The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1930, Page 4

Page Four alkie Industry mn Convulsions Due to Crisis By SAMUEL BRODY. | fect of th year off.”—Brock Pemberton i Y. Times. 1 talkie industry is beginning to experience the violer u r that come with imm when th¢ r be * * have come to light that nei Hays nor the blustering mogu in 1980, as in the pe will continue to exter which the ever in our motion pictures warrant.” at suppayt asing qu So wrote Billy Hays in the m ary of this ay (Ji two leading fi Warner Br 854 points respecti stated that for the f history of the A picture can something tha silent film in its worst wood pros rs are agreed th ks is now exha ing for a new f other movie comedy no long available n story has be foreign coun port of A Brothers are i mate field. back (the trad bolster up a attendance.) Almos' atres have closed th Lorentz reports that have been forced to chestras in t But we will 1 short-sighted op long ugo set t Coue aut louder they shout, the m disappointing are the fac The motion picture indus at one tii able to hold in the pression industries in a er movie slur present cr’ the inherent r a weakness under capi 1 not be r The x some} ig more than the k h is handed out to them, But H wood cannot give more. At present juncture the tion picture is affe present deep-go the special Con to investigate Communism in country, included the investigation of Soviet films in his plan presentec to that committee the other day. Perhaps the pious old f: ist has dis- | covered what’s wrong with the film product. Maybe the S is undermining our perity and thereby ming our celluloid knows? PRAVDA ON INDIA REVOLT Much News Suppressed by Capitalist Press The following items, translated’) from Pravda of Moscow, throw a sidelight on some of the events in India which are not made much of by the capitalist press of America: i oe Gandhi With the Princes. LONDON, England.—The Indian | Daily Mail publishes a statement from Gandhi in which he calls upon his followers not to spread the dis- obedience campaign on the terri- tory of the Indian potentates. “If the subjects of the Indian} potentates wish to break the salt monopoly,” says Gandhi, “they must do so on the territory of the Anglo- Indian government.” Concerning the attitude of the nationalists to the Indian nobility, Gandhi says: “It would be desir- able to work out an agreement with them.” * * Moslem-Hindu Unity. LONDON, England.—The polit- ‘eal conference of the Moslems of Bengal, which took place in Chita- yong, unanimously adopted a reso- lution in which they fully concur with the revolutionary movement in ({ndia and with its ultimate aim. A similar resolution was adopted st a meeting of the League of Mos ‘em Youth in Amritsar. In spite of provocations on the part of some Moslem leaders, the movement is marked by a spirit of so-operation between the Moslems ind Hindu elements. * . . CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey. — In Djubulpar, the central province, was organized a publishing house under the name of “Publishers of Insurrectionary Literature.” The organization is sending out agents for the distribution and recitation | of the prohibited literature. In the Punjab the League of Youth adopted @ resolution to print and spread) prohibited literatur J | q INGS 6 PIONEERS SEND. TQ HARRY EISMAN a ly two in- metal Arm o Keep Up the Struggle for the Working Class in} (10) | Hail (9) Turned 13,000 _ illiterate workers and peasants into literates. Mailed to villages 500,000 109,000 pencils and 1,300 radio receivers. (11) Opened a culture home for children and a children’s univer- (12) Collected 7,000 rubles for the International Penny Fund. (13) Presented the Red Airfleet with an airplane, “The Leningrad | Pioneer.” | (14) Are helping to carry through the Five-Year Plan in four | To the next International Flock Together we will bring 60,000 new members. From April 18 to April 23 we organized red caravans for the col- ection of all kinds of breakage and | and the money to defray | s of our next Flock To- rs se ther. The Pioneers of V: ay and made 1, ame purpose. Harry, we elected you as our rep- resentative from Leningrad District to the next International Flock To- gether of Pioneers. We will de- mand that you be let out of prison to go to Germany as our repre- sentative. Cour: er! yborg worked a rubles for the , Harry! Be of good Keep up the struggle for working class. Remember you have a lot of friends—the Pioneers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republies and the whole world are h you. And the hour is nigh, comrade, when the international proletariat, r the leadership of the Com- st International, will overthrow ’ rule forever. » the Pioneers of the world! Long live the American Pioneers who ra such brave fighters for the working class! Hail the fighter of the Proleta- rian Revolution, Harry Eisman! Leningrad District Flock of Proletarian Children. k Fascists, Social-Fascist Plan . ® The Prussian ters and knives nt made to granting of the kr pe of the ¢ exclusively re of t with the w tachm ng sticks in revolutiona: ve that any attempt 1 d knuckled aga e is to be no p s, no arrest of the fascist their followers to murder wi those slender possibiliti s the fascist revolvers. deprived o Selves again t is that the work lied with modern tive efforts to disarm them. -The Soviet