The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1930, Page 3

MEXICO FACING CRISIS Finance. Crisis! WORKER EXPOSES GEN. AS SILVER PRICE FALLS Jn China; Loss MOTORS COMP. GROUP WHILE CROPS FAILOn Mex. Dollar SCHEME FOR INSURANCE. World Crisis Hitting Mexican Economy; Makbo|, Trouble Ahead For Lackeys to U. S. Unemployment, High Prices and Strikes Loom; Promised Paradise Fades Before Facts Mexican dispatches indicate quite a feeling of nervousness among politicians over the economic situ- ation. With the |erop failure in Mexico, a yield of only 50 per cent being estimated, the imports of food must continue prices—and consequent industrial unrest which all the repressive features of the Fascist Labor Code cannot restrain, Moreover, the drop in the price of | silver, falling to the lowest price in history, presents the Mexican min- ing industry with a. crisis, with thousands of Mexican workers menaced with losing their jobs by closing down of mines—but also hit- ting the basis of Mexican finance, This same falling silver price, which is also affecting the finance of China, is a world phenomenon; the Mexican paper “El Economista” says that there is no hope visible for betterment. It ascribes the| cause to China and India throwing silver on the market, but does not 4 say why they are doing so, or that | the veal cause is the~growing gen- along with high) eral crisis of world imperialist eco- | nomy, Mexican silver mining companies, trying lately to keep pace with the price fall with its loss of profit, have been trying to keep up profit total returns by producing a great deal | more silver, but this only adds to the | over-supply and sends the price; | lower again. In India and China, with both |the economic crisis growing and revolution threatening, both the native bourgeoisie and the foreign exploiters, have been in fear of get- ting driven out and have been buy- ing foreign money with silver, thus adding to the fall of silver prices. In Mexico, where the native lack- eys of U. S, imperialism under the | orders of Ambassador Morrow have | been promising a betterment of the | economic situation, the present de- pression is going to have a shatter- | ing effect on the expected solidity of going to have no pleasant time ex- plaining how it pays to lick the boots of Uncle Sam and surrender to Wall Street. Chinese Workers Battle Heroically SHANGHAI (By Impecorr Mail Service).—Revolutionary mass meet- ings and armed workers demonstra- tions took place in Canton on the second anniversary of the proclama- tion of the Canton Commune, Dec. 12, The police attacked the demon- | strators and a pitched battle took place near the Police Presidium) whereby the workers used machine- guns and hand grenades. The fight-| ing lasted for three hours and over '40 persons were killed. and many wounded. Until late in the night great masses of workers dominated the streets. On the second anniversary of the proclamation of the Canton Com- |mune great quantities of Commun- ist leaflets were distributed in Chinese and English all over Shang- hai, These leaflets appealed also to |the foreign troops to fight for the, Chinese revolution and for the de- | fense of the Soviet Union. the government, and Ortiz Rubio is! the Chinese dispatches tell of aunt financial er in China ult of the fall in value of the dollar (Mexican standard is 1 Givay \used in China), which is now worth only 38 cents compared with 48 cents a year ago. For the last two ; weeks the world price of silver has |fallen with alarming steadin juntil yesterday it reached the low= est figure ever recorded—45% cents per ounce. In China, no such fall has oc- jcurred within 25 years as that now existing, and as a result merchants jwho must pay in gold from sé es made for silver, are refusing ship- ments sent them from abroad. Five Peking banks have failed |and ten others are on point of bank- ruptcy, while the Nanking govern- ment is hard hit to pay foreign Most significantly, as the dollar declines, prices are swiftly rising, and producing great suffering among the workers, thus impelling a growth of discontent and class struggles, Italian Fascism Gets Its Victims Abroad; Switzerland carried out the r quest of the Italian fascisti Saturds in arresting twenty-five anti-fasci: Italians at Basle just before the a’ vival of the royal Belgian train bear- ing Princess Marie Jose enroute to Rome to marry the Italian prince Humbert. Other anti-fascists were arr at Geneva, and with anti-fascists rested in France and Belgium, the! present arrests in Switzerland show how linked up are these govern-| ments with Italian fascism, whose; ed | | power for persecution is no longer} limited to Italy, but who needs only} | give orders to governments abroad! to have its victims seized. aaa paints. PAUEE. BD OSE USS Fee eee ee Austrian Socialist Workers Denounce Leaders | apwirar FIskE IS SHEARER'S| VIENNA, Dec. 7 (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—This afternoon a mass meeting took place in Hernals (district of Vienna) called by a com- mittee of left-wing social democra- tic workers to protest against the treachery of the social democratic