The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1930, Page 3

= | anti-imperialist movement, | ever-growing process of revolution- | acter of the Calles-Rubio govern- + Pakers Try to Smother British Cotton Strike a Report Chinese Red Army More Active a wAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1930 Shows Young Commun The Executive Committee of the Young Communist International has issued the following appeal to the Young Communists and the young workers of all countries: Teo Young Communists and to the Young Workers of the Whole World. A wave of reaction against the revolutionary movement has been launched in Mexico, Many comrades have been murdered, all the Central Committee and other comrades of our Young Communist League have been thrown into prison, The Calles-Rubio government, the petty bourgeois government which has capitulated before the latifund- ists (plantation owners) and the, clergy, the government of the coun- ter-revolutionary bloc is using in the service of American imperialism all the most reactionary methods, in the attempt to destroy our organiza- tions, to arrest the ever-growing de- velopment of our movement. The economic and political con- tradictions of the Mexican bour- geoisie are still more aggravated by the ever-growing violence of the penetration of the imperialist colo- nists on the one hand, and by the strengthening of the revolutionary spirit of the masses which is ex- pressed by the development. of the in an ary differentiation, and in the ex- tension of Communist influence on the working masses of all Latin- America on the other hand, and have only unmasked the true char- ment, the old representative of the revolutionary petty bourgeois. The Communist youth of Mexico has lately shown great activity in the strengthening of its.ranks. It has put itself truly at the head of the young workers in the anti-im- j perialist struggle, it has developed 4 great anti-militarist activity | against the criminal actions of the YOUNG COMMUNIST INT.) Is “eaiter ISSUES CALL AGAINST WALL ST.--- RUBIO GOV'T ist League of Mexico Is Fighting Mexican Militarism Calls for Fight Against Mexican White Terror. and Arrest of Young Workers military tribunal, side by side with ducted a struggle against the fascist code of labor which attacks the right to strike and the independence of the unions and against the capitu- lation before agrarian reform which ends in the abolition of all the vic- tories of the peasants; it has con- ducted a bitter struggle against op- portunist elements, the traitors and false leaders of the working class; besides this on the occasion of the last elections, it mobilized, on the basis of defending its most vital interests, the broad masses of work- ing youth around a worker and peasant bloc against reaction. This is why the bourgeois Mexi- can government of American im- perialism has particularly directed its blows against our Youth League. But in spite of reaction, Commu- nist youth in Mexico will continue along this road, will once more place itself at the head of the revo- lutionary struggle. The young workers of Mexico, we are sure, will show themselves worthy of our comrades. They will take the place of the young Communists who for the moment have had to abandon the struggle. They will reply to the blows of reaction by consolidating still more the Young Communist League. Young workers, Young Commu- nists of the whole world! Show everywhere your great soli- darity with the young Communists of Mexico! Organize protest mani- festations everywhere against the terror, the assassinations and the re- | action of the Mexican bourgeoisie! Down with the fascist government of Calles-Rubio! Down with Yankee imperialism! Long live the international soli- darity of the working-class youth! Long live the Young Communist League of Mexico. Executive Committee of the | Young Communist International. _ Uruguay Workers Stone Mexican Legation é MONTEVIDE, Uruguay, Jan. 29. —A group of workers stoned the Mexican: Legation here, situated in one of the: principal avenues of the city, breaking windows and even the door of the edifice. This undoubtedly is the local derionstration of Urguayan work- ers against the white terror in Mexico, although the police were un- | able to apprehend any one to cer- tify this supposition. The police say that in view of the demonstrations at many Mexi- can legations in different countries, a police guard in plain cloth had been posted in front of the legation, but that a few moments before the demonstration took place, some one whose identity is unknown, had at- tacked this sentinel, thrown him down and given him a healthy beat- ing. Gustavo Villaporo, the Charge Affaires reporting the matter to the Uruguayan government received a note regretting and condemning the incident. The police have rein- forced the guard at the legation and are trying to discover who en-| gaged in the demonstration. | LONDON, Jan. 29.