The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1930, Page 3

THE ILLINOIS MINER Arkansas Is Eager To See nion Agam jus eines ‘0 Have Org Os! il: ] R _Boarded-up stores. Sto: ‘Weeds chokins once velvety lawns. Ragged qui Howat and Walker i i “ h Lass Bands Hired By Busine: x1, Wise Are As Anx-| 4 ih : Haye Organization fuse; BURLAK TELLS CONVENTION Hear More Reports on Party Work (Continued fram Paye Oner must send down organizers. It is imperative. Business Men Hail the Peabody Co. Union This Photograph of a headline in the Illinois e Organizations on “Actually there are five organiza. tions on trial. They are the Commu- nist Par the Young Communist League, the International Labor De- fense, the Trade Union Unity League and the American Negro La- Congress. We are charged with ‘insurrection’ because we held a meeting. Actually the meeting was broken up and we were arrested. For that they want to send us to the electric chair. “Comrade Powers is especially persecuted because he represents the Communist Party. He is regarded as ‘dangerous’ and is held in soli tary confinement. They refuse our comrades even to read the New York Times, the jailor saying it is ‘a radi- cal paper.’ “The Ku Klux Klan_ parades und the jail cvery week, clearly with the intention of taking out our Miner, official organ of the “Reorganized United Mine Workers of Amer- ica,” which is the Pea- body Coal Company's company union, should prove to the workers how little that union can do for them. Anything that the business men greet with brass bands surely stands for low wages. LENINGRAD PARTY MEET HEARS REPORT OF 5-YEAR PLAN SUCCESSES Molotov Speaks on Progress of Socialist Con- struction in the Soviet Union Despite Difficulties, 40 to 50 Per Cent of Farms in Main Grain Areas Collectivized LENINGRAD (IPS)—The conference of the Leningrad district of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union took place recently. Comrade Mol- otov made the report upon the a ity of the Central Committee of the C. P. of the S. U. which contains (among other things), the following: Since the 15th Party congress tremendous progress has been made in the socialist constructive work and decisive alterations have taken face in the class alignment. The position of the proletariat has been tremendously consolidated. The middle-peasants have turned towards | socialism and the collectivization movement is developing satisfactorily. e great success of the collectivization movement showed that the basis r socialism was being laid in agriculture as in industry. In the capitalist countries a severe crisis is developing. The Soviet | Union however, is rich in future possibilities for the workers of the whole world. The right-wingers talk of a certain stabilization of capitalism, but in fact the strike movement in the capitalist countries is growing from year to year and tremendous collisions are occurring constantly with the unemployed workers. The revolutionary movement in China is rising and Soviets ate springing up in vast areas. Armies are fighting in China under the flag of bolshevism for the Soviets. The Party has mobilized all the forces of the proletariat for the car- tyinggout of the industrial and financial plans and 20 members of the Central Committee are at work in the provinces directing these efforts. The Central Committee is leading the work on every section of the front. Dealing with the socialist reconstruction of agriculture, Molotov re- peated the statement that the rate of development lagged behind that of industry. The grain purchase campaigns in recent years showed a threat- ening situation for the working class. Thanks to the energetic attack | on the Kulaks however, the grain purchase campaign in 1929 was more favorable, than ever before. The howl of the panic makers had been silenced. At the initiative of Stalin a decision had been made to found series of large-scale Soviet grain undertakings and trusts. The policy the Central Committee was correct. Despite tremendous difficulties, | spite many errors and exaggerations, 40 to 50 percent of all farms in) ie main grain producing districts had been collectivized by the end of May 1930. The excesses were very dangerous for the whole collectiviza- tion policy, but the errors have been made good and the results of the spring sowings campaign show that the successes in the collectivization movement have not been exaggerated. The sowings campaign proceeds satisfactorily and it can already be said that the collective undertakings | will carry out their program to the full. Response to ‘Daily’ Call | Still Below Needed Mark The following receipts for the|S. #Zllinger, Chicago, 2.00 Daily Worker $25,000 righting fund | Dy is tis ibe) arrived at our office on June i8| Club, Chicago, IL ...... 