The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1930, Page 3

DAILY — LENINGRAD TRIAL OF | - CZARISTS SHOWS SPY WEB OF IMPERIALISM Monarchist Schiller Linked With Generals of German Army and British Politicians Connected With French Spy Agency; Plotted | Terrorists Acts and Insurrections | LENINGRAD (By Inprecorr Mail|to the Soviet Union to a total of | Service) —The trial of the monar- | 4,000. chist officers in connection with the | ‘Tchervonetz forgeries is proceeding. |the forged Tchervonetz was to un- | The chief accused Schiller now de- dermine the Soviet currency. He | nies espionage and admits only coun-|had_ visited Leningrad, Moscow, | ter-revolutionary activity. His an- swers to the questions put to him concerning the activity of the inter- national anti-Soviet organizations | are extremely confused. Schiller tried to avoid questions concerning his relations with Glass- napp, who negotiated with Generals Ludendorff and Hoffmann, The prosecutor then read quotations from forged Tchervonetz behind him ev- erywhere. With regard to the question of the origin of the forgeries, Schiller |declared that he had received them |from a former regimental comrade |Koreney. Asked by the prosecutor |whether he had also received notes jfrom General Glasenapp, Schiller Schiller declared that the aim of | § |Smolensk and Pskov and had left | Danzig newspapers, according to which Glasenapp and his group con- ducted espionage activity in connec- tion with a French agency. Schiller’s signed statements were read in court in which he admits the connections between the Russian monarchists and the international | reactionary organizations. Schiller admits, for instance, that General Glasenapp received financial support from Winston Churchill on many oc- casions, and that Glasenapp was vis- ited by German right-wing politi- cians and prominent financiers? Glasenapp maintained close con- nections with Ludendorff and with the editors of a number of German newspapers. A great correspond- ence was conducted and telegrams arrived frequently. Schiller refused to make any further statement. ‘The proceedings showed that the | chief accused Schiller succeeded on two ocasions in smuggling large | quantities of forged Tchervonetz in- | Uruguayan Communists in Mass Struggles MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, — For some time the Uruguayan bourgeoi- sie has been aspiring to abolish so- cial insurance of the workers and in order to carry this out, they set up a Committee of Economic Vigilance. Preceded by much propaganda, the subject was brought up in parlia- “ment where the discussion was be- gun by the “socialist” Frugoni. On its part the Communist Party of Uruguay and the General Con- federation of Labor, adhering to the Latin-American Trade Union Con- federation, have been carrying out a big agitation against the reaction and on the same day that the par- janswered neither yes nor no. | planned terrorist acts, insurrections, | sabotage, etc., against the Soviet re- It is clear, however, that the notes come from the German forgers, and ex- perts have given evidence to the effect that the notes are the same. The prosecutor then read a report, according to which 10,000 Tchervo- netz appeared in Berlin in 1928 for sale at 6 marks each, whereby the chief salesman was a former officer of the Czarist army named Schiller. Schiller and his monarchist group gime, and the forged Tchervonetz were to supply the funds and at the same time undermine the stability of the real Tchervonetz. The examination of Geier, Kartas- chev and other accused who were formerly regimental comrades of Schiller, showed that he had used them for the distribution of the forged Tchervonetz and for espion- age. | | liament began debate, organized a big meeting in the grounds of the parliamentary palace to bring to the attention of parliament the demands of the workers. The Communist representative, comrade Gomez, denounced not only the legislative attack but the killing of seven of the striking 4,000 meat- workers a week before, and his speech in the chamber was applaud- ed by the galleries filled with work- ers, who shouted out against the treason of Frugoni and in rude terms let the bourgeoisie know the anger of the proletariat. “SOCIALISTS” IN WAR ON JOBLESS Hoan ‘Hears’ Workless Only to Use Clubs (Continued from Page One) money for employment, when he was confronted with facts that there are such agencies in Mil- waukee, “Do you think that workers would go to private employment agencies if they could secure jobs at the public ones,” he was asked. Again, no answer from the mayor. On the Community Chest he said that this