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DAILY WUKKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, J UARY 16, 1930 R. L L. U. PLENUM ENDS. ~ WITH CZECH QUESTIONS AND V. CONGRESS PLANS Heckert, Gey and Zapotocky Criticize Work of | Czech Unions; Yussefovitch Sees Progress | Fifth Congress Preparation a Political Task, Not Merely Organizational; Meets in July | MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—In this motning’s ses- sion the discussion on the Tcheckish question took place. Comrade Stss- manoviteh (R.1.L.U.) pointed ott that the decisions of the R.LLL.U. had not been sufficiently carried out in Tcheckoslovakia and - the main activity of the revolutionary unions had not yet been concen- trated on the factories. The forma- tion of shop stewards organizations ahd of self-defense organization was urgently necessary. Comrade Yussefovitch declared that the new leadership of the revo- lutionary unions was making good ogress. There were difficulties, but Comrade Zapotocky had exag- Ygerated them, ‘The shop councils should be revolutionized against both the right right-wing opportu- nists and the left-wing deviation. Comrade Heckert (Germany) de- clared that Tcheckoslovakia was a perfect example of the “child sick- ness” of Communism: no factory work, no work in the reformist or- ganizations, no real fighting leader- ship, whilst the struggle concerning the statutes and the property of the unions overshadowed the real tasks of the unions. : Comrade Schwermer (Tcheckoslo- vakia) declared that there was an acute danger of a fascist dictator- ship in. Tcheckoslovakia and the so- cial fascists were already in the camp of fascism. The greatest error of the Tchekoslovakian revolution- ary unions was that they did not fight ideologically against the oppor- tunists. Red Professor of Law Analyzes Capitalist Laws | BERLIN (By Mail)—At this writ- ing a conference of jurists is meet- ing in Berlin with representatives jeer a great many countries, for the purpose of determining the i position of progressive lawyers to- wards present day législation and to form an international association of jurists, with a regular journal, which will deal with all questions of the struggle against growing re- action in legislation and¢judicial af- fairs. A great many of the jurists at- tacked the so-called “emergency” laws and practices against the work- ing class. But great action cen- tered on the speech of Professor Paschukanis, of the Moscow Law University, representing the jurists of the Soviet Union. Prof. Paschu- kanis made, a thorough analysis of the term “Exceptional Legislation,” in summary as follows: A Red Professor on Capitalist Law || It would be of no use if we would }go in our investigations of excep- ‘tional laws back to the gray times of Asiatic despotism or mediaeval monatchs. For in these states under such social relations practically all was “exceptional.” ‘When we speak of “exceptional laws’ we have in mind such states and societies, where formally an equal right for all citizens exists. History teaches us that each vic- torious class has reserved excep- tional rights for itself in order to safeguard the achievements that the conquest of power has brought | about. Comrades Preiss (Germany), Ra- | bate (France), Bayer (Tcheckoslo- | vakia), Henrikovski (Poland), Pere- | vosnikov R.I.L.U.),Resek (Tchecko- | ash etl and Pavlov (Youth) also | | spoke, In their closing speeches Com- | |rades Gey and Zapotocky, both de- | |elared that the right-wing danger {was the main danger *~d that by | the fifth congress all thé errors of | |the movement in Teheckoslovakia | | should be corrected. | | Comrade Jussefovitch R.I.L.U.) \then delivered his report concern- \ing thé preparations for the fifth \congress of the R.LL.U., which he declared represented a political and not an otganizational problem. It was necessdty to popularize the de- cisions of the R.LL.U., to extend the activity of the shop councils, to mobilize the. worker correspondents, ete. All the new unions would have to | be represented at the congress, and invitations would be sent to the Pa- cific T. U. secretariat and to the Latin-American ‘secretariat. Spe- cial conferences of the Latin-Ameri- can, Arabian and Negro workers would be organized. New Interna- | tional Propaganda and Action Com- mittees would have to be formed. A, Losovsky ‘TRUCKER MAKING GA STRIKE ON | With th | (By @ Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By Mail). —The Lening Chemical Brudisburg, Pa., a suburb of Phil delphia, engaged in the making of poison gasses, ete., for the coming war, declared a wage-cut and thé drivets and helpers went on strike. The Terminal Warehouse Co. forced their truck-drivers to haul of the strikers, and these men struck too, The A. F. of