The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1930, Page 1

Stimson’s Attempt to Hide the Imperialist War Maneuvers Under a “Humanitarian” Garb Will Not Fool the Workers. Behind the Scenes the Bosses Are Preparing for War. While Their Rivalries Are Especially Sharp They Are United in Their Hatred of the Soviet Union. Defend the USSR! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. . 292 Vol. VI., No Polat b Inc, 26-24 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily abe New York City, N. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1930 SUBSCRIP' ow “w ork or . Wages,” Is the Bemand of Jobless Millions No amount of ballyhoo about returning prosperity and increasing employment can wipe out the material fact that ‘unemployment is in- creasing. No amount of talk by Hoover, Mellon, Lamont and their labor lieutenanta, Green, Woll and Co. will give jobs to the millions of jobless. The unemployment figures for the State of New York are generally recognized as a barometer for the rest of the country. Ac- cording to the report of Labor Commissioner Frances Perkins of: this state, the month of January saw a further drop of 2 per cent in the number of employed as compared with December and 6 per cent below last November. As the months wear on the number of jobless will continue to increase. While millions are walking the streets, the employed part of the working class is overworked, speeded up and forced to‘accept big wage slashes. Part-time gvork for those still at work is turning even the employed workers into a part of the unemployed army. Employed and unemployed are both compelled to bear the burden of the economic crisis. Meanwhile, the bosses are doing their utmost to make the wage cuts permanent, while offering figrce resistance to every organized demand for relief by the unemployed. Only the unitél struggle of employed and unemployed will secure temporary relief. Only the organized resistance of the entire working class will save it from mass hunger and pauperization. There is no permanent solution to unemployment under capitalism. On the con- trary, unemployment is the permanent product of capitalism. Workers are not jobless because the working class has not produced enough. | On the contrary, they are jobless because they have produced too much, bedause the markets are gutted and the wealth they have produced is owned and controlled by a parasitic, coupon-clipping capitalist class. Only the sharpest class struggle under the leadership of the Com- munist Paxty *and the revolutionary Trade Union Unity League will force any material concession from the capitalists. The struggle against unemployment cannot proceed without meeting the armed repression of the bosses’ state, the betrayals of the A. F. of L. burocrats and their “socialist” lackeys. The working class will have to fight for social in- surance. It’ will not get it any other way. It will have to fight against the bosses’ attack upon its standard of living. There is no other way of maintaining it. The first step in the fight against unemployment mpst be the or- ganization of unemployed councils backed up by the unity of the em- ployed and unemployed. Workers! Don’t starve, fight! Mobilize for February 26, to dem- onstrate against unemployment. Workers in every, capitalist country are pounding the sidewalks,in search of work. Unite the power of the | jof the same, has voted a general |strike for nine demands- | the |up with the Standard Oil Company, | tack the workers. STIMSON TRYING international working class’on February 26. Demonstrate for work or * wages! HIT HOOVER'S LAUNDRY WORKER LIE ON JOBS WANTS A ONION Employment Off Up to|Sick, Driven, Cheated; 19% in 30 Days ‘Build Shop Committees) ALBANY, N. Y,, Feb. 11 —Con-| A worker in the National Family | trary to the Hoover lies the data |Laundry, 2 West 141st St. a part just issued by the Commissioner of | lof a large trust operating in New Labor, Francis Perkins, of the state York, and employing 600, almost all of New Yorks which contains many |Negro women workers, writes of key* industries, conclusively shows |conditions there, which are typical that unemployment grew still worse |of those of 40,000 other laundry during January. The most signifi- | workers. cant. feature of the report just re- | The hours in the national are | leased by Francis Perkins is that | rather better than in most laundries; | the decline, which heretofore hit all nine a day and five on Saturday, | | | | | dictates of humanity.” basic industries, is now rapidly | spreading