The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1930, Page 1

| | | | | nn ne Jobless Workers! Dare You Stand By and See the Bosses Dump Tons of Fresh Food Tnto the Rivers While You and Your Familics Are Slowly Starving? On to the National Conyention of the Unemployed at Chi cago on July 4 to organize to Wrest Food From the Bosses’ Starvation © Sem! For “Work or Wages.” Musteite Hosiery In United Ranks, Forward! ELEGATES from all sections of the country are gathering for the Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party of the United States which opens tonight at Madison Square Garden. To them, in the name of the revolutionary proletariat for which the Daily Worker speaks, greetings! You meet in a time of capitalist c and rising class struggles, of tremendous colonial revolts, of imperialist decline and victorious so- cialist construction in the Soviet Union, in a period of wars and revo- lution. The tasks laid upon you are many and difficult, but the oppor- tunities are such as never before for ssful surmounting of all dif- ficulties. Your ranks, the ranks of the Communist Party of the United States, are united as never before. And as never before the Party is profiting from the Marxist-Leninist guidance of the Communist In- ternational. With this guidance, and with true Bolshevist action, the Seventh Convention will mark a great step forward in winning the majority of the working class, a task in which the Daily: Worker, the collective organizer of the Party, pledges its best efforts. All together, in united ranks, forward to mass work, forward to the proletarian revolution! Dangerous Thoughts S all workers should be aware, we Communists are being “in- vestigated.” From Washington comes the tidings that a lengthy discussion took place in the congressional committee headed by the fascist Fish, on.the necessity of a federal law to “reach” radicals who “don’t speak their views, but who get them over.” This is delectable, nice. When the Fish get through, every will. be in peril. It will have ceased to be a preter that a worker, indeed any- body, “has a right-to think what he pleases.” Even under the so-called “conspiracy laws,” which stretch what a worker may think to the point of absurdity in construing that if one worker in Seattle thinks all bosses are robbers, a conspiracy may exist if the bosses’ government catches another worker in New York who thinks the same, still there is supposed to be, in capitalist law (worthless as it is to serve as a protection for any worker), an “overt act.” Not so under the law projected as “necessary” by fascist Fish and his pals. A worker may be deaf and dumb so far as “making revolutionary speeches” is concerned. He may be unable to write. He may be totally unable to be a “red agitator.” But if he thinks his boss is a robber, and if he acts upon that idea, if he goes on strike, he is guilty of having “dangerous thoughts” and “getting them over.” For whom is such a Jaw “necessary”? And why is it “necessary”? Not for the workers, 8,000,000 of whom are jobless and starving with their families. It is “necessary” for the bosses who want them to starve quietly, who want to cut wages and speed up beyond endurance the workers who remain on the job, workers who might not be “red agitators” but who, resenting being robbed and enslaved, strike. In Japan they already have such a law. It is openly called the “Law Against Dangerous Thoughts.” The American school of Fish, being more hypocritical, will probably call their measure the “Law to Protect Civilization” or some such thing. In Japan anyone who doesn’t think that th ikado is a direct off- spring of the Sun God, who is unwilling to work 16 hours a day for the equivalent of four ounces of rice and a piece of fish as big as your thumb, is guilty of “dangerous thoughts” and over 800 workers are now in prison and subject to a death senience for such thoughts. 