The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1930, Page 1

tion of Miners, ‘kidnaped from | * . Sham of “Limitation” Crashes; Imperialists Arm as War Danger Grows Sharper With the Date of the International Unemployed Demonstration Advanced to March 6, More Time Given for thg Mass Mobilization ‘rkers. Organize All Workers, » and Unemployed, for the «> ‘ork or Wages, Mach 6! ~ Entered as second-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, ¥., ander the act of Worker Mareb 3, 1879. EDI NATIONAL TION © = Vol. VL, Ne! 296 Company, Inc., Publis#ed daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing @&p,, 26-28 Union Square. New York City, N. ¥. Outside N SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. lew York, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY Te 1930 WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT DAY The Schlesinger Slave the Basis for Militant Mass Struggle in the Whole Garment Industry © The “settlement” of the questions of wages, hours and working conditions in the dress section of the needle trade industry reveals the Schlesinger leadership of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers qs the chief instrument of the bosses. No further betrayalg wereenecessary to make this clear but the social-fascists themselves have supplied the last item in the long list of anti-working class acts which proves to the mass of workers in the industry that the Schlesinger leadership constitutes the third estate in the trio of bos$es, bosses’ government, and union bureaucrats. The five-day week has been thrown away. “This, the principal gain secured by years of struggle,"has been surrendered. An arbitration committee, designed to throttle all struggle by the workers, has been set ug, It is composed of representatives of three employers’ organizations, three members appointed by Governor Roose- velt, and two representatives of the ILGW. " Thus, even if the ILGW representatives were fighters for the working class instead of the agents of the bosses that they are, the “anion” is outvoted six to one. . To the tender mercies of this gang of bandits the destiny of the needle trades is entrusted. Their mercy is the mercy of the hawk for the titmouse. The whole scheme is the most brazen attempt in the whole series of betrayals extended over a period of years to put the whole burden of the deepening orisis in the garment industry entirely on the backs of the workers. The Schlesinger union can no longer be correctly termed a com- pany union. It is now part of the machinery of capitalist government in the state of New York. Its leadership is that furnished by Tam- many Hall and down to-the last detail of the tactics it takes orders from the City Hall to the Capitol. The question arises: Why was it necessary to stage a fake strike, | to hold mass meetings, to establish some semblance of a picket line, | te gather together and display all of the paraphernalia of struggle— to stage the whole elaborate drama in which the capitalist press, the police and the underworld so ably assisted, in order to put over this betrayal? ‘ 7 Precisely. because of the militancy of the needle trades workers, because of their tradition of two decades of struggle, because of the existence in the industry of a large section of workers under the lead- ership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. » Behind the window-dressing of a fake strike the betrayal was carrie’ out—that is, the slaves have been sold but they have not yet been delivered. The transaction is so far only a legal formality. The needle trades workers have not surrendered. They will not surrender. They will not agree to be sept down the river of rationalization—to more wage cuts, greater speed-up, ab- solute dictation of wages and working conditions by bosses and bosses’ agents masquerading as “arbitrators.” The cards have been stacked but the workers will call for a new deck. The next deal will have the stamp of the class struggle. It is here that the NTWIU has a mighty role to play. Had the policy of the Red International of Labor Unions and the Trade Union Unity League, its American section, been carried out the whole strug- gle ih the industry would have been on a @igher plane by this time. Mass struggle against the triumvirate of reaction—bosses, govern- ment and bureaucrats—would have been in progress, What is needed now is concentration on primary tasks—all ener- gies of the NTWIU devoted to building rank and file committees of struggle in every shop—the organization by popular election of a broad directing Committee of Action. e The sell-out by the Schlesinger gang, far from making the task of the NTWIU harder, lays a bigger genuine basis for wide mass struggles and organization of the workers in ev@: larger numbers into the class struggle union. This must