The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1930, Page 1

10,000 5,000 Unemployed Workers in Chicago and in Philadelphia Demonstrated That What Join the Fight For “Work or Wages.” They Will Not Quietly Starve. About You? Vol. VI. Company, Ine., No. 301 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing gam 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. * NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION tside Actions on the Part of the Imperialists There can be no doubt that we have entered a phase of fresh ag- gressiveness on the part of world imperialism against the Soviet Union. It suffices to quote a few facts in order to prove this. In a whole number of capitalist countries the monopolistic con- cerns and trusts have, with the support of the governments, organized the fight against industrial exports from the Soviet Union. The capi- tal do not wish to permit that great growth of exports from the Soviet Union envisaged in the Five-Year Plan of our foreign trade. With the aid of special customs tariffs, by the creation of special monopolist organizations, expressly for “trade” with the Soviet Union, by demanding contingents and a net trade balance in the trade with’ the Soviet’ Union, by raising a great outcry against “Soviet dumping,” by the immediate prohibition of the importation of this or that article of Soviet export (Swedish match monopoly in Germany), the capi- talists are endeavoring to break through our foreign trade monopoly. At the same time the old legend of “Communist propaganda” and of “interference” of the Soviet economic organizations in the inner affairs of the capitalist countries is raked up again. Thus, according to newspaper reports Henderson recently complained to Comrade Sokolnikov of infringements of the agreement regarding propaganda, because the Comintern sent a message of greeting to the new Com- munist paper in England “Daily Worker.” A little while previously, the Diehards among the Conservatives accused the Soviet Government of propaganda because Negroes rebelled in South Africa. Finally it was announced yesterday that the Mexican Government, which proceeds with bloody terror against the workers and peasants of Mexico, has recalled its ambassador from Moscow allegedly as a protest against the Soviet Government, which (just think) is responsi- ble for the fact that in Argentina, Brazil and New York Communist workers protested in front of the Mexican embassies against the White Terror in Mexico. At the same time it is perfectly clear that this act of the “independent” foreign policy of Mexico is only the dutiful ful- fillment of immediate instructions from Washington, whither the newly elected president of Mexico, Ortis, has today taken his departure in order to take the oath of allegiance. In all the capitalist countries there is a wave of “protest” against the “religious persecution” in the Soviet Union. In England, in Switzerland, in America and a number of other countries the Catholic priests unite with Anglican clergymen, protestant pastors, orthodox Greek popes and Hebrew rabbis under the command of generals for common action against the Soviet Union. Needless to say at the head of this “movement” we find our old friends among the English Die- hards, Joynson Hicks and Lord Birkenhead. From Geneva is heard the demand of the general secretary of the Committee for National Minorities at the League of Nations, a certain Mr. Amende, that an international protest be organized against the “persecution of German minorities” in the Soviet Union. What Mr. Amende has in mind in this connection is the abortive, counter-revolu- tionary attempt of a handful of Mennonite kulaks to organize a mass emigration of German peasants from the Soviet Union. A new feature is undoubtedly the increased part played*by the U. S. A. in the anti-Soviet imperialist front. Three facts constitute irrefutable evidence of this. Firstly, the leading role of the American Government in the attempts at diplomatic intervention*in connection with the conflict on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Secondly, the par- ticular energy with which American capital is working to bring about an approachement between Germany and Poland and to remove all an- Yagonisms ‘between them. “Finally, the vole played by. America in. the action of the Mexican Government against the Soviet Union is of special importance. Another new feature is the circumstance that the German bour- geois press is ever more definitely lining up in the Hicks and Cham- berlain anti-Soviet front. It is significant that the otherwise peaceably inclined “democratic” press (“Frankfurter Zeitung,” “Berliner Tage- platt”) is especially energetic in its incitement against the Soviet Union. Finally, we have sthe fact that international imperialism is con- centrating against Soviet exports, and is endeavoring thereby to deal a blow against the Five-Year Plan. The imperialists want to undermine our Five-Year Plan; they do not intend to permit the final liquidation of the remnants of the ex- ploiting classes; they are striving against the final uprooting of capi- talism in the Soviet Union. Hicks and Chamberlain, Henderson and Severing fully realize how the thorough collectivization of agriculture is bound up with the tremendous pace of industrialization, how