The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1930, Page 1

FIGHT _UNEMPLOY “We Are in a Period of Economic Low Visibility,” Cleveland Banker. “Con- tinhous Prosperity Is a Myth,” the Bosses Now Admit. Visibility Is Not Too Low for the Workers to See They Must Organize to Fight! Entered as secon at the Post Office at NAW Yo rk, N. ¥., under the act o f March 3, 1 Worker FINAL CITY EDITION S79. Vol. VI., No. 270 Sunday by The Comprod w York City, ly Publishing N.Y. Publis Mémpany, Ine. 26-25 Sn NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930 PTION RATE ew York by mail, $8.00 per year. Det aca ‘Outside New York, by mall $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents The Empire Socialists at the | Naval Conference he role of the British “Labor ist” Second International as a whole as a co-partner to the imper- ist war preparations, particularly for the coming war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, don Naval Conference. The very conference, whose pur} ments and to prepare the joint attack against the Soviet Union, was actually initiated by the leaders of Second International, in cooperation imperialism, President Hoover. However, what is the basis, according to MacDonald, for the so- called disarmament that will take place in London? Whose interest will MacDonald MacDonald himself answered t January 7th when he said: “Reduction in naval program ing the security of the Empire.” But what does the security of the Empire mean? complete independence of the workers and peasants of India, Egypt, South America, and other British colonies, smarting under the iron heel of British imperialism? Does troops from China and other foreign countries? an end to the shooting of Austral “labor” government of Australia? the British workers, an’ struggle against capitalist rationalization and speed-up? It certainly does not mean any the British Empire” for which the the London Conference will only mean the perpetuation of the imper- ialist domination of British capitali It means the building of a navy calculated to be able to defend the imperialist interests of Great Britain against the other powers, particularly the United States. sion of any attempt of struggle a: masses of Egypt, India and China. tion of capitalist rationalization and more intensive exploitation of the is the meaning of the policies of the publicly announced by the “socialist. the MacDonald cabinet—who says: “The Labor Government set going the machinery for a com- rmans Give POLICE SHOOT | “ : 7 yas DOWN PICKET AT MILLER MARKET ” Governfnent, and of the “social- Hague dispatches state that the Germans have given in to the French, demand to revise the Young Plan is best demonstrated by the Lon- pose is actually to increase arma- Briand pledged to give up “sanc-| tions” such as armed occupation of | German soil if Germany does not pay reparations as agreed. The new Tardieu government of France, which replaced Briand’s |regime on this issue, have won a | vietory in forcing Germany to agree/3 Strikes: Won; Mass that, if it does not pay promptly, | Picketing at Monroe a |the “creditors” so-called, thou France has not loaned anything to |Germany, shall have the right to oceupy German territ without /at Miller Market yesterday, where Germany having the claim that such|the Food Cl Union of the |action is war. |Amalgamated Food Workers is on The British agreed to this pro-|Strike, and a burst of fire from |posal, the Allied Looters professing |¥"8 in the hands of a uniformed | that they have no doubt of the pres: / Policeman and a plain clothes de- jent German, government's desire to tective tore through the strike meet- |pay, but that “some future govern-|in@ across the street. ment” might not, so it is necessary, Steve Katovis, member of the jthat they have the right individually |Communist Party, present in the |or collectively, to invade and occupy! meeting was shot in the back, and Germany. Unofficially, they express! is in the Lincoln Hospital. fear that the fascists may get con-| thought to be dying. trol of Germany, but they are more |in his spine, + |fearful of the Communists, and thus, ready set in. foresightedly seek to legitimatize in- | vasion. WORKERS PLEDGE Bullet in His Back, Expected to Die the “Labor” Government and the with the spokesman of American consider and defend? hese questions in a statement of without in any degree impair- Does it mean it mean the withdrawal of British Does it mean to put ian miners by the newly elected Or