industries | mus ide four hundred thous- and tons o: s during the cur- rent Soviet year (which begins in| October) Or one hundred and 7 tons were deliv n tion is 3 and| ApS street terror”, but as the “Rote Fahne” ures in the past, for instance, the prohibition of firearms is dependent on the granting of a police mission or without it, whereby the police make no et Rail Output Leaps Upward social democratic minister of the ntig, has co-operated with the minister of the interior in working out a new law making the posses- of all “eut, streke and thrust weapons”, i. e. clubs, as far as the blades are firmly double up as in the normal pocket f a police license. This measure is demonstrations, have been directed ry working class, and there is no ill he made to deprive the fascists usters. The “Rote Fahne’ sums up rohibition of the fascist murder de- leaders who are never tired of in- orkers, but the workers are to be es they possess of defending them- ers are unarmed whilst the fascists pistols and dum-dum ammunition, bounds. Thus while the production | for October was only above ten thousand tons in March it was way er twenty thousand tons, in April much over twenty-eight thousand tons, and in May over a thousand| tons per day. The aim is over two] thousand tons per day. Albert Thomas report to the labor trait retary of the so-called international “more serious because it was com! conditions and the danger, especial from the west and from the east.” Mr. Tho other leader: Echoes Briand , June 27.—In dealing with the world-wide crisis in his ors’ and bosses’ international labor , Albert Thomas, the notorious French social fascist and sec- labor office, said that the crisis is plicated by extraordinary economic lly to Europe, of fierce competition s is evidently echoing his masters, Aristide Briand and of French imperialism, and is making a double attack, against American imperialist “competition” from the west and against the Soviet Union, the “Communist cialist industry from the east. menace” and competition from so- The position of French social fascism naturally reflects the stand of French imperialism, which, as shown by the attempt to organize a United States of Europe and the talk about a European grain bloc, etc., is now pursuing a persistent policy of organizing the European capi- talist bloc and maneuvering for a against the Soviet Union. This blo greatest capitalist rival of Europe, position of leadership in the attack is also partly directed against the the United States of America. European Grain Bloc PARIS, June 27.—With the American tariff providing an im- petus and excuse, the attempt of the European bourgeoisie and land- lords, under the leadership of France, to forry a European grain bloc is gaining momentum, al- though the project is reported to be still in the “conversational stage.” The real purpose for the forma- tion of h a bloc is clearly anti- Soviet as well as anti-American, al- though the anti-Soviet aspect of the plan, which is the more serious Plan Is Anti-Soviet aspect, is carefully avoided by the capitalist press. The great success of the Five- Year Plan and the astounding achievements of collectivization in the Soviet Union undoubtedly aroused much fear in the minds of the European bourgeoisie and land- lords. They were afraid of the com- petition of Russian wheat in the | world market as well as of the in- | spiration which the success of building socialism gives to the mili- tant labor movements in the capi- talist countries, Chang Hsueh-liang Spurns Nanking Offer MUKDEN, June 27.—Chang Hsueh-liang, war lord of Manchuria and agent of Japanese imperialism, | has definitely refused the appoint-| port of Nanking. As long as the United States is supporting Nan- king, there will be absolutely no possibility of Nanking getting the support of Chang Hsueh-liang. Japan will never allow its agent to| strengthen the tool of American ment of Vice Commander of the) Army and Navy which the Nanking| government offered to him as aj means of drawing him to the sup imperialism in China 99, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 1930 a pA NET RANE PIONEERS \ 0 if \ \ By IRVING S. KREITZBERG. It’s hotter than hell down in the Imperial Valley, A blazing desert sun continuously burns overhead, The mercury jumps to unheard of heights—and stays there, One hundred and twenty in the shade—and all the shade to be found on a cantaloupe field not enough to shelter a desert mouse. It’s hell—but not entirely only that of nature’s, Here the man-made hell has put nature’s brand to shame, Here fifteen thousand w s slave in fields and packing sheds, Americans, Mexicans, Filipinos, Negroes, Orientals . . . Slave from daybreak to sundown for two to two-fifty daily. Back and knee jobs k Piece work in a b Piece work in fields Drinking from irrigation diches they Sweating from the strenuous labor, Collapsing from the inhuman strain. drinking water, wade and sweat in, They built a union down in the Imperial Valley, A militant agricultural workers industrial union, Those Americans, Mexicans, Filipinos, Negroes, Orientals . . . Fighting a combined united front of ranchers, police, clergy and labor fakers, They commenced a recruiting drive and prepared for struggle, Struggle to put an end to their intolerable slavery. They railroaded the union leaders, down in the Imperial Valley, Threw them into jail to bust their union, ‘ Charged them with criminal syndicalism and armed insurrection, Smashed defense meetings with armed thugs—but not their union, Brought them to a court of justice, : Where reign a judge and twelve cantaloupe minded men and women, good and true, Good and true—but not for agricultural workers, Agricultural workers only trust their union. Workers in the fields, mines and factories. Rally to the aid of the Imperial Valley defendants, Fight and smash this infamous frame-u) ! Smash this effort to crush a militant union! MINIMUM 10 YEARS FOR |DONATE TRACTOR CENTRALIA BOYS JULY 1 TO SOVIET UNION CENTRALIA, Wash., June 27.