The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1930, Page 3

— ‘ cE i «| CHINESE PRESS ON THE) PROGRESSIVE MARCH OF REVOLUTION IN CHINA Chinese Red Armies Take New Towns and! Win New Victories | Kuomintang Troops in Southern Anheui Re- belled and Joined Red Army SHANGHAI (LP.S.).--The » eentive for the -insurrectionary Paper Shanghaipao reports the | movement and everywhere the pea- rapid extension of the Comrunist! sants are flocking to the Commu- moyement in the province of Hupeh, | n Whole detachments of gov- Communist troops haye captured the ‘ernment troops with their arms and TARRYTON AUTO WORKERS ARE district town of Tsiangchang, 125 kilometers to the west of Harkow. Fieree fighting between Com vinist and government troops is taking place near Tsanglin, Kayang and other towns. The Tantehen listrict has been occupied by the Commu- nist troops under the leadership of Peng Te-huei. The army of the latter is 8,000 strong. The newspaper Shunpao reports that rvolutionary troops under Com- munist leadership have occupied a number of towns and villages on the frontier of Szechwan and Hupeh. The Shanghai newspaper 3inwen- pao reports that the Communists in the Nanchang area have abandoned their illegal work and are openly agitating and organizing amongst the peasantry. They haye turned the mountain village of Taiping into ® fortress for the local Communist movement. The frequent defeats of the government troops by the revo- lutionary troops constituted a great OT ne Pravda on Fascism in Finland MOSCOW (LP.S.).—Referring to the situation in Finland and the rapid growth of fascist activity there, the Pravda points out that there is more in eommon between the development in Roumania and in Finland than the fact that they are proceeding simultaneously. The events in Finland were of more than purely national importance. The rapid advance of fascism in the states bordering on the Soviet Union represented a stage in the prepara-| tions of the imperialist powers for armed intervention against the building up of socialism. The Fin- nish bourgeoisie is more prepared for fascism than any other because its regime wes never more than a reign of terror poorly concealed with a veneer of parliamentarism. The Finnish kulak republie, which was SPEEDED U? Need to Join the Auto Workers Union Tarryton, Mich. Editor Daily Worker:— Today in Flint a struggle of our fellow-workers of General Motors is being waged against low wages and speed-up of the conveyor, against long hours, of which we in Tarry- ton are victims, too. Fifty-five eents an hour for men and 44 cents for women js scarcely a living wage, especially- when many of us have dependents. So few jobs are put out lately that even piece-work, out of which we are supposed to make higher wages, does not pay. Before, when we put out 400 jobs or more, now we put out only 300 or less. Many of us are sent home at two or three o’clock, so that when pay day comes around our checks are very small. Despite low checks, we receive from the bosses a de- mand that we must pay $5 for the Community Chest, out of which we get not a thing but a lower check, The $5 for the chest, plus $5 for savings, left many of us with little more than $10 or $12 for a week of slaving. I say slaving, and I mean just that. We are actually slaves to that! conveyor, The line speeds on and | we must stay at our places, setting | serews and splitting tacks, no mat- ter how we may feel. If we don’t | the line is held up, time and money | is lost by the bosses and we have a splendid opportunity to lose our jobs. And the line surely goes fast. supplies have gone over to the enemy. Strong detachments of Communists haye also raided the }coal mines in the east of the proy- jinee of Kiangsi, Shanghaipao reports that ‘he P-4 | Army in the province of Fuki-ng {has taken the district capital of |Changping. According to a report {from Canton, 18 districts of the province of Kwangtung are in the hands of the Communists. The Red Army has oceupied the town of Fe- nien in Anwei, Shanghai Shen Pao reports that in Chengsiang, in the south of An- wei, government troops have mu- tinied, executed their officers and gone over to the Communists with large numbers of rifles, machine guns, field guns and ammunition. ,A Soviet Government has been set up in the west of the province of Kiangsi and the Red Army there has grown from 7,000 to 20,000 strong. erected over the murdered bodies of thousands of Finnish revolution- aries, with the assistance of the Ger- man imperialist bourgeoisie, trem- bles for its existence at the slight- est movement of the