The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1930, Page 3

_ YORK, MONDAY, JUN NANKING TAKES STEP TO CENTRALIZE “LEGAL MURDER” OF WORKERS All Communist Cases A re Ordered to Be Trans- ferred to Higher Courts Step Taken Because Lower Courts Scared Cold By Communist Success According to a recent decision of judicial department of the Nanking government, all Chinese radicals and Communists who fall into the hands of the police heréafter will be tried before six judges in the higher courts of China instead of before one judge in the district courts. This is clearly an attempt on the part of the Nanking govern- ment to centralize the white terror- ist suppression of Communist and militant working class and peasant activities, thus relieving the lower courts from a task that is growing increasingly difficult. In view of the fact that most of | the local officials in the southern | provinces are becoming panicky on account of the rapid spread and in- itial sucess of Soviet power in South China, and are showing hesitancy in continuing terrorist measures against revolutionists, as evidenced in the cases in Amoy, Changchow and even in Hankow, Nanking is worried, hence this extraordinary measure to transfer all cases con- cerning radicals and Communists to higher courts. An Associated Press dispatch re- cently gives an interesting descrip- tion of the farcical “trial” given to Chinese Communists in the Chi- nese courts. Ii goes like this: “In the past, all Reds and pro- fessional anti-government agitators turned over from the international settlement to the Chinese authori- ties were usually marched before a | firing squad after a trial that lasted |half an hour or so. In most cases, | such trials merely consisted of tak- ing the unfortunate man’s name and {address, his age and the name of {his father or mother. | “The man, of course, was asked whether he was guilty or not, but no matter what his answer, the investi- | gations of the foreign officers in | the settlement had generally estab- lished the fact that he was, before | they turned him over to the Chi- nese.” | The description begins with the | words, “in the past,” but the situa- tion is just the same at the present, except in places like Changchow and Amoy, where the authorities have been scared cold. will not be less summary and sen- tences of death are likely to be more sure than in the lower courts, which are naturally less bold and can be more easily scared. People who believe that the transfer of Communist cases to the higher courts means a relaxation of the ter- rorist regime of Chiang Kai-shek will be quickly disappointed. White terror still exists in China and will exist as long as the regime of counter-revolution remains in power. The only force that will de- \feat white terror is revolution, and the best way to fight white terror- ism is to fight for the revolution ‘and for the establishment of Soviet power, which is the only guarantee | against white terror in any country. Build Giant Steel Mill in Kusnetz Basin A steel mill with an annual out- put of 1,000,000 metric tons will be built in the Kuznets Basin of Siberia The new plant, which will really mark the establishment of a modern livon and steel industry in Siberia, | will have four blast furnaces and Procedure in the higher courts under the technical supervision of | twelve open hearth furnaces, aside the Freyn Engineering Co. of Chi- cago, Ill., according to an announce- ment made yesterday by the Amtorg Trading Corp. A contract provid- ing for technial assistance by the American company in the design, construction and starting of opera- tion of the plant, which will cost, including a workers’ town and a regional power plant, about $150,- 000,000, was signed in New York by F. T. Kolgushkin, chief of the Kuznets Steel Mill Construction Bu- reau, and H. J. Freyn, president of | the Freyn Engineering Co. The latter company have been consulting engineers for the Soviet metal in- dustry for a number of years. !from rolling mills and coke ovens. | The output will include 800,000 tons | | of rolled products and 150,000 tons of cast ixon pipe yearly. The near- |ness of the plant to the great iron jore and coal deposits of the Kuz- nets Basin is expected to be a fac- tor in reducing production costs to a figure considerably below that prevailing in other Soviet steel j mills. Preliminary work is now un- |der way, with 7,000 workers em- ployed. The initial blast furnace and the corresponding open hearth and rolling departments are sched- uled for completion in the late fall of 1931. One year later the plant is expected to start full operations. Carol Opens Door to U. S. Imperialism The announcement that neithe + Paris nor London would consider making loans to Rumania now that Carol has been restored to the 15,000 Jobless Men Roam in Springtield, O. | (By a Worker Correspondent.) SPRINGFIELD, Ohio. — Spring- ‘field doesn’t look very big, but it’s | large enough to feel the exploitation of the capitalists. There are only | 68,000 people in