The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1930, Page 1

The Working Class Wants “Work or Wages” Not “Charity”; But the “Charity” of the Capitalists Is a Fake Anyhow; the “Community Funds” Gouged Out of Workers Goes to Fat Parasites, Not Unemployed Workers. Fight For the Demand “Work or Wages” aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act o 4 orker { March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI, No. 287 Ini Company, Published daily execpt Sunday by The Comprodaily Pablishing 28 Union Square, New York City, es N.Y. NEW ‘YORK, THURS DAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930 Outside New York, by mall $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents lates Workers to Stronger Counter-Offensive Again the capitalist ballyhoo is working hard to drown the econ- omic crisis with a sea of words of “optimism.” Hoover was a Quaker, but apparently he expects to do away with the economic crisis by the method of christian science—by a lot of words denying its existence. Or, we might say, by the method of Dr. Coue, for the White House on every possible occasion issues reports which sound like the famous refrain: “Every day in every way we are getting better and better.” Each time that the government’s figures have been checked up, a lie has been uncovered. The claim of the government that a slight increase in a few branches of production has occurred in the past few days will probably amount to a loss rather than a gain when such reports are checked up. But if there is a slight fluctuation in the pro- duction of some branches of industry, it is equally true that none of these fluctuations are doing the workers any good, and above all, cer- tainly not helping the unemployed to get jobs. For wherever increased production is spoken of, it is openly and deliberately by the method of capitalist “rationalization”’—very rational for the capitalists but very irrational for the workers. This method is, not to take on more work- ers, but to put the screws of the speed-up system on those workers who remain in industry, so as to secure a greater amount of produc- tion out of each worker per hour by sapping his last ounce of strength. The unemployed situation is getting worse and not better. The truth stands out stronger every day—that the capitalist class and the capitalist government are taking the occasion of the present economic crisis to put into action a program of major offensive against the working class—a program of “rationalization” which throws more tens of thousands out of employment and which increases the exploita- tion while decreasing the standard of living of all workers employed H and unemployed; a program of drastic wage-cuts (20 per cent in the steel mills), and extraordinary measures of suppressing the working 1 class, such as unusual police violence, the revival of the “emergency” laws against workers which were adopted during the last world war, and the increasing use of fascism and social-fascism in strike-breaking and ‘n suppressicn of employed and unemployel. To this it must be added that the program of the American capitalist class is being hammered out at Washington and at the London armament conference for a new world imperialist war, especially war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, in which the American capitalists hope ‘e conquer a monopoly position in the world market. All of these neasures of domestic attack upon the working class and plans for in- ‘ernational imperialist war are in fact one single plan. But this terrific offensive against the workers finds the working slass of this country in no mood for surrender. The events of the past. ‘ew months, beginning with the textile strike at Gastonia and including ‘he present heroic struggle of the is coal miners, show that the working class of the United States now going through the most deep-growing radicalization that has ever been seen’ in its history. This radicalization has already reached a point far above any here- tofore seen in this country. It embraces the workers in the most funda- mental branches of American industry and is especially stirring the || Negro masses, the most exploited of all, now engaged in the heavy industry. Only today we read of the outbreak of the strike in the two | Paisley mines are Moundsville, West Virginia, in revolt against the outrageous wage-cuts being introduced in that section. Police and troopers are unable to prevent the organization of locals of the Na- tional Miners’ Union in this territory in which the cold-blooded treason ind strike-breaking of the U. M. W. A. are historically known.. The | ‘color line”—the old weapon against the working class in the South— has broken down against the flood of increasing working class soli- datity and organization into the new revolutionary unions led by the Trade Union Unity League. The election of a Negro miner as vice président of the new local of the National Miners’ Union at Glendale, West Virginia, is a gratifying confirmation among many other recent signs of this defiance of capitalist Jim Crow traditions. Unemployment is the most pressing problem before the American workers today, and hundreds of thousands of the more than six million unemployed are already beginning to see this. In Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan, the grand dukes