The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1930, Page 1

: Vol. VL, No 269. NAVAL CONFERENCE PLANS WAR » In New York, Detroit and in Buenos Aires, 7,000 Miles From New York, Workers Are Demon- strating Against the Fascist White Terror in Mexico Ordered by Wall Street For- + ward to Complete Unity of Workers of North and South, America Against Imperialism! This Will Finally Smash United States Imperialism in Both Places! ) ON USSR; DEMONSTRATE AGAINST WAR AT LENIN MEET, JAN. 22 AVorker Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. under the act ¢ FINAL CITY EDITION f March 3, 1879. ept Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing «gm ., -28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. Published daily Company, Inc., NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RA Outside New 1 In New York by mall, $8.00 per year. rk, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cent: Preparing for Sharp Class Chinese City Battles Is Captured By A whole series of reactionary measures that would make the dead C ommunis t S czar of the old Russian empire turn over in his grave are being pro- posed, especially in state legislatures throughout the country. ue Ghacguatsdimentlies. Wvettsnday New York state is producing its share. The Coughlin bill is a cog remarkable example of the determination of the Wall Street bourgeoisie feported that the U. 8. destroyer to consolidate its mastery over the masses of the population. The plan MacLeigh was speeding to Hoibow, of the Coughlin bill is to stultify the school children of the working the port city of Hainan ‘Island, to class as an immediate instrument of reaction and as a future instru- suppress a reported Communist re- ment of strike breaking and military suppression of the working class. volt there, the Communists having According to this proposal all children from 10 to 18 years of Seized the city. : age in the public schools are to be placed in uniforms and under mili- The excuse is made that the fif- tary discipline. They are to be drilled half an hour each day, six teen Americans in the city need days per week. Boy and girl “scout training” and “hikes” are a part | “protection,” although the report sent by wireless from them stated | that foreigners were not harmed, of the scheme to get control of the minds of the working class chil- dren for the benefit of the capitalist system. The supplying of_the uniforms, compulsorily furnished to the children by the state at $10 each, is probably intended to give the opportunity for a little graft on | the side for the patriotic politicians. Another bill would make the conviction of any member of the working class much easier in the capitalist courts. District attorneys and judges would act practically as a part of a jury, and any working- class defendant would be still more than before at the mercy of these corrupt bloodhounds of the capitalist state. The fact that capitalist judges quite ordinarily share in the profits of professional ‘murder gangs and of other criminals, is, of course, only an indication of the ease with which the ruling class could manipulate such a machine. The capitalist courts already are mere tools at the hand of the em- ploying class, and this would make them still easier instruments. We have the example of the barefaced crime of application of “Paragraph 600,” on contempt of court, for the summary imprisonment of workers fighting for the right to live. Many such bills as this can be expected to pass in the near future in the New York and other state legislatures. It appears that some will go through United States congress in the guise of “Prohibition | Enforcement” bills, but intended to be used for the most brutal and | unadorned wholesale jailing of unemployed workers and strikers. If | any one doubts the possibility of such an application, they should be ‘SEVENTH MINER reminded of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, which was employed pre- | cisely and solely against trade unions. | D j E § IN BL A ST The flood of oppressive measures at this particular time has a good reason. The capitalist class knows that its industrial system is ‘Terrific Exploitation ' by Bosses; Foree Men already in a condition of sharp crisis and is rapidly plunging into a tremendously wider and sharper crisis. Five million and more work- ers are walking the streets, unable to find work, and their numbers are increasing by hundreds of thousands each month. To maintain the capitalist system of production for profit, the American capitalist to Work in Danger BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 15.