The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1930, Page 3

JAIL LE Five workers were jailed only June 28 the masses protested, demanding freedom also of the New York Unemployed Delegation. because they were Communists, On COMMUNI “Down With Yankee Imperialism,” reads one banner of the revo- lutionary Cuban workers. | WORKER, NEW YORK, TU WORKERS JAILED BY On the streets they clushed u and many injured PRAVDA ON COMPLETION OF 2 GIANT FACTORIES IN THE SOVIET UNION he Factories Are Best Answers to Anti-Soviet War Threats i nthusiasm of Workers Chiefly Responsible for the Factories’ Speedy Success MOSCOW (L.P.S.).—The leading article in the “Pravda” of June 7 deals with the opening up of the wo socialist giants, the Djerjinski tractor works in Stalingrad, and he Selmashetroi factory for the roduction of agricultural machin- ry in Rostov on the Don: The socialist construction work of he toiling masses claims two new ictories, Two giant industrial mdertakings have taken their laces in the soviet economic sys- tem, Isn’t this the best answer to the threats of the imperialist world which stands by smouldering With rage at the progress being made by the soviet economic sys- tem, The transformation of agri- culture on the basis of socialized large-scale agricultural undertak- ings has now received two powerful allies. The miserable backwardness | of Czarist production for agricul- \ ture which was based solely on the _ needs of the rich land owners and he kulaks has already been ex- eeded sixfold by soviet industry. till greater prospects open up be- fore us. Hardly 5 years ago the Soviet Union produced one or two hundred tractors, and this year it will produce 15,000 of which 2,000 will be produced by the Djerjinski works. When the works have reached their full capacity Stalin- TRY TO CONTINUE | /BURLAK’S TOUR Latee Defense Sends Other Speaker Also CAMDEN, N. J., July 7.—Al- augh she is scheduled to come up or trial today (Tuesday), in Cam- en, N. J., charged with sedition, Burlak is continuing with her ns for the International Labor lefense tour in the Lehigh Valley istrict. Unless the result of the trial ees a change in the arrange- ents, Burlak will be in Washing- nm, D. C. today and tomorrow, llying support for the Atlanta insurrection” cases of which she one victim, and helping to in- nsify the campaign of the I. L. D. ainst the Flynn Sedition Laws, .d for a doubling of membership rength for the I, L. D. From Washington Burlak will go Baltimore for two days, then to jladelphia, participating in the leading election campaign. On Burlak is to work among erals and A. F. of L. unions be- een her visits to the different ities. eat ie A. Kurtz, well-known Jewish iter and lecturer, who speaks in Jewish and Russian as well as in lish, begins a national tour on uly 16, under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, Com- rade Kurtz is to organize a cam- paign among the Jewish population for the Atlanta “insurrection” pris- oners, and to raise $10,000.00 im- mediately necessary for this case, Kurtz’s tour opens with four days in Baltimore, beginning July 16, and will cover the entire country, from the eastern seaboard cities to the Pacific Coast, embracing the middle west as well. The subjects of his lectures thus far announced are: “The Atlanta Case and its National Significance,” “Five Years of I.L.D. Activities,” “Literature and the Class Struggle,” and “The Life and Work of Vlad- imir Mayakovsky.” From Baltimore he goes to Washington for July 20 and 21, then to Richmond for July 22, and to Norfolk for July 23 and Further announcements of this For Indian Prisoners. . The Defense Committee, .organ- ized for the relief of the victims of British persecutions in India, has today cabled the National Office of the I. L. D. with a plea that $1,500, still due on the American I. L. D.s pledge of $2,000 be sent to the Meerut Defense Committee immediately. “Request send immediately Uhou- ly 14 and 15 she will speak in) grad alone will deliver 50,000 trac- tors at 30 horse power annually, The production of agricultural machinery in the Rostov works will total 115 million rubles annually. The production of agricultural machinery in the Soviet Union next year will increase from 355 million rubles or more than double. The unprecendented labor inten- sity and the short time in which the two socialist giants were com- pleted, were due to the enthusiasm of the workers, the socialist com- petitive scheme and the tireless activity of the shock industrial groups. The progress made must be consolidated and followed up by further triumphs.’ The government, the party and the working class must aim at having the ore works im Magnitogorsk and Kusnetzk com- pleted at the latest on the 1st October, 1931. Thanks to the cor- rect Leninist policy of the party, the Soviet Union will be at the head of world production of ‘agricultural machinery next year already. The foundations of socialism which is being laid in a bitter class struggle in the Soviet Union is resolving it- self more and more clearly. The party maintains the principle of Lenin according to which socialist industry offers the key to the re- construction of agriculture. GERMAN POLICE FIRE 0 WORKERS AT MEETING (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 7.