The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1930, Page 4

Page Four ons. WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 193 SS POPE’S ANTI-SOVIET DRIVE DRIPPING WITH STANDARD OIL MONEY “Pravda” Exposes International Oil Combine in| League With Catholic Church on “Holy War”) Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell, Rockefeller, Unite With Vatican Oil Against Soviet MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Press |French newspapers are doing their | Service).—-Referring to the report |best to whip up a campaign for | the expulsion of Soviet oil from the | French market (similar to Deterd- ling’s stolen oil campaign nearer home) and for the handing over of | the French market to a monopoly in | Anglo-American hands. These cor- }rupt French “patriots” even show themselves prepared to place the power of their own fleet in the jhands of the Anglo-American oil j barons. As for the pope, he is a modern man, a finance man and politician. rapid development of the Soviet oil His efforts to organize an anti-So- industry. The two deadly enemies |viet crusade may seem to: be, oh, so who would mutually exterminate | spiritual, spiritus: to the point of each other if they could, have fallen |fogginess, but in reality the basis into each others’ arms in face of |of his efforts is very materialistic, the Soviet danger to both of them. jand concerns the immediate economic | Deterding finances the religious interests of the vatican. campaign led by the Archbishop of} The agents of the pope, the jesu- Canterbury, and the inquiries into |its, concluded an agreement last the whereabouts of Kutiepov, as he month with the American oil mag- probably financed the disappearance | nates, and in particular with the in the first place. The German press | Rockefeller group, as a result of which attacks the trade institutions | which Catholic organization will re- of the Soviet Union has also received | ceive a packet of American oil finances from him and in particular shares. Pope Pius XI, the organizer from the American oil magnates. (of the spiritual campaign against The world oil monopoly organized |the Soviet union is nothing but an by Deterding and the Americans de- agent of the American oil trust. { tiands the extermination of the | The papalbanner around which | most dangerous competitor—Soviet | the imperialist adventureis of all} _petroleam. This competitor is very |types, from the degenerate whites dangerous because the price and the policy of the Soviet Petroleum Trust is much more favorable to the con- sumers than the monopoly planned by the capitalist oil mongers. Both Deterding and the American oil magnates are in close touch with | the: French press. The reactionary |beat high. that jesuit priests had purchased a \ area in the Mexican oil fields around Tampico, the “Pravda” de- clares that the papal anti-Soviet ac- tion smells strongly of oil, and points out that the penetrating smell of petroleum steals through even the romantic kidnaping stories of the police and the crocodile tears of the pope for the imaginary vic- tims of Soviet religious persecutions. Neither Deterding nor the Ameri- can oil barons were pleased at the prepared to earn money wherever | the opportunity affords, is spotted | ineradicably with oil. This is the | real character of the priestly howl | of indignation which is causing the heazts of the petty bourgeoisie to | 5 ‘ | | yr ‘PARIS (By Inprecorr Press Serv- | ice).—Not all the repressive meas- French Soldiers Aid Communist Press the French goldier’s pay is cidicu- | lously small, even when compared | ; wi he British private’s pay. The facies ce ee eee Severneant spldien Gets Ludin tedanioy. teat. succeeded in crushing the anti-mili- | sent in Chalons have also sent in tarist propaganda of the Commu-|a sum of 55 francs in support of <=Mists which continues |“’Humanite.” Such collections are | vesThe soldiers of the 146th infantry |by no means new and “?Humanite” | regiment in Vorbach have sent a|has received many of them. They sum of 80 francs to “?Humanite.” | arrive particularly often following | This sum was collected amongst |any bourgeois action against “l’Hu- | them. It must be remembered that | manite.” “FIGHT DAYS TO CONFERENCE T.U.U.L. Board Meet . Friday on Program (Continued from Page One) points will be a call for a national | to tie’to; but we do know that pre- convention on ag eH to meet | sent conditions are not favorable in Chicago in May. Special atten-| and we should not be misled by posi-| tion will be given to the building of | tive statements emanating from high state and district movements and | places in Washington that the near conferences, future will see unemployment ‘pas- | Every effort wil be made to build , sing. up a network of councils of the un-| Railroads are laying off shop and ore throughout the sountey., | maintenance men at a time when All this organization work is to they should be taking on extras, be cchordinated with the general task | Hae Wantell ade phe greatly re- of building the militant unions and duced in number while the rush of industrial leagues in the basic in-| applicants for positions open is un- dustries, especially. .