The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1930, Page 1

Wage-Cuts Go Workers, Unite To Fight For Work Mobilize for the World- Wide Demonstrations on Feb. 26! With Unemployment! or Wages, Entered as aily = second-cluss matter at the Vost Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef March FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI., No. 294 Company, Inc,, 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing gqgy,, New York City, Ne Y- NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930 iy SUBSCRIPTION RAT wide New York, by mall $6.00 per year. In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. _Price 4 Cents 10,000 MILWAUKEE UNEMPLOYED FIGHT FOR DEMANDS How the Imperialist ‘Disarm’ at the London Conference It is already three weeks that the London Conference is in session. The capitalist press, the radio, and other channels of bourgeois agita- tion and. propaganda are now full of reports about the “disarmament” of the various imperialist powers that is now taking place in London. However, every American worker, in face of the growing unemploy- ment, the increased wage cuts and rationalization, must ask himself how much disarmament has been really achieved in London. To what | extent will the imperialists cut their war budgets, ete. { We are told that the United States and Great Britain came to an understanding concerning the 35,000-ton capita] ships. The United States, in order to establish parity in capital ships with Great Britain, will have to get rid of three of the 18 capital ships it has at present. This of course will give an opportunity to American imperialism’ to parade under the mask of actual disarmament. But the three ships that the United States is going to scrap—the “Florida,” “Utah” and “Wyoming” are ships that are already today above their age limit. They are more than 19 years old. Disregarding any conference, these ships could no longer be used for effective warfare, and therefore the scrapping of these ships is merely a gesture, but it is no disarmament. The same thing applies to Great Britain. Great Britain has a few old capital ships, about 20 to 25 years old, and certainly the Labor | Government in order to show its “peace” policy, is ready to carry out | the decision of the Admiralty in destroying the old capital ships which | are today 25 years old, which anyway could no longer be used in any effective warfare at the present time. If we are to take the cruiser program of American imperialism: | We read in the press that the United States and Great Britain came to an agreement that each one of them shall have 339,000 tons of cruisers. | At the present time the United States has built 10 cruisers of .70,000 tons, It is now engaged in construction of 13 more cruisers of 130,000 tons, And in the last year it had the authorization of the United States Congress and Senate to build another 10 cruisers of 100,000 tons. This altogether will give the United States 33 cruisers of 300,000 tons. How- ever, this gigantic war-building program and military expenditure proved insufficient. \ the United States will not only have to carry out its original cruiser \ program which calls for the expenditure of over a billion dollars, but \ it will also have to add 39,000 tons in addition to that program in order to reach parity of cruisers with Great Britain. This is what the im- perialist powers call “disarmament.” If we are to take other countries, this situation is the same. Prior to this conference in London, French imperialism announced that it is going to build a navy of over 800,000 tons by the year 1942. We hear the report that imperialist France will carry out its original program in full. This is another demonstration of the “disarmament” that is now taking place in London. | What is taking place is armament—increase of armament. of each country. Imperialist powers are now trying to come to a common un- derstanding concerning the amount of ships that each country shall have. The task of each imperialist power at this conference is to outwit each other and each to weaken its rival. At the conference in London were brought into the forefront the antagonism that exists between the imperialist. powers. If the worker asks himself: For whom is this gigantic program of | armament being prepared?