The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1930, Page 1

a \. Fight Against the Imperialist War Preparations! Workers, Demand: “Not a Cent for Armaments; All Funds for the U: ~nloyed!” aily Cudlishes Company 7ol. VII., No inc, 165 daily except Sunday by The Comproduily 26-28 Union Square, ublisbing New York City. N 1. Day SENAT Disarming the Workers EAVY wage cuts and further extensive mass lay-offs in basic industries at the moment are in the very center of the bosses’ offensive against the workers. _,, And as usual the leaders of the American Federation of Labor are aiding the bosses, and disarming the workers. The International Labor News Service, the official news agenoy of the A. F. of L., in its last release openly attempts to prepare the masses for the acceptance of wage cuts. Starting with the assertion that commodity prices have fallen 9.1 per cent, but carefully for- getting that but little of this drop has been passed on to the workers, they conclude with the assurance that no wage cutting campaign will take place, because it has been “absolutely vetoed by those financial powers whose word is generally accepted as constituting law.” This is pure bunk and deception. It is only another phase of the efforts of the Greens and Wolls to help the bosses through the present crisis period. Last fall, after the stock market crash, Green and Woll, at the eall of Hoover, attended the conferences of bankers and big corpora- tion heads in Washington. There they agreed not to fight for provement in the workers’ wages during the period of the cri promise for them was, of course, meaningless because they never did fight for the workers’ interests) and “those financial powers whose word . . . is law” (for Green and Woll) agreed not to cut wages. | But who were these “financial powers”? Among others they were ithe heads of the General Motors Company, the United States Steel Jorporation, the Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and the biggest coal mining corporations in the United States. And what about their “word”? The best answer is to refer the |workers to the 20 per cent wage cut forced on the Youngstown steel lworkers, the wage cuts which have taken place in various plants of ithe U. S. Steel Corporation, the mass lay-offs and wage cuts in the jauto industry, more recently the wage cuts in the General Motors plants at Flint, Michigan, and the declaration of martial law to crush ithe revolt of the workers which followed, and finally the wage cuts (which have taken place in the coal fields in all sections of the country, including wage cuts for the anthracite miners now being arranged between John L. Lewis and the anthracite operators behind closed doors in New York City. These wage cuts are only the beginning. The big capitalists are preparing for the slashing of wages in all industries. Even the strike- breaking leaders of the A. F. of L. are forced to admit that “a wage reduction campaign has been under consideration among industrial leaders,” but for fear that the masses will prepare to fight these wage cuts, they hurriedly add their bunk about the “word” of these ruth- less exploiters of the workers. ‘3 The same news release, to make the position of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats clear, also contains a signed statement by Green in which the declares against strikes to stop this wage cutting offensive and jassures a steady flow of profits to the bosses. He says: | “We believe that in the conference room is a better place than the strike field. We believe that peace and good-will will } make more money for the mill owners.” (But not for the work- ers.—Ed.). By these statements the role of the A. F. of L. is again exposed. Its role is to create illusions among the workers where possible, pre- venting them from fighting, and when the workers break away from ‘their leadership and enter into struggles these fascist agents unite openly with the bosses and the police in murderous attacks on the workers. Everywhere, in the shops and factories, in the workers’ organiza- tions, these fakers must be exposed. The masses still in these old unions-must be broken away from their leadership and won for the revolutionary trade unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. The preparations which the bourgeoisie are now making for war, the steady growth of unemployment, wage cuts, and speed-up, the \growing poverty and misery for millions of American workers—all is requires a program of militant struggle under revolutionary leadership. ‘ Under the slogans of “No Wage Cuts!” “Not a cent for arma- ments, all funds for the unemployed,” the workers must organize shop committees in the shops, factories and mines, and councils of unem- ployed in every city in preparation for a tremendous outpouring of the working masses after work on August 1 in protest against imper- ialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union, and for insurance for the unemployed. These demonstrations and their preparations must be the stimulus for the building of the revolutionary trade unions, for the struggle against the A. F. of L. fascists, end for intensified struggle against all phases of the bourgeois offensive against the workers. British Empire Trade ‘AR between nations can pass