The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1930, Page 4

se EME a ' Page Four Central Organ o1 ihe Com Baily [Q= Wrvker of the U.S.A. SUBSCRIPTION. RATES: By mail everywhere: One year $6; six months $3; two monthe $1; excepting Borougha of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, and foreign, which are: One yr. $8; six mons, $4.50 —s + The Political eport of the Central Committee to the X VI. Party Congress of the Communist P arty of the Soviet Union Comrade J. Stalin’s Address on 27th June 193¢ I. The Growing Crisis of International Capitalism and the For- eign Political Position of the Soviet Union. have y Congress. Ap. But during this ha years » bul t for the earth. But ce between Whilst in the tion is a trans- n even greater countries the of economic decay. Soviet Union, the in- change is In our ce creasing up socialist construction in in- dustry and agr On the o} side, among the capi the growing crisis in onomic and agriculture. tuation today. f affairs in the capi- two and a half years ago: ndustrial production and trade in This is, in a few Remember the st talist countrie Growth of materials and food stuffs in almost all agrarian countries. Over the U. S. A. hung the aureola of capitalism in | full bloom. Victorious hymns of “prosper- ity.” Genuflexions to the dollar. Songs in technics, and in honor of n. Proclamation of the era of the “recovery” of capitalism and the unshakeable firmness of the capitalist stabil- ization. “General” shrieks and outcries about the “inevitable decay” of the Soviet country, the “irrevocable collapse of the Soviet Union.” This was the State of affairs yesterday. And how are things today? Today: an economic crisis in almost every industrial country of capitalism; today, an agrarian crisis in almost every agrarian coun- try. In place of “prosperity’—mass misery and a frightful increase of unemployment. In place of an uplift in agriculture—the im- poverishment of the million masses of the peasantry. capitalism in general, and of North American capitalism in particular, are crumbling to pieces. The hymns of victory in honor of the dollar and capitalist rationalization are praise of the late: capitalist rationalizati The illusions* of the impotence of | | becoming considerably fainter. Ever louder resound the pessimistic lamentations on the “errors”, of capitalism. And the “general” outery on the “inevitable decay” of the Soviet Union is being replaced by a “general” raged shrieking on the nec y of punish- | ing “this country,” which dare economics whilst all around ¢ This is what we see today. Precisely what the Bolsheviks foresaw to three years ago has come about. The Bolsheviks maintained that the devel- | opment of technics in the capitalist countries, the growth of the forces of production and of to develop its is. prevails. two the million ma: of workers and pe: was bound to lead to an economic eri of the utmost cruelty. The bourgeoisie press | found these “original prophecies” of the Bol- sheviks an excellent joke. The Right drew a dividing line between themselves and the Bol- shevist prognosis, and replaced Marxist analy- sis by liberal chatter on “organized capital- ; ism.” And what really happened? Just what the Bolsheviks said would happen. These are the facts. Let us pass to an examination of the data of the economic crisis in the capitalist coun- tries. | | | 1. The World Economic Crisis. (a) When the crisis is examined, the fol- lowing facts become at once conspicuou 1, Today’s economic crisis is a crisis of over-production. That is, more goods are being produced than the market can absorb— more fabrics, fuel, factory. articles, and food are being produced than the main consumers, | that is, the masses of the people whose in- | comes remain on a low level, can buy for | cash. Since in a capitalist state the buying | powers of the masses of the people remain at a minimum level, the capitalists store the “surplus” goods, fabrics, grain, etc., in their | warehouses, or even destroy them, in order | to maintain prices; they limit production, dis- | charge workers, and the masses of the peo- | ple are forced to live in want and misery be- | cause too many goods are produced. 2. The present crisis is the first world economic crisis since the war. It is a world crisis not only in the sense that it affects all, The Fight of the English The strike of the Yorkshire woolen textile workers is now in its third month. The social-fascist MacDonald government through their trade union strike-breaking apparatus ‘s using all their power to smash the strike. The Communist Party and the revolution- wy minority movement are leading the rtrike. The situation demands that we give full eupport to the strike, point out its revolutionary importance and link it up with the struggles of the textile workers of this tountry, and the general struggle against rationalization, wage cuts, unemployment and the war danger. The Trade Union Unity League, the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union and the Work- ers’ International Relief have organized a Yorkshire woolen strike Solidarity Day for July 19. On this day, throughout the coun- try, factory, street, unemployed and general mass meetings will be held to take up col- lections for strike assistance. Town tag days will also be organized in textile towns. —Ed. Pod By BILL MURDOCH (General Secretary of the National Textile Workers’ Industrial Union.) HE struggle of the 140,000 woolen strikers in