The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1930, Page 1

Fish Committee Plans Deportation and Crushing of All Workers Organizations As a Preliminary War Move. Answer This Assault on the Workers By Demonstrations August First! Build the Communist Party! (3! FINAL CITY EDI rION —- Vol. VII., No. 170 Company tne. Published dally except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing 24-2% Union Square New York City N. ¥- 1” NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1930 and Bronx SUBS HIPTION RAIS) % @ year everywhere excepting Manhattan New York (ity and foreign countries there 85 vear "Price 3 Cents rice, BAR DAILY WORKER FROM FISH COMMITTEE HEARINGS Unemployment and War AILY news reports from all parts of the world show a great sharpening in the world political situation as a result of the spreading and deepening of the economic crisis at a time when: world | capitalism was already in the throes of a general crisis. News of nothing but war. preparations, imperialist intrigues, colonial revolts, and preparations for war against the Sovjet Union and atempts to crush the revolutionary workers’ movement fill the papers. The civil wars in China are aot abating, the nationalist movement in India continues to press forward, more and more embarrassing the MacDonald “labor” government and the Gandhists, and today’s press reports carry news of the killing of 14 and the wounding of 250 in Egypt in an anti-British movement there. Throughout the entire colonial world anti-imperialist movements are rapidly developing. Within each of the imperialist countries—United States, Germany. France, England, Japan, etc.—while war preparations are being rush- ed—mass unemployment is daily increasing. With it goes wage-cuts, greater speed-up, greater misery and poverty of the workers. In the United States the 8,000,000 unemployed have increased greatly during the past month as shown by the figures of the New York.and Ohio state departments of labor and by the mass lay-offs in the plants of the New York Central Railroad, the Western Electric Co. and the Ford Motor Co. In this situation the government in Washington, which functions | as a mere tool of the big bankers and industrialists centered in Wall Street, has got billions of dollars to spend for military equipment, for airplanes, battleships, poison gas, rifles, etc. to meet any emergency. They are preparing frantically, as is shown by the present special session of the Senate, for war against England, Japan or any other imperialist nation which might attempt to challenge America’s drive for supremacy and additional world markets. At the same time they are preparing to crush any revolt which might develop in the United States colonial possessions and to continue the struggle against Eng land to maintain Wall Street’s growing domination in Latin America Within the country the killing of Levy, Weizenberg, and Gonzales. the brutal breaking up of st:tkes and demonstrations, and the present preparations, through the medium of the Fish Committee, for an even more vicious drive against the revolutionary workers and workers’ or- ganizations, all indicative of their plars at home. For these plans for war and suppression they have billions, There is no limit to what they will spend for these purposes. But for the relief of the over 8,000,000 unemployed workers—a number that will still further increase with the coming of fall and winter—they refuse to give one damn cent. They expect the workers to be the sufferers as a result of the crisis. They expect the workers to do the fighting in the wars which they are now preparing. The worke~s must give an emphatic No! as an answer. What fighting is done we will do for ourselves. We will fight now against their preparations for war. We will demand that the funds which they are now so freely spending for this war be turned over to the millions of unemployed workers. Under the slogan of “Not one cent for armaments; all funds for the unemployed,” and under the lead-rship of the Communist Party and the revolutionary T.U.U.L. unions, the workers in all parts of the country will rally on August 1, against war, for the defense of the Soviet Union, for unemployment insurance. Comrade Stalin’s Report N page four in today’s Daily Worker we begin the publication of the report of Comrade Stalin to the Sixteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This report will be of great interest to every worker. It should be widely read and discussed in the units of the Party, in the unions, and among the workers in the shops and factories. From it the revolutionary workers of the United States can secure a clear under- standing of the present world situation and the tasks of he revolu- ionary workers’ organizaions. Comrade Stalin deals here with the building of socialism in the Soviet Union, with the tremendous progress being made in the in- dustrialization of the country and the collectivization of