The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1930, Page 1

YOUNGSTOWN STEEL WORKERS’ WACES CUT 20 PERCENT The Imperialist War Makers } ASCE AEE BERTIE chau Steel Trust Cuts Wages 20°, at Youngs- town! Ford Fires 54,000 Auto Workers and Speeds Up the Rest to 50%, High- er Production! More Than 5,000,- 000 Unemployed! Workers, Or- ganize to Resist! And Join the Communist Party! tniered as second-c! fa matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION ws ae na ; Vol. VI., No. 264 Company. tue. 26-28 U bishe@ daily except Sunday by The Lomprodatly Publishing New York City, N. tiie SUBSCRIPTION RATES: tp New York by mail $8.00 ver year Outside New York. by mail $6.00 per year. Price |S Cents h vEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 1930 Are Off to London! The Wall Street government's war spe ists headed by Admiral William V. Pratt, commander of the United States Fleet, sailed away yesterday to London for the Naval “Reduction” Conference! Of course, Admiral Pratt's business is war, not peace. The busi- ness of the whole. delegation is war—and it still would be war even if all of the delegates had been chosen from among civilians in order to please the petty-bourgeois pacifi: To call the conference an armament “reduction” affair is only a protective measure. The lie makes it easier for “liberals” and the social-fascists headed by Norman Thom id William Green, the so- cialist party and the A. F. of L., to blind the eyes of the working masses as easy cannon-fodder for the next impe ialist war. Why is Hoover preparing for imperialist war? World capitalism has no other way out of the contr: anki of ewn economic and political system. The present economic crisis, which is rapidly growing here and spreading throughout the capitalist World, 1s pushing the imper' faster toward war. The capitalist rulers in trying to keep their system of capitalist production from col- lapse, must attempt to seize new markets. To do this, they must go to war with their main imperialist rival, Great Britain, whic weakened, still has a monopolist position in colonial pos: The*smoke of the coming diplomatic battle of London is’ already thick in the air. Imperialist France turns down the demand of im- Perialist Italy for equality with France for its navy. This is typical of the maneuvering for which all of the capitalist powers are going to London. . But, although these imperialist powers are quarreling between themsefves, they nevertheless are in a united front for imperialist war- | fare against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. World war is ripening—and first of all against the great revolutionary state in which the victorious working class is building for the first time in history—a socialist society—the only state among the powers that can and does pursue a real peace policy! The war makers’ activities in London will bring closer the second imperialist world war. There can be no pacifist answer to these war makers! The strug- gle against the present capitalist wage-cutting and speed-up drive against the working class must be coupled with the struggle against war danger. The working class must prepare itself ideologically and by organization, to be stronger for the duty of transforming the com- ing imperialist war into civil war for the overthrow of the capitalist war makers and for the establishment of the rule of the working cla: and exploited farmers throughout the world. The workers must pro- tect with their life’s blood the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 4 the Communist Party and fight against imperialist w Young Miners te the Front! Subdistrict conferences of the Youth of the mine fields are being held in Ilinois and Ohio. The young miners are most militant, the most aggressive and de- termined element among the Illinois mine strikers. This is a healthy sign, and the coming to the front of young miners, not only in the first line at mass picketing and marching, but as lead- ers of the whole struggle is to be encouraged. There can be no such thing as “war wearin permitted among our class in the labor struggle. Some of the veter: of old-time strug- gles in the United Mine Workers of America, thoroughly honest sup- porters now of the National Miners’ Union, made some of the worst mis- takes during the early days of, and just preceding, the strike. There is always a danger, in any rapid) changing revolutionary movement, that those who were peculiarly adapted to be leaders in one phase of the struggle and who do become leaders, will feel, and others will agree with them, that also in a new situation they are, unchanged, the