of the automobile industry are invoking the “criminal syndicalist” laws against the workers as a result of the flood of organization against unemployment. These laws are being directed against the Communist Party especially, which is a recogni- tion of the fact that the Communist Party quite logically is the back- bone of resistance—the inevitable leader of the working class in this movement as it is in all present-day struggles for our clas The an- swer of the working class must be and will be, not to give up the struggle as the capitalists hope, but to defend the Communist Party and all workers now being attacked under these laws and otherwise. The workers must understand that such attacks are to be expected, not merely on a local scale, but on a nation-wide scale, and any failure to resist this attack would be treachery to the whole working class. Such attacks must be met courageously and converted into a means of fur- ‘her mobilization of the workers and further proof to the workers of the political character of the class struggle which is so greatly sharp- ening throughout the United States and the whole capitalist world today. That the unemployed are every day more in a position to see their own situation and their need for organized action, is proven by the flood of demonstrations which have already embraced Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Bridgeport, Conn., and Chattanooga, Tenn., where a council of unemployed has been formed with the breaking down of | the “color line.” The turning out of 50,000 New York workers in pro- test against the murder of Steve Katovis by the capitalist police is a guarantee of the growing resistance to the capitalist offensive, An- other most remarkable indication of this growing class-consciousness is found in the results already seen in the fake “strike” maneuver of the New York dress manufacturers, police, A. F. of L. and social- fascists. With the assistance of the whole capitalist press, the police and the bosses “supporting the strike,” the A. F. of L. company union | has already suffered a big failure in the first stages of the fight, which san be made a heavy defeat by the workers’ own union, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, acting with sufficient energy, ag- gressiveness and a clear application of the revolutionary trade union policy of the Trade Union,Unity League. This is shown by the fact that thousands of workers, locked out by the bosses to help the “strike,” are hissing Mr. Schlesinger’s company union, cheering the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, and spoiling the capitalist press photographs of strike scenes by raising copies of the Daily Worker, the Freiheit and other Communist papers as their banners of struggle. The fast-gathering volume of resistance of the working class in this country will flow together the equal volume of resistance in all European capitalist countries where the economic crisis is rapidly spreading. Toward the end of this month this volume of militant class spirit. must. be expressed in the great demonstrations which are being planned against unemployment by the workers, employed and unem- ployed. This is the time to build the Communist Party which alone can lead the struggle. Workers, make your struggles effective by build- i ing your organ of class leadership! Join the Communist Party! MARINES GET BORNO'S THANKS PORT AU YRINCE, Haiti, Feb. { Admitting that the masses are | still seething with a rebellious spirit j against the American dictatorship that keeps him in power, Borno said: “Legislative elections are an impossibility at this time . because our republic must depend too much on the United States government for its peace, tranquility, stabilization Py ing the H ‘ | and general help. Such cooperation ir eMeUna em ceiver SE RIeeL Ce | Gi5cir (ts smboabible: With (a leglolA: the murderous activity of the U. S. tive’ body. riltt iti.” riarings in Haiti under the leader-| This Hf ven hieree pes that the en- ship cf the American High Commis- | tire legislative hody elected would sioner, Gen. John H. Russell, presi- | be to a man opposed to U. S. imper- dent Rorno commended his fellow | ialism if the masses could express butchers for their killing of 200 their wish untrammeled by a sea of ~shala in the recent uprising. | marine bayonets. i Capitalist Offensive Stimu- We had thought that | “For sees aed Flag” IMPERIALIST | PLOT TO WAR UPON SOVIET ‘France, England aad Germany to Unite { | Against § Soviet (Imperialist st Saboteurs \Damaging Industry in| the Soviet Union (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 5.—The newspaper, the “Welt am Abend,” publishes an interview with Stresemann a week before his death, concerning an anti- Soviet plot, admitting that negotia- tions took place between Poincare of France, plus British politicians and |industrialists, with the German in- | dustrialist, Arnold Rechberg, Gen-| eral Lippe and others. Bedford for participating in the struggle to hold mill gate mect- ings, was given 20 days “for in- sulting the flag” of big business. He was one of those in the first Gastonia case trial. BYERS RELEASED; IS ORGANIZING New Bedford Prisoners! Pestered by Priest K. 0. Byers, defendant in the first Gastonia trial is just out of jail, and came to New York on his way to do organizing for the National Textile Workers in Scranton. Byers was given a ten-day sentence for “resisting an officer and disturbing the peace” in the two days’ battling of 6,000 New Bedford workers against hundreds of police, for the right to hold mill-gate meetings. | (Continued on Page Three) RUBIO SHOT THROUGH JAW Wall St. Tool Fired on by Vasconcelist MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5.