The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1930, Page 1

d n= - e 1- e rt Now Hoover Cries “Economy What About the $160,000,000 Present in Tax Returns to the Big Bosses? This Is an Attempt to Sidestep the Growing Demand of the Un- employed for Work or Wages. Increase the Struggle for Unemployment Insurance! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, 1879. ADorker FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by Th Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, ‘Vol. VL, No. 304 e Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. — NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930 . + SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cent: All Workers Out of the Shops on March 6 to Demonstrate Against Unemployment! The demonstrations of unemployed workers in various cities are mounting to huge proporticns. * Ten thousand workers demonstrated day before yesterday at Can- ton, Ohio. Ten thousand recently marched in Milwaukee in spite of the police ‘clubs of the “socialist” mayor, “Comrade” Daniel Hoan, To these*are to be added the splendid demonstrations of working class refusal to starve in unemployment in Chicago, Cleveland, Boston and . other cities. In Detroit the militant demonstration of a few days ago seems to have set such a good example to the unemployed of that great industrial region that 600 workers who answered an advertise- | ment for one job turned in disgust to march to the city hall and were | joined by a thousand more on the streets. All of these evidences of working class consciousness, of working class -determination to hold capitalism, the capitalist bosses and the capitalist state responsible for the miseries forced upon our class by the profit system—are surely swelling the movement which will reach its climax on the sixth of March. But, up to the present time these have been demonstrations of un- employed workers almost alone. This will not do for March 6. The demonstration of March 6 is a world-wide demonstration, simultaneous in all countries of the capi- *- talist world, of the whole working class against unemployment. Unemployment is striking at the vitals of all workers inside of the shops as well as outside. Unemployment in this period is to a large extent permanent un- employment. The capitalist specialists are writing about “technological unemployment.” Capitalist “rationalization,” which introduces the speed-up system, with wage cuts ani increased hours for the workers who remain employed, with wholesale discharge of hundreds of thou- sands of workers who are forced out into the streets without even a hope of finding employment—this is changing the whole structure of the working class. It creates a vast permanent army of millions of unemployed, who in turn are used by the capitalists as a club with which to break down the living standards of those who remain at work, and the whole average standard of living of the working class sinks to | miserable levels. Simultaneously the capitalist class and government concentrate their efforts to destroy all working class organizations that undertake to fight against the attack on the workers. Just at this time the reactionary A. F. of L. machinery and the Socialist Party openly come out against the workers in strikebreaking after the style of Mussolini, thus earning the name of “social-fascists.” In yesterday's capitalist papers some startling figures were given of unemployment in the New York building trade. Bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. unions (who always do their best to make things look rosy in the capitalist system) declared. that from 40 to 50 per cent of the 115,000 building trades mechanics in New York are entirely unem- ployed. Actual numbers of jobless building trades workers, as estim- ated by employers and trade union bureaucrats, range from 54,000 to 67,000, some of the smaller trades being said to be 90 per cent idle. - Ac striking example of the effect of this unemployment upon those workers who remain employed is given by the statement of the capi- talist, press that the union scale.of wages is being pulled down to the extent of 35 per cent to nearly 50 per cent in such trades as the plas- terers and carpentérs. It should be clear even to the blindest of our class—even to the “aristocracy” of the skilled trades—that this is a situation which trans- cends all trade boundaries and all distinctions between those employed and those unemployed. In any case the most rudimentary principles of honor of the work- ing class: would-demand that the