The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1930, Page 1

WORKERS ANSWER “RED PROBE” AT 7th NAT'T. CONVENTION RALLY, MADISON SQ. GARDEN, JUNE 20 Wage-cuts in the Sparrows Point Bethlehem Steel plants, Speed-up in the Chester, Camden and West Coast shipyards, Lay-offs in the navy yards. Metal Workers, On to the Metal Workers’ National Conference June 14, Youngstown, Ohio, to or- ganize for battle against such Conditions! aily Entered as serend-class matter at the Post Office at New York N. Y. under the act ef March 3. 1879. FINA Vol. VII., No. 141 Company. Published daily except Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily 0 Ine., 26-28 Union Square. New York City. % Seay NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930 and Bronx, New Yor! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: aT ‘k City an e $8 L CITY EDITION hattan a year, yaNeeare 2) iy “RED INVESTIGATORS” CONSPIRE AGAINST WORKERS IN SECREC ‘The Ups and Bewis of Production For the working class, the increase and decrease of industrial pro- duction is of vital interest, because it determines the chances of having a job, of being able to live. All workers should study the ups and downs of production. Nowadays, however, the situation in all capitalist countries produces almost nothing but “downs,” and in order te study the “ups” we must turn to the industry of Soviet Russia. In the Soviet Union alone is industry on the upgrade. _ The U.S. A., as the foremost capitalist country, furnishes very instructive comparisons with the Soviet Union, where socialism is being built up under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Total production in the U. S. A. declined this year about 14 per cent below last year. In the Soviet Union production. is increasing more than 30 per cent above last year. “Down” in the land of capi- talism; “up” in the land of the Soviets. For the past two years, the U. S. industries decreased production about 7 per cent. In the Soviet Union, in the same period, produc- tion increased about 65 per cent. Here are the “ups” and “downs” presented in even more emphatic form. Pig iron production decreased in the U. S, since 1928 by 15 per cent; in the Soviet Union production of pig iron increased more than 66 per cent. Unemployment in the U. S. has risen from two millions to more than seven millions, an increase of 350 per cent. In the Soviet Union, practically the only unemployment there is now, is that of recent ar- rivals in the city from the villages; there is an acute shortage of ex- perienced workers in all lines. Here the “ups” are with the U. S— where “up” (in unemployment) means “down” in jobs and wages. In wages, also, and general living conditions, the contrast is the same—“down” in the capitalist countries—“up” in the Soviet Union. Is it necessary for us to “point the moral” for the workers in the U. S. A.? Workers make such unprecedented achievements in the Soviet Union, because the working class is the ruling class; they have a workers’'government. In the U. S. the government and the indus- tries, the land and the banks, the railroads and the mines, all are the property of a handful of capitalists, parasites who squeeze profits out of the masses, and then throw the masses out to starve. The workers in the Soviet Union made a revolution and took the power into their | own hands. And that is the only way it can be done. What? Chicago Is Excited? Grosso: as we gather from dispatches, is all excited. A reporter for the Chicago “Tribune,” whose specialty was writ- ing harmless “exposures” of racketeers and gangster-land, was shot down by a gangster, so it is said, for “revenge.” We say his exposures were harmless, because in spite of them or because of them, since they were only “human interest stuff” meant to give comfortable bourgeois a mild thrill and to make believe that the “Tribune” and the police were “fighting” the underworld, the underworld throve mightily and waxed fat. Doubtless the unfortunate gentleman of the capitalist press in his journeying into gangland had given‘some personal affront to the par- ticular gangsters, had flirted with the bad man’s “Jane,” or perhaps had even taken his assignments too seriously. But anyhow, Chicago is excited. Yet Chicago, capitalist Chicago, has maintained its composure for months, meanwhile that section of the underworld which is in control of the police department, has been walking into public mass meetings of the Communist Party, armed to the teeth, and brutally beating up workers. Capitalist Chicago has thought it only a matter for jest, not even news “fit to print,” when squads of