The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1930, Page 4

ecution sion of the R.S. es excludes rsecutions. have closed iests and be- t the of the per- in the case 1 against the ¢ 7 e of the church y known, it e monarchy. f the church nce of the ich has taken hey acted as the for in- n W ation and lingly. They ywers not to to be loyal fortunately even the church is gone for 1 enemies of hold their church nons. Unfor- show the neces- so permitted en to adults. 1 in the foreign itted upon in- viet author- r 2S e facts? the least in ac- represent in- of the atten- suffer no perse- activities. Where tile to the govern- count, but not to the and brutality, but ministered and does with any limitations? > revolution the church The centre ynode, and and the dio- 1 com- d by itself. All reir dioceses and tations have been im- ion of the church, religious denom ion does any partic- support of the cal bodies. lo same rights. futu QW think are the re pros- v nce but ea never- E need that the Divine Light will not go out and that in the course of time it will conquer the hearts of men. situation with regard to ma- * religion from abroad? re maintained sufficiently of their flocks. The onl is that our followers y material support com- and from the followers of would be humiliating for us and ith moral, and perhaps even cont should st from us ipport outside e never come to our knowl- There have been cases where fines have heen imposed~on priests for non-payment of nt nothing taxes , ation of the situation of the church is fferent from former times, in the radical transformation of ‘e of the country and the re- placement ld economic forms by new ones (the collectivization of agriculture, trialization of the country). the church is deteriorating, but we have not abandoned hope and we believe that with the | Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U 43 East 125th Street, New York Cit I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Name .. Address .., seeevecenecees Vit¥erccseeee ROM OMNAON 5's'<'5.skvs 5.54 cw acbiawa pa ASOs aise Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New York, N. Y. the indus- | The situation of | gious propaganda | | present possibilities for bui economic construction of the country the true belief will be maintained and the Church of Christ will continue to exist. Q. Are there se’ Soviet Union? inaries for priests in the A theological academy of the New Church ts in Moscow. The fact that we have no due first of all to lack of finances to maintain such an instituton, and secondly to the fact that we are of the opinion that the individual training of persons who feel them- selves called to the service of the church, is more advisable, Q. What is your attitude to the papal mani- festo? A. We are very much astonished at the mani- festo of the pope against the Soviet govern- ment. The pope regards himself as the “Vicar of Christ,” but Christ suffered for the poor, whilst the latest action of the pope places him- self in the same camp with the British land- owners and the Italian and French moneybags. Christ would have acted differently. We are astonished that the head of the catholic church should find it possible to protest against reli- gious persecution, when everyone knows that the whole history of the catholic church is an uninterrupted chain of persecution and ,sup- pression of other beliefs, including torture and burning at the stake. We are of the opinion that in this case the pope is true to the tradi- tions of his church and aims inciting his hordes against our country. We Greek-Ortho- dox believers regard the action of the pope as superfluous. Our church is able to take care of itself. longed for the opportunity of catholicizing our church, but we remain firm in opposition to the catholic false doctrines. We are about to issue a spe- cial message to all true believers warning them against these new attempts of the papacy to further the interests of catholicism with these unfair mean Q. What is your attitude to the of the Archbishop of Canterbur: A. The sudden action of a whole swarm of religious leaders in Italy, France, Germany and England “on behalf” of the Greek-Ortho- dox Church is very peculiar and most suspi- The sudden and mysterious bursts of ndship” for the Greek-Orthodox Church from those who have always been its enemies, give rise to the suspicion that there is more at stake than the interests of the Greek-Ortho- dox Church. We are not concerned with these interests, but one thing is certain, and that is that these interests have little to do with he spiritual requirements of the faithful. With regard to the utterances of the Archbishop of Canterbury in particular, we can only say-that they are just as untrue as those of the pope. We are told that the toiling masses of London find that the utterances of the Archbishop of Canterbury “smell of oil.” Whether that is so or not, we can only say that such utterances can only serve the cause of intervention from which our country has already suffered so much. 4 cent speech “Adopt a Mine Nucleus!” Resolution by the Section Committee of the Southern Illinois Section. 