The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1930, Page 3

INSK PRESS REPORTS MANY PROVOCATIONSOF POLAND AGAINST U.S.S.R. Arrest and Hold Red Red Nemes Man on RM ina Charges i in Poland dlish Authorities Re Frontier MOSCOW (LP.S.).—The Minsk oress reports that Polish provoca- tions on the White-Russia sector of | the Russo-Polish frontier are in- creasing in number and insolence. There have been numerous cases where patrolling Red Army men} have been shot at, wounded and) sven killed by Polish frontier | guards. In 1929 the Red Army man Burykin was arrested by the Polish frontier guards a little way over | the frontier on Polish territory. Burykin is still being held in Vilna ison, although it is obvious that is telling the truth when he de- Jrres that he crossed the frontier by accident, believing himself still on Soviet territory. A little while ago the Red Army man Kolomnetz was shot at over fuse to Discuss Many Incidents |the frontier by Polish soldiers and | wounded on Soviet territory. The Red Army man Shtcherdakov was killed by Polish soldiers under mys- | terious circumstances on Polish territory. Apparently he, too, was | | caught by Polish soldiers innocently | crossing the frontier, a thing which is very simple. Despite the existing convention concerning the clearing up of fron- j ties persistently refuse to form mixed commissions with the Soviet authorities to examine the various incidents. | The Minsk press reports that the matter has been handed on to Mos- cow and that the Soviet govern- ment will take diplomatic steps in | Warsaw to secure an inquiry into | the frequent and senseless aggres- sion of the Polish frontier guards. CONVENTION ON JULY 4 10 BEGIN GIANT CAMPAIGN Electing ‘Delegates in Industrial Cities (Continued From Page One.) demonstration at the state capitol ; of Illinois, Springfield, Tll., jobless this year and last year in the big Illinois coal fields will bring | their demands before the opening | session of the state legislature. Many other cities report similar activity. Solidarity Day. The Trade Union Unity League as issued a ringing call to all orkers and jobless to assist in the collections on Solidarity Day, June 29, for the feeding and housing of delegates in Chicago, for transpor- tation expenses and other costs connected with the demonstration. The National Unemployment Con- vention is called on the basis of the following demands: Work or wages, unemployment relief from the city | treasuries, administered by the, Councils of the Unemployed; un- employment insurance, to be admin- istered by the Councils and th Trade Union Unity League unions, and to be paid for by taxes on the huge profits of employers and by taxes on inheritances; the seven- hour day and five-day week (in| mining this means a six-hour da; and five-day week), and no speed *up. Speeding the workers who havi jobs, stretchout systems, long hour: and such worsening of conditions | makes one man do the work of sev- | eral and increases unemployment. * Elect In New Bedford. NEW BEDFORD, IIL, Two mass meetings were held in New Bedford Friday. Two dele- gates were elected to the July 4 Unemployed Cénvention in Chicago. More than a thousand workers ae gathered at one meeting in answer | to the call of the union to protest against the bosses’ terror and pres- ent hardships that were imposed upon the working masses through the speed-up system. Unemployment in New Bedford is growing daily. Just this week the Potomska, Soule, Holmes and Butler mills were shut down. The living conditions are growing worse, * * * Copper Unemployment. PELKIE, Mich., June 25.—Forty- six representatives of workers in the copper mines met here in the copper country section convention of the Communist Party and made unemployment and the recent 10 per cent wage-cut situation a main order of business. All the dele- gates said this situation would grow worse. The convention urged all coppe’ miners and the farm workers to hold group meetings of jobless and employed and send delegates to the July 4 Unemployment Convention to be held in Chicago. eee Chicago Workers Prepare For July 4. | CHICAGO, Ill, June 25—The| workers of Chicago are getting to ready for the July 4 and 5 unem-| ployed convention. Workers, fra- ~ ternal organizations, and trade unions are sending delegates to the convention. The unemployed coun- cil and the T.U.U.L, are preparing a monster demonstration in Union Park on July 4 at 3 p. m. The city administration has re- fused a permit for the holding of the demonstration, but the workers under the leadership of the T. U. U. L, and the Communist Party will hold the demonstration and wel- come the delegates coming in from out of town. Milwaukee, the coal fields, Lake County, are expected to be in Chica- go on the 4th. Food is being col. lected by the various women’s or- ganizations and by the Workers In-| ternational Relief for the feeding | € the delegates. Committees are on July | 2, in which the thousands made | June 25.