The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1930, Page 1

— / “The unemployed and the employed workers of the Standard Oil Co. have to organize together; that’s the only way we'll end slave conditions and slaughters like Tuesday’s,” a Standard Oil worker told The Daily Worker, in speaking of the murder of workers in the Bay- way refinery of the Standard Oil. The Standard Oil stands guilty of | leaking gas pipe, murdered 11, possbly more workers, and maimed { i / dh , the murder of these workers, and no whitewashing by the state or } county officials can wipe that opinion away Scenes from the disaster are shown above. Extreme left, rains scores, blinding many for life. Oil workers awaiting news of victims, at a hospital. Extreme right, relatives of Standard Note presence | C. Teagle, head of the Standard Oil In center, the murderers of the Standard Oil workers. Walte of N. J.; John D. Rockefeller, Sr. of police, whom relatives of victims charged handled them roughly; whose millions are made on the slavery of the Standard Oil workers of the alcohol plant at Bayway, in which the Standard Oil, through a also presence of nun, to make use of religion, so as to keep the workers | from realizing the real cause of this murder. Standard Oil workers, employed and unemployed, organize unde: the Trade Union Unity League! The Employed Workers in the Factories Must Be Brought Into Closest Co-operation With the Unemployed. Cals for Strikes Should Be Issued and the Workers Organized to Strike in the Shops March 6 and to Take Active Part in the Demonstrations. Entered as second-class matter at the Vost Office at New York. ¥., under the act o f March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by Vol. VI. No. 299 The Comprodaily I Ishin EI oy m Square, New York City, N.Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. Millions Demand Bread--And DEMONSTRATION DePriest Aids They Get a War! The “religious” attack against the Soviet Union is gaining mom- entum. Priests, rabbis and ministers who had been closing the gates of heaven to one another a short time ago, while condemning the other’s adherents to eternal damnation in the hereafter, now stand united in a reactionary front against the Soviet Union. The real connection be- tween the capitalist governments and the Christian-Jewish clergy is becoming more visible and distinct. At the same time, every effort is being made to whip the masses all over the world into a frenzy of hate against the workers’ and f. mers’ republic. The entire vocabulary of incitement is ransacked for suitable words to stir up resentment and hostility against the “unspeak- able repressions” and “red atrocities” which exist only in the brains of the religious dopesters. All the denials of the Russian clergy, un- able to deceive the masses and therefore forced to tell the truth, offer no obstacles to this orgy of religious lying. Every device of propaganda is and will be employed to split the masses along religious lines. That is the first aim of the clergy responding to the orders of their imperial- ist masters. In less than a week the appeal to heayen became a direct appeal to more earthly powers. Pope and rabbi are now calling for the material intervention of capitalist governments to give substance to the spiritual intervention of God. “Protest” in the form of prayers has turned into unconcealed talk of “putting down” the “religious outrages” in the Soviet Union. Words of “religion” are becoming words of war. To believe that the reac- tionary bloc of imperialists and clericals intend to confine themselves to futile prayers is to surrender to the illusion that the “religious movement” has no material-class basis. ss “To fail to understand that we are not dealing with a mere chorus of “protest,” but with a definite movement to mobilize the masses for an armed attack against the Soviet Union is to betray the working class.to the imperialists. It must be clear to every thinking worker “that the whole religious hullaballoo is nothing but an ideological cam- paign in preparation for a war against the Soviet Republic. It is a brazen attempt to split the international working class by uniting it with the capitalists under the banner of religion in support of an imperialist war against the workers of the Soviet Union. The capitalists and their clerieal tools know very well that the policy of the Soviet Union is not to abolish religion by decrees from above. The march of Socialism means the abolition of the material conditions which nourish religious ideas. Only the destruction of the last remnants of capitalism, only the constant improvement in the material living conditions.of the masses and their re-education on a vast scale on the basis of Socialism wll lead to the ultimate abolition of religion, as of alcohol and other dopes. “As in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain,” says Karl Marx, “so in capitalistic production he is governed by the products of his own hand.” It has been the abolition of capitalism in the Soviet Union that has laid the basis for the utter destruction of religion. It is the sharp class struggle