The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1930, Page 2

Page Two DEALERS 4 | DES 1 a 2,000,000 LBS. OF FOOD; UNEMPLOYED STARVE Carloads of Vegetables Rot or Are Destroyed ts Keep Prices Up Overproduction Rampa rt; Graneries Are Full; « Workers Must Fight for “Work or Wages” NEW between | seven and eight women aré out of work, YORK.—While million men and with em- ployment growing worse and bread- lines longer, capi keep prices up, finds it nece to send as much 2,000,000 pounds of fresh vegetables a week to the dumping ground ci New York produce merchants have estimated that 250,000 pounds of string beans, lettuce, tomatoes, spinach, cucumbers and corn are daily consigned to New York gar- bage heaps, And, aside from this, as produce men are unable to ac- cept shipments, hundreds of tons of fresh vegetables are sold below cost or are dumped by railway and ship- ping companies Wholesale pric have dropped to new low price levels. And while the worker, Who is robbed right and left under @apitalism, must pay, out of the niggardly wages thrown to him by the ‘boss, the same old high prices for ‘the nec ies of life. | A boutgeoig New York paper gives thefollowing words from an official of “Jill Bros., Inc, a big produce ‘¢ohcern: “The situation would adjttst itself when farmers order to ¢y, paid for picking and shipping did not justify harvesting when an over- supply existed.” In sunny California oranges and other fruits are rotting under the Warehouses throughout the y are bursting with grain which no doubt will be burnt to keep the price high enough to make life comfortable for a handful of parasites. The boss officials in Washington, characteristically silent in such mat- ters, calmly hand workers toy ba- loon promises with which to amuse themselves during the process of starvation. Produce merchants blame the retailers, and the retailers blame conditions. But the workers, sick of the lies of capitalism, blame the boss stem. They are learning that capitalism thrives on a docile working clase They are learning that they only become detestible in the eyes of that fat slob and super racketeer, the capitalist, when they become mili- tant and feel themselves a part of a mighty class whose historic mis- sion is to smash that system which, while men, women and children starve, wastes carloads of food and, ‘in the long run, can only guarantee broken health, realized ;that it was better to plow|the worker misery, sion. excess crops under the soil, as prices ‘ poverty and oppres Radio to Soothe Empty Stomachs | NEW YORK—While the econo-) optimistic over this huge central- mic crisis.ig deepening and register- | ized radio-talky-vaudeville under- ing itself in a new stock market|taking insofar that it will drive erash resulting in still greater|many of the smaller theater and growth of unemployment and deeper | radio firms out of business, tens of misery of the workers, the capital- | thousands of workers who have been ist press endeavors to hush the seri- | laid off from his vast enterprises ousness of the situation by giving|and other tens of thousands whose flaring publicity to an undertaking | wages are being slashed by Rocke- of the Rockefeller interests which | feller as well as the ten million of promises to ‘Telieve unemployment | hungry unemployed will find no through the establishment of a consolation in this news item be- super-entertaining institution in| cause neither radio or talkis or the New Yorks" While Rockefeller may feel duly PACIFIC DYE TO television will fill their empty stom- achs or pay for the overdue rents. REVERSE MAY 1 LAYOFF, CUT PAY DETROIT CASES “Reorganization” Plan, Wage-Cutting Scheme, LAWRENCE, Mass., June 19.