The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1930, Page 4

New York C N. Page Four Square. Published by the Comprodally Publishing Co. Tne. daily, exe Addrese and mail all checks to the Daily Worker. 2 Telephone Stuyvesant For a Class Against Class Program 'HOUSANDS of women in the munitions plants are working under terrific pressure for 25 cents an hour, tens of thousands of Negro women tobacco workers slave for wages ranging between $4 and $6 a week, millions of women in the textile mills, steel mills, electrical and chemical plants, packing houses, canneries and other factories work 12 to 14 hours a week for starvation wages, under unbelievable conditions of speed-up and exploitation. These exploited workers must be reached and organized, These women worker: are today the slaves of the capita! be won for the class struggle and turned into militant-fighters for the rights of the working class. Because the workers face so many struggles: today which require their activities as an organized group, one of our primary tasks is the organization of the millions of unorganized women workers into the militant industrial unions, and into the ranks of the Communist Party. The importance of the workers’ press as an aid in organization cannot be overestimated, The Working Woman can become our best or- ganizer of. women workers. Through effec- tive distribution it will reach hundreds of open shops, mills, and factories all over the coun- try; it will reach backward women on the farms and in the homes, placing before the masses of exploited working women the class against class program, the demands and slo- gans of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party of the U. S. A. The Working Woman must become the voice of- every working woman in the factory, on the farm or in the home. If the paper is to re- flect. the conditions and struggles of the work- ers in the shops, we must have a wide cam- paign for shop correspondence. Women work- ers should be urged to write about their work- ing conditions, workers’ correspondence cir- eles should be formed in the shops and in the unions, which will regularly supply the Work- ing Woman with articles, These correspon- dence circles can give us many valuable con- tacts for our shop delegate conferences. In the coming imperialist war, millions of women and children will be regimented into industry, to make greater profits for the bosses, while their men are sent to the front. Working women are already being mobilized by the U, S. government to take an active part in this way. Every day hundreds of capitalist papers poison the minds of the workers with their anti-labor strike-breaking propaganda, with their vicious lies and attacks on the Soviet Union. Only the workers’ press tells the workers the truth about imperiali@t wars, and how to fight against them. The bourgeois women’s organizations, with their hundreds of papers and publications, either mobilize working women for the gov- ernment’s war program, or mislead them with dangerous pacifist illusions, which make the workers helpless to fight against speed-up, wage cuts, exploitation and imperialist wars. | The Working Woman published by the Com- munist Party is the only women’s paper in the U. S. A. which fights for the interests of women workers wherever they are exploited. It exposes the role of the treacherous, social fascist A. F. of L. and its handmaiden ihe Women’s Trade Union League. It teaches women workers solidarity of the working class of the world; it mobilizes women workers for the struggle against imperialist war and in defense of the Soviet Union, the only country where women workers haye real freedom and equality with men worke The Working Woman is an organizer, en agitator and a propagandist. Its voice must be heard by women workers in every shop and y, in every hell-hole of exploitation in On to a mass working women’s paper! Build ‘ the Working Woman! “The Menace of Russian Steel” By HARRISON GEORGE. INDER the above title (Menace of Russian Steel), the New York “Journal of Com- merce,” organ of Wall Street, in an editorial of. March 28, puts the question: “Will Rus- sian steel and pig iron be a menace in the not distant future?” And the answer it gives should dispel the last doubts of the last doubt- er as'to why, at the present moment, pope and priest, rabbi and reverend, have initiated a “religious” protest against the “unholy” Bol- sheviks. “Before the war,” says the Journal of Com- merce, “the Russian steel industry was one of the world’s largest—a fact probably not wide- ly appreciated.” We are quite sure that this is not “appre- ciated” by, for example, the counter-revolu- tionary I. W. W., which masks its anarchist opposition to the dictatorship of the prole- tariat behind the theory that there “is no proletariat” in Soviet Russia, its chief “theor- etician,” James P. Thompson, going up and down the land announcing in tremulous tones that “a pwoletarian revolution is impossible in Russia because it is a peasant country—noth- ing but an endless mass of small farmers.” Let the Journal of Commerce straighten out this mistake: “Its pig iron output in 1913 ranked fifth among the leading nations and its steel was fourth.” Nor were the godless Bolsheviks content | with the practical ruin of the industry caused by the war and armed intervention. Contrary to the “popular,” that is to say the capitalist press conception of the “inability of the work- | ers to run industry,” a conception shared by the I. W. W. also, who fulminated in scorn about “politicians” running industry, under the guidance of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the Soviet proletariat has restored— and more «than restored—the steel and iron industry. Again let the worried Journal of Commerce speak: “In the last few years there has been a sud- den recovery in Russia’s industry. Russian plants have gradually been rebuilt and re- manned, ..As.a partial result, output has ex- panded until.near the close of 1929, Russian blast furnace output was again equal to and larger than in. 1913, while steel output was nearly the same as before the war. Compara- tive data.follow in gross tons per month: Pig Iron Steel 1913 . seeeee 345,500 396,700 1927 « 248,100 304,000 1928 ... + 276,700 350,000 1929 (for 11 months) 350,800 392,700 “This is ‘an impressive record,” remarks the | New York Journal of Commerce. And it then speaks with foreboding of the prospect of the Five-Year Plan. “Recently the ‘five year program’ of the Soviets has attracted wide attention, It is understood to mean broad expansion in many industries with possible competition with for- eign nations. ~ If this is so, then the possible menace to the world’s steel industry of Rus- in activities may by no means be taken lightly.” That the imperialist nations are not taking it “lightly” can be seen by the “moral prepa- ration” for war against the Soviet Union now being screamed by Rabbi Wise and Reverend Foolish, by the counter-revolutionary wolf- pack from Abramovich (who assures every- body that Russian industry is near collapse”), the fascist A. F. of L. leaders like Matthew Woll, the Lovestone gang who see “catas- trophe” in the Soviet Union and hint darkly about Bukharin being “under pressure”. from which Lovestone “escaped,” to the Trotskyite- Cannon “militants” whose perennially “sick” leaders are the subject of hysterical solicitude in the form of protests against “ruthless Stalin.” y The Journal of Commerce does not deal in abstractions. It knows that a steel center sur- passing Gary, Indiana, is being built by the Bolsheviks at Mariupol. It is worried neither about Koutiepov, nor god, nor Blumkin. It Says: * “The nations in such event, first affected would be~the European steel-making coun- . he tries, but the effect on the American would also eventually be harmful.” But, of course, those who cover their united front of counter-revolutionary war propaganda against the Soviet Union with a mask of “rev- | olutionary” chatter, will claim that the Soviet Union is a menace to the capitalist world be- cause it has “gone back to capitalism,” or has completed its “Thermidor degeneration,” that the Russian worker has “lost his liberty,” and so on and so forth. ‘ Counter-revolutionary liars have never been at a loss to find lofty “moral” justification for their murder incitements against the workers. Deterding and Henderson claim that god gave the Baku oil fields to the Royal Dutch Sheil Company. The pope would restore ikons to the kulaks. Rabbi Wise demands “matzoth” for the Jews. The French police demand their Koutiepov while Cannon demands his Blumkin. Lovestone demands an end to the “ultra-left line of the Communist International.” The I. W. W. strike-breakers and the A. F. of L. fascists, together with Kerensky and the ezarist grand-dukes demand “liberation” of the Rus- sian masses from “Communist dictatorship.” The whole pack demands war against the So- viet Union! But the American workers will not be de- ceived. No matter how disguised, in priestly robes or “proletarian” vestments, the workers will know that these who cry at “religious” persecution or “political” persecution, are on the side of counter-revolution, om the side of Wall Street imperialism, on the side of the bosses who rob them daily in the shops and mills, on the side of those disturbe1 million- aires who are preparing war against, “ihe menace of Russian steel.” That is to say— against the alist industry of the Soviet Union, where wages are being raised, unem- ployment wiped out, the seven-hour, five-day week established, where workers enjoy ruler- ship of both industry and government and are pressing on to complete socialist construction. Results of the Drive for a Southern Weekly Paper Up to March 28 Language Papers Quota Result ~Tyomies, Finnish . 