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‘/ et Cee ee Be, Pee ee pe a There are nearly seven million jobless workers, but the Wall Street government 5: “Not a cent for relief.” Workers! Organize un- Don’t starve, fight! employed councils! Demonstrate for work or wages on February 26. Most Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef Mar. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by T! Company, Inc,, 26-28 Union Squar. . 291 he Comprodaily Publishing e, New York City, N. ittad AY, FEBRU Vol. VI, N International Unemployment and the Fight Against It } The crisis developing in the United States of America is gradually spreading to the other countries. There exists not the least doubt that we have here not a business depression of local importance, but an economic crisis. of an international character. There can still exist differences of opinion regarding the tempo of development of this crisis, but it is impossible to deny its unceasing growth or its depth. The consequences of this crisis are all the more serious for capitalist society as it is developing on the background of the general crisis of the capitalist system and aggravating the contradictions of the same to an extraordinary extent. The importance of this crisis is rendered all the more greater by the circumstance that it is connected with a severe agrarian crisis, which in its turn still further emphasizes the rottenness of monopolistic capitalism. The present crisis of the year 1930 differs from the international ~ crisis of 1920 in that it is developing along with a simultaneous rise of the revolutionary tide and powerful advance of socialist construc- m in the Soviet Union, i. e., is accompanied by two decisive circum- nces which are bound to render the consequences of this crisis more serious for capitalism. The analysis which the Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I. @ave regarding the inevitable collapse of capitalist stabiliza- tion has been brilliantly confirmed. The symptoms of this collapse are exposed in a number of phenomena of which the most important is the incredible growth of unemployment. In the United States there are already seven million unemployed, in Germany three and a half million, and in Great Britain the number approaches two million. The whole of the eastern half of Europe has for some months been faced with sinking production, which in- evitably leads to thousands of workers being thrown on to the street. In the little state of Austria there are 325,000 unemployed. In Poland it is reckoned that the number of unemployed will amount in the im- mediate future to 400,000. In South America millions of agricultural workers are starving as a result of the crisis. In addition to the wholesale unemployment the number of workers on short time is every- where increasing in an alarming manner. Capitalist rationalization and the new methods of exploiting labor power have hitherto been accompanied by chronic unemployment, by growth of the army of reserve labor and by a general sinking of the standard of living of the working class. This was the case even in the period when capi- talist economy was on the upgrade, which was not so very long ago. The present crisis is intensifying, and will still further intensify all these processes to a phantastic degree. In the big industrial centers of the capitalist world there is hardly a single working class family of which at least one member is not unemployed. Capitalist society and its social democratic and “labor” ministers are delivering over to Finger and misery millions of proletarian families for whom there iffno place in the process of production. Under the present condi- t§ns of disastrous unemployment capitalist society is unable to do anything better than issue penal laws which deprive the unemployed of the miserable pittance they had received hitherto (Germany). At the same time there is proceeding everywhere a ruthless attack by the capitalists on wages. In the United States the wages of workers in the steel industry are being reduced by 20 per cent. We see the same thing in other countries. The bourgeoisie is endeavoring to: throw the heaviest burdens of the present crisis on to the shoulders of ‘the working..masses.and to.overcome the difficulties at their cost. All this inevitably renders the questions of the fight against inter- national unemployment, the question of the material situation of the working class, the