The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1930, Page 6

aerate lyrosgeat y the $1: “a . gates il everywhere: One year $6; six months ‘wo months excepting Boroughs 0: Huanatten and Bronx, N New York City, and foreign, whith are: One year $8; six months $4.50 Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc. } 5 Square, New York City, N. Y. Telephone Stuyv Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 2 Gaily, except Bond ant '1696-7-8, 28 Union Sauar i » Baily t 26-28 oaies “Di Page Six amet, WORKERS’ MOVEMENT BASIS| - OF LIBERATION OF NEGRO | = MASSES | ig ement of Negro pea A MIGHTY DAY— . ca Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. THE END OF THE NAVAL CONFEREN CE By WILLIAM RUST (London). that the conference has ended in a complete | told MacDonald that he had sharpened all the ist antagonisms. “Another such Con- the bitter seuaele for iaskeee hits sharp- s : HE Naval “Disarmament” Conference has a Reina ik apc is Pee a : P | * now been wound up after three months of and ae chal have at By J. W. FORD. growth - native industrial workers in other : snarling and bitter quarreling. All 0 se ne Bore pully no Wank economy Cals tei growing 1 ant | k2 | the millionaire press cannot disguise the fact ound rid iS, | | capitalism, the capitalist world, tensification of the Fapertalist and oppression of the colonial -and colonial peoples, especially the black toi masses. Faced with mass unemployment of millions of workers and the shortage of mar- kets, the bourgeoisie is turning more and more rand semi- and agricultural workers gives significance to thi conference. The 4th Congress of the RILU really gave this coming conference its mighty background and historical significance. The RILU drew | sharp attention to the significance of the Ne- gro industrial proletariat in the USA, and gave great attention to the native movement | fiasco and that war is nearer and arma are bigger than when the conference be; Alexander and MacDonald are now making | * desperate lying efforts to prove that the con- | ference is a success and that money has ‘een saved but the plain fa clearly show thai the conference was a colossal fiasco and (hat imperialist antagonisms. The hting in London over “cate- “global tonnage,” ete., was r flecti on of the struggle between the s for a re-division of the markets. The three power pact is only a mutual agree- ment, giving freedom for the powers con- ened all the haggling and fi to colonial sectors to unload the burden of the Gf South Africa. An International Trade more millions will now be poured out on , cerned to continue building. America has won capitalist crisis on to the backs of the colonial | Union Committee of Negro Workers was set ers and submarines. a wicioty jover 3 imperialist rival, Great toilers up to stimulate the class initiative of the Ne- tly, there is no Five Power Pact but | Britain, in imposing equality in cruisers and only a pact between Britain, America and actual superiority in big guns. The antagon- This was mainly the aim of the MacDonal “Lab overnment in passing the Colonial Development Bill “for developments in Afri- ca,” last July . Keen rivalries for markets be- tween the imperialist countries and their ef- forts to lighten the burden of the cri at home explains the ruthless exploitation and op- pression of Negro toilers. eeding-up of the workers and ionalization of industry produces great- the ré er mass unemployment in the capitalist coun- tries and extends South into colonial spheres like Africa increasing the exploitation and on of the workers and toiling colonial But the workers in the pitalist are becoming more radicalized. countries Negro Toilers Awaken. This upward development of the revolution- ary proletarian movement goes on at the same time of rising revolts amongst the colonial peoples. Particularly significant are the num- ber of revolts and uprisings of the Negro toil- ers in various parts of the world. A great International Conference of Negro workers will take place on July 1st,’ 1930, at London, England. This working cl: libera- tion movement initiated by Negro workers will be one of the most far-reaching steps taken towards the freedom of the Negro peop The world war period let loose the force that is giving initiative to this movement. Dur this period upwards of two millions of groes were brought from the farm regions into the industries of the U. S. A. and set in motion the development of a huge Negro in- dustrial proletariat, capable of assisting the liberation movement of the Negro masses not only in the United States but in other parts of the world. At the same time rapid growth in the num- ber of native industrial workers in mining and other industries of South Africa, the ers and to awaken the International proletariat to the importance of this powerful | class ally. | World Bodies Plan Meet. gro we Plans for the organization of this Interna- tional Conference were made