The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930 FRENCH IMPERIALISTS NEMPIOYED IN HAVING TROUBLE BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD abr | | Indo-China Insurrection Still Continues, Say Reports Leaking Through Censorship rench Communist Paper Comments on Rise in Difficulties of French Capitalism CONFERENSE| New Battles for Work) or Wages | | | (Continued from Page One) | |seney conference on unemploy-| ment,” but which has wound up| PARIS (By Inprecoor Press Serv- j sode, but as the reflection of the| —Tho reports of the bourgeois |great difficulties at present experi-| 35 emergency or not. Unable to according to which “all is now |enced by French imperialism. The|}yoak the influence of the revoluc| quiet in Indochina” are contradicted French bourgeoisie is compelled to | tionary trade unions and the Com-| by the latest news which shows that |take measures to compete on the! e r a , | munists among the workers by slan- the insurrectionary movement isi foreign markets and to overcome | der, they have for all practical pur- widespread and that fighting is still |the crisis, but these measures meet | accepted the view of the! i place, ‘ : | poses ‘ing p j With the resistance of the French | posses that “maybe there ain’t no Collisions between French troops | proletariat an and natives took place near Coam | satisfaction amongst the t i is- | id cause intense dis-/ unemployment after all” and have French | and also near Ninyang. Hanoi is | petty-bourgeoisie. flooded with rumors concerning | | stalled at doing no more than re-| further risings, but it is not possibl to discover the. truth owing to the fact that the French authorities are doing their utmost to suppress all in| ployed.” These social fascists thus | lare developing contradictions 2 junite with the boss connection with the raw material sources. The significance of the cri- | the whole question. sis is that the French bourgeoisie| Meanwhile the entire machinery a stronger hand at the helm | of capitalist propaganda is thrown req jin order to carry out a series of | into high gear to spread the lie that | ews. isoger' on the Crisis in France. & «vHumanite” writes present governmental c: be regarded as a parliamentary epi- measures, rationalization, the sup-|¢mployment is “increasing” and that the lthat “j eee eats td re cannot | Pression of working-class resistance, | (Pt in a few weeks” all will be land the preparations for war. | “py One of the most glaring fakeries | |of the Hoover government on the | ‘matter of unemployment is the jfigures just published by the De- partment of Labor on unemploy- |ment in February. | The final conclusion of these fig- 116% Success in Spring Seeding of Ukraine Collectives MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Press Service)—The collective undertak- ings in the Ukraine have provided 6,000,000 cwts, grain for the spring sowing or 116 per cent of the amount Raymond Tells of the Mar. 6 Demonstration (Continued trom Page One) because of wholesale graft, was re- ceived by Whalen with open arms and paraded up Broadway. I asked why the unemployed workers of this) city couldn’t march down Broadway to City Hall to present their de- mands to the Mayor. Whalen’s only answer was that he would take us down in a police car. “The story about our getting away ‘n a taxi and going north is the worst ind of bunk., In fact, we all got nto the crowd and stayed together. was close to Minor, and Foster and Amter and the rest were right behind us, and we moved along right at the head of the march, The police then charged on the crowd, beating up men, women and chil dren. We were all separated by the police. Minor was pushed around by the cops. But we each proceeded to the City Hall and met there to} present the demands of the 110,000 workers who had elected us. There were over 2,000 of the marchers who had walked or had ridden down to City Hall. We met on the corner and decided then to carry out in- structions from the workers and taking our demands to the City Hall and present them to Mayor Walker.| We walked into the entrance of City; fe which was then an armed camp. |provided for. In view of the unin- |terrupted development of collectivi- | yres is that unemployment increased | |zation in the Ukrain in excess of the |during February, in all places re- original scheme, the provision of |norting to the Department of Lae |sowing seed for the collective under- | hor, one-tenth of 1 per cent. itakings wil! be continued. | What is the statement of the bs z | Hoover liars with regard to their '\China Revolt Spreads |figures? The statement is—that | Polish Treops Mutiny |unemployment is decreasing! All the capitalist papers publish (Continued from Page One) {the Department of Labor report fascist government and its prepara- | With headlines stating there is an for war against the Soviet increase in employment. ‘That is in Unidn: |line with the general policy of the The recruits held a regular mass | imperialists to fool the masses of meeting at Bielostock, Police at.