'HE economic crisis of American capitalism as well as world capitalism is already deep (and everdeepening at a dizzy speed) and the ing our Party are tremendous. These possibilities are particu- larly pronounced in the Illinois coal fields. Mass unemployment exists among the 50,000 Illinois miners (thousands are out of work and many more thousands are working but a day or two a week). Misery and starvation are already prevalent, growing by leaps and bounds. The vast majority of the mines are ready to shut down in a few weeks, and are already shutting down at the rate of a few a day. The intensification and speed-up in the mines go along with wage-cuts. There is a wave of strikes—Sparta (with 200 Negroes and 200 white miners), West Mine, and Peoria—strug- gles which are’spreading, and primarily direct- ed against rationalization and unemployment. There will be an inevitable maturing of a general mass struggle in the coal fields thru- out the country which will take place in the next six months, and which will mean, as many miners put it, “war in the coal fields.” The struggle between Lewis and Fishwick fakers now taking place will lead to two sep- arate company unions more and more under the dictates of the operators. This is occurring while there is a growing recognition by the masses of miners as well as whole locals of the UMWA that the UMWA is an enemy of the miners, that the NMU is the rank and file miners’ fighting union, and that the Commu- nist Party is the revolutionary leader of the entire working class. These are some of the factors in Southern Illinois where all the, major features of the third period of decaying im- perialism stand out in naked relief. We are building the Party and League in the coal fields. For example, in the Wasson Mine nucleus in Eldorado we have about 50 members, practically all of them recruited in the past few months, and every single one a native American. Most of the comrades in Southern Illinois are miners who are unemploy- ed, victimized. It is from these fighting miners that we must develop real Bolshevik cadres. One of the most important things the miners must do is to read and study Party literature and it is a fact that these comrades are hungry for revolutionary knowledge. Since they are penniless they cannot buy any Party literature. As a matter of fact, some of the most prom- ising comrades, including some Negro miners, rarely see even a Daily Worker. In view of this impossible situation and the crucial importance of developing these proletar- ian comrades, we urge the Pariy units in the cities to initiate revolutionary competition amongst themselves in order to adopt a South- ern Illinois’ nucleus to supply it with Daily Workers and other literature. In addition, we urge comrades to send us literature which they have already read. Party units! Help build the NMU and the Party. Adopt a fighting mine nucleus in Southern Illinois. Fight the Right Danger. A Hundred Proletarians for Every Petty Bourgeois Rene- gade! av om-88 Onion “DAIWORK.” New York. ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS — ECT “ASSISTANCE” Baily AAs Central Organ of the Conia. the neighborhood of Rostov-on-Don, pre- | liminary work is in progress for the con- struction of the first combine factory in the U.S.S.R., not far from the giant agricultural machine work which is now being completed (the Selmashstroi). The program of output is 25,000 combines per annum. This giant which will by its size be the largest in the world in this particular sphere will be con- structed in the course of one building season. It will start operating in January, 1931, and will produce 5,000 machines for the 1931 har- | vest. IN THE PLACE WHITHER PEOPLE WERE EXILED BY CZARISM. A Machine-Construction Giant—A New Socialist Town. Another such factory is being built in Si- beria in the neighborhood of Novosibirsk. Its capacity will be 25,000 combines, 35,000 tractor seeders and 30,000 mowers per annum. Siberia already absorbs now 20 per cent of all agricultural machines to be found on Soviet territory. The machines are carried thither thcusands of miles from the Ukraine. National economy suffers tremendous overhead expenses because of this. The transportation | of these machines to Siberia has cost 4,000,- | 000 roubles in the past year alone. With the erection of the new machine factory in the Novosibirsk and the neighboring Telbes metallurgical combine all necessary prere- quisites are created for the industrialization of Siberia. Prior to the revolution there was no engineering or machine construction industry in Siberia whatsoever, A new town of a socialist type will be built near the factory. The industries of that town will employ about 40,000 workers. Together with their families the town’s population will | be about 100,000.. In order to give all able- bodied of the town employment a few textile mills will be built and also a large electric station with the capacity of 96,000 k. w. The combine factory and the new town will be completed in two years. The Result of Socialist Rivalry. | The new powerful Martin oven for the Kre- mator metallurgical works in Donbas is al- ready operating. According to the program it was to be completed by March 15. However, thanks to the strenuous efforts of the work- ers and technicians it»has been completed in January. Its construction began in October? Another Industrial Victory. February 1 was a great holidgy for the pro- letariat of Nijni Novgorod on the Volga. On that day the new automobile assembling fac- tory began to operate. It is organized ac- cording to the most modern American tech- nique. This factory is the first of several such and larger factories of this type, which | are to supply the Soviet Union with automo- | biles. On the site which but recently was waste land the proletarians of Nijni Novgorod gath- ered to celebrate their new industrial victory. The first ten automobiles that descended from |. the conveyor were turned into platforms for speakers, The conveyor of the Nijni Novgorod factory | will normally producé an automobile every 20 minutes. Work in the factory is so organized that un- | like in capitalist factories the conveyor system will be a means not of making workers un- qualified but of raising their skill. Each work- er will know all the operations. Later as auto construction develops in the Union th¢ workers of this factory will be able to become foremen and instructors for other factories. Smash the Chamber of Commerce Anti-Labor Drive! Socialist Construction in the LSS R. The Largest Combine Factory in the World | and transportation equipment. ‘duced to the minimum (to about 2 to 3 per Worke: t the U.S. A. By Ma By Mai) (outside of New York City): $6.00 a yea SUBSCRIPTION RATE! {1 (in New York City only): $8.00 a year; as af $2.50 three months jx months; $2.00 three months ix mont! nn} . By Fred Ellis SOVIET FOREIGN TRADE Constant Growth—A Favorable Balance. The turnover of foreign Soviet trade in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (not including the transactions in Asia in Decem- ber) amounted to over 482,000,000 roubles— 250 million exports and 232 million imports. The favorable balance for the three months | thus amounts to 18 million roubles. The relative strength of Soviet industrial exports increases every month. Compared with the first quarter of the preceding fiscal year it has risen 33 per cent, This yea’ favorable harvest and_ suc: of the grain-collecting campaign has also af- fected the trend of exportation of farm pro- ducts. Compared with last year there is a considerable increase in exports of flax and grain. The total farm export compared with the corresponding period of last year has risen 15 per cent. There is a considerably faster rate of ex- ports this year than last. In 1928-29 Soviet exports increased 13 per cent. But in the first quarter of this year the exports on the Euro- pean side alone increased 24 per cent. Imports in the first quarter showed an in- crease of per cent. The structure of the import fully corresponds to the process of in- dustrialization of the country. The biggest increase is shown by the import of industrial The import of these items has increased 26 per cent and the relative strength of this group in the general import is 32.5 per cent. Hence, almost one- third of the total import falls on equipment. The import of raw material has relatively di- minished. The internal raw material resources are augmenting and raw material is used more rationally. But most remarkable is the rapid growth of import for agriculture. The exten- sive mechanization of agriculture and the use of chemicals is bound to affect the structure of imports. The import of tractors and neces- sary parts and also agricultural machinery and instruments has quadrupled. The industrial import comprises 90.6 per cent of the total. GROWTH OF REAL WAGES IN U.S.S.R, GUARANTEED. Price Reduction on Commodities of General Use. The workers’ cooperatives of Moscow and other industrial centers have reduced prices on February 1 on articles which play a big part in the workers’ budget: textile goods, clothing, underwear, footwear and various food products, Prices have been cut about 4 to 5 per cent compared with the prices of October, 1929. On some goods (ready-made clothing) there is a cut of 10 per cent and even of 20 per cent (footwear), At the same time there is also a price re- duction on bread (at least 0.5 kopeks per kilo), potatoes, vegetables and fruits (from 8 to 15 per cent). In Leningrad the price of black bread has been lowered 16 per cent and white bread 8 per cent, At the same time the workers’ cooperatives are taking steps to increase the sale of goods which hitherto the worker has been partly buying on the market (the goods purchased by workers on the market in the Soviet Union amounted at the beginning of this year to about 11 per cent of manufactured goods and 18 per cent of farm products). The role of the private dealer will in this sphere be re- cent). All these steps will guarantee a reduction in the cost of living of the working class family of about 31% to 4 per cent as compared with last year. The workers’ nominal wages this year are GERMANY AND THE YOUN PLAN Speech Delivered by Ernst Thaelmann at the Meeting of the Reichstag on February 11, 1930. (Continued) | PUT quite plainly and openly to this capi- talist parliament to the social democracy the question, why, if the Young Plan is better | than the Dawes Plan—as the social democrats | and the rest of the government parties main- tain—why, then, do we witness just at the present time the tremendous offensive against the standard of living of the working class. Why, precisely now are the new taxes being imposed, the custom duties being raised? The capitalists and the present government do not wait until the Young Plan has been adopted, but began already after the first Hague Conference with their attacks on the standard of living of the broad masses of toil- ers. This brings me to what we Communists call the inner Young Plan: The complete trans- fer of the financial burden, amounting to thou- sands of millions, on to the shoulders of the working class. *We are threatened with new. taxes to the amount of 2,000 millions. Four