The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1930, Page 3

HE CHICAGO UNEMPLOYED CONVENTION AND RIL.UL elected leaders of the New York demonstration wére very poorly attended.” At beat, such instances show an approach to the whole question of leadership in the strug- | gles of the unemployed, the connection of the | unemployed movement with the building of the | class-struggle unions, that is non-bolshevik and frivolous. Unemployment Convention and the R.I.L.U. The National Convention of Unemployed in Chicago, July 4-5, furnishes us a splendid op- portunity to make an organic connection with the Fifth R.I.L.U. Congress and the fight against unemployment. At the Chicago Con- vention there must pe made a sharp turn in the matter of popularization of the Congress and its order of business. In the most con- erete fashion the R.I.L.U. Congress can be brought forward as the next step in the advance of the world struggle against unemployment and the strengthening of all the forces .n the world leadership of the economic struggles of the masses. The same line must be applied in the prepara- tions for August 1—the International Day of Struggle Against Imperialist War. The deep- ening economic crisis makes it not only neces- sary but entirely possible to popularize the By BILL DUNNE )R the revolutionary trade union movement | he struggle of the working class on a world | le against rationalization, unemployment | ] imperialist war centers in the preparations the Fifth Congress of the Red International Labor Unions convening on August 15 in IScOW asi the Fourth Congresss, the theory of \merican exceptionalism” has been shattered such a manner as to focus the attention of e world’s working class and the colonial peo- upon the United States. The crash in all Street has been heard around the world. dramatized for millions who had been dazed ’ what appeared to be “permanent/ prosper- in the United States, the essentially shaky r of “prosperity” based on the increas: g robbery of the working class, The Wall Street c h—-which has been fol- Ly a whole series of sharp declines—re- ane danger to capitalist stability in the gap between production and markets. was preceded by gradual decline of pro‘uc- on in a number of industries, and has been by rapid declines in practically al) Irive against the working class has been layotfs and open | role of the R.LL.U. and the Comintern; also ig place—especially in min- | to make the clearest connection between the steel and metal industries. Mass un- | drive against the living standards of our class and the preparations for attacks on the Soviet Union, and a new world war of imperialist con- quest. The detailed work of preparation for the Fifth Congress must not cease with the elec- tion of delegates. Through all the sessions of the R.ILL.U. Congress resolutions and de- bates must be brought to the attention of work- ers at every shop committee meeting, at every conference and convention, at all mass meet- vorkers | ings, an¢ always in connection with the issues | and struggles which arise here in the United States. International working class solidarity in the economic struggles through the leader- ship of the R.I.L.U.—by its correct revolution- ary line and its day-to-day direction; through its secticns, like the Trade Union Unity League and its International Committees of Propa- ganda and Action in all industries. Organized by the Trade Union Unity League, with the huge March 6 demonstrations, a pow- erful factor in its organization; in spite of our errors, with indisputable evidence of the wide growth of the influence of the Communist Party before our eyes, the Chicago Conven- tion will mark a big advance in the consolida- tion of the struggle for Work or Wages and for social insurance, It musst likewise mark a big step forward in the correction of our weaknesses in the prepa- rations for the Fifth Congress of the R.1.i..U and the serious undertaking of this work on a far wider mass scale than ever before. The next big step will be the holding of a mass con- vention of the National Miners Union in Pitts- burgh or July 26, after which comes August 1 and the mass demonstrations against imperial- ist war. In all of these actions the preparations for the Fifth Congr must be an integral part of the agitational and organizational work. | Combine Everyday Struggles and Revolution- ary Program Writing in the April-May edition of the Red International of Labor Unions, Comrade Lo- ng a total of from 7,000,000 increased daily. The worke: iployed are driven up to nd beyond the limit of human endurance. intire working-class communities are living wthe subsistence level. Not one single immediate relief of the jobless has been taken by the capitalists and government. rpens; 3,000 Militants Jailed ’, more than 3,000 d since January 1 for taking part and demonstrations, The imperial. jon is brought into clear nent of Comrades Foster, rand Raymond in New York, where demonstration of unemployed to riot,” and by the Carr, Lewis, Bur- , in the South, where the organ- nt unions, the establishment of the united front of white and black workers nd the t of unemployment demonstra- tions becor ing to armed insurrection. itis on the basis of these developments which represent a decided sharpening of the class uggle in all sectors, accompani d by one out- nz feature, i. e., a series of strikes against cuts, the speed-up and other forms of ra- nlization occurring in the face of mass un- loyment, show