The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1930, Page 3

CLASS STRUGGLE SHARP IN FRANCE Solid Against Reformist Betrayals Workers Demonstrate in Many Towns for Wage Increases PARIS (By Inprecorr Press Serv-} trade union delegate. ice)—Despite the meaneuvers of} One thousand ty the owners, and the tetror and pro-| workers have been voeations of the authorities, and the|Nancy. They obvious sabotage of the :cformist|¢ leaders, the 12,000 striking metal | huni locked oat demand wage The lower ¢ still solid. The strike of the 2,000 lense mak ers in Morez is still"on. Despite ia falls of snow strect demonstrati the “Inter and picketing are still proceeding. | The tramwaymen in Valenciennes | | and_ other In | marched thr nale, he reformist e succeeded st in ike breaking * Zoergiebel Prepares New Bloody May 1 12 BERLIN (By Inprecorr Press , his | Service).—The Berlin district of the German Metal Workers Union an- | the nounces that “this year’s May Day | Zoer: celebration will be held, as last yeur, in a closed hall.” brutal crime of last year nize a new blood bath am has obviously alrea nt to his social democr iebel | tie colleag this is the first official information |to keep the workers that Zoergiebel intends to repeat | May 1. Communists in Growing Austrian Battles VIENNA (By Inprecorr Press Service) —A demonstration of Heim- | which nevertheless took place. wehr fascists took place today here. | Communist leadership, tors, some of whom were in uniform | attacked the police. and marched in military formation. This social democratic authori tions of White R WARSAW, (By Inprecorr Press | kievitch sians? quashed were on AS STRIKES SPREAD 12,000 Metal and Textile Strikers in Belfort | ‘ed shoe in- il’servants have cat- and textile workets in Belfort are |ried out demonstrations for inereaccs lin Bordeaux, Le Mans, Dijon, Rowsn Rouen they h the streets singing throttlers the have decided on a 24-hour protest |strike of the tramwaymen in Bor- strike against the mishandling of a dcaux and of the seamen in Havre. ary workers on May 1 in the trade unions so The “Rote Fahne” declares that | that even now they are arranging » in halls on “Socialists” ‘Aid Fascists; Workers Support Communist counter-demonstrations, In four quarters the workers as-/| There were about 6,000 demonstra-|sembled and demonstrated under (2 continually Le) OM had given special permission for this | including the Secretary of the Com- ft A number of arrests were made, | { 3 | LEADERS DEATH demonstration whilst prohibiting the | munist Party, Comrade Koplenig. | Lie aay Why Don’t They Pray Against Polish Persecu-. the | Service)—Mass demonstration took | ground that the charges against him place in Vilna in connection with|had already been dealt with in the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, The Rule and the Exception fascists and Russian Czarist white guards before the y at Paris took place with the consent and knowledge of the police-—News item. A Demonstration Against the Soviet Union Is “an Exception.” .. MEMORATE Saay wee capitalists for maintaining the sys tem of exploitation. ical presentation ad proof of the facts, but through the hard knocks |of their experience with the capi- talists and with the government which supports the capitalist sys- tem. | While fighting with the workers to realize their immediate demands} against tha capitalists, it is the part | (Continued from Page One) |of the Commynists to point out to has been employed by the Socialist | them at every stage of the develo Showed Role of | Party iMADe COPS They learn this, not thru theoret- 9 3, Ar BL x wii ke ea MARCH 1930 N L *housands Hiss Attack Protest 2 Page One) to present their at Joble demand: More than a hundred police, scat- ed thickly around that part of 6 City Hall Park, r them, beating a he greatest b Kk ng with The demon- when they from po- each ott clutches and refused to leave. Olga Gold, director of women’s ict of Communist Party attempted to « from the city hall steps. Two zrabbed and clubbed her. le others beat her up. She v then thrown out of the publie pa Thousands Hiss Police. Over 10,000 gathered in a great > the po bbing down the your y booed and hi he police, and tried to come to the rescue of their victims. The mount- ed cops rode down the crowd, scat- tered it, and plied their clubs. As has happened before at City 1 Park, the demonstrators and rge masses of recruits from work- who witnessed the assault on m, returned again and again, not leaving the park until 2:30, New