The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1930, Page 1

3 Against the Soviet Union. B Ontered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. aily 295 » under the net © Vol. VI., No. 285 Company, Inc. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing <g>; 26-2% Union Square, New York City, N. Y¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY r | Re ee ee si OSS Fight the Garment Hass. and Their Strikebreaker, Schlesinger Today the dress employers association of New York, speaking through the mouth of Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the so-called International Ladies Garment Workers Union, are calling upon the workers in the dressmaking garment shops to go out upon what is } called a “strike.” : It is openly admitted by the capitalist press and by Schlesinger and all others concerned that this so-called “strike” is supported by the dress manufacturers. It is in fact a lockout arranged by the bosses and their agents, Schlesinger and Co., not for workers’ demands, but for bosses’ demands. ' If the French Police Really Want to Find General Koutiepoff They Should Search . Not Only All Paris Opium Joints, But Also Stimson’s Baggage in London, Where They’re Preparing War The capitalist press has no better representative of the scab manu- facturers than the New York Times, which in an editorial yesterday gave its full support to the employers, to the strike-breaker Schlesinger, and to what it calls a strike “to* promote the welfare of the dress trade by the affirmation of the principle of collective bargaining, the preservation of work- ing standards in the larger shops where they already obtain and the extension of those standards to the great number of sweat- shops which have been absorbing an increasingly large share of the trade.” “Collective bargaining?” “Working standards?” “Abolish sweat- . shops?” The truth js that the purpose of the bosses and their servant Mr. Schlesinger is to stop the organization of the dressmakers in the Needle Trades Industrial Union and to destroy unionism in the dres industry with one of the most dastardly actions ever known in the “history of commercialized treason. To break down the last barrier against the speed-up system and wage-cuts, to maintain and spread what amounts to a sweat-shop system in all of the big shops, crushing every possible opposition of the workers, is the purpose of the Schles- inger scab bureaucracy and the bosses in this pretended call to a strike today. The Times craftily covers up the purpose of this outrageous collaboration between the social-fascist’ gang of Schlesinger and the bosses, with a few sly words about “Communist policies” in the unions and the necessity (from the bosses’ point of view) of destroying all militant organizations of the workers in the dress trade, so as to stop 0 wage-cuts and speed-up and to introduce what the Times d relations between the employers and workers.” By “civilized relations between employers and workers” the capi- talist newspaper means of course the company union! The company union excludes all independence of working class organizations, and “organizes” the workers in the bosses’ slave pen, controlled by super- intendents and other flunkeys who exercise a police supervision over the so-called “unions.” -, Sehies‘ager and his assistants in job-holding are the heads of the bosses’ present company union. They are trying to put over a fake “strike” in order to destroy the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union... Does any one. doubt that the-manufaeturers, jobbers and con- are supporting this dirty business? The Times says: That is why in the present strike, as in last Summer's strike, the better element among manufacturers, jobbers and con- tractors is in sympathy with the step taken by the gatment e union.” es be in “sympathy” with wages and better cond Can the slave-driving New York bos hing that will force them to give high tions to the workers? No! x ‘ Schlesinger, supported by the Jewish Daily vard and the social- ist party, is trying to put through one of the closest approaches to the fascist method of destroying the labor movement that has yet been seen. Their plan is typical of what has come to be called “social-fas- y ialist” traitors in the labor movement’ to as- roy the workers’ own unions by means of de- ist role against their own Por: sist the employers to de: luding messes of worktrs into an active f J class, Mussolini methods adapted to the trickery of Gompersism are to be seen here. This is the latest style in strike breaking in all capitalist countries today. 