The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1930, Page 5

sous” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 193' NITRATE IMPERIALIST®S ED ARMY OF AND FASCISM OF CHILE MERGE IN CORPORATION. Try to Solve Nitrate Mining Crisis Caused by Competition with Artificial Nitrates Will Fail to Organize Production and Can But! Deepen Crisis and Worsen Workers’ Wages By HARRISON GEORGE | The nitrate industry is one of the! most important, nitrates going! largely into agricultural fertilizers | and—in this period—into war chem- icals, The crisis in the industry has been deepening for years, especially since the discovery of artificially made nitrates that compete with natural minerals, of which Chile produced—up to the discovery of artificial nitrates—95 per cent of the world’s supply. * British and American imperial- isms’ investments until recently | have been nearly equal, though the United States bankers are gaining. | The nitrate crisis contributed to the ‘\stallation of a bloody fascist re-| me under General Carlos Ibanez in | 327, It is now forwarding a gigan- tic merger of American, British, German and Slav nitrate mining, corporations, with the government | of Chile as 50 per cent shareholder, which these interests hope to use as against the artificial nitrate pro- ducers who are to meet in congr in Paris shortly, the mining inter- | ests hoping to force an agreement) with the artificial producers to “or- yanize”—and limit production, The mining interests in the merg- er, which will officially be author-| ized by law in Chile, will capitalize the corporation that thus acquires the character of a government con- cern, at three billion Chilean pesos | ($336,000,000). The Chilean gov-| ernment will hold 50 per cent of this stock “without paying” into the| capital fund. The other half to be, held by the sixty mining companies of Chile in which imperialists are interested, government, and it must turn over to the corporation all undeveloped | “fixed” for the | about $20,000,000 a move tariff charges on machine for the corporation imported fre abroad, and give cheaper transport "jon nitrate than to other products, | Strengthened their power in the dis four out of the twelve directors. The argument made by the Ibanez dictatorship in favor of the plan now to be adopted by the fake “con- gress” of Chile which serves as a mask for Ibanez’s fascist rule, is/? that the dividen supposedly t four years of operation, will give the government year, It is also “anticipated” that the profits for the first ten years will be “excellent” enough to cover the cost of the big public works to build which the government has floated big loans in the United States. If, however, there can be no fa- vorable agreement with the artifi- cial nitrate producers, or even if there is an agreement which is vio- lated just as the steel and other cartels formed in Europe have been, the continuing crisis will knock the bottom out of all these arguments of “excellent profits,” Chile will be unable to pay Yankee bankers for the loans made, and will—in any event—become a plaything of im- perialism and subject to imperial- ist rivalries between the Unite States and British interests more than ever before. This conflict is, in the nature of the world crisi generally, certain to arise. Thus the Chilean workers, whose exploitation, always terrible, will be intensified by the government’s i terest in helping the imper' exploit them, have no way out but of revolution against imperialism Chile and the revolutionary trade unions, now illegal under Ibanez’ nitrate deposits. It my also re- murderous rule. | Soviet Builds Socialist Mining Town | MOSCOW, (I.P.S.) — The con- struction of a large socialist town “Kominternovsk” has been com- mermed in the Don basin. Four mil- Anti-Imperialists Hit Labor Party, Gandhi (Continued from Page Oney | struggle against American imperial- ism expresses its unqualified sup- port of the movement for the inde- | pendence of India from British im-} perialist rule. India has an inherent right to independence, No measures of home rule or dominion status }lion roubles will be expended this year for the preparatory work. In the last year of the Five Year Plan the district will be the largest coal- mining area in the Don basin. MASS MEETINGS OF ILL. MINERS Prepare for National Convention, June 28 ithin the British Empire can pos- ibly satisfy that right. It is the | pbvious duty of all opponents of im- | perialism to stand squarely on the, side of the Indian revolutionary | movement for freedom and against | British imperialism. | MacDonald Same as Tories | “We condemn the British Labor | Government as an instrument of im- | perialism no less reactionary than the Tory government which receded it. | “The freeing of India from the| British yoke is significant not only | to India