The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1930 THE RUHR ALIVE WITH CLASS STRUGGLE; LEFT WING MEETS AT ESSEN Of 1,142 Delegates, 555 Are Communists, Seven Socialists, and 526 Non-Party Workers Ruhr Workers, Scorning Police Ban, Fill Six | Cities With Battle BERLIN, (Jan. 19, by Inprecorr Mail Service)—After eight over- crowded industrial group conferences had been held, the revolutionary trade union opposition congress for ae Ruhr distrit was held today in Essen- There were 1,142 delegates and over a thousand visitors present. 182 working women were amongst the delegates, 803 of the delegates were from the factories, 580 were organ- ized in trade unions, including 18 members of the Christian unions. 555 delegates were members of the Communist Party, 51 members of the Young Communist League, 7 members of the social democratic party, and 626 members of no pol- itieal party. Comrade Thaelman was clected chairman of the congress and com. rades Stalin, Molotov, Losovski, Vo- roshilov, General Bluecher, Moiro- va and the proletarian political pris- oner Rudolf Margies were elected honorary--membets of the presidi- um. Durjng the discussion comrade Thaelman spuke and was welcomed with tremendous applause and the singing of the “Internationale”. 150 delegates joined. the Communist Party during the congress. A Renegade Stubs His Toe SHANGHAI (By Mail Delayed) — Pai Hein-taeng, a former military leader of the Chinese Communist Party and later turned traitor on behalf ef General Chiang Kai-shih, was shot to death here on the eve- ring of November 11. The affair, which took place in the heart of the French ¢oncession. cost not only the traitor his own life but resulted in the deaths of the whole party which was es¢otting him to the train for Nanking. Seven in all were killed, nost of them instantly. None of the assuilants, whom the “police charge were Communists, have been apprehended or were in- jured. The Kuomintang has offer- TUUL TO CONVENE IN KANSAS CITY Packing, Mine, Beet Workers Will Be There KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 13.— A statement issued in leaflet form and throwgh the press by the Trade Union Unity League district office, 726 Main 8t., analyses the present situation in industry, the unemploy- mént éfisis, and the need of organ- ization, and says: “In order to effectively organize the workers throughout the United States and in the basic industries, thé T.U.U.L. is calling district con- ventions for thé purpose of estab- lishing District Trade Union Centers. The Kanégas City T.U.U.L. Executive Committee is calling a Mid-West Trade Union Unity convention in order to establish a Mid-West Trade Union Center, “The Kansas City T.U.U.L., Com- mittee calls upon all workers, espe- cially railroad workers, packing house workers, steel workers, metal workers, agricultural workers, nee- die trades Workers, ete. in shops, factories, plants and mines, to form shop and pit eommittees and elect delegates to the District Trade Union Unity Convention to be held on Sat- urday evening and Sunday, March 8 and 9, in Kansas City, Mo. “The T.U.U.L. Committee calls upon the unemployed workers to elect delegates to the District Con- vention. “There will be special industrial conferences of délegates of the same industries to lay the basis for or- ganisirg unions in these industries. All workers who agree with this Convention Call should get together, hold @ meeting at some worker's house, form a shop committee, elect a delegate and elect a secretary to immediately get in touch with the Diattict T.ULU.L, office. The fare of the delegate should be raised by contributions of the workers in the shops, factories atid mines, Representation to the District Convention. “One delegate for the first 10 workers or less atid one additional delegate for each additional 100 wotkers. The following ate entitled to bend delegates: .U.U.L. General Leagues, “T.U.U.L, Industtial Leagues, “Locals of the National Miners Union. “Bhop committees and pit commit- tees of unorganized workers, “Local Unions that accept the T. U.UL, program. “Minority opposition groups in the A-F.L, unions. “Independent local unions that ac- cept the T.U.U.L. program. “Minotity opposition groups of conservative independent —_ local unions. “Unemployed workers.” and ‘Red Fronters’ This afternoon a great demon- stration took place on the streets of the inner town in Essen, Do- spite the mobilization of large fore es of police it was not possible i disperse the demonstrators wh marched through the streets chee ing the Communist Party and t Red Front Fighters League. The police made a brutal atte on the delegates