The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1930, Page 3

wR Ww unniR, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1930 WALL STR ‘Armed Uprising of Masses Against Growing} Crisis and Imperialism Bankers and Sugar Trust Steals Peasants Land; Own 300,000 Acres SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Feb. 26.—With the Vas- iquez government, a section of the imperialist National City Bank of New York, virtually overthrown by jan armed mass uprising, the U. S. minister, Charles B. Curtis, the sec- retary of the U. S. legation, John Moore Cabot, and the U. S. customs ollector, Pulliam, rushed into the breech and bolstered up the totter- ling reactionary government. Vasquez, who with his entire fam- ily had fled to the U. S. legation, when the rebels threatened to storm be capitol, Santo Domingo, now clares that matters are not seri- s. He has been in constant con- | rence with the American minister, who undoubtedly informed him that he could count on marine support if matters got too hot. ) The demands of the revolutionists have not been published. But Vas- yuez announced that he would an- ul all amendments to the election aws. The original election laws rovided for a four-year term for. he president, and Vasquez passed h law giving himself an added two years to his term. An election is cheduled this spring, and the masses fearing that Vasquez would eep himself in power, with the aid pf U. 8. imperialism, who he so Abjectly serves, revolted. Also, eco- nomic conditions in Santo Domingo have been going from bad to worse. (he prices on sugar, tobaeco and other agricultural products grown n the island, have been rapidly lropping, and the impoverishment f the peasants, which has been go- ng on for some time, is becoming unbearable. Reports from various interior cit- es state that the rebels have more han 1,000 armed men in their ranks, American imperialism has heen in ‘anto Domingo since 1907. The merican sugar mills have been ex- opriating the peasants an? taking RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 26.—A ine of approximately $2,925,000 has en imposed on the “Sao Paulo ranch of the National City Bank £ New York, for alleged illegal ex- hafige operations during 1929. This is a maneuver of British im- perialism, which is carrying on a iter struggle against the sharp ompetition of ever-increasing merican capital in Brazil. Chautemps Gove PARIS, Feb. 26.-The Chautemps ernment, which had precisely the | ame policy as the recently deposed | EET PROPS’ UP FALLING VASQUEZ DOMINGO GOV ERNMENT RYKOV BLASTS FAKE ISSUES OF RELIGION Explains Attitude of) Workers’ Republic (Continued from Page One) decreased considerably. This is due to various social and economic and political reasons. | Enforce Workers’ Laws. “One of the reasons is that we have prohibited religious propa- | ganda in our educational and cul- | tural institutions and we strictly | punish violators of this law,” he| said. “The separation of church and | away their land. The South Porto} Rico Sugar Co., controlled by the | National City Bank, owns 75,000 acres in La Romana, There are about 21 American sugar mills, |which own a large slice of Santo |Domingo. The Vasquez govern- ment has been turning over huge tracts of land to the American .m- | Derialists. | Vasquez was elected in the same \fashion that Moncada was in Nicara- gua and Borno in Haiti—namely, in the words of General Smedley But- ller, “we declared the opposition | bandits, and our (Wall Street’s) candidate always won.” The marines withdrew in 1925, land Vasquez began to take more and more dictatoral powers. His govern- ment aided the American imperial- ists to exploit the masses. The peas- ants have been deprived of their land and ate forced to work for the American sugar centrals at starva- tion Wages and under feudal condi- tions. The American sugar corpo- rations own over 300,000 acres of Santo Domingo properties, and have an investment of over $30,000,000 in the islands. The masses are mainly Negro, In- dian and Spanish peasants. In 1928 Charles G. Dawes went to Santo Domingo to work out a financial budget for the Vasquez government in order to facilitate its payments to the National City Bank. Under the treaty with the United States, for¢ed on the masses by ma- rine intervention, a U. S. customs | {ec collector wab appaiftted. | | “There are other countries where | When the recent revolution broke | the clergy do not enjoy