The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 4

Square, New York City, N Addrese and mail all ch’ Page sk ‘ Published by the Comprodally Publishing Go. Inc., @aily, exc ce 8 to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Un St n Square. Telephone New WILL PILSUDSKI MAKE WAR IN MAY? By H. M. (Warsaw). ILSUDSKI’s preparations for imme e war are being less 1 less concealed by the ourgeois and social fascist press of Poland. The war rumo against the Soviet Union are even being P: dski hi lf and his immediate They do not even take the trouble to the sensational article by under of the National the preparations Roman Dmovski, the Democratic Party Soviet war than is y the tion. The g rected to that land which Baltic Sea to the Pacific man who visited the Soviet r much about what was hap- 1 of the proletarian dictator- terrible things (for whom? ere without the business much about them. He s now, learning about the Five-Year Plan, about the pian for industrializing Russia. ausing considerable disquictitude Instead of becoming an , the Soviet Union is pre- itself into a dangerous are unbearable for the is the rom maan, ing to tr etitor. Polish and Americ s people who de- clare: “The Soviet Union must be swept away.” And now—continues Dmowski—we have been for several months past Soviet campaign which bears all the signs of prepa ion for a big action. Recently, religi- ous persecution was increased in the Soviet Union (?). This called forth a protest of the and before all of the Vatican, and suddenly a miracle occurred. The business man, who scorned religion and was an enemy of the church, suddenly recognized the authority the Vatican, ported the Papal protest and began to ery for revenge, as the conscience of the business man cannot reconcile itself—with the Five-Year Plan. The busine: man of action; when he commences a cam- paign it is probably not with the intention of confining it to wor For the present the busi- ness man is not saying anything regarding his intentions. Nevertheless a faint echo of the numerous negotiations which are going on i the whole of Europe is to be found in the press.” Even if this open language of the ar reactionary national democratic leader Dmowski ses not so much the desire to protect et Union as the political competitive believers of - an anti- | man is a } struggle between th» national « the Pilsudski-ites for tl sion of the worker y alarming. He w« such facts unless the reliable sources of ir The rumor is going aroun Constitution is to be set up in near future. This Const n claimed after the capture of Kiev a tution of a Federation of Poiand, th and White Russia. tly there was a | read r lied to ion of metal w trade union, who had complained of dischar; garding this i Feverish ¢ ried on in munit ing which the Ger reports, it has, now been machine guns of the Belgia re being introduced into the est units of the infantry are with this weapon, cont vailing hithero, accorc guns were us This is directed a the machine arate groups ¢ Accord in view introduce The deta tion are of ec the usual m purpose of t of the so-called to the new reor; troops who in th after the whereupon t the front mobilization of the other categor which can last from three to The mobilizaion tried « This is how it was carried out ers were fetched out of th ramways and the : working women to carry out taneous demor The whole C the greatest of Polish fascism. of the Soviet UL redoubled energy. anizat 2 ever led u > of 1 ons on will be t as a cov is ¢ by the police, n Lodz. Work- factories, from thi ction at and devote ions The Reign of Violence of the MacDonald Gov’t in India By V. CHABR. HEN the MacDonald government entered into office, a Conservative politician, on being asked his opinion regarding the prob- able length of life of the new Cabinet, de- clared that the test for MacDonald would be India. For the English bourgeoisie it is, as a matter of fact, more advantageous to make use of its most Left wing, represented by MacDonald’s Party, for the purpose of crush- ing the Indian national revolutionary move- ment. Right from the first moment the govern- ment of the social imperialists. has not in any way differed from its reactionary, conserva- tive predecessor. The continuation of the Meerut trial, the refusal to grant even the most elementary concessions to the national- revolutionary movement, the ruthless attacks on the striking workers—all this the British financial magnates themselves could not have better carried out than their social-imperialist lackeys. The revolutionary crisis in India is develop- ing. Colossal masses of the town workers and of the Indian peasants are participating in the struggle. The Mass Strike as a weapon in the fight against imperialist oppression, street demonstrations, often leading to bloody collisions, active and passive resistance to the violence of the imperialist government—these are the outstanding features of the situation in India, Gandhi’s March originated as a re- sult of the pressure of the profoundly excited masses; it was undertaken by Gandhi in the hope that the MacDonald government would prefer to come to a compromise with