The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1930, Page 3

‘ \, }) i \ | terres CRISIS IN AUSTRALIA| ® EXPOSES LABOR PARTY BETRAYAL OF WORKERS But All Premier Scullin’s Aid to Capitalism Against Workers, Cannot Solve Crisis Steep Boost in Tariff Trade and Also U.S. Trade A Bad Blow Australia is not an “exception” to the rest of the capitalist world, and is drawn into the vortex of crisis. As in England, the capitalists have brought up their reserves, the “Labor” Party, to aid capitalism put the weight of the crisis on the workers. Wage cuts and unemploy- ment are the order of the day. In the middle of April 14.6 per cent of | the workers were officially reported as unemployed, which would amount to about 200,000. The workers are getting a bellyful of “Labor” Party policy from its Premier, Mr. Scullin. But this worthy duplicate of Ramsay Mac- Donald cannot solve the sharp crisis, ven with all the attacks he makes pon labor. An example is the mat- ter of the tariff. The Australian pound in mid-April ‘was 7 per cent below par, and the government not only had to start control of gold shipments, but de- creed a tariff that fairly upsets all business. Over 80 articles cannot be import- ed at all without special consent. A list of many others has had a duty increase of 50 per cent. Thus Aus- tralia, which one of the spokesmen of United States manufacturers says is “one of the best and most bd ROME (ISP)—The Donati trial and the steadfast attitude of the accused before the Italian Fascist Special Tribunal have created a deep impression in Italy. Donati was accused of having killed two fascists. He was found guilty, but nevertheless. the court refrained from sentencing him to death. The death sentence and its swift execu- tion have been the invariable cus- tom of the fascists for workers who have taken the lives of fascists. Donati, however, is a land worker, and the state of agriculture in Italy at the moment is critical. The speech of Acervo, the fascist Min- lister for Agriculture, a few days after the sentence passed on Donati, shows clearly the terrible situation of the land workers in the Romagna and in Emilia, and explains why the Longuet Regrets Passing of Rivera Regime PARIS (IPS)).—The French so- cialist leader Jean Longuet was sent to Madrid by his party to take part in the unveiling of a monument to Pablo Inglesias. Longuet Is now spreading himself out in the columns of “Populaire,” the organ of the French socialist party concerning the situation in Spain. He deeply regrets that the days of the Primo de Rivera regime are over “when the social democracy of Spain fought and developed and won the sympathy of all classes of the popu- lation.” The cooperation of the Span- ish socialists with the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and their aban- donment of the interests of the workers, is the explanation of how the socialist party managed to exist comfortably under Primo’s dictator- ship. The suggestion that it fought fs a deliberate lie on Longuet’s part The “Pravda” on MOSCOW (April 22, By IPS).— Wad Lenin lived he would have been | sixty years old today. In this con-| nection the press publishes articles | reviewing the creative work of the masses since Lenin’s death. The leading article in the “Pravda” de- elares that the working masses in} the capitalist and colonial countries | are now in a new stage of the strug-| } gle against imperialism, and that} | the best possible conditions now | | exist for the rapid rise of the rev-/| olutionary wave and its develop- ment into a direct struggle for pow- er, However, not alone the objective | conditions would be decisive, but the | Bolshevist preparedness of the Com- munist Parties. The revolutionary wave in the first pre-war years had | not led to victory in Western Eur- ope because either there were no Communist Parties in existence, or) these parties were incapable of per-| forming their gigantic tasks. The greatest danger at the mo- ment was that the preparedness of Moscow Control Commission of C, P. Meets MOSCOW (IPS).—The joint plenary session of the Moscow Committee and the Moscow Control Commission of the Communist Party took place on April 22 here. The session listened to a report by Com- rade Molotov concerning the deci- sion of the Central Conimittee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unien of April 18. The session then decided to accept the resignation of The Situation in Greece ATHENS, Greece (IPS).