The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1930, Page 1

ORWARD TO A MIGHTY UNEMP Senators La Follette, Wagner and Wheeler fear- ing the Growing Movement of the Jobless Are Trying to Mislead the Movement into Pacifist Channels. Don’t Be Misled. Down Tools March 6! Demonstrate For “Work or Wages”! class matter at the Vost Office at under the act of Mar. oh Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Company, Inc, 26-28 Union Square, New UDLShINg EF 5, y. NEW YORK, TUESD AY, MARCH 4, 1930 me VI., No. 309 , MARCH n New York by mall, $5.00 per er ye 6, AT 1P. M. FINAL CITY EDITION year. nts apitalism Calls Out ItsEXPOSEDETROIT 2.000 Workers WORKERS CLASH WORLD-WIDE FRONT OF STRUGGLE OF WITH FASCISTS EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED WIDENS; olice and “Labor” Reserves BOSSES to Defeat Unemployed Movement The capitalist class is “calling out its reserves” to defeat the workers’ movement against unemployment. The calling out of the lenemy’s reserves is only to be regarded as evidence that the move- ment against unemployment is progressing. The social-fascists have become the forefront of the capitalist N forces for the suppression of the unemployment movement, when ! I atthew Woll, the foulest scab by profession in the United States, Ws :e-president of the A. F. of L., president of an insurance company, “aud acting: president of the association of open-shop bankers and manufacturers, called the Civic Federation, becomes the chief instiga- tor of police violence for the suppression of the unemployed workers. Woll’s lie to the effect that William Z. Foster had “recently returned from Moscow with $1,250,000” for the stimulation of the unemploy- ment movement, gave the cue ‘to the capitalist press and police to inject into every mention of unemployment demonstrations in the ast two days a completely idiotic yarn about “88 sticks of dynamite,” ‘hich some Tammany contractor claims to have lost and which the employed are supposed to “use in demonstrations.” (We would emark that, if any dynamite is stolen, it is likely to be for the use f some Tammany “racket” of graft and murder, such as Judge itale is connected with. No intelligent workers, and certainly no ‘communists, employ methods of individual terror, assasinations, etc. not because of any tender feelings for the agents of capitalism, ot because such methods do not help, but only hinder the cause of the workers by diverting them from mass struggle and mass organization.) Now Willfam Green, president of the A. F. of L., is brought for- ward with another broadside. “The A. F. of L, is deeply concerned over the reports regarding religious persecution in Russia,” says Mr. reen, as his contribution toward the suppression of the unemployed xorkers’ demands for social insurance in the United States. The separation of church and state, which was accomplished by the work- ‘rs’ revolution, is twisted into exactly the opposite by this coarse iar of the capitalist class: “Here we see a government—and atheism—joined in an attack ipon religion. This is a diametrical contrast with the struggle of the seople to bring about the separation of the Church and State.” The other branch of social-fascism, the socialist party, rushes in ‘0 play its part in the attempted suppression of the unemployed workers, when ex-Judge Jacob Panken suddenly discovers that the “employed condition is “becoming worse with alarming rapidity and reatens to become the greatest social problem ever encountered by y nation,” and wants to horn in as an agent of the bosses to try » break up the unemployment councils. And the Reverend Norman ‘homas interrupts his flow of venomous lying against the revolutionary novement to drop a few vague words indicating that these -socialist niltures would like to be made use of by the capitalist class in order o steer the movement against unemployment into some harmless channels and to enable the police therefore more easily to suppress he militant workers’ organizations. The “Adyance,” the strike-broak- ng organ of Sidney Hillman, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. idmits that: ; “It is true, however, that so far on the labor end, only the Communists have shown any disposition to do anything at all about this problem of unemployment. It is true, socialists and trade uhionists have spoken and written about unemployment and the need of action to be taken, but only the Communists have made efforts to dramatize the situation, to arouse the people, to force the issue to the front.” These social-fascists