through several phases before op- posing armies actually meet on the battle fields. War is actually going on now between England and the United States in all parts of the world. It is a war for markets, for raw materials, for fields of investment, for spheres of influence, for political domination. All ethods are used by these two imperialist giants to gain advantage |\t the expense of the other. ) The Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, recently adopted by Wall Street’s Washington agents was one of the American weapons in this war. By means of the tariff, the American bankers and industrialists hoped to completely close their internal market to foreign competitors, espe- cially England, thereby maintaining monopoly prices at home, and enabling them to dump American products on world markets, includ- ing British colonies, at prices lower than their imperialist competitors could meet. : Now the English capitalists are attempting to reply with what they *é:m an “Empire economic union.” By this they mean to estab- lish free trade between Great Britain and all her far-flung colonies to the advantage of the mother country, while at the same time.estab- lishing a tariff wall around the empire to keep out the goods of her competitors, principally the United States. Whether or not the British capitalists manage to carry through this particular scheme is unimportant at the moment. The important fact is that by one means or another the war between these two pow- ers for the redivision of the world will be carried on until their armies, in which the working class of the two countries will be the majority, take up the fight. The deepening of the economic crisis, and the efforts of the capi- talists to solve the crisis, is every day sharpening the imperialist antagonism between these two powers. The outbreak of war between them can only be postponed by a temporary unity between the two in in effort to solve their need for markets by a joint war against the joviet Union. # Imperialist war every day approaches closer. The workers must prepare to fight against this war by organizing now in the shops and factories for the struggle against wage cuts, speed-up and mass lay- offs, linking this up with the preparation of the masses for the struggle against war. The 4vorkers must prepare now so that on the outbreak of the war they can work for the defeat of their “own” imperialist iment, for the transformation of the imperialist war into civil war, for the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. The demonstrations to be held on international fighting day against war, August 1st, in all countries must be a step in the mob- ilization of the masses for these aims. ¥ ' TO GIVE $10 FIGHT THE SLUM LANDLORDISM: VOTE COMMUNIST Not Only Bad Ones The exposure by the Morning |Freiheit of the housing situation in \the Cherry and Montgomery St. section could be repeated in other |sections of the city of New York. |In the robber schemes of the real estate barons of the city of New | York is Tammany Hall and its offi- jcial machinery. In the Cherry and Montgomery St. situation the real estate is owned by the city admin- istration. This real estate, in a typical Tammany Hall fashion, is going over to the good boys of Tam- many Hall for private profits. The city administration wants to keep clear its hands from the fact that it is throwing on the streets numer- ous families who find it impossible to earn a livelhood due to the crisis. It was the same last year with |the tenement houses in side streets, |presumably to be torn down for so- called improvements. The workers there could not even afford to pay rent for the slum-holes, The election program of the Com- munist Party demands that the state give adequate housing facilities for the workers of New York at cost. The workers of the city of New York must mobilize to expose these inci- dents taking place in Cherry and Montgomery Sts. and demand that these workers stay in these quarters until they can find other facilities in the city at the same rate that they are paying at present. The workers of New York must put up an intensive struggle for better housing conditions in all sections of the city, of which this f& an example. No act of the republeans, demo- crats or socialist policies will relieve the situation for tho workers. It is only the organized, united strength of the workers that will bring re- | lief. , TARRYTOWN AUTO WORKERS ROUSED |Talk Union; Suffering From Lay Off TARRYTOWN, N. Y., July 9— Yesterday a leaflet of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League was distributed to the workers in the Tarrytown Chevrolet’ and Fisher Body plants calling upon them to |-support the auto strike in Flint, | Michigan, The workers grabbed up the leaf- lets. The plant is alive during the past two days with discussion on organization, strike, Auto Workers’ Union, ete. Everywhere workers are discussing organization. The shop committee proposal met with good response among workers and many expressed a desire to join the union, The demands put forward in the leaflet met with enthusiastic re- sponse. Particularly the demand for 75 cents minimum pay and no |pay off for time lost as well as the demand for the return of the money robbed by the company for the