—Although the British cotton weavers have voted for a strike, their leaders are trying to smother the movement by post- ponement. The vote was announced as giving 92,142 in favor of strike as against 43,541 against. The bu- reauerat officials have simply set workers, on the excuse that the con- ditions make a strike “inopportune.” They do not, however, give any in- dication of when they might con- sider a strike to be “opportune,” and in any event they are refusing to carry out the will of the workers, in line with the Monde policy of class collaboration and the class aside the demand of nearly 100,000 peace policy of the “labor” party. Drop of India Securities Alarms British Imperialists LONDON, Jan. 29.—Nervous im- périalists, alarmed by the drop in sterling securities of India, have peen reassured by the secretary of state, Captain Wedgwood Benn. ‘This Laborite upon whom the In- dian bourgeoisie was basing much hope beesuse of his reported “sym- hard-boiled imperialist that the “la- bor” government “has no intention of allowing a state of affairs to arise in India, in which repudiation of this debt could become a practical possibility.” The London Times financial editor, noting Captain Benn’s utterance, states that this is “sufficient to reassure the most ner- pathy” for Indian independence, said, after the fashion of the most vous investor.” eck ceempenneaennneenamasnestiaaasatienetinseannantetsettiCeettCn st French Bosses Alarmed Over Anti-Military Activity of Communists PARIS, Jan. 29.--The French ‘bourgeoisie is thrillingly alarmed by secret service announcements that the Communists are carrying oft propaganda in 40 regiments of the French army. ‘The newspaper “Liberty,” quite in contradiction to its name, fever- ishly denounces the right of work- ers in uniform to have any political |g ideds as a “menacing” situation. Five young workers in the 12th regiment of artillery in Alsace are under arrest on a charge of “incit- ing” their comrades. A “éareful survey” of the whole frontier mili- tary is betne cartied on. It is said that “one of the most damaging pieces of evidence” is a plan for a miners’ strike in the Bricy basin. A strike has just end- ed there after three months’ strug- gle over wages. Thus the French ‘overnment under the excuse of “national defense” is attacking the right, not only of soldiers to think, but of workers to stril LONDON, Jan. 29.—Indications Yhat Chinese Red armies are increas- jing activities is seen here in report= from Canton that Cantonese troop: are preparing to defend Wachow against an imnending attack by “pebels.” the nature of which is not N, M. 17. Canvantion To Be Held in Pittshure’ a (Continued from Page One) accordance with the situation. At thé same time plans for the waging greater mass straggles of the miners will be made,” said Toohey. Fight Unemployment. He pointed out that high on the ag-~4= of the convention will be given, In view of the fact that Chang Fa Kwei is out of sight, the nresent movement seems to be that nf the workers and peasants forces, ™ any event this indicates continued disintegration of the Nanking gov- ernment control. the problem of the growing army of unemployed among the miners, the organization of the unorganized, and the penetration of the South—all in accordance with the program out- lined by the Trade Union Unity League, affiliated to the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions. All N.M.U. locals will oon begin election of delegates to the Pitts- burgh convention, | the Communist: Party it has con- | | The Berlin Police Chief, the | “Socialist” Zoergibiel, has prohi- | bited the slogans of Karl Marz.— The above represents an edition of the works of Mara, with cor- rections and additions of the “so- cialist” Zoergibiel. Communists Mobilize for Morning Freiheit (Continued from Page One) cialist fascists who are shielding the bosses against the arising onslaught of the workers. During and after the uprising of the Arabian masses in Palestine against British imper- ialist and its aid, Zionism, the Morning Freiheit, under the leader- ship of the Party, helped to mobilize tho masses against the tide of chauvinism and nationalism that was threatening the sweep the Jew- ish working masses. The Morning Freiheit was attacked by the united front of the Jewish bourgeoisie ex- tending from the large scale capi- talists and down to the so-called radical nationalists who