agriculture under the Five-Year Plan which they are striving to carry through in four years, and with the social and cultural advances being made as a result under the regime of the workers and peasants. He also fully deals with the liquidation of the kulaks (rich peasants) as a class by means of the agrarian collectivization program, the struggle against the nepmen, and against other elements (bureaucratic officials, tech- nicians, etc.) still holding sympathies for the old regime or not fully entering into the spirit of a regime of workers and peasants, and with the right and “left” dangers in the C.P.S.U. and Comintern. ‘The growth of socialism in the Soviet Union is dealt with in rela tion to the deepening crisis and the rise of the revolutionary workers and peasants’ movement in the capitalist countries and the colonies. The analysis of the revolutionary situation in China and India, of the growing antagonisms leading to war between the imperialist powers, of the preparations for war against the Soviet Union, of the role of the social democrats and strike breaking trade union bu reaucrats in all countries, and of the tasks of the Communist Parties and the revolutionary trade unions is presented in such a manner as ta be clear and convincing to all workers. This is not a report only to the Russian workers; this is a report to the toiling masses and oppressed peoples of the whole world. A careful study of this rcport will aid us immeasurably in mobiliziag the American workers, poor farmers and oppressed Negro masses for the struggles against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union in the demonstrations which have been arranged in all cities on Atgust 1, and after August 1, in the election campaign and in the great strike movements which will characterize the coming months. COPS ATTACK PATERSON|Rally to Women’s Anti JOBLESS; MEET TODAY V2" Meeting July 18 Women as well as men are being PATERSON, N. J., July 15.—| prepared for the coming’ imperial- Five hundred workers, assembled at |ist war. The bosses want women the mill gate of the Weidmann Piece | to operate factories while the youth Dye Works looking for work,|and men fight capitalism’s bloody listened to the speakers of the Na-| War for profits. In some countries tional Textile Workers Council of MOB THREATENS TO BURN NEGRO TOWNS IN SOUTH Families Driven From Homes Flee Through Oklahoma Some Stay to Fight State Police Called to’ Aid Lynchers ERICK, Okla., July 15.—Hundreds of Negroes fled over roads and| around Erick today fleeing from | bossmen mobs who have conspired | 'to take what little property these | Negroes have paid for or have | struggled to secure, working as | lcotton farmers, servants, railroad | ‘laborers and petty business men. | The more militant Negro workers | are preparing to defend themselves | | from the lynch gangs which are) | being led by the “better class” white |people. The lozal state police and city officials are also preparing to join in officially to help shoot down the Negro workers here as the state militia and city police did here a few years ago in Tulsa, Okla. ee ELK CITY, Okla., July 15.—Many Negroes are arriving here from | Erick, Okla. They report that many Negroes are also going toward “safer” towns further south in | Texas. The bossmen mobs are re- ported preparing to burn the Negro section of Erick in case all of the Negro workers refuse to leave and put up a fight to protect themselves and their families. The boss press is carrying on a consistent campaign to excuse this capitalist terror by pretending that poor little white workers are lead- ing the boss mobs. The capitalist press lies to the effect that the driving of: the Negro workérs out of town is “due” to the finding of the body of a white wo- man on the farm where a Negro farmhand was employed last Fri- |day. The white woman formerly \lived in Erick. The Governor is | holding state troops in readiness in | Oklahoma City. JOBLESS LEADERS Preparing the Home Front -By FRED ELLIS Demonstrate Against Imperialist War August 1. Congress Was Not “Futile” But a Capitalist Success NEW YORK, July 15.—The so-) called “Peoples Lobby” conducted by Prof. John Dewey, who is trying to boost the social-fascist Norman Thomas into congress, in its recent bulletin sttmmarizing the past “work” of the U. S. Congress now adjourned, says it was a “futile” | i Give Funds to Feed : Striking Miners and Their Families | Read the story of the struggles | of the West Virginia and Penn- Re SE? ie he sylvania mine workers, Get the eee Neient i {| ttuth in the, Daily Worker. ‘futile.” It was most efficient in| Their fight is your fight, it is the fight of the whole working- | class. . Collect funds in shops and factoyies—organize tag days— get personal donations — visit fraternal and benefit societies and have them give money—For Miners Relief Committees! Send all funds to the National Miners Union—611 Penn Ave., | Room 512—Pittsburgh, Pa. PSII