—he will find only one answer—that at the | present time, in spite of the differences between the imperialist powers that are continuously becoming sharper and greater, the imperialist world is preparing for an attack against the Soviet Union. This fact is plainly illustrated by one of the leading capitalist newspapers in this country, the Chicago Daily News. The London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News writes on January 27 the following: | | | | “Bolshevik agitation goes on heedlessly throughout the world, and any serious threat to orderly life anywhere is a threat also to the world-wide interests of the English speaking states.” Here in brief we find the major problem facing the English speak- ing nations, meaning Great Britain and the United States. We can | also add the. fact that precisely at the very moment when world im- perialism is preparing and training its forces for a world imperialist | war, upon the instigation of the United States, the puppet government of Mexico broke off relations with the Soviet Union, and attacked the | Soviet Consul in Mexico in open violation of international law. At the same moment, while the imperialists speak of disarmament, the French press is calling for the breaking off of relations with the Soviet Union, } utilizing the so-called “kidnapping” of the white guardist General Koutiepoff. All of these events represent acts of war directed against the Soviet Union. the imperialists can find a common ground for action at the London Conference for “disarmament” is preparation for imperialist war against the Soviet Union. This too was clearly brought out by the Daily News and its correspondent from London who stated on January 27: | “Russian influence at the conference, it should be said at once, is not a disturbing or disintegrating influence. Its effect, on the “contrary, is excellent. Russia, whether she knows it or not, and she probably does, is tending to create a sense of community in the five powers maritime rank.” The imperialist war preparations is of very great concern to the American workers. At the time when we have something like 7,000,000 workers in the United States walking the streets looking for jobs, when we have millions of workers and their families starving, the United states government is appropriating 73 cents out of every dollar of its current budget for war purposes. While the unemployed workers are starving, the government is turning billions of dollars for war pur- poses, The first task of the American workers is to recognize that the imperialist war preparations are directed against the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics, the only country where the workers and farmers rule, and the burden of these war expenditures is being put upon the shoulders of the American workers. In face of the impending imperialist world war and the growing unemployment and suffering of millions of American workers, the com- ing demonstration of the unemployed workers on February 26, which will take place all over the world, is of outstanding importance. This demonstration not only expresses the determination of the workers to fight for better economic conditions, to fight starvation and wage cuts, \ to fight for the organization of the workers into trade unions, but it } also a demonstration against thé capitalist system as a whole. The lemonstrations on February 26 will clearly point out that the im- list war preparations and the unemployment of millions of Amer- ‘ean workers, are one and the same thing, and therefore the February > Gemonstrations are of a political character. These demonstra- ‘tions must express also the readiness and determination of the Amer- ican workers to fight and to hit at the roots of the unemployment— the capitalist system which breeds unemployment and which exists upon war and slaughtering of millions of workers. Prepare for the February 26 demonstration! Rally to the program and demands of the Trade Union Unity League! Organize councils of unemployed! Struggle against imperialist war! The imperialist war between nations must be turned into a civil jar between the exploiting classes and the exploited masses! In order to achieve parity with Great Britain, | | From the above we can see that there is no disarmament in London, And because of this fact, we find that the only issue on which | SURROUND COURT HOUSE; DEMAND WORK OR WAGES Police Fear to Make} | Attack on Militant | Mass of We Workless Come Again 0 on Feb. 26 Expect 25, 000 Out on! International Day MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 13.—Ten thousand white and Negro workers demonstrated at the Milwaukee County court house. Though many cops were present they did not dare} | to attack the crowd. The demonstration lasted for four hours. The mass of job- less marched through the streets singing revolutionary songs. The march covered two miles thru the busiest section of the city. A delegation of unemployed work- ers were sent to the county officials demanding unemployment insurance, or work; no evictions for non-pay- |ment of rent, immediate unemvley- (Continued on Page Two) PRAVDA SCORES POPE'S THREATS “Labor” Bellycrawlers Join With Sky-Pilots | A United Press dispatch from Moscow on the religious attacks on the Soviet Union quotes “Pravda” as saying, “The predatory imper- jalists have lost their last hope of turning the Soviet Union into an agrarian colony. The Pope, like all exploiters and financiers, is a friend of reaction and an enemy of the working masses, which is why he) | calls upon the powers to make free-} |dom of religion a condition of} | recognition of the Soviet Union. “This means’ he is proposing a rupture of diplomatic relations be- cause it is quite clear the Soviet | Government will not permit inter- ferefice in its internal affairs or with its policy in the domain of re- | ligion.” bd wee An editorial-in the New York | Post on February 13, echoes ap- | proval of the threatened war on the (Continued on Page Three) TEXTILE WORKERS, PICK. DELEGATES \Knitting Mill Toilers at Convention, Sunday The National Textile Workers’ | Union finds New York knitting mill workers eager and ready to fight against constantly worsening condi- tions. Good results are expected from the New York district conven- tion of the union, which will be held 10 a. m., Sunday, at 16 West 21st St., the headquarters of the local union. Many shops are organizing shop | | More for U. a Armame 1€ LONDON, Feb. 18.