The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1930, Page 1

* Speaking of Unemployment, Senator La Follette Wants the Tariff Lowered on Varnish from 25 to 20 per cent. Senator Fess says “No Unemployment Relief.” But the 6,000,000 Jobless Are Being Organized More Mili- tantly Than Ever for the World-Wide Demonstration for Work or Wages on Feb. 26! FINAL CITY EDITION Daily ed sa oa ew York by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail $6.00 per year. FEBRUARY 10, 1930 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing gg%,, Company, Inc, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. ES: In Outside New Yor Vol. VI, No. 290 NEW YORK, MONDAY, No End of Unemployment; 40 STRIKING Organize Unemployed Councils! The army of jobless continues to grow. Each day of the crisis brings new reports of swelling job-lines, acute suffering, evictions and growing resentment. Organized and unorganized, skilled, semi- skilled and unskilled are all looking for work. In Detrsit, the jobless number well over 125,000. In Toledo, for every hundred men working a year ago February, there are forty-four working today. In Cleveland and neighboring cities unemployment has been severe for the last three years. In Illinois, the Department of Labor of that state is forced to admit that there are practically two applicants for every job listed. In the South the situation is equally acute. : aR ¢ eo One fact stands out. Mass unemployment is not merely a tem- porary result of the crisis. A “normal” reserve army of a million is a thing of the past. Capitalism in America cannot “recover” from the present crisis without. creating an unemployment “problem” unpar- alleled in American history. Far-sighted capitalist apologists know this very well. “An indus- trial system,” B. C. Forbes, writing in the February issue of his finan- cial magazine, warns the bosses, “that throws several million workers into poverty even during a period of normal prosperity, and which tends more and more to release wage-earners and to discard middle- aged and elderly breadwinners, does not possess unshakable elements of stability. . . . Looking ahead, it can be discerned that the stake -is the preservation of our so-called capitalist system.” Before: the crisis, Hoover's “prosperity” economists looked to the “new” industries to absorb the surplus working population. But, as Ethelbert Stewart, the U. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics, has admitted,-“It is these very new industries themselves that by improve- ment in processes are most rapidly decreasing their number of em- ployees.” Between 1925 and 1927, the number of workers in the manu- facture of motor vehicles, including bodies and parts, decreased 56,786, according to this same commissioner. Aviation and radio are in the throes of overproduction. Operations in the aviation industry are far below last year’s average, according to financial reports, and a depression of two to three years is expected to absorb the tremendous overproduction. “On the basis -that the current aviation depression began in the summer of 1929,” Forbes magazine states, “no very great revival would-be anticipated, for about another year.” While the most. optimistic reports of the radio industry received by the U. S. Chamber of. Commerce admit that at least the first half of 1930 will be required to liquidate its particular overproduction, Capitalism cannot continue to exist in America without hurling whole armies of workers into the ranks of the permanently unem- ployed. The capitalists have and can have no solution for unemploy- ment. On the contrary, Wall Street, through its government in Wash- ington, has frankly and brutally stated that it does not even intend to contribute towards the relief of starving workers. Senator Fess, speaking for the Hoover government, informed the entire world that “this administration will not accept un- employment allowances in the form of doles. « This admin- istration does not propose to enter into subsidizing for the mere purpose of subsidizing.” ‘The capitalists will not solve unemployment for the working class. On the contrary, they are already taking advantage of the crisis to batter down the standard of living of the workers. To expect any- thing else is to hold fast to a disastrous illusion. The unemployed are being played off against those remaining at work. Wages are slashed, hours increased and the speed-up screwed to the highest pitch. “There