against the remnants of capitalism in the village, the kulaks in alliance with the village priests, that is destroying the last material refuge of subservience and super- stition. The economic crisis in the United States which has sharpened the general crisis of capitalism; ‘the rapid advance of Socialism in the Soviet Union, with the help of the Five-Year Plan, has convinced the imperialists of the necessity of attacking soon or losing their oppor- | The religious attack against the Soviet Union, there- | tunity entirely. fore, is not merely a fight between atheism and religion, but pri- marily between Socialism and capitalism. Both capitalists and clergy see their doom in the continued existence of the Soviet Union. “The protest,” says the New York Journal, “transcends all differ- ences of creed, uniting all religious beliefs in a common cause.” The cause of religion is the cause of the capitalist class, the cause of exploitation and oppression. The same church and clergy that drove the working class into the last imperialist war for the profits of their masters; the same church and clergy that draw dividends from the trusts and corporations, sucking their billions in profits from the bodies of the working class, regardless of creed—these same peddlers of opium to the people are now crying for a war against the only country ruled by the working class. Capitalism does not ask the worker about his religion when it throws him out of a job. But in the interest of their profits and the very capitalist system, the imperialist robbers, in the name of religion, through their religious agents, ave calling upon the workers to fight against their fellow workers in the Soviet Union. Against this ruling class “unity of all religious beliefs,” the Com- munist Party calls for the unity of the entire working class against their’ capitalist exploiters. The Communist Party does not give up its fight to free the masses from the poison of religion. But it explains to the working class that only the sharpest class struggle against the oppression and the exploitation of the masses by parasitic coupon- clippers, only the complete destruction of the capitalist system itself will enable them to rise out of the swamp of ignorance and supersti- tion, © *Réligion is not only the product of ignorance, but of class oppres- sion, ot the misery of the masses, of their subordination to social forces which they are unable to control. The Communist Party will fight against every attempt to split the working class on the grounds of race or religion. Workers! Religion is a pretext, a poison-gas attack to blind you to your class interests! In darkest America, where capitalist law for- bids’ the teaching of evolution as a science, where the prosecutor of the Gastonia strikers rolls on the floor and hysterically calls God to send workers to the electric chair, where 7,000,000 workers and their families starve in the shadow of thousands of ornate churches, where in Marion the religious workers see the heads-of the church kick them out of their accustomed place to breathe foolish prayers to an unhear- ing God, because they struck against wage cuts and the speed-up, in capitalist America, in short, the godly bootlickers of Wall Street ery for war on the Socialist Republic! - The workers of the world will accept the challenge! None of the 7,000,000 starving jobless will cease to fight—for “Work or Wages.” None of the millions driven to exhaustion by the speed-up,and harrassed by wage cuts will stop one moment in their fight against the capital- ist attack! And all of them will unite against capitalism and its at- tempt to whip up a war against the Workers’ Government. » Defend the Soviet Union! Fight for Work or Wages! strate on’ March 6 Demon- “ON TUESDAY FOR /—N-HOUR WEEK NeedleTrade Industrial Union to Lead Huge Defiance of Thugs 'LL.G. Gorillas Slugging Police Aid Gangsters; | Courts Jail Workers | The Needle Trades Workers In- | dustrial Union has called for a great |demonstration by all militant work- ers in the garment section Tuesday morning at 7:30, for the 40-hour week, for union conditions . and |against the terror. Further details {will be furnished later. Workers locked out by the bosses, |and returning after the fake settle- }ment find in addition to the six day |week, company union, two year slave contract the International Ladies |Garment Workers has signed, that the company has made agreements with separate bosses to not only give |no increases in pay, but to cut the pay below what they were getting, sometimes below what open shops |were getting. | Auto Bosses Fight Negroes So many workers are joining the mass movement against the criminal | syndicalist laws sponsored by the | International Labor Defense in the Detroit-Pontiac region that the auto | bosses swiftly rushed their puppet, | Oscar De Priest, to the scene to try | to counteract the swelling resist- ance. There are over 150,000 unemploy- ed workers in Detroit. The De Priest !meeting proved unsuccessful com- pared with the meetings held when | Beal was released from jail on $10,-} | 000 bail. The ILL.D. is met with a great