Yorkshire has been completely neglected by our union membership in this country. As 8 result of the traditional sectionalism that ex- isted in the struggles of the textile workers here, it has been difficult to make our leader- ship in the past grasp the idea of a national union operating north and south of the Mason and Dixon line, and as a hang-over from the old methods we find ourselves confronted with @ situation where our leadership has done noth- ing to rally the textile workers for the support of the great struggles of the woolen strikers. Coming as a result of the attempts of the English Woolen Manufacturers’ Association and their agents in the reactionary unions to impose a cut of 5 to 8 per cent and an accom- panying increase in the number of looms per worker, the strike has great significance for the American textile worker, especially :n the woolen section. At the present time there is a developing Struggle between the bosses of both countries for the control of the world woolen market and especially the American woolen market. As a consequence we see the introduction of the speed-up system being rushed in England and at the same time the American manufac- turers trying to introduce the automatic loom into the woolen industry of this country. The struggle of the English worker is the first round of the fight against the increasing of the speed-up’ with its resulting intensification of the already enormous unemployment situation in the textile industry. The struggle of the English workers under the leadership of the Red International .f La- bor Unions against the bosses and their reac- tionary leaders, must remind the workers of Lawrence, Passaic and Rhode Island of their struggles of the same nature in the past, struggles conducted in this country without the aid of international organization to guide them in their struggles. During the Lawrence strike, during the Pas- saic strike, New Bedford and Gastonia strug- gles, the English workers rallied to our sup- port both morally and financially. The Eng- lish workers realized that we were fighting the same international system of speed-up and wage-cuts that the bosses call rationalization. If the bosses in England can put over the wage-cut and speed-up, the American bosses will use that as a further excuse to launch an attack against our conditions here. Already districts are beginning to respond to the appeal of the Workers’ International. First in the fight against the American bosses, and first in the struggle for the international working class, the Gastonia District has ar- ranged a huge picnic, to take place in Mount Holly, for the benefit of the English workers for organization in the South. Every district must now begin to put in ef- fect the plan of the national executive of the Trade Union Unity League. Rally to the support of the English strikers! Correct our past shortcomings in the build- ing up of international solidarity among the textile workers! Follow the example of the Gastonia District of the union! Make our fight against the speed-up and wage-cuts a fight in deeds as well as in words! Support the English strikers by turning out en masse for demonstrations and meetings on Solidarity Day, July 19. Support the strike by giving all you can! i Sparks Tells of Marine Workers HEN the S.S. Fairfax and the gasoline tanker Pinthis collided in Massachusetts Bay, 46 marine workers and passengers lost their lives. What was back of the criminal negligence in this disaster? What was back of the Vestris tragedy when the SOS signal was delayed for 24 hours after the ship was in a sinking condition? “There has not been a major disaster at sea in the last 50 years that was not due to the rapacity and greed of tle ship-owners.” This statement of marine authorities, shocked into confession of the truth by the Vestris disaster, is quoted by N. Sparks, former editor of the Marine Workers Voice, in The Struggle of the Marine Workers, a pamphlet prepared under the direction of Labor Research Assn. and lished by International Pamphlets. He ks up the quotation with facts and inci- dents which prove its truth. Sparks, himself a seaman, knows the marine workers’ life at first hand and has written an inside story of the shipping industry. Sea- men and longshoremen speak for themselves in this narrative and their tale is as lively as a novel, With their story are brought together the main facts on the rebirth of the shipping in- dustry, profits of the larger companies, wages, hours, “safety” at sea, the conditions of long- shoremen and harbor workers, and the long struggle for organization. The author end with the spirited story of marine workers in the Soviet Union, recently organized and affili- ated with the Trade Union Unity League. This pamphlet is one of a series published by International Pamphlets, 799 Broadway, New York City. Four others are.now ready, —on Work or Wages; the Challenge of Un- | employment, Chemical Warfare: Poison Gas | in the Coming War: Modern Farming: Soviet Style, and War in the Far East: a Threat to the industrial countries of the sing able to avoid a all the signs of an in spite of the systematic injection into its organism of milliards marks from the German reparation payments. the same time a world crisis in the the industrial crisis coincides with cription of raw materials and food- in the leading agrarian countries of vorld. The present world crisis is , in spite of its general and seizes this or that country developing