-| -A complete tractor to further t By any manner of reckoning the collectivization work in the Sovi minimum ten-year prison sentence | Union—this is the magnificent gift for second degree murder will have | of S. and B. Rubin of Minneapolis, expired July 1 for the Centralia Minn., to the Russian peasants. The unionists who defended the I. W. W. hall from ~ American _ legionaire lynchers on Amnesty Day in 1919. The parole board which has been sitting on their case has kept its recommendations secret, If release is not on the program legal action will be started for a writ of mandamus after July 1 to compel freedom on the ground that the good behavior of the prisoners entitles them to release even though they were sentenced to 25 years. Most of the jurors have sworn that they were intimidated into turning to the U.S.S.R. by the Friends ef the Soviet Union which is now con- with the Workers International Re- | lief to send 40 tractors and trucks help the Russian workers and peasants fulfill the Five r Plan. The tractor will have riveted tc it a steel plate with the followi inscription: “This tractor donated by |S. and B. Rubin to the First Pro- \Ietarian State to till the soil for the | International Communist Soviety.” The two donors are leaving shortly in case of self-defense into|for the Soviet Union to present the Se dees murder because of|tractor in person. They urge all the lynching atmosphere produced workers and workers’ organizations by the legion and the lumber trust. | One defendant, Wesley Everest, had | in fact been dragged out of jail by} the legion mob, castrated with a} razor and then hanged from the| Centralia bridge. The jurors were afraid of similar fates if they did not convict. to to intensify the campaign for 40 tractors and trucks and to send all funds to the Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave. room 511, New York City. Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! Only Your Masters May Be Violent near Poona, where the government gives him food, large quarters, and servants, issues orders to the anti-imperialists that they must submit to all the shooting, cluhbing, and murder by police and British troops, without Gandhi, from his comfortable “detention” India, retaliation. But, he says, it is necessary and proper for the govern- ment to do this, if the crowds become unruly. Of course Gandhi and the government are plotting to sabotage the struggle for independence, tractor costs $1,192 and is being sent| ducting a campaign in cooperation | “SOVIET WORKING WOMEN SUPPO UNINTERRUPTED WORKING WEEK Workers Fooled | Produces Wonderful R ural Level The uninterrupted working week in Soviet Rus: means that in each factory where it has been adopte: while each worker works four day and has the fifth off, the factory as whole is never idle, except on the few national holidays. From a Russian Working Woman. Dear Comrades—In this letter I wish to tell you how the uninterrupt- ed working week affects the life of a working family. When we first heard of it our f thought w |“How will it work out? be a regu mix up, one at home and another at work? And then, |won’t these frequent rests have a bad effect upon the workers?” But when the uninterrupted week vas put into practice it gave won- derful results. In our cultural de velopment, Sunday was a great hin- drance— making visits, receiving guests, drunkenness and useless talk and, on the next day, absence from The age-long habit that one must drink on Sunday is so strong that it prevails even now in spite of all jour efforts in the cultural domain. Thanks to this, one sees frequently on Monday children playing at be- ing drunk. When the teacher a: them where they have seen such a thing, the children answer: “we had yesterday and everyone was We nre justified in saying that the tinuous week has dealt a blow to t! relic of the past. Husbands and Wives. We are told that on the rest days husband and wife can hardly Jever be together. But, comrades, you must not forget that we have ja -hour day. There are branch- les of industry where work is over at 3 or 4 p. m. at the latest. Surely, from 3 or 4 p. m. and the whole evening should be enough for any husband and wife to be together Moreover, arrangements can be made with the management for ‘hus- band and wife to have the same rest day if they so wish it. It is also pointed out that the continuous week interferes in the summer with the family excursions an] country walks. But, dear com- rades, you must bear in mind that ja cultural and collective develop- ment of the working class family is ; going on here, and this does not at jall imply that husband and wife should go perhaps with another friendly couple to the country