The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1930, Page 1

th* 27, Oe. omc they give Workers! a 2 Over 25.00 workers battled police in Camd< 4". J., while seeking a job at “orporation of America. In- »nference the basis "bie % ‘Work or Wages! you police- Make the © Why fish Goes Fishing 'HE Anti-Communist “Investigation” Committee is going to Cali- fornia, incidentally taking in Detroit, Chicago, And straitaway a simple- Seattle. a “junket,” a pleasure trip. Nonsense! not represent the considered attempt of U Wisconsin and minded liberal journalist says it is Fish means business, and those who think that he does imperialism to outlaw the Communist Party so the bosses can force the workers to swallow un- employment, wage cuts, and war, are foolish. Fish is going to “investigate” the danger to the militarist Boy Scout movement furnished by the Young Communist League. The war now. being prepared will need soldiers, and the Boy Scout movement is a preparation for war. So, on another front is the Farm Board, striving to organize the weakest production section of the im- perialist rear, agriculture. Industry is already mobilized for war, and the capitalists tell us so quite openly. The “moral” preparations of the people toward war against the Soviet Union, hatched at the London Conference and begun by the pope, receives the highest applause from American capitalism. Hoover’s prohibition of the sale of planes to the Soviet Union while specially inviting arms shipments to Poland is a declaration of enmity against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. Fish is no joke. Fish is preparing war, war on the American working class, war on the Soviet Union. Workers, be warned! Start your preparations now! Organize in your shops and factories, to demand “Work or Wages,” to fight wage cuts, the speed-up—and' to come out into the streets on August 1, to protest against the world preparing! imperialist slaughter the bosses are Lessons for Us from the Com- munist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain is dealing sharply with leading comrades and Party members who fail to give their support to its central organ, the Daily Worker. The other day the Daily Worker of London severely criticized the comrades who organized a meeting of 400 workers but failed to have Daily Workers on hand to sell at the meeting. A Westinghouse fac- tory gate meeting was held in New York City, June 25. Two hundred workers attended. Our paper did not participate. The comrades for- got to place an order. There are hundreds of workers’ meetings taking place all.over the country, at which our revolutionary paper is not sold. The copy of the Daily Worker of London, which just arrived, states just as important as getting and estimating the role of the British talk about it in their speeches. despite the fact that the chairman firstly, that ordering’ ‘and selling the Daily Worker at a meeting is having a speaker at the meeting. Then the paper criticizes Comrades Groves and Saklatyala for under- Party central organ by failing to It claims that the criticism stands of the meeting did speak about the Daily Worker and 40 copies were sold at the meeting. “Leading speak- ers for our Party do not understand the importance of the Daily Work- er, when in their speeches they are able to divorce our paper from the working class problems of today”—this is the conclusion our brother organ reaches, Leading comrades in the districts, sections and units must draw lessons from this. Are you separating our Daily Worker from your day to day work among the masses of workers? When you take the first step towards organizing a meeting, whether a shop gate meeting, @ street corner meeting or a hall ordering, selling, talking for financial support for our paper? Daily Worker sold to that crowd meeting, do you ever think about Was the of 1,000 workers who gathered to protest the eviction of an unemployed Italian worker in Chicago? Today we passed the half way: mark in our campaign for the Daily Worker $25,000 emergency: fund. circulation nearly 100 per cent in new circulation is not as basic and secure as it should be. And our paper has increased its the last five months, although this We are asking all Party convention delegates and all leading comrades: and Party members in the districts to greatly increase their attention to the Daily Worker, speed up the campaign, keep our paper going and growing. | GAS BOOMERANG IN LUMBER CAMP | Strikers Bombed, But Scabs Do the Weeping MOCLIPS, Wash., June 26.