—The! Greek parliament has just decided on considerable tax reductions for property owners. Indirect taxation which rests m°st heavily on ‘the masses of the people will be in- creased. At the same time the ex- }employment” in Great Britain. | this danger was to carry out the pol- fourth} Comrade Baumann from the post of | Hits British Imperial attractive markets of American products,” has slammed the door on American goods. And the manu- facturer quoted adds that “the steps taken are in line with war-time measures rather than pesce-time movements.” But there is more effect than that on American imperialisry as this is when it is ben: Q forts to increase exports. Austra- lia’s own government will lose me $25,000,000 tariff income, and that is not all. Britich manufacturers for the Australian market have is- sued a statement in the London Times saying that Australia’s action is certain to cause “additional un- And still more: Australia, produc- ing largely such raw materials as| grain, wool and meat, has a huge stock of grain remaining on the farmers’ hands; exports of grain are Y THE M ARCH! "9 Waa less than half the exports of one year ago—yet the area planted to wheat is larger this year than the last. With a huge surplus existing on the world market, Australian economy simply cannot improve under capitalism, Even with the “Labor” Party’s present complete support, Fascists Convict Donati government refrained from sentenc- ing Donati to death. In order to overcome the present crisis Acervo demanded a further reduction of the wages of the land workers. This, however, means to drive the land workers to despair. It is clear, therefore, that the fascist govern- ment carefully refrains from any action which would unnecessarily exacerbate the situation. The situation of the industrial proletarit is also terrible. Highly qualified metal workers receive about 16 or 17 lire a day, or Irom 75 cents to $1, whilst unskilled work- ers receive proportionately less. As the cost of living is high, the situ- ation of the workers is wretched. Mussolini has issued a law provid- ing for the reduction of rents, but it remains on paper. and as for winning the sympathies of all classes in Spain, there was at least one class whose sympathy the socialist party did not win with its policy of crawling before Primo, and. that was the working class, In order to conceal, if possible, the treacherous attitude of his socialist comrades in Spain, Longuet speaks superciliously of those people who are stupid enough to compare the situation in Spain with that in Italy. There is of course a differ- ence, for in Spain the dictatorship permitted the socialists to coperate with it, whereas Mussolini spurns the socialist helots and maintans his regime without them. It would appear that Berenguer is also dis- inclined to use the socialist tools of his predecessor, for Loenguet thunders against the new regime in Spain. Lenin’s Birthday the Communist Parties would lag behind the revolutionary develop- ment. The best way to overcome icy of the Communist International and to cenduct a struggle on two fronts against the agents of the so- cial democracy and against the “left wing sectarians” who represent the objective allies of the right wingers. The “Pravda” then points out that the Communist Parties have up to the present made too littie use of the ideological heritage of Lenin and of the tremendous experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The right wingers were striving to prove the uselessness of Leninism for Western Europe and to replace it with “left wing social! democracy” under a Communist label. Leninism, however, was Marxism in the epoch of imperialism and of the proletarian revolution. Only un- der the banner of Leninism would | the working masses in the capitalist countries be able to throw off the yoke of capitalist imperialism. secretary of the Moscow Committee, | and elected Comrade Kaganovitch| in his place, Comrade Belski was ¢o-opted as a member of the Buyeau) of the Moscow Committee, The ses- sion then adopted a special appeal to all the members of the Moscow organization in connection with the cexomg Pavty eonferences and the Party congress, revolutionary movement has been) increased in severity. A further! provision has been added which punishes severely insults and abuse directed against “State personages of foreign couritries.” At the request of the Greek gov- ceptional legislation against the Convention in Chicago to Create New Union (Continued From Page One.) on committees from the shops. The Chicago convention, and the industrial union to be built there, follows the great convention of food workers in New York, April 20, at which hundreds of shop delegates organized an industrial union for New York. Other cities will also hold similar conventions and estab- lish similar organization, all elect- ing delegates to a national food workers’ convention, to take place some time this fall in a central point, to build a national food work- ers’ industrial union. Form Committees. Food workers of Chicago are| urged to form organization com- mittees in every shop, in every de- partment of the shop if they work in a large plant, and to elect from these delegates to the May 18 con- vention, Every food worker is invited to attend and to take part in the form- ing of the union