civil rights if radically and to the limit. \di are merely carrying out with merci- |b radical parties in the countries.” One of the questions referred to | the Soviet constitutional guarantee | of religious freedom on which point | Rykov said: | beliefs, religious as well as anti-re- | F ligious. We do not persecute or | punish any one who believes or tries | to prove that Eve was made from Adams rib or who defends the ‘m- maculate conception. I would take immediate measures to punish any judge sentencing persons on the | |basis of their belief that the world |f | was created in seven days. Advocate Science. “On the other hand, we do not|* |prohibit defense of the man’s evolution from the monkey. | Science and scientific knowledge have made great progress in our contemporary life, “This leads to a decrease in the | \number of churches and a decline in religious feeling. It is only a nat- ural process. lo la $ |d sioner Russell in Haiti, which bord- | powerful a role and interférred too yu ers on Santo Domingo, expressed the | ntseh in political life,” re replied. | fear that the mass uprising there Sleds Abe Sbsclalion. j would give encouragement to the i 5 | Haitian peasants who are seething! “We have deprived the former with revolt against U. S. imperial- | governing classes of their civil Suffrage is given only to ism and the Borno puppet govern- Tights. 2 1 ment. |those engaged in productive work. | “The priesthood cannot be re- 01 | state is being enforced fully and |in the hosiery industry grows worse | walked out February 6. less thoroughness the programs of |year nearly all the mills are work- | bourgeois |ing part time, and many are shut {down completely. Jin most cases about 30 per cent. | “We give complete freedom of all |There is the strike of 1,400 at Aberle | the Northwest. land, Centralia and Aberdeen. out Santo Domingo High Commis-| because the church has played too |“ \boss, in a moment of “frankness, MILLS ON PART TIME, MANY CLOSED DOWN More Walkouts Against Wage Cuts in Ken- sington; 2,400 More on Strike \FullFashioned Hosiery Union Misleaders Try| to “Smooth” Things Over | (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA.—The situation At the Quaker Hosiery and Lehigh, the night shift of 600 The day laily. Usually in February the large |shift of 700 went out later in the “I might mention here that we jhosiery mills of Philadelphia are| morning when they heard of the usy at work on spring orders. This | walk out by the night shift. |__ The 1,000 workers of the Rodgers | Hosiery Co. walked out. The wor ' ers in all the mills working are dis- The few mills that the bosses |contented and ready to strike. The | erated are Tow closed down fy | American Full Fashioned Hosiery trikes against the heavy wage cuts, | Union officials are doing all they can to “smooth” things over. —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. bosses | Till. Schafer’s—One of Worst Lumber Speed-up Outfits (By a Worker Correspondent) is paid but once a month. This MONTESANO, Wash.—The Scha-|method has the worker guess’ng er Bros. Lumber Co. is known as| whether or not he can qualify ne of the worst speed-up outfits in | deserving of a raise. The result is This is the method | disastrous to the worker in his de- hat they use in getting the lum-j|sire to increase his pay he has theory of | ber workers to compete against one | worked himself out in eight or ten | |another. The company has a = and-|days and is forced to leave the job, curtailment in public building works ling order for men with the employ- | also his chance of any increase of |__which will greatly increa ment offices in the following cities | pay. is nd towns, Seattle, Tacoma, Port- | These things the National Lumber Workers Union is fighting against. If the worker hires out, say for |Get in touch with it at Nationai 5 per day, he then is given to un- | Headquarters and Local 1, 414 Mu- erstand that if his speed is suffi-|tual Life Building, Seattle, vr in ‘ient his pay will be raised from 25| Aberdeen, at 713 East First St., ents to $1.50 a day. He is not told | Local 2, or at Montesano Local 3, hether or not he is to get this raise |or Everett Local 4, when in Everett —A LOGGER. til payday, and in these waimps he | Lombard Hall. No Work For Long Time in Hosiery Mills (By a Worker Correspondent) Yes, but that’s the rub. Looking PHILADELPHIA.