financial burden in defending the criminal syndicalism cases. Mass mobilization for the tag days, Feb. 22 and 23 was urged, as well as| |contributions to be rushed to the} national office of the I.L.D. at once. | UNITE JOBLESS FOR STRUGGLE Baltimore T. U. U. L. Rallies Workers, Negro} and White, for Demands on Open Shop Bosses at Scene of Battle Here the Trade Union Unity League issued its first call two days ago, and two open-air meetings were held before the Western Electric and at Locust FOSTER SPEAKS - AT RELIEF MEET Conference Opens at 7) P. M. Tonight Point, with masses of workers eag- erly’ listening t0 every word of the speakers. Leaflets were distributed calling a meeting. We underestimated the response, | for unexpectedly, workers started coming singly and in groups, and the hall was quickly packed with unemployed, most of them Ne- | gro workers. Many discussed with enthusiasm the program and demands of the BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 19.—This is an industrial city, | | run on the “open-shop” plan, it hard. Thousands are walking the streets, filling the “em | perialism to attack the.Soviet Union | ployment” offices, seeking shelter in pool rooms from the cold, and crowding around places where a job might be had. Peaks st he Not Breadlines-Relief! State Dept | Aids Attacks on Soviets BULLETIN. ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 19.—Hope for a union of imperialist powers against the Soviet Union was ex- pressed today by the Metropolitan | of Athens, head of the Orthodox) Church in Greece. This religious dopester announced Philadelphia Unemployed Stage Protest Meet that he had appealed to the imperi- |alist League of Nations for an at- tack on the Soviet Union, | i * i ') | WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Know- | and Hoover’s “prosperity” hit ing the willingness of American im-| on City Hall Plaza * * | | on the least excuse, religious dope- | | sters have sent protests to the U. S.} | State Department against. so-called | religious persecutions in the U. S.| S. R. | Acting secretary of state Cotton, | who takes the same view towards ¢ | the workers’ republic as his master, 4 | Henry L. Stimson, said today he has | | mot made any decision regarding the action of his department, but he would make the protests public iater f | today. | The forces of reaction throughout | the world are supporting the war | plans of the imperialists against the | | Soviet Union. Because the Ameri- | |can imperialist government has | | shown its desire for war on the So- | viet Union, through Stimson’s Man- churian note, and the ordering of ew York by mall, $8.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION 3 ent: Price STANDARD OIL CO IS MURDERER OI 11N.J, WORKER’ Many More Dying, anc Seores Blind After Refinery Blast Pipe Line Leaked State Starts Whitewash of Company BULLETIN. The Standard Oil Co. of N. J., is trying to escape the blame for its murder of 11 workers in the alcohol plant explosion Tuesday, by putting the blame for a leak- ing gas pipe on “some disgruntled worker who kicked the pipe and broke it.” Thus, a frame-up of some worker to whitewash the company seems in the offing. Standard oil thugs armed with clubs and guns are surrounding the wire-enclosed plant. eo ea ee ELIZABETH, N. J., Feb. 19.— The Standard Oil Co, of New Jersey {stands guilty of the murder of 11 and probably more workers. A gat pipe—worn to a shell—this was the Standard’s instrument of murder. | Intense dissatisfaction is growing. | At 7 o’clock this evening the Con- | The jobbers and the contractors are| ference for Strike Relief to the! fighting, the jobbers seeing that Miners, Textile and Shoe Workers, | they were swindled and coerced | and all other workers engaged in the through the use of the company / struggles in this country, called by | This is the verdict of scores of workers at the huge 3,600 acre Bay T.U.U.L. for the unemployed, and} e f | the break between Mexico and all present joined in forming the| — | the U.S.S.R., the religious dopesters union and seeking to back out of the | (Continued on Page Two) T.U.U. L. BOARD SCORES FISHWICK Musteite New Union Is Trick of Bosses The National Executive Board of the Trade Union Unity League in |the course of its three day session ended Monday adopted the following ithe Workers International Relief, j wilf open at Irving Plaza Hall, Irv-| ing Place and 15th St. | | Many unions, shops, workers clubs | and fraternal organizations have al-| |ready sent in their credentials to \the office of the Workers Interna- | tional Relief, who is calling this | conference. There will be represen- |tation from the shoe workers, who are on strike at present, from the | {needle trades, hotel and restaurant} workers, textile workers, bakers and} | many other unions. Delegates rep-; {resenting Trade Union Unity} | Leagues, Party Units, Workers Schools and fraternal organizations will come to this conference from | every section of this city. Council of Unemployed. All took leaflets for the next meeting, and meetings were arranged daily for (Continued on Page Two) MEET TO DEFEND