to the Ruhr di trict conference of the trade union epposition which is meeting in Es- | sen, and a number of delegates, in- |eluding women, were injured. Harm- |less passers-by were also beaten up. 80 arrests were made, { In Hamborn a demonstration was broken up by the police and the chief speaker, the Communist Reichs- | tag deputy Thesen, was acrested| and taken away handcuffed. | A prohibited demonstration also took place in Dortmund and was broken up by the police who arrest- | ed the Communist member of the Diet Duddins and a number of other workers. Similar demonstrations took place in Duisberg, Bochum and Hernes. The latter demonstration was re- markable by the fact that a de- tachment of the Red Front Fight- ers League in full uniform took part. Mass arrests were made, ed large rewards for inforw:ation and the foreign authorities are co- operating to the utmost in the case. Among the slain was Fan Tseng- lo, chief of the special affairs de- | pertment of the local garrison com- | mander’s office, | Had Betrayed Many Leading Revolutionists Pai was responsible for having furnished the Kucmintang and im- perialist police with very much in- formation about the Communist Party and its activities. He was directly responsible for the capture | of four very in:portant members and | the uncovering of many meeting places, Leaflets Score Muste at His Union’s Meet; Workers Cheer USSR PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 12— Utilizing the discontent among the textile workers, due to the large scale unemployment, the introduc- tion of several loom systems and wage cuts, the labor fakers of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers called a mass meeting last Sunday at Allegheny Theatre “to protest against injunctions and the misuse of the court power.” As real “progressive” Musteites, | they advertised Secretary of Labor J. J. Davis, Senator Brookhart, ex- Governor Pinchot—and, of course, William Green, together with an ex- | tensive musical program, in order | to get a crowd. The workers who | came got a musical program, speeches from several lesser lights | and from Senator Brookhart, the | only one advertised who showed up | to addtess the meeting. | Due to the worsening of their conditions and the police terror and injunctions used against the 1,400 strikers of the Aberle mill, there is a real discontent developing among the textile workers of Kensington. The U.T.W. in order to prevent the N.T.W.U. and the T.U.U.L. from assuming the leadership over the workers, in order to further fool them, made a militant gesture, es- pecially after the injunction of Judge McDermitt, which first granted eight pickets to the union was changed into no picket line at all, and several workers were ar- fested for violating the injunction. Communist Leaflets. The mass meeting which vas called by a so-called union did not have a word said about the organ- ization of the unorganized, the need of a struggle against unemploy- ment or the wagé cuts, even the few remarks made against the injunc- tions stressed only the fact that it was issued by a judge belonging to the Grundy machine of the Repub- lican Party. The feelings of the workers were shown when Senator Brookhart in- cidentally mentioned the develop- ment of the co-operative movement in the Soviet Union, which was re- ceived with great applause, and when 2,000 leaflets were distributed before the hall by the Communist Party in connection with the meet- ing, exposing the unity of the bosses, the Hoover administration, the Brookharts, the social reform- ists, from the A.F.L., down to the | Musteites, the socialist party and the renegades of the revolutionary movement against the workers. The workers took the leaflets and read them eagerly in spite of the large number of policemen present. The Daily Werker is the Party’s best instrument to make contacts among tke masses of workers, to build a mass Communist, Party. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Cortespondent. | cently held in Essen, in the Ruhr lice. |the commissioners since the Hoover Honorary Member, Ruhr Industrial Conference Stalin, Molotov, Losovski, Vor- oshilov, Blueheer, Moirova and the proletarian political prisoner, Ru- dolf Margies, were elected honor- ary members of the presidum at a conference of industrial workers from basie industrial groups re- 4 MORE JAILED BY RUBIO GOV'T Makes Attack on Red Trade Unions MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.