The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1930, Page 5

“J DETROIT A. F. of L. FAKERS APPLAUD FAKE ISSUES AND BOSS POLITICIAN Greasing the Skids for Boosting Their Friend for Congress Ex-Congressman John B. Sosnowski, addressing a meeting of the Detroit Federation of Labor on Wednesday, June 4, attacked the develop- ment of chain stores and syudicates and thinks that by attacking these be is fooling the workers. But what interest has the “Detroit Federation of Labor” in the in- dependent retailer? Is it because John B. Sosnowski intends to run again as a congressman and is seeking the sympathy of the hard-hit independent retailer, or is it that in their manifold duties the offiters of the Detroit “ : ~~“ Federation of Labor are independent |retailers? Should J. B, Sosnowski intend to run as a congressman again, such a man would be in keep- ing with the aims of the Detroit Federation of Labor and Frank X, | Martel, president. | But further remarks of J. B. Sos- nowski show the type of represen- tative he was when he said: “We 2 have a wonderful system of govern- on Wages Bight ei we ike peorie of the aenele (By a Worker Correspondent) | and for the people, but if the proper PHILADELPHIA, — The Vet-| people are not placed in office it erans Bureau now is trying to get| Won't function as it should.” What ex-servicemen a job, that is a little|a logician! What wisdom! comes bit, but they are not going to exert| from this ex-congressman, A won- themselves. The reason for this is| erful system of government based that they are afraid the veterans|upon modern capitalism, combining are getting Red. If the govern-| chain stores, syndicates, merging of ment gives the veterans or unem-| banks, merging of industrial organ- ployed any concessions it will be| izations, and, following in_ their on account of the Communist dem- trail, intensification of industry, onstrations. They fear the Com-, speed-up, economy in production, munist Party. | lay-offs; 7,000,000, men and women, The Veterans Bureau has sent/for whom they cannot find work, workers to places that are on strike, Prisons crowded, insane asylums and help to break strikes. This hap-| neatly so, starvation for millions, pened on several occasions, It is aj Who, although they are working, do seab agency. The workers are told| not get sufficient wages to live de- that so and so needs men and the| cently; hundreds of suicides of peo- Bureau gives them cards to go there. | Ple not being able to stand the strain They then are intimidated into scab-| of capitalist horrors; graft and cor- bing by the V. B, which tells them| ruption, “and all by the people! . . . that they are bums and don’t want) of the people and for the people, a to work and so refuse to have any-| wonderful system of government.” thing more to do with the workers. So John B. Sosnowski says, and P. S—Over 200,000 out of work|he has been a congressman. But in Phila. Thousands are going|the master joke of the whole thing hungry. War veterans, organize and|is that the Detroit Federation of Sens in yee Bee oo ae ox Labor, Frank X. Martel, president, ages. efent e OV Ie! nion, +, It would be a terrible blow to the| at the conclusion of such an address working-class if we lost the Daily|>Y such a man, was given a rising Worker. Workers help the paper| vote of thanks by the assembly. of your class. —J. A. 0. —WILLIAM McKIE. “YET BUREAH A SCAB AGENCY War Vet Calls forWork Layoffs in Guise of ‘Vacation (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn.—We work- ers at Winchester’s were informed {that we are going to have a ten- |day vacation over July 4, lasting from June 27 to July 6, The main 3 ‘NEW BRITAIN JOBLESS MARCH Demanded “Work or Wages” from Mayor (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Our sup- posed government “of the people by |the people” locked up our Unem- reason, as explained by the bosses, | Ployed Committee which was elected by hundreds of unemployed work- is a supposed-to-be inventory, which, | or in the municipal yard when we it is claimed, is taken every year way, never before necessitated a “vacation.” This inventory is only an excuse for a lay-off. reason is that there is not enough work. As a matter of fact, work- ers are being laid off on the job every day. None of us are sure of our jobs. We may be fired any day. The ground is being prepared for a wage-cut when we come back from our “vacation.” be fought. Our enough. These conditions will not improve, but will get worse, unless we or- ganize! Let us then join the only revolutionary trade union—t h e Trade Union Unity League (Metal Workers’ section), which fights for the T-hour day, 5-day week, 6-hour day, 5-day week for young workers under 18, which organizes the work- ers, regardless of age, race, creed or color, into strong unions, against unemployment, for work or wages and the right to organize. —A YOUNG WINCHESTER WORKER, wages are low (By a Worker PORTLAND, Oregon.