Demonstration Starts. One st ¢ demonstration was led by Frieda enazy and Sonia Mar- after work in the New York di th reforming the ranks of the demon- strators, called in uniformed pol and led a vicious attack with billies against them. They were badly beaten over the backs and necks. The crowd itself was brutally as- saulted with and blows, men, women and children being kicked Bodily down the subway entrances. “Tt was beastly,” said Askenazy. “There was no discrimination about | women or children, young or old.” NEW COUNCIL OF UNEMPLOYED AFTER ATTACK BY POLICE ws Militancy of Chester Workers; All Workers Out March 6! n hip Cops Make Bum Showing Before Their] Bosses; Workers Resist Them (By @ Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa.—At 8 o’clock the | her morning the Chester flying juad of the Unemployed Councils of Chester, T.U.U.L., made their sec- ond appearance before the employ= ment office of the Sun Ship Build- ing and Dry Dock Co., for the pur- pose of urging the unemployed to nize into the unemployed coun- Three company guards rushed out and ordered the speaker to step. This he refused to do, so, since he was the same eaker who had led e demonst m eight days previ- y, the chief thug threatened him, You got away last time, 1 get you today.” He told ‘d to shut up, then continued ; and when he had finished, | ywalked unconcernedly away the cheers of the assembled workers. In the meantime, the company guards had called for the Chester police, who artived upon the scene too late to “get” their man. Deter- mined to make a showing before the s, however, they ed upon an innocent worker who was looking for a job, and carried him in tri- umph to the city calaboose. As a result of this raid by our comrades we have organized Unem- ployed Council No. 3, and the work ers are daily becoming more m tant, and more determined than ever to fight the police terror in Chester. On March 6 we are going to put on a demonstration that will com- pletely overwhelm the police. —C. M. Illinois Farmers Are Militant (By a Worker Correspondent.) ELDORADO, IlL—I drop you a few lines to let you know how §a- ine County is doing. I went over to organize the farm- ers last week. Three applied for the Communist Party. At one farm house a neighbor farmer came over o talk. The first thing he talked bout was the demonstration in eland. In White County practically all labor is farming. One factory is all i know of and one coal mine, which failed. to pay off last Saturday | (February 15). We are going up and! }see what we can do for the N.M.U., at this mine, which is at Norris | City. | The farmers are ready to rebel in | White County, They have taken |one step to prove it. The county owes about $75,000. And time is up for payments. They tried to vote a | bond issue the grafters. But failed, | for the farmers said they would not j vote. for the bonds, and that the county grafters could go without pay for all they cared. There is good ground for Commu- Party work among these farm- ers. statement scoring the attack on the workers. “After the vicious assault by the police on the unemployed worke: who went to City Hall on Thursday will not prevent the workers both unemployed and employed, from coming out in tens of thousands on March 6 to demonstrate against the bosses and the government and for the demand of the unemployed. amid } IMAKE FIGHT ON A. F. L. FAKERS ON MARCH Woll’s Fascist Letter : Hits Jobless (Continued trom Page One) January gain. The facts suggest that the danger of a second quar- ter relapse in business is increas- ing.” This is very plain language, pre- paring the bosses for further sharp |eurtailments in all basic industries and a vast increase in the unem- ployed army. | As Comrade Varga showed in the llast issue of the “Communist Inter national,” the rapid drop in com- modity prices as a result of the harpening economic and agrarian crisis in the United States is. dis- locating capitalist economy through- jout the world. | One of the most outstanding fea- |tures of the last month has been |the rapid drop in prices, Come | modity prices have already reached lana level of the severe crisis of 1921 and are still continuing to go down. The Annalist points out this |alarming fact to the capitalists: | “More striking is the fact that the commodity price level is now |practically down to the bottom of |1921—and for reasons not so differ- ent from those operating in the |earlier year as the hasty observer | may be inclined to think.” | On February 21 building