The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1930, Page 3

a cd ame re CONFERENC E AT HAGUE|Soviet ON REPARATIONSSHOWS| Jise/¢ Huge IMPERTALIST SQUABBLE, Slavery of German Workers To Be Incorporated A And Bonded Under International Bank But the Allied Bandits Cannot Agree on Ways) Sevice)—The Council of People's | to Divide the Pro By HARRISON GEORGE. The Hague Reparations Confer- ence reports indicate that the main attempt being made is to follow the usual custom of setting reparations payments from Germany at an im- possible or nearly impossible fig- ure, but with the new idea of get- ting this high figure incorporated, so to speak, in the name of the Al- lied Looters, Limited, and issuing bonds against the total so th-* the Allies, particularly France, ca. get money from sale of such bonds right now on what Germany prom- ises to pay in the future. This incorporation of the repara- | tions debt is to be done’through the | Young Plan International Bank, ceeds of Looting | | effort to shut England out of ex: | ploiting Germany as the British would like to do, are cold to France’s arguments for “sanctions” | and thus try to get an edge over| France in Germany. All of the bandits are more than | a little sore at the United States, | which after sending J. P. Morgan| and Owen Young to Europe to set up the Young Plan and its Interna- tional Bank, has then went behind their backs and signed a separate agreement with Germany for rep- arations payments to America out- side of the Young Plan and its Bank. By so doing, America pretends to |.cent inerease in those branches of with an “Investigation Committee’ to feel Germany’s pulse now and jbe much “kinder” to Germany than the other looters who want “sanc- tions,” but its purpose is to knock then to see if it can stand so much It must be under- stood, of course, that German capi- “so- blood-letting. talists with the help of the cialists” have taken care at home to see that the whole load of repara- tions is to be shoved onto the work- ing class while the capitalists even make money out of being the col- lection agents for the Allied bandits. German capitalists, of course, are | bucking against high payments, and} their “socialist” governmental lack- | eys want to gain prestige by get- ting France to evacuate the Rhine- land as a concession for Germany promising to pay reparations under the Young Plan. But France, which promjsed this last July, now has a new cabinet, run by Tardieu, who would be put out of office as Briand was before him, if he carries out Briand’s July promise. So France insists on continuing armed occupa- tion (the much talked of “sanc- tions”) and the conference is tied up in a knot. The British, who resent France’s the sanctions not from any “moral” grounds, but because America wants the loans Wall Street has made to Germany to be assured of repay- ment rather than the reparations to other countries. While German reparations are | the big problem, those from Bul- garia, Hungary and Austria due to the Little Looters of Rumania, Greece and Czecho-Slovakia, are even more impossible to solve. These debtor countries are bank- rupt and not even a Young Plan can collect reparations. Hence all} talk of doing so turns out a failure. | Meanwhile, a severe economic crisis is growing in Germany, with over 2,500,000 unemployed and fac- tories closing everywhere. The latest is the closing facing many of the airplane factories heretofore subsidized by the government, which says it will keep only four airplane companies going, or just enough to provide planes for war against the Soviet Union. Bloody Collisions With Italian Fascists VIENNA, (By Inprecorr Mail Service). — The “Neue Wiener Abendblatt” reports from Italy that in the last few days bloody colli- sions occurred in the Romagna be- tween fascists and Communists. In| Brescia a fascist was wounded and in Nuoro a fascist was killed by a worker. Serious fighting would seem to have taken place in Faenza. A bricklayer named Donati who had already been convicted for his Communist opinions, shot down a well known fascist named Silvagni anda second fascist. Donati then fled into hiding. Fascist columns were immediately drafted into the neighborhood and patrolled the dis- trict in automobiles in order to cap- ture Donati. Socialist Workmen Unite With Communists VIENNA, (Dec. 13, by Inprecorr Mail Service)—The delegate con- ference of the unemployed workers of Vienna which took place this evening was aftended by 48 dele- gates who were elected at meetings at all the Labor Exchanges in Vien- na. The workers of a number of fac’:.tes sent fraternal delegates at the invitation of the Unemployed Workers Committee. Among-t the delegates were 18 social democrats, 17 Communists and 13 non-Party workers. The chief speaker analysed the situation created by the treachery of the social democratic leaders in surrendering to the fascist consti- Fascist Pact Betwee VIENNA, (Dec. 18, By Inprecorr Mail Service)—Speaking in the Austrian parliment today the prime minister Schober declared that Italy had given ts consent to the raising of a foreign loan by Austria. In this connwtion he declared that his efforts to establish friendly re- ’ Czech Police Fail to Break Demonstration PRAGUE, (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—Despite police prohibi- tion the textile workers in Bruenn demonstrated against the new social fascist government. The efforts of the police were unable to break up the meeting. Phila. Workers Fight Terror in Mexico PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8.