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DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, GR es 7, 1930 ARGENTINE ‘CRISIS; INCREASE IN. BIG CLASS BATTLES Ghioldi Reports on Situation At Plenary Mee of Commu Argentine Depression Accentuated By Work Crisis; Farmers Hit BUENOS-AIRES.—In the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Argentina Comrade Ghioldi has given a com- prehensive report upon the economic and political situation of Argentina and the tasks of the Party. The summary of this report Te- | marked that the basic line of the eighth congress of the Party had been proven correct, there being only one new thing developed, that is the enormous aggravation of the very unusual economic depression; the crisis has developed and ac- quired body. The Argentine depression is ac~ centuated by the world-credit crisis. There is enormous depression in the agricultural industry, the production of petroleum has fallen and there is a stagnation of business with a general financial stringency. The national political arena ap- pears chaotic, basically because of the great difficulties confronted by the bourgeoisie. The I:’goyen gov- ernment is seeking to unite the vari- ous and conflicting bourgeois ele- ments under its leadership. Re- peatedly it shows itself to favor most particularly the great land- lords and stock raisers. This was shown in the arrangement with the British imperialist trade represen- tative, D’Abernon, for trade between England and Argentina. But the Irigoyen government finds extreme difficulty in doing away with all of the local antago- nisms of the bourgeoisie. He cannot do this by any democratic and con- stitutional means, There is talk at times of a “conservative revolution,” but a revolution is characterized by the displacement of one class by an- other, and here there is no such thing. There could only be a sim- ple mutiny-—insurrection. A part of the army chiefs are with Irigoyen and the “conservatives” are not as- sisted by the popular mass, lacking in unity among themselves as shown by the chaog in parliament. The socialists are merely an ap- pendix of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is not able to consider them other than its worst enemies. In the present economic situation they der 1 greater efficiency from the workers; this is capitalist lan- guage. They have the aid of a good part of the bourgeoisie in elections in Buenos-Aires. They make speeches in parliament that are purely fascist speeches. The socialist party is already social- fascist. Of other petty-bourgeois forces, | such-as Agrarian Federation, there is only to say that it shows itself | friendly of the landowners and traders, agents of imperialism. The petty-bourgeoisie is unable to play a direct function, and part of it, really oppressed, will participate in the fight under the leadership of the revolutionary proletariat. C nfronting the inflationist policy of Irigoyen, the proletarian situa- tion is extremely desperate. A re- gime of most brutal oppression, gen- eral offensive against wages, unem- ployment, misery and actual hunger. In some places the starving masses are .ttacking the stores and food | trains. For the agricultural work- ers it is particularly grave. All these conditions point to a tremend- ous aggravation of the class strug- More Unemployment For Tin Miners LONDON, Feb. 6—More unem- ployment in various countries is seen in the action of the “Council of Tin Producers” to make a world- wide reduction of tin production. All mining operations are to cease No ‘Peace’ Between Imperialists; Meat War On LONDON, Feb. 6.—How slim are the prospects for “peace” between American and British imperialism is seen in the stir raised by British traders at the entrance of American meat packers into the very heart of IN SEVERE nist Party gle. The Party’s line was fixed by the | eighth congress. The broadening | out of the struggle is the only road to victory. We must raise the slo- gan “The land to those who work it.” There are new factors of radi- | calization of the masses, such as the big fights in Rosario and San Francisco. The peasant masses are suffering worst along with the work- er in the decisive industries. The Party must penetrate these zones. For this reason we have issued the slogan “Face to the countryside.” With the fights in Rosario and San Francisco there is a clear polar- ! ization of forces: On one side the bourgeoisie, Irigoyenism, intensify- ing repression and the offensive against the proletariat, counting with the aid of the socialists, and, on the other hahd, the working masses in struggle, led by the Com- | munist Party. The Communists ap- pear in fact as the only revolution- | ary force of the proletariat as its! vanguard. The masses are already beginning to understand that the Communist | Party that fights for revolution, is also the one that leads the struggle of the workers for their most ele- mental demands. In accordance with international policy the Party has been given a new