be the perspective of our comrades in the needle trades. The social-fascists have received their commission for deal in modern slaves. But this commission will be taken from the flesh and blood of the needle trades workers. They will be sweated to seal the bargain. The bosses think that now they have a free hand. They will drive the workers as never before. This will bring new revolts. Already there are infallible signs #hat the needle trades workerg intend to fight. It is the task of the ‘NTWIU to draw into the leadership of tMe developing struggles every worker who is ready to fight. Broaden the base of the revolutionary union in the needle trades. Broaden the leadership of every struggle. Fight for every shop. Establish a rank and fjle committee of action. Challenge the bosses and their government on every issue of wages, hours and working conditions. Smash social-fascism in the entire industry. Build the NTWIU in the shops. No arbitration. No wage cuts. No speed-up. No submission to the slave pact of Schlesinger, bosses and Tam- = CONFERENCE OF TUUL IN FRISCO [Shop Delegates, Valley Strikers To Be There Denver to Idaho on framed-up | SAN FRANCISCO, Ca der charge. 1919 —°United | —Preparations for the Dis' Fates War Department ordered | vention of the Trade Union Unity sithdrawal of troops sent to north- | League to be held in San Francisco, ern Russia to fight against revo- | March 1-2, are going forward. Nele- tution. 1924—Forty members of | gates from shop committees in three (W.W. jailed in waterfront strike | railway shops and one steel mill, at San Pedro, Cal. 1925—Todor {are already assured. Filipino work- 3trachimiroff, Communist member a Today in History of __the Workers February 17, 1600—Ciordano Bruno, Italian philosopher- and freq-thinker, burned at the stake. 1906-——Moyer, Haywood and Petti- oone, officers of Western Federa- | ville and Imperial Valley agricul ers will be present from the Watson- | of Bulgarian Parliament, assassi- nated in Sofia. One Worker Killed, Another Seriously ‘Burned. LOS ANGELES, Cal. (By Mail). -C, W. Kerr, 31, 1611 West 65th lace, was’ electrocuted a couple of ays ago, and Albert Chaple, 24, light, a city insti!vfon. The former | Communist Party, should support | 149 South Arlington Avenue, was ~iously burned by electricity on tural fields. Delegates from metal, | building, marine and needle workers’ groups and uniong have been elected }to the convention. the same day. They were both em- | Ployes of the bureau of power and died ov the spot, wh") ‘> latter has a slim.chance to recover. Council of Unemployed of the Tre Pact Is| Capitalism’s Clubbers in Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly el Sans Sasa. ade Union Unity League. The Con We cal. “Police terror will not stop their struggle for bread. The demonstration was organized by the mmunist Party, the only poltical party which fights fér the workers, supports the T.U.U.L. struggle and participated in this as in every activity in the interests of the workers as w class. to close their ranks, kick out the misleaders of the A. F. of L., to unite in the fight agains unemploy- ment, wage cuts, speed-up and imperialist war, and participate in the unemployment demonstration on March 6, called by the Communist International in every country of the world.’—Statement of the Communist Party, U. S. A., District 8, Philadelphia. E. Gardos, District Organize ! upon all workers of Philadelphia ° FISHWICK CALLS CONVENTION TO BUILD OWN UNION ‘Lewis Splits Illinois; NMU Exposes Both | SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 16.— | The split in the United Mine Work- jers of America, where International | President John Lewis and. Illimois. | District President. Harry Fishwick }are struggling for the control of this company union and the mon- opoly of the right to sell out the ‘coal miners, has deepened. Fish- wick has issued a call, with the co- | operation\ of certain fake progres- ives, for an international convention {of the union—in defiance of the present international officers, and | With the certain result of providing |a dual administration — vo U. M. |W. Aa’s, On the other hang’ and at the same time, Leyis’ henchmen in Fishwick’s territory, the chiefs of eleven Franklin County, Ill, local unions, have put forth a statement calling on the Illinois miners to cease to recognize Fishwick or his district administration. Fishwick, Lewis Exposure. | Both of these statements charge} the group behind the other with being agents of the coal operators, | swindling the coal miners, and each| proves its statement. | The National Miners Union, the| coal miners’ own organization has | issued a statement exposing each of \ the sell out machines. | | Fishwick’s proclamation ~ sets} | March 10 as the date, and Spring- field, Ill., Fishwick’s present head- quarters, as