The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1930, Page 3

t seal 6 al oer. 8 | DAILY WORKER, NEW | YORK, ORK, WED) VESDAY, | JANUARY 1, Lysu REVOLUTION SEETHES UNDER SURFACE OF INDIAN CONGRESS Capitalists of India Making “Left” Gestures to Capture Masses From Working Class Leaders in Fight on Imperialism; Fake “Left” in Cunning Militant Mask; Congress Important Only as Mirror of Revolutionary Tidal Wave Among Masses Indian dispatches from the La-| hore Nationalist Congress, show that there is a distinct division within the Congress between the extreme “right” Jed by Ghandi and Nehru, and an “opposition” which is comparable to the “left”? Kuomin- tang in China in its demagogie days. ~ While the whole Congress is a bourgeois affair, the obviously in- effective pacifism of Ghandi is so unpopular that the fake “left” which is using brave talk about “revolution” in order to gain the leadership of the masses away from the Indian proletariat, is forcing its way into dominance in the Con- gress. It was undoubtedly this fake “left” which forced Ghandi to give way to the fighting men of the Sikhs, whose leader, Kharak Singh, at a great demonstration Monday | told his followers of a conference with Gandhi at which the holy fakir agreed to the Sikh demands on the Congress. The Sikh leader also advised the Sikhs to work for complete national independence. Yield to Sikhs. The Sikh demonstration was planned as a protest against the Nehru report to the Congress deal- ing with communal representation, which the Sikhs declared would be prejudiced against them in favor of privileges for the Hindus. But the Nehru report had been “dropped” hy the Congress, and Ghandi had pledged Kharak Singh that the Sikhs would have a “special color in the national flag” and that no solution of cemmunal representa- tion would be made in the future ‘the future state of affairs yet to be won from England) which did not satisfy the Sikhs. Undoubtedly this and other still more “radical” steps to come are being forced upon the Congress by the tidal wave of mass anger at imperialism sweeping over India. While Ghandi won by a vote of 13 to 89, on an amendment to his “gradual atttainment’”(!) of in- dependence, the amendment being for complete severance of relations with and cessation of all participa- tion in the Government of India (British), he received his first de- feat on Monday on methods of car- vying on the struggle. The bureaucratic and ponderous committee system is difficult to understand for those not accustom- ed to the way the Congress is or- ganized. But the “subjects” Com- mittee rejected the “Working, Com- mittee’s” proposal to appoint com- Jetely autonomous “Permanent jommittees” which were to do the ork of the Congress after ad- urnment in respect to the cam- ign for wearing homespun cloth stead of British cloth (Khaddar), method of boycott, on the religi- is caste system of “untouchabili- ty” and on Prohibition. The system of uncontrolled Permanent Commit- tees was attacked by the “opposi: tion” as a measure of decentraliza- fion tantamount to the Congress committing suiside. Thanking the Oppressors. On the other hand, Ghandi won by one vote, 114 to 113, on an amendment by the “opposition” which would have struck out an ex- fression of appreciction to the British Viceroy for his “offer” of a “round table conference” pronos- ed lately by the “labor” imperialist government at London. Since this is still a committee action, the “op- position” says it will try to strike this out in the open conference, _ All the actions so far are by these committees, and a “struggle” more ov less in pantomine may take place *) the open conference over the “o»nosition” attempt to have jt reiect the non-violent “peaceful revolt” program of Ghandi, This “opposition” which the British speak of as “extremists” are the more shrewd anil therefore the more dangerous enemies of any real in- dependence movement. The Role of the “Left” Bourgeoisie. By fierce talk of “yevolution® they aim to capture the support of the masses from the strictly work- ing class leadership, and use the masses against the British as Wang Ching-wei did in China, only to cheat them later on, ride into power on the sacrifices of the workers _ and peasants and suppress them when they demand the land and the factories or try to set up a workers’ and peasants’ government to insure their demands. On Monday at Ahmadabad, near Rombay, the British Governor of Vombay, Sir Frederik Sykes, was met by a demonstration of the Youth Independence League wavin~ Vlack flags and shouting “Go