The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1930, Page 1

G 7 i] 0 a a A ie 5 LLM UN OL Within Two Days 50,000 Workers in Ten Cities Demonstrated That They . “ Are Mobilizing Full Force Enterce as se class matter at the Most Office at New York, Y., under the act JAQUV Gu. EEUU AU EE EA ULV EE UY 2 RN URE U LOR AURA RLY Atechawuas v9 AN ven) Vet tase Worker ‘FINAL CITY EDITION of Mareh 3. 1879, TB. 2% Union Square, NEW Comprodaily Publishing QZ 4, New York City, N. ¥. YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930 SUBSCRIPTI A'TES: In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents for March 6th. The Rabbis Join the PogromISPARTA MINERS Minsk Rabbis REBEL ARMY Leaders A few d ago Rabbi Menachem Gluskin had been “cruelly mur- dered by the 1 8 But yesterday Rabbi Gluskin “arose from the dead” and assembled five other prominent rabbis at Moscow to draw up an indignant state- ment severely condemning the Jewish rabbis and leaders in capitalist countries who, as said in the statement issued, are joining in with the White Guard ezarist leaders—the old organizers of the czar’s po- groms—in whipping up a wo vide reactionary campaign for an im- perialist war on the Soviet Union. Jt was the working class revolution of November 7, 1917, led by the Communist Party, that for the first time freed the Jews of Russia from the most terrible and crue! persecution known to history. Rabbi Wise and the others who so shamelessly lied at the New York meeting Wednesday night know this very well. And today the whole move- ment of White Guard Russians and their sympathizers throaghout Europe and America is distinctly on an anti-semitie basis. Petty fogg: might claim a distinction between the “republican” movement for intervention and war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics and the monarchist movement for the same thing. But there is no distinction in real life between the two. The present anti- Bolshevik front engaged in lobbying against recognition of the Soviet Republics, in intrigues and projects for all sorts of intervention, for the.consolidation of the world imperialist united front and for civil war to destroy the workers’ revolutionary republic—this aggregation is constructed around a core of half-witted grand-dukes, counts, count- and greasy Russian “popes.” ‘The State Department of the United States Government receives its vocabulary of foreign policy in regard to the Soviet Republic from this band of White Guards, although of course the real substance of its entire policy comes by long-distance telephone from Wall Street. Unquestionably the present world-wide fre of agitation for the “holy war’™ of united imperialists to over- w the Soviet Government has as its immediate source these White Guard bands, who make convenient servants for the imperialist finance- capitalists. " As the Jewish rabbi’s statement at Moscow truly the Pope at Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury remained silent in 1918- 1919 “when Dénikin’s hordes were massacring Jewish men, women ®and children, committing frightful actions, defiling synagogues,” etc. Who was Denikin? Was not this White Guard general supported by the whole capitalist world, “republican” and “socialist” no less than by the monarchists? Denikin slaughtered the Jews because the restora- tion of capitalist rule over the Soviet Union had hope only in restoring the wildest and most savage forms of reaction. But this is ten times more true today. The pogrom-mak are an integral part of the front against the revolutionary workers’ republic—the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics. When the British imperialists, the American im- perialists, the French imperialists, the German imperialists plus the Polish and Roumanian fascists, plunge the world into the new im- perialist war having as a central object the same purposes for which the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop Manning are now working, they can and must rely upon the use of all of the Rus- sion monarchist riff-raff scattered thru the world and upon all of the remaining kulak elements which are being so fast crushed out of Soviet Russia as well-as wpon-theit armies of intervention. This is to say that the rabbis of New York are playing the role of the vilest pros- titutes of the perpetually prostituted clerical trade—they are seeking to line up the Jewish masses with the same forces of pogrom instigators which have for centuries been murdering Jewish men, women and children. It is in fact true that the present war drive against the workers’ revolutionary republic is precipitated