on Sunday, taking with them a lunch basket, and, of course, drink. We intend to fight and are fighting these individual outings. The excursionists visit palaces and museums in these country places. They take with them a band, and after the museum or palace has been visited, the young people dance on the lawn while the older people read newspapers and discuss events, The continuous week will enable us next summer to improve con- siderably the organization of excur- sions. Formerly, all the excursions Two telegrams were addressed to Erich Remarque, the famous author | who made $100,000 from his widely read book “All Quiet On the West- ern Front.” The telegrams con- tain the question: “What would be your attitude in the event of a war against the Soviet Union?” He has so far kept a deadly silence on this important question and has not answered the telegrams. Accord- ing to capitalist press reports, Karl Radek, in a long comment on the answers of various authors to the TOKIO (I.P.S.).—One hundred and forty workers at the Makino- sima shipyard in Fusan, in Korea, have gone on strike against a wage reduction of 10 per cent. A strike is in progress at the textile factory Kisiwada, in Osaka. A party of striking workers at- tacked the branch factory in Horum and attempted to demolish it. Large SHANGHAI (1.P.S.).—There is a great shortage of rice in numerous districts in southern China. Prices are climbing rapidly. The prov- inces of Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Ki- angsu, Chekiang, Anwei, ete. are affected. A number of collisions have already occurred in various places and the general unrest is steadily growing. Eight rice riots AMSTERDAM, Holland, June 27. —The world economic crisis is hit- ting Holland hard. A general de- cline in the economic conditions in Holland has already set in. Dutch agriculture is suffering severely from low prices. Cotton goods are SHANGHAI.—From latest re- ports we learn that a million people died in the Province of Shansi since |1927, Two million people are suf- fering from acute starvation at the ‘present time and are doomed to perish unless something is done im- mediately. Won't it | RT esults and Raises Cult- of Workers | |took place on Sunday, with the re- | sult that, in spite of all the efforts | of the traffic authorities, trains and tramears were overcrowded; there | were also too many people in the | eums and pa’ s to make such | enjoyable. Thus the continu- | week creates a quieter atmos- | phere on these excursions. If we turn our attention to the theatres and concert halls, we find} that throughout the winter season | they were always well attended, and | that the audience consisted mostly oi workers. Thus the continuous week has enabled us to develop con- iderably our cultural work by mak- ing it also continuous. Not so long ago, on April 7, our worker correspondents’ brigade vis- ited the “Krasnyi Mayak” factory. They say that in their conversations with the women workers they heard no complaints about the continuous week. There is also no absenteeism jon the part of the older women workers on Sundays, in order to at- tend church services. The women workers pointed out to the corres- | pondents an old woman worker who | used to be very religious. Now she | never absents herself either on Sun- | days or any other church holidays, | of which there are many. The Sunday Circus. I will give you an example to show to what extent the difference between Sundays and week-days has | disappeared; I was going to a meet- ‘ing in a tramear, and when we were passing the circus we saw an encr- mous crowd streaming out of its doors. At first we could not under- | stand what this meant, but then it | dawned on us that it was Sunday, | and a children’s matinee had taken | place. We had a good laugh at this, saying: “Where has the old Sun- day gone to? It has left us alto- gether.” | The working woman next to me |said: “The continuous week is fine, After four days’ work I can rest. This has done me no end of good, and I have been able to put my | household in order.” | In conclusion, I would like to say {that you should watch the develop- | ment of socialist construction here, jand that we are following with the | greatest interest the development of |the revolutionary movement in the | western countries, and are hoping | that the moment of your emancipa- tion is not far distant. Say what you like, this depends greatly on yourselves. Comrades, it | is worth while not only to make ef- | forts, but also to give one’s life for the splendid, morally free life we |are leading. Even if there be short- | age of necessaries of life, even if we | have to go hungry, we are prepared | to sacrifice our lives, to give every | drop of blood to maintain our Soviet | | | match these days he must provide | crowd there were also, according t power, regardless of the hostility of the imperialists. With Communist greetings, T. KARNEYEV. Radek Condemns Author of “All Quiet—” above question, says the. following about Remarque’s silence: “Here is a man who made the death cry of his comrades ring loud and dreadful in the ears of the whole world. From that ery, Re- marque, you can find no refuge in the plea that you are a pure artist painting a picture of what you saw and lived, and only that. You must answer, Remarque—you must say frankly where you stand unless you wish