bac! home!” Nehru Versus Nehru. At Lahore, the crowds are so en- ‘ thusiastie that they broke the po- lice cordon and swarmed around the stand at which the extreme “Right” leader, Jawaharlal Nehru spoke and raised the national flag. ‘This scheming ee who had crawled ‘before ritish imperialism for th “vear, became suddenly’ “va ch to renounce his | | | own program of dominion status, and while the masses shouted! ‘Long live the revolution!” he dem- agogically cried out “to end the ex- ploitation of the peor in India” and |went so far as to call himself a “socialist republican’. Dominion status, said this old reactionary who had forced last year’s Congress to adopt dominion status is only} “the shadow of authority.” He spoke for complete independence to be at-) tained by a “peaceful mass move- ment,” which of course is absurd. London dispatches quote the “Times” as ridiculing the congress, saying that it was composed of “some thousands of unrepresenta- tive Indians whose brains have been fermented with ideas of western democracy,” while “nine-tenths of the population are illiterates not caring a fig for politics. The latest demand for complete independence is, of course, fantastic.” The “Times” of course, is literate, but those “il- literate” Indian masses are wiser than it thinks, since they know that } only by ousting imperialism can they be relieved of their miseries, taxes and tributes, and gain land for the peasants and rice enough to live on for the workers. “A Political Gesture” Say Imperialists on Nanking Jan. 1 Bluff Nanking, China, dispatches reveal the expected four-flushing about Chiang Kai-shek’s announced inten- | tion to “abolish extra-terrioriality” on January 1. It is now said that Jan. 1 is when the “process” is to | begin, and how far it will get in the future is quite another matter, The callous British, who have no regard for Nanking anyhow, state from London that “the Chinese ac- tion is more of a gesture. to keep in line with Chinese opinion than any- | thing else.” At Washington, the Under Secre-| tary of State, Joseph P. Cotton, also | declared Nanking’s action was. “a political gesture,” and assured some excited Babbits that “there is noth- ing to worry about.” The Nanking government of Chi- ang Kai-shek, thus makes a fake | move on abolition of foreign oppres- | sors’ privileges, while having at- tacked with arms the only govern- ment in the world that gave up ex- tra-territorial privileges voluntarily, the Soviet. Union. Greetings From ~ U.S. 8S. RB. to I. L, D, (Continued from Page One) USSR sends in the name of four million ILD members fiery prole- tarian greetings to the Fourth Con- gress of the International Labor | Defense and wishes success to its | work, “The Plenum is convinced that as results of the work of the confer- ence the ILD will be able to increase its ranks considerably and become a large mass organization of toilers embracing most of the oppressed Negro toiling masses.” From Mexico, where Yankee im- perialism has made itself felt by a bloody reign of terror against rev- clutionary workers and peasants, comes a greeting of intense revolu- tionary determination and solidarity. “The serious situation through which the revolutionary movement of Mexico is going does not allow us to send delegates to the conven- fin.” the greeting read in part. “The white terror set up by the gov- ernment of Morrow, Calles, Portes Gil forces us to keep all of our forces to struggle against the semi- | colonial regime, sold out to Yankee imperialism and to defend the in- numerable victims of the class struggle. “In these moments the Latin American workers need more than ever the help and solidarity of their brothers in the class struggle in the U. S. A. “The unity of the oppressed peo- ple of Latin America with the pro- letariat of the U. S. will be the best guarantee of struggle against imperialist wars and in tru defense of the Soviet Union, the socialist fatherland of the workers of the world and the asylum of the perse- cuted.” A greeting was also received from the Carribean Secretariat of the ILD, whose delegate Jorge Con- treras also could not leave the coun- try because of the white terror, The Quatemalan section of the ILD also sents its revolutionary .greeting. Greetings flooded the convention from many points in the South, dem- onstrating the development of the revolutionary movement and its de- *~-» organization during the last year. a the neweest struggle center his country the Illinois coal fields, comes a greeting from Henry Corbishley, National Miners Union organizer, the president of