—The renewed reign of terror instituted after the Wall Street Mexican pres- ident, Rubio, was shot by a member of the Vasconcelista Party, is ram- pant in all parts of Mexico, par- ticularly against the Communist} Party, Young Communist League, | and the revolutionary trade unions | (Confederacion Sindical Unitaria Mexicana). Among those arrested are Juan Delacabada, Ignacio Guzman, Al- betto Martinez, and Roberto Celis, | who is private secretary of Augusto Sandino, former leader of the revo- lutionary army in Nicaragua. All those arrested are being held | incommunicado by the military po- COLORADO SAYS STRIKES ILLEGAL Outlaws Struggle for Union or More Pay DENVER, Colo., Feb. 12—If an employer wants to change from! union shop conditions to the open shop, it does not constitute a “change in working conditions.” So has ruled the State Industrial Commis- sion, whose approval must be ob-} tained on changes in working con- ditions before a strike or lockout is legal. Workers robbed of their union} contract therefore cannot legally strike, under the commission’s rul- | ing. The decision is in line with | anti-labor rulings handed down by! * industrial commission began fune- tioning. Three times in less than two months the commission has decided | petitions of workers for improved conditions in favor of their employ- ers. When the building laborers and structural iron workers asked for raises in wages, the commission quoted the anti-labor pact between Pres. Hoover and Pres. Green of the A.F.L. as outlawing higher wages. Mobilize for Int’l | Women’s Day Meets nN. Y. and Newark The New York District of the Communist Party has started activ- ity to mobilize thousands of work- ers, especially those in the basic and war industries, for Interna- tional Women’s Day March 8. For this purpose two important prelim- inary conferences are being called, one in Newark next Monday, Feb. 17, and the other in New York City on Saturday, Feb. 22. The Newark conference will be held at 8 p. m. at the Workers Pro- gressive Center, 93 Mercer St., and will lay plans to make the Newark International Women’s Day ¢elebra- tion, to be held on March 8 at the Workers Progressive Center, a real demonstration of the determination of the workers of Newark, both men ahd women, to fight relentlessly against the attacks of the capitalist class, against the danger of a new imperialist war and in defense of the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union. In New York City the conference on Feb, 22 will be held at 2 p. m. at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square. All working class organ- izations in New York and Newark ate asked to elect delegates to their fespective conferences. Besides the International Wom- en’s Day celebrations in New York and Newark, a celebration will also be held in Paterson on Sunday, |3000 Workers Dr ing Metal Trades (By a Farmer Correspondent.; While our bosses sweated $2,000,- 000 profit out of us last year, we |workers in the Mergenthaler Lino- | type Co., barely averaged $20 to $35 a week. We work like hell from 8 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. with only three-quarters of an hour for lunch. | Three thousand of us slave away lunder a terrible speed-up system. | Not only is the work tiring, dirty jand unhealthy, but the speed-up brings about lay-offs right and left. A few months ago the workers in {the tool and die-making department planned a strike against these rot- ten conditions, but the bosses got wind of it, stopped all work in the department and fired the leaders. The women here, working on the drill presses and the milling ma- chines, are forced to work as hard Labor (By a Worker Correspondent) Here is a “labor agent,” Samuel Goldberg, who does business (for himself mostly) for the Cleaning & Dyehouse Drivers, Local 185, of the A.F.L., who has a soft spot for criminals, but hates Communists. He thinks in the Daily News, Feb- ruary 4, that the police who shot a worker and clubbed many others |were too gentle to the Communist workers. There is a reason for his sympathy for criminals. This man was convicted for slugging a left- wing worker who was not satisfied with his leadership, but the judge, las usual, sympathized with this gangster and suspended his sen- tence. This man claims that he repre- sents labor, and that he expresses the sentiment of his “thousands of members.” As a matter of fact the local he represents has only three to four hundred members. Both the drivers and the inside local have probably only a 1,000 members when there are many thousands in the trade. The workers are so well “satis- fied” with his rule that they refuse to pay dues and many drop out. (By a Worker Correspondent) TRENTON, N. J.