The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1930, Page 1

Borah Spits in the Face Workers—7,000,000 of He Demands the Soviet Government Shall Kowtow to the Kulaks and Priests Exchange for Recognition by the Wall Street Government. the Jobless—When of American Them in Square. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing «@p-»,, 5 New York City, N. Y. EW YORK, MONDAY, What to Do About Unem- ployment on March 6th. Already tens of thousands of workers in the United States are’ on she move against unemployment. In most of the big cities have al- ready occurred militant demonstrations which have broken through the efforts of the police to suppr them, as well as through the wall of silence which the capitalist press tries to build around this “scan- dal” of the American capitalist system. Most important of all, the demonstrations which have thus far oceurred are having the effect of building up the confidence of the American workers in their own ability to de something about the terrible situation in which they are placed. All these demonstrations have the cumulative effect of swelling the great demonstration which will take place in all capitalist coun- tries at the same time on the sixth day of. March. It is of the utmost importance that the demonstration of March 6 shall mobilize not only tens but hundreds of thousands of workers and give such an impetus to the movement as will make it impossible for the capitalist class to ignore or supp! the masses of unemployed victims of the capitalist system into quiet, hopeless starvation, thereby cotidemning at the same time more millions of employed workers to further wage-cuts, speed-up and discharge from the factories to swell _ the ranks of the unemployed army. To make the demonstration of March 6 effective, it is necessary that there be no mistake or division in understanding what is to he done on March 6. Are these to be demonstrations of the unemployed workers alone? Absolutely no! The March 6 demonstration must be a demonstration of the employed workers from within every factory, mine, mill and workshop together with the unemployed. It must be a huge demon- stration of the working class against unemployment. The call to the unemployment demonstration is to all workers inside the shops as well as outside. Workers who are now employed must not forget that they are equally interested in the matter of unemployment, even if the effects are momentarily not so severe upon them as upon their millions of unemployed brothers and sisters. We must net forget that there is a certain kind of “demonstration of unemployed” every day at the fac- tory gate—a tremendous line-up of workers begging for jobs. And the employers do not fail to use this kind of “unemployment demon- stration” against the workers in the shops. The workers in the shops are every day told to accept wage-cuts because if they don’t “there are plenty more outside.” Every day the workers in the shops are being whipped up to a back-breaking speed-up by the superintendents who have only to point to the jobless workers waiting at the gate and to say to the employed workers, “If you can’t stand the speed, there are plenty more at the gate who can.” This use of the unemployed to break down the standards of living of the workers in the shops is playing havoc with the employed work- ers as well as the unemployed. Not only does it immediately tend to break down the standard of wages and conditions inside the factory, Aut itenablés the” bosses to ‘throw Still more millions out’ of “employ- ment and thus to make the whole situation werse for the workers all around, One of the biggest factors in the present capitalist ration- alization (speed-up, wage-cuts, etc.) is {he use of the unemployed workers as a means of pressure against the employed. The unemployed demonstration is the affair of the millions of workers who are now tramping the streets in the hopeless search for jobs! But it is just as much the affair of the workers in the shops fas the workers outside the shops. It is the affair of every woman worker, every housewife of our class, of every young worker and every child of workers. Every worker in the shop must stay away from work on Thursday, March 6, and come to the unemployment demonstration. All out! The question of unemployment is the central question before the working class today, but not as an isolated question! It is closely connected with the matter of organizing the unorganized millions of workers in the shojfs. Every class conscious worker must understand his duty to join in the drive for organizing the new militant trade unions led by the Trade Union Unity League. In this time of mass un- employment this is more important than ever before. The workers in the shops must be organized into militant unions in order to resist the pressure of the bosses, in order to resist.the speed-up and wage-cuts, in order to resist the discharge of more hundreds of thousands of workers. It is an old reactionary superstition, found among the bureaucrats | of the A, F. of L. and even among some militant workers to the eff that “you cannot