had even been pretending sympathy with the Left wing labor movement. The Freiheit was made the object of physical assaults, of boycott, of a campaign to withdraw the advertise- ments and of attempts to throttle the paper altogether. Very Active. “In the present struggles, as the strike of the shoe workers, the mob- ilization of the needle workers for new struggles the struggle around the murder of Comrade Katovis, as well as in the Party recruiting cam- paign, the Morning Freiheit has ments of the Party. of the revolutionary labor movement and because the bourgeoisie the la- bor fakers and all other social fas- cists have mobilized against the class struggle of the workers, the Morning Freiheit has suffered greet financial losses and is now compelled once more to appeal to the working masses for funds. “The Central Committee fully en- dorses the campaign of the Morning Freiheit. It instructs every district organizer to mobilize the Jewish Fractions to carry on the campaign and to transform it into a mass movement reaching to the broadest Jewish workers. A Freiheit Cam- paign Comittee should be organized by the Jewish Fractions in every city with the assistance of the D.O. All Party units are instructed to help the campaign of the Jewish Fractions in reaching the largest possible number of Jewish workers. “Comrades, the situation of the Morning Freiheit at present is very critical, and unless aid is rushed im- mediately it is in danger of not be- ing able to pass the present crisis. “It must be remembered, however, that the basis of the Morning Frei- heit is sound, that tens of thousands of Jewish workers are looking upon the Morning Freiheit as their col- lective organizer and agitator, and that the Freiheit has every possibil- ity to continue its activities if it is helped to get out of the present crisis, The Party needs the Morning Frei- heit, and no effort should be spared to save it in the present emergency. General Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. Self Criticism by the Big Bosses on Police Though the New York Times and certain other papers have rushed editorials in defense of the police brutalities at the City Hall demon- stration, papers writing for other capitalists, not meant for workers’ eyes, admit that there was a politi- cal blunder made, It was wrong, from a sane capi- talist point of view, to so completely, at this stage of the game, expose the purposes of the police. The pretense that the law is “fair” and “democratic” ought to be kept up. The Wall Street Journal, issue of Jan, 28, put it this way: “If Communism is ever to become a real menace in this country it will need all the assistance it can get from the police.... “Nothing could have been more incredibly stupid or better calculated to defeat the ends for which all po- lice forces exist, than the handling by the police of the attempted Com- munist demonstration at City Hall on Saturday. Making all possible allowance for exaggerated accounts of their behavior, one can only con- elude that a large proportion of the 125 patrolmen and mounted officers concentrated there to preserve order lost their heads and got completely out of the control of their superior officers. Whether it was by fear or by passion aroused by insulting epi- “b bor bureaucrats and against the So- | been one of the most active instru- | “But because of the rising wave | JOBLESS COUNCIL IN SOUTH CRIES '\Chattanooga T. U.U.L.| Unites Both Races | (Continued from Page One) |dren, who was ordered thrown out ‘on the streets by the Municipal , Court. Joseph Thomson, Negro jan- itor, who did not pay rent because | he has not received any pay for over a month, was ejected from his | |home by order of Judge Haas, one | |of the Draft Board chiefs during | |the war who forced workers to serve | |as cannon fodder in Morgan’s war {| |for “democracy.” There are about |ten other -cases of city, workers, | Janitors and street cleaners, who are being cast into the streets because of, non-payment of rent. All these city employes are working, but be- cause of the wholesale graft of the Thompson machine have not been’ paid for nearly a month. Yet the City Courts are cooperating with the landlords in throwing the workers on the streets. Tens of Thousands Penniless. More than 40,000 city workers are unpaid. The Thomson gang of poli- ticians have been pocketing millions of dollars for over ten years. They have piled up a debt of over $290,- 000,000, and now the judges of the jeity courts, most of whom are part of the Thompson grafting machine, are ordering the city workers who do not pay rent because they re- ceive no money for their work, evicted from their homes. Must Make