The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 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. VII., No. 169 mpany ine. btisheo daily except Sunday b; 24-2» Union Sabare New York City N ¥.% The Comprodaily ublishiog NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 15, SUBSE TION RAL and Bron 1930 SPECIAL ANTI-RED Special Police and Fingerprinting T= Fish Committee appointed by Congress to “investigate” the Com- munists (by which they mean all militant workers), after a few weeks playing around, are now coming directly and openly to the task for which the committee was really appointed. On the basis of a letter from Elihu Root, former secretary of state and general roustabout for the Wall Street bankers, sent to Ralph M. Easley, secretary of the National Civic Federation of which Matthew. Woll is president, a proposal is made that a special national police force be created to deal with Communist activities. The connection here is interesting. Elihu Root, for years a bitter enemy of the workers and ofthe Russian revolution, is the one primed to make the proposal. In addition to his services in the state department, he learned how to prepare for imperialist war when serving as head of the War Department during the period of the Spanish-American War which marked the beginning of America’s open entrance into the world arena as an imperialist power. After addi- tional years of “distinguished” service against the workers and colonial peoples of the Philippines and Latin America, he was chosen in 1917 to head a special “diplomatic” mission to Russia which had as its pur- pose, with the help of England and France, the keeping of Russia in the war, the strengthening of the bloody Kerensky regime, and the defeat of the Bolsheviks. Upon his return he produced a scurilus attack on the Russian Revolution and has since devoted his time, when his duties as a corporation council for some of America’s biggest cor- porations permitted, to vicious activities designed to prevent the recog- nition of the Soviet Union and the development of trade relations. This proposal of Root for a new special police force to be used exclusively against militant workers only emphasizes the determina- tion of the government to carry through their preparations for im- perialist war, the extreme danger of a military attack against the Soviet Union headed by Wall Street’s government in Washington, and their intention to openly aid the big bankers and industrialists, for whom Root is the spokesman, in their efforts to cut wages, speed up production, increase unemployment, and load the full burden of the economic crisis on the backs of the workers. Further evidence of the Fish Committee acting as a mere tool of the big capitalists is shown by the fact that the arch enemy of the workers, Root, sends his communication to the National Civic Federa- tion, and through them it goes to the Committee and to the press, of course with the approval of Easley and Woll, who complete the link binding together in this anti-working class offensive the American Federation of Labor, the National Civic Federation, the New York Chamber of Commerce (of which Root is a member) and the United States Government. Truly we have here a powerful united front of all the fascist, strikebreaking, war-mongering elements preparing for a determined drive against the revolutionary workers’ organizations oe against the fortress of the international working class—the Soviet ion. Further evidence of the closeness of imperialist war is shown by POLICE IS FISH New York City and forelgn countries there $ 8 year FINAL CITY EDITION So yenr everywhere ex: For the “Bizgest Half” The Struggle for the Re-Di CELEBRATETODAY 5 Mines Strike te, Illinois; 10th ANNIVERSARY 4,000 Fight Unequal Hiring WAR CHICAGO, Ill, July 14.—The headquarters here of the! | nity League has received telegrams from south- § ern Illinois stating that Mines No. 1 and No. 2 of the O’Gara | Coal Co. in Eldorado have struck, that two mines in Ziegler New York Militants to of the Bell and Zoller Co. struck Saturday over division of Trade Union U OF THE RL ion of the World Grows Sharper. | | -By FRED ELLIS MILITARIZING "FACTORIES AS A “MEASURE |Wright Airplane Firm Finger Print Force |big body of U. S. spies like the} COMMITTEE AIM Elihu Root Letter _ Asks Force to War on “Great Empire” |COMMUNIST PARTY APPEALS TO WHOLE WORKING CLASS TO PROTEST ON | AUGUST 1, AGAINST GOVERNMENT OF HUNGER, MISERY AND WAR Matthew Woll, Head of A. F. of L. and Civic Federation Fascism, Backs Root; Wants Army of Spies Azainst Working Class NEW YORK.