at the 2nd World Congress of the League Against Imperialism held at Frankfort, Germany, last July. A spe- cial conference was held of Negro delegates | from the USA, South East, West Africa and | the West Indies, including fraternal delegates fwom the All-China Federation of Labor, the | Indian ional Congress, the TUEL (USA), the Minority movement and the C. T. G. U. of France. A two day discussion was held on the posi- tion of and the conditions among the Negro toilers in various parts of the world. Finally a Provisional International Committee was elected for the purpose of arranging and con- vening an International Conference. Historic Tasks of Conference. The test of the European and American | labor movements will be the measures of port and assistance they render this Negro conference. The movement of the Negro toilers through- out the world derives a strong incentive from | ence of the Soviet Union, its progress | successful socialist construction and | its solution of problems of racial antago: | left over from the Czarist regime, its brilliant example of the carrying out of the principle of the self-determination-of small minorities. With this brilliant example and in unity with the revolutionary proletarian movement the Negro toilers throughout the world march for- ward towards the goal set by the Russian | workers and peasants in 1917. Such are the historic ta of the Interna- tional Trade Union Conference of Negro work- ers at London, England, on July ist. ‘ The Workers’ School of Los. Angeles By SOL ERENBERG. ove Party is on the road to becoming a mass Communist Party. The workers, especially the unemployed, are entering the Party daily. A situation has arisen where many Party units were organized consisting completely of new | | the party life. It is in this connection that every party member should greet the establishment of the Workers School in Los Angeles. The Pacific Coast being 3,000 miles away from the Center, | has been in many cases “‘behind the times” in We have very little connec- tion with the center, and vice versa. Very few On the Eve of the Communist Mass Trial in Japan sf By UCHIDA. HE Japanese capitalism during the wartime, unlike the European capitalism, made tre- mendous steps forward, increasing its~produc- tive forces manifold. The number of indus- By FRED ELLIS provide the worst for the most active members of the Central Committee. The KGK (Japanese section of the MOPR) is now leading the protest of the Japanese workers and peasants against the terroristic Japan, based on increased armaments. France, which intends to increase its naval strength by 70,000 tons, has made no pledges. Italy, which claims parity with France, is building as rapidly as possible, ; And what of the boasted Three Power Pact? This is largely an agreement on methods and technicalities. Insofar as the word agreement can be used, it is an agreement to build large navies. | America has secured parity in cruisers with its rival, Great Britain. To realize this par- ity, America must now build 183,000 tons of cruisers immediately, i. e., build ten new large cruisers, complete three now building and also commence a number of 6-inch cruisers. Britain secured fifty cruisers with a total tonnage of 339,000 as against the present total of 326,500 tons. | Two extra cruisers are to be built for which supplementary estimates will be intro- duced into the House of Commons. These, to- gether with the four now building, will cost altogether £12,000,000. The 11 8-inch cruisers already in existence and some of the twenty | 6-inch cruisers will be replaced. No ‘wonder the darling of the city, Snowden, cannot budget for increasing the social services as promised. Scrapping Old Boats. Britain, America and Japan, will scrap a total of nine battleships. These are all old boats nearing. their age limit and were soon to be handed over to the old iron man in any case. But we are saving £50,000,000 on battle- ships, declares Alexander, the Cooperative Lord of the Admiralty. Yes, these lying humbugs are saving money they never spent | and were not in a position to spend. Conference or no conference, battleships would not have been built on a large scale firstly because of the huge cost of these float- ing fortresses and secondly because the build- ing of the famous German “pocket battle- ship” the “Ersatz Preussen” and the develop- ment of aircraft and submarines and naval technique in general have greatly weakened | the effectiveness of the old type of battle- | ship. It is easy to make a virtue out of neces- sity. But this in no way alters the fact that the Powers are only scrapping the more obsolete types and that Britain possesses the new bat- tleship, the “Rodney” (33,900 tons), and the pattle-cruiser, the “Hood” (41,200 tons). The | three Powers still retain 39 battleships be- tween them. Britain’s submarine tonnage will be increased All the talk about isms between Britain ant America are