The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1930, Page 3

JATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1930 1 socialist Paper “Vorwirts” Protects Army : Command Caught in Plot Against USSR ERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail Ser- e).—The revelations of the Rote hne" concerning the connections he Reichswehr-General Kress von essenstein and the German For- n Office with the counter-revo- ionary white Russian emigrants 1 with the Chervonetz dorgers ve aroused very great interest and «luce a powerful echo in the press. The “Berlmer Tageblatt,” the at ‘democratic’ daily writes: ‘It is of course very interesting learn that the document which s kept so seeret and whose pub- ation, according to Karumidse5s ‘iogel would have been dangerous he siate, was in fact the letter high general of the Reichswehr was pursuing his own private ttical ends here. It will be the iness of the government and the chstag to clear up this mysteri- business publicly.” Phis tactic of admitting the truth the “Rote Fahne” revelations, but laving tiem to be the private af- ERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail Ser- ).—Yesterday- evening the north- t sub-district of the Berlin Com- nist organization organized an i-fascist_Cemonstration on the Imholtz Platz. Immediately af- the commencement of the dem- tration automobiles loaded with ned police appeared from all sides. the streets leading into the imholtz Platz were cordoned off | the police attacked the dem- trators with their batons with- reason and with the greatest tality. The pelice even entered ps and houses and beat up the »ple they found there, At one ce the police fired into the mas- rhe Piats was swept by: search- ‘js which the police brought » on lorries and the workers herded together ~ like sheep, s and revolvers were levelled \ , the unarmed masses and the pol- i shouted, “Hands wu !” The work- ‘vice).-The court in’ Dresden has tenced 38 revolutionary workers hort terms of imprisonment for ing worn the uniform of the pro- ted Red Front Fighters’ League RAGUE (By Inprecorr Mail { ict he report of the Fi- I Minister on the Tcheckish izet shows that approximately per cent is reserved for war pur- es.. The largest single item is armaments and° totals 1.4 mil- ‘d crowns. Last year the sum al- ed by the budget for armaments s exceeded subsequently by 75,- ,000 crowns, and something of sort may be expected this year ‘here are some items in the bud- He economized, be nothing to do with war, for| Hance, “social welfare” receives | | millions this year instead of 835 year, A “saving” of 11 millions ousand Unemployed rch on State House (Continued from Page One) the City Hall. A delegation of yy unemployed workers went to ‘iovernor Allen. The governor, | he learned of the presence of nemployed Council delegation, on his coat and hat and tried get out of the back door, The smployed workers ‘tried to get to 1, but he would not stay. The gation returned to the open air tine and reported what had hap- ed. ‘hen police began to arrive and rged into the crowd, beating up unemployed, The resistance of workers prevented the breaking of the demonstration until large achments of police arrived with atrol wagon. Many of the work- were loaded into the wagon, ong whom were E. Anderson, T, U. L. organizer, E, Daniels, dis- |'t organizer of the Young Com- ist League, and many others.- | arrested in connection with unemployed demonstration are Fiveing held in jail. n jaddressing the workers in ht of the City Hall, Roy. Stevens vssed the uhemployment demands «he Communist Party, demanding ‘k or unemployment insurance d by the state. He spoke on the bilization for the International apaign-of struggle against unem- yment to culminate on February He demanded the release of rry Cantor, who is now in jail parading with a sign calling vernor Fuller the murderer of ‘co and Vanzetti. 4 )rganization of the mass of un- ployed workers in this city into vig Unemployed Council is pro- ding at full speed. Not only MMUNISTS EXPOSE A KRMAN ARMY GENERAL N ANTI-SOVIET PLOT vil War Against Working Class of Germany Aceompanies War Plans Against Soviet Berlin Police Make War on Workers |A., Makar, Ex-Soviet ‘Ambassador to Mexico fair of the high cfficials concerned, is the one general'y adopted by the bourgeois democratic press. The right-wing nationalist press and of course, the central organ of the German social-democratic party, the “Vorwacrts” print the mechanical denial of the German authorities without comment. ‘a The official “denial” admits that Kress von Kressenstein gave Karu- midse the recommendation, but de- clares that it was a purely private affair (!). The “Rote Fahne” main- tains the whole of its revelations and deciares that it is peculiar that General Kress von Kressenstein should -yrite a personal and private recommendation for a civil person en the official note paper of the V! Reichawehr Division. The Communist Reichstag frac- tion has filed an interpellation in connection with the revelations of the “Rote Fahne” demanding that the government should deai with them immediately. to leave Mexican preparing Makar is i the Mexico following break with the Soviet Union at the orders of the U. S. imperial- igts. The breaking off or rela- tions with’ the U.S.S.R. by the Rubio-Gil-Morrow government is @ step in the war preparations against the Soviet Union. HOOVER'S LE HIT BY FACTS ers’ were then searched, allegedly for arms. Needless to say none were found, 214 men and 40 wom- en were transported to the police presidium. ‘s The police committed brutalities against their prisoners who . how- ever refused to be intimidated and sang the “Internationale’. After being under arrest for many hours a section of the arrested were re- leased without any charge having been made against them. Today’s “Rote Fahne’ writes: “Yesterday’s happenings—military tactics to surround a peaceful dem- onstration, the arrest of hundreds of unarmed and peacefully demon- strating workers without cause and without occasion and without any | of labor and the bosses to k previous collisions having taken {from fighting against unemployment place, represent a new provocation | and wage-cuts. on such a scale that the revolution-| “A heavy broadside is dealt the ary proletariat of Berlir, must pro- {lying statements of Secretary of La- test energetical'y against these civil | hor Davis, by the organ of the big war methods.” |bosses, the Journal of Commerce. Not that this sheet is interested in With Deeper Crisis (Continued from Page One) speed-up plans, wage-cutting pro- gram and their strike-breaking pol- icy. The Hoover-Green agreement j that “no s' s” or “struggles for increases in wages,” is being put | into full. force by the misleaders in | the A, F, of L. But the mass of jobless workers las well as those on the job will not |permit the unity of the misleadeis “ ” . : am telling the masses the truth, but Red Front” Defiant in Dresden Couri Ah aa uteniiae fered ow ERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail| at a demonstration which took place | Shaking American capitalism, while on the October 27, 1929. The ac- cused received their sentences with | shouts of “Red Front!” in which the general public joined. In this con- nection a number of | disciplinary punishments were imposed. selves. De-Bunking Hoover. After showing that Hoover and Dav figures claiming that “em- ploynient is improving” is the sheer- JOBLESS I San Francisco and Newark wo Unemployment Grows) p them | the bosses want to confuse the work- ers, they desire a more or less cor- fect picture of conditions for them- ‘zech “Socialist” Rule Plans War; Attacks Czech Workers has thus been made. These econo- mies have been made’at the cost of the wounded ex-soldiers and at the jeost of the housing scheme. These economies are insufficient for the Tcheckish bourgeoisie, how- and the Finance Minister announces a wide scale rationalization of the school system in order to save money. Such rationalization is well known from other capitalist coun- tries, fewer teachers who have larger |elasses to teach and, therefore, | |poorer education. The minister al- | where the Tcheckish bourgeoisie |so announced the rationalization of | but these items | public administration, in other words | mass Dismissal of state employees. | He also announced the, abolition of the tenants protection provisions and the raising of rents. Free One of Barkoski’s Murderers; 2 Convicted Will Get Easy Sentence FRANKBEIN, Pa., Feb, 3.—Frank Slapikas, one of the three Pennsyl- vania coal and iron policemen (offi- cers hired. by the companies and uniformed and commissioned by the state) who beat the miner, John Barkoski, to death last year, got off scet free when the jury gave its verdict yesterday. The three were on trial for “involuntary man- slaughter” carrying only a_ short |jail term as penalty. They had been whitewashed last October by a Mel- lon owned court on the murder charges against them. Two officers were convicted yes- terday and will get a few months’ sentence at easy work and with early parole. The Mellon coal mine owners who run Pennsylvania hope that this will quiet the storm of protest against the killing of Bar- koski. The men convicted are Po- lice Lieutenant Walter J. Lester and Harold P. Watts. Baroski was arrested, taken to