your comrades to die again more horribly.” e Japan Ship and Textile Workers Strike forces of police succeeded in de- fending the factory and arresting many of the attacking strikers. Twenty-three workers have gone on strike in the aeroplane works Kavanisi, in Kobe, against the vic- timization of three workers. The strikers also demand a 10 per cent inerease on all piece-work rates. The factory is being guarded by the police, Famine Threatens China have taken place in the province of Kiangsi. According to the Peking and Tientsin Times, the Shansi troops have occupied the whole of the Shangtung province north of the Hoangho River. Their entry into Tsinan, the capital of the province, is expected during the next few days. Crisis Deepens in Holland especially suffering from depres- sion and Japanese competition. Dutch stocks, especially industrials including rubber, declined much lately. Amsterdam rubber is now quoted at 118 as against 161 on January 2, Two Million Starving in Shansi On account of the war of the gen- erals it is impossible to transport food from other provinces. Starving people sell their girls for food. Two hundred thousand women ranging in age from eight to thirty were sold recently in Tun- guan Stinks of Fouls; The boxing racket stinks so muct now that when one goes to a boxing himself with a gas mask as @ pro tection against the “fouls.” Ever this will not help. Monday night in Philadelphia an other one of those Schmeling-Shar key affairs was pulled off betweer the Giant Carnera and Geo, God frey. Practically every one thai went to see that fight expected it to end in a foul, yet thousands paid their shekels just to see the Moun: tain Man, Carnera, stretched out full length on the floor writhing ir pain. * * * As usual, the crowd at this prix fight, especially the first 15 rows consisted of the representatives o{ every one of racketeering gangs, all the way from Texas Guinan to Sen- ator Vare of Pennsylvania. In thit the capitalist press, two Chicage gunmen. Their presence was neces sary there to remind Godfrey that he was to lose in about the fiftt round on’a foul. Before the fight these two rep resentatives of the capitalist class gently told Godfrey in his dressi room at the point of a couple “45's” how they wanted the end—or...? € Godfrey was forced to lose # only because the big gamblers moi was on Carnera but because if won he would be the outstandin: contender for the heavyweight which now adornes the beetled of Max Schmeling. In these da of lynchings of Negroes and oper terror against the whole working class the capitalists could not afford to sce a Negro on the heavyweigh’ boxing throne. Why the Foul. One of the best ways to start at argument among the workers in thi factories these days is to raise th question if Schmeling should be de clared the world’s heavyweigh champ. This is the first champion ship in the heavyweight ranks o. the cauliflower market that has beet won on a foul, Certainly up til the fatal blow Sharkey was head an shoulders in the front. But why the foul? The solution to this puzale can b. found in the following statement 0; one of the bourgeois sports writer) will show through the light. Schmeling trained up in En¢ cott, N. Y. and Sharkey did hil training at Gus Wilson’s Ora! burg Health Farm. Squads of paper reporters wrote yards ant yards about this department of th; big fight, but we don’t remem ever reading a line where Schmeli had fouled one of his sparring part! ners, or where they had to carr, Johnny Brosso out of the ring afte a couple of smashing rounds wit! Sharkey.” Nothing can give a better pictur: of the forces behind the scenes thes days of phoney hoxtug Demy * eeeome'n dacs . aaa — Another One. Fouls, fouls, and more fouls This is the general line of new on boxing in the capitalist pres: On June 18, Pete Latzo found th easiest way out of a bad fight b claiming a foul from Larry John son, a Negro light-heavyweigh! Johnson was winning in a walk an in these days of legal and extra legal lynchings the bosses canno stand to see a Negro even win 1 prize fight. Foul is the solution. LS.U. News. The Eastern District of the Le- bor Sports Union is making prep- to take part in this run to boose our Daily should send in their entries in care of Daily Worker. The Daily has to donate a trophy for place winner. Prizes for five men placing will aleo be * © In view of the fact that the LS.U Berlin delegation fund campaign rv sulted in raising only $116.00, th L.S.U. was forced to call off sendin the delegation across. This ear paign showed that the working cla: does not yet realize the importam of workers sports in the class strug gle. Come on fellow workers! Sen in your contribution to the L8.t and you will, by doing so, takeaaun at the ball af Doses spert, i Soceer News, The Eastern District finale of @ National Cup competition will eom to a close this Sundsy when Olympis and the Bronx Worxe hook up for the final tilt, One not predict the winner of this .” to Detroit for The closing the Eastern 1" trict soccer season will be mark’ this Saturday by a huge proletay banquet given by the district at Dyckman Oval, Dyckman St. er Broadway. In line of food the will be some good salami sandwich: which will be washed down by eon Gerson, who has from the South. Medals to ners in all divisions Metropolitan League and to ners of the Inter-Leaque tion.