—Elihu Root, one of Wall Street’s greatest corpor- ation lawyers and leading imperia.ist diplomat for thirty years, re- publican party boss and advisor to scores of big corporations who to- day are cutting wages right and left, and fighting against giving a cent of relief to the millions of jobless workers and their families, has endorsed the fascist Fish An'’-Communist “irv--tigation.” Writing to Matthew Woll,; Aa: a Fish’s fascist pal, who heads MORE J 0 B LE $s the strike-breaking National made public Monday by Woll as|_ timely propaganda for the opening | CONTINUE LYIN 6 a| 2 Civic Federation as well as the | equally strike-breaking A. F.! of L. bureaucracy, Root’s letter, of the Fish Committee “hearings” | today, advocates the creation of Burns Detective Agency did during | the last war and afterward, to per-| secute all workers’ organizations, beginning, of course, with the Com-| niunist Party and the revolutionary | Fake Figures For Half of U. S. Out Soon BULLETIN, * work, # E N, N. J. July 14.— eres i <, the Wright Airplane Co, of Paterson, N. J., occupied entirely with the | Hold Pienic, Aug. 3 | Work, and that the Royalton | ea ees ON, nen Joly screayttiade unions of the Trade Union| wasHINGTON, July 14—Sec- building of war airplanes for the government, which undertakes to fingerprint all their employees. Such practices are confined to an immediate war situation and are one of the means used to maintain strict military secrecy, on one hand, and military discipline over the workers on the other. These acts, coming at this time, must further emphasize the closeness of imperialist war to every worker; they must RE-ELECT STAN Revolutionary workers every- where are celebrating toddy the tenth anniversary.of the founding | of the Red International of Labor Unions. In the decade since it was mine has struck. In Zeigler | the miners demand equal divi- sion of work. rushing war preparations, even to the extent of militarizing the fac- | tories, is clearly seen in the finger- printing of 3,400 employes’ of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation| «efect in our police service.” | Unity League. Call For Special Cops. Root tells Woll, and Woll, of| had al that tha late there are no jobs left at Boulder course, had arrang a | th invloved haditiet: tei Pee published Wat ers isa | eee ee ee | ter stay away. retary of the Interior Wilbur has made public announcement that A E a | The strikes in Zeigler and Royal- jton are in the center of Franklin, | A ‘ |the county of greatest coal produc- | here the first week of July. | Root says that although the U. This has caused tremendous re-| S$, Government has many powers,| sentment from the worker The | they are all “enumerated” or spe- Communist Party has issued | cial powers, such as enforcing pro- leaflet exposing the move as a war | hibition and collection of customs, measure, appealing to the workers | and that the U. S. Government has WASHINGTON, July 14.—The census bureau has already an- nounced that the lie about there be- ing only two per cent unemployed in the United States in April is “their story and they are going tc emphasize the need for strengthening the workers’ preparations for struggle against war. The answer to the Fish Committee, and the capitalist interests which they represent, and to the efforts to fingerprint and militarize the workers, must be increased organization. The revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party, the only first organized, the R. 1. L. U. has established itself as the fighting | world center of struggle on every industrial field on every continent. It has extended its organization | |tion, while the Eldorado strikes are Congress of CPSU. | in Saline’ County, near the Kentucky rel q |field of unrest. Clos: ssior es Session | These strikes involve close to (Wireless By Inprecorr) /4,000 miners and a strong senti- league in many couatiies to that uf | 44, “ 5 . cy C itt ae * h anedal ~| “tl i y : rganizati i ighti: : ‘ OSCOW, July 14.—The ent is devel th to|to organize a Shop Committee not,| special police for these special pur. a aS, 4 fi ar apeiest colmlee eee route ad apace serine Were, | independent leadership of mass! teenth Congress of the Communist | (Continued om Cage Three) {only to protest on August 1 against | poses, but. alas: steht teh neon fea ae ine and Acsehtioh aid for fait equality for’ tha. Nooen:: iat struggle. | 4 | Party of the Soviet Union ended Palani uae ease ¢ | war, but concretely resist this _ “We have no general federal po- gi ren ant purporting 45 show: abe imperialist war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union—must be |,,J%i8 is particularly true of | Sunday with a speech by Comrade | | | militarization and defend their | Jice officers, because the states and strengthened by the addition of thousands of new members. More active work must be carried on in the shops and factories to expose the strikebreakers of the A. F. of L. and socialist party, and to win the masses for revolutionary struggle against American capitalism. On the basis of the slogan: “Not one cent for armaments; all funds for the unemployed,” “Strike