was a private undertaking and the city had nothing to do with it. The mayor failed to give a posi- tive answer to any single demand put to him, although he hypocritic- ally expressed his “sympathy” for the unemployed, while the police under his order outside were club- bing, jailing and riding into the workers on motorcycles. When the committee returned to report to the workers the result of | the visit to the mayor, the police again tried to stop them from speak- ing. The committee at once went back to the mayor, upon learning that three arrests were made, de- manding their unconditional release. This time the mayor got quite angry, and began to admonish the Communists for speaking in re- stricted territory, where speaking is forbidden, “Where shall we go, to the sticks?” shouted one worker. “What’s the matter with you Com- munists?” shouted the mayor to a group of workers that came into the office at this time. “We are not Communists,” answered some, “but starving unemployed workers, fighting for our rights.” “Well, that’s Communism!” answered an- other. Again the committee left the mayor's office. As soon as it came out members of the committee were \ raised on shoulders by the workers \and explained the hypocritical stand taken by Mayor Hoan. The police again failed in their attempt to -break up the crowd. Spontaneously the workers now proceeded to march to the Workers’ Center, carrying the signs with the slogans and demand: The hall was again packed to overflowing. The various speakers, amid thunderous applause, mounted the platform and explained the hap- pening of the day, unmasked the chpitalist role of the “socialists,” and stated that the fight was only beginning. | late steps to release the a’ if in a week’s time we could organ- ize such a large crowd with such a fighting spirit, then with the same spirit and determination in a short time we shall have the majority of the unemployed organized, and to- gether with the employed form such a power that the bosses will be bound to respect.” The workers demanded immedi- ted comrades. A committee of was at once selected to go to the city hall and demand their release, or the whole crowd would again demon- strate. Upon the demand of this commit- tee, the chief of police released the arrested comrades, after trying to get: from them a promise that they would not speak again in “restricted territory.” They refused to give such a promise, but when the “so- cialist” flunkeys of the bosses saw the anger and determination of the workers to free the imprisoned com- rades, they released them, “to avoid anothér demonstration,” as one of them said. The arrested comrades were en- thusiastically greeted by the work- ers who waited all this time at Workers’ Centem At the end of the meeting a reso- lution protesting »»° condemning the police brutality and the jailing of the unemployed workers, and un- masking the hypocritical role of the “socialist” mayor, as well as a pledge ‘+ carry on the fight till vic- tory, was unanimously, am’! thun- derovs applause, adopted. The workers were not satisfied with this action alone, they wanted to know what is going to be done next. The council announced that the net day open-air meetings at employment agencies would be held, leading up to a still bigger demon- stration, and finally to the huge in- ternational demonstration on Febru- ary 26. New York Figures Hit Hoover’s Lie (Continued from Page One) cember, continued widespread in January. The index of employment, based upon the monthly average for 1925-1927 dropped to 82. The de- crease is somewhat greater than the usual decrease from December to January, indicating that some indus- tries were reporting greater drops than usual at this season of the year. “Bight of the eleven main indus- try groups showed net decreases in employment from December to January. Over half of the 55 sepa- rate industries reduced forces more than one per cent while several registered losses in excess of ten per cent.” The report goes on to show that WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 193 Wanted! The White Guard General Koutipoff, whom the Czarist Russians, the mug above belongs to the “socialist” Kerensky, and the French imperialist government are “hunting” with the fervent pray- er that they won't find him, be- | cause his “unexplained disappear- ance” from Paris gives such a fine chance’ to yowl that “Soviet agents” have made away with him But reliable reports from inner White Guard circles state that the gay caballero is now enjoying the warm climate of Rio de Janario with the additional security of knowing that this “murder” is so valuable to the anti-Soviet war preparations that he couldn't be “framed” if he tried. 