grow- ing sharper every day. The unstable basis of the pact between Bri- tain, America and Japan is shown in the in- clusion of a “safeguarding clause” which stipu. lates that in the event of any serious es | in the political outlook or in the naval con struction program of any Power each of th parties will be free to notify the others and ‘ 4 make proportionate increases. Thus even this pact, based on an increase in armaments, visualizes not even a possible re- duction but the certainty of a further in- cre The pact will be destroyed immediate- ly France gets its gigantic building program under way. The antagonisms between France and Italy are so sharp that this program will, without doubt, be carried out. Britain’s naval strength is directly affected by the power of its European rivals and France is determined to set the pace, especially so far as submarines are concerned, which are a big menace to British cruiser (The French super-submarine carries 8-inch guns and not 6-inch as previously reported. This is the most powerful cruiser in the world.) Imperialism vs. Soviet Union. These bitter inter-imperialist rivalries - do not soften but on the contrary sharpen the antagonism of the imperialist world against the Soviet Union. The desperate imperialists searching for markets and armed to the teeth against one another, see in the Soviet Union their common enemy which must be destroyed if capitalism is to live. Every day the successes of the Five Year Plan strike smashing blows against capitalist economy and inspire the workers and peasants throughout the world to emulate the grea successes of #-- ~-»sses in Russia. As the Naval Conference dragged on so di the campaign against the Soviet Union in- crease, Side by side with the war discussions in London went the “religious persecution” campaign and the labor government’s lying charges about the violation of the propaganda pledge. Not for nothing.did Tardieu, one of the chief delegates, darkly declare that the Soviet Union is an “international question” for all powers. Nor is it accidental that the Conference de- cided to support Rumania in its efforts to build a navy and naval bases for operations against the Soviet Union. Finally, no worker will overlook the fact that heavy discussions ranged around those ar- ticles of the League of Nations which oblige its members to wage war against any state Party members. i ‘ ri is ri oa ; is fighti ‘elease of | from 45,000 to 52,700. 4 F 4 : of our comrades ever attended party conven- | trial workers during this period reached measures and is fighting for the release o: mages iB scbiok a t hoe n "ik 2 A danger arises of losing the ideological tions, plenums, or National School. zh the or. | 4:500,000. However, as the world war came | these prisoners and for the repeal of all anti- | abolishing the submarine finally Sra tear outside the League of Nations (the Soviet leadership of the new party membership and | ganization of the school we had to depend | to an end Japanese capitalism received a terri- | labor laws. Precisely because the social-demo- self into an agreement pelea . 7 See Union) which is charged with being an “ag. consequently losing them for the party and the xclusively on local forces. So far we have | fic blow, from which it never recovered. To- | cratic forces are united with the state power | Powers should have the right to bui ree | gressor.” How simple to accuse the Sovie class struggle. Especially is this danger acute when we consider the fact that the ideological and political level of our old party membership is still very low. In many instances the self- styled “old guard” are far behind the party campaigns and the new turn the party took since the C.I. address. This confronts us with the immediate probem of organizing a. wide campaign of inner party discussions in the unts | and in the party press. But most important of all is the establish- ment of a sytematic net of classes, wherein the party membership will go through a thorough training of the historical role of our party and the basic principles of Leninism, We must train a new cadre of proletarian party functionaries. We must replace the old ted type of “tired revolutionist” by a new cadre of functionaries fresh from the “bat- tlefield” and full of energy and enthusiasm. | ganizations. established four classes: (1) New members, (2) party organization, (3) fundamentals of Com- munism, and (4) Trade Union Tactics. Two more additional classes will be established during the coming two weeks—one in public speaking and the second “English for the Workers.” Over 100 members are already attending the classes. But this ‘s not enough. We must make the workers school a ‘permanent institu- tion. Every party member must support the school by attending it himself and by popular- izing it among workers from the shops and factories and in the unions and fraternal or- Plans are going ahead to establish a Work- ers’ Summer School