to industries producing | food, and’ other commodities for | mass consumption. “January marked the third suc- cessive month that representative | New York state factories reported widespread reductions in employ- ment,” says the report. The. same statement, issued by | Frances Perkins, estimates that. more than 100,000 workers have been laid off by the factories in New York state since the middle of October. “While a decrease in em-| ployment is usual from October,” says Miss Perkinsg the decline this year has been greater than usual. “In October, 1929, the factories of New York State were employing more workers than at any time since the end of 1926. In January, 1930, they were employing fewer workers than at any other time since July of 1928, This is a very low figure for January, probably the lowest January ever recorded. “Ali of these statements are whereas in other places they are | often 12 a day. z But here, as elsewhere, no worker | dares te leave before the whistle | blows, and all must be at their | | places when it blows to start work. | |If it is lunch time, and the work is not finished, the worker must put lin his own time on it. Lunch time is only 45 minutes; in some ae jlaundries it is half an hour. Fin- | ishers, skilled workers doing piece | | rates, have to put in long hours, i | Failure to work through sickness | means discharge, and the National hires one of the many unemployed. |It prefers inexperienced _ workers, because they are healthier than those who have worked in this in- dustry before. There is a 50-cent fine for every mistake, and very often a group is ordered to stay after work, like (Contiftued on Page Twe) DEE ae “PARAGRAPH G00” \by Senator Borah, a group of the | Charles jmake is that it becomes too evident | their attorney on the bench of the founded ‘upon ‘reports made from 1,500 manufacturing firms reporting each month to the Department of Statistics and Information of the Department of Labo: “Factories were USED ON CLERKS Many Arrests of Food Workers On It Continued arrests under the no- sefected to repre- sent diverse industries |located in New York state and employing ap- proximately one-third of all factory workers. The decline which began in November and enlarged in De- Continued on Page Three) jtorious “Paragraph 600” provision in the statutes, against contempt of |court, continue in the Food Clerks’ Industrial Union fight to organize the markets of “Greater New York. 4 Held For Trial. Another picket was arrested yes- terday at the market on Aldus St. charged with violating “Paragraph 600,” and held to special sessions on $500 bail. Monday, two were arrested there, and Thursday, the day the strike started, one was ar- rested, all on the same charge and same bail. At Miller’s market, 161st St. and Union Ave., Bronx, the union pick- eted all day. The police were there in force, but made no arrests. Many have already been arrested there, and yesterday Judge Duress Today in History of the Workers February 12, 1809.—Abraham Lincoln, representative of the Northern bourgeoisie, driven into the role of “great emancipator” by. the revolutionary pressure of the Civil War, and unyielding op- ponent of arming Negro masses for their own emancipation, born in Kentucky. 1919—Peasants’ re- volt in Rumania. 1923—Sentences totaling 261 years at hard labor in prison inflicted in trials of Polish: ‘Communists. —1925—135 BOLIVIA TRADE ~ UNIONS VOTING GENERAL AALSTRIKE Nine Vital Demands} Made on Employers at the Capital | Police Patrol La Paz) Strike Vote a Blow at the War Danger | LA PAZ, Bolivia, Feb. 11—The} national trade union organization, ad- hering to the Latin American Trade Union Confederation, “La Federa- cion Sindical del Trabajo” of Bolivia and the La Paz local organizatio, This gjtuation is tense and the employers of La Paz have asked the government to “protect” them, which government, a creature of Yankee imperialism and much tied has thrown extra heavy police pa- trols into the city to prepare to at- The journalists and students or- ganizations, playing the usual role (Continued on Page Two) TO HIDE RIVALRY For War inN icaragua; | Talks “Humane” Slop LONDON, feb. 11.