leaders in question of the fascist constitutional reform. The great hall was filled to overflowing. ye Amidst continual cheers and ap-/| reform with all possible means in or- dey for them to vote for the “re- forms” themselves. Striking French Workers Show Spirit A trade union official named Mayer who was sentenced to 8 days imprisonment for alleged violence was released yesterday here. He was welcomed to freedom by a great de- monstration of the striking workers. The demonstration was a proof of the splendid fighting spirit which is still alive amongst these workers. AFL Conference Says Never Lead Strikes (Continued from Page One) company property, ministers are hired by the textile barons, and they preach flogging for N. T, W. or- ganizers and hell fire for anybody «who dares to strike. Hates Proletariat. It included Green’s attack on the Communists because they stand, not for the bosses, whom Green terms “humanity at large’ but for the landless, propertyless, exploited wage workers, the proletariat. What Green said was: “The Communists are fanning the flames of passion and hate, these apostles of a strange philosoph; imported notions, seeking what is called 2 world revolution and the exaltation not of humanity at large but of the proletariat. Sees the Issue. “If the Communists hate any one in the world, they hate the American Federation of Labor. It has come to the point where either the American Federation of Labor or the Commu- nists will speak for the workers of America.” Before that he had announced: “Where the American Federation of Labor is accepted, and organiza- tion is accepted, there will be no strikes,” The A. F, of L,, following this policy strictly, -has betrayed back to slavery in the mills, back to the black-list and low wages, every re- cent strike in the South with which it had any connection: Elizabethton, ‘4 New Orleans, Marion. U, T. W. Won't Strike. Following the same line, Thomas ¥F. MacMahon, president of the United Textile Workers Union, the organization which directly sold out the textile strikes in Elizabethton and Marion, declared: “It is not the purpose of the United Textile Workers to call any » strikes at mills in the South,” add. ing that the textile union is now awaiting announcement from Presi- dent Green of the policy, of the Federation for the whole South. Throw Workers Out, tt the beginning of the confer-| si At ence four workera, suspected by the A. F, of L. fakers of not approving their policies were thrown out of the hall, A Negro delegate (there was only one) was practically Jim Crowed by the rest of the delegation, There were presidents and vice-pres- idents at the conference from 95. A, F. of L, international union of- fices and seven state federations of labor. There were no workers among the delegates. Young Miners Prepare Wide Organization “(Continued from Page One) jall manner of other work without getting pay. They are never sure, with United Mine Workers of Amer- | ica, check-weighmen on the tipples that they are getting fair pay for the coal they do mine. Agents of John Lewis, interna- tional president of the U, M. W. A. are active in this section: of the field. These Lewis “organizers” try to concentrate the attention of the miners against the Fishwick ma- |chine and pose as their liberators |from the Peabody hireling, Frank Farrington, ex-president of Illinois district (U.M.W.) and now the ight-hand man of Harry Fishwick, | its present administrator. See Lewis Swindle. The miners, however, have ob- battle between Fishwick and Lewis for control of the Illinois district and its valuable check-off privi- leges, each clique in the U. M. W. has exposed the other, and the min- in larger numbers into the N, M. U. Young Miners Organize. The National Miners Union has called on young miners to organize youth committees in each sub-dis- trict, with a secretary who will also be a youth organizer in his sub- district, Sectional Young Miners Confer- ences are to be held in Zeigler, Jan. 12, 10 a, m, at Liberty Hall; in Eldorado, Jan. 12, at the Workers International Relief Headquarters; in Belleville, Jan. 26, at 10 a. m., in the Odd Fellows Hall; in Staunton, Jan, 26, at 10 a. m,, in Kalars Hall, and in Taylorville, on Feb 2. A state- wide youth conference will take place in Belleville, Feb. 9, at Odd Fellows Hall. : OHIO YOUNG MINERS CONFERENCE BELLAIRE, Ohio, Jan. 7.—The district youth section of the Ohio district of the National Miners Union is conducting a campaign among the young miners in con- junction with the Illinois District Youth Section, Realizing that the ike when in full force in Illinois will spread like wild fire to other states, the young miners of Ohio, under the leadership of the Youth section of the N. M. U., are prepar® ing themselves for battle, A state-wide district young min- ers conference is to take place in | Bellaire, Ohio, Jan. 26, 1930. For further information write to the National Youth Section, N. M. ge 119 Federal St., NS., Pittsburgh, ‘a, served how during the present court | ers are for neither, but are coming { CHAIRMAN. William B, Shearer, whose suit proval from the assembled workers | for wages he earned lobbying and/ the news stand. the speakers pointed ont that for| spying for U. S. war ship building| your page especially about some of | Wheler. weeks the social democratic leaders | companies created an international) +}, had declared that they would fight | scandal a short time ago, spoke yes-| spout Jabor fake against the fascist constitutional; terday at Carnegie Hall in favor of here and they ja bigger navy. He was introduced | | by Rear Admiral Bradley B. Fiske. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. loans and interest, taking money | supposed to be used in China to pay with. Swiss Do Its Bidding | ar- DAIL y WORKS R, NEW XORK, WEDNE ESDAY, JANU. ARY 8 . 1930 | ARN Re Wacker. Describes Terror pais | Detroit, (Continued from Page One) to the office of the lawyer, Gaston AS hs Se ae eae Lafarga, whom I had seen about the (By a Worker Correspondent) | workers about the enormous profits | Taid on my house. They shot at me DETROIT (By Mail).—The group| by the company through the inhu- three times, but fortunately missed insurance scheme of the General Mo-| man speed up of the girls and wo. “In the first smashing tors as well as other corporations is, men employed at that plant. nst the Communist arty, a scheme, first to keep them from With this letter a note was en Communist League, Wor | organizing and second, to rob the Closed, id in part, “If you|and Peasants Bloc and the Confed-| workers gre wages | have not returned ork at the endjeracion Sindical Unitaria Mexi- | that th igh these | of ive mor life insurance | cay rid Paz, “25 workers were | methods v 2 promised that | is cancelled.” workers will ted in Me y; 14 in Tam- in time of sickn s they| not be taken back at all and of | pico; 16 in Pueblo—a total of about will receive insurance for the “smali{ course at the end of five months 100 all over Mexieo. This included sum paid monthly.’ But some re-| General Motors keeps all the money | the leading elements in these organ- cent statements of the company to| that they hahve paid in for the pe izations that were carrying on a the workers expose this fraud. few years. bitter strug against ie close AM Monléy ‘Lost When Fired. It is these schemes of robbing the affinity between the Gil-Rubio-Mor Recently part of Gener ter to the I stated that “ s with great regret, that conditions over which we have no control, make it necessary for us to temprarily reduce our force.” In other words it means that workers that have received this let- ter are fired. They do not tell the nstedt, which Motors, gave a let- is a in which they | many | workers both through speed up and row government and the Wall Street | later by taking part of thcir pay that | imperialists. we must fight against. We can onlv Tidtar followed thacarrcnbrat all get re@l protection for the unem-/|the members of the Central Com- ployed and in, the factory when we| mittee of the Young Commu | are organized into our own organi yue and the Communist Party, ) zations instead of the bosses “wel-! about 30 in all. i | fare schem A 5 = x ; ; nae: “Outside of Mexico City assassi- All auto workers should join the ° f. 4 nations of workers were frequent. Communist Party! —Ternstedt Slave Tw of Me Those I know of definitely. and Landeros, Hupp Motors Workers (By a Worker Corr TROIT (by Mail workers» are beginning to see through the discrimination practiced | against them by the bosses of the Se Hupp Motor Co. The fact that the, receive an average wage of 45¢ per hour which is far less than the wages of the other workers and at y| the same time do the same work and r many times even harder and dirt work, shows clearly the intentions of | the bosses to keep the white and col-| ored workers separated. In_ this they put the colored worker t the white, so that an effec- to struggle cannot be fought better the conditions of all worke The white workers, although pathisinz with the colored workers | because their conditions are bad, must realize that this discrimination | of the bosses against the -—The Negro| *| workers. negroes | militant | rimination |" IMIMATON | erhese attacks,” stated Paz, “are directed only against the revolution-| must be smashed. We must not per-|ary workers and peasants’ organiza “JOBLESS RANKS ORGIES OF TALK : Hous we"? GROW LARGER | ON ‘PROSPERITY’ IN MANY CITIES ARE EXHAUSTED MENT 200,000. PHILADELPHIA, Jan Boston, Organize Jobl (Continued from Page One) i PHILADELPHIA UNEMPLOY- Chi.,,TUUL Campaign for $ Jobless Demands (Continued from Page One) shaking—namely, war! | The Annalist lambas w s one of the “Mr, Gar- 7.