The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1930, Page 1

WORKER ene: SEND DELEGATES TO THE T.U.U.L. JOBLESS CONFERENCE TOMORRO} Regular Meetings With the Unemployed Should be Utilized for the Most Intense Propaganda and Preparing Demonstrations Outside of the Factories, Leading in Every Move Up to a Real Big Demonstration on March 6th With the Largest Masses Participating. Enterca an meget crinee matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the att ef March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI., No. 297 Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing eg ,° New York City, N. ¥. NEW ae TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 18, 1930 ° = SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In lew York by mall, $8.00 per sear. Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year, Price 3 Cen FOR DEFENSE OF U.S.S.R. AND WAR ON UNEMPLOYMENT wWSSIAN GREEK AF. of L7 MAKES WAF |The Pope, Bishop and Rabbi Mobilize for War on Soviet Union--the Success of the London. Conference! “For instance, the Anglican Church will more readily pardon attacks ypon thirty-eight of its thirty-nine articles (of faith), than’ upon one thirty-ninth of its income.”—Karl Marx. » Bishop William T. Manning, followed by numberless preachers, priests and rabbis, calls for a holy war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. a Coincidentally the capitalist newspapers begin to admit that the present London Conference “for limitation of armaments” will result jn no decrease of war machinery, but will be followed by an enormous swelling of military equipment for the coming second world war. But anyone who says that the London Conference has “failed”— either does not know, or else is trying | to conceal, the purposes of the London Conference. There are many indications of considerable success of the London Conference. Success in reduction of armaments? No! Success in onesof the main real purposes of the London Conference—the only pur- pose for which these imperialist powers were able to meet on common ground—the attempt at a world-wide mobilization of war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. For this purpose they have at- tained a concerted drive in Englandwhere the tories and the “labor” party are playing a game of cooperation; in France, where the bill- boards are blazing with “circus” advertisements that would make Bar- num blush with envy—based on the insanely ludicrous claim that the “G. P. U, agents” of the Soviet government have kidnapped General Koutiepoff, whiskers and all; in Germany where the attempt at mob- ilization of the masses for the war against the Soviet Union is coupled with a feverish struggle for the suppression of the Communist Party and the strangling of the unemployed movement. As jhe last stage of the London Conference more clearly shows that imperialist war, not peace, will be the outcome, and as the time comes closer when the open announcement of the holy war for the destruction of the labor movement in general and particularly the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics approaches, the united front in+ London puts forward the pope of Rome as a spokesman. The church, which has never hesitated to stoop to any job at the request of its masters of the ruling class—the church which has for centuries been the prostitute of militarism and reaction, feudalism, | ‘slavery and capitalism—comes forward with the call to the masses to “pray” against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, in order to prepare these masses for the next call which will be, not to prayers, but_t8 bayonets. The ¢xouse is given that the poor suffering Russian orthodox®church is being persecuted! The mere fact that the Russian orthodox church at the place of “persecution” protests that it is not being’ persecuted makes no difference. The pope’s masters want war, and the pope must heed his masters. After the pope follows the archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, and after the archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop | Manning of the Protestant-Episcopal chureh of the United States. Manning, one of the most notorious obscurantists and reactionaries in this country, an intellectual concubine of the Morgan Bank, calls for a nation-wide political demonstration throughout the United States to prepare the masses for the coming mobilization for war against the Soviet. Union. After Manning comes the horde of reverend flunkey’s of the Amer- ican bourgeoisie. Rabbi Stephan S. Wise, who in recent years has become more and more a constant handy-man of the American bankers, calls to the Jews to join:the Christians in the most collossal pogrom ever planned. He calls for a mobilization of Jewish and Christian sentiment through- out the world, which he said, “despite the quasi-diplomatic recogni- tion of the Soviet Republic in some lands, will refuse comradeship with such & government.” Rabbi Wise shows by his language the con- sciousness of these reverend prostitutes that their purpose is a political one—the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Unior generally, and the prevention