the place for the or- (Continued on Page Three) 20,000 Tractors on Way to Soviet Union Twenty thousand tractors, ordered by the Soviet Union from American factories, are already being shipped to Odessa and other Black Sea orts. In addition, Amtorg, the merican branch of the Soviet trad- ing system, has purchased 17,000 plows, 2,000 grain drills for seeding machines and 18,000 special drills for cotton afd corn. | Build The Daily Worker—Send | fn Your Share of the 15,000 New Steel Workers 10-12-Hr. Day; Many Jobless That the 10 to 12-hour seven-day week is still the lot of the majority of workers in-the steel industry, in spite ofthe hypocritical announce- ment in July, 1928, that the long shift -was being abolished, was defi- nitely revealed in the figures just published by the research depart- ment of the Federal Council of Churches. Out of \248,247 steel workers. cov- ered by the survey, only 115}619, or 46.6 per cent were working gn the eight-hour-day. -Nearly 111,000, or 46,6 per cent were working on the while about 9 per cent were working (Continued on Page Three) SOVIET CHURCH’ HEADS FLAY POPE Say Imperialists Drive Workers Away MOSCOW, Feb. 16.—Church lead- ers in the Soviet Union are asking their fellow-sky pilots in other coun- tries to lay off the propaganda against the workers’ government because this is tending to alienate the working and peasant masses. The Metropolitans Sergius and Serafim of the church in the Soviet | union issued a statement declaring | that the unity of the pope, the arch- | bishop of canterbury and all other enemies of the Soviet Union is driv- ing away those peasants and woyk- ers who still adhere to the church. The Metropoltans especially at- tacked the pope for aligning himself with the English landlords, and the French nd Italian capitalists. They denied that priests and mem- bers of congregations were perse- cuted because of their religious be- liefs, and said thy were only pun- ished for punter - revolutionary crimes. Some churches were being closed, they said, but only by vote of the people. Izvestia and Pravda link up the attack by the religious dopesters in Italy and England with the war prepara‘:ons against the Soviet Union, and thg faked Koutepoff dis- appearance from Paris. Peers NEW YORK, Feb. 16—The New Subs. There is* great deal of agitation by the Philippines, and the im- | perialists, with the help of the petty- bourgeois Filipino politicians in their traitorous role as leaders of |the “independence movement,” are pteparing to tighten the shackles on the Filipino ftasses. The Central Committee of the Communist Party, U. S. A., has issued the following statement on the Philippines: The fervent and rightful desire for national independence of the Philippine nation, while all Ameri- }ean workers, together with the | and assist to the limit, is being made |a@ game of by American imperialism. ‘ (Continued on Page Three) IMPERIALISM'S - BANDITS ADMIT ~ WAR ARMS RAGE |“Peace” Bunk Flops; War Danger Grows LONDON, Feb. 16.—An open na- val building race of gigantic pro- portions leading to war is the ad- } missign of the capitalist press here, | based on, the sharper, antagonisms developed between the infperialist powers at the race-for-armament conference. All sham about limitation, which the imperialists meant to hide their naval war preparations, by déscard- ing outworn naval craft, and build- ing more up-to-date war machinery, | has crashed amid the frantic ef- forts of all the imperialist powers to push up their naval quotas above the 1922 Washington treaty. United States imperialism, as brought out by statements at the (Continued on Page Three) MANY WELCOME NEGRO ORGANIZER |American Legion Tries to Stop TUUL CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 16. —Overflow meetings of Negro and |white workers have greeted James | Ford, National Negro Trade Union |Unity League Organizer, now on \tour of the South. The reactionary ruling class of this section is en- raged. The American Legion is holding a special meeting today to consider methods of combatting what they call “The Communist Invasion.” The chamber of tom- merce, the press, the American Fed- eration of Labor and the churches join in the attack on the T.U.U.L. Masses of Negro and white work- ers, however, applaud as Ford out- lines the T.U.U.L. program for mili- tant struggle to raise wages, shorten hours and improve conditions. They are enthusiastic about the fullest political implications, the unity of white and Negro toilers, affiliation to the Red International of Labor Unions, ethe defense of the Séviet Union, the organization of the un- And this occurs at a time when chauvinist and fascist agents of the American capitalists and agrar- ian employers, cheered on by the social-fascist American Federation of, Labor, ar@ murdering Filipino immigrant agricultural workers in California, trying to break the class; time in which they demonstrate and fight for the international solidarity and unity of the Filipino with the American workers—the immediate, unconditional and genuine indepen- | dence of the Philippine nation, But what about the Americaa im- perialists? Are their words sincere solidarity between American and| when they talk, as some in Congress Filipino wage workers established by| are doing, of Philippine indepen- the revolutionary trade union ofj|dence? Who raised the question in the Trade Union Unity League who| the United States Congress and have proven their words by deeds in| why? defense of these immigrant workers.