-— | | Today in History of | the Workers June 26, 1846—Corn laws, which increased price of bread in England, repealed. 1893—Gov- ernor Altgeld of Ilinois pardoned Fielden, Neebe and Schwab, sen- tenced for life in Haymarket bomb explosion. 1894—American | Railway Union, led by Debs, | struck in sympathy with Pullman car shop workers. 1917—Copper miners in Bisbee, Ariz., district struck, 1922—First convention of French United General Confed- eration of Labor, at St. Etienne, voted to affiliate with Red Inter- national of Labor Unions. 1923— Takao Heibei, Japanese socialist leader, shot by president of Anti- Bolshevist ft BoC reca “DONALD BUILDS DI NAVY GRAFT | Helps Prepare War of, Imperialist Robbers The true meaning of the London | Naval “Treaty,” which the American | imperialists are preparing to “poy- ularize” during the coming elections a step towards “peace,” was re- s building program which has already been initiated in the United States. w the report comes from Great ritain that the British imperialists, in their turn, are proceeding to build 1 naval war craft during 1930, These consist of three cruisers N net layer and a targel towing vessel | according to the announcement yes terday in the House of Commons b A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty. The total cost is ¢s- | timated at about $45,000,000. It is worth remembering that Ramsay MacDonald, the “ ing socialist,” who has “peacefully” been bombing, shooting and butcher: ing Indian workers and peasants during the last few weeks, is Prime Minister of the imperialist “labor” government, While over two mil- lion British workers are jobless, and MacDonald has done everything to save the bosses from the “heavy burden” of keeping these workers | from starving, by paying them wages, he finds no difficulty in spending $45,000,000 on war prep- arations in defense of the bosses’ markets and profits. He would throw up his hands in horror if the jobless workers were to demand of this “labor leader” that he use the money to keep them alive. It is also interesting to note that warships are not built for museums, but for even- tual use in an imperialist war. This war is approaching with crisis speed. on the job going from one hall to another daily, These halls are for the housing of out-of-town dele- gates when they come to Chicago. A kitchen is being arranged and the hall has already been donated for the food to be given out. That is the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave, The authorities are getting ready prevent the holding of the dem- onstration. All sorts of dispatches coming to Chicago saying that the Communists will have a secret con- and are getting ready to overthrow the government. The Chicago Councils of the Unemployed say: that this will not be a secret con- | vention, Over a hundred thousand U.| leaflets have been issued to adver- tise it. Delegations of unemployed are coming to the city hall daily demanding work or wages. We are going to have delegations go to every government institution. ‘fight for the right to live. “This is going to be the real be- against unemployment.” tier incidents, the Polish authori- | —— | vealed by the billion-dollar naval | a flotilla leader, eight destroyers. | three submarines, four sloops, one | ‘peace-lov- | from the white guard centers are | vention in the Ashland Auditorium | “We will tell the whole world) “The workers of Chicago refuse | to starve amidst plenty, and will ginning of an organized struggle, | 20,000 UNEMPLOYE DAILY WORKER, DIN ROCHESTER; BOSS PRESS SAYS IT’S ONLY 11,000 Editor | orker:— Io slant ne unemployment situation of Rochester, the so-called “ this city that, according to the censu: this year by the census enumerators and that the capitalist class re-« alizes it!), a total of nearly 11 ,000 | workers, all of whom should be working, were jobless. These fig-| | ures, by the way, naturally did not | | include the number of workers par- | tially unemployed or otherwise a‘ | fected by