The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1930, Page 4

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York City only): $8.00 a year; $4.50 six months; t 26-28 Union 3 By Mail (outside of New York City): $6.00 a year; $3:50 six months; $ Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co. Inc., N “DAIWORK.” . Page Four s Telephone Stuyv. Gaily, except Sunday, sant 1696-7-8. Cable: ~ 9 Se srke liv SAE 2.50 three months 2.00 three months Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. ¥. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE PROLONGED TO MARCH(‘-1. Detroit Goes Over the Top Philadelphia and New York in Close Race. has recruited most new HIS week New Yo: 7. Memorial California. This week there were recruited 1.135 new members to the Party, the best so cece Organ we Communist Boats of the US Unite Now For Struggle—Demonstrate Feb. 2 Loe By Fred Ellis 5 ais ‘HOW THEY LIE! Hoover’s “Increase in Employment”— “Prosperity Is Permanent”—Some More Bluff! By I, AMTER. HEN in November, Hoover called the Na- tional Business Conference, he lied when he stated that it was for the purpose of study- Chamber of Commerce and “proposed plans” | jobs. justification for the expenditure of such vast sums for war purposes. “Trade recovery now complete,” “prosperity is permanent,” says the president, and the secretaries of labor and of * comme:-2 may echo it; the National Business Survey Conference may be an official body of imperialists that does not cafe about nor see the growing lines vf the workers looking for But the Annalist of January 17 tells us till after next November at the earliest. (The members—374—at the Lenin | ‘ é hea atepasent etary. : iste meeting only 138. The actual number of sew | far; in spite of the fact that the following dis- ing unemployment and proposing measures for la seer story. Thus the Annelie ts applicants secured at the Lenin meeting is | tricts have sent in no reports this week: Buf- the relief of the unemployed. When the bank- | “It is improbable that a vigorous rnd sus- greater, but the ce were taken to the sec- | falo, Dakotas, Seattle, Connecticut and the ers and manufacturers gathered in Washing- | tained improvement in business leading directly tions in many instances, comrades not carry- | South. Thisecontinued inactivity for the drive ton under the leadership of the United States | to ‘prosperity’ levels will make its appearance | ing out orders to report all applicants at the from the side of our comrades in the South for providing work, they knew they lied. When Annalist puts prosperity in quotation marks!) meeting. Detroit was best in utilizing the | must come to an end; and a waming is given 4 ; on m Lenin Memorial meeting for getting in new | to the other districts failing to send reports. Hoover reported after the conference that | ,.. To summarize roughly, production in steel members, number being 187. Detroit Reports about the drive must be in the hands about $9,000,000 of emergency work was being and iron, automobiles, cotton goods, electrie brought ir 6 new members this weék; fol- | of the Organizing Department Saturday morn- «provided by the railroads, state and municipal | power, are at an abnormally low level. . . . governments, he lied. Building construction closed the year with a lowed cl oy Philadelphia, Cleveland and ing every week. Of the original quota—5,000 new members— we have so far brought into the Party more than 60 per cent. Detroit is the leading dis- trict—113 per cent. of its quota, in spite of the fact that the comrades raised it 25 per cent. above the original quota assigned by the C. C. Let us hope that Detroit will make a 200 per cent. victory before the drive is over! Phila- delphia still keeps second place, with 99 per cent., and New York is third with 95 per cent. Chicago reaches 61 per cent., California 56 per cent..and the South 50 per cents All other dis- tricts are below the 50 mark, a rather poor shoowing. This week shows a too Sa decline in re- cruitment of Negro workers. A warning must be given not to permit our recruitment of new Negro members to go down. Last week we had 20 per cent. Negro workers among the total number of recruited new members, now we have only 17 per cent. New York is leading this week, with 46 new Negro members, fol- lowed by Philadelphia with 33 and Detroit 30. In total number of recruited Negros Detroit still has the lead, in percentage Philadelphia has 33 per cent. Negroes among its.total of new recruits. There are still four districts that have not recruited a single Negro worker into the Party. California is leading in new subscribers for the D. W., bringing in 55 new subscribers this week; next comes Boston with 27. * Philadel- phia is leading all districts in total number of new subscribers. Boston is leading in new shop nuclei; Detroit in new shop papers. Revolutionary Competition New York has gloriously