the re- formist wing of the Indian national move- ment, with the advocates of “non-violence,” rather than call forth an outbreak of the pow- erful and violent mass movement. National reformism wanted to make it possible for Mac- Donald to gain time. And MacDonald made use of this time in order to arm his battalions to the teeth, to place his police and military in readiness and to show the mailed fist to the national emancipation movement. MacDonald’s policy in India represents the most brutal oppression of the working class; its only answer to the demands for freedom of a people numbering 350 million is the bay- onet, arrests, prison sentences, banishments, police violence. yThe trade union leaders hay- ing been thrown into prison, it is now the turn of the President of the Youth League, Nari- man, Mahatma Gandhi's son, Pandit Jawahar- lal Nehru, the President of the Indian National Congress and others. who have been fighting for weeks and even for months for their rights, as, for instance the Workers! Join the Party of 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. NNBMC . 2... scseesecccveasesocssceseregcusees AddresS w.eeeeceeveceserueses VitYecceceeee MCHIPALION j. 000 ccccccccccdocccccs ABCs ceeee Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 Enst 125th St.. New York, N. Y. The striking workers , railway workers of the G. I, P. way, are continually confronted in their fight by the police of the “Labor” Government. And what is the II. International doing? Nothing, not even ra g the slightest pro- test! It seems a ry when one reads that the members of this same Intérnational who are blu ning and imprisoning the striking wor in India, at the same time propose to the trade unions of these workers that they enter the Amsterdam International. If the Indian workers still need enlighten- ment regarding the true charact sterdam Inte best to prov MacDonald’s violent n brought about serious chang the Indian mass movement itself. In f of this policy of the strong hand, the futility of Gandhi’s tactics of non-violence be obvious to the mo s enlightenment. have naturally are | aused the | t Sunday, at 26-28 Onfon DALWO: York, masses. MacDonald’s provocations, which Gandhi continually called upon the Indian mas: to meet with passive resistance, are now going beyond the patience of these very long-suffering Indian mass« The movement shows very cl ymptom, t it is getting beyond the control of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi himself ems to regard the mass movement at the presen joment as so threatening that He is beginning to adopt a | radical tone, to speak of the possibility of bloodshed, Still more remarkable, however, is the fact that the movement is not only con- centrated in the districts of Ahmedabad which are under the influence of Gandhi, but that the masses, and particularly the working masses, in other remote di: s of India are pontaneously taking up the anti-imperialist fight by acts of sabotage, mass strikes and mass demonstrations, MacDonald in his Indian policy, is the ex- ponent of British financial capital, the friend and helper of the reactionary clique of colonial officials, who live like parasites on the Indian masses, the protector of that backward despot- ism which still today holds down Injia. There could be no more reactionary united front than this common block of all the forces of reaction and exploitation in India. But the Indian m ses cannot and will not retreat; MacDonald’s policy, however, leaves | no doubt that the eloquent pacifist of the II. International will not shrink from bloody mas- sacres, and that in fact he is actively prepar- ing for this, as is shown by the concentration of “reliable” Mohammedan regiments in the disaffected districts. In such circumstances the result of the fight will to a great extent depend upon whether the British working class will succeed in stay- ing the arm of their bor” Government, whether they will permit the rev movement in India to be crushed, w result in a strengthening of Bri and would have fatal effects for proletariat. “India is the test of MacDonald.” Mac- Donald is passing his test by the Tory exam- iners as brilliantly as he has done in the case of Egypt, Africa, Palestine and the whole of the vast Empire which he is administering in the interest of the city money-bags. But India is also a test for the British proletariat and for the C. P. of Great Britain. The fight of the Indian people, the fight of the Indian proletariat against MacDonald, against imper- jalism, must not remain isolated. Against the reactionary block there must be set up the united front of the enslaved Indian masses with the fighting European proletariat. reaction the British N Central Organ of the Commanist Party of the U, S. A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: everywhere: One year $6; si E months §: ; two months $1; excepti an and Bronx, New York City, and foreign, which are: One year $8; Boroughs of six months $4.50 go to the toilet and stop preduction!” International Publishers Issue TIOAL Publishers have issued a new translation of Marx’ and Engels’ “Com- munist Manifesto,” which will prove of unusual value to all Marxi: and students of Marx. ism. The book contains 360 pages, of which only 43 are actually consumed by the text of the Manifesto. 