of | | observable in Canada, in the U. S. A., in the n crisis affecting the production of | character, | at different | times and in varying degrees. The industrial erisis commenced in Poland, Roumania, the Balkans. Here it developed during the course of the past year. By the end of 1928 distinct signs of the beginning agrarian crisis were Argentine Republic, in Brazil, in Australia. During the whole of this period the industry of the U. S. A. has been declining. Towards the middle of 1929 industrial production in the U. S. A. reached almost a record height. It was not until the second half of 1929 that the change began to be felt, developing rapid- ly into the acufe crisis of industry, throwing the U. S. A. back of the level of 1927. This Unable to send the Daily Worker letters through ordinary channels, Comrade Ray Peltz, youthful Communist organizer of Chester, Pa., now serving a 1-20-year sen- tence for his activity in Chester, had the following letter personally delivered, His spirit unbroken, Peltz calls upon the work- ers to intensify their struggle against the hunger and war bosses, whose hatred he in- curred by his active work among the ex- ploited workers of Chester, Pa,—Ed. eehe (eee . By RAY PELTZ. (Delaware County Jail.) Ce HOLMES and myself were arrest- ed on the 15th of January while distrib- uting leaflets at the Viscose Silk Mill in Mar- cus Hook, Pa., charged with sedition and con- victed. Holmes was sentenced to the Hunt- ington Reformatory, Huntington,-Pa., while I was sentenced from 1 to 20 years in Delaware County jail and $5,000 fine. The case was appealed to the State Superior Court, but the awfully “fair” judge, McDade, refused to let us out oh bail pending the appeal. This case was a genuine railroading case from the very beginning. War Industries in Chester. Marcus Hook is a small industrial town right next to Chester, a town of heavy war industry, such as the Baldwin Locomotive, Sun Shipbuilding .and Drydock Company, General plants and many other such factories which are indispensable to the bosses when they carry on a war. Last winter (and I am told now even more acutely), the general business de- pression with all its consequences, showed its face clearly in these factories. The speed-up grew to the extent that, for example, at Ford’s, men fainted on the jobs and many brought their lunches back home—not having time enough to eat it on the job. Industrial ac- cidents increased, the already miserable wages of the white and Negro workers were cut again and again, on account of this, many factories were either completely shut down or began to run on part time, many workers were laid off and thousands of workers were walking the streets unable to get a job. Hunger was creeping into the homes of these metal, chemical, oil, textile and other workers. Of course, the besses grew greatly concerned with the welfare of the workers, so they wrote in their “Chester Times” that “a committee on unemployment was going to be set up, to in- vestigate the unemployment situation in Ches- ter and vicinity.” Meanwhile, more and more workers were being thrown out of their jobs (and their homes when they could not pay rent), wages cut, speed of work doubled and trebled to an unbearable extent. cents each, except for the Struggle of the Marine Workers, a double-sized booklet which sells at 20 cents. The first five pamphlets together may be secured for 50 cents, from International Pamphlets, 799 Broadway, New York City. the Soviet, Union, These pamphlets sell at 10 | again. With greetings to thi | Not A Cent for Armaments! All Funds for Jobless! . capitalist rationalization, under the conditions | given by-the restricted standard of living of | ants, | * OE DE mansra ate i | st 3 AwGuUst a By QUIRT A Letter trom Media Prison Workers Turn to Communist Party, The workers began to look for leadership in putting up a counter-offensive against the bosses’ attack upon their already miserable | enough living conditions. The A. F. of L. fakers having discredited themselves in these factories already long before, the workers turn- ed their faces towards the T.U.U.L. and the C.P., and so did the bosses. The T.U.U.L. and C.P., in. spite of having small resources to work with, or rather no resources, never- theless threw itself even more eagerly into the fight to expose. the bosses’ schemes. We were gaining in membership in the ‘revolu- tionary organizations, and almost every worker knew that there is a C.P. and T.U.U.L. in Chester which is fighting in his interests. On March 6, we held a successful demonstration against unemployment—2,000 workers being present at the street meeting, and about 600 parading down to the City Hall. A fierce Police terror was put inte effect. One meeting after another was broken up. Workers were arrested for distributing leaflets, selling the Daily Worker at shop gates, etc. In many in- stances, they were beaten up and clubbed by the cops and detectives; and then, on, top of that, heavily fined by Judge Tom Barry and the other politicians of Delaware County. Bosses Deliver Verdict. The Chamber of Commerce of Chester at a Steel Castings, Ford’s, General Chemical, rayon | special meeting at which Secretary of Labor Davis delivered a tirade against the C.P., and which was composed of the managers of the large factories, resolved “to wipe the Commu- nists out of Chester” at about the same time we were arrested and charged with “sedition.” At the trial, Judge McDade, who. was then