The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1930, Page 1

HEROIC NEW YORK WORKERS MASS FOR STRUGGLE IN SHOE, FOOD AND NEEDLE INDUSTRIES Under the leadership of their militant Independent Shoe Work- ers’ Union, and under the Cafeteria Workers section of the Amalga- mated Food Workers and the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, New York workers have for better conditions lately. Against them are the bosses, the courts, | the Tammany police, and the government from been fighting some great battles | Hoover's cabinet again. down to the borough magistrates. line marghes from Jefferson Market Court back to the picket line Center, the cafeteria workers and needle trades workers Left, the shoe strikers’ picket mass picketing on the west side during the cafeteria workers’ strike, | Right, militant needle trades workers get into the struggle. IN TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE Published Compa y The Square, You. VI, No. 2¢ 265 Comprodaily P New York Cit NEW YORK SIXTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PTION RATES: In New York Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. LENIN MEMORIAL MEET TO FIGHT WAR THREAT TO SOVIET U UNION Workers Don’t Starve! Fight!| Organize Against Unemploy- ment, Speed-Up, Wage Cuts! When Herbert Hoover called together the big bosses of American industry and finance—the real owners and rulers of the United Stat —after the Wall Street stock-market crash, a certain propaganda was issued from the White House concerning what was to be done. Hoover and his spokesmen lied themselves blue in the face to prove that there was “no economi¢ crisis.” Different big bosses and especially Henry Ford solemnly swore that there would be no wage-cuts and no workers let out of their jobs. They also were lying. Now we see the proof. The gfeat steel companies of Youngstown, Ohie, who were among those solemnly pledged not to cut wages, have already announced a wage cut of 20 per cent! The loudest-mouthed of Hoover's liars was Henry Ford. But Ford, who a few weeks previously was employing 120,000 workers in Detroit, has reduced this force to 66,000 workers—a dis- charge of 54,000 workers in a few weeks! And did Ford raise wages? Our report has if that he wages to the extent of five cents per hour for a few picked men who were not among those discharged. But this “raise” will best be under- stood in connection with the fact that Ford introduced new “pace- makers” into the different departments of the Detroit plants, with orders to speed up to the highest tension of production. It is no secret that the workers in. all the Ford plants are now working at a break- neck tension that is sapping the life out of them. Reports from inside of:the plant are that after two weeks of this latest speed-up Ford’s managers were boasting of getting as much production out of two shifts as they had been getting out of-three shifts before this recent change was made. It is not only the Steel Trust and Ford. Throughout the United States today the hig capitalist owners of the industries, who are, there- a “raised” fore, the owners and political rulers of the country, are attempting to | make the working class pay for the present collapse of the industrial system. More than five million workers are out of jobs today in the _ United States, and the number is increasing at a rate of not less than 200,000 thrown out of work per month. Those who remain at work are being driven at a pace that is unendurable, in the effort of the bosses to cut wages at the expense of the workers so as to be able to meet the other capitalist rivals in the market and still make a profit. This ecomonic crisis, as deep as it is. only the beginning, and a great deal worse is fully expected by all of the big finance-capitalist heads. The same crisis is spreading throughout the whole capitalist world. The only country in which this economic crisis is not and will not paralyze industry and bring suffering to the working class is Russia, where the working class has overthrown the capita’ and the capitalist system and ‘is now building up a Socialist system of production which is free from such crises. Es Wherever capitalism rules today the ceonomiec crisis is growi What remedy have the capitalists for this break-down of their system? First, shift the burden onto the working class! Throw millions out of employment and speed up and cut the wages of the rest! But