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The April issue of the Pan-Pacific Monthly, official organ of the Pan-Pacifie Trade Union Secre- tariat, is filled with first hand material on the upsurge of the colonial masses. L. Burns writes on “The Fight for Class Clarity in the Indian Unions,” and takes up the functions of the revolutionary unions in “all the economic and political struggles against British imperialism and the native bour- geoisie.” Here is a complete review of the trade union movement in India. A real under- standing of the present epochal events in | India is impossible without an understanding | of the Indian trade union movement. Supple- menting this, Chatiapadhyaya writes on “The | Indian Railway Strike,” involving 80,000 work- | ers, which was recently betrayed by ‘he re- formist leaders. A For a long time many rumors were circulated about Sandino and the struggle in Nicaragua. In this issue of the Pan-Pacific Monthly we have a clear statement of the situation of the Nicaraugan revolutionary movement written by Sandino himself. Sandino clarifies his stand and calls for a united fight against im- perialists, together with the revolutionary workingclass movements in other countries. There is an article on, the Five-Year Plan by Z. Leder which is worth the price of the magazine. Harrison George, managing editor, writes on the “Crisis and Unemployment in the U. S. A.” There are articles on the strug- gle in Africa, Siam, Mongolia and an appeal to save the lives of the Annamite workers who carried on a brilliant fight against French im- perialism. is of the Pan- ific Monthly yet issued. 1 every issue put out to date is an historical document of The Fascist Government of Cuba HAVANA, Cuba, (Esperanto-Servo), — On the 8th of March the government closed the headquarters of the “‘Havana Federation of Labor” and “Cuban National Confederation of Labor.” The last one is not closed officially, but it is certain that official sanction will follow. As a reason for closing up of these organizations, the government let it be known that “these organizations organize strikes in various fac- tories and intend to interfere with the indus- tries, finally changing their prices... . In fact, at every meeting the organizations always called the workers to strike, etc. ...” The fascists stated the truth, but here is the explanation: As a consequence of the bad economic sit- | uation, many strikes took place during the last half year. Under the leadership and full sup- port of “Cuban National Confederation of Labor” and “Havana Federation of Labor” the unions won many strikes (the most important ones being in cap and hat factories, cigarette and furniture factories), As a result of those strikes, others break out like those of the tex- tile and construction workers. When the government saw that the unions | accepted the leadership of the “C.N.C.L.” and the “H.F.L.,” which are guided by the Red In- ternational! of Labor Unions (although offi- cially they do not belong to the Igternational), the government closed them up. Of course the workers of Cuba are not quiet observers of the government’s attack, but they are ready to defend their organizations with all their might. A defense committee was formed and on March 9th a protest meeting took place. The same night another protest meeting; took place. the tremendous uprisings of masses, The American distributors are the Workers Library Publishers, 39 E, 125th St., New York City the colonial Denouncing ‘Southern lynch terror, the American Negro Labor Congress calls* for united struggle of Negro and white toiling mas: The call declares, in part: “Two more Negro workers have been lynched as part of the intensified lynching terror of | the Southern bosses against the Negro toilers. “Two in one day! Dave He brutally tortured and lynched in Mississippi on April 24; Allen Green, agely murdered by a South | Carolina mob on April | “These two lynchi follow the mob murders of J. H. W pullman porter, in Georgia of Robert Burney, unemployed worker, in Ohio; of Jimmie Levine, in Georgia; of Chester Fugate, white tenant farmer, in Ken- tucky; of Laura Woods, 65-year-old woman, in North Carolina. “This murderous campaign is intensifying in spite of the fake bourgeois figures purporting to show “the decline of lynching” and in utter mockery of the lies of Moton and other tools of the Southern white ruling class that “con- ditions in the South are improving” as the re- sult of the fake inter-racial co-operation be tween the oppressors and their tools among the oppressed. Many lynchings are being cov- | ered up by the capitalist press or camouflaged | as “disappearances.” Attempted lynchings are becoming almost daily occurrences. “In adition, there are numerous legal lynch- ings of Negro workers, against whom not the slightest shred of evidence of crime exis' Thus, we see the attempt by the state of Ken- tucky to legally lynch Anderson McPherson, young Negro worker; the attempt of the state of