The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1930, Page 3

| Ye | t Soe stented ———————— sss a MAXTON’S FAKE LEFT GANG AIDS MACDONALD SUPPORT [MPERIALISM Maxton-Wheatley Group Get No Criticism) From MacDonald Leadership Have History of Betrayal of Workers in All Class Struggles =ONDCN (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—The question of the al- leged revolt of the Maxton-Wheat- ley Group of the Labor Party is of especial interest. The Glasgow “Forward,” organ of the Independ- ent Labor Party assures us that the revolt is really serious. The press was full of phrases like “split in La- bor Party,” “Recalcitrant Clyde- siders,” “Serious situation develop- ing,” ete: Mr. Compten, M.P., moved motion for the disciplining of Max- ton & Co.; Mr. Thurtle, M. P., leaves the LL.P.—the LL.P. atmosphere is thick with talks of resignations, secessions, ete. The really significant thing about the whole talk and argument about splits, ete., is that so far, not one single leader of the Labor Party has attacked the Maxton Wheatley Group. Not a word from MacDon- ald, Henderson, Clynes, Snowden, not a manifesto, no public condem- nation of the alleged rebels. It is quite plain that if the situation were as it is depicted by some people, then the managers of the Labor Party and the leaders of the Labor government who are supposed to be “seriously embarrassed” by the Clydeside Group, would at least have replied to the attack. But so far) In 1927, at the Mond Negotiations, it was again the same |Maxton- Wheatley crowd, who developed the { stage, managed revolts along with Cook against Mondism, Here was| \a situation when the militancy of | the working class was perceptibly | rising. It was absolutely necessary | | for the T.U, and labor bureaucracy | | to find some method of preventing | |a revolutionary development land mobilization of that militancy, The Maxton-Wheatley Group along with | A, J. Cook staged the pretended re-| volt in order to get to the head of ;the rising mass movement and run | |it to seed. To day the same game is being | played. But the intervention of the | |lefts |is more urgently necessary | than ever before; the contradictions | between the election promises of | j the Labor Party and its present pol- icy is 80 great with regard to a number of questions, that it would jlead to a dangerous tension unless the spectacle were furnished of an| alleged fight within the party itself. | This applies especially to the min-| ing problem. The promise of the| labor party lcould not be talked | away and equally inexorable was the | necessity to introduce a bill into| no indication has been given that |Patliament, which turns into lies all | the Hendersons, MacDonalds, ete, | the solemnly given promises. Here are at all seriously worried by this | also it Was necessary to intervene, supposed revolt, jand here also there followed the As a matter of cold, hard fact, | prompt action of the Maxton-Wheat- the revolt is no revolt at all; means |ley group. It was known that a nothing in the stage of decisive ac- | majority, even if a narrow one, was’ tion, and has neither the desire nor | assured, with the votes of some lib- will to strike the Labor government |erals, therefore, ‘this intervention from power. The only possible con- | was as cheap as it was impressive. clusion that can be drawn from the | But also in a number of other cases silence of the Labor chiefs is that |as, for instance, in the vote on the this “revolt” has been undertaken |two “reform”. proposals regarding with their consent and support. | unemployment insurance, it was pos- The |smaller tfry of the Labor |sible for 37 Labor Party members to | Party may agitate themselves about | Vote against the government with- the “Clyde recalcitrants,” but the |Ut in any way endangering it. As leaders are deliberately using them, |# matter of fact the government, as the safety valve of the present | Which is entirely under the domina- wave of militancy among the work- | tion of the liberal party and eannot ing ¢lass of Britain, This game |and will not put through any meas- they have played now several times |tre without the approval of the lat- When a committee of British Margaret Bonfield, “labor” cabinet member, they open imperialist policy of the Mac. ton-Wheatley fake “left” group party.” unemployed workers attempted to present their demands for relief to ‘e met by police attacks. In order to shield