The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1930, Page 1

Ase Fish Committee Plans Deportation and Crushing of All Workers Organizations As a Preliminary War Move. Answer This Assault on the Workers By Demonsirations August First! Build the Communist Party! Unteres as second-class matter at the oat Office at New York. N. ¥. ander the act ef March & 1579. FINAL CITY EDITION Pu Company tne, 26-2» Wate Vol. VII., No. 171 ished dally excep! Sum 9 by The Comprodatly Publixhing mm Square New York (City N ¥ ~ De SUBS RUF New Yor! and Bronx FISH WITNESS BOASTS National Cash Register Company Arbitrarily Cuts Organize Anti-War Committees in the Shops! Aocust 1st is international fighting day against imperialist war; it is a day when the workers in all countries will rally their forces for struggle against unemployment, against wage cuts, against speed- up in the factories, against the determined efforts of the capitalists to force starvation and destitution on the toiling masses, against the preparations which the imperialist powers are making for war on the workers’ Soviet Republic, against the bloody suppression of the revo- lutionary national independence movements in the colonies, against the feverish preparations which the capitalist governments are now making to embroil the world in another imperialist war. The Hoover administration in Washington is rapidly preparing to become a war administration. Hoover’s chief concern since taking office has been preparation for war—war to win more colonies as sources of profit for American banks and corporations, war against the Soviet Union, war against the working class at home and in the colonies. The London “Disarmament” Conference, concocted by Hoover and the “labor” premier of Great Britain, MacDonald, was a conference merely to fix the terms for the next war. Just as professional prize fighters, together with the managers and promoter, meet in advance of a fight, to determine the weights, the weighing in time, the size and weight of the gloves, etc., so did the representatives of the United States, England, France, Japan and Italy meet before the outbreak of the war which they are preparing to determine the number of battle- ships, cruisers, etc., the size of the guns, etc., which they intend to use in the imperialist blood-bath (most probably against the Soviet Union) now immediately before us. The: present special session of the Senate is called for the sole purpose of ratifying this infamous London war document. Under its terms the military expenditures of the United States government, already $2,800,000,000 a year, will be increased by more than another $1,000,000,000 to provide for more cruisers, more submarines, more destroyers. At the same time unemployment and wage cuts increase. And accompanying them goes hunger, evictions, poverty, starvation for increasing thousands of workers. No worker is secure. Workers who have held jobs for years in a factory suddenly and unexpectedly find themselves in the army of jobless. Old workers, more rapidly than ever before, are thrown on the scrap heap. Young workers and women, thrown out of jobs by the thousands in the radio and other such luxury industries, when given the jobs on which old workers have proven themselves “too slow,” are driven at a speed that soon ruins their health and forces them also into the “too slow” category of workers who now number hundreds of thousands in the United States. Masses of unemployed workers, constantly walking the streets in search of jobs, are used by the bosses as a club to beat down the con- ditions and wages of those still in the factories. The last big corpora- tion to slash the wages of its slaves is the National Cash Register Co., piling its 10 per cent cut on top of the cuts already made by General Motors, U. S. Steel, and other huge American corporations, proving conclusively that contrary to the fake promises of “no cuts” paraded by the A. F. of L. strikebreakers, a general wage slashing campaign has started which will reach all workers in all industries before the next few weeks have passed. With this economic offensive against the workers goes a poli- tical offensive. The breaking up of the March 6th demonstrations and the arrest and three year prison sentences given to Foster, Amter, Minor, and Raymond in New York, the six month sentences given to Fisher and others in “socialist” Milwaukee, the Powers-Carr case in Atlanta, the Imperial Valley cases in California, and many others oc- curring in all parts of the country about the same time, marked the first stages of the efforts of the government to aid the bosses in crushing the growing