main object of attention of the Communist Inter- national. The wave of strikes which is now sweeping all the capitalist countries is before all bound up with the fight of the working class against the lowering of their standard of living. The terrible whole- sale unemployment is the Achilles heel of capitalist society and of all bourgeois and “Labor” Governments. Here there is revealed most clearly to the broadest masses of the workers that the bourgeoisie ig incapable of solving the contradictions of the capitalist system. From this question one can most easily bring the workers to the chestion of the Young Plan, of Fascism, of social fascism, of imperial- ist war, to the problem of power and of the proletarian dictatorship. The Communist Party which succeeds in mobilizing the working masses round these questions becomes the driving wheel which sets in motion the class which has the historical task of overthrowing the old, decay- ing capitalist world. What worker will display indifference to the call of the Communist Party not to let himself be delivered over by the bourgeoisie to death from starvation. What workers will not come out on to the streets in order to fight against unemployment and against capitalism, even in the countries of white terror. What work- er will not think over the political results of “Democracy,” which is become fascistized, and the regime of “prosperity” so belauded by the social democrats and compare them with the political results of the proletarian dictatorship, with the position of the working class in the country where socialism is being successfully built up on the basis of the Five-Year Plan. It is therefore not a matter of chance that a wave of unemployed demonstrations has been sweeping all the big European towns of late. It is likewise not by mere chance that these demonstrations have as- sumed such a stormy character. The masses, embittered by hunger, will not listen to the contemptible advice of the social democratic bureaucrats who have grown fat in the service of the capitalist state. In Germany, and in Poland thousands of unemployed assemble in the street in order to present their bill to the capitalist governments, hich the latter cannot meet. In Italy, where the labor movement was @ suppressed with fire and sword, thousands of unemployed are monstrating under the cry of “Bread and Work.” The Communist arties have already begun to organize a broad campaign for the un- employed, but this does not suffice by a long way: it lags behind events. The fight against unemployment, against the increasing ex- ploitation, for the raising of the standard of living of the workers must become the guiding thread of a broad mass movement in the international arena. Rightly to carry out the decisions of the 10th Plenary Session of the E.C.C.I. means in the first place to find the lever with the aid of which the broad masses of the working class can be set in motion. Under the condition of the growing economic crisis the question of unemployment is one of these important levers. It is the duty of the Communists closely to link up the fight of the unemployed with the fight of the workers in the factories under the revolutionary class slogans: for the 7-hour day, for higher wages, for payment of full unemployment benefit by the capitalists and their state. . Not # single strike, not a single movement of the proletariat must oceur without the demands of the unemployed being placed among the chief demands of the workers. Only then will this movement acquire general class basis, only then can the various sections of the working be educated in the spirit of general class solidarity. Only in this will resistance be offered to social fascism, which is striving, in the interests of capital, to divide the workers into employed and un- dmployed. This fundamental principle of the class unity of the move- ment must find its organizational expression in the “Unemployed Committees,” “Unemployed Councils,” etc., which have been organized in a number of countries, These organs must not only comprise repre- sentatives of the unemployed, but they must also include workers from the factories. We must sot hesitate a minute in mobilizing broad masses of the workers for the fight against unemployment. Only the Communist Pasty eon lead internationa] movement against unemployment. Only the Comintern and the RI-L.U. can unite in this fight both the gnemployed and the workers in the factories and lead them to the attack on the system. which brings misery, hunger and death to mil- {tens ef proletarians. Only the Communist Parties can lead the prole- carian masses of the whole world on, the path of revolutionary over- throw proletariat and the establishment of the dictatorship of the RUBIO GOV'T - STARTS NEW TERROR RULE ‘Campa, Trade Union| See’y Disappears; Others Jailed Prepare Frame-Ups Ex-Soviet Ambassador Searched and Robbed BULLETIN. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—Ten secret service men from the Rubio-Wall Street government to- day raided the Soviet Embassy and stole papers they could lay hands on. The Mexican govern- ment is working very closely with Wall Street forces. Several days ago Dwight W. Morrow, of Mor- gan & Co., now in London as dele- gate to the race-for-armaments’ conference talked over the tele- phone to Estrada, Minister of For- eign Affairs for the Rubio gov- ernment. MEXICO CITY, Feb, 10.—Imme- diately following the attempted killing of the Mexican-Wall Street president, Ortiz Rubio, by a fol- lower of the party-bourgeois de- feated candidate for the presidency, Jose Vasconcelas, the Rubio gov- ernment renewed its reign of ter- ror against the Communist Party of Mexico, and the revolutionary | trade unions Confederacion Sindi- | cal Unitaria Mexicana). Campa, the secretary of the CG. | S. U. M., has disappeared and is undoubtedly being tortured or has been murdered by the agents of Rubio in some out-of-the-way jail. Tina Modotti, a member of the Communist Party, is under arrest and has been subjected to a third | degree torture. While the Rubio| thugs know that the attempted as- sassin of Rubio was a follower of Vasconcelas, whose stand on im-| perialism was’ hardly distinguish- able from that taken by Rubio him- self, they are trying to frame-up the leadership of the Communist Party in connection with the shoot- ing. Houses are being searched daily and new arrests are expected mo- (Continued on Page Three) “INVESTIGATE” DEATH OF 23 Dangerous Anthracite Mines Passed by Strike STANDARDVILLE, Utah, Feb. 10.—With 20 dead from the Stand- ard Coal Co, mine explosion, or killed by monoxide gas generated in the blast, and three miners in a res- cue crew killed while taking out | bodies of the first 20, the best the company and state will do is to promise “an investigation.” Inas- much as state inspectors pass this gas-filled mine every time they look at it, nothing but a whitewash for the company is expected. Calta, apes | Strike Mines of Murder Co. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Feb. 10. —More state police are scheduled to be sent here, according to report, in an effort to overawe the 700 strikers in the Glen Alden and Anderson mines of the Paisley Coal Co. The miners are demanding wage in- creases instead of the wage cut the company offers, and safety, under- (Continued on Page Two) International Wireless News TAXI STRIKE PROBABLE IN BERLIN. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 10.—A big taxicab company today fired 1,500 drivers because they refused to accept a wage cut. Discontent is rife among ithe 18,000 cab men, and a strike is probably for a minimum wage of 60 marks weekly. * * * | PAUL LEVI DEAD. (Wireless By Inprecorr) } BERLIN, Feb. 10.—Paul Levi died here Sunday morning, aged 47, ,after flinging himself from the fifth |floor following an illness of influ- enza and pneumonia, lthe social democratic party before |the war. He opposed the social pa- triots. and joined the Communist Party when it was founded. He was a leader until the critical days | of 1921, when he abandoned the |Party after the March action and returned to the social democratic Party, becoming a member of the | Reichstag. He was prominent as a/ lawyer and defended Rose “Luxem- | {burg, and recently the editor of the Levi joined NEW YORK, TUESD Searched by Rubio Stool-Pigeons on Alexander Makar, ea-Ambassa- dor to Mexico from the Soviet Union. His baggage was rifled by Rubio’s detectives in Vera Cruz while Makar was on his way to the Soviet Union. Not content with stealing valuable things from Makar’s baggage, Rubio's stool- pigeons made a personal search of Makar and his wife. RYKOV WARNS OF WAR ON SOVIET Prepare War for God and the Kulaks Moscow reports of the United Press Monday night quoted Alexis Rykov, in speech made to the con- gress of the Osoviakhim, as declar- ing that preparations for war were being made abroad