—There | soft-soapers in this are over 200,000 unemployed in this | yet, of the Evening Post, concerns city. The Atwater Kent, Victor Radio Compa tically shut down. Chester, Pa., has thrown ers on the streets. The ies The Irving Mill,|Year with Philco and | himself with a brief review of last have prac- the statement that the Reserve Board is again in control 4,000 work- | of the money market . + « American Motor Body Corp., usually employ- {Probably a writer ought not to in- ing 8,000 workers, now has only men in the plant and office. * * 48 |dulge himself in what he may feel 200 in the|is a humerous comment on so seri+ ous a subject—if this be optimism, |make the most of it!” CHICAGO, Jan. Inemploy-| The Wall Street Journal, which ment is especially severe in the|takes a shot in the arm once in @ building indus: The drep in De-|while itself when it looks at the cember in building contracts was 77 per cent, Selby Schwab & Co. workers, some of whom working for the compan and 20 years. blackening anarchy in capitalist | production, on the morning after fired 00|scolds its fellow capitalist econ- have been|omic drunks, In its Jan. 6 issue it y up to 10) says: | “Year-end reviewers and fore- mit the boss to say that “you must /|tions as Ortiz Rubio feels these are | | i be satisfied with your conditions,|the main obstacles against his com- |_| casters have mercifully ended look at the wages we pay to the |plete sell-out to the Wall Street|th- young comrades are two girls, their annual lucubrations ( a big Negroes.” Sympathisinz is not the imperial When 125° Vasconcel-| Luise Ard 19 years old, and| Word for baloney).... “It is thing that is necessary. The fight istas, arrested in Tampico, were | not surprising that forecasts for for better conditions for the Negro brought to Mexico City, Portes Gil, | were deported to| 1930 have almost all been workers is the struggle of all work-| president, ordered them released. | Germany. 2s are awaiting de-| fitted with commodious loopholes ers, regardless of color, sex or age,| And this in face of the fact that| portation to certain execution at the | thecagh which {hele Aurioen aes to raise the standard of living of|Vasconselas had declared his fol-\hands of Machado. There is a| ter dodge tho unpredictable if the workers. What is necessary is or-/Jowers would undertake armed re-|united front between Machado in| Reces#ary.....-..-.-the January | ganization and struggle. volt inst their fellow Mexican|Me::!:0, who does his w The Auto Workers Union organ-|Petty-bourgeois, who had seized|for his U. S, masters, izes and fights for the interests of | Power | Ortiz, w: the Negro workers, against discrim- | ination of the Negro workers andj|the Mexican masses. | for equal pay for equal work for all the most militant section of the} That is what all the work-| Mexican workers is the preliminary ers in Hupp’s must realize. | Join the Auto Workers Union! Organize and fight for better con- | ditions!—Hupp Worker. iscd Morgan & Co., Hoover, Lamont and Morrow. “Ortiz Rubio’s attack was espe- cially severe against the Young 65% (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, "ll (by Mail) —I have | read a few copies of your paper from | And I appreciate | labor fake But speaking s, there are some are of the Plumbers | Local 180 of Chicago. | A few years ago Chicago was good and building trades workers rushed | the Plumbers | |by thousands. But don’t transfer anyone from an out- side local unless you come acr Chi. Plumbers Jobless; Misleade s Fatten Communist League. The entire Central Committee was shipped to Maria Island, a filthy, old Catholic prison in the Pacific, It is doubtful , with mazuma or you are on the in- ide with the clique. vie’ tion of their own rules. The chief faker is B. L. Cruiz, a of age. Behind these swivel chair faker; another one is Prison walls in Maria Island the Jal'es - Rubio - Morrow will subject these young comrades to that torture for which the Cath- olie inquisition is so famous. Among out aliv 18 years They range from 17 to | ut before a worker sav: see either lene of these fakers he must pass |the barrier guarded by a lower | faker, and if he likes your looks he lets you in after some haggling. 65 per cent of the plumbers here are walking the strets, and those that are working are doing it under the scale, to hold their jobs. The fak- ers make no attempts to better con- ditions. Hoping you will expose these fak- ers in your paper, I remain, A Licensed Plumber. By ALEXANDER ARIEL RUBSTEIN A. 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Orders for bundles for mass distribution re- | I was deported to “Only the united acti |save the live best militant workers. government Wall Street they promis many revolutionary lead can lay their hands on. ants in Mexico.” ceived after We have ext immediately! organizations A special printing of the Sixth Anniversary —This » is going him one better} : the loan which the Ortiz Rubio| ment demands expects to get from|militant rk so welll prognosti¢ations must this year ork So cll | be taken with more than the usual | grain of reserve.........” the United} In this situation of growing un- ion of the | mass employment admitted by the the Trade w kers everywhere in mass pro- | capitalist economists, test and ion against the grow-| Union League has issued a call to ing fascist terror in Mexico will] action against unemployment, In of hundreds of the|the January 4 issue there is pub- As payment | lished the basis for all unemploy- for action of the workers, Every worker e to kill as | should make this program a part of ers as they |his daily knowledge because unem- This hg | i. 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