3000 WORKLESS INHOT FIGHT Also Chester Is Scene of Battle . (Continued from Page One) their revolvers, which they had drawn to intimidate the unemployed workers, thus giving them a lesson on how “free” America is for the working class. The workless fell back, but remained around the City Hall for some time. On the steps were splotches of blood, and not all of it was shed by workers. * Jailed for Speaking to Jobless. CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 11.—Three workers are being held under $10,- 000 bail each, charged with “inciting to riot’—for speaking before a crowd of unemployed before the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company here today. The speakers were first attacked by the company guards, but the un- employed workers drove the guards off. After the meeting 10 police- men and five plain clothes men rushed to the scene, and searched some of the workers present for lit- erature that was distributed, in- cluding The Daily Worker and the pamphlet Out of a Job, Three of the workers were then arrested. They are John Novak, organizer of the District Young Communist League; Bernard Gittle- man, a Chester worker, and A. Blas- kowitch, a Pittsburgh worker, who had come to Chester to look for a job. The arrested were held incommu- nicado, and workers inquiring for them were threatened with arrest. The magistrate of the city, Thomas Berry, at first refused a hearing, but the attorney sent by the Phila- delphia district of the International Labor Defense, David Levenson, de- manded a hearing and forced one through for tomorrow. After the meeting before the ship- yard, the unemployed marched in a body to the Communist Party head- quarters, where they joined the Un- employed Council and elected an ex- ecutive to prepare for the February 26 demonstration. Rr eae, I NEGRO WORKERS RESPOND TO CALL. CINCINNATI, Ohio—An_ over- flow meeting, with not only one but two halls packed, of both employed and unemployed workers, 90 per modities for mass consumption. A Big Drop in One Month. Employment figures follow for eleven leading industries of the state for the past month: Per Cent Industry Change Stone, clay and glass products —9 Metals .. -—6.1 Woodworking 6.1 Furs, leather goods & rubber —2.6 Chemicals .... see 09 Paper and pulp ..........++.++3.6 Printing & allied trades, in- cluding paper boxes . Textiles Clothing Food products Water, light and power »+0.8 Commissioner Perkins listed eight industries which showed a drop of 10 per cent or more in employment for January as follows: Per Cent Industry Decline Lime, cement and plaster ...—17.3 Brek, tile and pottery ... —11.8 Cooking, heating and ventilat- ing apparatus ..... —10.8 Musical instruments . 15.2 Gloves, bags & miscellaneous —10.7 Knit goods —12.4 Tanneries —19.3 Tobacco . . 14.6 At the most conservative estimate, the number of unemployed now in “You fought splendidly today,”|the losses particularly hit the food! New York State alone, reaches well said one speaker at the end, “and|and other industries producing com- over 500,000 workers, ‘STIMSON'S BUNK ii WORKERS * CORRESPONDENCE - Page ‘’hree EMPLOYED © ATTEMPT TO HIDE UNEMPLOYED. NEGRO | - WORKERS TELL WHY ldo THEY JOIN THE ©. P. Differences Slaved 16 dnd More Hours A Day; Then Are (Continucd from Pace One) Thrown on Streets by the imperialists especially since a the close of the World War. In.‘ 7 Racayse (* jat]e Ss Be Pate co ene I Joined ato e ae ae boa Both the hite and Negro Workers deadly high-powered bombs carried | by the naval airplanes, and that the navy swarms with these “humane” (By a Worker Correspondent.) ring but > porter work. machines. — ene T’ve been studying the last two) Then on 1 St. and Webster _, But in spite of Stimson’s “human | years how we Negro workers could}Ave. I was firing 16 hours a day, | itarian” propaganda it was stated at organize to fight to make our condi-|room and board, only $30 a month. ithe race-for-armament conference tions better. After being unem-| I also slaved in the eastern part |that Great Britain and the United | ployed 1 just joined the Communist |of Ohio, state road work, dumping States would not press their fight|Party, and that's the way out of|cem I learned more about sla- to-abolish submarines at the presert conference. An announcement wa made that the imperialist bandits | ¢, would limit the use of submarine: | against merchant vesgel The use of the submarine again \Can’t | Communist Party to Fight f DETROIT AUTO WORKERS ACT Bigger Meeting Will Answer Newark Attack (Continued from Page One) wing a number of police broke into the hall