The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1930, Page 1

Are You Out of a Job? Well, You're Not the Oniy One, Alone, You Can't Do Much About It; But Organized You Can Fight for Relief, Even If You Can't Get a Job Under Capi- talism. Why, For Example, Should the Unemployed Pay Rent? Organize Against Being Eyicted From Your “Home! iy second-class matter at the ost Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION xcept Sunday by The 4-28 Union Square, Published daily Company, Ine. Vol. VL, No. 276 Comprodaily Publishing S:, New York Clty, N. ¥. Y, JANUARY 24, 1930 RIPTION RATE Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. = 2 In New York by mall, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents WALL ST. ORDERS MEXICO BR tion at City Hall Mass Demonstra The Colorado Decision Means More Workers Won for Class Struggle and Communism Hoover’s Council meant business when it went on record against all wage increases. President Green of the American Federation of Labor endorsed this program. The greater part of the rank and file members of A. F. of L. unions probably were persuaded to look upon Green’s agreement with Wall Street government as a piece of “clever politics” which would have no practical consequences for them. They are having their eyes opened. i The United States Daily for Jan. 18 records the fact that the Colorado State Industrial Commission has refused to grant a wage increase asked by Local Union Number 720 of the International Hod Carriers, Buliding and Common Laborers of America. This official publication states: “The commission cited the statement made by President Hoover, following 2 conference with labor leaders in November, in which he said that labor representatives had recommended that no movements beyond those already in negotiation should be initiated for in- creased wages at this time. “Reference was also made in the commission's findings to a statement issued Nov. 27 by William Green . . . which said that labor had learned from experience that movements for special in- creases in wages cannot be launched successfully at a time when buying power has been reduced.” Instances like the above will increase rapidly. The rank and file workers who belong to A. F. of L. unions will learn by experience in this period that their leaders are part of the machinery df imperialist government. Hoover’s council likewise went formally on record against wage cuts. But there is not a single industry in which wage cuts are not taking place. It is true that some of these wage reductions are ob- tained in ‘a disguised manner—by longer hours, by speeding up the workers, by abolishing certain favorable working conditions, ete. But 48 instances of actual wage cuts have been recorded since Noy. 27, 1929, Mass unemployment has reduced the wages and standard of liv- ing of the entire working class. Monthly and yearly earnings have been slashed mercilessly, workers are driven to their tasks as never before. The officialdom of the A. F. of L. has placed its stamp of approval on these brutal measures. of its traitorous activities. This is’ what the much-advertised entry of the A. F. of L. into the South means. The southern working class, in its first struggles asin the textile industry and.the. New-Orleans street car strike, showed that it was ready for the militant methods of fighting necessary in this period. Under the leadership of our Party and the Trade Union Unity Teague the southern masses went into battle. The capitalist glass: was panic stricken. It called upon the A. F. of L. leaders to make good their boasted ability to divert the militancy of workers into farmless channels and to win the workers from a class struggle to a class “peace” program. ‘Wage cuts will continue, unemployment will increase, the drive on the living standard of the masses will affect additional millions. | American imperialism drives for “cheaper production” as the economic | vasis of its program or world conquest. The ruling class will increase the burdens on the masses and Green’s “support of the president” will not feed hungry mouths. The class struggle itself exposes the anti-working class character of such leaders. In the South, in Illinois, in the needle trades where the Greens, Wolls, Lewises, Fishwicks, Mustes and McMahons have united with the bosses in fascist attacks on striking workers, their treacherous role has been made clear. The Colorado decision with its accompanying remarks is no iso- lated incident. It is part of the whole program of intensified robbery afd oppression which is in turn part of the war preparations of American imperialism. It shows that the drive against the working class already is affecting the lower layers of organized worker involving building trades workers long regarded as part of the privi- leged section of the working class. Our task is to give the widest possible publicity to all evidences of ‘betrayal by the A. F. of L. and other agents of the bosses, to show the direct connection between them