the present severe cris | In fact, the capitalist papers ga no hint at all about how many workers are, according to their cap- italist figures, working part time. |The number, even taking their fig- ures, would be too large! Eleven thousand workers jobless! big lie. The number is far greater. | We determined to give the lie to | the capitalist figures openly, and \ in their papers. But, in order to be on the safe side, the Unemployed | Council sent 32 men to the various | working-class districts to get fig- | ures regarding the actual situation. These men made a thorough two- day survey and, in the light of what they found in those districts to which they went, we estimated | | that, combined with the rest of the | city, and judging appropriately and fairly, a total of 29,750 workers | are totally unemployed, and that 31,000 are partially employed, mak- |ing a total of 60,000 workers (out | of a population of 330,000) vitally | | affected by the crisis the capitalist system is now going through. This is the real situation in Rochester. | Quite different figures from the | capitalist ones! | We published our figures in the | only morning paper published here, the Democrat and Chronicle, about a week ago. This sheet gave us about four inches of space in a fairly decent place in the paper. Almost directly next to our article was a large one with a heading reading something like this: “State |Employment Bureau Head Says | Job Normaley Due Here By No- | vember.” The usual capitalist bunk! The two articles side by side looked a bit funny. And here’s the big part—not a single person |has dared come forward the past week in an attempt to refute our figures. And why not? it simply can’t be done! Comradely yours, FREDERICK Z. MYERS. * * P. S.—And Rochester is supposed to be one of the few cities in the |country suffering very little from Ace spiral Z M. TO GREET BURLAK Fight Sedition Law: Powers in Solitary |—-A tremendous working-class dem ‘onstration will be held in the Broac road Saturday noon to welcomc Anna Burlak, 19-year-old Interna- tional Labor Defense organizer, who will arrive here, the first sto; of her tour for the five other work ers and herself, who are facin: death in the Atlanta courts for thei, working-class activities. Bui comes here directly from her speec! to the fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of the I. L. D., held | Friday in New York. Burlak is the first of the six, workers held on “attempting to im™ cite insurrection” charges released ‘on bail. Efforts to raise bail for the oth ers is now being made. The other workers are M. H. Powers, Communist Party organ \izer; Joseph Carr, Young Commu nist League organizer; Herberi Newton, national organizer, Ameri ean Negro Labor Congress; Mar) Dalton, Georgia organizer, Nationa ‘Textile Workers’ Union, and Henr) ' Story, @ member of the Atlantz Branch, American Negro Labc: Congress. Anti-Sedition Law Meeting. Burlak will be one of the prin cipal speakers at the anti-seditio’ w conference, which will be hel. inday morning at 995 N. Fifth ‘t., at which delegates will be in attendancé tppresenting industrial | “Flower Ci About ten days. ago it was publi: | A big total, of course, and also a| Because | IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 2°. St. station of the Pennsylvania rail: | ity of Flowers” Hard Hit by Crisis; Councils of Jc Jobless Growi ing Misiester New York, June 19, 1930. 1g this in order to give the readers of the Daily Worker a n now prevailing in the glorious city ed in the capitalist newspapers of s figures on the jobless situation (the mere fact, by the way, that figures on unemployment were taken specially goes to show just how bad things are, NO MERCY TO ! NEW MEMBE? Militant T | Slander | Vicious eet Ozone Park, L. e Daily W: To the Editor of Dear Comra “ceived by mail the Militant. the most of the new members in our unit. I am in the Party about {four months and never have seen | or read the Militant before. | The first thing that struck my eye was the request to be reinstated into the Party membership. Well ; maybe the Party should take it intc | consideration, I thought for a mo- ment. | But after reading through that | sheet carefully I came to the con- clusion that the Communist Inter- national could not commit a gr: | mistake than to agree to reinst: these renegades, What does the Militant, the or- gan of the Trotskyites—Cannonites, tell the workers? Does it expose the A. F, of L, and the Musteites? Does. it