organize the unorganized at a time of unemployment.” Experience shows that this is absolutely false at the present time. The revolutionary industrial unions can and will be built now, in the com- ing months, to enormous proportions. Literally tens of thousands of workers in every big industrial community are not only ready but demanding to be organized, This is true among the Negro workers to an extent never before seen. With the sharpening class struggle, with the unprecedented drive against the working class living standards and the tremendous demonstrations of willingness of the workers not only to resist this drive but also to go over into the counter-offensive, it would be nothing less than complete surrender to say that “the unor- ganized cannot be organized in a time of unemployment.” The unemployed demonstration on March 6 must therefore be made also a tremendous drive for the organization of the unorganized—the building of the new revolutionary industrial unions under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. What does the capitalist class offer as “remedy” for the capitalist business crisis, unemployment, ete? The further speedup in the fac- tories—fewer workers doing more work! The discharge of more tens of thousands of workers! Still more severe wage-cuts (up to 20 per cent and more!) And—rapid preparations for another imperialist war— this time a “holy war” led by the Wall Street government against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! (The preparation of this war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is the only ‘“accom- plishment” of the present “limitation of armaments” conference at London.) The demonstration of March 6 must be directed against the effotts of the capitalist class to throw the burden of the crisis of the capitalist system upon the workers—and especially against the criminal interna- tional conspiracy to “solve” the crisis by an imperialist war against the Workers’ Republic of the Soviet Union. The workers must fight against the capitalist program and for the working class program. Our whole class, employed and unemployed, organized and unorganized, workers in the new revolutionary unions | and workers now within the old unions of the A. F. of L., must dem- | onstrate for these demands which express the needs of the working | class. We demamd social insurance against unemployment. We de- mand the seven-hour day and the five-day week—with no wage cuts! The workers who come to these demonstrations must, to meet their prob- lems, immediately form committees of employed and unemployed work- ers for the struggle against unemployment. Unemployed councils must be built in every industrial community, composed always of employed , as well as unemployed workers, and these must be linked together into | a powerful organization, covering the entire country. ir Make the demonstration on March 6 the biggest expression of class solidarity and determination to struggle ever witnessed in this country! Wat: Grater Bag ies oi tion tae tte senate Syndicalist Laws “The Du. state of Delaware. The Du Pont ‘chapter, No. 78, of the National So- WILMINGTON, Del., Feb, 23.— journers, composed of army offi- Du Pont, manufacturer of gunpow- cers, went on record “favoring the der and munitions that wiped out nassage of sedition laws, the restric- pis chie of workers’ lives in the tion of immigrat from Mexico | Wor War, has his publicity menjand Latin Ameri countries, BORAH AIDS HOOVER IN “R MASS PIGKETING Mobilizing for Unemp! loyed Struggle i ‘TOMORROW IN GARMENT SHOPS Fighting Food Workers| Call Their Members to | Aid N eedle Workers Courts, Thugs United ‘Unions Join Fight for | 40 Hour Week Workers’ organizations continue to pledge full participation in the | picketing demonstration in the gar- | ment center tomorrow morning, for he 40-hour week and against the | gangsters of the bosses and the In- | ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- | ers (the company union). Already the shoe, textile, and |+ many other unions, the Trade Union Unity League, the Communist Par- | ty, and many more have proclaimed | their intention to take part, andj called on all workers to join in the | mass picketing. | : ne se Bi Wiskare | Philadelphia Unemployment Coun- Yesterday food-workers of all | ing for «a ‘crafts, organized and unorganized,) demonstration on world unemploy- and their wives and families were} ment day, March 6, to demand Work 4 Wages. Scenes of the mass protest dem- onstratt® held in front of the Philadelphia City Hall on Friday, Feb. 21 at noon, organized by the Trade Union Unity League and the International Labor Defense to protest and fight against the beating up of workers at a pre- vious demonstration of jobless. The cil is mobil monster FEBRUARY 24, 1930 ELIGIOUS” ANT . 