course and applied it energeti- cally in the recent times. August 1 and August 28 have had visible re- sults, strengthening the Party ideo- logically and organizationally; many workers joining the Party in the course of the struggle. The author- ity of the Party before the masses | has grown much as the case of the Rosario strike shows. We must say that some comrades have had vacillations, or have not followed the line. The Party has cleansed itself, but this has had to be done only with a small number of members, | The strikes in San Francisco have the greatest importance, . This proves the truth of the radicaliza- tion process of the masses. The working women have been a most important element of the struggle. Our relations with the government in this conflict are relations of struggle, nothing of diplomacy. The San Francisco strikes equally have shown the social-fascist transforma- tion of the socialist party. Passivity is inadmissible. There is no place in the Party for inactive elements, which accept the new course but do nothing, or, accepting it, seek to avoid carrying it out. Weakness in application places one outside of the Party, such was Tun- tar’s case, who carried out in the anti-fascist work the function of our adversaries. In class conflicts one must follow the line of rupture with | the government and its agents, with | Irigoyenism, without exception. The government is not impartial, it is bourgeois, as such it must be treat- ed, preventing all kinds of Irigoyen demagogy from having any effect. | There are comrades (needle trades workers for example) who show a certain dislike for international questions and decisions; the sixth congress was alright for everybody } but the needle workers. This re-| veals lack of comprehension of the | decisions of the sixth congress, valid for all countries of the world. from 10 p. m. Saturday to 6 a. m. Monday throughout 1980, and all work is stopped one full day each month in the next three months, even greter restrictions being put on Bolivia tin mines, the country of greatest production. London itself. Large American firms are negotiating for business places in the famous Smithfield market, preparatory to introducing their own produce and eliminating British empire meat right in the giz- zard of London, “Labor” Imperialists LONDON.—The “labor” secretary of state for the colonies has given gruff rejection to the residents of the island of in the Medi- terranean, that they permitted to affiliate themselves with Greece, or to have some form of responsi- Hang to War Base A deputation visiting London was told: “This subject is definitely; closed and cannot profitably be dis- cused further.” Thus “self-deter- mination” has nothing to do with “labor” imperialist policy which de-! mands the island of Cypress as a) war base for Great Britain in the ble government of their own. Soviet Peasants Turn from er to Socialism MOSCOW—In the village of Ury- upiuskaya the peasants have made a celebration jointly of two cam- paigns. These peasants have joined a newly established state collective farm, and in doing so also made at- tack on the tradition of centuries of superstitution by collecting eight wagon loads of ikons and burning them in a public square, accompany- ing the ceremony with lively singing of revolutionary songs and the mu- sic of harmonicas, Since they had Mediterranean, same. At the village of Ulyanovsk, the bells from four churches of the town of Melekess were melted down,! yielding 22 tons of metal. One of | the churches has been closed and | converted into a tractor plant. The workers of Moscow, tiring of being awakened by the clattering | sound of church bells, have at last been listened to by the Moscow So- | viet, and their demand that the church bells be silenced has been put | such a good time in this, the peas- ants of four nearby villages oe the into effect. No more will the hun- dreds of churches of Mokeow keep COAL MINERS RUN FARRINGTON OUT OF THE COUNTY, Miners Seindag N.M.U. Make 19 Demands (Continued ‘from Page One) become more and more unbearable in the Alexander Mine. Not content with making virtual slaves out of the men, the company has now posted up announcement of a new wage cut of 6 cents a ton, the third in one year. To resist this wage cut and general worsening of conditions the miners have organized into a local union of the National Miners Union. Demands. “We, therefore, present to you the following demands which were unanimously adopted by the men now on strike at the Alexander Mine and Glen Dale Mine. “1, Recognition of the National Miners Union Pit Committee. “2. Checkweighman elected by the miners to be recognized by the company. “3, Revocation of wage cut and instead an increase of seven cents jon. tonnage, making 58 cents a ton. “4, Seventy-five cents per yard for all narrow work, “5, Eleven cents per ton for ma- chine men—19 cents per yard for all narrow cutting. “6, Five dollars per day for day ‘labor in the mine. “7, Four dollars and fifty cents for outside