of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, the socialist varty and the Hillman bureaucracy are, of course, useful to the capi- lists and the police in situations which it is hard for the capitalist ‘vernment to handle in any other way. At the same time the matter of unemployment is being echoed by he capitalist windbags in the United States Senate. Senator Wagner, nember of the Tammany graft machine of New York, arose yesterday n the Senate to shout that “poverty, disaster and rebellion would esult” unless something is done by the capitalist government to coun- eract the “unemployment demonstrations in all large cities,” the ‘ood senator declaring that president Hoover has done a monumental ot of lying about unemployment in the effort to bring “prosperity y proclamation,” and “employment by exhortation.” Meantime the liberal” Republican senator Brookhart introduced a proposal for an ppropriation of $50,000,000—but to be administered by the bureaucracy f the American Red Cross and the quartermasters of the army! Of ourse this Brookhart proposal is intended only as an effort to divert he minds of the masses of workers away from the idea of unem- Joyment insurance at the rate of full wages while unemployed—in ther words, for “Work or Wages.” Of course this empty hypocritical roposal to appropriate a sum of money which, divided by the number f the 7,000,000 unemployed, wouli amount to $7.14 per worker, is nly an effort to impede the development of the workers’ own organ- sed movement against unemployment. All of the lies and gestures of the “liberal” and “labor” agents t the capitalist class are directed against the workers and not in any ase are movements in their favor. * * The workers must have no illusions. The capitalist government, aich can easily find hundreds of millions of dollars for any group (7, capitalist’ exploiters, and which can find billions of dollars and can nscript millions of American workers for the imperialist war they re now planning—this ‘capitalist class government will do absolutely othing for the working lass, employed, or unemployed. Every gency which it may set up will be another strike-breaking agency, nother agency for the brutal suppression or swindling misleading of he worl employed and unemployed, especially the development f “socit and “liberal” agencies for manipulating and betraying he unemployment movement. The workers must depend upon their own organized strength as mass. Not one single concession will be made by any of these criminal lakers to the relief of unemployed workers, but everything will be done y them to suppress the workers. The program of capitalism today % to utilize the unemployment situation as the occasion to “ration- lize” the capitalist industries, discharging more hundreds of thousands f workers, speeding up those who remain at work and smashing down vage and living standatds throughout the whole of industry. ’ r * * * i! The workers must rely upon their own strength and must proceed "» organize at full speed. The organization of the revolutionary unions n affiliation with the Trade Union Unity League is a measure without vhich the working class of America would receive a catastrophic de- eat. situation in the country: today is one in which a mass wave f organization, sweeping over the entire country and involving mil- jons of workers, is on the order of the day. And this movement, led vy the T.U.U,L,, and expressed in the organization of the revolutionary inions, is the only possible means of successfully combatting the pres- nt brutal drive of capitalist rationalization, speed-up, wage cuts, te., which is closely connected with the unemployment question as yell as with the coming imperialist war to be led by the Wall Street overnment against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. * * * Organization of the unemployed workers must proceed at any ost and with the greatest possible speed and energy. Unemployment ouncils must be built in every city, town and industrial district. These «employment councils must be united solidly with the workers now uiployed in shops by joint Committees of Action, for the common ‘emands of both employed as well as unemployed workers. With this sort of sblidarity, expressed in ever-increasing action yd niass niovement, the millions of American workers can sweep the jolice. and “labor” reserves of capitalism from their path, » Every member of the working class who fuils to add his strength 3 | “BOMB” _-PRAME-UP BUNK Police Cannot Stop Organizing of the | Unemployed Boss Admits Lies. Prepare Mass Meet For March 6 DETROIT, March 3.