The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1930, Page 3

ARY 23, 1930, CHINESE COOLIES SENT TO AFRICA BY FRENCH, REBEL AT SLAVERY No Longer Humble Bea sts of Burden, They Put Up Victorious Fight Against Overseers French Imperialists, Unable to Break the Solid Fight of Thousands, Shipping Them Back BRUSSELS, Jan, 3 (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—It will he remem- bered that the French government imported thousands of Chinese cool- ies for work on the Congo-Atlantic Railway. It was quickly shown, how- ever, that Chinese coolies of today are no longer the humble beasts of burden that they were before the war and before the reyolutionary struggles in China, and it was not very long before the yellow workers were conducting an energetic fight against the harsh treatment of the brutal French overseers and for — improvements of wages and work- ing conditions, Not all the efforts of the French authorities succeeded in breaking the resistance of the Chinese work- ers and the former have now had to admit themselves beaten, The first batch of Chinese workers have now left the Congo on board the French steamer “Asie” on their way back to China. In an unofficial report, the French authorities describe the Chinese workers as “undisciplined and inef-} ficient.” Sour grapes, is the only comment here, Stalingrad Celebrates Its Liberation MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (By Inprecorr “Mail Seryice).—Yesterday Stalin- grad celebrated the tenth anniver-| sary of its. freedom from white guard dominance, About 1,000 work- er-guests were present from Mos- cow, Leningrad, Saratov, Baku, | Nishni--Novgorod and other towns. Great meetings took place and Red Army men and veterans of the guer- illa fighting were present in large numbers, In the evening, the Stalingrad So- | | viet held a special meeting, It was decided to request the Revolutionary War Council to eonfer the Order of the Red Banner upon Comrades Stalin, Voroshilov and twelve active participants in the defense of the “Red Verdun.” A report was made on the prog- ress of the giant tractor factory which is being erected in Stalin- grad. The workers have promised to have it finished in August, in advance of the date originally fixed. Indonesian Bourgeois Nationalists Help Dutch AMSTERDAM, Jan. 5 (By Inpre- corr Mail Service)—The Dutch au- thorities have been compelled to re- lease the arrested Indonesian Jeader, Sartono, They claim that they have discovered plans for the organiza- tionary organization and intern them in an effort to destroy the or- ganization altogether, As usual, the energetic attitude of the imperilists has intimidated the bourgeois nationalist leaders, and a number of them, including Soetomy, tion of disturbanees in the new year. It is expeeted that the au- | thorities will arrest further leaders | and officials of the national-revolu- | Tyokroaminto have issued an appeal to the masses, urging them to re- main peaceful and to take no coun- | ter-action against the government. British to Fight U. S. Harder for Latin Trade LONDON, Jan, 22.—Sir James | William Ronald Ma¢Leay, now nat ister to Czecho-Slovakia, has been appointed! British minister to Ar- gentina. It is openly commented that this means England intends to | intensify its battle in Latin-America for trade against United States, since MacLeay is one of England’s most shrewd and clever diplomats and is well versed in Latin-America. German “Quota” on Autos to Hit Detroit , fl THE HAGUE, Jan. 21.—The Min- erva the Fabrique Nationale, and other Belgian automobile manufac- turers are forming a merger with Dutch eapital to build cheap 15- horsepower cars at a price to com- pete with Fords and Chevrolets.. Berlin and Paris reports confirm the previous statement that all Eu- ropean nations are combined against imports of American automobiles, The Germans resolutely insist on either a higher tariff or a “quota,” which last'is turning ‘the A. F, of,|~ L. idea on “cheap foreign labor” reversely agajnst the cheap © cars from America; and they are ‘cheap” because the American auto worker is the poorest paid in relation to what he produces. Italian Imperialis Italian sources report a fierce campaign of colonial conquest is go- ing on in Italy’s attempt to sub- Jugate all Tripoli. Following the taking of Murzuk last week by Ital- jan troops, during which scores of Arabs were