the Donald Henderson, Snowden leadership of the “labor party,” the Max- carries on a mild criticiem, designed to perserve faith in the “labor romeot Death of Lenin HYPOGRICY AT revolution of the workers and peas- ants of Russia and established the | (Continued from Page One) | | | first worke: government in his- tory. Lenin was the strategist and | tactician of the world revolution, the herald of a classless society that can be achieved only through the dictatorship of the proletariat. Ever since his student days in} tsarist Russia, Lenin had thrown in his lot with the downtrodden. Fol- | lowing the revolution tradition of | his brother who had been hanged | for an attempt against the life of | Tsar Alexander III, Lenin became) a professional revolutionist. Steeped | in the teachings of Marx and En-} gels, the founders of scientific so-| cialism, Lenin devoted every ounce | of his energy towards building a Marxist party in Russia towe deepening and extending the revo- lutionary movement and organizing | the working class for th erthrow of capitalism. | During the last imperialist war, | when the former leaders of the} working class drove it to slaughter Jobless Planning P |. (Continued from Page One) Michigan District of the Trade | Union Unity and the Auto Workers Saki = | Union was held on Friday, January (Continued from Pagé One) | 17, at the Trade Union Center, 3792 many flowery words complimenting | Woodward. MacDonald, that MacDonald’s visit; There were 106 delegates present to Hoover, contrary to what the| representing about 50 workers’ or- balderdash in the capitalist press | gar ons. had led people to. think, did not “in . of L, locals and the Auto any way negotiate changes in the| Workers Union. Most of the A. F. official relations of the countries.” |of L. locals were of the building Another item of interest was| trades, which manifests the intense Stimson’s assertion of “friendship, | unemployment that has hit esteem, and high appreciation” for, workers. Japan. Unfortunately, at the same In many of the building trades moment Stimson spoke, the Japan-/locals there was an open fight ese government was wiring its dele-| against the officials by the gates to stand firmly for its de-|and file, because of the attempts to mand for a 70 per cent cruiser ratio | hinder the election of delegates. In with the United States. one of the carpenters’ locals the la- Likewise, Stimson, in spite of his |bor fakers stated to the committee blarney about “doing away with ir- ritation,” was reporting to Wash- ington that there were “sharp dis- agreements” over even the agenda of the conference; France holding that the authority of the whole af- fair was limited to being a prelim was Council Formed. | The conference was enthusiastic in supporting the program of the | Trade Union Unity League for So- cial Insurance and for the cuts and March in Buffalo) Of these there were! these | rank | AUTO BOSSES SHARPEN WORLD MARKET FIGHT Capitalists Admit U, S. Crisis Deeper (Continued from Page One) |get a bigger share of the | markets. It is to back the struggles for more world markets in the deepen- ing world economic crisis that the capitalists representatives at London insist on greater naval war arma- ments. What i> the present situation of the crisis in the United States? | In spite of the Hoover, Green, |Lamont, Barnes propaganda about | “stabilization,” “early revival,” the | facts show a worsening of the crisis and that it will continue in even a severer form. The latest report of {the Department of Commerce sz “Detroit factory employment, indicative of conditions in the au- tomol ‘le industry, was somew lower than a year ago. (Their “somewhat” is illustrated by the fact that Ford alone fired 60,000 of his workers, and recently laid off 8,000 more.) Freight car loadings were lower than in the corresp-™ding weeks of Decem- ber, 1928. The volume of build- ing contracts awarded was lower than in the corresponding period of the preceding year. Operations in steel plants were on a much lower level than in the preceding month, and showed a decline also from December, 1928 (at least 25 per cent decline!).” 25 Answering the fake propaganda of the Hoover, Green, Lamont type, the Financial Chronicle (January 18) calls on the bosses to acknowledge the severity the crisis (acknowledge it by more drastic wage cuts, etc.). They say: “There need be no dis | guising the fact that trade the coun- try over is not in a satisfactory | state.” | Another mouthpiece of the big ‘capitalists berates the Hoover policy |of trying to spread the illusion that of the unemployed council that there ; capitalism in the U. S. is fundamen- | “no unemployment in the city.” | tally sound (smacks very much of | Lovestone’s proclamation), The An- |nalist (Dec. 17) says there is “t |growing discrepancy between bus facte ab reported from day to|lty to Railroad 28 | Page Three WAGE-CUTS, SPEED-UP IN CHEVROLET AUTO LEAD TO LAY-OFFS Bosses Use One Shift Against Another to Rush Workers to the Limit Auto Workers Union Only Union Fighting Fo Men Who Slave At the Relt (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT (By Mail).—Tool grind- | ez of the in d proc ers of the day shift in Department 12 are threatened to be fired if rs are long enough; 5( five and a half do not come up to the new pr 4 tion mark that is set for them, Thi the d w mark of eight cutters an hour in night was reached by the night shift, due Our es a to the continuous speeding up of | 60-65c per hour for the workers by the foremen of the Fellow w ers it General Motors Corporation with t me ¢ Sloan as head Six cutters per hour was the pre- vious production ave per man. So we see that one shift is used against the other in the m race 1 for greater production. There is no | that unit doubt that this will lead towards the | against ¢ laying off of some of the men be- CHE A. Choice Assortment of U. S. | Bosses | (By « Worker Correspondent.) | CARTERET, N. J. (By Mail).—| of such “hot-he 1 pe that the In my last letter I told of some of a € the straw-bosses who slave-drive us at the U. S. Metals Refining. Let ob. me describe w more. he nal Merle e concrete mixers’ (yard) bosses an labor straw-boss, has his own way of incriminating workers, especially boss Negro workers to u: the wheel and the nig casts full of mixed cement concre ind to f him up, he hell w Now for the n he wake (Paul and Henry). boss for a small section of laborers | them |who boasts that no worker will loiter | forer during working hours fine language on worker: you bastards! Get to wor are plenty of 1 waiting |job outside at the gates if y vant to work.” His brother, H no way better. He says no Hunk ies will put anything over on him. Ludwig brother Paul is “straw’ work Another responsible to r lw he fires them so uses ‘Come on, t a stretc jand in g: plant, th the boss cor |“ work them to the limit.” must stand, be i There is another cheap type of|be respected and feared “straw” boss at the smelter kew| The Metal Trades Industrial blow who uses the name of either | League will organize the workers of Elm or Abe Gartner, who recently|the U. S. J inder the T. U. got this job of slave driver. He is| U. L—Arnold SHOP NUCLEUS IN SUGAR and they are past masters at it. A glance at Maxton’s recotd will show | this clearly. In 1924, when t!.e workers were dissatisfied with the cruiser-building Labor government of that period, it was Maxton & Company who came to the rescue. They revolted at that time also against the Labor govero- ment; they even voted against them, when there was no danger of de- feating them; by their “revolt” in 1924 the Clydesiders canalized the militancy of the workers and led them back to the standard of the social-democratic leadership they had pretended to revolt against. _ In 1926, the same LL.P., which is now pretending to fight the Labor leadership, voted as a delegation for the expulsion of the Communists from the Labor Party. Again it was Maxton, who ap-| pealed to the workers to stand firm for the Labor Party, even though this party was driving out of its ranks all militant {class jelements and attractirz to itself. crowds of middle-class liberals and conserva- tives, . In 1926, when the general strike was betrayed, what did these {al- leged revolters do. Gev. Buchanan, M.P,, one of the big three in the “Clyde Group,” endorsed in an arti- cle |the unparalleled betrayal |of 1926, Maxton, Wheatley & Co. were the people who after a few feeble whines about the calling off of the strike, turned round and used their position to ask the workers to be- lieve the very men who had so de- spicably betrayed them. Crisis Sharpens Polish Class Struggles WARSAW, Poland (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—Along with a grow- ing economic crisis, intensifying fas- cist reaction, ever-increasing dis- content of the working masses in town and