7.00 and 19. They total-nearly $590,| Frank Kuttas, Manaynuk, P: 1.00 which means $250 a day, which is| “yl: Branch 17 - 5.00 not the $1,000 a day called for by| J. Katehman, 2.00 any means. It is an improvement | %-E-P» Flushing, : 1.00 S Collected on list from Ukrain- over the $65 a day received on June| ‘inn Comrades, by N. Exchen- 13, 14, 16 and 17, but we still have] | ke, Woonsocket, R. . 10.65 tg multiply our activities and in- ined section ar he Valeueinicay: 007 cfase our determination to make the| Boston, Mass. . dee 12.50 rk. Coll. on list by rles Din- mond, Boston, Mass, ........ 3.00 ‘his week every Party member has been requested to report to his Party unit upon his achievements, upon how much money he has co!- lected and how many subs he has Coll. ixt by Joseph Block, Boston, Mass. Coll. by memhers of United U 100, Paterson, H, 'T, Ahrens, secured upon the Daily Worker cam-| uso Workers Educational || paign list he has in hand. Let’s make Krotofil, Norwalk, Ohio 5.00 m Aggins, Norwalk, Ohio 1.00 these reports thorough, let’s have a complete check-up. Every Party member’s goal must be a minimum of $5 and all Party members should keep their campaign lists until the $5 goal has been reached, in the meantime turning in all funds col- lected to date. Contributions for June 18, 19. fag Day, Detroit, Mich. D. 'T. Taylor, Kansas City, Mi . Kunnap, Anacortix, Wash. Louis Sanebin, Chiengo, T Members of the Commu Blaroeff-Ruthe n ber g, TONE, MICB. 60.65. ecce ssc eee Shop Unit No. 402, Mossilan, 0. Tye} ‘hird Branch of the ‘kers Society, East a : exter, Ne o J, Bitlis, Rochester, Y. M, Mandy Rochester, N.Y.. Unit Na, 2. C.P., Rochester, N.Y. Steel Workers, G: ei Ukrainion Der Clayetana, OL. A.M. Welling, Wi Clnra Friedman, Monticello, Benny Ceyserman, “Today in History of the Workers *. Booth, West Patm June 25, 1867—First volume of ieee Babe 5 “Capital” published by Karl Marx. 1892—Workers at Car- negie steel mills, Homestead, Pa., began five-month strike for union scale, 1906—Social . democratic group formed in first Russian Duma, 1920—Textile workers at Pueblo, Mexico, struck for more pay. 1928—Telephone girls in New England struck for seven- hour day and wage increases. 1928—Three hundred thousand textile workers struck in Bombay, India, Rmarcenae Frind needed. Collecter to date ... Balance stilt nee + AIRGAS Soviets Honor Nansen, MOSCOW.—The All-Soviet Aca- \demy of Science adonted a resolu- 'tion by which France Joseph Land will be called Nansen Land. AA4AAAALDEDDED all, at least the Negro Communis' Comrade Tom Johnson has been burned in effigy by the Ku Klux Klan. “I hope that all comrades, all | workers, will realize the danger the Atlanta prisoners are in, and that all together we will work to get them out. And the best defense will be, as I said before, to send down organizers and organize the workers of Georgia.” Many Delegates Speak. About sixty delegates have taken Negro Organizer Puts Case Up to Workers FALL RIVER, Mass., June 24.— A big mass meeting ot textile|the floor so far in the Convention. workers, held on Liberty Lot last) The entire discussion centers around week, vigorously denounced the at- | m work and how to carry it out, tempt to electrocute six worker or- | with constructive criticism of weak- ganizers in Atlanta and demanded sses and a ringing note of clari- their release. fication on theoretical questions the A similar meeting, called by the | understanding of which is necessary National Textile Workers’ Union at|for correct action. Only a few Ashley Park, New Bedford, June 20 j points of some of the speeches can adopted the same demands. here be brought out. (The principal theoretical discussions will be pub lished later.—Editor). Carl Berman of the anthracite re- oo CHICAGO, Ill, June 24.