Springfield and there are more than 15,000 workers | |unemployed. Girls are working for | 20 cents an hour in the factories. The bosses own the workers in | Springfield. When a worker is laid |off in one factory, and seeks a job | somewhere else, he must get a re- | lease from his former employer. The Ku Klux Klan flourished in Springfield and patriotism ran high, \but the 100 per cent American work- ‘ers are rapidly changing their atti- |tude of explicit faith in the bosses’ | government. | The Communist Party has held demonstrations and meetings in Springfield, but no organization was | built up. . However, last Saturday, when the | Communist Party held an open-air | meeting, enthusiasm and interest | was shown by the workers present. | It is significant of the present period of sharpening struggles of the workers against the bosses that we organize a functioning Party organization in Springfield, Ohio. —WORKER. JOBLESS MEET IN SPITE OF COPS Hunger Wave Hits | Mass. Textile Region FALL RIVER, Mass., June 15.— |Chief of Police Feeney and fifty |uniformed thugs blocked the streets | to Liberty Lot Friday to try and | prevent the unemployment meeting, | but over 500 came through the lines jand demonstrated. The |were Emanuel Perry, Rappoport, | district secretary of the National lee Workers Union, and others. | The largest mills are closing here. |The meeting adopted a resolution |against the Southern terror. An- (other meeting will be held June 27. | + 8 FALL RIVER, Mass., June 15.— speakers | = <e 4 TERS Lromthe. °, SHOPS Pa E 16, 1930 7m, Page Three oo ‘LIBERAL’ PAPER STOPS ‘HIKING WORKER PROBE OF JOB SHARKS NOT TO HIT BIG BOSS ‘Unholy Alliance Between Bosses and Employ- and Free Workers- (By a Worker NEW YORK.—In keeping with its policy of posing as a liberal or- }gan and the workers’ friend, the ; New York “World,” on May 4, pub- |lished an article entitled, “New | York’s Meanest Racket,” an article | purporting to expose the unholy al- liance of shyster employment agen- j¢y and commissary wtih the boss }of the out-of-town construction camp —the object of the alliance being the splitting of fees, the con- {stant hiring and firing of men to | keep a steady stream of fees pour- jing into greedy hands, and as a side line the serving of poisonous food at exorbitant prices. Such was the World’s beginning. In no uncertain terms it inveighed against the unscrupulous Madison Labor Agency at 297 Bowery. Then, alas and alack, seems to have come the disconcerting discovery that the |concern supplied by this Agency is {none other than the Fred F. French To denounce an insig- Comp thing; to attack the advertisers of the “French Plan” quite another. So, as usual, the “World” has scut- |tled to cover and the discreet veil of silence shrouds its further in- vestigations, if any. As all workers know, in these lave driving days a secret under- |standing between the boss and the jemployment shark scarcely adds to the intolerable conditions which he works. |to the limit, anyway. Such is the speed-up at the slave camp of the Fred F. French Co. near Pawling, |N. Y., that men are not permitted |to pause even for a moment. If a man stops for a drink of water | on a hot afternoon the superin- tendent, Geo. N. Marshall, sarcastic- ally asks if he wants to take a |vacation. For a second “offense” {the man is fired. Even to miss a \stroke with his pick may cost a |man his job. One man just ar- rived in “free” America was made |to load a wheel-barrow so full of jompany. nificant Employment Agent is one | under | He will be pushed | ment Agencies to Fleece Workers Unemployed Must Fight for Work or Wages Controlled Agencies | Correspondent) Jover a steep bank he fell! with the |barrow, injuring his arm and leg. Faced with the vital need making a stake before the next winter of Hoover prosperity is upo: them, men submit to this tyranny | Yet even so-they are fired right and left. Of fifty new men ar- riving to begin work one morning | only eleven were left at night. This is typical of a “French Plan” not | being advertised in the daily press. While the slave-driving contra |tor himself and not the employ | ment shark is primarily responsible |for present intolerable conditions— |the World’s writer reached a con- |clusion diametrically opposed | this, it is nevertheless true that without an unscrupulous agent to keep him supplied with men the |modern Simon Legree would be, | considerably checked. For this reason, if for no other, the Em- ployment Agency situation is one of vital interest to all workers, Disillusioned workers are begin- ning to believe that the semi-ex- posures in the “Liberal” press and the proposals of Tammany politi- cians, are, like the Hoover prospe: ity speeches, made merely to mis- lead them. These “investigations” have been going on for years. Yet never have agents been more ar- rogant, fees higher, or conditions more intolerable than they are today. | The latest proposal to adopt the | “Canadian System” of free employ- {ment agencies has as its chief dis- advantage