The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 2

“SURPRISE OF THEIR LIFE” FOR ENEMIES OF U.S.S.R. IF INTERVENE Pravda Points Out That Crisis in Capitalist Countries Increases Their Rage | | | Fear Example to Their Workers of Revolution-! ary Construction in Country Without Jobless MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Press Service).—Th 7 dec that the recent intensification the capitalist campaign aga the Soviet Union is the re of the | final realization that the Soviet | Union will not return to capital a realization supported by the cessful carrying out of the Year Plan, the tremendous progress made by industry, the socialization of agriculture and the extermi of the kulaks as a class. The section of the bourgeoisie in favor of the intervention was gair ing the upper hand in the cap 1 The internati was also a ca a capitalist world recognized the viet Union as one of the reasons the Ss and ected its anger therefore against the Soviet Union The first aim of the interventionjts was to create a “moral against the Soviet Unic This task has been handed over to the churches of all confessions. The “mor united front also included the social democrats of all countri and the second (Labor and Soc ist) International was the most im- portant link in the anti-Soviet cam- paign. The German social democrats competed with the pope for the lead- ership of the anti-Soviet struggle. The German social democrats sec- er onded their French colleagues who . |. again: geoisie and the white guardist ele- ments, The anti-Soviet campaign of the church, the attempts of a number of mperialist politicians to interfere he internal affairs of the Soviet Union, the crusade of the pope bolshevism, the Kutiepov the Soviet em- ris, the acquittal of the swindler Litvinov in Paris, and of the Georgian counterfeiters in Ber- lin, the po searched in Munich and Mexico, all these things were links in a chain. In addition to the “moral” united nt, the interventionist wing of ast ) 1e world bourgeoisie was also pre- | become DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930 nen champion ten- the U.S.S.R. Fro t Federovskaya, Len- ingrad; Maltcheva, Moscow; Olson: Leningrad; Tiplakova, Moscow. Class Against Class, Says TUUL Statement (Continued from Page One) workers, white, and colored, youth id women, are at a very rapid rate clea conscious of the paring an economie war against the class character of the struggle now Sov Five-Year Plan and against export (matches, petrol, timber, etc.). This economic attack on the § will fail. The irreconcilable and stea growing antagonism between the perialist countries in the et Union | tion and iet economic system, against the | taking place, and are coming to the | y Communist Party and the T Union Unity League for organi: eadership. The March 6 unemployed demon- stration, participated in by millions of workers in every capitalist coun- gle try, has brought home to hundreds for markets militated against the of thousands of American workers plan of a united anti-Soviet frc Nevertheless, recent events demand- ed the greatest watchfulness and tionalization, speed-up, f close attention to the international situation. In conclusion the “Pravda” de- clares that the Diehards and the | by : ! leaders of the Second International | Whether it be fascist Italy, the “l who limp along in their rear, the | bor” government of Great Britain, | Hendersons’ and the Vorwaerts’ declared themselves prepared to sup- port the demand for a rupture and who co-operated with the interven- tionist wing of the French bour- the Soviet or other- the internal affairs of ‘on, whether “moral” ANGELES TRAFFIC (By Special Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Mar. Ten thousand workers here y The following statement on Inter- | day filed out of the factori national Women’s Day, March 8, has the unemployment agencies, been issued by the National Execu- ie tive Board of thé Trade Union Unity | League: The growing economic crisis in the United States, which is part of the world crisis of capitalism, hits|an hour in the attem women workers as well as men! through cordons formed by#700 po- workers. Qut of over 6,000,000 un- jice, armed with machine guns, tear employed about 2,000,000 are wo-| gas and smoke bombs. men, and many more thousands are | SUPPORT CALL FOR MARCH 8 T.U.U.L. Mobilizes for Int’l Women’s Day and in the center of the town. ‘ : The strators ti working only part time. The wo- [asene Semele ae ap Phe men workers suffer from all the casa, erever they wage cuts, speed-up, ete., which is | i =) part of the employers’ program for, _ _‘Biggest Ever Held. — throwing the burden of the crisis, 1¢ was the biggest labor demon- onto the shoulders of the workers, | Station ever held in Los Angeles. The intolerable exploitation in in-| Many were brutally beaten. Thirty dustry, the police brutality against : workers, and the betrayal by the | Including arrests made the night be- social fascists of the A. F. of L. | fore, in the attempt of the city gov- 7.