The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1930, Page 3

ine fon it. | fits work each week is not sufficient to keep you and your family in TOLEDO POLITICIANS ROB UNEMPLOYED IN GUISE OF “RELIEI And Mayor Doubles His Salary While Workers Are Starving Without Work Get Wise, Join Communist Par‘; | Laborer from Ohio City i (By a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio.—I have been employed as a laborer f¢ Toledo for nearly two years. When work began to be scare got laid off. But in January Mayor William T. Jackson raised his sal- ary $5,000, which was double what he was getting. Now he gets a sal- ary of $10,000. When he was first elected the mayor’s salary was $2,500. With all working men laid off because of “lack of money,” so the story ran. ROB CITY LABORERS. The next step was to put us laborers to work for two days a week. They are supposed to work us 8 hours a day. But the bosses make us york 9 hours and pay us for 8 hours. That means the City of Toledo gets one hour out of each laborer each day they do not pay for. The City of Toledo issues a little card that has these words printed This card entitles you to two days work. We realize that two ’the comfort that you have been accustomed to, but industrial conditions demand that the city give as many men work as possible. We hope that during the remaining days of the week you can secure temporary work elsewhere. We wish to treat everyone as fairly as possible during these unusual times. We hope that the conditions will soon be bettered so that you can enjoy steady work at good wages. William T. Jackson, Mayor; William H. Schroder, Director of Public Service.” And in making this shift of two days a week per man, they hired friends of the city administration to do the clerical (?) work. That is, they put on five new men at a salary of $35 to $50 a week. They do not work but a few hours, either. Two ago weeks the mayor raised his private secretary, Shepherd, to an executive secretary, with a raise of $700 a year. He now gets $4,000 a year. Let’s wake up! Join the Communist Party! —A LABORER. Big Forces of Cops Protect Mill Scabs in Phila. | (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Carloads|sub-headline “Fires Revolver as 50) of scabs, since early this week are Menace Him in Disabled Car,” fol- brought under police guard of 24 lowed again by “Second Officer to «| Aid.” patrolmen to the doors of the Tulip ReSrd i Well, if the Philadelphi Hosiery Mill and also escorted home sade a hero of this cop, it succeed- in the same manner. In addition is el only in making a mock hero of many police patrol the “strike area.” } | The strikers had a demonstration against the employment of scabs by the mill. The one and only “liberal” news- paper of the city, the “friend” of Labor, notwithstanding the above facts comes out in a headline “Lone Cop Holds Off Mill Picket Mob in, Frankfort Strike,” followed by_ a! City Officials Hoodwink Rochester Jobless (By @ Worker Correspondent) ROCHESTER, N. Y.-;The Rochester Unemployed Council, which has a large unemployed membership and is growing bigger every day, does not see any future of prosperity ahead, except a lot of gas talk and plenty of suggestion by City Manager Mr. Story. Recently, in the Rochester Journal, Mr. Story produced figures to show that the city has $4,519,000 for public work under way. Then Mr. Hamilton pointed out that this work was done last year, and there- fore it represents no serious program by the city government this year for the relief of unemployment. So that brands Mr. Story as a faker. . Last winter Mr. Story announced through the papers that only Roches- ter labor would be employed on the new Ridge Road Bridge under con- struction and with that understanding he gave the contract to the Pitts- burgh contractor. And now the members of the Unemployed Council have definitely found out a week ago, Monday, April 7, that a Pitts- burgh firm is putting men on from Pittsburgh, and Mr. Story, when he was told of this, said that he had nothing to do with it. That’s the knd of a liar he turned out to be. So we know that Mr. Story and Mr. Hoover make a good pair of liars in regard to helping solve the unem- ployment situation. All unemployed workers, join the Unemployed Council and demand work or wages. —JOBLESS WORKER. Workers know what the real situ- ation is and how thoroughly the hosiery mills are protected by the! poi:ce in large numbers, All’s quiet, temporarily, in the strike zones gt the Arteraft, at! Rodgers andfat the Quaker Cit?. The lull before the storm. —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. Kansas Miner Recalls Lewis Gang Betrayal (By a Worker Correspondent) MULBERRY, Kansas.