hundred mil- lions in new taxation was decided on in the last few weeks. Moldenhauers announcement that a further 900 millions taxation will be imposed on the Germany people in the near future shows wither this development is leading. At the same moment the bourgeoisie are granted a tax moratorium of 600 millions. The increased customs duties on meat, rye, wheat, flour, butter, fat, even on shoes and frozen meat, represent the extension of this campaign of plunder. But not only these new customs increases, which we estimate at over 150,000,000 marks and which for every work- ers’ family means on an average an extra bur- den of 150 marks a year, show the actual situa- tion. Today the social democracy votes for increased customs duties which two years ago the bourgeoisie bloc did not venture to carry out against the proletarian masses. At the same time the most important items of food, the clothing and housing expenses of the work- ers and of all toilers, are being enormously in- creased in price. If the Communist Party had not led the masses to demonstrations on the February 1, if the masses had not offered resis-- tance to the starvation government, then there is not the least doubt, but that already on February 1 the rents in most towns would have been increased by 10 to 20 per cent. It is only the fear of the demonstrating masses which causes the ruling class to consider it advisable not to raise rents before April 1. In all these burning and vital questions, the work- ing women, the whole mass of the toilers, come to experience the blessings of the Young Plan. Why precisely in the last few days, particu- larly in Berlin, have the costs of the municipal services been so greatly increased? Because the Young Plan is leading the towns and muni- cipalities to certain brankruptcy. Of late one town after the other is raising the price of gas, water, electricity, light, tramfares and all other means of communication. This fact (at the present stage when the Young Plan is only being discussed) shows what high prices will prevail in the whole country as soon as the Young Plan comes into operation. Every single one of these measures means a reduction of the real wages of the workers, a deep and per- ceptible reduction of the standard of living of every proletarian family. Already at the time of the Dawes Plan we Communists took up the fight against the mur- derous methods of capitalist rationalization. In the most important branches of industry hun- dreds of thousands of unemployed are thrown onto the streets. With the reduced staffs enormously increased profits are recorded at the cost of the working masses. The criminal theory of the social fascists of increased pros- perity and capitalist rationalization is cruellly refuted by the facts. In the “Finanzpolitischen Korrespondenz” of January 26, 1930, the well-known national eco- nomist Kuezynski draws the balance of the wages development in the year 1929 and shows that the real wages of the proletariat have fallen 13.9 per cent in the period from June to January 1, 1930. That is the result of the long-term arbitration awards imposed on the working masses in all the branches of industry by the social democracy. The general campaign of plunder is now be- ing continued in the sphere of social policy. Everywhere in the country, in the provinces and in the municipalities, expenditure on pub- lie welfare is being cut down. But expenditure on public banquets and receptions is not re- duced by one penny. I might mention that in Berlin nearly all building work has been stopped. In spite of increasing figures regard- the deficit of 700,000,000 in the budget, the Finance Minister Moldenhauer announced that | up to the year 1932 credits will be taken from the employees, insurance and incapacity in- surance in order to meet the necessary out- goings for unemployment insurance. With the | unceasingly growing number of unemployed, | which on a world scale already exceeds 15,000,- 000 and is growitig rapidly, particularly in Ger- many, this measure means the liquidation and | ruin of the whole social insurance. | There is no country in the world which is marching forward and making magnificent progress in the sphere of social policy and social welfare, with one exception: The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, where the pro- letariat has the power and the workers’ rule. ployed. If we include their families, we fin that today ten million people are without bread and work. That is about one-seventh of the whole population of Germany. To this is to be added 2,900,000 permanent. invalids, 2,000,- 000 war victims, 800,000 in receipt of pensions on account of accidents, and the smaller ren- tiers who have been ruined by the inflation. We have today more than 3% million in It is against this great proletarian army, which suffers the most deprivation, which is most ruthlessy exploited, that finance capital, .which is carrying out the Young Plan, is di- recting its fiercest and first attack. . This bru- tal unbounded exploitation, which cannot even be described in words, which ‘we call the “in- ner Young Plan,” will rage even more fright- fully and disastrously than at present and will hit the whole proletariat. Under the murder- ous effects of the Young Plan there suffer the 15,000,000 workers in the factories as well as the 3% million unemployed, the female as Well as the male, the adult as well as the young workers, And not’only the proletariat, all