clearly the will of workers tt wht back, and that our preparations for the Fifth Congress of the R. I. L. U. must be made. It must be said that we have so far failed e more than formal attention to this im- of our work. the more necessary to criticiz nce the American wa ions of the class mions of the T.U.U.L., has strong isola endencies. That is a tendency to neglect or estimate the necessity of the closest con- m of all str in America with the ors in the other imperial- ing those of the workers id peasants of the colonial countries under the idership of the Communist International and ve R.LL.U, | Workers Must Be Won to Revolutionary Program line in the preparations for the th Congr as in all our other work, is 1t_ of winning the majority of the working ss to our revolutionary program, for organ- our for militant struggle on the : of elemental economic demands, for build- x the revolutionary unions as the weapons entrenching our shop and factory tees firmly in the decisive industries, ing the mass foundation without which egle of the working class for power is belo measure their Cc On the Dn, et of milit | | | ‘The great thing in our preparations is to link up the preparatory work of the Congress with the everyday struggle of the workers, and the current problems with all the developments and vital activities in the given country. ... We must not separate our preparations from the current ques- tions, but link them together closer than ever before; not a campaign, moyement or serious event in the ranks of our Parties, trade union oppositions or revolutionary unions should be isolated from the Con- | gress, which must prove an event of the first importance for the whole revolution- ary trade union movement throughout the world.” This is the line we must follow in utilizing the Chicago Convention for widening the mass base of the preparations for the Fifth Con gress of the Red International of Labor Unions. The Chicago Convention will be ‘greatly strengthened thereby and its international sig- nificance brought home to thousands of our | class. f still greater importance for the carrying out of our immediate tasks is the fact that in our fight for the exposure and defeat of, the American Federation of Labor leadership as the strike breaking counter-revolutionary agency of imperialism, in our struggle against | the traitorous socialist party and its Muste- wing in the textile and coal mining industries, in our struggle against these enemies of the Negro masses, in our exposure of their role as the supporters of white chauvinism in the ranks of the working class, in the organization of the unemployed side by side wit hthe em- ployed workers in the class-struggle unions. we must pag the Red eke hl z La- The main have not yet learned: how to apply rtice the mass forms and methods of on and struggle which place us in ter of the masses, that’we have not yet w to apply the strategical and tac- rg Congress on Strike Strategy, is evi- a the weaknesses in our mass work— to mass content and methods. Must Strengthen Organization Work {n the important field of the fight against employment our organizational work has en so weak that for weeks following the sge demonstrations on March 6 we prac- ally allowed our influence to be frittered ay in silly se!f-congratulation. Perhaps the et outstanding instance of this occurred in itisburgh, where, after between 30,000 and 0 workers responded to our slogans on arch 6, not a single Unemployed Council was »rmed. Resistance developed to the line of the arty in the fight against unemployment and rotest mores. 3 in iatahee to the silat of the th as | and fish pools like crystal mirrors. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED} ESDAY, 1930 JULY 2, Page Three IT “aration of the Unemployed, Chicago, July 4 “On the Shores ot Lake Erie By M. DWORKIN. have been curtailed. Port Clinton, Lorain, and EAUTIFUL summer, Sandusky are, as a result of this curtailment, On stiseSreeinitaia choven eset dead cities. The reason why the cities are because they cannot buy the products. hungry, in spite of the fact that blue expanse of Lake Erie, urious summer pala are scattere s of the Ohio y They are dipped in verdure and flowers of is swarming with fish. Hundreds beauty. They are surrounded by endless | ° tons of the best fish of every “catch” are stretches of velvehsmooth colt inks, toss, | dumped back into the lake, lest it might upset the “market.” Only the rarest white fish, and similar high-priced fish are kept. These are not within the reach of the masses of ptole- tarians, and it is not meant for them. The people are hung the people are jobless, but the market must be protected against an “un- healthy balance.” So wills Wall Street, the highest and mightiest tyrant and ruler of millions of lives the world over. So commands a self-elected deity in the name of capital- tains, sparkling like gold and artificial lakes Orchards intoxicating the with fragrance and sweet- laden with ripening fruits a balmy summer air ness. Down below, at the beaches, luxuriously furnished, ar foaming waves, like v take place on these yac white yachts ng on the high Wild orgies ht orgies and day orgies. What debaucher' these patriots A dnaige wal e ese patriots | ism’s most sacred institution, profit. Up there in their palaces, live the self- Charming summer. chosen rulers of America. In those palaces On the green shores of Lake Erie, you see thousands and thousands of jobless and home- less. Balmy