slain, the troops under m Kills in Africa the Duke of Apulia were again en- gaged by Arabs outside Murzuk. The Italians admit only eighteen wounded and claim they defeated the Arabs, who are said to have lost| fifty dead, twenty-four wounded | and twelve taken prisoner, among them one commander-chief. Courts Declare Greek Red Unions Illegal VIENNA Jan. 4 (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—It is reported from Athens that this morning the courts declared the revolutionary Unitary Trade Union Federation dissolved om a charge of having conducted Communist propaganda. This is an attempt to give the reformists a Pl i hs ch! monopoly of trade union organiza- | tion and thus break the resistance | of the workers against the offensive of capitalism. | Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent, jlight.” jcars below 1929, AUTO QUTPUTIS DOWN 83 PERCENT -GRISIS IS SEVERE | Deep Crisis in All Basic} Industries (Continued from Page One) being thrown on the streets, Hoo- ver, Lamont, Dayis and Barnes had been emphasizing their propaganda that there was no severe unemploy- ment, Suddenly, the imperialist chief executive admits that drastic unemployment existed since the stock market crash; but that things were “turning for the better.” What are the facts? The most | “optimistie” report from capitalist sources is that steel production has risen 3% per cent, bringing the av- | erage ‘production in all plants up | to 69 per cent, as against the low- est point during the past few months of 40 per cent. | This still indicates a drop of 28% per cent below production during January of 1929. The “increase” in | steel production does not affect em- | | ployment for the simple reason that | |the steel corporations, in order to | hide unemployment, and prepare for | drastic wage-cuts, have been keep- | ing their forces on a part-time basis. | Rationalization, speed-up, ete., is go- | |ing on at a rapid pace in the steel industry, and more steel is being | produced with less forces. | This basic industry of capita’ ism is in the throes of a severe 1 sis, with the future prospects, ad- mitted by the capitalists themselves, jas “not very bright.” | On the very day that sleek Mr. | Hoover issues his pack of lies about advancing employment, the Depart- ment of Commerce gives some dras- tic figures on the decline in another basic industry, the automobile in- dustry. Automobile production in Decem- DAILY WORKER. NMLU, GALLS ON PEORIA STRKERS TO TAKE CONTROL Taylorville Conference, to Spread the Strike | (Continued fram Page One) | W. scabs from Peru and lle, Tl. | | The National Miners’ Union has jsent Organizer Freeman Thompson to Peoria and is exposing the trick- ery and sell-out policies of both Lewis and Fishwick. The N. M. U. lealls on all miners on Strike to kick both U. M, W. factions out, to | take control of their own strike, elect rank and file strike commit- tees, and fight for real gains to the NEW YORK. THURSDAY, JA é Proof! BLACK ON WHITE, tr | thy > Aux The peasants who gave their lives at “Black on White,” proof of the real meaning of the Kellogg Pact. Cayes, gave also NEGRO WORKERS JOIN PARTY (Continued from Page One) pared with the same week in ) 1928.” | No amount of lies from Hoover | ground, social insurance when un- employed, shorter work day, etc. The N. M. U, ealls on the Peoria miners to spread the strike adjoining territory and to continue it to a victory. Sunday is the date set by the N. tional Miners’ Union for a sub-d trict conference at Taylorville fact that U. S. imperialism is un-| dergoing a severe slump in all basic industries, with the prospects of a long continued crisis which will ex- tend the growing army of unem- ployed. Mass unemployment, which Hoov- er and Davis now admit hit the! great mass of unskilled workers, | took its toll with equal force among | the ranks of the workers organized in the reactionary trade unions. More than 700,000 of the 3,500,000 rokers 2 Be pepe Cease | up by the police, nor is the fact that Pate etras latued by the Hoover. |i of Negroes marched down to the DIRFEAR Ges NGM U; locale are Labor, in its January Monthly Sur. | Patty Headquarters where the meet | I. vey of Business, percentage of Negro workers gotten into the Party is much higher than that of ‘the white workers. It is not| an accident that the mass meeting | called by the Communist Party and the American Negro