'y who is not a Fish, a sucker, In America such a law will be invoked against workers who think | the boss is not God Almighty and who object to what the bosses are trying to do, which is to make American workers take a standard of living exactly the same as the Japanese workers rebel against—and lower if possible, to allow them to compete against Japanese bosses for the Far Eastern trade. Workers should be warned. The attack on the Communist Party, on the Daily Worker, is only preparatory tu a smashing attack on the whole working class. It is an attempt to behead the working class by cutting off its general staff from the army of workers. The Communist Party declares that it will defeat this attempt. But the workers have the duty of aiding by organizing themselves for their own defense, in the Communist Party, in the revolutionary trade unions of the T.U.U.L., in Shop Committees, in the Unemployed Move- ment. They should aid and defend the Daily Worker, and sing out in’a grand chorus: “Down with anti-worker laws! Hurrah for ‘Danger- ous Thoughts’!” At Meeting June 25. CONFERENCE TO (“Sor to peare FIGHT TERROR *.'.%. ‘ borage® | BRYAN, Texas, June 19,— A Killed By White Terrorists Bryan, Texas Delegate s Meet in gang chased an as yet unidentified Chicago, June 29 jmiles from here and riddled him | with bullets. Though the real rea- CHICAGO, Il., June 19.—A con-'son is undoubtedly the crisis grow- ference has been called for Sunday, June 29, at 10 a. m., in Kedzie Yall, 205, S. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, y the Chicago International Labor pefense, to organize more effective- the protest and battle against Ubnial of labor’s rights to speak, to assemble, and to organize. ing worse in the cotton belt, with the rising fear of plantation own- ‘demand something to stop their starvation, the capitalist prints the.usual story of “an at- tack on a white woman.” Such All labor unions and workers’ Stories “are usually proven false— fraternal organizations are urged after the Negro has been lynched. to send delegates to this confer-' . ence, wherever possible sending a Committee To Meet. contribution as well, for the impor-) iw YORK.—The Anti-Lynch- pg now facing the of-| ing Action Committee, elected at * « Mass Arrests. “The conference call says: “Mass at the Workers Center, 26 Union arrests, raids and police attacks! Square, at 7 p. m. It will take up have been most outrageous in re-! plans to broaden and intensify the cent months in Chicago, Milwaukee, struggle to save the lives of Negro and other parts of Illinois. The workers from the growing terror- federal government is planning to) ism, pass legislation against all foreign) born workers, in order to attempt) dividing the working class. In this situation all workers’ or- ganizations must rally. The rights of labor and free speech are at stake! Labor must act, and act quickly and firmly! It refers particularly also to the New York jobless delegation and to the attempt to electrocute six organizers in Atlanta, Wnteres as serends es matter at the Past Office 11 Sew York. N.Y. under the act of Mareb 8, 1878, toe Comprodaily Vublishing sew York City, N. ¥. ” g HOSIERY FAKE? PUTTING OVER BOSSES PLANS |Musteite Officials in! Huge Sell-Out Plot on Hosiery Men orkers to Fight Sell-Out Convention on June 23 With the hosiery industry shot through with unemployment, part- |time work, speed-up and other ef- fects of the great economic crisis now gripping all. industries, the hosiery bosses have launched a ter- rifie drive on the hosiery workers. |The plan of the bosses to “stabi- lize” the industry is to shift the burden of the crisis onto the work- ers, while their profits flow into | their coffers uninterruptedly. Behind closed doors the officials !of the American Federation of Fu!l; Fashioned Hosiery Workers have agreed to the bosses plan to “re-or- ganize” the industry and effect some {18,000 organized and many thou- {sands unorganized hosiery workers. | Thousands of hosiery workers, ‘knitting in particular, will be forced | out of the industry as a result of the introduction of the 2, 4 and even |6 machine system. Gigantic wage) | cuts, ranging from eight, to 33 per cent will. be only forerunners of fete greater wage reductions. | The attack on the hosiery workers | will be led by Musteite. officials of |the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers. It was |those officials who, at the secret conferences with the bosses not only | jagreed to the plans of the bosses; |but guaranteed to execute them. In an attempt to please the boss-| \es, the hosiery officials declared that | that the industry was facing a greet |erisis and they would do their ut-) most to lessen the tension. It was jas a result of that that the bosses | | demanded a 33% per cent wage cut for all workers, the introduction of | |the 2, 4 and 6 machine system and | |similar speed-up methods, subse- |quently forcing the knitters out of the industry and hiring boys and! (girls as helpers. Although