—} Fifteen hundred workers in the Pa-| cific Print and Dye will be thrown on the streets to swell the ranks of the more than 7,000 jobless work- ers here when the two weeks “re- organization” plan goes into effect tomorrow. The bosses hope and expect that in two weeks’ time, when the plant | reopens, the workers will be so glad to get their jobs back that they will accept a wage-cut and a still further speed-up. ~Not that the jobs are so desirable. Chemicals used in the dye and print departments are ruin- ous to the workers’ eyes. The work- ers are not allowed to open windows in the plant, and suffer horribly } from the poisonous fumes, because | the bosses-refuse to install a decent | ventilating system. The workers are often forced to work right through the lunch. period and grab their food. The National Textile Workers’ Union has been holding meetings and distributing leaflets at the gate of the plant calling upon the work- ers to organize and go back to work better organized than ever. A huge mass meeting for all textile work- ers, employed:and unemployed, has been arranged for Thursday eve- ning on the Common at 5 o'clock. Among thé speakers will be John Nahorski, district organizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union; Sophie Melvin, from the national office of the union, whom the bosses | tried last year to send to the elec- tric chair for her part in organizing the Southern’textile workers of Gas- tonia, and Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., of the Young ‘Communist League. | cere Demand.the release of Fos- & ter, Minor, Amter and Ray-| mond, in’ prison for fighting | for unemployment insurance. | | convention. Delegates to RILU. Among Those Freed DETROIT, Mich., June 19.—Four workers convicted and sentenced to three months imprisonment for tak- ing a leading part in the May Day demonstration at the Ford plant in Highland Park had their cases | yeversed and are acquitted by the cireuit court today. One of the four is Steve Miller, delegate from the Auto Workers’) | Union to the National Metal Work- ers Conference in Youngstown last Saturday and Sunday, and by the metal workers elected as a delegate to the Fifth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions. There are seven more cases pend- ing. Attorney Maurice Sugar of the In- | ternational Labor Defense. Chicago Women Help jemployed, to attend the Madison, Jobless Convention CHICAGO, Ill, June 19.—The Chicago Federation of Working Women’s Organizations is mobiliz- ing all its resources for the purpose of helping to makt the National Un- employment Convention a success. In addition to sending delegates to the convention from its various af- filiated organizations every effort is being made to assist the Workers’ International Relief in preparing to feed and house the delegates to the The Federation is fur- ther making plans to raise funds and otherwise assist in establishing sumimer camps for working class children under the auspices of the W.TR. letarint.—Moi WORKERS CALENADR Detroit, Communist ‘Party Picnic to be held ly 4, not July 14, All Detroit or- nizations take note. | __. Calumet, Daily Worker Picnic to be held Sunday, Juno72% at loth St., between Gary and Hammond, First Annual I, L. D. Pienic to be held Sunday, June 22, at Strawberry Mansion, 33rd and Cumberland Sts. AN welcome. | "Be Johnstown. 1, L. D, Picnic at Sulphur Springs, Somerset Pike, Sunday, June 22. Ali welcome, Admission 26 ‘cents, ILLINOIS Chicago Fretheit Picnic. Sunday, June 22 at Baiers Grove, California and Irving Park Blvd, good time for everybody. oy Chicago, Polish Branch I. L. D, Piente will be held at the Beverly Hills Tourist Preserver on June 22. It will be post- poned to next Sunday in case of rain. All welcome. WISCONSIN Milwaukee. Young Communist League Dance and Entertainment to be held Satur- day, St. Work: 8 Admission 25 p.m. OPENS TODAY s M Square Garden NEW YORK.—Tonight more than 000 workers, organized and un- nized, representing many indus: tries and nationalities, are expected to rally at Madison Square Garden in a mighty demonstration that will mark the opening of the Seventh National Convention of the Commu nist “Party. This convention is the most sig- nificant in the hitory of the Party. It comes at a_ time j when the tide of working class struggle is rising throughout the world, when 8,000,000 unem- ployed workers in the United States are looking to the Communist Par- ty for leadership, when revolt is seething in the mining, textile, metal, marine, agricultural, shoe, needle and many other industries It comes at a time when in the two most important colonial countries in the world, China and India, whose combined population is near- ly half the total population of the globe, heroic revolutionary strug- gles are in progress, shaking the| very foundations of world imperial- ism. Support India, China Revolt. “Support the