SeR. SATE Ti eae | unemployed, but hastened to estab- pushing the interests of the capit- alist class against the working class. It passed a tariff bill which will increase the cost of living, and thereby reduce the real wages of | | the workers of America, by} $1,000,000,000. It is now approving a navy build- | ing program that will cost $1,000,- | 000,000. It reduced taxes on the very rich. | It refused to require that members & CASE UP TODAY tions they. hold stock in and have | “connections” with. It appoved the con | of congress reveal what corpora-| lish the fascist Fish in charge of a committee to make propaganda and proposals to start a drive against Try For Seventh Time to Hold the Five | NEW YORK. — The six-times postponed case of “assaulting a policeman which is being worked up against the leaders of the job- Jess on March 6 will come up again in the Fourth District Magistrate’s Court, 57th St. today at 10 a. m. Many workers will be there to greet William Z,. Foster, Israel Amter, | Robert Minor, Harry Raymond, and Joseph Lesten if the first four are | brought from their island prison to the court. The 110,000 jobless and striking workers, demonstrating in Union Square on March 6 elected these five to carry their demands for work or wages, immediate relief for the unemployed, unemployment insurance, seven hour day and five day week, no speed-up, etc., to the city administration. Immediately not force labor to go.—Pittsbur; * . The operators have reached the point beyond which they can- the Communist Party, to cover up the misery of millions of unem- O. K’d Hoover’s slaughter of Hait-| ployed with “red danger” blah, to jans and subsequent trickery to re- |furnish “moral preparation’ ‘for place Borno with a less discredited | war against the Soviet Union and continuance of “military missions” ' to Latin American countries, and tool. jereate a special army of spies to It refused to give a cent to the |protect the bosses against the workers, The Fish committee is not going to “investigate” the “socialists.” It knows that they are fellow fascists, blood brothers. Matthew Woll, who | instigated the whole Fish business, joined with Norman Thomas Mon- they started, with tens of thousands marching behind them, the thou- sands of police mobilized by Whalen broke up the crowd. The five elected representati were charged with assault and with unlawful assembly. Aftcr an out- | (2y nicht in “honoring” Abe Cahan, rageous proceeding of denial of bai! leading social fascist millionaire | refusal to allow defense testimony, | ex, Woll said Cahan_ was refusal of trial by jury, ¢ i f “great service to the comtun- convicted of unlawful ty.” Lesten got 30 days, and the other four three years. The highest state court refrsed to even consider an application for a new trial. The assault case is a complete frame-up invented to help convict them on the The three capitalist political par- | ties, republican, socialist and demo- crat are equally against the work- ing class, and the only party of and for the workers is the Communist Party, which will enter its candi- Plan to Deport All Rebel Children Put Before U.S. Probers [ATTACK ON FOREIGN BORN, SMASHING OF MILITANT UNIONS, SHOWN AS THE PURPOSE OF “INVESTIGATION”; ANSWER IT BY AUGUSY 1 PROTEST! ‘Horde of Tammany School Principals and Disciplinary Officers Testify On Pioneers; “300 Out of 1,500 Children Influenced;” Admit Reds Best Students NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker reporter was barred from ithe Fish Committee’s “open hearings” which started yesterday at 2 p. m. in the Department of Justice Building, 370 Lexington Ave. The leapitalist press was allowed in, but not the newspaper of the militant workers, whose Party, the Communist Party, and whose unions, the SENATE GRANTS 0. K. TO SECRET PLOT ON SOVIET Demand Billion For the Starving Jobless WASHINGTON, fake “fight” against the secret dip- lomacy and agreements of the| Hoover government with other im-| perialist governments has termi- | | mated as foretoild only in the Daily Worker. The Norris resolution is amended te death by the consent and aid of the “opposition,” the so-called “Farm Bloc,” allied with the “bigger navy” fake “opposition,” in a way to ap- prove of the secret agreements. The resolution, even in the first place, did not affect the secret agreements, the most important of which is the imperialist accord made | at London to make war upon the | Soviet Union and seize by force as much Soviet territory as possible in | the attempt and with the aim of de- stroying the Socialist construction being rapidly pushed by the Soviet Government of Workehs and Peasants. Secret Pact Against Soviet Approved. The “compromise” agreed apon by the “opposition” deletes the pre- amble which the administration made so much fuss about as “in- sulting” to Hoover, and leaves the resolution empty of any meaning, since it merely says that any secret agreements made do not