The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1930, Page 3

= DAILY WORKER, ‘PRAVDA’ COMMENTS ON ATTEMPT IN GERMANY TO BAN COMMUNISTS “Very Confidential Documents” Turn Out To, Be Crude Forgeries Like Many Others Capitalists and “Socialists” United in Scheme Exposed and Fought by the Communists MOSCOW, Dee. 31 (By Inprecorr Service) —Commenting upon the al- leged “Very Confidential Circular” of the German Communist Party published in the bourgeois and so- dial-democratic press, the “Pravda” points out that experience has shown that such forged documents usually appear in the struggle against the Communist Parties and against the Soviet Union at a time immediately prior to the climax of the bourgeois attack, Last year the French government publ id a “Plan for the conquest of Paris,” by the Communists and a} “List of the People’s Commissars for Soviet France,” but the affair was so clumsy that even the bour- geois newspapers laughed it out of existence, After this forgery had failed the Briand government at- tneked without further preparation and accused the Communist Varty of high treason. The Tory venture in England into the realms of forgery is too welt ktiowh to need recapitulation. suf- fivient to say that its success was lurgely due to the stupidity or ma- lice of the Labor Party leaders, and perticulariy MacDonald, The explanation for the present forgery 11 Germany is that tha bour- geoisie and the social democrats need a little convincing coloring for their new exceptional law against the Communist Party, Severing’s law for the protection of the repub- lic and to prepare public opinion for thrusting the Communist Party into illegality. The German police authorities who are in close touch both with the German social democratic party and with the professional forgers of anti-Soviet documents, such as Orlov and Sumarokoyv, have carried out their forgery more cleverly than their French colleagues, but even they have made a fatal mistake, due to their lack of knowledge of the internal happenings in the Commu- nist Party, they issued their circular from the “Orgbureau of the Com | munist Party,” which is an institu- | tion which has not existed since 1925, But even this fatal error does not abash the German social democrats who continue to ake their readers flesh creep with stries of the “Com- munist danger,” the “espi ii favor of the S- ; fort tc support the aim of the au- thorities to thrust the Communist Party into illegatity. Nanking’s Manifesto Means Nothing MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail Service). Commenting upon the manifesto of the Nanking govern- ment announcing the abolition of ex- territoriality for foreigners in China, the “Isvestia” declares that it is not to be taken too seriously. Since it} went over into the camp of the counter-revolution the Kuomintang has made @ number of similar ma- neuvers. For instance in 1927 it announced the introduction of an autonomous customs tariff and én- troduced a number of laws provid- ing for a radical change in the cus- toms system. However, the foreign powers refused to recognize these Jaws and the new tariff so Nanking hurriedly withdrew them. In 1928 Nanking solemnly an- nounced the dissolution of the trade agreement with Japan, but the Jap- anese ignored this declaration and continued to enjoy all the privileges granted to them under the trade agreement. From the exchange of diplomatic corespondence published lin May, 1929, it could be seen that Nanking had given way in the mat-| ter. | There is no doubt that the present manifesto will suffer a similar fate. It is another proof of the hypocriti- eal policy of the Chinese reaction which is incapable of solving the vital problems facing present day China. Nanking seeks to create the impression that it is conducting a struggle for the national interests of China against foreign imperial- ism, but the working and peasant masses have already learned that only the victorious Chinese revolu- tion can end imperialist dominance in China, and they will not let them- selves be deceived by this new trick of the bankrupt Nanking militarists. Communists in British Wool Strike LONDON, Jan 1 (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—The strike of the wool workers in Saddleworth in Lancashire is still going on. Sad- dleworth is & small industrial dis- trict consisting of a chain of vil-| lages whose inhabitants work almost | exclusively in the wool mills. Sad- dlewerth is asvut 20 miles fcom the renl center of the wool industry in Yorkshire and this renders any ex- tenrion of the strike difficult. There are 12 wool mills in Saddle- worth, of which eight are now closed down in consequence of the strike. ‘he employers demand a 19 per cent wage reduction. In the four factories which are still work- ing no wage reductions have been announced as yet. The workers in Saddleworth are organized in an