and arrested nine workers. Among those arrested were D. Fl: A. Hader, Sylvia After, Edward Morris Lasar and David Rosen was arrested several ago for distributing unem- d leaflets, and was out on bail. D. Levin, who was the manager of Morning Freiheit in Newark, was also arrested. Another unemployed for Them r. ee tee the meeting is merchant vessels the whole c of the submarine question. The “hu- manitarian” stand of Stimson is | based on nothing else but war strat- |egy in the interest of U. S. imper- ialism, The same attitude accounts for the British distaste for sub- marines while at the same time in- creasing their cruiser building. | The United States and Great | Britain have the largest merchant |marine. The smaller capitalist powers find it more convenient for war purposes to build a big fleet of submarines to attack the shipping operations of the bigger imperialist powers in war time. The French ani Japanese particularly were con- program. Stimson had his eye on the submarine building campaign of the Japanese imperialists when suddenly became “humanitarian. In spite of the attempt by Stimm- son and MacDonald to cover up their differences, the conference has re- vealed that the sharp contradictions between British and American in becoming intensified especially the face of the growing cr At the same time strong efforts a being made for a united imperialist front against the Soviet Union. In Washington, Senator Borah de- manded that the British scrap their largest battleship, the Rodny, or threatened to foster the inaugura- tion of a battleship building pro- gram. Even on the question of subma- rines the sharpest difference exists | \ | | between Great Britain and the United States.’ The British who are forming naval alliances against, their U. S. rivals, favor the sub- marine-building campaign of Japan and others, their possible alliance in| the next war against their Amer-! ican competitors. | cent of whom were Negro workers, Williams and Charles Mitchell as! speak This mecting, which is a part of the campaign for org the unemployed is a council under the leadership of the Trade Union Unit League in the fight for unemplo ment relief and social insurance, to be broadened out by the big demon- stration scheduled for Feb. 26, In-| ternational Unemployment Day, was preceeded by a smaller meeting pre- viously, under auspices of the Inte national Labor Defense, at which 97 new members joined the LL.D. At this big meeting Sunday, prep- aration was made for two meetings next Sunday in different sections of the city. Enthusiasm is tremendous and the response to the call for or- ganization great on the part of the} Negro workers especially. | Hundreds of Daily Workers, copies of the “Labor Defender” and | the pamphlet “Out of a Job?” were} distributed. cana WORKERS FIGHT TOO. VANCOUVER, B. C. (By Mail). —During the past week there have been two or three battles with the| police by the unemployed, who are| militant and are now organized in a} Council of Unemployed. | The unemployed here have no in-| tention of being bluffed out of mak- ing their demand known. After be- ing dispersed by foot, mounted and} motor-eycle police, they reform their | ranks in still larger numbers on the street corners, cheer the speakers with great enthusiasm and sing revolutionary songs. The mix-up on the Powell Street | grounds was a wild one. One of the} plain-clothes bulls got slammed over the head with a harness bull’s club. A woman floored one of the horses of the mounted police, and gave the rider an unmerciful beating. A businessman going along also got a wallop from the police. A meeting was held three hours later. The police tried to interfere, but the meeting was held anyhow. Then an indoor meeting, and pickets were sent out next day on the “re- lief” jobs (where the unemployed struck for real wages). A_police- man threatened to shoot a delegate and several shots were fired by po- liee during the day, while 29 of the volunteer pickets were arrested. That is all the “solution” the capi- talists have for unemployment: the whip, the club and war. The working masses here are aroused to the need of organizing the unorganized, now in depression just as much as in “normal” times, and the situation has proven to the hilt that the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Interna- tional are correct in their policy. | centrating on a submarine building | perialism is fast spreading and is/ in was held here Sunday with Harold !be getting $12.00 per day. The case [Industrial Commission who will in] ps aw business firms of Den-| probability deny the ncn asc aciet (ver recently eut wages, but, the In- on