__,|exampled since 1922. An ad for a| On Friday, March 28, at 16 West $15 a week stenographer, hours 9 2ist St., the national executive board |to 5 in a new downtown office build- | of the Trade Union Unity League |ing, brought over 200 girls to the by scoics gia ema cg att | spot stampeding the overwhelmed > Gra gram office manager, to the conference for discussion and approval. | !t wn and it is considering refusing | to accept any more cards from mem- | bers of other locals in the interna- | jtional until the present depression |is somewhat relieved. ne Speaking not to the public at large but to his own trade following, the expert of the Produce Review, leading butter and egg trade week- | ly, takes an undisguised rap at the | Hoover prosperity patter, writing: | “speculation as to future industrial | DOONPING TO SPEAK ON CHINA. R. Doonping, author of the pam- | phlet “Militarist Wars and Revolu- tion in China,” will speak this Sun- | day, March 23, at 8 p. m., at the) + © « Worst Since War. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Un- employment in the United States is worse now than at any time since the severe crisis which brought on Over Dark Waters —=. While Hoover and other capital- ist parasites fished and froliced in Florida waters, millions of work- ers and their families starved. | But already the oncoming storm is roughening the waters, and the submerged class will rise by re- | volution from slavery and starva- tion to power and freedom. Latin American Demonstration Big (Continued from Page One) talist news agency is silent on the main demand of the demonstrators, it is possible that the demonstra- tion’s chief demand was for the re- lease of the hunger strikers. RP eRe Cuban dispatches from capitalist news agencies, as those from other- Latin American sources, show clear- ly that a boycott of the boss press was laid upon the unemployment |demonstrations of Thursday, which | was to Latin-American workers what March 6 was to the workers of the United States and Europe. It is clear that the capitalist press | to the corrupt blackguards who are | estimate of 200,000 strikers in Cuba | is, as usual, a lying-under estima- tion of the number actually strik- ing. While the capitalist reports admit that “all commerce and in- dustry was on strike, with the ex- ception of some public utilities and |railways,” the same reports quote the lie of the Cuban police that the strike “had failed.” Reports indicate that no collisions occurred, and the statement that po- lice action was “merely to prevent viclence against persons or. prop- erty,” nevertheless does not obviate the fact that the violence of the po- lice was shown by the continued im- prisonment of five working-class leaders of the red trade unions on the floating prison ship, “Maximo Gomez,” in Havana Bay. Sugar Workers Out. That there were far more than 200,000 strikers is shown by the ad- mission that, besides the nearly com- plete strike of the industrial work- ers of the cities, of wl Cuba has some 250,000, thé’ plantation work- ers also struck in the great sugar centrals of the interior, and there até nearly 300,000 of such workers. These sugar workers nave been sub- jected to the most terrible exploita- tion and class violence. Their union was destroyed by arms in 1925 by |the fascist Machado dictatorship and their leader, Enrique Varona, mur- conditions gives us nothing definite |dered while a prisoner, while their | wages have been cut from $4 a day in 1919, to 60 cents in 1928 and to 40 cents a day at present. As stated in previous issues of |The Daity Worker, but concealed by wage cuts and speed-up, in line with the call of the Latin-American Trade Union Confederation for all Latin-American workers, but was against the closing down by the gov- ernment of the National Confedera- tion of Labor and the Havana Fed- eration. The capitalist press has been utterly silent on this matter. March 20 in Ecuador. The capitalist press against the March 20 demonstra- |tions could not hide the great Cuban | strike. \dicating what occurred Only one other dispatch in- America was let past the censorship of the boss-press agencies. This | the boss press, the strike was a pro- | test not only against unemployment, | also a demonstration to protest | boycott in Latin- was from Eeuador, and probably the Associated Press lied even here, when it stated that at Guayaquil, MINERS. STRIKE AGAINST CHECK "OFF TO FISHWICK |Prepare for Big NMU | Convention, June 1 (Continued from Page One) the Odd Fellows Hall, 409-411 East | Main St., Belleville, Ill. Franklin County territory—Fri- day, March 28, at 7 p. m., at Liberty Hall, Zeigler, Ill. |. Saline County—Sunday, March 30, Jat 2 p.m, at W.LR. Headquarters, | Eldorado. Staunton territory — Staunton, Tuesday, March 25, at 7 p. m. (this date is tentative). | ja date to be arranged. to local officers and active N.M.U. The organization of rank and file in the U.} V., our diate and utmost importance. The sub-district conference’ will establish functioning sub-district committees and will lay the basis for a bread and representative district convention. . * * 12 N.M.U. Conferences. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—A nationwide series of rank and file delegate con- ferences will be held in all mining of the National Miners Union con- vention to be held in this city be- ginning June 1. Instructions in con- nection with these conferences are now being sent to all districts by the national office of the N.M.U. These conferences, 12 in number, are to be of a mass character and have representatives from all N.M. U. locals, as well as from unorgan- ized mines and rank and file groups of the U.M.W.A. called primarily to mobilize for the N.M.U. convention, the conferences will at the same time lay organizational plans for streng- thening the union in the districts. At all the conferences the atta on the Fishwick and Lewis machines in the U.M.W.A. will be sharpened, and the true character of the recent creature of the. Peabody Coal Com- pany, } Particularly: significant is the fact that for the first time since the conferences are being arranged on the iron ranges and in the metal mining. and Southern fields. According to present plans the places and dates for the conferences are as follows: Illinois?’ April 5, 6 at Ziegler; Ohio: April 19, 20; Western Penn- sylvania: General conference March 30," with the district convention April 27; Coke Region, April 20; Anthracite, May 4, with a series of sectional conferences prior and lead- ing up to it; Central ‘Pennsylvania, May 10, 11; Northern West Virginia, May 10, 11; Kentucky, date unde- cided; Metal: General conference at Tronwood about May 4, with pre- liminary conferences at Chisholm, Minn and Ironwood Mich. before that date; Butte, Mont., probably May 15; South, tentatively, April 27. tentions, and arrested “all workers’ leaders,” declaring that they would “repress energetically” all “attempts to provike disturbances.” Mean- while, reports state that the national cabinet, meeting upon the subject at the capital, rejected the proposal of one cabinet member to give “com- plete liberty for public unarmed as- sembly of the workers of Guayaquil and Quito, who might wish to hold protest meetings in behalf of the unemployed of other countries.” The dispatch tells nothing more of what occurred, and in the action of the Ecuadorian cabinet shows how the capitalist governments are united against the international action of One will be held in Taylorville on | At these conferences in addition | members, every effort will be made | |to draw in militant elements in the | | UM.W. who have not yet joined | |the N.M.U. Committees of Action in all mines | j consisting of rank and file militants | own members | and unemployed miners, is of imme- | J udge Had Time to Ask fields of the country in preparation |; for the second national convention | | (three more years in jail), In addi- | legal papers filed’ against Foster; Springfield gathering exposed as-a/ formation ‘of the N.M.W,, ‘district | ome +f editor may shout prosperity and | he world war in 1914, was the gist the testimony of Miss Frances “Perkins, New York state commis- sioner of labor before the Senate committee today. Conditions, in the opinion of Miss Perkins are “striking and shock- ing.” She did not say anything about the way her fellow Tammany politicians, Walker and Whalen, an- swered the demand of the New York unemployed on March 6 for “Work or Wages,” with clubs. and nightsticks. Miss Perkins likes to pass as @ “liberal.” Her solution | for unemployment, however, is the | _ game as that of Hoover—drive for | «orld markets (with increased war “ charity and breadlines for the job- less. * *# | Crisis Sweeps West. | ¢ CHICAGO, March 21—Capitalist “politicians from Herbert Hoover esr down to the smallest me-too coun- -recovery all they like but each sec- 4. 4on of the country has its impres- sive array of facts that give this “shouting the lie, 2 Here a few from the Middle- Jonger excite attention. They ave $00 common. Unions report increasing unem- ent. Chicago Typographical 16, states that there are at danger), on the one hand; and also 4) Workers’ School Forum, 26 Union Square. On the London Naval Con- ference as a preparation for war. Comrade Doonping will reveal for his audience the original objective set by the conference, the present position of the imperialists and the the Lati-American proletariat. F.S.U. Five-Year P the committee leading the unem- ployed demonstration had given hu- miliating assurance that the demon- stration would be peaceful, with no violence and without any threat against “property.” p “The Ecuadorian police, however, relations of the workers to the con- ference. Are you a Young Worker? A YEARLY SUB TO THE ONE YEAR SUB TO THE seat West: ’ Bankruptcies of established banks, ; gations and staple industries. no ADDRESS..... i Jer** 1.500 vrinters out of work in THE “YOUNG WORKER” will appear as a WEEKLY on May 1, 1930 Are there Young Workers in your House? Are there Young Workers in Your Shop? If so, are they ceading the Only Working Class Youth Paper in the United States — The “Young Worker’? Subscribe, Spread, Read the ‘Young Worker”. Regular Price: $1.50 a year; 75¢ for 6 months. 