the fight for the liouidation of the kulaks annihilates their (the imperial- ists) allies in the fight against Bolshevism in the Soviet Union itself. Hence international imperialism is now mobilizing its forces against the Soviet Union. Hence there is now setting in a fresh wave of anti- Soviet activity. To save the last positions in the Soviet Union and not to permit the fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan. both in the sphere of nd the sphere of social relations—that is the aim of the economy imperialists. Simultaneously therewith world imperialism is beginning to pay greater attention to its hinterland, for here there is to be’ seen, in connection with the growing economic crisis and the worsening of the material position of the proletariat. an increase of revolutionary mass activity which is hostile to capitalism, It is precisely this that the capitalists fear. They are preparing their machine guns and poison gas against the working class of their own countries, and are en- deavoring, primarily with the aid of the church, social fascism and democracy. to undermine the ideological firmness of the masses who are becoming more and more revolutionary. “It is the fault of the Soviet Union that the social crisis is deepening”—that is the slogan with the aid of which they hove to, terrify the petty bourgeoisie and the backward elements among the working class, in order to prepare a favorable ground for further work of the machine guns and cannons. That is the second aim of world imperialism. The working class of the whole world and its Communist vanguard will not allow themselves to be intimidated and demoralized by this fresh wave of anti-Soviet activity. They will expose the real aims and the new methods of deceiving the masses of the people, all the cry and hullabaloo about “Soviet propaganda,” or “Soviet dumping,” re- ligious “persecution”. in the Soviet Union, ete. And should the imper- jalists veally venture to stretch out their claws against the Soviet Union, to proceed against world Communism, then they had better re- member the sad end of the “crusade” which was undertaken against the Soviet Union in 1919. —Leading article of the “Pravda,” Jan. 29, 1930. Dealers’ Today in History of ane ae a the Workers Five Still Missing February 22, 1840—Ferdinand Two are killed, nine were’ buried August Bebel, leader in pre-war | and five are still missing at a late German socialist movement, born The New Wave of Anti-Soviet. [hour last night, as a result of the ! at Cologne. 1921—Conference of | collapse of an overloaded girder at MeNutly Bros. Coal Company, 171st St. and Harlem River, yesterday, letting a thousand tons of coal down on the crew working in a coal pocket below. The two known dead. arp Walter Adams, Negro worker and ~’Rourke, first name unknown. The faultily constructed building was only finished Thursday, and filled with coal’ yesterday, \ reformist parties ‘not in either Third or Second International met at Vienna, “Second-and-a- half International” formed. 1922 United Mine Workers and 15 rail- road unions at Chicago conference formed loose alliance for closer co-operation. 1922—1,200 Spanish miners in Penarroya district struck against 25 per cent wage cut. 1925—Fifty members of Mexican Labor Party killed by Agrarians during election riots at Michaca. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! | | ' PEORIA PRINTERS WIN. PEORIA, IL, Feb. 20.—A $1 raise and a reduction in the working week of two hours have been won by Peorie, union printers. @ POLISH RABBIS FORGET POLISH PERSECUTIONS Join Anti-Soviet War Drive Under U.S. Leadership Imaginary Executions |Rabbis Get “Reports” and Rend Garments WARSAW, Feb. 21.—In! Catholic and fascist Poland, where the Jews are subjected to every indignity, from being spit upon to murder, a delega- tion of rabbis yesterday called on the American. consul at Warsaw to ask for aid against persecution of the Jews—but not in Poland. | | They were extraordinary | worked up over “persecutions” in the Soviet Union, of which they “had recéived a report,” ; while the thousands daily per- secutions of Jews under their nose in capitalist Poland excited them not at all. | And recognizing that American, jimperialism, which in the U. S. A. ‘permits the Ku Klux Klan and other | such capitalist organizations to harrass and terrorize the Jews, is the ambitious leader of the imperial- ist anti-Soviet war preparations, they came to the U. S. consulate to rend their garments and otherwise | make asses of themselves over “re- | ports” that in the Soviet Union some “Jewish leaders,” numbers and! names unknown, had been arrested | in Minsk, in the Soviet: Union. The rabbi at Vilna, where Polish officers shove Jews off the side- (Continued on Page Two) International Wireless News German’ Social-Fascists Can't Stop Communism’s Growth. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 21—Comrade Schiff, editor of the Rote Fahne was arrested while in the industrial town of Mannheim. He is the fourth Rote Fahne editor to be arrested within three weeks in the social democratic Mueller government’s effort to paralyze the activity of the Communist Party and stop its grow- ing influence among the German workers, The t: drivers in Leipzig went on strike yesterday evening against attempted wage cuts. * . * Raid Revolutionary gress. (Wireless By Inprecorr) WARSAW, Feb. 21.