—Secretary of | State, Henry L. Stimson, who back- Jed the marines in. their airplane bombings of entire Nicaraguan vil- | lages, resuMing in the death of hun- dreds of men, women and children, comes out now in the garb of “hu- manitarian” in his race-for-arma- ment speeches at the Five-Power | nveet. Stimson assumed his new comic- opera role when the discussion of limiting submarines was brought up. “The essential objection to the sub- marine,” said the head Wall Streets delegate, “is *that it is a weapon particularly susceptible to abuse, | that it is susceptible of use against merchant ships in a way that vio- | lates alike the laws of war and the Nothing was said about the drop- ping of bombs and torpedoes from | airplanes on merchant ships, a more effective means of warfare devised | (Continued on Page Three.) \Show Up Hughes Attachment to Big | Boss Outfits WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Led fake bourgeois opposition in the Senate attacked the appointment of Evans Hughes as chief justice of the Supreme Court, be- cause they consider it too raw in the face of growing mass discontent. Borah declared that the office of chief justice was more important than that of the president and vir- tually made Hughes the “economic dictator of the nation.” The objections that Borah, Fess, and other good capitalist senators that the big corporations will have | Supreme Court if Hughes is ap- pointed. Borah pointed out that Hughes was hit€d by such bandits and outright oil robbers as Sinclair, Doheny and Steward, who head the American Petroleum Institute. Borah and his cohorts want to keep Hughes out of the job to give the mass@ the illusion that the su- preme court is impartial. JOBLESS AUTO WORKERS OF DETROIT IN ACTION Newark Unemployed Meet Meet Attacked; Call Big Bigger Meet Friday DETROIT, Feb. 11.—Two thou- sayd unemployed today in the job line at the Chevrolet Plant at Ham- tramck (a part of Greater Detroit), found that no workers were wanted. Comrade Kristalsky, Communist candidate for mayor of Hamtramck, at the election to be held this spring, addressed the jobless workers and told them of the Council of the Unemployed, organized by the Trade Union Unity League, and the German coal miners killed in ex- haf before him 15 of them, taken plosion at Stein ‘pit, Dortmund. (Continued on Page Two) demands which it proposes for un-. employed relief and social insurance, |Workers Honor |year another figure’ rose, one, Book- | |sisted that in order to establish : : tem taught him that “Men are| sien the workers heard that the| Douglas, Negro evolutionist £e OTTO HALL. | On February 20, 1895, Negroes | lost by the death of Frederick Doug- las one of their greatest revolution- ary fighters. Later in the same er T. Washington, who became one | of the most efficient tools of the capitalist class and was foisted upon the Negro masses by them as the neav Negro leader. Frederick Douglas represented a Negro race which was not yet broken up into class lines, while Booker T., Washington represented the newly rising Negro petty-bour- geoisie ard &s representative of this rising Negro petty-bourgeoisie he in- | themselves as a, lass they must necessarily sacrifice political and social advantages for economic de- velopment. Frederick Douglas was a worker. | Born in slavery he finally escaped | after having failed in several at- tempts. He worked as a day la-/ borer for three years°ir® New Bed- ford before he could get an oppor- tunity to work at his trade. He was | a ship caulker, * | Douglas was born on February 12, 1817, in Tuckahoe, Md. He early learned to read and write, buying books from his earnings as a bopt- black. He attacked slavery with all | the fiery passion of which he was | capable and with arguments none | could refute. His experience with the slave sys- | whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.” In his autobiggraphy he relates how those slaves who de- fended themselves would be brutally beaten up for the time, but would | never again be whipped. “Experi- (Centinued on Page Two) DEPUTY CALLS FOR USSR BREAK Use Koutepoft Case for War Plans BULLETIN. PARIS, Feb. 11.—Five hundred ILGW GIVES UP 40 HOUR WEEK IN “SETTLEMENT”, Industrial Union Calls| All to Defy Sell Out; Ready Now to Win Intense Dissatisfaction) Many Shops Won by N. , T.W.LU.; Fight On, The Needle Trades Workers In dustrial Union contitues to win. With intense dfssatisfaction evident | in every meeting galled by the Inter- | national Ladies Garment Workers | (the company union) to ratify its fake peace, following its fake strike, hundreds of workers are swarming up to the N.T.W.IU. offices, representing their shops, and asking for help in organizing | the rank and file shop committee to | win the 40-hour week, which the | | Schlesinger (I.L.G.W.) outfit threw | overboard to get themselves estab- lished as the official company union. Two Years of Slavery. Yesterday, the