but to the whole world. For | India is the key-stone in the arch cf British imperialism and when it} falls, the power of the Empire will | be broken. “Against the rule of rifles, ar-) mored cars, gas bombs and ma-| chine guns, the Indian masses must mobilize the power of overwhelming numbers and iron determination to win their freedom. The British im- erialist forces must be driven out. | e stand with the revolutionary | ovement by whatever means it) \fights its battle. We point out, however, that there is no experience in any revolutionary movement to justify hope for success of the cam- paign of civil disobedience inaugu- rated by the Indian National Con- gress. Nor can reliance pe placed upon leadership of the propertied classes representing the policy of the Indian National Congress. But behind that are organizations of workers and peasants who are de- termined to win freedom for India by any means at hand, even to the point of armed revolution. Inso- far as the leaders of the National Congress, Gandhi and his lieuten- | ants, obstruct that movement of the | peasants and workers because it) does not square with the program | of civil disobedience, they are play- ing into the hands of British im- perialism. For Revolution “We stand with all the forces in India fighting for immediate and unconditional independence by any means whatever. We stand against any forces, whatever their pretep- sions which obstruct or weaken the struggle. In the long run we have confidence only in the power of the trade unions and the peasant asso- ciations to lead India through a rev- olutionary movement to real inde- pendence, Recent history has demonstrated that reliance upon propertied classes leads to compro- mise with the alien rulers and de- WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, May 30.—The Illinois district. of the Na- tional Miners Union is actively pre- paring for the great nativnal con- vention of the union, Junc 28, in Pittsburgh. The fight against the Lewis-fascist and the Howat social fascist factions of the United Mine Workers of America is being sharp- ened, During this week the following mass meetings are being held: Sparta, yesterday; Eldorado, today Orient and Johnson City, tomorrow; Zeigler, Thursday; Belleville, Sun- day. Speakers will be Freeman Thompson, national president of the N.M.U.; William R. Groves, district secretary; Rhode Tierny, district vice president; and Gerry Allard, national board member. Meetings to build the youth sec- independence, “We call upon all sincere Ameri- can anti-imperialists, inside and out- side the working classes, to express their solidarity with India’s strug- gle for independence, and to con- demn the British Labor Govern- ment’s policy of armed terror.” that youth—i the YOUNG of the workers, Tam a young worker and wish to NAMB .... + ADDRESS ,....... Mall to: YOUNG WorkKER feat of the struggle for complete WORKER, Please find a remittance of §. CHINA GAINS . Nanking Lackeys | * x. Losing Everywhere (Continued from Page One) | Times, dated May 29, contains the following: “The reports . . . confirm the be- ef that the Communists have | The government of Chile names only | trict and constitute a dangerous jelement “tinless immediately sup- pressed. With Nanking fully oc- |cupied on the Northern front, the ''Yangtze situation is fraught with all kinds of dangers, although the | |river is well patrolled by foreign | gunboats.” The gunboats in the Yangtze, the naval forces of British, Japanese and American imperialisms in | China, are there particularly for the purpo: of keeping the Chinese |masses in subjection. This fact pe |haps more vividly than any other } case in point, illustrates clearly that |the same force that is oppressing |the workers and. farmers in the United States is “also sucking the blood of the nese toiling ma s, jand attempting to suppress their re- |volt. The American workers should |do everything they can to support |the Revolution in China which is a {part and parcel of the universal fight against imperialism. jing in seems to be confirmed today by the jfrantic efforts of the Nanking au- | thorities to obscure news of the con- | flict. Chaing Kai-shek, the cham- }pion of American imperialism in |China, is reported to be wounded. | His firs mn, specially trained | by German officers and which Chi lang considers the trump card, i: partly shattered. Nanking’s day are numbered. jand its fascist native capitalist tion of the union are being held: in | ed starve, and the employers who do But the Chilean government must) lackeys. And no other hope of vic-| Staunton, yesterday; Livingston, to- work their men try to take advan- give up the export tax on nitrate | tory in the struggle than under the | gay: © me ‘i which hitherto largely financed the| banner of the Communist Party of| "Thursday; and