—}the strength and :, er- | first Workers’ and Farmers’ govern- ployment insurance. Hoover and his specially guarded government, quar- | where /talist, for weeks many of them have been |cannot explain away the fact that, | Their whole line has been to attempt | the demonstration in the Gharlotten- trying to get jobs, and gathered in in all of the world, only the Soviet |to fill the minds of the workers with| burg section. the police fired and a huge unemployment demonstration | Union remained free from this the crudest kind of bunk in answer |Seriously woundedthree workers, in- These | world-wide starvation of the toilers, unarmed werkers battled for over | that onl: and socialist party are producing a |™ment to prevent any demonstra- | profound resentment and fighting | tion, there are now over 60 in jail, spirit among the workers every- | Included among them are Section where, In the United Statey, as in Organizer Clark; Trade Union Unity In almost every city all other countries, the workers are | League District Organizer Frank demonstrating by strikes and other | Waldron; Marine Workers’ movements, that they , increasingly Secretary Thonias Ray, and Young struggle against the tryanny of the) employers and their agents. Women workers are joining with the men workers in this expanding and in- | tensifying battle. | Srresta. To solidify the ranks of the work- ers of all countries for the growing | struggle, the Red International of | Labor Unions has called upon all its affiliated sections to mobilize the masses of working women to participate with the men workers in the great international demonstra- tions initiated by the Communist International, for March 6 and March | 8. ‘The first, March 6, is to be a| DENVER, Col., Mar. 7.—Between world-wide strike and demonstra- | three and four thousand workers and tion of the employed and unemployed | unemployed workers marched for 24 workers against the terrible evil of | blocks through the streets of Den- unemployment. The second, March | ver yesterday, with the police out in 8, International Women’s Day, is to | force, threatening them with guns be a great solidarity demonstration | when they turned toward the city MARCH 24 BLOCKS (By Special Wire.) Communist Organizer Lou Sherman. Mayor Walker would see a comm The International Labor Defense | te¢ from the unemployed demons is planning a big protest meeting | tion, this committee, comp: against the police brutality and the | William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I. Amter, Harry Raymond and Joseph | the workers against ra- ocial in- surance, for the shorter work day, against imperialist war, for the de- fense of the Soviet Union, is met every capitalist government, la- of that the struggle against unemployment, the “socialist” government of Ger. group will get the surprise of their |™@Y, or the Wall Street govern- lives if they try any interference in |ment of the U.S.A, by ree and vio- lence; in every capitalist country these governments ave supported in their attacks against the workers —— by the socialist and trade union bu- reaucracy, and these attacks are led by these traitors wherever the socialists are the party in power (Britain, Germany). Country Where All Work. “March 6 unemployed demonstra- tions throughout the capitalist countries have placed in the heavens for every worker to see, the powe stability of the ment, the Soviet Union. All the | and poisonous slanders of the ca) cialist and A. F. of L. press s in the Soviet Union have of unemployment, that unemploy- ment is a capitalist contradiction, is foreign to and is no problem in the all genuine socialist system in the So- Never before did the viet Union. logan “Defend the Soviet Union’ ve so much acclaim and support as it did throughout the world on March 