resistance of the workers to the attempts to systematically worsen their conditions. A second stage has been reached in the murder of Levy, Weizenberg, and Gonzalez, in the in- creased lynching terror against the Negroes, and now in the threats of the Fish Committee for special police to hunt down revolutionary workers, special anti-Communist laws, and new waves of deportations. This offensive of the bosses is a single entity. Their preparations for war, for attacks against the Soviet Union, for the bloody erush- ing of the growing revolutionary tide in the colonies; their mass lay-offs, speed-up and wage cuts in the factories; their terroristic lynchings of Negroes; their beatings and sluggings of militant work- ers; and their threats of even sharper repressive measures, all go to make up the plan by which the big capitalists and their government hope to solve the present world capitalist crisis, daily being accen- tuated by the economic crisis. The workers must answer. Their answer must be organization and militant struggle. Organization in the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League; organization in workers’ defense corps— and revolutionary struggle to turn back this offensive of the bosses, their government and social fascist agents. The next nation-wide step in the developing counter-offensive of the workers will be in the demonstrations against imperialist war on August Ist. Under: the slogans: “Organize and strike against wage cuts,” “Not one cent for armaments; all funds for the unemployed,” “social in- surance for all unemployed, injured, sick and old workers,” “Demand the release of the unemployed delegation”—-the masses of workers in the shops, factories and mines must be mobilized on August Ist, Anti- War Committes should be set up in the factories now which should organize the workers in the shops to march in a body to the demon- strations which will take place after work in all cities on August Ist, MARCH AGAINST organizations, especially the Com- munist Party ‘of Finland, illegal since its inception, to have a free | hand in preparing for war on the | Soviet Union. Finnish Diet Dissolved. The crisis in Finland which the bourgeoisie is trying to shift to the FINNISH TERROR: working*class is marked by the dis- Demonstration, S) a t *?| solution of the Diet on the question July 19 at 11:45 a. m. (of @ series of anti-Communist | measures designed to legalize the NEW YORK.—Aroused to the| fascist murder terror. Aimnich | Lhe American workers must rally danger of the attack on the Finnish | to the support of the revolutionary revolutionary workers by the um-| Finnish workers and peasants now donald mite ues "aomagiee er | bearing the brunt of a raging white 10" . terror. here will rally to a mass demon-|~ 10 PER CENT REDUCTION, HUNDREDS FIRED WITH INSULT, “iT HELPS YOU” T.U.U.L. Urges Strike Against Wage Cuts; Urges Jobless to Join This Fight Form Shop and Department Committees, Unite For Struggle; Demonstrate August First Co. plant here published notices Monday announcing a general ten per cent wage cut of all workers’ wages, beginning that day. There is the usual bull about this being all for the good of the workers, but that doesn’t buy anything. Everything 5 7 - ~* the worker wants to buy is WAR BILLIONS T0 just the same price as before. R | C H B A N K E R S: flagrantly breaking its prom- y | ise in the Hoover “industrial coun- jcil” that if there are no A. F. L. to realize that this company, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930 DAYTON, Ohio, July 16—The National Cash Register The workers are beginning! Wages NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES Effective today, July 14, 1930, the sal- aries and wages of all employees on the Dayton payroll will be reduced ten percent. This includes all execu- tives, straight time employees, day- workers and_pieceworkers. This is being done as an emergency measure to meet present conditions, and will enable us to continue to give HON RATES —————— Price 3 Cents 86 @ year everywhere excepting Mauhatten Clty and foreign countries there 8 » vear ON UNIONS ot 6,000 Employees Wood Tells of Planting Spies; Lockout Order | Testimony Shows War Preparations Include | Exile, Criminal Syndicalism and Censor Laws Fight This Menace August 1 By Demonstrating For All War Funds To Be Used For Jobless NEW YORK.