working class and answers with an insane brutal- ity born of fear. The last two years had shown that the working class was realizing more and more clearly the role played by the Fin- | nish social democrats, so that now the Finnish bourgeoisie was prepar- ing to make an end of the revolting comedy by violence supported by the fa rifle corps and the kulak or- ganizations. The present develop- ment would end in a faseist coup d'etat under the protection of im- perialism and with the agreement of { all parties, including the social dem- | ocrats. P that we are not machines, that we | cannot work incessantly without be- | coming tired, without actually drop- | say, half-hour, comes along. when that finally comes we have The bosses do not want! to know | ing when lunch hour, or, I: should And Rail Workers Get Unemployment, Wage Cuts Fewer workers and short time work for those employed is the picture given by the railroad figures issued by the Interstate Com- merce Commission recently. These figures, which are the latest avail- able, cover the months of February and March, They show that the total number employed on the railroads in March was 1,546,663, which represents a decrease of 81,725 or 5.02 per cent in the number of work- ers. The wages of these workers decreased by $14,083,842 or 5.84 per cent. At the same time, the giant rail merger proposed by the Inter- state Commerce Commission is now in the process of realization. As soon as this merger is put over, at least half a million rail workers will be thrown out of their jobs, Within the last 10 years a quarter of a million workers have been dropped out of the railroad industry. That this process is continuing, is shown by the figures given above. The same thing is happening in Canada also. According to figures issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canadian steam railroads in 1928 hauled 20 per cent more revenue freight 519 more miles with 22,075 fewer workers and 228 fewer locomotives than in 1923. Railroad DEFEND UNIONIST 80 Strike When Faker} “Flags” M.W.LU. Man PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 9.— Cne day after they called out the marines in Philadelphia last week to break up meetings of the Marine | Workers Industrial Union, 80 long-| shoremen were riding to work in a} big truck, The International Long- shoremen’s Association business agent here, Polly Baker, “flagged” one of them whom he recognized as a - Rong | gross profits increased $85,394,218, War Propaganda in France The war danger is imminent, It is necessary for the interest uf the French bosses that France should be prepared for the oncoming con- flict. Therefore, the French bo.s government is taking every pretext to whip up the war sentiment and will not rebel at the heavy burden which war preparations have n ade even more unbearable on their shoulders. The Rhine fascist riots furnish the French boss government a good chance for some more war propa- Fascist Coup in Portugal Is a Failure LISBON, Portugal, July 9.—The attempts of the Portugese fascists to bring about a coup d’etat against the present government has failed. Some of the conspirators, includ- ing the Monarchist leader Colonel Joab Almeida, were arrested Satur- day. The capitalist press reports try to cloak the conspiracy with the dignity of a revolutionary move- ment, but facts show that it is.no more than a fascist coup. Figures Showing Deep Crisis in Argentina BUENOS AIRES, July 9.—The seriousness of the crisis in Argen- tina can be clearly seen in the half- year balances which have just been published. The total liabilities of the first six months of 1930 amount to 105,000,000 pesos while that of same qperiod last year was only 72,000,000 pesos and the two years before was 86,000,000 pesos. 2,000 Foundry Workers Gaining in Strike PARIS (I.P.S.).--2,000 foundry workers have gone on strike in Boucau for a wage increase of 5 francs a day. Four blast furnaces have been dragged out. Collisions an organizer of the M.W.I.U. “The man can’t work,” said Baker. Immediately all 80 walked out. and the’boss gave in. All went back to work. The M.W.I1U, is gaining members rapidly; 120 joined within the last two weeks, and 40 joined between Sunday and yesterday, The Polish element, of which there are 2,000 here are just beginning to swing over to the new union. Now for Baltimore. The National Chairman of the Marine Workeis Industrial Union, George Mink, spoke at a member ship meeting of 120 here, on the necessity of winning the Baltimore waterfront for a joint struggle. The Philadelphia workers are ready now but ships could be re-routed to Bal timore, only a few miles rail haul- ag2 away. The meeting pledged to build up a committee of organizers to go to Baltimore. In Baltimore things are hot. The longshoremen are indignant at the use of police by the I.L.A. fakers H, Harvey, national organizer of the M.W.LU, is in jail with other work- ers charged with assault. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston will soon hold a joint conference to prepare for united struggle on or before Sept. 1, at which time the Philadelphia A. agreement ex- pires. The conference will be held in Baltimore, the strategic point, some time in August, ganda. Speaking at a reunion of French war veterans at Lencloitre Sunday, Raoul Perét, the minister of justice in the French govern- ment, said: “Thus we see that moral disarma- ment everywhere ig not yet an ac- complished fact. Future generations have gigantic tasks before them, the first and greatest of which 's to in- sure our security by an adequately armed force and with well-fortified frontiers. Peace unprotected by am- ple facilities for its defense is a vain dream.” A coup is a sudden change of government by force without a change of political power from one class to another. A revolutionary Movement is a movement for the overthrow of the ruling or. op- pressing class and the conquest of political power by the oppressed class, the working class. A mere coup, which does not involve the transfer of power from one class to another class can never be ‘called a revolution. SLAVES 11 HOURS FOR 23 CENTS AN HOUR Chattanooga, Tenn. To the Daily Worker; Dear Comrades:—I was employed at the Casey Hedges Pipe Shop. began work at 2 a. m. and worked till 11 a. m. My salary was $2.50 for the 11 hours. Myself and my partner cut nine floors of moulding sand, about. 75 floster to the floor, each floor about 50 yards long. To my knowledge, three men have quit the job in two weeks’ time. In past time, five men did the work that |two men are obliged to do if they |want to hold the job. The labor in this shop has been reduced to about | two-thirds of its force, but doing or | producing the same work it did with a full crew of men, which show stretch-out and speed-up long hours for little pay. Comradely, - just enough time to swallow our sandwiches, washed down by some soda or cold water. Last week, when the Chevrolet conveyor broke down, so that we should not loaf for 15 or 20 minutes, we were given our lunch period during that time. Many stayed out for a full half-hour, in objection to the 15 minutes given us. Tuesday a leaflet was dis- tributed by the Auto Workers’ Union, which asked us to join it and fight against these awful con- ditions. As a result of the leaflet many workers asked each other, in re- spect to the Flint strike: “Aren’t we working for the same com- pany?” “Why den’t we do some- thing here about the identical _on- ditions prevailing here?” And if any worker will ask himself whether these are decent working conditions, and, if he realizes the truth, he will answer “No.” Our fellow-workers in Flint are striking against these same conditions. We must give them out utmost support by joining the Auto Workers’ Union. —A TARRYTON WORKER. LONGSHOREMEN PENNA. ELECTION MEET ON SUNDAY Communist Convention Meets At Reading PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 9.— | According to the reports coming in | from the various sections of Penn- sylvania, the Ratification Conven- tion next Sunday in Reading will be a huge success. Besides a large delegation from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the various industrial sections of the state will have a large delegation. The Anthracite, where the revo- lutionary, movement is fighting for its legality against the joint at- tacks of the coal operators, state troopers, and the Lewis machine, reports that so far they have as- sured about 30 delegates to the Convention. Pittsburgh expects 35 to 40 dele- gates at the Convention, mostly miners. Lehigh Valley, the strong- hold of Charles Schwab, will have a good delegation of steel and tex- tile workers. In one word, the stronghold of social fascism will witness a real revolutionary gath- ering for the first time since many years. While Mr. Maurer, the “hero” who stopped the collection for the Gastonia strikers, who, together with Messrs, Lovestone and Cannon, advocates the formation of a Labor Party, stated that he will simply ignore the Communist Convention, but the Socialist Party is mobiliz- ing its biggest guns to prevent the workers from attending the Party Ratification Convention, An out- door festival has been arranged by the S. P. with Norman Thomas Hillquit, and other big fakers scheduled as speakers, Our Party has already several field organizers in Reading, and is of course on the job to expose this manoeuver and to mobilize for the Convention by a series of factory gate and street corner meetings and a campaign rally on Saturday evening, where our candidates will Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent, Today in History of the Workers July 10, 1848—Ernest Jones, English Chartist leader, impris- oned on charge of seditious agita- tion. 1854—Four Philadelphia printers arrested on “cinsp' charge for strike against news- paper. 