The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1930 CZECH WORKERS SHO W)"!ss FIGHT AGAINST FASCISTI , AND UNEMPLOYMENT |Win Demands for Relief at Komotau by March' | Into City Council and Demonstration ‘Great Skoda Metal Workers Halt At Benches \ to Protest At “Socialist” Government PRAGUE (By Inprecorr Mail |Service).—A great demonstration of unemployed workers took place | before the city hall in Komotau re- cently, and exerted pressure on the City Council, which agreed to grant funds to feed unemployed workers and supply them with coal. The police attacked the unemployed bru- tally at various points during the demonstration. At the Kaolin mine in Winters Gruen the workers carried out a one-hour protest strike against the new social fascist government. In Pilsen the workers of the great Skoda Works (metal) organized four great demonstrations against the new social fascist government and against the expulsion of Com- munist deputies and senators from parliament. The police held the doors of the works and arrested a number of speakers. Here in Prague, after an increase a demonstration of tenants took place, and workers forced their way |into the city hall, from which they | were finally ejected by police. The Communists in the City Council | went onto the streets and led the | protesting masses. Collisions with | police occurred and a number were | arrested. | Koeniginhof, Orlav ond Ostrau. In |the last place ihe police attacked the demonstration and arrested the speaker, Slivka, « Communist mem- ber of parliament But the de: stration continued in spite of |tacks of police. There are 250,000 \figure is rising. “Work or full | maintenance” is the slogan, together | pay rent have their rent paid by the municipality. “Bolshevists” in the Congo BRUSSELS (By Inpreco™ Mail Service).—Thé capitalist in Belgium is conducting a atous campaign against what it calls “Bolshevist agitation and intrigues in the Congo.” It demands that “suspicious natives” should be iso- lated from the industrial districts. Very willingly the authorities have carried out raids in various parts of the Belgian Congo. About 10 days |ago 200 of these “suspicious” na- ‘tives were arrested in Leopoldville. In Thysville, where there was a re- volt some years ago a “Bolshevist ‘center of agitation” is said tg have | been discovered. | All this foolishness is nothing but, | # cover for the fact that the resis- /tance of the natives to oppressive taxation and forced labor is steadily | increasing. British Communist Banned From India LONDON (By Inprecorr Mail Service). — After having first granted the Communist representa- tive Comrade Campbell, permission to enter India, the Foreign Minister of the British“labor” government has | against the arbitrary action of the} {been abolished, the authorities would ‘have no possibility of deporting | Comrade Campbell should he make | Propaganda in india. | The British Communist Party is organizing a protest campaign in rents of the municipal dwellings, | Demonstrations also took place in| jregistered unemployed now and the | | with demand that those who cannot | es Organize i Metal workers under the Metal Trades Workers are organizing | Industrial League against suck conditions described on this page by a U. S. Metals Company worker. Above, a steel worker's family in Braddock, Pa. as Hoover Insists on ; Battleships in London (Continued from Page One) {built by all nations as real auxi |Mary fighting ships, with pr |made for gun emplacements | other naval equipment. A British expert points out that ‘Germany’s recent new “battle cruis- jer” has revolutionized naval con- | struction and makes such heavy cruisers really more powerful than the biggest battleship. ion and Tardieu of France, conferring |with Stimson on Sunday. report- ed to have “made it clear” that |France insists that the League of |Nations, and not the London Con- lference, is the place where France wants decisions made, and that Lon- don must only “create an atmos- |phere,” while only “Article Eight of the League Covenant can be used las a basis for fixing tonnage.” | Fake Agreement May Exclude i France. | “realize a preliminary accord to per- mit Geneva to proceed, that it is ference be checked immediately if it starts to study Anglo-American | technicgl propositions.” All this indicates that even a fake now withdrawn this permission. The | “labor” government which continues |agreement is likely to leave France reason given for this step is that as ‘ruthlessly