—An en- thusiastic crowd of Philadelphia workers filled the Garrick Hall, Fri- day night at a protest demonstration against the white terror in Mexico. Closely linking up the terror of the Gil-Rubio regime with American im- perialism and the facist rule in this country, the speakers, Fred Beal, Levin, Kingston, Gardos, and Sho- han, also spoke about the gunmen rule in the South and Illinois and the kidnapping of Elbert Totherow. A resolution of protest was passed against the white terror and the meeting decided to send a telegram to Governor Gardner of North Caro- lina, making him personally respon- sible for the kidnapping and other extra-legal methods of the bosses. Several workers filled out applica- tions into the Party and the appeal to raise funds for the distribution of 15,000 Daily Workers next - n Austria and Italy In the village of Cesanatico the fascists surrounded a house belong- ing to relations of Donati in which they hoped to capture him. They were received with firing from the| house and from other houses. Hight fascists were more or less seriously wounded and the band was com- pelled to retire to cover from which they opened fire upon the houses. Only after large re-inforcements had arrived from Faenza were the fascists able to break the resistance. | Donati and his wife were arrested. | The examining magistrate of the Fascist Special Tribunal has ar- rived in Faenza and martial law has been declared in the town and its environs. tutional reform and pointed to the threatening reduction of the unem-, ployed support. The conference put forward de- mends f > a 50 per cent increase in the unemployed support and for special winter assistance. Organ- izational measures were adopted for the centralization of the unemployed workers’ movement. | An organ of the unemployed has just appeared, “The Unemployed Worker.” It will continue to ap- pear regularly and will serve the strengthening of the organized un-| employed workers’ movement in Vienna and over the whole of Austria. i Jations with Italy had been crowned with success. One must assume from Schober’s words that as a condition for Italy's consent to the loan, some close arrangement has been made in these days between the fascist government of Austria and the fascist government of Italy. A prohibited demonstration against the new government was also held in Zwickau. Despite the efforts of the police many hundreds of work- ers protested against the social fas- cist government. Reading “Socialists” OK Their Boss Regime READING, Pa., Jan. 8. — The! “socialist” regime here congratu- lated itself on its second anniver- sary, fully approving its policy of helping the bosses against the workers. “The victory of the ‘socialists’ in Reading, will hearten and encourage every group which is interested in establishing saner- and sounder met- hods in municipal government,” said Mayor J. Henry Stump. This is an appeal to the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois elements to back the “socialist” party as a sane, reliable capitalist. opposition. , Make the Daily Worker the Collective Organizer and Agi- | their parasites.—Hospital Worker. | Three Pickets Forget tator of the Party. be ‘ore the factory gates resulted in Sets : | | | | Task in 1930 nd What’s More, the Task Will Be Done! MOSCOW (By Imprecorr Mail | Commissars of the Sovie: Union has now ratified the control figures for the economic year 1929-30 put for- ward by the Supreme Economic | Council. | The figures provide for an increase | of production of the state-owned in- dustry by 82 per cent and a 45 per| industry producing the means of production... Three million five hun- dred and eighty-four thousand rou- bles will be invested in industry, of which sum 2,754 millions go to hea industry. The figures also-provide fer an increase of labor intensity by 25 per cent and a decrease of the cost of production by 11 per cent. In this year about two-thirds of in-! dustry will start on the uninter- | rupted working week and the seven- | hour day will be introduced for a million industrial workers, The real wages of the industrial | workers will increase by 9 per cent | and 111 million rubles have been} allotted for unemployed support. The increase of the area under seed in the spring will probably be 11 per cent so that the total area will be 13@ million hectares. The area under grain will be increased by 10 per cent. The