—Soli- darity and quick action of the strikers, led by the Trade Union Unity League, at the M. R. Smith Lumber and Shingle Co., turned the tables very neatly on the bosses and scabs who tried to use tear gas. The strike has been going on for two weeks, against a wage cut of 20 per cent. When the mill opened up, the shingle weavers, and lumber workers carried on mass picketing. The tear gas incident was this way. Deputy sheriffs, bosses, and seabs were eating breakfast in the (dining house. One of the strikers \asked something of the deputy, and opened the door, whereupon all strikers rushed inside and began to argue with the scabs. The dep- uties then fired a volley of gas gun bombs into the crowd of strikers in- | side the. room, Get Their Own Gas. The strikers adjourned to the out- and showed their good man- 's by closing the door after them. deputies, bosses and scabs made @ general stampede for the back door, but somebody had closed that too. After ten minutes of indescribe-; able confusion inside the cook shack, where deputies, bosses and scabs stumbled around in the dense tear fumes, the strikers opened the door and let them out. There was no fight left in them, and the strikers helped all the scabs to get ut of the camp and go back where they had been imported from. The mill is closed completely, and strikers, led by the T.U.U.L, are the fort. SELL OUT OF EASTON SILK WEAVERS STRIKE) EASTON, Pa. June 26.—The striking silk weavers from the Mc- | Ginley mills of Easton have been! ordered back to work by their union officials pending the outcome of ne- | The | gotiations with the employers. labor fakers of the silk weavers’ union, fearing the spread of the strike and the possible loss of con- trol over the workers, made frantic efforts together with the govern- ment “labor” representatives to stem the strike movement and settle the wage-reduction move of the employ- ers,‘amicably.” The silk weavers of Easton. Phil- lipsburg and vicinity will get their wages reduced with the official sanc- tion of the labor fakers unless they take immediate steps to repudiate them and join hands with the mili- tant workers in the National Tex- tile Workers Union who alone are fighting for the class interests of the workers in the textile industry Houston, Texas. Editor Daily Worker:— Another worker was murdered on board the steamer Manhattan Island this morning. C. Longe, colored longshoreman, was losening deck- chain lashings. The mate was in a hurry and some good slave let the turn buckle go without warning. Longe went over the side, in broad daylight, but as he was only a col- ored worker it looks like he did not have a chance. Longe just went fo work after two months’ idleness. He was single and aged 30 years. The Manhattan Island is one of the Red Wood Line ships belonging to San Francisco, Cal. That is one Speed-Up Hurls Negro Seamen to Death aily Mnteres as second-clana matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥.. ander the act ef March 3. 1878. NATIONAL EDITION ay by The Comprodally Publishing om Square. New York City, N. ¥. <i 1 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE Teena ceeeen 27, 193 CALL MINERS “TO CONVENTION IN. PITTSBURGH Fight Mass Poverty, Wage Cuts, Brutality Led by N. M. U. | Represents 900,000Men | Pick Delegates Now to Meet on July 26 PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 26.— “Mine workers! Organize for a struggle in the entire industry against wage-cuts, mass unemploy- ment and starvation, for uniform |wages and working conditions throughout the mining industr; | Unite all mine workers in a mili |tant mine workers’ international!” | states a leaflet being distributed ir |tens of thousands of copies by the | | National Miners’ Union and calling the second National Convention of |the National Miners’ Union to meet jin Pittsburgh on July 26. | The union calls on all coal and {metal miners, all local unions of | the N. M. U,, all rank and file com- | mittees of action, all councils of un- employed miners and committees of {unorganized miners to extend their | activities, take in new members, | form new locals and groups and see that delegates are elected by the }masses, from the mines and from |among the unemployed, to the con- vention. The basis of representa- | tion is to be one delegate for each | 100 members or for each local union, | pit committee, unemployed council jor rank and file committee of ac- | tion, Also Elect to R. I. L. U. nominate Fifth Congress of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions, meeting August 15. The N. M. U. says: “Never have the working conditions in the min- ing industry been worse than they | {are today. The National Miners’ | Union, affiliated to the Trade Union | Unity League, calls upon all miners to take part in organizing the sec- ond National Convention of the N. M. U. ... as a mass and file con- vention, representing the 900,000 mine workers in the United States, | adopt a fighting program, stimu- | late organization into a powerful industrial union and prepare for a national struggle against wage- cuts, the speed-up, against inhuman conditions and for a minimum wage of $35 a week, for the 6-hour day and 5-day week.” The National Miners’ Union fights the rust.ing card system in metal mines, contract systems in metal and anthracite mines, de- nounces the recent brutal police at- tacks on the workers, demands the release of the leaders of the un- employed in New York and other |class war prisoners, including its own national secretary, Charles Guynn, who faces a term in prison, demands equality for Negro and young miners and describes the treacheries of the Lewis and Fish- wick factions of the United Mine | Workers of America. | The N. M. U. considers Lewis and Boylan very dangerous and harm- | ful to the miners, but Howat and | Kishwick even more dangerous, be- cause the latter pretend to be hon- est, even while they keep up the check-off robbery and their alli- ance with the Peabody Coal Co. Demand the release of Fos- | ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting | for unemployment insurance, | of the companies that have the six | hour watch systems that come to, the Gulf ports. This company’s ships have trouble every time they come here to Hous- ton. The majority of the crew quit | here. Some squawk on every ship of the Red Wood Line-—too long hours, too much work, hurry and rush and starvation, | Seamen and longshoremen, unite and stop this rush, hurry, long | hours and hunger; make the own- | ers hire and put full crews aboard | the ships and pay a living wage scale, Comradely yours, | farming has 1 5,000 JOBLESS RUSH VICTOR July 4—the Day of the Jobless —?¥ FP#D ELLIS The same elections are also to | Control Commission of seven four delegates to the) members and two candidates. | The discussion on Negro work, which ended Wednesday noon, was summarized by | Comrade J. W. Ford, who pointed out the strong and weak parts of the discussion, drawing the balance as a real clarification of the sub- ject, the first genuine discussion of Neggo work the Party had ever had, Following Comrade Ford, the re- port on the Agrarian Thesis (U. 8. Agriculture and the Tasks of the Communist Party, published in the Feb,, March and April numbers of the “Communist”) was given by Comrade Harrison George, who re- ferred also to the Program for Ne- gro Farmers (published in the March “Communist”) and to docu- mentary comment by the Farmers’ International (Krestintern) and by the comrades of District No. 11. Neglect of Agrarian Work. As the regular Convention Thesis had pointed out, further neglect of Communist work in agriculture is “impermissible,” and the Agrarian Thesis had been drawn up to con- form with the instructions of the Plenary Session of the Central Committee last October, to analyze agriculture and furnish a correct basis of approach for work in this neglected field. There are numerous errors in ap- proaching the subject of agricul- ture, Comrade George brought out. One is that finance capital is not penetrating agriculture. This is a social democratic idea not borne out ‘by facts. Capitalism penetrates agriculture on the basis of chang- ing self-sufficing farming into com- modity farming, production dedi- cated to the market, This is shown in the relatively rapid advance of mechanization, but as capital in this period is inevita- bly finance capital, one cannot say that capitalism is advancing in agriculture without conceding that it is a penetration of finance capi- tal. Thus the falsity of the social democratic idea that the self suf- ficing “small rural proprietor” family farms are or can be “inde- pendent” of great finance capital. Another error is that finance gressive role, the idea of some so- cial democrats. This error is based doubted tendency toward corpora- tion -~4 bie scale farming or “fac tory farms.” Proceeding from the abstract possibilities of complete mechaniza- tion and the few “conspicuous cases” of great factory farms, this error exagrerates the technical ad- vances really made into a “technics! revolution,” without consideration 4 A. W. McBRIDE. (Continued on Page Three) ‘Convention Ends; Accents Turn to Organize Masses _..NEW YORK.—The Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party closed here Wednesday, after the businéss of the Convention had been terminated, and the best forces from among the leadership had been elected to the new Cen- tral Committee of 25, with seven candidates; and the Central sound economic | basis, that the predominate one- | | capital in agriculture plays a pro- | upon an exaggeration of the un- | consulate, smashing windows and PRAVDA ATTACKS RIGHT WINGERS ‘Hungarian Workers Tried in Secret (Wireless By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, June 26.—Pravda pub- | lished a leading article dealing with | the Sixteenth Congress of the Com- |munist Party of the Soviet Union. It accuses the Right Wing laeders of making a formal declaration in agreement with the Party policy, whilst harboring a tendency to ex- | ploit the difficulties of the social- | ist construction period to form a {new anti-Leninist platform. The | Rights are unable to deny that the world-wide , crisis is destroying | dreams of “organized capitalism,” | but they maintained an ambiguous attitude concerning the estimation |of the economic situation and are unwilling to make a final break with the Rights in the capitalist countries. Whilst pretending to be in agreement with the industrial theses of the Congress, the Rights are preparing new attacks against the Party policy, exaggerating the difficulties of industrial construc- tion and minimizing the successes won, thanks to the carrying out of a Leninist, anti-opportunist policy. The Rights are also speculating with regard to the difficulties of collectivization in order to discredit the Party policy. The Rights are objectively agents of’ the kulaks. The Congress must stop the Right double game and demand their com- plete and unconditional ideological surrender or take the consequences of a Party decision making the propagation of Right Wing ideology irreconcilable wit, continued mem- bership in the Party. + + * (Wireless By Inprecorr) i BUDAPEST, June 26.