the policy of the conser-|out and that the most forlornly the public ordinance law has now | vative government towards India. Australia, New Zeland, Samoa, Scene of Struggles wtclia and ‘New Zealand both are learning the-meaning of the new period of struggles accompanying and refuses to do anything to help | the world crisis. At the mine fields of New South Wales, thousands of striking miners are clashing with police armed with rifles and fixed bayonets. At Cessnock, 2,500 striking miners marching on the Ahermain mine, were attacked by police with bayo- nets, and in the fight that followed 12 were wounded. In motor trucks the police speeded | nicality of the automony of the New South Wales nationalist government, thé miners—which is to say that it helps the mine owners. In New Zea!.nd, the Communist Party and all militant labor papers, jare forbidden. And in both these | British possessions the workers, who have long been imbued with “white | superiority” toward the workers of China and India, are now finding | themselves. New Zealand, which has mandate that they are mere colonial subjects | to Kurri, and elashed with a demon- | power over British Samoa, now has stration of 1,500 marching miners, wounding seven. At Paxton, 1,500 miners marched on the Stamford Merthyr mine, where government operation was working scabs. The police in attack here made 10 arrests. The fiction of a peaceful transi- tion to socialism, which long de- luded the Australian workers prior to the onset of world imperialist crisis, is being blasted by the vio- lence of the ruling class, The “La- bor” party at the head of the Fed- eral government, stands on the tech- marines in Samoa hunting through the brush trying to arrest several |Maoris who are supposed to have jbeen involved in a demonstration two weeks ago, where a white con- stable was killed. | Great un.est exists in all parts jof Samoa. The police searching |houses and offices have torn down posters of the Mau, the native lib- eration society which said: “Samoa {for the Samoans!” But towns are de- to be concentrating for resistance. African Negro Workers in Struggle South African reports show that the Negro masses exploited and op- préssed by British imperialism are rising to struggle against their op- pressers, demonstrations of some kind concealed by the censorship ad- mittedly having taken place in many sections, it being stated that at Carnavon, Cape Colony, the mayor and other imperialists were wounded. The movement spread from Car- navon to East London, where native Negro railway workers are threaten- ing to strike for wage increases. So far the imperialists simply ignore the workers’ demands, which are put forward through the Negro Commercial and Industrial Union. A Letter From Uruguay MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (By Correspondence).—Our bourgeoisie is prepating for fascism at all steam under the “of Yankee im- perialism, and the Communist Party is prepsring for counter-attack. The coming year will probably see hard fights. ‘We are continuing work for the Gastonia comrades, and we will fight for them until the last victim is released, Our Uruguayan Party is under- going a process of regeneration. Great mistakes have been discovered in the political line of the Party. The key of the mistake is an under- estimationgof the revolutionary pos- sibilities of the working and peas- ant class, and the overestimation of the forces of the bourgeoisie, An present, however, whelming mass of the Party mem- bers are thoroughly with the Com- munist International. —IIS.B. Arrest Indian Union Militant LONDON (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—-Comrade Ranadive, the secretary of the Railwaymen’s Union of the Great Indian Peninsula Line, one of the thions which have de- Class War Tide ATHENS, Dec. 24 (By Inprecorr | in Greege is intensifying from day | to day. The heavy weight of taxa- | tion is causing the impoverishment of the poor peasants and the urban , petty-bourgeoisie. In connection | with the rationalization of the fac- tories, the capitalists have opened fail Service).