Against Wage Cuts,” and similar mass slogans, great masses of workers must be mobilized on August 1st for aggressive truggle against war, for the defense of the Soviet Union and for social insurance for the unemployed, old, disabled and injured workers. The offensive of the bosses and of their social fascist agents must be stopped by bringing still greater masses of workers into action. This must also be our answer to the Fish Com- mittee with their threats of special police and anti-working class legislation. Another Quack Cure-All UACKS of all kinds have been “saving” the farmers ever since the development of Yhe agrarian. crisis following the war. But it re- mains for an ambitious Wall Street brokerage house to not only save the farmers, but a few other things as well. They propose, with one magic act, to not only solve the agrarian crisis, but also the general economic crisis in the United States, and in addition to increase the strangle hold of U. S.. imperialism over China, stop the spread of Bolshevism in the Far East and find cargoes for “our” idle shipping. Surely a special congressional medal should be provided to men with such far-sightedness and enterprize, And their plan is so simple; we can’t understand why someone did not think of it before. © “The wheat (the huge carry-over from last year’s crop and the new crop now coming on.—Ed.) would go where it is badly needed (to China.—Ed.), the danger of Bolshevism in the Far East would be averted and our influence and prestige along the Pacific would be greatly enhanced.” As you see they are not only interested in saving the starving Chinese masses, and the world from Bolshevism, but they are also concerned with their “influence” and “prestige.” And even this, of course, they insist on cashing into hard American dollars, Before they cast themselves in the role of, “Savior,” however, they make the proviso that the fascist Chiang Kai-shek government agrees: “to stop fighting and obligate themselves to pay the interest and principal when due.” The only loophole we can see in this proposal is that it just will not work. Sending surplus wheat to China will not stop the fighting there; the Chinese workers and peasants are not ready to accept an even bloodier imperialist enslavement than already exists, but on the contrary they are determined to drive the imperialists and their agents out of China and establish a government there of the workers and peasants, If the sending of wheat to China is dependent, therefore, on such proposals and the “solution” of all other problems in turn are de- pendent on this, we are afraid that the economie crisis, the agrarian crisis, idle shipping, etc., will have to remain with us for a consid- erably longer period, As for the American farmers, the various quack rmedies pro- posed by the Farm Board, the Farm Bloc in Congress, and inumerable other “friends of the farmers” will solve nothing. Only organization in the United Farmers League, and the development of a continuous and determined struggle against the bankers, the railroad companies, the rich farmers, and their government, for lower railroad rates, lower rents, a moratorium on all farm debts, cancellation of the debts of poor farmers, lower taxes, lower prices for farm machinery and other pressing demands of the farmers. There is no quack solution for the agrarian crisis; only militant struggle will help the poor farmers. | International in Moscow, the centra: United States, where the Trade | Kalinin and the singing of the In- Union Educational League, Ameri- | ternational by the delegates. Great ean section of the & I. L. U., last | enthusiasm was shown by the dele- September called 4 national con- | wates at vention in Cleveland which formed | Congress. the Trade Union Unity League,| A central committee of 71 mem- with national industrial unions, bers were elected, including Stalin, leagues, and groups in the old| Kaganovitch, Molotov, Kalinin, unions, the leader of the revolu-| Voroshilov, Rudsutak, | Kuibishev. tionary struggle and the day by day | Kozsior, Yakovlev, Rykov, Toms! fight of American — oriers in the | Bucharin, ete. ‘ shops and of the unemployed. The Central Committee s The T. U. U. L. will celebrate the | immediately elected the Poli founding of the R. I. L. U. im New | Bureau which consists of the fol- | York at the picnic of the T. U. U. L. | lowing Comrades: Stali the Needle Trades Workers Indus- | vitch, Molotov, Kalinin, Voro: , trial Union, the Food Workers In-| Kirov, Kuibishev, Rykov and Kos- dustrial Union, the Marine Work- | sior. ers Industrial Union and others in| Stalin is re-e'ected see Pleasant Bay Park, August 3. the Party. The following The R. I. L. U. organization be- | are elected as members of the Or- gan among the delegates to the! ganization Bureau: Stalin, Kagano second congress of the Jvmmunist