1860—First meeting of London, England, Trades Council. 1894-——-Debs arrested for violat- {ng injunction in American Rail- way Union strike. 1902—Gas explosion in mine at Johnstown, Pa., 112 killed. 1922—A. F. of L. | revoked charter of New York bookkeepers’ and stenographers’ Total check clearings’ for six months were 18,814,000,000 pesos which was 1,989,000,000 pesos less than the same period in 1929. There is also a sharp drop in all the essential exports of Argentina, namely, chilled and frozen beef, wool, and grain. Custom house re- ceipts for the six months were 17 per cent less than the first six months last. year. whereby the strikers established their objective. The strikers ate re- ceiving support from the local municipal council which has & Com- munist majority. The strike is un- der the leadership of the revolu- with strike-breakers occurred, tionary union, union, te expel Communists, speak, All those delegates who are go- ing to Reading by automobile or who have room for others, or those who did not take care of their transportatior should report imme- diately at the District Office, 1124 Spring Garden Street, or call up Poplar 3849; so that proper ar- rangements can be made for trans- portation. The credentials and the donations for the campaign should also be turned in before Saturday. Demand the release of Fos. ter, Minor, Amter and Ray-| mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. AN alone of a pny re wive home to clask-conacloun M working woman who is left with children to support. Those in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan preferred, HOWARD HARRIS, R. 7, ALLEGAN, Mich | ARD TIMES FOR SES NEED OF ser. CRITICISM OF ERRORS| | | HOUSTON SEAMEN Housten, Texas. Editor of the Daily Worker: More exploitation of seamen in | the sunny south. There are about 80 or 90 seamen j here in Houston on the ch and jall of them are hungry. There are | some world war vets amongst these | Same seamen and they can not get any ships as the slave master in the shipping board and scamens institute have their ,own privat little black lists, any seamen carry- ing a union/card and said slave masters haye their own stools to find out for thgm who the union men are. Worker sent an item to the bosses press, and the asststant manager got very peeved over this |slaves writing and he called on his |god and mammon also the com- munity chest for assistance and aid to line his own pockets with gold, Well it came out in this morn- ings bosses press that the institute was going to give the seamen a treat, by giving them an outing at Luna park. Listening in on some of the seamen this is some of the things I heard: I slept in a box car last night, I put the bum on Taylor and he turned me down, another |seaman, Geez don’t let the town elowns eateh you or you go to jail jand they put you on the pear farm to hoe corn and do other farm work for your food. The City of Houston has a big farm and it looks like the seamen do the farm work. It serves some of the seamen a good lesson as they spend their money in the seamens brothels and |when they are broke they get the | gate instead a job. I am an ex world war vet, I put four years and five months of my | life in the Canadian army, I got my share of wounds and I carried an I, S. U. Book, from 1901 till 1914, I was also a paid up I. W, W. from 1907 till 1914, My union books were in good standing when I was dis- charged from George Kings army, I was reinstated in both organiza- tions I stayed with the wobblies till the split up. I was a hundred per center for Papa Andrew the head grafter of | the seamens union, | was a paid up member since I was discharged from the big slaughter in Europe till Jan. 1, 1930, T must of been a first class sap as when I was sick in the marine hospital the agent of the Marine Cooks and Crooks association came | to see me, and before he left the ward where I was in bed he col- lected six dollars from me instead me getting sick benefits, from him. Before I left the hospital one of the fellow workers of the Marine Workers Industrial Union let me read some of the organization paper I took out a card in Baltimore and now that the League is a Union J] am on the firing line to see that we build a union for the workers by the workers and run by the work- ers. Worker Correspondent, AL. W. McBRIDE. 