are a few men being called back to work—no new men being hired,” one worker wrote to his metal trades union asking for a job. “At least that is what you are told when seeking employment,” he: continued, “And I have been informed that in the Delco products (General Motors subsidiary) men were making $7, $7.50 and $8 per day when laid off but when called back were cut to $19 per week. Also informed that draftsmen have been cut 35 cents per hour. I also know of a temporary erecting job that should pay $1.50-per hour and they are offering 65 cents.” The crisis is the starting point for a mighty attack against the entire working class. The mass resistance of the unemployed worker members of the American Federation of Labor will be added to the resistance of the great mass of unorganized. But the A. F. of L. leaders will and are trying to smother this resistance. The social fas- cists will not fight against capitalism. In the sharpening class strug- gle they will play the role of the bosses in attempting to hold back the rifasses, to pacify them with empty promises, to save capitalism at all costs. The further development of the crisis, the continued spread of unemployment to new sections of the working class will be followed by a wave of intense struggle of organized and unorganized. The reactionary, fascist role of the Greens and the Mustes will become crystal. clear to the embattled workers as their demand for relief is met by the armed repression of the capitalist state. The example of Milwaukee, where the socialist administration answered the demand of unemployed workers for work or wages with open police brutality, will become the commonplace of the entire country, ‘As the: elemental movement of the masses gains, momentum, the social fascists will do everything to divert it from revolutionary chan- nels. Only the class struggle program of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League will be in accord with the economic demands of the masses. Only the Trade Union Unity League will unite the organized and unorganized in common action against unem- ployment and starvatiof, and provide the working masses with an economic organization able to fight against the capitalist offensive. Now more than ever the working class must guard against the mass betrayals of the labor burocrats and the socialists. Now more than ever the working class. must build up its revolutionary party, the Communist Party. The Communist Party alone will know how to deepen the class struggle and extend its political significance. Per- manent gains can, of course, be achieved only by abolishing the en- tire capitalist system. % Workers! Don’t starve, fight! Organize into unemployed coun- cils. Make’February 26 a day of mighty demonstration for work or wages! give eg rse H ‘i when the entire official machine Je y City Bakers | was mobilized against it. Local Nominates For | At the meeting yesterday, six Secretary, Obermeier members of the Amalgamated joined JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 9— the branch of the International La- bor Defense, established in Union Bakers Local, No. 6, of the ar - | City last week. ited Food Workers, held its Rew EET seeking meeting: for secretary-| BURGLAR ALARM ON POOR treasurer of the Amalgamated yes- BOX. + ‘=-.and with 58 members pres- ent, Mike Obermeier, militant leader .. - caeteria workers’ strike in New York, was nominated. Burk- hardt, the present secretary of the Amalgamated, got only three votes. This.is a complete refutation of the story Burkhardt has been spreading around that the left wing in, New Jersey is wiped out- Burk- hardt based this yarn on the fact’ JERSEY CITY, N. J—Feb. 9.— When the Holy Dads of the, Holy Rosary Catholic Church here went to the poor box recently, they found too often that some of the poor had been there first. Such things should not be, so now the poor box has a burglar alarm attached. It rang yesterday, and the pastor came charging out with police in attend- ance and caught two men. The re- that. at a meeting some time ago the port does not say whether they were | report of the progressive deleg: embers of the unemployed 6,000,- to the national, convention of the | 000 or deacons and altar boys trying Amalgamated Was. voted down,'to raise their wages. “AT SPARTA MINE ~CALLONN, MAU. Call of Board PATERSON, N. J., Feb, 9.