L. Teamsters and Truckers Union leaders advocated a policy of cooperation with the Len, ing Co, but the men refused to carry it out. ing tools of the capi A. Losovsky, general secretary of the Red International of La- bor Unions, the largest body of workers on earth, embracing ep- proximately 16,000,000 workers. Under the Czar, Losovsky under- went the fate of many revolution- ists as a political prisoner working | the Rberle, the biggest hosiery hy eg safah “ogee nad | mill in Philadelphia declared a lock- e lived in France and was secre- | out and hundreds of workers are out tary of Bhs. eanaren sete umon i | on strike. The tools and servants of Paris. He is here shown speaking | the hosiery mill owners, the labor over the radio of the Soviet Trade | ¢.1.,,. cate anit Union Central Council, one of the |12#Kers who control the American most powerful stations int he | io beatae eke Gus MoUma | pay o their sell-out policy, instracted | the workers to co-operate with the | bosses and tried to force the work- | ers of the Eberle Hosiery Mill Co. Seventh Man Dies in a of th Ala. Mine Explosion | 274.5 Ceayjeld f accept a £5 per list bos HY (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By Mail). S AT PHILA. CO. Wiorks of | in plage | The police, ever will- | / A. F. L, Misleaders Fail to Halt Big Eberle The workers held a special meet- | S FOR WAR, WAGE CUT a | Refuse to Obey A. F. L. Order to Co-operate | e Bosses jride on the trucks of the Terminal | Warehouse Co., protecting the scabs. The Terminal men, even though they were members of the scab A ‘, of L. union were themselves working for $26.00 a week, way be- low’the union scale, and the leaders of the union refused to support the men in their struggle. The policy of the A. F. of L. is to lose the strike for the men. They need real leddership which can be found only in the T.U.U.L. and the Communist Party which fights against the bosses and their tools, the A. F. of L. fakers who betray the workers. PHILA. W' Strike { and the came off at 10 a. m., Monday. Instead of getting all the | workers out of the mill, the labor | fakers, at the request of the bosses, | ordered the men to go to the hall. As soon as the members of the union had cleared the streets the | tools of the hosses, the police, came and chased the workers who went |out in sympathy, away from the mill. The labor fakers and the po- | |lice are in close co-operation, as the | A. F. of L. leaders advocate the election of the politicians who, with | the bosses’ slaves, the judges issue Comrades Zarengo (Poland), Hor- ner (Great Britain), Herclet (France), Santini (Italy), Merker (Germany) and a Chinese comrade took part in the discussion which followed Jussefovitch’s report. All the resolutions were then | unanimously adopted and the clos- ing speech of the plenary session was made by Comrade Losovsky. (Continued from Page One) | helper $4.50 for a twelve-hour shift. Company Store Swindle. | Miners live in shacks for which | the company charges $8 a month, | with an additional dollar for lights. | The company store is the only place where miners can trade convenient- | ly. Its prices run about 15 per cent | higher than in Birmingham. | One miner says he has received | |no money in wages at all for months, | people, in the interest of progress | because he is in debt to the company against the reaction of a small group |store. Denied even the privilege of of feudal lords. “drawing checks” to be traded in, | Today the situation is different. | he is given orders on the store for | A small group of the privileged, who | something to eat. This miner can) by their control of the economic re-| not leave, because Alabama law sources are in the position to com-| give a londlord lien on a worker's | mand the state, oppresses the broad | household goods. | masses of toilers by means of ex-; The National Miners Union plans ceptional laws. to carry organization into these Emergency legislation has grown | Southern, non-union fields, in spite in extent as well as sharpness after |of the heavy burden of conducting | the World War. The rights vested |a strike in the Illinois and Kentucky | .in the parliamentary constitutions | territories. i of France, Germany, Austria, etc., | have been seriously infringed by emergency legislation against the | working class. In the Soviet Union In the Soviet Union we see the Fifty Families Victimized. CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 15.