350 $ 64.50 18.4 ‘Toveri, Finnish ...... 200 —_ ~Eteenpain, Finnish .. 300 489.67 160.3 | “foveritor, Finnish .... 100 —_ Punikki, Finnish .. 50 30.56 61% Laisve, Lithuanian ... 400 200.00 50% “Vilnis, Lithuanian .... 400 co ¥reiheit, Jewish ..... 700 25.00 “3.6 ‘Ukrainian Daily News 650 70.00 10.8 Rovnost Ludu, Czechoslovak - 600 —_ ~Obrana, Czechoslovak . 50 — ~Uj Elore, Hungarian... 500 100.00 = 20% “Radnik, South Slav .. 500 —_ ‘Novy Mir, Russian .. 300 61.06 20.3 Ny Tid, Scandinavian . 250 47.00 18.8 “Empross, Greek ...... 100 1,00 1% Il Lavoratore, Italian 50 — — Saznanie, Bulgarian .. 50 — Arbeiter, German .... 50 6.25 12.5 Nor Ashkar, Armenian 50 ere eee Amerikas Zihna, Let... 50 14.00 28% Uus Ilm, Esthonian 30 13.00 43% Liberator, Negro . 60 — Total. 56: $5,790 $1,122.04 19% Language Department Central Committee Communist Party U. S, A. Notes of the South According to official statistics there are 250,000 workers unemployed in the state of North Carolina. The official figures record 15,000 unemployed in the two largest cities, Charlotte and Winston-Salem. Each of these cities has a population under 100,000, Baily [2= Worker : By Mall (in New York City only): Cenival Organ of the Communist Par.) cf the U.S. A. Prepare the Mass Political Strike! By Mail (outside of New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 00 a yea! ity): $6.00 a year; ir; $4.50 six months; 33.50 six months; $2.50 three months $2.00 three months By Fred Ellis anennn ene ~ By JOSEP ZACi In the first half of this a points to the March 6 demo S. as proof of the radicalization of workers. He shows by a histor that previously the American conservative because it wed to be possible ta escape into farming or emall business. This is no longer true, there has never really large social dev peratic or movement here, so when the Amer letarian decides he must fight or turns not to the socialists or the but directly to the Communist Por PART 2, The fact that our Party only could mobilize srch wrest masses is due not on to the favorable ob situation but a to the big concentration of hig masses of work- 16,009 strong ers in certain areas and huge pl sunden such conditions small units are capable of drawing big masses. Thus far the movement is primarily amor: the uvemployed: there is as yet altogether too weak a contact with the employed; the hueeness of the demon tions will, however, insnire. confidence in the working class as a whole and make them 1 ize their own strength. snurring on the Party to double and quadruple its efforts. Although the Party “almost doubled its membership in the last few months. its srowth into a mass Party can now procved at a far more ranid pace. The weakest link at the present is the new union center. It is clear that now is the time to make the masses stream into the new unions, to build up powerful factory organiza- tions and thus to rouse and organize the en tire working class for strvegle against unem- ployment and for the overthrow of the bourg- eoisie. Only thus can the strveele of the un- employed be effectively linked with the em- ployed, those developing into an offensive of the entire working «lass. Revolutionary competition to catch up. with Europe is not too bold a task. March 6 has smashed into smithereens the opportunist tales about the backwardness of the Ametican working class. It has put into the museum ‘the Pepper-Lovestone prosperity perspectives. These gentlemen cry about the Comintern having now cast off Penver’s petty - theory about the Commu s building a labor party in the U.S.A, which he said must serve as a bridge to the masses. Lovestone points out in his counter-revolutionary sheet that “now is the time to build such a labor party.” No doubt had these gentlemen remained at the head of our Party they would have carnalized this revolutionary wave into safe orderly labor party channels, they would have distorted this revolutionary clan by making “revolvtionary” united fronts with “progressive” burenrerats of the A. EF. of L. The Comintern he: been proven correct a hundred times bv th» very events in cleaning out these renegades. March 6 has shown that the Communist Party °* the U.S.A. can rally the broad masses un“ ~ its own banner, without any reformist br’ ‘2s. Lovestone and Co. speak about the cr’s‘s in the Comintern, the crisis in the Com> nist Party of U.S.A.; they mistake their own crisis for the crisis of the Comintern: they he ‘ost all sense of reality; they speak about t.