150 STRIKE IN CAROLINA MILL Fight Against $8.75 Per Week Wages NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., July 9.—The 150 employees of the Roaring River cotton mill |here have gone on strike against | big wage cuts. Under the new |seale the most a skilled worker |eould get would be $8.75 a week, The mill is owned by a local cap- italist who also has a larger plant in this city. It is expected the cut will be extended to his other mill, too. A furniture factory here has just cut the pay 10 per cent. Other factories and mills here will do the same, The majority of the strik- ers and of the furniture workers are young, They are farmers’ children helping to support the ruined farmers around here. The Loray mill at Gastonia, scene of the historic strike lagt year, has closed down completely. LIVINGSTON GOODY bi 6, 7. M. FEIGELSON, Mew near | Seven Reasons Why You Should Spend Your Vai New York. | Daily Worker, H | Dear Editor: | BLACKLISTING ON I read the article of Comrade | Keller in the June 23rd issue of | - |the Daily, and the editorial note ams Maven, : Jay) after it, on the question of open Seaman Served in War self criticism. Undoubtedly there are many more reasons for open | self criticism than I will give here. | First, to understand the role of the Party, is also to understand that the Party, in addition to leading the working class, is also respon- sible to the working class for its | actions. The Daily Worker, the| paper that brings to the workers ! |the message of Communism and the {message of its leader, the Com- munist Party, must bring out |openly to the workers the mistakes |ecommited by the Party so that the workers can judge the Party as to its seriousness and also be enabled }to follow the Party changes }of policy and action, not blindly, | but by clearly seeing the reason for these changes. |in our self criticism to the working | masses is that not only should the | Party learn from its mistakes, but |also the working masses which it | is leading. Self criticism is an |achievement when the causes for| mistakes are found out and action is taken to prevent repetition of these mistakes. This, no one can |deny. So why should we hide our achievements and only save them for ourselves? Let the working masses know about these achieve- | ments and benefit by them. | As far as the enemies are con- cerned, using the admittance of our | mistakes against us, let them howl. The action that will follow the open self criticism of the Party, not | | only of the Party but also of the | working masses will prove the jvalue of open, fearless, Bolshevik | self criticism, The trouble is, not that the Daily | Worker openly prints these admit- tances of our mistakes, but that the Daily Worker is as yet not | widely read, and widely spread ' among the millions of workers so {that they can follow our seli criticism, benefit by it, help us cor- rect our mistakes, and march with us forward in the class struggle. | |Build the Daily Worker mass cir- | culation. Comradely yours, —A WORKER. ‘MOONEY SEES HE WAS SWINDLED Recognizes Pardon As- | surance Was Lie | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 9. —First news stories of the way Thomas Mooney received the news of the latest treacherous thrust at him by the bosses of California did | not give his real accusation. ol only said he criticizedt he governor, and was stopped by the warden, whereupon he voiced a belief ‘n “jus- tice in the next administration,” and talked about being “happy to be a martyr.” Much might be excused a man held 14 years in prison, but no worker still in the class struggle ever talks like that. It is now ap- parent that Mooney’s words, sup- pressed at first, were as follows: “I was double-crossed. I was |given assurance eight months ago |that my request for a pardon would |be met favorably—and this is the | result. “Young was present three days be- fore the bombing when a detective from the Pacific Gas and Electric | Co. offered Billings $500 to frame ;me, He was a state senator at that ime. He knows now and will al- ways !row that I am an innocent man.” He declared that the Advisory Board was merely a tool of the gov- ernor and followed his instructions in the matter