Chinese and Indian Revolutions! will be one of the great rallying cries of tomorrow night’s meeting. This militant dem- onstration will express the un- breakable solidarity of the Ameri- can workers with the glorious struggles of the Chinese and Indian masses to free themselves from im- perialist oppression and their native exploiters. The demonstration will also mark another step in the struggle against unemployment which is being led by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. It will be a preliminary mass mobilization for the big National Unemployed Convention in Chicago July 4 and 20,000 voices will thunder the de-| mand for the immediate release of the leaders of the New York March 6 demonstration, Foster, Minor, Am- ter and Raymond, of the six At- lanta prisoners now facing the elec- trie chair, of the organizers of the agricultural workers in .California | and of all class war prisoners. | Speakers From Shops. Tomorrow night’s rally will make a departure from all previous mass meetings in that there will be one! leading speaker representing the Communist Party, all the other speakers being rank and file work- ers from shop and factories. These speakers will bring greetings to the| Party convention and will express the determination of the workers they represent to fight under the leadership of the Party and to sup- port its program in the coming elections. Trade unions, clubs and other workers’ organizations are now rallying their members, as well as unorganized workers, to demon- strate in a body at Madison Square Garden,\49th St. and Eighth Ave., with their banners and placards. A JUNE 20, 1930 DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, ‘DEMONSTRATE AGAINST LYNCH TERRORISM outdoor demonstration of over 500 | Negro and white workers was held CLE PRAISES ww pee; |16 under the auspices of the Amer- U. S.=Ang!lo War jlicas Nexto Gabor Congrete | The fie _,,. |demonstration was followed by a NEW YORK.—Mr. D. B. Wolfe, | parade of the entire audience which ding member of the group of | passed through the segregated Ne- renegades from Communism, put! gro section of the city and was ‘orth a spirited defense of Mahatma | joined by many along the way. Gandhi, against the criticisms of} The parade culminated in an in- the Communists, at a meeting Tues- door meeting of protest against dey night at Park Palace. Mr. |lynching and terrorism. The pro- Wolfe spoke with Tim Healy, ad-/test meeting was addressed by mirer of Ramsay MacDonald, and | Elwood Braston, W. E. Douglas and with Mr. Ghose, who aspires to ar-| Albert Powel. A vigorous resolu- e at an alliance with American | tion was unanimously adopted con- ism against the British. demning the new wave of lynching and terrorism, the arrest of work- ing class organizers in Atlanta and the rising wave of white terror against revolutionary wor! Fifty Negro and white workers joined the ranks of the American Negro Labor Congress. s talk, as taken by a sten- and transmitted to the ographer Daily Worker, was a direct contribu- tion of help to Gandhi and the In- lian bourgeoisie in their efforts to ell out the Indian revolution to ‘Donald by maintaining the illu- 1 that Gandhi is really fighting | for independence. Wolfe said: “When that struggle, which Mr. Gandhi is expressing the determina- on to put through to a successful | conclusion; when that struggle is ended, the British Empire is ended. “It was left to a little band of | idealists, divorced from the masses, | ¢« separated from the class in which they were born, to carry on the In- dian revolutionary movement. To the credit of Gandhi be it said that almost alone of all the leaders of the pre-war revolutionary move- ment, he saw the significance of the masses in the struggle for In- dian freedom. He offered a pro- 5 “INN, ELECTION AHOT STRUGGLE | Farmer-Labor” Party Tool of Bosses MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Pointing | out that in the primary election h ‘here only the capitalist pa: | ticipate, adding that the i} {are only tricks to fool workers into | thinking there is some difference*be- | Men such as Quezon, Osmena, and jamong the gram to the masses, a program of mass struggle, mass resistance, mass boycott, civil disobedience. These were the services of Gandhi to the revolutionary