—Rank and file delegates took the floor at the Sunday afternoon session of the National Textile Workers’ Union district convention and described in vivid shop talk the worsening con- | ditions in silk mills and dye houses, and the workers’ readiness for strike struggle. Earlier sessions were occupied with reports from all departments. .On a_ preliminary count over 60 delegates had regis- tered from shops and mills, convention voted for a general strike in Paterson, preparations to be United Mine Workers Is Sending Scabs to Make 300 Jobless N.M.U. Convenes Soon Young Miner Confab in Ohio Feb. 16. On the platform sat a council of nine, elected by the convention, in- cluding three workers from dye shops, @ representative of the broad silk department, a jacquard work- er, a woman worker and I. Bart, youth representative. A dye work- er was chairman of the first ses- sion, I. Bart of the second session, and the Italian organizer, Joseph Magliacano, of the thitd session. Feb. 9—Recovery of two more bodies and definite assurance that a third man was dead today placed the death toll in the Standard Coal Mine disaster at 23. The bodies of C. H. Brady, 34 years old, and Frank James, 33, were recovered today and rescue crews reported that Tobe Wimber was in a gas-filled slope where life was impossible. i * SPARTA, Ill, Feb. 9—The 400 strikers at Sparta, Il., have appealed to the National Miners Union and the Western International Relief for support in their struggle to stop mass unemployment through the in- troduction of new machinery. The employers propose to discharge 300 men when the new machines begin to work, and the strikers are fight- ing this. The United Mine Work- ers of America accept the company’s plan, and is rushing scabs and send- ing thugs to smash the strike, if possible. retary of the convention. ~ 32 Hour Shift! “Hell-holes along the riverside” was the expression used to describe conditions in the dye plants. Hours are unspeakably Jong, even running to a 24-32 hour shift at the end of the week. Fumes, acids and steam- ing air make the dye rooms a con- workers. Speaking for women workers, Sophie Sprechman reported that 55 per cent of all silk workers are (Continued on Page Three) BAKERS OUST CORRUPT CLIQUE TUUL Warns Against ‘Fake Lefts; Fight On | A mass-membership meeting of |Bakers Local 500 (A.F-L.) called | through the United Hebrew Trades land the fellow Forward because the rank and file would no longer sub- mit to clique rule and demanded a meeting, Friday, caused its chair- man, Judge Panken, to retire in disgust, opened the doors to left- wing members “expelled” by the | gang holding office, and elected an administration committee with left wingers on it. The administration committee of 30 is supposed to take over espe- cially the holding of an election, in which all the “expelled” left wingers can run for office. The committee came to the union offices Saturday morning, and were met by Interna- tional President Goldstein and a corps of police. Goldstein and the police told them they were an il- legal committee, and tried to pre- * 1,000 At N. M. U. Convention. - PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 9—The official call for the Second Nation- al convention of the National Miners Union to be held in Pittsburgh is now being prepared and in a short time thousands will be spread thru- out all the coal fields of the country. A minimum of 1,000 rank and file delegates will participate in the con- (Continued on Page Three) “D0 NOT ACCEPT THE FAKE PEACE” Industrial Union Leads Real Dress Strike While the jobbers, inside manu- acturers, contractors, and the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers officials continue to work out fmal phraseology in their agree- ment, and: decide when to “spring it,” the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union calls on the Tocked- j out dressmakers to get ready for the real fight? , Latest reports from the sessions {in the Commodore Hotel, where that hey Lieutenant Governor Lehman, the | * ee me. met, in spite of everything, man who officiated ‘for the capital- (Continued on Page Two) ists in general when the company program was put over on the cloak- makers recently, was urging the bosses and labor traitors to take BIG 6 MEMBERS chance, and as long as all essential WANT T0 STRIKE points were already decided upon Official Trickery Only Jobbers Worry. There were reported to be some before the strike started, go ahead Restrains Membership and tell the bad news to the dress- makers. The largest meeting of Local 6 of the International