—Pascual Ortiz Rubio, who had just been in- augurated as president of Mexico after returning from visits to his | The negotiations were held in Paris, where a complete war plan against the Soviet Union was discussed, pro- viding for the active participation of Germany. Stresemann denied participation by the German foreign { office. ~ * REPORTS IMPERIALIST SPIES IN U.S.S.R. United Press reports from Mos- | cow Wednesday stated that Valerian |Kuibishev, of the Soviet Supreme | Economic Council, in a speech at | Leningrad, charged that a campaign of sabotage against Soviet industry, directed from abroad, is being car- tied on. The campaign is conducted by en- gineers and technicians acting un- der orders of foreign and Russian counter-revolutionary emigre share- holders in pre-revolutionary indus- tries, the report quotes Kuibishev as stating, who added that in the last 18 months the Soviet Govern- ment had uncovered numerous groups of technicians who had sys- tematically damaged industries, re- ceiving pay from abroad. Such ele- ments. still.exist in many places, and the authorities must discover them and root them out. 8 oe MORE COUNTER-REVOLUTION- ARY LIES, (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Feb. 5.—The report set afloat (for counter-revolutionary purposes in Western Europe) in the capitalist press, concerning the al- leged execution of several hundred Czarist naval officers in the Soviet (Continued on Page Two) FOOD WORKERS — WIN AT MONROE Cafeteria “Scene of Big| Battle with Police The struggle of the Cafeteria workers against the Monroe Cafe- teria on 27th St. near 5th Ave., was brought to a close with a victory for this militant union. The victory was gained in spite of the mobiliza- tion of the police, using the most vicious terror against the workers on the picket line, attempting to ter- rorize them, firing at them several times, and with the complete mob- ilization of the agents of the A. F. of L., the Food Crafts Council, who were the ones to take out the vi- cious injunction against the Cafe- teria Workers, and also hired gang- sters to help the bosses break the strike. On the day that Katovis died from a bullet fired in a Bronx strike, a Monroe Cafeteria policeman fired on the pickets there. Win Senator Cafeteria. The Cafeteria Workers’ Union nailed another victory by the union- ization of the Senator Cafeteria in Brooklyn. The workers in this (Continued on Page Two) Lamont and Morrow, was shot thru} the jaw and seriously injured by Daniel Salzar, a follower of Vascon- celos, petty-bourgeois political op- ponent of Rubio in the last presi- dential election. Rubio had just been sworn in as tor ae on aa On ESE Two) REVOLT SEETHES IN AUBURN PEN, AUBURN, N. Y., Feb. 5.—Prison thugs who helped shoot down re- volting prisoners in Auburn last De- | cember testified in the trial of the six leaders of the uprising. The} state is preparing to burn the six} men to death in the electric chair | in an attempt to forestall other such actions by prisoners. Stating that he “has been sitting on a powder keg,” JohnL.Hoffmann, new warden of the vile, 100-year-old Auburn pen, testified that he will breathe easier when the murder trial of the six indicted men lis over, and they are burned to death. He indicated that the prison is still seething with revolt against the tor- tures and miserable conditions in- flicted on the men. cell capacity of 1,210, | A prison revolt is threatened also in the Colorado penitentiary. prisons are being filled with unem- ployed workers who have long sen- tences slapped against them under the suppressive laws passed in nearly all states. Today Is Anniversary of the Great Seattle General Strike Strike Committee Exercised Many of Powers of A Soviet for 3 Days; A. F. L. Betrayed It Today is the eleventh anniversary of the great Seattle General Strike. At the close of the war, a period of attacks on the unions and “normal- cy,” a precursor to the present-day “rationalization” began. There was a united offensive on the wages and living s*--dards of the workers, and a continual, increasing speed-up of jadded to the police force, machine workers on the jobs, with the be-|guns were mounted on th buildings, ginnings of unemployment, which and cavalry and artillery clattered reached its high mark ‘n 1921. through the streets, the strike com- The Seattle shipyard workers (Continued on Page Three) struck, There were other strikes, | and the renk and file pressure final- | ly forced the Seattle Central Labor Council to declare a general strike. A large strike committee took charge of the situation, and began. to exercise the function of a Soviet. Although troops and deputies were | K. O. Byers, arrested in New | masters in the U. S., where he con-| sulted with Morgan & Co., Hoover, | Hoffmann said | the prison has 1,440 prisoners with The | recently 1 \Plans for Real Gains! | Program of NTWIU, to be Explained | Form Shop Committees ‘Those LockedOut Cheer} for Industrial