|Workers as to the true conditions. tempts to calm the recruits were un-|But their gall is unequalled. They suecessful and the police did not|Simply twist their own figures dite attabk, (which are tremendous underestima- The authorities at Ornay mobil- |tions in the first place) to make it ized troops hurriedly, and received |®PPeat that unemployment is not \the train with machine guns, ‘The |!¢reasing. recruits resisted with their fire-| This will fool no one, least of all arms in a pitched battle in which |the innumerable workers who every there were many killed and the|day find themselves without jobs thai coaches devastated, jand with no prospects of getting * * * any. An increase even of the seeming smallness of one-tenth of 1 per cent lin unemployment is a drastic blow against the “prosperity” bunk of the capitalists. In the severe crisis of 1921-22, in Fight German Anti-Communist Law. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Mar. 18.—Severing's | Anti-Communist Law passed the | German Reichstag today on its third | re 265 v gai 50, | Sr ee Fee aeete borne depression of 1924 and 1221, the munist members, Mass-protest amount, of employment, within the demonstrations are arranged for this | G°PPeSS10ns | ta heres atid oh evening in defiance of the “social- eesti wheels muaat a ist” police prohibition of demonstra- | 7MS time it oy tions. | While the front pages of all capi- talist papers, using the twisting, garbling and actual falsification of the figures of the Department of (Wireless By Inprecorr) Labor to argue for increases, we MOSCOW, Mar. 18—At the trial |find on the financial section of the before the Supreme Court of the |New York Times the fact that there was a net decrease in the workers | Ukraine, against leaders of counter- | revolutionary “Ukrainian Freedom|¢™ployed. In those plants where | League,” the accused, Yefremov and ee ae ae te the he ths \Nikovski, admi ‘or this time of the year was the and that we had informed Whalen] enous named, that they had ievvest for the past eight years! that we were going to do so. Im-|ich government and with its consul- | They say: mediately, we were pinched, finger-| ate at Kharkov. Nikovski admitted| “Employment data as shown by printed, photographed, switched from receiving regular instructions from, Combined reports from manufac- Jail to jail, with the whole capitalist) in. general staff of the Polish army | ture and seven other major indus- state attacking the mass of unem-| 5. anti-Soviet espionage. | tries have only recently been in- ployed workers by trying to keep us| . . | troduced. They show, however, a in jail without bail. ( | CORRECTION. decrease of one-tenth of 1 per “The worst type of lie is the one| prop tights ‘were dropped in the| cent from January and ‘of not about Foster and Minor having composing room from the amount ‘wite 8 per cent since September; money, and Lester and T using @\ demanded for an initial sum for| the decrease since that autumn few cents to buy coffee. This is the | wuitding workers’ dwellings in the| date for manufacturing industry sheerest provocation. Nothing of the| iter tothe committee elected at| alone being 9 per cent.” Kind happened. Che first He Wel Tinion square tothe kousd of esti: heard of it is when we saw it 11) mates. The amount is Two Hun-|00 to show that in manufacturing the capitalist papers, where it was) i404 Millions Dollars. | industries, where the Department of cooked up. Just as soon as the In-/ eae % |Labor, claims an increase of one- ternational Labor Defense could get) the workers, the courts, the police. tenth ‘of 1 per cent, this is the low- to us, they supplied all our needs,|But this will not stop the struggle est increase for the past eight years bought food, and such like. They cer-| of the unemployed. They will carry|—in fact, can be compared only tainly were on the job. It was dif-/on the struggle and press their de-| with the severe crisis of 1922. The ficult for us to get foods and news-| mand for Work or Wages. We do Times states: papers because we were dragged /not fear jail. If we have to go to) “The Labor Department's report from jail to jail. il for fighting for Work or Wages, on employment in the United States “This case is not a case merely | we will go there. So far as we are/during February, published yester- against the committee elected by the} concerned, it is a case of capitalise days was pretty much what had been 110,000 workers. It