Typographical Union held recently showed a gen- eral sentiment for strike among the differences growing up between the jobbers and the contractors, how- ever. As soon as they saw the fake ‘strike was much more of a failure than they had expected, the jobbers The} BULLETIN. made by the District Board of the STANDARDSVILLE, Utah, | union. . | Sophie Sprechman was elected sec-| stant menace to the health of the| |vent them from meeting. However, | began to hunt for excuses for back- ing, out of the conspiracy. It is too early to tell just how far they will go, or what concessions they will demand, but sooner or later, and probably sooner, some one will find a way for the workers caught in the company union trap to pay for whatever concessions are made. Meanwhile, the Industrial Union plans the real fight for the work- ers: It calls on all to be at the union offices, 181 West 28th St., early this morning, for the gang- (Continued on Page Two) rank and file because of the refusal of the newspaper shops to consider the demands for a five-day week. But the officialdom, led by President Leon Rouse, were determined to pro- long the negotiations that have been going on for seven months, and by arbitrary methods, they had their way. ‘ The meeting was held yesterday afternoon, in Yorkville Casino. About 33000 of the 10,000 members of Local 6 have “been working with- (Continued on Page Two) Japanese Gov’t Fears Spread of Marxian-Leninist Ideas Organizes to Attempt Teachings and to Stamp Out Rebel Organization TOKIO (By Mail).—The Japanese | try to instill a “critical” attitude on government is going into the busi-/the part of the students towards ness of studying and refuting Marx-| Marxism. ism. The officials of the Ministry) A special group of professors will of Education have decided upon | be formed to deal with students who policy of attempting to root out the| lean towards Marxism. The par- rapid spread of Marxian-Leninist|ticylar method that will be used ideology among the masses of Jap-| was not revealed. But €hat it will anese workers and students. be is easily imagined when the fact Tn its announcement the Japanese |is remembered that thousands of ’ Ministry pf Education said it will] (Continued on Page Two) | | | JOBLESS RALLY IN CONNECTICUT Militant Action Makes) Jail Doors Open WATERBURY, Conn., Feb. 9.— |Eight hundred workers of New |Britain expressed determination to organize and fight for the Trade | Union Unity League demands in \factories, and also expressed their | | jsolidarity with the Communist | Party- | There was an angry protest against the arrest of John Vincent and Harry Yaris, District Trade | Unity League Secretary, on the eve of the unemployed mass meting called by the T.U.U-L. The police, hoping the arrest of |the two workers would demoralize |the meeting, held them on the charge jof violating the handbill ordinance | of $500 bail, each. The bosses and | city authorities were disappointed when Peter Chaunt, Communist | Party organizer, appeared in the enthusiastic, huge mass meeting. |Chaunt exposed the conditions in | New Britain. He pointed out there were 10,000 jobless, and that a vici- ous campaign of speed-up and wage cutting, as well as shorttime sched- ules were the rule in the factories. Demand Release of Leaders. |. A resolution condemning the city government and courts for the ar- rest and procedure against Vincent last Tuesday, when the court threw out workers, and conducted a “Red scare” trial, fining Vincent $25. The resolution also demanded the imme- diate release of the two arrested (Continued on Page Three) SEEK KOUTEPOFF IN BERLIN NOW French Bosses Stir Up Anti-Soviet Hate PARIS, Feb. 9.—The French capi- talist press is boiling over with hatred against the Soviet Union | over the disappegrance of the czar- ist general, Koutepoff. The sudden | migration of Koutepoff with a good- |ly sized lump of cash from the treas- ury of his whiteguardist organiza- tion falls in very conveniently with the war plans of the imperialist pow- ers at the London race-for-arma- |ment conference, Two French gumshoe “sherlocks” rushed to Berlin today to follow up one of the thousands of clues as to the whereabouts of the strayed Kgutepoff. The Berlin police have (Continued on Page Two) MILLINERS FOR WOMEN'S MEET Say Conference Speeds Organization “The call of the Neédle Trades Workers Industrial Union for a spe- cial Eastern conference for women workers of the needle trades has been taken up by the millinery work- ers with great enthusiasm,” says a statement of Local 43 (milliners) of the N.T.W.IL.U. on the women’s Eastern conference , for February 15-16, to be held in New York City, at Irving Plaza. “Shop meetings are (Continued on Page Two)- Today in History of the Workers February 10, 1842—British 10- hour law enacted. 