The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1930, Page 4

ms at 26-28 Union a “DAIWORK.” e. New York, N. ¥. atly except Sunday, Baily 52: Worker Central Organ of the Cawme Ri t “THE WORKERS’ PARADIS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York City only): $8.00 a year; $4.50 six months; $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York City): $6.00 a year; $3.50 six months; $2.00 three months the U.S, A. ; i Page Four N.Y, Telep s to the Daily 26-28 Un we ker ARE NEGROES HARD TO ORGANIZE? TOM JOHNSON. ex Ms, ar han white workers. the labor ke of 1,500 miners d West Virginia, the Negro mselves the most ikers. The strike ndale and Alexander gain show section of the committees at both the G Mine in Moundsville, West Virginia, are led by Negroes. / y of the strikers, it is the Negro workers who are leading the a minc y Fred tis) ~QNWARD TO MARCH 6th! ~ FIGHT FOR “WORK or WAGES” By BILL LAWRENCE. yee analysis of the Sixth World Congress and Tenth Plenum of the world situation in determining the present stage as a period of sharpening class struggles ‘is proven to be correct by daily events which take place thru- out the country. The sharp condemnation of the C.I. and the driving out of the elements from the revolu- district was rather slow in the: beginning of the unemployment campaign. Meeting after meeting we discussed the work among unem- ployed, time and again we acknowledged the ideological process the unemployed workets are going through and their readiness to fight for better conditions and yet we were still slow organizationally. And as a signal. to those who fell down on the job came the call . picket is who eae pee tionary working class movement, who tried to | of the International. “Unemployed workers n ‘ dig toon lal eye Tine tnt shein canductiok prove that America is to be exempted from | demonstrate and fight for better conditions on ( diffienlt ’ er Bhi iver Amat Meu nierite the crisis of world capitalism and that the’) March 6th.” It was this call of the-Interna- Across the Ohio River from Moundsville, Now we have made where the Powhatten mine is on strike, it is no exaggeration to say that the strike would be lost today and the men back at work, were it not for the militancy of the Negro miners. American working class is entering a period of “Hooverian Prosperity,” has proven to be not only a firm Bolshevik act on the part of the C.1., but it would be fatal to the Commu- nist Party and consequerftly to the American tional and the realization of the seriousness with which our Central Committee is treating the unemployment campaign that finally put us on the job. A number of unemployed coun- cils were organized in variows sections of the 1 ) recent struggles of the | The brutal attacks of depu Sheriitas ate working class if those elements with their | city. Meetings in front of big factories where y the Communist Party | fompaby gunmen om See ese By Rs ni wrong conceptions on the American situation ; unemployed workers gather, are taking place, I League, have pro- | bing of pickets and the use of tear gas bombs, would have remained in the leadership of our,| Special attention is being paid to the long- have been unable to break the determination a eeded experience. Party. shoremen on the water front, and under. the 1 on these s lesimapat | of the: Negro poker ey cae Sn ae The breaking out of strikes, the increasing | leadership of the Communist Party and mili ffwor Negro worker quite often displays eh bali hota te Nea: Bais Sanit iG unemployment, the speed-up and constant | tant trade union center, the Trade Union Unity iene r ¢ nd greater tenacity in bark berets gal say ic ie ss pound wage cuts and the determination of the Amer- | League, the unemployed workers in Philadel- me ‘ A his white brothers: “Two @x- : is jes hme oe on ibe He BM ees ican workers to fight against capitalism could | Phia are being more and more organized and y : ae deputy sheri sees li eral shel not be possibly utilized for the building of | Prepared for the demonstration on March 6th. af ¢ the Cc of tl } mes on : <a i a Me Siar the party of the working class, if at its lead- | _ Is is remarkable to observe the spirit of Ur was the Neg it was ne ean mere Ce ie " NR oe ership would be people who believe that the | these unemployed workers. These jobless wage capris dr) sy wap wer geen Te tinal oe ee idee de tapes American workers are living in a “Golden | aeNet fect whom ahete is a great ate ready to work for the building up posal and ight against it. Larg 2 age of Negroes, very often surprise us wi ( In the demc due to their eel te Caper panna ae is sufficient to go down in the morning to their militant and class conscious