The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1930, Page 2

‘e Two _Ds ATLY: W. VORKER, NEW Y' ORK, | SATU RDS AY, JA ANUARY 35 D. LIANCE OF GERMAN 1 ASCISTS AND SOVIET | ENEMIES Between German Bosses! Describes Connections and Cherno Authorities BERLIN Inprecorr Jan. 7) the accused li was ex- shvilli was the of the Tehervonetz t Georgian amined. jathiera: thiera secretary idevant prince Ava- lov-Berm conducted a guer- illa we iets in 1919. Sadathierashviila described-the con- nections between the forgers and the German and declared that the forgers ed the support a strong and united et Uni Germany against the So’ but unfortunately |Germ: was infected with bolshevism. He declared: We were interested in the acc m to power of a na- tionalist government in Germany, and we therefore fought with all possible means against bolshevism. | We provided Dr. Weber and the Ba- varian government regularly ith information concerning the activ of the Soviet government in Ger- many. The aim of the Tcheronetz forgeries was to provoke peasant disturbances and if possible an in. flation in the Soviet Union. n, ment to pay with dollars. The accused German fascist Dr. | Weber was then examined and de- elared: I was the leader of a com-| pany of volunteers and assisted in | the overthrow of the Bavarian Sov- | jet government. When I recognized that the Entente powers would play a great role in the redistribution of the East, I |decided to co-operate with them. We planned together | with official and economic leaders in England that an insurrection Weber, Forger, Says He Had Support of German Against Soviet Union 1 Ser- , | to power by the murder of millions - of people and so on. When the at- We} wanted to force the Soviet govern- | | there. IS EXPOSED vetz Forgers should be organized in Caucasia,-but owing to an indiscretion the whole plan became known. Later on at the beginning of 1917 we took up negotiations again with prominent British and Italian politicians with he same end in view. In order to justify his actions, Weber then commenced a (furious diatribe against the Soviet govern- ment which he declared had come tacks of Becker and his lawyers be- came a little too sharp the court gently reproved them. They ig- nored the reproffs and went on in the same insulting and slanderous tone. Weber declared that throughout he had been in close touch with the German authorities in Bavaria who had been fully aware of his plans, | Here the prosecutor intervened and asked: Do you mean that the German authorities were aware of the Tchervonetz forgeries and ap- proved of them? That is impos- sible, Weber made no reply, but jthe other German fascist accused Bell | | sprang up and shouted: The German | government itself sympathized with | ;our plans! The co-operation of the German authorities with the Georgian con- spirators was also shown in the statement of Weber, that the Ger- man naval authorities had trans- ported the accused Karumidse to Baku in a submarine in order that he should organize an insurrection against the Soviet government Neukoelln Workers Fight Police at Funeral BERLIN (By Inprecorr Muil Ser- vice). — This afternoon the revo- lutionary workers of Berlin accom- panied the coffins of comrades Wal- | ter Neumann and Kobitch-Meyer to the grave, It will be remembered that Neumann was mortally wound- ed by fascist gunmen and died in hospital, whilst Kobitch-Meyer died | as the result of inhuman ircatment | in prison. “Serious collisions were provoked | \by vhe police at the Lausitzer Platz tvhere the Neukélln workers picked ap the coffin of comrade Neumann | |who had appeared in the uniform Kuestriner Platz and’ it had hardly commenced to, move off with the flag and wreath deputations at the head when the police made a furt+ ous and utterly groundless baton attack on the masses. A police cf- ficer' fired down upon the masses from the window of a house whose tenants protested furiously. Eighty workers were arrested. The police | attacked particularly those workers of the prohibited Red* Front Fight- ers League to do honer to their dead comrades. A police sergeant as well as a number of workers were seri- Street government in preparation naval conference goes 0 at the sa cruiser Pensacola last year. Nearly a score of cruisers like these are being built, or are planned for the near future by the Wall coming war, and for a concerted attack on the Soviet Union. 1930 for the coming imverialist war. me time. The fakery of peace talk at the London All the imperialist powers are building huge navies for the Photo shows the launching of the 10,000 ten California Packers Work Up Race Riots; | One Filipino Killed, WATSONVILLE, Cal., Jan. 24.