The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1930, Page 3

4 y JAN. 26 DEMONSTRATIUN IN INDIA WILL BRING TEST OF GHANDI & CO. Although Half-Heartedly Started by All-India National Congress, M. asses May Enter Fight Congress Action Shows That If Masses Battle) Ghandi and Nehru Will Disown Movement ONDON (By Inprecorr Mail |Service).—Although the All-India National Congress ended on the Ist of January it has not yet been pos- sible to obtain clarity concerning a number of important questions, For instance, the question of the League Against Imperialism wasn’t discuss- ed, so that no one knows whether the All-India National Congress in- tends to maintain its affiliation ov not. |) One thing is clear, however, and that is that the right wing of the Congress won a victory, The adop- ion of the resolution expressing re- gret at the fact that an attempt was made on the life of the Viceroy ot India, the decisién to postpone the cijl disobenience campaign until “a ‘arable opportunity,” the decision boycott only the higher govern- méntal bodies and not the local podies, the composition of the new xecutive committee of the congress, all these facts prove the victory of he right wing. A’ minority of 80 delegates which lemanded the immediate commence- ment of the civil disobedience cam- aign, decided to form a Democratic Jongress Party inside the All-India ational Congress. This does not mean a split in the congress, because the chairman of the new party has announced that it will carry out the decisions of the Lahore congress. Characteristic for the congress proceedings is the fact that the question of the mass strikes and the political mass movement of the workers and peasants was not dis- cussed, The mass strikes of the Bombay textiles workers, the Meerut trial, etc., were not even mentioned. The leaders of the congress, |Gandhi, Nehru an the others were far too deeply occupied in maneuver- ing for position and maintaining their ascendancy in the congress it- self in order afterwards to have a favorable basis upon which to nego- tiate with the British. In order to deceive the masses and maintain the leadership, they gave lip service to the principle of a mass struggle against imperialism but nothing more. Should the executive of the con- gress be unable to avoid proclaiming civil disobedience then Gandhi will undoubtedly play the same role as he played in 1922 when he broke oft the movement of the peasants and left them to the mercy of the land- lords and the British to let itself be compelled to act. Deadly Epidemic in Emigrant Kulak Camps BERLIN, Jan. 5 (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—A severe epidemic, he exact nature of which is not vet known, has broken out in the ramp set up for the migrating Russo-German kulaks in Hammer- tein, No less than 57 persons, in- bluding many children, have died so ‘ar. The epidemic is not confined o this camp and exists in others, ncluding the Prenzlau, although to h lesser degree. The bourgeois and soeial demo- vatic press is striving to make it ppear as though the kulaks brought he germs of the epidemic with ham from the Soviet Union. the Communist newspapers, led »,4the “Rote Fahne,” are, however, vasily able to refute this new slan- Her by quoting the reports of the ourgeois and social democratic ress, particularly the “Vorwaerts,” formerly describing the medical ex- amination of the peasants and the al period of quarantine to h they were -all subjected. It s, therefore, quite impossible that the peasants brought the epidemic with them. The cause of the epidemic is not far to seek, and is to be found in the terrible sanitary conditions which exist in all the camps. It is interesting that although these same peasants and many others were in camp near Moscow for months, no epidemics broke out, for the simple reason that the Soviet authorities took energetic measures to insure sufficient sanitation and ignored or overbore the objections of the ob- scurantist peasants who were un- willing to submit to medical exam- lination, ete., on religious grounds. The “Vorwaerts” of December 4, was compelled to admit that with few exceptions the migrating Ku- aks enjoyed excellent health and that there could be no question of them having gone without proper food. Now, suddenly, they are said to have brought an epidemic with them which defied close medical ex- amination and the usual period of quarantine. i ociglists” Aid Fascists of Finland BINGFORS, Finland (Jan. 1 By Inpzecorr Mail Service).