—Fifty miners’ families have been victim- ized in Livingston, Ill., according to j reports received here. More are be- opposite tendency. There the big jing victimized daily, the coal oper-| majority of the people is using the | ators and the United Mine Work | legislative power for the building up | henchmen uniting to starve out as | of so¢ialism and in order to prevent | many men, women and children \ | reactionary forces obstructing this | possible. The suffering is indesc | task, j able. | A far-reaching system of election,, In one of the Taylorville mines ing, and again the fakers tried to |iiunctions against the strikers and | stop them from going out, but the |use the police to club hell out of the workers voted to strike Monday, worl Cut Wages of Triadelphia, W. Va. Miners (By a Worker Correspondent) __|the Negro worker asked the boss TRIADELPHIA, W. Va. (By| how much he was going to get for Mail) —On New Year’s the mine | working with the stone for about 4 out here was working, and as soon|days. The boss answered him that | as the men got into the mine the|the company is not paying for any company officials received an order| stone at all. And the worker got | to’cut the wages from 51 cents to| mad and took his pick and was out | 40 cents a ton. But dll the men|after the boss to give him a de-} got out of the*mine and went home, | served beating, but the boss ran out on the next day they came back, and | and couldn’t be caught. The work- the men said that they weren’t go-/er asked him, why did you not give ing to work for 40 cents a ton. For| me a buddy when I had a big slate, stone, if you have 4 féet they don’t | but just When it is all cleaned out? pay the tonnage. | . The people are working here but they nearly starve. No. 2 mine is entirely shut down and only No. 1 and 3 are working. The company gives jobs only to those who buy from the company store, no one else is given work. Down at Elm Grove Mine No. 1 a Negro worker had a big stone. After he cleaned the big stone the boss saw that it was a good place, he gave him a buddy to work with, and | “50,000 to 60,000 Unemployed in Buffalo jthe whole of society, and not while | it is in the hands of a few, who} live in luxury, who do not see and do not care for our needs—J. B. After they were going on the, pass way, the boss started to quarrel | with the Negro worker and the fel-| low worker challenged him to come | outside, but the boss was afraid and | | kept his mouth shut, and when they | jcame outside he ran away. This lis the situation here in coal mines. Working a little more than nothing, and many working for actually nothing. —TRIADELPHIA MINER. } (By a Worker Correspondent) In Buffalo there are between fifty and sixty thousand unemployed workers at present. The relief | prisonment; |of control of the apparatus of ad- ministration and the direct influence | two scabs are dead from electrocu.|given to each worker with four tion as a result of operating new |children, father and mother, mak- ling six in'the family, is only $8 per Young Communist | on administration by practically the | machinery with which they were un- week and no rent Some whole working class and a large; part of the peasantry is made use | for the advance of progress and the rebuilding of society on a socialist basis. | There is no other country in the familiar. The mine owners, in th eagerness to get scabs, About endangering the lives of in- experienced men. money. eare nothing |unmarried males and females get [nothing at all, while couples with jonly one pr two children get $3 and The Chicago district is now busy. \" per week, preparing for the tag days Satur- day and Sunday that are expected to|“Five million dollar world where the broad masses of the people have such a vital and ex- | tesive part in the legislation and | administration of the country and | such a wide control over jurisdiction. | raise thousands of dollars for the | consumptive And you see their great slogans, wanted for — give to hospitals relief of striking and victimized | charity and build a healthy nation.” miners and their families. Two hundred dollars has been re-|the cause for di Even in England the use of emer-|ceived here from the National Of-|great mass of highly exploited | jgency legislation against the work- | fice of the Workers International | workers. The victorious bourgeoisie dem- | ing class has found a far wider ap-_ Relief. ocracy, after the overthrow of feudalism, has issued exceptional laws against their old adversaries. At that time bourgeois democraty used the conquered state power in the interest of the majority of the i Battle Rages in Czech Parliament PRAGUE (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—In today’s session of the Senate there were sharp collisions. At the proposal of the social demo- @ratic president four Communist senators were excluded from sev- eral sessions. The Communist sena- tor Mikulichek was attacked by s0- rs democrats and flung out of the hi In parliament the new govern- meht was received with a stormy déemonsttation by the Communist : Tax-Payers’ Strike Starts in India Indian reports state that a tax payers’ strike is begun and is rapid- ly developing in the Punjab, and a 4 of the independence movement. 