—The economic crisis |1 cided to boycott the Whitley Com- mission, has been arrested during a police search of the union offices. The warrant for his arrest bears the charge of stirring up class hatred. Rises in Greece up the offensive against the already low wages of the workers (the av- erage wage is about 2s. 6d. a day). The capitalist offensive com- menced in the tobacco, textile and transport industries, great masses of workers were dismissed and the government lowered the unemployed support. The capitalist offensive ample discussion is taking place at! and the over-| barren figeleaf of “agreement” is likely to result. The Berlin “Voissische Zeitung” is raising the question of the ab- {sence of the Soviet Union from the London Conference, saying that the |sending of two Soviet s \the Baltic into the Black Sea, is a “reminder” to the smperialist pow- ers that they had “neglected” to in- vite the Soviet Union, and that in lview of the friendly tween the Soviets and Turkey, it is “a protest of both Russia and Tur- key against the treaty of Lau- sanne.” | UTILITIES PAY COMMIS- SIONERS’ SONS. | It was brought out in testimony before the Legislative Committee yesterday that William A. Prender- jgast, chairman of the New York public service commission has two sons working for good salaries and easy jobs in public service compan- ies. Prendergast of course indig- nantly denied that this fact influ- enced his judgements. | has now extended to the gas work- ers, the tramwaymen, the elec- | tricians, ete. | The leader of the offensive is a serted and the natives are supposed | British company which has a monop-| and Terror in Yugoslavia” joly of the production of electric |power in“ Athens and Piraeus. The | great tobacco trust has also cut the |price of tobacco from the individual growers. The capitalist offensive is causing ja rapid radicalization on the part of the workers and peasants. Accord- ing to bourgeois reports no less than 11,000 peasants took part in three great demonstrations against the government during the past week. Although the leadership of these demonstrations was in the hands of bourgeois liberals, the peasants took up a very revolutionary attitude and threatened an armed revolt unless |the government granted their de- mands, Four thousand students have been on strike in Athens for about a week now against reactionary meas- ures introduced by the government into the university, raising the fees, etc, Mass derhonstrations have | taken place and there have been vio- lent collisions with the police. A strike of the gas workers, the |tramwaymen, the busmen and the electricians has broken out both in | Athens and Piraeus. The workers | of the power station in Piraeus have proclaimed a solidarity strike. There is also movement amongst the rail- | waymen to come out and thus pre- vent threatening wage reductions. The strike has a very definitely political character and Veniselos has strikers can only be fulfilled by the revolut on. Sailors from the Greek warshiy 5 are maintaining a skeleton service, The social fascists are trying their old tactics of leading the movement, in order then to throttle it, and it would seem as though they have gained their end in Salonika. The leadership of the strike in Athens and Piraev however, is in the hands of the Communists. The movement is one of the most im- {portant in the history of the Greek working class, v, S. METALS STRAW BUILD JOBLESS SSES BOAST ABOUT | cgyyeits; MORE THEIR SLAVE-DRIVING UNEMPLOYMENT Try to Outdo Each Other in Race'to Drive Men to the Very Limit Army of Unemploeyd Gets Larger Nettled By Distribuation of the Daily Worker At Big Carteret Plant Hee pcnnee 10 Have Dee) aworkers is now running with 3,600, H (and 300 rke: 0 7 » le (By « Worker Correspondent) |tant straw boss to Campbell is that | 97 he de ee oe ere | CARTERET, N. J. (By Mail)—|his slaves should report to him. No|Sjant has completes ean Radio The bosses of the U. S. Metals Re- {difference as to unwarranted sick-| Fie Myocration were rt owe fits : : goabaeeis Sth Manhattan Rubber Works is on fining Co. in Carteret, N. J., canjness in health to workers. | part time. Several hundred k EeUAE Ge eucsttiteall panera be : ee part time. dred workers er oe eran Led ao the |_ Now as to their speed efficiency. | in this plant were recently laid off. Ce a eae icon This ex, {2s Mr. Campbell and Adam,|The United Piece Works at Lodi, \pectally applies tthe smelter de-|.