The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1930, Page 1

} pry Demonstrate With Clothing Workers at 11 A. M. at 15 Street and Union Square ye © Worker under the act ef March & 1870 Fight Against the Imperialist War Preparaticns! Workers, FINAL CITY Demand: “Not a Cent for EDITION Armaments; All’ Funds . for the U >loyed!” aie Ceo RTE TS sHeoud-class matter at the Vast Office at New York N. ¥. ~> oO Ceo RTE TS Vol. po boa eae No. 167 Price 3 Cents DN HATES: 86 @ yeur everywhere excepting Mavbattan New York City and foreixn countries there §% @ year. Voolishios York (ity NY SUB: and Brons New ” NEGRO WAR MOTHERS eee Negro Workers to Protest August Ist at New War Peril AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS CALLS PROTEST AT DISCRIMINATION “EVEN IN PREPARING NEXT WA, NEGROES ARE JIM CROWED” ietocs~Wat—Jin in ARGE numbers of Negroes, sons of Negro war mothers who are now being Jim Crowed by the War Department,, were hoodwinked into fighting for “democracy” in the last war. They, together with | thousands of white workers, accepted the bunk of Woodrow Wilson and his “dollar-a-year” propagandists, and gladly gave their lives for the interests of the Wall Street bankers, under the illusion that they also would benefit trom the “victory.” With the outbreak of the war, the government in Washington mobilized their slimy, boot-licking agents within the Negro race and gave them the task of coaxing cr brow-beating the Negroes from south- ern towns and plantations and northern industrial centers into the armed forces. These contemptible, handkerchief-headed servants—mostly Negro preachers—of the white landowners and capit for years the per- secutors and lynchers of the Negroes, went to the Negro masses, with @ message “direct from Woodrow Wilson,’ promising them “equality” and “justice” if they joined in murdering German workers in the in- terest of “democracy” and “world peace.” Thousands enlisted, only to find a continuation of the sanie old Jim Crow policy in the army that they had so long suffered under in civil life. They were segregated in special regiments; they were sent to dig trenches and to do other tasks whites preferred to leave alone; they were used as shock troops on occasions when the murderous “enemy” fire was too deadly, and the results to be obtained too meagre, to justify the throwing away of white regiments. But even under these conditions, “inspired” by white-livered Negro preachers and time-serving, petty-bourgeois politicians with the Treatment of Gold Star Mothers Part of Capitalist Lynching and Wage Slavery; Fight for Right to Self-Determination Calling on the Negro workers to rally to the demonstration on August 1, against the preparations for a new world war, the Amer- promise that when they got back home, ey thing would be O. K., Be . y *. : 5 SORS they fought on—always with the illusion of “democracy” and race cis ican Negro Labor Congress yesterday in an exposure of the “Jim sonal heat ent. Crowing” of the Negro Gold Star mothers, dec!>red: But when they returned what did they find? Worse persecution, ep ou he * a way ie see Siva MGPERRRUCHPIEE cinsip seerecstion, lex “aquality? tiie before | ate Against Imperialist War August 1 “Even in its campaign to whoop up war spirit in preparation ee they left for the front. When they attempted to exer “democracy,” they got more lynchings. forts to push them down to a still lower social % met with brutal attacks, even from their “buddies” who had been mobilized by the fascist American Legion (which was organized and financed by the same capitalists in whose interestg the war had been fought for the purpose of crushing the revolts and mass strike movements then developing among the workers). Race riots, in all large cities (St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, W ington, and many others), in which hundreds of Negroes were‘ murdered, was the “democracy” (ad- ministered by the Ku Klux Klan) which the Negro soldiers got~out of the war. And now, when the War Department of the ernment organizes and finances tours to the grav dead,” for the mothers of these boys whose liv ise the: promised for the next war, the imperialist government of the United States is not forgetting to discriminate against Negroes.” This referred to the outrageous “Jim Crowing” of the Negre ————_——_____—— Af RS acess ITALIAN-CERMAN Devesmet Seating "oer TDEBIAL ICTS 1h WAR ALLIANCE 1S QINT ATTACK ON BEING FRAMED CHINESE REVOLTS NEEDLE WORKERS Detroit-Flint Auto Workers PROTEST SPEEDUP Meet Monday; Take Up Strike AND W A RF el) FLINT, Mich., July 11.