the difficulty of secur- jing Canadians to run them. It would scarcely remedy the situation to have employment bureaus super- vised by Tammany grafters of the | Cooley type with a long list of sis- |ters, brothers and friends to pro- | vide for; or of the Vause type with a palm itching for free trips, free lunches and coin of the realm. As well to pay a regular fee as to be obliged to resort to bribery to get a job. to, SEES GROWING CRISIS ALL OVER IBig Lay-Offs in All Parts of Country (By a Wofker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Thousands are walking the streets of California’s Bay Cities. Their numbers are swelled by even larger numbers from Los Angeles with the police frantically endeavoring to prevent publicity from affecting tourist traffic. The highways from Cali- fornia eastward are lined with workers hiking from place to place rch of employment. Some- times one comes across whole fami- lies on the march. Other workers migrate from place to place in old rickety cars in The industrial center of Dayton, Ohio, has been particularly affec- ted, though the Rotarians and mem- | expense | guaranteed to put over the | D PLOOMS ERY MEN RAG i} = = Gr U.T. W. in Conspiracy | With Bosses (Continued from Page officials of th on of Full ite erat Workers, affiliated to Textile Workers, It initiative that the secret ences with the bosses were held. was they who not only agreed to the hosiery employers’ plz r the re- organization of the i y at the of the work but who bosses’ program. Fakers Organize Bosses. ing February, 1929, the A. F. H. W. officials, undér presidency of Geiges, now perso manager of the Gotham Hos individual <nanufacturers we 2 in- vited to a series of conferences with a view to their organization. Up to that time they were not organ- ized in a central bosses’ organiza- tion, and the union made individual agreements with them. Comi:.z out |of the conferences the bosses went away well pleased. not only we they now organized but the collective agreement that they had drawn up included wage-cuts (so- called levelling off of price scales) ranging from 5 to 20 per cent, Im- mediately after this collective agree- |ment 8 per cent of the knitt menders, helpers, toppers, loppe | boarders, examiners and auxiliary help found themselves speeded up, and the many little extras that went S, Fakers Push Boss Program, A gr r to t c of the I Musteite of- vere Tt r propo! was r cent duc- Fur- t the wage-cu (for a st n of t ther, to appc | tee to int as n methods ¢ ation be i n comm xt to f plea of bad b eover, this the hosiery agents told their masters is, we will accept the of putting over this ‘peaceful” manner. You now know our policy, they told the bosses, is one of no strike, and are agreement with you in wishing to adjust the living standards of the organized mill workers to the level of the unor- ganized. Putting Over the Boss Program, The methods that the officials were going to use in carrying through the lowering of the living standards the hosiery workers and the reorganization of the indus- try for the bosses’ profits, was closely guarded during the confer- ences. But immediately upon the close of the meetings and the reach- ing of an agreement, a call was sent out for. an immediate convention, Ostensibly this convention would be given power to accept and reject the agreement. But the conferences had agreed to make this convention the endorsing body of this agreement. Forthwith elections of delegates to the convention were ¢alled for and the officialdom got busy to see we of bers of the manufacturers’ associa- | to make up their total wages wiped | that the delegates would be of the tion are of the opinion that Dayton is “better off’ han most places. Thus the National Cash Register Company has made two ten percent lay-offs and has slashed the wages of those remaining. Frigidaire, the General Motors subsidiary, laid off 1,000 last week and this—a total reduction of one nine-teenth. The public utilities companies are finding that while domestic con- sumption of electricity has increased due to the use of electrical appli- ances, the industrials have fallen off greatly. In Philadelphia, the use of power by the industrials is onethird less than for the same period last year. Similar reports are made from other cities. The heavy late frost in some of the states north of the Ohio River, is causing severe suffering to the jobless. Fields of corn and toma- toes have been destroyed in addition to apples and pears. A public utilities representative reports that the radio business of some of the largest companies is shot, Atwater Kent of Philadelphia having but a handfull of workers employed. other companies who he says are | trying to find other fields to go in. —HITCH-HIKER. Support the Daily Worker Drive! |out in many instances. The Present Agreement. | ferences between the union officials and the manufacturers were started. The effects of the great economic crisis had already been felt in the hosiery industry. The large unor- ganized mills of