in Chicago. The union will put forward the demands for a seven-hour day, five- day week, with a six-hour day for those under 18 years of age. It de- mands an increase in wages accord- ing to a wage scale to be drawn up by the convention for each branch of the industry. Other demands are: An hour for lunch, free work uniforms, more and better free food for restaurant and hotel workers, equal pay for equal work, free racial, social, political equality for Negro and Oriental workers, Mass Meeting to Form Delegation for Rights of Workers’ Children) A mass protest meeting, called by | the Young Pioneers, will be held| Friday night, May 18, at Manhattan Lyceum. This meeting must rally hundreds of workers, in protest against the persecution campaign of |national Labor Defense, the public schools. A mass delega- tion of parents and children perse- cuted on May first will be elected to present our demands before the Board of Education. This delega- tion, will demand the right of the workers’ children to take part in workers’ struggles, the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of all children persecuted in school, free food for the children of the un- employed, better school conditions. Demand the freedom of Harry Fis- man. Aid organization in Salonika has} been declared illegal. In the country districts the ar-! bitrary will of the police is law and revolutionary workers are arrested without legal cause, beaten up by ithe police and then expelled from the district. The case of the worker Petritzas in Prosotzani is typical. This worker refused to let himself be expelled, and as a result he has been arrested on numerous occa- | sions and beaten bloody. The Communist mayor of Mitzela ; in Thessaly has been arbitrarily de- posed by the local police as the re- sult of complaints from l%eal pro- perty owners that his regime is Communistic. The police bayonet is the only writ that runs in the coun- try districts of Greece. The peas- ants of the distriet have held pro- | test meetings against the police ac-| tion and the mayor continues to! earry out his duties, Violent collisions occurred in Zev- golatio between peasants and police. A number of policemen were badly mauled, and two peasants were killed and many wounded by rifle ernor-general of Macedonia the Red fire, JOBLESS LEADERS CALL TO RALLY \‘Free Powers and Carr, Build Labor Defense’ The National Office of the Inter- 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City, has received the following letter from the unemployed spokesmen now serving three year sentences on Blackwell Island, for leading the 110,000 jobless workers on March 6: “Dear Comrades: Many thanks for the attention which the I.L.D. is paying us. Telegram from the May 1 demonstration, money, etc. Many More Cases. “Our case is but one of the many eases that demand the attention of the working class and of its defense organization, the Interna- tional Labor Defense. We think particularly of Powers and Carr, who go on trial °n May 27, the Gastonia case, the Ohio sedition cases, Harry Eisman, ete. These are among the outstanding cases among the hundreds all over the country of comrades in prison for their activity in behalf of the working class. These comrades must be released! “At this period, every worker must recognize the need of the International Labor Defense and every member of the I.L.D. must do his utmost to build up the or- ganization and increase manifold the circulation of its excellent organ, The Labor Defender, Get 20,000 More. “Although in prison we are with you in the work and hope that the goal set by the last organization conference of the I.L.D. to secure 20,000 dues paying members by June 28, the fifth anniversary of the founding of the organization, will be attained. “Forward to work to organiza- tion—to ever broader activity. “Fraternally yours, “WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. “ROBERT MINOR “ISRAEL AMTER “HARRY RAYMOND Mass Protest May 14 Over Powers-Carr Case A mass protest against the at- tempt to send M. H. Powers and Joe Carr to the electric chair in Atlanta, Ga.; the jailing of the unemployed \delegation in New York, as well as the imprisonment of hundreds of other militant workers throughout the country, will take place Wednesday night at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., under the joint auspices of the In- ternational Labor Defense and the John Reed Club. The feature of the evening will be the showing of Upton Sinclair's well-known play “Singing Jailbird,” which is being produced by Em Jo | Bashe. Tickets for the protest meeting and entertainment are 50 cents, and are for sale at the Workers’ Book- shop, 26-28 Union Square, and thc IL. D., Room 422, 799 Broadway. INDIANS STARVING: Deprived of the means of making, a living by white exploiters, large numbers of Red Indians in Canada are forced to live on wild animals. But wild animals are fast disap- pearing as a result of capitalist de- velopments in Canada. On account of the lack of sufficient animals, 150 Indians in the York factory region are reported to be starving, Quotas Assigned for Chicago Convention) | (Continued From Page One.) jing ever held in any country, as it is the first ever built in the U. S.,} }goes the campaign of the Trade | | Union Unity League for 50,000 new} members before July 4. The struggle of the jobless is the struggle of the | militant workers. The quotas assigned are for dele-| |gates to the convention, and for sums of money to be raised to fin- | ance the convention. They are as| follows: From the Councils of the Unem- ployed. District Del. Finances |New York .. 