the eRe Boat ie naton with (dustrial Commission did not get Hooyer ag the bead agenh, |former wages paid, It is only acting IF YOU CAN With the T.U.U.L., carrying on against labor when they want more ROUGH IT ae : ‘ propaganda among the common Ja-|wages, but, when they are cut to! || rss now EIGHT FULL DAYS IN THE borers, needle trades and beet work-|less the commission seems to mot | exemplified. slavery for the Negroes. : very th Negro seamen. Tens of thou- 1 for the same headquarters on I have been a firemen in several] I have just joined the Communist} sands of these are on the streets, Friday, February 14, at 2 p. m. The 5 |flats, in the ats One i I had! party because I think it leads the tinemployed, | Ne gro un mployed \T.U.U.L., after the arrests, issued S/was firing in a house on 175 7 Re ap hee . workers tell on this page why following statement: I slaved 16 hours a day, seven days |Workers, the Negro and the white) they have joined the Communist | “The raids of the bosses’ police a week, for $70 a month, one room workers together. I will do every-| Party. This Saturday the letters | will not stop our campaign for the and no board. I had to do not only |thing I can to spread it. —N.P. | of many unemployed Negro sea- \organization of an Unemployed sine ahs | men who | 1st joined the |Council. We will continue to organ- ee EES 7" 2 1 Communist will be pub- |ize the workers to partake in the | “Joined Party Because It Fights for Negro | tisiea. Hicmistional, demoratatiigedtor ‘work or wages’ on February 26. The terrorism of the police shows (Z that the bosses fear the growing militaney of the unemployed as well 1s employed workers.” Out of those arrested four were nembers of the Communist Party, and several members of the Young Communist League. Some unem- ployed workers who do not belong to either organization were also jailed. Workers” (By a Worker Correspondent.) |I walked out after a week. I would a y Oo th eg Wit reeinag) [Lnated out afta rock, Leet) | HOM DLND al z Streets tor Job--- months. I am a Negro worker. I}to starve in that place and get just joined the Communist Party |nothing for my services. This was and I will tell why. in a house belonging to S. Shulman, Two Wednesde 1876 Third Ave. jad in a paper, janitor wanted. I| I joined the Communist Party | applied for the job. The woman|cause it is for our, the work there offers me 5 a month to|benefit to belong to it, because it | work 17 hours a day, seven days a|fights for us colored workers as |week, with only one room, provide|well as the white, and because I’m your own board. glad to see that the Negro workers They gave me 50 cents a day. Alljare waking up and have decided to I could do was eat one meal, and | fight and I want to fight with them. ago I saw an (By « Worker Correspondent) BROOKLY -Sometime ago there appeared something in The Daily Worker about the rotten condi- tions in the marble industry. I’m Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! then go hungry the rest of the day. —A. C., Unemployed Worker, |Such a victim. For example, in 1928 y I worked five months out of 12; in 1929 worked only three or four) useless to come down here unless |Auto Workers, Unemployed, Starve in Detroit) months, and since last September | you have a pull. ; |I’m tramping the streets looking for (By a Worker Correspondent.) raised, but a general speed-up was ja job in different trades. DETROIT.—Conditions for the}put into effect in all departmen’ Pr, oa : i N : Two months ago I went |workers here have reached the point |making it unnecessary to employ | pomino Su Last week I read an ad in the World as follows: Painter's helped : went to the | wanted “1” one good worker, $3 a ‘ar Co., at Third, Fourth of semi-starvation, for the auto |additional workers. and Fifth Sts. and Kent Ave. When day, steady, start Monday, 180 Ma- workers especially. Many thou-| To meet advance in - production, |7 apoeirad: ahs Ranh iaea os offic con St., at 15 minutes after 8. When sands of the unemployed find it|also many of the old employees that |. 