does it mean better wages for of these things. “The security of Labor Government will fight at ism over its colortial possessions. imperia’ It means the bloody suppres- gainst British domination by the It moéns a more rapid introduc- speed-up in British industry, and British working class. That this “Labor” Government is even ,” J. H. Thomas—leading light in About 6 p. m., Chairman Schlos- burg had opened the meeting, in the name of the T.U.U.L., with about a hundred workers present. He started explaining to them that the for a week of 57 hours, had dis- charged Food Clerks’ Union mem- las agreed to last summer, when/Steve Katovis With A} Shot to Kill, Was Order “Shoot to kill,” yelled the police | He is| The bullet is| and paralysis has al-| owners of Millers Market had re-| fused to pay the union scale of $40) plete rationalization of British industry and has interested the real financial powers of the country.” To prove further their devotion to the Bri also announced that: sh Empire, Mr, Thomas AID TO MINERS Chicago Unity League bers, and had agreed with the United Hebrew Trades that the| ‘fake union was to furnish scabs at| $35 for a 70 hour week. He was telling the workers of the neighbor- | | Fred Beal pragiemereperer Who was arrested together with | Martin Russack at Dartmouth Mill gate meeting. S000 BATTLE “MILL TOWN COPS Beal and Others Jailed in New Bedford BULLETIN. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 16.—Seventy police tried to break a protest meeting of 5,000 today n- 1 at the Dartmouth mill, and were met by stern resistance. During the course of the battle, Deputy Police Chief Raymond Chase was knocked out. More police arrived, and several work- ers, some of them women, were jailed and charged with breach of the peace. Among those arrested was Fred Beal. | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 16. —The National Textile Workers 220,000 JOBLESS INCREASE IN ONE _ MONTH, SAYS LABOR DEP’T IN FAKED JREPORTS; UNEMPLOYED ORGANIZING \Passaic, Detroit Hold Jobless Meetings; Railroad, Steel and Rubber | Workers Laid Off 160,000 Idle in Birmingham, Ada.; Crisis Sharpens in B asic Industries, Capitalists Fear Militant Spirit of Jobless Workers | ! PASSAIC JOBLESS BEING ORGANIZED Severe Situation ADMIT DEC, DROP MORE THAN 3P Show Wage is Increase International Wireless News REPATRIATE CHINESE SOLDIERS. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) racers 2 A MOSCOW, Jan. 16.—The Soviet Figur Risse Textile Mills military authorities report that the} Cuts; Cr Chinese soldiers captured and in- PASSAIC, , Jan. 16.—While | terned during the fighting in the the United Piece Dye Works, the| Manchurian frontier, are now re- New York Belting Works, and the|Patriated into Manchuria follow-| Decembei alone, as a result of the Wright Aero Co. are laying off |ing the Harbarovsk protocal. Eight sharpening economic crisis, accord- many hundreds of men, the unem-|thousand officers and men, includ- | ing to the figures of the Department ployed of this city are being mobil-|ing General Liang are included. _| of Labor. ized by the organizers of the Na-! ee | Latest reports by this Hoover bu- tional Textile Workers Union and|CZECH WORKERS FIGHT WITH reau, which is pledged to the Hoov the Trade Union Unity League. | COPS. “prosperity propaganda campaig’ Three unemployment meetings | (Wireless by Inprecorr.) | points out there was a drop of 3.1 have already been held, attended by} praGuE, Jan, 16—Police here|Per cent in factory employment for large numbers of unemployed, and} ,. ped ised ae oe lat asegneads at her’ dihab paviolls dreopel aes 4 dispersed a mass meeting held here, | December, 1d that payrolis droppe: the organization of an Unemployed ’| 3.3, indicating wage cuts for the ‘eel | which was called to defend the Com- | : eeunell:fenlannede) |munist Party press, forcing the| Workers left on the job. in| More than 220,000 workers were fired in the United States during Reports coming to the Nationa!’ Textile Workers Union show that unemployment in Lawrence, Mass. is very acute. At the Everett Mills, hundreds of disgusted workers look- impromptu demonstration was held, the demonstrators marched to the and made a protest there. There workers into the street where an) offices of the “socialist” newspaper | The figures on which unemploy- ment is computed by the Depart- ment of Labor are furnished by the bosses who hold leading roles in the {Hoover Economic (semi-fascist) “. .,.. the Labor Government will send out special com- { mercial agents and representatives throughout the world to se- cure trade for British interests and resist the aggressiveness of | England’s competitors.” Only when we take into consideration these imperialist interests of Great Britain can we understand why MacDonald insists upon the abolition of. capital. ships. First, capitalist ships are too expensive; : ; |were many hard fights with police,| Council. They deliberately distort joctore Note tha a ee exer jmany workers being arrested or|the facts and figures to cover up J, Nahorski, organizer for the N./ wounded. The workers’ quarters of | the severe nature of the present un- T. W Ne there, ae The eRe the city is flooded with police. \employment situation. powerful movement of unemploye i | Steep as the figures given actu- | ally are they must be increased Rallies to Strikers \—T aad jhood to show their solidarity with | Union mill'gate meeting at the Dart- BULLETIN. \the strikers, whose picket lines were | Mouth mill at noon yesterday was PEORIA, IIL, Jan, 16.—Yester- often broken up. He was to tell Viciously attacked by a squad of the day 1,100 miners here in the Cres- them of the injunction against tne | bosses’ police and five workers were cent Col Company mine walked (fooq clerks, obtained by Charles | arrested, including Martin Russak, out ons’ The United Mine (solomon, lawyer of the United He,| district organizer of the N.T.W.; workers can be built here and many! K. O. Byers, one of the Gastonia secondly, Great Britain has many ni where the smaller cruisers and batt dated and thereby made as equally effective as capital ships. chief imperialist rival, the United States, however, has not so many naval] bases as Great Britain, and it that could remain at sea for a long British-American differences over c gle between England and America control of the seas, and the guaranty of victory in the next imper- ialist war. This imperialist policy Governnicn’. The French ialist p is not on ocialist: British colonies and in the capitalis' ernment and the “socialist” Second International are not only part- ners to the imperialist war preparations and attacks on the working class, but are themselves now assuming the role of imperialist hench- men and executioners. Naturally, such a course of the “Labor” Government in the field A of foreign policy, receives the full The demand for the abolition of capital ships was proposed by Admiral The British b On the cont Bridgeman in 1927. “Labor” Government. phrase-mongering of the British “Labor” Party to mislead the masses and to prepare them for the coming war. ; of France as expressed by Premier Tardieu. It is already a long established fact supported by the rivers of blood of the thousands of murdered workers and peasants of the Workers officials are trying their |j,ew Trades, and served yesterday. best to break it. George W. Stouf- Solomon is a socialist party leader fer, distr: " executive board mem- and candidate for alderman on that ber of U.M.W., declared the | ticket in the last elegtion. strike “illegal” and is calling for | ei | scabs. The crowd grew rapidly and the WEST FRANKFORT, ill., Jan. 16.) patrolman and the dick came over, —The Illinois District office of the |forced their way to,the speakers’ ‘ational Miners Union has received |stand, and ordered the meeting |a copy of the telegram from the!stopped. Schlosburg refused and |Trade Union Unity League district went on talking. The police tried conventic in Chicago, Sunday, in to knock him off the platform, and whic’ the 78 delegates from all in-'the crowd forced them back. The (Continued on Page Two) plain clothes man ordered the uni- _ formed man to “draw your gun and (Continued on Page Two) aval bases and refueling stations tleships could be easily accommo- The tS therefore must have capital ships time without refueling. Thus the apital ships represents the strug- for the world markets, for the ly exclusive of the British “Labor” s” have also approved the imper- Building Maintenance Workers Launch Gen- eral Drive; Meet Tonite TRY T0 6 0 V E R t countries that the “Labor” Gov- | successful meeting of the approval of British imperialism. | Building Maintenance — Workers VITALE SCANDAL Union was held on Wednesday, at yourgeoisic is not afraid of the | the Labor Temple, 243 East 4th St rary, it is utilizing the pacifist The first organizational meeting Foe So long as this could be in the garment section will be held |“Investigators” Want) maintained, MacDonald’s