the coal company’s police barracks, and beaten to death with an iron poker, and by jumping on and kicking him. Almost every bone in his body was hroken. Physicians and witnesses saw the cruel murder going on for several hours before Barkoski was finally put out of his misery. but the more important rallying of unemployed and employed together at factory gates, the Unemployed Council being definitely affiliated with the T. U. U. L. The workers are being mobilized for participa- tion in the world-wide demonstra- tion for work or wages to take ect demonstrations are necessary, Place on Feb. 26. est bunk, the Journal of Commerce, | (Feb, 2, 1980), speaking to the big | bosses and bankers who are its read- | [ers goes on to say: « . It becomes necessary to warn the public (meaning the public of the Journal of Commerce) against jumping to conclusions that are based upon inadequate employment data used to prove an assertion in- tended for popular consumption.” Hene is Mr. Hoover and Davis’ | employment in the Bay Cities. N FRISCO; 70,000 IN NEWARK rkers tell below of the terrible un- Unemployed workers, organize Un- employed Councils, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, as workers in other big cities are doing. Demonstrate on February 26, along with millions of your fellow unemployed workers | throughout the world who will be led in unemployed demonstrations by | the Communist Parties in every country on that date. | ie oo (By « Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal.—So serious has | the unemployment situation grown in the San Fran¢isco Bay Region, that the Oakland city authorities have demanded that no San Fran- cisco workers be allowed to work on Oakland construction jobs, due to \the large number of unemployed building trades workers in Oakland. (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—The Simmons Bed Company, one of the ‘largest furniture manufacturing | plants on the Pacific Coast, has laid off 900 workers in the past few (By a Seaman Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Hun- dreds of workers are daily waiting patiently at the gates of the Ford plant, hoping vainly to get jobs. The Ford plant is still operating at NEWARK, N. J.—It is estimated | that 70,000 workers are unemployed \in the city of Newark, N. J., accord- ing to Edward L. Parker of the So- \cial Service Bureau. Fifteen per cent ‘of the adult population who want |work cannot find it. The city em- | ployment bureau has 700 to 1,000 applications a day. taxed to the limit and will have to stop any sort of relief work and States on Unionism (Continued from Page One) Klux Klanism, lynch and mob law, murder and the use of state militia, thugs and gangsters. On the other ‘hand, they are drawing into open ‘alliance with them the strike-break- ing A. Pe of L, bureaucracy, their tickspittle. camp followers who use ‘radical phrases, like the “progres- represented by such persons as A. J. Muste, Mary McDowell, Roger Bald- win, etc., and the whole governmen- tal apparatus, national, state and |local. “Likewise Negro reformists like | Randolph and Webster. are openly allying themselves with the A. F, of L., accepting the Jim Crow policy of the A. F. of L. for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (local Jim Crow federal charters). plans exposed in their dirty naked- ‘ness. They issued their faked fig- | | ures for the consumption of the un- | employed millions in an attempt to| | forestall the growing mass Unem-| | ployed Councils and the repeated | militant demonstrations of unem- ployed workers under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League | and the Communist Party. No| |amount of lies will stop the huge} | demonstration to culminate on Feb- jruary 26 in all capitalist lands, The Journal of Commerce goes into detail to expase the misleading and baseless statements of Hoover and his bellycrawling secretary of ‘labor. Says this organ of finance- capital: “The chief defect of the figures quoted by Mr. Davis is, of course, the.faet that they institute a com- parison with the last week of De- cember which as critics note, ordi- narily marks the low level for the year in case of factory employment, Holidays, closures for inventory tak- ing and various year-end adjust- ments vitiate the value of compari- sons based on the week. Certainly the fact that the first weeks in January reveal a slight increase in employment over the last week of 1929 provides no assurance that the results for the month as a whole will indicate an improvement over December.” Even in reporting the faked slight-increases, Davis juggled his figures. This fact was exposed by the state commissioner