—Yesterday morning the trial of thirty-three workers was reopened. The presi- | “ent declared that the prosecution’s motion to conduct the trial behind ‘losed doors was granted. Yesterday evening at 8:80 groups of workers carried out a surprise demonstration before the Polish | | protesting the Lember death sen- tences. The pclice were unable to make any arrests, POLISH IRON AND STEEL OUT- PUT DROPS. Production of iron and steel ar- ticles, as well as ore tonnage ex- tracted in Poland during the first quarter of 1980 is far belew that of the first quarter of 1929 BUBSURIPTION RAT and Bronx 0 S: $6 m year everywhere ex New York City and foreign countries, there &\ nm year. Price 3 Cents > ORKS; FIGHT CO PS ENORMOUS CROWD AT CAMDEN TEARS MOUNTED POLICE FROM HORSES WHEN THEY TRY TO ARREST 1.U.U.L. SPEAKER BULLETIN NEW YORK.—tThe national offices of the Trade Union Unity League and the Councils of the Unemployed yesterday called for unemployment demonstrations in all industrial cities, by the thou- sands of jobless and the exploited workers who still have jobs but may lose them at any time. These demonstrations will take place on July 4, the date of the opening of the great National Convention of Unemployed, in Chicago. The convention city will itself have a dem- onstration of the jobless, July 4, in Union Park. SCORE KILLING OF NEGRO WORKER Great Demonstration at Stock Yards CHICAGO, Ill, June 26.—A spe- cial district functionaries confer- ence of the Communist Party, in which over 100 participated, includ- ing all unit, section and district of- ficials of the Party, has worked out concrete plans for the Communist Party participation in the unem- ployment movement and the prep- arations for the July 4 National Unemployment Convention here. There are to be mass demonstra- tions, solidarity tag days, a dem- onstration in front of the stock yards protesting the killing of a Negro worker. Today a delegation from the un- employed councils is to visit the City Hall and follow up the prom- ise of jobs made to the previous delegation. On Saturday, the W. I. R. is going to hold a solidarity tag day in front of the big plants. Sat- urday night there will be open air demonstrations in all working class districts of Chicago. Steel Jobless Organize. Hungry steel workers after wait- ing inside and outside of the em- ployment office in the Illinois Steel Co. in Gary, Indiana, gathered around Sam Chappa, of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, who told them of the T.U.U.L. program in uniting the employed and unem- ployed in a fight for shorter hours, higher wages, and unemployment insurance. After this, they marched togeth- er for a couple of miles to the Workers Hall, where they discussed the conditions, elected delegates to the National Convention of the un- employed in Chicago on July 5, made arrangements to participate in the demonstration in Chicago on July 4th, and elected a Negro steel worker as secretary and another worker, Negro, as financial secre- tary. “What I’ve Been Waiting For.” “This is what I have been wait- ing for all my life,” said one steel workers who had a wife and 12 children, and has been out of work for 10 months now and is about to be evicted from his house, “Once we push aside all kinds of fake di- viding lines between various sec- tions of the working class and unite the black ard white, American and foreign born, skilled and unskilled, into the same organizations as the T. U. U. L. is now doinr, it will be no time at all before we will push these lousy bosses off the face of the earth.” Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Ed'tor:— The Hub Auto plant is laying off men and cutting wages 20 cents an hour. Looks like there will be little work at the plant until next spring. Two thousand girls and women laid off at Neal plant, electric workers. Some more of Hoover's prosperity. Cleveland Motor Co, laid off 90. Globe Stamping Co. has beeen jay- ing off men for the last four months every day, Everready of National Carbon Co, has laid off over 1,000 men and women and will soon close down their Lakewood plant mae overs ‘It Will Be Fight or Starve” This Winter in Cleveland lobless Grow; Bosses Fake Census Dope WASHINGTON, June 26.