vitch, Molotov, Akulov, Baumann, Bubnov, Lobov, Moskvin, Postichev committee of the Soviet Russian | and Shvernik. trade unions taking a leading ere A meeting of minority and indepen dent union delegates on June 15 was indecisive but on July 15 1920, an agreement was formed between the stated the faults of the Interna- | tional Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam International) and the necessity of waging a fight on its Italian Federation of Labor, the | treacherous policies, and against the Russian, Spanish, Jugo-Slav and] bosses. A center was established. Bulgarian trade unions, which| From this dates the R. I. L. U. the close of this historic | | | \ | | | Support them! \Paree 2, | Give Funds to Feed | | economic conditions. Striking Miners and || As a result, there has been @ < ss | |fake “withdrawal” and some lies Their Families) aiming that the finger-prints were “destroyed”—but this is all clearly Read the story of the struggles | false, jof the West Virginia and Penn-, ‘A War Move. |sylvania mine workers—read of fe is: . tie . The Paterson capitalist press | |the actual starvation in the mine| | clearly stated, at the beginning, Raat i nat ic growing ‘that because the Wright plant has aout seven telde Getthe! | $2,600,000 in orders from the U. S Army and Navy, it “has to be pecially careful of the kind of helt hired, and all undesirables, Red. |truth in the Daily Worker! This is a basic struggle which enw é Joy.” This was said to be ren—-and will involve hundreds, | their employ ‘ information given by the company. Besides, the finger-printing move “resulted from a conference” be | tween a certain Charles F. Robin son, of the Owl Detective bureau 305 Broadway, Paterson, and the | of thousands more. ight is your “ght! It ht of the whole work- | Collect funds in shops and factories--organize tag days— | | wright company officials, and was get personal donations—v sit | | Mae iGae EW adelian fraternal and benefit societi ‘Spprover y y ghan, | president.” Those workers object ing to being finger-printed like con. victed criminals, were to be dis- charged and, what’s more arrested “for investigation.” Obviously, this is for the War Department, as this is the same at- tack against the workers as was (Continued on Page Three) and have them give money. Form Miners Relief Committees! | Send all funds to the National Miners Union—611 Penn Avenue, Room 512—Pittsburgh, Penna. | The Mine Workers are leading |the fight against wage cuts! The Socialist Party and the Mooney Case BEDACHT By MAX HE SOCIALIST PARTY in its campaign for the release of War- ren K. Billings and Tom Mooney 1s committing an act of most contemptible political body snatching. The Reverend Norman Thomas, the honorable ex-capitalist Judge Pankin, the corporation lawyer, Hill- quit, and the whole socialist cotery of capitalist hangers on, are trying to make political capital out of the Mooney case. But the record of the socialist party in the Mooney case is the blackest imaginable. It 1s in line with the customary treachery of that petty-shop-keepers’ political body. Tom Mooney was a revolutionist. At the time of the preparedness parade in San Francisco with its bomb explosion, Tom Mooney was a member of the socialist party. He was a very active member. His activity was primarily among the exploited workers. He was intens- ively active in an effort to organize the workers of the Public Service Corporation. WHAT HAPPENED? San Francisco in those days was a so-called 100 percent organized town. The labor organizations were tolerated by the all-powerful Public Service Corporations such as the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the United Railway (the San Francisco street-car system) because the corrupt and treacherous leadership of the labor unions, P, H. Mc- Carthy, Murphy, and others, had pledged themselves to leave the Public Service Corporations alone. The workers of the Pacific Electric & Gas Co. and of the United Railways were unorganized and were miser- ably paid, not the federal government exer- cise general police authority.” Matthew Woll, anxious to get all the credit for his service to the bosses, claims—and with good rea- | son—that he and Ralph Easley, who | along with Whalen are responsible for the anti-Soviet forgeries re- cently exposed in the Daily Work- er, are working through the Fish | Committee, for the establishment of a special and large body of de tectives with police power to stran- wle working class organization. Root helps along by saying that | ‘We have reason to believe that an assault is being made by secret | means, supported by the resources destruction of our system of gov- ernment.” Evidently, Root, being ist diplomat, infers that the “grea* empire” is the Soviet Union. | But there are other “great em- empire, whose Secret \'agents are busy in every part of |the United States today to defeat