employed workers fight also for their unemployed brothers and sisters. But even the most immediate econ- omic interest of any worker in the shop now demands that all of the working class both inside and outside of the shops, mines, mills and factories shall join in the great anti-unemployment demonstration of March 6. Every employed worker is called upon to throw down his tools on March 6 and to march out of the shop into the streets for the unem- ployed demonstrations. The demonstrations of the jobless workers alone have already reached mass proportions. Joined by the workers from the shops, the demonstrations of March 6 will be the biggest expression of working class solidarity ever seen in the United States. This means strike in every shop, mine, mill and factory. ‘All out on March 6! Demand ‘social insurance against unemployment. Demand the seven-hour day and the five-day week—with no wage cuts! the work- ers who come to these demonstrations must, to meet their problems, immediately form committees of employed and unemployed workers 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 8 powerful organization, covering the entire country. - Workers, in the factories, demonstrate with your unemployed brothers and sisters on March 6! PAINTERS RALLY TOTHET.U.UL ‘Cuts, Unemployment, A.F. L. Treacheries The: three. mass meetings called by the building construction league section of the Trade. Union Unity League for the organization of the unorganized painters of New York city into an industrial union was met with. great response by the painters, ready to organize and fight for bet- ter: conditions. At.the mass meet- ing workers took the floor and de- scribed the terrific conditions that them to the limit. “Terrible speed-up, long hours and the.rush system of a three-room apartment in two and a half days re increasing rapidly in the paint- ing trade along with poisonous ma- tesa kill the painters at an early age. At the age of 35 to 40 years the painter is not able to compete with the present rationalization. process in the painting trade. “Wages decreasing every season. ‘The: minimum’ in the season (only are from two to three months) is about six or eight dollars a day, and the rest of the months of the year the painter is walking the | stieéts; if he does get a job he’ is compelled to work for four to five dollars a day. “Unemployment in the painting | (Continued on Page Two) rt ‘ers in Greater New York and vi- RALLY YOUTH T0 MARCH 1 MEET Used in War Factories; Will Defend U.S.S.R. The Youth Department of the Trade Union Unity League of Greater. New York and New Jersey has issued the following call to young workers to participate in the March 1 district convention of the league, and the special youth con- ference at that convention. The call declares in part: “The crisis, unemployment, speed- up, wage cuts, hunger and starva- tion effect young workers especial- ly. Young workers have been drawn into the industries by the hundreds of thousands. Skilled labor is replaced by unskilled. The jobs of adult workers are taken by young and women workers for low- er wages and under a more merci- less speed-up system. Young work- cinity, in metal shops, textile, food, shoe laundries, needle, etc. are forced to work 50 hours or more for wages that are seldom higher than $17 a week. Young workers ‘suffer most from the brutal speed- up system. The bosses throw work- ers that reach the age of about 40 or 45 out of the shops and factories. They want more and more young workers who still have strength, in order to speed them more ruthlessly CATHOLICS JOIN. WAR CRY ON USSR Stormy Scene in Swiss) Parliament Raises Issue of War /Yugoslav Church Howls Fascist Terror Finds, Terror—in USSR! (Wireless By Inprecorr) Stormy scenes occurred yesterday {evening in the Swiss parliament when the two Communist members opposed ratification of the Hague Conference arrangements for the International Bank handling war on the ground that the bank repre- sents an instrument against the |German proletariat and against the | Soviet Union, The “socialist” leader, Grimm, |Spoke for ratification, and made aj} tirade against the Communist Party ‘and against the Soviet Union. The {parliament voted for ratification with only the two Communists vot- ing against. * ee! Yugoslav Fascist Dog Joins Howl- ing Pack. As a part of the world-wide prop- aganda drive against the Soviet Union to give the desired “moral” backing for imperialist war against the Soviet, the Patriarch Demetri , Belgrade, Yugoslavia, has issued a circular appeal to all orthodox churches