largely because of the present ac- tions of the Soviet government in “collectivizing” the agriculture of Soviet Russia. The full significance of this is so tremendous as almost to defy description, The collectivization of Russian agriculture is proceeding at a speed beyond the fondest hopes, and will soon reach 50 per cent throughout the whole enormous country! The voluntary flooding of tens and scores of millions of peasants into this socialized system is the most remarkable phenomenon of modern history. It means that not only the manufacturing industries and the system of distribution are being built into a full socialist system but that the system of socialization is being extended to cover the entire population. It means the complete abolition of classes throughout the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Of course, there is no room for the Nepman and the kulak, and these are being eliminated by the process of social- ization. But the elimination of the kulak (who functions as the social basis of capitalism in the farming regions and also the social basis of the popes and pogrom leaders), and the elimination of the Nepman (the private business speculator and trader of the cities and towns) destroys the basis upon which the imperialists would have to rely within Soviet Russia for support of intervention. So the rabbis are mobilizing the world over, to follow with the priests, the generals, the pogroms makers, to aid in plunging the world into imperialist war to destroy the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. It seems that the capitalist leaders are trying now to utilize the Jewish masses, petty capitalist elements and also working class, as supporters of war and pogroms for the triumph of the grand-dukes, e the landlords and the foreign capitalists over the revolutionary workers’ | republic which for the first time in history has destroyed anti-semitism and persecution of the Jews. WIN THE STRIKE: a ae / \ | MOSCOW, Feb. 27.—Bitterly con- owe: Raa te demning the “religious” anti-Soviet ! |Win Demands; UMW) rabpied Gluskin, Zimbanist, Masel, Gebrie- lov, Cherstein and Jercho, issued a| Back to Defeat | re a ,,an attempt to overthrow the Soviet Scores Join N. M. U. Government and to restore the ye ered masses of Jews under the tsar- | | ist regime. Relief Conference | 1 este s re the attitude of the foreign rabbis | SPARTA, Ill, Feb. 27.—The 404) who are making common cause with i C |campaign, the six Minsk | Tried to Drive Them manifesto branding the campaign as | ee White Guard bandits who slaught- ‘Elect Delegates to the | The manifesto protested against | | strikers, half of them Negro miners,|the notorious butchers of their co- | at the Moffat mine here have won |teligionists against the Soviet Union, ary peasant army which occupied | the capitalist world is ina drawn-out nit- | Santo Domingo yesterday morning | economic depri all their demands. -As a direct re-|the only country where anti sult of the sending here of National|ism is criminally prosecuted. Quot- Miners’ Union organizers, distribution of the N. U. pro-| anti-semitism the enemy of the peo- gram for staunch r ance to the ple, the manifesto goes on to com- unemployment and speg-up policy| pare the situation of the Jews in of the bosses, the miners rejected Palestine, Rumania, ete., with the every effort of the United Mine (Continued on Page Three) Workers officials to get them to go back, “pending settlement” and have’ a clear cut victory to their credit. Many have joined the N. M. U. M’DONALD TRIES TO FOOL MASSES Spreads Lies on Navy Race Meet LONDON, Feb. 27.—Further de- lay of the quibblings of the imper- ialist delegates at the race-for- armament conference was seen to- day in the announcement by Andre Tardieu that it will take him about | ten days to form a cabinet—if not |longer—presuming that it will not) meet the fate of the Chautemp gov- ernment. Meanwhile, the capitalist press | here discusses the open rivalry be- tween British and American imper- ialism and the struggle for naval Rejects Fishwick. The Moffat miners were organ- ized in a U. M. W. local. The mine | (Continued on Page Two) | PATERSON SILK MILL ON STRIKE 400 Picket Rayon Mill in Allentown PATERSON, N. J., Feb. Both night and day shifts at th Levine Silk Mill are striking agains’ | the discharge of workers who read! 27. i leaflets distributed to the crew in, war arms supremacy which hid- this shop by the National Textile den by the screen of “parity Workers’ Union. They also demand, MacDonald and Stimson try to besides reinstatement of the five make it appear that it is the French | discharged, a 2 cent increase per| demands for increases in naval arm- | yard on piece rates, and recognition! aments, as well as those of the Jap- of the shop committee. | anese imperialists, that is wrecking The distribution of leaflets took, the conference; but they do not \place Monday. The boss spied on| Point out that the sharpest division | the workers reading them, and dis-| Occurs in the struggles between Bi |charged one of them on the night| tish and American imperialism over shift, Another worker said, “You| their relative naval war strength. fire him now, perhaps you will want| When asked in the House of Com- |to fire mé next,” and walked out! (Continued on Page Two) with the discharged worker. The! -——— | whole night shift followed, picketed | | (Continued on Page Two) WIN CAFETERIA H | 'Wall Street Haitian | Commission Arrives on Warship Today J PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. Haitian Commission, now on board the U.S.S. Rochester, flagship of the imperialist invasion squadron, is scheduled to arrive here today. Headed by the banker, the first act of the commi: to send a message of greetings to DRIVE GOES ON Elkwood Is on Strike; | Two Arrested | | The Fundamental Cafeteria on 18th St. was forced to settle ye: terday with the Cafeteria Worker | Union’ after a short strike. This place tried to avoid granting union | conditions by signing up with the| fake joint food craft council of the | IN DOMINGO OPENS FIGHT Poor Peasants Form Backbone, But Fakers Lead Demand Vasquez Qui Hoover Ready to Ship Marines to Island SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Feb. 27.—The revolution- sprang into strenuous activity just and the|ing Lenin’s decree which declares |hefore 5 p. m. today, after repeated national character, expressed un- efforts to get president Horacio | Vasquez to resign. The masses who form the revolu- tionary army are willing to fight jagainst American imperialism, which is the main exploiter of the peasant and working masses in Santo Do- mingo, as well as against Vasquez, who receives the support of Curt Pulliam and Cabot, Wall Street rép- resentatives, but the leaders of the insurgents, General Rafael Estrella Urena and General Estrella have been co-operating with the American imperialists. Latest reports declare that the revolutionary army was preparing to bombard Vasquez’s palace if he did not resign. Thus far the revolu- tionists have been greeted by the regular army headed by General Rafael Trujillo. The leaders of the uprising are maneuvering for polit- ical leadership. and are using the discontent of the masses to over- throw the Vasquez regime, without pressing any of the demands of the |peasants who form the revolutionary army. Whether the ragged peasants in |the insurgent army will continue merely to back the political ambi- tions of the petty-bourgeois lawyers jand politicians who head the move- ment against the Vasquez govern- ment remains to be seen. Hoover has already chreatened to send marines to Santo Domingo in the event the revolution assumes a veal mass character and begins aj struggle for the demands of the peasants. * * * SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republ Urena, betrayer masses who are willing against American imperialism, and against the large land holders, is expected here today to negotiate with the American Minister Curtiss on how best to mislead the revolu- tionary workers and peasants who have marched on Santo Domingo, 2,000 strong. Though the Negro, Indian and Spanish peasants have been deprived of their land, are forced to work for miserable wages, and have been suffering acutely because of the growing economic crisis, Urena and his lieutenant, the lawyer, Estrella, perialists here that their only oppo- sition to the Vasquez government ic, Feb. 27.—-Rafael Estrella | of the peasant} to fight R 50,000 JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE IN TEN U.S. CITIES | Wireless “Summary of the Thesis, Presidium of the _ Ex.Comm., Communist Intl ‘Full Meeting of the Presidium of the Executive , Committee, Comintern Closed Yesterday ‘000 JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE AT N.Y, CITY HALL Tammany Cops Attack Slug Workers Asking Work or Wages | | (Special Wireless to the Daily yicies of the counter-revolutionary | | Worker) |bourgeoisie, heading the most vicious | | MOSCOW, Feb. 27.