beaten Chicago in new members and shop papers, but Chicago leads New York in new subscribers—both are even in organizing new shop nuclei—both rather weak. Chicago has lost against New York in the Negro question. Detroit challeng- ‘ng Philadelphia is so far victorious, and has splendidly beaten its second rival, Cleveland. Boston has lost out to California in new mem- bers and subscribers, but has a brilliant vic- tory in shop nuclei. Minnesota carries a fine victory over Boston in new members, but has lost in all other fields. Membership Drive Will Be Prolonged . The Polburo of the C. C. has decided to pro- long the membership drive. The reason for this is the broad unemployment campaign now started by the Party, leading up to the Inter- national Unemployed Day, Feb. 24. Every Party member has to take the most active part in this drive, and every phase of it has to be connected with the recruiting drive of the Party. Our Party is now standing before a tremendous test, and the spirit shown in the unemployment campaign so far and in the drive for strength- ening the Party indicates the best opportuni- ties for success in carrying out these tasks, The polburo has decided to prolong the mem- bership drive to March 1. Every district should to that day at least fill the quota. Do not raise the quota, follow Detroit’s example, go over the top! Every District Committee must at once take practical steps to secure the keeping of our new members in the Party. All departments to be mobilized to that end, especially the Agitprop Departments. Likewise the Section Committees and nucleus buros. Politicalize the meetings of our units. Section Committee members and District Committee members must frequently visit other nuclei than their own, and not stay only for a few minutes, but give real guidance and political leadership. Classes, study groups and educational meet- ings have to be organized by the units and sec- tions for the new members. Every District Committee is responsible for keeping the Party as strong as it emerges from the mem- bership drive. Our slogan must be: Not a sin- gle new member must be lost. Outlook for New England Labor By STEPHEN GRAHAM. 15! this period of ever-increasing economic | crisis and of imperialist war preparations, there arises the so-called capitalist “superiod- ity” ideology, which finds its exp: m (even within the ranks of ‘our Party) in white chauy- | inism. This is one of the strongest weapons of the bourgeoisie (specifically of the Southern ruling class) to keep the Negro and white workers divided, thereby exploiting both the white and Fight’ Capitalist “Superiority” Idea ments term them) to the same hall where they and their children meet. Several of these ele- ments withdrew their children from the Work- men Circle Childrens’ School as a result—(and we are not a bit surprised), the result being that after several months the school felll apart —and then the right wing Branch Workmen Circle No, 212 reorganized it. Those labor en- emies cdn now be assured that their children will not meet, in the same hall with Negro workers. Expose Petty-Bourgeoisie. When the manufacturers “promised” not to reduce wages, in order not to worsen the con- complete,” it lies. When the president repeats the statement, he repeats the lie. , When the president is ignorant of the re- ports of the departments of the United States government, then it is no wonder that he lies. The Federal Reserve Board states: “Production and employment—industrial production, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board’s in- ‘dex, which is adjusted for seasonal variations, declined by 6 per cent in December, following upon a decline of 9 per cent for the preceding month. ... The largest decline in December, as in earlier months, were in automobiles and iron and steel. Production in the textile, shoe, lumber and non-ferous metals industries also decreased considerably. Stocks of cotton tex- tiles, copper, zinc and lumber increased in De- cember.... Building contract awards also de- clined further in December. Residential con- tracts continued to be in small volume and there were large decreases in awards for com- mercial buildings and public works and utilities. “Freight car loadings in December, as in the preceding month, showed more than the seasonal decline. .. . Sales at department stores in leading cities were 2 per cent smaller than in December, 1928. Decreasés in sales were reported for ten Federal Reserve districts.” Francis* H. Sisson, vice president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, speak- ing before the New York State Bankers’ Asso- ciation, declared that “there has not appeared as yet any concrete evidence of a true indus- trial revival beyond the purely seasonal ad- vance in activity that always occurs after the holiday.” He forecast a “high level” of:activ- ity by the end of the year, but poor showing for the