— The seventh man in tke explosion at the Straven mine yesterday, died in the hospital today. This was Jim | Years and now have captured the jcity. They are probably mostly peasants, mixed with Communist worker refugees from Canton, The U. S. destroyer was sent from Swatow, by order of Rear Admiral | Charles McVey, commander of the U.S, fleet in Chinese waters. co-operation of the white terror gov-. ernment of Chiang Kai-shek was ob- taned, the Canton government send- ing five gunboats, which, with the |aid of American imperialist armed | forces, are to seck to regain the city | of Hoibow. class is not only preparing for imperialist warfare for control of the world market, but also is now engaged in a constantly sharpening attack on the working class of this country. The general average standard for the working class has already tumbled to an appalling degree through the tremendous unemployment, since the standard of living of an unemployed worker, of nothing per week, brings down the average for the whole working class. At the same time the standard of: living..of those who. are still .employed.is being driven down. also. ~ Wage cuts are the order of the day as ordained by the capitalists, by the treacherous A. F. of L. bureaucracy. But even re- gardless of absolute wage cuts the intense speed-up, which saps the |; fabtnily ‘teiviied. and: blasted 40 though there was much “disorder.” | Communists are said to have held | |the inland part of the island for) The | Chesser, who was working near the | PROPOSAL FOR MILITARY DRILL IN ALL SCHOOLS Communists Issue Call) for Fight Against New War Move Answer Bosses’ Attacks Expose “Justice” of the Capitalist Courts | Pointing out that the state goy- ernment of New York is proceeding jwith the war plans of the United States government and now is mili- tarizing the school children, the Dis- \trict Buro of the Communist Party, |District New York, has issued the |following statement: a “The United States government is |determined to militarize every man }and woman in the country. Not sat- lisfied with this step the government of New York is now militarizing the school children. In the state assem- |bly and senate there has been intro~ duced a bill, known as the Coughlin bill, according to which all school jchildren from 10 to 18 years of age {will be given military training in ithe schools every day of the week, and will also get boy and girl scout training. The state will provide uniforms at a cost of $10. Prepare War Against Soviet. This is another move of the gov- ernment to prepare for the coming war against the Soviet Union. This is to train the young children, and particularly the older boys and girls to be good cannon fodder. While the workers of the city and state tramp the streets looking for work, iwhile hungry children are working (Continued on Page Two) | MEET T0 FIGHT strength of the workers, in itself alone lowers the standard of em- ployed workers to the point of misery and exhaustion, while throwing hundreds of thousands of others out of employment entirely. But the American workers have already begun to fight back, and the capitalist class understands full well that bigger and bigger class struggles are immediately ahead. The tightening up of the legal machinery for the purpose of suppression, quite logically follows. The process of fascization of the federal and state governments is being death when a spark from their saw ignited the explosive gas into which the employer had forced them to go or lose their jobs: The utmost indignation prevails I. Miller Shoe Workers} ;among miners, not only at the cal-/ Roused Over Wage Cut lous greed of the employer who made the miners in other parts of | | L dumps as was previously brought jout by the 1,150. quickened. under the leadership of the Trade But the working class will surmount every obstacle. ; tionary unions are springing into existence and growing stronger New revolu- Union Unity League, and following closely the policies of class struggle of the Communist Party. The unorganized will be drawn into'the new mass unions, the unemployed will be organized and will present their demands supported by mass pressure. Not quiet submission but sharp class struggles are ahead—and already begun. : The greatest possible recruiting of workers into the Communist Party, which alone can and will lead these struggles, is the need of the whole working class. Workers! Demonstrate at Monroe Cafeteria! Show Your Solidarity! Today, Thursday, at noon, the workers of this city will demonstrate in front of the Monroe Cafeteria, 27th St. and Fifth Ave., in support of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- teria Workers Union, which is con- ducting a strike at this