Mass Fight Against Eviction. The Rent Court is filled to over- |flowing with cases of unemployed | workers who are getting notices to get out of their homes because of non-payment of rent. Not in ten years have so many cases been on the docket in the Rent Court. Thousands of workers’ children in the schools are suffering from cold because the School Board is cut- ting down on its coal purchases, due to the financial bankruptcy of the City. The supply of free text | books has been exhausted, and there lis a possibility that the schools will close down completely on Febru- ary 1. Hundreds of firemen’s families are | suffering severely because the Fire- | |men’s Pension Board, which is tied up with the grafters of the Thomp- son gang, has not been able to raise | jthe $97,000 which is due for pen- sions, Meanwhile, the imperialist bank- ‘ers in Chicago, headed by Silas H. Strawn and James Simpson, are maneuvering for political control, against the Thompson Republicans. With the vast army of the great industrial center of Chicago growing rapidly, the formation of a Council of the Unemployed is imperative and immediate, The Trade Union Unity League, in its call for the organization of such councils, points out that the organization of the un- employed is a part of the basic work of Organizing the Unorganized, made more acutely necessary by the terrible needs of the workers now enduring an economic crisis which will not end even with the winter, but which must be fought against on @ permanent, organized basis, With the struggle of the unem- ployed themselves, the workers still ‘employed at the factories, should be linked up in a solid fight against the speed-up, for shorter hours, | against wage cuts, and a united | struggle of the whole working class | carried on daily at the factory gates, | which the whole working class to | be rallied for the great demonstra- | tion on February 26. Unemployment Is Growing in Far East (Continued from Page One) pressed somewhat, owing to small- er returns for tea, rubber, and coco- nut products, which form about 85 per cent of the country’s total ex. ports...” Crisis Hits China Hard. There is mass unemployment in Shanghai and the Yangtze Valley in China says another report to the Department of Commerce. “Busi- ness in general-throughout Shanghai and Yangtze Valley areas of China is practically at a standstill... . Stocks are piling up in Shanghai, and dealers are unable to move cargo under conditions existing at present.” As a result, there is grow- ing unemployment of the Chinese workers. The crisis in Japan and the grow- ing mass unemployment there is in- dicated by a report to the Depart- ment of Commerce which says: “De- pression prevailed throughout the year from a business and industria! viewpoint. Commercial inactivity is indicated by the drop of 4% per cent in bank clearings for the first 11 months of the year, from the to- tal of 1928... “It is probable that the current Business depression will continue through the first six months of 1930, with increased unemployment and lower commodity prices, particular- ly if the present policy of retrench- ment is carried out.” The Japanese capitalists follow the cue of Hoover, go to all limits in order to hide the number of the jobless army in Japan, and make the workers believe the lie that things will “get better soon.” .That unemployment is large is unquestion- tide th Annes hee NN NONE thets that they were stampeded, they disgraced themselves and the city.” | ‘WORK OR WACES’ COMMUNISTS, TUUL TO LEAD US, SAY JOBLESS WORKERS Department Store, Printing, Food Workers Suffer Big Men and Women Workers, Jobless, Militant Or: (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal.—Unemployment | here is at its highest peak. The| conditions of workers are getting ;no wonder many young girls go out | There is great|to earn extra money nights selling | worse every day. rationalization for the woman work- | ers, especially in the department | stores. i Lay-Offs ganization employing school children. You must dress well to work in these | stores. How, on such wages? Its their bodies. Withorne and Swan’s has girls employed there that meet earlier SHOWS HOSTILITY TO SOVIET UNION AT LONDON MEET Sharp Rivalries on War | Armaments Shown Look to} aments § (Continued on Page Two) ist Soviet Republics, and the fact that all the delegates Jconsidering their war inst the Soviet Union, maneuve | agai | * Dicker Over Increases. LONDON, Jan. 30,—Even at the jopen session of the } ment conference today the imperial- The biggest stores in Oakland,|every Friday morning before work, | ist powers could not hide their sharp like Capwell's, Withorne and