community chest. The day the leaflet was given out a large number of workers were laid off. On that day the workers returned from a week’s “vacation” without pay! From “vacation” into the street! The Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League is determined to go ahead in organizing the workers in Tarrytown. Cherry Street Holes| 00,000,000 TO SPEED NEW “We Pulled the Trick” URSDAY, JULY 10, 1930 SUBSURLP’ and Bronx TION RATE 86 ao year everywhere excepting Manhattan New York City and foreign countries, there $8 FINAL CITY EDITION a year, Price 3 Cents TO DEMAND Hypocritical Horseplay | War Against It Was and to demand all war funds} be given to relieve the unem-| ployed. Meanwhile the same sort of “disarmament” proceeds in Great Britain, the British Admiralty today publishing its estimates for what is baldly declared “additional funds for ships allowed under the London Treaty.” Also France ap -By FRED ELLIS COMMUNISTS OF CUBA DEMAND RELEASE OF 4 |Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond Must Be Free BULLETIN. HAVANA, July 9. there occurred a fierce clash at the docks here, when a large body of workers demonstrated against the deportation of revolutionary workers when the latter were be- ing taken onto the boat. The po- lice attacked and several workers were wounded and many arrests made. Several women workers were brutally beaten. The Com- munist Party of Cuba appeals to the workers in the United States for solidarity action. ee a The Communist Party U. S. A. has received the following cable- gram: “HAVANA, Cuba, July 9.—The conference of the Communist Party of Cuba salutes the valiant Communist Party of U. S. and demands the liberation of Com- rades Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond who were imprisoned hy the fascist bourgeois of America.” The cablegram is signed by Emilio Casariego, general secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. William Z. Foster, general secre- tary of the Trade Union Unity League; Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, Israel Amter, New York district organizer of the Communist Party; Harry Raymond, and Joseph Lesten, unemployed sea- men, were arrested March 6 because 110,000 unemployment demonstra- tors had chosen and commissioned them to carry their demands for work or wages, etc., to the Tam- Volunteers Needed in C. P. District Office Volunteers for clerical work are needed in the district office of the Communist Party. Call today at 10 a. m. at 26 Union Square, room 202. Powers, Carr and Dalton Out on Bail ATLANTA, Ga., July 9.—M. H. Powers, Joseph Carr and Mary ) Dalton were released on bail Tues- | day from Fulton Towers Prison in Atlanta. ‘These three workers are thé last of the six defendants to leave their prison cells where they haye suffered persecution at the hands of the prison authorities and |the threats of lynching by the Ku ; Klux Klan of Atlanta. | The bail for these last three de- |fendants was reduced from the original figure of $10,000 each for Powers and Carr and $4,000 for | Mary Dalton, to $3,000 for each one | of the three. propriated $26,000,000 for “frontier defense.” The British Admiralty wants $1, 000,000 added to the regular budget whose sum is so vast that the capi- talist press discreetly doesn’t men- tion it at all, but which include the building of “three six-inch gun cruisers, a whole flotilla of destroy- ers, three submarines, four sloops and one net layer. The extra $1,- 000,000 is to cover the additiona! or i costs of building three other sub- Crisis Deepens; Rice marines which were budgeted in) Riots in Cheki | 1929 but never got built. lots In Chekiang But this isn’t all! It is said that While the Koumintang govern-| {7 oruisers represents the min foe te a the Necthine | “peace” minimum, no less than 37 coalition. militarists, the tools of | ROW cruisers will have to be built British and Japanese imperialism, betneg elites ae ae one ieiwae) areadttal eiveahvadwasine| disarmament” treaty! And what’s more, not only do cruisers get out ARMED REVOLTS ARE INCREASING IN SOUTH CHINA creasing banditry ravaging its | oF dete, but so do destroyers (‘de southern provinces,” according to an | stroyers” Sino ave for Sunel an Associated Press dispatch from | % ta: | Shanghai peace!”) and that to keep up the} minimum on that category, more} WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9 can “we” build under the “disarmament” treaty? | way the special session opens in the U. S. Senate on the in- famous “naval treaty” secretly arrived at in London. this plot for war, American workers are organizing in their shops to protest on August 1,¢———-—_— The capitalist press has to admit | IMPERIALIST WAR WORKERS ON AUGUS! i WAR FUND BE GIVEN UNEMPLOYED in Senate Over Secret Papers Containing War Plot on Soviet No One Speaks of Soviet, As At London Where Secretly Agreed On How many more warships This is the Against COMPLETION OF B-YEAR PLAN IN AYEARS CERTAIN Kuibishevy Reports to 16th Congress (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, July 9.