Reading and vicin- | ity and in the South had long before introduced the speed-up and the Early this year preliminary con- | more and one-machine system and | same mind, and proceeded with the | intimidation of the militants as in |the Brooklyn local and the use of sophistry and plain lies to fool what- ever honest delegates were elected. | To disguise the essence of the | agreement the officials put forth |the argument that the wage-cut | would be returned if the industry was once “stabilized” and that it was their duty to accept wage-cuts, ete. That the hosiery workers, how- He reports the same for | | cut wages extensively. |ever, are going to see through their Fawning before the bosses, the! “progressive” misleaders has been hosiery officials agreed that the in- shown by the uproar and the storm dustry was in a state of crisis and|of protest at the Philadelphia mem- | that it demanded drastic reorganiza-| bership meeting Friday, June 13, tion and that their powerful aid| when the agreement was cautiously could be counted upon. Thereupon | broached to feel out the sentiment |the employers demanded that a flat |of the workers. 33% per cent wage-cut for all cate- (To Be Continued.) | gories of workers, the introduction ame of the 2-4 and even 6-machine sys- | |tem and similar speed-up methods, | j the forcing out of the industry the | majority of knitters and taking on | young boys and girls as helpers, be (Tomorrow) The role of the U. T. W. and the Struggles of Hosiery Workers. Don’t miss to- morrow’s issue of the Daily Worker. As Always= Spend Your Vacation at Camp Nitgedaiget Fall River, with its idle mills, is @i heavy clay that when dumping it blatant example of the crisis. ig B For centuries the family owner- | vy. D. throne confirms the Daily Worker’s assertion that the return of Carol meant the ascendancy of American imperialism in Rumania. Dis- patches from Bucharest state that Carol intends to carry out economic Get Donations! Get Subs! | not to strike, but to return to their, vise them and iead them in mili- FIRST PROLETARIAN “reforms,” with the opening of Rumania to foreign (American) capi- tal as the main feature. According to a Bucharest dispatch to yesterday's New York Herald-Tribune, “one of the cardinal points of dispute between the conservative Liberal party under Vintila Bratianu (which opposed Carol’s return.—Ed.) and the National Peasants’ party under Juliu Maniu (which supported Carol’s return.—Ed.), has been over the ques- tion of bringing foreign capital into Rumania. Bratianu, representing the richest and most powerful capitalists in the country, opposed the introduction of foreign capital.” Carol, the Herald-Tribune dispatch believes, intends to turn to France for a big loan. However, capital in this dispatch, although pean as against American capital, protagonists of American capital. not a word is said about American the Liberal party represents Euro- while Carol and his party are the “Battle of Telephones” Rages in Europe BERLIN, June 15.—The intensifi- cation of contradictions of capital- ism in the form of cut-throat com- petition and eventual absorption be- tween various capitalist enterprises - has found in the case of the “battle of the telephones” in Europe another brilliant illustration. The invader is the notorious In- ternational Telephone and Telegraph Co., which, after successfully en- trenching itself in many South and Central American countries, is now seéking a foothold in Europe. The most outstanding ones of the Euro- pean concerns that are fighting the I. T. and T., or the Morgan, invasion are Siemens and Halske of Berlin, the L. M. Ericsson Co, and the Swe- dish Telephone Trust, which is dom- inated by the match king, Ivar | Kreuger. The European concerns are charg- ing the Morgan concern with at- tempting to monopolize the tele- phone and telegraphic services throughout the world, which is not far from the truth. A plan for the formation of an all-European front }against the American company is under discussion. The fight is just in the initial stage of its develop- ment, Son’s Wage Slashed; OSAKA, Japan, June 15.—It was bad enough for Nomura, a spinning mill hand, to try to support a fam- ily of five with a monthly wage of 35 yen ($17.50). But with the deep- ening of the crisis in Japan the boss decided to shift the burden of the crisis on Nomura and his fellow- workers, making a 20 per cent cut in his wage. Nomura’s mother, Mrs. Iwajiro Nomura, 75 years old, knowing that her son could not support the whole family with his reduced wage, de- Mother Takes Poison cided to commit suicide and drank poison. Now she lies in a hospital. This is by no means an extreme case, The wage scale of Nomura is the wage scale of hundreds of thou- sands of textile workers in Japan, and the wage cut does not only ap- ply to one worker. Although only the case of one worker, Nomura, is brought to public attention by his mother’s attempt to suicide, the lot of hundreds of thousands of textile workers in Japan are no better than that of Nomura, Peasant Revolt Imminent in Hungary BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 15.