analyze the crisis, telling the workers what they are against, unemployment, wage-cuts jand speed-up? Does it try to or- ganize the workers to tighten their ranks, to rally them in the fight against the bosses, terror, impris- onment and deportation? Nothing of the kind. |sheet is merely a slander shagt against the Communist Interna- tional, the American Section, try- ing not to help but minimizing the struggles and achievements of the working class against its enemies Slander, sabotage, betrayal of the working class, that, it seems to me, is the sole purpose of this rotten petty-bourgeois sheet. And if the former secretary | our unit, who supplied the add: | of new members to the Militant meant to convert me and ot iy mplished just the opposite ef. I re So did ver ate of fect. and trade unions and labor frater- nal organizations. a “Stop Torturing Powers.” ATLANTA, Ga., June 25.—Yes- terday the International Labor De- tense branch here sent the follow- ing telegram to J. Lowry, sheriff of Fulton County, in which Atlanta is located. The sheriff was ad- {dressed at the Fulton Towers ja’ NEW YORK, up | The whole | Never before would I believe that | > vieted, you will have their bisod| for unemployment insurance, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1929 12-Hour Day, 6 Day Week in Crown Laundry Co. New Yo! Daily Wo! 1 MONTA We are working for the Crown 1 as it is to aid, say the nck . nching is carried out agamec Laundry under the most mi — militant workers. vorkers as well as Negroes, conditions and speed-up. Listen, we} Men Must Ditch A.F.L. Ane, bela pounce Ford brought out, and |are working six days a week and x great ‘ally of theystrug; ‘oved by records that in every in the morning and some of the | | be ar is come nailing one This shows that lynching Butte, Mont. at and we work t 5 o'clock in a | yet the boss isn’t sat-'t jdays come to work the morning at 1 companies are cut- 1 the working forces con- are speeding up the s in all the They are night, and ed, We get 20 minutes for lunch and soon as we finish our lunch the boss tells us to hurry up. If not he'll operation. those workers who op- of able conditions help to t Harris: crete plan for political countries, bees and. Ceni the orbit of Ll and material directly help the nist parties of these countrie Comrade Ford, the Negro work, and Comrad Baker in the discussion, STRESS NEED OF HORE it ry it n country, furnish aid, “our «age Three the white exploit- hat the promises the revolution- nt is looked Negro masses for centuries t ers, it is nat of equalit Ir NEGRO AN at Cd white bour. it is not true, nev- AER, oe ; that as a guar- they should be ; ge is their own Gomez, Moreau and ng their own gov- e they predominate in George Report the population. — The white chauvinism among the _ (Continued fram aye v n white workers is over- ly responsive to Cor ed. They do not, as whites cause of the double the colonial countries, have real privileges as whites, but exploited along with the Negro and are used, when they are under influence of white chauvinism aga their own interests when th used against the Negro They have as much an in- in shattering the rule of the ists as have the Ne- y are imper ask to movements t he movemer movemen fe) omic basis, the b t of the white ruling class in forcing worse conditions on 0 wage work- s and poor farmers by the threat st violence, by lynching. number of delegates par- 2 dise Ne- n his report on clar fire us. The boss pays us 20 cent method which| the role of the American Negro I rified on how to advance the |to 30 cents an hour and yet he tells 1. Teadership is heart-| P0t Congress as the e» of self-determination and jus to come in early to work and rd with. The working | S@nizationally of th build the American Negro Labor work later at night. conditions of not only the lower| ¢Tation movement of an oppressed s. While a great number | —A LAUNDRY WORKER. », is becoming we minority. egro comrades participated in the higher-up and| The importance of the this discussion, their participation — ——--— of railroad work-| is not to be questioned beca in the general political discussion the Trotskyit so far in beti > beginning to feel the reac- of the speed-up system. There ‘annonites will ying, in sabotagi ti the workers’ struggles. But here|/are an alarming number of the the Militant itself stood before me|once better paid workers who are jn its ugly nakedness, betrayal,|out of employment and are roam- slander, slander with no restraint.