detectives who themselves are in- distinguishable from the gangsters whom they protect in all “rackets” from booze to dope and prostitution, waylay workers constantly who are walking alone along the streets, and take them into an ally—or dispensing with this precaution—beat unarmed, individual workers, into unconsciousness. Capitalist law protects no worker, That is axiomatic. In Chicago it has passed over into a fascist. thuggery that perils the life of any and all workers who speak and fight for their class. It is at least possible that the murdered reporter was mistaken for some worker whom the reporter’s good friend, police commander Stege, had taken the notion not only to beat up but to kill. A blind rattle-snake is dangerous even to its trainer. In the circumstances, which apply not only to Chicago but in one degree or another to the whole country, the workers must prepare to defend themselves. A Workers Defense Corps is an immediate necessity. -BROACH MACHINE MEET OF 20hT0 "<2 Sch SERVES BOSSES HIT “RED” PROBE si =2csi Gags "Voices of the Workers Answer to the Members | Fascist’s Attack By JACK TAYLOR. While the congressional commit- H. H. Broach, president of the jee appointed to “investigate” all International Brotherhood of Elec- militant working class organiza- trical Workers, red baiter and labor jions listens to the notorious fas- faker, is at present organizing, with the aid of his international ma- chine, an apparatus with which he hopes to stem the growing tide of revolt on the part of 3,500 unem- ployed members of Local 3, I. B. E. W., as well as ‘many thousands of unemployed workers of other locals affiliated to the Interna- tional. With his present scheme Broach intends to prevent the workers, employed and unemployed, from discussing the issue of unemploy- ment at their local meetings. Shut Up and Pay. liam Green, president of the A.F.L. ;and to other stool-pigeons, thou- ‘sands of workers are rallying to the defense of the Comiunist Par- ty of the U. S. A. which is the chief object of this latest government at- tack, At the great opening rally of the 7th National Convention of June 20th, at Madison Square Gar- ',den, they will give their answer in unmistakable terms to the entire crew of fascist congressmen, priests militant leader, Party. — scheme to gag militant workers by the Communist preventing them from taking the floor on the unemployment issue, can be gained from the following | sentence of an article by Broach in the May issue of the Journa! of Electrical Workers and Operators: | yoy York State has dr ‘ “ re § ‘opped again, The local executive board now according to Miss Francis Perkins, pega ttc eM ald | sn Industrial Commissioner, She PERKINS ADMITS MORE JOBLESS ALBANY, N. Y.-~Employment in of working rules. It should admits that there are 1 per cent the permanent trial committee a | ore jobless this year in June, than _. Continued on Page Two) last year the same time. : cist priest, Father Walsh, to Wil-| (the Party, to be held Friday night, | and “labor leaders” that are plot- | ting to throttle the revolutionary | An idea of this labor faker's| labor movement and especially its ; PROSECUTION | FIGHTS AGAINST “HYNES EXPOSTRE Also Corrupts Text of Leaflet Read to El Centro Jury | Sklar Hits Labor Spy ‘Tells Real Aims of the Communists, Unions EL CENTRO, Cal., June 11.— Cross examination of Chief of the Los Angeles Red Squad Hynes, con- tinued yesterday, in the trial of the |nine workers in the Imperial Val- ley criminal syndicalism case. The prosecution fought bitterly against questions by the defense at- torneys which sought to bring into the court records details of Hynes career as an employers’ stool pigeon in the San Pedro water front strike in 1928. At an entertainment given by the strikers. Hynes and other thugs raided the hall. Little chil- dren of workers were scalded by being imm: d in a hot coffee urn. “Military” for “Militant.” The prosecution spent some time introducing extracts from leaflets, (Continuea on Page Five) “BELIEVE IN COD | OR GD TOE eras sre ee | Defend the Six Now Facing Death in Atlanta; Bosses Use Lynching, Legal or Mlegal ‘METAL WORKERS MASS MEETING AT CONFERENCE ‘Untouched’ § South Has June 14 Sessions ‘League in Ohio Strike , Active in World Negro, R.1LL.U. Congresses PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 11 mass meeting of steel wo: si day at 8 p. m. at Workers’ Center 334 E, Federal St., Youngstown, | Ohie, will precede the opening of ti. Youngstown Conference of metal, steel and automobile workers, which will start the following day at 3 p. m. at the same hall. Speakers at this mass meeting will be J. W. Ford, head of the Negro |Department of the Trade Union Unity League and chairman of the Provisional International T. U. U L. Committee of Negro Workers; John Schmies, assistant secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; An- drew Overgaard, national secretary of the Metal Workers’ Industria (Continued on Page Five) ‘PORTO RICANS ORGANIZE FOR SAYS N. J. JUDGE - if Jersey Justice Shuts} Off Defense Testimony | NEWARK, N. J., June 11.