| The question was raised by the The Communists and revolution-|beet sugar interests, principally, ary trade unionists, therefore, dojand finds support also in these not have to go further to prove their’ banking interests which (often un- sincerity in demanding—at the same|der the guise of ‘farmers’ cooper- | ternational Unemployment Day CLEVELAND AND DULUTH PROTEST Youngstown Organizes Unemployed Council DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 16.—A big protest meeting here against the | arrests of unemployed demon- |the Communist Party. At. this meeting, thirty-six workers joined were Karl. Reeve, District Organizer of the Communist Party, and Com* rades Harju, and Martin. Hundreds of workers packed the hall. A Coftncil of Unemployed was organized and arranged to hold a conference to unite the employed with the unemployed on the general demands for unemployment relief, insurance, against wage cuts and speed up. A tag day and further mass meetings were also agreed upon. @The police chief has changed the charges made against those arrested | in the unemployed demonstration to “assault and battery, brawling, and | disturbing the peace.” “This applies | to Rebecca Grecht and four others ~ (Continited on Page Three) ek genannten ergployed and the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism. Welcome London Conference. The Negro workers show deep in- |terest in Ford’s statement of the rea- sons and the plans for the Interna- tional Conference of Negro worlers coming to London in July. Both white ad Negro workers take the floor at these meetings, in sup- | port of the T.U.U.L, policy of or- ganizing all races together in the |same unions. They assail the A. F. of L. Jim Crowism. Meny Join T. U. U. L. K-Negro worker at the Chatta- nooga meeting declared, speaking of white workers: ‘It takes the same to feed my child as his. His needs shoes and clothes and schooling, but don’t mine, too? Why cut your throat?’ All the way the working class will ever amount to anything is fighting shoulder to shoulder.” Many have signed up in the T. U. U. L. after the meetings. Ford is proceeding to Birmingham, Ala. { Every new Daily Worker reader ——" - ‘ jou get is a potential Party mem- ber. DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL PHILIPPINE FREEDOM Struggle Must Be Led by Workers and Peasants in Philippines | atives”) resent the import of Philip-| pine coconut oil substitutes fo° th» butter and meat fats in which they otherwise have a marketing mon- opoly. The beet sugar interests, whose outstanding spokesmen in the Senate are Senators Smoot and King, have fought savagely to raise the tariff on sugar, particularly aiming at Cuban sigar. The violence of their fight was shown by the lengths to which it went in exposing President Cuban sugar interests opposing those fepresented by Smoot and King. Incidentally this also exposes (Continued on Page Three) sli hn maaaaanaN RN LANlt l on a broader preparation campai | strators was held under auspices off the Communist Party. The speakers|¢oy Hoover himself as corrupted by tho# was February 26th. The Communist Party of the® United States of America must utilize the added eight days| for a most energetic campaign | and organizational preparations so that great masses will be mob- ilized. The committees of action must | be organized everywhere to guaran- | tee the best cooperation between} employed and unemployed workers The Trade Union Unity League must geceive every assistance by the Party forces in organizing the Unemployed Councils and strength- ening them where they already exist and winning them thru Party forces the demonptaatp h-Gtin Special attentioh must be given to the demonstrations outside of factories’ The regular meetings with the unemployed should be util- ized for the most intense propa- ganda and preparing demonstra- tions outside of the factories, lead- ing in every move up to a real big demonstration on March “th with the largest massc. participating. The employed workers in +> fac- tories must be brought into closest cooperation with the unemployed. | Calls for strikes should be issued | and the workexs