Swan, | and they are forced to sing to Jesus, | Tivalries in the struggle for more and others have laid off many work-| This is done to try to make them | War armaments. ers. 1 | forget their misery from low wages, | Bickerings went on as to whether The girls in Capwell’s are getting | and make the girls thankful for| the increases should be limited to ;@ grand wage of $50 a month, plus |starvation wages. | If sales are | girls will organize a militant union | bal,” or total tonnage of the vari- percentage on sales. low, you get nothing. | The 5 and 10-cent stores pay less, Some day these and better their conditions. ANNA ALDEN. Addressograph Lays Off Metal Workers (By « Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—I worked one year at the Addressograph Company, and about a week before Christmas they started laying off many inen in sev-| Another result | eral departments. of the stock market crash. I got my Christmas present too, in the shape af a kick in the pants, like every worker gets, sooner or later. I demanded to know why I was getting laid off. The boss only told me that he was laying more men off, and he actually laid off high paid men that worked there for six years or more. I met a fellow the other day, and he said they hired four new fel- lows in my department, which sur- prised him greatly. But it was no surprise to me, even though they iold us they were going to write for us if they needed us and hire us back. I know very well those men that are working in our places now are getting less wages and respond {more readily to the speed-up that’s going on in every plant and factory. Every Chicago factory worker or want to know how to help and fight |against conditions like this. There do this, and that is to organize— organize into a fighting union the affiliating with the TUUL. Comrades! Fellow workers of Chicago! Join us! Write immed- jately to the office, 23 South Lin- coln Street for application cards for yourself and your fellow workers and friends, A METAL WORKER. “The World’s Largest R. R. Printers” Lays Many Off (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—I was just laid | off at Poole Bros, here—known as | |the “world’s largest railroad print- | ers.” I had only worked there three | weeks when I got the air. First} they cut the hours down and were | working a five-day week, with no| Saturday work (workers paid accord- | ingly), They continued this five- | day week and business got worse | all the time, so they started laying | off the higher paid workers. They put less skilled workers in the places of these men, but they received the same wages as ever, even though the work they did was worth more money. For instance, an $18 a week helper would do a $50 a week pressman’s work for the same pay. A few days later they laid off sev- eral “old timers.” One man who had been working there 17 years was fired, and. when a worker is laid off at Poole Bros. he don’t get back again even if they do pick up. The company publishes monthly a small magazine for the workers with which they try to bulldoze the men and girls into believing that Poole Bros. is the best place in the world to work, etc. In this lying magazine they try to keep the work- ers satisfied by telling them they are all one “big family” and should be willing to even make sacrifices if it will benefit the company—the company being the bosses and work- ers alike—‘“the big family.” I hope the day comes soon when | eee concerns will be all organized under the banner of the T.U.U.L. and the Communist Party. In clos- ing let us send greetings to the printing trades workers everywhere. —PRINT SHOP WORKER. Food Workers, Fight Unemployment Through Union! (By «a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—We jobless food workers hang around the (un)- employment agencies on Sixth Ave. | from 6 a m. to 5 p. m. every day in search of work. Before the boss employment manager will tell you of a job you've got to cought up $10 or more. | Today I went out to the slave} market to look for a job, There were lots of other out-of-work food | workers already around looking over the signs of the employment places. We saw a sign that adver- tised for some men. We went up. The big boss, with a fat cigar hang- ing from a corner of his mouth meets us. The job is gone, boys, he tells us. thing goes on everyday. Conditions are bad. The bosses do what they want. Unless we fight back, conditions will become worse and worse. We can only fight by organization. The food workers have their organization in the Amal- gamated Food Workers. —FOOD WORKER. Unemployed Will Fight; Communists Must Lead Them (By a Worker Correspondent) Quality Art, 28 West 17th