for Southern California. In all these plans the school committee will need the full cooperation of every party member. The Decline of Labor Banks in the United States The Labor Banks of America which have been proclaimed by the social-fascists as an epoch-making phenomenon in the sphere of the reformist labor movement, are at the pres- ent time going through a severe crisis. The general economic crisis in the United States, and especially the stock exchange crash of 4929, delivered the so-called Labor Banks a vy blow. Out of 33 banks there are only 27 left, and their capital has diminished from $8,300,000 to $7,500,000. Similarly, the depos- not differ from that of the private banks. Speculation, partnership in capitalist enter- prises, high paid directors and the consequent corruption have resulted in the fact that, with the first disturbance on the money market, these institutions, which have . considerable sums of the savings of skilled and well-paid workers and a part of the petty-bourgeoisie, are the first ones to go out of business. It is worth mentioning that the social-fascists who boasted so much of the banks are now silent over the latest development in the United States. day the wage of the average worker is 1,20 yen (60 cents) to 2,00 yen ($1) for the male and about half as much for the female work- ers. The working hours average 11. In the countryside, where the semi-feudal system still exists, the conditions of the peasants are ap- palling. Tilling the soil, two to three acres; working from daybreak till dark at night, at the end of the year they have to meet the deficit of 100 to 200 yen ($50-$100) by work- ing in the cities or in the mines. Under such conditions the left orientation of the workers and peasants is _ inevitable. This was especially the case during the past two or three yea Strikes were frequent. Farm disputes were taking the form of regu- lar rebellion. Consequently the Japanese bour- geoisie, with the help of the state, are trying to crush the rising tide of revolutionary wave. Thus, on March 16, 1928, following the first general election under universal manhood suf- frage, in which the Japanese Communist Party figured prominently in spite of its totally ille- gal status, mass arrests of over 1,000 fight- ers took place. Of these 500 were recently sentenced to two to ten years. Notwithstand- ing these terroristic measures on the part of the Japanese ruling class the fight went on. Thus the government had to conduct another mass arrest less than a year later, on April 16, 1929. This time 307 of the 600 arrested were placed in the jails of Japan, charged with conspiracy. In the meantime between the first and second arrests the government, through emergency measures, revised the notorious “Peace Preservation Law,” providing for “cap- ital punishment” for Communist leaders. Ori- and with the ruling class against the working class, it is necessary that we spread the pro- test as widely as possible. Up to today whatever has been told about Japan in the bourgeois press is altogether a lie. Japan is no country of cherry blossoms and of mystery. To indulge in any kind of illusion that the class struggle is not going on in the far eastern country is a crime against the international working class. Japan, today, under the “liberal” Hamaguchi government, is under strict censorship. Very few communica- tions regarding the real revolutionary situa- tion is communicated to us directly. At the same time the Japanese ruling class is trying to hold back the news of the left labor move- ment in the foreign countries as much as pos- sible from the ears of the Japanese working class and peasants, who are becoming more and more internationally minded. In this con- nection we can expect the tremendous effect from whatever we do in this country for the Japanese Communists arrested and waiting death sentences. The fact was already shown in the case of the Communist demonstration in New York and Detroit and others against the American imperialism in Haiti and Mexico. Revolutionary Wave in Korea. In this connection it is necessary to remem- ber that there is another very important point to be mentioned. That is the growing revolu- ionary wave in Korea and the brutal suppres- sion of her people by Japanese governmental forces. Since October 15 of last year, when a quarrel between Japanese students and Korean students in one of the provinces spread into super-submarines with a tonnage of 2,800 and mounted with 6-inch guns. These monsters | are more like cruisers than submarines. Britain has already set the pace in this sphere with the “XI” which has a tonnage of 2,780 and carries four 5.2-inch guns. Jingoistic Naval Program. These are the facts regarding the jingoistic naval program of the “pacifist” labor govern- ment. These are the results of the Naval Conference which MacDonald organized with the promise that it would usher in the dawn of a new era for mankind. No wonder