which had brought greetings personally to the convention at its opening mass meeting Saturday night. “No one can really appreciate the ILD until | he gets behind the walls of a pri- son,” he writes. “Then it is very easy to see just what it means to the workers.” | During recent peasant uprisings in Italy, several buildings of gov- set ernment institutions were afire——A news item. Mussolini: ants are beginning to give us too many warm receptions.” “It seems the peas- UNEMPLOYED — GROW IN CRISIS Big Battles Loom (Continued from Page One) perity of the last six years, as a “pure illusion!” | Lovestone still continues to foster |this illusion, He says the workers do not have this prosperity—as if |the workers ever have prosperity junder capitalism—but that the bos- \ses are enjoying it. Which is just ‘another means of attempting by |propaganda to soften the sharp jerisis now eating at the vitals of |U. S, imperialism. The Daily Worker sounded the alarm on unemployment, the Com- munist Party put forward a pro- gram of action for unemployment |relief and for mass struggle against |wage cuts. Mass unemployment is now admitted by the capitalist news- paper. A dispatch from Washington to the New York Times says this | about - unemployment: “Unemployment will be the greatest problem before the Unit- ed States in the next decade, ac- cording to experts of the Amer- ican Economic Association and | American Statistical Association, | who discussed it at their closing meeting today.” The capitalist agencies see no lessening of unemployment for at least 10 years! The fight for un- | employment relief paid by the state, on the basis of full wages, under |the supervision of the workers be- comes a foremost demand of the immediate class struggie. The importance of the demand of |the Communist Party for the “abo- lition of private employment agen- ‘cies; the establishment of free em- | ployment agencies, administered by ‘the workers’ representatives charg- ed with the administration of un- employment benefits,” was especial- ly brought to the fore as a result of the recent stor ming of a private unemployment offic New York. More than 150 jo’ ss workers rushed the Reliable Employment | Agency and threatened to beat the proprietors because of their ad- vertisements for jobs which did not lexist, and for which they made the | workers pay. A police squad helped | the employment agency proprietors escape the wrath of the workers. |The men surged up the stairs and |tore down the fake cards and de- manded their money back. The capitalist newspapers are running reviews of the economic | situation during the past year. The | vast majority of them point out that |U. S. imperialism, in spite of the Japparent high production maintain- Jed in the early part of the year, is in the throes of the greatest, most far reaching crisis in its history. Only two crises of the severity of the present ever confronted U. s. imperialism—that was in 1907, and | 1913-14. The present crisis will be far worse in its effects on the work- ers in view of the fact that gigantic machinery has been ~t in motion by Hoover-Green-Lamont for drastic wage-cutting drives and to attempt to frustrate mass demands for un- ‘employment relief. Further figures on the sharp de- cline in the most important basic industries are given by the Depart- ment of Commerce. Though these figures show tremendous drops, still we must always take the facts handed to us by capitalist agencies, especially those run by Hoover and Lamont, whose whole policy is to drum up prosperity bunk, with a grain of salt and a big dash of mus tard. Says the Department of Com- merce N. Y. Times, Dec: 31): “Mmdustrial and manufacturing output in November showed a de- cline from both the preceding month and November of last year, according to ¢ survey made public today by the Department of Com- merece. “Declines in manufacturing out- put, as compared with the pre- vious month, were registered in al’ groups, with the greatest de- creases, 24 and 83 points, respec- tively, on the index chart being re- corded in iron and steel and au- tomobiles.” What of the future? The leading capitalist statisticians say that the workers will be faced with severe unemployment for at least ten years. That means that the 5,000,000 now unemployed will grow into many millions more, In every industrial center wage cuts are being forced on the work- ers. To these attempts to cut down 19380 Outlook W O17 Se 3)won the support of the great ma | { | } EAST INDIES IS ALSO ASTIR WITH REVOL Dutch Vainly Repeat. | Five hundred workers were thrown | the kinds of steel products, especially raids | metal window sashes. made by the Dutch imperialists on | Monday throughout the whole Dutch | about this layoff, islands, in a movement to check an | pously holding forth to the wo: alleged attempt to organize a revolt | in a speech atempting to a: \them they would be called back to Reports state that a great many work. Repressive Raids in of Dispatches from Java, Dutch East Indies, tell jon New Year’s day. natives were arrested and large} quantities of . “documents” seized. Badong is said to have been the center of “propaganda” of the anti- imperialist movement, and many supposed “agitators” were there. Since the 1926 armed revolt of the Javanese, have been the scene of repeated anti-imperialist movements led |the Communist Party, which despite lall that is done to suppress it | s Though hundreds have been shot and tortured to death by the police, whose chief is a prominent “social- list” from Holland, and though thous- ands have been exiled to the hor- rible prison camps in Dutch Guinea, the movement has ngver ceased and breaks out afresh at every tunity. Masses in Japan and Korea Grow Militant in Fight on Imperialism OSAKA, Japan, Dee. 30.—Jap- | anese workers employed in the Gen- eral Motors Co. assembly plant here Big Steel Products arrested | the Dutch East Indies | by | SAMOANS oppor- | ‘under a mandate from the League demonstrated in front of the plant | for unemployment relief. All of the workers have been laid off and the plant is closed. by members of the Metal Wor Union, the unemployed workers demonstrated in front of the plant on three successive days. attacked the workers and arrested nine of the leaders. * * TOKIO, Japan, Dec. 30.—Over 100 Korean workers and students were arrested by Japanese police here, when they were preparing a PIS * demonstration for the release of | over 180 Korean revolutionists who were arrested Tuesday by agents of Japanese imperialism. the workers answer with growing strikes and mass resistance. The Annalist, the Journal of Com- merce, the Times, as well as other capitalist estimators of the present crisis, unanimously declare that the crisis will be intensified in the com- ing year. Both the Annalist and the Jour- nal of Commerce called on the bosses for immediate wage cuts in every line. They referred to the Hoover statement about the maintenance of wages at present levels as a good | story for the marines. In the present crisis every strata of the working class is faced with unemployment and wage cuts. In tho basic industries, unemployment is most severe, particularly in the steel, automobile, rubber and textile plants. But the skilled workers, as well, are faced with drastic wage slashes. Most of thesbuilding trades work- ers in the United States are unem- ployed. The prospects for a building boom in the near future is nill. Every field is already overbuilt, and the promised “public” works prom- |ised by Hoover and Co. turn out to be mainly preparations for the next world war. The trump card ofthe capitalists in the present crisis is Hoover’s “grand fascist council,” with its 20 leading imperialists at the head, under the guidance of Hoover's friend, Julius H. Barnes, of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce. For the moment, these bitterest enemies of the American workers are silent. But they are not inac- tive. Behind closed doors they are working out their drastic attacks on the American workers; they are de- vising more brutal methods of ex- ploitation, and preparing the plans for the capitalist drive for the world markets, with its vast war prepa- rations. “Happy new year,” for the work- ers is a phrase that grits the teeth. For the workers mass class battles will be the order of the day. Already, the American toilers have demonstrated that they will not permit themselves to be led like sheep by the A. F. of L. to the wage-cutting and union-smashing execution block prepared by Hoov- er’s “grand fascist council.” This fact is known to the A. F. of L. as well as to its “left” pro- tective shield, the Musteites, Every form of class betrayal will be per- petrayed by “hese agents of im- perialism. At the head of the great class battles stands the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Trade Union Unity League. In many parts of the countries, the first staunch, class replies to. the Hoover-Green “no wage increase,” “no strike,” and “no resistance,” agreement were under the leader- ship of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. Workers, gird for battle in 1930! Join the Party of