—The full|anti-Soviet campaign and turning) q | meeting of the Mresidium of the Ex-|into an appendage of the police Workers Fight Back itive Committee of the Commu-|forces. i ae fics ae nist International closed today. The| 6. With the accentuation of the | i a 4 2 following is a summary. of the|crisis and the class struggle goes the| Police Brutality for hee y | Brora eee ee om| Starving Workers | 1.) The crisis occurs amidst par-| 7. The further upward revolu-| 104 Bradlichions: gee Sniigers en) es Noes ; nthe bosses back of him, mobilized 500 increased ‘and more stubborn strike | police of all arms, and an unknown \and where a considerable part of struggles, finds expression in movement, ever more outside the re- number of hundreds of “newspaper formist unions; “strikes which are reportersy’ that is, plain clothes assuming more political character, men with reporters cards stuck in \ evenly, sharpening the general crisis | placing the mass political strike on | their hats, to avoid hearing the im- | i f the up- the order of the day. An uneven,; perative demands of 20,000 New |and hastening the process of the up-, H _An_ uneven, | pe nds Uno NEY ward revolutionary swing of the}upward revolutionary tide is lifting York unemployed yesterday after- | toiling masses. jthe masses to the major revolution- | noon. | 3. The crisis brings mass unem- | ary tasks of the class struggle. City Hall Park was black with |ployment, increased exploitation, i -| 8. Internal consolidation of the jobless workers and those who had |tensified rationalization, speed-up, |Communist Parties has resulted struck work to come down and add land worsening conditions of the|from the expulsion of the rights and weight to their protest against agricultural proletariat. | conciliators, who are one with the starvation imposed on their class by ret. Accelerating new imperialist | Trotzkyites on all fundamental ques-| capitalism. At 12:30 a committee war, and a growing danger of a tions. 2 of 20 stepped out of the immense | military attack on the Soviet Union.| 9. The necessity of further throng and started up the steps to | 5, The social democrats in power sharpening the fight against oppor-) present Walker with a little re- re pursuing aggressively the pol-| (Continued on Page Two) quest for immediate emergency re- J | lief, unemployment insurance, no | |; work—no rent, seven hour day and | CITY HALL MASS five-day week, etc. i | Squads of police leaped upon them | and dragged them away. ~ MEETING TONITE MEET, MAR. 1ST as isin 2. The ci is assuming inter- swearing patrolmen shoved through | (Continued on Page Three) | eee |Union Demands HOPber Working Women =e ano Mil WANKEE | Cent Wage Increase Children Demonstrate | |Z; Rate Wee | The Independent Shoe Workers; On omits re it at. 12:00| JOBLESS M A R C H Ini i |p. m., a demonstration of working pase Salle aliceaeaieet see sis women and children will take place | Banived-workers'to & Biase meeting in front of the City Hall, it was) ‘tonight at 8 p. m., at the Lorraine} announced by the New York Dis- | Hall, 790 Broadyay, Brooklyn, where| trict of the Communist Party and Demand $16,000,000 Surplus for Relief | the new agreement demanded of the | the Young Pioneers, to protest |bosses by the union members will; against the police brutality in the ince es explained, and plans made to or- demonstration of unemployed work- | ganize the mutitude of unorganized | and badly exploited shoe workers in New York. The membership meeting of the | Independent Shoe Workers Union, Wednesday proclaimed a demand of ‘a 10 per cent raise in wages for the coming year. The new agreement is to go in effect on March 1. At the same meeting the Lovestone forces showed their anti-working MILWAUKEE, Wis., welve thousand unemployed Feb. 27. ers who demonstrated before the ,,, City Hall on Thursday. ie rk é ' ers of Milwaukee, a large portion of {| Many women and children were them heing Negro workers, demon- | brutally beaten by Whalen’s cos-! trated here yesterday. sacks when they took part in the! ‘They marched ty thousands thrv unemployed demonstration demand- | tie business district and past the ing work or wages. There were! City Hall, denouncing the “social | several women workers on the Un-!j.t3” whose leader Hoan is City jemployed Council Committee that) savor, went to see Mayor Walker, and they; pe was aye | were roughly handled and beaten byl g escommtee vlc sane Ge = a the official armed thugs. Sain: Sil be ¢ |class actions by fighting vigorously | ; c The Committee will attend the | : it Page Two) The demonstration of the women City Council meeting and demanc (Continued on Page Two and children will protest against the| that the city turn over the Treasur: z police tactics of the capitalists, and| curplus of $16,000,000 to the unem | Ft j will put fozward the demands of! 1o.ed, to be administered by th Arrest 2 in Kearney, (112 Jremplaved workers for imme-| 200° able 7 Unemployed Council elected by th N. J. for Exposing Ford Slave Plants NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 27.