speeches Gens : Senne aries ieee eae He the various employment, agencies where thou- they deliver at the meetings. } one eee Ee the “thecty that Nanteae: sands of workers, desperate and hungry, are | As we are beginning to carry out the de- teps of the City Hall, ers are harder to organize and are less mili- ti s may be found in the following figures relating to the strike. There looking in vain for jobs, as well as to the gates of a few big plants to become con- vinced that not only are the American work- ers not prosperous, but on the contrary, more cisions of the C. I. in deeds and not only in words, in the orientation towards the fac- tories, in concentrating all our efforts .upon | the unskilled and semi-skilled workers in pene- n ° t ranks. A on- ar ay (Februa 6) s 60 scabs in the D : u : oe 3 Laity. of ‘the an tie .. | mine, none in the Glendale mine. Not one of poverty. (ands permansnt unemployment “and | Hon) ct, $e, “mexican working class athe: Ne- us the mais os be s nae is en ual a ‘Necro. There have been some realy to put up a stubborn battle against the | groes, as we note the enthusiasm and the his struggle with the police, ed Council. On the contrar 19 strikers arrested on the picket line in Pow- hattan. Less than one fourth of the 600 strikers are Negroes, yet of the 19 strikers ar- rested for their militancy on the picket line 16, or all but 3 are Negroes. The Role of the Communist Party RUTHENBERG. ” July, 1923.) 1e goal of the Communist Party? it differ from other labor political is the role of the Communist this country the Workers Party—in ele for the emancipation of the work- tes he Liberator, rom “ t is | workers of this country the realization that the struggle against capitalism must be a struggle to abolish the whole capitalist order.. It must teach them that the problem which the work- ing class faces under the capitalist system cannot be solved through ameliorative meas- ures won in the legislative bodies of the cap- italist government or through victories won in the fight on the industrial field for better PDanmmannenal lente wer Wallace B. Johnson, Secretary of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. J., told news- exploiters. The unemployment in Philadelphia is con- stantly increasing. Thousands of workers an- swer an add where. one man is needed. The Budd Manufacturing Co., the Atwater Kent, the Philco radio plants, the General Electric, and the textile mills in Kensington have laid off tens of thousands of workers. Those plants which operate part time subject their workers to the worst kind.of exploitation and speed-up. Wage cuts are a daily occurrence. Spontaneous strikes are breaking out in var- ious mills and plants in spite of the official A. F. of L. leadership. What is true of one industry is true of another. Needless to say that the city government and the officials of the Central Labor Union do nothing to help ' these jobless. The only party today that is really putting up a fight for the unemployed as well as em- ployed workers is the Communist Party. The Communist Party in the Philadelphia fighting spirit with which these workers re- ceive the proposals of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party for the un- employed demonstration, as we see the grow- ing influence of our Party upon these work- ers, we can safely say about those gentlemen who keep on chewing the rag about a pros- perous American working class and the crisis of the American Communist Party, in the words of Lenin: “These persons are veritable agents of the bourgeoisie, active for the bourgeoisie in the ranks of. the workers, the toadies of the capitalist class, the modern protagonists of jingoism and reform.” We must throw ourselves into the campaign of mobilizing the employed and unemployed workers with renewed energy for the fight against the employers, for the demonstration on March 6th and for utilizing these cam- paigns for the building’ of amass Communist Party in our district. e accept as their guiding wages and working conditions. The Commu- h , F ‘ orld imperialist war was the pists will still have the task of educating the |paper reporters on his arrival from the U.S.S.R. that the country is a working man’s #3 <Hky the decay and disintegration of — \orking masses to the necessity of their es- |paradise. In capitalist America seven million jobless suffer from the hell of slow A Review | Notes on the South m. Although the capitalists, tablishing the rule of the workers in place | <tarvation, esmen have striven mightily > da solution to the financial ¢ problems brought upon them by e process of disintegration still goes on. At times there are slight improvements only to be followed by worse