area tilled by the collective undertakings wilt in- crease from four million to 13 mil- lion hectares, and the area tilled by the Soviet farms from 18 million to 3.7 million hectares. There will be at least 100 new machinery and tractor stations erected which will serve 2 million hectares of arable land. With regard to technical training the figures provide for a very con- siderable raising of the technical qualifications of the workers and the training of new groups of young workers, KILLING SLAVES IN HEALTH INST, (By a Worker Correspondent) I work in the “Medical Center,” one of the biggest health institu- tions in the U. S., located at 168th and Broadway, N. Y. It employs over 1,000 workers, We get for 10 to 12 hours’ work a day, wages of $15 to $18 a week. Any one who gets a job here must pass a physical examination. This capitalist health institution wants strong slaves. At the same time they ruin your health by feeding us the worst meals ever seen, liable to give ulcer in the stomach. The bosses don’t worry, so long as every morning 200 people are waiting at the door for the work. All these starving workers mean “prosperous” America, yes, pros- perous just for a handful of people. Let’s wake up and send the parasites where the Russian workers sent It Is Fake Strike and | Are Promptly Jailed | CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. 8—Some | of the strikers in the International | Ladiés’ Garment Workers’ fake} walkout here, smarting under the real grievances of $12 a week wages and sweat-shop conditions, picketed | 2 so vigorously that they embarrassed the union leaders, yesterday. Three | of them were arrested in front of one of the American Plan shops. Benjamin Schlesinger, head of the LL.G.W. is here negotiating with the employers’ association for the calling off of the strike soon on all shops not refusing to join the asso- ciation, in which the L.L.G.W. will function as a company union. No real gains for the workers are intended. The picketing wherever the “union” leaders were in control was so orderly that few extra po- lice were present. The employers in general assist the union by locking out any who fail to “strike.” The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union calls on the Cleve- land workers to take over control | of the strike and get something for themselves out of it. T. U. U. L, Executive Boards Map Programs for Affiliated Unions MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 8.— The Trade Union Unity League, whicR is organizing the metal miners and the lumber workers in this district into fighting industrial unions, has called a ¢'itrict conven- tion of District Nine of the TUUL| for Sunday, January 19, beginnin; at 10 a.m., at Moose Hall, 43 South | Fourth St., Minneapolis. Further plans for the organization of the unorganized in this district will be discussed. | | me | MERGE TO INSURE. PROFIT PREPARES FOR NEXT WAR CARDIFF, S. Wales, (By Mail)— | To speed rationalization plans spon- | sored by the “Labor” Government in preparation for the coming, war, | mine companies in South Wales are aiming to form # new company to | be called the Associated Welsh Col- | lieries, with a capital of $8,500,000. | phasis must 5 laid upon the strug- | as agents for the building up of our | official organ is of immediate neces- Catarrh— “= DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, TH "9, an Veneers Wounded Chinese soldiers lying Most Chinese Why Chinese Soldiers Gladly Went Over Idiers are poor peasants or worl ction at Loyang in s, herded in as con on a railway to the Red Army n the recent civil war in Horan nscripts to fight, as in all capital- ist armies, for capitali nterests. They are ill-clothed, half-starved and brutally treated. Driven to battle, the worst wounded are left to die, the lighter wounded are neglected and die like flies. When sent against the Soviet Union, no wonder they gladly surrendered to the Red Army troops, who treated th devil poor as fellow workmen, victimized by imperialist anti-Soviet war plotters. TUUL ANNOUNCES! ITS Ol \ g ‘| To Build Up League Industrially ‘A whole series of district conven- ventions of the Trade Union Unity League to solidify, organize and fill out the league construction in the various big industrial localities is announced from its national office, 2 West 15th St. The conventions ar Jan, 12; Seattle, Jan. 11-12; Detroit, Jan. 18; Minnesota, Jan, 19; New York, Jan, 25-26; Philadelphia, Jan. 25; Boston, Jan. 26; Southern Dis- trict, Jan, 28-29; San Francisco, Feb, 1-2; New Haven, Feb. 2; Buf- falo, Feb. 8-9. Assistant Secretary Schmies of the T. U. U. L, in a statement is- sued through Labor Unity, official publication of the League, outlines the tasks of these conventions as follows: 1—Out of these district conven- tions we must build our revolution- ary trade union centers in the dis- tricts which must take up the most elementary problems of the work- ers, lead and develop them into a Chicago, broad struggle against our class enem! “2.The development of class consciousness and a broader class solidarity of the workers under the leadership of the T. U. U. L. as the American section of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions, must be one of the main tasks of that, dis- trict convention. Increased Struggle, “8.