logi- cal leaders. But as the situation changes, they must change, must learn new tactics and keep their judgment and imagination both alive and effective. They must not fall into routine, must not face the past too much. Constant introduction of new blood into a leadership is a necessity, rejuvenating not only by the presence of individuals close to the present realities, but by their example, the new leaders, rising from the rank and file in the pits, lead or compel the older ones to new points of view. The Communist Party urges all miners to support to the full the present sub-district conferences of the mining youth, being held this month and February in Illinois and Ohio, also the Illinois district con- Terence of the National Miners’ Union for young miners, scheduled for Feb. 9 in Belleville. The miners of Illinois are engaged in a life and death struggle, in a series of strikes which must be spread and made a district strike, and within a few months they will be in a national strike. They must organize as they fight, and by all means they must organize the young miners especially. The mining youth have proved their class consciousness and cour- age in the face of militia and thugs, machine guns, bombs, and bay- onets, and their intelligence in outwitting and out-maneuvering militia and deputies. Such young workers are the best possible material to become mem- ders of the Communist Party and of the Young Communist League. To enlist large numbers of them in the Young Communist League ind the Cominunist Party during these coming conferences is the best aossible means of strengthening the National Miners’ Union for the resent struggle. SILENT CAL FIBS LOUDLY. AGENCY SHARKS rolidge tonight in a speech at the FLE C J08 mvention of the New York Life jaliens in the state department of | labor, said she could do nothing ST. PETERSBURG, Fia., Jan. 9.— is the “character” of the Ameri- isuyance Co. “Character” to Cal After a hearing before her on the »olidge means willingness to slave | question of the frauds committed im people” which has been the ‘ief factor in creating the wealth ithout complaint. on 150 jobless workers by the Relia- *\ble Employment Agency, Mrs. Lilli- the country, declared Calvin an Sire, chief of the division of Today In The Red International of Labor Unions in Session, Page 3. Worker Correspondents Write of Growing Unemployment, Page ‘ Youngstown Steel Bosses Start Wage Slashing, Page 1. \about it. | The case was brought to court |when 150 unemployed workers | stormed the offices of the Reliable Agency demanding money back paid for jobs that were promised, but never given. The police were forced to arrest Growing struggles in Auto In- justry, Page 4. Tomorrow ._ Special Sixth Anniversary Edition, 16 pages, special articles current politics, labor strug- analysis of the economic eases vie Cn: the owners of the agency because of the obvious robbery. John Haynes Holmes, in his attitude of friend workers, bailed out one of the bosses of the employment agency. The fees given to private employ- ment ‘agencies, Mrs. Sire revealed, can be retained for indefinite period. econ, Of them antitely. WORKERS OF N.Y, ed/a Murder BERLIN COURT HAIL TTH YEAR OF DAILY TOMORROW, Celebration - / At Mecca Temple to Have Many Fine Features (‘Daily Is Toilers Choice All Militant Workers Called to Attend Six years of The Daily Worker— years cf leadership in the class uggle of the American workers— will be celebrated by thousands of workers of New York and vicinity at Mecca Temple, 183 West 55th St.. tomorrow, at 8:30 p.m. The |place of celebration has been | changed from Rockland Palace. A fine symphonic program by the famous Conductorless Sym- | phony Orches' the high light of | which will the revolutionary tone-peem, “Stenka Razin,” by Al- exander Glazounow, director of the Leningrad Conservatory; a program of revolutionary _ interpretative cancing by Dorsha and her dancers, accompanied by the Conductorless | Orckestra, and a program of Negro work songs, by Taylor Gordon, noted Negro baritone—these will he some of the features of the cele- bration. Greetings from Max Bedacht. | member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party, will be made on ; behalf of the Party, and a resume | of the important role played by The Daily Worker as the collective organ of the American working class will be given by Robert Minor, editor | jot The Daily Workers and=Alfred Wagenknecht, manager of The Dae Worker. | “With the increasingly important role of The Daily Worker in this period of rapidly rising militancy cf the workers, accompanied by the decline of the capitalist system. New York workers must do their | utmost to see to it that The Daily] Worker continue in its role as the voice of the American workers.” | said Alfred Wagenknecht yester- day. | “Therefore every class-conscious worker in New York must make it , his duty to attend the Sixth Anni- ; Yersary Celebration of The Daily hes at Mecca Temple on Satur- > a, be DECEIVE MASSES BY PEACE TALK “No Intrigue” Lie to! Hide Secret Pacts When the steamer George Wash-! | ington sailed from Hoboken yester- | }day afternoon with 92 American imperialists, headed by Secretary | | parley, one of the most shameful | deceits of history was initiated. For \though these government officials | eno that the London parley is only a preparation for another world war, they deceive the masses with hope that the parley means peace. It is true that careful reading of Hoover’s farewell will show that he warns against “optimism” and asks jno “carping criticism,” but these {are not meant to receive attention, while the whole affair is intended | to blind the masses with false secur- ity while the real object is to secure for the United States a re-groupiny of imperialist armed forces that will be advantageous for American im- perialism in its attempt to seize colonies and markets from its near- est rival, England, while attempting also to attain leadership in a joint attack of all imperialist countries on the Soviet Union. It must be kept in mind that all (Continued on Page Two) The steel capitalists in Youngs- town, Ohio, have fired a shot in the sharpening class battles growing out of the severe crisis that will be heard in every working-class home. A drastic wage cut of 20 per cent has been sf&pped against the steel workers, Is this the prosperity that Hoover envisaged in 1930? Is this the con- fidence that Green wanted to in- In most cases the workers are cheat- | spire in the workers, to instill faith |of the bosses in the present crisis. in the capitatist masters? | Stimson, to attend the London Naval 11; in Mexico ae Yea r Ago Now } a year January 1v, 1929,| Julie Antrio Mella, one of the} founders of the Communist. Party of Cuba and an irreconcilable enemy of American imperialism, | sassinated in Mexic City by | ent of Machado, Wall Street's | ident of the Republic of | | Cuba,” Cold-Llooded murder of w el leaders, workingclass derous suppressi | lowed by the my: rking- brutal repression of organizations, mur- of strikes, fol- erious disappear- | J uLIo ‘A. MELLA. ance of militant workers have char-| acterized the efforts of the Ma- chado regime, faithfully watching over the billion and a half-dollar investment of American imperial- ism, to force the workers and peas- ants of Cuba into servile submis- sion. Enrique Verona, leader of the sugar workers; Thomas Grant. of the railroad workers; Alfredo Lo- pez, of the Federation of Labor of Havana, were a few slaughtered (Continued on Page Two) SHOE STRIKERS FIGHT ATTACKERS |Demonstrate At Shop, One Cop in Hospital Over 150 shoe strikers demon-} strated before the Dan Palter shop, \151 West 26 St., yesterday. When | | the extra crew of thugs and gang- |sters the boss had provided to at- |tack the strikers were pretty well cleaned out, the police }came down in force. One cop had | | to be taken to the hospital for| |treatment before the battle was oyer. Sixty-five strikers were lined up along the building by the police. |The strikers were undaunted, and |sang the new strike songs, com- | posed during the present struggle jagainst Twenty-two shoe bosses who | have locked out their workers at the | invitation of the U. S. department jof labor, which quite frankly want to smash the militant Independent | Shoe Workers Union. Fake Jail Sentences. The trial of the Sixty-five lasted an hour and a half. They were convicted of disorderly conduct, and given sentences of two days in jail, or $5 fine. All chose jail, so as not to cost the union any money, jand when the sentence was an- (Continued on Page Two) ! | reserves | CHELSEA WORKERS FOR MINERS’ RELIEF. CHELSEA, Mass.