—The_bitter- | est rivalries between all the im- perialist powers at the race-for- armament conference is being ex- pressed in the pacifist-veiled an- nouncements which are issued daily, | Sharpest antagonism between | British d American imperialism | crops up, despite the Stimson- -Mac- | Donald attempts to gloss over the ever-growing differences. Even on the basis of “parity” American im- perialism will immediately enter in- to a naval armament building pro- gram costing at least $500,600,000. Discussion on airplane eben ol brought out severe clashes between the British and American imperial- | ist delegates. | Today the French and Japanese | delegates put forward their de-| mands for increased armaments. | | The Japanese stand firm on their | demand for 70 per cent of the naval | jwar arms of their nearest big | (Continued on Page Two) FIGHT ON FOR 40 HOUR WEEK NTWIU Delegates Tell, of Renewed Struggle “Rally for the defense of the 40-| hour week, which is betrayed by the | fake agreement of the company | union!” is the main slogan under | which the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union carries on a vigor- ous organization campaign. This, | too, was the keynote of a full meet- ing of the shop delegates’ council of the N.T.W.1.U. held last night in| Irving Plaza Hall. | The dressmakers are going on/ with their-battle. Under the leader. ship of the Industrial Union, they | are organizing a broad rank and file strike committee, and waging | war in dozens of shops to win them for union conditions, for the 40-hour | week, away from the International | Gidea ait £3 on Page Two) | OFFER BRIBE FOR KOUTEPOFF DOPE Unknown Enemy Will Pay $20,000 PARIS, Feb. 13.—The capitalist | papers are trying to buy manufac- | |tured evidence against the Soviet | Union in connection with the Koutie- poff dime-novel mystery. Le Matin, | leading imperialist organ, offers a! 500,000 franc ($20,000) reward for the discovery of the evaporated gen- eral, dead or alive. The reward, says Le Matin, is of- fered by an individual who does not | want his name revealed—probably for good reasons. In omer to pro- tect the manufacturers of the evi- dence Le Matin wants, they prom- ise full protection to anyone who brings in the goods. They go so far as to promise light punishment for the guilty persons if they produce Koutiepoff. The vicious campaign against the Soviet Union continues in the capi- talist press. Why Koutiepoff should disappear at the very moment the London. race-for-armament confer- committees at the cal} of the N. T. W., and are electing delegates to the convention. All textile workers are invited to come. Among those reporting to the convention will be Clarence Mil- ler, secretary of the National Exec- utive Committee of the N. T. W. By FRANK WALDRON. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 13.— As a result of the sharpening of the severe econcmic crisis in the United States, unemployment is widespread in Los Angeles, as elsewhere. The ranks of the present army of jobless which numbers more than 150,000 workers, are daily being en- larged by the lay-offs that are oc- curring in all basic industries, Everywhere the workers are greeted ly the bosses with “No Help | Wanted.” The local office of the State Free % ence plans war against the Soviet Union, when the German capitalists raid the Munich Soviet Trade Mis- sion, and when the Pope and a whole swarm of religious fakers spit their venom against the rapidly growing Soviet Union, is not explained by Genre material was found. UNITY LEAGUE , GERMANY WANT "FIGHT ON SOVIET Raise Suestion of il Break in Relations With Soviet Union Make Wild Accusations ‘SOCIALISTS’ OF SAN FRANCISCO, PONTIAC, BOSTON UNEMPLOYED FIGHT FOR RIGHTS OF ORGANIZATION TO DEMAND RELIEF San Francisco Werkers Unity League, Aided Resist Attack on Demonstration; Trade Unior by Communist Party, Organizing the Jobless Aid Fascists, Raiding, Michigan Auto Workers Defy General Motors and Repressive Laws t Banning Anti-Fascism| (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 13.