— To give the workers of how the IWW’s are helping the enemies of the Soviet Union. These are parts of an ar- ticle in the Seattles IWW paper: “The economic structure of Russia was not ready for a proletarian re- volution”....“State capitalism has been substituted for private capi- talism”....“It is up to us to act around this time, but which, by the | The real | This wage-cut must | I. W. W. Fakers Aid Soviet Union Enemies | went there with a promise that the city would give us one hundred jobs every week. We paraded, hundreds of us, to the city hall, about two miles, to| | see the mayor and asked him for relief, but as soon as our commit- |tee went in the city hall the cops | started chasing out the workers and hitting them at the same time. See- | ing that our committee did not re-} sist, the police went out and framed | | them up on unlawful assembly. When we workers send commit: | tees to sce the mayor this is the | way they treat us. Workers, we | must send another committee to see |the mayor and demand relief. They are trying to terrorize us and treat! us as “unlawfuls,” and so we must| treat them in the same way. So jforward to another demonstration | |and parade to city hall to demand | | work or wages from the city gov- ernment of the bosses (who have | |never had more money piled up). We must not starve, but fight for | our rights to live. Hurrah for the Communist Party, | the workers’ fighting party. —A WORKER. Correspondent) | |and free Russia, a backward coun- | j trys not to be deceived by politician- | |coined phrases and slogans. such as | |“dictatorship of the proletariat” | |when no such thing exists”... With the “remarkable” organiz- | ing ability of the IWW you think| with 8,000,000 unemployed workers | |in the U. S. we should organize to | “free” backward Russia. .It is to j of the “Ironsides” and the Kwangsi | forces. Press reports intimate that | Wang Chin-wei has already deserted his Northern allies and will swing over to support Chiang Kai-shek. If | true, this may have, the effect of saving Chiang Kai-shek from im- mediate annihilation, and enabling) WITH ‘IRONSIDES’ the various forces of reaction, Nan-! Tries to Stiffen Front) ying "the “Ironsides” and the| Against Red Armies | Kwangsi forces, to present a united front against the Red Armies. (Continued from Page One) But this will by no means stop! we have a glimpse of the basic| the development of the revolution.| similarity and close relationship be-| No matter whatever plan the coun-| U.S, INTRIGUES tween the Indian revolution and the Chinese Revolution. Agrarian revo- lution is of basic importance in both countries, and, in both countries, the agrarian revolution is intimately linked up with the fight against im- ter-revolution adopts to consolidate its shattered forces, it cannot make} NEW LEADER TRIES TO CHEER UP NEEDLE SLAVE The New Leader, organ of the | socialist party, discusses “the nee- dle trades,” by which it means the company unions of Schlesinger, Hillman, Zaritsky, etc. It tells how it helped these fakers fight the Communists. But now that the Communists and the rest of the militants are calling the needle workers to the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, it seems laugh. —Ex I.W.W. | oes this should be so; masters | from time immemorial have loved | the cheerful slave best. It offers them a chance to express their opinions in its columns. But some | experience suggests caution. The |needle workers are warned that “no | personalities will be allowed,” and | that “facts, trends, issues and poli- {cies must be considered without ;Tancour.” | Let them try within those limits | to discuss Schlesinger’s gangsters jand his slave contract! WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1930 led Workers . Some of the Indian trade unio the British “Labor” Party. Pictur row from left to right: Ghati, Brac | himself to