4 movement started at Multan. Apparently, the bourgeois Na- tional Congress had nothing to do with starting it, but some elements of the National Congress are trying Austrian Factory Working Women Meet VIENNA, Dec. 15 (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—Today the first con- ference of working women opened here. There were twenty-eight dele-, gates from ‘the factories (eighteen Communists, three social democrats and seven non-party working wo- men), three delegates representing organizations and twenty - four guests. The speakers demanded that the women workers also should be be to take their part in the plication after the war. | The duty of the international juridical conference must be to fight this system of exceptional legisla- | tion against the working class in all | countries. | members, The workers in the public gallery sang the “Internationale,” whereupon the gallery was cleared by the police with great brutality. The Communist members sang revolutionary songs whilst the po- lice were at work and 22 Commu- nist members were excluded for 10 days from the parliamentary ses- sions. These Communist members were then ejected with violence from the hall and the Communist Deputy Stixka was slightly wounded by the police. | to get it under their control and are arranging a huge demonsration. Reports that the Hindys and Mos- lems are united are most significant, since the British have always strived | to keep them divided. This time, | they are jointly refusing to pay the water tax, over which the fight is beginni physical struggle against fascism and should take their place in the ranks of the workers defense corps. The resolutions which were Bil una- nimously adopted demanded, inter alia, equal pay for equal work, the abolition of the capitalist rational- ization, a pat of ten minutes at the moving band, the prohibition of ‘all night work and children’s labor, the reduction of the cost of living, the abolition of the fascist constitu: tional law, against imperialist war, All workers and workers’ organ- ing to remedy pases among the | Although never that is needed is a enough wages, to When. all |shorter work day, izations are asked to contribute to /huy the proper food, a clean place the limit of their ability and to rush |t5 Jive in, enough fresh air, unem- funds to the W. I. R. national office, 949 Broadivay, room 512, New York | City. “ * * Strikers Suffering. CHICAGO, IIL, Jan. 15.—The ter- | ployment insurance, old age pension and not charity. : Then they will not need “Five million dollars for }eonsymptive hospitals,” to put us ‘and our children in, when the bosses rible destitution and suffering’in the | 5¢ our bodies. Illinois strike area is described in 2 letter received by the Chicago Local of the Workers International Re- The working class will get this only when they take over the necans have drained all of the energy ott | hold Tag Days for the Illinois mine of production and distribution for League Has District | Conference in Ohio CLEVELAND, Jan. 15.—An en- thusiastie district conference of the Young Communist League has been held here, with 22 delegates in ad- dition to the members of the D: trict ecutive Committee and unit organizers. The reports made at the confer- ence show great progress in build- ing a mass League in Ohio. Con- crete programs of work Were pre- pared at the conference, ‘The delegates were informed that during the month’s reeuiting cam- paign 58 new members have been obtained, including 19 young Negro workers from the Youngstown steel center, Proposals for work were discussed critically by delegates, and the main district campaigns finally decided |upon were building the League, fight against the criminal syndical- lief from John Watson, chairman, and Bessie Tierney, secretary of the | Hldorado Local of the W.LR. They write: | “The people here have no clothing | and no food. They are absolutely in destitute circumstances. We have done all we could, soliciting cars| every day rain or shine, cold or, hot. We have fought a good fight.! Are you going to keep your faith | with us?” i *. eke Banquet Sunday for Relief. \ | CHELSEA, Mass., Jan, 15 Funds for the relief of the strikine | and victimized Illinois miners will be provided by a banquet that will be held here Sunday, Jan. 19, at the | Chelsea Labor Lyceum, arranged by the Workers International Relief. “Only by becoming a m enemies of the working c' Should Join aE Re Sea CLEVELAND TAG DAY FOR MINERS. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 14.