The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1930, Page 1

: : Fight Against the Imperialist War Preparations! Workers, Demand: “Not a Cent for Armaments; All Funds for the U ployed!” 4 nee on ~ ce at New York. N. ¥. under the orker act ef Marck 3. 18Tb > rf FINAL CITY EDITION Publishes daily Company ine, Tol. VII., No. 166 except Sunday by ‘The Comproduily 26-28 Unlon square New York City N SUBSCRIPTION RAT! and Bronx a year everywhere excepting Manhattan New York City and foreign countries. there 8S a year Price 3 Cents BILLION DOLLAR WAR PLAN, ELECT! War ad the Elections 'HE present debate in the United States Senate again exposes the imperialist aims of the London Naval Conference and the inevi- tability of another war. No matter what Hoover and his administra- tion may say, they cannot conceal the fact that a billion dollars will be spent for the Americn Navy as a result of the London Treaty. More armaments, the imperialists and the leaders of the Second In- ternational call disarmament. In calling the special session of the U. S. Senate, the Hoover ad- ministration and the repubulican party expect to create a political issue, which they can use in the coming elections. To the masses, Hoover, as. well as the socialists, present the naval treaty as a stepping- stone in the direction of “peace” and “disarmament.” On the basis of this, the republican party will appeal to the, workers and farmers for support in the coming elections. The debate in the senate, how- ever, makes it very clear what the London Treaty actually represents. In his speech, Senator Swanson stated: “From a military and selfish standpoint, the United States cannot afford to reject this treaty.” This treaty therefore represents a victory which the United States won in the struggle with Great Britain for world supremacy. It gives American imperialism not parity with Great Britain but actual nava) superiority. To perfect its war machinery for the coming inevitable war, the United States will spend a billion dollars. At the same time, however, not a cent is being paid to the un- employed for relief or social insurance. Our slogan is: Not a cent for armaments—all available funds for the relief of the unemployed. This slogan we must bring to the masses. It must be made one of our major issues in the election campaign. The election cam- paign is a means of mobilizing the masses for struuggle. The mob- ilization for strugugle against war and militarism is one of our chief tasks in the elections. In the collection of signatures and our agitation on the street corners, in our open air meetings in front of shops, in the persistent | agitation of every Party member in his factory, the struggle against war must be one of our main tasks. Party for the improvement of the economic conditions of the working class, cannot and must not be separated from our major political struggles. All these activities must be utilized to mobilize the workers for participation in the August 1st anti-imperialist war demonstra- tions. Wage cuts, speed-up, the growing fascist terror of the govern- ment, are all parts of the imperialist war preparations and for attacks upon the Soviet Union. The Fish investigation, the vicious attack upon the revolutionary organization of the working class, the increased wave of lynchings, are all means to paralyze the organized conscious strength of the working class. The workers must be drawn into the struggle against imperialist war and made conscious of the necessity of turning the imperialist war into a civil] war. The August Ist dem- onstration must arouse great masses of pose for struuggle against war, and for support of the Party’s election campaign. In the coming congressional elections, therefore, when the bour- geoisie try to play up the London Naval Treaty as an instrument of “peace” and “disarmament,” the Communist Party, supported by all revolutionary workers, must carry out the most determined cam- paign to expose the hypocrisy of American imperialism and the So- cialist International and to mobilize the masses for struggle against war through the medium of a successful election campaign. Gross Extravagance APITALIST newspaper reports state that. the congressional com- 4 mittee, appointed to investigate Communist activities in the United States, headed by Congressman Fish, will begin fishing in New York, beginning with Tuesday next week. According to the same report the committee has been provided with an appropriation of $25,000 to cover the cost of the “investiga- tion.” This, we must declare, is a foolish waste of the taxpayers’ money. They say it is their intention to “investigate” the Communist Party, the Daily Worker, the Trade Union Unity League and the International Labor Defense. Well, surely the best way to investigate the Daily Worker is by reading it. And inasmuch as the Daily Worker is the central organ of the Communist Party and contains, not only the news of all the workers’ struggles in which the Communists are in any way involved, but also all official statements and documents of the Party, it seems to us that even here the reading of the Daily Worker would provide the neces- sary information. And then so far as the other organizations on