country and feverish prep- arations on the part of fascism for war on the Soviet Union, there is taking place in Poland an ever greater concentration of the com- bined forces of fascism and social- fascism. This is expressed with particular clearness in the fact that the task of forming a new fascist government in Poland was entrusted to Professor Barthel. This fight is assuming Still sharper forms in the West Ukraine and in White Russia. The strike of the agricultural workers in these dis- tricts, the election of a majority of Communist. delegates to the two trade union congresses in West Mennonites Return’ MOSCOW. (By Inprecorr Mail Service),—It must not be overlooked ‘that those Rut jan peasants who fell victim to the capitalist- Kulak propaganda and left the So- viet Union, form an infinitesimal fraction only of the Russo-German peasants in the Soviet Union who are fot the most part solidly behind the Soviet government and their ef- forts for the collectivization of agri- culture. , But even those peasants who were | ter, (in the question of the recogni- tion of the Soviet Union the liberal party had to adopt a somewhat re- proachful tone towards the Labor government) has so excellently ar-| ranged matters that on the half a dozen occasions “whén’ Labor mém- bers voted with the opposition the formal parliamentary lexistetive of the government was not threatened. On every hand the indications of disillusionment with the Labor gov- ernment are seen, Among the masses not only is there widespread dis- content but this discontent is break- ing out into action. The Labor Party managers are alive to the dan- ger. They realize that so far as they (themselves) are concerned, their prospects of stemming this are negligible, and so the call goes out |for the bringing into action of the “pretended lefts.” No wonder that Arthur Henderson, M.P., his ma- jesty’s principal secretary , of state | for foreign affairs, at the height of the talk about the revolt, puts his arm round Maxton’s neck and says: “Jimmy you'll never be expelled from the Labor Party with my con- sent.” No wonder that Ellen Wil- |kinson, M.P., says that “Jas. Max- ton is the best supporter MacDon- ald has.” Today the masses are moving against the social fascists. Maxton and Wheatley’s attempt to run this | movement to seed will fail. The only division between MacDonald and Maxton is a division of work in the-task of swindling the masses and fixing them to the chariot of capi- talism. Ukrainia, and also the separate strike movements and the fight of the peasants of White Russia against the taxes show that the ac- tivity of the working and peasant masses in the territories in the jpos- session of Polish fascism has con- siderably increased. Powerful workers demonstration, undr th leadership of the C.P. pf Poland, recently took place in the streets of the Polish, Ukrainian and White Russian towns. These demon- strations were distinguished by their fighting character. On De- cember 1, meetings and demonstra- tions were held in Lodz, Vilna, Lvov and many other towns. On the De- cember 5 the workers of Warsaw demonstrated simultaneously with the Communist deputies in Parlia- ment against the bloody fascist dic- tatorship of Pilsudski. Soviet Union deceived by the reckless promises made to them are beginning to re- gret their hasty action, and many of them are now striving to return to the Soviet Union. Sixteen Ger- man colonist families left the Piati- gorsk district in northern Caucasia, but a few months abroad have been enough to teach them that they have been duped. Six of these families ‘have already returned to their farms anxious to make good their error and deeply grateful to the Soviet ing to one another, Lenin took up the strug- |jnary to the League of Nations “dis. gle against the socialist betrayers armament” meeting. of the workers and against the im-| As to “secrecy,” Stimson himself perialist war. earlier in the day had met He called upon the working class |others at 10 Downing Street, and to turn the imperialist w civil war against the capitalist op- /day’s opening session is to be mere pressors, and mobilized the revolu-| generalities, speeches, adjournment tionary forces in the various cdun-/heing taken whtil’ Thursday, while tries for the organization of a new | secret “conversations” go on. Communist, International. Lenin} Meanwhile, German world the necessity of building @|nayal expert, Admiral Von