—The a Workers International Relief will | conscious worker, and in the language shops, mills and fact: strikers Saturady, Jan. 18 and Sun- day, Jan. 19. Volunteers for the Tag Days should report at South Slavic Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave., Freiheit Gesangs Varein, 13720 Kinsman Ave., and at 26 West Su- | perior Ave., Room 306, | Build The Datly Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. | 39 EAST 125TH STREET for the defense of the Soviet Union and for a pits Austria, Party can you give your greatest services to the cause of the working class. Only as a Party mem- ber can you really fight effectively against the Why Every Worker Communist Party 32 pages of mental dynamite for every class- Presented in simple style Five Cents Per Copy Join the Race for Revolutionary Competition! Rush Your Orders With Cash to the WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS ember of the Communist lass’—EARL BROWDER the e of the workers of the ories. NEW YORK CITY 500,000 IN N.Y, STATE 1S TOTAL OF UNEMPLOYED Expose Lies of State Labor Commissioner (Ci nued from Page One) 1927-28-29 was well over 4,000,000. Unemployment in a severe forma has been growing since August, The Department of Labor admits a decline of 6 per cent during Novem- ber and December, and since 1929 there has been a drop of 10 to 12 per r cent, which accounts for a growth in the army of jobless of between 400,000 to 500,000 in the State of New York alone! Unemployment for R. R: Workers. Springing out of the crisis, the vast railway mergers promise still more unemployment for the ra way workers all over the country. This confirms the statements of the business sta’ ans who met in Washington tly and said that for the next ten years at least the dominent question before U. S. imperialiem would be growing mass unemployment. The misleaders of labor in the A. F. of L., who combine with Hoove and the bosses to worsen unemploy- ment for the workers, admit that the rail mergers will throw hundreds of thousands of railway workers on the streets. The faker A. O. Wharton, presi- dent of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, said that at least 170,000 to 000 men would lose their jobs as a result of the rail mergers. ! James O'Connell, president of the | metal trades department of the A. F. of L., and one of those who sup- ports Hoover’s semi-fascist business council in its attack on the standard of living of the American workers, admits that the number thrown on the streets will be nearer 500,000 within the next five ye: None of these close friends of the chief im- perialist, Hoover, can be accused of deliberately spreading wild figures to arouse the discontent workers. For the entire country steel pro- duction of the averages 65 per cent of , which for this titne of the year is the lowest figure si In 1929 at (is time ave tions were at 83 per cent. means for the workers is shown by reports from Pittsburgh. The Na- tional Tube Co., leading plant in finished products, admits that only 40 per cent of its usual number of workers are employed. dear Thompson Works of the U, S. Steel Co. is on half time. CHICAGO (By Mail) —Four mil- lion dollars’ worth of contracts for public work in the metropolitan area netted Geore LL. Chamberlain | $1,000,000 and another $503,802 re- jmains unaccounted for, government charges against him hold. ist law, under which Ohio League members are facing years of im- and preparations for the district school. The conference sent greetings to the coming Plenum of the National Executive Committee of the Young Communist League. . hospital. .jtrade ii \‘Take Union to Miners’ — Thompson to TUUL 1 Is coal company called in the offic of the United Mine Workers of America, and agreed with thém to give division of the work only to a| limited point; that all machine men} Ss considered as mechanics} and at no division of work would be granted them, but the men do-| the hard laborious work, such ing slate, among these men the work i They are given six days straight, and at the end of it mahy are so completely exhausted that they are compelled to go to the They come back for their 13 weeks, This divided turn once out of mea get one-week work out of every 13 weeks. In the Ducoyne area we have a different situation. We have a vein of coal of something like 7 to! 8 feet k lying approximately 30 feet beneath the surface. They have the work of shifting the earth- this job employed many worker: Now they have brought in a sp cially prepared steam shovel for this mine, which employs something like 14 men on a gang. 14 men turn over as much of this earth separating the coal as it previously took 375 men to do Work in Smoke. I nto the Rocky Mountain region of the coal industry, where I had the w yrtune to be a little more than a year ago, the Union Pacific Coal Co., also the owners of the great Union Pacific Railroad, has a long string of mines. They, too, put