and the united front of labor bureaucrats, “socialist” leaders, the bosses, their courts, police and legislative bodies. Against the class “peace” program of the capitalist class and its agents we will oppose the class struggle program of the revolution- ary unions, the open militant struggle against unemployment, the slogan of “strike against all wage cuts,” the organization of the un- organized workers into fighting industrial unions, struggle against American imperialism on all fronts. The eyes of American workers are no longer dazzled by the sheen on the bubble of “American prosperity.” The traitors to the working class can not longer parade in the rainbow-hued garments with which capitalism’s publicists adorned them. The contradictions of capitalism have stripped them of all their pretenses. Today they ‘are to be seen in all their repulsiveness as the class enemies of the workers. The Colorado decision means more workers won for the class struggle and Communism. , Join the Communist Party. CHICAGO JOBLESS FREEZE TO DEATH. Steel, Auto. Workers; Thrown on Streets CHICAGO, Jan. 23—With the thermometer registering eight below | nero, suffering among the great | ‘mass of jobless workers is intense. | comes forward with the information that unemployment is increasing in tl most uf the country’s key industries and manufacturers are located.” Refuting the Hoover-Davis dope about a “turn for the better in the (Continued on Page Three) It is trying 40 widen the field | COMMUNISTS AND UNIONS CALL TO PROTEST MURDER “Fight Paragraph 600, Unemployment, and | Police Brutality” Beating of Women, “Come in ‘Thousands to City Hall at 12:30” | | | | A mass protest demonstration has ‘been called by the Communist Party, supported by the Trade Union Unity |League, the Young Communist League, the Food Workers, Shoe |Workers, Needle Trades Workers and Building Maintenance Workers Union and other industrial” unions and leagues, together with the Coun- cil of Working Women, at City Hall jon Saturday, at 12.30 p. m. | In connection with the demonstra- tion the Communist Party, New} York District Bureau, has issued the | following statement: | “The brutality of the police of New York reaching fearful | heights. Not satisfied with clubbing, | ‘beating, jailing and torturing the | pickets of the food workers, shoe |Wworkers, and needle trades workers, |the police have gone one step fur- ither and have shot down a worker jwho fought for the rights of the! |food clerks. Steve Katovis, a work-! fer and member of the Communist | (Continued on Page Two) TEN MORE DRESS. | | 'Ten More Victories of, Industrial Union | Ten more dress shops were de-/| |clared on strike yesterday by the | | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | | Union in its campaign to establish | Lunion conditions, better wages and) |conditions of work in the whole | While the |dress trade. company | union, the I. L. G. W. continues to larrange details for its fake strike, | ‘the workers are rallying to the real! union, the N-T.W.LU. Yesterday, also, the N.T.W.LU. announced that about the same num- ber of shops were settled under|pay check-off to Fishwick than to | union conditions, as were called out. The union has many other strikes. | Next week is a high point in the struggle, which grows as the season develops. All workers in unorgan- ized shops are asked to immediately form shop committees, and report) Illinois district of the union, denies | conditions to the union office, in preparation to joining the struggle, without waiting for union repre- sentatives to come around, || Today in History of | the Workers | January 24—1926: Richard Ford | acquitted of killing of sheriff in. hop \pickets’ strike, Wheatlands, Calif.— |1913: Police and firemen of Pitts- burgh, Pa., ordered to withdraw from American Federation of Labor. |—1920: Secretary of Labor Wilson © his section of the country “where ‘announced that all alien members of | Communist Party would be deport- | ed.—1918: Bolshevik uprising in | Southern Finland.—1911: Kotoku |and 11 other revolutionary Socialists executed in Japan. Packard Profits $25,183,256 in Year of Great Wage Cuts The police stations are crowded Gyeed.Up Tearing Workers to Pieces; Disease by homeless unemployed. Charity | organizations have been swamped | with pleas for coal from families of | workers. who have no jobs. | _ By ROBERT L. CRUDEN. A large ‘number of deaths from |. DETROIT, Ill., Jan. 23—The an- freezing, of men and women looking | nual report of the Packard Motor Jar jobs,’ were reported by the po-| Car Company for 1929 illustrates lice. jexcellently what happens when |wages are cut. Says the report: That Hoover was deliberately ty- | “Our net profits for the 1929 fiscal ing when he announced an “improve- | year were $25,183,256.: ment” in the employment situation an increase of 15.1 pe: * + « cent over out repeatedly by the Daily Worker. | of record earnings. Cash dividends Now Frances Perkins, commissioner | amounting to $17,234,244 were paid of labor