is a case of class| class vengeance against the commit- expected. .. Employment in the 12,- against class; the capitalists against tee representing 110,000 workers who|568 establishments, reporting for 54 the mass of unemployed workers, us-| participated in the mass unemployed separate manufacturing industries. ing every means of brutality against | demonstration.” increased one-tenth of 1 per cent ieee eat» Poland Involved in Anti-Soviet Spying. ‘e were stopped by one of the of- ficers of Whalen’s gunmen. We told them we were presenting the demand of thousands of unemployed workers, The Times financial writer goes | WORKERS: ‘CORRESPONDENCE - FROM THE ‘5! apc DRIVE FOR MAR.29 WARREN, 0., STEEL BOSSES SCARED STIFF MARCH 6 | Arrests of Many Didn’t Halt Workers From Demonstrating; 3,000 Steel Toilers Took Part with questioning whether there is|) American Legion Called to Aid the Bosses’! | Police Against the Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) WARREN, Ohio—Am you what took place in Warren, March 6. A week prior to the demonstration the whole police writing |questing Mayor Walker to have the | force and the American Legion were | were On an international scale’ there | Police take a census of the unem-| busy trying to find Communists |$50 and costs. here. They were as scared as rats s in begging |of the demonstration of the em-| ployed and unemployed workers. Paul Kostyshak was arrested and | were sentenced by the labor-hating is serving 22 days for passing out unemployed literature. On Marc eight members of the Communist Party were arrested in order to stop the demonstration being held. When (By a Worker Correspondent) |sociated Charitles drive is progress- drive another wees and added an- other $90,000 to be raised. This, £ |presume, is to nay the cost of the $2,200,00 initial drive. They have |a number of fine official cars in this drive with flashy benners. The weekly “charity’ dole of pro- visions is getting less each week. A family of two can scarcely live on it. No meat or milk, These charity leaders are solicit- |March 6 came all the leaders and speakers were jailed, but neverthe- |less 3,000 workers showed up in this jsmall town. The local organizer got jup to speak and was immediately arrested. In all over 20 workers arrested and three were fined | Their cases have been appealed. The three are E, Kearney, Pete | |Stergion and Thomas Benbow. They |judge, Perry. Next time the steel workers of Warren will hold an even greater [festa —STEEL WORKER, | “Charity” Forces California Filipinos to Take Slave Jobs Or Go to Jail ling farm work for Filipinos. They SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—The As- jsend them to the farmers for 30 | jcents an hour. They must keep jing slowly here. They extended the |themselves and their families on | demands, They jthese wages. These workers they | send out are all married, and if they | refuse to accept the job at these | Wages their dole is cut off, and they jare arrested for “vagrancy.” The | unemployed and the employed Fili- | pino workers and the unemployed Jand the employed workers of all |races must unite under the Trade Union Unity League. | CAL, JOBLESS WORKER. from the January average, which was considerably the lowest of any month since 1922.” What do the latest figures of the |Department of Labor show? First: For all industries report- ing unemployment increased during February. Second: The usual seasonal in- creases were the lowest since the last severe cylical crisis of U. S. economy, and completely smash the arguments of a revival of industry at this time. Third: Unemployment has spread from the basic industries to retail and wholesale merchandising enter- \prises, showing a deepening and broadening of the crisis. Besides big increases in the jobless army in many important basic indus the February figures show: 114 per cent decrease in employment in wholesale trades; 45% per cent de- erease in retail trades. Just after the Department of La- bor published its report, which even with its vast limitation (fakeries, |lying reports by the bosses to the Department of Labor, twisting by |the Department of Labor, etc.) state- ments from the steel industry show that the crisis in this most important basic industry is worsening. For instante, the United States | Steel Corporation’s ingot output i |now at 80 ver cent of capacity, as jagainst 82 per cent last week, and {85 per cent two weeks ago—and as }against 97 per cent last year. This |shows a drop of 17 per cent below |last year! The independent steel plants are lcapacity, as against 70 per cent the |previous week, and 73 per cent two jweeks aggo. Last year they were operating at 921 per cent of capa- city—a drop this year of 2343 per cent! This, say