against the So- viet Union. The Osoaviakhim, the popular organization of 5,000,000 members for aviatory and chemical defense, was told that just as previ- ism, the landlords and capitalists, the new war would be an armed in- tervention in behalf of capitalism. Stressing the hypocritical cam- paign against the Soviet on religious grounds, Rykov was quoted as say- ing: “They are protecting God against suppression by the Bolshe- viks and against confiscation of his properties. They are really inter- ested in protecting the kulaks (rich farmers).” The “Izvestia,” commenting upon the congress and the danger of armed attack on the Soviet Power, is quoted as saying: “We do not want war, but we do not fear the im- perialists. At Rostov on thie Don, an explosion in the government flour mill, which killed six workers, is re- ported as possibly due to another of the many plots to sabotage So- viet industry by imperialist agents. HOUSEWIVES AID FOOD PICKETS Beat Off Miller’s Gang; 3 Contempt Cases Miller, the boss of Millers market, 161st St. and Union Ave., Bronx, where the police shot Steve Katovis, came out yesterday with his wife and gangsters and attacked a picket of the Food Clerks Union. The food clerks continue to picket this market even-though the police have used their guns there, and the housewives of the neighborhood show such solidarity for the strike and such antipathy for the blood stained broke. Yesterday, too, the women came ous international intervention had been caused by suppression of czar-) Miller’s Market, that Miller is going | WORKERS SWEEP COMPANY UNION THUGS TO DEFEAT ‘Shops Strike With the| Industrial Union; | Several Won ILGW Sien Fake Peace |Beaten Thug, Enraged, Kills Boss By Error militant needle trades workers an@ |the Industrial Union! About the | time that Schwartz, president of the manufacturers, and Lieut. Gov. Lehman were explaining that the company union has surrendered to | every demand of the bosses, and the | only reason the fake strike was “not lyet settled’? was because of a re- |fusal so far by the jobbers to deal {only with the contractors’ associa- |tion, the dressmakers themselves | were driving the hired gangsters of the I.L.G.W. before them like chaff. After the battle was over, the Dress Manufacturers Association an- nounced that their shop would open on the company union agreement, |Thursday. It is a two-year slave | contract, no insurance. | Yesterday was supposed to be a day of “picketing” by the company union. By “picketing” they did not mean putting anybody in front of ithe shops where the workers were {locked out in agreement with the |company union. They meant send- jing gangsters armed with knives |and billiard cues into the shops (Continued on Page Two) ANTL-SOVIET CRIMES 0. K.” German Courts Free) White Guardists | AVISIT 10 J06 i tt MOSCOW, Feb. 10.—Commenting on the acquittal in Berlin of the counterfejters of the Soviet chevon- | | etz (Soviet paper money), the organ} | of the Soviet Government, “Izvestia,” | declares that the verdict is an open challenge against the Soviet Govern- | ment. Diplomatic consequences are | | probable to arise therefrom. | The Berlin court maintained as a/ |principle that crime is no crime when jt is committed against the| Soviet Union. The verdict showed \that the German bourgeoisie is ra-! | pidly entering the anti-Societ camp. | | The “Pravda,” organ of the Com- | munist Party of the Soviet Union, | jdeclares that the verdict gives the | stamp of official approval to crime agajnst the Soviet Union. The ver-| dict represents an official invitation | jto counter-revolutionaries to use) Germany as a basis of anti-Soviet | activity without fear of punishment. Editorial Note—The case of the| | anti- counterfeiters, in which| were involved not only Russian white guard “socialists” from the} | present territory of Soviet Georgia! in Caucasia, in the southern part of | the Soviet Union, but also command- (Continued on Page Three) SHOE WORKERS "AID UNEMPLOYED Crisis Enters Deeply; Into Their Struggle | A serigus, attentive and deter- | mined crowd of shoe workers packed | one of the main halls at the Work- ers Center yesterday afternoon, and | discussed the strike and lockout sit- uation, and unemployment. | The main purpose of the meeting | Another day of victory for the! | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | down and fought for the picket ,,, SUBSCRIPTION R. Outsile New York, by mail n New York by mail, $8.00 per year. 0 per year. Price 3 Cen‘ MILWAUKEF, BOSTON, DETROIT AND NEWARK +USH JOBLESS COUNCILS IN FIGHT FOR “WORK OR WAGES’ Another and Bigger Demonstration in Milwaukee Thursday to Deman : Relief from County Authorities; Stachel Freed on $7,500 Bail Boston Workless Organize Come Back for February 26th; Refuse t Starve and Will Fight; Beal Still Jailed; Arrests in Newark MILWAUKEE, Wis., Fe 10.