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| DAILY WORK NEW YOrx, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1930 Page Three THIS TELLS YOU WHY IMPERIALISM CALLED ON HEAVEN FOR HELP Peasantry of Enormous Areas Turn Solidly to, ~ Collective Farming MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Press Service).—Up to the 27th of Janu- ary, 34 whole yillages, embracing about 5,000 farshs in the Sarvansk district in Soviet Georgia, had gone over to the collective farming sys- tem, in other words, about 65 per cent of the total agricultural under- takings in the district. During the last few months 50,000 small sn middle-peasant farms have been cy loctivized in Soviet Azer- baidjan, and 10,000 land workers have joined together in the collec- tives. | Fourteen administrative districts of Soviet Georgia are now compact- ly collectivized. The Struggle Against Capitalist Elements. Tn order to protect and promote the socialist development of agricul- ture the Soviet Governme=:t has de- cided to withdraw the law permit- ting the employment of paid-labor power on farms and the leasing of land. The withdrawal applies at present only to those districts where complete collectivization is under way. The local authorities have also been empowered to take such meas- ures against the kulaks as seem fit, including if necessary the confisca- tion of their property and their ex- pulsion from the district. Such con- SHANGHAI.—Reports from Shantung Province show that the anti-Christian movement is very ac- tive, particularly against the mis- sionary schools, These are in a difficult situation. They cannot run without govern- ment registration. Registration is » possible only on their agreement not to compel their students to attend | religious services, Unless such attendance is en- forced, however, the Chinese pupils will not be converted to Jesus. If not converted to Jesus the mission- aries have no results to show their big business supporters in America or other countries. No converts means no more funds from abroad and that, of course, means an end _ to the missionary business here. There is little doubt that the ma- jority of Chinese who attend these missionary schools do so purely in in the Soviet Union New Steps to Eliminate Kulaks As a Class As| Drive For Socialism Sweeps City and Land fiseated property will be |realized first of all to pay any debts left by the kulaks to the states, ete., and jthen for the benefit of the collecti- vization fund. The Presidium of the Moscow dis- trict executive committee has issued an order prohibiting private traders to handle either wholesale or retail the commodities of the state and co- operative industries, such as tex- tiles, leather, paper, metals, building materials, chemicals, electrical. ap- purtenances, glassware, wood, wire- less appurtenances, petroleum, su- gar, salt, matches, tobacco, In the Lenin anniversary days of recruiting new members for the ;Communist Party, no less than 50,- 3783 workers made application for membership of the Communist Party in the Moscow district alone. According to information issued by 10 labor unions, 32 factories and workshops in Moscow itself and four in the Moscow district have declared themselves shock detachments in the struggle for Socialism. The shock detachments in the Moscow district have about 70,000 factory workers as members. Today the new automobile assem- blage works will be opened in Nishni-Novgorod. By autumn, 1930, the works will have completed 6,000 motor lorries. Chinese, Also, Don’t Want Jesus relatively better paid clerical posi- tions with the big foreign firms in the treaty ports. ‘Four U. S. Sailors Try Desperately to Get \Away from Navy Four sailors from the United States navy were picked up by the Holland-American Line Statendam, said Capt. W. Krol. The sailors were found aboard the Statendam near Colon, Panama, and had de- serted from the miserable conditions in the navy. When they neared the New York port they escaped from the ship’s brig and attempted to swim ashore, but were picked up again by the Statendam and will be turned over to the navy authorities. order to prepare themselves for the Long jail sentences await the men. Party Members! ATTENTION Party Units! Party Districts ? Your Central Organ MUST PARTICIPATE in all Unemployed Demonstrations Read and Act! No unemployed demonstration is complete politically, agitationally, organizationally, unless the Daily Worker participates. District offices, in cooperation with Daily Worker representatives, must organize groups of comrades who will sell and distribute the Party central organ to employed and unemployed workers who are mobilized for these demonstrations. The Daily Worker publishes daily valuable news and information about the capitalist crisis and the movement of unemployed workers for Work or Wages, social insurance, ete. This news must reach ALL WORKERS at factory gates, in house to house sales and distributions. Party member must me the task of selling ten to fifty copies of the Daily Worker in his shop, in his neighborhood. Every