— In speeches delivered at the Hun- garian parliament Thursday night, two notorious conservatives, Dr. Paul Wolf and Count Franz Hun- yazyi, admitted the seriousness of the agrarian crisis in Hungary and warned the fascist government that unless relief is provided for by the government in time (which the fas- cist government certainly cannot do—ed.) a peasant revolt is im- minent. Dr, Wolf said that during his visit | jat Ziongrad last week a group of | ; Peasants approached the town pre- j fect and demanded that they be permitted to plunder the shops for | twenty-four hours to allay their) hunger for some time. ship of Fall River’s textile mills has been paying itself exorbitant dividends, higher sometimes than 100 per cent. Most of the mills closed for years will never run again. | The workers, who managed a meager living in days gone by, will have to wait absorption in other in- |dustries or follow the thousands who have already left hunting jobs. Census figures tell the story. In 1920 the population was 129,000, in | 1930 114,000. Over 60 per cent of the textile workers are unemployed. Of these 20 per cent work part-time. Fur- ther shutdowns are threatened on July 1. All Are Hit. | Since Fall River is a one-industry town all other workers suffer | equally from the unemployment |scourge. Building is at a complete standstill, Maybe 25 per cent of the building tradesmen are working —maybe only 10 per cent. Distress is widespread, Meanwhile citizens of the wealth- iest nation of the world live on prac- tically no income or $5, $6 or $7 a week, 4 * 6 & Half of New Bedford Out. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 15. —Half of the New Bedford textile workers are unemployed, while the rest snatch at a chance for one or two days’ work. The new census figures show & population 8,000 be- low ten years ago. The actual loss, considering New Bedford’s usual normal growth, is around 20,000. Building is naturally at a stand- still. The building trades unions have practically disappeared. * *. * Organizing For Relief. + Against such conditions as these in the textile centers the National Textiel Workers’ Union builds mill locals, mill committees and councils of the unemployed. Strong organ- ization, fighting for the shorter work day and larger wage, unem- ployment relief and unemployment S)P-AVFL, FAKERS PUT OVERPAY CUT Force Reading Hosiery Workers to Take It (By a Worker Correspondent) READING, Pa.—Last week the workers of one of the largest hosiery decided to strike. The owner se- cured the services of the organizer for the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, who hurried to the plant and addressed the workers in the presence of the owner. During his Judas speech he told mills received their third cut and} | machines and work for the com- | pany’s interests and that they should !form a union (ull this with the ap- | | proval of the owner) and stick to | the owner and perhaps when the | depression is over they might be able to get an increase again. He told them that they should be ashamed; that all they thought of |was their own families and homes jand did not care about the welfare |of the owner of the plant, who was suffering, due to this depression | (but who owns a million-dollar home, a show place, and occupied by his family of three). By this harangue he got them to accept the reduction and abandon all thoughts of a strike. This is merely an example of what | this gang is pulling off here and} what the workers face. They have insurance, paid for by the state and | administered by the workers and_ the organized unemployed, will help. | The Communist Party points out to these workers that capitalism it- | self is the originator of these job- less crises and of the permanent un- | employment that goes with indus- trial progress. It calls on all to vote their protest of this capitalist | system at the coming congressional elections. Lit i 2 SSESES ali a Admission 35c in advance, Greet the OF THE tant battle. —READING WORKER. U. S. S. R. TO SALVAGE SHIPS. MOSCOW.—Plans are being made to salvage ships, Sea during the’ war. Many ships were sunk there when they tried to break the blockade. They will also hunt for the cruiser Rostislav, which was sunk by the retreating white guards in 1921. MEXICO CITY.—The minister of Finance of Mexico will leave soon for New York, where he will confer with the international committee of bankers on how to tie up Mexico more firmly with the United States. FARM IN THE PINBS. Situated tn Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German table, Rates: $16-—S18. Swimming, fishing. M. OBERKIRCH, R. 1, Box the workers to accept the cut and|no leadership and no frineds to ad- 7s, Kingston, N. Y. th National Convention COMMUNIST PAR: '¥ and participate in MASS DEMONSTR/ for the release of the MINER AMTER UNEMPLOYED DELEGATION FOSTER RAYMOND MADISON SQ. 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