—The 1pg3 struggle in Finland is rapid- y intensifying. One of the last acts - the Finnish parliament in 1929 bas the adoption of the new coali- iqp law which hinders oy renders infPoscitle legal activity on the Ft of organizations based upon the lugs struggle. The Public Prosecu- ‘ov’s Department can demand the hissclytion of any organization vhich “is opposed to public policy.” The provisions of this new law re perfectly arbitrary and give al- most unlimited power into the hands f the fascist officials. Organiza- ions may be dissolved if “punish- Lble speeches” are made at their ectings, or if they support finan-, jally or morally any other organi- kations which are opposed to the Btate. The adoption of the new law ould easily haye been prevented, because not only the Comcunists, but also the Swedish nationalists, op- posed it. The social democrats pre- tended to oppose it, but during the critical voting, the eighteen socialist members refrained from using their votes, thus giving the reaction a majority. During the decisive ses- sion, leaflets wer thrown into the hall from the public gallery, signed by the illegal Communist Party and Young Communist League. In the last few weeks many ar- rests have been made, including the officials of the legal workers party, Katri Jervinen, Oskari Lamminen, ‘Isak Heikka. The latter is the ‘chairman of the trade union federa- tion. Rudolf Parvianen, the editor of the workers’ and peasants’ dailyy “Tyoevaenjaerjestoejen Tiedonan- | taja,” was sentenced to pay a fine of 300 pound sterling for having | published an appeal of the trade ‘union federation. New Zealand Protest on Yugoslav-Terror AUCKLAND, New Zealand, (By ) —At the protest meeting held ere yesterday, by. Yugoslav work- hrs in Auckland against the white jefFor in Yugoslavia, the following ifeolution was unanimously adopted: ‘The Yugoslav workers in New ; Zealand most emphatically protest against the atrocities that the dic tatorship commits against the work ing masses of Yugoslavia, and de- mands the release of class-war pri- soners and the repeal of repressive laws against the working class.” —Ivan Tomasevic. Packard Profits Mount in Year of Wage Cuts - (Continued fram Page One) BO cents to 48 cents an hour. That he trimmers’ wages were trimmed ‘rom 70 cents to 54 cents is politely bmitted, And in order to keep peace im the family all notice of the ignored. Packard work- rg used to make pretty good money hrough the operation of a bonus stem which ran their rates up to b5-70 cents an hour—but in order io increase the profits the rates vere slashed! Y Hell of a Job, We suppose that consideration for hb} esthetic feelings of the stock- B fofders led the company to say noth- Ming of the ferocious speed-up which as eaten out the life of Packard vorkers. One Packard worker says, ‘It’s hell to be a wet-sander on the Packard line. Their job consists in ubbing the “duyco” lacquer with vet, very fine sal per. In order o get results they have to concen- rate all their energy in their hands. Kt about 2:30 in the afternoon they begin to weaken. Sweat streams ‘rom their faces, their arms move lower and slower, forced on by heer will power and fear of the hoss. Then the boss comes around: ‘ome on, fellows, you're slippin’, et on the job.’” But that isa’t all, If you work in the oil-sanding department you are almost certain to develop some kind of skin disease, thanks to the inferior oil which the prosperous Packard company hands out to its workers. By and by you're going to have to quit work and go to the doctor. Does the company pay for it? Well, what do you think the company’s in business for, anyway? The oil-sander will be lucky if ‘he gets his job back when he returns. T.U.U.L. Meetings Overflow. But why worry abofit all that? Turn to the end of the report and you will discover that only 88 per cent of the company’s earnings since 1910 have been paid in cash divi- dends. The remainder was rein- vested! And the poor stockholders had to get along with a lousy $70,- 000,000 in cash dividends! Besides, just to fool the workers the com- pany has declared stock dividends totalling 725 per cent since 1913! When it has split up its stock into a few million shares the profit per share looks very small, and it can persuade the workers to take wage cuts and speed-up. For example, this year a calm 500 per cent stock dividend has been declared. Under the old system the return per share would be $5.75; under the new sys- tem it is only $1.15! But the workers have had enough of it. Trade Union Unity League meetings are filled to overflowing. The temper of the auto workers is DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1930 CHICAGO