Hoover and Lamont, an indication of prosperity. TI however, it is very clear, is an in. diecation of the lying campaign of Hoover and Lamont. cline in the most important basi: jindustry in the country—to say ductions, building trade industry agandists of “prosperity.” ise of more unemployment. . | back to Africa.” |now operating at 68. per cent of| A steep de-| ‘Campaign Against Mil- jitant Negro Workers | (Continued from Page One) men circulated such rumors as: |‘Negroes, you will be sent back to | the South; you keep on distribut- |ing leaflets and you will be sent | “Them Russians lare cutting off the heads of the |preachers.” “There won't be any |white workers in the parade, and | >a Negroes will be shot down with | machine guns.” Fake Relief Talk. | The Wagner bill for federal em- ployment offices, the Brookhart re- quest for $50,000,000 relief, and other such hypocritical gestures were featured in the Washington | papers, with the idea of tricking the jobless into the idea everything is all right. At meetings, the police stood in gangs near the entrance and tried |to frighten workers away. When the parade started at the White House, the police threw out of line all except members of the Unemployed Council. The tear gas was turned on when William Law- rence started to speak. A crowd of 5,000, however, was able to see the demonstration, and the placards raised, carrying slogans for “im- mediate relief,” unemployment in- surance,” “ ‘seven-hour day,” “Unity of Negro and white workers,” “Down with child labor,” “Down with police |brutality,” ete. Will Fight. | The world-wide mass movement goes on, however, and also here in Washington. The workers and the jobless are raising the cry for self determination for Negroes, for the establishment of workers’ and farm- | ers’ governments in U. S., Africa, China, India, and all colonial and imperialist countries, by which alone can their problem of unem- ployment be really sglved. After the parade, slander against the Negro demonstrator: Negros |nothing of the big drop in auto pro-| were published, stating that they fled from the demonstration. These wholesale trade and retail trade—| statements are absolutely false, and are indications to the Hoover prop-| not only in Washington but in many southern cities, the Negro workers For the worker, it is a sure prom-'were in the majority in demonstra- tions, Thousands of unemployed wor show their determination to fight to, under the leadership of the Co PRISONERS AID - MINE STRUGGLE A. F. L, Supports Lewis | and His Coal Bosses | (Continued from Page One) J, is making a: strong ppeal to all workers and working- | the /a class organizations to help | struggle of the Moundsville str’ who, together with their fami are in great need. Rush all funds to the National Miners Union, 119 St., N.S., Room 410, Pittsburgh, Pa. * * * Muste Agrees to Fishwick. Muste’s “conference for progres- sive labor action” held a meeting here with the question of what to ido next before them. One section, led by the renegade Lore, proposed |to form another union, he was afraid the miners would never join ja union which all could see Pea- body’s man, Frank Farrington, was actually ruling. Muste himself “deplored” in words the fact Farrington and his jeronies, Fishwick and Walker, re so much in control of the “re-organ- ized” U.M.W., but insisted “the practical” John Walker and Fishwick must be accepted, and that Germer and Howat would some day or other not stated, keep Farrington from “exercising his old influence.” It was brought out in the Muste meet- ing that neither Muste nor Fishwick is very sure of Brophy and Powers 'Hapgood, who have not “defined | their position.” The question of supporting the “new U.M.W.” was fi to the C.P.L.A. executive committee —which will accept Farrington. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 18. liam Green in his speech here of the U. M. W. A. came out clear- ly for Lewis, and denounced the Springfield “convention” and the union formed there. He stated that the case of John Walker, pri of the Illinois Federation of Labor, would be referred to the executive council of the A. F. of L. Walker is the secretary-treasurer of the Peabody coal company’s new union, and Green’s action pledges the A. F. L. officialdom to the support of the coal operators who fight Pea- body, and fight the “reorganized UM Wi This poses a neat problem Muste, who now has to work with areen, through Muste’s United Tex- tile Workers, to mislead the south- ern mill hands, and against Green, through the Muste-Farrington “re- organized U.M.W.” to mislead the ‘oal miner: The miners, however, have a simpler task. They have their own union, the National Miners’ Union, and will hold their own Illinois