all- embracing local union. The secre- tary of this local union was one of the trial of four arrested Commu- nists. He declared, inter alia, that he visited the factories daily in order to assist the police in the »xecution of their duty. There is no Communist Party or- ganization in Saddleworth, but this did not prevent the party from car- rying on considerable activity amongst the strikers. Numerous meetings were organized, Icaflets | distributed and a strike news sheet issued daily. At a meeting organ- iz@d by the Communist Party, four worker's were arrested for resisting the police in the execution of their duty and inciting to violence, at least, that was the charge. The workers were heavily fined. The Communist Party is doing its best to | bring out the workers of the other | factories, but although the union} recognizes the strike it does its best | the witnesses for the prosecution in to sabotage all action. Australia’s New “Labor” Premier Opposes Militant Strike SYDNEY (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—The miners union, the mine owners’ association and the governrent of Nex South Wales have all refused to accept the order of the Federal Arbitration Court for for the reopening of the mines on the old conditions whilst the Fed- eral governrrent grants a subsidy of nine pence per ton in order to maintain wages. As there is compul- wory arbitration in Australia the matter will now come before the courts. The attitude of the Labor Prime Minister Scullins is typical of what may be expected from all “labor” governments, After the armed po- lice had shot down unarmed miners, he addressed himself, not to the murderers, but to the comrades of the murdered, with a request that they should refrain from violence. After the mine owners and the government of New South Wales yefused to obey the order of the Federal arbitration court, Scullins declared: “Despite the evil activity of a little group of irresponsible hotheads in the mining districts who are encouraged by a number of peo- ple in responsible positions, 1 am convinced that the majority of the miners want a quick settlement of the conflict without adopting radi- cal and unlawful measures.” The unions oppose the suggestion of the Sydney Trades and Labor Council in which the Communists have considerably influence, that a general strike of the miners should be called in order to support the New South Wales miners. Police are still guarding the Rothbury mines and the railway line in order to ensure the transport of scab coal. ~~“ Irkutsk Hails Far Eastern Red Army IRKUTSK, U.S.S.R. (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—The first detach- ments of the Far Eastern Army re- cruiting from the Manchurian front passed here this evening. The rail- way station was illuminated in honor of the returning fighters and large masses of working men and women ——— sblaneatone Mass Meet To Answer Police Breaking Up of Scranton Lenin Meet SCRANTON, Pa., Jan, 20. — A mass protest meeting is being planned by Scranton workers against the action of police in breaking up the Lenin Memorial meeting here lay. The speakers at the meet- ing. Jack Johnstone, Philip Frank- assembled to greet them. Speeches were made and answered by the rep- resentatives of the men. The tenor of the speeches was that the danger of war is still acute and that the Red Army must remain on the watch in order to guard the achievements of the workers in the Soviet Union. from the meeting by the police. All workers were forced away from the Workmen’s Circle hall, where the Lenin Memorial was to be held. The Young Pioneers succeeded in getting through the police cordon. PROTEST FARE STEAL. DENVER, Col. (By Mail).— Workers, led. by the Communist Party here, held a demonstration against the fare raise from 8 to 10. fold. and Mike Harrison, were kept 4 Vj cents. WALL ST, CHEF PUBLISHES LIES ON JOBLESS More Unemployment (Continued from Page One) ports that there is an advance in automobile and steel production. the Journal of Commerce from Youngstown, one of the steel cen- ters handling automobile steel or- ders, says “reports of the improve- ment have been exaggerated.” Another dispatch to the same capitalist paper from Youngstown says: “Offsetting some of the im- provement, however, is a loss at Niles, where the Empire Steel Cor- poration has suspended for the week its Thomas and Falcon plants.” Instead of an increase in employ- ment, the facts show that entire plants are shutting down in the cen- ter of the very industries Hoover and Lamont report to be “hiring workers.” Emphasizing the sharp crisis that is going on especially in the steel industry, a telegram from Pittsburgh to the New York Times (Jan. 19) says: “The general demand for steel may be increasing, but there is no clear evidence that it . .Con- sidering the predictions of two months ago, freight car buying is thus far a disappointment.” Is “Seasonal.” * While the Department of Labor, in its latest statements, admits far- reaching unemployment, it attributes this to “seasonal declines,” and to inventories.” This was the same argument advanced by this Hoover- faking bureau over a month ago, when it reported unemployment in- creases, “There was considerable un- employment among unskilled la- bor,” says a statement issued on Jan. 20, by the Department of La- bor, “due to seasonal influences. Plants manufacturing autom bile accessories and automobi assembling plants, and factories manufacturing radio sets and parts, food products, confectionery, furniture, clothing, knit goods, cotton and wool hosiery, tobacco products and holiday novelties re- ported a further seasonal reces- sion in production and employ- ment... “The unemployment apparently included some building trades- men.” This is an admission of the con- tinued wide-spread unemployment on the basis of the last-minute in- formation received by the Depart- ment of Labor, with an attempt to cover it up with phrases about “fur- ther season recession,’ According to one of the leading organs of the finance-capitalists, the Annalist, this so-called “seasonal recession” is a severe crisis that will continue at least until Novem- ber, 1930. Especially indicative of the bald- faced lying of the Department of Labor is the statement that “un- employment, apparently, included some building tradesmen.” Even the building trades union officials of the A. F. of L., who favor the Hoover wage-cutting program, are forced to report at least 50 per cent un- employment among the building trades workers. In Chicago, Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, said more than 45 per cent of the building trades workers were un- employed. In December there was a drop of 43 per cent in building contracts awarded all over the coun- try. For the first ten days of Jan- uary, 1930, building contracts awarded in Illinois for January showed a decline of 83 per cent! In Boston, the reactionary Cen- tral Labor Union was forced to adopt a resolution calling Hoover's attention to growing unemployment (Associated Press dispatch, Jan, 19), and especially the firing of hun- dreds of workers in the Charleston Navy Yard. The resolution called attention “to the policy of President Hoover and big industrial executives and em- ployers of labor in announcing plans for prosperity and the ending of the unemployment crisis by calling on other employers of labor to stop all retrenchment moves and keep busi- ness at a peak—then immediately swelling the ranks of the unem- ployed by dropping men from the government and other payrolls.” Because of the mass pressure of the growing army of unemployed Boston fakers were forced to ap- point a committee to make a “sur- vey” of unemployment for the ben- efit of ‘President Hoover and other era of prosperity.” The Hoover bunk about “more jobs” is an attempt to forestall the growing demands of the army of unemployed, under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, for un- employment relief in the present ening an dgrowing crisis of U. S. imperialism. SAN FRANCISCO. — Plans for raising immediate relief for the Il- linois miners will be made at a con- ference called by the Workers In- ternational Relief for Sunday, Jan. 26, in the Workers Center, 145 Turk St. Dept. of Labor Says, A telegram dated January 20, to | within the A. F. of L., itself, the| government officials proclaiming an | acute situation created by the sharp-; NEW YORK, WED. VESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930 German police, under “socialis ment, are trying to outlaw the Co cuse to attack worke gatherings ” the repressive laws and laws to “a ing -great ma of wor Today Is “Bloody Sunday” Anniversary (Continued from Page One) Admit Unemployed Grow; Say It |slashed at the unarmed workers; | bullets mowed them down by the |hundreds, while they pleaded on |their knees to see the emperor. The snow ran red with the blood of the |workers. Even the official police |record admitted that more than a thousand had been killed and over two thousand wounded. A_ bitter hatred swept through the working jclass. “Bloody Sunday” was burned deep into the hearts and minds of the |Russian masses. The revolution |mounted and reached its peak in the December uprising in Moscow. The heroic Russian working class built its first workers’ Soviet; but the |forces of tsarism proved stronger |for the time-being. The Revolution |was defeated, but only to strengthen |the revolutionary energies of the |masses, only to lead to final victory twelve years later. | “The real education of the mass- |es,” said Lenin in a speech on the | Revolution of 1905 which he deliver- jed on its anniversary in 1917, “can |never take place separate and apart from the independent political and especially revolutionary struggle of the ma If. It is the struggle that first