building the class unior | Marajkar. For their story | Harrison George on page see ar at Meerut, India PF eettiiiaa? n leaders of Bombay, imprisoned by ec taken before arrest shows, in back ley (an English worker who devoted 1s of India) Jaglekar, Nimkar, and ticle “From Meerut to Atlanta” by KILLINGS ROUSE INDIAN MOSLEMS Angry At Executions of Palestine Arabs (Continued From Page One.) against the British regime by the mass movement, | | geant.” They were then charged by a squad of police, and 16 in- jured so severely as to require hos- pital treatment. The news the censors passed states that 60 were injured during the day. Gandhi Betrays. Meanwhile a dispatch from Lon- don tells of further negotiations between “Mahatma” Gandhi and the British imperialist government. Sir Praphasanker Pattani, a native ward heeler for the British rulers, is in conference with Gandhi, to work out the basis for an appeal by Gandhi against further anti- imperialist movements, Conceal Facts. Overshadowing the events of the last two days, however, news smuggled past the censors indicat- ing that this same censorship is probably concealing very large struggles in the interior. It is now is |established that the Peshawar inci- dents were very largely hushed up. The workers and tribesmen from the surrounding peasant territory held Peshawar for two weeks in the middle of April. Huge mass demonstrations were fired upon by the British troops, and hundreds killed, The reports of eye wit- nesses speak of it as “another Am- ritsar.” (Hundreds were slaugh- tered in Amritsar several years ago, and news concealed for months.) In the fighting which followed the massacre at Peshawar, two whole platoons of the crack Hindu regiment, the 18th Royal Garwhali Rifles, mutinied, not only refusing to fire on the crowds, but in some cases handing over their guns to the demonstrators, The fact that there was a mutiny did not appear in government reports until much later and was at first disguised by a statement that the Garwhali Rifles had been “transferred be- which | ‘HOLD CHESTER MEET CHESTER, Pa., 17.—In spite of repeated attempts by com- June pany foremen and drunks mobilized by the Ford Company, and other large establishments, to break it up, a successful open air meeting was held here Friday night in the center of the. industrial town under Other reports tell of continued PIR BUEDCOH OF the ‘International | truggle in the streets yesterday, | Labor Defense. F ; ; with the crowd in one case “snatch-| This is the town in which Ray ing a pistol from a British ser-|Peltz and Thomas Holmes were jailed when giving leaflets to the workers of the Visecoe Textile Mills for which Peltz is now serving a 20 year sentence and Holmes a term in jail until he is 21 years of | age. | I George Carter, Gastonia defend- ant, was chairman of the meeting and Carl Miller, organizer for the unemployment demonstration March 6th that was held here on city hall plaza, Sylvan Pollack, dis- trict organizational secretary for the I. L, D., spoke. BALTIMORE WOMEN WORK LONG HOURS women employed here over 42 per cent work more than eight hours a day. 37 violations of the state law forbidding women to work more than “ten” hours a day were re- ported. ialist movement is being taken over by the workers and peasants, leav- ing Gandhi and his treacherous non-violence movement to one side. Their grievances are such things as these, described in the Daily Work- er of England: Children work in the mills of In- dia for six cents a day. Over 78,000 women are working the 12 hour day in the coal mines, Indian loco- motive engineers are paid $16.75 a month, British engineers on these same trains get $24 a month. Textile workers slave long hours, up to 12, for wages of 20 or 30 cents a day. Male laborers (un- skilled) work for 6 to 12 cents a day, and women laborers get four to 10 cents a day. The peasantry are horribly op- pressed by land taxes and money lenders. It is estimated that 90 per cent of the villagers are in debt, paying 30 to 50 per cent in- terest on their debts. A third of DESPITE COPS; THUGS, on| BALTIMORE, Md.