Labor Congress against the attempts to lynch a | Negro worker who moved into a lily- white residential section, was broken to jtake up plans for developing and spreading the Iniois strike. Min- ers in the Taylorville area whose jlocals have not yet taken down the U. M, W..charters ald joined the N. M. U. are urged to form com- mittees and send delegates to this ing was held, resulting in nine ap. ips anes : z This is based on an estimate of Plicstions for the Communist Party /Nine applications for the Party and 20 per cent unemployment among | 2% three for the Y. 0. L. Chester | 7 i Cote vess, with over fifty who workers in the A. F. of L., Amal- |i also doing good work among the| ios 1)e tT itarnational Labos De. gamated Clothing Workers, and the | N¢sto longshoremen and there is a Nees The Weahineten, branch at Railroad Brotherhoods. good branch of the Marine Works |e American Negro Labor Con- The A. F. of L. monthly survey ers’ League organized with mostly | ncee tomaitica with the T. U.ULL, says that 12 per cent of union mem- Negro members. i lag the ) | ber, 1929, dropped’ 80 per cent, as compared with April, 1929! The New | York Times points out that the au-| tomobile industry is in the severest crisis since 1921. They say: “Yesterday’s Commerce partment statement of December’s output, 119,950 cars, is the lowest monthly figurg reported by the department since February, 1922. December always shows some re- duetion from a year’s previous high monthly production, but in this case the decrease, as com- pared with 621,910 of last April, is no less than 8034 per cent. Even the extreme curtailment of the deflation crisis, as between March, | 1920, and January, 1921, has been | figured by the Automobile Cham- | ber of Commerce at only 75 per cent, and production at its high point in that period would nowa- | days be considered very small.” ) | Recently the automobile bosses | held auto slfows in various parts of | |the country in a supreme effort to boost sales. But their efforts were a complete flop and the vaunted “in- creased orders” have not: material- ized. This is shown by daily re- ports from Youngstown and Pitts- burgh steel mills. Pittsburgh steel mills, while reporting slight in- creases in general production, point out that “auto body sheets continue to be the exception with orders still De- | Another indication of the contin- ued severe crisis is statements of | freight car loadings for the week ended January 11. While there was an increase over the preceding | week, there was a drop of 51,247 | and a drop of | 44,110 cars below 1928. The Jour- | nal of Commerce commenting on! freight car loadings (Jan. 21) says: | “All districts, except the Po- cahontas, reported reductions in the total loading of all commodi- | ties, not only compared with the same week last year but also com- DULUTH DOGKERS MUST ORGANIZE Railroad Section Hands Worse Exploited (By a Worker Correspondent.) DULUTH, Minn. (By Mail).—The dock workers and the transportation workers here are speeded up to the limit.. The dock workers work when a boat comes in and keep on work- ing until the boat’s unloaded. Dua,to the speed-up, accidents are very frequent. When a man gets to be around fifty, he cannot stand the work any longer. ‘The men are all unorganized. They are very militant, and should be or- ganized under the Trade Union Un- ity League. They are getting 72c an hour. When the bosses recently announced they were going to re- duce the workers’ wages, the work- ers threatened to. go on strike, and so the bosses to think twice about cutting wages. The railroad workers are among } ,# the worst exploited workers here. The section gang hands make 2.60 a day. Their work is heavy. ...y, too, should organize under the T. U. U. L. In case of a strike by the metal miners or lumber work- ers, it's very important that these workers should stand by the miners and help them win their strike. This they would do if organized in mili- tant unions—Duluth Worker. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! ————————====e=ee—_—————— | MASS I. L. D.