—Following a Communist meeting at Worms, sev eral trucks carrying Communists stopped at a square in Benheim to hold a meeting. Police interfered and immediately fired into the crowd wounding seven workers. Numerous arrests were made. One College President Gives Up the Pretense WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 7. Karl Marx is the modern Titan, and his economic and social theory “the most momentous affair in the world today,” blinking jurists and attor- neys in annual convention in Walla Walla were informed by Pres. S. RB. L. Penrose of Whitman College. “The man of the 19th century,” he told the lawyers, “whose influ- ence is most deeply felt in the 20th century is neither Goethe nor Dar- win. Some men tower +9 high above their contemporaries that they cast a shadow which reaches down the ages. I believe that Karl Marx casts the longest shadow of any man of the 19th century. Bolshevik Russia is the realization of Marx’s prophe- cy. It is necessary for the intelli- gent student of contemporary life to understand him.” Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Kay- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. sand dollars Meerut Defense ac- count your pledge stop reason ur- gency transmit money cable.” The plight of the Indian victims of British Imperialist persecution grows increasingly worse, and funds for their assistance are sorely needed. Contributions should be sent for this purpose to the Na- tional Office of the I. L. D. imme- diately. The solidarity of the American working class with its fellow workers throughout the world must be expressed in such a time of stress with material as- sistance. Demand Jobless Leaders Release. Demands for the release of the N. Y. Unemployed Delegation, Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, continue to pour into the National Office of the I. L. D. Resolutions and telegrams have recently come in from the Jugoslav Edutational Club, Masury Workers Club and Zora Association at Youngstown, O., from a mass meeting of Buffalo workers, Negro and white, gath- ered to intensify I. L. D. organiza- tion in Buffalo; from mass meet- ings in St. Paul Minnesota, and Norfolk, Virginia SDAY, JULY 8, 1930 ith police, two workers were killed “TOOLS OF U. On May 1 the Cuban workers, in the Great “Fronton.” 8. both Negro and white, demonstrated re. MECHANIC WHO 22/. Miners Run WHRKED OR GOES erties Ragged at M SOVIET WRITES) eee Springfield, Ill. Tells of Big Contrasts) tured from _ his pleasure | trp | * q abroad stopped over in Springfiel in Systems on his counter-revolutionary Trots- a Rh 5" kyite trip through the U. S. to} speak to the “masses” (ha! ha!). Exactly 17 were present and only 4 were Trotskyites from this part of the state. The rest were all sympathetic to the Party, as well as 3 Party members. We sure gave Schachtman, Angelo and John Watt a hot time. We asked the renegades such hot | | questions that they were all lost | | and had to show they were enemies | of the workers. | Arthur Herchey, secretary of our | “ 9 vears in| nucleus, gave John Watt an awful | years at Mem. In the two years |he didn’t come prepared (!) | I am back in U. S. A. I have not! We told Watt he was a faker who | been able to get work in building | is selling himself to the highest work which is my specialty. Un-| bidder, Lewis and Howard and employment is very severe with fighting the only union of the min-) more than half of the building trades ¢rs, the N. M. U. workers unemployed. The 4 Trotskyites were so upset We do not get unemployment in-| and got so scared that they ad- surance in the U. §, A. but are de-| journed the meeting and everybody tpendent on charity, breadlines and| was with the N. M. U. and the missions for crumbs that are thrown | Party at the end. These damn work- away by the “kulaks.” ingclass enemies like Trotsky & Hickville, N. J. Editor, Daily Worker:— Having been a reader of the Daily Worker for the last two years, I am asking you to print following let- ter, and have it re-printed in Russia in “Padonak Tazamea Mocklec.” I am a metal worker. ee Dear Comrades in Zabod No. 2 Meme: Through the columns of the Daily Worker 1 am writing a letter to the comrades I worked together with in iFilipino Toiler Tells of Racial | Persecutions | | Los Angeles, Cal. Daily Worker We Filipino workers have a hard time in the United States. | We have to work as hard as other | workers and get less pay, at the same time the bosses stir up the white workers against us. In Kent a while ago, 40 or 50 men |came to our bunk house and ran} |us all out, you can imagine how we felt when we saw the mob} coming in cars, breaking