—Out of 61,000] Retaliation and T: The Hawley-Smooth ta |passed both by the senate |house and signed by the pre |One chapter in American j }which has been one of the most lively and Jasted well over a yeat }and a half, seems to have cl | But the story of the tari |war which is a step toward a fina |conflict of ari is actually | beginning. by {imperialist powers are owed first by press attac 1 Foremost among the foreign |papers which voiced their strong |protest are the London Times and the London Daily Telegraph, th« | mouthpieces of British imperial The London Times sa “Even with the enormous | market for their exploitation, | American industries have com rely more and more upon their ex | port trade to keep the plant running PARIS (IPS). —Following uj workers of the Siang-Chong factory workers were arrested aad lodged i sion. They were so of them died of their wounds. tional Red Aid appeals to the work this frightful act of French impe BERLIN (LP.S.)—The wage | struggle of the dockers in Koen berg, in East Prussia, began on May |81. The employers demanded wage- | jcuts ranging from 5 to 30 per cent, | |whilst the dockers demanded wage | increases ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. In a mass meeting of the dock- | ers they adopted the demands of the revolutionary trade union opposi- PARIS, (IPS).—On the 29th of |May a demonstration bearing pla- leards against the oppressive taxa- tion of French imperialism was or- ganized in Chomoi in Indo-China. jAn armed detachment under the | command of the police officer Na- daud met the demonstration and| French Torture Chinese Strikers rightfully malt The Page Five 4/ riff War Will Be Inevitable not also speakew also Eanl acking sh words will tion, action th to Dea g textile 20 Chinese French conces- police that 4 the Interna- test against in the reated by th FP. Dock Workers Mass; Follow Red Unions tion, despite all the gi f landerous alle: nist leade > of the opposi- mn a strike committee was electea and lay the strike commenced. Up to the present the reformist leaders have neither condemned nor con- firmed the strike, They are doing their best to bring about a compro- mise and break the strike and dam- | age the influence of the opposition, Police Shoot Indo-China Demonstrators immediately opened fire, The ground was covered with dead and wounded men and women. The aux thorities. refuse all information con cerning the number of casualties caused by the murderous police ac- tion. The pro-imperialist press de- clares that Communist leaflets were found on the corpses of the victims, A MAGAZINE oF Cont NOTES OF THE MONTH Major Tasks Before the Seventh OFF THE PRESS! Special Convention Issue of TY COMMUNIST Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. MARXIST-LENINIST THEORY By MAX B AND PRACTICE ents Convention of DACHT the GP. U.S.A. $3,000,000 WORTH OF cause their conduct was unsatisfac- | About 70} that the “Needle trades” aren’t just AIRPLANES FOR NAVY much headway in the face of the on- sweep of the masses in the fight! for Soviet Power in China. | | right either. Let the New Leader} WASHINGTON. —Contracts for tell it: navy planes amounting to about | “But like a man who had been| $3,000,000 were awarded to the | fighting illness for years, the| Wright Airplane Co. by the navy perialism and for national libera-| tion. | All these are the tasks of the bourgeois democratic revolution, the tasks that are facing the workers and peasant masses of both China and India. Crisis Sweeps Country. The militarist war in China seems) to have reached a turning point. With the economic crisis deepening,| with the silver dollar depreciated to) Michigan district conference of Un- half of its former value, with prices! employed Workers is planning a soaring, with industry and commerce | 15 tag day for funds. paralyzed and the misery of the «4 mage masses increasing, the political con-| Starting June 16th organizations | fusion in the country has also reach-| are to be visited; on the 28rd shop | ed a state which is unequalled since| gate collections are to be made and| the fall of the Manchu Dynasty in| on the 28th and 2: _ tag| 1912, Both sides, Chiang Kai-thek| "scene sin tena ee as well as the Northern Coalition, y i i are getting desperate. At this crit- ical moment when the fate of both sides seems to hang in the balance, the respective imperialist powers that have hitherto been backing their respective tools secretly do not hesitate to show their hands a little more openly. The notorious Putnam Weale (alias B. Lennox Simpson), former adviser to Chang Tso-ling, now ad- viser to Yen Hsi-shan, and well known in Far Eastern politics for many years as the agent playing almost all the dirty games of Brit- ish imperialism in China, has at last emerged from council tables behind the curtain into the open and has taken the field to grasp the Tientsin Customs from agents of the Nan- king government. U. S. For Chiang. On the other hand, American im- perialism is directing the game for Chiang Kai-shek. -Failing to get Chang Hsiehliang to support Nan- king, the agents of Uucle Sam are now centering their attention in bid- ding for the support of the “left”! Kuomintang, which includes the} political service of Wang Chin-wei and Co., and the military allegiance TAG DAYS FOR JOBLESS CONVENTION, RELIEF | DETROIT,. Mich, June 17.