—One hosiery |for work here is in vain. Other »|manufacturers are not so “frank,” x 2 |merely telling the workers they will n_ closing, down his plant told the |i. sent for when needed—and clos- Sharp Conflict Between British and U. S. Imperialism in Brazil garded as a productive occupation. |However, we never punish the priests {for legitimate practice of their | profession, only for violation of law |workers to try and get any kind of ing their plants indefinitely. Close work at all for “hosiery wouldn’t be |downs and lay offs happen almost good for a long time.” |daily in the hosiery plants here. WORKERS CORRESPONDENCE -FROM THE SHOPS JOB MOST PHILA. HOSIERY | s Worker cor employment of the ho ite and A, i ry workers tant pickets in the Allen A Hosie they left jail. Getting Wise to M spondence from Philadelphia tells of the great . Full Fashioned Hosiery Union is playing. workers are getting ‘wise to the labor 7 Mustcites cooperated with the bosses. LESS YOUNG —_____ WORKERS FIGHT ‘sayy «FOR DEMANDS Cleveland, Cincinnati, Councils Growing (Con » Page One) ity,” ete. He id that the also > less than 15 worke were on feet shouting that he leave the 1 or be thr and one Ne- an eviction by the City 1 not pay her asking » the city will take of us, eh?” Others demanded: happened with the $10,000 appropriated for the unemployed?” and the director left, threatening to “get even” with Mitchell and Saifer, Unemployed Council leaders. out, rowed -d on he the M The ho. s. Photo show Kenosh he ts are and the betrayal gare ade ery piele T he AGRARIAN GRISIS 1S CATASTROPHIC “ Hie Cy ean ” Building Boom” of Hoover Collapses (Continued from Page One) employment, he is to be told first that the efficacy of the remedy has always been greatly overestimated.” | Hoover Makes It Still Worse. Now Hoover announces a sharp the ment present in th rp unempl roads placed many monihs ago, | by building up stocks on speculation for future orders, is already receiv- ing a set back. Steel production dropped over 1 per cent during the past week. The el bosses prcm- ise further decline The eri in the basic industries continue and will be sharpened. Au- tomobile production during January was 32 per cent below last year; steel production is 10 to 15 per cent below last year, with sharp re- ductions ahead; building industry is 5 per cent below last Agriculture in Di Pears the Napete ree ee {or counter-revolutionary activities. ‘orporation made a contract under| «We do not even prosecute the which it declared it would iuvest | priests for fraud when we discover $200,000,000 in iron ore mines in! the bones of horses or dogs in cof- the state of Minas Geraes, Wrazil-| gins which they led the worshippers There is an election campaign ow | to helieve contained dummies of the going on with the Conservative | saints, We give all such the bene- party backing British imperialism, | st of the doubt, as they themselves and the so-called Liberal party get-\ may have been deluded by their ting the support of American im- | predecessors.” perialism. | In reply to a question as to his |opinion of the foreign complaints and agitation against the Soviet’s regulation of religion, Rykov said: manded to know why he was usurp- No Discrimination of Sects. ing the Tardieu policies which he; “The complaints come from those had criticized only a week before. | who stand for destruction of all re- rnment Dumped Pardieu-Briand cabinet, namely, the olicy of the capitalist parties of \-¢ ight and center, ended its short- ived career when a vote of no con-! idence was passed in the Ches:ber f Deputies. When Chautemps finished speak- | ing outlining his policy, Paul Rey- | aud, Tardieu’s mouthpiece, de-| orld Fighting Day March 6 Now Nearer (Continued from Page One) meeting was in session, and amid jeers of the workers arrested two en and five girls. Police also buarded the bridges from the West Kide to the Loop District over the hicago River, to prevent a march bn the City Hall from the working lass district, while 200 police wait- e* the City Hall in case the ex-) 4 demonstration should get) “id the guarded bridges. * * + Chicago Pioneers Fight Unemploy- | ment. CHICAGO.