0 cr , = a € 'I got there there was more than 25 one of the bosses told me to go home waiting. A devin Hea, I asked them why they d lie in bed, so that I could save | were waiting. They answered: What a few meals a day. He said their) the hell shall we do, outside it is |factory was no place for me, be-| snowing, so at least we keep warm are being paid $7 and $8 a day were laid off and given the option of r hiring at $5 a day or taking their chances of starving to death Pov- necessary to appeal to the city |“publie welfare” department for re- (lief, particularly the Negro work- ers, whose conditions are worse. The auto bosses are taking advan- |erty and 1 stalks through the |fete of their workers had beck tnd (uypere: 8° this 8 the prosperity itage of widespread unemployment |city nee ad been laid |talk of our dear fat president; all |the bosses’ newspapers, from the M. T. | News, the Graphic, World, ete. asked the| In my opinion the bosses and their the office was | government want to try to starve |to speed up the workers to the last| ‘This writer is sure that the work-|°"" f point of possible endurance and cut |ers will respond to the slogans‘of| Next time I went to the I wages to the lowest level. In spite|the Communist Party and weld|¢™Ployment office and of the recent widespread report that | themselves into a mass industrial |Watchman what ho the Ford Motor Co. raised the wages |union with the Communist Party as|Kept open. He told me between @/us and see how “good” the workers ae ana “simnlovees. hak | and 9 a, m. He said that five men |are, so they can decide if they can really |the leader. : : : : Dey nenedwaethat ssrapect averse “DETROIT WORKER. | Were taken on in the morning. In}go ahead with their war_ plans this employment office there were |against the workers’ Soviet Repub- more than 250 men waiting for jobs, |lic. But this time they will taste and when the super came I had to|their own lead when they give ut i i "open the gates because there was | guns. |Federation of Labor the membership |no more room to get through. It’s |will override the fakers in the near| 4 future. The militants are urging the members of various union to more activity in the class struggle. —DENVER WORKER. | Pa | Denver Building Workers Getting Militant (By a Worker Correspondent.) DENVER, Colo.—The Iron Work- jers are asking for 00 per day |more, which will mean that instead lof getting $10.00 per day they will —Starving Marble Worker. MAY ist is now in the hands of the State RATE APPLIES notice it. ers against the old gang fakers of SOVIET UNION EW YORK to MOSCOW and RETURN (includes Return Railroad gare Under the “Democracy” He Fought For You— Starve on the Street » Port) $280 Poms9 nal Soldiers’ Home, sconsin, for $40 a month, room and board. But I got fired for not right |W8mting to do extra work not be- zn longing to my job. Forty dollars a I the| month, and sleep in a basement italism. with several others in one room. I’m an ex-service man. I tried to|Eats not good. This is the reward look for work outside the National |of the richest country in the world Soldiers’ Home but could not get|to men who sacrificed their health one. I got a job as janitor in the TB |“for democracy.” Never again.—M. (By a Worker Correspondent.) MILWAUKEE, Wis, Daily Worker whenever I can get I read y« iling APRIL 12TH Ss 5.8. BREMEN me how to think struggle between one, it learn about the workers and TOURIST AVENUE, 175 PIED NEW YORK Tel. Algonquin 6656-87! |to take all steps necessary for the : ilk Workers Meeting | auing of this strike. ‘The Paterson Friday; Plan Struggle strike must be the starting point | |for broadening the strike in other \silk centers. “The convention further instructs the incoming executive board to in- worsening the conditions of silk and|tensify the organization for the dye workers. Rates of pay are less | Coming strike. The immediate build- than half what they were a few | ing of a rank and file strike com- years ago. A few years ago the|mittee to make the coming strike working conditions in Paterson were | include not only members of the N. the best in the country, today they |T. W. U. but all the silk and dye are almost as bad as conditions in| Workers of Paterson. In order to the South, In the dyeing indu insure that the strike will involve we also see worsening conditions |the largest number of workers the! for the workers.” |date for the strike should be set by Prepare For Strike: |the District Executive Board thru The results of the analysis of|the broad rank and file strike com- conditions by the delegates to the | mittee with the approval of the Na- convention is state | tional Executive Board.” “The convention instructs the in- Organization. coming district executive board to| The resolution calls for shop com- make immediate preparations for|mittees, building committees and the calling of the general silk and/|block committees, with every mem- dye workers’ strike in Paterson, and'ber of the union an organizer for it, (Continued from Page One) Speed-up, lengthening of hours, and wage cuts have been THE COMMUNIST Permanently Enlarged to 96 Pages (February Issue) JUST OFF THE PRESS Contents | Notes of the Month. 1U. 8. 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