4.00, FILL THE INCLOSED BLANK AND RUSH TO THE “DAILY WORKER, 26 UNION 8Q., N.Y.C. SPECIAL, OFFER DURING‘MARCH, APRIL, MAY ona end to the Weekly showed that as for themselves they have no such pacific illusions or in-| Answer the Holy Crusade “DAILY WORKER” AND “YOUNG WORKER” FOR ».to pay-for the special offer of aeeeee Send your contributions to th 175 Fifth Avenue, Room 511, |‘Here’s. $5; Be Careful’ 4 29 Cth «= « Rat Cah - | 3200 “Moat Accidents Happen Through Want of A Little Care." L2S | Ey 1 30] | | , | re Two recent weekly pay envelopes of a worker for the Dan River | Cotton Mill, ‘Between them is | photographed the insulting slogan on the back of the envelopes, ‘Most Accidents Happen Through | Want of a Little Care.” The workers’ name and number has been deleted in the photograph for obvious reasons. This man thinks he could avoid accidents | baster if he wasn’t somewhat weak | | from starvation. DENY JURY AND "JER JOBLESS His Bosses’ Orders (Continued from Page One) |trial in special sessions court, Part 6, Monday morning. They will be tried there on two counts, “unlaw- |ful assembly” (three years in jail) land “creating a public nuisance” tion, they are held for hearing April 11 in the Fourth Magistrate |Court on the fake charge of “as- saulting a police officer.”. The district ‘attorneys’ various | Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten \are filled with smug slanders against |the unemployed, indicating clearly | the attitude of the Tammany: gov- lernment to the starving workers. | The second count of the “informa- tion” against them by the district attorney in special sessions calls the | jobless in, the Union Square de- | monstration, a great multitude of |evilly disposed persons congregated lin Union Square.” ‘i The memorandum _ submitted against the representatives of the ; unemployed, urging that they shall |not be granted a jury trial, says: | “The offense was committed after- wards. (after the Union Square meet- ing). by. defendants in absolute con- tempt for the law by inciting ‘this rabble and mob of thousands of |persons.-to gnareh down Broadway, Baily dhe. seuphlicthed: avatar either law or fact is embraced in this particular action. - Otherwise, street jloafers who congregate at times in congested parts of our city streets |and who refuse to move or disperse \upon the orders of a police officer... could with equal assurance demand |that their cases be transferred to the Court of General Sessions for |a trial by jury...” The district attorney’s memoran- dum points to the Mae West trial as a horrible example of trial by |ju lots of publicity! It is sig- |nificant that this Mae West trial, }one in which the profits intended |to be made by a theatrical play the |police wish to censor, gets a trial |by jury, but the representatives of 110,000 workers protesting unem- ployment, get no trial by jury. At the hearing before Judge Ford, Wed- nesday, assistant District Attorney Unger also made a point of the fact that the case did not amount to much because “no property rights are involved,” and therefore should not have a jury trial. The decision of Judge John Ford, of the supreme court, also brings in the property angle. He says: lan Solidacity Drive Against the Soviet Union WITH MORE TRACTORS AND TRUCKS for the Five-Year Plan to help the workers and peasants of the Union Socialist Soviet Republics in building Socialism! ie Friends of the Soviet Union New York City | LETTERS OF WORKERS HIT UNEMPLOYMENT Some Creep Thru the Boss Press (Continued trom Page One) St. Patrick’s day, a worker writes us: “Yesterday I reviewed St. Pat- rick’s parade opposite the Cathedral and had @ good view of our ‘holy’ clergy and an excellent opportunity to study these non-producing hypo- crites. “T am not a member of your party, but I think you are doing good work, and when the time is ripe you are going to have a good fighter in the writer, “T am much impressed with the fact of more than 12 years of suc- cess of the Soviet Union. I believe, it must be good, otherwise it could not have lasted so long and been so successful. I have been against all religion for years. To me it is simply a lot of ‘hogwash,’ I could not help but think how little that well-fed gang think of the poor, hungry unem- ployed workers, roaming our streets.” A. E. Nissen, vice-president, Gos- pel League, Chicago, one of the tribe who attack the Soviet Union in the interest of the imperialist bandits, writes to the Chicago Daily News saying, that what the unemployed need is not food but religious dope. In the Soviet Union, however, the workers are building up socialism in the interest of the workers. In his slimy letter Nissen says: “T am convinced that a greater part of the large sums of money “To grant the application (for a jury trial) would be to delay the trial, impose a heavier burden on the tax-payer, and consume the time of a number of citizens who would be called for jury service.” The expense to. the profiteers of New York, gorged with the profits wrung from labor while it was be- ing exploited, weigh more, so the judge ‘says, than years in prison for the. representatives of the jobless, and the insulting rejection of their demands for immediate relief, etc. pai’ Alas (By Special Wire) LONDON, March 21.—The Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain declares that the trial of Comrade Foster and delegation is an attempt by the bourgeoisie to force the . workers’ mias8 leaders into’ prison. * This persecution, with the mass arrests and victimization, indicates the revolutionary progress of the Communist Party of the United States. The Communist.