place, This trike has been going on for some time, and militant demonstrations have taken place, and the food workers are determined to keep up the fight till the boss signs up. This fight is not against the owner of the cafeteria alone. Be- hind him stand the Restaurant Owners’ Association, the reactionary A. F. of L., the socialist party, all the gangsters that they can muster, and, of course, the entire city gov- ernment ‘machinery. All members of -the industrial unions, all .fighting ‘unemployed workers, members of the Communist Party, International Labor Defense, Young Communist League are asked to come out.in support of the fighting food workers. Show your solidarity and fighting. spirit! National Training _ School of Party to _ Open February 10 The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S, A., has set February 10th as the opening date of the Na- tional Training School of the Com- munist Party. The school will con- tinue for a period of six weeks, with ‘about forty students attending, All| leading comrades of the Communist Party will teach in this school. District committees and language fraction bureaus of the Communist are requested to utilize the g ‘Month wml the ononine school to raise funds, i |\Clarence Miller Talks ‘Tonight on Plans for NY Textile Convention Clarence Miller, sentenced to 20 years in the Gastonia case, and sec- | retary-treasurer of the national ex- ecutive board of the National Tex- | tile Workers Union, will speak at | the membership meeting of the New York District of the union, at 16 West 21st St., today at 8 p, m. There will be discussion of the final plans for the New York dis- trict convention which will be held Feb. 16. ’ A representative of the Labor Sports Union will also speak. WORKER KILLED AT GRAND CENTRAL. | Frederick P, Roma, a worker at |the Grand Central railroad station, was killed instantly by the explo- | sion of an oxygen tank, which he | was helping to unload. _by the Communist Party thru its District Organizer, I. Amter, plans were outlined for the development of the struggle against unemploy- | figure of five mi the mine keep on with their work, not even stopping them when they heard the explosion, but at the ex- tortion practiced in Alabama mines An general. Wages, operators claim, are $4 a day, but this average is struck by ineluding the pay of mine contrac- ‘tors and those holding preferred | jobs. Men are working three days a week, at an average of $2.50 a shift. Some of the “company” men say the get $2.24 for the nine-hour | shift. A motorman gets $3.44. A machine runner receives $6 and his Continued on Page Three) ‘AFL Faker Asks Boss |\to Discharge Militant J. Effrat, manager of the Clean- ling and Dye House Drivers, Local 1185 of the International Brother- |hood of Teamsters, affiliated with |the American Federation of Labor has written an official letter to the Norman Cleaners and Dyers, 260 Norman Ave., Brooklyn, seeking the discharge of a worker who is active in the Cleaning and Laundry In- |dustrial League of the Trade Union |Unity League. Effrat sets a date, January 11, by which time he de- |mands this worker be fired. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. Lenin Memorial Meeting | Will Initiate N.Y. Campaign _ Against Big Unemplovment Communist Party. Calls for Struggle Against Bosses Attacks on Working Class Over Million Unemployed in New York Area) Now Are Facing Eviction and Starvation In a statement issued yesterday |nection with the growing unemploy ment. According to figures issued by unofficial agencies, ment in the U. S. has passed the ion and, over 20 unemploy- | ment, and the utilizing of the Lenin per cent of this is in the New York Memorial Meeting on Jan. 22. We. | metropolitan area. sf nesfay evenint at 7». m, for imi | The Students’ Council of the Hate Pn cenmns? vd tor the de) Work Schoclse terday roo weed mands of the working class ia con b ( aie on Page Two) \ A mass demonstration is being ar- ranged by the Independent Shoe Workers Union against the brutal- ity of the police and to protest the } injunctions granted Brooklyn shoe bosses by Judge Dunn. Some of the injunctions were granted before the Jockout took place. The lockouts were instigated directly by a letter from Commissioner Woods of the r S. Department of Labor. “Your right to organize is being threatened; come in masses to Boro | | Hall Saturday afternoon at 2 p. m.,| {sharp; well-known speakers,” says |the call for demonstration. | The case of Hyman Levine, busi- | {ness agent of the union, came up| today, and he was handed over to; special sessions. He is out on $1,000 |bail. Levine, while visiting strike |headquarters, was seized