The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1930, Page 1

—— Thousands More Are Laid Off in Shops and Factories for “Vacations.” Don’t Be Fooled; These Vacations Will Be Permanent For a Lot of Workers. The Bosses Want Starved and Docile Workers For Their Armies; Fight Unemployment and the War Danger by Mass Protest on August First! Vol. VIL, No. 168 FINAL CITY EDITION ——' vy) Sunday by ‘The Comprodaily Publishing Coton Square New York Olty NY 1 “Will the Negro Turn Red?” ELLEY Miller, arch Negro reactionary and boot-licker for the white capitalists, puts this question in an arti in the New York Herald- Tribune, and, as is to be expected, answers it in the negative. Miller, let us hasten to assure our readers, is not referring here to a possible biological change in the color of the Negro’s skin. He is concerned only with a change in the Negro’s politics; in the possibility of the Negro masses deserting the republican party, for which he has long | been a blatant mouthpiece, and accepting the leadership of the party of the white and black workers—the Communist Party. We would not trouble to refer to this article except that in it Miller, an outstanding Negro “leader,” exposes the position, not only of himself, but of the whole gang of betrayers who head the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, and other similar organizations. Of them he says: “They are in truth and in deed America’s most genuine con- servatives. . . . Never has any manifesto gone out from that militant (?) organization (the N.A.A.C.P.—Ed.) calculated to undermine American institutions in favor of any destructive ex- periment at home or across the seas.” This statement sums up an attack on the Communist Party, and especially on the Soviet Union, in which he endeavors to prove the possibility of a recurrence of pogroms against the Jews, although he is forced to admit that the Communis' eem desperately determined to hold any anti-semitic sentiment in restraint,’ and that Negro visitors to the Soviet Union “have mistaken a temporary courtesy to sojourners for a broader racial policy.” By his arguments he attempts to condemn the Negro masses to everlasting persecution and oppression by a , “superior” white race, which he (and in his opinion, the Negro race)’ is willing to go on serving until doomsday. But when he deals with the Negro in the United States his reac- tionary social outlook (or better to say, lack of social outlook) is even more apparent. “There is that mutuality of relationship of the old feudal Jord and vassal,” he says—and in this, at least so far as the South is concerned, he is partly correct. The southern landowners today treat the Negroes very much as the feudal barons treated their serfs. The southern Negroes a jisfranchised, opportunities to secure an education, they rent small plots of ground from the white landlord, who retains control of the crops, and are forced to work a portion of their time on the estate of the “lord,” they are segregated, Jim Crowed and lynched—all these are slave rem- nants which might be gompared to the old feudal relationships, which existed prior to the capitalist era. But Kelley Miller, for the Negro masses, is ready to accept these conditions as eternal. He “forgets” (of course as a university dean, we would never charge him with being ignorant) that the history of the world is a history of the successful revolts of these very same “vassals.” And precisely because of the “relationship of the old feudal lord and vassal” which for millions of Negroes in the South is the reason why his negative answer is wrong. The Negro masses will turn “red.” “In the Negro, America has its greatest conservative asset. I will go one step farther, and say that in him capital has its strongest bulwark against the destructive onslaught of radical and restless labor,” he says. While completely qualifying him for membership in the counter- revolutionary Lovestone clique, which exp: the same views, this statement brands him as a most stupid ass even among the Negro leaders who specialize in defending capitalism. The Negro masses are already moving very rapidly to the Com- munist Party. This is precisely the reason why Miller’s article ap- pears at this time. With the daily increase in the murderous oppres- sive measures against the Negroes, coupled with the general offen- sive against the workers as a whole, and a militant struggle lead by the Communist Party against all misleaders of the white and col- ored workers and for social, political and economic equality and the right of self determination as the highest form of that struggle, the Negro masses will be won for revolutionary gtruggle under the lead- ership of the Communist Party. | An Appeal to Party Members