—Unable to defeat the organization of the mass |of jobless workers in this city into | Unemployed Councils demanding work or wages, the Detroit police force, with the help of the bosses, is attempting to manufacture “bomb | plots.” Recently the Detroit News car- ried a story regarding the collapse of a steel pile at the, Federal Steel Corporation’s plant declaring there | were “red bombs in connection with | the steel plant,” and stated that Mr. Marks, vice president of the Fed- | eral Steel Corporation, “blamed | |Communist bombs.” This in spite of the fact that Police Inspector |Stevenson of the Fort St. station had previously declared that “the | place looked as if some of the piles | had been topheavy and started to | slide carrying others with them.” | However, the object of the capi- | talists and their police agents were to create a “bomb scare” in order to attempt to terrorize the organ- | ization of the unemployed masses | (Continued on Page Three) | | ‘Unemployed Building Trades Workers to Meet On March 4th attention from the growing army of; | The unemployed Building Trades | Workers in the City of New York, | _bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, jelectricians, riumbers, — glazers, | painters, sheet metal workers, iron | and bronze workers, are calling a | ; mass meeting of all unemployed | | Building Trades Workers at the | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. jon Tuesday, March 4 at ° p.m. Uneniployment among the Build- |ing ‘1 :de Workers here is between 50,000 and 75,000 workers. The | | officials of the A. F. L. while forced to admit the extent of unemployed in the building industry conceal the fact that they are greatly respon- sible for this situation, The speed ! up, the introduction of new ma- ,chinery, the spraying machine, etc., is forcing hundreds of thousands of {building trades workers out of em- |ployment. The graft leadership of \the A. F. L. unions “is responsible for the present unemployment sit- uation, for the miserable conditions | | prevailing among the unemploye |workers for the speed up and low |wages under which the workers, who still have a job, are forced to | ;work and many thousands will be | | thrown out of employment,” says a ' statement of the Trade Union Unity | League, | The T. U. U. L. urges all ea | | Refuse to starve—demand work or | wages! Demand unemployment; | fight for a 7-hour 5 day week; fight jagainst evictions of © unemployed | workers; demand food and clothing | for the children of unemployed demonstration on March &. his most solemn duty to his class, | ¢ For the seven-hour day! For unemployment relief—full | me? sau women, for the whole tim Defend the Union of Socialist American Negro Labor The American Negro Labor Con- | gress has called all Negro working- | class organizations to send delegates |to the world-wide March 6 unem- ployment demonstrations. They point out the peculiarly severe pres- sure of unemployment on the Negro workers. The call is signed by Cyrii | Briggs, National Secretary of the jA.N.L.C., 799 Broadway, and is in! rt as follows: i ; “We Negro workers are fa even in novinal times with the prob-| \ to the unemployment demonstrations on March 6 will be neglecting on Strike at Elizabethton ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., March 3.—Over a thousand of the 3,000 employees of the American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff plants here came out on strike this morning. Jischarged from the rayun mills here of the Glanzstoff and Bemberg cor- porations. E, H. Wilson, the person- al manager installed by the United Textile Workers agreement by which the strikers of several months ago were sold back to the companies, flatly refused -to interview the dis- charged workers or any committce representing them. Rank and file lo.al U. T. W. off cials have had to allow a strike vote, which was ovet- | Whelmingly for a walk-ouc. SENATE FEARS UNEMPLOYED Alarmed At Militant Fight of Jobless | WASHINGTON, March 3,—Sena- tor La Follette is trying to screen Hoover and the American Federa- tion of Labor in their attacks on the unemployed workers. In a speech tceday in the Senate, La Follette said that some of the bosses had broken their “agreement” made at Hoover’s | business council and are wages and rapidly increasing the jobless army. La Follette did not expose the A, F. of L. part in the wage cutting activity. La Follette said that a.