—Open admission that the United States government through its department of labor has engaged in ‘union smashing during the last two years, that it already has gone far on the road of professional labor spying, that the | committee at least contemplates “legislation to take care of the ————*native American Communists WORKING GLASS csc? care of the foreigners,” char- | Strikes there will not be any wage} Nl jcuts during the “business depres- sion,” is taking advantage of. the |unemployed outside looking for a 70 Per Cent of Gov’t | to cut the wages of the work- ers still at work, Budget Goes for War | Fire Hundreds. : They are not all at, work any ieee feet ad Wesiou” 12} more in this plant, Along with the Jones, chairman of the Senate |‘ in Wages several hundred:em- Koiaiitek on AGieoceations.: loyees were dispensed with, and a thers who have been’ drawing states that the recent (71st) Con- |): 5 lgress spent “for preparation for higher salaries than the average war and for results of war,” a total Porton, Senin tare tices ene 2 | been reduced to the ranks and the joe $2,831,825,962.85, showing that | ower wage. There are 6,000 af- expenses for war absorb 70 per leent of all government expendis| 4 ae eee | tunes: | ‘The workers are beginning to eae 5 | realize that they must fight. The eee et? Dis hunks of Trade Union Unity League calls on [tile Vaae sort ariel 2000000) 4 an to kgarize committees in |“interest on public debt” and| ls . | $685,324,000 for “sinking fund and |°%c? department, to get in touch employment to the greatest number of our people. This Notice Was Posted Plant, Dayton, 0. TTR Fm President awe in the National Cash Register Organize! Strike Against Wage Cuts! N. Y. Communists Call Shop Workers’ Meet Against War | other debt retirement © funds”—of | | which practically if not all, goes to the great bankers who financed past wars and are still coining blood into dividends. é One may compare, in amazement, this huge sum of nearly $1,500,- 000,000 paid to bankers to the sum | appropriated -by t!, Seventy-first with the T. U. U. L. Metal Work- ers’ Industrial League, 611 Penn Ave., Room 517, Pittsburgh and Prepare for struggle. The unemployed must organize with the rest, in the councils of the unemployed,/and August ist is a day of mass demonstration to de- mands that: all war funds be used 4.the “support of the unemployed NEW YORK, July 16,—Pointing ] Thursday, July 24, at 8 p. m., to or- out that August 1 will mark the jeeuies an Anti-War Demonstration sixteenth anniversary of the last | ¢ Union Square on August Ist at | imperialist war which took the lives | le of twelve million workers, and The call in full, is as follows: warning the workers that a new| “August Ast will mark the 16th | and still bloodier war is preparing, | anniversary of the outbreak of the | the New York district of the Com-| world war of 91914-1918. The blood stration to be held before the Fin- | nish Consulate, 5 State St. {hear South Ferry) Saturday, July 19, at 11:45 a, m. Unrestrained, and with the con- nivance of the police and social democrats, fascist bands have roamed around the country, seeking | out and kidnapping and murdering | militant revolutionary workers. Di- rectly supported by the bourgeoisie the white guardists are resorting to open murder to wipe out all ves- tiges of revolutionary working class ‘i Factory Gate Meeting Rrote Pan At Laundry) NEW YORK.—The Young Com- muri*t League held a very success- ful factory gate meeting yesterday at Coney Island Laundry. Threats of beatings and gangsterism have been made here freely by the boss. Yesterday the boss threatened to beat up the speaker after the meet- ing but seeing the readiness of the Young Workers, backed out. Congress “for burial of ex-service | my ‘ fi ae he cash ci mich Gay Sae500 he capitalist e cash register company is a war a . factory. In the world war it was government sardonically provided, | adapted to manufacture fuse plugs | however, $1,000,000 for a commis-| for shells, and other war imple- | |sion to build monuments on battle-| ents, | fields, another kind of “monument,” the St. Elizabeth Hospital for soldiers driven insane by the horrors of war costing for the past year $1,513,248, But there is more war being pre- (Continued on Page Three) JAILED FOR DEFENDING SELF AGAINST FASCIST (Wireless by Inprecorr) | BERLIN, July 16.