Georgia to legally lynch M. H. Powers and | J. Carr, two Communist white organizers whom the Southern bosses are frantically try ing to frame because of their advocacy of race equality and their activities in organizing the Negro and white workers against the common imperialist enemy. “These increasingly vicious and murderous attacks upon the workers, black and white, de- velop directly out of the deep-going economic now developing in the United States. ‘Frightened by the growing solidarity of Southern white and Negro workers, which found its highest expression in the March 6 demonstrations against unemployment, in which Southern Negro and white workers marched side by side, the Negro workers in many in- stances playing a leading role, the Southern bosses are directly organizing race riots and lynchings in the attempt to sow distrust and hatred among the workers. By such das- tardly methods do the bosses seek to divert the workers from united struggle and the real enemy. “In the effort to throw the main burden of the present economic crisis upon the working class, black and white, the bosses have thrown millions of workers on the streets to starve. Proportionately, there are more Negro work- ers unemployed than white. Especially is this true in the South, where the mechanization of agriculture is crowding out the Negro ten- ant farmers and greatly reducing the number of agricultural laborers, while, on the other hand, the development of Southern industry under a policy of the rankest racial discrim- ination (in certain sections Negros are for- bidden employment in factories by law) offers little opportunity for the absorption of these displaced agricultural laborers. In the North the situation is almost as bad. In New York state the percentage of Negro jobless is al- most twice as high as of white jobless; in Phila- delphia it is five times as high; in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Chicago and other industrial cen ters it is from 25 to 50 per cent higher than the percentages of white jobless. Fully 8,000,000 workers are jobless in Hoover's “pros- perity paradise.” And in spite of the Urban League’s bunk of only 330,000 Negro unem- ployed—bunk deliberately hashed up to col- laborate with Hoover's policy of minimizing the situation and disregarding the unemployed millions—there are nearly a million Negroes in the army of the unemployed. “The present sharp and deep-going economic crisis is causing widespread ruin among the fects with special severity the Negro farmers masses of farmers and share croppers and af- | ORGANIZE AGAINST WHITE RULING CLASS TERRORISM Profound discontent is growing among “the masses of workers and farmers. Wave after eof strikes and demonstra- tions against unemployment and wage-cuts is ling over the country. “This movement coincides with the growing revolutionary movement in the colonies; with the struggles against imperialism in Haiti, in South Africa, in Gambia, in French Equa- torial Africa, in the Belgian Congo, in Brit- ish East Africa, in Korea, in China, in India, ete. “The Soviet Union has shown the colonies its new non talist road of development. The Soviet example and the inspiration received from the growing solidarity of the interna- tional working class has served to stimulate the colonial revolutionary movement to an enormous extent. As a result the Soviet Union is heartily hated by the imperialist oppressors who are preparing an attack against the first rt and tenants, s worke: state. “And what is the role of the Negro petty- bourgeoisie in this world-wide struggle against imperialist opp ion and white ruling class terrorism, of peonage, lynch law, ete.? “In every sector of the struggle these be- trayers of the masses are daily exposing them- selves as out and out agents of the white ruling cl: Staging a sham battle against the effects of imperialism, while ignoring the system of imperialism itself, the Negro petty- bourgeoisie (bankers, rent-gouging landlords, parasitic preachers, prostitute intellectuals, etc.) are actually apologists and defenders for ystem under which the Negro masses brutal the ver: suffer such on. Themselves petty benefi: tem, the Negro petty-bourgeoisie dare not expose the fact that economic exploitation, racial oppression and race hatred, unemployment, ete., are insep- arable features of the imperialist system, but seek instead to fill the masses with illusions of escape into capitalism (impossible for the broad masses, black or white), illusions of escape into Africa, ete. “Tt was thy Negro petty-bourgeoisie which in Chattanooga, Tenn., rushed to the defense of the white ruling class, calling special meet- ings and preaching vicious anti-labor sermons against the growing solidarity of white and Negro workers and the race equality demand put forward by the American Negro Labor Congress and the Trade Union Unity League. “These treacherous activities of the Negro petty-bourgeoisie, together with the defeatism being spread by Kelly Miller and the pacifist propaganda of Mordecai Johnson, George Schuyler, Franck Crosswaith and a host of other prostitute intellectuals and social-fascists serve to reveal with the