con- | tracts awarded for 1930 showed the | tremendous decline of 35.9 below | the same period of 1928. Building “Boom” a Collapse. And the Annalist also. points out that the so-called Hoover building |program, which received such loud- |mouthed praise from Hoover, |Green, Barnes and Lamont, has |turned out to be a complete route. Even the Counter-Revolutionary Age (No. 2) thought that there would be an increase in building as ja result of the stock market crash. | But says the Anna “President Hoover's statement |that a marked reduction must be It is the method now ment of the struggle that these im-| to demand work or wages, the police | “Workers of New York! Show the new trial against the leader of|former trial which brought him a | Labor Party. A favorite trick of the police was | jmade in government expenditures of New York like czarist cossacks Bh oe iat nn in the suppressed West White-Russian sentence of 12 years hard labor. Workers and Peasants Hroz.ada,| Comrade Tarashkievitch. The de-| monstration was broken up by the police twice, but assembled again. | AMALGAMATED WORKERS to the masses. while the armed police held back the workers and _ prevented a rescue, The proceedings against Tarash. [quarters of the left-wing union, Party Members! Party Units! Party Districts ATTENTION Your Central Organ MUST PARTICIPATE in all Unemployed Demonstrations Read and Act! No unemployed demonstration is complete p organizationally, unless the Daily Worker parti cally, agitationally, pates. » District offices, in cooperation with Daily Worker representatives, must ) organize groups of comrades who will sell and distribute the Party i , “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, etc. This news must reach ALL WORKERS at factory gates, in house to house sales and distributions, Every Party member must assume 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 t The West Coast Edition Dated March 1st 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 35 Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March Dvortchania and Gretzki, two dep- | 2—Revolting against the betrayals | uties of the West White-Russian|of the misleaders of the Amalga- workers and peasants block spoke mated Clothing Workers Union in n Francisco, the entire executive The police separated the two from |board of the local union appealed to the masses and manoeuvred them the militant Needle Trades Workers into the arms of a gang of Fas- Industrial Union to aid them in @)to depend upon propagand cists who beat them up severely | fight to oust Reinish, business agent jof the Amalgamated. A mass meet- ling to mobilize the needle workers was called this week at the head- | sdvoeated by the Proletarian Party. |™ediate demands cannot solve their These organizations believe that problems. Thus, in the process of | through a theoretical presentation | the struggle itself, the workers be-| of the fundamental Communist prin- |COM€ Mote conscious of their class ciples a majority of the working| imterests and of their class enemy. class can be won for the support It is in the process of struggle that of these principles and .that some |{¢ revolutionary will of the workers fine day the proletarian revolution | {evelops, and through these strug- will come about. Such a method,|#les they are led step by step to however, will never brine about the the final struggle of the proletarian | proletarian revolution. If we were "evolution. | Ja alone, we could wait for another million’ Adams Argues for War years and there would be no pro-| Ietarian revolution nor a dictator-| Alms; Borah’s Bunk | ship of the working class. | We must carry on educational) (Continued from Pane One) | work in our Party. We must carry, that are agreed¢on.” He lets the on educational work among sympa- | C@t out of the bag. | thizers of our Party. It is our t Ash pe | to educate as many workers as pos: WASH NGTON, March 2.