\TAG DAYS. Saturday, Jan, 25—Sunday, Jan. 26 Collect Funds for Defense of WM. SHIFRIN, THE MINEOLA AND.GASTONIA DEFEN DANTS lyouth organizer of the National bers in 24 cities were out of work| The fear of the bosses because of | in November, and 16 per cent in| the work done by the Party among December. In the building trades, Negroes led to the arrest of George the labor fakers are forced to ad- Carter and Ray Peltz; the raid of mit that “unemployment in Decem-| the Party Headquarters and the ber was 81 per cent of the member- general reign of terror against the ship.” They add, “If next month’s | Party. increase is as large as last year, the | condition will be serious.” mass meeting, In other words, every section of District Three is getting busy to make good on the past neglects in this field. The above achievements ar | merely the beginnings of systematic In Baltimore, Md., the Party is en- /|Communst work among the Negroes. trenching itself more and iaore|We ‘do not hide or minimize ou among the Negro workers as shown | shortcomings: weakness of the Dis | by the ineveasing attendance of ihe! trict Department, lack of a full- Interracial Forum, the buildiag of | time Negro Director, Jack of trained the American Negro Labor Congress Negro comrades, insufficient atten- and the Party. The first inter-;tion to the American Negro Labor racial dance in Washington, D. C.,| Congress, Literator, etc. Steps are | Was almost broken up by the police, | beings taken to remedy these short- jand Comrade Huiswood was pre-|comings and to apply the line of vented from speaking. In spite of | the Party in entrenching ourselves this terror, 300 Negroes attended |in this mostly exploited section of instead. |the dance and at present we have| the Proletariat. CE EL Sa IRS RT AE a SMASH CAPITALIST JUSTICE AND TYRANNY Demand Unconditional Release of All Class-War Prisoners! BREAK THE BOSSES’? ARMED ATTACKS! INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE CAMPAIGN Beginning January 16, Anniversary of Liebknecht-Luxemburg martyrdom Goals set for March 18, 1930, Paris Commune Anniversary. Correction. A typographical error occurred in the interview witt Gerry Allard, Miners’ Union, in yesterday’s Daily Worker, The first sentence in the Paragraph before the last: “On April 1 the agreement in the Illi- nois mine fields ends” should have read, “Indiana mine fields” 1 Millions of workers mobilized to 3 $50,000 for defense (legal, pro- smash the boss terror and save test, publicity, literature, organi- workers from prison. . zation). 2 Thirty thousand new members; 4 Five thousand new affiliated or- 12,000 of them Negro workers. ganizations. 5 Fifty thousand readers of Labor Defender; 25,000 subscribers. I, L. D, Campaign Pgogram January 16—March 18, 1930 1, Hold mass protest meetings and demonstra- tions promptly everywhere. Build up immense conferences, as broad as possible, representing factory committees, literature distributors to go before all or- ganizations and factories to gain new af- filiations, individual members, delegates to conferences, get donations and collections. 2. and his imperialist “prosperity | miners, including a $35 a# week} propagandists” in the American} minimum wage, abolition of the Federation of Labor can blot out the most dangerous conditions under- into | Mother hand Geiges and the other miup the beginning of the Hosiery| 1 How A La fig one of the unemployed I went land that cha rage Tnres PEED NAVY YARD WORKERS IN PHILA. AS BIG WAR BREWS S of L. Selling Workers Out Under C Union System akers Take Part in Governn Plans Against Workers A ra £4 it Labor F (Continucd from Page’ One) due from the Sun Ship Yard. Aside from the reconstruction job on the U. 8. Pennsylvania, there about three more battleships in to be refitted in the shipyards i the near future. from out the boss¢ ly in the we Side by side with the extensive war preparations, we find there is! an intxoduction of new machinery | ne 1 and greater speed-up. Many work-| workers, ‘Th N ers are forced to work night work } trolled by I in order to hold their jobs. Sani-| sided over by an tary conditions in the shops, es-!is chief clerk to lly the blacksmith and machine | th shops, are miserable. In the black- smith shop the atmosphere is con gested and the dust in the so thick that clouds of are visible throughout. tilation is very poor. T hop has a system of dry, heating which, parches the worker’ throat and leaves him with a fee ing of uncomfortable dryness. The are a few of the outstanding rott conditions in the shops. On the out- ring cold theory that yard has sen Washington to bi for some is air com their } Sho! smoke Party, tin, “The wh committe Indu side we find the workers labo: on