—The Fisher Body strike is over, UTS for the time, due to the treachery of Comstock of the strike | committee, and the brutality of the police and militia, neither Union Prepares Cooper Union Meet Tuesday | even on a separate ship, to be sent to France as material for if | publicity propaganda for the next | Z |war now being prepared by the} | Hoover government, but forcing the} | Negro mothers of soldiers killed in} the last imperialist war to take| of which could have succeeded in destroying this fight against wage cuts if more orga i ation had been done first. However, the workers have United States Goy- of “Ame 's war were given for the Renee profits of blood-sucking capitalist parasites, segregation and Jim learned a lot. Comstock found another boat, at cheaper , price,| Crowism, not “democracy” and “equality,” are meted out to the | he could not lead them into : 1 y ses ae ee : , ,| Poorer quarters and to be housed in| yx7 spk is 7 be mothers of Negroes. i Pe Oot oe) eames been abandoned. ‘The pressure| Communists Call For) any old cheap hotel in Europe. | Workers Must Protest This action must disillusion the Negroes, It must arouse a pro- | fighting spirit with which 5,000 test such as this country has never heard before. White and Negro workers, now that the United States is again on the threshold of war, must utilize this incident to mobilize the masses on August Ist against war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union—the only country where all races and peoples have equality. The struggle against imperialist war on August Ist and during the Party’s election campaign must be made a part of a gigantic mass struggle against lynching, Jim Crowism, segregation, and for social, political and economic equality and the right of self determina- tion for the Negro masses. Lynchings are again increasing; race riots are again being stirred up by the bosses; the persecution of the Negroes is daily becoming worse. Workers’ defense corps must now be organized, composed of Negro and white workers, to defend the Negro masses from these mur- derous attacks. In the race riots, which the white capitalists are at- tempting to arouse, the entire working class, wpite and black, must fight together in the streets for the protection of the Negroes, against white chauvinist hooligans and gangsters hired by the bosses, In the course of these struggles the Negro masses of both the North and the South can be won for common struggle with the Negro and white workers against the white capitalists, against imperialist war, for the transformation of imperialist war into civil war, for the overthrow of the white capitalist government, and for the establish- ment of a government of Negro and white workers, under which all Negroes will not only have complete equality, but also the complete right of self determination. By fighting now in defense of the Negroes, the working class will prove its revolutionary sincerity and be assured of the Negro masses as fighting allies in the revolutionary struggle against the capitalist exploiters of both races. On With the Auto Workers’ Struggle! {tees mass meeting of auto workers in Detroit Monday is but the first of what must be a whole series of such meetings. Wage cuts and unemployment, going side by side; are the auto bosses’ attempt to alleviate the deep crisis in the auto industry, in their way, at the expense of the workers. They must not be allowed to succeed. The strike of 5,000 in the Fisher Body Co. plant in Flint, a Gen- eral Motors subsidiary, shows the response of the workers to the call of the Auto Workers’ Union and of the Communist Party to struggle. Because of lack of preparation, the strike was betrayed by stool pigeon tactics of one Comstock, who founded a company union assisted by the police and the A. F. of L. Comstock tried to repay the A, F. L. by leading the strikers into it; it is significant that they refused to be led there. The task now is to force into the shops, not just the Fisher Body, but a large number of the plants in the industry, the fighting program of the Auto Workers’ Union. Detinjte shop organization, shop com- mittees, broad rank and file committees of action and strike com- mittees, will test out leadership and provide solid ranks that can not be swindled by company union schemes, The sharpest attack on the Comstock type of labor traitors, on company unionism and the officials of the A. F. L. who foster it in Flint, coupled with a demand for mass picketing and spreading this first rebellion against the wage cuts of the auto bosses into all other auto plants, particularly those of Flint, Pontiae and Detroit, is the task of the hour. Union of employed and unemployed workers, repre- sentation of unemployed workers on the shop, departmental! and strike committees of the auto workers, must be secured. Organize a broad united front of employed and jobless for the fight against the wage cuts and for unemployment insurance, and fight under the leadership of the Auto Workers’ Union against all agents of the bosses! 