—Sam- | uel D. Levine, Communist candidate ‘for congress in Essex County, New | Jersey, took the stand tod the |third worker in the trial of nine | charged with “sedition” in Newark. All defense witnesses in this trial are refused permission to testify un- |less they claim a belief in god. Le- | testify by affirmation, but the judge wit! let the jury know that they are not to give his statements the same belief they give to the lying, graft- | ing police, as long as the police sav they are good christia’ The “crime” for w h the prose | cutor acted as the protector of god’s |mame was a speech Levine made at e $ an unemployed mas ing on darkness of a conspiracy. | February 4 at 93 Mercer St., New-| Jesuit like Father Wa jark, N. J. | | The same god that was called |upon to bless the electric chair in ‘which Sacco and Vanzetti were ‘burned was called upon to help the |bosses of Newerk imprison those who are mobilizing the workers of Newark to fight their system of speed-up and unemployment. . Two police officers testified for ithe state. They indicated that they {had learned their lessons well, but ‘under cross-examination were all balled up. One of the strongest ar- as make up the liter: evidence. demand “Work or Wages!” that Levine “sneered at prosperity.” working class organizations. they were sent to take notes of the| ‘meeting and only remembered those | |things that “interested them.” tify for him. The rest of,the six| into fighting industrial unions. were disqualified hecause they told | ba eg tg the jury and court that the bible jane religion was a lie and was dope case was adjourned to get more wit- nesses, The International Labor | vorkers. | | | | | Tomorrow there will be printed in the Daily Worker a report of achievements in our campaign for mass circulation and financial sup- port. We want you to study this report, the quota and percentage tables. Then take a good look at your Party district, list the short- comings, correct them. Today we must ask you a few questions. asked an answer is expected. Answer! When questions are } Why did the Connecticut district secure only seven new subscribers from April 1 to May 16th? Why-did the Seattle district secure only eleven new subscribers, the immense Kansas City district only 19, Buf- | falo only 20, Boston only 37 in this period? ; Why did the Pittsburgh district with all its steel and metal work- | ers, its coal miners, secure only 37 new subscribers, and Minneapolis only 31? Why did the bundle order for shop, mill and mine sales, meeting, street and house to house sales, decrease in Pittsburgh from April 1 to May 21st? Why did we suffer a similar loss in Connecticut? If four or five comrades in Oklahoma City can establish a carrier Governmental Conspiracy Against the Workingclass Congress Prepares New Anti-Labor Laws in Secret “Investigation” The Congressional Committee for the in- | vine was allowed, after argument, to) Vestigation of Communist activities has start-|Revolutiomry Workers), was or | ed its functions with secret hearings. This (fey go Cag oe 8 fitting beginning. Based upon a despicable forgery which Congressman Fish made the starting point of his “anti-red” crusade, this investigation be- try, now completely a colony of the gins to gather its material and to prepare its report in the! U- In this darkness the lies of every It sh, of every fascist like Matthew Woll of every white guardist can be accepted as sacred truth; in against the fake “nationalists” and this darkness, every forgery can be admitted as a genuine other parties that serve as mere document; in this darkness every manufactured rv anti-red productions of Woods an countless other “paytriots” can be accepted as irrefutable Millions of workers are out of jobs. ployment is growing on the workers. see through the illusions of the “blessings” of capitalism and | The Congress of the United States answers this demand with an investigation of the activities of all revolutionary Wage cuts are the order of the day. Speed-up and stretch out turn the working masses into profit producing but starv- Levine had but one witness to tes-| ing robots. They begin to resist this. i} Congress of the United States rushes to the rescue of the sacred profits and decides to block the organization of the ex-| to keep the workers in slavery. The) ploited masses by an investigation of “red activities.” | The workers’ government of the Soviet Union is building | Defense appears for all nine of the|@ New society. While the capitalists in America are making | (Continued on Page Five) INDEPENDENCE Workers’ Association to Wage Struggle NEW YORK.