of recognition of the Sovet Union by tife government of this country in particular. It is not an accident that the world-wide mobilization comes in the year 1930. At this momentous turning point in history, the capitalist system finds itself face to face with a situation never before dreamed of by*the ruling classes. The fabulously rich and powerful capitalist system has been in crises before, as for example the great crisis of 1914 which was “solved” (!) by the world war. But the capitalist sys- tem has never before faced a world-wide economic crisis of disjointed industry, desperate millions*of unemployed, smouldering or open re- bellion én colgnies—and at the same time a rising rival social system, built on the sounder basis of socialist industry, teeming with vitality and prosperity and inspiring the working class of the work and all colonia} peoples with the astounding proof that, whilst capitalism can not feed its slaves, the slaveg can revolt and be free of both political oppression and economic misery. The imperialists went to the London Conference with no intention to disarm, but with the intention of each dmperialism to seize new for plunder. Not one imperialist would give up a battleship or ‘in favor of another imperialist rival—but all could agree to their sabres for the purpose of destroying the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics, to destroy the hope of the toiling masses of the world, to. plunge the whole world deeper into slavery, misery and exploitation, and thereby to save their own position @s exploiters. This purpose is certainly the motive of American’imperialism in its effort to pthc att leadership of the anti-Soviet drive, for which Morgan’s jack-in- the-box Manning, pops up in the pulpit to howl louder than the pope for war on Bolshevism. Bishop Manning, the pope, the rabbis, the priests and parsons of the world will continue the ancient trade of prostitution to the wealth ef the slave drivers. But the masses of exploited are on the move. One-sixth of the hoghacny of the earth has already been conquered for freedom of the toiling masses, and the other five-sixths will be. Let these holy prostitutes howl. The coming imperialist world war ppc the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics will see the overturn * many more governments of slavery, for the masses will learn to that the overthrow of their own bourgeoisie must be the workers’ and the farmers’ aim in the coming war. The reverend of Morgan and Rockefeller, of Rothschild and Rechberg, surprised to see how many millions of workers in these United when called to war against the Union of Socialist Soviet rewind be ready to give their lives to defend the Union of Soviet Republics, . On March 16 the Senta revolution will mobilize superstition, fgnorance and reaction for the second imperialist world war—the war ; destroy the workers’ republic. workers must be ten times more mobilized to defeat this colos- ili i He ECTIVE Eugene Victor Debs, the great pio- SOVIET tion igen neer of American Socialism, and NAMED AFTER DEBS. the other is called International MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. — Two new} Workers Solidarity. @pllective farms have been placed’ Aimerican worker are asked to, under the patronage of the Friends yaico tunes to buy tractors and toole ef the Soviet Union, American See: | toy the two new callestives that tion. Ong Lad been named after| have been entrusted to their eare. ‘MOBILIZE TO COMBAT WAR "THREAT ON USSR \Call Mass Meeting For) | March 16, Madison Square Garden ‘Defend Soviet Union ‘Shop Delegates Meet, To Be Held March 7 x) In answering to Bishop William | Ee Manning’s active support and participation in the world anti-| | Soviet campaign, conducted by the imperialist powers at the London | | race-for-armament meet, and with | the aid of all the forces of reaction, | | inehidie the pope, Bishop of Can-} |terbury and other enemies of the | | workers everywhere, the Friends of | Soviet Union has announced it will counter this campaign against the | U.S.S.R. by a mags mobilization of | the American workers, against the war danger. | The American imperialists are} | preparing to plurige the 7,000,000 | 'wnemployed workers into a war against the Workers Fatherland. | The rapid building of Sociajism in| the Soviet Union and the success of |the Five-Year Plan irritates the enemies of the workers in all coun- | tries, Their religious dopesters are | preparing the backward masses; un- der the guise of a “holy war,” to |support the imperialist attacks on \the Soviet Union. It becomes in- | jereasingly clear that the unemployed | millions must not only fight for “work or wages,” but must fight for | the Defense of the Soviet Union, | The statement issued by the | Friends of Soviet Union declares: “In view of the general offensive |of the imperialist powers against | the Soviet Union, and the mobiliza- | (Continued on dsseaesiaid tA Two) IMPERILISTS ~ RUSH WAR ARMS | ‘Conference E Heads For Complete Smash LONDON, Feb. 17.