°t@¥ bosses,” are boasting of their|the Forstmann-Hoffman mills at parthiant Hare 4a ‘Campbell, wis speed-up system, of driving workers | Garfield, employing Negro and it ja aaid ak calla back fiom Meee |to the limit on the oe week of | Italian workers, are working several « a |November « month. t has them their gold. So in fact M seven days pace tes Mie ey A mass meeting of unemployed duction, the other two shifts turned | wij] be held on Monday at the Work- been | days out of the week with steeply Th filler Tells Why AFL Won’t Admit Negroes black workers ‘o ‘organize into our union under equal conditions. Miller pointed out that white and gro organizers of the N.T.W.U., well as of the League, are now South “Our orge at the risk of will be 15 g not,” ler He declared the workers formed armed squads to defend the organizer No Discrimination. “According to the words of Hill, far back as 1918 ional ation sked workers within the did Bill Gr Urban League to take active rent. move do? othing! ke the harlotte 2 Union Unit d 7.U. on Oc 12 found for the first time union. xf the nd the reccid of our feren Lea »ber € CRISIS GETS DEEPER AN he ecy. ly “pre the br improv November” A for 000 unempl 1 But imperialism is m leeper rooted than even France comes to London only to | Campbell aspired to get rich quick, but the Indians thwarted him and warned him to leave if his life was dear to him. Adam Wunenberg, one of his henchmen who comes from Perth Amboy and a leading member of American Legion, takes “authori- tative” occasion of sending workers home for “vacation” from two to eight days, who had been working for the U. S. M. R. from 10 to 18 years for the sole “claim” of not asking him for the day off. Adam’s \desire in his capacity of an assis- here. out 216-230 each. Then Adams comes along boasting of a record breaking week with 380 pieces of square cakes of brass. So we can isee, fellow workers, with our own eyes the bosses’ efficiency schemes. Take the straw-boss John Mey for instance. He recently remark ,ed that if he’d find out who wrote \the articles in a recent distribution | lof the Daily Worker he would fire \the S. O. B. In my next letter I'll tell about more of the slave-drivers —ARNOLD. 60,000 Workers Jobless in Birmingham (By @ Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (By Mail). —The Bank of Ensley, located in a | district of steel trust workers, closed down Saturday, January 11. thousand workers have their life jsavings in that bank. /fifth bi jin six months. More than 60,000 workers are un- employed here. Ninety per cent of Three | the building trades are unemployed. for jobs that did not exist. 4 —BIRMINGHAM WORKER. (By « Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— plant of the Link Belt Co. report for work each day at the plant at 21st | St. and Hunting Park Ave., but only dffopiéal’ to (talks “ABOED Meruiaers at | The 800 workers of the Philadelphia | {London, and that the London Con- | three hours’ work is provided them, | Little Work For Link Belt Workers jand their pay is according to the | time they work. The company makes all kinds of |machinery, but specializes on pul- |leys, cranes ,ete. Skilled machinists have been replaced by unskilled | workers. —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. Hosiery Plant Closes, Makes 1,200 Jobless | - ers Home, 25 Dayton St, to act on the program of the executive com- jmittee of the Unemployed Council. | * * | 8,000 Ford Workers Fired. DETROIT, Jan. 19.—More than | 8,000 Ford workers we laid off recently in spite of the announce- ment by Ford that production of cars is on the increase. Senator Couzens recently said: “k rdless of any propaganda that may be spread we are not going to have a | good business year in 1930.” Thousands Jers are being gyped all over the This is the| Country by the private unemploy- | attempt of the owners of th ank that has closed up here|ment agencies which fatten on the }bia Silk Company ; mass jobless situation. | Last year there were 2,400 com- plaints of workers who paid money There are 1,200 agencies in New York. | The most flagrant case is that of |the Reliable Employment Agency that bled over 150 unemployed out of $5 to $25, promising them jobs. |The indignant workers stormed the agency and were beaten back by the police. | In fighting this situation, which is | especially flagrant at this time, with unemployment mounting at the rate | of 300,000 jobless a month, the Com- munist arty demands “the abolition of private employment agencies; the establishment of free employment agencies, administered by the work- of unemployed work-| tory of the South that Negro wor Boss Tried to Lengthen. tie « | Hours; Jobless Unite |" 19.