“red scare” was being manufactured to distract unemployed. The debate on the unemployment issue was started by the Tammany Senator Wagner of New York, whose associates, Whalen and Walker order their police to beat up jobless men and women, as well as workers’ children. Wagner is trying to make political capital for the democratic party out of the growing jobless situation. Matthew Woll’s fascist letter to 500 exploiters of labor was dragged (Continued on Page Two) METAL WORKERS DRIVE FOR UNION \Local League Building; Convention June 14 The New York and New Jersey District Convention of the Metal d | Workers’ Industrial League of the| Trade Union Unity League was fin- ished Sunday., The local league is actively at work extending the or- ganization here, anl especially pre- paring for the formation of a na- tional’ industrial union, covering all metal, machinery, steel and electri- cal apparatus manufacturing work- ers. The national convention at which it will be organized is an- nounced by the league and the T. U. U. L. to take place June 14 and 15, in Youngstown, ~Ohio. the center of metal work, and itself a huge steel (Continued on Page Two) « The needs of the workers are té real to be ignored or cried down. We must fight stubbornly and against any obstacle for: “aes for all unemployed workers, e of unerhployment! For full wages for all workers working part time! Against capitalist “rationalization,” against discharge of workers. Soviet Republics! , All workers, employed and unemployed, men, women and youth, Negro and white—all to the demonstration on March 6! cs Call on Negro Workers to | Unite for March 6 Struggle Congress Mobilizes for : Unemployed. Demonstration lem of getting a job in the teeth of the bosses’ determination to keep us as a slave caste at the very bottom of capitalist society, as an unorgan- ized defenseless labor surplus. “Today, in the tremendous and ever-growing mass unemployment and suffering which feature the! sharpening world crisis of dying capitalism, we are the worst suf- ferers from the attempts of the capi- ists to transfer to the shoulders (Continued on Page Three) Hundreds of workers are being | entment ran so nigh, that the | cutting | | ‘Stalin Criticizes Wrong. | Views of Five- | ; Year Plan From Buchar By | Capita IN GERMANY n est | Against Exaggeration' | | Win Victories (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, March 3.—On Saturday | | there were collisions between fas- | cists and police and masses of work- | ets before the Liebknecht House, | headquarters of the Communist | | Party, in connection with the fun- | eral procession of a fascist who had | |been killed. The police cordon was | fates | broken and the fascists and ‘work- — oT. ers cane'to.gripal There wersiemall| West and Wast Alike collisions between police and work-/ Goa Pio Struceles ere with numerous shots fired and] Se Big Struggles this continuedstill late at night. | | So igh ie | UNEMPLOY SEATTLE (BULLE Roun BUCH! A mass demonstra STALIN WARNS AGAINST WRONG POLICY. (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, March 3.—Yesterday’s unemployed workers, led by Com- munists, was attacked by the po- ‘ : | i oday. The workers resisted “Pravda” carries an article by Jo-| lite today Paes sef Stalin, general secretary of the | the police, and the official gun- Communist Party of the -Soviet| men drew their revolvers and fir- Union, entitled “Successes Gone to| ed into the crowd. EF | Our Head,” which criticizes the ten-| darmes were wounded | dency to underestimate the strength | | four workers were arre demonstration took p business center of Piteshti. | of the opponents of the Party pro- |gram. It states that fifty per cent | of the peasant farms are already | | collectivized, thus guaranteeing a | decisive turn of the villages to so- |cialism and exceeding already the Five-Year Plan “by 100 per cent.” Stalin’s article warns against ad- venturous attempts to settle all so- cialization problenis at one blow. He cautions against using compul- sion to force collectivization and (Cantinued on Page Three) RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL WED. Mobilize For Jobless 'Demands; Fight Bosses | ee a ite SEATTLE, W jist press admits. t “milled about” on Ye marching to the City H 5,000 participated and sev |sions took place with the p | rode savagely into the crow¢ bing and mauling from ho: Over 150 pol k part in the attack, but they found it no casy matter to drive the workers, or ev- eryone who looked like a worker, out of the part of Seattle seemingly reserved for capitalis erous lawyers and other by ed a lesson