of labor of New York who presented figures showing that in the very weeks Davis claimed a “slight improve- ment” there was sharp increases in the ‘unemployed army. The strike- breaking misleaders of the A. F. of L. were forced to announce that there was an increase to 19 per cent in January of unemployment. in their ranks over the 16 per cent re- ported in December. On top of this, Frances Jones, the director of the employment service of the U. S. department of labor testified that unemployment was becoming worse and more general in all parts of the United States. With the sharpening crisis in the U. 8. no amount of lying by Hoover and his henchmen can cover the fact that more than 6,000,000 jobless} workers face starvation unless they; fight for work or relief. These un- ) “The Negro middle class and ris- ing capitalist group, George E. Haynes, of the Church of Christ, J. A. Jackson, an agent of the U. 8. Department of Commeree, Negro bankers, ‘millionaire newspaper men, as well as religious organizations, Greek letter societies and sororities, all part and parcel of the capitalist system of exploitation, are being utilized to strike the radicalization and struggles of the Negro work- ers.” : All Join T.U.U.L, The statement denounces the fake national Negro labor convention scheduled for January 26 to 81, as another A.F.L.-Jim Crow attempt, and after outlining the policy of the Trade Union Unity League for all races and nationalities to organize together in strong industrial unions, to fight for better wages and condi- tions, says: “We call upon the rank and file sleeping car porters in the Chicago district and throughout the country \to hold their brotherhood intact, to build and strengthen it, repudiate Randolph and his henchmen, and to join with the National Railroad In- dustrial League, the railroad section of the T.U.U.L. in the present move- ment to organize into one all-inclu- sive railroad union the 1,700,000 workers on the railroads from the section hand, including the sleeping ear porters, to the man at the throt- tle. “We further call upon all Negro workers in the stockyards, Interna- tional Harvester, steel mills and other industries throughout the country to reject the policy of Jim Crow unionism, which is. being foisted upon them by Randolph and Green, and to affiliate themselves with the new unions of the T. U. U. L. and its National Industrial League, to build powerful, militant industrial unions, which include in their ranks all workers, both Negro and white.” Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! employed workers are being organ- ized—and must he organized—to participate in the international dem- onstration for work or wages to come to a head on February 26, The charitable organizations are |. TUUL Negro Meeting |sives,” the socialist party, the lib-| jerals, elements of the middle class | On the other hand, thousands of San Francisco unemployed, unable to find work, are crogsing the bay in an attempt to get jobs in Oakland. It is estimated fhat over 100,000 | workers are unemployed in San Francisco, Oakland, and the sur- rounding territory around San Francisco Bay. —FRISCO WORKER. Lay-Off 900 in.Simmons Furniture in Frisco weeks. Normally employing about 1,200 men, the factory is at present operating with less than 300, The Communist Party has just published first issue of a shop paper for the Simmons Bed factory. —CAL. WORKER. Hundreds on Job Line at Frisco Ford’s ,reduced capacity, since laying off | 1,000 workers a few weeks ago. A new conveyor system planned for the Ford factory will throw still more auto workers out on the streets jobless. - —FORD WORKER. 70,000 Unemployed in Newark, N. Ab declare an “emergency” if the situa- tion continues for only a short time, even for two weeks more. The seriousness is shown when over 3,000 unemployed workers stormed the gates of the Ford Motor Co, at Kearny, N. J., and the police were called out to forcibly maintain order. Newark unemployed, organize ynder the T.U.U.L. into Unemployed Councils! —H. 8, 3P, C. OF TOILERS HAVE 3-DAY WEEK Are Speeded-Up Under Capitalism The five-day week, with an in- tensification of labor in the majority f cases, has been adopted for 650,- | 000 workers or less than three per leent of the wage earners of this country, it is learned from the | monthly review of the New York | Trust Company. “While the real five-day week, ac- ment in the condition of the work- ers, has been introduced in the So- viet Union for the entire working class, the five-day week as intro- duced in a fraction of capitalist in- dustries of America aims not to improve the lot of the workers, but to increase the profits of the