315...$300.00 Connecticut 50.00 | Chicago ... 300.00 Philadelphia . + 150,00 Detroit 300.00 Minnesota ++ 200.00 Cleveland + 100,00 Pittsburgh . 50.00 Boston . 100.00 Seattle . .09 California . 00 | Buffalo . 00 | Kansas 00 | South . Salt Lake City Oklahoma .. New Orlea: National } 50.00 | | Textile eT 00 | ‘Needle Trades .. 100.00 | |Food Workers + 100.00 Marine Workers Shoe Workers Metal Workers dé R. R. Workers .... . 100. 00 Int’l Labor Defense. W.LR.. - 100.00 - | Workmen’s Circle .. - 100.00 {Building Trades .. 25.00 |A. F. L. Locals . 75.00 | | Miscellaneous « 75.00 | Palace Guards Called | Out in Buenos Aires | BUENOS AIRES, May 11—| | Workmen who were protesting at ‘the delay of payment of wages by the government paymaster were met Saturday by the mounted Gren- adier Guard of the Government Pal- ace, which “‘restored order”—appa- rently after making their protcst felt physically. ‘the authenticity | of documents |thus and very excellently—an “MOSCOW” MADE /Whalen Krew They| Were Forgeries (Continued From Page One.) | off, by. answering all questions as to of his “documents” by saying loftily that they “speak for themselves.” They “Speak for Themselves!” They do “speak for themselves”. and they speak against Whalen. If the reader will examine the cut we give on Page 1, you will see Whalen’s forgeries shown as numbers 1 and 4. Those numbered 2 and 3 are those printed by Max} Wagner at 204 East 10th St., 2 York City. Number 5 is Wagner's statement. On No. 1, the forgery, and on No. 3, Wagner’s wo: the reader who understands Russian will see in- stantly that the same mistakes of the forger are in both. In No. 1,, for example, in fine type above the| two workers in heavy type : left, the phrase (in Russian) ‘ letarians of all countries, unite! contains the same faulty punctua- TO- by the “Graphic” from printshop. This clumsily to write and certainly incredible t be found on Comintern printing, exposed in the “Daily Worker” May 9. Likewise, under those two words in heavy type, two Russian words are given in both Whalen’s No. 1, and Wagner’s product No. 3. These are in fine type and only Ls ot the last word shows in No. 3, photographer arranging them bee out thought of this detail. But these two words mean “American Sec- tion,” which, written under the two heavy typed words that stand for “Comintern Polecom,” would mean that the Comintern has an “Amer- ican Section” in its Moscow head- quarters. But no such “section” U.S.A. in the Daily Worker of Maj 8, which said that: “The letterheads create non-existing institutions of the Communist International.” The story as told by Wagner that four months ago a Russian walked in and asked that three dif- ferent kinds of letterheads with a Moscow date be made up for him saying he wanted 5,000 altogether. Wagner set the copy given him in printshops to allow a customer to The Russian came around and to someone else for approval. But he never came back after the order. it tried, according to what it states, | “for two days to inform the com- permit a comparison of his originals with the letterheads which ‘Graphic’ had obtained.” | LaGuardia in Congress yesterday expressed a doubt that Whalen ha: any originals, and said that he gav vestigation on red activities.” Th whole stinking mess, with Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L. initiating it, by Whalen’s own claims, heaven, and was shown by the Cen- tral Committee of the Party in its statement on May 3, as} follows: “These forgeries are a part of the anti-Soviet campaign with which in- ternational capitalist reaction pre-) pares its contemplated war against the Soviet Union.” Support the Daily Worker Drive! Fight for the seven-hour day, five-day week. Help Maintai youth—it is the YOUNG | w | wor | i ER is being published weekly, Get Donations! Get Subs! WORKERS! YOUNG WORKERS! 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NAME ..... | ADDRESS . 