—Our general perspective must be: Increased struggle of the work- ers in order to fight the united front of the social fascists, the bosses, the government and the bureaucrats of the A. F, of L. and their fascist method: “4.—These district conventions must bring out a program of action for militant struggl. against the in- creased system, of rationalization (speed-up, low wages, lengthening of hours, etc.), the program must be based upon the most exploited sec- tion of the workers. Special em- gle for every unity between the Negro and white workers. Women workers and youth must be drawn into our direct TULL movemen. “5.—The di conventions must take up seriously the launching of a campaign among the unemployed workers connecting it up with our nize the unorgan- among the un- must be made one of the major tasks of our district conventions as par* jof our fight against capitalist rationalization, “6.—The establishment of a per- manent district T. U. U. L. head- quarters as well as the proper sys- tem of dues payment, initiation fee and per capita tax; the building up| of a literature department in “all our industrial centers in order to supply our. membership with the necessary and most up to date in- formation on all vital problems of the revolutionary Trade Union movement. 7,—The building up of our official organ, Labor Unity, without which our movement will not be in a posi- tion to grow and give leadership and guidance to the every-day prob- lems of the workers in the indus- tries, is a major task. Therefore the election of live militant workers campaign to o: sity. All shop committees, all T. U. U. L. groups, all local unions, must establish Labor Unity agents. Fight opportunism “8.—The fight against opportun- ism in our ranks is of vital import- ance for the building up of our VENTIONS| tunist elements within our ranks on, concrete issues and we must con- vince our membership that the poli- ey of the opportunist elements is a| defeatist one, and will only lead to} further . difficulties and to failures of our movement and the working | clas { “The district conventi must take a resolute stand against all op- portunist right wing elements, such as the new combination of the Muste, Lore, Cannon, Lovestone block inside and outside the T. U. U. L. We must expose them; we must fight them; we must crush them. They have no room in a revo- lutionary Trade Union |movement based upon the increased struggles of the working class, “9,.—Each district must set up a Negro department for the purpose of drawing Negro workers actively into the T. U. U. L. These departments must not become sectarian groups, but live recruiting centers for the building of the T. U. U L, for strug- gle. “10.—The above are some of the tasks for our district conventions. These tasks can only be realized by increased systematic work part of our membership, by getting a large representation of workers from the basic industries, shop com- mittees, T.U.U.L. groups, local unions, delegations from unorgan- ized shops, all of them must include Negro workers in order: to lay the basis for our program of action, and through new method of struggle we will march on for the realization of our objective. “Forward to our district conven- tions! “Forward to the rapid building of the National Revolutionary Trade Union Center!” on the | HAITI PROTEST HELD, CHICAGO (Fight U.S. Imperialist Suppression CHICAGO, Jan. 8. — The Haiti ers of Chicago, and especially the | Negro workers, the real meaning of the opp ion of the Haiti masses jand_ their ruggle for liberation against Amer pe At this meeting, there were about 35 Negroes present, out of an as- jsembly of 100, of which 25 made application for membership in the | Negroes. | A similar Haiti protest meeting |was held in St. Louis on December 29, at which two Negro workers ined the Party. In District No. 8, since the membership drive has jstarted, with the functioning of the District Negro Committee, 42 Ne- gro workers have made application jfor membership in the Communist Party, including the various sec- | tions. | | MECHANIZE OFFICE SLAVES OUT OF EMPLOYMENT CHICAGO (By Mail).—Automatic ; machinery will permanently disem- | ploy some 3,000,000 office workers, |C. H. Hunter, director of the Na- | tional Business Show, admitted here. CORRUPT GOV'TS VICTIMIZE UNEMPLOYED IN DETROIT, CLEVELAND Men in Line 8 tand Freeze While Officials Pick Out Favored Few to Shovel Snow; J (By a worker correspondent). CLEVELAND (By Mail).