—The Lewis; that betrayed them, and at that time and Howat gangs of fakers are still| Fe aon i is for pera it j is distri ‘ and Fishwick and weeping John ee Ue ” ie Sete, oe ine the Walker and the whole bunch of National Miners Union comes here | cttice seekers. you'll have them join hands. Miners, help the National Miners Farrington of Illinois and Arch | Union throw the whole outfit in the Hellom of Illinois and Ameriger of ash can and join a real rank andj} the Coal Digger never dug a piece | file union, the militant N. M. U. of coal in their lives, are the ones which is the only hope for a new that all Kansas miners now know, ' day. Fair Response Yesterday to $25,000 “Daily” Call There is an awakening to the need of the Daily Worker. From Ana- cortes, Washington to Bridgeport, Connecticut, comrades are beginning to move funds our way, to lay the foundation for a mass Daily Worker. | ¢ Even Toronto, Canada speaks up in certain terms. We heard from nearly three Com. Bingham, Evanston, M1.. Willle Lustig, Bridgeport, Conn, New York District Joseph Broker, Brot A. G.Tonus, Milwaukes Lubria Zam Brunie Centerville, Ta. Oakland, : dozen cities yesterday. However,| Peres satarits, gaimore, Md. 50 there are hundreds, yes thousands ae Brinks Medrord, Mansa, baw of comrades and supporters in these |Jonn Wild, Glovemciier tee cities we must still hear from, And | (ar! C, Haupt, 5.00 john “Zunkar, Creel ho Home, Chicago, Ml. ..... Mrs. L. Hager, Dayton, 0... Vincent Levell, Detroit, Mic! Dixtriet No. 7, Detroit then also, there are hundreds of other cities that are not yet in ac- tion. Emergency situations demand emergency action. To know how to perform a task effectively and quickly means half the battle won. Our receipts’ yesterday totalled $579.11. The biggest day so far. We can do better once every city, every comrade, every workers or- ganization answers the roll call. ‘Total Reported yestei $690.25, New York Dintrict .. 40.81 irist 3, L. P, New York City: oi 00! Grodner K f Br, No. 37 In- ternational Workers Order, - New York .. 30.00 New Yo: an Schneider, W, Ditbn, New Yor! He Doneckt, Clevelan ; G. Zipper, Brooklyn, N. Eustace Diamond and John Alien’ ©. MMer, Jack: John Peter, ‘Total hes ponoft, N.Y “reéney fund needed. et aan em 2.99 Contributions to May 20, Eye 1,00 + $23,730,641 Balance still needed GE Chiang Kai-Shek’s M ercen ary Troops Here are some of Nanking’s troops armed and supported by American imperialism and a section of the bourgeoisie and landlords of China. They are marching to war with the Northern militarists, headed by the “Christian” general Fenk Yu-Hsiang, the “model” gov- ernor Yen Hsi-Shan of Shansi, and the “left” Kuomintang leader Wang Chin-wei, armed and supported by the Japanese and British imperialists. ‘BEHIND THE ‘DAILY WORKER’ DRIVE (Continued From Page One.) the roots of our Party deeper among the masses and especially into the shops, makes the building of the Daily Worker a principal campaign before the Party, which must be linked up and carried through simul- taneously with all other Party campaigns and activities. (2) Although the directives for the Daily Worker Subscription | Drive were sent out weeks ago, the response from the Party as a whole | has been very unsatisfactory. With the exception of Detroit, and small | beginnings in Philadelphia and New York, no factory gate sales and | distributions are being organized. With the exception of these same | three cities no house to house carrier systems are being systematically established. So far only one revolutionary challenge (Cleveland and Philadelphia) has been made and accepted, The call for funds has met with practically no response; only three districts (New York, Chicago and Philadelphia) arranged affairs for the Daily Worker during the month of April as instructed by the Or- ganization Department of the Central Committee, The May Day Conferences were not generally used as the basis for setting up permanent Daily Worker supporting groups, as was pro- vided by the Central Committee directives. Complaints have even been received from sections charging that certain district offices have failed to send out the literature and sup- plies sent to them for distribution throughout their districts. ‘ In most districts, the Agit-Prop Department failed to organize a discussion in the units on the role of the Daily Worker in this period, and the need for full Party support in this drive. The District Bureaus and the Distra:t Organizers have not as- sumed responsibility for the campaign, nor have all districts set up special committees for the conduct of the drive in accordance with the CC directives. With the exception of three or four of the language papers, prac- tically no attention has been given to the Drive, despite repeated in- structions from the Daily Worker management and the CC Language Department. (3) This deplorable