of a pardon, Some of those who double-crossed Mooney, whether he realizes it now or not, were the socialist and labor fakers who ran back and forth be- tween him and the United Rajlroads | the Party’ members and leaders tually oppose holding mass co! | lections. This must be ruthlessly | opposed, and a situation created which will bring every Party mem- ber into complete support of his Par ty paper, The total of $885.55 collected ix Another reason for being open) ¢ Page Three Large Contribution Other We will publish, in a few days, another table showing the standing of the districts in new readers ob- tained, bundles ordered and funds collected for Daily Worker support Outstanding in this table will be the total amount collected in the New York district for our fighting fund. It is true that New York has more Party members than any other district. But it is also true that in, \.‘ relation to Party membership, New | s York stands head and shoulders above all other districts in its eon- ‘ tribution to keep our paper going, | Section thc o What gave the New York district | s its advantage was its successful tag days during which $8,837.42 was col- lected. In other districts where ma collections wore organized, th were simply not organized, that’s all. In some districts and section in the New York district and reported below, helped the Daily Worker over | . 84 some very difficult periods. Contributions From New York Dis-| jmtstnatic trict Up To June 30th. peat Additional Tag Day receipt viquet ; Sedtion | Section | Bection | Sectio Section on 8 Worke list Total ten. [slane oo ney Fund needed . Sounciis’ . a ne gee reported ANOTHER ARMEN Wom Miscellan. Previously Balance still needed ...$10.411.90 well tamed Indian princes dressed in satin and jewels, at the opening of India House here. The house is to be the office of the British com- ; missioner for India, and the king ] made it plain in his speech that i. there isnt going to he any inde- ixbas pencerce for India unless they win chaos * awing | it by armed revolt, King Admits Worries, “During recent months,” said the But Still Imperialist | king, “I have watched wit anxious heart the troublous pas- Capitalist press dispatches from! sage of events.” But anxiety seems India admit that the tribes of the| have hardened the heart of this northwest frontier were not sub-| "esa! spokesman for the British dued by the extensive bombing of capitalists and landowners like villages and land raids and arrests | Plagues are Supposed to have hard that have been conducted by the| *ned Phavaoh's for he also . British army, and are closing in| “The position of India House again, A force, which the British among those of the sister nations, sources give as 38,000 from the| here in the center of my canital, Mahsud tribes assembled during) further symbolizes the unity of the the last few days in the Razmak| greater conmonwealth of which district, with intent to attack the j. , part. For a deeper realiz Sorgha army post, which is said to! z . é be garrisoned by 500, | of that two-fold unity I mos Waziri tribesmen attacked two °*tly pray. : British army posts Tuesday and| None of the 20 cents a day, op burned one of them. Another air-| pressed, bombed, police clubbed or plane raid, to bomb villages and) hayonetted workers of India are Kil indiscriminately men Women| doing any praying along that line British commander in this district | * present. in retaliation. FARM IN THE PINES Situated (n Pine Forest, Lake. German Table. 8. Swimming and & M. OBERKIRCH Box 78 KINGSTON ee * George Hangs On. LONDON, England, July 9.—The} new outbreaks in India came on the same day as King George's| proclamation, amidst pomp and cir-| cumstance and the attendance of! Use This Blank! GO TO WORKERS, ASK THEM TO HELP KEEP DAILY WORKER GOING AND GROWING! Use This Blank At Once! Get Donations Quickly! near Me s16— Name Address Amount politicians, and aided in securing these lying “assurances” that turned out to be mere strategy to keep the workers quiet while the supreme court, the governor and the par- dons board arranged matters to doom him to life imprisonment. Forward to /Mass Conference Against Unemployment. Chicago July 4th. MANOR, N. Y, ion at the HOUSE J. One of the most beautiful locations in Sullivan County We have our own dairy. Walking distance from village—1% miles, THE GOODY HOUSE LEVENGSTON MANOR. N.Y The total amount in donations appearing above has been collected by: | NAMB cesrecccccersccccoccvagerenoccsevooseccoersmeseccsacesscssess ADDRESS STATE | CITY ... 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