I.L.G.W. announced | that it had agreed with the inside | manufacturers’ association and with | the dress contractors. It was re- | | They'll Be Heard from February 26th! | FINAL EDITION | Also | Scene of Battle m8 bg POLICE 3,000 WORKLESS MEET BRUTALITY WITH HOT FIGHT Chester, Pa. Is e With Co. Dicks i Lines of unemployed like this are daily occurrences before every plant in the country. Out of thousands on line, it is seldom that | even a few are hired. These jobless workers will be heard from Feb, 26, when millions of unemployed workers will demonstrate thru- | out the world under the leadership of the Communist Parties of the world. “SOCIALISTS” IN. FRENCH, POLISH WAR ON JOBLESS) WORKERS FIGHT Cachin Hurt; . Jobless} | of Poland Militant | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | PARIS, Feb. 11.—Marcel Cachin, Hoan ‘Hears’ Workless, Only to Use Clubs By LEO FISHER | One of the biggest working class brutalities. | Severe collisions oc- |came out with an extra with a huge curred also at Tourcoing and Lille, |double colum® headline on the dem-| Where many workers were injured onstration. The “socialist” mayor,| and arrested. onstration that the Wisconsin News |Cincinnati Organizing (Canada Jobless Strik« jat Work Minus Wage of the United Press Tue: pon stated that 3,000 ur and women marche Hall at Cleveland, Ohic © place their demands fc t relief before the s e Committee” of tl a fought back vis ttacked by the pt Rey jday after |employed 1 to the |yester | unemployme | called “Welf J. P, dispatch quoted the p’ aying that the “riot® w: e the famous Ma [demonstrations the city of Mil-| Communist leader and member of| |Day of 1919.” Most of the crow waukee saw for took place the French Chamber of Deputies,|were members of the Council « here Feb. 5, lasting from two) Was injured in severe collisions at|Unemployed, it is stated, and whe | o'clock until Yelock in the eve- | Belfort, where ten thousand work-|they marched down the street the ning. So impressive was the dem-|ers demonstrated, despite police {waved banners bearing their a mands for “work or wages.’ “They stormed the City Hall,” tl report states, “piling into its doo | ways and jamming the corridor Police swung their clubs freely. Fin ported from the conference arranged | Hoan, was confronted by the dem- | by Governor Roosevelt, that the job- leeeratien of the unemployed with UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATE lees and the contractors were com- promising their difficulties. But | LL.G.W. agreed to no_ insurance, and to work on Saturdays (camou- the demand or work or wages, im- and other demands. In the mayor’s office, the com- mittee was met with excessive po- mediate relief for the unemployed, | flaged as overtime) and to compul- Hliteness on the part of the “social- sory arbitration under an “impartial | ;.49 flunkey of the bosses, Mayor IN POLAND. service).—A great demonstration of H 2,000 unemployed workers took place in Vloclavek. The demonstration was} | broken up three times by the police |but the unemployed rallied again WARSAW (By Inpgecorr Mail} |commission” like that foisted on the cloak manufacturers, angry voice; were raised in protest even in th carefully “packed” and thug-domi- nated LLL.G.W. “ratification meet- | ings.’ Even in the I.L.G.W. shop eae meeting, some protested \_in vain. The Schlesinger machine clubbed through the “ratification.” The workers began to turn immedi- jately to the Industrial Union. More meetings are to be held to- day, but the gangsters will be on hand, and “ratification” of the two- year slave contract is expected. Real Strike Spreads. However, many open shops walked white guards and social-fascists, urged on to attack the Soviet Embassy by the French imperial- ist press, gathered in front of the | Soviet Embassy tonight. | * * | PARIS, Feb, 11.—On the basis of | the Koutepoff case, Deputy Jean} Ybarnegary announced that he | . * out yesterday and the day before | at the call of the Industrial Union, | |and many haye been won from the |company union. A stampede to the (Continued on Page Two) and again and finally succeeded in (Coal Sh neaes on Page Two) |Hoan. He listened impatiently to the demands presented by the work- | free coal, lodging, food and ‘medical | ” 5-Year Plan’ Subject’ now vote in the last election?” jhad no funds, and can do nothing | Workers’ Republic, when William Ze ers, for wages or work, immediate | relief, unemployment “- FOSTER SPEAKS service fo the unemployed at the | expense of the bosses, etc. of Lecture asked Hoan. “Did they