your class! Fight the betrayers of the workers under every guise! Press the demands for unemployment relief! Stand their already low standard of living, firm and fight against wage cuts! Police! Joined | t {ed by the white Jed lackey native who were s Write to ‘to the. Daily ily Worker, 26 Union “Square, Ww orkers! This Is Y our Paper! ut Conditions r Shop. Co in Phila., Lufton, Lays Off 500 Men (By « Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail)—) out of work at David Lufton’s and Sons Co., manufacturers of many | In this concl letter from york ding part of a s in the loom eva tex- ion, more chievements of the work- » the Revolution are de- ally under. the Five These workers want American mill work- There was considerable ey the boss pom- mill in the of the ure an. from Workers who have worked regu- larly at Lufton’s for the past eight, t years were among those discharged. ecially those from the These workers are skeptica’ ut Write to them! getting work soon. Lufton’s nor- * mally employs about 1,000 men, and| We are ir make, in addition to windows of|in our rtseva steel ,casements, etc., factory equip- hinery made in ment, steel window operating de-| We put in twenty new mach vices, steel doors, partitions et whch were made in the “Karl M Leningrad. HT t Union. rin dae remen tall w kind machine e numbers of 9; now we more of this works very fir loom 13 were 1, TF RULE we i q We built a new power station. In the October Revolution celebration we started a new electric genera- tor of 3,000 This was Brave Facule Neveriiix Dan Ene Ue ‘Yar tseva Tontile Mill | Plan; Wages | Increa ised _A.F.L. Hosiery Union Mislea ders to Back Grows Fastin 5 Year | “=e peasants con They told us: ‘ fine houses Low pay In twelve vidual he tory invested for commu: bl In > meters of » has over 4 end of tt V aders passed are p v Pinchot a million- iendly to y to the nts of these Were Conquered The factory buildings from year ae r grow larger and larger; they Toilers Samoan Islanders, the Maori peo- ‘apidly. | A few months ago | Plants ple, peaceful but fearless when gain’ aroused, are likely to make the New hop not le to de- ‘ : rem Dec. d, but (Conti m Page One) Zealand military governor who rules All Paz | eae Every Par! » should at the first mee’ or her unit pay up in full for all Party obliga- tions 1929 and get the new member- ship book. ship book i regular the day’s pe of Nations, more trouble than bar- jgained for as a result of the slaughter of their chieftain, Tamu- sese, in the police attack on their |demonstration last Sunday. The Samoans never wi onquer- imperial but won over to allow Germans to ex- ploit the islands by arrangement for self rule their own laws and joint participation in the a general mixed council of administration. One policeman’ was killed along}; with eight unarmed Samoans, and |tho price is ten ¢ ie thirty Samoans injured as were also!pey The books eo heen Gente many police, in the provocative at- each district. Every book is num- tack by police on a demonstration /}.roq and if a book is lost by a of 2,000 Samoans turned out to wel- | somber, if it is stolen, de: i Before the new member- sued to a member all for 1$ 9 must be paid assessment has member should tionaire for te-regist- new membership card and up, to be paid and ev. a que The fill out } ' member, if it is stolen, destroyed, come a white fi 1. l i \ ‘ the member should at once re- Smythe, whose ‘ Bou ace | to his District Committee, for perialist actions of the : ed er repo: to the Central governor brought him a sentence at ‘ e c ontrol Comm n which then can exile for two years in January f 1998, th t book “void” and of- " the book in our press 0 that no misuse of such books an take place. The Samoans have long complain- ed that the Samoan laws which Germany ruled the until they turned over to New land as plunder of the World W provided for elected native represen- tation on the Administration Coun- The new weekly dues stamps will be in some districts before January 1, in other cts before January 5, and all regular weekly payment cil, while under the New Zealand of dues ppoi ...|starts at first meeting of the Party ply [nuclei in 1930. t-! The delay in delivery of the new dues stamps was caused by the Par- rule, the milita governor “yes men” and refused to seat el ed Samoan representatives. To All Party Units, Sections, Districts; To All Lists to secure GREETINGS for Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker the Sixt ; are in youx hands. PUT YOUR LIST TO i USE AT ONCE! 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