cap- italists by cutting the cost of pro- duction. Out of 270 manufacturing indus- tries whieh had adopted the five- day week, the majority tried to maintain the same number of week- ly working hours as previously, with only 94 reducing the working hours, Of these 94 companies, 24 decreased production in accord with the de- crease in hours, while 46 had no decrease whatever, and 18 even re- ported an actual increase, Only six reported an actual decline in week- ly production. These figures are eloquent testi- mony of the meaning of the “five- day” week instituted at the initi- ative of the capitalists. The same or more production in less time, with a decrease in wages in the great majority of cases. Only about 55 out of the 270 industries. studied claim no reduction in weekly wages. i Organizers Travel 3500 Miles on Defense Tour Two organizers of the Interna- tional Labor Defense began tours that will take them 3500 miles across the country—one going to the south- west to organize Latin Americar workers—the other traveling thru the northern states to raise protest against criminal syndicalism laws | especialiy in California that sent | five women to prison terma of 5 and 10 years. They ere Yetta Stromberg who | speaks in Stamford, Conn, Sunday, at 8 p. m,, at 49 Facific Street, and Luis Martinez, who goes to Buffalo where he will speak before and or- ganize the Latin American workers February 1 to 4, Yetta will go af- terward to the Philadelphia district where she will speak in Trentcn, N. J. COURTS AID RAIL BOSSES. AUSTIN, Tex. (By Mail)—Judge Calhoun has shown the rail bosses that he is their man by enjoining the enforcement of the full crew [jaw on railroads, The brotherhood misleaders never dream of calling a strike for the ful! crew, but crawl from court to court, ‘Coal Police companied by an actual improve-} es? No bosses’ fake charity, su ers, but work or wages. demands, with one mighty voice, Shoot Down Jobless Man (By « Worker Correspondent)’ a young worker by the name of Frank Clifford, 19, after a long time of unemployment decided to “steal” a bucket of coal in order to wash up his home at Frankford Ave. He was seriously wounded by a coal and iron policeman as he sought to gather fuel from a car on the Phila- delphia & Reading Railroad near the Second St. bridge at Clearfield St. Clifford had braved the winds early this morning to make his way to a railway car standing near the bridge and had gathered nearly a bucket full of coal when discovered by an iron and coal po- liceman. Alarmed by the rapidly nearing figure of the policeman, Clifford dropped the bucket and ran. Then the policeman pulled a pis- tol frim his pocket and fired at the worker. The worker is now in the hospital dying. This is, of course, but an- other link of the entire chain of misery the workers are to suffer under capitalism. The Communist Party is the only party that fights for the unemployed workers. The Communist Party is the party, that organizes the workers, both em- ployed and unemployed, The party is arranging a big demonstration of unemployed workers for February 26 when the workers the world over will demonstrate against the system that creates misery, unemployment, starvation and oppression. —JOBLESS WORKER. CHI. BANKERS GET MORE POWER Rule City in Financial Bankruptey CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Big bankers are taking over more of the control of city politics in the present finan- cial crisis of the city and county growing out of the wholesale graft of the Thompson gang. With more than 40,000 city work- ers still unpaid, Silas H. Strawn, imperialist’ banker, who heads a committee offering to lend the city $50,000,000 at a handsome profit, asks for virtual control of the muni- cipal machinery under the guise of a “citizen’s committee.” While Thompson and Strawn are both members of the republican party, he has followed his own grafting game. The present bankrupt con- dition of the city finances, gives the bankers a better chance to step into open power. The very police who help evict unemployed workers are now being ordered evicted from their homes by the dozens. Firemen, school- teachers, janitors and street clean- ers have been ordered on the streets by Thompson’s Municipal Courts. Mass organization of unemployed workers, as part of the international struggle against unemployment to reach its climax on February 26, is proceeding under the leadership of the Communist Party of Chicago. Indict Scranton, Pa, Officials for Graft; Exposed by Communist SCRANTON, Pa.,; Feb. 8. — The whole former city administration of Seranton was indicted by the grand jury on charges of graft in con- nection with protection given the owners and runners of slot and open gambling machines. The Scranton politicians, past and present, have been and are agents of the anthra- cite coal bosses. Henshaw, police head, who broke up a Communist meeting Sunday, is among those indicted for corruption. The Com- munist Party has expore’ and con- tinues to expose’ the corrupt cap- italist government officials to the coal miners and other workers, Millions of unemployed workers will they demonstrate on February 26. PHILADELPHIA.