—Sen- sible to an understanding of the| ator Borah, whose policy on the} fundamental principles of Commu- | ?a¢e-for-armaments conference is no |nism but we cannot rely upon that | different than that of Hoover, Stim- for several of them to single out some child or woman, chasé him or her for yards, and then kick the vic- tim repeatedly all the way along the sidewalk. Several children were knocked unconscious with blackja: | wielded by Whalen’s heroes. In the first attack Ben Goldberg and a few others were so badly beat- en that they re taken away. Even after the police had slugged Gold- berg, they atacked the group taking him out of the park. Hospital Refuses Treatment. Perry Blumkin, a Pioneer was at- tacked by three police, and while women and children fought to de- fend him he was badly beaten. He was taken to the St. Marks Hospital where admission was refused when they learned that he was a Pioneer. Beatrice Deen, age 18, was knock- ed down, and a mounted policeman rod back and forth across her. She attacked the wives and children of ; the unemployed who went to City |}Han in support of their husbands !and fathers,” says the statement. |“This is the method that the czar in |Russia used against the hungry | wo: when they demanded bread. | This is the method that the ezars| of New York use against the un- jemployed workers, their wives and | | children when they demand relief in| | their misery and distress. | “If the bosses of this city think | that they will settle the unemployed | question in this manner they are |sadly mistaken. The unemployed | are learning a lesson about the city} | government which is ruled by Wall | Street. They see the Tammany- | Walker-Whalen cossack regime is an) lorganized body against the working | |class. The workers have been or- | ganized into the unemployed councils | |method. alone to achieve the pro- lIetarian revolution. | The method which has been adopt- |ed by the Communist International and the Communist Parties the world over is quite a different meth- lod. The method of the Communists be Pe ae She through the Trade Union Unity) jyras badly bruised by the horse's) yeague and the masses of employed | Ma ; lw : : being | Frank Pogano, 15, ..| workers, whose wages are | ee pnd Hey oa iene ta | slashed by the bosses and their hours) | another tried for several minutes'to | lenathened, will continue to fight) dcadeke out Wis | for work or wages, immediate relief | Frieda Feltman | = of the Communist Party was kicked |f0F unemployed, 7-hour day, 5-day son or Adams, also broadcasted a |speech which-had the same object |as Adams’ tripe. Namely, to delude |the masses about the objects of the | London conference. Borah can see the war danger. He said, “The world at this time is more Ife one of the things hth di: | Reavily armed than at the beginning tinguishes the Communist Party 0 the world war.” He also recog-| Fees ole Wore eles oraty | nizes the growing radicalization of| izations which have sought to bring | (te ™asses and the revolutionary | abdat the proletarian revolution. © | wave which is growing throughout : the world as a result of the sharp- As Communists, we know that the| ening eris “We are told,” de- capitalist system brings about con-|¢lares Bo “that Communism tinual conflicts between economic! threatens o: ebvariionk 3. groups in the present social order. | Great periods of unrest do not come | The wage workers come in constant | without cause.” conflict with the capitalists over} While he talks the usual “disarm-| questions affecting their daily lives.| ament” slop, he also indicates the The workers desire hirher wages.| growing rivalries between the im- They want shorter hours of labor. | perialist powers, and insists on suf-| They want improvement in their| ficient armaments for the American | working conditions. Struggles over | capitalists in their struggle for! these questions and ever broader | world markets. zy questions grow out of the funda-| mental conflict of the wage workers | and the capitalists. These conflicts are not matters of theory, They | Paper Mills laid off its entire force ent ene ase Dia Sees of 450 workers for an indefinite which decide the standard of living |, o.5 ir Y orde: of the workers and their families, peed sens ee ee Similarly the exploited farmers find themselves in conflict with the exploiters from day to day. Th farmers struggle against the bank. ers who hold the mortgages on thei land. “They are in continual con- flict with the marketing organiza- tions to which they sell their prod- ucts. Their interests are in opposi- tion to those of the railroads which transport their goods. Thus both wage workers and farmers are en- gaged in a continual struggle with the capitalists. The policy of the Communist Par- ty is to associate itself with the workers in the everyday struggle. Communists fight with the wage | workers and farmers in support of | the demands which they make of the | capitalists because it is in these! and through these struggles that the | workers learn the character of the | capitalist system, and there is de- veloped the will to power of the workers, the determination to tri- fimph over the enemy who exploits and oppresses them. The everyday struggles of the “PROSPERITY.” LAINE, Miss.