near the |Elmore Shoe Shop and arrested after i terrific beating by police. He- is jcharged with assault. | Mass Meeting. | A mass meeting of exceptional im- | portance to all unorganized shoe workers «is being held tonight, at Amalgamated Temple, 21 Arion Pl., Brooklyn, The John Reid Branch, I. W. C., gives a concert Sunday at 2 p. m., at Bath Beach Workers Center, 49 Bay 28th St., for the strike. Bronx Workers Club gives a con- cert Saturday at Bronx Center, 1870 Boston Rd., for the strike. Workers Co-operative of the Bronx is conducting a literary eve- ning and dance at the Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East, on February | 15; proceeds to the striking shoe workers. Cut In I. Miller. Today, workers of the I. Miller Shoe Co., with the largest shoe fac- tory in the city, are preparing a struggle under the leadership of the Independent Shoe Workers Union. |The I, Miller Company has cut the |wages in the heeling department j again, The union defeated the | bosses’ attempt to cut wages in the factory some weeks ago, when pick- ets before a near-by shop and dis- tribution of leaflets among the I. Miller workers frightened the em- ployers into a retreat. | The'union has now issued another leaflet to the workers, pointing out | the necessity of organization into \the fighting Independent Shoe Work- ers, to actually and permanently put ‘an end to the schemes of their em- ployer to reduce them to less food, cheaper or no lodgings, poorer cloth- ing, and general misery. The demands of the union are \vtiven as: The eight-hour day, and DRESS SHOP COPS “Go to Miners, Need Union”, Says Thompson \Tells TUUL Activity | Is Basis of Success { | CHICAGO, IIL, Jan. 15 (By Mail). |—Conditions against which miners |of Illinois are on strike, some of the |important lessons learned from the |first weeks of the strike and a dis- icussion of methods for improving the tactics of the National Miners FREEMAN THOMPSON. Union in this strike were contained in the report to the Trade Union Unity League district convention held here toda; Thompson ap- peared with a “body of striking miners, and received a great ova- tion from the 78 delegates repre- senting all Chicago industries. Part of his speech is printed below: ee cue In the Staunton District, Mt. jOlive, White City, at the Consolida- tion Mines, previous to the rational- ization and installing the -loading machine, 1,150 men worked at this mine. A little more than a year ago the conveyor was brought to the mine. It remained in the mine jless than a year, but became out of date; it was taken out and removed {and room made for what is known as the “big hog loader.” Today out of the once 1,150 men there are less than 200 men em- ployed, getting the same amount of These men fought back, demand- ing equal division of work. The (Continued on Page Three) PICKETS DEFYING Huge Mass Meeting at Cooper Union Tonight Militant picketing of dress and hat shops, featured yesterday’s strikes in the intensified drive of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union for winning of union conditions, abolition of sweat shop practices, shortening of long hours and putting an end to the speed-up. There were attacks on the picket | lines anu a number of workers ar- rested, ‘ ‘the Industrial Union is holding tonight, at Cooper Union, 8 St. and Third Ave, a monster mass meet- ing to which all dressmakers, whether working in union or open shops, whether registered or not reg- istered, are urged to come. - Starts Mass Organization. Leaflets distrubted far and wide among dress-shop workers say: “This mass meeting will sound the signal for the mass organization campaign to bring the thousands of unorganized dressmakers into the ranks of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union and establish union conditions in the dress trade. “At this meeting the leaders of the Industial Union will expose the fake strike maneuver of the com- pany union, which is nothing but a conspiracy on the part of Schles- inger and the bosses to further en- slave the dressmakers and maintain Jow wages, long hours and miser- able conditions in the dress trade. The bosses, together with . the Schlesinger company-union, “are making an effort to fool the dress- makers into the company union in order to prevent the workers from organizing and building their class union.” " Gives Decisive Answer. The Cooper Union meeting, says the N. T. W. I. U., must be the rallying point for all workers in the dress trade. “It must give the de- cisive answer of the thousands of workers to Schlesinger and the bosses. It must express the united will and determination of the dress- makers to fight for union