current first quarter. If the industrial situation in November and December showed a decided decline, then a niere seasonal ad- vance over that situation certainly is exceed- | ingly poor. On top of*this, Miss Perkins, State Indus- trial Commissioner of New York, states that there has been a steady decline in employment since October and even during the first fifteen days of January. Employment figures for De- cember, 1929, were lower than for any year since December, 1914. “Current indications,” she added, “are that January will be even worse than December.” The New York Times, commenting on Miss deficit of 17 per cent from 1928 and still trends down... In the past three months the number of factory’ workers employed has decreased by propaganda statements by the president of the United States can change it. The economic situation is steadily becoming worse; the number of unemployed—6,000,000— is continually increasing; part time work is keeping tens of millions of workers below the level of subsistence. The situation in other countries is no better, with 3,500,000 unem- ployed in Germany, 2,000,000 in England, The social-imperialist Ramsay MacDonald looks to imperialjst Hooverism as the savior of the world, and institutes a National Economic Coun- cil to do the same faking, banboozling, decep- tive work of Hoover’s National Business Con- ference. The workers must see through this fraud: they want work. In the absence of work, they must demand social insurance. All workers must demand a shortening of the work day to seven hours and a five-day week. The work- ers must realize the growing danger of war— in the London conference, in the continually expanding war preparations, and must know its goal: an attack on the Soviet Union. Defense of the Soviet Union therefore is in- . tegrally linked up with the fight for work, just as the deception of the workers, the declaration that “trade recovery is now complete and pros- perity is permanent” is part of the war prep- arations of ‘the U. S. imperialist government. The workers must form unemployed councils, linked up through committees of action with the employed workers, the unions, and all work- ing class organizations. The workers must not expect that the imperialist government will treat them mildly. Workers who cannot find a job, workers who are hungry and who cannot understand the magic words that “trade re- covery is now complete” and “prosperity is permanent” will be roughly treated by the cap- italist authorities. The workers are getting used to this: capitalist power is growing more and more openly violent, is leaning toward fas- cism. The workers will meet it with Workers Defense Corps to. protect the workers in- their fights. Unemployed councils, united action jof the unemployed and employed, social insurance, the seven-hour, five-day week, fight against im- perialist war, defense of the Soviet Union — that must be the program of the entire work- ing class against the lying propaganda, the bluff, the deception of the Hoover robber im- H i ~ NOTE:—The previous installment of the Nowhere is the bankrupt poli id t- “king? « = 4 | “Outlook for New Engl: Dats pt policy and corrupt Negro workers. Bek is et Perkins’ statement, admits that there is a de- ali veri ae | with ‘the ‘increasing “unemployment vend ed leadership of the A. F. of L. more in evi- | 1 po stunatel at tas akeceeiec This incident exposes. the true character of -} crease in employment, thus giving the lie to Lath SNS ey uae! fa en : | op ERA ER a dence than in New England. These officials Jnfortupately, many such cases were repor'- | the so-called friends of labor from the middle | Hoover and Davis. obgires Raa be ti es ers were permanently thrown out. of jobs téll the restless workers, “You're doomed un- | °4 in the columns of the Daily Worker, so it | ang lower middle class elements. It t . the conference of: prognessivanlab dr eatin, vie m 5 5 : 4 c Se goes to . 5 CEs Dee a a ee Se becomes necessary for me to bring to light | Snow us thet when the notte tearpeone ele On January 28, Hoover accepts the report | renegades from the party, the Trotzkyites and trades is excessively high. |The hourly wage rates in the textile industry are being They are one-fifth less than they were 20. “Wages in all industries are being the textile industry where condi- re extremely bad, solidarity of the workers, North and South, is the answer to the scheme of the bosses for increased exploitation, speed-up and wage cuts. Cee eee (Continued) Other Results of Rationalization. Child labor is more prevalent in the indus- tries of New England and Middle -Atlantic states than in any other part of the country More than 101,000 boys and girls below the age of sixteen were at work in factories here, and.the bulk of these were in textile plants. In Rhode Island, one out of every eight chil- dren, below sixteen years of age, is at work in industry; and