—Two iworkers, Clara Goldstein and Joe |Padoanus, were arrested today for distributing copies of The Worker containing an article ex- |posing the exploitation and speed- \have agreed with the American im-|up of workers in the Ford plant at! |Kearny, N. J. They were brought before the Daily | ‘the murderer of the Haitian work- 4p, would be on purely legal and tech-| same judge who more than a week diate jobless insurance, and par- | ticularly the drastic effects of un- employment on the women workers and their children. They will also protest against the preparations for war by the imperialists against the Soviet Union. All women workers and their chil- dren are called upon to come in; | mass to the City Hall on Saturday | to show their solidarity in the fight for unemployment relief, and a | fight against capitalist police bru- | tality. workers, It is reported that some employe workers left theiv jobs to join th march of the unemployed organize by the Unemp! d Council of th |Trade Union Unity League and as isted by the Communist Party. The call has gone forth by thes (Continued on Page Two) JOBLESS BATTLE. L., but the militant Cafe-| But all of the prostitution of these Jewish rabbis will ultimately serve the good purpose of opening the eyes of the working class Jewish masses throughout the capitalist-world as their eyes are already being opened in the Soviet Union to the hypocrisy and criminal reactionary character of all church institutions as well as the usefulness of religion “the opium of the people’—in the hands of the ruling capitalist class. CELEBRATE INT'L ical grounds. ago ordered the public spanking of | | Urena, who is ambitious for the |a member of the Young Communist ATE. idency, wants Vasquez to re-|League. The two arrested workers YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb, 27.—| e Three | we at 25 bail each, and : Pa ace Sota on strike yesterday after the bosses { pc ontied on Redeye wee \ieie eae pices a Friday for |An unemployed demonstration was | had refused to grant the demands} + \held here yesterday under the aus-| of the union. The workers imme-|F'00d Clerks Establish |***- Rane | pices of the Unemployed Council og Seattle Jobless Do ‘ai ‘ i i A | 3 the Trade Union Unity League with | ql< + diately, began tg picket the shep "Section Chairmen Plan; ) to Hold Unemployment Demon- 5909 workers. participating. in a, Likewise LOS ANGELES, ,ers and peasants, president Borno. |The message was wirelessed to the |U. S. High Commissioner Russell to jbe transmitted to his office boy, | Borno. The imperialist commission will {hold hearings in Haiti in order to ,Workers. Every means must be |cee how best to keep Wall Street’s ‘used to organize women workers into | the revolutionary trade unions of teria Workers’ Union defeated this | maneuver. | The Elkwood Cafeteria was called | P*** 5,000 DEMONSTR 4 c, two, Morris and Angelo; st grip on the island and to frustrate | };,'; :: ld) *. Hy | stration. march to the City Hall. A bigger | the growing mass revolutionary sen- Dianitos, were arrested and are held) Win AnotherFruit Shop! ge Feb. 27.—An | under $500 bail for “disorderly con- e f the Trade Union Unity League, and (Continued on Page Two) WOMEN’S DAY Drive for 10,000 subs Police Forces, for “Working Woman” Throughout the world the class conscious workers will celebrate In- | ternational Women’s day on March | ., timent of the Negro workers and peasants. Militia Are _ Mobilized Against Jobless 8. A statement issued by the Wom-/ Spies Trail Communists.in Waterbury; Labor en's Department of the Communist , Party, U.S.A., points out that: “International Women’s Day cam-. paign, 1930°takes plage at a time when millions of unemployed work- ors many of them women and chil- 27. 27.