—An Colom- PATERSON, Jan. to extend the Ma gt working day from nine to ten he aon aifieed i 1 by the workers yes- |, : ies Under the lership of tional Textile Workers’! stomobiles te Union, they absolutely refused to |), oe ket is comple at work the extra hour and threatened | ea imperialism is | to walk out in a united body. The | ¢,, : i Ps ferocious att th bsoses gave in. The worl : eats : ; z kets with British, Fy been ordered to come in at 7 a. m. : ‘ Italian and Japan instead of the usual A com- é ; Each |mittee’ of weavers came to union be enter iti headquarters and asked ‘to be or-ij00n undergoing a period ganized to fight this demand of the atid. eeMbiehiiae 4. ete bo A leaflet was circulated. ,~ i Workers coming in at 7 were halted, The utting — ¢ and joined the strike. backed by misleader | Unamplowmant Méstines. American Federation of I , and rected by the Hoover-Barnes Much work is being done among “i re, meet- morn- ul s iness council” is in Workers in over the unemployed workers | ings are held every Thurs relations be- | (By a Worker Correspondent.) _|vayon had not arrived and to come ‘ets’ representatives charged with PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).—|back later. | the administration of unemployment Conditions continue bad in the ho ' jae .__ | benefits.” The unmployment bene- iery plants. At Brown's, workers| When they did so a large sign fits demanded in the progress of the leame back as usual for their jobs| Was tacked on to all doors, and en-|Communist Party is “complete in- kon Jan. 2 and after the holidays. | trances, “No work until further no-| surance against unemployment, to They were told to come back in a tice.” This plant employs 1200 and |be provided by the government, fi- |few days. When they did so they |is located at 4th’ and Cambria. |nanced by taxes on income, inheri- jwere told: shipments: ‘of silk and| —R. |tance and profits, and providing all | — $$$ ~ unemployed with benefits of full- AFL Officials “Compromise” Phila Pipe j wage rates, without any exceptions Coverers’ Strike or disqualifications.” PROPOSE BIG MERGER. (By « Worker Correspondent) 1 to 4. On wages, however, the| WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Merger PHILADELPHIA (By Mail)—-|men demanded $1.50 and only|of the Radio Corporation of Amer- The officials of the Internations}|$1.37% was secured. psoas yey ae gave te One firm hired scabs on the new rs an sbestos rkers Loc spas *, lo Philadelphia, after several con-| Tents BR. building here for Sat- land Telegraph Company was pro- posed to the Interstate Commerce |ica and the International Telephone, lferences with the bosses sold out in the form of a compromise the jurday and Sunday work, paying for Committee by Clarence H. Mackay double time. On Monday the union head of the latter corporation. ing at 10 in the union headquarters. | have been handed di An unemployment council has been| Slashes since the Gre elected. agreement of strik an ‘A meeting was held Wednesday | demands for wage increases.” before the gates of the Wiseman} One of the te tasks of Silk Company, one of the largest | every section Communist plants in the c preparations are| Party is thé organization of the going full speed ahead for the dis-| unemployed workers, in unity with trict convention Feb. 8th, the day|the employed workers, to fight for before the national silk conference | full-wage unemployed, relief, ané to be held in this city when the date will be decided on for the general against the drastic wage cuts. | Our own ie, the vonrgeots age; strike. A mass meeting will be held | Ae i eile on Feb. 7, where Bill Dunne, editor| ,* ag ORES if ? tha Leber Unity or Wik. Zot hy simplifiid class antagonisms. af the Labor Unity, or Wm. Z. Fos-| grove and more, society is eplitting ter will speak. LABOR FAKERS LAUD GRUNDY. | CHIC The Chi- cago A. aders’ paper, the “Federationis lauded Grundy, Pennsylvania politician and new mil- ‘lionaire senator, to the skies, up into two great hostile cam’ into two great and directly contra- posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro= letarint Marx, Build Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. declared that the demands of the) kers threatened to quit but the strike of the pipe coverer's here. The it militancy of these workers compelled Contract calling for quick comple \the bosses to grant some demands, | tion of the building, the contractors lunion recognition, one helper to|Were compelled to fire the scabi every 2 pipe overseers, instead of —C. R. Berlin Police Aid Yugoslav Fascism Fight Imperialist War Preparations! _ ¢ : Defend the Soviet Union! JOIN THE COMMUN . Mail! 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