7 The capitalist class is now engaged in a sharp drive to crush down all resistance of the workers and to reduce th@ workers’ andards of living to such a low level as to enable the capitalist class of this country to throw the cost of the economic crisis upon the shoulders of the work- ing class, while at the same time enabling American capitalists to fight for the world-market by under-cutting foreign competitors with their own scab-made goods. P What_will the workers do? Schlesinger and company claim this to be a “strike” but at the same time they want to prevent any real action of the workers against their employers. Schlesinger, supported by the bosses, claims to be leading an “offensive” against the bosses. The duty of all, class-con- scious workers is not to fall into this trap. The program of the class- conscious workers is to make a real offensive against Schlesinger and the bosses! é The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union does not stand idly by when such drives against the working class are taking place. This militant union cannot have a program of ipaction—it has a program of real, militant action—a program of real offensive—against Schles- inger’s program of fake offensive. When the bosses close down their shops today by orders jssued through the mouth of Schlesinger in order to help the company union betray the workers—every worker should go immediately to the office of the Industrial Union at 131 West 28th St. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, together with these workers, will declare those shops on strike and will strug: gle to force better conditions from the bosses. The N.T.W.I.U. will form real strike committees, composed of the workers themselves, re- gardless of whether they be members of one union or another or of none at all. These genuine strike committees will. be free from treach- erous bureaucrats of the J.L.G.W., and will assume entire direction of the strike and terms of settlement. : The dress makers must build shop committees and elect their dele- gates councils. ; \ ‘The militant industrial union must be built up into a’ powerful | organization, and the company union must be smashed! Only under the leadership of the workers’ own union can the work- ers gain anything! Strike only at the call and under the leadership of ' the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union! ; ay Forward to the fight! Unionize the dress industry! Down with company unionism and the sweat shop! Workers, follow oaly your own organization, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union! ) Social Democratic President Ebert of Germany, and Police ‘Chief Today in History of || Richter of Berlin, expelled from the Workers ! | uniohs for attitude against rail- | February 4, 1718—Weavers of | | road strike. 1925—Combat be- tween police and Communists in Athens, Greece. England ignored proclamation of king and continued general strike. 1794—French Revolutionary Con- h vention declared Negroes free. + 1839—First national convention of English Chartist movement for | democratic election reforms. 1918 —Wilhelm Dittmann, German In- dependent Socialist, sentenced to five years in prison for addressing 12,000 workers on peace. 1922— NEW SOVIET DECREES inating them as a class. HOUSAND UNEMPLOYED MARCH ON MA f March 3. 4, 1930 AST9. SUBSC Outside \ SS. 3 z Mexico Police Protect U.S. Imberialists MEXICO CITY, Feb. 3.—Quick to protect their imperial overlords, the police of the Mexican govern- ment yesterday rushed a large de- tachment to the U. S. embassy, hav- ‘ing been informed by some stool pigeon that “the Communists” had scheduled a demonstration for noon Led Murder Gang Sunday before the embassy which represents the palace of the Gover- | PEER British Gov’t Involved: Rua? | nor-General, Mr. Morrow. No dem- Mass DeportationsPlan onstration appeared however. of Bosses Aiding Gang FAST INDIAN NTW DYE WORKER DEAD FROM HIS WOUNDS Abdul Tahid,Governm’t | Spy and Blackmailer, to deprecate the statement of the | Soviet Commissariat for Foreign Af- PATERSON, N. J., Feb.,3.—John | fairs, thru Litvinoff, to the effect Alli, East Indian dye house worker | that the breaking off of relations and member of the National Textileiwas determined by powers foreign Workers’ Union, died last night. He | to Mexico itself and against the real was one of the four shot through interests of the Mexican people, who, the body Friday by a gang of spies | Litvinoff believed, deeply appreciated operating for the British govern- | the sympathy with which the people ment, the U. S. department of labor | of the Soviet Union watched the and the Paterson employers. | struggle of Mexico against subjuga- relies Otheentiiceey also. UN tion to the interests of the imper- members, Sorug Alli, Cather “AN, ialist powers. and Samir Alli, are still in grave | The Mexican press is endeavoring | FRANCE AIDS | ~ WAR PLANS ON SOVIET UNION ‘Paris Capitalist Press | Favors White-Guard | Attacks Dovgalevsky Protests 'Czarists Plan Raid on | Soviet Embassy PARIS, Feb. 3.