running for a higher office and was anxious to make a good showing before the bosses, | among other similar things, said: “There were 4,000,000 unemployed and they might listen to the agitators.” ‘When he questioned us, he threatened to give us-the limit—20 years in jail for distributing a leaflet. The I.L.D. was on the job, and defending against the bosses as much as it is possible for the workers to fight the bosses in their courts, under. their laws, and with their interpretations of these laws. Workers Must Fight On. ° This, I believe, is a clear case, bringing out the economic crisis, worsening of the living conditions of the. masses, the leftward swing of the working: class as.the counter-offensive against the bosses, the attempts to check the revolutionization of the American working class by discarding the mask of democracy with its’ jailings, lynchings, deportations, electro- cutions. But these attacks, these jailings, will not weaken the working class and its van- guard, the C.P. The revolutionary movement in the U. S. will continue to’ grow more and more rapidly. The bosses feel. their power slipping. The workers will -help.them realize this feeling ia the very near future. I am proud to be a: political prisoner, anid hope. to get out some day and do my part in the build- ing of the T.U.U.L. and.-C.P.. in the U.S, orker, was immediately followed by industrial crises in Canada and Japan. Next came the bank- ruptcies and crisis in China and the colonial countries, where the crisis has been aggra- vated by the fall in the price of silver, and the crisis of over-production is closely inter- woven with the ruin of peasant farming brought about by the utter exhaustion re- sultant on feudal exploitation and unbearable taxation. With regard to Western Europe, the crisis did not make itself felt till the begin- ning of this year, and then not with equal intensity everywhere. France has even con+ | tinued, during this period, to increase its in- | dustrial production. | I believe that it is needless to enter into | the statistics demonstrating the existence of the crisis. No-one disputes today that there is a crisis. Therefore I confine myself to the mention of a small but characteristic table re- cently published by the German “institute for the ‘Investigation of Economic Tendencies.” This table shows the development of. mining, | and of the main branches of the great manu- | facturing industries, in the U. S. A., Great Britain, Germany, France, Poland, and the Soviet Union, beginning with 1927, the pro- duction level of 1928 being taken at 100. This is the table: Ses Bie ee & au e g 4 CONE ad ee Slee 1927 82.4 95.5 100.1 86.6 88.5 1928 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 1929 123.5 106.3 107.9 101.8 109.4 99.8 1930 155.5 95.5 107.4 934 1181 84.6 (First quarter in 1930). What does this table show? Above all it shows that the U. S. A., Ger- many, and Poland, are passing through an exceedingly acute economic crisis of indus- trial production, in the course of which the production level in the U. S. A., after the up- surge in the first half of 1929, fell off by 10.8 per cent in the first quarter of 1930 as compared with 1929, and returned to the level of 1927. In Germany the level of produc- tion, after three years stagnation, sank by 8.4 per cent as compared with the previous | year, bringing it to a level 6.7 per cent less than 1927. In Poland the production level, after last year’s crisis, sank by 15.2 per cent as compared with the year before, and there- with to 3.9 per cent beneath the level of 1927. By MARTIN HENDRICKSON, WARES thropgh Europe and the U.S.S.R., I passed through the Finnish boundry to get to England. I arrived in Helsingfors June 13, and tried to get 15 days Visas to stay in Finland, but they refused and I had ‘only -3 days Visas, and had to leave on the first ship from Helsingfors. On the 14th of June I visited the workers’ newspaper office (Tiedon Antaja) when gov- ernment officials came to give notice that all Communist sympathizers of the dailies, week- lies and monthlies were prohibited from being printed, and meetings were prohibited. The police force came to see that this order would be immediately carried out. In 1910, when I was a delegate during the socialist convention in Copenhagen, I also trav- eled in Finland. Finland at the time belonged to the former Czarist government. I was given an unlimited time to stay in this country to hold meetings and speeches. Now the white republic government which “advocates” free speech and free press refused to extend the 15 day visas to visit friends whont I know in Finland because they knew I was from the U.S.S.R. Economic Deadloek. Even in this short time I learned that the economic condition in Finland has grown into The table further shows that Great. Britai has made no progress whatever for thre years, does not rise beyond the level af 192' and is suffering from a severe economic stag nation, culminating in a decline of productio: by 0.5 per cent in the first quarter .of 193: as compared with the previous year, there with entering the initial phase of the crisis. Thirdly, it permits us to recognize that i is solely. in France, of the great capitalis countries, that a certain growth of heavy in dustry may be recorded, the ‘level of produc tion in the first quarter of 1930 being abou' double that of 1927, whereby the percentag: of increase has risen from 17.6 percent ir 1928 to 23.5 per cent in 1929 and to:32 pei cent