the Musteite officials agreed to the essentials of the pro- gram, they warned the employe | that the only way it was possible for | ‘them to put so atrocious an attack | over on the workers it would be necessary to remove some of the too jobvious rough spots. They suggest- ed that the wage cuts by 19% per (cent, for a blind at the beginning. and the introduction of the two-ma-, chine system. The appointing of a standing efficiency committee to sec! that the most modern methods of speeding up and rationalization be used were also put forward. Despite the fact that the methods of attack were kept secret, a call for a convention was sent out a: soon as the meeting was over. Tu all appearances it seemed that the convention would be given power to accept or reject the agreement but in reality the conference had agreed to make the convention the endors- ing body of the agreement. | bakers Lead Bosses’ Wage-Cuttin NEW YORK, FRID“Y, JUNE 20, 1930 LOYED AS THEY SUBSCRIPTION RA PL: Ss iim year everywhere excepting Manbattan and tronx, New York City and foreign countries, there §S n year, Price 3 Cen g, Speed-Up PREPARE FIGHT Attack on Workers munist | From the Shops, Mills and Mines; From Unit, Section and District Conventions of the Com- Party | | | | —By FRED ELLIS HOSIERY FAKERS' WAGE-CUTTING Calls on Workers to Fight Cuts Calling upon the hosiery workers to hurl back the sell-out agreement that the officials of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Ho- siery Workers, the National Tex- tile Workers Union has issued the following statement: “The Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers are facing a general wage- cut, and speed-up, and in order to make sure that the workers will not re the cut the leaders of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union are calling a National Con- ference to put before the “Union” the demands of the bosces. Manufacturers Association, which is preparing this attack, was or- | ganized last year by Geiges, then ithe leader of the union and now the lefficiency expert of the Gotham | | Silk Co. | “This spring, when the bosses in | the full-fashioned line found that) they might have to go with one!| day less on Palm Beach because jthe workers all over the country jwere unemployed and the girls could not buy so many stockings, The} BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June | workers answered the passage | The meeting yesterday was jealled by the Birmingham | Council of the Unemployed. | Speakers were Harry Jackson} and Gill Lewis, organizer here for the Trade Union Unity League }and Tom Johnson, district organizer | of the Communist Party, who spoke in the name of the Party and an- | nounced that it has called a mass | demonstration Saturday against the | criminal anarchy law and the at- | tempt to electrocute six organizers in Atlanta. The Saturday demon. stration will be in Capitol Park, at 3 p. m., the date of the meeting |having been changed from Friday 19.—Hundreds of unemploye of the criminal anarchy ordi- | nance by the Birmingham city commission by jamming the) | meeting hall yesterday and electing 21 delegates to the Na-) tional Convention on Unemployment. ATLANTA TRIAL DATE NOT SET ATLANTA, Ga. June 19.—The cases of six organizers of the Com- munist Party, Young Workers’ League, National Textile Workers’ Union, International Labor Defense and American Negro Labor Congress have been taken off the calendar. When bail was set for a total of $33,000 the trial, which was to start NIWU, SCORES BirminghamUnemployed Defy 15,000 MINERS Ordinance Against Meetings; DEMAND STRIKE Send 21 to July 4 Convention IN ANTHRACITE dj National Miners Union For Six Hour Day BULLETIN PITTSTON, Pa., June 19.—Two more local unions of the U.M.W. are meeting tonight and will in- struct their committee to vote for | a strike. These two locals include 2,000 miners. Three others, in- cluding about 3,000 miners, have already voted to strike. | The National Miners Union is | distributing 10,000 leaflets call- ing for strike against wage cuts and big mass layoffs. The N.M. U. has called a mass meeting for Sunday afternoon in Columbia Hall, Old Forts, Pa. * ieee ts DELEGATES ON WAY NOW TO CHICAGO Big National Jobless Convention Assured; Opens July Fourth N. Y. Unions Elect May Figures Show More Plants to Close BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—The Food Work- ers’ Industrial Union, the Office Workers’ Union, the Trade