—The Council of Unen ployed here is calling all worl ers, unemployed and employe jalike, to gather at the Cit Market, 6th St. and Vliet, o | y, Feb. 18, at 2 p. m {to march to the City Hall an ent demands for “Work ¢ ,” immediate relief an demands, to the count | authorities. | At the tin | stration Feb. st” may jor told the unemployed that h |could do nothing” and to take thei ty authorities buck, but th ll the bluff an r demonstra nds to th | Unemployed on the Bread Line, New York of the first demor is bein: tt 22 Harrison Si | ing of unem held here to |The unemploy re going aheac | with buildi Jnemployed Coun j cil under hip of the Trad sted by the | Communist F Z | The results of the brutal poljec $ ago, when the work. workers stand for hours in bitter cold weather, waiting for a bowl | ter organization. The unemployed of soup to kecp them alive in case the bosses ever need them for i nlgpedias* well. oer Nae a job. Here they have a little blaze of papers and box wood on e preparing for a big the street to warm their numbed hands. But that is exceptional ationvon Hebi Bes intastee good luck. Many dare not leave their places in line for it. ployment Day, to show the b d their government that the worki class is unwilling te NO IMPROVEMENT SHARK'S OFFICE IN HARD TIMES starve in the midst of plenty. Stachel Released on Bail. Reports reaching New York from Detroit Monday afternoon, state that Jack Stachel, District Organ- izer of the Cor Party at De- obbed by Hard Facts Refute the troit, who was arrested with seven Lies of Hoover (Continued on Page Two) Unemployed R “Employment” Agents NO MINE MURDER in a There is a stir in the men’s sec-! The capitalist newspapers, tion of the Sixth Ave. job sharkery. | line with the spirit of “optim “You sent me all the v y out tolintroduced by Hoover in the pres- Brooklyn and when I got there,/ent crisis, are playing up big the old busboy. The glum line of|do not point out, first of all, that | waiting jobless , glummer |this does not affect the present | than ever. mass unemployment in the steel | as “What's the matter with you,”| industries because for a month|Foster Tells Tomorrow shouts the job shark. “Why didn’t | thousands of workers have been on ewe ea you. go' right ‘over there? ‘Thal parti-time hacis, and in spite of| Q2 Conditions in USSR trouble with you is, you had to|the “inerea: many are still | 2 mine dis: at Standard- a2 on get something to eat.” ee on this basis, a real wage- Utah? in’ 20° Workers “I did go right over,” insists |cut basis. LG a ae ae (Continued on Page Two) The Annalist, Wall Street mouth- | Sorina]. ‘recklens see ttne wee weld 2 piece s, that a large part of the workers’ lis o character- increased steel production is the yea SEE OPEN COMMUNIST merest speculation and is not based nti Bester: ons substantial increase in orders ry of the Trade n the automobile, building, or I ague, yesterday. | s other industry. In fact the An- | « : industry : It is in king contrast to the TRAINING SCHOOL (Continued on Page Two) conditions that prevail in the Soviet | Union where every effort is made pene Se EXPOSE HUGHES | to protect the lives of workers. ras zd We ep “Man-killing speed-up, reckless First Session Greeted disregard of safety precautions— by Party Leaders this is part of the bible of the American coal operators: The bloody With all but 13 present (some of | the students not having arrived in | WALL ST, TIES | fruits of this policy is the frightful | toll of miners killed and injured on ey Nie bia HNP retnde oe tha : | the job each year, And cooperating National Training Schoo! of the Standard Oil Now Has) with the bosses in this as, in all Communist Party was held yester-| Qyqyy, i j other policies are the social-fascist day’ atearnons, : Supreme Court Head | tetrayers of the United Mine Work- | ers.’