—The International Labor Defense, Chi- cago office, has received the follow- | ,ion stressed the revival of Party ing letter from Henry Newton, or- | activity with the elimination of ob- ganizer of the American Negro La-|stinate opportunism. The miners bor Congress, held for electrocution | are starving in the mines, and would in Atlanta jail. He writes, under| rather be killed on the streets in Us ital battle than be killed by accidents in Dear Comrades:—The Atlanta 'th, mines while starving at reduced case is, doubtless, the most impor-| wages. tant case in the country. It is im- Nat Kaplan, of Boston, brought portant not so much because the | out the wrong theory developed at lives of six comrades are involved, | New Bedford, where a comrade had but far more so because the result |held that the Textile Union must of this case will determine whether |he built up slowly, that it cannot the Communist Party in the South |e built in struggle, obviously by will be driven underground and be this idea setting the union agains forced to work under the difficult | struggles, conditions of illegality. soc you| ‘Bill Dunne said that in the stock 1s up to vou, comrades Vou! market crashes, not only speculative, who are still outside the confines of capitalist dungeons—to say whether our work will be so seri- ously hampered. The prosecuting attorney has asserted that any | struggle for very existance. Some Communist coming into the state | comrades question radicalization, of Georgia will be tried for his life. | thinking that because the Party has The attorney acting in behalf of not yet led many strikes, that the the capitalist class has already|yokors are not ready. This is shown his seriousness by demand-| wrong. We have the slogan “Build ing the lives of the six comrades, the Red Unions.” But it is not done including two girl organizers, 19 | py turning one organizer loose and 20 years old. The state has| among millions of metal workers to shown its position; it is now up to/ build a union while the Party lends the workers to show theirs. no assistance. No longer will com- “The South is the home of 8,000,-/rades convince us that they have 000 Negroes. These Negroes, al-|the correct line by speeches and most all workers and poor farmers, | resolutions. There Gris are the most oppressed group in| work inside the factor‘ We must America, and therefore are, poten-| eliminate the deep opportunist ten- tially, the most revolutionary forces | dencies. In Pittsburgh, when we did in the United States. The white|that, at once the units took on new workers and farmers fare lives but | life. The Party must improve edu- little better than those of the Ne-|cational work. We must make the groes. The South is an important | correct approach to the masses, mak- but investment capital is wiped out. |Capitalism is only beginning to un- | load crisis on the workers. It means that millions in basic industries face center of transportation, the steel jing use of simple language, of the | industry, lumber industry and tex-| simple economic demands. In‘ the tile industry. Few fields are more | little mining towns, where life is important. drab especially for young workers, “We shall never neglect the|the Labor Sports Union should find South. But, will we be driven un-j|a ripe field for organization. derground without a fight? That Stresses Building T.U.U.L. is for you, comrades, to say.” Tom Johnson, declaring that while FIGHT! ORGANIZATIONS TO ATTEND Sunday, June 2 PLEASANT BAY Bronx Park Subway to East 177 SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNIST PARTY comrades and lynching them; if not | FIGHT! For the Communist: Election Program RALLY THE WORKERS IN YOUR SHOPS AND RED ELECTION CAMPAIGN PICNIC FROM 10 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT Unionport car to end of line and Fifth Awenue Bus to the Park. Admission Thirty-five Cents NEW YORK STATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | Jobless, Starving, Is! | Forced to Eat | Garbage Milwaukee, Wis. | | Dear Comrades: Enclosed find two clippings from the Wisconsin News and Milwaukee Journal, which might be used in the Daily. “William Hoskinson, 38, 3 Villard Ave., today went to jail | for three months at his own re- simply because he wants quest three meals a day. | Hoskinson was found by a po-)| ‘| liceeman last night eating out of a garbage can at 36th St. and Villard Ave. He explained that he was hungry and had to have eas to eat. | | —D. M. | $—_—_—_————- ¢ HUNGER WAGES IN FOOD SHOPS Bad Conditions Brooklyn Factories July 19, 1930. | in | Daily Worker: Yesterday, I read an article writ ten by worker correspondent, who signed himself “Candy Slave,” in | which he describes the starvation wages and labor-saving devices | used in the factory. | I have worked in several food factories in the Bush Terminal Sec- tion of Brooklyn and the same rot- | ten conditions exist in all of them: | This work is very hard especially in the hot weather when the work- ers have to cook the candy and roast the coffee bean. The wage ale in these hot houses are: | | $14 a week, $1 a year raise in S.