—In his report to the 16th Congress of the Com- munist Party, Soviet Union, on the Five Year Plan, Comrade Kuibishev said that, while it took a recon- struction period of six years for Soviet Industry to restore the pre- war level of production, it only re- quired two and half years to double the pre-war level and perhaps an- other year to treble it. The Five Year Plan provided for a total increase of 180 per cent of the pre-war level. The carrying out of the plan has been so successful that the actual figures, however, would be a 350 per cent increase over the pre-war level. In the first three years, 11 mil- lard rubles are invested as com- pared with 6.8 millards as provided in the plan. The capital of the many government at the city hall. | | “This must not be misinter- preted,” says the International | | Labor Defense, which is conducting |a countrywide campaign to bring | before the masses of the people the \truth of the Atlanta cases, “as Per any relaxation of South- ern bosses in their avowed inten- tion to railroad the prisoners to electrocution and to keep Com-| munists from the South, and their real intention to do all they can to shatter the efforts of the exploited | Southern workers to organize for | better working conditions.” that “banditry,” which is the name they give to armed revolutionary Ww and peasants, is “increas- jing” in China, because the fact is |too evident to be concealed. The revolutionary movement in Chekiang, the home province ‘of Chiang Kai-shek and a very im- portant province adjacent to Shang- hai, is progressing with particular rapidity in the last few days. The deepening crisis, which practically creates a famine situation, is greatly accelerating the radicalization of the oe sm pa een aaa masses. Rice riots are reported to pBACK TO ORGANIZING. ‘have occurred in several places in ‘Powers and Carr are now in|i), province. | Charlotte, North Carolina, as rep-| ‘The Sovict movement in ‘ukian resentatives of the Communist |, becoming such a menace co the Party and the Young Communist |xoumintang government that, a League, and Mary Dalton, after ®\cording to an Associated Press di short stay in Charlotte, will go} | back to Atlanta as organizer for the | National Textile Workers, “The trial of the six Atlanta de- fendants comes up in September. Only the preliminary work of de fense has yet been done. Now be- patch Wednesday, the provincial au- thorities are forced to appeal for aid to the imperial central government.” ie as The deepening of the economic risis in China can also be seen through the continuous and unu- gins the gravest responsibility, the |sually rapid depreciation of the cur- real task,—that of collecting de-|rency which, in a few weeks, has fense funds and to stimulate an |lost half of its value. As a result ever growing protest that will force | prices are soaring high and with this the release of the defendants. the cost of living. | nib neat og Economic pressure is strongly | THREAT FROM PROSECUTOR. |and desperately forcing the workers ATLANTA, July 9.—Liberation |to struggle, and workers are strug- of six Communists facing trial on|gling harder and harder. The ris- } than two whole flotillas a year will have to be built under the “disarm- ament” treaty! With this going on in England, the U. S. Congress here is doing its share for “peace” by the fake “fight” which will precede adoption of the “disarmament treaty” that| provides for building $1,000,000,000 | worth of new Warships—while Hoo- | ver refuses to give a penny to the! 8,000,000 jobless workers and their | starving families! Secretary Stimson broke all rec- | ords at official lobbying yesterday by button-holing every republican senator right on the floor of the Senate or in the lobby (which is politely known as the cloak room) and even grabbing some democrats like Robinson, democratic floor lead er, who went to London to give a “non-partisan” front to the con- spiracy -known as the naval con- ference, With the big republican “whips,” such as Watson, and the democrat leader Robinson enthusiastically for the billion dollar “disarmament” ship building program, ratification would seem a sure thing, but there has to be the pretense of “democ- racy,” a lot of windy speeches by an inspired “opposition,” with “views of alarm” about the country being “left defenseless” with only $1,000,- 000,000 more warships. This will charges of attempting to incite in- surrection “does not mean that the cases will not be prosecuted with \the utmost vigor,” assistant solici- tor John Hudson, of Fulton County said today. He will ask the death penalty. ing tide of the struggle of the city | help Hoover get the “disarmament” proletariat, as evidenced by che re- | #PProved and the warships prompt- cent strike to transit workers in| /¥ built. REN Shanghai and the active parts that | Senator Swanson of Virvinia read the workers are playing in the agra-|# long speech his secretary had rian revolution, is the order of the | WTitten, in favor of the treaty, which no one paid any attention to. Then day in China. Fascist Fish Comes to N.Y. On July 15, Ham Fish, immersed in all the filth and brutality of the capitalist system, is going to swim into New York City with his crew of snoopers and cofitinue setting his stage with all kinds of fake scenery and clowns, fascists and bloodhounds, The purpose of his congressional “investigating” committee is to begin a fight against all revolutionary workers’ organizations and the Daily Worker. His object is to suppress everyone and