6, The brutality of the police to- were arrested at the demonstration, atds the workers surpassed any- | thing that ever happened in the The answer of the govern- me! to the millions of hungry workers, was the club, tear-gas bombs, machine guns and arrests. dozens of the workers were clubbed and arrested. League In New York, although chief of po- Whalen stated to the press that a: dof L , was arrested, is held with- out bail incommunicado, and what is happening to them only the police know. Will Fight, Must Organize. “The March 6 unemployed demon- stration shows the determination of the American workers to fight un- der the leadership of the T.U.U.L. This demonstration makes merely the beginning of greater demonstrations and bigger, more effective struggles for economic and political demands. It is necessary to strengthen the T.U.U.L. organizationally,.to build shop committees, . powerful indus- trial unions in every industry, to revolutionary The Working Women. of the Soviet Union - and unemployment will grow severer. Young women factory workei's in Leningrad participating. in evolutionary competition. Under the Five-Year Plan for the. build- ng of Socialism in the Soviet Union, the women warkers take a lead- ing role and enthusiastically enter the revolutionary competition to spur production, which in turn rebounds to the advantage of the orker im lessening of hours of work and.an-increase in their stand-* ard of living. (Continued from Page One) | F AVORITE LUE S ens Secer rea |attacked by the police who wounded} many with their sabres, Twenty | Tells Unemployed to workers were arrested. Go and Starve PARIS, Franee? Mar, “7,2 Three | pose thousand workers participated in the Communist ~,mass meeting against unemployment. A German Communist spoke amongst greatest enthusiasm. After the meeting street demonstrations took place in| which the workers battled with the | massed police forces, | In Switzerland demonstrations | took place in the industrial centers at Basle, Zurich and Schallhausen. The police did not dare to interfere. In Antwerp, Belgium, thousands | of unemployed workers icok part in the best demonstration ever held there. During the collisions with the police Comrade Roodevaan, edi- tor of the central organ of the Coi- munist Party, and Vandenboom, member of the Central Committee | were atrested, | * (Continued from Page One) nt in sixty to ninety days. Facts how that the cri is worsening Furthermore, a hungry worker can- not delay starving to death for nine- ty days. This proved by the con- {stant drop in steel, auto, building construction, and other industrial | production, | In stating that “undertakings to maintain wages have been held,” is | a deliberate lie by Hoover and his| sychophants in the cabinet. Several | jdays ago the Daily Worker published | dozens of instances where wages | were cut from 10 to 50 per cent, |'There have been thousands of plants here the bosses have ruthlessly lashed wages. Hoover’s entire statement is a tis- sue of the most brazen lies yet pub- |lished on the unemployment situa- tion. He says that public building work is increasing, while he recently | continued until late last night. In issued a statement’ demanding that the neighborhood of the Karl Lieb- the government cut its building pro-|knecht House, headquarters of the jgram. He declares that building is| Communist Party, the workers jon the upturn, while figures pub- raised barricades against the police lished by the F. W. Dodge Corpora-,attacks and put out the street: amps, tion, leading building activity sta-| whereupon Zoergiebel’s bloodhounds |tisticians in the United States shows | operated with large searchlights. ithat up to date there has been a | Throughout the demonstrations |drop of 35 per cent in building con-| there was much firing everywhere. tracts awarded below 1929! | Three workers were wounded. A No plan was offered for unem-| big demonstration took place in the * * . Barricades in Berlin. BERLIN, Bermany, Mar. 7.