in police . several workers were clubbed and a dozen arrested, three of them being women. The worker ve the police ;a hot reception and 2 the scrimmage sang the tionale.” The preparations for a de tion on March 6, of the whole work- (Continued on Page Three) e col ice who club- backs, “democrat The memorial meeting for Com- rade Ruthenberg, feunder of the Communist Party, which will be held on Wednesday, March 5 at 8) p. m. at Central Opera House, 67th | | St., and 8rd Ave., will be a dem- are | onstration against unemployment |and the danger of an imperialist PICKET 5 SHOE | military attack on the Soviet Union. | >! | Ruthenberg stood forth among all | . |the American workers as a fighter | SHOPS TODAY jagainst the, imperialist war. He| oO TUE |a proletarian and its most vicious | ies - | manifestation, imperialist ‘war,|Commissioner Woods lled forth all th in his |« ° ‘ Gea mae ek fan. Ategclc. ony Workers \hated the system with the hatred of | person. | The mass unemployment, the 2a a iS beating up of the unemployed thru-| While many shoe shops have an- ers will) demonstrate, on Union |2ounced willingness to sign up the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union union Square, will be in the center of the out the country, and mobilization | for March 6, when tens of thousands of employed and unemployed work- memorial for Comrade Ruthenberg. |). A ape a Every militant worker, every sym- jhe cammueln seninst ths z Pathizer off the Crcaninies Cue of the shops that re fuse millviet pidechtst The attesting up | to settle will start this morning. agreement, adopted by the members last week, there a which have followed U Department Commissior union, and There will be picket lines at Del- .Jof the counterrevolutionary meeting | man Shoe Co., 304 E. 45th St; arranged by the renegade Loves- | schoenfield & Romano, 208 E. 10th tonites, by the revolutionary work- | s+; Morris Lapidus, 26 Bleeker St.; ers of New York, will bring fresh | Gerson & Stiles, 40 W. 20th St, numbers of workers to the Memorial and the Franklin Shop, in Brooklyn, of the Communist Party, the founder | 11 Hope St. o fwhich was our leader, Comrade Woods Attacks Union. Ruthenberg. Commissioner Woods rushes frgm Workers: ome in thousands to the | boss to boss, pleading with them to Memorial, Make it a meeting re-|go open shop. When the workers sounding with the challenging spifit | in the Delman Shoe Co. were dis- of Ruthenberg—against the capital- | cussing the new agreement with the ist class—against the imperialist |firm Woods made his appearance. war—for the demands of the unem-/He was escorted by the boss, Del- Union! e (Continued on Page Two) Soviet Workers in a $4,000,000 Rest Home; 7,000,000 U. S. Workers Starve A group of workers vacationing, with full pay. at a wv home in the Crimea. In the United States the cupitaliat pard joll in Florida while milligns of jobless fight for unemployment im surance to ward off starvatjory ployed—for defense of our Soviet|man, and demanded the workers | Bosses Admit World mass unemployment is ng. A cable dispatch by T. C. | atson, London correspondent of the Universal Service on March 2 continues to grow at a rate alarming to the economists and embarrassing to the administration.” There was an increase in the registered unemployed in England of over 17,000 during the past month. The cable goes on to say: the blackest winter spent by the working class since the war.” Thanks to the “help” of the British “labor” government, the unemployed army owing while the workers on are being speeded-up in the of the British capitalists. The “alarming” unemployment sit- uati is not restricted to Great Britain alone. Unemployment is growing everywhere. In the United : , strike-breaker Green, admits the situation “is serious.” What serious” to Green and Woll is (Continued on Page Three) WOLL INCITES WAR ON USSR March 16 Meet For the | Defense of Soviets Declaring that the letter sent by Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor and acting president of the National Civic Federation, to leading ex- ploiters and to members of Con- gress is a direct incitation to war against Soviet Russia, the Friends | of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave. today issued an appeal to all wo and other sympathizers to re- to Mr. Woll by demonstrating March 16 against the world-wide anti-Soviet campaign. The organization is arranging protest meetings on that date thru- out the country. In New York the meeting will be held at Bronx Coli- |seum, 177th St. and Bronx River, The