—The workers of this city are aiding the striking Illinois miners. Sunday, a house-to- house collection will be held by the Workers International Relief. A | big banquet for miners’ relief is also being arranged by the W. I. R. for Sunday evening, Jan. 19, at 8 o’clock, at the Chelsea Labor Ly- ceum. jaccused Georgian, Sadathierashvilli, IN COLLUSION WITH FORGERS Seek to Hush Scandal} By Releasing the Counter feiters “Socialist” F a orgers| |Plotted With British Against Soviets (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Jan, 9,—Wednesday | afternoon at the session of the anti- Soviet counterfeiters’ trial the fas- cist translator, Lehbert, was dis- missed owing to revelations regard- ing him, published in the Commu- nist paper the “Rote Fahne.” The court decided to release the on bail. The way is now open for unhindered collusion of the author- ities with the accused. Becker, one of the accused fas- cists, was finished with on examina- tion, which showed that Becker obtained from the German office, the addresses of persons purchasing Soviet paper money to send to rela- tives in the Soviet Union. Clearly the counterfeiters, therefore, in- tended to get their counterfeit notes into the Soviet Union. The German fascist Boehle was then examined. Boehle provided watermark paper on which counter- feit Soviet money might be printed, and also obtained printers, receiv- ing 300,000 German marks as pay- ment for his work in helping the counterfeiters, At Thursday morning’s session the accused Schmidt was examined He declared the plan was to form a government on the Black Sea with British assistance out of territory to be conquered from the Soviet Union by counter-revolutionary in- surrection. Schmidt also proved to have organized common swindlers with Bell, another of those accused, in order to obtain money for their] own personal uses. On NEEDLE WORKERS. WIN TWO FIGHTS \Smash Fur Fakers Trick; Beat Thugs Rabbit fur dressers organized in Local 58 of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union have completely and overwhelmingly de- feated a trick attempted by the In- |ternational Fur Workers’ Union to cause a split in their ranks. The fur rabbit dressers after ex- |Periencing a period of strikebreak- ling by the International while they were still a left wing local in it, all joined the N. T. W. I. U. when it was first organized. Every shop Joined. ‘The International has tried strike- breaking since, always offering the Voss a contract at a lower wage scale and agreeing to furnish scabs. Tried To Disorganize. Recently they attempted a deal} with the boss of the Parnopol shop, Jersey. City, and bribed a couple of men in the shop to propose split- ting from the industrial union. The workers asked the fakers’ agents to come back yesterday, and notified the industrial union office. Yester- day théy stopped work in the middle of the day, held a mass meeting outside the shop in the street, and heard I. Potash of the N. T. W. I. U., and their own local spokesman, Julius Wyle, expose the machina- tions of the International. The no- torious Vitto, of the right wing in- ternational and a couple of his fel- low grafters were there and spoke, (Continued on Page Two) This is the fruit of the collabora- tion of Green, Woll, Morrison and Lewis with the Hoover semi-fascist machine headed by Barnes, Lamont, Rosenwald and Dupont, The wage cut in Youngstown, soon to be followed in every steel plant in the United States by others possibly more drastic, is a c! ical example of what The Daily Worker has been pointing out is the plan Not only do the bosses cut wages but announce at the same time that they are introducing speed-up ma- chinery, “enabling workers to pro- duce greater tonnage.” For the workers, less food! More work! When the bosses, under Hoover's leadership, invited Green, Woll, Morrison and Lewis into their pri- vate chambers they knew that the present crisis would entail mass, drastic wage cuts for the workers. In this dirty work they wanted the help of their most reliable support- Party Recruits MOVE TO. ORGANIZE STEEL , SLAVES TO BE PUSHED AS COMMUNIST NUCLEI FORW In Wage Cut Steel Plants le ‘Root the party in the industries,” jwas one of the central slogans of jthe Party Recruiting drive, and one | jof the fruits of this slogan was| | the organization of three shop nuclei in Youngstown Ohio the point at| | which the capitalist class in the| | steel industry concentrated and be- |gan their nation-wide wage cutting | attack. Negro workers are responding to |the appeal for membership in the | Communist Party. “I am a colored | | Woman,” {to work, but can’t get no job. would like to get further Gee | tion, as I was reading one of your papers (the Daily Worker) and I am writing to you. I enclose your ap- plication from Daily Wor Hobe to hear from you soon.” In the first week of the Drive, Negro workers were recruited, The second week brought in 50 and the third 57. Philadelphia has re- cruited a total of 47 Negro workers, with Detroit close behind with 46. Other districts have recruited the following number this most exploit- ed section of the American working class: New York, 30—too low for this big center of Negro workers; Chicago, .21—the same criticism; Cleveland 9, and Buffalo-Pittsburgh, 3. + ee ee “Please send me information about a Negro worker from Chicago. “And how much the dues, are. I read the Daily Worker every day, it for four months, and would not be without it because it’s so inter- esting. ‘The place I work at, I have been (Continued on Heerlen Faye: Two) CHARLOTTE MEET _ ANSWERS AFL CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 9.