—The unemployment demonstrations here fellow Wall Street parasites are at-|ters where the police fired and ‘tempting to throw the burden of the; wounded -many and _ ruthlessly crisis on the backs of the workers. | clubbed everybody in their way. At to the demand for Work or Wages. | cluding one woman who was shot in The imperialist government head- | the stomach. Fighting was particu- | pt to break the workers been freed from the fear|ed by Hoover repeatedly declares|larly severe in the working-class that “everything was normal,” until | sections of Wedding, Neukoelln, etc. the mass demonstrations arranged | Altogether 11 persons wete wound- ‘by the Communist Party before|ed by police bullets in Berlin and |March 6, forced both the Senate and | 230 arrested, including 17 Ccmmu- the president’s cabinet to “talk”| nists municipal deputies. One of the about unemployment. | Police was so excited about shooting | The tremendous rally of millions) down as many workers as possible of workers on March 6, again| that he did not know in what direc- brought to the bosses executive com- | tion to turn his gun, shot himself in mittee in Washington the urgent in-| the thigh and had to be teken to the stence of the workers through | hospital in serious condition. mass action that they be paid un-| Demonstrations Everywhere. (employment insurance. Hoover's mer} Large demonstrations with colli- ply was an accumulation of his pre-|sions took place in all industrial | i vious slop. \cities in the province: Leipzig, Halle, | | See eerie ear et eer ee Ie aera |Dresden, Cologne, Keonigsberg, | by setting up in every city an un- |Duesseldorf, Erfurt, Stuttgart, Ham- employed council, by organizing | burg and in the Rhine and Ruhr |Committees of Action between the |districts, The police killed two unemployed and employed workers, | workers in Ammandorf near Halle. between the organized and unorgan- | A child was wounded in Cologne. ized workers, between the rank and| The bourgeois and social democra- file of the A.F.L. and the unions of | tic press in Berlin are so over- the T.U.U.L. for common struggle. | whelmed by the success of the dem- “The National Committee of the | onstrations, and confused, that their | T.U.U.L. is, therefore, calling a Na- issues contain the most absurd con- | | tional Conference of its revolution- | tradictions. While the editorials de- | lary unions and minority leagues to-| clare that the demonstrations are |gether with representatives of Un-| not worthwhile talking about, in the ‘employed Councils to meet in New | local parts there are dozens of col- | York on March 29 to make prepara |umns describing the demonstrations |tions for a great Unemployed Con-/and collisions and reporting thou- vention to be held later at Chicago. |sands of demonstrators which the “Organize the unorganized, em- | police were not able to disperse. ployed and unemployed, is the task ‘that the March 6 tremendous dem- jonstrations demand from the Trade | Union Unity League. “Organize Shop Committees. “Organize Unemployed Councils. “Prepare for a National-unem- | ployed convention, “For social ‘insurance. at Work and at Play | Blan ke Champion woman skier of the Andreyana, a working woman in the Soviet Union, who won the championship in a skiing contest, WORKING WOMEN ORGANIZE! ‘Int’l Women’s Day Ral-| lies Workers (Continued from Page One) wing theories and platform of Buk- harin and his followers who opposed | the Five-Year Industrialization Plan jand the so-called “left” platform of |Trotzky ,which denied the possibility | of building Socialism. The success of the Socialist con- struction has made it possible for | the Soviet Government to put into force further measures for liberat» ing the working women of the U. S. S. R. The sums paid by government industry for building institutions to serve the needs of women workers land peasants has been greatly in- | creased. | The women in the Soviet Union are given full opportunities to de- velop politically. Illiteracy is being |wiped out. “Women’s delegate | meetings” provide means of raising | the political and educational level of | working women. and peasants, to | prepare them for more active parti- cipation in the building of Socialism |in the U.S.S.R. Although women’s | labor costs more, due to special pro- | visions during childbirth, special in- | surance, maternity laws, ete., more and more women are being drawn in- | to industry, and everything is being |done to raise the qualifications of avomen’s labor. Thus the only way to free women workers as well as men workers is ‘to do away with the capitalist sys- |tem which enslaves the working {class and to establish a projetarian | dictatorship. | The Bosses’ Rule. How different a condition in capi- talist America. Here the women workers are forced to accept work at any price in order to provide food for their children. They are prac- tically unorganized. There are no laws that protect them against un- employment, sickness, maternity, old age. Women slave in the mills for starvation wages, give birth to the children at their machines in a number of cases, or work up to child- birth, return to work and find their jobs taken by younger women who can better keep up with the inhu- man speed-up. Negro and Latin-American women are exploited even more than white women workers, More and more women are replac- MURDERERS OF ELLA - MAY FREE COURT IN | Killers White-Washed by Capitalist Court; - ( | Outcome Certain CHARLOTTE, N. C., March 7.