in doors | and throwing us out of the bunk: houses without any clothes on. | Four of us were taken away with | the mob and left out in the coun- try. We Filipinos must organize in the Trade Union Unity League with the white workers and fight | side by side with them. At Kent | we were paid 30 cents an hour | and had to work 10 and 12 hours | a day. | night we have to cook our own | supper. We also have to furnish | When we get home at| food and bedding. We must join a strong fight- ing union, the Food Workers In- dustrial Union, and fight the —A FILIPINO WORKER. agents of the bosses. The revolu-| meet the expenses of his household tionary unions over here are weak | which consists of 12 servants, a 30 as yet, but are gradually increas-| 00m mansion, 8 automobiles, 2 aer- ing and building new unions, oplanes and a sail yacht. Where I work speed-up is ter-| In the shops the bosses have rible and many workers get hurt,| Plenty stool-pigeons, spies who re-) injury to the eyes and hands are| Port every move you make. The) common occurrences but no sick ben-| Daily Worker is hated like poison efit is paid unless sick more than|by the undercover men and anyone 2 weeks and then only % of the | caught bringing it in is fired. Also wages are paid. But remember I| anyone caught taking up a collec- am living in the richest country in| tion for the I. L. D. F. S. S. U., the world and the bi is making! ete, is immediately fired. If you Tam working at present in an| Co. won't come to Springfield for a| Write About Your Conditions open shop, not organized. ‘This hell of a long time. for The Daily Worker. Become 8 should not seem strange to you Comradely, when you know that less than 10 ROY JONES. Worker Correspondent. percent of the workers in the U. S. 2 A. are organized in craft unions, which are run by leaders and hired | very little profit, and can hardly|are caught washing your greasy, grimy hands before going to the toilet you are fired. Some stool is dogging you even during lunch hour listening to your talk. Only hope for workers and poor farmers is to join the Communist Party and through the revolution- ary unions and defense corps over- throw the present capitalist s: and build a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Yours for Socialism, E. H. UT OF WORK and windows, knocking us down | | | | which stated: bosses along with the other work- | ers. WOMAN FAINTS FROM HUNGER; | |Food Dumped Into the, Rivers (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—My friend, a woman | worker, stepped into a free em-, | ployment office yesterday and saw a woman fall down in a faint on the floor of-the office. Bystanders said that she was probably weak and hungry. They said that happens very often nowadays. My friend. who is jobless and quite frail, not getting proper food, thought this | w no place for her and left the place. The very same day the Chi | cago Tribune had a story from New York, printed on the front page. } “An oversupplied market has | foreed commission merchants to dump hundreds of truck loads of perfectly good vegetables into the} 3 River during the last three “Bumper crops throughout the }east and south have sent a flood of | spinach, string beans, melons, to- matoes and lettuce into the New York market, which the merchants \declare is causing them to lose heavily on each carload lot.” How is that for a so-called civi!- ization? The very food people need | the most is dumped into the river, | while millions of workers starve be- jeause the bosses can’t make more jprofits. Such an inhuman system | c.n not last much longer. It must be replaced by a workers and farm |ers commonwealth, a Soviet system jof society. Join the Communist Party and} help brine about the end of capital- }ism and the establishment of Com- munism! Fight for the seven-hour day, five-day week. 5 heart. Not content with trying to é land company dicks, aided by the State police and constables from | a the sheriff’s office, arrested Sylvan | L Q | Pollock and John Tash, brother of {the Tash arrested the previous e night at the office. They then pro- SEDITION CASES ceeded to the rooming house of John Little. and Daniel Slinger, pulled them from bed, and after ransacking their room also ar- Fear Betrayed Miners rested them and charged them with} “4 sedition. Are Ready to Fight |“ For Mere Members : The District Attorney (Continued From Pane One.) | ctatement at his office this morn- practically garrisoning the offices) ing saying that he would do all in of the N. ER ag Coe his power to bring in a conviction Party in Scranton, and stealing all) oy the sedition charges under a the mail. A bust of Lenin stolen] 4919 state law “The Flynn Act” from ‘the Communist headquarime|says that anyone belonging to 8 des os is Sette eriff’s | vadical organization can be con- otfieg und rat ated sedition eome| *ictet. of sedition and sentenced to ipibetoraracindes Raturday who tek OMe TS DES the brother of the sheriff making More Raids. et) the arrest, and he will hold them] The next night, County Detec- to the grand jury which meets in| tives Jack Kline, and Thomas the fall. The International Labor| Davies, Sergeant Annis of the state Defense attorney in the case is J.