conditions. Finan- and economically, Europe draws nearer ; standing that the ex of the rule of the capitalists. They will still have before them the work of bringing to the masses of the workers and farmers the under- ng capitalist govern- ment is an instrument for the service of the capitalists, that it cannot be the form of gov- ernment through which the workers may rule, War and Revolution F one wishes to know just a part of what is going on in the Soviet Union one must visualize wholé cities being built at the top speed in all parts of that enormous land cover- ing one-sixth the land area of the world. Cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago are spring- | ing from the ground while the old industrial By CAROLINE DREW. We have in our posséssion a copy of a mill worker’s pay envelope. . This worker worked sixteen hours at the Clyde Mill and received the munificent sum of $2.28 as wages. nd to the brink. b s\ supplanted b; overnment grow- 7 apie : Tt munists point out to the working He eat ee cnalexperleneel| ae struggles ot the centers are expanding and rebuilding so com- Boldsboro, N..C., is a lumbeting town with . ; alist system has outlived | workers, that isa Soviet government. ‘The By C. E, RUTHENBERG. tain places, the strike of the outlaw railroad | Pletely that they are entirely different. a population of about 1,400. ‘The nearby far- s t cannot be reformed or recon- | Communists will, still have before them the (Delivered during the New York Trial workers, which brought about disintegration Such is one part of the picture brought back | mers also market their raw tobaeéo-here. The th s the misery and suffering which task of educating the working masses of this March, 1920.) of the railroad service and brought about a | from the Soviet Union by William Z. Foster, | Negro workers in this town are almost all un- e t of the workers can only be ended — ¢ountry to the need of their establishing a So- Neat Penis t situation in which the industries could not func- ; and depicted by him in the pamphlet of 48 | employed and starving. Some ‘rich ““goi ti establishing their rule and pro- | yiet government and with it the rule of the Capitalist production in its development tion effectively. This process going on ulti- | nages published by the Trade Union Unity | citizens” have decided to open a “once a day e work of rebuilding the eco- | workers—the Dictatorship of the Proletariat— | brings about its own decay, its own break- mately brings about a condition in which the League at 2 West 15th Street, New York City. | soup kitchen” to keep these Negro workers ommunist basis. which will use the government power in the | down; capitalist production inevitably through Workers are compelled to sirike more irequeis- | It is the story of “Victorious Socialist Con- | f¥om drganizing and to stop the stink which nunists are under no illusion that interests of the workers as openly as it is now | its own conditions of existence produces such !¥, more widely. In the process the govern- | struction in the Soviet Union,” and from start Would develop if the actual conditions of these be done over night. The struggle | ysed in the interests of the capitalists. a situation as the World War; a world war, ment acts as the agent of the capitalist class | to finish is’ worthy of the closest study and | Negro workers became known. he capitalist system may still last for It is because, after the first steps in the | an imperialist war, brings about the breakdown 0 the suppression of the workers . . . as for | interest. For not only do buildings and cities < and even after the workers achieve United States in the form of the organization | of capitalist production. It also brings about ©Xample, in the coal miners’ strike last year, | spring like magic from the ground, but a sys- | The courthouse in Winston-Salem was built ks , go on for years, The Communists of a Jabor party and the amalgamation of the | the increase in prices, the increase of the cost the government used the injunction, it used | tem of social relations, a socialist system built | by the people, of the people, and for the people. jeg! do not attempt to deceive the workers by teach- trade unions, there will still remain these great | of commodities, and thus intensifies the strug- federal troops, it tied up the treasury of the | by the workers is arising on the basis of the | Every kind of religious, fake and bosses poli- we ng that the social revolution is a pink | tasks, that there must be a Communist Party | gle between the workers who must gain the ‘ions. This directs the attention of the work- | working class rule“that is called “proletarian | tical meeting is allowed to be held