—Following a meet- |ing of five hundred Porto Rican | workers here, that discussed the in- credible misery and _ starvation caused by imperialist oppression of |their country, the Obrera Revolucionaria _Portorri- quena” (Association of Porto Rican The organization’s aims are to aid Porto Rico and the workers’ and peasants’ movement of that coun- will also fight against the agents of imperialism such as San- alist”) and » tiago Iglesias (a ‘ sertion such | tools of the exploiters and oppres- d /sors of the Porto Rican masses. An Executive Committee of five was elected, among them Alberto Sanchez as General Secretary and The misery of unem-/ Jose Aviles as Treasurer. The workers ‘begin to) @— Lodgings for Delegates Needed | Accommodations for Delezates| to the National Convention of the | | Communist Party, betweeen June | 18th to 28th needed. Comrades or sympathizers living in Man-| hattan or Bronx that will help! the Party by accommodating one | or more delegates should write,| giving detailed address ana di- rections to the Convention Arrangements Committee, 43 East 125th St., New York City They begin to organize | & The ‘Daily’ Asks Few Questions (house to house) route of 103 customers for our paper, why have not dozens of such routes been established in all large industrial centers? If Youngstown, Ohio, can sell 150 papers on one street corner in one day, why should it not be done every day in all cities on all street corners where workers go to and come from work? Why are factory gate sales sporadic? Why can not 100 papers be sold at any factory with 1,000 workers, 500 papers sold at factories with 5,000 workers? Why did all the Party districts outside of New York contribute only $3,300, while the New York district alone contributed $5,600 to the Daily Worker Emergency Fund? Why did the Seattle district send in only $8 up to May 29th, Kansas City only $22.50, Buffalo only er only $36.10, Minneapolis only $39, Pittsburgh only 56.952 Yes, there are achievements, one of the biggest of which is that where Party comrades put the Daily Worker campaign program to the test by practically applying it, many new readers, large contributions to keep our paper going and growing have resulted. Examine your district, every Party section, every Party unit, every Party member. Is your district actually carrying on a Daily Worker campaign?, | Delegation Ready for | “Associacion | WAGE GUTS FOR the struggle for the independence of | RED RAIDER CHIEF OF 1920 SECRETLY HEARD BY FISH'S charge of the so-called “Bureau J. Edgar Hoover, of “Great Ability Breaking, Again Attacks the Workers WASHINGTON, June 11.—With J. COMMITTEE ” in Law Edgar Hoover, in of Investigation” of the alleged “Department of Justice” occupying two hours in secret session telling the anti-Communist congressional investigation com- mittee headed by the fascist J. the record of this Hoover in® previous anti-labor crimes is in the foreground. | While Hoover, according to the statement given out by |Fish, told no more “ s” about the Communists than may be learned | by anyone who reads the Daily | Worker, which is also to be “inves- | tigated,” Fish talked—well, like a| Fish, and made it appeal as terribly | | “importan’ Hoover has “great} jability’ according to Fish, since he| {made the remarkable “revelation”| |that the Communist Party was an| affiliated section of the Communist} | International. | The “ability” of Hoover was shown! jbefore Fish discovered it, ten years| |ago, in fact, when twelve distinguish-| led lawyers, not one of them Com-| | munists, issued a “Report Upon the |INegal Practices of the U. S. Depart- |ment of Justice.” This scoundrel J. Edgar Hoover | was, at the time, the man whom the| |infamous A. Mitcheli Palmer, then} |attorney general, placed in charge} of the “red raids and deporta-| tions that subjected 20,000 working | |men and women to violence and great | {suffering at the hands of the De- |partment of “Justice” and of “La-| |bor” of the government, wholly in | (Continued on Page Five) SHOE WORKERS \Struggle Nears; Warn | of Fake Unions | | The Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, in its present drive to