utmost clarity the increasingly treacherous role of the Negro petty-bourgeoisie and their in the camp of the social-fascists. “Negro and white w Answer the attacks of the white ruling class by a mighty protest throughout the country! Attend the mass protest meetings against lynching called by the locals of the American Negro Labor Congress! Build a militant organization against imperialist oppression! Organize to resist lynching! “Negro workers! Answer the treachery of the Negro petty-bourgeoisie with full repudia- tion of their treacherous, reformist and peti- tionist leadership! Down with the cowardly leadership of the DuBoises, the Johnsons, the Kelly Millers, the Mordecai Johnsons, the Mar- cus Garveys, the Motons! Long live the lead- ership of the new Negro industrial proletariat! Long live the unity of the revolutionary white and Negro workers! Long live the solidarity of Negro and white workers with the colonial masses! Down with imperialism! Down with its slimy apologists! “Workers, Negro and white! Organize against white ruling-class terrorism, lynching, police brutality, jailing of working-class lead- ers, attacks on workers’ demonstrations, ete. Organize workers’ self-defense corps of white and Negro workers! Resist white ruling-class terrorism with the organized might of the united working class!” AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS. By FANNIE AUSTIN. HE Negro working women in the United States must play a very important and rev- olutionary role in the class struggle against miserable and inhuman slaving conditions which are now existing under the Hoover- Wall Street government. It is very necessary and important for the Negro working women to understand the existing and continual daily sufferings under the capitalist class and its with your husband explain clearly and plainly to your children that the real reason-why we have starvation, unemployment, wage-cuts, lynching and race hatred is because we have a government of murderous bandits, parasites and oppressors—because we have a govern- ment that is ruled and controlled by big finan- cial parasites who are interested in doing nothing but to squeeze out from the workers sweat and blood—big profits all for their own interests. Negro working women! When you go to governmental system. You must also together | The Negro Working Women look for a job you find it very hard to get, and, when you do get it, you only obtain ten or twelve dollars for a big week of slavery. You are very much oppressed ‘and exploited for a little nothing and you are looked upon by the bosses as not human. You are handled by the exploiting parasites as if you are sold to them. They hire and fire. you any time they feel like it. Are you going to let those fat-bellied bosses fool and enslave you for- ever? Are you going to be pressed down and stepped upon forever—or are you going to unite with your white working women sisters in struggle, in battle against the capitalist op- pressive system—against the wage slave, lynehing system? Negro and white women workers! We call upon you to unite jointly and connectedly in the revolutionary industrial unions. We call upon you to join the Party of your class, the Communist Party. Start your activity by pre- paring yourself for the May 1 strike and dem- onstrate on that day. Show your solidarity, show your strength! Don’t sleep—wake up! Extract From a Letter to the Daily Worker By PAUL GRIBLIVISAKAS. Make Vilnis a Real Communist Paper ete time ago you published the article by Bill Gerbert in regards to the shorcomings of Vilnis and Trybuna Robotnicza. I want to tell you that I agree with Comrade Gerbert’s criticisr: so far as the Vilnis is concerned. I do not read Trybuna Robotnicza and therefore I cannot speak about it. I want to speak about Vilnis because I am a subscriber to Vilnis and I am sick and tired to read in it notices about some of our Lithuanian singing societies, but nothing about actual conditions of the workers all over the country. J Suggestions for Shop-Paper Distribution Now, my criticism in regard to our shop paper in Detroit. Many workers with whom I come in touch with want to buy the shop « papers, but they have trouble in getting them. For instance, I know a fellow who is working in the Hudson Motor Co. He bought Hudson Worker always before the plant, but now since he works only two or three days u week, he tells me that he does not get the Hudson Worker because he was not working on that day when Hudson Worker was sold at the plant. There are many such complaints. And you know many workers are afraid to subscribe to shop papers. Many workers dd not buy shop papers at the shop gates, but they would buy at a place a little farther away from the shop. I think it would be very good to estabiish per- manent stands for all shop papers in every sec- tion of the city. It is necessary to establish new.:tands for the shop papers either in every workers’ hall and club or cooperative restau- rants to sccommodate the workers in every part of the city. The adjress of such newsstands as well as the newsstands of the Daily Worker should be published in all foreign language news- papers.