predecessor, Baldwin, could therefore afford to say on September 26th: “In foreign affairs the Socialist Government has undoubted- tonight, 6 p. m., right after work | ona at 4 West 37th St., tonight. | To Whitewash Case The memb- ‘ip, at Wednesda oe haste, voted after a lively distus:| courumcars sham, that Masieg ly achieved a measure of success, very‘largely because there has been no break in continuity with the declared policy of its prede- cessors, the conservative government.” However, with the developing class struggle in Great Britain, with the growth of the revolutionary movement in the colonies, with the general awakening of the British toiling masses, and the sharpening of antagonisms in the camp of the imperialist powers, and the in- evitability of imperialist war, the “Labor” Party, is no longer so easily able to cover up its imperialist policies under the cloak of paci- fism and false promises, The capitalist class itself sees that the Bri- tish “Labor” Party and the Second International are becoming more naked before the eyes of the masses. The reactionary New York Eve- ning Post, in discussing the program and policies of the British “Labor” Government, had to state editorially, on January 14th: “Its present program (meaning that of the Labor Party) is greata to the country’s interest, but it is not of the sort of which the Labor Party can hope to make much political capital.” In other words, the British workers and- oppressed masses in the colonies will learn through their, own experience that the British “Labor” Party, and the Second International as a whole, is only an agent of world imperialism, operating in the ranks of the working class to prepare the workers to be tools and victims of the coming war. Under the leadership of the Communist International, and through their own experience, the workers must see that the only way to end war is to turn the next imperialist war into a civil war that will destroy the capitalist system that breeds wars. Against the war-lords of imperialism—Hoover and, MacDonald, | join the Communist Party! PLOT TO BRING SOVIETRADIO BACK CZARISM LOCATES EIELSON sion, approved the plan presented by the executive council. The union will organize itself into four sections, Bronx, Harlem and Yorkville, the garment section and downtown. Each section will imme- | diately c:.ll conferences of all work- | lers in those localities. A trade bulletin of the Building |Maintenance Workers will be issued. | It was also decided that a Negro Department shall be organized, hav- ing its task to bring the tens of thousands of Negro workers into the Union which are the most exploited in the industry. On the question of the Window | Cleaners, a committee was clected to find ways and means to bring the einen cleaners into the Union and to intensify the campaign against |the se~b outfit of window cleane | trate Vitale made a habit of letting yhis crook friends go when they were brought up before him. Whenever the fascist police |magistrate was confronted -with some of his gunmen cronies, he al- ways dismissed them. Two investigations will soon be under way to hide the stench raised | |by the Vitale scandal. The bar as- |sociation is already “looking into} ithe matter.” Republican leaders in| |the Albany legislature announced that their proposal for an investiga-! tion was not meant to “embarass” | Governor Roosevelt and Tammany | Hall, which is closely interwoven in the Vitale scandal. Their purpose ‘is to spread a thick coat of white- jwash over the much-bespattered countenance of capitalist “justice.” (Continued on Page Two) | Five Strikers Killed at Chemnitz; Workers |to Wall St Aroused at “Socialist” Police Attack 1,000 AT SHOE |defendants, charged with murder jand tried in the first trial, but dis- | missed at the beginning of the sec- lond trial; Peter Hegelias, Commu- |nist Party organizer, and Manuel Perry, District Youth Organizer of }the N. T. W. All are out on $500 | bail. | Five hundred workers assembled | at the meeting demonstrated against | the arrests. 