that is not all, The capitalist rulers of this and the other great imperialist nations are about to meet at London in a conference on armament. This is a conference in which the different capitalist the most favorable position for the coming w: ot being able to find markets for the enormouslyexpanded machinery of production under the profit system, the capitalist class of each imperialist country de- liberately looks forward to ‘nother imperialist world war in the near future. Woodrow Wilson said that-the last world war was a “commer- cial” war. Also this economic crisis sharply advances the coming “com- mercial” imperialist world war in which the big capitalist powers will send the working class to slaughter in the struggle to seize the world- market and each other’s colonies for exploitation, and—most of all—to try to destroy the Union of Socialist Soviet Repul ublics, which the revo- lutionary workers are building in Soviet Russia with splendid success. Already the German capitalist, Arnold Richberg, speaking more openly than the rest, proposes an immediate imperialist world war to destroy the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics because it “ruins” capitalist countries by abolishing capitalist exploitation and showing the working class of all countries the road to freedom. Capitalism has no solution for economic crisis except collapse, unemployment, bloody warfare of conquest! What should the workers do? Shall our class forever endure the misery of capitalist exploitation, the starvation of unemployment and the bloody slaughter of imperia}- ist war—just in order to. enjoy the “privilege” of supporting an idle class of millionaire owners of the factories, mills, mines and workshops | in which we have to work in order to live? The class-conscious workers answer “No!” The Communist Party of the United States of America, the Party of the working class of this country, calls upon the workers throughout all of the industries to organize to resist the capitalist effort to throw the cost of the economic. crisis upon the working class! William Green and the other traitors to the working class who lead the A. F. of L, have entered into the conspiracy of Hoover and the capitalist open-shop bosses. The Socialist Party and the A. F. of L, are . acting openly as strike-breakers against the working class, as allies of the capitalists against the workers. Through the mouth of William Green they have publicly pledged to Hoover’s conference of open-shop | trust-heads that they will hol the working class back and will help to defeat any movement for an incre "eres or any strikes of resist- ance to the speed-up system. The Communist Party calls upon ‘the wo:! % to throw over the leadership of these social-fascist traitors. We cai! upon the workers to build their hew revolutionary industrial unions, headed by the Trade Union Unity League. We call upon the unemployed workers to or- ganize. We call upon the workers to resist the speed-up and to fight the efforts of the capitalist parasites at wage-reductions. We call upon the workers to resist the coming imperialist war, and to defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! We call upon the workers who are loyal to their class to join your class-party—the Communist Party of the United States of America, section of the Communist International. ‘i at the bosses’ offensive! Unemployed workers, don't starve he CELEBRATION OF THE 7TH YEAR OF “DAILY” TONIGHT Workers Hail Event At Mecca Temple This Evening |Music, Dance, Speeches Daily Worker History One of Struggles This evening’ thousands. of work- ‘ers of New York will celebrate the | entrance of the Daily Worker on. its seventh year as the fighting weapon | of the revolutionary labor movement | jof the United States. This event will |be celebrated at Mecca Temple, 183 West 55th St., at 8.30 today, instead of Rockland Palace as previously jannounced, Celebrations of the six |years of the Daily Worker are also | ng held in cities throughout the | country. The program for the Mecca Tem- | ple celebration this evening includes |many numbers by the Conductorless Symphony Orchestra, dances by !Dorsha and a Revolutionary group | dance, soloists, | Negro work songs, The program as announced | Overture, Glinka;. Symphony | No. ,.Haydn; Concerta for Piano, | |» Ratiten, Liszt; Marche Slav, Continued on Page Seven WIDEN RACE FOR NAVAL WAR ARMS: International; |and - udmilla, \To