affect the treaty as presented. In fact, this is a specific approval of the secret agreement against the Soviet Union since the treaty touch. es only the increase in ar ween the im \ e “oppo! with the war agains t Ur kt assured that there is no secr2' derstanding only as r possible increase in naval secret the S ength of Japan and England as fixed in the treavy. With this approval, given oy both | other case. But they may get 10 years on it anyway. dates in the November elections against all other parties. administration and its “loyal oppo- | (Continued on Page Two) By BILL DUNNE. ‘gh Sun-Telegraph. * The Striking Miners Will Fight! Mass picketing is being carried on in all these strikes. Com- mittees of action for organizing and leading strikes in other mines in this section have been set up. Leaflets, calling upon miners to “Strike Against Wage Cuts” are being distributed to all mines. July 15.—The } ) Tat daw five dave. the bosses are getting ready to Unemployed. conscript female labor for indus- The police attacked and arrested the speaker Lou Cooper, a young worker of the Unemployed Council. Another comrade, Rose. Mohlner, was thrown into the wagon for distributing leaflets, calling the workers to a mass meeting to be held at the Union Hall, 205 Pat erson.St, tomorrow under the au: pices of the Council of Unemployed to hear the report of the Unem- ployed Delegation to the Chicago National Unemployment Conven- tion. The workers protested against the arrest of the comrades and de- manded their release, The two arrested were fined five dollars or five days, they refused to pay and were sent to the County try in the same ruthless manner that they herd men into battle. The Women’s Department of the Communist Party issues a call to fight this vicious war move of the bosses. All working women should send delegates to the Women’s Anti-War Conference of July 18 at 7:30 p. m. at Union Square, New York City. The important purpose of the meeting is to decide the women’s program in the great Anti-Imperialist Demonstration in Union Square on August 1. Strike against wage cuts! De- mand unemployment insurance! Rally against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet The preparations for the Second National Convention of the Na- tional Miners’ Unions are proceeding, not only in an atmosphere of struggle, but in connection with important struggles now in progress. This is especially true in Northern West Virginia—in the Mor- gantown section. Here a number of mines are closed by strikes or working with a handful of miners. Workers in nearby mines are in a strike mood. The whole section is seething with discontent and actual rebellion. About 2,000 miners are now in action, led by the National Miners’ Union. Rank and file strike committees are in charge, STRIKING AGAINST WAGE-CUTS. The struggles are directed against a new series of wage-cuts. At the Cassville mine some 500 men struck. Some returned to work after a few days, only to come out again yesterday. Three hundred miners employed by the Cleveland mine are on strike, The Bunker mine, with 70 miners, has been struck. At Reives.ille 400 miners are on strike. A Lumberton mine, employing 200 miners, is expected to be. closed by a strike tomorrow. The Connelsville mine, employing 500 men, where a strike committee has been elected, may be shut Union on August Ist! down by a strike at any moment. In Penowa, Pa., 130 miners are striking, « The Northern West Virginia area is an extension of the coal region in southwestern Pennsylvania and the cenditions of miners and their families are just as bad. In other words, the working class in these mining camps is living at the starvation level. The spokesmen of the coal barons themselves admit this, Writing in the Pittsburgh Sun-Tele graph for July 10, George H. Snyder, its special economic and financial writer, stated: “The operators have reached a point beyond which they can- not force labor to go. Strikes and red ink are the result.” This statement is made in the course of an article headed: “Strikes Face Southern Coal Producers.” This article, whose frankness is in itself proof positive of the depth of the crisis in the coal mining in- dustry and the rapidly sharpening class relationships, is worth quoting for the benefit of any comrades who may have lingering doubts as to whether the choice for mine workers (as well as other workers in de- cisive industry) is actually struggle or slavery, A NEW OFFENSIVE. “fighting industrial unions and” | leagues of the Trade Union | ie perie the a mmittee heade Rep ene Hamilton” Trish, New York want to smash. The fraudulent investigation this committee is but symbolized g | the latest fraud of an “open hear- ing.” The Fish Committee’s “open hearing” is held in a little room, No. 1410 of the Department of! Justice’s palatial suite of offices on} the fourteenth floor of an office | building in the center of Manhat- |tan. For some reason, the Depart- ment