|ing the country over looking for| | As to that Tretskyite in our unit.|that job which does not exist, and to get a meal from other ers as they themselves ¢ enough money to re unabl ailroad wo An intellectu: peaker, he “Dumb Dor a student, a good ed the part of ¢ unclarity ex cial, economi will in the course of stru be raised to the highest farm, demand for self-determi Comrade Baker ac cause the Negro has been Its fight fc shows that the Communist Party, and political ec as brought out by many delegates, es not limit Negro comrades to Negro work, and it also stresses the necessity for white comrades, for the whole Party, to engage in ed! work among the Negro masses. itself the ented th opp work. Ref : giving excuses, being absent most} How much longer are we going HH . of the time, never participating in|to let the officialdom of the A. F. 0 | i7@ or Ne e ease ie IX or ers discussions, A very nice quiet boy, |f L. who collaborate with the cor- porations in their oppression, mil} us out of our hard earned « which we are paying for t |pose of bettering our con indeed, | But, at the same time using his position as secretary to turn over the lists with the names of the Facing Death in Atlanta, the N. Y, Unem- ‘ and in fact is only serving to keep | members to his organization—the | °"° ae LNT HE ee | | Crotskyites—acting as a stool- iy, Barnes “wil ve 8 egal ion all ef ass- pigeon, slanderer, nust be| {educated through our stomaches, or are we intelligent enough to make |the change as broad-minded men? Let us On a small scale he was doing what his friends are doing on an| ional scale, sabotaging the ” struggles. Drive mercilessly out of the Par stand up like men and re- into an organization of ers which will function for War Prisoners! J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, General Secretary these renegades, these Trotskyite ere rhe OF THE * tors of the working class. The 's collectively—an indus- sooner, the better. \trial union, the National Railroad INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Industrial League, which is fast —OZONE PARK WORKER. Section g, [taking root all over the country. Let’s ditch the old machine which is out of date and obsolete. Let's | lbe progressive and show the reac- | Demand the release of Fos- Will begin a month’s tour in Pittsburgh, June 27, the fifth anniversary of the founding of the I. L. D. to rally the workers for the defeat of Georgia Lynch Law Justice! ter, Minor, Amter and Ray-|tionaries that we are no longer | The dates of the meetings are as follows: Pittsburgh, June 27-28; Cleve- rons - |going to be betrayed by their col-| land, June 29; Detroit, June 30, July 1-2; Chicago, July 3-4-5-6; Mil- tnond, in prison for fighting |),porating policy. | Waukee, July 7-8-9; Minneapolis, July 10-11-12-13-14; St. Louis, July | for + unemployment insurance. —A Railroad Worker. 15-16; Indianapolis, July 17-18; Cincinnati, July 19-20-21; Columbus, Be phe, July 22-23; Toledo, July 24-25; Cleveland, July 26-27-28; Pittsburgh, Police Raid Coast M.W. I. U. ‘Office still being held in jail. 0 police raided the Ma- The police also raided our hall, rine Wo ial Union hall} DUt in spite of this terrorism we teat arate | Ganrade Abbot | going ahead in our organizing. and Drummond on a faked charge Dun» of vagrancy. They confiscated all literature, books and stamps. The} I. L. D. got on the job and they| were r ed the next day without any charges, | June 1, Comrade! sted for selling He is charged syndicalism and is- Daily Worker:— On ers’ Indus FARM IN THE PINES Situated in Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German Table. Rates: $16— $18. Swimming and Fishing, OBERKIRCH 78 KINGSTON, N | where the six workers facing elec-}on your head soon enough. Mean- trocution of “attempts to incite in- | time, stop torturing these working- surrection” charges are held. It class political prisoners.” says: | Powers has been held for some “We protest your placing Pow-| time in solitary confinement. | ers in solitary confinement and | | your denial of books and papers Ne. to Powers, Carr, Dalton, Story and|, Demand the release of Fos Newton. If the mill owners and| ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- their man Hudson get them con-| mond, in prison for fighting | \ For the Communist Election Program RALLY THE WORKERS IN YOUR SHOPS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO ATTEND THE RED ELECTION FIGHT! 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