— A gang of anti-Filipino rioters hilled | | one Filipino worker today and wounded several more. The attack | tegan with the discharge of a rifle, last night and has raged intermit- tendly ever since. The dead man is | Fermin Tobera. The fact that American girls ac- | companied Filipino men to a dance, | and that there was a Filipino owned night club with American giris hired as entertainers was the reason given for the assaults. | The California employers are anxi- | ous to keep alive race prejudice as | @ means of disuniting labor. Wat- | sonville is a fruit packing center. | Workers ‘Fight Police} | with their clubs, | considerably.” CHICAGO CABMEN [Retis, ora stone REFUSE T0 SCAB Return to Atlanta, Ga. | | ie “The outstanding features of Sere mass meetings I have been ddressing,” savs Ella ’ ng,” say Reeves |Won’t Fight BrotKers * (Mother) Bloor in a telegram ree} | ceived by the Daily Worker today, in Pittsburgh (Continued from Page One) | gas used each day. If he works Jess than six days a week, 5 per cent of his wages is deducted. This commission or wages is reg-~ ulated by the mérit system. If the driver’s car or person is not spot- lessly clean, or if he is seen smoking or reading or lays off work he re-| ceives a demerit and his chance of | getting a raise is lowered. If he is a loyal, submissive slave, he re- “js the wonderful interests shown by Negro workers. In the Winston- Salem meeting, fifty tobacco work- €rs, men and women, attended, Sun- day, at Chattanooga, Tenn., there was an unusually large group of in- telligent Negro steel workers. Tues- day, in Atlanta, Ga., a packed hall, with many young Negro workers, and so many who wanted their friends to/yhear the message of or- ganization and defense that they re- quired. tjedh2U,-nd cm omf emfwy quested an cther meeting for -4Sharply questions “whether the pre-| |ceives one merit a week and at the Phila. Workers Int'l jena of a year, if he has fifty merits, 4 4 i e receives one and one-half cent coe oes | raise. The highest rate of commis-| sion is 41 cents, The State Federation of Pennsyl- | ously injured here. Despite the wild attacks of the |police the procession reformed and for our murdered comrade!” The | proceeded to the cemetery where workers resisted the attempts of the |the coffins were lowered into the r , Police and a hand to hand struggle \grave. The flags were dipped and to carry it to the cemetery. The) police tried to confiscate a placard bearing the inscription, “Vengeance | The Gold Star drivers get a} ° occurred. A 'police officer was |the Russian funeral march was play- wounded. The police fired into the masses and shot down severa) work- | ers. * ‘The main procession collected at! ed. Bareheaded tens of thousands of workers paid the dead comrades the last honors. In conclusion the varia Women’s Clubs, consisting of ) rich and petty hourgeois women | throughout the State are doing their bit for their class in attempting to masses sang the “Internationale.” Czechoslovakia Unemployed Fight for Relief | _ PRAGUE (By Tear Mail ' Service)—The organized unem- ployed workers’ movement in Czeck- oslovakia is quite new, but already | it is making itself felt everywhere on behalf of the workless. Follow- | ing upon the appeal of the Unem- ployed Workers Committee in Prague, similar committees have been formed in many other towns and unemployed workers’ demon- | | Strations have been organized in| |Graslitz, Neudeck, Rossbach and | |Morchenstern, quite apart from | Prague itself and industrial towns | like Reichenbach, where the move- ment is already very strong. The | movement is under the influence of the Czechish Communist Party, Daudet Amnesty Farce of Workers in French Jails PARIS (By Inprecorr Mail Ser- vice).—The amnesty comedy which permitted the royalist leader, Dau- det to return to France from his €Xile in Belgium and which aimed | at calming the indignation of the workers at the constant persecutions against the revolutionary movement, ig.now at an end. Daudet has made ‘his noisy and melodramatic entry into Paris under the protection of the police and accompanied by the reyalist bands, and a dozen proletar- ian political prisoners have been “frecd.” Those who have heen am- néstied were alost exclusively ed- itors or newspaper sellers, who in any case had only a few weeks more to serve, and in some cases only a few days more. The central organ of the French Communist Party denounces the am- “MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail Service)—The trial of the Catholic priest, Graf, in Simferopol has ‘ended. Graf was sentenced to 10 ‘years imprisonment for having mur- his two illegitimate children for having conducted illegal ‘Lasis of, an amnesty, the sentence reduced to one of six isonrent. aeutor ¢es’ in the ibed the de- German vil- o ~ Religious Opium Pedler Sentenced to Jail ‘anti-Soviet propaganda, ete. On the | Attempt to Hide Mass nesty swindle and publishes a list of the comrades who are still serv- ing sentences and to whom the “am- nesty” has brought nothing, There are at the present moment, |45 admittedly political prisoners, and 24 of these are serving sentences totaling 388 years’ imprisonment, while 21 are awaiting trial. There are 30 “criminal” political prisoners serving various terms, and 3 await- ing trial. There are 22 soldiers, sailors and reservists serving vari- ous terms totaling 16 years’ impris- onment, 20 years forced exile and 148 years forced labor. In the col- onies, there are 84 prisoners serving sentences tolaling 33 years forced labor, 35 years banishment, 165 years imprisonment. One is suffer- ing banishment for life and one has been sentenced to death. lages towards collectivisation and the strengthening of the socialist | evente a war mind and docile ac- | ceptance of the present wage- | slavery system in the minds ct} | workers’ children. In an interview with the Philadelphia Recor, J: uary 20, Mrs. Willard, State cl man of the motion pictures for this | federation, declares that “the movies | supply amusement to 95 per cons | of the people and their importance, T think, eannot be overestitated.” Instead of capitalist war propa-| ganda against the only workers’ Fatherland, the Soviet Union, the work and lives of the workers in the First Workers Repubjie will be) shown in a movie release by the Jn-! ternational Workers Relief. While providing humorous relaxa- tion and entertainment for adult. and child, these pictures will net in- fult the intelligence of the workers by providing fairy tale.and rejjgious solutions for the present miserable plight which the working class finds under the heel of capitalist exploi- | tation. .. In additon to movies, the Phila- delphia W. I. R., along with W. I. R. sections throughout the country, is making arrangements to conduct several cultural circles. Arvange- ments are almost complete for an ert circle, harmonica band and mdn- éolin group. All those interested should commnicate with the Dis- triet W. I. R. secretary, June Croll, ut its headquarters, 39 N. Tenth St., Philadelphia. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a »|fight against their tellow-workers | |L, will never help them, that the| | policy of the A. F. of L. is one of |are forbidden te join a union. The | straight wage—besides their com- j mission, of $14 a month and have! the privilege of helping the boss| keep the salary and the job of his} fellow-workers in jeopardy. He is| the spy, the stool-pigeon for the company and many of the men are} refusing this job when it is offered | * to them. The mass unemployment that ex- | ists in Chicago, has made the Yel- | « low Cab drivers realize that wth the decrease in the buying power of | the workers, conditions for them and all workers will get worse and that | they must stick together and not! in the struggle against a wage cut, | \‘ in their struggle to work and live, | The Yellow Cab drivers of Chi-| cago also realize that the A, F. of | sell-out and betrayal and open col- laboration with the boss. The Par- melee Transfer Company, the largest. transfer company in Chicago owns the Yellow Cab Company, The Yel- low Cab drivers are not union and Parmelee Compe” y is signed up with the A. F. of L. and all their em- ployees have a sign on their caps Yellow Cab Co.,” besides their un- ion button. Yellow Cab drivers of Chicago and Pittsburgh, the Trade Union Unity League calls upon you to join its ranks. Fight against wagecuts and long hours. ‘Fight against the merit system and stool pigeons. Join the fighting Industrial Union of workers for workers against the bosses. Join the Trade Union Unity Worker Correspondent, GENERAL MASS MEETING elements in the village. The kulaks and the priests and parsons weré fighting energetically against the collectivisation and making propa- ganda for emigration. The Catholic church in particular was playing an jactive counter-revolutionary role. The trial took place in the presence of very many Russo-German peas- ants who had come in from the sur- | rounding villages. OF ALL DRUG CLERKS OF GREATER NEW YORK will be held TOMORROW, JANUARY 26, AT 1:30 P. M. IRVING PLAZA Fifteenth Street Prominent speakers in the labor movement will address the meeting. League.