and impermissible state of affairs can only | be due to a complete underestimation of the role of the Daily Worker | on one hand, and to an ignoring of instructions from the office of the Daily Worker on the other. Comrades tend to look upon the Daily as a business institution separate and distinct from the Party—an inst: tution that lives by some magic means without the need for Party support. These conceptions must be smashed. Now, more than ever before, it is not only necessary to build the Daily Worker, but it is necessary to build our own distribution apparatus independent of the Post Office and capitalist news agencies. The whole Party must im- mediately be mobilized behind the Daily Worker Circulation Drive. (4) The District Bureau and the District Organizer will be held responsible for immediately undertaking and carrying out the follow- ing directives, which are not a substitute for, but supplementary to the original directives for the campaign as published in the April Ist edi- tion of the Daily Worker: (a) No more reliance is to be placed on Special Daily Worker Campaign Committees; during the remainder of the campaign the Dis- trict Organizer, the District Bureau, and the various District Depart- ments shall be responsible for carrying through the Daily Worker Drive for subscriptions, bundle orders and financial aid. This must be coordinated with all other campaigns (elections, TUUL, unemploy- ment, ete.). If there are cases where special committees are function- ing efficiently, they shall coordinate their work with the additional | activities which must now be carried on by the regular Party machinery. (b) Discussions are to be conducted in all Party units on the role of the Daily Worker as the political leading organ of the Party as well as an effective mass agitator and organizer, On the basis of this discussion the whole Party—all Party units—all Party members are to be mobilized for the remainder of the drive, ‘ (c} As in all Party work the principal emphasis must be placed | on the factories. Daily sales, not free distributions, are to be organ- ized at specific large factories in the basic industries, All free dis- tributions must be completely discontinued. The same factory is to be covered every day, preferably by the same comrades. Together with the sales of the Daily, efforts are to Be made to get contacts as a basis for building shop nuclei of the Party and shop committees of the TUUL, as well as special committees for the support of the Communist candidates in the coming elections. (d) Carrier routes are to be established in working class neigh- borhoods. Red Sundays are to be organized, on which all members of a section are to be mobilized through their nuclei. Plans are to be worked out so that the entire section concentrates on a very small area—an area that can be covered by one carrier. The objective must be to build up a series of routes throughout the city, each one of which will support a full time carrier—either a reliable boy or an unemployed worker. In selecting a comrade—or ordinary worker—to take over a route it should be done with the view of having him take it over per- manently—not for a few days or weeks. By this method the Party Red Sundays will be the driving force to continuously go out and plow new ground; a permanent carrier system will be established to dis- tribute the paper. (e) Regular subscriptions (6 months and a year) are to be taken | wherever possible both because of the stability it gives to the Daily’s | circulation and because of the immediate need of the Daily for funds. The regular Daily apparatus must’continue to function and be further strengthened to solicit such subscriptions and to take care of renewals, (f) The financial phase of the present campaign, due to the slow- ness of the work until now, must be placed in the very forefront of the campaign. Every District Organizer must take immediate steps to see that energetic and continuous efforts are made to raise the finan- cial quota set for his district. (8) All District Organizers, District Agit-Prop Directors, or Daily Worker Representatives must immediately prepare and send in a special article to the Daily on the importance of the drive, the suc- | cess being achieved and the concrete methods being used in the district, The system of revolutionary competition must be developed between units, sections and districts during the remainder ®f the Drive. ‘Don’t Miss Seeing = gs, POTEMKIN OLD } NEW SOVKINO MASTER- Both directed by $. M. EISENSTEIN At the CAMEO THEATRE jtionary newspapers, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1 RISING REVOLT IN CHINA LEADS T0 SOVIET POWER Statement of Commu- nist Party of China (Continued from Page One) cently, there is no province in the Yangtze and Pearl River