N Saturday's issue of the Daily Worker we asked some pertinent questions. We asked Party members who have not yet reported or collected upon the Daily Worker campaign lists why they have been inactive to now, while so many workers, not Party members, have clipped the collection list we print in the Daily Worker and have secured contributions in great number? We asked this question because we wanted to impress upon you that securing contributions to help the Daily Worker is mass work and the kind of work every Party member must undertake. We feel that there are some Party members who think that the workers will not contribute to our paper, so what's the use asking them. Some Party members think that workers, who are strangers to them, will not respond to an appeal from a revolutionary paper. When New York City comrades went out in force for a mass col- lection several weeks ago, many of them had very interesting experi- ences. Thousands of workers on street corners, in shops, on the trains, contributed generously, many telling our collectors that they had heard about the Communist Party and the Daily Worker and were on our side in the fizht against the bosses and unemployment, Many insisted upon subscribing for the Daily Worker. In one instance a fascist member of the American Legion tried to inicrfere with a collector. The argument waxed hot. Workers gathered around. One worker shouted, “Never mind that guy—pass the box,” and the workers contributed so generously that the fascist took to his heels. We can collect the balance of $10,000 for our emergency fund if Party members who have not yet secured their $5 quota will shed their apathy and timidity and become aggressive mass collectors. WOLL FEDERATION FOR LABOR SPIES Elihu Root Praises. Easley For Fish NEW. YORK—Open admission was made yesterday that the str breaking National Civic Federation. of, which Matthew Woll, vice-pres- | ident of the A. F. of L. is president. and which has as a chief publicity our present organization for police expert and lobbyist the notorious purpose. It arises from the way in Ralph M. Easley (secretary of the | which our Government has devel- Civic Federation) that the Civic oped. General police power be- Federation itself was the prime ‘ongs in the States. mover in the Fish Committee's pres-| “The Federal Government is a ent attack on the Communists and | Government of enumerated powers, all workers organizations. and special bodies of police offi- The admission was in the course | cers have been created to aid in the of one of the Civic Federation’s | exercise of those enumerated pow- flamboyant statements, attacking | ers. Thus, we have a body of police “the Reds” and damanding more | officers aiding in the enforcement police power to be used against them | of the customs laws of the United by the national government. The | another body of police offi- statement incidentally revealed that ‘¢ in the enforcement of one purrore of the Fish “investiga val Pevenue Laws; anv! tion” is to create a large body of in the enforcement of the Federal spies to prey on and if pos: sible disrupt working class organ- izations. The heart of the statement was the quoted letter of Elihu Root, at- ber, to Easley. The letter was dated July 7, and as released by the Na- tional Civic Federation, says: “You Have Succeeded.” “T am glad you have succeeded in getting a start made at Wash- ington in the direction of remedy- ing the defect in our police service. “There is undoubtedly a defect in cors nid the I-t aiding they are denied the | WHEAT = OF ‘Se TO FARMERS STARTS TROUBLE |Ruination « of Poorer) Farmers Seen; Farm Board ‘Unloading | Soviet Farming Booms |No Capitalist Chaos in Soviet Union With Kansas farmers getting 64 cents a bushel for wheat on the} wagon; with Secretary Hyde of the | Agricultural Department and Chair- mp Legge of the Farm Board nearly mobbed for advising reduc- tions of wheat acreage; and “con- | sternation gripping the Kansas City | Board of Trade” when the Farm Board unloaded 350,000 bushels of wheat it had paid $1.15 a bushel | for last Fall to the Kansas Flour | Mills Company for 78 cents (other | reports: say 82 cents) a bushel, the ‘rapidly deepening agrarian crisis is producing loud political echoes. Meanwhile, capitalist press dis- patches from the Soviet Union, | give the estimation on American |agriculture of Yakovleff, Soviet | Agricultural Commissar, as in- | efficient and bankrupting the poor- er strata of American farmers, j while the Soviet is socializing |agriculture and improvinggthe liv- ing conditions of the agricultural population. Yakovleff’s report to the Six- teenth Congress of the Communist | |Party of the Soviet Union truth- ‘fully relates how American farm- ers are