organized to strike in the shops March 6th and to take active part in the demonstfations. The demonstration must be thor- oughly planned and prepared—every member knowing his duty and place. The defense of the demonstration against fascist attacks must be well organized. In every industrial city there must be an aggressive mass demon- stration of the unemployed with a decided offensive character. Thou- sands of workers are thrown out in the streets every day. “Work or Wages” muSt be our demand and a tremendous mass protest organized against tfe capitalist state, demand- ing insurance and relief for the workers unemployed. This insur- ance and relief to be under direct control of the workers themselves. Forward in mass action against unemployment! Demonstrate and strike! a ~Organize large mass demonstra- tions of employed and unemployed workers March 6th! Shoot At Los Angeles Workers Restaurant LOS ANGELES (By Mail).--On Wednesday, February 5, a bullet was shot through a window of the co- operative restaurant, 2706 Brocklyn Ave. This occurred at $ o'clock in the evening, and many workers were eating their supper. No one was hurt. , The next day, somedcdy shot thu a window of the second story of the same place, which is the east side center of the Communist movement. There &ave been repeated acts Bf this kind against the workers or- ganization. bs p ee Niel cane “Hoover Prosperity” | Left Him Jobless, So Old Worker Took Gas PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Feb 16.—Despondent because of his inability to obtain employment, Frank Nagy, 51 years old, of 334 Watson avenue, ended his: life here Thursday by taking gas in the kitchen of his home. He had been out of work for four months, and his wife, also past her @ youth, had been forced to look for work at the Elm street shirt factory. at © 4 will en ADVANCED TO MARCH 6 ® COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL CHANGES DATE FROM.FEB. 26 TO MARCH 6, 10 ALLOW FOR: BROADER MASS CAMPAIGK Eight Days More Used For Uniting Employed With Unemployed Factory Gate Meets to Prepare Big Demonstration on March 6th Strike Action of Employed Called For March 6, in United Struggl With Jobless Against Wage Cuts, Speed Up, For Jobless Relief The Executive Committee of the Communist International has decided to postpone ul International Day for struggle against Unemplpyment. The date previously decided for I To enable our Parties to prepare thoroughly real mass demonstrations and to cari: ign the ECCI has decided to postpone it until March 6th. DEMONSTRATE A THE STOCKYARD: Factory Gate Meet { Unite All Workers CHICAGO, «Feb. 16.—Led members of the Unemployed Cov cil of the Trade Union Unity Leag and the members of the Commun Party a demonstration was stag in the stockyards against the gro ing, unemployment and misc among the stockyard workers. The demonstrators entered 4 stockyards and attempted to en the employment office of Armour - Co., but due to the fear of the co pany, the workers were not allow to enter the office, where some : workers were waiting for jobs, h: ing been laid off by the compe dufing recent months. As the wo ers tried to gain entrance the co pany police were called and ¢ persed the crowd of 100 unemploy gathered outside the armour ¢ ployment office. All the unemployed workers tl marched to the employment ofi of Swift & Co., where some * workers were vainly waiting (Continued onePage Three) KRIEGER STARTS TOUR FOR “DAILY Visits New Englan | Ne Y. in Campaign The business office of The De Worker announces a very import: circulation tour of the New Engh states and of the territory “wit! 200 miles radius—day of publicat to be undertaken by S. A. Krier on behalf of the “Build The Da Worker campaign,” which v launched at the same time as i party recruiting drive. A special feature of The Da’ Worker campaign to increase its « ents wll be an attempt to br up the newsstand sales by 1 ay Giues’ Plan.” This pl able the workers and read in the 20 largest cities around Nc York to read the very latest ne on the day of publication. Comrade Krieger will pay partic lar attention to the promoting « subscription canvasses among T Daily Worker boosters, and + building up of factory sales and di. tributions, Krieger will spend a few days each city. His schedule is as f: lows: Stamford, Conn., February J New Haven, February 9; Hartfo: Feb:uar: Worcester, Mas February Boston, February £ . }Albany, arch 3; Syracuse, Mar 5; Rochester, March 10; Buffal., 13, WORKER BADLY HURT IN AU1 ACCIDENT. LOS ANGELES (By Mail).- Comrade Beal Morris was bad hurt in an automobile accident la Friday, February 7. He suscain: . a broken leg and other injuries a: was taken to a hospital. The au knocked the worker down near ti Co-operative Cent 6 Brookly Ave, Although seriously injure there is hope for recovery, it wi reported tadav.