to seize Soviet territory by war. In ‘the last war, | citizen could get on a ship | America to leave the country, with- the British Secret Service in Amer- lica, Colonel Norman G. Thwaites. | The “Great Empire.” no American in of a great empire, aimed at the| accustomed to lying as an imperial- | | pires.” One of them is the British | Service | America in the coming war with) England that will arise from trade} rivalry and the common attempts | number of jobless in half of U. S.. and these figures will be in the neighborhood of 1,200,000 out of 60,000,000 total population. It is now admitted, however, by the bu reau that the percentage of those “able to work, accustomed to work and seeking work,” who are never- theless unemployed, is about 6 per cent. Admit 4 Per Cent In Cities. It is also admitted that the nim ber of unemployed in indusrial cities runs 4 per cent or over, the farm- ers, Who swell the numbers of tota! | population, not being considered un | employed, whether they are able tc buy seed to plant this year or not. The phrase, “able to work, accus- |tomed to work, etc.,” was inter- preted by the census takers to mean ‘working in previous years at this | time,” and they refused to count as |unemployed workers seasonally un. | employed in April, hundreds oi | thousands of young workers thrown into the labor market for the first time this year, or ruined farmer: | just driven to the cities and not able to get jobs at all yet. Neither did they count casual laborers, whe are practically unemployed but just happened to have a few hours the day before the census was taken. How They Lie The jobless number three times lout permission from the head of| What the census bureau's statements | will show. They are starving. Mil lions have been unemployed fo |months. They have rallied in enor Another is the “great empire” of |™ous demonstrations on March | hunger, made up of 8,000,000 job-|@nd May 1. They have been Mooney was extremely active in an attempt to organize these work- | Jess American’ workers and their lubed and their leaders have beer families, with speed-ups that wreck | Jailed. They sent 1,600 delegates « the lives of millions, This “em-| 4 national unemployment conventior ers. For Mooney the revolution was an act to be performed by the workers in struggle. To be a revolutionist therefore was an act of organizing the workers for struggle and of leading them in struggle. | pire” of hunger, misery, and wa: iM Chicago on July 4. The socialist party on the other hand, was a very respectable organization. The Alexander Irvine’s, the Job Harriman’s, the Stitt- Wilson's, the Gaylord Wilshire’s, the Walter Thomas } and this whole bunch of petty-bourgeois muckrackers in the leadership of the socialist party of California are the darkest spot in the history of that organization, in the period in which the left wing was still part of it and in many instances and places made successful efforts in making it a revolutionary organization. In San Francisco the leadership of the socialist party lay in the hands of Cameron H. King, a most re- spectable gentleman, chief clerk of the election commission of the city and county of San Francisco. The secretaryship of the Party for the city of San Francisco was in the hands of an equally respectable lady, one Lillian Bishop Symes. “WHY MAKE NOISE?” These most respectable socialists looked upon reyolutionists with contempt. Every revolutionist was an anarchist in their eyes and had no place in the socialist party. ‘These revolu ists made too much noise. “Why make noise?” said these asthi , “it hurts the ear nerves.” 2” complained “Why organize workers and lead their strikes? (Continued on Page Three) This con is certainly being mobilized by the | vention valls va all jobless ee make Communist Party and the revolu-| September 1, “Labor Day,” a day tionary trade unions, and on Au-|0f unemployment protest. gust 1st will protest in masses, de- | manding: “Not a cent for warships; jall funds to the jobless.” Fascist Meeting in Germany Broken Up (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, July 14.~Yesterday, oppositional fascists met at Ham- |burg and prominent leaders ad- |dressed the meeting. Hitler guards | broke up the meeting. Several per- sons were severely injured, includ- ing the notorious Putchist Major Buchrucker, who was severely in- | jured and whose nose was smashed. it call on them to organize into Councils of the Unemployed to fight for worl or wages, unemployment relief, in surance, seven-hour day and five. day week and no speed-up in the shops. The Communist Party, calling for mass demonstrations against imper- ialist war on August 1, issu2s the demand: “Not one cent for arma ments, turn all war funds over t unemployment relief!” Demand the release of Fos ter, Minor, Amter and Ray mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance.