The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1930, Page 3

— —————— ae RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS PLENUM REVIEWS PAST ACTIONS Determines Future Policies by Thorough-Going Discussion From All Parts of the World | Merker Reports on Social Fascism and Warns| Opposers of R.I.L.U. Policy of Removal | MOSOOW, (Dec. 17-—By Inpre- corr Mail Service)—The sixth sés- sion of the Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labour Unions was opened yesterday. Inter alia, the session will deal with the re.| sults of the struggle of the inter- national revolutionary trade union movement since the fourth congress of the R.LL.U. In an article dealing with tho session the “Pravda” points out that the period under review is rich in gigantic class struggles and ex- periences. The period confirms the analysis of the situation given at the fourth congress of the R.L.L,U. and shows how correct was the in- sigtence of that congress upon the leadership of wage struggles inde- pendent of and against the refor- mist leaders, The sixth plenary session will pay special attention to the preparation of the fifth congress of the R.I.L.U. which will coincide with the tenth anniversaty of the existence cf the RLLU. In a later session of the Execu- tive Bureau of the Red Interna. tional of Labout Unions the dis- cussion upon the speeches of com. rades Merker and Losovski was continued. Comrade Heller dealt with the situation of the revolutionary trade union movement in the colonia] countries and in particular with the strikes of the textile workers in| Bombay and of the jute workers in Calcutta in 1928/29, A World Crisis Comrade Rubinstein (R.1.L.U.) | analysed the growing crisis in the capitalist world. A depression com- menced at the beginning of 1929 and with the American exchange crash capitalism entered into a period of acute crisis, The crisis meant the collapse of the reformist- opportunist conception of “or+ ganized capitalism.” Comrade Vitkovski (R.L.L.U.) Three Governments Aid Fascists BRUSSELS, Dec., (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—The government is conducting a cowardly and brutal campaign against the foreign-born workers. Chicanery, arrests, expul- sions and deportations are taking place constantly with the resultant suffering for these workers and their families. The anti-fascist Italian workers are suffering in par- ticular. Any workman suspected of com- munism sympathies and having been unfortunate enough not to have been born in Belgium is liable to deportation. A worker and his family have just been deported be- cause the man attended a meeting to demand the right of asylum. Russo-Germans Oppose Emigration | | dealt with the question of the earrying out of the decisions of the fourth congress of the R.LL.U. Many countries were doing their best to carry out these decisions, but there were others, such as Bel- gium, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Spain where practically nothing | had been dore. Comrade Herclet (France), Dem- hiezky (Poland), Bela Szanto (RILLU.), Vassiliey, Sergiteh (Yugoslavia), Apletin, Smollanski, | (Soviet Union), Bergner (Ger- many), and Chajes (Tcheckoslo. vakia) also spoke. | The session unanimously decided | to send a telegram of greetings to the striking miners in New South Wales and a furthur telegram to the Meerut prisoners. The discussion was continued in this_morning’s session. Comrades di .Victorio (Itaik) and (Switzerland) spoke and comrade Tchernuchoy welcomed the session | in the name of the 2,500 workers of the Dynamo works and was answered by comrade Germanetto for the R.I.L.U., and comrade Mer- ker then made his closing speech. He dealt first of all with the prospects of. the revolutionary trade | union work and the development of the social fascist Unions, The social fascist apparatus was solidifying | more with the State apparatus with | the national fascist movement. To - day the central tasks of the revo-| lutionary trade union movement | were the independent leadership of the wage struggles of the workers and the carrying on of a merciless | struggle against the social fascist bureaucracy. The conditions for political mass strikes would also| have to be created. He warned his hearers against the illusion that the social fascist officials could be won or even neu-| tralised. Whoever opposed or sabo- taged the new policy of the R.LL.U. would be removed from the !eader- ship, Fascists of all brands and all nationalities however, may do what they like. The central organ of the Belgian Communist Party “le Drapeau Rouge” publishes a photo- | graph of a membership card of a “Polish Anti-Communist League in| Belgium” organized by the Polish | consulate authorities and working under governmental protection. This league supplies strike-break- | ers and spies on the revolutionary Polish workers in the factories of whom thére are very many. The Italian Fascists continue to ‘hold their meetings in the Italian con- sulates with the knowledge of the | Belgian authorities. LENINGRAD, (Dec. 16, By In- precorr Mail Service)—Yesterday a meeting took place in Leningrad of the Russo-German workers em- ployed there together with Rusto- German peasants from the country. The meeting discussed the emigra- tion swindle and the peasants ce- clared that a great factor in the matter was the agitation of the Kulaks amongst the religious sec- Workers “Say It With Stones” VIENNA, (Dec. 16, By Inprecort Mail Service)—A mass of workers greeted a wagonload of fascists in Ebensee with a shower of stones. The police who protected the fas- ciste were also attacked and a num- ber injured. 8 workers were severly Labor Defense Officers Re-elected; Speakers to Tour Whole Country J. Louis Engdahl, George Maur- er, and A. Jakira were re-elected secretary, assistant secretary and organizational secretary, respec- tively, of the International Labor Defense at a meeting of the Na- tional Executive Committee of the organization. “A legal department of the I. L. D. ‘was created and George Maurer was chosen to direct the Gastonia and Anti-Terror drive which has been extended to March 18. A number of tours were arranged of various organizers — including Yetta Stromberg, of Los Angeles, sentenced to one to ten years im- prisonment for “flying the red flag,” and Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, now’ in Charlotte, N. C., on her tour through the southern states on her way back to Seattle. She will visit New Orleans, cities in Alabama, Texas, Kentucky, and other states. A tour was arranged for Bill Shifrin, of New York. A new district was formed with Cincinatti as the center, comprising Kentucky, part of Tennessee, South- west Virginia, part of Ohio and Indiana and Southern West Virginia. tarians. A resolution was unanimously adopted protesting against the in- terference of certain German dip: lomatie representatives in the in- ternal affairs of the Soviet Union, condemning the emigration as an| anti-soviet action on the part of the | bourgeoisie and pledging whole- hearted support to the collectiviza- tion plans of the soviet government. injured and a number of other less seriously injured. In St. Poelten crowds of workers attacked a detachment of fascists. "The police who arrived quickly in large numbers had great difficulty in rescuing the fascists. Bosses Give Millions for Yachts While the Workers are Starving (By a worker correspondent). DETROIT, Jan. 10—While many of us are unemployed and some working only part time we read that Edsel has built for himself a new yacht that will cost $300,000. This yacht was already destroyed and we suppose that he will therefore build a bigger one. This was only a “cheap” boat as compared to Hen- ty’s, Which cost over a million, Then Walter Briggs also has a million-dollar yacht which is similar to Sloan’s and Fred. Fisher’s of G. M. Then we read about the wonder- ful palaces that these gentry have, Just why the working class should worry over such sordid things as un- employment, bread and butter and hungry children is more than Ford, Briggs, Fisher, Sloan and Company can understand. CRISIS DEEPENS IN ENGLAND. LONDON (By Mail).—So. serious is the depression in the British cot- ton trade, that the operatives, master spinners association has ‘called a meeting with a fw Amer- ican cotton barons for aid in solu- vion of the problem. The “Labor” government, of course, helped the employers well when it negotia' the 6% per cent wage cut last ye rs -Stotz |. | the steel bosses. \the newer centers in Gary and Birm- | their wages in Youngstown. The jean stop these smashing attacks of janies are running around 60 to 58| |shows a drop of 28 per cent; and |the independents were operating at | YOUNGSTOWN | STEEL WORKERS Further Speed-Up Aecompanies Cut (Continued from Page One) 157 furnatices in blast. Now there are 110. The crisis is not limited to ‘the steel industry alone. It is severe | in the automobile industry, rubber, coal, oil, building and textiles. In all of thése industries we find the same picture—growing unemploy- ment and wage cuts. In the textile industry the crisis | is especially severe. While steel | touched 88 per cent of capacity,| some textile mills have dropped to 30 per cent. The Journal of Com- merce reports (January 7) “narrow sheeting mills together showed a re- duction of approximately 70 per |} cent from theit normal running time.” The -Financial Chronicle (January | 4) among a lot of hopes for the future reports deadlines in all lines of the textile industry: “At Fall River, trade was quiet In Massachussets cotton mill conditions are not bright In Rhode Island, no statement can be made as to the permanency of employment for workers in the tex- tile industry In North Car- olina the textile mills in several localities have been operating on greatly curtailed schedules Charlotte, N.-C. wired that the Davona Mills has been idle for sev- eral months In South Car- olina the textile mills have been eperating on curtailed schedules | with no immediate prospects of any | immediate improvement.” More to Organize. Theis ‘+ no question but that the Youngstown ~- age cut in the prim- ary steel industry is the signal for similar wage cuts among the 1,000,- 000 stec’ ‘-orkers in all parts of the country. Wage cuts have been slapped against workers in many industries already. These will be further cut under the inspiration of Why have the bosses stated this wage cutting drive in the steel ip- dustry in Youngstown? This is the oldest section of the industry, and an attempt is being made with the installation of new machinery to squeeze more profits out of the workers in order to keep up with ingham. But the wage cuts will rapidly spread to these other points | when the bosses are able to lower sharp competition among them and the reduction in steel prices will make the wage cuts general. Only a sharp resistance by the workers the bosses. 4 Tremendous efforts are being ex- erted by the capitalists to push up steel production, but the erisis con- tinues severe in this basi¢ industry. Steel production by the leading steel trust is down to 60 per cent of capicity. Independent steel comp- | per cent. The capitalist press auda- |ciously announce this fact as indi- jeations of revival because at the | lowest point steel production touched |88 per cent. Certainly these are slim straws to grasp at. In 1928 at pre- cisely this time U. S. Steel Corp. | was running at 87 per cent; 1930) 81 per cent—this year they have dropped nearly 30 per cent, Sharp Crisis Brings Mass Wage Cuts (Continued from Page One) iron and steel ingot production. The latest statements on production by Tron Age show the sharp nature of the present crisis in this foremost industry of U. 8. capitalism: “Pig iron production in Decem- ber showed an even sharper decline than had been anticipated. Twenty blast furnaces were put--out and none went in, making a net loss of 46 active stacks in the last two months of 1929, comparing with 86 in April and May, 1924, the largest net loss for a similar period in re- cent years. “Total output for December was 2,836,916 tons, and the daily rate, at 91,513 tons, was the lowest since the final month of 1927. On Jan- uary 1, with 157 furnaces in blast, the production rate was 88,250 tons daily, against 126,150 tons on June 1, 1929, the high point last year, have reached a 65 per cent rate, and 110,675 tons 12 months ago. “December steel ingot output, at 2,896,269 tons, or 115,851 tons daily, was at the lowest rate since Oc- tober, 1924, Steel ingot output in| December was at the rate of 59 per | cent of capacity. January produc- tion, according to present indi¢a- tions, may approach 65 per cent, The current average is close to 60 per cent. The two largest producers and operations in the leading steel centers are estimated at 65 per cent for Pittsburgh, 60 to 65 per cent, for Chicago and 50 to 55 per cent at Youngstown.” | This action of the bosses proves the correctness of the line of the Communist Party put forward a year ago. The Daily Worker has repeatédly called on the workers to prepare for just such wage cuts and struggle against them. No time can be lost in organizing macs resistance, | ( ! have marines who slaughtered thousands of workers and peasants in Panama, Niear- agua and Haiti to clear the way for Wall Street's imperialist