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTI Outside n Philadelphia ant Oil Merger : to Fight British for World Markets NEW YORK, —A billion- | jdollar merger of the Standard Oil summoned to join forces with other | ‘ militant workers for Tuesday’s dem- CELEBRATE RED“ {Co. of New York and the Vacuum | Jonstration for the 40-hour week, Show Growing W ar on &. tagfight for cpntrol of the | ‘against the fake “union” settle- j ments of the boss-controlled I. L. ~ Danger om USSR ~ Words meFkets “agains toreign’ oil ombines, particularly .against the G. W. U,, in a call issued today by Sam Weissman, secretary of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria |British Royal Dutch group, will go | jinto effect as soon as the ea Workers’ Union. The mass-march danger of imperialist attacks on the} o¢ the conrts 48 secured. Soviet Union was brought out to- a ‘i A sharp economie war betw day during the celebrations of the) standard Oil and the British Royal formation of the Red Army whieh | Dutch has been going on for a long took place on February 23, 1918. ie While the British and Ameri- Klementi Voroshiloff, head of the 2" "aval experts are fighting for R d aval supremacy at the London (on- | ed Army, pointed out that the im-/ference, the economic struggle be- | p@ialist powers throughout the/tween the two groups of robber | |world are preparing war on the U. |capitalists is growing more acute SS. R from day to day. The struggle for, | of workers under leadership of the | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union begins at 7:30 o’clock Tues- |day morning at 35th St. and 8th Ave. | “Food workers are fighting...the | (Continued on Page Two) WEET TO FIGHT ~LYNGHING PLANS \Negro, White Workers Assemble Tonight 99 MOSCOW, Feb. ‘The growing | Greenwall, At St. Lukes Hall, 125 West 130th | St., at 4 to 9 p. m. tonight, hundreds of workgrs, Negro and white, are to protest the vicious and brutal lynch- ing of Laura Woods, a 60-year-old Negro woman worker at Barber Junction, N. C., Feb. 11. The meet- ing is being held under the auspices of the International Labor Defense and will be the third held since the “Never since the end of the Kol-|oil is not the least important phase | chak-Denikin - imperialist invasions |in this war. have the hostile activities of the | imperialists assumed such mae BICK h LEGATES | | e tions as at the present moment,” de- clared Voroshiloff. “The imperialists, fascists, social- fascists and the Russian White Guard emigres are preparing a new armed attack again: the govern- | TO TUUL MEETING | president of the A. F. of L., has/ ployment. Jcontaining 245 per cent of alcohol. Riso Sieh oe Distret of the In-|Ment of the Proletarian Dictator- | ternational Labor Defense organized | pee ey edie italic oe ‘Workers Organizations a special committee which secured) M 7 El Th et 7 k the thai’ with which the weman| (Continued on Page Three) | Must Elect ‘This Wee was lynched and sent it to New York} | = = on Feb. 15. Tonight the chain will| |be shown to the workers of New |York as a clear exhibition of the! threat to leave the one-level grade | Le@sue less than a week off, plans TO KEEP ROAD CROSSINGS. | With the convention of the Metro- | kind of justice workers of the South| crossings as they are and to kill the |@%¢ being speeded to make this con- M, Daniclou, Minister of Merehant| Commonwealth |vention truly representative, and one | that will establish on a firm basis a strong revolutionary trade union center in the Metropolitan Area that will co-ordinate all the economic | struggles of the workers. | All militant trade unions, progres- sive groups in the reactionary unions, unemployed workers, shops | and factories—men and women, Ne- | gro and white, adult and yout are urged to eleet delegates at once | jare being given by the capitalist | usual number on them fan indefi- | class. |nite time t come is the answer of Thousands of Lynchings. the railroad executives protesting Among the speakers will be Sol|the Gates-Dunmore bill now; in the (Continued on Page Two) legislature. Needle Workers’ Demonstration Tuesday Morning! We urge all workers to respond to the call of the Trade Union Unity League to come en’ masse to the garment center (Eighth Ave. between 35th and 36th Sts.) Tuesday morning at 7:30. Demonstrate in support of the needle workers in their struggle with the combined | and send in their names to the) bosses, police and social-fascists! Demonstrate against the outrageous |T.U.U.L., 13 West 17th St. betrayal, the sell-out agreement recently made through the fake strike | of the company union. , Defend the 40-hour week which has been sold out by the company union of the A. F. of L. Fight to organize the unorganized needle,wgorkers in the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union! Against the company union, the so-called I. L. G. W., the police, and courts’ protection of company gangsters and imprisonment and persecution of the needle workers! Show your class solidarity! Needle Workers! All workers! Be in the garment center. at 7:30 sharp Tuesday morning. . The convention will open next Sat- |urday, March 1, at 2 p. m., in Irv- jing Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, jand continue Sunday. The first day | will be taken up with industrial con- \ferences. The T.U.U.L. has just jissued a call to all laundry workers, | both organized and unorganized, for jthe conference of their industry on Saturday, at 4 p.m. Calls have also jbeen issued to other industrial | groups. Unemployment. Unemployment and defense of the Green “roposes Beer svt Un lB tw of he as Jobless Relief! «" overwhelmingly successful confer- ence on unemployment held by the 'T.U.U.L. last Wednesday shows the | growth of the mass fight against starvation being led by the Unity Unemployed Want Work qr Wages; Not 2.75 Beer League. The convention will make plans for broadening t® fight and COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 23.—Wil-; He actually proposes this futile and fo" mibilizing tens of thousands of liam Green, imperialist today and| picayunne idea as a cure for unem- | Workers in the Metropolitan Area (Continued on Page Two) devised a fake issue in order to side- step the growing mass struggle for instead of permitting the workers | unemployment relief. | to increase their struggle for unem-| Strike-breaker Green, in a letter! ployment insurance. | to Gearge W. Wickersham, chairman| Green favors the Community slop | of President Hoover’s Law Enforce-! chests, charity fakers, and 2.75 per ment Commission, urges the govern- | cent alcoholic beer instead of a de- ment to permit manufacture of beer termined fight by the workers for i Continued on Page Three) Anything, in fact, Green implies, | CALL TO PARTY MEMBERS All members of the Communist Party, New York City, must re- | port at 2 p. m. this afternoon at .| the Workers Center, 26 Union Sq.. fourth floor for tasks which will he announced at the inceting. o | | Union might be WAR MANEUVERS ON IN LONDON Secret Conferences at Navy Meet BULLETIN. LONDON, Feb. 23.—H. J. special correspondent for the capitalist’ Daily Express declared tonight that the five- power naval conference had com- pletely collapsed. “The conference is closing down until 1935,” he wrote. “My statement probably will be denied by the official spokesman for the British delegation, but it nevertheless is a fact. * +s LONDON, Feb. 23.—The imperial- ist delegates at the race-for-arm- ament conference are awaiting the arrival of the new French delega- LSOVIET WAR DRIVE © SENDS CABLE PROTEST ~ TO MOSCOW IN BEHALF OF U. S. IMPERIALISI Fake “Progressive” Does Dirty Work fo Hoover; Protest Linked With Recognition Bai | |Unemployed Millions of America the Force Noy Demanding Recognition of Soviet Union WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Again, as in Nicaraguan ir tervention, Senator Borah steps forward to do the dirty wor’ of the Wall Street Hoover government, this time in the “rel gious” war preparation against the Soviet Union, “unofficially” arrying out the plans of U. S. imperialism for interventior e : ’which the State Departmer HOOVER HOOEY jcoyly says it cannot do, be | cause the “problems concerne: ON EMPLOYMENT are strictly Russian interne questions.” The state department, having got |ten the worst of it in the impuden intervention move of Secretar; Stimson on the Chin Easter? { Railway affair, and needing a mor |crafty approach to the new maneu A ver to stick its mailed fist in Sovie *~ | affairs, was helped out Saturday b; |Senator Borah cabling the Sovie | Government a protest over the al Hoover is back in Washington | leged “religious persecutions.” Thi and announces “all’s well with capi- lis Borah’s way of helping the anti- talism.” This is not a new pose of | Soviet war propaganda. |the imperialist chief and his fellow While the Borah cable was no | Wall Street politicians. While feel-| made public by him, on the excuse jing the economic ground shifting be-| that it was a “diplomatic incident” |neath their feet, they did not let it} which the American masses have no leffect their tongues. |business knowing, it is openly re- | But for the 7,000,000 unemployed | ported that Borah, in the cable, |the actual facts of te growing and| tried to use the “rcligious” issue sharpening crisis are of more im-|as a club against the Soviet Union, portance than the syrupy words of |cautiously and, of course, “unoffi- lying capitalists. The main object | cially” holding out with the other Jof the Hooverian optimism is to al-| hand the hint of recognition of the llay the growing militancy of all | Soviet Government by the U. S. im- |workers resisting wage cuts and dig- | Perialist_ government. \ging in for a determined fight for}; Borah, who always plays the role unemployment insurance. of fake “opposition” to the imper- Reports are now in for automo- | (Continued on Page Two) | |bile production for January, 1930, | mag Ray ae Te | These figures show there was a de- ‘cline of 32 per cent in auto output MOBILIZE FOR below January of 1929. Here is an| lactual example of the “optimism” | of the capitalists and the accom-| |plished fact. The auto bosses dur- | ling December declared that the |slump in auto production would be | |liquidated in January because orders |Cal] M:< /for new automobiles obtained at the | [December automobile shows were | beyond all expectations. | | On the basis of automobile pro-|_ The duction alone it is clearly evident | imperialist “Building Program” Colossal Failure ass Meeting for March 16 The protest