> ce- The American Proletariat Turns! Toward the Revolutionary Path cline of the Comintern like the social-fascists and this at a time when even the latter are grudgingly admit its rising Lovestone and Wolfe say in one of pamphlets issued in February, ad of ushering in a new period e growth, the conclusion of the of its development brings the Party with general nolitical chaos, pro- izational decline, and rapidly in- isolation. The Party is in a deep . .. Could there be anything more bank- more stupid? Translate “constructive” into reformist and “isolation” into the divore~ ing of Pepper and Lovestone from the Party and the truth is here. The cleaning out of these omnortunists was a pre-requisite for the rise of the Party; had it not been done then it might have heen too late. . compelled to strenet face to nonneed or acing < and Threats. eroisie in its consternation talks on one hand and repression on the Meanwhile the masses of unemployed are pawning, selling their last possessions in order to somehow still’ bnv something; when the bottom of the crisis will be reached no one knows. In the past a crisis used to be liqui- dated in a large vart by the reserves the masses had accumulated during prosperity, the fact | that now there are already lines of thousands | of hymgry before the charity missions shows that the reserves are gone already now. But the crisis seems to be only heginning. Wages are being slashed into half by firing and re- hirine workers. Who will buv:the goods on hand. who will vay for the billions worth of merrhandise sold on installment plan? Al- ready we see masses of even skilled workers and bankrunted petty-bourgeoisie in the hun- ger lines. The agrarian crisis is setting in with a renewed vigor. The crisis in Latin _ America and the revolutionary rise there tends to amaleamate the revolutionary rise in the U.S.A, and the rising revolutionary tide in Latin America. The outlet for American im- vev'sliens hevond the American _ continent. China, India, ete. is narrower than ever. Farmers Stirred. The results of March 6 in the U.S.A. will stir the poor farmers into more vigorous ac- tion, it will be an insniration to the masses of Latin America and the whole world, mean- while the attractive power of the victorious Soviet proletariat rises amongst the exploited in inverse proportion to the crisis of capital- ism driving the masses to vaster and more in- tense revolutionary struggles in which the U.S. proletariat will play an increasingly leading role... A factor which causes the American bourg- eoisie no little loss of sleep is the manifesta- tion already at this early stage of disaffection amonest its armed forces as manifested by the New Orleans police during the street car men’s strike there and of the state troops (militia) during the Southern textile strike; the state troops are mostly composed of sons of poor farmers and the army and navy of workers and other poor stiffs that not being able to get work “volunteered” to join the army and the navy on the other hand, amongst the unem- ployed and amongst the workers generally are masses of ex-soldiers that know how to use arms and who have seen some fighting in the world war and have small arms either revol- NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE LOOKS WEST Plan March on State Capital « aR By WILLIAM SIMONS. (0 a great many Easterners, the United States of America extends as far west as Chicago. Beyond that is the land where only explorers and hitchhikers dare to tread. As a rule, national tours of organizers for revo- lutionary organizations end at Chicago. And yet, national conferences are called in the East, with delegates from as far west as Chi- cago, and these are considered real national conferences. This attitude is a distinct underestimation of the importance of the West for the revo- lutionary movement. As a matter of fact, the industries of the West, steel, oil, auto, are in the grip of the national trusts. The bankers of the West participated in the Hooy- er Industrial Conference. Workers in the West are denied wage increases by arbitra- tion boards (Denyer, Colorado) on the basis of Green’s promise to Hoover of no wage in- creases. Workers in the West have their wages cut as in the rest of the country. In California alone, there are 400,000 unemployed. The largest labor demonstrations on the Coast took place on March 6th against unemploy- ment. In Los Angeles, the demonstration of Feb, 26th of 10,000 was followed by a demon- stration of 35,000 on March 6th, despite the most brutal smash-up of the first demonstra- tion, the arrest of the leaders, and the smash- ing of halls of workers’ organizations and arrest of leaders the day before March 6th. In San Francisco, a march down the main street to City Hall of 15,000 workers; in Oak- land of 10,000. In Sacramento, a spontaneous, unorganized demonstration of the