-Party.of--Great ‘Britain sends Communists-greetings to the Communist Party of the U. S.A. and congratulates.you on the magnificent achievements: of March 6,;-whieh justify the line of the Com- munist International, the cleaning out of the right opportunists and the setting up a reorganized leadership of revolutionary struggles and mass action. (Signed) Central Committee, Com- munist Party of Great Britain. +7ALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to W7RITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. WM. Z. . FOSTER Speaker —S “and now the dance classic® HARLEM @ REVELS Inter-racial Dance DUKE ELLINGTON’S ORCHESTRA THE LIBERATOR American Negro Labor Congress TICKETS 75 CENTS ate vena, & +RaD Teh Aeesue hata Wat torn St. rite Gapeste es’ “leet, ato fn 15 W, 190th 8t Room 3x 24 Union ‘ood Workern _ Workers Books Needle Tram 1OW MARECIAL REDUCTION TO. UNENPLOvED at Wits Get them through your union or Unemployed Send Support the Organs of the ir Smash the. Capitalist Scheme T.U.U.L. and A.N.L.C.! of Racial Separation! MAY 1ST CONFERENCE IS CALLED AGAINST _ ENEMIES OF WORKERS Manhattan Lyceum Meet on April 4 to Lay | Plans for May 1 Demonstration | All Working Class Organizations Should Send Delegates | The United Front Conference for {crisis on to the working class, the preparation of the demonstra-|against unemployment. Each of tion on May 1, International Labor |these demonstrations marked big Day, has been cailed by the May |steps forward in consolidating the Day Committee of the Communist | unity of the whole working class Party to take place on Friday even- | in New York. On March 6, Interna- 9] ing, April 4, at 8p. m., at Manhattan | tional Unemployment Day, 110,000 9) Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. | workers joined in the struggle. In a statement issued by I. Amter,! «May 1 is the long-established day New York district organizer of the | of struggle for the American work- | Communist Party, the tremendous | oy; when we especially re-emphasize importance of the events around|the ultimate role of the working this coming May 1 are pointed out ‘class to abolish capitalism and estab- and a call is issued to the entire |jish the workers’ and farmer: | working class to send delegates to | onment. The American Federation this conference in order to make|o¢ Labor has long since openly be- proper preparations. The statement | trayed this day of working-class reads in part as follows: solidarity. The socialist party and Demonstrations Grow Larger. | similar groups have attempted to “Following last May Day, the |turn it into a day for promoting ¢ great demonstration against war | collaboration. The police and tH took place on August the first. ty government has already a: After August the first, the demon-| nounced that it is gathering in stration against the murder of Steve levery fascist force and assembling # Katovis followed by the parade of |them in order to hinder the grow- 20,000 workers showed the greater |ing solidarity of the workers, espe- unity of the New York working |cjaiy as expressed on May Day it- | class. Only a few weeks ago the | .oj¢, greatest of all demonstrations of the | working class of New York took| a place in the struggle against the |York must give a mighty answer attempts to shift the burden of the to these betrayals and threats.” “The whole working class of New! }and pay their dollars, which re. | duced the bread of the unemployed | parents’ children for another fev | days.” Weinstein denied anybody by th name of Shikman attended hi: school, but said that the attendancég given to unfortunates at rescue mi: sions, etc., would get far better re- sults if 25 per cent was used for material help and the remaining 75 for spiritual help (bibles, testa- ments, texts, etc.) because mate- tial help is only a makeshift while spiritual help is permanent.” | bureau is on the second floor of hit ih | school building, which handled thes: ssa: | cases. He disclaimed any fault fo “Well Meaning” Tools of Capitalism the fines against the unemployed Principal Weinstein of Public parents. School No. 19, called up the Daily | “I’m perfectly harmless,” sai Worker in a great huff becetse Weinstein, “I never did any ha | * * Morris Shikman, unemployed fath-}to anybody.” However, the fac! er, who was fined $1 because his| that Weinstein is a part of thi child did not attend school on March | capitalist school system that doe 6th, but instead joined the “Work! persecute workers’ children, worl or Wages” demonstration, wrote a|ing together with the courts to de letter which was printed in the! prive unemployed parents of a fey Daily Worker saying that, “You| dollars with which to buy the took the ‘whole pound of meat’ from/ children food cannot be done aw: the unemployed parents that kept/with by the “harmlessness” their children away from school at} Principal Weinstein or other well their unemployed demonstration on| meaning tools of the Tamman: March 6, making them go to court' school system, May 1—Moscow! 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