| Police and a trooper, with Assist- Russel McCormick. ant Attorney Otto Robinson snd ; 3 Sheriff Gomer Davis again raided Raided at Co. Orders, “ Seat | The offices of the Communist| the offices of these organizations Party, the Young Communist |@d finished some of the smashing League, the National Miners Union | Neglected the dirst time. They also| and the International jor De- arrested Peter Thanos, Wiiliam | fense were raided in this city July Lawrence and Lawrence Young. | 2 at 8 a m. The raiders were | These were not charged with sedi- under the orders of Burgess Web-| tion, and were released, ber, the company tool and mayor of gotiated to cut the wages of t miners and to speed them up more an: more. ‘the coal operators to- gether with the fascist leaders of the A. F. of L. know that the Com-| ernment in the United States.” munist Party and the N.M.U. are in the field to organize the miners into the National Miners Union to fight against wage cuts, speed up systems and to prevent the betrayal by the fascist leaders. “Dis that he will not allow the Commu nists to address any meetings any longer, and that he will order Sher. iff Davis to pick up all those who spread propaganda, either by pam phlets o: ass meetings’ among th miners. statement proves def- initely that Attorney Owens and the entire state apparatus are working under the ditect orders of the coal} operators to smash the working class organizations and to force the miners to work under the most mis erable and inhuman conditions. Wiil Organize. “Tt must be clear to the miners| in the anthracite and to the entire working class that this direct at tack by the state upon the Commu- nist Party is not an isolated event but is part of the general attack of the bos class against the lead of the working class, the Commu nist Party and the entire wo: class, is a part of the Fish “in vestigation” of all militant labor or- ganizations—to smash them and leave the workers at the hands of th> bloodsu + Attorney Owens declared! neg capitalists and the | The local papers speak openly of | the company town of Dunmore that belongs to the Pittston Coai Com- pany, where a meeting of the min- Jers of the company was being ad- dressed by Joe Tash, local organ izer of the National Miners Union. Tash was arrested despite the interference of the miners and the president of the local, who ordered the police to leave him alone, He was seized when he left the hall after the meeting and charged with disorderly conduct, inciting to riot, sedition, and as being a suSpicious character. The total amount of the bail set for Tash at his hearing was | $4,000, The offices were raided the | morning following the meeting at! [the recrest of Burgess Webber, who | Jhas only the company interests at the necessity of smashing up “all’ fascist loaders of the A. F. of L. “The Communist Party and the N.M.U Communist organizations” to pre- vent the dissatigfied miners from | however, in spite of all the “being affected.” Sheriff Davis | d tha threats of: My, has issued a public threat against ean eon Te HEAL, te any Communist or National Miners | ing the miners, to fight Union speakers who dare to appear) , before the miners. Reasons for Attack. Peter Thanos, states for the,Com- munist Party in this district: st wage cuts and speed up, for the six-hour day, five-day wee! for unemployment insurance, et All workers must rally around t Communist Party to fight against “This attack upon the working | those brutal attacks upon the work | ers to smash the attempts of the | class Party, the Communist Party and the N.M.U. took place at a time} bosses to ve the Party of the when the so-called grievance com | workers underground. The Coima mittee had betrayed the miners and! nist Party is organizing the work- told them to go back to work, and| ing cl ght not only for their at a time when the fascist leaders | everyday need of the United Min Union of} fense of the Soviet Union, the only America and the coal operators ue workers and farmers government ss to but also for the de.