—The race-| | for-armaments conference is head-} ing for a smash. All delegates ad-/| mit that there is a serious situation| Trades Workers Industrial Unioa| |@n the basis of a wage reduction, | in the proceedings. The French and | has declared a ‘strike in Saks Fifth and with the understanding that| a factory emplgying 35) , Japanese imperialists insist on their | demands for vastly -bigger fleets Now the British and American rep- resentatives declare that they will have to raise their tonnage even above their previous big quotas. The downfall of the Tardieu gov- jernment in France caused fresh complications. There will be no change in the demands of the French imperialists when Tardieu, who headed the French delegation, is replaced. British militafists announce that, on the basis of the French demand they will have to build above even their present rapid war prepara- tions. American imperialism, on the hasis of “parity,” announces that its navy too will spring up considerably. Discussion proceeded today on the Japanesé demands. What happened in today’s meeting is shrouded ‘in the strictest secrecy, but news that did seaygout of the closed conference (Continued on Page Three) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 17.— Vivid, first hand reports of strug- gles throughout the coal fields against increasing wage cuts and worsened conditions were made at the meeting of the National Execu- tive Board of the Mhtional Miners Union which has just concluded its sessions in this city. Fresh from the field, district sec- retaries and organizers from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, West jern and Central Pennsylvania, the Anthracite, coke region and other | ity Movement, to mobilize 1,000 rep-| cording to a cable dispatch to the sections told of the fighting spirit resentative delegates to the Second | Department of Commerce. of the miners and of the possibili- | National Convention of the union, ! road runs northeast and east from ties for struggles against the coal/ » Boeuse’ Greed Maims, Kill Workers on Job ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 17.—There | jj has been a tremendous increase in} " industrial accidents, according to aj report by Governor Roosevelt of the | States of New York. “These figures® show,” said Gov-| | ernor Roosevelt, “that in the twelve | months just ended the number of | reported | deaths throughout the state reached | industrial injuries and a total eclipsing all previous figures of the Department of Labor.’ Here are the figures on the num- | ber of workers hurt or killed while} | on the job in New York beginning | with 1924: Year @ Accidents ‘Deaths 1924 + 858,440 1,684 1925 416,350 1,828 1926 .. 484,703 1,787 1927 521,624 1,917 1928 507,980 1,876 1929 - 528,604 2,093 The big increase in accidents and deaths on the job is due to the fran- tic speed-up and rationalization in-| stituted by the bosses. That acci- dents will increase is evident from the fact that the speed-up processes } are being inté&sified. While 523,604 workers were hurt and 2,093 killed in New York, the | |bosses were able to heap up piles of profits. More tHan 20,000 work- ers a year in New York along are | permanently crippled for life, and are forced to live on a miserable compensation or get nothing at all in many instances. NEEDLE TRADES STRIKE IN SAKS Thugs Kidnap Workers By Aid of Police BULLETIN. There will be a general mem- bership meeting of all organized ; | and unorganized workers in the needle trades, Thursday, 7 p. m., at Webster Hall, 11th St. and 4th, Ave., to discuss the present sit-* uation of the industrial union, and the ewtension of the organization campaign. There will be a general Com- munist Party Fragtion meeting of all needle trades workers Wednes- day at 8 p.m. at the Workers Center. * 8 « The Joint Council of the Needte Avenue, women workers on dresses, and on alteration department employing 4 men. Conditions in this shop are 5 | unbearable, wages low, and the abuse | is beyond endurance. ‘he men struck first against the! The firm! locked them out, and the Industréal | condijions and abuse. Union now ‘eads the rest of the workers. on. strike. The firm is a very rich one, with shops and department stores in a number of big cities, including New ¥ York. The Industrial Union calls the at- tention of all tailors to this strike, asking them to h&@p win. it. Schlesinger Builds Bosses. The first result of the I.L.G.W. strike announced by the bosses is some growth in their employers’ as- scciation. This was one of their main. reasons for engaging Schles- inger to call the fake strike. The (Continued on Page Two) © National Miners Unfion Board Calls Big Convention in June Actively Prepares for National Strike in Fall; Thompson and Guynn, Acting Pres. and Sec’y. operators and their company-union | agents of the United Mine Workers of America. M&M the Anthracite, the miners, under the leadership of the N.M.U,, are preparing for a strike on September 1, which will be the signal for a uaticnal strike of the coal miners. In Indiana a strike is expected to develop April 1. Convention Is Postponed. The board accepted the challenge of the British Coal Miners Union, affiliated with the National Minor- (Continued on Page Three) > CHURCH DENIES LIES OF CLERGY | Metr opolitan Sergius