—Recently a campaign was started in Trenton by the Unemployed Council and Communist Party. Before I got acquainted with the movement I happened to walk the streets of Trenton for four months without a job. I was wondering what the word “prosperity” meant as Hoover meant it, and now I know since the Communist Party enlightened me to There are over 14,000 workers without work in this industrial city of Trenton. At the city employment (By a Worker Correspondent) One day when I was walking the a job, I met a man walking. He wore a sign, and it said, “I want work. I will work for anything to get something to eat.” + I felt very angry, and, at the ter- rible condition of the working class, and I thought the only way to bet- ter the life of the working man and woman is to organize ourselves and fight. In the few weeks that I am out of work I have seen in every fac- tory where I have been begging a job, ten and more girls waiting in the showroom for a job only one girl could get. And the one to de- Workers, Don’t Be (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA.—While scores of confectionary plants are closing down, many hundreds of candy makers are being thrown out of work, Blumenthal Bros., a large candy factory, in the northeastern part of the city, making cheap penny and several for 4 penny candies, are working night and day. The workers in Blumenthal’s are bitterly exploited. For long hours experienced adult workers receive $21 a week with promises of raises some time in the future, The raises are never given. So cheap is this candy manufac- turer that the chocolate and other ingredients at once eat through the trousers of the men employed. Need- less to remark Blumenthal Bros. do not pay for the clothes ruined daily, and after deducting the amounts needed for clothes replacements, not niuch is left of the $21 a week. March 9, at 2 p. m. at 205 Pater- son St ‘ led a strike of the candy workers in the Queen Anne factory in Ham- MERGENTHALER SPEED UP; THEN LAY OFF MANY WORKERS Gils WORKERS. CORRESPONDENCE - FROM: THE SHOPS, | 2 ven to Limit in Big Linotype Manufacturing Factory in Brooklyn Workers Must Fight Company Union by Join- Workers League {as the men, but at much less wages. To keep us from making a real fight for better conditions a com- jpany union, directed by the bosses and foremen, was shoved on us, The |company union takes up such prob- |lems as securing newer aprons from |the apron company, but never the |Many of the committee members don’t show up to meetings because they know everything is faked atN arranged beforehand. The company union is the bosses’ means of keeping us from building up a real fighting union. What we need is something like the Metal Workers’ Industrial League that will fight for us against our bosses. We must join that and fight for a seven-hour day, a raise in pay and satisfactory working conditions, —Mergenthaler Worker. Club Workers Harder, Says Gangster, Faker This union had many expulsions and has lost membership continually. If it was not for the sympathy and ac- tive help of the bosses, the workers would have gotten rid of them long ago. If the bosses did not collect dues for the gang from the pay en- velopes of the workers every once in a while, he would be out in the streets with the rest of the unem- ployed. As a worker in the cleaning trade I want to say that this misleader does not represent the sentiment of many workers; they follow the Trade Union Unity League. The Cleaners and Laundry Workers In- dustrial League is organizing the workers on an industrial basis in- stead of splitting them as the fakers do. Lately this gang of grafters was defeated in several attempts to oust workers from the shops, and this gangster may soon wake up to find an end to his “representation.” I call upon all the workers in the trade to repudiate the lying state- ment that the gangster Goldberg represents them, and to join the Cleaners and Laundry Workers In- dustrial League, 26 Union Square, Room 205. —A Driver in a Cleaning Shop. A Jobless Worker Becomes A Communist | agency hundreds of new faces can be seen each week. This is another way to brand Hoover's lie that un- boss. | streets like I was drunk, not finding |work for a little while and then after employment is decreasing. Once I used to believe every word | the president said, I used to be 100 per cent patriotic. Now I will try to be a 100 per cent Communist, al- ways for the workers. We are going to have a big un- employment demonstration here February 26. Most of the workers are talking about it. We'll beat the bosses. —dJust a Hungry Worker “Anger Against A System That Caused Us to| Walk and Walk, and Never Find A Job” cide who should get the job was a The girl hired would ‘have working