hopelessly overburdened with mortgages, taxes and high prices on what they buy compared with what they sell. The dispatches state that Yakov- | leff pointed out the limitations to | mechanical advance set by capital- ‘ism in agriculture, saying that in| the last ten years American farm- ers had increased the number of | tractors to a million, yet the cul- tivated area increased only 20,- }00,000 acres, while it might have been doubled. ‘Americans reckon the tractor and combine fully effective on sown areas above 500 acres, while the | Soviet knows they are effective | fully only on tracts upwards of } 2,000 acres, Only 314 per cent of American farms sow more than 500 acres; while the Soviet, pushing its program of socialization of agri- culture, expects to work hundreds of thousands of tractors at 100 "NEW YORK, , MONDAY, JULY 1 14, 1930 and Bronx New York N RALES City and foreign countries there $* Stu year everywhere excepting Maubattan Price 3 Cents a sear IN HOOVER’S HELL KITCHEN —By FRED ELLIs A Billion Dollars for Cruisers; Blackjacks for the Jobless Mooney, Billings Now More Than Ever Need Mass Support BALTIMORE, Md., July 3.—John MacDonald, the prin- He repeats his confession that he was hired and threatened into testifying falsely in the? — jee MEN'S CLOTHING He is being held while Gov- }ernor Young of California and Jagents of the public utilities| | gang that railroaded Mooney and | Billings to prison find a way to | break down his confession. Instead |of rallying masses of workers to support the workers in jail, the| é . R) | Socialist and A. F. L. commitiees| Strong on Union Sq. who have been gastandling the é Ste cases of Mooney and Billings re- Over 600 men’s clothing workers cently are going delirious with joy |demonstrated Saturday against the over this slender victory, the find-|terror regime of the labor faker, ing of MacDonald, and are opening | Hillman, and his crew inthe Amal- | Jobless Starve ane For. “War and, Secret Diplomacy; ~ HOOVER DEMANDS THOUSANDS MORE ON THE OK ON SECRET STREETS AS CAPITALISM PLOT ON SOVIET pi UNGES ;OWARD NEW WAR |Repression Grows, Lynching, Trials Multiply in Effe-t to Crush Labor Before Conflict Giant Protest Aug. 1 Communists Call Giant Protest Demonstration For August 1; “Use War Funds For Relief!” Rally From Shops For | “Work or Wages” | WASHINGTON, July 13. — Hoo-| ver, the head of the government of hunger and war preparations, is |linking up the republican leaders to Further wide spread closing down of plants in the most basic industries, further curtailment of iron and steel produc- | tion, further wage cuts, broke into the open over the week- end. At the same time came announcement by Hoover that he would not make public even in the senate the secret aoe cipal witness against Billings and one of the principal wit- | nesses against Mooney in their frame-up trial for bombing the | San Francisco preparedness day parade in 1916 is in jail here. | | WORKERS ROUSED | Demonstrate rate Hundreds| force through an approval of not sanitalis ments ween capitalist im- Neate easter tet crevalW cengis nee eee P but the secret agreements which go|Perialist nations upon which jalong with it, chief of which is the) the London naval treaty was imperialist pact made at London to| based, and at the same time} make war on the Soviet Union. came also the beginning of the| Having told the Senate that the} sedition case against National | | secret documents “contain nothing, | and that it is none of the busin of the masses who suffer from war what secret agreements the govern: ment makes to get them into war and therefore it is “incompatible” | with imperialist interests to yield} |up the documents, as he would be| “betraying trust” of secret imper- | ialist diploma Hoover has a new | job to make ratification of the treaty jan approval of the secret agree- ments outside the treaty. The resolution of Senat Norris, | whose desire for catching vooular | ; support by a demagogic role as a} “tribune of the people” has led to} an alliance of himself and other fakers of the so-called farm bloc with the equally fake “opposition” of the “Bigger N. crowd, will in the end aid Hoover to delude the | masses that there are. no secret | agreements. wee The resolution stipulates that in| except a few repair shops—throwing ratifying the treaty, it is “explicitly| out of work 49,000 employees. Ex- j and distinctly” understood that there perience with these “vocations” | are no “secret files, document, let-| in the Milwaukee shops shows that | ters, understandings or agreements) only part of the crew is hired again. which in any way, directly or in- The Ford Motor Co. has shut directly, modify or change the| down all its plants “from July 11 treaty, and that there