of the State of New York, ‘during the year. This is equivalent Stalks Through Sanding Department stock.” « ie $5.75 on shares of $10 par value | While the report is at great pains | |to assure everyone that “The year | has been profitable not only to the ; company but to its distributors and | dealers,” it says nothing at all about of the men in the service depart- ment who had their wages cut from | (Continued ow Page Three.) oly of the sell-out and check-off priv- International FAILURE 10 AGREE I$ — Jnternational SHOWN BY INCREASED yyeo?. juss ver No General Conference Plan Reveals Fear That er; are convening in London in their! Some Nation or Nations May Drop Out | Naval Congress, to lay plans for this | |attack, the International Trade Un-| ion Committee of Negro Workers is | Imperialist Press Tries to Cover Up Secrecy calling a conference, also in London, | and Stimson’s Hypocritical “Pledges” ACen gine are aad eae |forming a central united front of es | struggle against colonial oppression, LONDON, Jan. 23.—Secrecy, vast and appalling, hangs | capitalist exploitation and imperial- jist war. To consolidate the militant over the Naval Conference here, broken only by little shafts | tore ob Lie seed ton! tbe AGE ee of light revealing that failure so far to find any “agreement” | tion of strong labor unions, and for has been the only result of the scurrying and hurrying secret |a struggle to maintain organization | meetings that have been going on for the last 36 hours. And jof these unions. | *to cap it all, all further meet-| The International Trade Union| | ings are postponed till Monday |Congress at London will point out| i S % . to the Negro people that they are | to aow for more secret conver- not the only people suffering from At this moment when the imper-} ialist powers of the world are pre- Harry, the Fish sations. : oppression of capitalism and imper- Nobody expected anything out of |ialist wars, although their burdens Tuesday’s opening session, and | are heaviest. Americans are also the nothing came out of it but the an-| victims of imperialism. The strug- nouncement that it would be ad-|gle against imperialism is not the journed until today to allow for | struggle of any one people, but of | “private conversations.” all the peoples of the world. In India, China, Persia, Turkey, Egypt, | But the “private conversations” | 2 have left things just where they | Morocco, etc., the oppressed Negroes were at the start, and foreseeing the 4%@ struggling heroically against | possibility of France or. Italy or | their imperialist exploiters. both, and possibly Japan dropping} The phenomenal rise of the trade out, Secretary Stimson, the drum) unions in South Africa, the revolt of thumper of “no intrigue,” has pro-|the workers and peasants of Black posed, and the others have accepted, | Haiti against American Imperialism, that no really general conference be |and the constant clamor for organi- held, but that instead, one delega-|zation of the millions of Negro tion visits another delegation, back | Workers in the United States will and forth and all around—a method |make the London Conference the | that is intrigue brought to the Nth | rallying center of the most militant é . 5 .. |degree, but which has. one-saving | elements in these struggles, and will That’s what’the miners call this | grace, It allows for one or more! become the organizing force of the | cold-blooded traitor and grafter. The | nations to withdraw without creat-|Negro masses into revolutionary FISHWICK SHOPS ON STRIKE x: operators of Illinois have just/ing such a terrible scandal and/trade unions against the whole sys- |had their cour‘s give him the monop- | demonstration of failure as if the|tem of capitalist exploitation and delegations all met together in gen-| imperialist war. eral conference. J. W. Ford, with offices at 2 West | At the awaited “open” session St., New York City, is chairman of | today, which turned out to be be-| the committee issuing the call. hind closed doors, and about which a the correspondents had to aes, BRITISH “DAILY” RILES THE GOV'T ileges in his contest with Lewis— | who is just as bad. | “communiques,” carefully edited, | France repeated its former position | |Henderson in a at C. I. Message | | jon its demand that either the mel ry | loge Pact has to be given “teeth” } LONDON, Jan. 23.—The “Labor” | government has protested to the So-} | (a method of bargaining for alliance | which Stimson’s pre-conference talk | Court Rules Lewis Out; has abjured), or at least a European i : ‘alliance to guarantee France’s col- NMU Miners’ Hope _ onies on the Mediterranean, or the League of Nations Covenant must | SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 23.—The | compel England to “come to:the as- | Illinois coal operators have decided | (Continued on Page Two) through their cireuit court here that | EAK WITH SO Saturday at 12:30 Against Shooting of Workers VIET UNION! CALIES-RUBIO. PUPPET GOV'T HELPS HOOVER. STIMSON WAR PLANS Estrada Gives Washington, Detroit, Buenos Aires, Anti-Terror Protests As Pretext Break Comes When Imperialists Are Preparing War on Soviet Union at London Meet MEXICO CITY, Jan. 23.