—Mon- day morning, December 25, I was at} the car barns at 4 o'clock in the| morning in line, as per the rule laid down by the institution—first come ~—first served, but nothing doing. This getting in line only means that those who are not favored get into line. Those among the favored suck- ers can buck the line or get into line whenever they want to. At seven in the morning I was tenth in line inside the garage, door leads from the garage to a big room where the hiring takes pla This door from garage to ent windows was closed at 7 o’clock in the morning. I stayed | employm Al Some Eat Dry Bread As They Wait For Chance obless Fight Back men in from the side doors who came from councilman Finkle with a note to Bill Durant. Finkle men can’t get down in time to get in line so they come ten hours later than the other fellows and go right to work. Every one who showed up for the show would have had made Christmas moncy if the thing came off on ‘*e square. When the first 200 went out on the snow and put in | their eight hours more they were re- turned to the barns and signed up for eight hours more while the other | 200 men in line were let stay in line while the first 250 repeated until they had put in the 24 hours or three shifts. | | In this line ahead of me were two at this door till seven at night.| When this door closed there were|™en who ate dry bread from their | about two hundred hangers on in the room that were not in line but who should have been made to get Communist Party, 21 of whom are | into line like all the rest. Now what do the officials do? | z | They come out into the garage | Protest M aes that was. ar anged | and pick out the ones that do aE s on the West Side of Chicago for! cet into'line because they know that |January 3 was a huge suceess in| thoy will be picked out and then |bringing before the masses of work-| sii) them through the side doors and get the jobs while the men in pockets, who were married and: had hungry children at home, few hours | work could readily see ir their ex- pressions, graphically depicted, their hopelessness and despair. It may be seen from the fighting ivit of these j-» seekers that they are driven to a point of desperate necessity and will stop at nothing if driven much further. The Cleveland unemployed ¢éun- | line stand there like dummies. | This was topped off by taking | 1300 Clothing Worker: Fire | (By a Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail).— A short time ago at the Twymouth |Clothing Co., 13 Harvard St., Bos- | ton, the foremean fired a man under |the pretense that his work was no | good. He was a presser there. A_class- jeonscious worker, after arguing with the foreman, instructed a com- |mittee to inspect the man’s work, jand they found it O. K. They told the foreman that unless he put the man back the whole shop of 1,300 workers would walk out. Exactly at 4 p. m. the whole shop stopped work, the boss came run- ning half wild to find out what had happened, and after finding out, in- structed the foreman never to fire |any one without the bosses’ O. K. He was scared by the walkout. In this shop they have the worst i movement, We must expose oppor-| Ad No. 10 Beware... ou Bladder UT Burning Passages... Painful Elimination and Night Rising These warnings may indicate the presence of a serious ailment which | may effect your entire bodily health. | ‘ake no chances, Correct it at once. Get Santal ey. from your ist. For nearly half a century it has been | prescribed by doctors for rapid relief. | ' Santal Midy | Tell everybody of the change of place. Chan your tickets in ad Wevevvvvervvvvesvereuure Notice Ch Baily Sixth Anniversary | cil will see that their demands are 'met.—G. W. D. s Walk Out; d Man speedup and cut of wages on piete work, The foreman is getting 50 |per cent of all the wages he cuts from the workers. The men are making only $30 to $35 a week. This incident shows that every worker should take the part of his fellow- worker and fight the boss and his direct enemy by the strike —Shop Worker. Reinstate | T.U.U.L. AFFAIR. IN DENVER. DENVER (By Mail).—A supper and entertainment at the Labor Ly- ceum was arranged by the T.U.U.L, on New Year's Eve. J. Allendér, organizer for the miners of Colo- rado in the N.M.U. spoke on the progress being made in organizing the miners, and the role ofthe T.U.U.L. Money raised at “the meeting was sent to aid the striking miners of Illinois. ange! orker " Celebration ECCA 133 West 55th Street INSTEAD OF ROCKLAND PALACE This Saturday T at 8:30 P. M. CONDUCTORLESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ‘The STEINWAY is the Official Piano of the Conductoricss Symphony Orchestra Among Other Numbers Will Play Revolutionary Symphonic Poem—STENKA RAZIN By ALEXANDER ARIEL RUBSTEIN A. SACKETT GLAZOUNOW .. Pianist - Flutist TAYLOR GORDON EMPLE Noted Negro Baritone in Negro Worksongs DO In Revolutionary RSHA Interpretive Dancing Speakers: ROBERT MINOR JAMES FORD ALFRED WAGENKNECH® MAX BEDACHT PRICES: 75c, $1.00, $1.50 Tickets on Sale at the DAILY WORKER, 26 Union Square, N. YG: ge the hall on the tickets you sell to your fellow workers! vance because we expct a crowded house! Buy” « 4