in the world and to the! (Continued on Page Three) FASCIST TERROR |Motrow-Rubio Regime Persecutes Workers * The International Labor Defense yesterday made public a telegram received from’ Mexico telling of the intensification of the fascist terror against the Mexican workers by the Mexican government, the servant of Yankee imperialism. The telegram reads: tempted assassination of Ortiz Ru- bio, persecution is spreading all over | Mexico and demonstrations of pro- test are being attacked by the po- lice. “The headquarters of the Unitaria Trade Union Confederation and its unions in Mexico City are closed. Five workers have been arrested in| Monterey; 30 in Matamoros; 10 in| Tampico; 5 in Cecilia; 5 in Jalapa; seven in Laredo 15 in Mexico City, on the order of the military au-| thorities. There is danger that many or all will be sent to the/ prison on the Marias Islands. “Tina Modotti and Issacs, have been deported, leaving Vera Cruz on the steamer ‘Edam.’ “Marti, Zavala, Paredes and Pav- letich, the secretaries and aides of General Sandino, have also been ar- rested. “We nsk solidarity.” The above message from the Mex- | ican workers suffering under the heel of the fascist government which carries out the orders of American imperialism, speaks for itself as to conditions in Mexico and the duty of the revolutionary workers of the United States. The arrest of General Sandino’s staff takes place at a moment in which the Continental Committee of the All America Anti-Imperialist League was clarifying the attitude of Sandino, whose motives had been subjected to question in the press both of ‘Mexico and the United States. In this connection, the U. S. Section of the All America Anti- Imperialist League has received the following statement from the Con- (Continued on Page Three) FIND ICE-AGE BEAST. WARSAW, Poland—The com- plete body of an ice-age rhinocerous, | muscles and skin complete, has been dug out of mine in Poland, in Saru- | nia distrist. | and break them physically at the end of a few years of labor. Tens | of thousands of young workers are drawn into the war industries into the manufacture of ammunition, airplanes, chemical factories and so on. i} “The bosses are preparing war, | especially against the Soviet Union. | The workers of the Soviet Union established their own government. Conditions of the workers of the Soviet Union are becoming increas- ingly better. They have the 7-hour ‘SOCIALISTS’ AND BASLE, Switzerland, Feb. 25.— reparations payments from Germany | |of the Serbian Orthodox Church at | GROWS IN MEXICO “Taking advantage of the at- | Answers Capitalists on Religion Joseph Stalin, in reply to an in- quiry of the New York Evening World on his attitude on religion, | in relation to the anti-Soviet cam- paign conducted by the imperialist powers, referred them to his an- swer to the American Trade Union delegation given in 1927. The com- plete question and Stalin’s answer | % given in today’s Daily Worker. WALL ST, HELPS DOMINGO RULERS Suppor rt Vasquez Against R Rebels | SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican 2, Republic, Feb. 22.—Reports from the United Press correspondent, |Harry W. Frantz here, state the jrevolutionists near the capital were |1,000, but that there was no way of estimating their strength in the interior, where they have occupied |several points without bloodshed. | Telegraph communications were in- terrupted. The uprising in the interior cen- tered around Santiago de los Cal- balleros, which is reported in the hands of the revolutionists. They |also were reported to have taken | Puerto Plata and La Vega. Vice-president Jose Dolores Alfon- {seca announced his resignation, and president Horacio Vasquez is be- |ing kept in power by the American Minister Charles B. Curtis, and the iam E. Pulliam, whose official title is General Receiver of Customs. Pulliam was appointed by President Coolidge. A Dominion-American | treaty, forced on the masses by ma- rine intervention, provides that the United States shall support the eu: toms receiver in the discharge ef duties. Most of the profits” , from the exploitation of the: peas- ant masses find their way’ into the coffers of the National City Bank | the $25,000,000 invested Domingo. The puppet—president Vasquez is in constant. conference with’ the American “dictators, Curtiss «nd Pulliam. Curtiss urgcd—¥asquez to reconsider his decision to resign and (Continued on seen he Three) SHOE UNIONISTS AT PLAZA TONITE’ Discuss "Agreement; Council Endorses Mar.6| The Independent Shoe Wérkers Union is mobilizing all its members for