—Immediately after the return of president-elect Ortiz Rubio from conferences with Morgan & Co., Wall Street bankers, President Hoover, and Henry L. Stim- son, secretary of state, acting foreign minister Genaro Estrada announced today that Mexico has broken relations with the Soviet Union. With the capitalist powers at the London race-for-arma- ments conference preparing war against the Union of Socialist ae * Soviet Republics, the Wall Street-inspired act of the pup- pet Mexican government is a step toward imperialist hostili- ties against the Workers’ Fath- erland. The pretext on which Estrada an- nounces the break is the demonstra- tions led by the Communist Parties of the U. S. A., Brazil and Argen- tina against the wholesale arrests and torture of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League of Mex- ico, as well as in Yond "Ch of revolu- tionary Mexican }jnd Cuban trade unionists. Murderer, Rubio Estrada specifically mentioned the Washington, Detroit; New York; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro mass protests against the fiendish torture of the MYxican and Cuban revolutionists and the threatened de- | portation of the Cuban work to certain death at the hands of the bloody Machado, president of Cuba. On orders from his Wall Street masters Estrada declared that the demonstrations were held ‘on in- structions from Moscow.” In the best style of Hoover and Stimson in their war threat against , the Soviet Union over the Manchur- ian Railway dispute, Estrada said: “The Mexican government knows perfectly well this propaganda against our institutions and the na- tional revolution has been prepared and directed by Russia.” SHOE STRIKERS This is an attempt of the Calles- ee , Rubio regime to hide its fascist and Many Held on Big Bail (Continued on Page Two) After returning from confers ences with his Wall Street bosses, Ort Rubio, president-elect of Mexico, immediately helps the war preparations against the Soviet | Union by ordering a rupture of relations with the U.S.S.R. Un-> | doubtedely this was done on direct orders from his masters in Wash- ington and Wall Street. they would rather have the miners’; viet ambassador, Sokolnikoff, against | | Lewis. The court’s decision today in the suit by International President Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America against Harry Fishwick and his accessories at the head of the | Lewis’s application to have the Fish- | wick injunction set aside. Fishwick’s | injunction was against the interna- tional office being allowed to depose his administration and put in Lewis | (Continued on Page Three.) MWL OF 38 DELEGATES \Prepare for Convention | to Launch New Union Twenty-six white and 12 Negro delegates attended the second ses- |sion of the Gulf Coast Conference. | Marine Workers League at the locai jheadquarters of the league, 308 |Chartress St., Sunday afternoon. | They came from five main Gulf | ports and some emaller ones. | Preliminary conferences for Ne- |zro longshoremen had preceded the Gulf Coast Conference. The first ‘session was Saturday. Telegrams of greeting were real | from the Red International of Labor Unions and the Trade Union Unity League, and from all branches of the Marine Workers League. Much discussion was given the (Continued on Page Three) TO ALL UNEMPLOYED PARTY MEMBERS. You are instructed to be at the | District Headquarters on Sunday, take up very important Party work. District: Bureau. | District Bureau, District No, 2. CONFERENCE THE GERMAN C. P. “IN GREAT FIGHT Defying Suppression; Goes to Workers (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, Jan. 23—The “Frank- furter Zeitung” yesterday published an inspired article announcing the ‘coming suppression of the Commu- nist Party and “naturally, also the \‘Rote Fahne,” the organ of the Party. Adopting the tone of the yellow press, the “Frankfurter Zeitung” ‘suggests that the increased revolu- tionary activity is due to “Moscow's oredrs”” instead of the intensifica- tion of the capitalist crisis. Mos- cow’s “emissaries” are alleged by \this capitalist paper, already to have \“crossed the frontier.” In comment upon this, the “Rote Fahne” declares’ that the Commu- nist Party, with almost 4,000,000 ivoters, securely rooted in the fac- ltories and indissolubly connected jwith the working class, cannot be suppressed, | The Communist Party is increas- ling its activities to mobilize the |workers against prohibitive decrees. |Successful_ meetings were held at ‘Essen and Botrop, where many members were won for the Party, even though police broke up Com- rade Thaelmann’s meeting at Essen. | Prohibited demonstrations were lcarried out at Chemitz, Halle, |Schneidemuehl, Koeningsberg, Hal- jberstadt, Gumbinnen. At the latter town the police wounded several | workers. The extent of the crisis is seen by the growing