there. It see tea affair to be achieved in the legislative halls . —g separate, distinet organization which will | necessities to live and the owning class. | °"S against the capitalist state, as the agency | dictatorship.” , is the only hall in town. be of the car italist government.. ie jereon of | have in its ranks the best educated, disciplined, | might illustrate this: As a result of the war of the ied class, and their struggles be- More than all the marvels of physical con- When the National. Textile Workers Union, . e one country a which the wor oe ave at- and most militant workers, such as the Work- | prices have doubled, and we have had a large dag to develop against the government. At | struction of factories, more even than the tre- | International Labor Defense ask for the use dy Soviet that after | ers Party of America. number of strikes on the part of the workers the present moment the English strike of the | mondous fact that the great peasant mass, whc | of the courthouse, they are told the workers fe ew re Sue ae Jechaat The role of this Party is to be the batallion trying to catch up with the cost of living. Such pepe be ge Sankt ba Laas a under proletarian dictatorship come with the | of Winston-Salem do not want to be organized. ms vi ap cess gu eo ig paene has the front leading the working class hosts— | strike, for instance, was the outlaw railroad capitalist SD renitiint ses Bo TeRg i te ‘8 1917 revolution led by the Communist Party | When the International Labor Defense held its ft forward there. aie Communists | maustriel, workers , and. Sermery foe yar | te aE tia ore crt cee ates. | tancitonaild thy ach af Grigta the-workine claceal Tat emis atts heed, eve aad Fb) Tekek: |, MeRane on ie Sousa eo Pre S Wo istorie truth that no privileged | 28#inst the enemy in spite of all persecutions, talist system, its own contradictions bring | iT cctablish its workers’ sourcila chek coy | ness of centuries of suverstition and ignorance, | sentences given the Gastonia strikerg’and or- im ecog ’ : t prit in spite of the efforts of the capitalists to | about a situation in which the machinery of stablish its workers’ councils which be- | are establishing socialism in agriculture and | Sanizers, over three hundred workers stood in class ever given up its special position, its | destroy it, until the vietory of the workers is | production breaks down. For example, war. _ come the government and function as the gov- | are pouring whole provinces into collective and | the rain listening to the speakers. ie ee Sect dates dy sath ele won. Imperialism brings the great capitalist classes ae aaa bal production may be es- government farms—more than all these and | Requests for organizers and speakers are Fs of t pressed class, .< é in conflict with each other. This conflict in | : a new basis, carried on for the | shove all these “miracles” is the fact that the | Teceived every day from workers in Winston- rugge in which it has resorted to every means | ¢¢. * the beginning takes the form of a diplomatic | benefit of the people. For a period there may king. cli lution has brought benefits | Salem. : n its power to retain its privileged posi- | Despite All, We Intend to controversy and ends fn war. War brings | >® si there e Hts in Russia, two governments, Gf ohateriel’ aud andinatted nature e the work- bg . t i + ” isi ‘i stali . | one becoming the government and the other ‘i ‘ i italist % : 4 ele against capitalism in Burope and America | 4... 4. dont of the National Traini Europe. It also brings about inflation, the | Such a situation, too, the larger part of the | CoUntties suet as the United States sient steer fakin tt will not differ from the class struggles of the | AS @ student of the National Training School | j esc. of prices, and the working class is | ®*MY, as was the case in Russia, would sup- | CVe” dare to dream. ss ¥ : ast past and that the worlal in the fight to T'was asked to write an article for the | gio) to a more bitter and antagonistic strug- | Port the workers in their efforts to establish | * Under the Five-Year Plan which is the pro- Twenty per cent has been slashed off the . neipate themselves must be ready for this | Daily Worker. So T choose to write on the | 216 against the capitalist class. In this coun. | their government. The working class will es- | &'am for these new cities and industries, the | already starvation wages of workers in the truggle. i : pane Ve a ive | HY We saw that illustrated in the various | t#blish a government in the form that will be | Plan being now in its second year, the wages | American Mills in Bessemer City, which are i In the United States the Communists today T think that all of the