—Pilsudski’s police raided and dissolved the con- gress of the Ukrainian peasants’ or- ganization Selrob and wounded and arrested many. Spontaneous pro-| test and solidarity demonstrations | of the workers took place. | i * ee Peasants’ Con- France Strike Wave Rises; Soldiers Support “Humanite.” (Wireless By -Inprecorr) PARIS, Feb. 21—The strike | movement is rapidly growing in all | industries. The Belfort textile | strike was ended with many new re- ,eruits won for the Red trade unions. Three hundred workers are on strike | in the wire works of St. Die, Vos- ges. workers are striking against wage | cuts. In Ales. Gard the transport workers and barbers are on strike. The soldiers 106th regiments have forwarded col- lections to L’Humanite, central or- gan of the Communist Party - of France. / | Phoenix, Deport Zin ie Workers Protest Saves His Lite The U. S. A. government sharp- ened its deportation drive on for- eign-born workers today when Ste- phen Zinich was exiled from the Rade Radikovich, of Ariz., was rearrested to be deported to Jugo-Slavi Zinich left the country yesterday. Radikovich was saved from depor- tation last year after a six months struggle by the International Labor Defense. The Federal government, dissatisfied with the decision, has appealed the judge’s ruling. Zinich, editor of Radnik, Jugo- Slav workers’ weekly, was hounded by stool pigeons of the fascist King Alexander, of Jugo-Slavia, and the United States autho Ss were given word to have him arrested. He was taken in custody a few years ago and would have heen sent off to his death in Jugo-Slavia but for the International Labor Defense. A writ of. habeus corpus was in- stantly taken out and the case fought thru the courts, keeping Zinch in the country, while the I. L. D. called for mass protest for his right to stay in the U. 5. A. Finally permission was granted to allow Zinich to go to the U. S. S. R. Radikovich has been arrested in Ari land, and because of h The Ts. D; ng tion-wide strength to fight against the growing deportation menace— as evidenced in the above two cases. BIG BUSINESS RULES IN JAPAN “Liberals” to Put 807 Communists on Trial TOKIO, Japan, Feb, 21.—-Early election returns indicate that Japa- nese capitalism and landlordism, militarist both, thought it better to | throw support to the present cabi- net, and return the Minseito party to power. The Minseito seems to have gained about 50 seats in the election for representatives to the Japanese Diet. The Minseito is advertised as the “liberal” party, but it is headed by Wakatsuki, now premier and chief (Continued on Page Two) PLAN 10 EXPAND WORKERS RELIEF 183 Delegates At N. Y. District Conference One hundred and _ eighty-three delegates representing 130 working class organizations took part in the conference, sponsored by the Work- ers International Relief, Thursday night at Irving Plaza, to lay plans for building up a workers’ relief organization for the support of militant workers engaged in strug- ‘gles all over the country. William Z. Foster spoke for the Trade Union Unity League. He emphasized the coming great strug- gles of the workers and told of the role of. the W. I. R. in these strug- gles. Louis Gibarti spoke in the name of the international organization of the W. I. R. Other. speakers were In Moiras, Ivere, 450 textile Ford, Negro director of the T. U.) ers’ Union, was U. L., and representatives of the Needle Trades Industrial Union, Building Maintenance Industrial Union, Harlem Unemployed Council, Women’s Councils, etc. Plans for out. SENATE WORRIES QVER JOBLESS DEMONSTRATION Pushes Fake Pension Bill As Sop to the Aroused Workers AFL. Official Speaks Tydings Schemes Split Farmers and Workers WASHINGTO Feb. 21.—The unemployment situation broke into both houses of congress today, and |a considerable section of this execu- tive committee of the ruling ¢ was devoting itself to devising wi and means, not to give unemplo: ment relief, but to distract the at- tention of the jobless workers, to split them from the farmers who are not exactly happy either, and to |throw out some sop or promise that ! {would keep them quiet. The American Federation of La- |bor was right on hand to be used |for camouflage purpose Points to Demon: Senator Tydings today called. at- tention to the unemployed demon- | strations in Cleveland and Philadel- phia (he could have mentioned a lot rations. + |more) and setting the figures of the out of work at the modest of sum of 750,000 (whereas it is near 7,000,- 000) said that farm legislation would have to wait, because there is dan- ger of d iminating in favor of the farmers at the expense of city workers. oe ers to get more than neces: tection as it. for industries,” he said. “People in the cities should not be penalized by increased costs jof food.” Meanwhile, in the house of repre- sentatives on labor, Edward F. Mc- (Continued on Page Two) WOOD SAYS U.S, ATTACKS UNION “Won’t Let Labor Have Communist Leader” is just as unfair for the farm- pro- The trial to vacate the temporary labor injunction issued by Supreme Court Justice Strong at the request of the Metropolitan Shoe Manufac- turers’ Association against the In- | dependent Shoe Workers’ Union was continued before Judge May of the Appellate Division in Brooklyn yes- terday. Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for the union, forced W. G. Woods of the U. S. Labor Department, when he was on the witness stand for over two hours yesterday to admit that although the Communist Party was a ‘egal organization in this country the “government” nevertheless would attempt to destroy any labor union where Communists were in the lead- ership. When asked if this also ap- | plied to socialists Woods replied, “No,” saying that socialists were ‘respectable people and of no harm to the “government.” Woods upon cross-examination admitted that he did not know the difference between ;Communism and socialism only that one was respectable and the other !a danger to the employers and big | business. | | Speaks For Government. F. G. Biedenkapp, general man- ager of the Independent Shoe Work- characterized by | Woods as a man who wanted to | overthrow the government and take everything away from the bosses of the 146th and Union, Independent Shoe Workers’|and turn it over to the workers. | When the attorney for the union asked if he made this statement as (Continued on Page Two), FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents RABBIS WITHU.S. CAPITALISTS FOR WAR ON SOVIET 10,000 IN CHICAGO DEMONSTRATION DEMANDING UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF: 5,000 RALLY FOR PHILA. PROTEST Chicago Jobless Resist Savage Attack By 200 Police; Unemployed Conference Sunday Unemployed Council of Philadelphia Stage Big Protest on Spot of PROTEST MEET Skoda Workers War on Unemployment (Wireless By Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Feb. The workers of the giant Skoda Checho-Slovakia, Armament Factory demonstrated before the works against the dis- jmissals of part of the workers, and the throwing of part of the working class thus into the permanently un- employed army. | Communists addressed the masses of workers and the police attacked the arresting parliamentary deputy But later a protest inst the police was held at the y station, and was addressed by the Communist Parliamentary Deputy Novotny. The police again attacked, but the workers resisted and there were severe collisions many arrests. demonstration, the Dvorzhak. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.—In what the capita press admit was the largest demonstration ever held in Philadelphia, the workers, unem- ployed and employed, gathered at the City Hall Plaza today at 12 noon, at least 5,000 strong, in pro- test at the brutal police attack on the unemployed demonstration held in the same spot just a week before. The demonstration was organized by the Trade Union Unity League and its Unemployed Council, sup- ported by the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense. The police, who had planned to attack this protest demonstration as (Continued on Page Two) WOMEN PREPARE FOR MARCH 6TH Conference Plans For Women’s Day Also Concrete plans for the mobiliza- tion of the working class women of New York for International Wom- en’s Day on March 8 and for the unemployment demonstration on March 6 will be made today, when delegates from shops, labor unions and women’s fraternal organizations meet in the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, at the call of the Communist Party. The Women’s Day Celebration on March 8, at Irving Plaza, will mob- tens of thousands of working women under the slogans, or Wages,” “Starve or and “Defend the Soviet Union.” The conference today will plan for organizing International Women’s Day Committees in the shops. | Fight,” The Daily Werker is the Party's (best instrument to make contacts expanding the W. I. R. were mapped | own opinion, the judge inter-) among tke masses pf workers, to) build a mass Communist Party. The Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League, 13 West 17th St., has called all its members and all workers to join in the mass- picket demonstration in the garment section Tuesday morning on Eighth | Ave. between 35th and 36th Sts., | against the company union gangs- T.U.U.L, statement says: “Defend your picket lines! Or- ganize workers’ defense commit- tees! Organize shop committees! UNITY LEAGUE CALLS ALL TO Build the Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union! Fight the com- pany union! “Demonstrate your solidarity with the Needle Trades Workers Tuesday morning. “Fellow workers: The Trades Workers Industrial Needle Union for the organization of the unor- PICKET TUESDAY! For the 40-Hour Week in the Needle Trades! Defend the Lines ! «STIRS PHILA, demonstration | Former Police Attack "Jobless on the March iM Z | Boston unemplo, the state hous demonstrations all over the Unite States during recent weeks of the unemployed are « mobilization and a rehearsal od marching on -—one of the many out pourings jor the great world wide ployment demonstraton | March 6. unem= to com WATERBURY COPS “ATTACK JOBLESS | Boss Press Admits hap U.L. Builds Union WATERBURY, Conn. “From all indications, the | Waterbury Evening Democrat, ac- ation in th the “Brass “The Trade Union Unity League through its youthful rep- resentatives here are determined to organize a union among brass, steel jand metal workers.” This seems perfectly horrible to the bosses’ paper. The observation comes at the end of columns spent in describing the unemployment meeting yesterday hefore the gates of the Seovill factory, which was at- tacked by the police, and two 9 ganizers, Rose Ross and George F t arrested. Overgaard to Speak. They exposing conditions in calling on the workers to organize, and inviting them to a mass meeting | leafle factory, were distributing a the at Garden Hall, Feb. 20, at (Continued on Page Tso) 7.39 ALL UNIONS GALL TO TAG DAY AID Build Strike Struggle i Fund Today, Tomorrow William Z. Foster, general secre- tary of the Trade Union Unity League, just returned from the So- viet Union, has issued a statement concerning the effort of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union to raise a strike and struggle fund. “Every militant worker must do his utmost to help the National Tex- tile Workers Union who were the first ones to lead the workers of the South into the revolutionary trade-union movement. The Red International of Labor Unions has (Continued on Page Two) ‘Four Held For Trial ' for Washington Meet; Campaign to Continue | WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Four workers in this city as well as thru-|This company union outfit is now| members of the Young Communist out the country are forced to work |trying to force the bosses’ conditions League, Helen Colodnoy, Edith Bris- under the sweat-shop conditions. “The fascist unions, under the leadership of the fake progressive Musteites, the yellow socialist mis- leaders, are working hand in glove with the bosses and, the capitalist ters and for the 40-hour week. The affiliated to the Trade Union Unity |state government to'further enslave | League is carrying on a campaign the needle trades workers. The ‘cloak makers are slaving under an |ganized needle trades workers. The jagreement concluded by the Schles- tens of thotisands of necdle trades |inger clique of the sompany union. j}of work upon the dressmakers. The | members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Cap and Millinery Workers are equally “en- | joying” the “‘statesmanship” of Hil- man and Zaritsky, which resulted in | greater back-breaking speed-up, and reorganizations through which hun- dreds and thousands of workers were thrown into the streets and are fac- (Continued on Page Two) | coe, Sidney Shostick, and Morris Duchitiski were released, and four members of the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League were held on $10 bail yesterday here | When their hearing came up in police }court. Those held are Sol Harper, | Negro worker! G. W. Carter, Negro | worker; William Lewrence and Na- hye Briscoe. Trial is set for Feb. 24. CHICAGO POLICE ATTACK JOBLESS | Unemployed Fighting For Work or Wages CHICAGO, 21.—After two overflow unemployment mass meetings in the loop dis- * trict, Chicago’s central busi- |ness section, ten thousand | workers participated in a dem- | onstration at the City Hall in | spite of hundreds of police dis- | patched to break up the dem- onstration. | When the police attacked the | workers, swinging their night sticks, the workers fought back. Over a dozen known arrests were made, at this hour the exact number being uncertified. The police admit that this demon- stration exceeded the demonstration | which protested the execution of | Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Another unemployment mass meeting is scheduled for February 26at Musicians Hall, Adams and Halsted Streets, The workers, both the employed and unemployed, both at meetings and in the demonstrations, show a militant spirit in the struggle for (Continued on Page Two) MASS PICKETING AT THE BENROD ‘Many Join Strike; One Jailed; Women Beaten The Benrod Cafeteria at 26th St. nd 7th Ave. was called on strike erday by the Cafeteria Work- Union which is in an organiza- tion drive. Thousands of workers left the place and demonstrated in front when th aware that the strike was on. A militant pick- eting demonstration took place. The | boss alleges it did him $1,500 dam- age “plus an undetermined number of unpaid checks.” This cafeteria is the Monroe Cafeteria on 35th St. | between 7th and 8th Aves. which ‘has also been struck by the Cafe- teria Workers’ Union. The police and courts as in all cases came to (Continued on Page Two) ers were connected with 15 Days For Giving Workers Leaflets; To Greet Newark 9 Four workers were arrested to- day at Carteret, N. J., for distribut- ing shop bulletins in the heart of the industrial section. Each was sentenced to pay'a fine of $15 or serve a term of 15 days, the New ; York branch of the International Labor Defense was informed. The vorkers were Steve Nagy, John | Nagy, Paul Pustag and Vincentino | Mario. They were defended in |court by the ILD attorney, Isser- man. The nine Newark workers who face a prison term of twenty years under the New Jersey sedition laws and who were released today on $3,- 000 bail each, will be greeted by j several thousand New York work- jers Thursday, February 27, at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., on the second day of the In- ternational Labor Defense bazaar. John Porter will be greeted at the ! bazaar the opening night, Feb, 26, jand the Newark workers on the } 27th. RAILROAD FIRES 400, MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Feb. 20.— |The Ontario and Western Railroad has just laid off 400 workers, This is 75 per cent of the labor force in | the shops. t ‘"