con- vention, April 5-6 in Zeigler, and their own national convention in Pittsburgh, June 1, to work ‘out plans for a national struggle to es- ‘tablish union conditions. fe Toledo Jobless and Striking Workers on Streets M terday to the Lewis “convention” | ent | , many thrown out of the auto factories of this city, sery that capitalism has condemned them ade Union Unity League. tnemy of Arabian Latin American Toilers Fight Unemployment rkers and stri st the nist Party and the T; (Continued from Page One) ly from unemployment, Soviet Union on the fake i religion, the Pope, to imperialist war plans, another state the workers re It is becoming the religious op the real issue, efforts (Continued from Page One) vt he exhaustion of the and the 10, 12 and uetion, to workers h 16 hour da; The manifesto cites series of strikes under leadership Confederation, the organization shown in new t vhich is the frantic whole the rece! Plan which is Cee of world capi- of the sharpening the cr talism. | ait S50 springing up in all industrie: | Reply to War Mongers. exposes the a’ kk of the govern- | MOSCOW, Mar. 18—As a reply | Ment and the attempt to sidetrack to the capit war-mongers, who | the rise of the working class by the are planning war against the Soviet ation, under secret aid of the rican Federation of Labor, of ist fake trade union center lf the “Cuban Federation and the soci st that it class Union under the guise of religious persecutions, the International Red Aid today published figures on. per- secutions of revoluti worl and peasants by imperia calling of Labor’ “Labor Party” which s ists and “a workers’, but their puppets in all parts of the|!8 2 A tas world. Derby c Tha Red Aid pointed out that| Against all these attacks the 328,639 workers and peasants have manifesto calls the worker been killed by capitalist police, gen- 1 Frepare for the court ter-offensive! The Cuban proletar- iat and that of Havana will not re- main quiet before the jailing and exile of their leaders and the clos- ing of their organizations. “Pass to the offensive! Form Shop Committees, that are organ- ized where the bourgeoisie cannot destroy them or root them out with- out di ying their own factories. Pro} publicly against the capi- talist atta “Fight for demand of immediate darmes and soldiers in connection with sti s, demonstrations and other incidents during the past five years, In addition, hundreds of thousands of others were wounded or inj and 500,000 arrested. More than 38, 000 revolutionaries were sentenced to death in capitalist courts, and 100,000 impriso: | Blackjacked by Cops betterment of the workers’ condi- \-Dantele Stagel member Gf) paper-| Hons fhel4heqeveram cf disk Nas makers local union 1063 lost his| tional Confederation of Labor of mind as a result of a blow by a|Cuba! For the Latin American policeman’s blac over the head,| Trade Union Confederation that |during the raid on March 5 on the! aids and directs the proletarian Cooperative Center in Los Angeles.| struggle of the continent against His condition is critical. The LL.D.| the bosses! Workers of Cuba, is furnishing medical aid and relief.! Unite!” Southern Cotton Mills and Labor By Myra Page 96 pp. 25 Cents. EARLY REVIEWS qualified to write of Southern textile worke: n woman herself, s as lived and worked mill vi and knows the situation at first hand. “SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AND LABOR” should be read by every worker in order to understand what is back of the great struggles in the southern textile field.” GRACE HUTCHINS: author of “Ls “Myra Page \ . The author performed a surgical operation upon a portion of the body of American imperialism, an operation which discloses in detail the misery of the masses. This is no ‘study’ by a social welfare worker. Sympathy and un- derstanding are there, but primarily it is an incision, sharp and merciless, by a scalpel with a Leninist edge.” —WILLIAM F, DUNNE. Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th Street New York City Discounts offered on orders in quantity lots COME TO THE MA ON WITH THE FIGHT FOR 'Work or Wages TONIGHT at 7 p. m, Bronx Coliseum SS DEMONSTRATION NA EOE ARETE HG Speakers: WM. Z. FOSTER 177th STREET and BRONX RIVER @ MASS @ Demonstration 3 \. TRADE UNION District Office ’ Auspices: COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S. A. UNITY LEAGUE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS OF N.Y.C. of Communist Party: 26 Union Square, New York City HARRY and OT: ROBERT MINOR ISRAEL AMTER JOE LESTON RAYMOND HERS N_ TONIGHT! Show Walker, Whalen and Wall Street that we will con- tinue the fighs for the work- .ers’ rights, for Work or Wages! Demonstrate in Support of the Leaders of the Unemployed! The Fight Goes On !