movement against the propaganda campaign tion which is expected to arrive that at least 32 per cent of all auto- against the Soviet Union is growing. Wednesda: |mobile workers were jobless during phe Friends of the Soviet Union is The French delegation, if the Jeu Sate Aa than |MObilizing tens of thousands of Chautemps government is confirm- oo tant that the cathe se eitainn workers throughout the country to edifin’ the Chamber Gf Denitaes, will | One, © c8ct TREY PRE enHiEg Conte ot cous asHation Uf Gh consist of Camille Chautemps, the|Press tries to hide by silen bee ee oe new premier, Foreign Minister! Briand, Albert Sarraut, Ministér of | Marine, and chief author of the moureux, Minister of Finance, and Marine. Meanwhile, the British, American and Japanese delegates are not idle. There go on interminable secret con- ferences, maneuvers, flottings and war preparations. While the mention of the Soviet officially absent rom the capitalist press reports, it is none the less certain that the attacke on the Soviet Union, being engineered by American imperialism with strong support by British, French, German and other capitalist | governments, take up a large part| of the informal conversations be. | tween the imperialist representa- | tives. | ALK to your fellow worker in | your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every Namely, that the Hoover promised building program is the most cor plete flop of the entire capital ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 23.—A flat Politan Area Trade Union Unity | present French demands; M. La-| Scheme for overcoming the crisis. The most recent report of by the Pennsylvapia jshows how drastically building has | toct demon declined—despite the fact that the (Continued on Page Three.) « gales es Today in History of the Workers _ February 24, 1840—Frost, Will- iams, Jones and other leaders of English Chartist movement for political democracy deported to Van Diemen’s Land. 1906—First Reformist Labor Party candidate elected to Canadian Parliament. 1919—Western Union telegraph- ers locked out in Florida in at- tempt to crush union. 1919—15,- 000 Brooklyn shoe workers locked out. 1922—American Federation | Executive Council adopted resolu- | tion against obeying injunctions in day for a week. Then ask him to ! labor disputes, but never did any- become a regular subscriber. thing to put it into effect. Cleveland Jobless March Shows Needs of Strugg] What the Workless Teach Us in the Fight for Work or Wages By FRANK HENDERSON. The demonstration of the *®000 Cleveland unemployed workers has brought to the surface many in- teresting and important facts. Let us consider some of them: The Demonstration: The mob- ilization of the large mass of work- ers and the consequent militant fight on the steps of the City Hall against the brutality of the police shows clearly the fighting mood of | correctness of the program of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party on the question of unemployment. The capitalist press commenting on the fight between the police and the unemployed states it was the “worst since May, 1919." The an- gry mass of workers made even the police hesitate. Police captains had’ Pom hts | priests, rabbis and “socialists” who Jare doing the work of their capital- jist masters in inciting war against the first Workers’ Peasants’ Repub- lic. Plans aie going forward for pro- strations in various pirts jof the country. In New York City a huge mass meeting will be held in |Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx |River, on Sunday, March 16, at 2 jP. m. This is the ¢ay when Bishop ; Manning h invited all denomina- tions to join in prayer services far |the counter-revolutionary emissaries of god who have been caught red- j handed working with the kulaks. and |nepmen. for the overthrow of the | Soviet Government or the thwarting of the gigantic Five-Year Plan of | Socialist Construction, Another organization has joined jthe many militant groups that have {expressed their support of the |Friends of the Soviet Union and |have called upon their members to |participate in ‘he Mareh 16 demon- \stration. This is the 75hn Reed Club, te organization of revolutionary |writers and artis's, which, in addi- |tion to endorsing the mass meeting, has issued an appeal to all American |writers, artists, scientists and edu- jcate pointing out the real signifi- jcance of the “holy crusade” against |the Soviet Union and urging them to use their influence to counteract this |vicious propaganda. The Friends of the Soviet Union jis also making plans for its Metro- |Politan Area conference on Thurs- (day, March 18, at 8 p. m., at Man- {hattan “yceum, 65 East Fourth St. :the workers and effectiveness and | This conference, in addition to mak- jing final plans for the March 16 demonstration, aims to establish strong F.S.U. branches in the shops and factortes. All shops and fac- jtories, as well 2 working-class or- | ganizations, are asked to elect dele+ | gates to this conference. i Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a MContinued on Page Three) _ Worker Correspondents "atin