JOBLESS FREEZE TO DEATH, CRISIS WORSENS Steel, Auto Workers! Thrown on Streets (Continued from Page One) | employment situation,” Miss Perk- | ins said that last “December was the worst for employment since 1914.” This means that the mass army | of jobless workers in New York State is much larger than in the | severe crisis of 1914 and 1921 when \the capitalists themselves were forced to admit that the unemployed army throughout the country num- bered more than 5,000,000! | “The Department of Labor's | work,” said Miss Perkins, “must have been done so rapidly, that it |can hardly be called statistical work. They must have made deductions from meagre data improperly anal- | yzed.” The fact is the Department of La- |bor and the Department of Com- | merce willfully distort even the ly- ing reports of the bosses in order to aid the Hoover “prosperity cam- paign.” In New York state there was a | drop in employment in seven impor- | tant industries at the very moment } | } when Hoover was *nnouncing “in- jereases.” The following table gives the percentages of decline during the first ten days of January, 1930: Per cent Increase in Unemployment 12.6) » 6.2 2.8 + 68 1.6 Industry Stone, clay and glass industry Wood manufacturing ......". Furs, leather and rubber goods Food and tobacco Chemicals, oils and paints .. Printing and paper goods . Textiles Four industries showed slight im- provements, Miss Perkins said there was from 10 to 12 per cent unemployment among all workers in the state of New York. Even these figures, coming from capital- | ist sources, show over 500,000 job- less workers in New York. In the steel and automobile cen- ters the situation is much worse. Tron Age, organ of the steel bosses, reports a decline of 15 to 18 per cent in steel production below last year. Automobile production is down at least 60 per cent—with a| eorresponding number of auto work- ers out of work, The Journal of Commerce (Jan. 23) prepares the ground for a na- tion-wide wage cutting campaign. In an editorial entitled “Effect of Living Standards,” it argues against “high wages” and says: “There is a danger, however, of confusing cause and effect in this case by taking a symbol of past | prosperity to be a guarantee of future good times. . .. . Work- ers with tastes and needs fixed by habit will not surrender their satisfaction without a struggle. . . High living standards may be regarded as affording a lim- ited support for business over re- stricted periods of time.” It is the sense of the editorial that the time has come for the| bosses to start wage cuts all along the line. Czech Reservations suCners, A dock Worns jor while the A. F. of join the fighting Marine Work for better conditions. River pies, waiting for a few hours cut Up « seal Fight: L. does nothing for I rs League, and put up a real f Photo shows dock workers lined up on East UWL GULF COAST WELL ATTENDED BY MARINE 1LABOR Eo FG Negro,White Delegates | Prepare for Union | (Continued m Page One) problem of the coming imperialist war. “In the event of impe: of eorge M secreta the con r the ference. Fri of the jup of U. he iy, local secreta’ spoke on the 1 te Amer NEGRO WORKER FIO! IS BEFORE URY HOSIERY ST Caught in Accident, Way Prepared by U. T. Prejudice Rampant The case of Andrew Turner, Ne- ero worker of Chester, Pa., and a member of the Trade Union Unity League, goes before a grand jury to- day in Freehold, N. J., where he was held under $3,500 bond on a second degree murder charge. This prejudice, grew out of an accident three weeks ago when Turner's truck was driven into by a motorist who was killed in the accident. Turner’s employers, the Headley Storage Co., of Chester, Pa. have absolutely refused to bail or defend their employe, because of his mil- itant record and because he is a Ne- gro. The insurance company also refused to post bond for Turner. When the International Labor De- fense heard of the case, the deliber- ate prejudice operating here, it. took charge of Turner’s defense. J. Louis Engdahl, just returned from! have the workers control it, the Chester district, states the ILD has hired a Philadelphia attorney, David Levinson, to defend Turner. Chester, an industrial city of near 90,000 inhabitants, has a population of about 20,000 Negroes. Race prej- udice has been stirred up by the big corporations—and several years ago the streets of that city flowed with blood in a race-riot. Now again, a race-riot impends— with the growing militancy of the Negro workers. The Chester Times, Course of the perfu organ of the bosses there, is inciting to bloodshed. BEAL ON TOUR TO