Union Unity League building trades de- partment and the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union have all held meetings of employed and unem- ployed workers in their iudustries and elected delegates to the Na- tional Unemployment Convention, to be held in Chicago July 4 and 5. Other unions in New York are calling meetings this week of the jobless workers and are selecting their delegates. The New York Unemployment Councils haye issued a call to any- body who can lend a truck or car to get in touch with them at 13 W. 17th St., phone Chelsea 0962, to help transport delegates to Chi- cago. Many delegates from New York have already begun the trip— hitch hiking. Surday, at 10 a. m., there will be a conference of all delegates from New York councils and unions at the office of the coun- cils, 13 W. 17th St., to organize the New York delegation. All others who can assist in any way are invited to the meeting. There is every indication that the Chicago conference will be a huge one. Word has been re- ceived from Chicago of feverish The city is divided into s and many meetings, with sectio' thousands of leaflets distributed to the jobless and the factories, are rallying mass support in the con- vention city. All workers’ organ- izations are being called upon to help finance the feeding and hous- ing of the hundreds of delegates who will be flocking in from all parts of the country within a few days. Green’s Blow At Jobless. At the very moment when every section of the country reports a drastic curtailment of production, | resulting in lay-offs of hundreds of thousands of workers, when still more unemployment and suffering face the workers, William Green, PITTSTON, Pa., June 19.—Fif-| president of the American Federa- today, was postponed and no date has yet been set. The mass protest of the workers everywhere has caused the murder- to allow more preparations. Jail For Assembling. The criminal anarchy ordinance was passed Tuesday. It provides fines and imprisonment for any one advocating revolutionary action against the government, or assas- ing the electrocution of these work- ers under an old Georgia law against “insurrection,” to proceed with more sination, for any one circulating! regard for appearances. Their first papers which advocate revolution, or| program of rushing them all to the “voluntarily assembling with” any) chair within a few weeks is giving two persons who do so. It also fines ous authorities here, loudly demand- | teen. thousand ene rey: are] tion of Labor, steps in to “save the \yeemeare Lighaataceis ao. pet the | Situation” for the bosses by broad- \ United ake Workers ‘Union, dit: [ene the lie that unemployment trict officials are doing sume | decreasing tid) Ciay nee they can to sabotage them, but the| ment cents - declaedy tad men will act over the heads of the|°@& TS 1S W yr freee: officials if they do not get their| (Continued on Page Five) | demands. 1 The miners are suffering from unemployment, some collieries have | been closed since the first of the STORM KILLS LONDON, — Twenty-seven _ per- Although the officials have put| then the Aberle Mill tried to cut | Negro into the woods about five ers that their Negro wage slaves) and tenant farmers will begin to press | the recent Anti-Lynching Confer-! | ence, will meet Wednesday, June 25,! forth the usual argument about wage ‘euts being returned as soon as the ‘industry was stabilized, the hosiery ‘workers saw through their “prog- ‘fact quite plain at their membership | meeting in Philadelphia on June 13. i every industry. wages first. The leaders of the Full- Fashioned Hosiery workers tried to keep the workers from striking. When they did walk-out on strike \ressive” misleaders, and made that! they would not organize all of the to be a violation of it. |workers for a general walk-out $0) \ (Continued on Page Fives if “In the name of the steel workers of Gary, Ind., despite much un- employment and misery which the workers suffer in this steel town, we are sending you $75 to help keep our Daily Worker going and growing. We call upon workers in steel mills in other cities, upon workers in all | industries, to follow our example.”