strata of the working middle class in: town and country are suffering under the Young Plan. The small shopkeepers and business people, the artisans, who are overwhelmed with taxes, who are losing the last penny of their savings, who are squeezed by monopolist capital and by the big multiple shops—they are all groan- ing under the burdens of the Young Plan. This government and the capitalists who are behind it are completely incapable of annulling the debts to foreign capital. But a government of a similar compostion, and the same German capitalists, had sufficient courage and determi- nation, simply by annulling the inner debts, to rob those millions of subscribers to the war loans who had given their last penny for the benefit of the imperialist state. . The lower officials and employees who, as a result of rationalization, are di: sed. in hundreds and thousands from the public offices, the factories and business houses, are likewise the victims of the Young Plan. To these vic- tims are to be added the hundreds and thou- sands of small peasants who are being starved out by industrial capital, the banks and big landowners. They are being deprived of their last cow and the most necessary farming equip- ment, because they are unable to pay the tax demanded of them for the Young Pan. And if a small peanut attempts to resist he is! clubbed and batoned by the police just as th Communist worker in the town. I call to mind in this connection the happen- ings in Schleswig Holstein and in the Rhine- land. Today two fronts face each other in Ger- many: The victims of the Young Plan and those who benefit by the Young Plan. The victims are toilers without exception. The benefici- aries are all exploiters, along with their social- fascist and national socialist agents, | The victims of the Young Plan are to be seen in the statistics regarding sickness and accidents, the increased child mortality, the dai- ly inereasing number of suicides, the misery and starvation in Germany. The beneficiaries of the Young Plan are to be seen in the provoca- tive figures regarding wealth, which I will not fail to submit to this Parliament of the pos- sessing class. I merely mention the fact that while we have increasing misery and frightful poverty of the masses, it is still possible to- day, in Germany of the Young Plan that direc- tors of the Steel Rolling Trust receive 110,000 marks, every director of Kitupp 120,000 marks, the ditector of the Steel Works Association itig sickness and accidents, no new hospitals » 180,000 marks, the directors of the I..G, Fare are being built—a fact which had to be ad- mitted by the Prussian Minister of the Interior, in the recent discussions in the Prussian Diet. No new hospitals, new children’s homes, sport and playing grounds, or public baths and li- braries are being built. . During the discussions regarding covering RSIS SSE CaN AER be oe ra REN raised an average of 9 per cent. Together with the lowering of the cost of living the average wage will increase at least 12 per cent. Such is the decision of the Party. This decision will have to be unconditionally carried out. The Moscow enterprises have allotted 4,000 workers belonging to cooperatives to take con- trol over the reduction of the prices in co- operative shops. rs How Soviet Cooperatives Eliminate the Capitalist. One of the steps of the Soviet cooperatives towards the. improvement of the supply of products to the workers which the latter still have to buy to a certain extent from private dealers is the extensive development of co- operative farms, kitchens, gardens, etc. For instance, the Moscow Consumers’ Societies in- vest this year seven million roubles on the organization of dairy farms (with about 7,000 cows), gardens, pig raising, fishing, ete. The cooperatives are also building seven new huge restaurants which by the end of the year will supply 550,000 dinners per day. % The extent to which cooperative gardening is developing is shown by the following fig- ben Industry 500,000 marks’and General Direc- tor Cuno of the Hamburg-American Line 600,- ‘000 marks annually. (To be continued, Bosses Praise the Social-Fas- cist Green The fact that big business thoroughly un- derstands that Green is in the South for its good and not for the good of the exploited workers is proved by statements in the em- ployers’ papers. The Journal of lommerce, after telling of Green's being feted by Gov- ernor Max Gardner of North: Carolina, re- marks: | 3 , “Generally speaking, it may be said that he made a very favorable impressioft. His Presentation of his cause was regarded as fair. Naturally all do not agree with his conclusions that unionization is. the solution of the problems of the textile industry, but,. in so far as newspapers at least are con- cerned, there has been no criticism of his ef- forts and mill executives do not seem to be disturbed by the campaign to unionize their employes.” ‘ This is the same Governor Gardner wh the. militia to. break. the Gastonia ptrike, eae again to break the Marion strike, who engi- neered the conviction of the Ga: tonia defen- dants, and it is the same mill owners who ures: in the R.S.F.S.R. alone the cooperatives have been allowed 42 million roubles credit for a period of three years for the organization of gardens near proletarian centers. t ° organized the murder gang that killed Ella May, the same mill‘ owners whi erift Adkins to shoot down six. rike ay ua But they know their Green!”