or- ganize the unorganized majority in this industry, reports that it finds conditions in the shops going from | bad to worse. Wage-cuts ranging | ;from 10 to 40 per cent and hours | of labor increased to as high as 70 | per week make life hard for the worker and make many workers jobles The union considers that these | conditions will surely lead to bitter | struggles in the near future, Yes- | terday, through C. Lippa of the I. | S. W. U., a statement was issued, | warning the unorganized of thej| treacherous role they can expect of the two fake unions in the field, | the Boot and Shoe Workers and the | Shoe Workers’ Protective. Lippa | says: Open Strike Breaking. “Here is a single instance of how | the workers are harnessed into the | | Boot and Shoe, which is nothing but | a pure and simple strike-breaking | jagency of the bosses. Very recently | the lasting department workers of |the Morsam Shoe Co. went on strike because they could no longer endure the conditions in the shop. They called upon the rest of the crew to join them, but these hesitated some- what, and they decided to call a shop meeting. “However, before any united ac- | tion could be taken the bosses called |in the Boot and Shoe agents to fur- nish seabs, in case the workers re- | fused to join the Boot and Shoe, and thus to prevent them from joining ithe Independent Shoe Workers’ Union. “Every’ worker was approached | by the boss and the organizer of the Boot and Shoe and told to sign the application of the scab union, or to get the hell out of the shop. “The workers, taken by surprise, lost their heads and signed the ap- plications, fearing the loss of their jobs. Workers Hate It. “This yellow __ strike-breaking agency that goes under the name of the Boot and Shoe is known by ‘all the workers in the country. It| Hamilton Fish here yesterday, INDIA PEASA IN ARMED FIGHT POLICE Imperial Provocation of Religious War CALCUTTA, In , June 11.—A regular battle wv fought at Che- chuahat, near Ghathal in the Mid- napur district, even the government nouncem: A police party was sent there to in- ve gate after it was heard that a b-inspector of police had been killed and another he after a previous poli report. car’ present police ii were fired on each side. ports do not say whether the police were defeated or not, nor how many were killed. Cee Police Stoned. BOMBAY, India, Ju head constable at the H lal outpost was hit on the he a rock thrown by peasants he 11.—The ge Kath- ad by , and other officers injured in a fight during which police fired tv into the créwd. The number of villagers killed is suppressed, also the out- come of the struggle. “Communal rioting” is reported from the Accra distritt. This means fighting between Mo- hammedans and Hindus. Such rel- igious 's are frequently provoked by Briti agents to keep the In- dians divided. Often too, class con- fliets, and fights between workers jor peasants and the police or the scabs are represented as “Commun- al strife” in British dispatches, Indian Press Rejects Report. The entire Indian p: , mainly petty bourgeois and Indian business men’s organs, with the exception of the few English language papers which speak unofficially for the government, rejects with scorn the findings of the Simon Commission, of which the first volume was printed in London yesterday. Even these bourgeois organs have to re- pudiate it, though some of them worked with the commission while in India. Their headlines run: “The Simon Commission Insults India,” ‘India Not a Nation,” “Dominion Status in The Dim And Distant Future,” “British Domination To Continue.” It is to be remembered, however, that these papers take this attitude because of the enormous strength- ening of resistance to British im- perialism lately, with the workers forcing to the lead of the move- ment. The papers feel they must not expose their treason to the anti- imperialist movement too openly. has been shamefully kicked out of Boston, Lynn, Chelsea and the other shoe centers by the workers. In Greater New York, in spite of its 30 years of existence, it has never been able to organize the shoe workers, because, on the whole, they refuse to have anything to do with it. “The Shoe Workers’ Protective is no better. In 1929, in Haverhill, Mass., 6,000 shoe workers were sold out by the Protective. “The workers must prevent these two scab unions from putting an- other chain around their necks. They must join the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, affiliated with the, 'frade Union Unity League, because it is the only organization conholted by the rank and file through the shop delegate system, / a