which they desire information is concerned, they also, as vigorous fighters in behalf of the workers, constantly have their activities covered in the columns of the Daily Worker. And now we come to the point. If these gentlemen of the Fish committee were merely interested in gathering information on Com- munist activities, this could be done by subscribing to the Daily Work- er. And the cost to the government would not be $25,000, but only $6.00. Many workers, in fact an ever increasing number of workers, as the Communist Party and the Daily Worker step forward in all parts of the country, and in all struggles, as the most militant and con- scious fighters against wage cuts, speed-up, unemployment, imperial- ist war, and for social insurance and the defense of the Soviet Union, turn to the Daily Worker for both information and direction. But the Fish Committee, and the U. S. Congress, representing the interests of the bankers and industrialists, are not interested in an investigation of Communist activities. They know our activities. These are shown openly in every workers’ fight. They are interested in stopping our activities, in stopping the militant struggles of the workers, in aiding the bosses in loading the crisis on the workers’ backs and in preparing for war. This aim of the government is clearly shown when the fascist Mr. Fish declares: “The combined information obtained will be presented to Congress, with recommendations for legislation to curb future Communist activities throughout the country.” But the activities of the Communist Party will not be “curbed, providing the masses of workers see clearly the role of this “investi- gation” and rally in even greater numbers around the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions for even sharper struggles against the present offensive of the bosses and their government, in the shops and factories, in the August 1st demonstrations, and in the coming congressional elections, (APTHA, ARRESTS, FAIL It did not break up the meeting. Wednesday the Young Communist League held another meeting, with the same speaker. Perlman, Rose Gold, Rita Ganick, Alex. Schaffer, TO STOP YCL ORGANIZER rer aR Birginia Bratt, Ben Henryson, Karol NEW YORK—When Shirley | 4 mateneek and Julia Perly were ar- ‘erlman of the Young Communist | rested. They were taken by the po- wague, former worker at the Na-|lice into the bosses’ office. He spit ional Urn and Bag Co., spoke to |in one girl’s face, and, when she re- he noon-day crowd of workers | sisted, the police twisted her arm. here on organization Monday a| The fight goes on to organize tool pigeon poured naptha over her. | these workers, . 4 The daily struggles led by our | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1930 3.000 REPULSE POLICE IN THE CLOAK MARKET Adopt N.T.W.I.U. Line of Shop Strikes for Union Conditions Demonstration Sat. Another Fur Shop Out for July Increase BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—There will be an important meeting of all Commu- nists in the needle trades at the Workers’ Center today at 8 p. m. The district secretariat excuses from all work conflicting in time with this meeting. NEW YORK. tremendously enthusiastic meeting of 3,000 in the cloak center yesterday repulsed po- lice attempts to break it up, and cheered the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union program to | throw out the International Ladies |Garment Workers’ company union business agents from the cloak and start shop struggles. showed themselves over- | whelmingly for a fight to restore | union conditions. ) The meeting was called by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. When J. Levinson, a rank and file cloakmaker, rose to speak the police rushed the meeting, ar- rested Levinson, and took away the platform. The crowd instead of dispersing as ordered by the cops | pressed closer. Workers rushed from all around to join it. They raised J. Kolkin, an industrial union | organizer, on their shoulders, and |cheered his speech, Then Weiz- | berg, another industrial union or- |ganizer was lifted up. The police {could not break through the chain jof workers around the speakers, and gave up the attempt to smash the meeting. Furriers Strike For Increase. The fight of the furriers follow- ing the program of the industrial union for July increases goes on. The trade paper, Women’s Wear, after boycotting news of the indus- trial union for months, had to | admit yesterday that it is leading the struggle for July increases. Gluck & Weingold yestefday de- clared the shop on strike for a July increase, over the heads of the International Fur Workers of- ficials who nominally “control” the shop. The industrial union called on all to support these strikers and follow their example. There is a fight going on inside of the fur company union, between the Kaufman - Yellow Forward- Muste group and the Stetsky-A. F. L. group. Stetsky is manager of the N. Y. joint council. His group has exposed the plans of Kaufman for a fake stoppage like those Schlesinger uses, Saturday at noon there will be a great demonstration for men’s clothing workers before the Amal- gamated offices, 15th St. and Union Square. All workers, and all needle trades