—French capital- | ist newspapers are shrieking for a break with relations with the Soviet Union because of the disappearance of the white guardist Czarist Gen- eral A. P. Koutepoff. Soviet Ambassador to France, Va- jlerien DovgalevsRy informed for | minister, Briand, and premier |dieu in separate talks today t j white Russian gangsters were or- ganizing a detachment to raid the | Soviet here and search for General | Koutepoff. Ambassador Dovéalev- LOCKOUT STARTS for the killing, and will probably | make none. Instead, they are work- ing up a case for mass arrests and ‘(NTWIU Fights to Turn Fake Strike Real * mass deportations of all East In- |dians in the, Paterson silk industry |who show militancy or join the N. T.W. Killers Well Known. | The Hindu colony in etree knows a great deal about the man- | , h cuvers that led up to the massacre) | Today, at ie ane lockout at re Friday night. They know the names | d¥essmakers begins. It is to be of the gunmen who came into the | C@rried through by the bosses, the boarding house at 13 Bridge St. and| Police department: and the Interna- shot down the workers. The mur-| tional Ladies Garment Workers. Tt defers are led by a certain Abdul ‘Tahid, who makes headquarters for|the dress shops, where, the Needle his gang of spies at No. 9 Suffolk | Trades Workers Industrial Union is St: Talid‘is a tyéature of the Bri-| winning ‘victory after’victory in one sah: consol? |shop strike after another, for real The British shipping | * . "3 on interests have an agreement with | improvements in working conditions, the U. S. immigration authorities, | and for actual union conditions. ri . ‘ . Schlesinger, president of the I. L. for plentiful deportation of Hindu and other East Indian workers who | * W., end ne (ae: ies she provide British ships with unpaid. the strike. will -last.,ten, aaya, (Continued on Page Two) the Industrial Union will pay no | attention to this limit. The police is an attempt to company-unionize | sky told Tardieu that the embassy jand the Soviet Union had nothing jto do with Koutepoff’s disappear- jance a week ago Sunday. * * .-°% | Capitalist cable dispatches from | Moscow state the Soviet authorities |claim the French government is en- couraging and even financing white | guardist Russian activities in Paris, and that the Soviet Union would hold the French government respon- | sible for any excesses committed on |the Soviet Embassy in Pari The Soviet newspaper, I a, i |quoted as saying: ““‘We must ully land seriously place before Premier | Tardieu’s government the following ‘question: Does the French govern- |ment prefer to maintain relations | with the Soviets or with the white | guard emigres?” Izvestia also de- |manded a reply to the question: |“Who directs French policy in re- lation to the Soviet Union, Premier Tardieu and Foreign Minister Bri- iy vertised that'they will assist and or General Miller (Koutepoff International {nounced in slightly _ camouflaged | KV? Wireless terms that the strike settlement is) The threatened break in relations lalready, written. But none of thi between France and the Soviet News will have any effect on the Indus- | Union comes at a time when the | trial Union, which fights for the SOCIALISTS FAVOR FASCISTS. Workers, not to build bosses associa- | imperialists at the race-for-arma- ment conference are planning hos- | (Wireless by Inprecorr.). ier ne | VIENNA, Feb. 3—A demonstra- tion of 6,000, fascist Heinwehr troops | here Sunday was favored by the “so-’ cial especially withdrawing the prohibition against demonstrations, but these same “socialists” forbid | counter demonstration by the Com- munists, which nevertheless were held. Several workers were ar- rested, including the Secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Ko- plenig. On Saturday, Comrade Zucker, editor of the “Rote Fahne” was acquitted in court, a jury re- jecting the indictment. The trial |thus represented a box on the ear |for the “socialist” authorities. " * MEASURES AGAINST THE LL.G.W. company | tilities against the Soviet Union. It union. is not an isolated case of war Frame Up Militants. maneuvers , but is connected with Today, ag the fake “strike” starts, the American imperialist threats and a “the industrial union calls al! | against the Soviet Unior, and their | workers locked-out by it to come to orders to the Mexican puppet gov- he N.T.W.LU. offices, 