THE PAGIFIC Organizing for TUUL juris Aids Southern Drive To assist the work of organizing case, reeking with racial i { | tion, and inst the shipping Latin Am established marine BR nt si RIKE RGUGN io secretariat, to be in New Orleans, nization Drive. worked out vere to speed 1ization of marine wor! ‘outhern ports, to spread the lation of the Marine Worke Voice, and to prepare for the national convention of marine work- ers coming April, at which it is ex pected a new union will be launch to cover the whole marine indust W. Misleaders PHTLADELPHTD. In a sweeping anded down by Judge Harry McDevitt, the |The Gold Co the third con- 1,400 hosiery strikers of the H, C. jference prelin y to the na | Aberle plant were ined from convention. The others we: ? York for the Atlantic Coa: and in San Francisco for the Paci Coast. ting, or be seen in the neigh- borho: of the struck plant. The unction was timed to break the strike and fighting spirit of the strikers, with the aid of the sell-out tactics of the Musteite Full ion Hosiery Workers Union leaders. \Fishwick Gets Decision -|Tears UMM in Halves (Continued in Page One) The Illinois dis- million dollars mis the | | henchmen instead trict owns sever From the very outbreak of strike, the chief concern of the U. T. W. fakers was to curb the rising it ney of the workers, striking | worth of prope again drastic wage cuts, and; This decision, which Lewis will ap- worsening conditions in the shop. | pe: of course, is a recognition of Covert aid was given to the police | the fact that the U, M. W. is split in arresting and holding members of | right two, Over half of the the National Textile Workers Union, | union is in the Mlinois ¢ t, and Fishwick who, work ith ex-District Pres- ington, bribed Company now ing who sought to spread the strike and|this goes to jhand in hand ident Frank Fe the Peabody Coal $25,000 a year, will monopoly of the busin out the Hlinois coal m wick has alrea sin Despite the injunctions and the betrayal policy of the union officials, the workers carry on picketing dem- onstrations in front of the plant every night. Sympathetic workers of the neighborhood join their fel- the ¢ thei i} low workers in mass violation of the | 28 strike, cut their wages $1.21) strike-breaking injunction. cents a day, and permits the oper tors to work them days without The injunction handed down by the labor-hating Judge McDevitt is | only one of a long series. by making them wait for cars and in other ways. He allows man-killng speed-up and total lack of under- fi | ground safety conditions. t Sum.{ Only the National Miners Union mer in another mill, and sending up | Stands in the way of Fishwick strikers for indeterminate sentence: | pyaee and betrayal in IMinois, a ‘An ironio touch to the hearing |40e3 in the way of the same things was given when the U. T. W. offi. |done by Lewis in his territory. cials sought to prove that the big} ‘ is urging the: 1,100 wage cuts were in violation of the | Miners led on strike in Peoria, north Hoover semi-fascist council's | here, to o “pledges” of “no wage reductions,” | there, to m and received thereupon the answer |Fishwick scabs being that “Washington was not in the) ‘ke control of their i ne MeDevitt.” | Win it. i ee Ee Ber te “TIlinois miners have paid $6,900- the pate oe 000 into Indianapolis since Lewis Roe nisin. Blige got the job; what have they got to eee anny f08 er phic at has five exits, ha . 4h } St down to eight. The U. unm, head A ype the judge boasted of his breaking a similar strik suc! if ke and Alr aders ine, in across | tinue *\how good a mechanic you a the South the T.U.U.L. is sending Fred Beal, one of the Gastonia tex- | reaucrats are ready for “legal” cap- tile strike leaders sentenced to 20/itulation and will seck to force the | u | At Hague Meet the front page of Illinois Mine Fishwick’s paper. Thi is got $6,000,000 extorted fi Page Three BOSSES STEAL PAY OF DOCKERS--SPEED THEM UP---THIS MUST STOP! That’s What Stealing Almost An Hour A Day from the Workers Amounts to Men at Pier 36 and 37 Must Organize Into Marine Workers League (By a Worker Correspondent) With 500 to 1000 N nemp ence ro workers as a fore at every a speed up of work—wage cuts c Ir thrown out of a job becomes a real danger. How much longer to tolerate tt peed-up co} ions of loading of steamers—with a slave driver at our F pees ll th ’ must immediately ¢ a backs 1 the time? much 2 : zs 1 : - {ful section of the ™ W longer we going to nd fe ps 5 ay League at 7 Can we sage Da we = to live on th and hing going up in pr How much longer are we going to per- mit the