a mass-membership meeting at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, tonight, at 7:30, A general discussion will take place on the questions of the new agreement and the drive on the open shops. Plans will also be discussed there to make the mass meeting on the coming Friday, February 28, at the Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brooklyn, a success. At Monday night’s Joint Council meeting the coming unemployment demonstration on March 6 unanimously endorsed. In the shoe industry of Greater New York un- employment is growing daily. More speed up, longer. hours, ‘because of low wages and more reductions in wages than ever before are throwing thousands of shoe workers to the mercy of the capitalists in other in- dustries. The Joint Council also went on record to endorse the Trade Union Unity League convention of March 1 and 2 and elected three delegates. In the Adams St. court today four shoe workers were dismissed. These workers were charged with contempt of court for picketing the Brooklyn Shoe Company’s plant at the time when there was a temporary in- junction prohibiting picketing. 4 | variously estimated at from 500 to| Wall Street financial dictator, Will-| of New York, which owns most of | in Santo! was | STALIN CABLES THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE AT CANTON “WORLD' VIEWS = AND PHILADELPHIA FOR THE T.U.U. L. ON RELIGION | AND UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL'S DEMANDS ‘Answering - at nquiry | Says Clergy Is Workers’ Enemy Quotes His Pamphlet} ‘Propaganda Against | Religion to Continue | NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Joseph Stalin, replying to an inquiry of the New York Evening World on his stand on religion, cabled the follow- | ing: “Editor, New World, New York. “Reply to your question could be| DETROIT TAILORS Trade Unionists, Stalin’s Interview| Negro Unionists Upset) | With the First American Trade ° . : k | Union Delegation to Soviet Russia?/ | Cincinnati Fakers DETROIT, Feb. 25.—At a recent | published in America. See question | |meeting of the Detroit Federation Bae and Stalin’s reply. “(Signed) Stalin.” “Questions and Answers to Amer. | of Labor, the fakers, led by Frank Be Trade Unionists,” is published |X. Martel, tried to bulldoze the rank the Workers Library Publishers, and file by suspending the Journey- BG East 125th St., New York City.|men Tailors’ Union, Local No. 229, The question, and answer by Stalin| when the local’s representatives an- \is as follows: | nounced that their organization had | “Question XI: We understand that | voted unanimously to take part in the International Unemployment. }some good Communists are not in entire sympathy with the Commu-| Demonstration called for March 6 | nist Party’s demand that all new |by the Communist Party, and en- members be atheists, now that the |dorsed by the Trade Union Unity reactionary clergy are suppressed. | League, and had instructed them to Could the. Communist Party in the;urge the federation to similar ac- future take a neutral attitude to-| tion. This action grew out of a meeting wards a religious faith which sup- ported all the teachings of science | of the Journeymen Tailors Union on (Continued on Page Three) | February 3, at which George Pow- BS FE a | ets, secretary of the Trade Union | Unity League, spoke on the coming GREET COMRADE | world-wide demonstration against | unemployment. Porter Sueaks at LL. D. Bazaar Today, at 8.30 a. m:, John Porter, } who has served more than 18 months | for his strike and anti-militarist ac- | tivities, will land at Battery. Perk from Governor’s Island,“ where | has been imprisoned by .U. S. mili | tary authorities. A’mass demonstration of workers | will greet Porter when: he’ is re- leased.“ Ina recent letter Porter | L declared that he is enth' a anxious, to enter i60'the growing 5 ey preps. of the. workers, and that 'Boss Press Slams Lies e-has kept in touch with the cam- paigns of the Communist Party, the of-U..S. Labor Dept. The hggest ‘Frindle that Hoover Young Communist League, and the | Trade Union Unity” League. and Secretary of Labor Davis tried to pul! off was the report early Join the demonstration to greet (Continued on Page Two) tin January that unemployment was declining. At the time the Daily WARVETSIN: © FASCIST ROLE Fc is |fact, ‘the mass army of the vunem- | | Martel ’p | | | York Evening! made conditional by Martel, who is ,jusing Lang, the business agent of ‘|the local as a tool, having told him that if the union reverses its previ- sider” the question of suspension. As