valley without Soviet districts or guerilla warfares. for the development of the Red Army, the Fourth Army, under the leadership of Comrades Chu Teh and Mao Tze-Tung, to- gether with the Eighth Army, which | was formed by organizing rebellious Kuomintang troops in Ta Yea and part of eastern Hupei province, make a centrated armed force of not less than 50,000 men. This number, of course, does not include the guerilla troops and Red Guards in Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Fukien, Kiangsi, Hunan, Hupei and Honan, ete., and concentrated armed pea- sants in Chinkiang, Anhuei and other provinces. In the north, al- though such movements as the spon- | taneous peasant armed struggles, the Mohammedan uprisings, the Na- tional Revolutionary Movement in Mongolia and the Korean Peasant Movement in eastern Manchuria have not yet all come under our leadership, the influence of the agrarian revolution in South China has already penetrated far to the north and is bringing the broad pea- sant masses in the north into the fight. The anti-landlord struggles in| the villages and the struggle against militarist ievies and taxes are de-| veloping in the north. In the south the existence of Soviet areas and the development of the Red Army and the guerilla warfare orientated thousands and millions of the pea- sant masses who were being swept into the tide of the revolution. This was the outstanding characteristic jof the Soviet Power in Haliufeng and Liling in the past. Now, in the big Soviet areas in western Fu- kien, western Kiangsi, in the Chao- chow area, in Pingchiang and Liu- pang, in northeastern Kiangsi and |both western and eastern Hupei, the | Soviets rally around themselves millions and tens of millions of the peasant masses, confiscating land belonging to the landlords, over- throwing the authority of the gen- try and local rascals and strength- ening the armed struggle for Soviet power. The existence and develop- ment of these revolutionary events are so evident that even the reac- organs of the ruling classes, do not dare to ig- nore. Only liquidationists who sit with their eyes closed in their study rooms blindly say that the Chinese revolution remains dead since its jlast defeat up to the present time, refuse to recognize the role of the |peasant wars in the Chinese revolu-| tion, and sing songs of hope for the Chinese ruling classes, claiming that they can bring about capitalist stabilization in China. The revolu- tionary masses all recognize the correctness of ‘the decisions of the Sixth World Congress of the Com- munist International and the Sixth Convention of the Chinese Commu- nist Party, which points out that the Chinese revolution only suffered a temporary defeat and that the sit- |uation in the whole country is mov- jing toward a rising revolutionary | wave, The Soviet Area and the Revolu- tionary Wave. 2. Of course, the most important mptom that points to the coming of the revolutionary wave in China is the revival of workers’ struggles in the cities. However, the pea- jsants’ fight for land and the devel- }opment of the Red Army, which have a record of continued struggle prove that the Kuomintang regime he gentry, landlords and bour- ie has not only no possibility of stabilization, but, on account of the repeated occurrence of the mili- tarist wars, is moving nearer to its final collapse every day. The ex- pansion of the Soviet area and the Red Army will surely constitute one of the main motivating forces in bringing about the new revolution- | ary wave. The wave of workers’ struggles 930 in China is becoming more and more intensified every d This is true especially since the street fight of the Peiping reckshaw coolies, the demonstration and the killing of la- bor fakers by the railway worker at Tankshan, the over low union leaders by the Chinese workers on the Chinese Eastern Railway, the seige of the police sta- tion by Wuhan textile workers, th: | demonstration of the electrie work ers at Shanghai, and the strike of workers in Western Shanghai de. ;manding the freedom to organize | union All this shows that the j orientation of the Chinese prole- tariat for revolutionary leadership is becoming increasingly mature every da: revoluti orien- ‘tation of the soldier masses, the | gradual development of organized | revolutionary mutinies in the army, the radicalization of the struggles of the poor, the growing radicaliza- |tion of the anti-imperialist move- | ment—all these are moving forward in conjunction with the struggles of the workers and peasants. On account of the severeness of our enemies oppressive measures, and the cleverness of their deceptive | tricks, the subjective forces of the revolution are not yet very stro especially the organizational for of the Party are not yet sufficient ly