900,000 INCREASE IN GERMANY UNEMPLOYED. BERLIN, Germany. — 1,830,000 Jobless and hungry workers receive government doles. This is an in- crease ~# Q00.090 over last year’s figures | TO DESTROY LONS OF COFFEE. BRAZIL.—Carrying a surplus equal to a year’s supply, Brazilian coffee monopolists seriously consider destroying 4,500,000 bags of coffee as a bosse’s maneuver to keep prices up. men’s clothing workers successful repulsed police attempts to b up their meeting in Chicago y swer the call of the edle Tr: Workers’ Industrial Union to dem- onstrate here at 11 o'clock this morning at the clothing market, 15th St. and Union Square, against speed-up, low wages, unemployment | © and the constant worsening of the conditions ,of the workers in gen- eral. The @emonstration is neld also in preparation for the Cooper Union meeting of men’s clothing workers on July 15th. At the Cooper Union meeting the | leaders of the Needle Trades Wor! ers’ Industrial Union will bring the | program of the union to all wor in the industry. This is an impo tant, step in the unionization of the men’s clothing workers and to mob- ilize chem for militant strike strug- gles. Shop bulletins in connection with the demonstration and the Cooper Union meeting have been issued in many big shops calling upon the workers to come to this morning’s demonstration and to strike against speed-up and wage reductions un- der the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. The general executive board of} the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | trial Union issued a call Thursday night, urging all men clothing workers throughout the country to fight against the betrayal of the workers by the company unions, to ‘organize shop committees and to initiate strikes against the unbear- able working conditions and mass unemployment. This demonstra- tion is the beginning of the mass revolt of the needle workers against slave conditions and company union- ism. Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! ter- | day, thousands of workers will an-| ;|Fish Will Hear Awful NOW SEDITIOUS! | that the leaders of the company) Tale of Mr. O’Shea YORK.—Evidently the fas- anti-Communist Commit- seances in New York are sub- | ject to acceptance or rejection by the “witnes ” his nibs Dr. Wil- liam superintendent of schoo announced that he has the invitation” of Fish to testify. Not only that, but the idea is so pleasing to O’Shea, that he nominated eleven other purveyors of boss ideas usually called peda- gogs, to share the war dance pub- licity and testify with him. Dr. O’Shea says that all the school officials are horrified at the awful activities of the Communists, who are so “seditious” as to pub- lish and distribute pamphlets urg- ing children of workers who are in schoo! to play hookey to aid their fathers and mothers push the move- ment for unemployed and other so- cial insurance. O’Shea was par- ticularly upset by this agitation on May 1. eee In the Mines, Too! TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 11— The fascist officials of the United Mine Workers so-called union, pom- pously declare that they have “posi- tive information” that Communists are trying to build a real miners’ union—the National Miners’ Union. Since the U. M. W. thinks it ought to have a strangle hold on the miners with their company union, they are deeply “shocked.” Forward to Mass Conference Against Unemployment, Chicago July 4th. Ohio Unemployed Increase ‘Drop for June 3.6%, State Admits COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 11.