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Henry | How 1 L. Doherty, oil robber, today sent a} The | letter to the Senate Judiciary Com- | miner mittee, charging that Hoover and | well Hughes were lined up in a plot to; ments impose a’ super-government on the | under United States composed of the lead- | deser' ing imperialist bankers and their | “The F families. Socia! This is a six weeks’ school to| give both theoretical and practical | training to a picked group of ac- tive party members, selected from the various districts of the party, representing many industries, men (Continued on Page Two) y Work In USSR. under which the Soviet Union work, as many other achieve- e being made possible Year Plan will be in a talk on conomie Plan of 2 the the that the whom Miller was punching with his| own capitalistic fists. The police arrested the picket,) who refused to give ground, the women who helped him, and because | they couldn’t help it, Miller and his They all came up before Judge Duress, who suspended sentence. This is a labor hating judge, but he ler who beat him, and that would never do. The union will continue picketing. ARMED POLICE ATTACK UNEMPLOYED. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 10.— Police armed with sabres attacked several strikers and unemployed workers who demonstrated here against scab labor on some building ‘“Tagebuch” in the Jorns trial. work, | struggle in over a score of shops | | where the Independent Shoe Work- | Farm Board Frantic As Agrarian Crisis Grows More Sharp WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Be-) ‘as to rally all support for the ers have been locked out now for 24 weeks; to mobilize for a wide! campaign to carry the union into | | the open shops and organize the un- | ¢@Use of the intensification of. the | wife too and one of the scabs | i himself closely aligned with the im-/| C 1 tomorrow While the grafter Doherty was) (Wednesday) entral Opera House, 67th St. and perialist machine of President Hard. ing of unsavory memory, the fact) 1 ve only 25 cents and are is that the appointment of Hughes| on sale at the new headquarters of as chief justice of the Supreme) the Metropolitan Area T.U.ULL., 138 5) organized, and to combine the strug- | agrarian crisis due to the sharp! Court is in reality putting in that W. 17th St.; W rkers Bookshop, 26 didn't like to convict the picket who | | was beaten without convicting Mil- gle of the unemployed with that of | the workers on strike or in the | shops. | Resist Wage Cuts: | Reports on the present situation | showed that the following is a sam- | ple of the struggle of the shoe ‘workers at present. In an open \shop, Unity shop, in Brooklyn, a} ‘man who had worked there 7 years | has just been discharged for refus- | ing to take a 30 per cent wage cut. | The boss told another worker he could quit unless he would take a/| reduction from $35 a week tog30. Sadie Van Veen of the Unem- ployed Council was given a warm (Continued on Page Two) drop in wheat and cotton price: Federal Farm Board i the | key position the chief counsel of the Union Square; Needle Trades Work- horizing | biggest corporation in the country ers’ Indu: mn, 131 W. 28th the establishment of a $10.900,000| to do their bidding in the name of | St.; Indepentent Shoe Workers’ “Grain Stabilization Corporation,” |the Supreme Court in a cruder| Union, 16 W. 2tst St.; and Hotel ina hopeless effort to stem the dro; fashion than heretofore. | Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers? in prices. Hughes has appeared frequently | Union, 16 W. 21st St. Because of mass unemployment in the Supreme Court as counsel for throughout the world, the exports of | the Standard Oil Co. ow he will wheat, in spite of the low prices, has | represent them as the Chief Justice, dropped to a very low level. There| Voicing the opinion of the petty-| is more wheat in the storehouses at} (Continued on Page Two) | the present time than ever before in| |o— the history of the United States. | $1,600,000 ADVANCE ON SOVIET | The supply of wheat continues to} ORDER. mount as exports drop behind. The OSTANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 10.— storage facilities are overcrowded,;An advance of $1,600,000 to the The fake efforts or the Federe! | Turkish treasury was made by the Farm Board to handle the situation | Soviet Union in payment of Turk- | will be futile, | Today in History of _ the Workers Sicfaaesir ct OAS |. February 11, 1897—Lenin con- demned to three years’ exile in Siberia. 1828—Bourtzeff, Rus- sian_revolutioni imprisoned in London for \s tion of 1 lish goods to be exported to Russ’ | strike in Bolivia, 1922—General v