unemployed. In Seattle, thousands demonstrated, the po- lice breaking up the demonstration, In Den- ver, also, thousands demonstrated. Win Western Workers. No conference can be truly national, with- out adequate representation from the West. If geographical distance involves financial ex- pense that the Western localities cannot han- dle alone, then it must be the business of the eastern organizations to bring about such na- tional representation. National drives have been conducted to develop the revolutionary movement in the South. Similar drives must be conducted on behalf of the West. Considering the short preparation for the National Unemployment Conference, the re- sults were indeed’ good. 215 delegates from 17 states and 49 cities is a good showing. 47 Negroes, $1 youth and 12 women—there should have been more youth, more women represent- ed. The industries most heavily represented were building 32; food 23; metal 21. States with largest representation, New York 175; Pennsylvania 36; New Jersey 24; Connecticut 12, The national touch to the conference were the delegations from Minnesota and California. The eastern delegations learned at the con- ference that they could get strong support from the West for the fight against unemploy- ment, and that it was the duty of all the or- ganizations to see to it that a large delegation of unemployed from the West attends the Na~ tional Convention on July 4th and 5th. The western delegations learned that the move- ment among the unemployed had. struck deep roots, and that the outlook was for a monster National Convention on July 4th-5th. Build Jobless Councils. Building a powerful National Convention of the Unemployed Councils requires immediate building up of the Unemployed Councils throughout the country. Such councils -exist in the West, in Seattle, San Francisco, Oak- land and Los Angeles. In San Francisco and Oakland, the Unemployed Councils rented halls on the skidroad, where meetings of the unemployed are held, where working class lit- erature is read, where the unemployed are mobilized for distribution of leaflets, for fac- tory and street meetings, etc. The Councils on the Coast are proceeding to build Commit- tees of Action, linking up the workers of a shop, both employed and fired. Already, mem- bership cards have been issued to the mem- bers of the Unemployed Councils in Oakland and San Francisco. Already on March 1st, in San Francisco, in connection with the TUUL District Convention in California, a District Unemployment Con- ference was held, with representation from Los Angeles, 400 miles away.’ A’ conference of the Bay Cities was held. March 23rd, in vers or rifles, The American bourgeois regime is not prevared for the vast social contradic- tions now arising, and precisely those forces which during its upward development and class peace were reliable and supported the big bourgeoisie like for instance, the farmers, the labor aristocracy and urban petty-bourgeoisie, are now dissatisfied. The depth of this dissat- isfaction will only come to the fore in the on- coming sharper struggles. The American workers are no pacifists once they are on, the move, an intelligent organization of their re- sistance together with serious anti-militarist ' work is likely to give the American bourgeoisie many more shocking surprises. The First of May. There are already serious indications also of a political crisis, the debates in Washington are becoming hotter, all kinds of hoodlums and bourgeois elite are being recruited into the American Legion (fascist) which is already” uttering threats about the first of May. Mat- thew Woll, the real leader. of the A. F. of L. is ‘demanding openly the suppression of the unemployed movement, The violent comments of the bourgeois press about the London “dis- armament” conference, indicate the strivings towards a warlike solution of the present im- passe, Part of the bourgeoisie is orientating upon the “Left” social-fascists in order to in- tercept the “Leftward” moving workers telling their labor lieutenants to be.“progressive” sup- porting them through its press, etc. These are the straws in the wind indicating vast events ahead of us. . March 6 was an indication of the social con- sequences of the American crisis. It put upon the Communist Party greater tasks and re- sponsibilities opening upon vast revolutionary perspectives of mass struggles in the fire of which our American Communist Party will grow into an experienced leader and mass or- ganizer of the American working class. Forward to the revolutionary competition with European workers for the first of May. Forward towards a mass Communist Party, Oakland. Committees of the Unemployed have been visiting regularly A.F.L. unions, and meeting in some cases with a favorable re- sponse. A committee