— Murder is legal in North Carolina. | All you have to do to get away with murder is to own a mill company, and hire your gunmen to kill work- Jers. The grand whitewashing trial ‘of Horace Wheelus, positively iden- , tified by a number of witnesses as | the thug who actually fired into the | breast of Ella May, National Tex- | tile Workers Union organizer, last | September, and Troy Jones, Lowery | Davis, O, H. Lunsford and Fred Mo: row, those who helped him, is over | and they are acquitted. Under the direct supervision of the state attorney general, and City Carpenter, Solicitor of Gastonia, Working Women to Stage Wide Protest on { World International Women’s Day D BY BOSS CHARLOTTE from Beginning nah |himself a notorious lynch-gang!« | leader “prosecuting,” the outcome of |the case was certain from the beerns iginning. The hand-picked jury of business men and landlords, selected |in less than an hour, brought in. | their verdict of “not guilty” within, a few minutes after the case was,., tourned over to them. 200 This verdict, following the acquit-).;, |tal of those deputy sheriffs who. murdered 6 Marion pickets last yeary | shows the mill owners have a good, grip on the Carolina courts, if such evidence were needed after the con- | viction and 20-year sentences on, ..), Gastonia strikers and union leaders because strikers defended thei | homes against a murderous raid, | Raising the cultural level of the working women in the U Capitalism wants to keep the masses in ignorance, hence their sup- | port of the religious opium peddlers. But in the Soviet Union tremen- dous efforts are being exerted to raise the cultwral level of the masses. ing men as a cheaper labor force;; Working women, unemployed and |in many instances women now are|¢mployed of all races, you who are |the only bread winners of the|doubly exploited, you who suffer family. ‘long hours, speed-up, starvation | At the same time their militancy | Wages: don’t be submissive any long- lgrows, The women workers, the €r- Join with the revolutionary |wives and daughters of workers are Workers to fight the bosses and their jtaking a leading part in the strikes government, the American Federa- carried on in the coal fields and | tion of Labor traitors, the renegades textile, food, shoe and needle in-|0f Communism. dustries. In these strikes whole! Fight against imperialist war! families participate. | Prepare to turn the next war into a | They are also taking their place|war against the capitalist class! jside by side with the men in the} Fight for equal pay for equal |political struggles of the working work! Yor the 7-hour day, 5-day class, as exemplified by the August | week, for social insurance. {1 demonstrations and the March 6| Fight against the speed-up, un- |International Unemployment Dem-j|employment, low wages! Demand; jonstration, where the women were in| work or wages! |many cities in the front ranks fight-| Join the militant industrial unions |ing the police and hired thugs. |of the Trade Union Unity League—* Women Workers Organize. jsection of the Red International of International Worten’s Day 1930| Labor Unions! | tion to unite the ranks of the wom- Communist Party of the United’ en and women of all races, to or- | States on the occasion of March 8— | Places important tasks upon the| Join the ranks of the Communist working women and men in the! Party! United States, the task of organiza-| Join in demonstration with the” ganize and to fight systematically against their miserable conditions, The unemployed and employed wom- en should join with the men work- ers and organize into Councils of Unemployed—into the Trade Union | Unity League, form shop commit- |tees in the factories. The working women have only the Communist Party to look forward to as one which champions the interests of the lentire working class. which fights for the improvement of conditions of all the workers, men and women, Negro and white. The women workers must prepare themselves to turn the coming war into a war against the capitalists and defend the Soviet Union. | International Womens Day—against unemployment, speed-up! Against jimperialist war. in defense of the jWorkers’ fatherland, the Soviet |Union! For a workers and farmers | government in the U.S.A. Women Jingoes Pray | For Still Bigger Navy. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. T= 1)s5 {Most of the jingo organizations for | women, led by the Daughters of the | American Revolution, had a_ little private hate service in Bethlehem Chapel of Washington Cathedral, yt. in honor of a bigger navy. 7 NITGEDAIGET F WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS f AT CAMP e I Saturday | Union Unity League; Bill Dietrich, | “Defend the Soviet Union. fs if, ‘i r i leading : i to intensify the organization and/hall. In a huge mass meeting, |OTea™Ze | 5 rs ‘ + : ] ji i ; + \Trade Union Unity Couneils in every! “For ‘seven-hour five-day week. TU ME bl aig PRO re oF cone TOES, Amranam. 40h: the. Leeas \city, to prepare for a monster un-| “Against Imperialist wars. The Trade Union Unity League, American Section of the R.LL.U,, endorses these calls, and urges all its affiliated unions and leagues to throw their full force into making both March 6 and March 8 gigantic proletarian demonstrations. In connection with the March 6 strikes and demonstrations against mittees of T.U.U.L. organizations must work with the local unsmploy- ment councils for the mobilization of the greatest possible number of women workers. This must be done through faciory-gate meetings, dis- tribution of literature, holding of women’s delegate conferences, etc. The employed women workers will strike and participate in the demon- strations at the time and place set by the local T.U.U.L. and unem- ployed councils on March 6. The celebration of International Women’s Day, March 8, which shall Christensen, the se¢retary of the Council of the Unemployed, were the speakers, Arrest Morgan When, Unemployed Meet for \First Time in Houston ugemployment, the women's com-} HOUSTON, Texas, Mar. 7.-John S. Morgan, secretary of the Interna- tional Seamen’s Club here, was ar- rested along with other seamen in a police raid on the club Sunday. He was charged with vagrancy. An- other worker taken up at the same time is held for deportation. strengthening of the revolutionary women’s movement in all its phases: Working women, demonstrate your solidarity with the working | for the Communist Party, and O, J. | employment convention in Chicago | Sailing April Celebrations. The Marching May 1~Moscow ! Arriving at Moscow for the May First °280 «-°340 The Red Army on the Red Square! Evening MARCH. 15 Dancing until 3 A. M. 12 on the “BREMEN” VERNON ANDRADE..... ORCHESTRA, .- _ Red Dancers: and -ROCKLAND PALACE 155th STREET and 8th AVENUE ‘To rench Hall—Oth or 8th Ave. L. to 155th St. Batallions of Workers! ‘other entertainment ’ and baths on every floor NEW HOTEL NITGEDAIGET, Beacon, N. Y. The newly built hotel has 61 rooms—two in a . room—-hot and cold water in every room. Showers be with women’s meetings, confer-|class of the world. Fight against The Growth of the Five-Year Plan! WINTER SP. ‘S—S, 3. ences, etc.—ntust be eon Lai pe unemployment, the speed-up "and Ps E IT Baie YOURSELF ADMISSION 50c IN ADVANCE N’ o ne incall Sleighing ith the great unemployment dem- cuts. De id 1 10) chateation on March 6. Both dem- Fe kasi work, Fight open ad E ! 75c at the door onstrations must serve for the or-|employment insurance and the Write, Telephone, Call Personally: MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS Now! ganization of women workers into the T.U.U.L. unions and into the seven-hour day and five-day week. Fight against the imperialist war. WORLD TOURISTS READ AND IT FIGHTS Price same, as in summer—$17 a week. THE DAILY WORKER unemployed councils and then thru {Defend the Soviet Union. Join the SUPPORT FOR YOU! - building of women’s committees in| T.U.U.L. Demonstrate on March 6 these bodies. It must lead to a gfeat | and 8. 195 VIFTH AVENUB NEW YORK CIty Telephone Algonquin 665¢ ie CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 731—862 NEW YORK TELEPHONE: ESTABROOK 1400, t