131 W ernment to rupture relations. The 28th St. and make it a real str labor” government of Great Britain the frame up trial on assault charges |is also helping war preparations on of I, Potash and Winogradsky be- the U.S.S.R. by threatening a break |gins. This frame up is a plain at-| with the Soviet Union, tempt to keep these two staunch | fighters for real unionism from par- |ticipating in the real strike at the |time of the fake strike. The Inter. | |national Labor Defense is defendin: | the two workers. tions but will be a lock-out for the pur- pose of interfering with the organ- ization campaign now conducted by ° \the Needle Trades Workers Indus: \trial Union in the dress trade, The : i N.T.W.1LU. Statement. ¢, a a eee 2 x 3 ‘ake lock-out-strike maneuver aims The Needle Trades Workers In- +4 divert the discontent of the dr dustrial Union issued the following |makers, and assist the employers to MOSCOW, Feb. 8.—The Sovie ! government today abolished the ‘right to lease land or hire farm lahor in collectivized agricultural | ternational Workers’ Home, 38014 , districts. Other measures provided for an advance against the kulaks, aimed at dislodging them and elim- KULAK CLASS. | | (Wireless By: Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Feb. Government has “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial, Union considers the so- —The Soviet |called dressmakers’ strike, called by issued an order|the International Ladies’ Garment abolishing the law which permitted Workers’ Union, as nothing more | the employment of labor power and!than a huge fake maneuver, admit- the leasing of land in districts now |tedly engineered jointly with the engaged in the process of complete | Dress Employers’ Association. The collectivization. Local authorities International Ladies’ Garment are empowered to expropriate Ku-| Workers Union is a company union laks where desirable, selling proper-| agency of the employers’ associa- ty for payment of debts and giving | tions, and the fake strike called by the remainder to the collectivization | this company union will not’ be a fund and the assistance of poor |strike for the purpose of improving peasants and land wage workers. ithe conditions of the dressmakers, Mobilize Fight in Detroit on Criminal Syndicalist Law |Raymond and Powers, Out on Bail, to Speak; Call Membership Meet on Sunday DETROIT, Feb. 3.—To mobilize; Fred Beal is also out on bail now. the Workers against the bosses at- | Eleven of the 13 participants ar- tempts to jail workers, under the rested in front of the Mexican con- vicious Criminal Syndicalist Law, | sulate in a demonstration against | for their militant activity, three-big'/the war preparations of U. S. im- | meetings are scheduled against the | Perialism and the Wall Street-Mexi- arrests of the 16 members of the!can government, were sentenced to _ Communist Party. ‘five days in jail. These meetings are set for Friday, | A special party membership meet- | Betray. 7, at the following halls: |ing will take place Sunday after- | Workers’ Home, 1343 E. Ferry; In- |noon, February 9, at Workers’ Home to take up the question of unemploy- Yeomans, Hamtramck; Ukranian | ment day and the fight against the ‘Hall, 4959 Martin, ‘Criminal Syndicalism Law. A report Powers and Raymond, two of the will be given on the Central Com- arrested workers who. are out on| mittee Resolution on the Economic bail will be among the speakers. | Crisis, statement, yesterday.: maintain the vicious speed-up, low | wages an. sweatshop conditions now | prevailing in the unorganized dress | shops. First to Struggle. “The Needle Trades Workers. In- dustrial Union was the first to under- (lake tne struggie for th> improve- jment of the dressmakers’ conditions in the General Dress Strike of last jyear, which brought about the union- ization of several hundred dress ; shops. |our organization has been conduct- ing an organization drive in the !dress trade, aiming to extend union- ization and union standards into the open dress shops. “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union and the dressmakers as a whole will fight every attempt ‘of the bosses and their agents in the International Ladies’ Garment Work- | ers’ Union to interfere with its cam- | paign to establish union conditions in the dress trade. We will com- bat with all necessary measures any | attempt by means of gangster ter- /Tor to force the ‘company union up- \on the dressmakers working in shops having contractual relations with jour union, The Industrial Union has | mobilized all its forces to protect |the workers employed in these shops, |and to continue as well as broaden the organization campaign in the | dress trade, for the purpose of abol- ishing the sweat-shop and introduc- ing real union standards in the dress industry. “We also call upon the lockedout | workers to answer the lock-out with a militant fight for union standards, under the leadership of the Indus- vial Union.” For the past several weeks | |“Profane” to Fight 6 for Work or Wages : | | Ben Gold, leader in the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union who was arrested on the charge of “profanity” after he at «a meeting of unemployed rs in Boston yesterday. The mas. w bosses now claim it profani to fight for work or wages. PHILA JOBLESS BATTLE POLICE Organize in Council TUUL | Under the | aug PHILADELPHIA, this morning there tween 1,000 unemp! kers of the Budd Auto Body Co. (emplo: ing “normally” about 5,000 and now jonly 2,000) and the police. | The fight started after an open air meeting he under the z pices of the Trade Union Uni League was broken up by” police, The unemployed workers came to the fore and fought with the police, beating up an ex-captain of poli and two special factory police. Al- though no workers were beaten up, four speakers were arrested and one unemployed worker. This meeting, a tion with the T. L. organize unemployed ¢ assisted by the nged in connec- campaign to ouncils, was Communist Party, which is calling upon the unem- ployed and employed as well to demonstrate against unemployment in conjunction with Inte ional Unemployment Day demonstrations throughout the world on February 26. | Demonstration Friday | Eisman, Amter Speak Mobilizing the w nst the danger of a world in ist attack on the Worker: ners Government: of thé Soviet Union, the Young Communist League of New York City will hold a huge mass meeting on Friday eve- ning, Feb. 7 at 8 o’clock at the Ma tan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Harr Kisman, j released from s months in jail; I. Amter, district organizer of the Communist Party, and other speakers will address the meeting. “Liebknecht,” a three act a mandolin orchestra, instal- of new members, tableus, nd motion pictures will he added This meeting wil for a revolutionar uggle again ses and ex- speeds them up, cuts their wages, throws them o on the street to starve, and hurls them into wa All young and adult workers should ‘attend this most important mass meeting and bring their shop mates along. Legionnaire Tells the | Jobless They Are Rich; | | One, “O'Brien,” tthe “American urity Ieague, organize] . meet the south- | west corner of Union Square iday afternoon, and beg ngainst the Soviet Union and /Communst Party. A crowd of unemployed for spall binder and other | workers gathered to hear what he} ‘had to say, and when: they heard | him declare that “Russia is a land of starvation,” while “in the U. S. | we have real freedom and unbounded ‘ prosperity” they heckled and jeered | him from the place. Leaflets follow- ‘ing the general tenor of O’Brien’s remarks were torn up in disgust by the workers and the jobless. Communist speakers seized the | platform, and to a constantly grow- ing audience, amounting in the end |to about 400, they blasted O’Brien’s lies about the Soviet Union, TION RATES: I FINAL CITY EDITION | ew York by mail, $8.00 per year, $6.00 per yenr. New Yor STATE HOUSE WORK OR WAGES” IS DEMANDED OF GOVERNOR WHO FLEES BY REAR EXIT Tr, U. U. L. Forms Unemployed Council in Joint Action With Revolutionary Needle Union Price 3 Cents Jobless Resist Provocative Police Attack in Defense of Their Demands for Relief | BOSTON, Feb. 3.—Over 1,000 workers gathered in front of the State House and City Hall today, when a mass unem- ployment march was called by the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League, demamding that the thousands of jobless and starving workers be given “Work or Wages” at the cost of the bosses and their government. There was a severe battle when police tried to break up _the demonstration. The workers resisted the police’s brutal onslaught. Big police reinforcements were called before the meeting was finally broken up. A worker by the name of Peters had his head cut in the® : attack. Many others were beaten up. Over thirteen ar- rests were made. * The m | State Ho mass meeting of jobless workers at 22 Harrison Ave. More than 400} were present. The speakers at the meeting were the district organizer of the Communist Party, Roy Stev- | Anderson, U. L. cel ganizer; M. Whittier, organizer of the Unemployed Council, and Ben | Gold, of the Needle Trades Workers’ | Industrial Union, Gold was arrested after he fin- ished speaking, when he went to the office of the N.T.W.I.U. The charge | against him was | At the leaflet di 1ouncing the unemployment