—Twelve de-) tectives raided the offices of the | | anti-Fascist guards today, confiscat- | ing all material. Simultaneously, | Zoergibiel, the “socialist” chief of police, ordered the st>préssion of the organization, giving an opinion that it represents a continuation of the suppressed R Front League. | The press is using the occasion to | intensify its anti-Communist, anti- |Soviet campaign, reporting that It is also stated that political crimi- | laa who ere wanted by (“e police | frequented the anti-Fascist offices junder f ° e names, that vigilance on (Continued on Esaaien Rags Two) N.Y. UNEMPLOYED MEETING FEB. 19 |\Delegate Conference Called L by ' TUUL Labor unions, 2 woriketna? fraternal organizations, unemployed workers | nd workers in shops and factories re now discussing the resolution on unemployment adopted by the, Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League and electing delegates to the big Conference on Unemploy- | ment called by the T.U.U.L, for next | Wednesday night, February 19, at 8 | p. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East | |Fourth St. This conference will unify the struggle of the unemployed worke of Greater New York and New J. sey against the misery and starv (Continued on Page Two) CALLS PAINTERS, Third Mass Meeting atl, 143 E. 103 } St. Tonite The third mass meeting of the| alteration painters under the au: pices of the Trade Union Unity League will take place »tonight at 143 E. 103rd St., N. Y. ©, 8 p. m. The great number of painters | present at the previous meetings | realized that this will be a union entirely different from any other existing in the past. They expressed | their confidence by joining the union | in great numbers. The slogans, program, leadership | of the new union and the low initi | tion fee prove that this will be a/ union run by the rank and file them- | selves and for the workers. The | aim is not to get more dollars in| (Continued on Page Two) s= EVICTIONS OF JOBLESS. In most houses in Gastonia there are many families, The unemployed workers move into the house of some relative or friend. In one, three- room house there are five families | the imperialists. trying to exist. Employment Bureau reports that approimately 75,000 “itinerant” }a- borers are unemployed in the city. Private employment agencies report an additional force of 23,000 unem- ployed women workers. Lay-Offs in Auto, Rubber, Etc. During recent weeks such plants as. Ford and Goodyear have been shut down, laying off tnousands of men. The large Goodrich tire fac- tory is operating only four days a week, while the Firestone factory has laid off hundreds of men and has. beer: forced tu slow down to a seven-hour day, five-day week, with consequent wage reductions for the workers The Torrence plant of the U. §. Steel Corporation, the local factory of the Consolidated Steel Co., etc., have slowed down production, throwing thousands out of work. The Southern Pacific Railroad shops are laying off hundreds cf work. ers. Thousands of workers in the sui- rounding oil ficlds and refineries (Southern California ranks third in oil production in the U. S.) are un- i |the economic Fight Stary ation; Boston Bosses Fear More Demonstrations The Bosses Fear the Army of Unemployed Bulletin by Wire. DETROIT, Feb. 13.—Th« hearing on the Pontiac case: arising out of the fight o the Trade Union Unit: League to organize the Coun- cil of Unemployed took plac today. Fred Beal was heli | for trial in Circuit Court, ter other Criminal Syndicalis cases dismissed. Detail: later. N FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 —An unemployment deme | stration was held here la night at Kearny and Jacks: Sts., in the employment agen: section where there are ma: Wherever the unemployed workers gather, in the breadlines, in | foreign-born and Negro wor mass demonstre tion efore the factory gates, large numbers of cops ers, including Filipino a wre on the scene. The capitalists know the jobless are becoming mili- | Cy? 5 tant and joining in the demand for work or wages. The above shows | Chinese workers. The demo one of the official armed gunmen line at First St. and Second Ave., of over 10,000 waits hours for a few cents from the religious dope- peddling institution, the Y.M.C./ A stration was held under at pices of the Trade Union Uni League for its demands “Work or Wages” for the jc herding the workers on the bread New York City, where a breadline U.S. AND WORLD CRISIS DEEPENS Steel Rise “Not Basic; Latin America Hit The latest report of the Depart- ment of Commerce (Feb. repeats the story of the growing of American capitalism de- \of the extent ‘of the depression. Using 1928-25 production as the Department of Corimerce the following information: 100, Da Ex bidg. contracts cane 141.3 These declines during January fol- lowing continuous slumps beginning last October. In spite of these facts | (which are made to appear as favor- able as possible by the very depart- ment which Hoover headed before he {became president) the chief im-} perialist executive continues his “prosperity” slop campaign. The Department of Commerce al- so issues some information about conditions in other jeountries. These reports sl sharpening of the world crisis. Argentina and Brazil. Referring to Argentina, they say: “General business has uot siete ‘|favorably so far, but continues dull.” The crisis in Australia also is