and in the ships that are a: The be as iceboxes. leold makes the worker produce is| Work Na d! T |part of the intensified speed-up and | of you ) elong to the economic savi item. Metal T; Wo: 1 a elling out the| League and und workers in the Navy Yard, as every-| sity for where else. It bases itself on a few | against selected skilled workers, refusing to organize the unskilled and semi- skilled, separating the Negro work- ne and ack 9 West 10th-St., Phila avy Yard Worker Workers Must Take Aberle Textile Strike in Own’Hands! is issuing a leaflet to the Negro} | Laundry workers, calling them to a} \By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, PA.—I read P,’s letter in the Daily Worker jtelling about our strike here at the| °F Aberle Hosiery Mill. I want to add| some information and I hope you'll |print it. There's no one else will |print a worker's word. ee |. For the last 3 years the Aberle|to spread and strengthen the s has cut our wages and made our con-| by gaining the workers of the other titions worse and worse. The so-| depts, called Full-Fashioned Hosiery Work- ers’ Union to which many of us be-| longed didn’t bend an arm to do| janything for us and only called the| ing to gain the s sin ¢) The whole actions of the A‘F.of 1. to the strikers of the textile work ers in Kensington and Nazareth right with the A.F. of L. promise to make no. struggle for the working- men’s conditions and protect: Textile ikers! Never w A. F. of L. so openly treact: Strikers! We must get out o: fakers’ hands or we’re lo: We must take the strike into hands and make sure of honest fighting leadership by joining and following the N. T. W, ers union! Yours, for smashing the |L., smashing the sell-o a stop to scabbing, |strike and uniting with the N.T.W.U, — A Philly Striker. strike when we threatened to walk- out the 600 skilled workers out of 1400 in the factofy. They made no effort to spread the ke in order to organize all the Kensington textile workers for one big fight. On the leaders instead of organizing the workers for the strike, called to- gether the bosses last year and set | Manufacturers Association, The strike at present going on in Nazareth is being used by MeKeov & Smith to force Schmidt of th Kramer m} into the b bor Faker “Solves” the Unemploy- ment Problem (By a Worker Correspondent) "yin all shops, about the'fa The Chicago Forward advertised| present unemploym for a few days a meeting of the un-! porary thing, wh 2mployed in the Labor Lyceum, Be-! but that it will ke y will 1 h will y ot a tem-~ > on i proble’ About one hundred persons were present. Siskin, the labor editor of the Forward addressed the meeting. | stati Workers! Volunteer for Collections! Workers Organizations! Mobilize for the Tag Days!| at the following stations: DOWNTOWN Workers Ce; 27 East 4th Street. Workers Center, 26 Union Sq ware, Shoe Workers Union, 16 Went 2int Street. ee Crerkers Laval & 4 Weat a7th Street, mers Local 8, fast 3rd Street. Ukrainian Workers Club, 66 E: Needle Trades Industrial Union, HARLEM Workers Center. 143 East 103rd St. Finniah Workers Club, 15 West 126th Street. Unity Co-operative, 1800 Seventh Avenue. Caecho-Slovak Workers Home, 347 East 72nd Sirect. Hungarian Workers Clab, 350 Enst Sixt Street, Esthonian Workers Club, 1787 First Avenue. 4th Street. 131 West 28th Street, 104 A E,W, S800 Third Ave Partisan School, 1400" Boston Ron. Seandinavian Workers ib, I, O. G, T. Hall, 65th: Street. Lithuanian Workers Club, 46 Ten’ Eyek Street. Finnish Workers Club, 764 Fortieth Street. 1 aa! WILLIAMSBURG. Workers Center, 68 Whipple Street. CONEY ISLAND Workers Center, 2001 Mermaid Avenue. BATH BEACH Workers Center, 48 Bay 28th Street. BROWNSVILLE Workers Center, 29 Chester Street, BOROUGH PARK Workers Club, 1373 Forty-third Street. LONG ISLAND Workers Center, 1 Fulton Avenue, Middle V Workers Center, $173 38rd Street, ; STATEN ISLAND Workers Center, 110 Victory Boulevard, Mariners Harbor Auspices: New York District INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 799 Broadway, Room 422 Stuyvesant 3752 all unions, workers’ societies, Negro, youth, , 9 Organize nation-wide mass Tag and Re- He stated that the unemployed Jew- 4 ‘nis : toa but still; he -is women, cooperative organizations, ete. cruiting Days Feb. 1 and 2; Feb, 22 and 23; ish workers must organize them-| not a oe as 8. Carry defense struggles into shops, mills, March 