—A Yellow Cab Driver. and Irving Place |trade union bureaucrats. Wednesday.” | Mother Bloor is on a trip through the South to the Pacific Coast. She | speaks Saturday and Sunday in New| | Orleans. Monday she speaks in San | Antonio, Texas, She is organizing | branches of the International Labor |* | Defense. GERMAN SOCIAL-FASCISTS WORRIED. BERLIN, Jan. 28.—That the eco- | nomic crisis is also a crisis for the social-fascists is shown by the joint conference of “socialist” party and The best they could think of was to ask their ‘socialist” government to remove re- strictions on loans from America. But their government had just prom- ised at the Hague, to please Snow- den and Tardieu, not to negotiate loans “for the present.” These so- cial fascists want a part of the “reparations loan,” which capitalizes the very debts Germany owes! RED CARNIVAL for the benefit of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America HARLEM WORKERS HALL 814 East 104th st. TONIGHT at.8 O’>CLOCK lriled because his announcement that |“the employment situation was im- “|for every job listed: as compared to ! "MBLESS MARCH ON CITY HALL: in Demonstration (Continued from Page One) time battling the police who tried | to smash the meeting. Dozens of mounted cops, rode into the crowds and beat the unemployed workers | Pie et Bosses Issue More Crisis Lies. Hoover’s National Business: Sur- vey Conference, héaded by such im- perialists as Owen D. -Young, of the General Electric Co.; Myron C. Taylor, United States Steel Cor- poration; Walter C. Teagle, Stand- | ard Oil; Pierre S. du Pont, of the leading war munitions manufactur- ers, du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and | Thomas W. Lamont, of Morgan & Co., in Washington, Thursday, and announced that business was becom- ing * stter. On the very same day, the Fed-| eral Reserve -d published the| fact that business declined 6° per | cent during December, following a/ 9 per cent decline in November. “The largest declines in Decem- ber, as in earlier months,” said the Reserve Bank, “were in automobiles and iron and steel. Production in| the textile, shoe, lumber and non- ferrous metals industry also declined | The “decline” reported for Decem- | ber by the very Federal Reserve Board that the capitalists depended on to stop the growing severe crisis, comes on the heels of continued and steep slumps in all basic industries beginning last September. Another ‘step in the direction of merging, the railroads of the coun- try was taken yesterday in Congress when a resolution authorizing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate railroad holding compan- ies was unanimously adopted by the House. With less than half an hour spent in “debating” the measure, it ‘was generally accepted as 2 prelimi- nary to further legislation helping railroad consolidation. The creation of a giant railroad merger will throw thousards of workers out of work, while the cen- tralization of one of the country’ most vital means of communication will strengthen the “home front” of American imperialism for the im- pending war “abroad.” Commenting on the obvious lies of Hoover, Davis and the National |Business Survey Conferenee, » the |more open and frank mouthpiece of the finance-capitalists, the Annalist, sent fact of business depression is in any wise remedied or improved by optimistic official statements which are unsupported, if not flatly \contradicted, by the most dependable statistics.” (Annalist, Jan. 24, 1930) Secretary of Labor, Davis, was proving’ was completely riddled by facts from all over the country, and particularly those published by Francis Perkins, commissioner of labor of the state of New York, The latest figures issued by the Mlinois Department of Labor show further increasing unemployment. In Illinois there were 181 applicants 147 applicants for every 100 jobs in October, when unemployment be- gan to become severe. Payroll totale fell off 4.3 per cent during December. | “The volume of unemployment is considerable,” says the Illinois De- partment of Labor, “a large volume of common labor is idle, presenting @ serious unemployment problem in practically every large city of the state,” Even Davis, who followed the Hoover policy of mechanically re- peating that conditions were good all during the sharp declines in un- employment, now admits that “there is no disputing the fact that the month of November and the month of December were the worst we had Good Jazz Band. Tickets 35 Cents TONIGHT COOPERATIVE ~ 2700 Bronx ADMISSION 50 CENTS Arranged by the Workers of _ “UJ ELORE” TONIGHT ; al fi PROLETARIAN DANCE DANCING ALL NIGHT PROCEEDS FOR THE DAILY WORKER AND THE FREIHEIT ——a— >> COSTUME BALL arranged by the | in years.” Then he adds, as proof that con- ditions are improving, that “there TONIGHT AUDITORIUM Park Eest REFRESHMENTS FREE the Unica Cooperative Stores, | “rigorous German Militarists Fear Activity of Communists in Navy) BERLIN, Jan. 23.