condi- | tions, to fight for the 40-hour, 5-day week, minimum wage scale, equal division of work, no discharge, rec- ognition of shop chairmen and com- mittees, sanitary conditions and hu- \five-day week, week work and not ipece work, higher wages and no overiimg, * man treatment, and all other union CRISIS THROWS THOUSANDS MORE ON STREETS; BIG RAIL MERGERS TO MAKE 300,000 IDLE, LABOR FAKERS ADMIT Young Communist League in Conn. Leads Unemployed Workers in Demonstration Before City Hall Detroit Communist Party Fights for Full Wage Relief; Paterson Work- ers Fired; Mass Army of Jobless Negro Workers in South 500000 JOBLESS CONN, JOBLESS |Expose Lies of State, BERLIN, Jan, 15." Following yes-) Jnemployed Grow in | te ce day’s session of the anti-Soviet Labor Commissioner | forgers trial, Karumidze, the Georg-| All Parts of U. S. NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 15. ian Menshevik counter-reyolution- | —Three hundred employed workers, International Wireless News As an example of how severe un- | P il employment is all over the United |8'Y, Was recognized when: leaving States, the facts revealed, even by | court by workers outside. A worker | many of them young workers, dem- the lying labor commissioner of the spat in his face, and a genera] onstrated before the City Hall, un- State of New York, are typical. | tumult ensued during which Ka- et the leadership of the Young ; SRG peek Communist League, i "i First, a long statement was is- | rymidze was soundly thrashed, There pe ins semen sued, declaring that there was just | y, 4 4 \relief. The city officials tried to Geiabonsl’ tmeniployniene! Later | pie xa O |appease these workers by promising the figures were published which | 7 ay = $ \@ cr Jobs, and even this had not exposed the existence of a mass job- | 2°ersibiel Rouses Workers’ Anger. | materialized for a week. less army in the State of New York. | (Wireless by Inprecorr.) When two members of the Young Even one of the leading journals | BERLIN, Jan. 15—Zoergibiel, the |Communist League exposed this fake of the bosses in New York had to | “Socialist” chief of police of Berlin, Promise, and put forth militant de- jpoint out that unemployment was | has prohibited today’s demonstra-|mands for the unemployed, such as extremely acute, and that the State |tion commemorating Liebknecht and junemployed insurance, 5 day week; officials were deliberately lying. The Luxemburg (two revolutionary lead-|7 hour day for those employed; € Annalist (Jan. 10) said on this | ers killed in 1919 by another “so-| hour day, 5 day week for those un- point: pedro police chief.—Ed.). ane der Siroeuerty of sper and es z a , |Workers are angry, expecting that wage cutting; the unemployed re- ts Birra tire atepra inter |Zoergibiel is organizing a second sponded to the demands enthusias- is fidai \xdoee: SEtiCAD aguibeen ia wholesale bloodbath with subsequent | tically. This city is known as the Naw. Volks aldwed'th: the: letter outlawing of the Communist Party. ardware City.” Thousands of the State Widcaprend lakes davies The workers are demanding protest workers are unemployed. — Although Déscoaber:” when “employment <in strikes. Zoergibiel has ordered a police have refused ‘permits for un- the factories ‘ad: tlie Giate.at: laces. general alarm and mobilized 14,000 | employed mass meetings to the Com- Eee ” = police. fmunist Party, T.USU.L. ahd Y.C.L5 ental el tha hae a | sil bate | the meetings will be held, veubes ” nf alba aaceomeadh | Under Protection of Foreign Troops. | * @ © While the State Commissioner's | (Wireless by Inpr near) report covers some 1,200 factories,| BERLIN, Jan. 15.—On Monday. the unemployment figures apply to | 4t Worms, in the area of Germai all of the more than 4,000,000 work- | "der occupation by troops of the ers in the State of New York. | former Allies, the police organized The “normally” employed workers 2, f1004y attack on the unemployed: in New York, according to the cen- | Killing a sixteen-year-old youth and 658,000 UOT is oR RR a 3, since 1920, the “usual” average num- ber of workers employed during | (Continued on Page Three) | GRAHAM FACES DEATH IN EXILE, NORFOLK, Va., Jan.’ 15.—! Stephen Graham, T.U.U.L. -organ- | izer, faces execution in fascist Jugo- Slavia where the Federal authorities plan to deport him, following his acquittal here yesterday on the| insurrection.” Immediately after his acquittal, he was rearrested by the immigra- tion authorities to be held for in- vestigation, and is out on $1,000 bail, furnished by the I.L.D. which de-! Detroit Communists Expose Mass Unemployment. | DETROIT, Jan. 15.