5,000 Protest. A prote:' meeting was arranged last night by the N.T.W. and the Tr:2= Union Unity Lezgue, at which | Communist Party and Young Com- | munist League speakers appeared. ‘A thousand workers were at the protest meeting and denounced the police brutality in no measured | terms. Today the union was preparing a second meeting at the same mill | gate, w: a workers’ defense corps organized to stop the assaults of the police. This meetir> will take (Continued on Page Three) WORKERS MEET Drive Into Open Shops; Fakers Forge Leaflet A thousand shoe workers and strikers gathered in Arion Place Temple, in Brooklyn, last night, about half of them from unorganized shops, and cheered speakers explain- ing the, bi of the Independent Shoe Workers Union's campaign to organize the 45,000 unorganized in the industry. At the time of going to press, Lillian Rosen, speaker for the wom- en’s section, and a local organizer of the union had addressed the audi- ence. This meeting starts the mass cam- shoe workers in Greater New York against the piece work, low wage, speed-up, and unemployment sys- tems of the bosses. The union is Rubio Pledges Support ; U.S. Army Escorts Him to Mexico NOGALES, Ariz., Jan. 16.—U. S. good basis to organize mill locals and build our union. Meanwhile am tramping the streets, meeting the comrades at the clubs and digging for connections among Polish and Italians.” * 0 DETRO- , Mich., Jan.16.—Meet- ings are being held at factory gates where thousands of workers gather daily to find jobs. Every day meet- ings have been held at the Murray (Continued on Page Three) N.Y, RECRUITS s00 FOR PARTY Sharp Revolutionary Competition The New York District of the of unemployed textile workers can | be enrolled into our union. Also) PACIFIST MEET Working Women Hold ‘Demonstration Jan. 17 | The nature of the so-called “con- ference for the cause and cure of | war” now being held in Washington, which is another attempt to hide the present imperialist war preparations |of the U. S. government, is pointed | out in a call to the working women jof New York by the Communist |Party, through its Women’s Depart- ment. “This conference represents many | bourgeois women’s organizations,” the call declares, “among them the Women’s Trade Union League, which was very active in support of the last imperialist war. The pacifist phrases and slogans many fold in order to give a truc picture of the mass unemployment ravaging the American workers. | Referring to the “selected” manu- facturing industries picked out by | the Department of Labor for its job- less reports, the New York Times (Jan. 16) indicates that unemploy- ment is much more devastating than the Hoover-Davis boss-favoring statistics show: It would appear by a fairly close computation, however, that the de- crease in number of workingmen employed was about 110,000 last (Continued from Page Three) MOBILIZE FIGHT ~ ON WAR DANGER Lenin Memorial Meet i N lof this conference deceives women | Communist Party passed the five| workers as to the true causes of hundred mark in the recruiting drive | war, and at the same time it is help- on Wednesday. To the total of 379| ing the government in its prepara-| January 22 The announcement by Hoover that new members reported up to the end tion for the next imperialist war; of the past week 129 more new] jt is a menace to the working class recruits were added during the first! and should be fought as such.” four days of this week making a} A mass meeting to expose the role total of 508 new recruits since the | of the Washington conference and beginning of the drive. |the Women’s Trade Union League Section Two is making a gallant| will be held before the office of fight to catch up with its rival Sec-| this organization, at 247 Lexington tion Three. This section recruited| Avenue today, Jan. 17, at noon. 20 new members during the first This demonstration will protest four days of this week. But Section | against. the feverish war prepara- Three is working just as hard to| tions of the U. S. government. keep ahead and manages to keep the| lead with 71 as against 56. Section | One is not to be caught napping either and is maintaining the lead over both its rivals with a total of} eS ee} 74 new recruits to date. | Tonight there will be a meeting Sections Seven and Eight are Sooo all comrades engaged in Agitprop ning neck and neck. Each has re-'work, 7:30 p. m. at the Workers (Continued on Page Two) Center. General Agitprop Conference Tonight German Workers in Battle «pars patina starts the nase can Dyessmakers Crowd at Cooper at Many Cities Fighting Ban on Liebknecht Meets n to Organize All the N.Y. Shops Call All Unorganized to Join Fight for 40-Hour 5-Day Week; All to Elect Shop Delegates Union, Start Great Cambaig: jthe outcome of the Naval Disarm |ament Conference in London rests the future peace of the world will © be vigorously answered by thousands of workers who will gather on the sixth anniversary of the death