is no agree- ment, expressed or implied except such as it to be found in the treaty itself.” The Hoover farces do not deny that such secret agreements exist but are! working on the asis that the resolu- tion must be killed because it is “an affront to the president.” The “Bigger y” senators say they are not satisfied with the $1,- 000,000,000 worth of more warships| Hoover’s policy carries with it in ers in Pennsylvania, and the push- ing of preparations for the Fish | Committee’s attack on the militant workers of New York. Can anyone |doubt that among the secret data for war on the Soviet Union? else the secrecy? White Terror Grows. Over the week end the New York state industrial commissioner an- nounced two per cent less employ- ment in factories in the state dur- ing June as compared with May of |this year. There have been fur- ther reductions in July, culminat- ing with the declaration Saturday of the shut down “for ten days” of 12 shops of the New York Cen- tral railroad, of which three are in New York State. At the same time, Western Electric declares a “two shipments of steel. Reduction Now and to Come. This is a further blow to the steel mills, which last week’s New York Times Annalist describes as in this condition: “Builders railroad cars are exhausting their | orders and three shops in the Chi- cago district have shut down, others running from 25 to 40 per cent of capacity ... the prospects of a decided pickup for car orders this ”’| Miners Union and Communist lead- | of the naval conference are plans | Why | 's vacation” of all its plants | to July 28,” and has cancelled all | of | per cent efficiency on state and| the way for a collapse if MacDon- vollective farms of from 2,000 to| ald can be prevented from testify- 500,000 acres, and furnish the agri-|ing in California, or can be cultural population with a life of | “reached” again, by the prosecution, security, comfort and culture in so Issues Statement. doing. Mz e é ‘acDonald was arrested Friday | _In America, MN mechanical a night, without a charge. He im-| vance is attained, is ruinous to the | nediately issued a statement as | big part of the farm population, gamated, The demonstration was called as | a protest against the expulsion of | 90 clothing workers from the Amal- | gamated and was also called to rally the needle workers for struggle against wage-cuts, long hours and speed-up, a struggle under the ban- ratification of the so-called “dis- armament” treaty, and say that the secret agreement they are encerned | over is the understanding with) Japan allowing Japan to build still more cruisers in certain cases. Norris and the other so-called) “farm bloc” fakers, joining with} these “Still Bigger Navy” senators| year would seem decidedly poor... Western rail mills are on a 25 per cent basis with little tonnage to) work on.” After stating that the | steel industry as a whole is work- ing only 56 per cent capacity, as compared with 60 per cent the week before, and holding out some hope because an even greater decrease torney for any number of big cor- | porations and former cabinet mem- | fi v8? and the Governor of Kansas, Reed, ae Reena ny | DeE of the Needle Trades Workers’ advocates laws against “chain” or| “ly John MacDonald, fifty-eight | tqustrial Union. years old, residing in Baltimore ndustrial farming. The report states Yakovleff de- lared that since 1914, taxes on American farmers have increased | wo and a half times, the prices of manufactured goods rose 62 per, vent, while agricultural prices rose nly 88 per cent, that interest paid on debts farms sold in the last four years ‘are “forced sales” under mortgage; that 40 per cent of the American | farms are opérated by renters. | As pointed out by the United | Farmers League of Bismark, North | Dakota, the poor farmers have only one way out: To organize; by form- ing committees of action among their neighbors, by township, con- |necting up with the U. F. L., which is preparing widespread real struggle, tenants’ strikes, tax-pay- \ers’ strikes, and a fight against monopoly prices. laws against counterfeiting; an- other aiding in the enforcement of the Prohibition laws; but we have no general Federal police officers, | because the States and not the Fed- | eral Government exercise general police authority. that. an assault is being made by secret means, supported by the re- the destruction of our system of government, and we find that the Federal Government has no police force available for our protection, Of course, such a force ought to be provided.” Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Kay ve; | Bond, in prison for fightin lor unemployment insurance, by American farmers | reaches a total of $800,000,000 | annually, that 123 of every 1,000° “Now we have reason to believe | sources of a great empire, aimed at | Saturday’s demonstration was jalso to prepare for the-great meet- ing of men’s clothing workers in Cooper Union July 15, The meet- City, testified as a witness for the State of California vs. Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings. “IT never saw Mooney until taken to the Hall of Justice in San Fran- | ‘cisco and was told by an officer, ‘This is Mooney,’ pointing him out to me. executive board. Leaflets have been | distributed calling on men’s cloth- ing workers to organize shop com- mittees, to refuse to accept reduc- “My testimony in the various |tions or the Hillman speed-up and cases was untrue and false, I de- | unemployment stunts, and to strike sire to undo the wrong that I did | over the heads of the Hillman clique |in sending Mooney to prison, re- | whenever wages are cut or Hill- gardless of personal consequences. | man’s and the bosses’ “reorganiza- “The authorities got me to testify | tion” throws part of the shop out (Continued on Page Three) of work. SHARPEN WAR IN CHINA Workers Prepare tor August Ist The prolonged effort of the wis in China. Northern Coalition, supported by| of @ new government The organization in Peking, Peking in opposition to the Nank- | jing government, the agent of) American imperialism, is at last | reported to be successful. With this step taken by the) northern militarists, whose position | up to the present suffered in no small degree on account of their failure to form a new government, | the militarist war in China has en- tered upon a new stage. sify the fight will carry the Chin- ese militarist war a step nearer to the coming imperialist war. This fact alone, the fact that | there is a logical connection be- tween the Chinese militarist war ‘and the coming imperialist war, | shows how near the imperialist war is in front of us. Newspapers received from China already inform us that militant the world and particularly in China, | preparing for the International and the consequent sharpening con- | Anti-War Day on August Ist. flict between the major imperialist | Ainerican workers should not lag powers, the present Chinese mili-| behind this struggle. American 'tarist war which is one of the pre-| workers should answer the imper- ‘liminary skirmishes of the coming) ialist war moves all over the world imperin'ist wer, has alvendy lasted | with a tremendous anti-war dem- longer than previous militarist! onstration on August Ist, led by Johnson, are aiding the hypo- was expected, the Annalist goes on crisy of the whole fake “fight”|to say, “The relative suspension of which allows Hoover to put over! steel production is expected, how- ing is called by the N. T. W. I. U.} bee . «| which signifies the determination British and Japanese imperialism, | 4 the northern milGeists andl |to form a new government 1) their imperialist masters to inten-| Owing to the deepening crisis in| Chinese workers and peasants are; a monstrous warship building pro- gram in the name of “a step toward | peace and disarmament,” and to de- mand and get approval of the secret agreements, the principal one of which is for war against the Soviet Union. .While 8,000,000 workers and their | families in the United States are} | jobless and starving, the proposal | for spending $1,000,000,000 to build warships, would be difficult to put over if it were not for this fake “opposition” demanding still more warships. By attacking this “oppo- | sition,” most of which has been ar- ranged for the purpose, Hoover gets the support of all the half-witted liberals and “pacifists” for the big- gest war preparations plan ever adopted. Secretary Stimson is makir~ the most of this, by send'ng out prop- aganda intending to show that the “opposition” here is contradicting the Tory “opposition” of the British. Actually, Winston Churchill in the House of Commons gave essentially the correct analysis of the fake “dis- armament treaty for stereotyping naval armaments at 1 very high| jlevel to the special detriment of | Great Britain.” | Britain is adversely affected, it is true, because she cannot help her-| self, but both British and American} workers, suffering increasing unem- ployment and starvation have noth- ing in common with the “opposition’ either in England or the U. S. but they both have the same interest in defending the Soviet Union from imperialist attack, and on August 1 will rally at the call of the Commu- nist Party to protest against imper- ialist war, the American workers de- manding: “Not a cent for arma- ments; all funds to aid the unem- ployed!’" | A..