workers especially are urged to be there to fight the worsening of conditions, the low wages and unemployment which Hillman has established in men’s clothing. The demonstration is called by the Nee- die Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, which will send speakers, and it prepares for the great Cooper Union for men’s clothing workers coming July 15. Unrest and dislike for Hillman’s policies is apparent in the Amal- gamated. Two candidates, Lepow, for general secretary-treasurer of the N. Y. joint board, and Leder- mann, for business agent of the board, received great majorities in the primary voting of Local 3 (pressers) and Local 5 (operators) of the Amalgamated. The machine simply counted out Ledow, but had to let Ledermann stay on the ballot. These candidates were running on the program that the Amalgamated is a tool of the bosses for facili- tating reductions and speed-up. It calls for a struggle in the shops against the check-off, to return, to wage scales before the reductions, for shop committees to start shop struggles for that purpose, and for unity with the N.T.W.LU. The industrial union now has 4 strikes. One is the Beverly Sport Wear knit goods shop in Brooklyn where workers walked out when the shop committee of 35 were locked out, Police have been used here, and a leaflet is issued against police brutality. The other three were all started by lock-outs and are: H. Rosen- berg, Joray Dress, and Adelman & Levine. All workers are asked to come out and help picket these « Shops. ouldn’t It Be Easier to Put Up a Fight? ON BOAST { { | GOVERNMENT ADMITS DISCRIMINATION; COMMUNISTS CALL TO ANTI-WAR DAY The government through Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war, yesterday tried to excuse the Jim Crowing by giving the names of various steamship companies which refuse to accept Among them are: The Holland America, North German | Lloyd, Cunard, Anchor, French and International Merchantile Marine. | However, after squirming around and trying to pass the buck, Hurley admitted the | Jim Crowing. He said that after “careful study” the War Department “took the attitude that | for the comfort and benefits of both races segregation would be preferable.” This is the attitude of the war department. In sharp contradiction to this, the Com- Fi munist Party, which has a®——————— the Negro women as passengers. “LABOR” PARTY RUSHES BIG NAVY Speed Building of 20 New “Peace” Ships London dispatches clearly illu- strate that the “labor” party, | headed by Ramsay MacDonald, is speeding preparations for war, and} not only so doing, but very insistent | on rushing twenty new warships to completion. Early yesterday the “labor” party | members of parliament held a cau- cus, to discuss the “labor” govern- ment’s nava] program. There, A. | V. Alexander, who bears the proud | title of “First Lord of the Admir- | alty” under the monarchy, defended | “vigorously,” dispatches state, the | speedy rushing of twenty new war- ships. One of the fake “left” group, | Commander J. M. Kenworthy, was | for building more warships, but not | so many during the present finncjal | year, and offered a motion to that | effect. But even this was voted down by 38 to 23. Alexander’s arguments were all] directed to showing that all this| hasty and vast warship building | must be done “to come up to the standard of the so-called “disarma- | ment” naval treaty. To give point to his public state- ment giving an argument for speed- | ing up war preparation, Alexander cautiously referred to “the present international situation” as some- thing that made it “desirable to go beyond the present financial year.” Jim Crow Negro War Mothers program of absolute racial and political equality for Negroes, calls on Negro war veterans and all Negro workers to join with the white workers in demonstration against imper- ialist war, August 1. * * & NEW YORK.—Jim-crowed, dis- iminated against, given smaller, slower, and cheaper accommoda- tions on boats and in rooming houses in Europe, 389 out of 450 Negro women whose husbands or sons were killed in the great wa in France have refused to go. More are expected to do so. The newspapers, working closely with the government’s jingo plan to popularize getting killed to make more profits for American million- aires, has sent several thousand “gold star” mothers to Europe: But an imperialist government could not help trying even in such a case to give a lesson to one of its sub- ject races. Government officers do not consider Negroes as good as whites. So instead of a $175 round trip passage with hotel accommo- dations in Europe, it gave the Ne- gro women a $100 passage and re- served cheap lodging houses for them abroad. Mayor Walker’s condescending “reception” for them at city hall today will see only 61 of those ex- pected to sail on the American Mer- chant of the U. S. lines present, or probably not that many. A letter signed by 55 of the Ne- gro women states: “We are set aside in a separate group, Jim Crowed, segregated, and insulted.” The Negro’s real foe is not some enemy of American capitalism but is capitalism itself. INDIANS BOMB BRITISH FORT Viceroy Bargains With Gandhi Even the British censored news dispatches from India now admit