of the great anti-imperialist war lead- er, Comrade Lenin, at Madison Square Garden on January 22, Wednesday evening, at 7 p. m. Communist Party spokesmen will | expose the real character of the Na- |val Conference as a mobilization | point for war against the Soviet on In a leaflet issued yes day by the Communist Party, in |75,000 copies, the whole anti-work- ing-class program of Hoover is de- nounced and the hypocrisy of the bombastic peace talk of Hoover ex- eves The leaflet says: | “The United States government, |which hypocritically raised the ery | during the last war, that it was ‘a | war to end war,’ is today preparing j for more devasting wars that the |world has ever known. Congress jand the president have just an- /nounced the biggest war budget that the American people have ever been Naddled with. “Hoover tried to cover up th budget with big talks about “peace with MacDonald. If they were talk- jing peace, why were their talks held |secretly? They were talking WAR |—-war of the imperialist powers Militant Strikes, Broadening Into General s#tinst the Soviet Union and the i 1 a) ‘oletarian mas: _ Strike, Answer to Schlesinger’s Fake Strike esa | the world.” Tickets for the mass demonstra- Thousands of dressmakers, oper-|after shop, broadening into a gen-| tion are now available at 26 Union An Associated Press rept Unemployed Mounting to 3,000,000; Attacks on troops of the Second Battalion of eeeheo bein Mn e TNA Ihr aoavow declares that there, | the 25th Infantry escorted the fas . . from Moscow declares that there is A eee | - that at Leningrad a group of fore fOr that Carl Ben Bielson, | Unemployed Incited by U. 8. Bankers cist president of Mexico, Ortiz Ru- ,of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux-| the very same troops that have been mer czarist — icers were Dein€ | american flyer, and his mechanic, | bio, across the border. These are placed on trial for plotting attempts |Harl Borland, had landed near the| (Wireless by Inprecorr) to overthrow the Soviet Power in! River Anguemy, and that the Soviet! Berlin, Jan. 16.—Yesterday at emburg, revolutionary leaders killed | used against the Mexican masses in|ators, cutters, pressers, finishers, jeral strike of all shops which re- | Square. behalf of re-establishing monarchy {Government had ordered a dog sled | Chemnitz, the police shot up a by “socialists? under the Noske their revolutionary uprisings. _ lexaminers, ete., working in union |fuse union conditions,"to win the 40-/ with Grand Duke Cyril as the czar. | expedition to the place. ‘demonstration of striking textile|regime ten years ago. The present! Pledging a continuation of his|shops and open shops, registered hour five-day week, a minimum) NOTICE! ALL PARTY MEMBERS hootlicking policy of the Wall St. DISTRICT 2. ), The Grand Duke claims the throne. | The Soviet Government will show, it is stated, that the officers, who ave headed by Albert Schiller, re-_ ceived the assistance of British gov- ernment officials, including Win- +tam Churchill, The Soviet Arctic Commission in| workers, killing five and wounding Moscow which has been in charge |twenty. Mass demonstrations of pro- of the efforts to find the flyers was test are being held and_ political y notified that its radio station at | stri of other workers are ex “socialist” pelice chief, Zoergibict, had forbidden the demonstrations terday, but they were held in) fiance of such prohibition. de imperialists, Ortiz Rubio said: “T feel sure that the administration | over which I will preside will be, and non-registered, flocked to Coop-;wage, equal division of work, no| er Union last night at the eall of discharge, sanitary conditions, rec- the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- ognition of shop chairmen, ete. trial Union to launch the greatest) This was the main point of the All members must unit meeting Monday attend their dd Tuesday ial instruc- jand Borland had landed, Anadyr, Siberia, had received a re- | pected. The police attacked the demon- port on January 14, that Kielson At Berlin. three great demonstra- strations everywhere, clubbing an‘ tions were held in commemoration | (Continued on Page Three) marked by constant co-operation | seen in New York. ‘and understanding between Mexico jand the United States.” + The campaign is a fight, shop| on hand to explain it and the fur-| (Continued on Page Two) to receive important, sp mass organization campaign: so far mass meeting. Ten speakers were tions. Organization Dept. District 2.