for small wages she would be on the streets again. I got very angry at the bosses after walking the streets for weeks. So one time when I and a crowd of girls saw a sign, which said, “Girls wanted,” and we went in and the boss did not hire any of us because the forelady was out to lunch—we were so angry we went outside and tore the sign “Girl wanted” up into little pieces and threw them into the street. It was angry against the system that caused us to walk and walk and The Trade Union Unity League | never get a job. —C. GC “All Day Suckers!” mond, Ind., I read in The Daily Worker. The workers at Blumen- thal’s need the T.U.U.L., too. —CANDY WORKER. Call Conference of Friends of Soviet Union for March 1) The organization of a strong mass movement in support of the Five- Year Plan of Socialist Construction will be the chief task of a conference of representatives of workingclass organizations and group throuch- out the New York District on Friday evening, March 1, at 8 p. m,, the the Friends of the Soviet Union, American Section, 175 Fifth Ave. This conference is part of the national organization campaign of the Friends of the Soviet Union which is seeking to build the F, S, U. in the shops and factories. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. ny question of more pay and less hours. ; Prosperity | | | DULUTH JOBLESS STRIKE ACTION — JOIN STRUGGLE BY OHIO MINERS Second Demonstration) Defend NMU Leaders at Cleveland, Ohio | and Living Standard (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) jan hour on the stevs of the City |cisive indication that the strike jHall yesterday afternoon. The | against unemployment and wage workers were attempting to gain! | seg tat i | aniisancatts ihe: Oibe Connclls where cuts will spread throughout Eastern | the City Welfare Commission was Ohio and West Virginia. Part time work is one of the chief ways the bosses use to reduce the standard Jin session considering the demands |of the Council of Unemployed. | Over 20 workers were injured. of living permanently. jSaul Jagoda, the Youth Organizer} A militant strike committee has jof the Trade Union Unity League, | been organized including the Negro| president of the local union, a white! |miner who is secretary, and includ. | ing four young miners representing viciously right and left. Three po- wie ae OSM) licemen are reported injured. Sev-| : ere woner ‘wrested clubs from the 3,000 Jobers at Shenandoah Mines. police, and unemployed women tore} ” os Sy er ae |the coat from a policeman who was| SHENANDOAH, Pa., Feb. ae |beating uv an already unconscious | Colleries have not been working |worker. The steps of the City Hall|here for over a month and a half, |were red with blood. A number of | Over 3,000 are unemployed in the workers were arrested. Douglas, | miners. The company say there are the organizer of the T.U.U.L., Tom|that repairs are needed, |Rider, Basil Lignos and others ar In a small mine of the Philadel- | charged with assault and battery. | phia Coal and Iron Co. at Reeves. | _Every available policeman and |dale, near Tamaqua, 800 are unem- | fireman was rushed to the City|ployed. The mine has been closed | Hall by the chief of police. Chief|/for a year and a half. Colleries | Graul and Safety Director Barry led| around Tamaqua are working three | the police in person in attacking the|or four days a week, this being a workless. The local press states the /form of wage cut put over on the battle as the “worst since the Public | miners, he company says there are | Square demonstration on May Day, ino orders for coal, ‘These facts show | 1919.” |the imperative need for uniting the | Following the clash thousands of |employed with the unemployed for | workers gathered in the Public | just action. | Square in demonstration. The po- | |lice again attacked this demonstra- | jtion and, arrested Comrade Evans, | | Negro Communist leader, and sev: | eral others. This demonstration | jcontinued for hours. !probably has a ‘broken back and head |lacerations. Seven workers are in the Lakesice hospital. The police attacked the workers and struck Try to Frame Two | Mexican Sailors NEW ORL A huge protest demonstration is|A frame-up of marine workers w jealled by the Communist Party, the | attempted in this port when tv T.U.U.L. and the Council of Unem- |ployed to take place on the Public Square today at 5 p. m. Mexican sailors by the name of Ari- gaus and Herandez were taken be- fore the United States Commissioner — charged with an “attempt to scuttle §, q |the ship.” Six members of the War Rivalries at crew went to the International La- ' Naval Race Meet bor Defense headquarters and