demon- stration, Sarah Halperin and How-} ard Weisberg, members of the Young Communist League were ar- rested. Governor Escapes by Back Door. | HOOVER'S LIE | ch to the City Hall and | HIT BY FACTS was preceded by a Unemployment Grows With Deeper Crisis Again Hoover's -lying statements about a “betterment” in the drastic unemployment situation in the United States was nailed, and this time by one of the tools of the United States employment service of the Labor Department. \ Francis Jones, director of heute S. employment service, testifying-beb, fore the house iimigration commit- tee on Jan. 31, said that “unemploy- ment is general in almost every state” in the United States. He said he sent 5,000 workers to California recently and that only 25 were hired. Even the American Federation of When the jobless workers marched } Labor, which cooperates with Hoo- to the State House, Roy Stevens ad- | ver in breaking strikes and trying to dressed the workers from the steps | forestall mass action of the 6,000,000 (Continued on Page Three) |¥nemployed army, is forced to re- ake a port that the number of jobless in F ARRESTED AT the ranks of the A. F. of L. during January the very month that Hoover | said showed improvement) was more than “even in the worst month two Use Par, 600, Though Injunction Is Smashed Millers Market bosses, and thes fascist United Hebrew Trades who provide it with the bs in a strike conducted by the Food Clerks Union of the Amalgamated Food Workers, continue to have pickets a ed under “Paragraph 600,” for violation of an injunction— though they no longer have any in- junction. The Word Clerks continue picket- ing, refusing to be frightened by the police terror which killed Steve Katovis in front of this market Jan. of L. said that 19 per cent of the | union members were apt of work in | January as compared with 16 per | cent in December—that shows an in- | crease of 3 per cent in one month. On this basis accepting even these faked figures of the belly-crawling | misleaders in the A. F. of L, there |are more than 700,000 unemployed | out of the 3,500,000 organized work: Jers. The statement of the A. F. of L, goes on to say: “Increasing unemployment in many of these trades together with the layoff of over 700,000 in manufac- | turing since September has brought the total unemployment in the nited States to serious :proportions.” What is the policy of the A. Fy \of L.. in the present situation? Co- | winters ago, when there was so much | MILLER MARKET | suffering from unemployment.” | 3 | The monthly report of the A. F. | operation with the bosses in their Communists Get Meet the | considerable Trials Thursday. erday three more pickets were arrested, and were taken to night court last night. One of the pickets ted Friday, and two arrested urday came up for trial yester- day, and cases were postponed to | Thursday. | However, it was learned that sev- | eral of thtse pickets will be charged | with violation of an injunction, con- |tempt of court, ete. although the | injunction obtained by socialist lead- er Charles Solomon for the boss of | | Millers Market, was vacated several | jdays ago, The pickets will be| (Continued on Page Two) | (Corttinued on Page Three) Notice, To All Party and Y.C.L. Members ~ All Party and Young Communist - League members and all militants must report at the headquarters ©. of the Needle Trades Workers In-* dustrial Union, at 131 West 28th St., on Tuesday for organization purposes. Every comrade is needed and none should fail to report. DISTRICT BURO. T. U. U. L. Negro Organizing Conference Scores Misleaders | | CHICAGO, Ill, (By Mail)—The | Trade Union Unity League Negro Conference held here January 25, | with a large and representative dele- | gation from many industries drew | up a statement to Negro workers, | which calls on thenr to “Fight Jim | Crow Unionism; Build a powerful | all-inclusive revolutionary industrial |movement in the United States; | Join with the militant workers in) jou countries in defense of the So-| vines Union, the fatherland of the | workers and oppresse: | the world.” ® % seem a ye Expose Jim Crow Unionism; Advises Porters to Oust Randolph; Make It A Class Union Oppression 9°” Betrayal. _ The statement points to the ter- rifie crisis now, the unemployment of millions, both in the North and, South, and worse in the South, but, shows that the Negro workers are particularly discriminated against’ and victimized, both by the bosses and by the American Federation of Labor. It says: “On the one hand, jn an attempt to stop the rising tide of revolt, the bosses are meeting the offensive of the workers by police terror, Ku _. Wontinued on Page Three) a