—A tremendous increase in unemploy- ment is shown by the preliminary index of employment in Ohio, issued by the state labor department today. Whereas, for the past five years employment during June increased .7 per cent, last June in Ohio there was a decrease of 3.6 for the one month. This shows that the closing down of plants, the big drop in construc- tion work and the sharpening crisis is throwing more and more workers out of a job. These figures for Ohio are ir'dicative of the situation in all industrial states. Of course, these facts also show how ridiculous is Hoover's lying census figures, which give an ay- erage of 3 per cent of unemploy- ment for the whole country. In Ohio the drop for one month alone was nearly 4 per cent. As compared with June of 1929, the state report shows, construction employment showed a decline of 17.1 per cent; employment in manufac- turing industries showed a drop of 18.9 per cent, non-manufacturing a drop of 8.6 per cent and a total industrial employment dron of 17.2 per cent, the A. F. L., and that idea has of the workers in favor of the Auto Workers’ Union is so great | union have come into its office’ to discuss the situation. They pro- posed the Auto Workers’ Union should support them, in return for which they promise their “Auto Workers’ Association” will affiliate with the Auto Workers, Among these chiefs of the “As- sociation” there are unquestionably (Continued on Page Five; COPS MASSACRE Protest Asked to Save Jailed Wounded MEXICO CITY (By Mail).—Un- der the leadership of the Commu- nist Party demonstrations were or- ganized on June 29 throughout Mex- ico to demand’ the release of the workers imprisoned since May 1, also to demand “work or bread” for the unemployed. In the city of Matamorros Lagu- nas, in the state of Coahuila, there oceurred a fierce and bloody ciash between the workers and poor pea- sants on the one hand, and the po- lice, supported by the rich peasants, organized in a fascist body called “the social defense,” on the other hand, The demonstration was forbidden, but the workers refused to yield. {The mounted police attacked the demonstrators with sabres and were {answered by a shower of stones, The police, backed by the fascist peasants, then began a slaughter, killing 17 workers and wounding 15. Those killed were the leaders | of the movement. The barbarous brutality of the police was shown in the way they killed even the wounded. Among girl child and the savage chief of the fascist “social defense” himself killed this wounded child. Though there are 20,000 poor pea- sants in the region who favor the revolutionary workers and the Com- munist Party leader of the workers and Peasants, the repression is in- creasing. Rubio, to cover its fascist suppres- sion of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, is giving the press the tip to play up the incident as a “rebellion,” The Communist Party of Mexico is appealing to all revolutionary workers of the world, especially to and their Communist Party, to pro- test against this outrage, MEXICAN WORKER the wounded th hi d to | « a eee Re ®lers of the Pittsburgh Meter Works, The lackey government of Ortiz | the workers of the United states | Aug. 1 Demonstration A cable dispatch to the New York Evening Post Friday states that Italian imperialism is seeking a war alliance with the German capitalists against France. The Post dispatch says this information comes “from a high official German source, that | Italy had approached the German} Government with an of a military alliance.” The French are alarmed at this rapid war move. A conference on this subject was held between Louis Locheur, represent- offer ing the French, and Dr. Leopold von! Hoesch, the German Ambassador in Paris. The rapid maneuver for war alli- ances shows the growing war dan, er between the imperialist powers. There is an arms race going on be- tween France and Italy. A crisis was reached several days ago in the French chamber of deputies over the growing sharp relations between the French and Italian boss govern- ments. Added to this, are the riots of the German chauvinists in the Rhine- land against the separatists who ask for severance from the German republic and alliance with the French, The French ambassador Pierre de Margerie protested against the riots. Taking advan- Boycott War Department. Due to the justified resentment; of the Negro masses at this out- rage of the capitalist government, out of the 400 Negro Gold Star Mothers who were supposed to go to France, all except 61 refused to be used as war propaganda and “Jim Crowed” in addition. Fifty- five mothers signed a protest at being “Jim Crowed, segregated and) insulted.” Those who arrived in New York} bitterly protested, both at being | im Crowed” onto separate boats, a cheap old tub, fittingly named the “American Merchant,” and at their being “Jim Crowed” by refusal to allow them to eat in the railway dining cars enroute here. Secretary Hurley of the War De- partment tried to dodge responsibil- ity by saying that the steamer lines would not take Negroes; as if an order by the War Department which sent their sons to death for Amer- ican imperialism would not have been effective. The “Jim Crowing” of Negroes by the War Department is an old} complaint. In the last war, how- ever, the Negro workers felt the “Jim Crow” in reverse. forced into the draft when white' Against Intervention Hiding behind the verbal scree “defensive operations,” the patrols of American, British, anc Japanese imperialist powers are re ported to have joined forces shooting down Chinese and peasants and suppr | Chinese revolution | AVE ir worker According to an A. P. Shangha | despatch Thursd: “Commander | of the American, Japanese and Brit ish patrols were understood to be working co-operatively regarding distribution of their ships. acl patrol attempting to protect al foreigners regardless of ality.” nation The rising tide of revolution anu the rapid extension of Soviet power in China is in direct contrast to the complete bankruptcy of the Koum- intang, and the impending collapse of imperialist-feudal-bourgeois domination ‘n China. This is the reason why the imperialists are alarmed and have practically em barked upon a policy of interven: tion. They were! The pretext for intervention is men escaped; 69.71 per cent of the! as usuai, the protection of ioreign white drafted men were forced Into ; nationals in China. The imperial the army, and 74.60 pev cent of the \ iste allege that since Chinese revo Negroes, ‘jutionists are repeatedly firing on Had “Right” To Be Kilied. The capitalist government was} tage of the worsening relations be-| anxious enough to shove the Ne- tween the French and German ex- ploiters, the Fascist rulers of Italy are reported to have approached the Germans for 4 war alliance against France in the rapidly brewing world war. groes onto the battlefields. Of those inducted into “full military service,” that is, into the “right” to get killed at the front, there were 26.84 per cent of the registered whites, but (Continued on Page Five) Cuts for Pittsburgh Workers Girls Replace Men in Austin Shops PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 11.— Hoover prosperity has hit work- recently acquired by Mellon inter- ests. Wages have been cut to 35 cents an hour. They had been as high as 45 cents. Southern Steel, nearby at Verona, pays 28 cents an hour and promises to curtail operations soon. This company hires only young men who must pass a stiff physical examina- tion for their 28-cent jobs. A man was held for fraud on charges of three workers who had given him their $17 in cash, a watch and a suit of clothes for employ- ment which the prosperity artist failed to produce. Some Pittsburgh workers are wondering how to file} charges against President Hoover and his millionaire cabinet, who cer- from most workers, Kojo Mamula, scale man at the blooming mill of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., collapsed and died while at work. Mill officials said he was doing light work at the time. Mamula was an old man for the mills, 29. Simply a case of a man played out and not daring to drop out. The Austin Car Co. has begun production of the baby car at But- ler, near Pittsburgh, but giving the lie to local boosters who promised jobs for workers with hungry fam- ilies the Austin plant is employ- ing boys and girls, mostly girls, on the assembly line. When the Mellon Standard interests sold out to Aus- tin they made Austin agree not to |pay more than 86 cents an hour i foreign vessels sailing in Chinese waters, they are justified to use “defensive operations” against the Chinese “bandits and Communists. The significance of the situatior is that the firing against foreig: vessels in Chinese waters is itseli a revolutionary action. The so called “defensive” action of the im perialists are actually aggressive assaults against the Chinese work ers and peasants for the purpose o maintaining the regime of exploito tion and white terror in China. Even capitalist press reports hay to admit that the so-called “bandi attacks” against foreign vessels o1 the Yangtze river are anti-imperia) ist in character. A capitalist pres despatch from Shanghai Thursda reveals the significant fact tha “the bandits and Communists which have intensified firing o: imperialist ships on the Yangtze are actually fighting under the banner: “Down with imperialism Workers Fooled By Fake LL.D. Branch All revolutionary workers in Nev York should beware of a group 0 fakers calling themselves the “Job Brown Branch of the Internatior Labor Defense.” This organizatic has no charter from the Inte’ tainly have taken more than that wages. The Mellons were unneces- sarily alarmed, tional Labor Defense and is mere! a means of fooling the workexs. |