—The International FORCE RELIEF FROM BOSSES. COPENHAGEN.—Under pressw f mass demonstrations the Dani. ‘ouse of Commons recently passed a bill providing immediate relief for unemployed. A New Offer to induce you to get Subscribers for the Daily Worker Daily Worker, 1 year $6.00 Labor Defender, 1 year 1,00 $7.00 BOTH FOR ONE YEAR le Six two-months' subserip- workers create the most favorable tions at $1.00” each wil condition for establishing the in- count the same as one year- ly subscription to the Worker, ‘This offer holds good for all oitten exoepting “New York ity, fluence and leadership of the Com- ally munist Party. The workers learn by experience the character of the capitalist system. They learn by) their experience in the struggle that lat ne _| week, fight against speed up and} ‘evked’'in ofposite ditecht | ialist war, for defense of the Soviet) jerked in opposite directions on her, | 1°" 4 + : while another kicked her in the back, | Union for which the whole imper-| Rose Kaplan, ef the Communist | ‘alist world is being mobilized. | Party, was choked, struck in the| “The local capitalist press may head, and kicked in the ankles. | “deplore” the attacks being made on ged with “dis-|the unemployed but the capitalis orderly conduct” Fay Caller, 16) of this city demonstrate what their years old; Rosella Scheck, 14; Ida! policy is. The social fascist Amer- | Birnbaum, 31, a dr aker; Fannie| ican Federation of Labor and the} Losoff, 27 a dressmaker; Freda} Socialist Party are cooperating with Emasky, a waitress and Loren|the bosses and the authorities| Reynolds, 28, a seaman, against the workers. The American | Communist Statement. Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, , The Bureau of New York District | and other fascist organizations are| of the Communist Party issued a! open enemies of the workers. This | GREETINGS TO THE DAILY WORKER Anniversary Greetings! Greetings! | PROGRESSIVE co WORKING | WOMEN’S | FRACTION COUNCIL | of PITTSBURGH Rochester, N. Y.) Pittsburgh, Pa. NEW YORK CITY Gallin MYRRYVILLE, PA. Mike Paich Pete Miholovich M. Lifshitz Bella Kraft S. Gur Elkin & SALEM ‘Sam Heanovich S. Roshal M. Schneider PROVIDENCE, L. I. Makat M. E. G. S. Lapisky ky Goilida J. Poshesky J. EL fadgek Hafolsky J. Wasserman Harry Sokol Beregefko Libnar Simenak HANDS OFF SOVIET UNION! Workers, Rally to the Defense of the First Workers Republic! Mass Demonstration at Bronx Coliseum 177th Street and Bronx River Sunday Afternoon, March 16, at 2 O’clock Protest Against the Imperialist Attacks on the Soviet Union! Speakers: BISHOP WM. MONTGOMERY BROWN WILLIAM Z. FOSTER and others , ADMISSION 25c. Tickets on sale at Friends of Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave. Auspices: FRIENDS OF SOVIET UNION the government under the capitalist system is merely an agency of the your determination to fight for work or social insurance by demonstrating on Thursday, March 6, Union Sq., at 1 p. m Woll Is With the Capitalist Police (Continued from Page One) to use force in controlling some of | the demonstrations,” says the Tele- gram, and Woll in encouraging the police to further blood lettings in- ferred that the police have been too easy in clubbing women unemployed in demonstrations. Woll said: “The Communists have women who are professional criers. These women are trained until they are almost perfect in throwing them- selves at the feet of a policeman and erying that he insulted them or beat them.” “Woll demands in openly fascist | incitement of violence that the un- employed movement be suppressed, | saying: “It is nearly time that our national government interest itself in this intervention in our domestic affairs by another nation,” Woll pretending that the unemployed movement led by the Trade Union Unity League is caused by the So- viet Union, and not by the hunger, | misery and danger of war caused by capitalism. Attempt to Kill the Jobless. In an effort to head off and make harmless to capitalism the move- ment of the 7,000,000 starving job- less of the United States, the re- publican senator Brookhart on Sat- | urday introduced a_ resolution in $50,000,000 for unemployment relief to be administered by the capitalist organization the Red Cross and the labor-crushing United States army. This empty gesture of Brookhart, the fake “progressive,” of course, will give no real aid to the unem- ployed, and the $50,000,000 will