Mt. Olive, Friday. Benld, tomorrow; Collinsville, |The youth meetings are in prepara- j tion for a sectional youth conference |to be held in this territory June 8. The district board of the Ilinois N.M.U, is meeting in Belleville May 31 to further the tremendous work ahead, particularly the building of |vank and file committes of action. | For the week of June 1, mass | meetings are called for Belleville, Zeigler, Johnson City, West Frank- fort and Harrisburg with Nels Kjar as speaker to mobolize the unem- | ployed for a hunger march to the | National Unemployment Convention j in Chicago. There will also be a mass meeting in Zeigler with Joe North as speak- er to build the circulation of the | Labor Unity, official organ of the | Trade Union Unity League in the | mining fields, Nesbit Admits A Defeat Secretary Nesbit of the Peabody) Coal Co. faction of the U.M.W. has} issued a statement, in which the | figures. of locals forced into his or- ganization are padded. ven these | fake figures, however, admit that | 20 per cent of the locals have not | agreed to the Howat-Fishwick-Pea- | body line. These locals are in the} National Miners Union, with the ex- | ception of a few which Lewis has. | Green, president of the A.F.L. has | notified the central labor bodies not | to expel the Fishwick locals, and hints strongly that the Lewis and| Fishwick factions will come to-| |gether. Green supports Lewis, nom- | jinally, but states to the central | bodies: “I trust that ultimately an} agreement can be reached.” | The Kansas Federation of Labor | convention in Wichita last week re-| fused to seat either the Lewis or Howat delegates. A representative of Green asked for the seating of Lewis men. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. WORKERS! YOUNG WORKERS: Build the Fighting Youth Paper! , Help Maintain the Weekly YOUNG WORKER TPUERE 1s only one youth paper in this country written by and for the working class 0 8 WORKER, WORKER is being published weekly, It is a real live paper; full of workers’ shops, factories and mills, and pietures of the struggles and demonstrations The YOU The YOUNG correspondence from It has many cartoons ING WORKER has a full page of sport events, aews from young workers in the army, navy, National worker should read the YOUNG WORKER. Send in your subscription today, six months and 50 cents for three months, Act today! iuard, ete. Every young 81.50 a year; 75 cents for STRIKE AT THE BOSSES! | sfibseribe to our paper—the YOUNG sto pay for months, Ww YORK CITY, NEW VICTORY | The report of the defeat of Nank- the Chinese Militarist War} cuts in the South, fighting the|with their hired thugs ted the stretch out system, fighting against | families of the workers, tore down unemployment and for unemploy- | their tempor: quarters, shot them ment relief, the Trade Union Unity |down—and_ £ the cay League has called a Southern con- courts senter seven of the dead« ference to meet June 8 in Cha‘-|ers of this struggle to long prison’ th, |tanooga, Tenn., to plan the organiza- | terms—ranging up to twenty chemical indu |tion into militant unions of these for defending themselves ‘ ther datenke |most exploited sections of the work- the attacks of the bosses, for the|” ‘Simults ing class. ‘The call for the confer-| right of free Jo eae eB OUE Tooke on E Civic Th Fedega American Women” s: i ange and nd pres ies as they affect ||} of the country.” |} with the Whalen- || the staid and “re- talist speech and free Equality for Negro workers! And for the right for self-determina- tion of the Negro toilers! “Demand the release of the | seven Gastonia defendants! De- mand the release of H. M. Powers | ence, issued by the national office! semblage, and the righ i , : semblage, and the right to organ- ble” official organ of the} jot the. 2-ti ls states: __ ize, strike, and picket, But in spite rani Chen iiat Seclaty for May, || | ,, “The T.UUL, fights for full of this, the workers are showing “Industrial and Engineering Chem. Il | Economic, Social. arf Political | great militancy and determination | ;«; prints a long editorial which |'ll to struggle and have succeeded in checking the terrorism of the bos Gastonia has thus become the rall; ing ground for the organization o the Southern workers. A. F. L. For Stretchout ical anti-Soviet and “red cream for deportation not | nly of foreign-born Comn out also of American. It, too, like | the Whalen forgeries, bears the mark of Easley and Woll. | and Joe Carr, organizers now fac- | phe American Federation of cocoa ice ing the clectric chair in Atlanta, |Labor officials, openly acting. as} | BIRMINGHAM WORKERS Ga.!” | stool-pigeons for the bosses, aiding STRIKE HI | The T.U.U.L, statement de: the effect of the economic c southern workers. The whol try is in er and the eri is no’ | limited to America, Mills are shut- | ting down the