—In a leaflet entitled “Unemployment Grows in | Detroit!” distributed among many ‘thousands of jobless and employed | workers, the Communist Party here | points out that there are “over 150. |000 workers unemployed in the city |of Detroit. . .. The city govern- ment thru Jos. E. Mills announced: |‘We can do nothing to relieve the ; Present unemployment situation.’ ” R | wounding many jobless workers. Bie ee ae numbers, are | Many passersby were also beaten Industry No. of Workers. |"? * * «* i: 5 } Trae ants vr: MN CNG | Notorious Fascist in Oftice. Mines 8,000 (Wireless by Inprecorr.) Department stores, etc.. 600,000 | BERLIN, Jan. 15.—The announce- | Public service (workers in public utilities) .. 100,000 Domestic and personal portant German states, service waiters, etc.). 450,000 Office workers . 600,000 | ment of the composition of the new | ieod etre tan Canteen aan | cabinet in Thuringia, one of the im- | lief on the basis of full wages paid | ister of the interior. Fricks led the |cannot solve the unemployment prob- forgers’ office in the Munich police | Jem. The program of the capitalists presidium, providing fascist mur-|{o meet the growing crisis of unem- cape. He participated in the Hitler “putch” of 1923 and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. TRY TO HUSH UP ROTHSTEIN CASE The long-awaited statement of District Attorney Crain, who came into office with the Mayor Walker administration, on the Rothstein case, appeared today. Crain had promised that he would clear up charge of “inciting the Negroes to|the mystery of the death of the| famous gambler, who was known to have been connected with prominent | political leaders in New York. In his statement yesterday, Crain officially hushed up the case, de- claring that the “murderer is un- fended him in court. Graham was arrested last October after he had spoken at a meeting to Negro and white workers. Fights Police; Wounded; German Unemployed Bosses Fear Spirit of BERLIN, Jan. 15.—Mass demon- strations of unemployed workers, whose total number has swelled above 2,000,000, under the auspices of the Communist Party, demand- Biller, who is killing. charged with the Mass German Tobless Army 5 Killed, 20 Crisis Worsens Zoergiebel Social-Fascist Thugs Fire On Job- less; But Can’t Break Ranks More than _ 2,000,000; Communist Led Move lice thugs who sought unsuccess- fully to smash the demonstrations. Demonstrations were held simul- taneously in Berlin, Chemnitz, Madgesburg and other cities, known,” and that he will move for | dismissal of indictment of Hyman} ing unemployment telief, resisted| Berlin is virtually an armed camp. the attacks of the Zoergiebel social- |The capitalists and their social-fas- conditions, under the leadership of (Continued on Page Fwo) wounded, among which are the po- (Continued on Page Two) y fascist police, in an attempt to break jcist henchmen fear the revolutionary | their ranks. Five are dead and 20/spirit of the growing army of ung! With the growth in population |derers with false passports for es-/ ployment is further wage-cuts and lincrease the speed up.” 1,600 Paterson Workers Fired. | PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 15.—Six- teen hundred men were laid off re- |cently by the Wright Aeronautical Corp. They were told they would be taken back, but they have not jgot their jobs again. Women are being hired at $14 per week for the work in place of some of the men who were getting 50 cents an hour. * * | # Steel Workers Jobless. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 15.— |The National Tube Company, lead- \ing finished steel plant here, ad- |mits that only 40 per cent of its | usual fgrce is working. The Edgar | Thompson works of the U. S. Steel | Company, is on half-time. The West- | inghouse plant is practically shut | down. Only a few departments are | working with skeleton forces. 0: eae Negro, White Workers in South Unemployed. DURHAM, N. C., Jan. 15.—Thou- sands of jobless workers are flock- (Continued on Page Three) Food Clerks Picket 2 Markets; NotDismayed by Arrests; Good Meet The Food Clerks Industrial Union of the Amalgamated Food Workers lyesterday again picketed the Miller |Market, 161st St. and Union Ave, attacked the picket line, and ar- rested one picket. There have been many arrests here, but the strikers are determined to go on with their picketing. There was picketing yesterday also at the new market on strike, at 2311 Avenue U. The food clerks’ mass membership. meeting Tuesday night was an en- ice, an] plans to speed the organ- ization drive in many shops. The food workers endorsed the Lenin Me- morial | and Anti-Imperialist War | meeting. ih sa 4 ee The bosses gangsters and the police © thusiastic one, with a good attend- ik Fp