inenease Richiine| | Ships of All Kind WASHINGTON, Jan. 10,—Al- ready the main plans of the imper- ialists to discuss mainly increases ‘in cruisers and submarines has | broken down. As the U. S. imper- ialist delegates to the Lendon five- Taylor Gordon in| and prominent | Russia Fi Burned Alive in Capitalist America BOSSES QUICKLY MAKE USE OF AFL NO-STRIKE PLAN Cut of 20 P.C. for Steel Workers |Women’s 60 Hour Wk. 12 Hour Shift At Night With No Time.to Eat GASTONIA, N. southérn mill owners have la new wave of wage cuts. A 20 per jcent slash was announced by em- \ployees of the Piedmont Mill, at, , Gastonia, one 6f the Goldberg chain, | Since Gastonia workers have shown lin the recent past that they can | fight, the mill manager ‘took pains |to officially deny the news, but this does not help the workers whose pay | envelopes are ‘short: A section hand said’ he thad been cut from $21 per week to $18, a cut |of five cents an hour.” Another em- ploye-who had been making $16 or | $16.50 a week was notified his wage | would be cut to $13. inners have been cut from $14.30 td $10.78, Card | hands have been reduced from $14.40 | C., Jan. 10.—The J D.. Ivy, a Negro worker, i to $12. Creelets’ and spoolers have chained to an iron stake at Rocky tear cutsdrom $18 to Eran wine Ford, Miss., just after’ the fie} was lit, by which he was burned | The Gastonia Gazette admits in | its Jan. 8 issue that it was told the | women were working 12. hours. at Cones on edict eae Seven alive. Organization of rs defense committees, con g of white ond black workers in the South to fight against lynching is srelseling. The fight against | lynching and for full racial, Bile | ical and social equatity for N | s being led by the Com- | t Party. The witing drive of the Communist Party is ity of b worke Party. stressing’ the’ ne inging all possible Negro. into the ranks of the chlesinger, Bosses —— |’ Completely Agree |Food Strikers iC Ct i are anne ya + 0 Horns Miller, Klein Markets; | take strike called hy Schlesinger of | the International Ladies Garment Cop Takes a Black Eye) Workers Union, in co-operation with | the bosses, has reached its logical | The food workers mass pftketed | sell-out to the bosses in the form of before the Miller Market on Union! an agreement which was so much in Ave., Bronx, yesterday, favor of the garment manufacturers Follows ; Youngstown| | started | ILGWU ENDS FAKE GARMENT STRIKE a Cat ‘Halt Iinois Miners’ Militancy ee | ie When ten thousand miners in Illinois responded to the call of the National Miners Union for a strike for a living wage, and against rationalization which was causing great unemployment, the coal operators were frightened at this display of militancy, and called out state troops, armed with machine guns, in an attempt to halt the spread of the strike. Machine guns and bosses’ courts did not dim the strikers’ militancy, and the strike spread to Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Three new strikes were called in Iinois this week by the militant Iinois miners under M.U.* leadership. Photo shows Illinois militia guarding the Peabody Coal Company Mine"Number 7 at Kincaid, Ill., armed with machine guns, ready to shoot down the miners at the coal operators’ behest. SHOE STRIKERS, DISGUISED WAGE SHOT AT BY COPS CUTTING CREEPS BEAT THEM UP THROUGH STEEL !Rescue Anrested; Fight TUUL Meetings Build Wave of Brutality Basis for Union Police fired on the shoe workers Wage cuts prevail in the steel in- | picket line before the Elmore shop ; dustry, as a whole, and not just in at Hinsdale St. and Pitkin Ave. yes | Youngstown where the direct 20 per |terday morning during a_ terri cent slash is rousing the workers,” battle in which 80 shoe workers re- | said Andrew Overgaard, head of the | | | | | sisted the attempt of first three and | Trade Union Unity League metal \then 20 police to club them up. | workers’ section. Overgaard is now One policeman is in the hospital|on a tour of the principal steel with a broken arm. Several police | manufacturing centers, preparing were taken down and clubbed se-|the ground for the district conven- verely with their own clubs, Four| tions of metal workers held dur- ing February. The first is in Chi- cago, February 2. They will be followed by a rational convention | April 5-6, in Cleveland. Overgaard spoke of the insidious but severe wage cutting that has {been going on tor some time, in the form of speed-up, and all