a result, Lang visited each mem- ber of the Executive Board, trying to line them up with Martel. When the board met on the 17th, after considerable discussion, these reactionaries voted to try to reverse the action of the local at the next meeting on March 3. Brothers Ur- (Continued on Page Three) May Mea Demonstr ation |p loyed is rapidly growing. | a Now the very reports of the De- | nswer Fascism jertment of Labor for the month |of Janvary show that on the basis The District Bureau, Communist! of their obviously false figures the Party, District New York, announces | number of jobless increased by over | that in keeping with the revolutiont|> per cent for January. ary traditions of May 1, it will hold That the Department of Labor a gigantic demonstration both in-| monkeys with its figures to make doors and outdoors on May 1. them appear as optimistic as pos- By choosing the same day for @/ ciple is recognized by more than demonstration against the working | one capitalist economist. They class the Veterans of Foreign Wars| ven go to the extent of protesting and other fascist organizations are against it, not Vecause they are preparing one more demonstration | interested in the starving jobless of the hostility of these organiza-|yorkers, but they want to have tions to the working class movement. /4 realistic picture of the extent The workers will answer this|o¢ the present crisis, so°they can menace of fascism by making the| combat the growing militancy of May 1 demonstration this year the/the unemployed army. greatest demonstration of interna- Put Davis On the Pan. tional working class solidarity ever! 4 special editorial in the Journal witnessed in New York. __ {of Commerce (Feb. -24, 1930, one The Communist Party is calling| of the leading organs of Wall St., a conference for the middle of /lambasts the faking of Secretary March where representatives from|of Lahor Davis. They point out hundreds of unions and other work-| some of the fakery indulged in: ers’ organizations will prepare a] “Reports transmitted to th? program for May 1. The Commu-| United States Employment Service nist Party will call for a one day/ have similariy been stripped of strike and unquestionably this strike | much of their significance hy the sai te eaneres ty Seer - methods of interpretation applied e feel- i ing the effects of speed up and wage Centered: One Ree 1 Napa) |slashes and are ready to struggle against the bosses of this city. It will also be answered by the army of the unemployed which is looking in vain for work. The Communist Party knows that many members of the Veterans of | Foreign Wars and the other. fascist | organizations allied to it, are op-| posed to the policy of these organ- | izations. In fact there are members | of the Communist Party in these NOTICE TO ALL PARTY AND YCL MEMBERS All Party and Y. C. L. members are instructed to be at the District Headquar- ters, 26 Union Square, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 2 p. m. sharp. Report at Room 404. Very important mat- i The suspension of the local was | ous action, he (Martel) will “con- | | Hoover Economy Bunk Against Unemployed \Insurance Demands WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Presi- dent Hoover announced at a luncheon to Senate leaders yesterday that he would enforce a policy of economy, and was against expansion of pub- lic projects. 7 This is contrary to the optimistic announcements by Hoover and La- mont previously that a big public works building program would be instituted “to relieve unemploy- ment.” On the contrary, Hoover demands drastic curtailment of these projects, and indicates he will fight against any unemployment insur- ance, Referring to some of the projects which he did not name, Hoover said: “We all realize that the government cannot undertake these projects now. . This is no time for a general expansion of public expenditures.” This recalls the fact that the Hoover government handed $60,000,- 000 back to the big corporations, while millions of unemployed face starvation. 