St.,| advertised for packers at $18 a/ week, and at least 250 young, husky men between 25 and 30 years an- swered the call. Police were called to vacate the place after the job was filled, But there is something to be learned in analyzing the | crowd. | Now these workers will fight for bread, and are ready for fight and organization, but it will take time until they develop leadership, unless ' leadership is supplied to them. That is the role and the duty of the Com- munist Party, but has it supplied leadership to the unemployed so far? It is not sufficient for The Daily Worker to call upon workers to organize themselves. What we must do and quickly is the following: Mobilize our unemployed com- | rades for work among the unem- ployed, among those looking for jobs every morning, and the hundreds waiting before the employment agencies. LOCKOUT UNION PRINTERS. ‘By a Worker Correspondent) NEWARK, N. J. (By Mail).— Whitehead and Hoag, large manu- facturer of pins, badges, emblems, ete., have locked out all union print- ers, and declared it would operate on a 48-hour week open shop basis instead of a 44-hour week union basis. NEW SILK STRIKE IN NAZARETH (By a Worker Correspondent) NAZARETH, Pa. (By Mail).— Silk weavers struck in the McCul- lom and Post Co. mill for better wages and working conditions. able, especially in the face of the admitted erisis in Japan. In Japan, in spite of the wholesale terror directed against the Commu- nist Party, and the revolutionary unions of the Kyogikai, the mass army of unemployed is being organ- ized to participate in the interna- TEXTILE WOMEN . WORKERS MEET Prepare for Big Silk Strike; Build Union PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 30.—A great mass meeting of women silk and dye workers is called to meet at 205 Paterson St., here, tomorrow at 8 p.m. “Organize for a strike against speed-up, long hours and wage cuts, for the 40-hour week, for the abolition of child labor!” says the leaflet, calling the meeting. ‘Join the National Textile Workers Union, fight for equal pay for equal work, against night work for wo- men,” it says. Build The Daily Worker—Send tional demonstrations for work or wages, to culminate on Foely 26, in Your Share of the 15,000 New Sha, |metal worker reading of this one| example will be interested and will! WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET is only one way in which we can | Fetal Workers Industrial League, | Come around again. This | | cruisers alone, or should cover “glo- |ous imperialist navies. The French |imperialists are demanding the ‘global” tonnage basis, so that they can build cruisers and submarine while the bigger imperi | want the armament rac |the building of cruiser they could predominate. The Italian representatives de- |elared they could not commit them- |selves to mode of procedure in question in the open the agenda) until two mited to in which | The newly built hotel NEW YORK TELEPH ce-for-arma- | powers | Page itice c had been settled. The fir: s a decision on what nations should be maintained among the fleets of the five-powers in their war-building programs. This brings forward the Italian imperialists’ de- mands for parity with France, and the Japanese claim for a 70 per cent ratio of the n war strength | of the United and Great Britain. Make Demands for Bigger Navies. | LONDO an. 30.—The Japanese im demanded seven-tenths as many cruisers as Great Britain }and the United States at the race- for-armaments conference today. | A French naval expert said the French imperialists would insist on | adding ,000 tons to their navy | every year up to 1942. In this man- | ner the imperialist powers at the Five-Power meet “disarming.” As Tar ns 1 am concerned, 1 can't claim to have discovered the ex- istence of classes in moderp society <r thelr strife against one another. | Middie-class historians long age described the evolution of the class struggles, and political economists showed the economic phystology of 1 have added as a Dew the classes, a ses of material production: 2) D that the class struggle leads neces- warily to the dictatorship of the proletariat: 3) that this dictatorshiy in but the transition to the aboll« tion of all classes and to the ere- ation of a society of free and equal —Marx, Our own age, the vourgeol Is distinguished by this— has simplifice class « More and more, society ts si up into two great hostile camps | into two great and directly contra- | posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letariat,—Marx. ae _ i , N.Y. has 61 rooms—two in a i | room—hot and cold water in every room. Showers and baths on every floor. 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