everything that dares voice the interests of the working class, employed and unemployed. Fish does not want unemployed councils, does not want the unem- ployed and employed workers to organize for work or wages and social insurance for the unemployed, He answers the slogan “fight or starve” with “starve and be damned.” Fish wants to put a nice up-to-date czar upon the backs of the 150,000,000 workers and peasants now in control of the Soviet Union. Fish wants more speed-up and still lower wages in the shops, mines and mills in this country. Instead of or- ganization for Negro and white workers for common struggle, Fish wants more Negroes lynched. Fish wants another ten to fifteen mil- lion workers killed in a world war. What Fish wants we will fight with all the resources at our com- mand, Our biggest resource is the working class. Fish fights the Ges working class. We are with the working class in a fight against Fish and all the exploiters and oppressors he represents. The problem that confronts us is that of informing and organ- izing the workers in all industries so that they will enter our fighting ranks. Here’s where the Daily Worker comes in. It builds our ranks. The greater our ranks, the smaller the Fish, Dozens of letters reach us that say, “I must have the Daily Worker every day. I can not get along without it. You must not suspend even for a single day.” Thousands of workers recognize our paper as the educator and organ- izer of the working class. The Daily Worker strengthens our fighting front, mobilizes additional thousands of wage slaves for battle against Fish and all the sharks he represents. Our Daily Worker must be strong, so powerful that no “poor Fish” can weaken it. Right now, in face of the renewal of the “in- vestigation” on July 15th, every reader of our paper, every worker who reads this, every Party member should treble efforts to secure contributions for our $25,000 fighting fund, The Daily Worker de- rives its strength from the workers that support it. Your support is needed now more than ever before, | as much as possible. a resolution by McKellar of the “op- position” asking Hoover to please send the secret correspondence be- tween this and other governments, which contains the main treaty made at London—the agreement between the imperialist powers to make war on the Soviet Union. Not that anybody expects to get these papers, but just to give the “people” the idea that some of these capitalist politicians are guarding the interests of the masses. Borah, who has a marvelous ability in hypocrisy, sprung the following: think we ought to have the papers; that is to say, we ought to ask for them: It is doubtless within the | power of the president to refuse them, but we ought to ask for them.” War against the Soviet Union is nearing, an deach robber power fears that the other will steal too much territory. Each arms to get Billions are | being spent for war. Not a cent! to maintain the starving millions of | basic industries has been doubled. | Factories, worth 12 millard rubles, |are in the process of construction. | Lenin’s electrification plan has been carried out in 10 instead of 15 | years. ‘Twice as much capital is inyested in the electrical industry this year as last year. The capital investment next year in this in- dustry will again double that of this year. The plan fixed the final figure for coal production at 75 million tons, but this figure has already been achieved. ‘The figure fixed for the fifth year of oil production has also been achieved. ‘The final figures for pig-iron production have been increased from 10 to 17 million tons. In 1932-33, Soviet Union will be the first pig-iron producing country in Europe, second only to the United States of America. The chemical industry provides difficulties as a new industry, but the plan figure for a seven fold in crease of production will be carried out. Manufacturing is developing within the framework of the plan, though some branches have gone ahead of the plan while others are lagging behind, owing to insuffi cient supply of raw materials. Technical cultures, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., must be improved. Capital investments in engineer- ing for next year will be doubled. Agricultural machinery produc- tion has reached 430,000,000 roubles as compared’ with 67,000,000 roubles before the war. In 1931, it will reach 850,000,000 roubles, ex- ceeding production in the United States. Last year, 3 per cent of machinery was electrically pro- pelled (such as tractors, etc.). Now, the percentage is 24, and 1930, it will be 60 per cent. The final figures in the plan con- cerning commodity circulation has already been achieved. On account of this, transport, freight car build- ing, etc., are greatly strained. In Autumn 1931, the Nishni Novgorod autoworks will open with an annual capacity of producing | 140,000 autos while the existing factories will be extendea:~ Socialism is creating tremendous new industrial areas, for instance, the Urals and Siberia. Enormous increases in trained labor is re- quired. The main factor in the progress of the Five Year Plan is the new socialist relation of labor plus labor enthusiasm of the masses. The carrying out of the Five Year Plan within four years is guaran- unemployed, ae