labor. “8, Seventy-five cents per hour for blacksmithing. “9, Time and one-half for all ov- ertime. “10. Adequate pay for all dead- work—the price paid to be deter- mined by the Pit Committee. and the worker concerned. “1, That a flat day rate be \charged for lamps to be only paid by workers for days he works, and the abolition of the monthly flat rate. “12, Abolition of the docking sys- tem. “13. Company doctor to be select- ed by the men. “14, The right of the miners to trade in any store they wish. “15. Enforcoment of all existing safety rules and the creation of such others deemed necessary by the men. “16. Job control to be vested in the National Miners Union Pit Committee. “17. No discrimination against Negro miners either in work or in pay. “18. Equal pay for equal work for all young miners. “19. No discrimination against workers for strike activity or ac- tivity in the National Miners Union.” Work or Wages Is Demand of Jobless (Continued from Page One) The next two weeks should see a great advance in organization. . ee Newark Meeting Friday A. M. | NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 6.—A mass meeting for unemployed workers of Newark will be held Friday, at 11 a. m., at 93 Mercer St. The organ- ization of a Council of Unemployed to take up the fight for unemployed !relief and unemployment insurance is to be on the order of business. Naturally this will spread out when the Feb. 26, International Unem- ployment Day demonstration is held, from which date the fight for the unemployed will go forward on a much greater scale. The meeting is under the auspices of the Trade Union Unity League to which the Unemployed Council should af- filiate. Two Newark workers, arrested yesterday for distributing Commu- nist leaflets to unemployed work- ers and held overnight incommuni- cado, were released this morning. The judge took it upon himself, as the defender of capitalism, to threaten the two workers with a six months sentence and deportation if they were arrested again. Regardless of this capitalist des- pot, the rallying of the unemployed workers to struggle for relief, and to unite the employed with the job- less at factory gate meetings with joint demands including a fight on speed-ups, wage cuts and for social insurance will go-ahead just the same. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. up the clatter which once disturbed the workers and which reminded them that these relics of “God and Gls WORKERS CORRESPONDENCE -FROM THE SHOPS POLICE CALLED OUT AGAINST 10,000 WHO — SEEK JO ‘Chicago Bosses’ Terpan lee be Tries to Conceal Unem-) ployment By “Bargain Rush,” One Paper Calls the Jobless Storming of (By a, Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—Ten thousand work- ers stormed the Leiter stores at Van Buren and State Sts., s ig work during the firm’s liquidation sale. | The boss¢s called police reserves twice against the workers. The news of this was way wal in an inside page of one e capitalis By a Worker Correspondent) PONTIAC, Mich.—Out of 30,000 workers in Pontiac about 7,000 are working. Many workers on the unemployed line say they came all the way from Minnesota because the newspapers in St. Paul and Minneapolis adver- tised that there was work for 5,000 workers in Detroit, Pontiac, Flint. Workers looking for work are buf- feted around and insulted. Harold Cnly 7,000 Out of 30,000 Working in : Pontiae| OBS I FOR FEW Hiding News Leiter Stores | |paper, and anc a off as a “b 2 | Chicago is aeath? |sands of unemrloyed worker: now if ever we must push the Com- | |munist Party. I sent in my applica- |tion to join the Communist Party ke tE ESC Ont | Speeding up the doc dock workers by the bosses. A dock w case of murder by the bo: Pi an illustrates hazards of dock workers, duc ; Cousins, manager of the Oakland and lack of protective devices. |Pontiac got two black eyes for get- | ting too fresh with unemployed | Nee Usea nel Council, led | Jobless Vi orker is Robbed, Beaten, _and Ar vested), the Trade Union Unity League is fighting like hell for the demands! of the unemployed for work or| etl Sap Three casis HITTING "BIGINDUSTRIES; _ FARMLABORHIT i Mobitze for I Feb. 26 to Widen Campaign 1ge One) workers have but the wages also been cu s of farm work- ers, according to the Department of Agriculture, which on January 1, 2! 4, dropped to $32.29 on January 1, 1980; wages without board dropped from $47.24 to $46.80. sects for the future for ed workers under the isis of capitalissa? That ilding program that Hoover the spittle, Green, has ably small propor- building all over the country is dropping at tremendous rate York, one of the centers ding work, there was a drop 300,000 in Janu 1930, be- low the 1929 figure. This was a de- cline of ov per ce During | December was a drop of 36 | per cent beloy In 1929 build- |ing dropped 13 per cent below 1928, all over the country. With over per cent of the wages. That’s why Beal and th others were put in jail by the bo We'll be there in the February 2! demonstrations. Negro Fisher Body Slaves Worst Exploited (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT (By Mail).