vote for} et Hoover, Smith or Thomas.” “Or! ‘Tonight several thousand New for the unemployed. “Go to the) Foster, national secretary of the county for some of the measures | Trade Union Unity League, will | abolition of the private employment agencies, the employment bea ito be contrglled by “the worker: TONIGHT ON USSR: His answer was a ‘cowardly Sea sion of the whole issue. “How did | ¢ | these people that demand relief Foster,” interrupted one. “Yes, or | York workers will hear a vivid, first | Foster,” added Mayor Hoan. hand account of the marvelous | Hoan further stated that the city | strides being made by the first that you are asking.” He expressed | speak at Central Opera House, 67th Surprise that there were private | s¢, and Third Ave., at 8 o'clock, on charging |“The Five-Year Economic Plan of would demand the severing of relat! tiene hotween France and the vigt Union. This coincides wi the wishes of the imperialists who are planning war on the Soviet | Union. Deputy Ybarnegary said he would | call the government’s attention, in the Chamber of Deputies, to the “i conveniences and dangers of the So- viet embassy and the grave reasons | why we should rupture relations with the Soviets,” The French tapitalist press still continues to carry anti-Soviet stories and demands a break with the So-| viet Union. Despite the repeated ( Continued on Page Two) Textile Workers Meet Tomorrow at 16 W. 21 There will be a special member- | noted above. ship meeting of all New York mem- bers of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union Bhursday, at 16 West 21st St, to make preparations for the district convention of the union which comes Sunday. Delegates will be elected: Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. International jemployment agencies, Wireless (Continued on Page on Page ieee) | News __| BHIL BOSSES BELGIAN TEXTILE STRIKE ! a VICTORY. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BRUSSELS, Feb. 11—The em- ployers have granted the full de- mands of the Renaix textile work- | ers, whereupon the strike has been ® called off. eArrest Gandos, Brill and} Others PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.—Emil Gardos, district organizer of the Communist Party here was arrested this morning while speaking at an unemployed meeting in the Labor Lyceum in Kensington. was also arrested at the meeting. The bosses framing * * Editorial Note: — The Renaix strike against wage cuts and for higher wages was called in spite of the opposition of the “socialist” trade union bureaucrats, who tried to smother the strike. The rank and file strikers forced the bosses to grant a wage raise, but when they went back to work the bosses would not pay it, and the rank and file again struck, with a victory as * are all jrested. Part of the charges against Gardos and Brill are malicious mis- FEAR JOBLESS, Joe Brill} | sorts of charges against the two ar- chief, defacing property and carry- | Socialist Construction.” Just returned from ‘the Soviet |Union, where he made a special study of the Five-Year Plan, Fos- |ter will show in striking manner the great contrast between the con- ditions of the working class in the Soviet Union and in the United States. He will point out the sig- nificance of the acute economic \erisis in the United States with its millions of unemployed, wage cuts, increased speed-up and other at tacks on the workers’ standards of | living in contrast to the steadily les- |sening unemployment, raising of | wages, decrease of hours and other | improvements being made possible under the Five-Year Plan. Tickets at 25 cents are on sale lat the new headquarters of the Metropolitan Area T.U.U.L., 13 W. 17th St.; Workers’ Bookshop, 26 | Union Square; Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, 131 West 28th |St.; Independent Shoe Workers Union, 16 West 21st St., and Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers STRIKE 0 - nie ing seditious literature. SVE The International Labor Defense (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 11.