—Five sailors | lave been dismissed from the Ger. ing Soviet propaganda. This gr out of the mutiny on the Cruiser Emden, when* the revolting sailors | raised the “Red Flag” and sang rev- olutionary songs following a pro- test against bad conditions. The hush up the affair. Government officials stated that| measures were being | taken to check an increase in the} revolutionary activity in the Reich’s | armed forces.” Several Communists have been arrested at the stations in the Bal- tic while distributing leaflets among | the sailors in the barracks. was a very appreciable trend up- ward on Jan. 6 as compared with | December 30 (previously it was De- cember 25). Iron and steel went | up 11.1 per cent, automobiles went | up 3.6, automobile tires went up 14.7 per cent, and all industries went up 3.4 per cent.’ These statements, which are some- | what exaggerated, have no effect |whatever on the growing army of {unemployed for the obvious reason |that the steel companies have been |keeping large forces on a part time jbasis. Even with the “increases,” a large part of their forces con- tinue to work on a part time basis. At the same time, they lay off ithousands of workers, A 3.6 increase in automobile pro- duction as proof of increase in un- employment is a sample of the Hoover lying campaign. Automo- bile production dropped 80 per cent below the 1929 high point, and there was a great deal of unemployment at that time. With the speed-up and lengtHening of hours that is going on in the automobile plants, the bosses could easily raise pro- duction 3.6 per cent and fire a part man navy on charges of disseminat. German nayal authorities tried to) of their already steeply reduced | JOBLESS STARVE BOSTON SOCIAL SURVEY SHOWS /Unemployed Workers | Forced To Seek Charity Aid By GRACE M. BURNHAM. Because wages aré insufficient to tide workers and their families over periods of unemployment or part time, and because the government provides no insurance for the unem- ployed, a large proportion of worker | families are forced to become paup- | ers when the chief wage-earner of | the family loses his job. } A recent study of 1,000 families | applying for aid at three Boston social agencies showed the greatest number of women wage earners in | the group had received wages rang- ing from $10 to $14 in the last job held. Ten per cent of the families | forced to the charities were sup- ported by women lone. For men, wages in the last job held occurred most frequently in the group earning between $20 and $24 2 week. Sixty-nine per cent of the families studied were supported by a hushand or father alone. In 5 per cent of the families children had | to go to work to add to the family income. Onlv thirty-five persons—. five singie men, three widowers and twenty-seven women — had but themselves to support. Loss of a job for the remaining workers meant destitution not only for them- selves, but for their wives and chil- | dren. In 11 per cent of the cases, \n- employment, and in an additional 3 per cent, part time work, was the sole cause of the family’s break- down, Sickness, which under a capitalist forces, government is directly associated Fundamentally, the severe crisis | with low wages, was the reason why ofeU. S. capitalism is continuing | one man out of. every five lost his and spreading. The “increases” are | job. The same proportion of women slight. fluctuations that do not af-/| lost their jobs because of illness. fect the sharp, basic crisis of de-| But 38 per cent of the men had just cline that is gripping nearly every | industry in the United States. The Annalist says regarding the “increase” in steel production “that a normal seasonal month from the low base of 59 per cent of capacity in December would fall considerably short of a prosper- ity volume of production.” Tron Age, organ of the steel bos- | in the main are small... Frequently smaller tonnages are bought than were inquired for, indicating a re- luctance to buy very far ahead,’ and that contracts for structural steel (for that gigantic building campaign that Hoover, Davis and Green boasted about) were at the low fig- ure of 25,000 tons. The most significant feature in the steel industry is the constant, sharp drop in prices, The steef bos- ses are cutting prices all along the line in an attempt to increase their jbusiness and to make a drive for more of the world markets. In many plants they have already cut wages as high as 20 per ‘cent, and wiil soon begin a systematic wage-slash- ing campaign for all workers in the steel industry. 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