—The Young Pioneers ere held an open-air meeting be- ore the Brown Grammar School to prganize the workers’ children in he sttuggle against unemployment. ‘he banners they carried bore such Jogans as “We Demand Work or ‘ages for Our Parents,” “Negro nd White Workers’ Children Unite gainst Unemployment.” ‘When the school principal saw t the Pioneers were getting sym- pathetic support of the children he ame out of the school and physic- ally attacked the speakers. The police were called and three Pio- eers. arrested, Morris Fine, Mary Mazrack and Sid Caplan. While Sid Caplan had no charges ced against him the other two ire held for “contributing to his Helinquency!” The I.L.D. demanded jury trial and it was set for jarch 10, The capitalist officials did every- ‘hing to make the three pioneers romise not to distribute leaflets or hold demonstrations at schools, put the three refused, as the Young Pioneers will continue to struggle with the parents against unemploy- ent, and they will be with the hole working class on the streets bn March 6, International Fighting IDay Against Unemplogment, * Jobless Starve in Fascist Poland. WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 26.—Un- mployment is rapidly growing, and \) industries except coal mining uv » fave depressed. The peasantry, too, iby N.-Y. School Council! Marcel Cachin, Communist Party, | ligious cults except their own. In asked Chautemps some questions, this connection I might mention the exposing the cross-imperialist role history of the Papacy. of both the Tardieu and Chautemps| “We have given full freedom to government. A six-hour discussion | competition and it must be peculiar- 3 i ly disconcerting to the Pope to learn followed in which the social-fascist, | that the Mohammedan mullar Leon Blum, supported the Chau- temps outfit. age Catholic priest to defend his | faith. is suffering in spite of the export) “The religious question in the bounty on grain. The government | present situation is being used mere- allowance for unemployment relief |ly as a tool for political purposes, is a mockery, being only $1.80 per | One of the characteristics of political month for a man with a wife and! strife in foreign countries as we Jone child, yet the very minimum | have observed it is that all ways and ‘such three persons can barely keep | means are employed. alive on, is estimated at $13 per, “Allthis agitation and propaganda month, |is emanating from circles which el would never grant full freedom of Worker School in South | sy ree to be Discussed Feb. 27) | “What the people outside do not understand is that we are making an effort to organize a new culture and a new social order. The establishment of a workers school in the South will be one of the important questions that will come before the first meeting of the Advisory Council of the Workers School on Thursday, February 27, at 8.30 p. m. in the library of the school, at 26 Union Square (Work- ers Center). The school also announces a ban- quet to take place at the Workers ligious prejudice. the spread of scientific knowledge and thus enlighten the people.” Center on Sunday evening, March 9, arranged by the Students’ Coun- cil as a get-together of the students, instructors and friends of the school. The program will include a film and musical numbers. (priest) enjoys the same rights here | “We permit practice of any kind} of faith, but we do not support re-| “We strive, however, to encourage | (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA. — Disregard- ing both Judge McDevitt’s injunc- |tion for only eight pickets in rows of two and Muste’s American Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union's ‘eompliance, hosiery workers now on | strike in Kensington, Germantown jand other parts of the city are be- | coming daily more defiant. \Boston Strike Still Spreads; Fight Thugs (Continued from Page record and has served three years in jail. | | | Jeer At Dubinsky. The workers jeer at the declara- | tion of war against them by David | Dubinsky, secretary treasury of the | L.L.G.W., and the bosses admit that the seabs Dubinsky and Schlesinger. president of the I.L.G.W. have sent |from New York do not produce. There is a split in the bosses associa- tion, and one in the ranks of the |contractors, large groups threaten- ing that unless the I.L.G.W. sends | better scabs and more gunmen, the | bosses will settle with the Needle | Trades Workers Industrial Union. Dubinsky today officially offered | the bosses any concession they might ask in the way of lower wages or | worse conditions for the workers, if they would settle with the I.L. G.W. instead, but the bosses remind- ed him that concessions were of no use to them without workers. WAGE CUT VIA “BONUS.” MANCHESTER, N. H. (By Mail). —The Amoskeag, largest cotton mill in the world, has cut wages, prom- ised to institute a bonus system and declared bigger dividends in a sweeping attack on the unorganized textile workers of its mills. 