Party District must organize to reach tens of thousands of workers with tens of thousands of copies of the Daily Worker. WE WILL ISSUE EDITIONS OF THIS PAPER TO REACH ALL UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATIONS The West Coast Edition Dated March 1st y The Midwestern Edition Dated March 3rd The East Coast Edition Dated March 5th Comrades in all cities, large and small, should send in their orders at once, by mail or telegraph. Orders received for the Daily Worker will be outstanding proof that you participated fully in the unemployed demonstrations. No order from you will indicate decided shortcomings in your Communist tasks. $1.00 PER HUNDRED COPIES $8.00 PER THOUSAND COPIES Remittance must come forward with order to enable us to publish the tens of thousands of copies that the Party everywhere will order. Baily Ws Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY t CLEVE. JOBLESS . ‘Lessons in Fight for Work or Wages | (Continued from Page One) |to force policemen into the fight. It was only after the entire police ; force and the fire department were |ealled into action that the police | succeeded in dispersing the fighting | workers. After a half hour of fighting six | workers and two policemen were taken to the hospital. Scores re- ceived minor bruises and injuries. | Several policemen were without coats which were torn off by the |women workers during the fight. ‘The huge protest meeting on the {Public Square immediately after , the fight showed that the workers could not be terrorized into submis- sion. The “Socialist” Party: It took the socialist party only two days after the demonstration to participate. And how? Although there is no visible signs of the socialist party in Cleveland— its puppets—the YPSL barks the true tune of its mother. The YPSL held its “study circle” a few days after the demonstration to discuss the unemployment situation. Its of- ficials were instructed to write and pass a resolution condemning the Communists and the workers for eee the police and breaking the law. When the question was asked at the meeting of the YPSL who would volunteer to write such a resolution —nobody volunteered. Finally the chairman appointed a young girl to write the resolution condemning the unemployed demonstration. This caused considerable arguments which resulted in the girl’s resignation from the YPSL. As she left the hall she said: “I will not condemn the workers for fighting for their rights. I refuse to write the resolution and will re- sign from your organization.” The resolution was referred to a special committee. This shows the role of the socialists and their off- spring—the YPSL—the yellow ban- ners of the betrayers of the work- ing class. The A. F. of L.: The unemployed workers gather daily at th- Public Square to hear the speakers of the Communist Party and TUUL. The A. F. of L. officials attempted to speak to the workers on Feb. 19. What happened? The workers drove the A. F. of L. speaker from the rostrom. The workers hurled questions at the speaker. “What about the sell- outs, the present strike in Ohio of ‘|the miners and the A. F. of L, in- structing workers to scab on the National Miners’ Union and the strikers. What about the war and war preparations. What about the organization of the unorganized and the unemployed?” These workers would not permit the A. F. of L. to speak—to mis- lead. The A. F. of L. is what the workers termed it—the Fakeration of Labor. The Police—Note the preparations of the police department to smash the unemployment demonstrations on March 6. (1) Order for an addition to the radio squad. Newly equipped emergency cars with radio and— tear gas bombs and tear guns, riot guns, sawed up shotguns and a large supply of ammunition. (2) A change in the telephone system of the police department. Secret wires to differ- ent parts of the city, etc. (3°. Ap- pearance of the mounted police on the streets. These police were usu- ally ordered out after warm weather. Never at this early date. This all shows the preparations of the police department to break up the demon- strations on March 6. Armed Forces—Definite instruc- tion to riot duty have been given to the National Guard and orders to prepare for an emergency call were given at the last practice drill. Charities and Holy Rollers—These have also been called into action to attempt to pacify and satisfy the hungry workers. These have ap- peared on the Public Square to of- fer coffee and dry bread to the unemployed. This fake relief lasted only one day. The second day the workers were asked to pray and be- lieve that help would come from heaven. The psalm singers and pub- licity sec‘xers have also been driven from the Public Square rostrom by the workerg. The Communist Party and Young Communist League—The Communist Party calls all workers, unemployed and employed, to demonstrate against the police brutality at the unemployment demonstration—for a gigantic demonstration on March 6. Protest meetings have been held in all parts of the city, and mobiliza- tion meetings are bcing held for