students should live | strives iike that of the coal miners, which last | suitable.for the exercise of working class power, of the workers, contrary to wages in United | owned by ‘Goldberg Bros. Mr. Goldberg has } Op ave advocating as their chief immediate pro- | UP to the rules of the Party, for we are to 8 ht te ti ‘y <2 | x Power, | States, are being increased. Foster shows also bought up every bit of property vacant in fe ° s the amalgamation of the trade unions | ‘evelop into leaders and I am going to do my | 7°** Drought @ stoppage of, industry in cer- { a Soviet government. how different it is from the U.S.A., where | Bessemer City to prevent the N.L.W.U., LL.D. | ™ Bissay SHON ond ES LOTR Cee | ea little about the South f q wee tras one tices ta Tiare the oat wits Saket headquarters. | ot ty. While the Communists in the Lebaron sapshadecties nae ieceeterpioe oaliata sa: Lit i week isie i “gn- | Speed, in the Soviet Union the 7-hour day ai The workers in Bessemer Cit loki United States are the leaders in the struggle | 1 have lived in that miserable place all my Questions and Answers Mp oy beet Nala BD ea the five-day week is being established. and un- | forward to a big textile strike in the pied oe to bring about amalgamation and the forma- | life. I do not mean that the place and the ‘ ; 3 | istence impossible and starvation inevitable | @™Ployment, now holding 7,000,000 American by it tion of a labor party, this does not mean that | Working people are that way. It is the poor Question 4.—What is the size and the forms | sor the unemployed. workers and their families in the clutch of One of the Committee of 100 caine into he when this goal is achieved the task of the | ee they are tiving npr, pal lots ae? aie eg workers’ movement? {ccna eatcuat aes of unemployment with | Bunger is being wiped out where the Bol- | ostice of the LLD. and WLR. the seer fhe i ; Cominunisis iaatoan end: | of young girls working for five dollars per in view of the present scale of unemploy- | ; * Sh pedi sheviks rule. iction now he. 3 ~4 e For the Communists, the amalgamation of | Week, a 10-hour day and a 55-hour week. ment and its rapid growth, “quantity will give | ppb casemate a = cele Mn Foster describes social insurance, a thing Pe ee ee Fd gt ee: a rami the trade unions into industrial unions and the The Condition of an Average Worker. way to quality,” or in other words, the very | prises are all factors that will ake for np of which the American workers know nothing | had been given his walking papers. by the * formation of a labor party to fight the poli- | Take for example a man with three chil- character of unemployment and the unemploy- | jnarked rise of the unemployed workers’ move. | because their bosses refuse even a penny to the | bosses who thought they could dispense: with fake tical battles of the working masses of this | gon. M iking “til Kr week hiscoaiteeantat ment movement itself will be changed. | ment. We see that the movement téday is be- | Statving and sick slaves who create all the | the services of some of the gang. He told the y country are but the first steps toward the ulti- | york and help him, for she has to stay at home debt cepie oe fabs Rabe angi | coming really mass in character and is becom- | Wealth of rich America. workers who were in the office that he had zs mate goal of the workers’ government and the | and tend to the children and do the house keep- ‘tall ronie and incurable in the chief | ing more aggressive, more determined and In the Soviet Union, how different: the un- | been told many times at the bosses’ meetings the nist society. i ues Rega Hie dees He hax to partes Hee i eo Z | militant. employed, now disappearing with the enormous | that only the boss was the friend of the work- wt 1 these means of stfuggle are achieved | coal, wood, ‘groceries, clothing and a little Realizing that present-day widespread un- Communications are being received from | gtowth of industry. pay no rent. Furthermore, | ers, that the boss would stand faithfully by ‘be will still remain for the Communists | <chool material if he has the money. employment was menacing the very continu | Germany,’ Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungar: rent is paid according to the salary and not | them, to beware of the “reds,” ets. When he e ks of bringing to the masses of the |. Now you can look over all this and estimate | ance of tite beste system, the bourgeoisie | Rasmiantar Gesece, Roget ee me Ganddel and according to the quarters occupicd. The un- walked out he said he knew better now who ‘ | how much he has to eat. Stace babe ide taing TaLaarrMenee ores elsewhere of demonstrations of unemployed Saplover a i oan