of Justice likes the mumber | 14, It was from the fourteenth | floor of its offices on Park Row that the tortured body of the Italian worker, Salsedo, hurtled to a bloody mass of bleeding flesh and broken | bone back in 1920. Salsedo had been arrested and “third degreed” to death by Départment of Justice | agents who were making the first | tentative ‘steps in the framing to the electric chair of Sacco and Van- |2zetti, and the murder of Salsedo | was from the beginning intimately | connected with the Sacco-Vanzetti | murder. “of In the tiny room on Lexington | | Ave., Fish, republican party repre- | sentative of New York; Congress- | man Carl G. Bachman of the open ER aE Call N. Y. Workers to Anti-War Meet; The New York District of the | | Communist Party yesterday || issued a call to all workers to organize anti-war committees in the shops and send delegates to the anti-war conference, Thurs- | | day, July 24, at 8 p. m. at Man- | hattan Lyceum. The call will appear in full in the Daily Work- | | er tomorrow. i| Ae mining companies of West Vir- ginia; John ah Nelson, congressman | , plot with the Tamma | heads of the New York, with C | missioner Wood, who urged the boss les to break the Independent Shoe | Workers Union, with Whalen, of | the forgeries fame and recently po- lice czar in charge of clubbing the| unemployed. Root’s Letter. | Their purpose is made plain by| Elihu Root’s letter made public the! |day before they met, in which he| the strike breaking National Civic | Federation for inspiring the whole investigation, and gives its purpose: to bring in a report no matter how fanciful on which a gigantic anti- labor secret police system can be founded. Subsidiary aims are evi- dently to try and smash Amtorg, the Soviet Union trading company in U.S. and not least, to whip un senti- ment for war cn the U.S.S.R. Against th's capital! he Com trations August 1, for un lief, for the seven hour day and | tive day week, and. demand that al | war funds be immediately used for | the relief of the 7,000,000 starving | praises Ralph Easley, secretary of | AIRPLANE STOCK GRABBING SHOWS WAR IS NEARING |Militarize F: Factories to Get War Profits NEW YORK.—A bright light is thrown on the militarizing of the airplane factories of New Jersey, their war measure of finger-print- ing all workers, and this light re- veals the feverish preparation for war secretly being made—by the way the big capitalists are invest- ing in aviation. Lemuel F. Parton, a journalist, has been making a study of profits in aviation, and while a considerable dumbbell himself, makes some rev- elations. He says that since the | Stock Exchange crash, the aviation industry was cut off for a time | “from the flood tide of easy money and whoopee investments.” But now, in 1930, there has been “a wholesale awakening.” There is “a new stirring in the aviation world.” While prices in aviation company securities dropped like a rocket last November, they have | “righted themselves with surpris+ ing vitality” and big capital is see- ing profits ahead. General Motors. The General Motors is underwrit- ing the industry, the Fokker Air- craft corporation is merged with the General Aviation Corporation, a holding company to acquire the Dornier company, all indicate the reliance of big capital on war ne. clear,” says the at the indug- ciers. have @ selosed to the the coupon- r t ” kuow that ‘ar, and big pro in airplane war orders, is near But the workers need not expect | to benefit by that. Low Wages. Although air-plane work requires much training and skill compared to many other industries, the aver- age weekly wage paid, when the worker is putting in full time—as has not been the case—is only $34.52. In New England plane factories, the 50 hour week and over prevails, | yet there the average wage is only | $38.08, while in western states a week of 49.37 hours gets a larger, but still badly paid average of $98.96, Women \ o> \ers are not paid nearly 63 much as men, though they do en's By ee wage for from $12.97 baw 6 i} The a have every | ason to o @ p commit- ees ayanst war, which will mean a terri) le speeding up at wages and jobless! One of the institutions openly | stated by Fish as within his field | of “investigation” is the Daily Worker, official organ of the Com- munist Party of U.S.A. Keep Out Daily Worker. ‘This article openly predicts a new wave of rationalization in the bituminous fields—particularly the important West Virginia fields, (Continued on Page Three) \ Therefore, when the Daily Work- er reporter appeared at the doorway (Continued on Page Three) hours and military contro! that will make them utter slaves. With other workers in all industries, they should form shop committees not | only to protest against war by | marching from their shops at the close of the work day August 1, but to carry on a struggle for social insurance, against wage cuts, the speed-up, and relief to the unem- ployed now and at all times,