educates the exploited class; it is the struggle that first )Bives it the measure of its forces, widens its horizon, increases its abilities, clarifies its understanding and steels its will. And for that |reason, even the reactionaries were compelled to acknowledge that the |fighting year of 1905, the ‘insane year, definitely carried patriarchal {Russia to its grave. The Russian Revolution, because of its proletar- |ian character, will continue to be the preliminary to the coming Eu- |ropean revolution...” | The Russian Revolution of 1905 |was only twelve years away from |the final victory of the Russian and the establish- the worker’s Soviet Social- {ist Republic. In these twelve years, |Lenin and the Russian workers pre- pared for the future and built a | powerful revolutionary Marxist Par- ty, the Russian Bolsh The ex- periences of the Revolution of 1905 must be taken over by the workers of Ame: Observe the revolu- tionary traditions of your class, and build the of Lenin your Com- munist Pai working cla: Pai PHILA. WORKERS AID MINERS. | PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—| Philadelphia workers will partici- pate in a house to house collection under Workers International Relief auspices, for the Illinois mine | strikers on Jan. 26. They are urged | to report at 39 N. 10th St. A W.LR, relief conference will be held at this address Feb. 19, at 8 p. m. ber can you really figh Should Join | conscious worker. | | | | Rush Your Orders With Cash to the 39 EAST 125TH STREET Police Attack German Workers fense” laws and prohibition of workers’ meetings are used as an e brutality of the police is deliberately intended to provoke clashes to lve” the Communist Party. 8 to fight back, insisting on the right to meet and on the right of the Party to exist legally. Nor will it cease ewistence or activity if legally “dissolved.” |Byers Not Cowed Tho | Beaten While in Jail “Only by becoming a member of the Communist || Party can you give your greatest services to the | cause of the working class. Only as a Party mem- enemies of the working class’—-EARL BROWDER Why Every Worker Communist Party 32 pages of mental dynamite fay every class- Presented in simple style and in the language of the workers of the shops, mills and factories. Five Cents Per Copy || Join the Race for Revolutionary Competition! | WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS RELIEF DEMANDS LED BY TUUL 4 a |Pontiae, Cleveland Demonstrations (Continued from Page One) thrown on the streets. The Mon- tana Standard, organ of the copper bosses s “The curtailment of operations in Butte is the result of a very large incre: in the stocks ,on hand...A reduction of output, s was stated in The Standard, on ednesday, was deemed necessary.” The Standard also says: “Dispatehes from other mining districts in this region indicate that large numbers of men have been laid off at the mines in those plac It will be futile for come to Butte expecting to find em- ployment.” How many miners are unemployed is not stated, but the number runs well into the thousands. —— sites t” chiefs of the “socialist” gow mmunist Party of Germany .“D: on streets or even in halls. The pe 8 Report Nation-Wide Unemployment. WASHINGTON, Jan, 21—Unem- ployment is gen throughout the United States, according to the De- cember bulletin of the United States Employment Service, issued Janu- | ary 20 by Director Jones. Massachusetts reported that “cur- tailed schedules obtained in the shoe, textile machinery, hosiery and cellu- Ra loid industries in various sections of (Continued from Page One) the State, with rather limited op- also got an almost black eye, but | portunities locally for the released the cop’s aim was pretty lousy, he | workers in their individual commu- hit my cheek bone instead of my |nities.” Building trades and un- Southern, romantic, sparkling black | skilled labor were also hard hit.. eyes. Also, they made a rather sore | New York noted that December attempt to remove m ytonsils, but| showed decreased activity in manu- failed (gee, but these tonsils are | factures. stubborn—refuse to move when in-| New Jersey reported that some vited).” unemployment While Byers was in jail, the po-/ practically all citi liceman said to him, “God damn you, | found the same condition, with part- if you don’t like this country go to | time operation in many of the iron Russi... He also said, “You are mad | and steel mills. at the flag and tl. country.” Detroit, Pontiac and F’ Byers replied, “Well, this is a hell | automotive production area of Mich- of a country to me anyway. I did! not claim the United States flag. I claim tk. Soviet flag, the red flag.” Half of the 30,000 New Bedford workers are out of work, and the employers are talking of mergers, afford excuse for applying these The Communist are rally- | parent” and part-time operation of many factories. Some automobile |plants were closed down. Ohio’s general view was that practically all | trades were suffering from lack of speed-up, rationalization, to take ad-| jobs, Automobile, steel and miscel- vantage of the situation. The bru-/laneous plants were operating on tal police attacks on N. T. W. or-| part-time schedules. Rubber factor- ganization meetings is part of the} jes had let out a considerable part preparation for a wage cut, N.T.W. lof their foree. Thousands of bitumi- officials declare. The organization | nous miners were idle. of the unemployed is a serious part! Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsir of the workers’ preparation for a | Minnesota reported industries slowed general strike in New Bedford|down in December. Chicago had a when the cut is announced. The | surplus of railroad maintenance-o Trade Union Unity League is pre-|/way and shop workers, _ building paring a campaign to build unem-| tradesmen and common labor, much ployed councils in New Bedford. jet whch came in from smaller citie and |W.LR. RENEWS ACTIVE The National Textile Workers’ IN SOUTH. Union executive board meeting con-|_ CHARLOTTE, N. ©—Caroli tinued yesterday, in the union’s|Drew, who was in charge of relief general offices, 96 Fifth Ave. activities for the Workers’ Interna- It was decided to immediately | tional Relief during the Gastoni open up new organization centers at | strike, has arrived here and estab- Chattanooga, Tenn., Danville, Va.,/| lished Southern headquarters of the and Rome, Ga. At present the|W.LR. in this city, She will imme- New Southern Centers. WORK union has headquarters in Char-| diately begin reorganizing the old | Gas- | locals of the W.LR. in Gastonia and other mill cities, as well as estal ing new ones in v South, lotte, N. C.; Bessemer City, tonia, Winston, Salem, N. C.; Green- ville, 8. C.; Atlanta, Ga., and Knox- | ville, Tenn. | such men to} Page T Three JOBLESS PUSH [WOMAN AUTO WORKERS BEING POISONED; PAY LOW; SPEEDUP GROWING Forced to Wo Unemployment Among Fathers, die | | Husbands Drive Them | (By a Wo Mail).—T: I we | aa | Jan. about 500 we factory to get why are more women, no’ other time, looking jeause fathers, bri |and sons are unemp len are given the s per cen e wage had been getting. One (By 5a sband. wom- wr 50 You got and a r that 4 that the men of the group of gi aid no wo girls, ¢ ‘ uld not factory | heard and only t \It is at was teil about the work th Ss 2p pt} srotn ave to Be-| oned, you ar for Half Wages Formerly Paid to Men Worker ers, Lay Off for Building Trade Workers in N. |} Last laid ¢ Co. aturda a gang of men ¢ Pelham Thi heart’s the the same. kers that s th ve for is company are unorganized and e working under the worst condi- bui tions in the tried to orga nters and did the x trade. but the C Ay. F. and e of L.| Pelham eabbed | and t gerous | The sh on t peopl wo. Unitec 1 in Paterson umber of ed. El have been unioniz (By a W | Paterson | with a histc x for a gen- Jeral strike in the silk industry. They |among the ,are cai rd their o iza- | the local si tion ghting sp actel of the recent Nat tile s convention. of spe With pr up, wage and gr®wing | d s in this ju y are restless a for fight.| When t In every mill and house, ajin Pater: |shop committee” is the aim which | hear what |the Pa -W. local has set it-| Fall Rive er the self. Alr tees have been established, and a, ing wor > vat nati Ir ‘ou one and the Connect SILK WO | Unite for Silk Struggle Under N.T. W. ‘Ad tigan, reported “surplus of labor ap- | lities awtucket, ticut and jy twelve shop commit- | Pennsylvania valleys have to say. RKER. PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—At| were fired. When the ec | Henry Disston and Sons, tool manu-| tempted to cut the wage of cturers, there is a general slack-| day to $4.80, spontaneous ness. ney experts have been| took place in the complete {assigned to rooms and where ten) ganized factory. T ° orked i now. only six are | org n each room | dustr i in the Metal 1 League. neern Six Do 10 Men’s Work in Disston Tool Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) unor- ht to be In- ades Brass Bosses’ Attempt) to Railroad Girl Fails WATERBURY, Conn., Jan, 20.— Because the workers, through the International Labor Defense, fought for their fellow worker, the attempt to railroad Rose Ross, member of the Young Communist League failed. She was arrested , 1929, for distributing Twelfth nniversary leaflets to workers in the brass fac- tories. ONEIDA, N. Y., Jan. 20.—Large airplanes are a necessity to New York’s state police in order to ade- quately cope with serious uprisings, such as occurred at Auburn prison | twice and at Dannemore once in 1929 (and against mass workers’ demonstrations), said General Wil- liam Verbeck of Manlius school. t effectively against the the % NEW YORK CITY 26-28 Union Square Fight Imperialist War Preparations! 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