2) > Sara $ Mail tot YOUNG WORKER, Please find a remittance of 8, .to pay for....months, A 5 28 UNION SQUARE, NE y YORK CITY. tion found also in the letterhead| gator of the Veterans’ Bureau, shown as No. 3, which was obtained | wy, Wagner's |. written | phrase, impossible for a Communist | on me ntally, exists, as pointed out by the state-| ment of the Communist Party of the | by the Russian into type and ran off | three or four proofs of each on or-! dinary typewriter paper, as is usual | correct any errors made by typeset-| lters before printing the order in | full. | took away some of these proofs, as | is also usual if they are to be shown When the “Graphic” found out;hall while the speaking y that they had the proof of forgery, jon and placed the missioner that he was wrong before /speeches at the meet publishing the story—-and the police | they commissioner refused to see them or| meetings of unemplo: the started a red-baiting campaign only photographs to the Committee! prevent the organization of the jc on Immigration which is startling— less workers in the «| smells to | worker. Communist | | ETTERS FROM. FREE TO STARVE IN AMERICA HE “FOUGHT FOR” IN THE WAR Is Strike-Breaking Organization’ Won’t Hook This Worker Again to Fi ight the Iant a P saaq Battles of the Bosses (By a Worker Co pondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—I was at the so-called “red” trial at der | ment 4, and all the relics ofethe dark ages emed to be there. The Prosecutor and the jury ought to have been decorated with lease plates to show who is their rightful owner. When a man can get up and lie like that man did—he surely has an owner. Anybody that saw the March 6 demonstrations and says that the police or thugs, as they might be called, didn’t hit anyone with sticks or blackjacks, I think you could find 500 people in Los Ar who could prove that he told a lie. These tools of the C hamber of Commerce, the police, the pro judge and jury, might think that they can Kill the labor moy putting a few leaders of the Communist Party in jail, but the u ment problem with which over 7,000,000 workers are foced < can not be solved through the jail rout. They had better think T hink I can see the prosecutor’s point of view, and Le such people as those he i sprosecuting ever get be able to prostitute his mind by trying to innocent workers to long terms in dungeons of; the —A NATIVE-BORN EX , MAN N W YORK—A woman invest 84th St. called at my | condition. investigate my circu’ ook you by home to force in a bum out of you a breaking you both ph: by not only finger \ing, card indexing and photo: ing you, as I remember at Camp |will Upton; they now have nerve to en-| get ¢ A WORLD WA ETPRAN. ‘New York Quickly Answers Daily Worker $25,000 Emergency Call (Continued From Page One.) collection material, collect for three days or a thousands of dollars can he realized. weel This must be done. Mass collections in every city, com- mittees to every workers’ organization in the city for ¢ tributioxs, immediate use of the official subscription and con+ tribution Daily Worker campaign lists by all Party members, a big Daily Worker picnic, thi: your program. No more hesitation or delay. Get busy today. We keep the Daily Worker going day by day under the most extreme difficulties. Unless funds come forward, you will have no paper, the workers we reach will have no paper and the re- sult will be that we weaken our Communist work all along the line. Right now we must strengthen our for and in- crease our activity. Keep the Daily Worker going and growing. jthe worke: “We must fight must overthrow 70 down and kill sioner McGrell,” ¢ ,;ments which made it which Nine Facing 15-Year Sentences in Newar (Continued From Page O wor arrest. Under the indictment th are charged with making seditio were arrested, The Newark chief of px Campaign Goes On. of t r these arrests and is banking In spite deal on a conviction. He ed/ press working that the “Reds will be driven out|a huge ma f Newark,” hoping in that way to/on May fight for wages evictions wi arrested ebruary for demonstratir eviction of a Negro unemplc or Lying Indictment. There is a frame-up angle to the |the police te case, The indictment states that!sedition charg: May Issue of the COMMUNIST JUST OFF THE PRESS CONTENTS NOTES OF THE MONTH MAY FIRST, 1930 c. A. HATHAWAY MAY FIRST—THE TRADITIONAL DAY OF PROLETARIAN POLITICAL ACTION ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG FROM MARCH SIXTH TO MAY FIRST MOISSAYE J. OLGIN MAY FIRST AND THE AMBERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT . BILL DUNNE MAY DAY AND SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY LOUIS KOVESS MAY DAY—1886 AND SINCE SAM DARCY PREPARING FOR THE SEVENTH PARTY CONVENTION EARL BROWDER PROBLEMS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO ON THE EVE OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE PROFINTERN TOWARD SOCIAL-FASCISM—THE “REJUVEN TION” OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY (concl ion) A. B. MAGIL BOOK REVIEWS 25 cents per copy $2.00 per yearly sub. ORDER FROM WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th St. New York City