in Massachusetts, one of each twelve is employed. This does not include those at work in agriculture. While child la- borers suffer from unemployment, also, re- cent studies show that child labor is on the in- crease. Not only are more children from four- teen to sixteen taking out working papers, but the number of those below fourteen years of age are “illegally” employdd has been found to be considerable. | going South, Jess you can help the employers stabilize busi- ness. Industry is leaving New England and If you make it more difficult for the employers, by striking and demanding wage increases, then you will simply drive industry out of New England faster than it is going. Stay peaceful, don’t strike. Be willing to conrpromise. Cooperate with the employers in’ stabilizing business.” No strikes, help the boss- @ to put over the speed-up, and go out and become salesmen for union label bosses, are the planks in this program. When workers reply, “But won’t speed-up make our troubles worse, bring more unemployment and acci- dents?” the A. F. of L, official grows red in the face and storms, “You’ve been talking to those damn reds.” Forward Under Communist Leadership. In October, of last year, the A. F. of L. organ- izations of this region called a “New England Labor Congress,” to which were invited em- ployers, governors and other politicians, and labor delegates. The purpose of this gather- ing was “a discussion of the industrial sit- uation in New England.” The officials hoped to use the conference as a means of persuad- ing union representatives that cooperation with employers for “greater efficiency” was neces- an incident of this capitalist ideology of white chauvinism from a section of the country where this “superiority” idea originated from, On October 15, 1929, a meeting was held in a Workmens’ Circle Hall of some 150 Negro and possibly half a dozen white worke The meeting was held under the auspices of the T.U.U.L. This hall is and has been controled by the left wing members of the three Work- men Circle branches of Norfolk and Ports- mouth, Va. For the last several years these three Workmen Circle branches have conducted a Workmen Circle Childrens’ School in this same hall. Saon after this -meeting some of the so-called left wing followers (who are all Jewish petty- bourgeois elements) began complaining because I dared to call “niggers” as many of these ele- ments talk about them believing in absolute equality of Negro workers, they are only using it as a cloak to mislead both white and Negro worker Criticism is due to those “sincere” left wing members of the Workmen Circle and of the I.L.D. who have not taken the necessary steps in exposing for all they are worth those rea® tionary elements and unquestionably enemies of all workers, particularly so of Negro work- ers. Since then many Negro workers have attend- ed: our local I.L.D. meeting with ‘white mem- bers at the same hall. Our answer to this+ capitalist-imperialist ideology must be an un- ending struggle against white chauvinism, for a mass Communist Party, I.L.D. and T.U.U.L., for a Workers and Farmers Government! Record Production for Soviet Industries in December. A record production for many Soviet in- | dustries, notably oil and coal, is reported for | the month of December, according to a cabl@ Coal Diggers Has Foreign Language Sections. With sections in Italian and Croatian, well illustrated with photos of the Illinois struggle and clever caricatures and cartoons full of of the National Business Survey Conference and concludes that “no further unusual meas- ures are necessary,” this being “unquestionable proof that. prosperity is permanent.” Robert_P. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce, presented a “highly favorable report for the construction industries,” having been assured “that the industries were well on the road to rapid progress.” The conclusion of it all is that Hoover has decided that “no unusual meth- ods need be considered for the stimulation of business beyond the policies of progress which ordinarily mark American industry.” What is the conelysion? The conclusion is that the pledges of the railroads, states and municipalities were empty air. They ‘had and have no intention of instituting relief measures even in the form of public works. The govern- ment of the United States and the U. S. Cham- ber of Commerce bluffed the people into “con- fidence” in the government and the existing capitalist institutions to overcome the economic crisis. Promises could easily be given, just as Henry Ford talked in high terms of “older workers,” whom,he does not employ in his plants! Just so much buncombe and ‘bluff! What are the facts? In the textile indus- Lovestonites, all of whom see “organized cap- italism”’, with no danger confronting it — only slight recessions from which “business is now getting back to normal.” “Prosperity is permanent”, says Hoover. This is a lie, Capitalism is in a crisis from which it cannot recover. It is trying to make the last moves through more intense exploitation and robbery of the working class. It sees no other way out but through imperialist war. The answer of the workers must be to build up the Communist Party, for the joint strug- gle of ALL workers the world over, together with the colonial and semi-colonial peoples against the imperialists. Join the Communist Party and help organize the workers for the overthrow of the system which forces 5,500,000 workets to go without work while, “trade recovery is complete”. Fight for a workers’ and farmers’ government like in the Soviet Union, where unemployed get social insurance, where wages increase, hours are roluced, where.the workers, not the im- perialists, control. Value of Self-Criticism. Monday, January 20, The Daily Worker ran t Accident rates among Yankee workers are | sary, and at the same time convince employers ‘ 3 : news, the Coal Digger, the latest official organ | try, 30,495,190 spindles were operating in De- ' on the increase, due to the terrific speeding-up | that the owners of industry need their services report just received by the Amtorg Trading | of the NM. U. is being sent among the coal | cember, or at 88.2 per cent of capacity, com- | an article on the oditorial page entitled “Op- & in industry; while tuberculosis and other oc- in putting over the speed-up. Joint commis- | Corporation. The oil output for December was | ‘yiners, 60 per cent of whom are foreign-born. | pared with 34,830,028, or 100.9 per cent in No- | position to shop’papers and the right danger.” i cupational diseases take heavy tolls. Accident | sions, composed of labor officials and employ- 1,342,000 tons, more than 100,000 tons in ex- | “The present issue contains articles by Pat vember and 34,930,682, or 99.1 per cent in De- The next morning four comrades covered : ee for porns ores aye ‘especially bnied® cae diy -oreenlaed, os pherrarians a cess of that for November and 20.4 per cent | Toohey, secretary-treasurer of the N. M. U., cember, 1928. Active spindle hours for De- | the shop in question with 1,000 six-page shop F we a mee — pagans pane ace nes ng pele Sang ate 5 ns ae more than the output’ in December 1028, Coal | Bill Gebert, representative of the T. U. U. L. in cemtay totaled bar ct or an average of ) bulletins and found every worker in this_ shop f industr wa, e-earners have almost no pro for increasing the woeksis exploitati ae ‘f production of 4,203,000 metric tons was 17 per | Illinois strike, Harrison George (on the I. W. 7,811 606,790 a mene | ee ee Beery: Wwe nd . tion 1 ‘ac There ij id P to Na E cent above the November figure and 22.6 per | W), Anna Rochester, author of the forthcom- | 811,606,790 and 226 for November, and 7,,710,- | taken. ; roe: . i opti orkmen’s compensation laws are in- ere is only one course open lew Eng- | cont greater than that of December of the ing book “Labor and Coal”, who writes. on 948,023 and 219 for December a year ago. This bulletin has created a stir in Amalga- ' jwate and so enforced that workers get | land workers. They must adopt a fighting These figures speak louder than Hoovér’s | mated circles and we cay expect a substantial little from them. Old age pensions and un- employment insurance do not exist. Against these conditions, workers have struck again and again. Textile operatives in New Bedford, Lawrence, Paw- tucket, New Market, Lowell and many other places have been waging struggles for better conditions. Shoe workers in Boston and Lynn, metal workers in Hartford, clothing workers, and numerous other wage-earning groups have been on strike in the last few years. With a a few notable exceptions, the leadership of strikes has been in the hands of A. F, of L. officials, and these bureaucrats have consistently betray- ed the workers and helped the bosses to defeat New England | | | | | { policy, on the basis of a broad program and | under a leadership trained in militant tactics —the leadership of the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League. This was the way in which watever gains that were made in the past were achieved and it is the only way in which future gains will be made. A relentless battle must be waged against capitalist speed- up and wage cuts, the forces of the boss-run government, and all labor fakers, while unceas- ing struggle is carried on for strong unionism, a shorter work week, higher wages, abolition of child labor, equal pay for equal work, and a full system of social insurance against old age dependency unemployment, industrial accidents preceding year. The production of steel ingots for December was 466,000 tons, 20.2 per cent more than last | year. The output of shoes, amounting to 3,- 914,000 pairs, showed a gain of 75 per cent while the production of cotton cloth, totaling 266,861,000 meters was 10.7 