—Negro workers in all departments of the Fisher Body are doing the dirtiest and the filthiest jobs. They are spraying the wood, frames, working like hell and getting 50 cents an hour. The chain that pulls the framed bodies is moving so fast that the |It leads them both in a struggle against the bosses. Bosses’ Neglect Kills Docker (By «a Worker Correspondent) Speed-up and bosses’ neglect re- sulted in killing of dock worker, Jerry Nakich, while working for the North German Loyd S. S. line at Pier 4, Brooklyn, Sunday, at 8:30 in the morning. T° drop was overloaded so the winch could not hold, releasing the drop to fall into the hatch, killing the worker instantly. The workers cannot expect any- thing else as things are, the A. F. They should organize into the revo- lv‘onary Marine Workers’ League, at 28 South St. Po'ng a member of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association Wash. Lumber Workers Organize; Fight Wage Cut (By « Worker Correesoxdent) MONTESANO, Wash. — Recently | the lumber mills in Montesano cut the wages of the workers; the re- sult is a decided sentiment for or- ganization. The National Lumber Workers Union sent representatives | to this town as soon as the news of the wage cut was received. The N. L. W. U. is ready at all times to back up the workers in any struggle with the capitalist class. The shingle weavers walked out and the shingle mill was shut down for a few days. As only part of the | shingle weavers were organized in the Shingle Weavers Union and as the rest of the workers were unor- ganized the mills got by with the | cut, All of the mills are running at the present time but the workers are | l organizing. Beyond a doubt Schafer Bros. will go even farther in their disregard for the rights of the workers. The workers know this and are organizing into the N. USSR Sailors Show Way to Live (Continued from Page One) of the lodging house by their mati- culous care of the pool tables, pool being\a new game to them, and by the fact that they neither drank nor gambled. They did play the Piano, and guitars, and in the eve- ning there were usually 20 or 30 of them singing. J. Louis Engdahl, national secre- | tary of the International Labor De- fense spoke to the seamen recently, and found many of them members of MOPR, the international labor defense ofganization, to which the LL.D. also belongs. They were much interested in the defense cases in U. S., and promised to write home full details. MAKE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH U.S.S.R. LONDON, Feb. 6.—The House of Cc:smons, after a lengthy debate, approved the motion urging the gov- ezar” still existed under the workers’ republic, ernment to conclude a commercial treaty with the Soviet Union. |Yarwe day of the month. ‘Last Quarterly Dividend Paid on All Amonuts from $5.00 to $7, the rate of 434%. Open Mondays (all day) un’ Banking by Mail | q] 1852 THE SAME ADDRESS FOR 78 YEARS 1530 fg talebect Starts First of Each Month Deposits made on or before the THIRD business day of the month will draw interest from the Society Accounts Accepted THIRD AME! Con te SR iS BAN 500.00 at ti 7 P.M. )W. U. A struggle is coming and un- der the leadership of the N. L. W. U. ‘the workers will regain this lost ground. All should join | (By a Worker Correspondent) nother reason why the ‘ize into “unemploy d councils which He came back to the ager Police At Hudson Auto; Bo: DETROIT—Every day fight against this should organ- | y shark | when It rotten system | ior that makes us work like hell for al Strikers Must Keep Quiet As Mummies, Several weeks ago the business agent of the union with the secre-| tary of the Central Labor Council goes down to the Rainbow Cafe, one of the many restaurants which are ing trades workers now unem- ready the future is indeed ie worke: Ce in Oe ‘and fight for work or relief. are led by a fighting organization! Unemploye the Com-| ry. Baile Fs) 5 (and that’s the Com. aist Party | munist Party the ending | hy Se ete Wa UE eee Negro workers are in fact running and also T.U.U.L.), jof the e and together with the Com athe all day long in order to make the An unemployed worker got a job Come out 1 Pregl “ecanttlta’ a neae jobs, or else they would be fired. through the Carl Sherman Agency |ruary ng with 1 of othe | qeainctaatica de Wetne RcpIneCIT eS The Auto Workers Union takes in at 807 Sixth Ave, New York. He jer workers unemployed throughout | eylminiate on February 26. After all auto workers, white or Negro, Was allowed to work only one day.