Tirpitz, powerful revolutionary party of its that the London naval conference | own; he explained the role of this | wij] be a failure. party in all their struggles, and de- veloped its strategy and tactics to organ of the Soviet Government, the a high degree. y \“Tzvestia,” editorially commenting The leader of the Russian Revolu-|on the Naval Conference of the big tion, the builder of socialism and the |jmperialists as follows: teacher of the exploited all over the! —Jzyestia Dissects Conference. world, Lenin was not only the great-| “To begin with, all of them are est Marxist since Marx and Engels, yather trying to serve their own but the inspiration of all the op-| purpos pressed, even in his death. Leninism |eoordination of forees for their own is Marxism in the period of imper-jadvantage, than to reduce arma- jialism; it is the application of }ments. Marx's teachings to the era of de-| «Britain is foreed by circum- clining capitalism. Lenin is dead, but |siances to make naval concessions Leninism lives in theory and prac-|to her principal rival, the United tice; Lenin’s work lives in the Rus- | States, but hopes to utilize the said Sian Revolution and the Communist |concessions to obtain a correspond- International. His teachings, car- jing reductior® of forces from her ried on by the Communist Parties of |secondary rival, France. At the world, will continue to be the same time, Britain is willing to play guide of world revolution. January |the French game in France’s rivalry 21, the day of Lenin's death, will with Italy so as to give herself some become a part of the revolutionary |sort of counter-poise to the weight calendar of the entire working class | of America. of America. What he has taught the! “Italy’s policy clearly consists in working class of the world will not advancing her pretensions toward be lost to the workers and poor farm-|naval parity with France, in order ers of America. Build the party of |to obtain colonial expansion at Lenin! Join the Communist Party! /French expense or more favorable Attend the Lenin Memorial Meet-|conditions for her nationals in the ings! |French colonies. PEW ENTE 4g is still more of - Court Aids Aberle and |tunist She is frankly desirous of Muste Union to Fight! Piekets in Mill Strike PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 20. The United Textile Workers subsidi- | ary, the Full Fashioned Hosiery | Workers, which is misleading a} strike here in the Aberle Mills got | the help of the courts today when | Judge Harry S. McDevitt granted a temporary injunction against picket- ing. The strike in the Aberle Mills} was forced by the rank and file | after the Full Fashioned officials, | Musteites, had delayed action for | about a year. The National Textile | Workers has been urging the spread- | ing of the strike, and calling on the | workers to mags picket and take con- | trol of their strike. Testimony of some of the scabs indicated that) groups of workers had followed the | advice of the N. T. W. and the judee hurried to the rescue of the com-| pany and the fakers. The strike in the Aberle is precipi- tated by a wage cut against 1,400 workers, in flat violation of the Hoo- ver “industrial council” pledge, to which the U. T. W. was a partner. Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New | Subs. | authorities for returning them their property. 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Whatever may be the apparent ‘success’ of the London Conference, it cannot fail to intensify international rivalries and world an opportunity to compare the sinister hypocrisy of their pres- ent rulers with the straightforward |proposals for real disarmament made by the Soviet envoy, Acting Foreign Minister Litvinoff, at Geneva. | Commenting on the report that ithe Soviet Government had sent two |warships from the Baltic fleet into the Black Sea, it is reported that \they were sent in for repair jleaving Naples on their o1 leruise, NEW YORK CITY to give the working masses of the} | ness | i PLANT. pene in sf pierilver the eeiaes uni Who Demonstrated CLIE IDE, N. J.. Jan. 20—A quite unsubstantiated optimism ex- Communist Shop leus was or- |pressed in. perfunctory statements | At Chernov Meets) ganized here of workers working at | from the president's committee.” | the National Sugar Refining Com- | Mass unemployment is growing all} LOS ANGEI Cal., Jan. pany in Edgewater. 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