Exposes Pope’s Aid to Imperialists Calls ; Pope _Hypocrite |Archbishop of London) | Lies, Says Sergius | (Wireless By Inprecorr} | MOSCOW, Feb. 17-—Yesterday’s | “Izvestia,” the organ of the Soviet Government, publishes an interview | with Metropolitan Sergius and other |dignatories of the Greek Orthodox | church, concerning the alleged anti- | religious persecutions in U.S.S.R. Sergius declared that the supposed anti-religious persecutions are non- istent and have been nonexistent since the decree separating the church from the state, when all be- liefs are equally free to propagate their faith. | Metropolitan Sergius declares that where the churches are closed, the people, and even the congregations |of the churches tremselves, are re- | sponsible, and not the Soviet Gov- | ernment authori Police action against priests are | taken for political, not religious mo- i ly, the church was with the monarchy, and many religious people are un-| jable to realize the significance of | | the social transformation and fought | against*the Soviets. | ‘The heads cf the Russian church | (Continued on Page Three) LOVESTONEITE HELPS SELL OUT \Leads Frame Makers to AFL and Wage Cut Perlow, the local union president jof the Frame Makers’ Local of the Carpenters’ Union, yesterday called off the meeting of strikers in the | Itzeik furniture factory, which was scheduled for Colombia Hall, led the strikers up to Clinton Hall, where | the A. F. L. business agent Shutings ‘has his office, and there Shutings | | told them he had settled their strike | | only the fastest workers would be | taken back. Lovestone Treachery. Perlow is a Lovestoneite, and is acting under orders of that rene- | gade’s group. At the meeting which Perlow called off, he knew a representative | of the Trade Union Unity League and one of the International Labor Defense were to appear, to offer all help in winning the strike. The strikers had last week refused to} (Continued on Pagg Two) ‘WORK OR WAGES’ MEET TOMORROW on Unemploymept “Work or Wages! Fight Against Starvation!” This will be the fighting slogan of the big conference on unemploy- ment to be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 | East Fourth St. Called by the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League, this conference will co-ordinate the struggle agains. un- jemployment, will unite the empioyed |and the unemployed in a fight for immediate demands and the eco- nomic program of the T.U.U.L, and will intensify the drive to rally tens of thousands of workers throughout (Continued on Page Two) RAILROAD STRIKE IN INDIA. WASHINGTON (By Mail).—Six thousand workers on the Great In- dian Peninsula line, the third largest railway in India, are on strike, ac- The rail- T. U. U. L. L. Conference| UPON THE UNEMPLOYE ‘Buffalo Bureaucrats in Central Labor Council Expose Their Fascis Said Milwauke Picture. of the second jobless With their banners demanding imi in Milwaukee, the unemployed wo: the business section of Milwaukee. the. workers jeered and booed. at whose policedheat up unemployed workers at the first demonstration, Hammond Police Break | Up Y.C.L. Meet, and/| Pinch 4 Young Toilers| HAMMOND, Ind, F Feb. 17. idle reserves were called to the hgad. ad- quarters of the Young Commuflist League last night to break up a meeting. The police charge that the young workers tried to eject a stool- pigeon, Sergt. Edward Warner, from the hall. Madge Kolin, Erie Thomp- | son, Paul Bucha and Rrnest Gamer | were ph a ter | JOBLESS MASSES CUT WHEAT SALE Too Much Hunger, Not) Too Much Wheat | LONDON, Feb. 17.—Mill experts! here predicted today that the glut} of wheat in the world’s markets | would soon result in another world- wide break in prices. The recent reduction in the price| of a four-pound loaf of bread in| Great Britain from nine pence to/ eight and a half pence is regarded | by these authorities as the forerun- | ner of further early declines. According to these experts, Ar- gentine and European growers out- maneuvered the Canadian and United States pools and captured | the British market. | The newspaper “News of the World,” in an article headed “World Glutted with Wheat,” declared that today the Soviet Union has entered the export field. They do not men- tion that the Soviet Union fs re- With reports flocking in about business conditiong in January the whole hoax of Propaganda about “better condition’” receives a shat- tering blow. Every January indica- tion points to a vast increase in the unemployed army and a sharp- ening of the crisis. Foremost is the decline in build- ing work below 1929. It was in this field that Hoover strained his hard- est to stem the growing crisis for the bosses. It is precisely in this field that capitalism shows its in- ability to stop the sharp decline. Building permits issued in 586 Bombay. BS Ca Na b representative cities and towns dur- ing January, 1930, as reported by e Unemployed demonstration held in Milwaukee, rediate relief for the, 50,000 jobless rkers marched two miles through When they passed the @ity Hall Mayor Hoan, social-fascist faker ‘200 NEGRO, WHITE’ JOBLESS PARADE Greenville | tnemplgnd: Organize Council (BULLETIN.) MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 17.