| and finally for the overthrow of | the present stem of exploitation and oppression and the establish- | ment of a workers and farmers gov- [WESTERN ELECTRIC MEN [CHEER UNION PARK MEET CHICAGO, TIL, July 7—An in-| |dication of the ties that unite the | struggles of the workers and the | jobless here can be gained from aa| incident at the Western Electric | ‘actory, two days before the July| demonstration in Union Park. An enthusiastic factory gate meet- ing greeted with cheers the an- nouncement by Joe Dallot, of the| Metal Workers Industrial League |that the demonstration at Union | Park would be held, permit or no j permit. | The workers at Western Electric |have eperienced a steady series of wage cuts, imtroduction of new] speed up devices, ete. Of the 45,000 | | working there before the first of | | the year, only 17,000 are left today. | | so the Western Electrie workers see | clearly the necessity for unity of} both employed and unemployed. Wage cuts of up to 50 per cent |in some departments have made | them militant. | The rank and file ore 2 com: | mittee of the Metal Workers Indus ‘trial League there, is just getting NEW LYNGH TALK IN BIRMINGHAN Threaten TUUL, Party Organizing Goes On BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July — Following the arrest of Harry n, Frank Burns and Gil organizers of the Trade Union Unity League, at a mass meeting here last Saturday, the city government of Birmingham has launched a campaign to drive the Communist Party and the revolu- tionary unions completely under- ground. “The Communists and be completely wiped out,” J. M. Jones, President of the Birmingham City Commission, stated to the press this week. Chief of Police McDuff has instructed the police to arrest Communist leaders on sight and “to comb the city for see- ret Communist meetings in order to break them up,” according to the local papers. The police are co-operating with the Klu Klux Klan, which two weeks ago burned an effigy of Tom Organizer, and is working up spirit for the murder of Communist lead- ers. McDuff has announced that he “has been warned by friends that the Communists are out to get him and is taking every precaution to protect his life.” At the same time Jones produced a faked letter preporting to come from a Negro in Harlem threatening his life. The letter has been branded by the Communist Party as a crude and obvious frame-up designed to in- cite or excuse the open murder of leading members of the Communist Party and the T.U.U.L. Worker Prisoners Friendly. Jackson, Burns and Lewis, still in jail, have managed to smuggle {out word that every attempt has been made by the jailors to incite the other prisoners against them but that this has been unsuccessful and the other prisoners, mostly workers, are expressing their com- plete solidarity with the class war prisoners. Unsuccessful in their attempt to incite the prisoners the police have done their own dirty work, beating up Gil Lewis, Negro their activities in Birmingham will} Johnson, Communist Party District | Fire Part of Force and Increase Hours of Rest SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 7.— His name and even his city can't \be printed, because he might lose |his job. “There are a hundred men lwaiting for my job. so please don’t mention my name,” he | A skilled work old and | vigorous, he was getting $1 an hour | last ar. Now he is collecting garbage 11 to 14 hours a day at half |his former wage. His case is typical of hundreds in that com- munity, where many plants hav! | discharged part of their employ and increased the hours of those remaining. | BOSSES’ BUREAU ADMITS 9.1% COMMODITY DROP, WASHINGTON, D. C.—U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show | commodity prices as having dropped |9.1 per cent from August Ist to |June ist. This is no doubt a mild | version of the real commodity drop. The de- | T.U.U.L. organizer, severely. ‘International Labor Defense, | fending them, hopes to effect the |release of the three organizers on | bond tomorrow. Leading Communist Party mem- bers are receiving daily threats from the K. K. K. and other fascist organizations. One comrade has received three phone calls in the \last two days threatening him with the bombing of his house and the kidnapping of his children unless he severs all connections with the Party immedately. Workers, es- pecially Negroes, who are members of the T. U. U. L., report almost daily threats to lynch them, burn their homes, drive them out of town, if they attend meetings called by the revolutionary unions. Tom | Johnson, District Organizer of the Communist Party, has been in- formed by emmisaries of the Klan that he has only a week to live if he remains*in Birmingham. The Communist Party has an- nounced that it will meet this vio- lence of the fascists, and the police with the rapid organization of mass defense corps of both white and Negro workers. At the same time every effort to speed the building of the revolutionary unions will be |made. The workers are showing | wonderful spirit, and far from being | cowed, are coming into the T.U.U.L. in increasing numbers, down to working basis. They realize what the dis ion at the Youngs | town conference of the Metal Work er: Leatue clearly brought out; that | in order for external agitation anil pronavanda to be effective, it must | be linked un with the most system- atte and painstaking work inside the shon. BOARDERS WANTED A. SAL VER. ILELD, CONTOOCOOK, N, FARM. IN THE PINES Situnted tm Pine ext. mene Mer take. German | je, Hates: #11 S18. Swi ing and Fishing M. OBERKIRCH Rox 78 KINGSTON. 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