that there is a large armed rebel- lion ‘in the Northwest Provinces. esitatingly admitting Wednesday |that the revolt had broken out after 'the British imperialist government dance of victory over the “pacifi- cation of the tribes” and the con- | tinuation of the program for smash- jing certain tribes hitherto nomin- {ally independent (in Waziristan, lete.) the same sources now speak of an armed force of 1,500 firing with artillery on the British fort at Saratoga. Of course the Bri- tish claim a victory—as they did in the world war when nothing but “victories” were announced, each victory a few miles to the rear of the one the day before, The news stories naively report: “On Sunday British airmen flew) over the camps of the enemy drop- | (Continued on Page Two) NTWU Boat Ride to Hook Mt. On Hudson | A boat ride up the Hudson to the interstate park at Hook Mountain will be given this week end by the National Textile Workers’ Union. Be at the pier at the foot of west 79th St. at 8:30 this Sunday morn- ing in order to get on the boat. Serving 43 Years for Organizing Imperial Valley Labor, Erickson Calls for Struggle NEW YORK.—While serving his! sentence of 3 to 42 years in prison | as a result of his activities in or-| ganizing the exploited fruit work-| ers in Imperial Valley, Oscar) Erickson, one of the defendants who received the maximum sen- tence from the hostile courts of El Centro in the new famous criminal | syndicalism cases, continues his| militant championship of the work- ers’ cause, Today the National Office of the International Labor Defense has received the following letter from Ericson who is in San Quentin Prison: “The Imperial Valley Criminal Syndicalism trial was the direct outcome of. the organizing of the agricultural workers into the Agri- cultural Workers’ Industrial League affiliated with the T. U. U. L. and ers here have fought a series of strikes in the past years—two this year, which both failed on account of lack of organization and mili- tant leadership. The A.W.LL. had planned a strike for the canteloupe season, To prevent the strike, the rich vegetable companies (many of them multi-millionaires) and their organizations, using their agents, the police, the courts, ete., had 108 persons arrested on April 14th, as well as raided private homes in several towns. “Later, all were released except eleven organizers who were held under $40,000 bail each. After a grand jury indictment was handed down, the bail was made $15,000 each, Obviously the high bail was to keep the organizers in jail and from getting out amongst the workers, into the Communist Party, to gain 4 decent living conditions, The work- “The trial was one of the agri- cultural workers’ right to organize and defend themselves; to fight for decent wages and conditions, and against the organized employing class, represented by their tool, the district attorney, et al., who in his ‘argument to the jury stated that the A. F. of L. and the socialist AS ‘PEACE’ TREATY NOTHING FOR JOBLESS BUT BILLION FOR WAR SPECIAL SESSION AIM Workers Prepare Demonstration August 1, Demand War Funds Go to Aid Unemployed | Hypocritical “Fight” Over Secret Diplomacy to Cover Up War Plot Aga inst Soviet Union WASHINGTON, July 10.—The special session of the U. S. Senate which Hoover called, not to provide insurance for the 8,000,000 unemployed workers which the workers will de- mand in demonstrations throughout the country on August Ist, but to rush the $1,000,000,000 warship building under the London “disarmament” treaty, and make a fuss about the great “peace” achievement to serve as republican party campaign blah in the elections this November, spent hours yester- day arguing over the McKellar resolution. This resolution “requesting” Hoover to turn over the secret correspondence between this and other governments in connection with the London- “disarmament” treaty, is being amended to death, and the whole question stinks to heaven with hypocrisy. Firstly, as all will remember, Secretary Stimson, when leaving | from New York for the London| Conference, flatly declared that the United States would not consent to any “secret diplomacy,” would have nothing to do with any “secret in- trigue” and would not enter into any “secret political alliances.” Secondly, everyone knows that no sooner had Stimson landed in Eng- land, than by his own request, the whole conference went into hiding, became a conspiracy against the Soviet Union as everyone knows and as was admitted by capitaist correspondents in guarded language, who also, serving as propaganda agents for Stimson, plainly said as the Conference was ending, that after all, the United States “had to yield” to the general demand for secret political agreements, The “fight” in the Senate is just as hypocritical. Democratic sena- tors, Robinson and Reed, who went with Stimson to London, are amending the McKellar resolution, which is offered by some of the fake “oppositionists,” to make the turning over of the secret docu- ments dependent on whether Hoover thinks it “compatible with public interest”—which means Hoover can do as he pleases, Robinson reached the apex of hypocrisy yesterday by saying that there is nothing at all in the docu- ments, that