Union | “Forward to the mass meeting at | Cooper Union, Eighth St, and Third |Ave., Friday, at 5:30 p. |the leaflet now being distributed in | thousands to the locked-out dress- |makers by the Needle Trades Work- | jers Industrial Union. At this meeting mobilization for the thousands of workers who have been wakened by the vicious | jattempt of the International Ladies | Garment Workers, the police, the | jemployers, the city officials and | | metropolitan press and Governor Roosevelt to inflict on them a com- Beiee on tora, 3 et i Council of the Un- pany union, Wi ear 0! he indus- [frat Union's program to win union| employed of TUUL |conditions in spite of Schlesinger. i} ——- The tactics of the workers urged) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. |by the Industrial Union are outlined |cently about 500 unemployed wo DETROIT, Feb. m.,” says for today. JOBLESS EXPOSE CHARITY FAKERY a lin the leaflet distributed. It says; |ers marched to the fund offices to . 5 é demand relief in the present situa- oe ees tion. They were met by police and | “Workers of the Open Shops! | armed guards who made an attempt to disperse the work and break up the crowds gathered around. In this they did not succeed, but they You must organize in your shops, elect shop committees and take up the struggle for union conditions, | for the 40-hour five-day week, {higher wages, the right to the job jand all other union conditions! “Do not return to the shops to }work under the same sweat-shop conditions, under which the com-| |ployed a first hand experience in |the ways of charity. ployed continued to organize under | the banner of the Trade Union} | Unity League, and the Cleveland | | pany union will order you back after | Council of the Unemployed grew to | 'a thousand members, all registered. Hundreds of colored workers have | (Continued on Page on Page Two) | soined the Cleveland Council of the Unemployed. FOR LABOR UNITY 999 STRIKE AT SHOE WAGE CUT IndependentShoeUnion| Leads Struggle USSR Workers Build;| US. Labor Must Fight- Every worker who comes to hear | William Z. Foster, general secre- | tary of the Trade Union Unity | League, just back from the Soviet | Union, speak. on “The Five Year| Pelee sit Economic Plan” in the U.S The workers of the Novelty Slip will not only learn how a workers’ | per Co., 121 West 19th St., yester- jand farmers? government builds its |day walked out as one man in pro- | revolutionary industrial system, but | test against a 30 per cent reduction ll help American workers fight | jp wages. lew 1 xp) auipeliat - erueeny «The 25) The Independent Shoe Workers’ | trates eg ear pas of the | Union immediately despatched an okt Se Oe | organization committee to take care league, to spread its circulation! (+t situation and lead the work- [through the masses of organized) —. in their struggle, There are and unorganized workers. oi The meeting is Wednesday, Feb. /2bout 200, the most of them very in Central Opera House. Tickets | Y°UnS , . | | | 12, i can be obtained from the Metropoli-| \The cases of the Bressler and tan Area, T.U.U.L., 26-28 Union other shoe shop pickets arrested | Square. | and brought up in court Tuesday William Z. Foster will compare|have been postponed until next the steady improvement of the | Wednesday. | working conditions and living stand- | jards of the workers of the Soviet | MOOVE! | Union and their vapid building of STARV. | Socialism thru the Five Year Plan Unemployed wi Ss with the slashing of wages, length- | the pavements in search of work ening of hours, increased speed-up, | will be greatly consoled to hear that ond unemploymert which are driv-/Presidens Hoover plans to spend| \ing millions of workers to starva-|four or five days in the Florida tion in capitalist America. Keys fisbing in the deep sea. R TO FISH AS JOBLESS Communists Lead Boston Jobless in March on State seine | | Under the leadership of the Communist Party, over 1,000 un- employed workers of Boston and vicinity marched on the State House, demanding work or wages. Brutality of the police was re- sisted. Photo shows arrest of two of the cleven jailed in the dem- onstration. Boston unemployed will rally by thousands to the Feb. onstration of the unemployed. i 26 dem." ha mbt adsl tin For the first time} ‘Communists Charged With “Speaking to Workers”; employed Unite; No End in Sight for Jobless By Special Wire. The excuse for the postponement was that “all witnesses were not available.” | the second postponement fo for the prosecution which is directed from Lansing and Washington » a Raymond and Powers |out on bail. Fred Beal is s be jail with $10,000 set as al together with the other v {ers. Previous report that Beall | was released on bail is erron-| | eous. It is now clearer than ever that |the prosecution intends to go the limit in these cases, charging wi ork- | jers on three charges, each carrying a penalty of ten years. The charges are: (1) Membership in the Com- munist Party; (2) Distribution of | literature; (3) Speaking to workers. The markers ce Detroit will gather at three big meetings Fri day, Feb. 7th, at 7:30 p. m. to an-| swer the latest attack of the Michi-| | gan auto manufacturers and their} did succeed in giving the unem-| | government against the Communist | |Party the Trade Union Unity | The unem-/ League and the Auto Workers’| | Union. Two thousand