movement. This‘ was what made him the out- standing figure in the movement, so that when one’s mind turns to India the first thought is of Gandhi. His non-co-operation movement is a movement of forcing Britain out of India. the tactics Gandhi Gandhi be taken out of jail. tonight will some day, and soon, be “Every friend of Indian freedom, | let him be critical as he may of | is following, | must all unite and demand that) “The subject we are discussing | | tween capitalist politicians, the Com- |munist Party called on workers to boycott the primaries and support |the Communist Party in the Novem- | ber elections. In Minnesota the election fight is jof special interest since here, be- | Sides the republican and democratic | | parties, capitalism has also another | party, the so-called “Farmey-Labor” party. Like the “labor” party of Penn-! sylvania, which has endorsed the re-| publican candidates, Secretary 07 | Labor Davis and Gifford Pinchot, | the Minnesota “labor” party is back- | ed by the fascist bureaucrats of the) A. F. of L., who play stool-pigeor |by testifying in capitalist courts | |that every big, powerful capitalist | west Bank building and refuse to so popular in these United States | against workers picketing the North- daily in the country will carry head-|rent their halls to the Unemployed lines against British imperialism, | Councils. It is now reported that against British atrocities and for |the “farmer-labor” party is going) freedom for India.” | to join with the democratic party. At the close of the meeting the! But beside the support given by few-score assembled Lovestoneites |these fascist “labor” leaders the| adopted, with great enthusiasm, a |“farmer-labor” party of Minnesota, resolution in the name of “the tra-|enjoys the support of the Trotsky-| ditions of the American people who |ite renegades from Communism, jthe name of “Communism.” have always supported the strug- gles of subject races and peoples for freedom?’ Of course, all these bourgeois ideas, this glorification of the spokesman of the Indian bourgeoisie, this invitation to the Indians to look to U. S. imperialism for lib- eration, this hog-wash about the “American people” who never op- press and exploit the weak nations and peoples, was all put forth in Work- program of vivid proletarian enter-| ers everywhere must know that tainment will be provided by the| wolfe is no Communist, but a rene- Labor Sports Union, Freiheit Ges-| p4e who has deserted Communism angs Verein and Workers Interna-| The appeal was handled by} tional Relief Band. Tickets are only 35 cents in advance; 50 cents at the door. They are on sale at the district office of the Party, 26 | Union Square, N. Y. C, Needle Workers In It. The great mass meeting of needle ‘trades workers, meeting at the call of their industrial union yesterday |in Cooper Union voted to call all | needle workers, employed and un- Square meeting in a body, Needle Trades shops will organize for group participation in the demon- | stration, and there will be speakers | from these shops. Textile Workers Call. The Textile Workers’ Industrial Union is distributing widely among | the workers in New York knitting mills and other textile factories a ‘leaflet pointing out that unemploy- |ment and low pay, hours as high ‘as 9 or 10 for those who work for a $12 to $15 a week wage and hun- ger and starvation for thousands in the industry, demand that textile workers should take part Friday. The leaflet reminds them that their elected delegates to lay demands for work or wages before New York City officials are in prison, and that the National Textile Workers’ Union Georgia organizer, Mary Dalton, is held with five other or- ganizers in Atlanta jail, to be elec- \trocuted if the bosses have their way, just because she was organ- izing workers to fight the slave system. “The textile workers will march in line with other workers to Madi- son Square Garden,” says the leaf- let. ARRESTED FOR CALLING MILL WORKERS TO MEET NEW YORK.