— T. M. Caudle,. Lumberton “sec- | tary of the National Textile Work- | ers Union, is coming to trial to- morrow afternoon. It is reported to the Southern Office of the In- ternational Labor.. Defense, that attempts are being made to in- timidate defense witnesses so that | open collusion of the sheriff with the mill owner's thugs can not be publicly exposed. oer our. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 9.— “Unions for workers, not bosses” was the slogan at a mass meeting held in the Workers Center here to their union bureaucrats held here Monday. Speakers, at tonights’ meeting were Mother Bloor, of the Interna- ter, representing the Trade Union Unity League; Dewey Martin, Southern District Organizer of the |National Textile Workers Union, jand George Saul of the LL.D., soon to go trial for arming himself against lynchers. Negro workers were particularly invited, and many came, as well as white workers. The A. F. of L. convention cen- tered its attack, not on the bosses, but on the Communists and the the Communist Party have called attention to this, and urge the Southern workers to join them and fight the bosses and their A. F, of | L, allies. Every Party Member an Ac- tive Agent for the Daily Worker. SHARP CRISIS BRINGS MASS WAGE CUTS IN STEEL Youngstown 20% Wage Slashes Beginning ot Nation-Wide Drive On Workers ers the leadership of the A. F. of L. This support was offered willingly and wholeheartedly. Under the leadership of the van- guard of the American workers in the present crisis, the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, the towering wage cuts will be met with the organized resistance of the growing militant toilers, Iron Age, organ of the. steel bosses, reports severe declines in (Continued on Page Two) how I can join your Party” writes | Also | send me some of your literature. | and have been a constant reader of | Caudle’s Wife Tells of |i Gang Shooting At Him} discuss the A. F. of L. conference of | tional Labor Defense; Amy Schech-} T.U.U.L. Both the T.U.U.L. and/ | Bosses With Wage Slashe Drastic Wage Slashes Institute Terrific ; Cebviie Speed: Up Togethe: s For Mill Toilers Follow Hoover-Gree! | Seab No Strike Agreement | Already the capitalist axe has fallen sharply on the wage writes one Negro worker,| of the workers in the basic industry—steel. “and I do work, and I am yang town district a number of steel companies have cut wages o: In the Youngs \ all classes of workers, the cuts going as high as 20 per cent! Hidden away, at the botto: | Commerce, (Jan. 9) organ of FOOD TRUCKS ON m of the page, the Journal o' the big capitalists, announce ti this opening wedge that Hoov er, with the help of Green, ha already driven against th |standard of living of th: American workers. This dec laration of sharpening clas _ WAY TO MINERS |Big Strike Delegation At Relief Conference BULLETIN. HAZARD, Ky., Jan. 9.—Three miners were killed and another hurt by a slate fall today in the Darb Fork Coal Co. here. Poor timbering is the regular thing in unorganized and U.M.W. mines, ee CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 9.—Two truck loads of food collected by the | Workers International Relief were jsent yesterday from Chicago to \the striking miners of central and Regular trips of food trucks are scheduled now. A large delegation of mine strik- ers will attend the relief conference to be held Saturday afternoon, Janu- ary 11 at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 | Chicago Ave. Representatives of | many workers organizations in | Chicago and vincinity will also be | there. In all this food collection to win} the miners’ strike, the Communist | eae, has been especially active, | aking it a part of its present| laces for more members. This issue of the Daily Worker will be on sale at the conference, and work- ers are urged to subscribe to it as a paper which has most consistently | supported the mine strike. | southern Illinois, ‘SABBATINO GETS Face of Courts In order to extricate the capital- ist judges in New York from the particularly filthy hole into which they have fallen since the revela- tions of the Vitale scandal, |magistrate William McAdoo mildly | vicious threats against David Weiss and Miriam, his sister, members of |the Young Communist League. In a letter written by McAdoo he} tries to distort the fact that the capitalist judges are especially an- tagonistic to Communist working- class prisoners, _ WIRELESS NEWS. EMDEN MUTINY SERIOUS. (Wireless By Pisa) BERLIN, Jan. | Emden is leaving Germany for the | second time on a world cruise on lars 12, but with an entirely new jerew, thus confirming the report |that the recent mutiny of the crew | was serious. se @ BESSEDOVSKI A THIEF, (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW,’ Jan. 9.