—The other day | bitter | " with our W. ZA WORKERS CORRESPONDENCE -FROM TH AT LEAST 100,000 Unemployed Workers, Demonstrate on oN Ec ch as is doled out, together with ins shout tl H the ¢ eadership of of Read the Thousands Pack Phila. (By a Worke | PHILADELPHIA, | ployment in Philadelphia is Jinereasing. Thousands of wor are daily packing the employ offices looking in vain for jobs. other day of the | Philadelphia advertised for a man and next morning not less than 5000 |workers responded to the ad. An- |other woman worker the same day committed suicide in a Market St. | pres pone The steadi rs ment The theatres of his den Page Thr February 26! 7 militant the page today. “nd, t Pa this Employment Agencies “T am sick job. I can I n starving.” 1 every day, in love,” in the richest country in the world. Of course, the ca press is trying to undermine the seriousnes of unemployment in this city, and is giving its readers the daily bunk of prosperity. PHILA. WORKER. Rush Help to the Mlinois Mine Strikers! | (By « Worker Correspondent ) ELDORADO, Ill.— We Saline County strikers are in good spirits |now. We just came back from Chi- cago with a large truckload ofcloth- jing. and feed. This was the tion of the miners in this d We were unable to solicit among |the farmers as the whole country i | flooded and this has been the cold- jest and most disagreeable winter |I ever saw in southern Illinois. We covered a large field, however, 2. work, | But times are getting unbearable with the farmers as all other classes jof labor, I heard one of our men jsay this; that he could see the eyes |of his little starved children sparkle | $ us. when they got some of the food we brought back from Chicago, This man is.a good worker, He came * out with his fell ws when the strike knew at the time 't a day’s provision that there wa: . \ahead and no credit as the chain and company stores here closed down on We are willing to fight to the finish, but we must have the back- ing of other workers. We strikers must be helped to the full and no less. It makes me boil to’ think how many innocent’ children are tarving here in this land of plenty. The people that have. not answered the W. call must do so at once and keep it up. —ILLINOIS MINER. Spanish Crisis Grows in Severity | MADRID, Feb. 3.—General Be-! renguer, the premicr taking the |place of the fallen dictator Primo jde Rivera, has announced thet rhe “Cortes,” the Spanis which has been dis dictatorship began 6 and on |years ago, would be convoked; “as | soon as possible.” It is improbable, however, that any such thing as a constitutional regime will come out of the present political crisis, because the.economic lerisis is deepening with every pass- | It is admitted that in spite of the | |attempts of the “socialisi” General | Workers Union, which has always supported the dictatorship, the working class in a deep fer- ment. This is seen by the hea |police patrols covering th \class districts of all industrial cc ters. In addition the student elements | are continuing their attack everything representing De tivera's | yegime. Riots occurred at Santi- | |ago, Salamaca, Ovideo, where a| © |“seditious” flag was shown and at | | Barcelona. | Reports from all sections show that there is tremendous under rent of unrest, and it is openly ques- | ! Ne inyaluable analysis o! PLOYME facts and Marx! ated by the hy socialist combines of workers in th program of STRUG country. . Order WORKERS LIBRA 39 Bast 125th Street 25 | Lee on | 4 tioned whether not Berenguer. will soon be forced out. It it also ad- mitted that there are many “ele- ments,” undoubtedly led by the Com- muni who are supporting the slogan of “Down with the mon- with the Communists openly i forward the demand for a archy,” , | Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. Chinese Bosses Feast Butcher. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb new vice-n er.of for fairs in the bloody Nanking gov- crnment, was “honored” for his pary in the mur of thousands of Chi e workers, when, docal Chines» capitalists gaye him a banquet. LOCK OUT UNION PRINTERS. - BALTIMORE, Md. 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