the liars are working overtime trying to confuse the workers and covering up the imperialist war plans. Let us take a look at the political results of this “disarmament” Conference, so far as the relations between the imperialist powers | themselves and their attitude to the Soviet Union are concerned. Early this year Pertinax, the well-informed correspondent of the “Echo de Paris” stated that Snowden had opposed the Conference and ee | of bourgeois ideology and therefore chauvin- istie there are reasons to believe that they will be won over to our side if we pursue cor- rect tactics. Nation Wide Campaign. Strict censorship does not permit us to know, at this particular moment, the exact date of the coming trial of the Japanese Communiss, However, as we expect the trial to be held early in May, the Japanese Buro of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of the United States of America, togeher wih he Inerna- | Union of an act of * “aggression.” The London Naval Conference, like its prede- cessor at Geneva, has foundered on the rocks of imperialist antagonism, but the war danger and imperialist armaments have not grown less. They have increased. The imperialist guns are swinging into ac- tion against the Soviet Union. That is the chief result of the collapse of the infamous “Disarmament” Conference, Protest Whalen’s Keeping the Workers From Union Square J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the International Labor Defense, issued a state- ment yesterday, strongly protesting against the police attempt to “minimize the tremen- dous mass mobilization of workers who rallied to the United Front Committee May Day Dem- onstration” by a police line preventing hun- dreds of thousands of workers from entering the Square. The statement says in part: “When the fascist Veterans of roi Wars, and their White Guard Russian allies, assembled in Union Square in an anti-working class meeting to the number of less than 2,000, no attempt was made to keep the streets closed, resulting in many curious spectators standing in the outskirts of their assemblage. The police department allowed them to enter the Square so the impression would be created that more than 2,000 actually were lined up its have dropped from $103,000,000 to about = Ban Rebel Papers ginally the maximum sentence was ten years, | ™ass revolt against imperialism and resulted | tional Labor Defense, are planning a nation- with the teat crew. a the mi lisee suanore $99,000,000. “ S RIGA, ‘datvin’’ (Meperanto:Sarve) 2 Dunih Same Boss-Class Government. in the killing of 78 Koreans and the arrests of | wide campaign against the white terror in workers who were sromdine along 18tl a The reformist and cooperative papers are ? ey ¢ ez The Tanaka government, which was directly! over 17,000, the independence movement of Japan and Korea. The committee met March 14th St. and prevented by several thousa1 trying to*explain this retrogression of the labor banks by incompetent leadership and lack of unity in the American banks. It is reported that a nuriber of banks have been simply sold, six have been liquidated, and those still in existence are doing bad business. Actually the number of banks dropped to 24 in July, 1929. The capital and turnover of the banks _ have also gone down. The labor banks’ policy substantially does ‘Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U.S. A. 43 Wast 125th Street, | paper is being published. They visit the press the last half year it has been absolutely im- possible to publish legally a revoutionary newspaper. Especially youth papers are perse- cuted, Just as soon as the first number ap- pears it is immediately suspended, By means of all kinds of provocations the agents of polit- ical police find out the place where the news- as soon as the paper is out and confiscate the whole amount, Very often they grab the papers from the press half finished. Then fol- low arrests of editors, assistants, ete. For example, last year for three months ap- peared a daily paper by the name of “Darbs un Maize” (Work and Bread). Later the con- cession was taken away. For a few months the newspaper disappeared altogether. Lately appeared a weekly official organ of Workers responsible for the two raids, had been forced out of power by the “liberal” Minseito govern- ment last summer because of its “tactless” in- ternal policy, especially the dynamiting of Marshal Chiang-Tso-Lin. But the new Hama- guchi government, which was pushed into power by the Japanese finance-capital to save the situation, is no better than its predecessor. Perhaps it is worse than the Tanaka govern- ment, in that it walks around as “liberal” and “pro-labor” government. Thus when the Ha- maguchi government conducted general elec- tions and gained overwhelming majority in the lower house of the Imperial Japanese Diet it succeeded in creating in the minds of some of the backward strata of the Japanese work- ing class and peasants