healthy, and we cannot yet pre- dict how soon the immediate revolu tionary situation of armed insur- rection will arrive. But we must firmly believe that the realization of the prospects of Soviet Power in one or more provinces as pointed out by the Sixth Convention of the Communist Party of China is not ja matter any too far distant | future. This prospect has the great possibilities of being realized under the leadership of the heroic work- ers’ struggles particularly because volutionary struggles are proceed- ing toward the direction of a more balanced and well distributed devel- |opment. Hence, the tactics of the Party must pay still more attention to its cont: ith the various So- as throughout the country h the Red Army. The broad peasant political power and armed s must not only develop in the process of the agrarian revolution but the movements in different places should be connected up under the strong and determined leader- | ship of the proletariat and made into a direct motivating force for the growth of the new revolutionary wave in China. Therefore, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party calls upon differ- ent Party organizations throughout | the country, especi: local Party units in the villages to carry on open | propaganda among the masses for convening an All-China Soviet / Delegate Congress on May 1 this |year. The purpose of the congress will be to link up all Soviet areas | and Red Armies in the country thus |giving the Chinese Revolution a | centralized leadership and concerted action. The Tasks of the All-China Soviet Area Delegate Congress. of Fa | 3. The All-China Labor Federa- jion and the Communist Party of Chino will take the initiative for the « rg of the Congress, and the vari viet areas and Re nies will be invited to affix their name the call. In view of the intense situation in the revolution- ary struggles in China, the Congress undoubtedly will perform a great | historical mission, The problem which the Congress must solve, first | of all, is that of securing still more |coordinated action of the various Soviet areas and the Red Armics. Under the determined leadership of the proletariat, the Chinese Revolu- tion must bring about the alliance between the workers and peasants, push through thoroughly the ag- | varian revolution, confiscate all land belonging to the landlords, and dis- tribute them to the peasants, sup- | press all armed forces of reaction, | resolutely fight against the rich peasants, basically liquidate the | hegemony of the gentry and local |for two years, certainly indirectly | pascals in the villages and establish | jand broaden the Soviet power of | the peasants, carry out the agrarian | program, concentrate the armed forces of the peasants, organize Red | Guards, raise the wages of agri- cultural employees, and extend the | Agricultural Workers’ Union, The | congress must work out concrete | plans for the carrying out of these BAYLO BECK—WRITE TO BOX 75 DAILY WORKER NEWARK Sixth Anniversary of WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF NEWARK Concert and Banquet Saturday Evening, May the 24th Workers Center, 93 Mercer St., Newar! DANCING — MUSIC — ENTERTAINERS 50% of the Proceeds to Hi elp Build the Daily Worker CAMP WOCOLONA | WALTON LAKE, MONROE, N. Y. Will Open for Decoration Day Week-End Special rates: $12.00 for week-end, $4.50 per day. Musical and Educaional Attractions Boating and Athletics Reservations with $5 deposit to be made at NEW YORK OFFICE: 10 EAST 17TH STREET REDUCE AILROAD TICK Phone Gramercy 1013 S OBPAINED UNGOVERING ROTTEN ~—BREAT GRAFT KILL SEAMAN (Continued From Page One.) — | whose requests for licenses the board of standards and apy were usually my The open charge against the bo: and particularly against William E Walsh, is that this was partly bribe mon to get a license to operat station Fo ali of these eri no ar- sts except in the case of Cooley have been made, lots of time and many delays will be allowed, and if convicted, very light prison sen- tences, as in the case of Queensboro President Connelly, who got one year for yrafting millions of dol- | lars in sewer pipe. Very Different For Workers. Meanwhile, were denied railroaded through wi allowed a ju and serving time, The leaders are all well known to the working class: Foster is general secretary of the Trade Union League, Minor is editor of the Daily Work- er, Amter is district organizer of the New York district of the Com- munist Party. Raymond was an active member of the Marine Work- ers League, and is now a member of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. The men accused of graft, professional politicians and haters. When Police Commissioner Whalen spoke to the 00 busin men giving him a banquet, he said it was necessary to keep Foster in jail forev When Mayor Walker came back from a litte vacation to Bermuda, he declared that he jcouldn’t believe anything wrong ers’ leaders d to hout are the wi bail, ru ! are all about his ftiends “Bernie” (Vause) | the from|age the “loggi s|ers the sum of steriously granted.