in the first quarter of 1980, thus show: ing a curve of growth rising from year .t year, It may be said that if this is the status to- wards the end of the first quarter of this year, it is not. impossible that matters may change for the better in the second. quarter, But the data for the second quarter definite- ly.confute any such assumption, ‘On the con- trary, they go to show that conditions wil] worsen in the second quarter. From these data we see the renewed fall of prices at the New York Exchange, a fresh wave of in- solvencies in the U. S. A., a continued falling off of production, a reduction of the workers’ wages, and an increase of unemployment in the U. S. A., Germany Great Britain, Italy, Japan, South America, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc., and we see the beginning of stagnation in a number of branches of French indus- try—a sign of impending crisis in the pres- ent international economic situation. Today there are more than six million unemployed in the 'U. S. A., in Germany about five mil- lions, in Great Britain over two millions, in Italy, South America, and Japan each one million, and in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria each 500,000. I need not emphasize the acute aggravation of the agrarian crisis, plunging millions of farmers and working peasants into poverty. The crisis of over- production in agriculture has reached such a point that in Brazil two million sacks of cof- fee have been thrown into the sea in order to maintain high prices, and to ensure the profits of the bourgeoisie. In America maize is being used as fuel instead of coal, in Ger- many millions of poods of rye. are heing fed to pigs; and in the matter. of cotton and wheat, all measures are being taken: to re- duce the area cultivated by 10 to 15 per cent, (To Be Continued.) White Fascist Terror in Real Action in Finland such a deadlock which the following facts prove: . Finland’s main industry is lumber and dairy. products. They have lost’ this market and have fallen down under the cost’ limit. Railroads have not been able to meet the run- ning expenses. Even since Finland became a self governing white government it has depended on imperial- istic foreign credit. Everything has been mort- gaged; cities, water power, forests and any- thing they could find of any value, and still they wanted more credit, but were unable te find it. Fascist Attacks, 7 They attacked the workers in fascist form by kidnapping the leading radical workers all over the country and the white fascists went even so far as to attack the radical parliament members who were beaten nearly to. death. They attacked organized labor to prove to the imperialist governments how well they act as watch dogs on the boundary of the U.S.S.R, and gain th: credit which means their ex- istance. The Finnish Radical Organized Labor and the Communists appeal to the workers of the world to use all means and ways to make the Finnish white fascists government understand that their attack on Finnish organized labor is eee on all the organized workers of the world. Notices ot Control Commission the) Centrol Control Commission of the Com- munist Party has recently dealt with sev- eral cases of weak demoralized elements who have deserted the growing struggles of the workers under the cloak of their going over into the camp of the renegades, the Lovestone- ites or the Trotskyites. As such, the Central Control Commission has expelled from the Party or approved the expulsion from the Young Communist League of the following: Hugo Oehler; former functionary of the. Party, who, under various pretenses deserted the difficult struggles in the South in the face of the brutal attacks of the bosses and their government, and then tried to cover up his demoralization and cowardice by an’ af- filiation with the Trotskyites. Raymond Spector; of Sec. 8, Dist. 2 (New York), who after a record of negligence, pas- sivity and cowardice (on Palestine events, March 6th, May Ist, etc.) was removed from all offices in the Party some time ago, then showed leanings toward the Lovestoneites, but finally became an agent and informer for the Trotskyites. M. Maurcel and H. Milton; of ‘the Young Communist League, who under the pressure of increased demands for activities failed to attend regularly their unit meetings, or to pay dues, and who, instead, began to fraternize with renegade Lovestoneites and Trotskyites, attending their meetings and giving them in- formation about inner-League matters. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance, It is becoming the usual course of all the weak and cowardly elements, who shirk from the growing sharpness of the class war and who wish to run away from it, that they seek and find a refuge in the camps of the rene- gades, where little else is required’ besides slanderous attacks against the Party and the . Comintern, and where, in recognition of their services to the enemies of the workers, they run no personal risks of imprisonment or bod- ily attacks from the henchmen of the bour- geoisie. - r CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION, C. P. OF U. S.A. The Daily Worker is the Party's best instrument to make contacts among tte masses of workers, to build a mass Communist Party, Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party US. A. 43 East.125th Street, | New York City. 1, the undersigned, want to join the Commu: nist Party. 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