breezes of the lake tell fairy tales of beautiful summer to the hungry and bitter. They lie on the green shores hungry, overlooking in the distance on the sunny lake where the beautiful white yachts are holding their summer regattas. Those beautiful pri- vate yachts are the property of the parasites of Ohio. Among them, down there on the lake, you'll find the liberals and high priests of brotherly love and open forums, while thou- live those pirates of American industry who have fattened on the blood and sweat of the millions of Americans whom they have now left to starve on the streets. There live those refined cannibals, who, in the name of “flag and country,” have bled white millions of their countrymen, while they themselves are rolling in untold wealth, and all the while scheming and planning another bloodbath for their “fel- low-countrymen.” Human blood tastes it. They hunger for good. They have tasted it again. Their movies, their press, their pulpiteers and their corrupt | sands of “their” brethren are starving only statesmen are howling again. They will find | half a mile away from them. a slogan. But--today there are jobless and In the distance on the shore towards the hungry millions walking the streets of Amer- ica, And the flame will turn in a different | : dinection, On the shores of Lake Erie, where’| . The hungry and jobless thousands are look- once upon a time, the sky and lake were | ing in that direction, as well as on the lake. ablaze from industrial activity, now factori tbe s burn with flame and their hearts with rage. It will culminate and burst into mills and shops stand “cold.” | : On the shores of Lake Erie, many fisheries | # conflagration of revolt, here on the shores ; 4 of Lake Erie. city lie idle factories, shops and mills. | and the workers in the basic industries, driven ' threat of starvation. ul June smiles with roses. Hill and dale are aflame with poppies, bursting peonies, and the air is intoxicated with delicate fragrance from the blushing aromatic tea rose. In the fields, cows, with heavy udders, browse, up to their bellies, in fragrant green grass. Overhead a blue sky, clear and peaceful, as a dream, rolls over field and forest. Gardens thick with ripe, juicy vegetables, An abundance for everybody. And on the shores of Lake Erie thousands and thousands of jobless and home- less men, giants, willing to work, but deprived of this, nature’s greatest privilege, to man, by the most anti-social system, the capitalist system. nate men net rise Bud overthrow fi it. bor Unions as against the Amsterdam interna- tional of traitors- we must bring forward the R.LL.U. on the basis of its World leadersnip of the economic struggles of our class, as the cen- tral directing agency in this field of the class battles against unemployment, the speed-up, wage cuts and imperialist war. At the Chicago Convention we will establish the R.ILL.U. and the T.U.U.L., its American section, more firmely than ever before in the ranks of those workers who feel most keenly the burden of rationalization. the unemployed at top speed by the lash of hunger and the WHAT THE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED pis “Sirs By HARRY GANNES nour “for the first five months of 1930 was 14.6 e the cc A Voce rene aU" the ent s at pondin i a this “all the highest point ic i down to 64 per cent of United States. du r r soon reach the level of 1 the present sharp cycli nomic cent, or even bel of the dark days crisis, which Hoover I ury-February. There is no backbone Klein, and several months past Green, Lamont r' to steel production with automobile v n down, with building construction since the October, ¢ th the agrarian crisis cutting the This is < i onal ein of farm im mlemery demand. 1 1 of despond of commodity prices, Then ing January and F 1 to a e bottom the floundering anchor of heard of low leve dror expor to the shrinking mar- dex was at 92 the shar, world crisis. The Secondly, drop ces in the United States, as well ae 2 . countri further intensify over 100,000 worker: pac idenaghas: down. Textile mills aré shut. T' : ; dled pattie vrorl 5 2 outlook for “recovery” is greyer than : : ce at any time since the crisis began. Early in trelmicecece: BORIC Sree r, in chorus the bosses shouted about a te Gren ees OR mabe ring. There was a short markets, Hen lar gave momentum to the of unemployed Asioeell swing that followed. Now thousands who s the mit the late summer and fall will Thirdly, one of boss¢ \ r and unemployment. About their engineers and economist e they are grimly silent. They try employment is the deadly germ w Ices to overlook s element of time completely ! peels and gaze beyond, into the spring of 1981 when more unemployment—rationalization. order | 220 8° nos ae g of 19 to cut costs and produce wha ¢ they “hope”—“hope word nine-tenths Aig nats : z of them u Syn what can be sold at lower pr . the fo h, stop in the downward swi: are speeding up the . and prices point where they present staff “cure” for unemploy m workers on to a cut down their continuously | put. T ne tail Am ay be that over the next five or ten ars business will be on a replacement basis instead of being carried forward by unusual expansion in one or two particular lines.” Stript of its mystic varbiage, this means they expect for the next five or ten years no upward swing in production that will carry | them above the 1929 level—in fact, they thus abilization,” if at all, on a chronic and extremely conservative Journal