammany mag- \istrate Vitale gith gangsters, it was | indicated yesterday. Vitale is the fascist and bitter foe of militant labor, whose party was held up some weeks ago by seven | gangsters, and who later returned )a gun to a Tammany detective from whom the stick-up men had %aken it. | In the ‘investigation” of the hold- | up, further connections between Vit- ale and the gangsters seem to have (Continued on Page Two) | | p /Tammany Split Rumor! by a few petty-bourgeois individuals Working women charged with ac- at a Chinese restaurant last Satur- | Costing told in court here how un- days |employment caused them to turn Build Up the United Front of er of 4 starving children; the other | the Working Class From the Bot- | was a long unemployed waitress | tom Up—at the Enterprises! who was starving. Mass Unembloyment and Class Battles Grow in Cris is Of particular interest in the pres-] mering for nearly two years, and jent sharpening crisis is the an-]the present sharp decline in produc- nouncement by Carl Snyder, chief | tion in all the basic industries, with statistician of the Federal Reserve|the growing mass unemployment Bank of New York, that the rate of |for the workers, is not a sudden expansion of capitalist economy in| movement. the United States during 1927 and All the advertisers of U. $, im- 1928 was below the average of the | perialism tritd to mislead the work- la®t 15 years. ie |ers about prosperity. For instance, The si&rp ceonomie crash in the the Journal of Commerce refers to last part of 1929 brings the rate | what the capitalist press has usual- of expansion still lower, ly termed the long period of -pros- In short, the crisis has been sim- (Continued on Page Three) : ! | to prostitution. One was the moth- | j workers left on the job work one week and are now off the next. Thus their actual pay is cut in half, This | is preparation for wage cuts, and is (a @reen to hide the mass character lof the, -mployment in the steel industr, * WASHINGTON, Dee. 30.—Unem- | ployment all over the country is rapidly becoming very severe, with | the likelihood that « it will extend over a period of ten years, said ex- ;Perts of the American Economic | Association, who discussed the sub- {ject at their closing meeting today. Robert B. Warren of Case, Pom- eroy & Co., pointed out that unem- ployment was becoming a very seri+ ous problem in the United States, ENJOIN RAIL STRIKERS. PEORIA, Ill. (By Mail).—The Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway management has obtained from a friendly court an injunction against the 600 striking shop craftsmen on the road, e \ a