—The American Knitting Mill at 30th Pl. and Manly St., Long Island City, employing some 300 workers, had Yanowitz. one of those distributing circulars calling the employees to a shop mee‘- | ing, arrested yesterday, Charges are unknown. Demand the release of Fos-| ter, Minor, Amter and Ray-) and gone over to his enemies. GIANT TRACTOR ~ PLANT FINISHED | The Associated Press reports the completion of the great tractor plant at Stalingrad, with a capacity |for annual production of 50,000 | tractors. This monumental achieve- | ment certainly marks an important struction in the Soviet Union and the success of the Five-Year Plan. Comrade Stalin, in a message to the Soviet engineers who built the plant, tersely but effectively stated the significance of the plant. He is reported as saying: “The 50,000. tractors which we must give the country every year represent 50,000 shells which will blow up the old bourgeoisie world and lay the foundation for a new socialistic order in the villages.” The plant was constructed with American technical aid. The suc- cess of the plant also testifies to the fact that, under proper prole- jtarian control and guidance from |the Soviet State, foreign technical aid can be successfully used in the upbuilding of Socialism in the Sov- iet Union. | | | | Wage-Cut Champion Trust Spokesman WASHINGTON, June 19.—The electric power trust, at its national convention held in San Francisco, put forward a democrat as its prop- step forward in the socialist con- | Vincent Dunne and Skoglunr, who ‘in Minnesota have found in the} |farmer-labor party the common) ground of ‘opportunism with the Lovestone renegades whose chief} here is Halonen, | In fact these fascists and social fascists and rencgades from Commu-| nism are one happy family. The Trotskyites, who snort that the Communist Party isn’t revolutionary enough for them, the Lovestonites | who think it is too revolutionary, with their spokesman Halonen in| league with the wholly “anti-poli-| tical” I.W.W., all join hands in the} “farmer-labor” party against the! Communist Party. The “farmer-labor” party tries to hold back the growing anger of the! workers against capitalism, hiding | its support of capitalism behind} “progressive” phrases; but fighting attempts to organize the unemploy- | ed and employed and kidding the workers with empty talk about “in-| | Nestigations” of unemployment just | like Tammany’s Senator Wagner, and so on. Against all this gang of crooks the Communist Party has entered} the election with its own ticket, the| candidates being: { For Governor, Karl Reeve; for) Lieutenant Governor, Andrew Roine | of Angora in St. Louis County; for | U. S. Senator, Rudolph Harju of | New York Mills; for Secretary of State, Henry Bartlett; for Railroad Commissioner, Nick Maki. For Congress from the 5th Dis- trict, Rebecca Grecht; from the 4th District, A. N. Anderson; for the 8rd District, E. B. Ford of Fairbault. Other congressional nominations will be entered later. There will be a State Ratification | Conference of the Party to be held) on July 13, at Camel’s Hall, 12 East Superior St., Duluth. From the call sent out to work- ers’ and poor farmers’ organizations, | several hundred delegates are ex- pected. They have already been elected by such organizations as the | National Miners Union and those of the farmers among the Finnish pop- julation. A. F. of L. local unions are | invited to send delegates in spite of | their bureaucratic leaders, and work- ers in unorganized shops are urged to form shop committees, not only to send delegates, but to organiz» for struggle in their daily interests under guidance of the Trade Union Unity League. | | i \strated his wage-cutting program on aganda spokesman. I, N, Hurley of | Chicago. Hurley in his speech as- | sured the power trust that the demo- | crats are just as fervent supporters | of the speed-up, wage-cutting policy as the Hoover administration and further outlined a policy of still closer co-operation between govern- mént executives and heads of indus- try and finance, Hurley did not mention that he had already demon- more than one occasion in his own factories. mond, in prison for fighting! for unemployment insurance. ‘ worker correspondent. Write as you fight! Become a How to Goi—Any car to te PI CHICAGO EIGHTH ANNUAL FREIHEIT PICNIC This Sunday, June the 22nd . AT THE BAYER’S GROVE California and Irving Park Boulevard DANCING — SPEAKERS — GAMES Admission Sie in ndvance—50e at the gate. FOR FREEDOM OF PHILIPPINES Demand Indepen tence; eet At Madison Lovestone Meet Is for'in this city on the evening of June