1924—Sixteen Communists elected to provincial assembly in Thuringia, Germany. 1926—Larissa Reissner, Communist authoress, died in Moscow. 1927— First International Congress ag: Colonial Oppression and Imperial- ism opened in Brussels. 1929—John Barkoski, coal miner, beaten to death by coal and iron police in barracks at Imperial, Ra. cs Teale Srike JOBLESS ORGANIZ CITIES; U.S. G Dispossessed! Sleeps With | out for not being able to pay the only, usually, they are kicked out Child in Hallway | | This is the sort of thing that happens in this period of what Hoover calls “prosperity,” and “improvement in conditions.” This widow, out of work, with a son of 8 to support, slept for a week on the hallway floor of her former home, from which she was thrown rent. There are many such cases from the hallway too. NOU. S, AID TO UNEMPLOYED Ho <erSpokesmanSays Jobless Can Starve The Senate has suddenly discover- ed unemployment the Unite: States. But at the same time the | Hoover administration refused to give the unemployed any in | ator La Follette, Jr |fact that there is a unemployment in the United Stat jand faintly intimated that Hoover jand Davis lied on their jobless fig- | ures. La Follette’s fake championship of the unemployed came about side issue on the tariff discussion. He said that Hoover was doing nothing about the growing unemployment. a direct attempt by the petty-bo beois senator from Wisconsin to lead enced by his knowledge that on Feb. 26 throughout the entire world the workers, employed and unemployed, are being mobilized for a monster drive, demanding insurance from the capitalist state. And what was La Follette “fight- ing” for? He was demanding a 20 per cent, instead of a per cent tariff on mixed varnis is dragging in the unemployed, there- fore, was just a means of aiding th store-keeper small capitalists agai the paint trust, but not at all to (Continued on Page Three) “STRIKE, NOT FOR, US,” A. F. OF L. BIRMINGHAM, Speaking here at the opening meeting of the A. F. of L.’s campaign to organi the South for the bosses, William Green was emphatic in his denial Labor promotes strikes. Gov. Roosevelt Will Present --On Monday the Porto Rican leg’ lature meets, and the Wail Stre: president, appointed by Hoover, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, will try to run/ matters to suit the real bosses of | the island, the Nat#nal City Bank of New York, the American Tobacco | Co., ete. Economic conditions in Porto Rico | have been steadily worsening under | f | jobless ma s bia CHURCH SPURNS UNEMPLOYED /Hungry and Cold Turn | to T.U.U. L.Council | JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 9.— @| Locked out from the Hall of St. James, Roman Catholic Church, at Victory and Institute Sts., by Rev. tructions the Chamber of Commerce of Jamestown, over 1,000 the Arcade on the second floor, filling two staircases, a large bal- cony and a sp: floor, listened with enthu ponse for more than two hours to spokesmen of the Unemployed Council, T.U.U.L., Com- munist Party and Young Commu- nist League- from ed into Building, ai ciol the masses to believe that Hoover °'S@nizer, pointed out that the ac- | would or might do something about | ‘ion of Rev. Billerio, in refusing the the growing wor arm: Sen-| hall for a meeting to the jobless ator Fess at once stated that Hoo-| Workers, proved conclusively the ver and the whole administration|Communist contention, that the would do nothing to give relief to|Church and its ministers are ser- the unemployed. of the bosses, that the work- La Follette’s sudden reference to class can expect nothing from the unemployment situation, which (Continued on Page Three) has been severe now for more than ——— six months, undoubtedly is inspired of the workers demandi o|\Ua Ua or wages,” and*is not a little ~ AID MPERIALISM |Back British Bosses in | India Professor John Dewey, of Colum- University, heading a committee Augustine Billero, acting under in- | District T.U.ULL. | E IN MANY VT ATTACKS Federal Government, Refusing Aid to Starving Millions of Workers, Tries to Check Fight o Working Class for “Work or Wages” by Michigan Arrest of Communist Leadership Workers Reply by Forming Unemployed Councils Everywhere Under T.U.U.L.; Hundred Join Communist Party in Detroit, Waterbury, New Britain, Brass City; Prepare for Feb. 26t U.S. HOLDS 7 ———INDETROF |Conspiracy to Halt Un- employed Drive DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 9.