—A Communist, |Maciak, was sentenced for two {years in jail for defending himself against twenty-five fascists with | revolver. Although the evidences are such that the court was forced , to admit that Maciak was acting in SOVIET GRAIN TO REACH NEW LEVEL. (Wireless By inprecorr) MOSCOW, July 16—The Soviet |statistical department reports that harvest prospects are above average and that important grain districts are to exceed pre-war crop yields. self-defense, it declared that the shots have exceeded defense rights. Seven fascists are being tried for the murder of the worker, Heim- burger, which was committed on May 16th. The chief defendant pleaded drunkenness as an excuse for the murder. Another group of fascists are being tried for the murder of the workers, Kubov and Roentgental. | munist Party has issued a call for | of 42 million worke: |an Anti-War Conference at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. on | And already the impe GARVEY LEADFRS IN ATTACK ON WORKERS As we go to press Wednesday night, information was phoned that at a street meeting of the Communist Party at 132nd St. and Lenox Ave. in Harlem, the reactionary Garveyite leaders in- cited an attack on the workers. Bricks were hurled from a nearby , sacrificed to the bosses’ greed, is not yet dried. rialist govern- ments are rushing with br mM | speed towards another more structive world slaughter. de- | “The imperialists a especially |preparing for war against the | workers and peasants of the Soviet | Union, who have achieved tremen- dous suce! in developing their industries and raised the living standards of the masses through {the five-year plan of socialist con- struction, “The danger of an imperialist world war and of an attack on the Soviet Union becomes more men- acing every day. The building of acterized the sessions yester- | N OME CUT 0P } |day of the congressional com- | sUsz! mittee investigating Commu- FROM LAST YEAR Protest Government of. Hunger On Aug. 1 WASHINGTON, July 16.—That farm products are falling in price chiefly because the capitalists are cutting wages and throwing mil- lions of workers on the street to starve—with their families, is the conclusion, dressed up in polite} language, of the report, as for June | 15, of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture. Contradicting both the Hoover “hooey” and the fascist strike- breaking publicity’of the A. F. of L. “news service,” both of which are lying, as one, about unemploy- ment and wage cuts, the govern- ment bureau admits: “Employment and wage payments have been further reduced. Con- sequently, the buying power of consumers and the industrial de- mand for farm products is now at the lowest level reached so far in the present depression.” 1 ‘arm workers’ wages fell 2 per cent from April 1 to July 1; being 13 per cent below a year ago, with demand for labor at 81.4 per cent of normal. Referring to the reduced produc- tion m basie indus’ s, 1t says, in very cautious and “moderate” words: “Some wage reductions, together | with the laying off of employes in} the iron and steel, evtomobile. tex-| tile and other industries, has! brought the earnings of factory | employes nearly 20 per cent below | the levels of last year and about} nism. Chairman Hamilton Fish, Jr. notified the press representatives that he “would not call William Z. Foster” because “the Communists might help him to escape,” but that the officials of Amtorg, U.S.S.R. trading corporation in America, would be called to testify Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Near the end of the testimony ot Charles Wood, U department of labor “industrial conciliator,”» Wood stated and the committee suggested that the Daily Worker should be barred from the mails. Fish and others of the congres- sional committee cut into the rambl- ing, doddering, hesitant and almost inaudible testimony of Wood to sug- gest that “most of the Communist activity has taken place since 1925, when the department of justice ceased its active watch over the rad icals,” which certainly shows 4 frame of mind on the part of the committee exactly like that of Elihu Root and the Woll-Easley-big cor- poration National Civic Federation wko call openly for a huge secret police force to smash the workers organizations. Throughout the questioning oi Wood yesterday, both witness and congressional committee simply as. sumed at every point and occasion- ally flatly stated that the Nationai Textile Workers Union, the United Front Committee of the Passaic strike, the Independent Shoe Work- ers Union, the Textile Mill Com | mittees in the New Bedford strike the Needle Trades Workers Indus: trial Union, and every workers’ or ganization that really fights for the werkers—including the Workers In ternational Relief, and the Interna tienal Labor Defense, is the Com munist Party. Eve proposal to 12 per cent below the comparable | destroy Communism in America, ano level of 1928.” ch of the testimony dealing witt roof and an attack was made with : fleets of cruisers and bombing razors and knives on the workers rs | planes ‘are evidences of the fever- | while the police assisted by doing — ish preparations of the:e powers for | nothing. One worker named @ new imperialist world war. The | London Naval Conference reflected j the feverish war preparations, (Continued on Page Two) Purano, according to the report, was stabbed in the neck and an- ' other slashed on the hand. 