per cent greater than that of December 1928. Fight the Right Danger. A Hundred Proletarians for Every Petty Bourgeois Rene- gade! “Mergers in the Anthracite”, and a vivid ar- ticle on women in the Illinois struggle by Mrs. Ora Boyce, wife of William C. Boyce, a Negro miner and now acting president of the N. M. CGpite The address of the Coal Digger is 119 Federal Street, N. S., Pittsburgh, Room 410 and its sub- scription rates are $1 a year. Militancy of Indian Masses Growing. In Bombay the other day, in a seething dem- onstration of enormous masses, the so-called bluff! In the first week of January there was a decrease of 51,247 cars from 1929, or 554 per cent, and of 79,540 from 1927, or 83-8 per cent. The price of steel products in the middle of January was more than 4 per cent below the average of last April to July, and is the lowest of ‘any month since December, 1927, and, with that one exception, lowest since July, 1922. And while the economic situation was get- ting worse for the workers, in so far as unem- ployment was concerned, the cost of living ad- vanced 0.7 per cent from June to December. Food prices went up 2.1 per cent, fuel and light 2 per cent, while clothing and house furnishings increase in this shop nucleus in the near future as a result. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, . New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- their struggle. In every case, strikers have | and occupational diseases (the funds of this “volunteer police” appointed by the bourgeois | decreased 0.5 and 0.4 per cent, respectively. nist Party. Send me more information. ‘met with the ruthless opposition of police and | insurance to be supplied by employers and ad- | ization and program is wide-spread, so that | national congress leaders were unable to pre- | There was a-reason for the latter, in that the other state forces. True to its usual policy, | ministered by workers’ organizations). Textile | all available forces are being taxed to the | vent the capture of the central platform by | workers’ wages went down and they were un- | Name . SOOO eee eon nnn A. F. of L. has based its organizations in section on the skilled crafts and trades, ‘and the bulk of the workers, semi-skilled and “a illed, have remained unorganized. Even skilled workers are poorly unionized. This the situation when the N.T.W. and T.U. entered the field. £ workers of New Bedford and other centers have pointed the way, putting up valiant strug- gles under the leadership of the National Tex- tile Workers Union and the Communist Party, and strikes under T.U.U.L, leadership are loom- ing in the needle-trades and shoe industries. Workers response to T.U.U.L. organ- utmost to meet the demands being made. . There are many signs of growing ferment among New England wage-earners. The main problem for our revolutionary movement is suf- ficient organization and training of its forces to give ecerantp and direction to the Ribs ers’ mounting sr ae ‘ Communist workers. These workers, forming in the fashion of the spearhead of the Greek -phalanx, thrust their way through the crowds, knocking off thejr feet the platform guards, and seized the te from which they de- nounced Ghani, Nehru, and the other native | bourgeoisie until finally disloigads able to buy clothes and furnishings, and, there- fore, the market slumped. Hoover may report “business back near nor- mal.” That is the bluff and lie of the imperial- ist government, which is spevding hundreds of millions of dollars for ar. The purpose of this lying asa is clear: There must be a Address .. UltY. .asacens Occupation ........ see ABC ccces Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New York, N. ¥, | Shop Nuclei p Papers ditions of the workers, he lied. Serene we errs is When on January 22, Hoover declared that! | approximately 700,000, and wages have also . 10 4 19 2 ie the situation was improving, he again lied, | decreased. 5 2 2 M5 When Secretary of Labor Davis (marvellously “What evidently is setting in is the very 10 1 5 3 9 ironical name for his office), echoed the presi- | slow action of the president's intended relief is 10 0 4 wn dent’s chorus, withoug quoting any figures | and the growing discrepancy between business 10 4 mk a based upon fact, he lied. ‘When Charles Erwin, facts as reported from day to day in the press $ 2 0 2 the Jeffersonian socialist, places cerdence in | and the faint and quite unsubstantiated optim- 5 “4 ‘o ry the statement of the officials of the United | ism expressed in perfunctory statements from 8 0 2 5 States government, then he is too stupid to lie. | the president’s committee.” 5 ° i ° When.on January 28, the National Business | _ “The general tone of business is one of ~ = ~ Survey Conference, appointed at the Hoover | forced optimism.” Whistling in the dark! i xy o 5 me conference, state that “trade recovery is now This is the economic situation, and no )