| the w ie" the. cousclla will conten co fight for work or relief on a is given by this rallying to combat the growing EMPLOYED WORKER it. sses Fear Jobless seta plogmied tesulting phe FISHER BODY WORKER. yment resulting C (By a Worker Correspondent) short time and then throws us on| the world crisis of capitalism. |go to work I see some p: men at | ront of the = Ri j \the employment office. They have |gai em when the Dictatorship of ! of L. not caring for the safety of been put there recently. a vorl ted. Although I| Workers in China |the worker, though he belonged to because the bosses are starting to |am workin little while I real- | {that Haaren ans paring fear the unemployed and are afraid | ize that we 1 all v te and fight (Continned from Page One) a_ lesso: they will start to organize and|together if we want better condi-| panda,” and upon examination ad- mitted proudly that the charge was correct. | At Kachek, a village in Kwan- tung, the Kuomintang troops ar- |rested 16 members of the Young HUDSON AUTO SLAVE. ; 7 of the A. F. of L,, there is no hope Says A. F. of L. |Pioneers. When taken away their for the Icngshoremen. ts re 2 relatives and friends wept and (By a Worker Correspondent) which he holds on his chest. The |"' phasis —LONGSHOREMAN. | oaxLAND, Cal.—I want to show | headline in the Tia plate | tid ne even Hoa peered i L. ae ae er VR, Agt warren weep for us. We deem it a privilege jof the Cooks, Waiters an ait- Ls |to die for the cause of the prole- resses, ‘ _ This rage gore to Ren tariat revolution. We are sure that his mouth. en ike a dum- | other comrades will follow in our footsteps and that the reactionaries will be overthrown.” * * Financial Crisis Develops in China. my no owas what ° his work * While standing with q. L. W. U. affiliated with working the women workers over ene paper an officer comes up ? SHANGHAI, Feb. 6—A_ vital Seated Union Unity League, and the 8 hour law and are on envi Haun ererare nin 2 es i viel ; blow is being struck at the Chiang The International Shingle Weavers according to the minimum wage eer, ne union is one ed ratichek ‘Nationalist (Gaveeninent Union is an independent union with Scale. ; baie aoa Thodam | by. the rapidly developing crisis la class struggle preamble to its con-| They wanted to start a strike at) a oe cee ie which is further intensified by the stitution. These organizations this special place as the proprietor fea Mien seee sat a precipitous drop in the value of the should work well together. These didn’t stand in good with them. It| 1°" i fin,| Silver dollar. The dollar declined to lunions can be of great help to each Was pointed out at one of the meet- |. nite e was tn-/ a new low level of 34.1 cents. other and their members should ings that while we are going to call 7. : Business is being paralyzed by Keep up a friendly spirit among & ore ue us Ge hep So Perera UL and the steep declines in the money. themselves, paren We seer aoe hy | forming committees | Financial circles forecast further | cho mectings were held in Mone ‘hime as this particular one, The ‘pedo Nant wos nmittees | Stumps which would make the o meetings officials answered that we must Spe < Ls foundations of the Chiang Kai-shek |tesano. One in the K. of P. hall on | Thursday, and one in the Odd-Fel- |lows hall on Sunday. There were | about 150 present at the first meet- ing which was held while the shingle mill was shut down. At the second | meeting which was held after the workers had gone back there were take one at a time. “When we line up one, then we will start on an- other one.” So the strike was pulled off at the Rainbow Cafe, calling the crew of about 10 out. A private meet- ing was called with the strikers, telling them not to go back to the inse- Nationalist Government very yp | cure. The Nationalist Government iq uffering tremendous losset g foreign loans with th¢ y depreciating silver dollan DE and the Lenin const Beet Worke 75 workers in-attendance. At these place, as the union will pay them ven workers| Write About: Your Conditions p peennee many contacts were made wages until further notice ar until, ™ade applications for membership | for The Daily Worker. Become a |and many workers saw the need for they get another job. That is one| in the Communist Party. Worker Correspondent. organization. The result is that the workers are joining the N. L. W. U. ~LUMBER WORKER. By EARL | facts and Marxist-Leni program of STRUGGLE! Help toS 39 East 125th Street i way they handle a strike. Another method is by putting a man near} the restaurant with a newspaper Pekar Tins SUT OF A JOB! CROWDER invaluable analysis of the problem of UNEM- PLOYMENT. The author destroys, by means of ist deduction, all illusions cre- ated by the hypocritic efforts of the Hoover-A.F.L.- socialist combines to cure this evil, now facing millions of workers in this country. Not a REMEDY—but a FIVE CENTS pread It Among Your Shop Mates Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS New York City SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON ORDERS IN QUANTITY LOTS SPHSSVDSDOCHSSSOCSNHS SES BOCO® WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS 4 AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET NEW “HOTEL NITGEDAIGET, Beacon, N. Y. The newly built hotel has 61 rooms—two in a room—hot and cold water in every room. 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