Icep- ening, it reports. As to Brazil their cable reports state: “No improvement has been noted in the basic economic situa- (Continued on Page Three) WAGE CUTS AND 150,000 JOBLESS IN LOS ANGELES Trade Union Unity League Calls Unemployment Conference at L. A. Feb. 19 employed as 2 result of the “over- preduction” crisis in the oil indus- try. Skilled Workers Affected Unemployment is especially severe | in the building trades. Out of 3,009 carpenters organized in the A. F. vf L. locals of Los Angeles, approxi- mately 2,250 are jobless, according to the latest reports of the Carpen- ters’ Council. The Bricklayers Lo- cal No. 2 reports 1700 unemployed out of a membership of 860. The huge motion picture industry (Continued on Page Three) es | pealing to the sky-pilots to appeas ww the } < hundred workers were pres« PHILA, J 0 B L E § $ listening to the speakers when i | police and plain clothes men : FORMING COUNCIL tacked the demonstration, elubbi the workers. The workers, ho ever, fought back to defend + | -—— | speakers. No Jobs in Washington) Many workers and one policen ae | were injured as a result of the ) Liars’ Headquarters |lice attack. William Simons, ¢ trict organizer of the Commur PHILADELPHI | Party, Mike Daniels and three oti Chamber of Comme’ admits | ss were arrested. Dan that unemployment is growing more | was among those verely beat and more serious. |The police were extremely bru spite the slight flurry in steel pro-| There is a mass Unemployed| drawing thir guns when charg. duction. ‘Their index figures on/|Council being organized by the | the crowd. |production in important industries |T.U.U.L. to mobilize the jobless; The demonstration is one of dated Jan. 18, 1930, as compared, |wo for th international demon- | number of meetings arranged by : |with Jan. 19, 1929, give a picture |stration for work or wages, to culmi-| Trade Union Unity League to « |nate on February 26. | The Chamber of Commerce is ap- | ganize the Council of Unemplo; around the demands for relief + the jobless, and against the spe the masses of unemployed. They up and wage cuts of the work preachers to: preach sermons on | yet empl All workers work and ask their congr being prepared for the big dem | to make But in J; (Continued on Page Three.) |workers’ families wer pwekeomeahae jof their homes for non-payment on Aa ‘mortgages and taxes, and in Febru- l jary the rate of increase is being | [y . jcontinued. * | The C. of C. appeal to churches is | just a means of organizing the |charity slop-dispensing branches of | |the churches to forestall demands | |for the payment of ranean (Continued on Page Three) LYNCH 65 YEAR STRIKERS BATTL- (Wir BERLIN, Feb. lisions occurred striking taxicab drivers attacl scabs, smashing cab windows ¢ slashing ti ess wD: Inprecorr) 13.—Further ¢ ! here today wl The police arres’ | 0 several strikers. OLD WOMAN svercsctcut 22 | | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 13 Over a thousand of the 1,600 strik who have been out now 33 di | Protest Wiaas Meeting against the Parmalee Yellow ¢ Green Cab Company fought in { In, Winston Galemi~ ~ | tccste hete today tor several bor BULLETIN. against hundreds of scabs, arm | WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Feb. |S¢2> herders, police, deputies ¢ | 13.—Laura Weed was found hang- company gunmen. Mounted pol’ ing yesterday morning by a plow charged them and clubbed seve: chain from a tree. Even the | severely; police motorcycles sma: prejudiced coroner's jury was ed into them, but at 4 p. m. the 7 foresd’'to. find that shevhad been |lice department admitted that t nu hdiced vanAsthatih was snck a |situation was beyond control. suicide, as the papers tried to say. | Heavy police reserves we The LL.D. Southern district lead. | D'¥eht up, and with tear gas bom ers declares: “This beastly lynch- | as their main weapon they assault ing crime will be exposed. Negro |‘he stvikers. Even then the mi and white workers must organize tant mass picketing did not stop u | together armed defense commit- | AGonttasteds on, Boge! Zire) tees to stop lynching.” | | ee WINSTON-SALEM, N, C., Feb. 13. —A 65-year-old Negro workir~ wo- }man, Mrs. Laura Weed, was lynched | jin Salisbury, N. C,, according to} °~ word received here today, The mur-| February 14, 1918—Conseription der took place a few hours before | boards tried to break strike oj |dawn of the birthday of Lincoln, | American ship carpenters by call- the man who was supposed to have! ing them to military service. 192( “freed the Negro slaves.” No other} —16,000 seamen and transport details re available at present. | workers in general strike in Neth- An anti-lynching meeting is being | erlands. 1922—Three mine guard> held here tonight, with Sol Harper, | indicted for murder of Fannir Today in History of | the Workers Negro worker, representing the In- | Sellins, organizer in the stee! ternational Labor Defense, as a| strike of 1919. 1927—Portuguesi speaker, Both white and Negro| workers’ uprising crushed, 27( workers will be there, jo. tig killed, 1,000 wounded. so. situ .