copies of the) | Daily Worker of this issue are being distributed. The meetings will be held at the following places: New Workers Home, 1343 E. Ferry. Ukrainian Home, 4959 Martin. International Home, 3014 Ye- mans St., Hamtramck. Powers and Raymond were just released on $7,500 bail each under the vicious Michigan Criminal Syn- |dicalist law (undez which Chas. E. Ruthenberg was convicted) and will |be the principal speakers at the three meetings. Fred Beal, who is still in jail and held on the same charges with bail | fixed at $10,000, will also speak if bail can be secured by Friday. To- | gether with Beal, eight other work- | ers of Pontiac are still in jail on (Continued on Page Three) 700 MINERS Illinois Miners Armed Guard at Relief Store MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Feb. 5. |—The 700 strikers in the Paisley | Co, Glendale and Alexander mines | are standing fast against a mobil- ization of police and troopers which | | fails to terrorize the pickets. The) | entire section of the National Min-| lis being mobilized to spread it to jother mines. There is a general} | wage cut going on in this whole | | district. Illinois Ready To Fight. | Fresh from the Illinois strike | area, Marcel Scherer, Workers In- ternational Relief representative in southern Illinois, has just arrived | in New York, bringing a message | of constant revolts and unquenched | militancy among the Illinois coal | miners. “The whole field,” he said, “is | like a volcano, ready to erupt any | minute. Many of those who are | now at work have gone back at the | point of the gun and blackjack and | (Continued on Page Three) We Sees te DEFY TROOPERS DRESSMAKERS, ‘THREE DETROIT MEETINGS TO RALLY ALL GQMETOCOOPER WORKERS AGAINST ATTACK ON MOVEMENT UNION TONIGHT: QF UNEMPLOYED AND COMMUNIST LEADERS Unemployment in Detroit Part ee World Crisis and General Economie Depression Throughout American Industry ; Employed and Un- 5.—In order to bring in a bigger flock of stool pigeons and to preparc framed evidence, the prosecutor again asked for a postponement of the case against 11 work- ‘ers in Pontiac under the infamous Criminal Syndicalist Law at the hearing which was se‘ This i: | GERMAN JOBLESS ei HELP STRIKERS | Join War on Wage Cu. In Spite of Police | BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mai Service).—According to official fig | ures there were 1,920,000 uriemploy ed workers in receipt of unemploye: support on Jan. 8, in other word jan increase of 150,000 in the ner year. As unemployed workers i yermany receive support only fo weeks, there are great masses 0’ workers who have exhausted thei | support. The “Rote Fahne” reckor |this mass of workers at over a mi’ lion so that there are now 3 millio unemployed in Germany. This morning the police fired o masses of workers and unemploye | who were gathered in front of th factory of the textile firm Receni: in Chemnitz. Three workers wer | killed on the spot, two died (Continued on Page Two) HOUSEWIFES ASSAIL MILLERS Aid Picket at Marke’ “Where They Murder” Housewives of the vicinit- {charged down on Millers Marke | 161st St. and Union Ave., yesterda: jand rescued a picket of the Foc Clerks’ Industrial Union from beating at the hands of the gan | of thugs the United Hebrew Trade and the boss keep there. The police stood by laughin when the scab union gangsters a* | tacked the picket, but the wome: around know this market as tl |place where they shoot worker and got in the fight immediate] They told the boss of Millers to h face that he was a murderer, fc having Steve Katovis killed. Six pickets arrested here Satu day and Monday will go on tri: today, under “Paragraph 600,” vic lation of an injunction, althoug’ there is no injunction here. Th: pounding | ers’ Union, which leads this strike,|court order obtained by the social ist lawyer, Solomon, for the bos \and the U. H. T. was found illegr’ and thrown out of court. The pick ets will be tried under old injunc (Continued on Page Two) ‘Free and Prosperous’ |America Gives Lashins \to Unemployed Worke: WILMINGTON, Dela., Feb. 8.— Henry Polk, an unemployed worke: |30 years old, was sentenced toda; |to receive five lashes on his bar: \back and to serve one year in jai. on the charge that he had “stole: corn and beans” from a farmer, Th | lashing will be carried out on Satur. |day at the new county courthouse, Imperialists Scramble for Efficient War Naval Arms Baldwin Asks More Information onWar Moves | Against Soviet Union at London Meet RON) Feb. 5.—Again Henry Stimson, head of the American | Haalapainen and Ramsay MacDonald |agent of British imperialism at the | race-for-armament conference spent | most of their time denying the ru- |mors that an agreement had been | reached to extend the 1922 Wash- ington agreement on battleships to 1936. Stimson is playing a hide- and-seek game. He said he could ie affirm nor deny rumors on this question because this would tip | off conference secrets. Following the advice of naval wa) experts the imperialist powers at London are maneuvering for the elimination of the building of costly battleships and concentrating on the | building of cruisers, airplane car jriers and swbinarines which arc |more adaptable to modern imper |jalist warfare. However, the dele. gates do not propose entirely tc ee battleships but to seray {Continued on Page Three) %