rican Bankers Association declares: without affecting ov nt will This situation, which no ar Hoover and his whole pack of 1 Department of Commerce, Bureau, who mechanically lies can cover up, is now Wall Street press. Bosses Lie About Number of Hence, we find the New York | ye adr 28) greet the nouncement ¢ cr evel. Bureau that there are only unem- the workers this portends am increase ployed in the United States tort— in unemployment that will ke last winter comparison, The breadlines will be lummer. The savings of the great e jobless will be sifnt. Starva- “Juggling Unemployed alee. mild add: lon “Applying union (A. F. of L.) percentage | 1 ajority 0. to all who are gainfully employed in this | tion will stalk through the ranks of the Amer- country would bring the total unemployed | ican workers as never before. to more than 8,000,000.” | With this will be coupled an attack of un- But Green guages his figures to suit the | usual ferocity against the standard of living convenience of his boss, Hoover. | of the employed wor' This has already ha aieien asks otlerek be Doves been announced by the National City Bank of eoathaicate “the. -Mrehaee Be ind New York, the Journal of Commerce, and caved in. Automobile production, wh dozens of other capitalist financial sheets, ‘o this will be added an intensified agrarian | | ists, was 30 per cent below 1929, for the five- | crisis unequalled in American history. As low month period ended May, is now in the w | as farm product prices are now, they have doldrum. It is admitted thro the auto- | been artificially kept up in the interest of the mobile industry that during July t and | speculators and bankers, by the Federal Farm September production will drop at 50 | Board. Farm exports have been very low. per cent below “normal.” During the fall and | The warehouses are already overflowing and harvest is just beginning. Many farmers are Iding their wheat—for higher prices—when es constantly go lower and lower, This Is ruin and bankruptey for thousands of them. A good harvest is looked for in Italy, enti Canada, the United States and the et Union. To the capitalist nations this is a catastrophe. It means starvation for the masses. Ruin for the poor farmers. In the Soviet Union it means more food for the s and an impetus to the building of so- | cialism. The horn of plenty under capitalism is brim. ful of misery for the workers. winter it will drop to nearly zero. Dur coming fall the unemployed lines in the mobile districts will double. The building industry shows the ut in- ability of the bosses to overcome the present sharp crisis by an attempt to speed up Lae duction. Hoover put his shrieking about increased the result? What are the prospe building trades workers? telegrams from the 48 governors sent to Hoo- ver promising no end of public build struction, the net result for 1930 is a drop of $500,000,000, or over 30 per cent below 1 ng the auto- the Despite the glowing ts for and 43 per cent below 1° ek shows | Only the sharpest struggles of the great a smaller total. For the w June 28, mass of unemployed, whose number now (what 1930, total con i ¢ amounted with so-called vacations and inventories) is to $167,827,265, as in not far from the 10,000,000 mark, for “Work 1929—a drop of $84.51! es in one week! And | or Wages,” together with the employed work- this is the height of the Steel ‘production, admits Mr. United States Chamber of miserable showing. ers in a fight against speed-up and wage-cuts, can stave off the growing attempts of the bosses to unload the burdens of the growing s on the back of the working class, Barnes, of the Commerce, me a ORS iron peOnoe pon ” he iced Up For Wines. eat its For the Bosses (By a Worker But thi Correspondent.) | is not all, A few months ago the que conditions in the Chicago factories are | management of the factory worked out a probably worse than in any other city in | scheme how to make more profits and to speed the U. A. In the factory where I have | up the workers at the same time. They been working for the last eight months, at | called a secret meeting of all the straw bosses, Stewart-Warner, located at Diversy Bld, and | foremen and stool pigeons where the plan was Lincoln St., they used to employ over eight | explained. The foremen were told to lay off thousand workers, but since Hoover declared | a certain number of workers in each depart- his “prosperity,” there are only and fifteen hundred working. The conditions at Stewart and Warners for the last eight months or more are worsening not only every month or w They are speeding up th extent that not even animals could sta pace. The production departments h rated by a so-called “efficiency expert a high rate that nobody can keep up between ten ment, but to keep up the same amount of pro- duction with the remaining workers, They were told to discharge men and replace them with girls paying about a half of the wages they were paying the men. is is the way the bos: fits, speeding up the workers and increasing unemployment. The boss are able to get away with it because the workers ar not or- ganized. It is about time for the workers of workers to such an | | are making pro- and the | ve been to such n it. The stool pigeons of the company hide them- | Stewart-Warner to join the Trade Union selves behind the machines to see that the | Unity League, the militant union of the workers do not waste a single minute on the workers ah i —A WAGE earn ne 8 pe ner a be FUTURE HOLDS