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Hosiery Strikers’ Militancy Grows In the midst of this chronic eris in all industries of capitalism, comes the sharp crash in prices of agri- ‘cultural products. The panic in the grain exchange several day was compared by the capitalist pr to the stock market crash. | The police, as a result, are becom- {ing more brutal and making many bs ou arrests of Workers daily. value of wheat in the United States | One day last week 22 workers of | “Topped $500,,000,000. the Rodgers Hosiery Co. now on| The full effect of the agrarian | had e : i , 4d in |*Tisis is only beginning. ‘The funda- strike were arrested and treated in| mental basis has not been relieved the usual fashion by the capitalist |hy the Federal Farm Board, which | courts. aids the “co-operatives” controlled | —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. by the big banks, and forces the — ———— | poor farmers to sell at the lowest Imperialists Training market 1.2. In the agrarian situa- tion the capitalists are sitting on a volcano. Impoverishment of the poor and tenant farmers is proceed- ing at the same time with growing | mass unemployment. In order to keep prices from} dropping still further, the capital-| Their Straw Bosses at New $2,000,000 School Dy) PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 2 Rulers of the American empire, anxious to train a body of young specialists, have given their ap- proval to Princetons new school of public and international affairs. Among those who, Princeton boasts, ‘praise the new department, are President Herbert Hoover, expert in Ame foreign trade and invest- ments; Charles Evans Hughes, rep- resentative of Standard Qil, the ra- dio and power trusts and Wall St on the supreme court; John W. Davis, Wall Street’s democratic lum- inary; Dwight Morrow, American pro-consul to Mexico, and Owen D. Young, head of the power trust, with large investments in Latin- America. They have been named advisers. i AAAAARARARAARAERAE DDR AAR Doctors Warn Against Bladder It often indicates that PAs your bladder and kidneys “Mj are in a very unhealthy condition, threatening your entire bodily health, Don’t run the risk of serious sick- ness. Take steps at once to correct bladder and kidney trouble. Get from your druggist at once Santal Midy ma wevuvuvervvvuvvvevvvvrvy THE COMMUNIST Permanently Enlarged to 96 Pages (February Issue) JUST OFF THE PRESS Contents Notes of the Month, U.S. Agriculture and Tasks of the Communist Party of U.S. A. Are New Revolutions Impossible Without War? By GREGORY ZINOVIEV World Aspects of the Negro Question. By OTTO HUISWOOD The Industrialization of the South and the Negro Problem. By M, RUBENSTUIN | Inter-racial Relations Among Southern Workers. By MYRA PAGE, Author “Southern Cotton Mills and Labor” The Second Congress of the Anti-Imperialist League, | By WILLIAM WILSON The Theoretical Knights of Opportunism. 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Thus we have a ng by thousands to picture of capitalism Mountains on Unity League as of wheat with the erishment the only organization capable of of the poor and tenant farmers who! leading them, aided by the Commu- produce it and virtual starvation of | nist Party, in their struggle for 7,000,000 unemployed in the cities) “work or wages,” unity of employed who are unable to buy bread. with unemployed. There is a growing doubt in the ~ the leading capitalists about the improvement in the } ent crisis nnounced by Hoov Barnes, Lamont, Klein and othe: The J f Commerce (Feb. 25, 1930) f that all the figures of the cap government with re- spect to the present crisis are toc optimistic: “There certainty many busi regard to the ness condition serious doubt h. to statistics of er employment. “The current statements of opin- ien issued by public men and lead- ers of business and banking are uniformly of a rather vague char- acter, and quite different in tone to those of former years.” They even intimate that ‘#@i@ts of the banking situation are being falsified. “Bank examiners are in the habit of treating banks minds of NEXT WEEK FRIDAY New Masses a great and growing un- in the minds of a good| ,” they state, with | act truth about busi- . 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