15 and 16, selves, for man organization, which urged them to c mines, etc, Enroll members, collect funds, 10. Conduct factory-district and worker-neigh- should get help, charity (Mr, hiaen tarmnetelh 6 le sell Labor Defenders, build the sinews of borhood parades. Usg:sigas, posters, trucks, 's expression) from Labor Unions,|mand either work or a ‘chariee t class war, autos; distribute leaflets, take up collections | Workmen Circle branches, societies, 0" HART eae 4, Organize collections in shops and factories, in boxes or on lists. ete, It would be useless, he said,) 1) ; streets, “house to house, in workers’ and 11, Get new members, sell more initiation and to become too aggre: and put | But the Forward other sympathetic organizations, dues stamps; get subscribers to the Labor | {Mup a real fight, all that is necessa ry afied with beh 5. Arrange for city-wide and branch affairs to Defender. BI | is to orgainze to receive charity and a SR LT eae raise funds, Ask sympathetic groups to do 12, Push the pledges to the Prisoners’ and De- |q| to distribute it among the unem- ee Ape ace eee the same within three weeks and during fol- fendants’ Fund. | ployed. aoe vet pe: ae lowing five weeks. 13. Increase the affiliations and the per capita |, A young unemployed worker then | Non ay a oe 6. Rush in all funds on the coupon books issued affilation fees, jtook the floor and spoke on the fee ety : i fates ‘ St ee bai in December. Use up all these books. Emer- 14, Literature, etc: Every city and branch couse, os. unemployment he: apok Pape a eas eae gency collection lists and special stamps will must have a literature agent to handle and about the speed-up, being introduced —JOBLESS WORK follow soon, and systematically. push Labor Defender, to see that I. L. D. Me rae iia Soe ery mic eet Saks corners and wall bulletins are set up in all money quot to be raises ‘eb. 10, thru ossible headquarters and meetii I ee > q March 1, thru March 18-22, I. L. D. branches, affliated Unione, aval sor Only by becoming a member of the Communist 8. Organize speakefs’ squads immediately to be cieties, and friendly organizations. Party can you give your greatest services to the ready for action Jan. 26. weeks” before each Tag Day. Speakers and MORE MILLIONS OF WORKERS MUST MOBILIZE TO SAVE their persecuted comrades from prison death and fascist gangs. FREE the seven Gastonia prisoners, Saylors, Saul, Graham, Shifrin, and their fellow vic- tims. ‘ ADD YOUR STRENGTH~AND HELP! Give at least 75 cents (one cent each) for the following cases, defendants and’ victims of capitalist tyranny: 1. C. D, Saylors, perjury—union and defense or- izer. Es 2. George Saul, rioting, ete.—I. L. D, organizer. 8. Stephan Graham, inciting Negro workers to leportation. 4-10. Gastonia Appeal—Pioneers in Southern rebellion—facing struggle. 11-35. Mexico, fascist terror—save workers from death and prison. 86. Wm. Shifrin, murder frame-up—self-defense case. 87. Caudle (Lamberton), rioting, ete—N. T. W. U. organizer. WE MUST HAVE AMPLE FUNDS AT ONCE! International Labor Defense 80 EAST 11th ST, NEW YORK, N. Y. (Space on walls, tables for free leaflets and sale of literature.) Hold “f. L. D. INCREASE the class militancy and resistance of the workers-masses. BREAK THE BOSSES’ TERROR-OFFENSIVE in U. S., Mexico, and Latin America. 37-46. Tapolscanji, tation cases. 47-51. Martin’s Ferry, dicalism, 52-56. Yucaipa Women, _ dicalism. 57-59. Bethlehem, calism. 60-61. Philadelphia, dicalism, 62-64. Chicago, sedition and criminal syndical- ism, 65-74, Illinois Miners, on strike, many arrests, Many of these Cases come up before February 1, Most before March 18th Osaki, and nine other depor- sedition and criminal syn- sedition and criminal syn- sedition and criminal syndi- Sedition and criminal syn- And the Gastonia Appeal Comes up in the North Carolina Court April 1. ROOM 402 wae cause of the working class. Only as a Party mem- ber can you really fight effectively against the enemies of the working class”—-EARL BROWDER Why Every Worker Should Join the Communist Party 32 pages of mental! dynamite for every class- conscious worker, Presented in simple style and in the languagé of the workers of the shops, mills and factories. Five Cents Per Copy Join the Race for Revolutionary Competition! Rush Your Orders With Cash to the WORKERS LIBRA ; RY PUBLISHERS AST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY