The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1930, Page 1

The Old Adage Says That “Kind Words Butter No Parsnips,” Nor Do Hoover’s Lies About “More Jobs” Fill One Empty Stomach. Worke Look Upon Your Hungry Children! Look Upon Your Own Anxiety of How to Pay Rent, to Eat, to Buy Warm Clothes! Hoover Expects You to Keep On Starving, With Nothing Don’t Starve Fight! on February 26! But “Hope.” Demonstrate Kntered as second-class matter at the ost Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ¢ f March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. Vi No. 281 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing @y,, Company, Inc,, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1980 In New York by mail, $8.00 per ork, by mail $6.00 per year, Outside New year. Price 3 Centa JOBLESS MICHIGAN AUTO WORKERS RALLY futermutional Unemployment BOSS, A.F. i: FIQHT and the Fight Against It The erisis developing in the United States is rapidly spreading to the other countries. There exists not the least doubt that we have here nst a business depression of local importance, but an economic crisis of an international character. opinion regarding the tempo of development of this crisis, but it is impossible to deny its unceasing growth or its depth. The consequences of this crisis are all the more serious for capi- talist society as it is developing on the background of the general crisis of the capitalist system and aggravating the contradictions of the same to an extraordinary extent. The importance of this crisis is rendered all the greater by the circumstance that it is connected with a severe agrarian crisis, which in its turn still further empha- sizes the rottenness of monopolistic capitalism. e present crisis of the year 1930 differs from the international crisis of 1920 in that it is developing along with a simultaneous rise of the revolutionary tide and the powerful advance of socialist con- struction in the Soviet Union, i. e., is accompanied by two decisive umstances which are bound to render the consequences of this crisis more serious for capitalism. The analysis which the Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International gave regarding the inevitable collapse of capitalist stabilization has been brilliantly confirmed. The symptoms of this collapse are ex- pressed in a number of phenomena of which the most important is the incredible growth of unemployment. In the United States there are already not less than six million unemployed, in Germany three million, and in Great Britain the num- ber approaches two million. The whole of the eastern half of Europe has for some months been faced with sinking production, which inevitably leads to thousands of workers being thrown on to the street. In the little state of Austria there are 325,000 unemployed. In Poland it is reckoned that the number of unemployed will amount in the im- mediate future to 400,000. In South America millions of agricultural workers are starving as a result of the crisis. In addition to the whole- sale unemployment the number of workers on short time is everywhere increasing in an alarming manner. Capitalist rationalization and the new methods of exploiting labor power have hithertu been accom- panied by chronic unemployment, by growth of the army of res labor and by a general sinking of the standard of living of the working class. This was the case even in the period when capitalist economy was on the upgrade, which was not so very long ago. The present crisis is intensifying, and will still further intensify all these pro- cesses to a phantastic degree. In the big industrial centers of the capitalist world there is hardly a single working class family of which at least one member is not unemployed. Capitalist society and its social democratic and “labor” ministers are delivering over to hunger and misery millions of proletarian families for whom there is no place in the process of production. Under the present conditions of dis- astrous unemployment capitalist society is unable to do anything better than to enact savage repressive laws and police decrees, while de- priving the unemployed of the ‘miserable pittance they had received hitherto, as in such countries as Germany. At the same time there is proceeding everywhere a ruthless at- tack by the capitalists on wages. In the United States the wages of workers in the steel industry are being vodwced by 20 per cent. We see the same thing in other countries. The bourgeoisie is endeavoring to throw the heaviest burdens of the present crisis on to the shoulders of the working masses and to overcome the difficulties at their cost. All this inevitably renders the question of the fight against interna- tional unemployment, the question of the material situation of the working class, the main object of attention of the Communist Inter- national. The wave of strikes which is now sweeping all the capi- talist countries is before all bound up with the fight of the working class against the lowering of their standard of living. The terrible wholesale unemployment is the Achilles heel of capitalist society and of all bourgeois and “labor” governments. Here there is revealed most clearly to the broadest masses of the workers that the bour- geoisie is incapable of solving the contradictions of the capitalist system. From this question oné can most easily bring the workers to the on of the Young Plan, of fascism, of social fascism, of imper- ialist. war, to the problem of power and of the proletarian dictatorship. The Communist Party which succeeds in mobilizing the working masses around these questions becomes the driving wheel which sets in mo- tion the class which has the historical task of overthrowing the old, decaying capitalist world. What worker will display indifference to the call of the Commu- nist Party not to Iet himself be delivered over by the bourgeoisie to death from ation? What worker will not come out on to the streets in order to fight against unemployment and against capi- talism, even in the countries of white terror? What worker will not think over the political results of capitalist “democracy” which has become fascistised, and the regime of “prosperity” so belauded by the social democrats and compare them with the political results of the proletarian dictatorship, with the position of the working class in the country where socialism is being successfully built up on the basis of the Five-Year Plan? It is therefore not a matter of chance that a wave of unemployed demonstrations has recently been sweeping all the big European towns. It is likewise not by mere chance that these demonstrations have as- sumed such a stormy character. The masses, embittered by hunger, will not listen to the contemptible advice of the social democratic bureaucrats who have grown fat in the service of the capitalist state. In Germeny. and in Poland thousands of unemployed assemble in the street in order to present their bill to the capitalist governments, which the latter cannot meet. In Italy, where the labor movement was long suppressed with fire and sword, thousands of unemployed are demonstrating under the cry of “Bread and Work.” q The Communist Parties have already begun to organize a broad campaign for the unemployed, but this does not suffice by a long way; it lags behind events. The fight against unemployment, against the increasing exploitation, for the raising of the standard of living of the workers most become the guiding thread of a broad mass movement in the international arena. Rightly to carry out the decisions of the 10th Plenary Session of the Executive Committee of the Communist «International means in the first place to find the lever with the aid of which the broad masses of the working class can be set in motion. Under the conditions of the growing economic crisis the question of unemployment is one of these important levers. It is the duty of the Communists closely io link up the fight of the unemployed with the fight of the workers in the factories under the revolutionary class slogans: for the 7-hour day, for higher wages, for payment of full unemployment benefit by the capitalists and their state. Not a single strike, not a single movement of the proletariat must occur without the demands of the unemployed being placed among the chief demands of the workers. Only then will this movement acquire a general class basis, only then can the various sections of the work- ing class be educated in the spirit of general class solidarity. Only in this way will resistance be offered to social fascism, which is striving in the interests of capital, to divide the workers into eniployed and unemployed. This fundamental principle of the class unity of the movement must find its organizational expression in the “Unemployed ymmittees,” “Unemployed Councils,” etc., which have been organized +a number of countries. These organs must not only comprise repre- tatives of the unemployed but they must also include workers from e factories. We must not hesitate a minute in mobilizing broad masses of the workers for the fight against unemployment. Only the Communist Party can lead this international movement against unemployment. There can still exist differences of | | Pionvers Give Harry Etseman Big Reception A rousing reception by over 250 | Young Pioneers yesterday sete Harry Eiseman, young poring PATERSON STRIKE IMITATE HOOVER [Scab Council of Mill! : jslass fighter, Owners, Musteites [7 "Vis release Church, State trom Haw- dees, |shorn Jewish To. Crush Silk Workers Home in |which Harry |had served six months’ sen- tence follow- ing his arrest last July for | taking part in Openly Against Revolt Led by N. T. W. A clear-cut combination of all re-| Jactionary forces, the state, the po Itice, ae oases, the churches and| a some Fie J neers’ demon- the A.F.L. unions to keep the Pater-| stration son silk workers in slavery was re-|against the jingoist Boy Scouts’ vealed yesterday in a report to the | jamboree. employers’ trade organ, Women’s| The police who brutally attacest Wear, published in New York. They | the Young Pioneers in front of the have formed an organization to be| workers Center, 26-28 Union Sa, {known as, “The Paterson Commu- a ‘li ae nity Council for Industrial Peace.” | learned more about the militancy o: At the very moment when, under | the Young Pioneers, the same mili- the leadership of the National Tex-|tancy for which Harry had been ‘tile Workers Union, the Baterapu | heat up for six months. silk workers are rapidly laying the | basis for organization that will re-| sult soon in strong strike action against the wage cuts, the 10 and |2ihows day in many mils, the et jelass children, beating up many of| that forces thousands into abject | them. misery, the Musteite wing of the| The militancy of the Pioneers |A.F.L. and its union officials get scared the police, for they called for together with the murderous police | "eserves. Hundreds of workers wit- and the speed-up bosses, whose | nessed the demonstration and the | chamber of commerce is represented | Police attack. jon the “council,” to crush any strike | Eiseman, who will be the speaker | that may start. | at the Liebknecht Memorial meeting jon Friday, February 7, at Manhat- |tan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., said that in stead of imprisonment | breaking his spirit, he came out of Hawthorne more than ever deter- mined to fight for the working class. Harry Eiseman The Pioneers fought back when the police attacked them, and one of the policemen® was injured. The} police charged into the working-| Names of Fascists. |. The inspired article in Women’s {Wear frankly recognizes that this | (Continued on Page Two) STILL TRY 10 ~ DEPORT GRAHAM ° Charged With ‘Inciting |=, Negro Revolt’ NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 29.—The U. S. immigration authorities are still trying to send Stephen Graham to |his death at the hands of King rns is, therefore, greater against But we must fight harder than That’s what I pledge to do.” the Young Pioneers, and many ‘kers present, cheered Harry en- ever. songs. larry was released yesterday on parole, and a threat of again plac- ing him in Hawthorn if he dis- plays militancy was made. slavia Graham states: gration commission is trying to get | SOVIET BREAK : Leon Nowitzky, the detective ar- “I took out first De furauzerian | | papers in March, 1929. The immi- | | resting me, to testify that I made | la statement at a meeting broken up | Call ‘Mass Me Meeting For, (Continued on Page Two) Febr uary 3 | International That the Mexican rupture of re- res lations with the Soviet Union has Wireless been instructed by the United States government in an attempt to News |strengthen its war preparations jagainst the Soviet Union and to demonstrate its power to the London Naval Conference, is pointed out in a statement issued by the Commu- nist Party, New York district. The statement calls for all work- ers to unite im demonstration against this new attack on the Soviet Union RED FRONT STILL EXISTS, DESPITE TERROR (Wireless by Invrecorr.) BERLIN, Jan. 29.—The trial of | twenty-four workers for member- | ship and activity in the “pro- hibited” defense organization of the German workers, the Red Front} Monday evening, Feb. 3 at 8 p. m. Fighters League, in Leipzig ended|at the Central Opera House, 67th {today. The main accused, Comrade! St. and 3rd Ave. Among the speak- | Bock, was sentenced to seven|ers who will tell of the intrigue of | months imprisonment, Comrade the American government and ex- | | Grosse to six months, the rest of | pose the imperialist war aims of \the defendants to three weeks each.|the government are M. J. Olgin, eet eae (Continued on Page Two) STRAINS SOVIET-FRENCH RELATIONS. . | (Wireless by Inprecorr.). To Hold Memorial | MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—The acquit-|' |tal by the French courts of Paul Meet For Katovis, \Lityinoff (brother of tha Soviet Sunday, February 3 | Foreign Commissary M. Litvinoff), | | Laborius and Joffe, against whom} This Sunday, at 2:30 p. fh, at jevidence had been brought that} Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third. Ave., they had forged promissory notes|/a mass-memorial meeting in honor ‘of the Soviet Government, has | of Comrade Katovis. will be held by caused deep indignation here. The | thg section of which he was a mem- verdict is regarded as a deliberate | ber, affront to the Soviet Union. It is| Close co-workers of Comrade Ka- intended to appeal against it. The | ‘ovis will speak at this meetin | Soviet Government will refuse to|Comrade Katovis was the organ’ | meet any such forged bills on pres-|of the local branch of the Interna entation. Financial circles here de-| tional Labor Defense. The’ Districi clare that this legalization by the |office of the LL.D. is sending Com French authorities of the forging of | rade Sam Nesin to represent it t: Soviet obligations creates an impos- | pay its respects to Comrade Katovir sible and precarious situation in| All workers are urged to attend thi Franco-Soviet relations, meeting. — eee Only the Communist International and the Red International of Labor Unions .can unite in this fight both the unemployed and the workers in the factories and lead them to the attack on the system which brings misery, hunger and death to millions of prole'arians. Only the Communist Parties can lead the proletarian mas » whole world on the path of revolutionary overthrow of capitali: he establish- ment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, Join the Communist Pariy! and “The police fear the militancy of | |the Young Pioneers, and their bru- | [Thusiastcally, and sang revolution- | TO STRUGGLE THREATEN WASS “WORK OR WAGES!” IS THE CRY OF THE SIX MILLION U.S, UNEMPLOYED WORKERS IN ANSWER TO HOOVER'S REPEATED LIES ARRESTS IN CAL, OF FILIPINOES Major Concocts Wierd Tale of Plot to Burn To Jail TUUL Officials | American Lex rion Leads | Attack on Workers BU LLETIN. STOCKTON, Cal., Jan. 29.—The murder and terrorization cam- paign of California fruit ranchers against Filipino workers has | | General Motors Auto Kings in Panic at Militancy of Pontiac Workers Rallying to Defense of Arrested Communists | Capitalist Journals Refute Hoover Deception of Unemployed, and Re- veal Permanent Crisis; Demonstrate February 26th! PONTIAC, Michigan, Jan. 29.—The bosses of this automobile factory town are in a panic | reached here. Today the Filipino | {njon Unity League supporting the unemploy: ed. Hundreds of workers waited around the courtroom this morning for results of the workers’ club house and rooming house was blown up by a bomb thrown from a blue sedan. MONTEREY, Cal., Jan. 29,—The ranch owners of California have chosen this combination summer re- sort and army post to spring a frame up on the Filipino agricul- tural workers. In a tale that sounds like a dime novel thriller, the press solemnly assures the world that a “Filipino house boy,” has “revealed to his master,” Captain John Bird provost marshal of the Presid‘o ! (army post) here that “there is a jplot of Filipinoes, led by Los An- | geles and Salinas agitators, “to steal | the rifles from the Pres‘io and con- Have: a revolution against the U. The details of this fantastic tale lare that the plot was worked out in secret meetings held in Salinas (a vegetable and fruit center) which the house boy attended. He is sup- posed to have heard the ate leaders’ of the Imperial Val! strike plan to set fire to the sol- | (Continued on Page Three) BOSSES BOAST CONTROL ILGW Tell How “Fake” Strike Is Already Settled The Needle Trades Industrial Union continues its strikes against the long hours, low wages and in- human working conditions in New York dress shops, without regard 8 the fake strike and prearranged set- | tlement with which the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union is trying to fool the workers. The charge of the N.T.W.LU. that the LL.G.W. “strike” is {merely a scheme to put over a com- |pany union program disguised as a | workers’ movement, received con- firmation yesterday from statement ed in trade journals giving with the chiefs of the ated Dress Manufacturers, Inc., the bosses’ organization. “In one sense we are nine-tenths completed in our negotiations, al- though we are not exactly that close to a final agreement as far as the actual verbiage is concerned,” said | IN HOT BATTLE y | Northwest Germa |intend to carry out the plan. | one of the bosses’ officials, accord: | ing to Women’s Wear, and goes on: |“The economic situation does not jwarrant higher wages right now. | inet” to car | due to the growth of the Unemployed Movement, and the Communist Party and Trade investigation” of the leaders, Powers, Raymond and Dunjovich. The investigation, prisoners before the mass of scheduled meanwhile, was moved to the county jail to avoid moving the workers; and no workers were allowed to attend the “investigation,” which takes place under the infamous “criminal syndicalism” law. Bail was “reduced” to $7,500 each, nounced that it was not ready, so the hearing was postponed til cs officials are busy conferring¢ Hy N { Rl ESS ‘with the state attorney general CERN 418 SUR WV and are clearly unable to decide to what extent they dare go, due to the pressure of the workers. A hundred police guards of Pon- tiac and other cities are assembled Police Fail “to Bre ak; in Pontiac guarding all entrances to Czech Demonstration | the city. The auto kings of the General Motors Company in fright at the growth of the unemployed (Wireless By Inprecorr) ERLIN, Ja —Despite the ; ff i BERLIN, Jan, ct" polieg | Headquarters Tuesday evening and prohibition by the “socialist” po! ice arrested eight more workers, The president of the unemployed in| Communist Party, the Trade Union om making a| Unity League and the Auto Work- the|ers’ Union are proceeding with work, enjoying the full support of increasing numbers of workers, both employed and unemployed. The In- ternational Labor Defense is seew marched to Schleswig, where armed| jing bail for those held. A giant | police arrested the worke 1asse | demonstration is expected here on \and forcibly transported them back| February 26, International Unem-| to Flensburg. A column of several} ployment Day. hundreds of workless from Kiel was Rao es broken up and many wounded and arrested. The column from Elm- schenhagen was attacked by foot |f American cities, vainly searching and motinied ‘and~ some|10r jobs, shivering in bread lines ty |and haunted by worry over starving unded and but fifty | and hi y ovel ord Nrough the police cordon and |{@milies and the threat of landlords to eject them into the winter, mil- (Condes on Bee thee) eae e AN OpISiS ON. jobs” into Leen fi face od make ready to organize Councils of Bourgeois § ; Students On Strike in Madrid fr Hamburg the unemployed hunger march on | First of Febr The Flensburg column of jobless Unemployed, united in committees with the employed workers whose ives are being worn away with the ane up, wage cuts and fear of losing even the miserable jobs they | have. While the Hoover capitalist gov- ernment‘can e: and has readily granted the milliona’ “poor ate amounting to some 000,000, and while the pa Jan, 29.