Anti-Imperialist Groun The Anti-Imperialist League of | the United States, in a statement] just issued “stands for the com- plete and immediate independence of the Philippines.” The statement was unanimously adopted by the Executive Commit- tee of the League which includes Robert W. Dunn, Roger Baldwin, Albert Moreau, James W. Ford, Jessie Lloyd, Manuel Gomez, and R. K. Kangleon. It was endorsed by the League 'for Filipino Freedom of Chicago, whose general secretary is | Anacleto Almenana. The statement says: “The Anti-Imperialist League of the United States stands for the complete and immediate indepen- dence of the Philippines. It sup- ports those movements in the Philippines which stand on this pro- gram and opposes those half-heart- ed advocates of independence who give lip service to the principle but sabotage it in practice. “The Filipino politicians in offi- 1 charge of the independence commission are making no genu- ine effort to free the Philippines. Roxas compromise with American imperialist interests obviously in an attempt to share with them the ex- ploitation of the islands. | “The only solid basis for the} freedom of the Philippines is to be| found not among the politicians but| working and peasant classes who are awakening to the | need of independent action. These| forces are beginning to understand that their’s is a common struggle with the anti-imperialist move- ments in other parts of the Orient against alien rule.” Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent. a PHILADELPHIA CRYSTAL LUNCH Fresh Food FRIENDLY SERVICE PHILADELPHIA DAILY WORKER Philadelphin Office: 1124 SPRING GARDEN ST. M. SILVER, Representative Poplar 3849 PHILADELPHIA WOLKOWITZ BROS. Proprietors GRAND HALL 410 WHARTON ST. Lombara 5295 GIRARD MANOR 911 GIRARD AVE. Poplar 0758 Halls for rent for all occasions. Physical Culture Restaurants QUALITY YOOD AT LOW PRICES 19 North 9th St. Philndelphia 77 Bleecker St.. New York City 21 Murray St.. New York City PHILADELPHIA Workers International Relief SCOUT CAMP Opens June 29, 1930 at Lumberville, Pa. Rates: $6.00 and up per worker’s child. REGISTER NOW! 39 NORTH TENTH STREET Walnut 6614 PITTSBURGH Remember DR. RASNICK When You Need a Dentist Have Your Eyes Examined by DR. W. STRANTZ DRUGLESS EYE CLINIC 6023 Penn Ave. Room 202 Rring vhis ad with you ond get n 25% discount GLENSIDE UPHOLS ‘ All Repairs Done at Reasonable Prices ROBERTS BLOCK, No. 1 Glenside, Pa. Telephone Ogontz 3165' reny | | | | EVERY WORKER! EVERY PARTY MEMBER ! EVERY Y. C. L. MEMBER! VOLUNTEER jor Worker Daily CHICAGO Collections extended to include this Friday, Saturday, Sunday Apply at 1413 W. 18th Street MINNEAPOLIS This Saturday and Sunday Apply at 424 Kasota Building, Fourth and Hennepin St. This Saturday and Sunday Apply at 805 James Street, N. S. SEATTLE This Saturday, Sunday, Mon. June 21, 22 and 23 Apply at 141314 First Avenue CINCINNATI This Sunday, June 22 Apply at 230 West Eighth Street, Room 19 CLEVELAND Saturday and Sunday June 28-29 Apply at 2046 East Fourth Street BOSTON — CHELSEA Sunday, June 29 Apply at 3 Harrison Avenue ST. LOUIS Sunday, June 29th Help in the campaign to raise $25,000 to keep the Daily Worker Going and Growing! Make these TAG DAYS immense mass collections! PHILADELPHIA CAPITAL BEVERAGE CG, PHILADELPHIA Vhe work we make ganizations’ work—o1 Rood. Or- specialty. will tnke care of your » 3 SOBA" WATER "ato"Rkee | | Spruce Printing Co. 182 N, SEVENTH Sit, PHILA. PA, Bell—Market 6883 Union Keystone—Main 7040, Printers 2434 West York Street Telephone: COLUMBIA 6265, PHILADELPHIA Now Playing! FIRST FILM OF THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN TURKSIZ A Great Film Record of a Great Soviet Achieve- ment! The Building of “Pride of Soviet cinematography —IZVESTIA the Turkestan Siberian LITTLE THEATRE Railroad! 2222 MARKET STREET Continuous 1 to 11 P, M. CALUMET PICNIC Sunday, June 22, 1930 15TH and CLARK STS., between Gary and Hammond, Ind. Those who trayel through Hammond take street car ot Silby St. to Eleventh and Clark. Walk to 15th St. to the pienic grounds, Those who travel through Indianu Harbor take Harbor Gary St. ear to Fifth and Clark, half block cast to piente grounds. N ALL PROCEEDS DAILY WORKER FUND k. Blvd. Irving to California Ave, Calumet Section Arrangements Committee.