—Bessedovski, the ex-segretary of the Soviet em- bassy in Paris is being tried here in willful contempt of court. The evidence shgwed .Bessedovski con- verted $15,000 of embassy money to his personal use, that he lived be- yond his means and betrayed trust when his defalcations were discov- ered. in Paris had demanded Bessbdovski | give an accounting, denied that | Bessedovski was subjected to physi- cal threats. Bessedovski’s own | brother appeared in court and tes- tified that Bessedovski’s statement was false that his relatives in the Soviet Union were being persecuted. The court sentenced Bessedovski to ten years imprisonment. The second trial, follow. i MILD SCOLDING |McAdoo Tries to Save, chief | | scolds magistrate Sabbatino for his | 9.—The cruiser | Rosemann, the Soviet attache who | for high treason, will coe of the year 1929 there were battle says: “In the primary steel industry some companies have inaugurated reductions in tonnage rates for certain classes of workers, Cuts as high as 20 per cent have been made.” Also More Speed-Up. With these wage-cuts the stee b.-ses announce a mass speedin; up of workers. A dispatch fron Youngstown puts this very sharply saying: “Such adjustments (wage cuts, particularly in tonnage piece rates) are brought about by rea- son of the introduction of jabor saving devices and new equip- ment, enabling workers to pro- duce greater tonnage.” This vecalls the lying statement of the leading bosses when they met with Hoover on Nov. 21, wher the presid:at issued his famous statement in conjunction with Wm. Green znd others of the American Federation of Labor: “The president was authorized by the employers who were pres- ent at this morning’s conference to state on their individual behalf that they will not initiate any moyement for wage reduction.” For this fake which |mever was worth the paper it was writter. on, as wage cuts imme- | diately followed the conferences of jthe bosses with Hoover and the |fakers in the A. F, of L., the of- ficialdom of the American Federa- jtion of Labor promised it would call no strikes and refrain from initjat- ing any movements for higher wages or to protect the workers in |the event of wage cuts. The Daily Worker has pointed jout repeatedly that the bosses were jplanning to initiate steep wage jeuts all along the line and at the \same time i titute drastic speed- up and rationalization. | The Youngstown cut of 20 per |cent in wages, and the admission by the bosses that they expect to speed {up the workers, is the beginning of a nation-wide wage-cutting drive \the like of which has never before confronted the American workers, Party Organizes Shop Nuclei. The Cleveland District of the | Communi: st Party has organized three shop nuclei in the heart of the Young:town Steel district, where the 20 per cent wage cuts have been instituted. An immediate mobilization of the workers against jthis drastic attack by the bosses is |necessary. The Party of working |elass is on the spot and plans to | give leadership in the struggle. promise, | While the bosses in the basic in- dustries proceed with their slash- ing wage-cuts, Green and the execu- tive council of the A. F. of L. are lolling in the Florida sun, devising |means of helping the capitalists in | their wage-smashing schemes. | The steel bosses are using the growing mass of unemployed work- ers as a lever to cut the wages of the employed toilers. In Youngs- town steel production dropped as low as 38 per cent. Thousands of workers were thrown on the streets. Some were rehired at the terrific cut rates. The process of attempting to transfer the burdens of the crisis on the backs of the workers by \lowered wages and intensified speed- up is under way full blast. Meanwhile, the crisis sharpens both in the United States and in its world espect. While the bosses | announce revivais in the steel indus- try, steel and iron ingot production is dropping fast—so fast that the steel bosses who expected a decline express their frank surprise at the steepness of the slump. At the be- (Continued on Page Three) ‘ ) é