—Yesterday’s DETROIT, Feb. Defense Prepares Full Support for March 6 |police on March 6. capitalist press here is full of police} The Michigan National Guard is | Although the drive has tales of the “red danger” and the|ordered to “prepare for duty” on ‘started, the Cafeteria | duet.” dreds of cafeterias in New York is | spreading. The workers are mili- {tant on the picket lines in those) shops where strikes have been de- | clared. The A. F. of L, through its Food Craft Council, a well known! ithe bosses as a tool to try and break the ranks of the workers and | stop the organization of the unor- |ganized cafeteria workers. | workers realize this and are refus- ing to be misled. i | Drive Is Winning. : dren, are starving in every capital- ist country, when the imperialist powers of the world, like a pack “protective measures” taken by the | March 5, “in preparation” for Inter- | Union has succeeded in winning police, the whole series of wild/national Fighting Day against Un-| strikes in many shops. The work-| | yarns being clearly a piece of propa- | employment on March 6. of wolves, are preparing to pounce upon the Soviet Union in a world war in order to destroy our workers’ zovernment. “Today as never before working women are victims of capitalist ra- lence,” which the police themselves jionalization and face struggles that are planning. But the workers will require their activity as organized | strike and demonstrate regardless of ganda designed to lay the basis for _an attack on the Unemployed Coun- cil of the Trade Union Unity League ‘and upon the Communist Party un- der the guise of “preventing vio-; The police mobilized yesterday, expecting a chance to attack the | Workers’ demonstration jrelates that “tesr-gas | sticks, mounted poli wed-off shotguns, repeating rifle mored jecars and small armies of patrolmen i (Continued on Page Three) “+, night te are preparing to spread the struggle. the Monroe on 35th St., are still on! strike. Yesterday many unemployed food | workers participated in the demon- | (Continued on Page Two) Another shop has been won by | The drive to organize the hun-| the Food Clerks’ Industrial Union. After a short strike, the fruit mar- ket at 758 East 180th St. Bronx, settled, with union conditions. The union is also organizing a section chairmen’s council, to make the organization stronger, and bet- seabbing agency, is being used by|ter activize the membership for| struggle. The members have already done good work for the union. chairmen’s meeting, with enthusias- tic response and good results, The section chairmen’s council will just hold regular meetings to help out, izers. Yester- | The day there was an excellent section | will be held in Newark, Friday, 10 o'clock a. m., at 93 Mercer St. A mass unemployment sie ge ves is prepared for March 6, with a strike call to the employed workers to join. | ‘Workers of W | (Wireless By Inprecorr) show that unemployment increased hole World Preparing for March 6 In Berlin, St. Louis, California, Ohio and in Washington, D. C., the Workers Are Uniting Jhundreds of workers, Negro and BERLIN, Feb. 27.—The official | white together, gathered at High) Workers’ the strike committee and the organ- figures of the German government | St. near Franklin here at the call of the Trade Union Unity Leaguo, unemployed demonstration of eigh’ | thousand workers, led by the Trad |Union Unity League supported b |the Communist Party, battled for ar \hour when attacked by police here ‘and fifty were arrested, among ther | Comrades Clark, Waldren and Spec |tor. Three workers were taken to | the hospital, Lillian Silverman take: ‘unconscious. The police we extremely bruta’ ‘at attacking the workless, but th workers were persistent and tear {gas bombs failed to disperse th. ‘demonstration. Among the arrester are many Mexican and Filipinc workers. | a 8 a | Seattle reports Thursday stat» | that an unemployed demonstratioi: Each section will also hold meet-/| 50,000 in the third week of Febru-|and with banners marched to the | with banners demanding “work o shops in the section are organized, The Benrod, on Seventh anl that the union conditions are, The press| Ave., the C. @ G. on 23rd St., and) maintained in settled shops. |now 2,340,000 unemployed are re- ers are enthusiastically responding ings to see that the unorganized |ary. The official figures show that | City Hall, where a demonstration | wages,” the 7-hour day, was held to make known the T. U. agains: speed-up and wage cuts, etc., was at eiving the full unemployment re-|U. L. program on unemployment tacked by police who tried to sto: , while hundreds of thousands |and the call for demonstration on/a street speaker and met resistance Picketing continues at the Miller more are getting the so-called “cri- March 6. Later a meeting was held by the assembled workers. Clubs Market, Union Ave. and 161st St., Bronx, and the strike is being con-| tinued at the 967 Aldum St. butcher store, is support.” i Seah ste | §. Louis Jobless Organize. ST. LOUIS, Mow Feb. 27.—Some at Labor Lyceum, 1243 North Garri- son, to organize the Council of Un- jemployed. The workers were en- | (Continued on Page Three) | fists, motoreycles and automobile: were used by the police who onl: Bhi a hot fight managed to dis perse the jobless,