man- ner of rationalization ! pressing the owners from all sides, {forcing more production per man, and since the steel |fallen 4¥ per cent smce Nov. workers were dragged off to jail, but the heroic charge of the strikers rescued several more who had been arrested. | The marching strikers, singing | “Solidarity Forever,” came in front | of the shop as the three police, sta- | tioned there, attacked, viciously swinging their clubs. They lost the clubs in short order and began shoot- | ing. The reserves came down and | the fight continued. The bullets | | struck no one. schemes, ; Workers! Support Fighting Daily at at Mecca Temple Tonight! OPEN PROPOSAL FOR JOINT WAR _ AGAINST SOVIET Big German Capitalist Urges World War on Bolshevism \U. S. Workers Protest (Memorial Meeting in Ne Yodan 22 (Wireless Ry Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 10.—The big German industrialist, Arnold | Richberg, has published an ar- \ticle in the “Bergwerkszei- | tung,” an influential organ of | the German capitalists, openly | demanding a united European sone attack upon the Soviet | Uni io he ‘aiticle declares that Bolshe- jvism is planning the “economic ruin” of Europe to make the peo- ples ripe for Bolshevism, by with- drawing the Russian market, ruin- ing the Chinese and Indian markets of the European countries, ete. Richberg’s article declares that Europe’s only hope is the immediate extermination of Bolshevism by armed force. | Anti-Soviet Counterfeiting Scandal. At Thursday afternoon's session of the trial of the anti-Soviet forg- jers, the prisoner, Bell, a German, | was examined. He declared that he worked chiefly in Bulgaria, because Bulgaria was the strongest anti- Bolshevist Balkan government and interested in a “non-Bolshevist” solution of the Black Sea problem. | The examination exposed the fact that Bell and Schmidt had organ- ized, along with their anti-Soviet counterfeiting plot which was as- sisted by the British, German, Ital- ian and other officials, ordinary |frauds to obtain money for them- jselves. Schmidt, another of those jaccused, described negotiations be- tween the German general, Hoff- man, and British petroleum: inter- ests, declaring that the British put up money i = Conspiracy. output has | 1) The anti-; Bovtat counterfeiting ex- | power conference sail, MacDonald | and Wada announces on behalf of the British |@ttacked by the police. One picket, bap: they did not even quarrel over | eiliteaetite ‘hit "we stall deal with |@ member of the Women's Council, The. strike, which really was ; s was arrestel and is held for 3500 | never started, Was quickly ended by every class of warship from dread- hail on a charge of disorderly con- | | the unity of Schlesinger and the noughts to submarines.’ duct. This strike started about a} | Cleveland Cloak and Dressmakers’ week ago because of discharge of | Association after a short discussion | two members of the Food Clerks’) at the Hotel Winton today. 100 New Members of industrial Union of the Amalga-: as - mated Food Workers. The picket-| Brandi sh aborati Wi eb , 9 mares | randing the class collaboration | NM in Y.Y. By Feb. 9 ing is very effective. ‘fake strike of the Schlesinger ma- The New York district of the N | Two pickets, Kesselman and Jar- chine as a maneuver to fool the ie New York district of the Na-' molowsky before the Klein market, workers, a representative of the tional Textile Workers’ Union has | Borough Park section, are held on) Needle Workers Industrial Union | ' pledged itself to raise its member- $100 bail. They were arrested|said: “The maneuvers ~ carried | \ship by 100 between now and the #fter two police had attacked them, | through in Cleveland is the same \ Side: ut Woacibed! Slaieink ‘ednvention and the eSp had received a black / kind of action of the yellow leaders & ? eye. The judge expressed surprise | in the cloak industry and in the em- eb. 9. The convention will be held that two big cops got punched by broidery’ industry in New York last lat 16 West 2ist St. ithe prisoners, ‘ July.” Jack Zibel and three others are }held at the New Jersy Av. court, | charged with felonious assault, The Tammany police and prosecutors will argue that they should have meekly bowed their heads under the night | sticks of Gorgeous Grover Whalen’s | uniformed thugs, and ought to |erawl to work in the shop because | it has an injunction. Zibel’s bail is iset at $5,000 the others at $500. Two of those