was sent to-Sacramento to the State Convention of the Building Trades, which was refused admittance. Committees are being organized to go to important cen- ters, like Sacramento, Stockton, and Fresno to organize councils there. A one hundred mile march on the State Capital, Sacramento, is contemplated. The National Unemployment Conference: in selecting Chicago as the Convention city has shown its national outlook, The national trip of its National Secretary in preparation for the Chicago Convention should extend to the Coast. This will stimulate the work in. the West and help build up a big delegation from there, “Somewhat Exaggerated” Reports MOSCOW, March 12 (By Inprecorr Mail) A number of prominent citizens of the Soviet Union have enjoyed the experience of Mark Twain, who referring to a report of his. death in a newspaper declared that the report was “somewhat exaggerated.” The press campaign is particularly violent.in Poland and the wild- est stories are current amongst the shuddering petty-bourgeoisie. Referring to a report published in the Pol- ish press resently, G. Kirdezov sends a cor- rection to the “Vetchernaya Moskva” (Moscow Evening): “The bourgeois press publishes an alleged- ly authentic report according to which I have been executed without trial by the G. P. U. I can only plead that pressure of work on the editorial board of the “Mezhdunarodnaya Zhisn,” the official publication of the Peo- ple’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, caused me to overlook the fact.” The Polish press also reports that the well- known White Russian author Jakub Kollas has been arrested by the G. P. U. and that his arbitrary arrest has caused great indignation in White Russian circles. Referring to this report Jakub Kollas writes to the Soviet news- paper in White Russia denying that he. has ever been arrested by the Soviet authorities and expressing the opinion that he never will be. He writes, inter alia, the following: “The mass collectivization in White Russia, and the liquidation of the rich peasants, the kulaks, as a class, is in my opinion the only way to make an end of the century-old mis- ery and suffering of the White Russian peas- ant masses. I am doing my utmost to assist the Soviet authorities, not only with my pen, but also practically. I am a member of the’ urban Soviet and I am now going to join a collective agricultural undertaking, in order to do my bit practically for the building. up of socialism in the White Russian. country- side.” It must be admitted that the Polish press has had_a run of. bad luck. Perhaps it would be-a good idea to take some thoroughly dead Bolshevik and shoot him, at least he wouldn't be able to rise up and deny it. se “Farmer-Labor” Lackey: of Imperialism Senator Shipstead, “Farmer-Labor” Jackey of American imperialism from. Minnesota, left a conference with President Hoover last: Tues- day “firmly convinced” that the marines must be kept in Haiti “at present,” since their with- drawal would deprive the poor Haitians of the blessings of all “law and order.” Shipstead knows that without the armed force of the marines, the robbing and oppression of the Haitian peasants and workers by -American imperialists and bankers would be impossible. Hence this “Farmer-Laborite” backs up Wall Street Hoover in keeping the marines. in Haiti. Shipstead is undoubtedly used by Hoover. to quiet the liberals’ “qualms of conscience,” On Winning the Children ' In a mill section of New England a member of the National Textile Workers Union is quite active in selling literature. . At present he is making a canvas to sell “Out of a Job,” “Why Workers Should Join the Communist Party” and Myra Pages “American Working’ Wonien and the Class Struggle.” He sold one of the latter to a woman of foreign birth, who said she could not read English but’ she would get her young daughter to read it to her. A few days after the worker met her and asked her how she liked it. “Oh my daughter refused to read it. She began to: cry when I urged her.” She said: “Mamma, you know what the priest-said about the Bolsheviks, this is a Bole shevik. book.”* So that’s that. Morale: we must put up better and bigger battles to save the children from being allies of the bosses, z Textile Slave. The ‘Daily Worker is the. Party’s , hest instrument to make contacts among tke masses of, wotkers, to build a mass Communist, Party, - Workers! Join the Party Your Class! —_———! Communist Party U. S. A, 43 East 125th Street, New York City, I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information, Name ..ccsssececseccesccssccenee Address Tete eeeeeeesscevecees UitFeecsevion . Occupation ...s.sscseceevecscesee Age.ccsee Mail this to the Central Offi unist Party, 43 East 125th St., New Tork, Ne ie | Se ae eee ea | at Mien on