the mass demonstration on March 6. Workers are joining the Commu- nist Party and Young Communist League. The quota for the Y.C.L. has already filled its quota. The Party is near the top in its recruit- ing campaign. Throughout the state, despite at- tacks and lies of the state, police and all anti-labor elements, the workers are following and respond- ing to the call of the Communist Party for a struggle against the bosses and their government. In Cleveland all indicates that there will be a huge demonstration of workers/on Jnternational Unem- HOOVER Hoo “Building Program” A Colossal Failure | (Continued from Page One) tates have increased their budgets |for public work. A few more “in- jereases” of this type, however, and |there will be no building work what- jever. The Pennsylvania records of building permits issued January, 1930, are the lowest for all time. Value of permits issued during January in Pennsylvania amounted to $4,874,024, as compared with $21,- | 645,470 in January of 1929. Th ja decrease of $16,771,446, or |per cent! | It was precisely in the industrial centers where the slump was sharp- jest. For instance, the report fpr Phila- delphia states: “Of the 27 cities and boroughs re- jlast year, Philadelphia headed the list with a reduction of nearly $14,- |500,000. The building total for |Philadelphia dropped from $17,161,- 370 for January, 1929, to $2,719,925 \for January, 1930, a decrease of | $14,441,445, or 84,2 per cent.” Nor 1s Pennsylvania an isolated jinstance. The drop in building con- struction is widespread. Congress Discovers It. The growing unemployment and the increasing militancy of the job- less in demanding unemployment re- lief is becoming a regular topic of discussion in the capitalistic con- gre: On February 18 Representative Byrns, of Nashville, Tenn., stated in a speech in the House, that there is indisputable proof of a serious unemployment situation in the United States. The proof must be overwhelming for a capitalist politi- cian to admit “serious unempioy- ment.” Byrns, who, of course, us the misery of the workers as a poli! cal football, pointed out the obvious lies of Hoover and D: He saii “Secretary Davis admitted that there were more than 3,000,000 workers out of jobs after the stock market crash last fall. It was ‘un- usual and significant,’ especially for to even admit there is any unem- ployment at all under the adminis- tration. It creates the suspicion that ‘conditions are much more serious than they are officially admitted to be?” He pointed out several other facts showing drastic unemployment. He said that in 51 factories in Toledo, Ohio, there were at present 25,663 workers employed, compared with 48,111 in the same plants a year ago. Why the C. S. Law in Mich.? He quoted Governor Green | Michigan, appearing at a Spanish House Committee on January 28, as having said that he had never seen conditions as bad as they are now in Michigan. Dozens of capitalist politicians have pointed out that the growing mass demonstrations, particularly those which have, taken place in Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Pontiac, Boston, elsewhere show the workers mean business when they demand work or wages. There is method in the madness of these capitalist politicians in their sudden honesty in pointing out growing unemployment. But the method bodes no good for the work- ers. Many of these politicians are coming up for re-election in No- vember and want to get the votes of proportion of the working-class population of the country. ‘It will be these politicians that will unite yith the A. F. of L. mis- leaders. ae the unemployed workers. What is necessary is the strengthening of the Unemployed Councils as powerful organizations, uniting the struggles of the unem- ployed with the employed in fighti wage cuts, speed-up, ete., and prep: rations not only for the monster world demonstration on March 6, for work or wages, but a deepening and \continuation of the fight after that date until relief is forced from the capitalist state. the vourgeols age, 4 by this—that it clase antagenisms. . woclety jm 4 two great hostile camps, great and directly contra- up into two powed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letarint-—Marx. ——— ployment day. The workers are saying in every corner of the world not only hungry but angry—and we will fight rather than starve! (Editorial Note—The above arti- cle, excellent, though it be in detail- ing the changing of forces in the struggle for the demands of the un- employed, would be vastly improved if the comrade had told us what is being done to organize the Trade Union Unity League, which is the mass organization directing and or- ganizing the struggle. Perhaps it is not the fault of the writer, but of the comrades carrying on the fight in neglecting the T.U.U.L.) Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! et 5 | porting building declines for Janu- | ary, 1930, as compared with January | a member of the President’s Cabinet, | FY | gis WORKERS ~ CORRESPONDENCE -FROM TH i moos MINER PICKETS SHOW NEED FOR ON EMPLOYMENT FORI WORKERS, FIGHT | BIG STRUGGLE HIT BY FACTS | UNEMPLOYMENT AND SPEED-UP! ORGANIZE! Ford in Chester Lays Thousands Off As Part of “Raise in Wages” Plan | {Both Employed and Unemployed Will Make | | Themselves Heard March 6 | | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | prod KEARNEY, N. J.—As a result of | the new workers’ brigade system in- | troduced by General Superintendent Hoffman at the Ford plant here there were three pushers for each 49. But the number of the men in ch gang has already been reduced | |from seven to five. And they won’t stop here, unless we organize. Every day they are firing more |men here; every day they hire new |! men. |, It’s the Auto Workers Union we | The purpose of this new system is: | must organize in. Speed the worker and make more | —FORD SLAVE. ion. Fire $7 a day men and hire new | men at $6. | Fire workers continually in order | to get more production from them | who remain at job, to make them | afraid to lose job, too. | To prevent the workers from or- ganizing. But only by organizing can we stop the speed-up and also fight Ford Pits Kearney Workers Against Each Other (By a Worker Correspondent.) You might think he brought some KEARNEY, N. J.—Mr. Hoffman, | new machinery, No, he simply i general manager of the Ford plants, | troduced the so-called workers’ bri- Jis back in Kearney again, and why? | gade system. |T'll tell you why. Before, while the belt was in mo- Two weeks ago he visited and tion, the workers were placed on found that there were too many |the left and right of the belt. Each |men, and the number must be re-/| worker used to do his own job, but duced; the jobs weren’t good enough | Hoffman changed that. for him, and the daily number of | cars produced must be increased. |. zi OS a After this he left the plant. The |alled apart and peeeyaeesy bis % i A i _ given a pusher. super called the boss of the con-/ Fmd struction department and said, 1/°°" want 60 cars per hour. | Now they have put one gang |''So Ford's factory here was|@gainst the other. The pushers do \changed to a real c house. |Not work, but if his gang is left [Bosses shouted, pushers shouted, all | behind he is fired. ve |curses were d. Fire workers| We at Kearney’s must join the leverywhere, right and left. The|Auto Workers Union. We must | point that Hoffman wanted was not |form shop committees to be led by reached, so he is back again. This |that union, eae time he got what he wanted. | —KEARNE YFORD SLAVE. How Ford Slaves Are Selected | (By a Worker Correspondent) the United States, married, where KEARNEY, N. J.—Heard Ford’s | you live, ete. were hiring men at the Kearney} Out of about 500 he picked out | plant, and I went there in the morn- | about 20, if that much. ing. Hundreds of men had to wait| All the time there are plenty of about a quarter of a mile outside of | police close to the Ford plant to the plant. act against the unemployed if they The superintendent came out every | grow militant. once in a while and wéuld pick out| The line stays there all day long. Jone man at a time. He was always| The jobless workers should not let laccompanied by a cop. The other themselves be treated like sheep, but |workers would then be swept aside | should show fighting spirit. Above |by the cop and superintendent. all they should organize under the y-offs. | At the polish line all men were | Fe WN MouNDSVILLE e lLewis’ Brother Given | Price of His Treason wa Bags (Continued fre coal operators, and tempt to drive the pic | public highway at and Powhatan yesterday. * . ers of America, director of the sta Workers in Briggs body and Fisher auto plants describe the | slavery at the belt. Photo above ustrates this slavery shows workers mounting bodies the belt in a Ford plant. The message | of the auto worker correspondents { who write to the Daily is, “Auto : | workers, join the Auto Workers ; | Union, and under the Trade Union jal operators) whi | Unity League leadership, fight |8° loyally both ve ge r for the U | against specdup and lay-offs.” | Auto Workers Fight Back Police " unemployed—this slogan i | (Continued from Page veality in Geisyville where a defense guard around the speak- y miner who | ers’ platform. | piven: #1 08 $2 on pay Display Tear Gas Bombs. Workers International | A hurried call for reserve figea Meneitte fase: thavhur {sent and soon the crowd vy victimized miners and their rounded by police with the tea * « bombs erd clubs. rece of mine the was pus The militancy of sting the police and rearres of the The Workers Inter must have funds at once to pre relief for the thousand the crowd in res the hindering speaker made it “inadvisable” for | and victimized Illinois miners and the politicians to use the police ter- | the 1,500 striking miners in Mounds- |ror at this time. It took the po-| ville, W. Va. and Powt fe) | lice more than an hon: to disperse |the crowd after the meeting was | over. | Will Mobilize For March 6th. Already the authorities have made | “overtures” ty the Communist can- |didate that they will grant a per- mit for a “peaceful demonstration” on March 6th in order to avoid trou- ble before the election on April 7th.