—Three thou- sand /taxicab drivers are now out on strike against wage cuts and for wage increases. There were col- lisions today between strikers and scabs. Further extension of the has been attempting to bail them | Union, 16 West 21st St, out, but no magistrate will sign the| are still in jail. In Chester, Pa., three workers} ° were arrested yesterday in front of the Sunshop Employment office, and were charged with “inciting to riot.” Today; ChairmanJailed in Special Sessions Dan De Avanzo, the shop chair- papers for their release and they|\Shoe Workers Meeting) strike is possible. They are held on $10,000 bail each. man of the Meccy Shoe Co. (117 Grattan St., Brooklyn), workers, for “Work or Wages.” *. Hundreds of workers then marched to the: City Hall 15 blocks away. Kristalsky led the workless into the City Hall, where they de- manded “Work or Wages.” The police station is in the same ‘building as the City Hall, therefore, the police were immediately on the scene, and tried, to disperse the demonstration, but were unable to do so, Kristalsky addressed the workers in the City Hall building, the job-|held every Sunday afternoon in| less crowding the corridors and many unable to get in remained packed on the City Hall steps. The mayor was “not in,” but the police, after arresting one worker, decided that it was impossible to break up the demonstration. The workers show themselves ready to press the demands with the jobless and employed of all the world on International Unemployment Day, February 26. A Communist election meeting is |locked out now for four months, was arrested in Special Sessions court yesterday, and held without bail on a “third degree assault” charge. The chairman was in the court room to attund the trial of several workers who were up for “contempt of court,” which means daring to picket. A detective walked over and arrested him, He is held in Raymond St, jail. The Independent Shoe Workers’ Union lawyer is trying to get him out on habeas corpus progeedings. NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 11.—Five| All shoe cnc aa atked to hundred workers, mostly jobless, at-|come to 16 West 21st St. today, 7 | tended an unemployed meeting at 93 |a. m., for a very important matter. Mercer St. today, held under the | auspices of the Trade Union Tay INDIANA TEACHERS THREAT | League. STRIKE. | While the meeting BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb, 11,— | Teachers here are threatening to go Hamtramck at t a014 Yemans, and is attended by large masses who real- ize that only the Communist Party has a program really in their inter- ests. e o Meh was in full | Continued on Page Three) hundred got into the city counc chamber before the doors we. slammed shut.” Radio cruisers of the police d | partment we: alled in and order« to pick up y patrolman ava able to be rushed’ to the Hall. few neighborhood policemen can running, but the crowd pushed the aside. Fifty other police, answerir a riot call, hurried to the scene, b- the unemployed ‘clubbed ther, Lar them with fists and one oft cer was sat upon.” Safety Director Edwin Barry a: {Chief of Police Jacob Graul supe vised the clubbing, and Barry wi his cops finally forced the 500 o of the Council Chamber after t Welfare Committee meeting w broken up. The police attacked ti crowd on the City Hall steps ai {were given a beating, Police Lie |tenant Oliver Torrence was knock |down and upon by the crow reports indicate. Finally fire hose was put into 2 jon and’ icy water turned upon t [aetlgse who had come to ask for 1 lief *for their starving famili from the the capitalist city government. T police were also threatening to fi (Continued on Page Three) ‘SILK WORKERS MASS MEETIN Speeds Or reanizatic for Great Strike The very successful convention « the Paterson district of the Nation Textile Workers Union, mostly si and @ye workers, has issued a ev for all textile mill and dye hou workers to come to a great ma meeting to be held Friday, Feb. 1 8 p. m., at the union hall, 205 Pa erson St. “Form mill and dye house cor mittees; form joint action commi tees of organized and unorganiz workers; organize for the strike! says the union statement, announcin as speakers: Robert Minor, edit« jot the Daily Worker; M. J. Olgin jlabor author and lecturer; Mar | Alpi, labor leader and editor of 1’ Lavoratore (Italian); Bill Dunne editor of Labor Unity; Clarenc Miller, national secretary of th National Textile Workers Union; ¢ Magliacano, Italian organizer of th N.T.W. and M. Kushinsky, orgar izer of Paterson local of the N.T-V, “In the Paterson situation we se all the ills of the textile industr (Continued on Page Three) Jobless Council to Participate in Douglas Celebratiot | | | } “welfare” commission + The Unemployed Council will joi with the American Negro Labc Congress to celebrate Frederic’ Douglass Day at 336 Lenox Ave. & 11 a. m. today: The original pla to hold the Frederick Douglas Memorial Meeting tonight at S' Luke’s Hall had to be changed, out on strike because of failure o city authorities to pay wages,