arrested, one is Zibel, | were not in the demonstration at | all, but were picked up by revenge- | ful cops who found them coming out of their homes. The policy of the police yesterday was to beat the strikers to a pulp | Continued on Page Seven UNEMPLOYMENT AND WAGE CUTS GROW IN CRISIS. Green, Tool of Bosses, Says Prosperity Is Here; “Only | | All the phases of ‘the sharp na- | unemployed workers in the United |the A. F. of L. policy, stated that ture of the present crisis are in| States. rationalization alone (speed-up, im- evidence. There is. mass. unem- | Green has never been known to |provement in technic, etc.) had | ployment in every industry. than. 5,000,000 workers are walking any wild statements about the mis- Streets. |the streets jobless, with no pros- ery of the American workers. To jcommissioner of labor has piled up pects for work. | double Green’s figures would be ar- figures on unemployment—most un- Mr, William’ F. Green, and his ex-| Tiving closer to the truth. willingly. Even some of the bosses, ecutive council, lolling in the Florida} Just/as an illustration: Months |sun under the pretense of an im- | before steel production dropped easy | portant business meeting, are forced, 80 to 38 per cent. of capacity, ‘to declare that there are 3,000,000! Laidler, social-fa supporter ie Since then, ev@y the growing ranks of jobless. Taking note of the sharp unem- More’ embarrass his imperialist friends by | thrown 2,500,000 workers on_ the | who bother themselves not at all | themselves out. of the sharp crisis. with the unemployed, begin to fear Macauley said: “There is just one condition, it | 3,000,000 Jobless” ployment in the United States, Al- van Macauley, Packard Motor Car Company, in ai address before Packard dealers aid state | distributors in New York, Wednes- day, said that the bosses are find- ing the growing army of - jobless one of the main obstacles to pulling president of the} 1929, the unemployment is terrific.| pose has revealed that the British Thousands of workers have already | Petroleum interests represented by been laid off. | Sir Henry Detering of. the Royal T.U.U.L. Mobilizes. | Dutch Shell: Oil Company were ac- The Metal Workers League, sec-| tively engaged in the conspiracy tion of the T.U.U.L., is taking the | against the Soviet Union. Sir Deter- | necessary steps to mobilize the | ing recently visited the United | workers to fight against these wage States, and it was understood at , with good response from the |that time that his visit was con- | workers, There will be giant strug-| "ected with a secret plan to got igles in the near future, under the | Joint action of the United Siates, Hleadership of the T.U.U.L. Local, through the Standard Oil Company, | leagues have already been organized Pee: the Soviet Union. |in alt the main steel centers where| I commemorating the anniver- both Negro and white workers re- |Sary of the death of Y. I, Lenin, the |spond splendidly to the call of or | great leader of the Russian Revolu- | ganization. They recognize that the jtion and the working class of the steel industry can only be organ- €tire world, who died in January, |ized in an industrial union based on 1924, the workers of America are [the shop committee system, taking jcalled upon to hold mass demonstra- lin all of the workers, without re-| tions in. all cities of the United | gard to nationality, color or age or /States protesting against the re- | 80%. newed threat of an armed attack Overgaard is proceeding from | upon the Soviet Union. New York into Connecticut and| Snot | Massachusetts to organize for the| In a letter issued to all militant | conferences there. | trade unions, fraternal organiza- The Buffalo district, which is a| tions and other labor bodies the center of steel production, will also} Communist Party urged the par- receive attention. | ticipation in the great anti-imperial- The Metal Workers’ League pro- } ist war demonstration:to be held on poses that a -struegle be waged | the oceasion of the Lenin Memorial Continued on Page Seven | enniversary “at Madison Square -——-= | Garden on Wednesday, January 22, GS OMITTED, | 1930, at: 7:30 p.m. phi ae vnctlakmlohite: Sage The letter urged the adoption of le TT Continued on Page Seven t | viene s, |a resolution by all workers’ organ- epee fi Roses, Tate, | izations which would act as a soli- pear, jnaibaeduahe liens: fy) atthe eee between the American @ @ Continued on Page Seven