the speed-up machinery in.! Working in groups of four, using three machines, the cutting’ machine, the duckbill loader, every eight hours these men take from 300 to 325 tons of coal to the flat car on the outside. The speed- up is so terrible and terrific that the moment that these men get the| shock prepared, the matches touch | to the fuse, the blast goes off, aml within 10 minute time the men are back in the smoke, loading and | going on with their work i Stool Pigeons. In the Kentucky region we find that the men there in that terrible on-U n state, are compelled to load out a whole cut, stretching across a 30-foot room, the cut being seven feet deep, the height of the vein runs from 41-2 to 51-2 feet for $2 The company stores are! the miners are compelled to the company stores; the| y houses are there, the fam-! the workers are compelled in the company houses and the single miners are compelled to board in the company boarding houses. The company bulldogs—the company stool pigeons—are organ- ized to survey the situation. In every group of 15 workers the com- pany has a special stool pigeon who | trids to deliberately provoke the other workers into cri ing the conditions that prevail. Just as soon as this is done the worker is sent to the top of the mine, given his grip by the bulldog and sent pack- ing without the opportunity to say a word. I am bringing this picture to you so that you will begin to under- ‘stand why the coal miners are fight- ing most militantly. Want Organization. Go among the workers in the fa’ tories, mills, go out among the coal | | miners—they are ready and wanting from the solid | ; Page Three a CONN, JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE FOR DEMANDS Unemployed Grow in All Parts of U. S. (Continued from Page One) ing here looking for work on the Duke University construction job, in the American Tobacco Compatiy, and Liggett and Myers. Many job- less Negro workers are among the unemployed army trooping in look- ing for work which does not exist. es oe Unemployment Grows in Germany. BERLIN, Jan. 15.—Severe uném- ployment in all industries is ravag- ing the German workers. More than 2,000,000 are now jobless, an in- se of 600,000 over 1929. Capital- ist newspapers admit that during January and February, the unem- ployed army will grow very much in excess of 2,000,000, The Berlin municipal authorities have decided to stop work on thirty publie buildings. This will greatly increase the number of unemployed. The capitalist press here terms this “an act of despair,” and says Berlin will not be able to overcome the without financial assistance from Prussia and the Reich, $ FON crisis Unemployed Mass Meet in Perth Amboy. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Jan. 16.— A mass meeting on the subject of “Unemployment, Its Cause and the Role of the Communist Party,” has been arranged for Friday, January 7, 8 p. m., at the Workers Home, 303 Elm St. D, Flaiani will be the main speaker. There is wide un- employment in Perth Amboy. to be organized. You, who believe that you can declare a strike today in nine days and a weeks’ time go home to sit down to play cards and not do any preparatory work, you are just kidding yourselves, I want to bring to your attention some of our shortcomings. We have found that in the coal mining indus- try, while we know that it is easy. to organize these men into the N. M. U., because it is the only organi- zation that will appeal to the (they know that they have been betrayed by the Lewis, Fishwick Farrington leaders), they are not wanting to just listen to you and then walk home and go to bed. They are willing to sit up all hours helping to solve | the program, but you must come out to organize them first and let me say to you your program must be to organize (applause). You can do nothing whatever without organization, You must first organize and then you will be sur prised to see what the organization will develop. You will find that out of this organization, there is just ar good material working in the coah mines as what has been brought out on the platform. The young coal miner has proven one of the most militant fighters in this strike. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. Fight Imperialist War Preparations! | ° + Defend the Soviet Union! JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY!“ Wednesday, January at7 P.M. “PHE BELT GOES RED”. “1A MASS PAGEANT : Workers Presented By Dramatic Council, Workers Dance Group, Workers Laboratory Theatre, Freiheit Gesangs Fercin, Labor Sports Union, W. 1. R. Chorus and Brass Band Installation of Communist Recruits . PROMINENT SPEAKERS Admission Balcony §0c « Orchestra 75¢ Auspices Communist Party of the USA— District Two 262 and the YOUNG COMMU.MIST LEA#UR New York, N. Yo st