number of unem- |ployed. There are 205,000 receiving ‘unemployment relief, officially ad- This is the wage-cuts which made possible | January 26, at 2 p. m., in order to mitted on Jan. 15; plus 200,000 re-! ‘this most successful of successful | in the present crisis has been pointed | last year which was in itself a year | years. Nothing at all is mentioned | Every unemployed comrade is under | with the unemployed who are not | |obligation to attend, on orders of the |registered, the “Rote Fahne” estim-| iceiving crisis support. Together ates that the total number of un- jemployed is 3,260,000, Union Building Fund the message of greetings sent by the Communist International to the| _, : “Daily Worker,” organ of the Com-| For the last few days, police cap- munist Party of Great Britain, tains have been visiting strike head- |Arthur Henderson, foreign minister, |quarters, threatening and today stated in the House of Com- | mons, intimi- dating the strikers and trying to | drive them out. Having failed in | Henderson, whose palaver about | seat Si \“propaganda” has been somewhat |this attempt through the resistance | squelehed of late due to the exposure Of the strikers, the police have ‘in Germany that British officials| started a campaign of trying to jhad backed the counterfeiting of So- force the neighbors around the strike viet money and had engineered ®\ headquarters to bring charges | WORKING WOMEN PICKET MILLERS Fight Police; 25 Jailed; Union Wins 2 Shops Nearly a hone) women work- ers, following the call of the Work- |plot with the counterfeiters for) : $ 5 ; 7 : 3 armed rebellion in Soviet Georgia, @gainst the strikers, ing Women’s Council, yesterday |said he had “pointed out that the| Yesterday, eleven strikers ap- picketed in a most militant manner, imessage was calculatedeto impgril| peared before the notorious and jrelations between the two countries.” | vieious labor baiter, Judge Jeanette The message accused the “Labor” defying brutal police clubbing and slugging, at Miller’s Market, where one week before, Steve Katovis was | Brill. After delivering a typical 100} shot down by, police. overnment of “anti-Soviet in- : aie te : : eedes colonial brutalities and {Per cent American lecture in which} As the marching, meeting and | preparations for another imperialist |She attacked the Independent Shoe ‘Peaking proceeded, hundreds of | Workers Union. and picketing ana| “Oris Women ‘crowded around, | war.” |_ This “protest” indicates that the|urged respect for injunctions, she British are trying to hold the Soviet |held the eleyen strikers on $2,300 | (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) 'T.U.U.L. Discusses Program | of Action Before Convention Lays Basis for Coming Struggles in Many Industries in New York Area The first three installments of this resolution, adopted by the Metropolitan Area Conference and now being discussed in local union and shop committce meetings as a basis for electing delegates to the New York-New Jersey District Convention (March 1-2) of the T:U. U. L., told of the impending great struggles in this ter- ritory, and criticised past errors of the unions in this field. Oppor- tunism, too much defensive attitude instead of offensive, bureau- ¢ratic tendencies, underestimation of social reformism, failure to affiliate with the T. U. U. L., passivity, and lack of proper organ- izational forms were some of the things criticises. The fourth in- stallment follows: PART Iv. . . . Immediate Tasks. immediate and impending| gram of the T.U.U.L., section of the mass struggles in the dress industry, | Red International of Labor Unions. shoe and textile call for the mobil-|The main strategy in these strug- ization of all left wing forces, the) gles must be the immediate and iapplication of the new methods of | (Continued on Page Two) | The i | struggle in accordance with the pro- around after the arr listening and denouncing the bru- tality used against the pickets. Many women told their neighbors, “I never buy there, even if it’s cheaper, which it isn’t”; “The police have no right to go around shooting work- ers, like Katovi Women Save Placards. A whole squad of police came out. Placards denouncing the police for thei rbrutality, calling on work- ers to show solidarity with the Food Clerks Union, which is on strike at the market, expsoing the social fas- cists whose candidate for alderman got the injunction at their market for the boss, were torn up by po- lice. The women fought for the placards, picked them up, held them together, and distributed hundreds of leaflets giving more details along the same line. The women and spectators who joined in gave a good account of themselves, and many police nursed injuries. About 25 of the women and one man were arrested and taken away in two patrol wagons. It took the police an hour to drive away the excited crowds gathering condemn- ing the police and vowing to sup- port the strikers. The Food Clerks Union stated yesterday that it has settled two (Continued on Page Two)