|for work or wages The answer of the Communist Party|up and wage cut | was quite clear that we will not be|of the Soviet Union, for confined to the “permissions” of the! tionary Workers’ Government. Rush find to the W.LR., 949 F | way, Room 512, New York ¢ bosses, but will mobilize the ployed and unemploye: | demonstrate on } rally to the Comr this election campaign for ganization of the workers | | The Party Organizer of | |War pension hearing before the| Philadelphia and | unemployed | the unemployed who now form a big | —we are unemployed and hungry— | The one picked is then segregated | lin the driveway. The super picks | |the huskiest out, the youngest and | ‘asks such questions as how long in! Ford Lays Off an (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa.—Several weeks jago the Trade Union Unity League | | held an open-air meeting at the gate of the Ford plant of Chester, Pa. About 300 workers listened atten- | tively to George Carter, one of the Gastonia defendants, and Ray Peltz, Section 4 organizer of the Commu- | nist Party. When the police came to arrest these workers the unem- ployed workers protected them from being beaten up by the police. | Thousands of workers have been | laid off at the Ford plant as part of the “raise in wages,” in reality, |speed-up and wage-cutting cam- paign. Simultaneously with the an- | nouncement of the so-called “dollar | |a day raise,” the Ford management \laid off a couple of thousands of iworkers. The cheme is to fire these |workers and rehire them at lower | | wages. Only some of those remain- ing, mostly the bosses and pushers, get this ingrease. When a worker | has worked in the Ford plant here for two months he is supposed to} get a raise; but he is usually fired | before the two months <xpire, so| that another’ man could be hired in| his place for lower wages. Ford is now hiring 19-year-old | young workers at 50 cents an hour, while announcing that the minimum wage in his plants is $3» day. The Celebrate Red Army | Anniversary (Continued from Page One) tries. The world’s first proletarian nation is being drenched in an ocean of lies and libels. Provoca- tions, false documents, sabotage— everything is being used against an? Newspaper articles by S. M. Bu- denny, Valerian Kuibishey of the Supreme Economie Council also point out the growing war prepara- tions by the imperialists against the Union of Socialst Soviet Republics. | They declared that the London | race-for-armament conference was a cover for military alliances and naval armaments and agreements | “principally directed against the | Soviet Union.” “Religious opium pedlers, Berlin and Paris, forgers, bandits, pogrom- makers in clerical garments and} lay clothes, are all mobilized against the first proletarian state,” said Pravda, Mass meetings took place all over the Soviet Union to honor the an- niversary of the foundation of the | the workers. | slave-pen! Trade Union Unity League, and demonstrate on March 6 against un- employment. —UNEMPLOYED WORKER. d Lies on Wages Ford workers know thet this is a Ford lie. In spite of the fact that the Ford management hung out a notice that no one shal! gather at the gates of the Ford plant and that all jobs e-1 be gotten only through letters, this being done after and because of the gate meeting held by the Trade | Union Unity League, hundreds of | be discussed in every Organization Department by eve: workers still gather at gates of this factory in the vain hope of getting a job. It is being said in this town | that the other day about 2,000 un- employed workers gathered Ford gate here; and that the “fire | and police” departments were called | Ment of the Dist out and dispersed the unemployed | workers by turning the hose upon | Such are the conditions at Henry’: The workers of the Ford plant of Chester, the employed as | well as the unemployed, are success- fully being organized into the Trade Union Unity League and Unem-} ployed Councils of this town. Workers of this Ford plant—em- ployel and unemployed join your union, the Trade Uadon Unity League and the Commusist Party, the only political party af the work- ers in the United Statas, Demonstrate on March 6 for work or wages. —FORD WORKER. Green Wants Beer As Jobless Aid (Continued from Page One) work or wages. Green opposes rec- ognition of the Soviet Union, al- though this would bring some real relief to the unemployment situa- tion. Faker Green knows that unem-| ployment is growing by leaps and bounds and that the jobless army numbers more than 7,000,000. He knows that his role in helping the bosses cut wages is being exposed, and will meet with the resistance of the workers. Neither his new love, the advocacy of 2.75 yer cent beer, nor. his stalwart defense of the im- perialist exploiters, will turn the unemployed one jot from their struggle for unemployrmmét insurance paid by the capitalist government out of the swollen profits of the bosses. 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