| Gompert & Son for 9 hours work }(8 to 5:30), with one hour for| lunch. No rest periods. $13 a week to start, $14 a week | after one month (many are laid off | before that), machine operators get | $15. In some departments such as | candy and spice, the girls only work | about 3 days a week, and their | wages are much lower. Some of the | piece workers in the candy dept. can average a $20 a week at times, but that means they do work like | | steam engines in a very hot room. | | At present the machines are go-! |building the Trade Union Uni | | League is a life or death matter, yet the apparatus in the center is ph |ically inadequate to handle the work. Three-fourths of the Negroes are in the South, yet the American Negro | Labor Congress has not one organ- | izer there. Concrete work, shop by | |shop, is what is needed. He di agrees with bringing unemployment into the T.U.U.L. on the grounds that we would have a 'T.U.U.L. com- | posed of unemployed and would dis- | solve the Unemployed Council. (Com- rade Stachel and others later point- ed out that this was a wrong view |that while we must avoid, by r |cruiting employed workers into the union, any making of the unions into unions of unemployed. It is seri- ‘ously wrong, when workers under- | stand and wish to join the T.U.U.L, to keep them out because they are Junemployed. This is no way to build the Red unions.) | J. W. Ford spoke at length on |the Red International of Labor \unions, the line of the Fourth Con gress and the questions before the | Fifth R.IL.U. Congress, also stress- THE 9 PARK th Street DANCING Page Three READING WORKERS BEGINNING TO SEE; THRU THE BOSSES “SOCIALISTS” Workers, Forward to the Organization of the| Communist Party in Reading Daily Worker:— This is only an excerpt of a letter written by a worker to the Reading Times (a capitalist sheet): Editor Times: In these days of unemployment and general distress, brousing through the Labor Advocate affords one a cheap medium of amuse- | ment. The current issue of the Advocate contains a number of choice morsels; to wit: | Under “Reflections” the editor writes an entire column in a vain | attempt to explain and justify the hypocrisy of the socialist political | party and he sub admits that they have degenérated into a vote catching organization in competition with the Vares and Grundys. He s, in effect, that ideals are like party platforms and party platforms | like railroad station platforms—made to get in on but not to stand on. He admits that the socialist office-seekers have two sets of ethics, one set while on the soap box reguiling voters and another set after election, They place the higher value upon the latter set. Again he admits that they are not a party of the workers but a reform movement consecrated to the despicable task of perpetuating the capitalist system. Take his own words, “Socialists must not—and do not—place exaggerated value upon the demands which they write into their platforms. On the contrary, immediate demands are inserted in the socialist platforms because socialists realize that the capitalist em is likely to continue for a time and because it is the wish of socialists—who are, after all, just people—to make capitalism as live- able as possible for the workers who are trapped within the meshes of this capitalist trap.” The workers are seeing through the Communist Party here. Reading, Pa. “socialists.” We need the —READER. 2nd International Manifesto Boss War Move The Daily Worker: is it that they are worried about. I want to write the following to| They are worried because the masses |of workers and peasants are build- pees jing the new foundation of a free now building up socia workers’ society, and foundation of “I am a worker many thousand |self-determination of all workers the miles from you, and like thousands | world over. Because this new of workers watching the progress | foundation paves the way to remove you are making. Do not be misled | the rotten system of capitalism and by the secret call of the Second In-| the second international which now ternational which they. send out) only fools and betrays the workers. from Berlin on May 11. “Yes