company to stez hour from us every da3 in the morning, 15 nin and 15 minutes at night for con- organization of the ¢ yed ar ev shed; Men Wage of Marble Workers Sla Speeded to Limit (By a Worker Corre agai) f a BRO wYN, N. Y. (By Mail). I ama marble worker with a decad of experience, so I wages and working cor R smashed from 1924 till tod Tt open shops in 1 e paying the re 10.00. tarted | y Tn} ) to | there. »|laid off for good mechanics from In 1926 the camps to cut the wages and lay 7 the w 8.00. In the conditior ) percent worse than the year be-|back I fou fore, with a steady line of jobless go-| had been laid of ing from one shop to another, but no | boss wa: job could be found at all. Today, in|again and r the so-called prosperity, about one} But ! third of the men had to change their |3 o'clock o1 , but wherever we go, it is the | from German from a mechanic to laborer.) that there ample, three weeks ago, I got | complete was almost a job in the marble shop of J. Jor- | pe r dan & Bros. in Woodhaven, L. I. | “So, you are trying to teact When I started there, the boss/|how fast they got to worl gave me a marble desk to polish. He | this,” and I got pa looked at the watch and said: ‘I want | coming to me for t the boss ga takes you and/hours, bu e how long it “Alright”, I said and got started. | ) —MARBLE WORKER. “Only by becoming a member of the Comrtyinist Party can you give your greatest services ta the cause of the working class. Only asa 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 2 pages of mental dynamite for every class- conscious worker. Presented in simple style and in the language of the workers of the shops, mills and factories, THE HAGUE, Jan. 22.—After all the commotion to reach an “agree- ment” on reparations under the Young Plan, which takes the place of the Dawes Plan that was found | unworkable, the signing of the doc- uments was, nevertheless, the occa- | sion for a demonstration by Czecho- Slovakia, who had been clubbed into ! line. | With all delegates present and the preamble of the “agreement” | just completed in reading, Osusky of Czecho-Slovakia asked for the | floor and said that although his! country was signing, “Czecho-Slo-, vakia cannot consent to renoynce her rights under the Treaty of Ver- sailles.” Silence greeted the an- nouncement, and the presiding of- ficer, Jasper, in closing, said that “declaring the accord should be with- out reseryations,” One of the sharpest reactions, however, is due to be heard in Hun- gary, since Hungary was let off from paying reparations to Czecho- Slovakia, in order that it pay all the claims of the dispossed former arch-dukes, the Catholic clergy and big landlords, This was in line with | a secret agreement between Bethlen , of Hungary and fascist Italy and was done at Bethlen’s own motion, thus piling another terrible burden | jon the workers and poor peasants of Hungary. But this was approved by Snowden, the “socialist” chancel- lor of Britain, and the whole Hague , conference. years imprisonment for his activi- ties in organizing the textile work- ers in the South, on a nation-wide tour, covering twenty states and forty cities. His tour is not just a lecture tour but for organizational and political purpose. He will assist in the work of the T.U.U.L. in the cities where he goes. He will bring before the workers in the North the political character of the savage sentence meted out to him and his six co-workers. He will help awaken the workers to. the treacheries of the capitalist class, supported by the A. F. of L., the socialist party and the so-called “progressives” for the workers in the U. S. A. Arrested in New Bedford. Beal has just been arrested dur- ing the struggle to hold mill gate meetings in New Bedford, where he led the 1928 strixe of 30,000 work- | His speaking dates from now! on are: Monessen, Pa., Jan, 25, 8/ ers. p. m,, Finnish Hall, 618 Sixth St.; East Pittsburgh, Jan. 26, 2 p. m., Workers Hall, corner of North and Electric Sts.; Labor Pittsburgh, Jan. 26, 8 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Mil- ler St.; Cleveland, Jan. 27-28; De- troit, Jan, 29-30; Chicago, Jan. 31- Feb. 1; Chi!sholm, Minn., Feb. 2; Duluth, Feb, 8; Hancock, Mich., Feb. 4; Negones, Mich. Feb. 5; Iron- wood, Mich., Fev. 6; Minneapolis, Feb. 7; St. Paul, Feb. 8; Fargo, N. D., Feb. 9; Minot, N. D., Feb. 10; Williston, Feb. 11; Great Falls, Mont., Feb. 12; Butte, Feb. 13-14; rising. Auto Workers’ Union the shameless ; exploitation of the workers must be resisted. ‘ Under the banner of the| 1852 . 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