—In line with Hoover’s continual cam- paign of lies directed against the millions of jobless workers is the latest announcement of the census bureau which issued faked figures on unemployment today.. With the crisis increasing at a rapid pace each day, and well over 7,000,000 walking the streets, the director of census in his “preliminary returns” insults the jobless by declaring that out of one-fourth of the country’s population, nearly 30,000,000, there were 574,647 jobless on April 1, 1930. He puts unemployment in the United States at two per cent of the population, or a total in the ranks of the jobless of between 2,- 200,000 and 2,400,000. This is the boldest and crudest stroke of fakery yet attempted by the imperialist officials in Wash- ington since the beginning of the present sharp crisis. Even the A. F. of L. bureaucrats, who work hand and glove with the enemies of the workers, admit there are more than 3,500,000 walking the streets, facing starvation. With auto plants, steel mills, rail- | charging workers by the tens of thousands in every section of the country, the Wall Street government finds it necessary to rush faked |census figures on unemployment |into the capitalist press in order to | minimize the actual size of the country’s unemployed army. Let us look only at a few facts. The latest report of “Iron Age” states that “steel ingot production for the country at large has declined to 64 per cent from the 65 per cent rate of a week ago. Companies catering to the automobile trade are \curtailing the most.” The latest | figures of the iron and steel division ;of the Department of Commerce show “decided recessions in export and import trade in iron and steel products last month.” John J. Aeschbach, director of the Buffalo Social Welfare Depart- ment told the State Association of Public Welfare officials yesterday that “never before in the histoty of the department have we had so many young and able-bodied, mar- ried men applying for public aid as in the past winter and spring.” The issuing of the faked census figures comes on the eve of the tremendous July 4-5 Unemployment Convention in Chicago. The action of the bosses in this respect shows the need for increased militant ac- tion. Will soon look like sts Cleveland this coming winter. Swartz and Green Co. hirin at 24 cents an hour, cut to 16 an hour. The A. F. of L, ele union here is in trouble with grat and bribery charges, Brirgs Body plant failed to start 1,200 ment out of work last two months. Cleveland Welding work- T am out of work 8 months and see no chance every day. I am over 40 and too old to get work. Help wanted must be under 30, —M. J. PATRICK, Cleveland Worker, P. S.-It will be fight or siarve. road shops and other industries dis- | ing about 10 per cent of their men. | JOBLESS PREPARE FOR CONVENTION Huge Delegations to Chicago, July 4 CAMDEN, N. J., June 26,—Twen- ty-five thousand men and women jobless workers stormed the offices. of the R.C.A.-Victor Company here today for jobs which had been an- nounced in the papers, Bitterly disappointed after wait- ing in line all night, the great crowg gladly heard speakers from the Trade Union Unity League and Workers International Relief, who urged them to organize into Coun ceils of the Unemployed, and con- tinue a vigorous struggle for work or wages, for unemployment relief and insurance, paid for by the gov- ernment through taxes on profits and on inheritances and administer- ed by the workers organizations; for the seven-hour day and five-day week, Thousands of leaflets carrying these demands and announcing the National Unemployment Convention in Chicago, July 4 and 5 were ‘dis- tributed. Tear Down Policemen. The crowd vigorously defended the speakers when the police tried to drag them down. Amidst terrific cheering two mounted police were |jerked out of their saddles and the speakers were allowed to continue. | .Reinforced police managed before |the demonstration was over to ar- | rest thre members of the T.U.U.L., | and two unknown unemployed work- ers. The known arrested are Smith, | Walker and Swain. They are all | held on $1,000 bail and charged with inciting to riot. A Daily Worker salesman, Hoffman, was arrested and held on $500 bail. Is Second Demonstration. This is the second demonstration in two days, The Victor company made a grand stand play through the papers that it would take on 20,000 workers. Yesterday a great crowd, estimated by a worker who sa.. the demonstration before the Ford Plant in Detroit as large as that one, appeared before the plant and got a total of 41 jobs in all. Th police tried to drive them away. State police were called out to at- tack the unemployed, Ce PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 26.— Six big busses are already secured by the Councils of the Unemployed here to carry part of the delegation lof probably 200 from this coal and steel center to the Chicago Confer- ence on Unemployment. ee Building Workers Elect. NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of all building trades workers, em- ployed and unemployed, organized and unorganized, Necro and. white, j Native and forcien born, will be held }at 13 West ivth St, at 4 p. m., Saturday to é 38 meetings and heuse to house cot lections, ry cole meetings and collections, contucted by employed and unemployed workers will take place, the national offices of the | Worlers International Relief and of the T.U.U.L. state. In New York the main collection will be made on Sunday, June 29, Forward to Mass Conference } Against U | July att nemlarment, . ' a ve, \ sa Vo