pene- American tration, The Latin-American workers and peasants unite with the workers of the U.S.A. under the leadership of the Communist International in the fight against their common oppressors. HOOVER FAVORS SUGAR GRAFTERS Big Sugar Trust Gets President’s Help WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Hoov- .jer’s backstairs were open to all his grafting friends on the sugar lobby, further testimony before the senate investigating committee revealed today. A letter read before the commit- \tee showed that W. C. D’Arcy, pub-| licity agent for the Coca Cola Co., which favors the sugar lobby of the big sugar trusts, “has a personal method of approach to Hoover, and | ; is going to see that Hoover gets full| but concise data on the sugar sub- ject.” The Cuba Co., with $170,000,000 in sugar properties in Cuba, paid Edwin Shattuck $75,000 graft to see that Hoover got the right sort of “concise data on the sugar sub- ject.” Other of Hoover’s friends were given substantial sums to en- list the aid of the imperialist chief. Senator Rol:ason, member of the in.cstigating committee, had to ad- mit that the letter indicated that D’Arcy had “some backstairs way of getting to the president.” All of the sugar lobbyists on the graft payroll had both front and back stair entrance to Hoover, and Hoover always lent them a willing ear. UNION BOSSES SQUABBLE WORKERS THROWN OFF JOB. ST. LOUIS (By Mail)—Four hundred building mechanics were thrown out of work when bosses of carpenters and bricklayers unions squabbled over window caulking wark on the De Paul hospital job. His Mistakes “Central Committee of | Party Correct” MOSCOW, (Dee. 15, By Inpre Mail S | publishes an article by comrade Bucharin entitled, “The Technical. Economie Revolution—the workers jand the Engineers” in which he |deals with the socialist competitive | scheme, the introduction of the five | day working week, the organiza. | tion of the gigantic soviet agri | tural undertakings, the collecti | of agriculture, etc, as new forms | of the creative activity of the ses making for the radical trans- |formation of the basis of the old | society, | Towards the conclusion of this article comrade Bucharin declares that formerly he held wrong} | opinions concerning the way | means of guaranteeing a sufficie speed of economic development in | the present histor iod. | “It has been shown that the party etvice) — Today’s “Pravda” ul- | was right. The party and its Cen-| | tral Committee were justified when | | they sed a number of my | opinions expressed in my pamphlet, “The Way to Socialism,” in “The | | Notes of an Economist,” in “The | Political Heritage of Lenin” and in | my utterances at the recent plenary | | session of the Central Committee | (Documents and Sneeches). | “The Central Committee of the party was right when it raised the | question of the radical transforma- | tion of the old economic forms in} the village. ‘The development of} this policy is indissolubly connected with a merciless struggle against the right-wing deviation and against the conciliatory attitude to- | wards it, The general policy of the party has stood the test and proved |Borah For Marine-Rule | Election For Haiti | |_ WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Senator |Borah wants a marine—controlled / election in Haiti so Wall Street’s | “candidate can win,” according to a statement made today. Borah is calling on Hoover to ap- point an imperialist governor and | then have the U. S. arrange for an Jelection. The preczss which fol- lows this was aptly described by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, who took |part in many elections of this type, | when he said “our candidates always |win. We declare the other fellows | bandits.” | | Pao were | WORKERS THROWN OFF JOB. | DAVENPORT, Iowa (By Mail).— | Twelve hundred workers were forced lto stay off the job because of the lunusually low stage of the Missis- sippi, which paralyzed the Bettendorf |Company power plant and necessi- {tated the shutdown of the huge foundry and car shops. 1852 THE SAME ADD! OLITAN SAVINGS B 8 FOR 78 YEARS 1930 vie Interest Starts First of anor Before Interest for 3 months ending De- cember 21, 1929, at rate of 434 % sums from. 85 declared pay- amnary Open Mondas Banking by Mail We Sell A. B, A. Travelers a0 CHRIST! Deposits Made JANUARY 13 Jil! draw interest from January Ist (all day) untill 7 P.M. 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