appeal of the Friends of the | Soviet Union, in part, declares: “Matthew Woll, who for years has been one of the bitterest enemies on rand slanderers of the Soviet Union, has waited for the moment when | the maximum of publicity could be secured for himself to join the re- actionary forces that are conduct- ing a feverish campaign of lies and slanders against the Soviet Union. He has joined the priests and rabbis, the white guards, so called ‘social- ists’ and counter-revolutionaries of every stripe who are now working overtime in an effort to plunge the (Continued on Page Two) “For unemployment this has been | STRIKE AND DEMONSTRATE MARCH 6 to Seattle Workers Battle For Demands Against the iss and State; Los Angeles Swept By Tear Gas German Red Unions)«pye Biggest Demonstration Capitalism Ever Saw,” Says Foster of the World-Wide Protest of Workers Against Unemployment World Jobless MASSES 10 MEET T Army Growing, ON UNION SOUARE Walker Blusters, Lauds “Patient Police” | “The biggest demonstration that ’ said William Z. Foster, gen | Trade Union Uni day in an interview h the pri speaking of the March 6 intern tional w 1 protest against unem- | ployment and the system that makes | it. League, yes Foster had just categorically de- jnied Matthew Woll’s boss-inspired statement that Foster had been given $1,250,000 for use in the workers demonstration on March 6.” “The demonstration of the unem- | ployed and workers who strike and | join with them at 1 o’cl jday, March 6, in Union New York,” said Fos: part of the greatest international protest that capitalism ever saw.” “The meeting in Union Square will be the biggest New York has had. But it will be nothing to com- pare with the / ht yet to come. “Communists\, ‘ere in the recent | demonstrations, wut they are also men and women out of work. They are soldiers in the forces which are !waging war against an economic | gystem which has proved itself a |a failure from the workers’ point of | view. | Strike and Demonstrate. | “In Thurs: demonstration em- ployed workers will strike and par- ticipate with the, unemployed, de- manding immediate relief the jobless, social insurance paid for by the employers, a seven-hour day, |five-day week, abolition of wage jeuts and of speed-up in industry. “The importance of the thing be- jcomes clearer when it is realized that |17,000,000 workers are out of jobs in every capitalist country, whereas in the Soviet Union where the work- ers rule, there are jobs for all and the workers’ standard of living con- \tinually rises. | {Making the regular crisis of cap- italism worse is the speed-up sys- tem which replaces hands by ma- chines and gives to the worker in | Wages the minimum perecentage in jvalue for the goods he produces. It is structural unemployment, which | (Continued on Page Two) | pte a Today in History of ___ the Workers 6 ie March 4, 1919—17,000 New York | harbor workers began general strike- \for eight-hour day and wage raises, |1922—Tipperary branch of Irish | Transport and General Workers’ | Union seized gas works and raised |red flag. 1923—All-Russian Trade | Union Federation sent starving Ger- |man workers in Ruhr region, Ger- ‘many, 16,000 pounds of bread. Pa for Edison Co. of U. S. Shoots Down the Chinese Toilers ‘Support Bloody Chiang Kai Shek Regime Against The Daily Worker calls the at- tention of all its readers to the following letter from the Pan- Pacific Trade Union Secretariat of Shanghai, China, telling of the murders of Chinese workers, the shooting down of working girls by the American Edison Company at Shanghai in collaboration with the barbarous and bloody regime of the Kuomintang. American worl ers must not only infor them- elves of this, but come loyally and raterially to the assistance of the Chinese workers exploited and rder ked by Amer= on imperialiste —Editor. The Sceretariat has received the| éellowing letter dated January 15th | Massess , from the Standing Committee of jthe All-China Federation of Labor. | From the’ contents of the appeal, which we print in full, you will see what a serious situation exists and that warrants the fullest attention by each of our affiliated trade ‘unions. “On the afternoon of January 13, the American firm of China General | Edison Company, which we believe is a subsidiary concern of Edison General Electric ©o., called in te police forces when a dispute arose at their factory, employing 1,300 workers, many of whom are young girls. These police, without warn- ing, shot into the unarmed and peaceful who were congregated “(Continued on Page Three)