de- jclared the charge was a frame-up. (Continued from Page One) | These sailors made out affidavits to of Commons. The question asserted |that effect. The I.L.D, demanded that the proposed new American | the charges be dismissed, The case ship would not result in parity, but |is coming up for another hearing. would give the United States a con- siderable advantage over the Brit- ish battleship fleet. Alexander also said he could not | forecast any reductions. The main | line ‘of the questions an answers | showed the sharpest division be-| ;tween the two leading imperialist | \powers, hich expressed their sharp | | differences being accentuated by the | |growing world crisis. | At the conference itself the naval jexperts presented their plans for ‘more efficient navies for their re- \spective imperialist powers. The details were not given out, but the fact that the sharpest differences exist all around is clearly expressed | Notes of the Month, | in the official bunk handed out. ‘Religious Peddlers | Call for War on USSR! By GREGORY ZINOVIEV (Continued from Page One) By OTTO HUISWOOD the first importance otherwise, While calling for prayer against the Soviet Union, both the king’s| }message and the solicitous espousal | of the Pope's lurid war-call by the traditional enemies of “His Holi- ness” in the Church of England, are barometers of the rapidly develop-! ing war plans against the Union! of Socialist Soviet Republics. What galls the sky-pilots so much is not the scientific attitude of the Soviet government towards religion | but the more worldly fact of tho| rapidly. developing of the socialist society under the Five-Year Plan, and the growing crisis of world capitalism which is eating at the foundations of capitalism in Great| Britain and elsewhere, By M, RUBENSTLIN By WILLIAM WILSON By D, BUKHARTSEV | Book Reviews. 39 East 125th Stre or nearest Wor! | strations Page Three ‘sou MISSION IN ~ MUNICH RAIDED Imperialists Spread Anti-Soviet Front (Continued from Page One) their eagerness to break with the Soviet Union. American imperialism, which is ‘taking the leadership in the threat- {ened war on the U.S.S.R., is enlist- ing the support of the German bour- geoisie. The raid on the Soviet | Trade Commissioner in Munich on !a fake pretext of searching for ex- |plosives shows that the German | government is lending itself readily |to the forging of the anti-Soviet | front. Undoubtedly the rapid advance- ont in the Soviet Union, under the Five-Year Plan, and the sharply contrasted condition of growing crisis, unemployment and misery among the workers in the capitalist lands, is the basis for the growing hostility against the Workers’ Re- public. Mass Demonstrations Against Berenguer Regime Grow in Spain MADRID, Feb. 12._Mass demon- against the Berenguer dictatorship, which is continuing the policy of the Primo de Rivera fascist rule, are increasing. During the past few days mass-protest meetings and demonstrations were heid in Madrid and many provineial cities. The severe crisis in Spain is ine tensifying. The petty-bourgeois and student elements are attaca ng the Berenguer regime openly. At an anniversary banquet commem orating the short-lived Spanish republic of $73, which was sanctioned by the Berenguer cabinet, speeches were prohibited. However, upon the in- sisted demand of those present, Ale- jandro Lerroux, representing dis- contented bourgeois elements, at- tacked the Berenguer dictatorship as a direct continuation of the Primo De Rivera regime. . In San Sebastian the police broke up a mass demonstration against the dictatorship. Reports from Sala- mance said that student demonstra+ tions in the university city were becoming violent: The Civic Guards charged the crowds. Troops heavily armed patrolled the city. As far as iam concerned, 1 can) claim to have discovered the ex- Istence of classes In modern society ur thelr strife ngainst one anothér, Middle-class historians long ag described the evolution of thé claat struggles, nnd politienl é¢eonomll showed the economle phystology the clas I have added a new contribution the following pfopost- tions: 1) that existence of classes is bound up with certhis phases of materini productions 2) * that the cinas struggle lends néeés= sarily to the dictatorship of thé proletariat: 3) that this dictatorahip in but the transition to the abotl> tion of all classes and to the efes ation of 9 society of free and equal. —Marx Correct Dangerous + Bladder and “a Kidneys Don’t negleet intel sie eraw® Pormtal {r fhe inal adview of famous rrect etimenta . they become bi half a century by specialists. 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