they are worried, but not for “In their message they say thatthe welfare, life and happiness of they, the yellow 2nd International | the workers, but because of their fakers, are worried ovér the news| masters, the imperialist bosses.” from Russ What kind of news| New York. —Y. K. the Russian workers and peasants || I stood up and said. How can| -|Strassbourg Resolution. ing on without a stop. The girls, work from 8 to 6, fellows come in| and work from 6 to 10, and other | night workers (fellows) come in at| 9:30 p. m. and work till 8 a. m. the next morning. This is in the Quaker Maid Co., w is also known as ing the importance of car the strike strategy ying out, aid down by the He criti cized the action in one strike of macaroni workers, where the com- rades tried to win the strike by or- ganizing the eaters of macaroni and not the workers. Also, in a demon- | stration on May 1, some comrades | hac merely looked on from across the street, and when questioned why they they did not participate, said | that all that was required to be a| Party member was “honesty and in- tegrity.” slogan of self-determ There is opposition to the nation for Ne- putting it in tl same class as bourgeois nationalism. groes, wrongly UNITY CAMP A Resting Place for Proletarians Restores Vigor! DIRECTIONS: From Grand Central or 125th St, to Wingdale, N. Y. BY BUS: From 1800 Seventh Avenue, corner 110th St. Fridays at 6:30 BP. M., Saturdays 1:30. TELEPHONES MONUMENT 0111 or STUYVESANT 8774 FARM IN THE PINES Situated im Pine Forest, near Mt. Lake. German Table, Rates: 816— $18. Swimming and Fishing. M. OBERKIRCH R. 1, Box 78 KINGSTON, N. ¥. the A. & P. Tea Co. The A. & P. Tea Co. is also known as the ex- ploiter of millions of young workers throughout the country in their re- tail stores. —Food Worker. New York. |Teacher Tells Kids| | That Russia Will m Have a “King” Chicago, Ill. | Dear Daily Worker: | We are studying about Russia in school. My teacher said that they are non-progressive and | says that the people are not sat- | isfied with the Soviet govern- ment and will have another king. you say that when they are mak- ing their 5-year plan in 4 years? | Then as she had nothing to an- swer she said “Nonsense” and told me to sit down. By Ralph Susman, Age 11.( — - > CRISIS GROWS IN NORFOLK, VA, Norfolk, Va. Dear Comrades: The enclosed newspaper clipping speaks for itself (“Lack of Work and Fear of Insanity Cause Man to Kill Wife and Self”). The following are the latest de- velopments locally: Norfolk Navy Yard is laying off hundreds of workers. Government officials predict that 2,000 workers will be laid off in next 2 months in the local yard. Shipbuilding yards, fertilizer plants and other factories such as the Southern Spring Mfg. Co. and Seaboard Air Line Railways, ete. are laying off workers right and left. Those that are fortunate enough to remain at their jobs are working but 5 days a week. Jobs are as scarce as hens teeth in Nor- folk and vicinity. There are probably 500 long- shoremen that are without jobs, Those that are “fortunate” enough (and have a pull with the ILL.A. secretary Mr. George Miller) might be able. to get a couple of days work each week. Working conditions for the over- whelming majority of the workers are going from bad to worse. It is imperative that a capable Party or League organizer be sent here immediately to organize the discontented masses of Negro and white workers, —Stephen Graham. HOPEW TELEPHONE CAMP KINDERLAND SLL JUNCTION, N. HOPEWELL JUNCTION 174 GRAND OUTING FROM JUNE WHERE DO You ILY 4. ALONG. Bi COMMODATIONS, P RIAN ATMOSPHERE. CON- ) CHILDREN LEAVE PERFORMANCES. YLVAN LAKE FOR BATH- TS, LOW GOOD FooD. REBISTER RIGHT NOW! YORK OFFICE, D STR rT KINDERLAND, DON’T NE- GLECT TODAY—IT MAY Too BE LATE TOMORROW! ay Cultural singing, Cultural Program—Comrades Olgin and Jerome Athletics, games, dances, theatre, choir, lec- tures, symposiums, etc. CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N. Y. N. Y. PHONE: ESTABROOK 1400 PHONE BEACON 731, New York Office: 143 East 103rd St. Tel. Lehigh 2940 As Always= Spend Your Vacation at Camp Nitgedaiget FIRST PROLETARIAN ‘|\NITGEDAIGET _| CAMP—HOTEL a Hotel with hot and cold water in every room. Bungalows with electric lights. Tents—to remind you the old days. Program for the Summer of 1930 The Artef Studio (Mass theatre with the Artef) Comrade Shaeffer will, conduct mass By Train: From Grand Central every hour. By Boat: twice dally