—The thou- sands of “unemployed” rich who like to mix a little gambling with their winter vacations, and who heretofore found Miami equipped withe all conveniences to do it, were in some doubt tonight as to the future of their favorite di- version, owing to a “reform” campaign which séme “killjoy” has started against the idea. But the dog races are still going on in most clubs, the betting being done orally. * Parade in Greenville. GREENVILLE, 8S. C., Feb. 17. —Two hundred Negro and white workers demonstrated against un- * * employment today at Jockey Lot, | Greenville, carrying placards de- manding “Work or Wages,” “So- cial Insurance Paid for by the Bosses,” “Seven-Hour Day and Five- Day Week,” “Recognition and De- fense for the Soviet Union,” etc. The demonstrators after listening (Continued on Page Three) | stricting its exports in order to raise | the standard of living of the workers and peagants, and their wheat con- sumption over 12 per cent, before! exporting wheat. The “News of the World” points (Continued on Page Three) Unemployment Growing Worse Daily in U.S. A. January Building 46 Per Cent Below Last Year; 14,000 Families Starving in Detroit S. W. Straus & Co., mortgage bank- ers, showed a loss of 46 per cent below January, 1929. In January | alone building work dropped mgre than $108,575,310. Still more recent information shows the depths to which American capitalist economy has fallen. Bank clearings for the week ended Feb- ruary 18, 1930, throughout the coun; try were 29.3 per cent below the same period last year. Bank clear- ings are an indication of current business. They show that through- out the United States there is nearly 30 per cent less business activity than last year at this time, In (Continued on Page Phree) ‘ BUFFALO, N. Y., “We Will Come Back 25,000 Strong on March 6” |4™ y| Council of Unemployed and, indee | jobless starve or not—though it | Character, by Attack on Council of Unemployed; Will Aid Bosses ‘Massachusetts Unemployed About 150,000; Building Trades Hard Hit, Bosses and Their Ae F. of L. Agents Won’t Stop Jobless Fight Feb, 17.—T. - ration of Labor showing its fascist character agair the movement of the unemployx aA | This is shown by the local Centi g|Labor Council in its attack on t | by its indifference as to whether t. mitted by the chief fascist, Pres lent Green, that 20 per cent of ti |A. F. of L. membership is uner | ployed. Local 84, Buffalo, of the Molder j Union, endorsed the unemployc | movement, including the demonstr: |tion on Internatioal Unemployme: | Day, passing @ resolution in fave of the T. U. U. L, program for tl} | unemployed, and instructed its del |gates to raise the question in th | Central Labor Council of Buffalo, At the last Labor Council meeting |Delegate Campbell of the Molder | Union, spoke, but the bureaucrat would give the floor for only fiv minutes, and he presented the reso lution adopted by his local Th Labor Council rejected the resolu tion, however, and the bureaucrat fused the occasion td attack the Trad: Union Unity League, openly statin; that they would help the capitalist: | against the demonstration on Inter* national Unemployment Day. The T. U. U. L. has decided te | issue a leaflet to the rank and file | of the A. F. of B, to form Rank ané File Committees for pushing the Unemployment Program of the (Continued on Page Three) ‘SIGNIFICANCE OF TARDIEU'S FALL Show Difficulties of French Imperialism aan | PARIS, Feb. —The Tardieu government, the 17th since 1920, has |fallen, after existing percariously only, since November 2, last. The | te in the Chamber of Deputies | was close, a majority against the government being only five, 281 to 286, on a trivial question of the finance minister’s proposal about in- come taxes on married women. This, of course, was. not the real issue at stake, which is the increas- ing difficulties French imperialism finds itself in, in trying to square its domestic with its foreign polities. Of particular significance it is that (Continued on Page Two) 30TH ST. MONROE CAFETERIA OUT ‘Union Wins - Victories; Organization Drive .On A strike was called at the Monroe Cafetegia, 85th St. between Seventh and Eighth Aves. yesterday by the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria | Workers Union. Five were arrested lin the first picketing. | The Cafeteria Workers Union is now engaged in a drive to organize | the thousands of tood workers in | this city, and is gaining new victor- jies. Hundreds of food workers join levery day. Tens of shop committees are being organized, and are pre- paring the workers for a real strug- gle to fight for better conditions, The spirit and the determination of the food workérs is high. Only the other day the Pennsylvania Cafe- teria was forced to surrender to the union, even at the cost of breaking with the bosses’ association. The Monroe Cafeteria on 27th St. was forced to close down under the pressure of the militancy and de- termination of the workers. Several | other cafeterias were recently forced to sign up for union conditions. “These victories are a signal to (Continued on Page Two) =