the worst kind of illu- sion, that “there is at present a better and lib- | The shaky foundations of the Japanese im- Korea, under the leadership of the Korean Communist Party, is moving rapidly forward. Only a month or so ago the news leaked out through strict censorship that another mass shooting of Korean students took place in the cities of Korea. The struggle of the Japanese working class must be closely connected with the struggle of the colonial nations, especially the Chinese, Indian, Korean and the Philip- pines if it wishes to be effective in any way. perialism in the far east have been tremen- dously undermined by the growing radicaliza- tion of her own masses and that of colonial countries bordering to her, Besides, the suc- cessful Socialist construction in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which is bordering to her, is another threat to the Japanese im- 21. and decided that the demonstration be held in the following cities: Washington, D. C.; New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los An- geles and Seattle. Several leaflets in Japa- nese have been issued and distributed in this country. The question of the two Japanese Commu- nists, Horiuchi and Kenmotsu, who were ar- rested and are now facing deportation in con- nection with their activities on the Pacific Coast, one as one of the T. U. U. L. organizer in the Agricultural Workers’ strike last Janu- eary and the other in the demonstration against American imperialism in Haiti last December, are also to be linked up with these demonstra- tions. The workers of this country must ex- press their international solidarity with the workers of Japan and must rally around the patrolmen from entering the Square, had been allowed to do so, it,would have resulted in the largest united working class demonstration ever held in New York, even surpassing March Sixth. The amount of workers who came out on the streets topped the huge gathering of March 6 when 110,000 jobless workers rallie in Union Square resulting in the arrest an _convietion of the leaders, William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter, Harry Raymon and Joseph Lesten.” i Post Office Clerks Judge the Labor Government LONDON (Esperanto-Servo).—“This con- ference decides that the present government New York City. cae Peasants, parliament fraction—“Karogs” | oral parliament.” perialists. slogans: is based on continuation of the capitalist sys- Be ae haderstgnied ie dots disc —“Banner.” A few ,weeks later it was also Now that the election is over and: the goy- There are at present about 10,000 Japanese “Demand the immediate release of the 825 | tem, in which the state of the working class eet ee tee WANS join #1 Aadaecaat! suspended, Only one revolutionary _news- | ernment has a majority support in the parlia- | in the United States proper and a little over | Communists!” is constantly faced with misery and struggle nist Party. Send me more information. paper remained, that of the Red Trade Unions | ment it is in a better position to carry through | 20,000 in the island of Hawaii, Excepting in “Demand the immediate repeal of the ‘peace | for the necessities of life, and therefore does b Name ‘ an altace (Place of Work). Before | its policies for the benefit of the class it rep- | the east, i. e, New York, Philadelphia, Bos- | preservation law!’” not deserve the support of the working class.” are it was also confiscated. Now there con, ete., most of these Japanese are poor peas- “Down with Mikado!” This resolution was passed by the conference A Occupation ... | Address a does not exist a single legal expression of the tasks and aims of the workers, However, thése efforts of all reactionaries are in vain. Workers shall always have their means and ways for communication of their class-conscious education and organization, resents. The trial of the 307 Communists ar- rested a year ago is to come up some time in the early part of May. According to the statement made public some time ago these 397 are to be divided into four groupg and convicted accordingly. The reason for the flviding, |W without ede iad to aioe. ants, gardeners or agricultural workers. They are discriminated against, despised and ex- ploited. In most of the states they are even deprived of the right to own land which they have to cultivate to live on. Although most et these Japanese still are under the influence coo cn Uta alti at da “Fight against the oppression of the Ko- reans by the Japanese imperialists!” “Protest against the March shooting of the Koreans by the Japanese. imperialists!” “Fight against the imperialist war!” « “For the defense ott the eee Union!” Fs ct Vaan of the Post Office Clerks of London, It has a great political significance, because it ex- presses the position of post office clerks. This opinion is valuable and applicable for the whole of Great Britain. It shows a growing discon- tent with the present “labor” government.