—) Spurring the drive to elect dele-| gates of unemployed workers to the National Convention of Jobless! Workers, Chicago, July 4, the, SOVIET UNION— (RETURN TRIP) (and under the auspices of Sailing June 28 on the July 16 on the BEREN'! (Steamship tickets to all unions (company unions, the New Leader means) came out \of the fever considerably changed. New problems, new trends, new forces, appeared in the reconstruction per- iod. Moreover, cynicism afflicted many members. With some even hope had fled. They lost confi- dence in their class. Suspicion was rife. ‘What is the use?’ was the mood of some.”—New Leader, June 7. That’s a good description of an I, L. G. W. member or a fur worker driven by a fake strike, by a unity of boss and labor faker, into paying dues to Schlesinger or Kaufman, and getting piece work, long hours and unemployment for the privi- lege. The New Leader is sorry Sit MAGN Setanalicvastctedielie For an_ unforgettable vacation! For a_ real study of the Five-Year Plan! the World Tourists) MAURETANIA and GARIA. - Register Now! The Rush Is On! Write, telephone or call personally WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Algonquin 6650 parts of the world) | department. This is part of the jrapid war preparations of the United States government. Demand the release of Fos- tory.” The natives captured the city, burned B: armored cars with their drivers and machine gunners in them, roused the tribes around the city, and held it for two weeks, until overwhelming masses of Bri- tish troops recaptured it. Then followed weeks of fighting around the vicinity, which is still going on, ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting | for unemployment insurance. Workers Now Lead. The leadership in the anti-imper- the land is mortgaged. per cent of the product passes through the hands of the money lenders in some’ parts of the coun- try. Gandhi, although he yields to the demands of the peasants and advocates a tax strike, supports the money lenders with great ten- acity, and will hear nothing against them. | and with very few reports on it al-| panM IN THE PINES. Situated in| lowed through by the Britigh cen-| | Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German | table. Rates: $16—S81S. Swimming, | fishing, M. OBERKIRCH, R, 1, Box ! 78, Kingston, N. Y. FOSTER Greet the OF THE 7th National Convention COMMUNIST PARTY and participate in MASS DEMONSTRATION for the release of the MINER AMT! UNEMPLOYED DELEGATION ‘ER RAYMOND MADISON SQ. GARDEN FIFTIETH STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUE Friday Evening, June 20 Admission 35c in adeance. 50c at the door. The Crisis in the United States and the Problems of the ,P, U.S.A. By S. MANGULIN Some Burning Organizational Questions By J. WILLIAMSON Building of District Leadership By STACHEL New Trends of Agriculture in the United States and the Crisis By P. LOU N Some Problems in the Bi A “Fellow Traveler Looks at Impe ing’s Latest Book “The Twillg By E. | TERNATIONAL PRE GETHER WITH TH THE PARTY ORGANI TOGETHER WITH TH s I 39 EAST 125TH STREET BROWDER Combination Offers: CORRESP WORKERS LIBRARY PUBL rialism,” a Review of Scott Near- ht of Empire” PONDEN IST, ISHERS Vv YORK CITY Spend Your Vacation Hotel with hot Bungalows wit! Cultural Program for singing. Athletics, gam: CAMP NITGEDAIG PHONE BEACON 731. N. As Always FIRST PROLETARIAN NITGEDAIGET CAMP—HOTEL Tents—to remind you the old days. The Artef Studio (Mass Artef) Comrade Shaeffer will conduct mass Cultural Program--Comrades Olgin and Jerome tures, symposiums, etc. By Train: From Grand Central every hour. By Boat: twice daily at Camp Nitgedaiget and cold water in every roomy h electric lights. the Summer of 1930 theatre with the es, dances, theatre, choir, lec- ET, BEACON, N. Y. Y. PHONE: BROOK 1400