seties Bisa the beidbintit hia friends were; es Workers! Join the Party of | .! have heard lots of arguments about the | Voi seo cctat assignations for the socalled | Workers of collisions with the police and the | ent and the 11.000, mane Caen Nes n . e.8 PER . yo people in the South since I have come to New Ps Prd cit Ma poe ana ee troops, and even of street fighting as was seen | #¢t additional reltef. Suggestion Jobless vhi Your Class! | York and a lot of the scabs and other bosses’ | Ghent System, which provides the issuance of | for example. in Germany. If a worker is sick, or his family, medical se on Jobless Leaflets eat Be | tools say that the people in the South were unemployment relief through the unions, which | These ts of tH attention from the simplest to hospital and Af te a ° ft perfectly satisfied before the Communist Party | dle is partly subsidized by the State. Lignan a oe movements of the unemployed | canitarium treatment is free. And he recsives | few of our comrades expressed the opinion fon ; pares U8) A: | ebcen?. ede nok Bede hea arene, Mecinniin The “dole” and the chronic character of ‘pre- : ow ¢ ny se Age revolutiorfary movement his pay while sick just as if he were working. | that in the leaflets the Communist Party is- y 43 East 125th Street, | to wake up to the fact that we were not any. | Sent day unemployment created a feeling of | an ao seater cay fiat Vs The Bolsheviks don’t punish a worker for be- | Sues concerning the unemployment situation, nic New York City. | thing but.wage-slaves and we began to strike, | Passivity and inertia among the unemployed ; 0” fren {he most backward sections of the | ing sick, but keep his job for him unless he is | 2 ™AJr Point ts not being stressed, and this nt ‘i ‘ and the N.T.W.U,, under the leadership of the | 28d went a long way to’ ally their grievances. | WOrsINE class. permanently invalided. An’ the old palaces /8 the solidarity of workers to one another, te 1, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- é ee ate ean bo unc easie Further, the chronic character of unemployment | Marx says that a crisis is a sharp conflict | and summer resorts at beaches and in the Not only is this not being. strested but the ‘i nist Party. Send me more information. OWE Bautkirn Uatarg can see the good in | St up certain barriers between the employed between the, developing productive forces and | mountains are filled with workers regaining | Word solidarity is missing in the leaflets al- te aha pe ai d to organize more strongly, altho workers and those unemployed, created a gulf | the social relations in modern capitalist society, | their health free of cost to them—it is their | together. We feel that this is a big error and i Name we have a hard road to travel. For the dirty | between these workers, which the bourgeoisie, that it is, as it were, a revolt of the productive country and their government! And their gov- it should be corrected. IND hich abd bam'o¥icb ibs) 009.04 s4e6CopK ea lip braw/ Ebasee Me Sebo wickoon ‘WAKES On the fascists and the social-fascists have done | forces against the capitalist system which per- | ernment takes care of the workers! | L, SHAMES, Section 2, Unit 8F. ‘ us, They also hire the sheriffs and. police to | thelr best to deepen, isolating the unemployed | mits no further growth. How ‘upside down” from the misery and | meine a eal {h AdAYCSS s see seeeeeecesemeeeee Uit¥erereeeee | not down our leaders, and if we try to de- | fom those’ employed. | , The working class, as one of these productive | starvation and anxiety that pursues the work- | costs only a dime—you will ag with i fend ourselves, from 6 to 20 years in a jail or The stupendous growth of unemployment to- | forces comes to grips with capitalism precisely | ers in the United States! hy what the workers have he Me lnna whee ine Wt SOCAN 5 Fas 5 0b 55 60a oe scig it ABEL? -gang is our fate, But we intend day is (1) breaking down the barriers betwee | during a period of economic depression, and Security of life! Assurance for tomorrow | rule is worth a revolution ‘to Ameri <iptalae in 3 ateateh oF Ghat the employed and the unemployed; (2) creat- the clearest expression of this conflict is the | for the worker and his family! oral i merican work- ‘en Party, 43 East 125th St., New York. N. Y | bisa ened ‘ ; ing a huge army of semi-employed, i. ¢. work- | development and growth of a revolutionary What is that worth to American workers? | ile aan Chien tek tees Ath Ara { Mail this to the Central Office, Communist —A Student From Greeny ile, S.C. ers on short time (two or three days in the ' movement among the Boe oye * If you read the pamphlet by Foster—and it | HARRISON GEObeE. fa v fh