millions of unemploy- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. of the Gadsen Ala knitting 1 cently went on strike against th long hours and low wages. These || the bosses in of lynch-law against union members (Atlanta, |Birmingham, Winston-Salem), and who have repeatedly sold oué and betrayed the Southern | workers received a maximum wage | Marion, © Biteabechton, ille, [of 12 dollars for 60 hours work. The || use | ete.,— are openly helping the b strike was sold out by A, F. of L. | |to keep the workers d In many | Union, the fake officials. |tage of the situation to cut wages,|niaces they are aiding to put| i speed them unmercifully, an d|through new stretch-out systems, FiesRie weTEED \|| jlengthen the work day. ef land trying to keep the workers from | At the same time, the crisis On| joining the T.U.U.L. and organizing j the farms forces the ruined farmers | foy struggle. William Green, presi- linto the labor market, tenants,! Gent of the A. F. of L., who prom- croppers, farm laborers flocking to | ised President Hoover that the A. the cities, where already there is) of 1, would put up no fight too little work. against the bosses’ speed up and| 1! : - Terrible In South wage-cutting drive, has been wel- |UMions, national industrial unions, This situation is particularly bad| comed and banqueted by Chamber | #4 industrial leagues to send dele- lin the South, where, especially in| of Commerce, police and city au-|&&tes to this conference. It calls on the textile region all are forced to| thorities in city after city during his S0Uthern unorganized workers, par- work at the very lowekl pay pee-| cocent dour of ihe South. | ticularly in textile and steel mills, sible until they drop from exhaus-| “The A. F. of L. with its policy *bocca and furniture factor tion. j | of organizing only the skilled, with |@%4 ore mines, railroad, me j ization conference, the lying propa- ganda of “inferior and superior” jraces is used to divide the work rs, are rallied by the bosses to fight against the foreign born. The T.U.U:L. calls all its local “Both Nodke and white workers,”| its Jim Crow policy against the | ‘Tansport, and farm worke says the T.U.U.Le “laborers and Negroes, helps the bosses to keep|&nize shop, pit, facto farm hands, are forced to work) the workers divided,” In the South, says the T.U.U.L. in its statement calling the organ- | plantation, mill and ship and dock | committees, and these should elect | delegates to the conference, The T.U.U.L. calls all workers of | the South to build Workers Defense | jcorps, to fight lynch gangs and bosses thugs, and protect meetings, unions, halls picket lines, ete. It warns of the war preparations of | imperialist powers, which will bring | | untold suffering on all workers, and | | by which the capitalists hope to| jerush the first workers state, the) Soviet Union. KIAMESHA HOUSE SHAPIRO & SAFFREN, Prop. Kiamesha Lake, N. Y. Tel. Monticello 735 “THE MODERN HOTEL WITH CAMP ACCOMMODATIONS” This place is under the vision of the well-known Sam Shapiro who known as_res- taurateur and hotel proprietor. To spend your vacation in Kia- mesha House assures you of a good time. All latest impro: ments, Everything of the bes }under the most unbearable condi- | | tions.” | “The exploitation of the Negro toilers is doubtly severe. Standing upon the back of the Negro workers, which is the basis for the super.| The 10th Anniversary CLOTHING SALE is still on at the well- known clothiers SAM & ADOLPE 142 STANTON ST. 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Call Sunday at 8 a. m. at the follow- ing stations: | { | | super- is just as in the North the native born | — |These Chinese Workers Will Suport the Brom" A SCIST FISH ing Soviets , 0 ON TO THE | a SOVIET UNION! | REI rs a7 ——T TRUST AT WORE | | RU& f ASURER Sal m the |Anti-Red Probers Call Nen une tl ) | Fascist Witnesses 4 (Continued from Page One) I m TW es URE cok, Rae : gear ‘ unemploym: Be ay | yprofits of the American capita : 3 aan = TUUL CALLS ON class, they are able to force the con- Laat ent Oe a eae 5 = ' . ditions of both Negro and white fe Tee UA names 1 Ss wa workers down to the level of slaves. ‘ D haad palin tue Nee oF “The first great struggle agi fes-and “ane Geviet ‘preae 7 rH AN : ORK starvation wages and the speed-up n he hand of the war Chem- I juin 5 and stretch-out, and the efforts c a t i =. the bosses to keep the Negro and| 4, yracloy of the National Ci P 1 . tan Equality at Southern white workers divided, took place at j..¥, “an accomplice 2” as <i : | Gastonia year ago—under the) ith Matthew Woll in a Conference, June 8 | militant teadership of the National | ph Matthew Woll in Textile Workers Union, affiliated to | jelping the Chemical eee ne deen Fighting the ten per cent wage|the T.U.U.L. 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