| Newark. ever, to continue throughout July,” and later it remarks about the steel industry, “it quite accurately fails to see any particularly cheering indications for August. Therefore —War! The Hoover Lies. The Annalist, a magazine by and for business men complains that the government has told the busi- ness world the same lies about un- employment as it told the rest of the country. It says: “The growing hard-headedness of the business public and the press is rather amusingly indicated by caus- tie comments upon the govern- ment’s ratio of 2 per cent unem- ployed to the total population. Perhaps this farcical and ridiculous method of concealing the signifi- cance of unemployment figures will be emphasized by some mathemati- cal humorist who may attempt to work out a statement of unemploy- ment on the basis of total popula- ion of babies under 1 year of age, ete.” Admit 5 Per Cent in Newark. The fake figures issued from Washington are partially contra- dicted by reports by census bureau figures for particular states. Thus, the figures just released for New Jersey show 21,705 adult workers un- employed out of a total population of 439,723 men, women, housewives, school children, inhabitants of old age homes and babes in arms in Similarly for Bayonne, where the oil plants are, there are 3,889 out of work in a total popula- tion of 85,796; in doa with its textile and dye Houses there are admittedly 8,886 entirely out of work. The capitalist program for these out of work men and women is to starve them into scabbing on those Cabttalists Admit Crisis Grows Worse Banks and capitalist statisticians writing for business men, not for workers, to read, continue to admit the deepening crisis. The Guaranty Survey, published monthly by the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, states on the first page of its June 3 issue: “It has be- come quite manifest by this time that the conditions underlying the present depression are more than psychological.” By way of evidence Jin support of this contention, the |Survey notes that: “Commodity |prices continue to move consistently downward. Employment is still on the decline. Construction contracts are smaller than those for the corre- sponding periods a year ago... « The number of vehicles (automo- biles) produced in the first six months of 1930 was 1,000,000 units, oe 30 per cent below the record to- tal of a year ago.” Smaller Bosses Crash. Meanwhile the results of the gen- jeral economic breakdown are mak- ing themselves felt in the growing number of bankruptcies. The com- mercial failures for May were the highest for any May on record. For June, the failures ran: First week, 442 failure cond week, 459; third week, 466; fourth week, 498, mak- |ing a weekly average of 466 fail- | ures. The record of May thus prom- s to be eclipsed in June, In this connection is it enlighten- ing to examine the economic cate- gories in which these failures occur. In the week ending June «here were 498 failures, of whic! vere |for less than $5,000 and 90 were for | $5,000 to $20,000. Of the total for \ the week, therefore, three-quarte.s of the firms failed for less. than $5,000 and more than nire-tenths were for less than $20,000. There is nothing new in thir ava~ lanche of business failures. The |department’ and chain stores have | been driving the sma!l business men to the wall for year:, the econ- omic breakdown has served to em- phasize the tendency. Fake Farm Relief. Later figures, from the Annalist of June 11 show the process con- tinuing. During the second week in July commodity (wholesale) prices fell 1.2 points to the lowest in the year. The worker still pays the same retail prices, however. The farm crisis is so severe that a group of senators, with their ear to the ground for the sound of rust- ling votes this fall, demand the pur- chase by the government of 100,000,- 000 bushels of grain. Steel produc- tion fell 4 per cent last week, silk production has headed straight downward, as the Annalist ‘says, “Accelerated by the worst decrease in consumption in the entire post war period.” The figures for all business activity show a steady col- lapse from nearly 95 per cent of what the Annalist considers normal, in March, to less than 90 to July 9 still at work, and cut the wages. Every attempt to organize them has brought police clubs and sedition trials or other trials for those who led that organization. A docile and frightened working class is the first necessity for foreign war. The Communist Party calls all these jobless workers to enter the Councils of the Unemployed, make Aug. 1 a giant day of protest for the unemployed, and mobilize on the streets and public places with the workers from the shops on August 1 to raise a thunderous cry of denunciation against the war plans. On August 1 demand: “Not one cent for armament, all funds for the relief of the unemployed!”