SOVIETS MAR, 18 Fight War Threats of Religious Dopesteys The Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave., announced today it had secured the Bronx Coliseum, {177th St. and Bronx River, for its | | in this country are adding fuel to the flames by deliberately urging | way Refinery of the Standard Oil | Besides the murder of the workers | Whose lives were snuffed out in the | on intervention against the Union |of Socialist Soviet Republics, PAINTERS ASKING T.U,UsL, CHARTER On March 6, hundreds of thou- sands of jobless workers will dem- | onstrate for work or wages. The | breadlines are growing but the | ranks of unemployed in the mass | demonstrations will grow larger | in the demand for unemployment | insurance. explosion Tuésday afternoon at the alcohol plant of the Standard Oil in jLinden, the Standard Oil Com- jpany’s greed for more and |more profits means that scores of workers face misery in total blind- ness for the remainder of their lives. | At least 100 received minor injuries. | The Standard Oil Co, has been 300 DELEGATES laying off workers by the thousands 4 ety + ./in its New Je fineries, speed- | Launching New Union; jj; up those who remained tothe | Meeting Tonight extreme limit. In its fierce speedup, errs workers state, the Standard Oil has | The painters organized in the|constantly neglected to make re- | | Trade Union Unity League have pairs on leaking pipes which seri- | | acquired a sufficient membership to | ously endangered the workers’ lives. ‘New York T. U. U. L. | 2»p!y for a charter as a union and} Workers at the Standard Oil statement, warning the coal miners| The W.I.R. brass band will play |of the trickery in the Fishwick pro- mass meeting March 16, called as a are doing so. A meeting of all) sw 3 i i h u | sys 2 eh | are _ 50. |plants who had been laid off in re- counter demonstration against the| Mobilizes for Mar. 6 painters will be held tonight at 108 | cent months stated that only organ- prayer services announced for that} East 14th St. | ‘a number of revolutionary melodies |posal for a new union under the |leadership of the Illinois Coal min- \ers, and outlining its policy in these | circumstances. «8 * “The National Executive Board of {the Trade Union Unity League warns the coal miners against the | proposed National Convention on March 10 in Springfield, Mlinois, |which has been called by the Fish- {wick officialdom of District 12, | United Mine Workers of America, |This is the latest scheme of these | notorious tools of the coal operators ,to confuse the miners and to hamper |the growth of the National Miners | Union. It is an attempt to company- unionize the miners, so that the op- |erators may have a still freer hand to go through with their plans of intensified exploitation of the work- ers, “This convention is put forward in |the guise of progressiveness, of a \fight for effective unionism, But the jutter hypocrisy of this pretense is \clear when it is seen who is behind |the movement. Fishwick is simply ‘the falseface for Farrington, ex- ‘president of District 12, who was jfired from the union for accepting $25,000 per year graft from the Pea- lees Coal Co. Fishwick is the agent jof the Illinois coal operators. The \struggle between him and John L. | Lewis is a reflection of the struggle between rival groups of coal opera- |tore for control of the remnants of the U.M.W.A. and to develop a strike breaking weapon against the Na- tional Miners Union. Long Record of Treason. “Lewis and his erew of misleagers are rotten to the core, with a record | (Continued on Page Three) |and films from the field of strug: | | gle in Gastonia and Illinois will be shown. Comrade Wm. Z. Foster and ‘a number of other speakers from} workers organizations will address the conference. Delegates and workers are re-| quested to come on time 7 p. m. sharp, Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving PI. \Amtorg Head Proves \Gains of 5-Year Plan; Ask Credit to Buy Here Peter A. Bogdanov, head of the Amtorg Trading Corporation in | America, the official trading agent of the U.S.S.R., appeared before the American-Russian chamber of com- merce and told of the amazing suc- cess of the Five Year Plan. Reeve Schley, President of the Chamber and Vice President of the Chase National Bank, cited figures | showing trade with Russia had ex- ceeded $155,000.000 last year, $115,- 000,000 pf this amount being exports | j|to Russia. Y Bogdanov pointed out that the im- mensely valuable U. S.-Soviet Union trade would grow more rapidly if the U. S. let down the barriers to credits, necessary to buy the ma- chinery needed in the Five. Year Plan, PINCHED FOR STEALING CASH HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 19.—Dr. Diagio Reale, fascist-Italian- vice consul here was arrested today charged with stealing $41,134 from the City Deposit and Discount Co., of Bristol, near her { | world safe for democracy.’ | slogan has been shot so full of holes date by Bishop William T. Manning jn his anti-Soviet drive. The protest meeting will start at 2 p. m. and will be addressed by many prominent speakers, among them Bishop William Montgomery | Brown, author of “My Heresy,” who was expelled from the Protestant | Episcopal Chureh. Commenting on the letter sent to President Hoover by the American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities urging that the President and the United States government aid the movement against Soviet “religious perseuction,” Ludwig Landy, secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Uniop, today declared: “This is only another step in the holy crusade against Soviet Russia, a crusade backed by organized capi- tal and the government of organized capital. All this is preliminary propaganda for war. Nearly 13 years ago the masses of this country were led into a war for the greater profit of Wall Street, under the sanctimonious slogan of ‘making the But this that it can no longer fool anybody, so the imperialists of the world are busy inciting a lynch fever under a new slogan: ‘Save the persecuted Christians, Jews and Mohammedans from the Bolshevik heathen!’ We call upon all workers and other sympathizers throughout the coun- try not to be fooled by the capital- ist priests and rabbis, Working Class From the Bottom Up—in the Industries! lization of both the employed and junemployed oil workers together 0 ¢ es |could bring about better conditions 1 un on a wider scale. A meeting will) and wages, the end of the speedup, ganizations aml from shops, at-| take place once every week in the |and of such slaughters as Tuesday’s. | While John D. Rockefeller, who tended the unemployment confer-| Bronx. Besides these regular meet- | ence called by the Trade Union| ings, mass meetings will be held all | ans Unity League of New York, held at over the city for the purpose of or-|&* Trade hundreds of millions out the Manhattan Lyceum, Wednesday | ganizing all painters into one strong | oh RACe Ears | night. | (Continued on Page Two) | | Sam Darcy, representing the Com- | | ‘ munist Party, spoke on the growing | 7 | erisis of capitalism in the United Hoover Support to | States and throughout the world,| Big Power Trusts | and outlined the tasks of the T. U. SHUT NAVY MEET U. L. in organizing the unemployed Is Shown by Letter | nd employed workers f trug- | cere | gle for velit. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—More | Aes toa A. Patterson, organizer of the un-| Tevelations of Hoover's close con- \Imperialists Rush War employed Negro workers, spoke on| ections with grafting lobbyists was the necessity of the Negro and| brought out today in connection with Armaments white jobless workers fighting the big power trusts Muscle Shoals — | shoulder to shoulder in the striggle.| @Tab. It was sccently revealed that | LONDON, Feb. 19.—The race-for- There were speakers from the youth | Chief Justice Hughes of the Su- | armament conference has adjourned committee of the T.U.U.L. ‘Tom De-| Preme Court got $65,000 from the |for a week. The official excuse fazio, of the Needle Trade Workers’ | Cyanamide Co., which is taking over|given is the overthrow of the | Industrial Union, spoke. | the Muscle Shoals project. | Tardieu government. It is expected | George Ziskind, secretary of the| , A letter from Colonel W. Worth- that the vacation will last much |New York T.U.U.L. presented and| imgton, head of the Muscle Shoals | longer, but the imperialists are go- spoke on the program of. action. He| lobby, to Claudius H. Huston, chair- | ing ahead with their naval war arms talked on the necessity for mobiliz-,™an of the Republican National | building program. Not the least ing for the March 1 T.U.U.L. con-| Committee, reveals that Hoover, | semblance of agreement is likely to | vention and organizing all workers,| When he was secretary of commerce, }come out of the Five-Power meet. employed and ‘unemployed, white | worked together with the big power! In the meantime, the delegates and Negro for the world unemploy-| t'usts. The letter says, in part: | are attempting to spread “peace” ment demonstration on March 6, to, , “Perhaps I had better explain a/ propaganda among the masses to fight for work or wages. little more in detail to you that I| hide the sharp rivalries of the im- told John H. Bankhead that you and perialist powers and the rapid'y de- I in the fall of 1925 did our utmost} veloping war situation. | | Over 300 delegates from Unem- ployed Councils, several A. F. of L.| | The sentiment among these ers is for spreading their activities | local unions, workers’ fraternal or- | MEETING OF DAILY WORKER to bring the power and chemical | A special meeting’ of all Section {and Unit Daily Worker representa- Build the United Front of the | tives will be held Thursday evening,| Hoover, even undertook to bring AGENTS. groups together, and we made a dis- mal failure, and I further explgined| to him that you, along with Mr. February 20, at 7:30 p. m., at the Workers’ Center, 26 Union Square. these together through Mr. Owen |p. Young and failed.” To give the appearance that the conference has not completely broken down, an announcement was made that the experts would meet and talk things over. But the French delegates declared that their experts would not take part.