|of dollars are n yion this voyage, and labor |5 end “Billy” (Walsh), | a _»w..* Page Three BOILERS (Continued from Page One) fees 2 ’ Industrial Union deleg uted literature on the voyage and got a good r ont of the crew. from pe I | On the Leviathan, also of the U.S. Line, Delegate W. C. McQuistion of the M, W. I. U. and others, in a regularly organized ship commit- tee, held meetings in passagewa and fo’cl’s, at which the problems and needs of organization and the need of a dictatorship of the prole- ltariat were discussed. There were also meetings and di ashore at Southampton, En; Join Union. More than 50 lined v coming into the M. W. quarters, 140 Broad St., to join. The Leviath infested with bedbugs (“*¢ Poor Rela- tions,” becaus¢ line is owned by Chapman). ventilation is bad and the air ducts furnish foul air. The food is cooked in vats, two men cooking for 240 men at a time, and is deadly monotonous. steward, Ronin, gets graft in the form of a collection of lyer mon to cover the cost of silver stolen. A washing machine, installed for the use of the crew, has become the private monopoly of “Paddy,” the old-time water tender. “A Leviathan blackball is a boost for any seaman, y the men, and more and more them organize in Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. steam ,” supposed tasks of the revolution. cuss practical tactics, must work out plans for coordinating the struggles for peasant Soviets with the strug- gles of the workers in the cit’ t must work out the lines of de velopment for each Soviet distr and each Red Army, paying partic- ular attention to the establishment of close contacs with the struggie of the workers, and the anti-imper- ialist struggles of the soldiers, and city poor. Within the scope of one or more provinces, uniform command should be established for the various guerilla areas and the Red Army. Concrete policies of the Soviet power and plans for the development of the Red Army should be concretely dis- cussed and decided upon. Of course, the most “undamental thing is to extend the calling of this congress into a broad movement. It must be known that the development of | the village Soviet and the Red Army are passing through a very difficult period of struggle. Only through struggle can the hegemony of the enemies be weakened and the armed | forces of the enemies be liquidated! Only through struggle can the So- viet area be expanded and the Red Army developed! We do not only have to develop the struggles in th: villages in the South, but we myst extend it to the big cities. The movement must get more proletarian leadership. The movement must be extended to North China, and must sweep the broad masses of the peas- | antry of the north deeper into the! It must dis- ag-arian revolution. | must bring its effects to bear upon The movement the armies of our enemies, and at- tract tens of thousands of armed soldi into the Red Army. There- fore, this movement must be made into a broad movement for the sup- port of the Soviets and the Red Army. Only thus can we success- fully push forward the struggle and broaden its influence. The chief significance in the calling of the Soviet Congress lies here. The Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party of China calls upon the whole membership of the Party to pay par- ticular attention to carry on prop- aganda and to prepare for this movement, so that not only the con- gress will be successfully brought into being, and many resolutions ant plans worked out, but that, because of this movement, the Soviet areas will be further extended, the guer- illa warfare will get more support, the Red Army will be furthér ex- panded, the leadership of the pro- letariat of the peasants will be more strengthened, coming of a direct revolutionary situation will thus be brought nearer and the establish- ment of Soviet political power in one or more provinces can thus be realized quicker. These are the main achievements that we are working for! (The remaining part of t statement is not published.). February 4, 1930. Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. | ~( Camp Fire :—: Greet Be through the Special Soviet Congress Issue CHINESE VANGUARD RATES: 4 Inches $10.00 2 inches $6.00 1 inch $4.00 GRAND OPENING UNITY CAMP Decoration Day, May 31 Musical Program — Dancing — Boat Racing Registration open. Call at 1800 Seventh Ave. Tel. Monument 0111 or Down Town: 30 Union Square, Barber Shop, Tel. Stuyvesant 8774 The Chinese Soviet Congress Other Attractions mL Individual names BOP