3,000 PICKET IN Flee from Scene Three hundred patrolmen, with the bomb squad in ambush up a side street and small detachments of mounted police stationed on 35th St. west of Eighth Ave. and else- where, were very very quiet yes- terday when 3,000 workers marched for more than an hour in picket demonstration for the 40-hour week and against the company union | gangsters. As for the gangsters, they took one look at it and made themselves scare. The demonstration was called by \the Needle Trades Workers Indus-| trial Union and was endorsed by the other militant unions, also by the Trade Union Unity League, by the national Labor Defense. In Heart of Garment Section. The pickets marched in column of (Continued on Page Two) BIG LOCK-OUT OF 1,300,000 Bldg. Trades Toilers Out March 31 the building trades throughout Ger- many gave notice today of the can- cellation of the wage agreements on March 31. They are beginning a drastic wage-cutting campaign. The lockout will affect 1,300,000 work- ers. There are now more than 3,000,000 jobless workers many who are being mobilized for the world demonstration on March 6, Fe adequate unemployment re- lief. FOUR KILLED POTTSVILLE, # Pa, Feb. 25.—A | terrific explosion nearly a mile un- | derground in the Lytle coal mine at Minersville, near here late today | took the lives of four men, sent} three others to the hospital with in- juries which probably will prove fa- tal, and may have entombed two or three other workmen. The blast occurred just as the day shift miners were leaving the shaft Had it come a few minutes earlier ters have to be taken up. (Continued on Page Two) the death list would have been much larger, GARMENT ZONE Display Slogans ; Thugs eafeteria workers, shoe workers and | Communist Party, and by the Inter- | GERMAN TOILERS BERLIN, Feb. 25.—Employers in | in Ger- | IN MINE BLAST “: airplane attack, | Wegro Unionists of Cincinnati Break Down A. F. of L. Bureaucrat Rule and Stormily Applaud the Program of the T.U.U.L. Detroit A. F. of L. Head, Suspends Local Union For Vote t articipate in International Unemployed Fighting Day CANTON WORKERS BACK JOBLESS Philadelphia Rallying Masses For March 6 CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 25.—Ter thousands workers waited arounc the City Hall today while a mas: committee of hundreds were inside presenting demands of the Unem ployed Council. The great crowd stood and sang and cheered for three hours in pour- ing rain while the Committee wa: engaged inside. The demands were denied, a usual. But Comrades Ford anc Green made a report to the as sembled thousands from the steps of the City Hall, and received the ap proval of the crowd to arrange a stil! greater demonstration on March 6, International Unemployment Fight ing Day. The Committee of 200 had marched two miles from its meeting place to the City Hall. * * * Philadelphia’s Third Demonstration. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.—-On the spot at the City Hall Plaza, where 10 days ago the police at- | tacked a demonstration arranged by | the Unemployed Council of the | Trade Union Unity League, and in which the police received some mo- jmentos of the fight, the third dem- onstration took place yesterday, (Continued on Page Three) UNEMPLOYED TO VISIT WALKER To Tell Dancing Mayor That Millions Starve A large delegation of unemployed workers of New York representing many unemployed councils, organ- ized by the Trade Union Unity |League will appear before Mayor Walker, at City Hall tomorrow at 1 p. m. with the demand for unem- ployment insurance, for work or wages. The delegation representing un- employed workers of many indus- tries, Negro and white, adult and young workers will call the atten- tion of Mayor Walker, head of the | administration of the large ity of |the world, who has just returned from Florida, to the fact that over half million workers are walking the streets of New York faced with hunger and starvation. The bread lines are lengthening. Tens of thou- |sands of additional workers are thrown regularly out of the shops |and factories. The general intensi- fication of labor, the increased | speed- -up, continuously swells the {army of unemployed. There are no prospects for any immediate change in the situation, Some of the demands of the un- employed councils organized by the leadership of the T. U. U. L. are: 1. Immediate emergency relief | out of city funds, taxation of large | incomes, ete., for the unemployed | workers. | 2 Unemployment insurance to jextend over entire period of unem- ployment, and is to equal the aver- age rate of wages. | 3. No work, no rent! No eyvic- tions of unemployed for failure to | Pay rent. 4, The seven hour day five day re "For higher wages! 6. Abolition of speed-up and for | better conditions. | 7. Abolition of child labor; gov- ernment maintenance of all children. | WAR MANEUVERS NEAR CA- | NAL ZONE. BALBOA, Feb. 25.—War maneu- vers of the American fleet are tak- |ing place near the Canal zone) The imperialists are preparing the navy for the next world war, and are es- pecially concentrating in the use of