—Polic and stool-pigeons raided a mar meeting held at Ferry Hall la: night to protest against the Crim inal Syndicalist laws under which J workers are held in Pontiac. Fiv hundred enthusiastic workers pre: ent cheered the call for a strugg! against the Criminal Syndicalis Law, and organized for an unem ployment demonstration. The police raiding the meetin started their attack by arrestin Raymond. When the workers re sisted, the police drew their gun | threatening to shoot. Then they immediately arreste Jack Stachel, district organizer o the Communist Party and six othe workers. They were held under th U. S. Criminal Code. These fed eral charges are undoubtedly ser. ious, though the press speaks o them only vaguely as being based !on “maligning” Hoover and the De troit police. Raymond and many others were slugged. The hall was closed and workers present searched. This is part of a general attack against the Party here, and at- tempted preparation to hinder the mass jobless demonstration on February 26. That the local and state authorities are conspiring with the federal government, is seen in the recent visit of Goy- | ernor Green and Harold Emmons, the newly appointed police com- (Continued on Page Three) JAPAN EXPOSES U.S. SECRECY ‘Rejects U.S. Ratio; No Limit on Hypocrisy TOKIO, Feb. 9.—The Japanese | government today wired the Japa- |nese delegation at London that the terms of the Stimson proposal for naval “needs” of the United States as compared to those of Japan, were jutterly inacceptable.” It was likewise disclosed, in a way to expose the s t diplomacy of Stimson, who was supposed to give out all of the United States |proposal in a public message to | Hoover, that Stimson nevertheless | withheld part of his proposals from ithe United States public that he had |previously pledged not to delude | with “secret diplomacy.” | The Tokio government gave this |game away by stating that the Ja- |panese navy “had received addition- {al details of the Stimson plan re- |garding Japan which were not made | public in, London.” * * * te} that the American Federation of | continue Wall Street in Porto Rico Will of Imperialists in Legislature and Against Masses 3 | France to Be the Goat. of liberals, today issued a statement | LONDON, Feb. 9.—The hypoe- designed to aid British imperialism |risy of the imperial led by The statement calls for | America and England, who claim ion of “public opinion,” | that they are “absolutely opposed” Rae a Wace tat |to submarines, is shown by the ad- : bangin bere re |mission that, “they know they cam- Peaceful submission to the brutal | not get abolition,” so they will, British exploitation is exactly what! therefore, in the case of the United jin India. | the util to presery the i srialists ask of the Indian) States, urge the building of “bigger worke The appeal, according tojand better” submarines, |its spon intended to influence| The “reason” they cannot get Indian bourgeois nationalists _ to! “abolition” of submarines, is because their non-violence policy| France, Japan and Italy are op- (Continued on Page o) | posed. Thus the British and Ameri- cans can pla: intly roles” as hu- | manitarians, and still keep their |submarines, in fact can go ahead and build more and bigger sub- ; marines, Speaks for Police Hound to Death Man Who Identifies Mayor As Mob Leader SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. 9.} American rule. A devastating blow | was struck in September, 1938, when the San Felipe hurricane hit the is- land. The masses, 75 per cent of whom actually live in starvation ra- tions, are finding their conditions becoming more unbearable every day. When Roosevelt makes his pro- posals to the Legislature on Mon- (Continued on Page Three) % CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 9.—L. | Edwards, who made affidavit re- jcently that Mayor Greer led the gang that lynched Willie McDaniels, Negro tenant farmer is dead, His illness was brought to a fatal con- clusion by continual persecution and worry over threats from the police, his friends state. MeDaniels was lynched because he quarreled with the plantation own- er when refused pay for extra work.