if he had his way he would let every Senator read them —but he is trying like hell to keep them from being read. In order to give the appearance of reality to this fake “fight,” the argument is being shifted from the | whole secret correspondence with England, France, Italy and Japan, to some cables between Hoover and the U. S. ambassadors at Tokyo and London, so that when the fake “fight” gives a “victory to the op- position,’ they can read these in- consequential cables and declare to the world that they are “not im-| portant, after all.” It is certain that Hoover will be playing a smooth game by appar- ently “surrendering” and turning over what may appear to be the/ whole correspondence, with an air of mystery given it by caution being observed that it be consid- ered in secret session. The sen- ators can then give it a nice white- wash, and the well-known agree- ment made at London by all the imperialist powers against the | Soviet Union can be hidden behind this curtain of hypocrisy. Senator Swanson, who read his | speech Tuesday, plainly showed that the treaty aids U. S, imper- ialism, especially in armed control of Latin America. For example, he said: “From a military and selfisa| party s-» good orgs,’ tioris. This means good for the employers, and therefore betrayers of the working class. “The savage <ontences (. to 42 years) wer: impoved upor we-kers though they were not even charged with having committed any overt act, but clearly because they were organizing workers, “Workers of the city and farm must unite to defend all militant working class fighters. The day of the toilers is dawning. With greetings, etc.—Oscar Erickson, Box 48686, San Quentin, California,” standpoint, the United States can- | not afford to reject this treaty. sufficiently strong to enforce the Monroe Doctrone everywhere in the naval®— i | Canton CUT ALL WAGES TO PREPARE FOR NEW WORLD WAR Hoover Confab Men Openly Break Promise Wage-cuts increased markedly in June, according to the figures of the Labor Bureau, Inc., a conser vative trade union statistical office. The total number of decreases was 57. There were also some cases of wage increases, but these averaged only 5 per cent, and affected only 17 per cent of the employes in the shops granting them, On the other hand, the wage-cuts tabulated aver- aged 10 per cent and affected 72 per cent of the employes. There is here seen a class alignment, certain groups being bribed with slightly higher wages while the great masses are being heavily eut down in their standards of living. There is no decrease yet in costs of living, even though wholesale prices have fallen. 5 Per Cent Lower In May. The bureau said: “May revealed little change in the industrial situation; most of the changes which occurred were in a downward direction, as is normally expected at this time of the year. Employment and earnings were at a low level. For the United States as a whole May earnings fell 1 per cent and were 5 per cent below May, 1929. The heaviest losses accrued to workers in the textile and iron and steel industries. Employment shrank 2 per cent from April to May and was 12 per cent below May, 1929, “These figures make the advance estimates of unemployment issued by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, seem more strikingly questionable.” The department computes that there are only 2 per cent unem- ployed workers in the country, which is so absurd even the capitalists can’t stand it. The report states that the real uuemployment in the United States is one in 20, even according to gov- ernment figures, and not one in 50, as the United States Department of Labor tries to make out. The wage-cuts are the atte. -pt of the bosses to take advantage of the unorganized unemployed to beat down costs of production as a pre- liminary step to world-wide conflict for markets—commercial conflict certain to soon develop into armed conflict, Instead of unemployment relief. the bills to appropriate a billion dol- le : for more warships have already been passed by congress, and the building of 1 cruisers goes ahead as soon as the vote is taken on the naval pact, Chinese Banks Fail As Bosses Battle for Gold HONGKON, China, July 10.—The Chinese Industrial and Commercial j bank here, and its Shanghai and nches, failed today. Other s, on their last legs, are shaky. These bank Chinese b: panicky and Under the treaty, the navy becomes | failures are attributed to the slump in the price of silver. But civil war e conflicting forces of imperialist Western World.” penetration, the whole struggle of , The treaty itself thus, from a! America, Britain or Japan, to come “military standpoint” will give | out on top with the Chinese “goose $1,000,000,000 to bui’* warships so | that lays the golden egg” is the real that American © ‘ism will be | cause, “sufficiently sti » rule Latin American trad Britain—also t Britain from stealing more viet territory than was agreea un when the war rainst Great ist game, the workers of America will demonstrate on August 1, de- manding that the Billion Dollar against the Soviet Union was sec- retly plotted at London. Against this nefarious imperial- warship fund be given to maintain the starving jobless and their families, -~