re- main as mythical as far as any re- lief is concerned, as the imaginary $1,250,000 which the social-fascist | Woll of the A. F. of L. and the De~ partment of Justice is falsely claim- ing that W. Z. Foster of the T. U. |U. L. has “received from Moscow.” | While Woll is cheering on the po- |lice to» shed the blood of the unem- ployed and starving workers, Brook- hart makes this empty gesture in the senate and senator Borah, in his role as a “loyal oppositionist” to the Hoover government, pretends to be |“opposed” to the police violence, which he “deplores” in a radio speech Saturday as “cruel and in- jhuman,” but which he does nothing jto stop. L4 | Borah’s speech, indeed, is a pro- ‘gram of American imperialism pre- {paring for war against the Soviet |Union and against British imperial- ism, Borah being fearful that the police clubbings will cause the Amer- ican workers to become so disillu- sioned in American fake “democ- racy” that they will not fight for American imperialism in a war against the Soviet Union. American imperialism is prepar- ing a war on the Soviet Union, and its attack on the American working class is a prelude to war. The in- jection into the growing unemployed movement of the social fascists of the A. F, of L. and the “socialists” is to siletrack the 7,000,000 starving jobless from pressing their demands to the ininry of the var prepara- tions. Congress Saturday to appropriate | emphasizes the danger of depending jof the government construction pro- gram to stimulate business.” Tons of propaganda were used by the capitalists to deceive the work- ers on this point. | The steel industry is due for a |severe further decline, which is al- |ready beginning. The Journal of |Commerce (Feb. 28, 1930) informs us: | “Conditions in the steel industry have suddenly changed, with a de- lerease in operating pace noted for the first time this year.” They go on to say: “The slump in ; the purchasing of raw materials on | the part of the automobile industry has also affected the pig-iron de- | mand from these sources. Sales of |iron at Cleveland have dropped to | 15,000 tons weekly, or half the total | of some recent weeks. The Cleve- | land producers sell to the automobile trade more than does any other one- producing district.” 1930 Auto Production 40% Off. Details of January and February sales and production of automobiles shows the extent of the present eri- sis of American capitalism. The automobile and steel bosses have published the fact that they expect at least a 40 per cent drop for 1930 in auto output. Even the limited | production during January merely tended to increase the overproduc- | tion so rife in the automobile field. The Wall Street Journal (Feb, 28, 1980) published complete figures for automobile sales, etc., for the Seventh Federal Reserve District | (Chicago and vicinity), which shows that auto sales for January dropped over 51 per cent, and cars on hand (overproduction) increased 28 per cent. They give this comment: “Stocks of new and used cars on \hand January 31 showéd an increase over previous months and a consid- erably larger increase over the same date in 1928.” And running through it all is the earthquake of the severest agrarian crisis ever experienced in the United States. Hoover, Legge & Co. vir- tually tremble in their boots over the significance of the agrarian crisis, coupled with the rapid sharp- ening of the general crisis of world capitalism. All the fascist hounds, such as Matthew Woll and the “so- cialists” that Hoover can turn loose along with police clubs against the unemployed, are not able to solve the capitalist crisis nor gives jobs to the jobless. In this campaign, even the rene- gades from the Communist move- ment have a part, a call to the “so- cialists” throughout the world by Emil Vandervelde, head of the Sec- ond “Socialist” International, issued on Saturday at Brussels, Belgium, attacking the alleged “terror” in the Soviet Union and saying, “On this point we will leave it to the Oppo- sition Communists to reply to them’—“them” being those who say that the Soviet Union is obliged to defend itself. Against all the enemies of the working class, from Hoover and Woll to Lovestone and Cannon, the workers of America will launch their protest in the strikes and demon- strations for their demands on World Fighting Day on Unemployment, March 6, The best answer to all attacks is to press forward firmly with the demands of the Trade Union Unity League for both the employed and unemployed of the United States