—Petty-bour- who are on s $165,- MADRID, geois students, the Madrid University, p: ht before the Roy » “Long Live ite clas pack the cat , theatres and gorge themselves at expensive 1 taurants, the millions of workers who produce all wealth, endure a hell of ty, and) misery and starvation which the ly- , Death to! ing words of Hoover about “mor The police charged the| . (Continued on Page Three.) ike in d last Palace n utin Long Live the the Police!” crowd, wounding several people. Republ | Today i in Hixtery al the Workers | an ae Meanwhile, General Demasso Ber- | enguer, is busy forming his y on the dictatorship in the manner of the deposed die-| |. “cab- | Nope, No Wage Raise. |tator, Primo de Rivera. : i i But yet they are “nine-tenths” in| There is a severe economic erisis Jenusty 30, 1924 eoate textile agreement with the Schlesinger|in Spain, and growing radicaliza- workers in Bombay, India, struck \union! That means no wage raises |tion of the masse stringent! for annual bonus. 1923—Fall of lthrough the LLL.G.W., just as the censorship of the press is enforced.|hourgeois government of Saxony, |Industrial Union always said. } Then come out, in this authoria |tive statement the real reason fo! |the strike, a short strike, of course,|for the union to call them out for|ceded | in ‘and with no oaains for workers: lorganization Purposes. ” | ae We do not want our workers to be tion of workers’ government. 1907— ‘out long if it is absolutely necessary Universal manhood suffrage con- Austria. 1649 — King ‘Charles I of eaRiane beheaded for ary ° Fight Evictions for Non- Pisenent: we Rent Because of long wn inployment, this work- rs furniture and fam- ly were thrown on the treets, thousands of obless and their famé lies are being forced ut of their miserable Worke homes. rs, fight for work o¥ Join the wages! mass demon stration agatast’unemé movement, have raided the workers’ | of Tramping ‘the streets of hundreds | ~ | President ~~ Germany; efforts, begun for forma- | till outrageously exorbitant, and the prosecution an- I] next etneede 3 The county, FASCIST ITALY ® HIT BY CRISIS Workers War on Wage Cuts, Unemployment Mass unemployment in all parts Italy is growing at a rapid rate. The Italian workers, in spite of the fascist dictatorship, are organizing mass unemployed demonstrations, which will reach their climax in the international demonstration, Feb. 26. | The deep-going nature of the present crisis in Italy and the grow- ing struggle of the masses against unemployment, was admitted in 2 recent speech by the fascist general secretary, Turati. In the meeting of the fascist party \leaders of the whole of Italy which | took place after the royal wedding, the fascist leader Turati spoke against the anti-fascist agitation | which was going on all over the country. He said that with abuse and jokes, a slandering campaign was being conducted against fas- Continued on Page Three) “ANOTHER WAGE GUT IN COTTON Third Largest Mill Hits Workers’ s’ Wage Rick OND, V Boia .—The Riversi: River Cottor Mills, , third largest in United States, emplo: 7,000 000 spindles, has ent wage cut te running 470. declared a 10 per + Pebruary 1. and William Greer, of the | American Federation of Labor, whe was party to the Hoover deal for “no wage decreases and no strikes for wage increases” was welcomed to make a speech by Lieut. Gov. james H. Price. He spoke on build- ing the industries of the South, and said: “We were not in Marion, N. C., when six lives were lost; and not in Gastonia when an officer of the law was killed. The members of the federation cannot be called agi- tators.” The United Textile Workers and . union was misleading the Marion strike, and got the six pick- lets killed by sending them to the j mill gates, “armed with bibles and not with guns. | Alteration Painters Mass Meeting Friday; Building Real Union All unorganized painters are urged to come to a mass meeting w, January 31, at MrKinley Square Gardens, Bronx, 1258-60 Boston Road. The meeting is called by the Trade Union Unity League Building and Construction Section. Its purpose is to organize a mili- tant union that will fight in the in- terests of the tens of thousands of anized construction and altera- painters for higher wages, t eight-hour day, five-day week, for unemployment insurance paid for by the bosses, for sanitary con- dit and safer materials. On January 17 the first of a series of mass meetings was held in Manhattan with 100 per cent tomor unor tion