—S. K. Here is a revolutionary challenge to the workers in every city and If one hundred groups of workers in one hundred in- dustries would accept this challenge, then the Daily Worker $25,000 fighting fund would soon be collected. The Sloy. Rob. Spolku, odbor 23 of Indiana Harbor, Ind., (and you immediately ask, what can this be? We answer: There are thousands _and imprisons hall-keepers, super- intendents, agents, janitors, care- | takers, etc, who permit meetings which are considered under the law way to the necessity of making a gesture of fairness and allowing the workers a little time to prepare an | adequate defense. However, the International Labor year over lack of equalization. They | demand equalization of work as a matter of life and death. They pro- test the proposed sell-out agree- sons are dead in Britain as the re- sult of a severe tidal wave. and storm. Much damage was-done. tation ¢ Defense attorneys here make it The provision in regard to the) plain that failure to secure bail will (Continued on Page Five) speed up the trials What Others Do You Can Here come workers from the steel hell, Gary ers donate $11.25. Branch 35 of the Ru: N. forms us that every member in its organi: Daily Worker collection list. The Russian Auxiliary, Melrose Park, Ill. sends $13 from 13 workers. An I. L. D. branch, Bellaire, Ohio, sends $5. The S. T, Yhdistys of Rockland, Maine, helps with $15. A local of the National Miners’ Union at Portage, Pa., sends $1 (much un- employment). Workers in the Workmen’s Circle Sanitarium, Liberty, N. Y., send $14. The workers in a reactionary Workmen's Circle branch in Brooklyn compelled thejr old reactionaries to dig $5 out of ain. Eleven work- M. A. S. of A., in- ion was provided with a | ment reached between the U. M. , ase faa, W. A. and the Penn Coal Co. the miners to “give the operators a Wage Cut Trick. few more days time. The employers have been arbit- a ee ee Miners u eg rarily closing down some of the| Mobilizing all forces for the mines, throwing thousands out of eto of sichour, dey cane pen: work, and running the others. The. ployment insurance. miners see that this is a trick to/ History of Struggle. starve men into taking reductions; Pittston miners last year seceded and submitting to worse conditions, from the U.M.W. and conducted + land that the same tactics will be! strike of their own, which was sold | applied to the other mines, when out by the “independent union these now closed down are opened! leaders, and the men forced back with worse conditions, They will) to the U.M.W. | probably stay shut until after Sep: | It was at Pittston that Boylan’s tember 1, when the new anthracite predecessor and model, the un sell-out agreement is applied. speakable Cappellini fought bitte: | Operators and district U.M.W. of-| battles with the left wing whici ficials met hurriedly in the Pittston| at one time was in control of big Coal Co, offices in New York and} Pittston local. The local leader & concession to reopen several pits; were assassinated by ones and twos was obtained. At the Pittston of foreign language workers’ organizations just like this one that would help our paper if ‘asked)—this organization sends $10 and writes: “We realize that the Daily Worker is the only paper for the working class. the treasury for our paper. Good contribut#ons have been Workers Order. why “former?” received from the International A former Party unit at Jeanette, Pa., sends $3.50, but And $30 comes from Commune Blagoeff-Ruthenberg | by hired gangsters, the most fam grievance committee meeting, how-| ous instance being the shooting to | ever, majority sentiment was highly | death of Campbell and Reilly in a | critical of District Pres, John J.) car approaching the home of one of When three other leaders The Boro Park Workers’ Club York, held a China-India meeting 1 We are donating to help save and build it.” and Party Unit 2 of Section 7, New and sends $26.55 to help save our paper so that it can help create revolutionary solidarity between the American worker's and the exploited masses in India and China. y am be Detroit, soon to leave to help the Soviet Union in its Five Year Plan, There you are, comrades. If these workers and organizations give so willingly to our revolutionary paper, others will also, Do your duty by your movement and its paper. We must hear from you at once. Boylan and the results of the con-| them. | ference. Final decision on a stri defended themselves against a mur- | involving 15,000 miners was post-|derous attack in the U.M.W. dis- poned several days to permit local | trict offices and kilied one of the unions to meet. ‘ | Capellini gunmen, they were rail- Boylan is frantically appealipgigto | voaded through to prison terms. &