'HE workers in shops and factories, mines, mills and on the farms | are now mobilizing for August 1 against imperialist wars and for | the deefuse of the Soyiet Union. This mobilization is taking place un- der the leadership of the Communist International, the general staff of the revolutionary workers of the world. Last year’s effective dem- onstrations will be improved upon. Greater masses will be prepared for active struggle against the ever-increasing preparations for im- perialist war and attack against the Soviet Union. MOBILIZE FOR AUGUST 1. August 1 must mark the results of the intense everyday prepura- tions in shops and factories, on ships and on the farms for the forma- | tion of shop committees, committees for united front mass conferences ! which ‘will direct the demonstrations on August 1. Our Party, the | Communis’ Party of the United States of America, section of the Com- munist International, is mobilizing the workers for these mass united front conferences which will be held in every section of the United | States. WHAT PART WILL THE DAILY WORKER PLAY IN MOBILIZING tHE WORKERS FOR THESE DEMONSTRATIONS? ‘The Daily Worker will print articles every day and Special Edi- tions wili be published for the mobilization of the entire working class, The editions of Saturday, July 19 and 26, will be general mobilization editions, Philadelphia has already ordered a special edition of 25,000. ‘The special editions and the everyday articles and pictures in the Daily Worker for the preparation of the demonstrations against unemploy- ment on March 6, as well as for May 1, was recognized internationally as one of the chief organizing factors of the militant spirit of the workers in those successful demonstrations in the United States. The Daily Worker and Aug. 1 For the August 1 demonstrations the Daily Worker again must play an even more effective part in mobilizing and organizing the masses of the workers. Workers in every shop and factory, workers everywhere must get special orders of Daily Workers. Daily Workers must be sold daily wherever workers pass, meet or live. Workers, send in reports of discussions and your activities in the shop for the forma- tion of committees, for the formation of mass united front committees. The Daily Worker must be used as the mass organizer and mobilizer of the August 1 demonstrations. However, there is a serious danger and shortcoming in carrying out these important tasks. The Daily Worker has called upon the workers to meet a serious financial situation. ‘The successful conelu sion of the raising of the $25,000, which was only a part of the general circulation drive of the Daily, would have overcome much of this danger. To date, about $15,000 has been raised. We must immediately attain our goal; the balance of $10,000 must be collected. Not only must these funds be raised for assuring the best co-ordination of the Daily Worker with the mass preparations for August 1, but the Daily Worker must be prepared to move forward after August 1 in the everyday struggles of the workers against imperialist war. The workers must be sure that the Daily Worker will continue its intense activities in mobilizing the workers against American imperialism. To be assured of this we must rush all funds, donations, subse tion lists, with donations, to the Daily Worker. Make up the $10,000 deficit immediately. Order special bundles. Sell every day the Daily Worker. Put into practice the slogan of Leni: he press is the collective organizer and mass agilator of the working class.” Obviously, with the. working class | Communism, was really a proposat getting 20 per cent less income, its | to smash, and a recital of the labor total purchasing power is that much | activities f, these militant unions relief and defense less; which shows how idiotie is| and organiza the “campaign” begun by the| tions. American Bakers’ Association to} Coming events cast their shadow: “call on the nation to eat more| before them very plainly in the Fish bread”’—as a quack remedy to| committee investigatioi It is go- “solve” the wheat crisis. jing to propose a secret spy sys on If, as in the Soviet Union, where | it is going to propose laws to easily the unemployed —though socialist | deport foreign born workers, it has construction has practically left no| in mind some kind of federal crim- jobless at all—are given zompen-| inal syndicalism law to jail Amer- sation, pay no rent and are really|ican workers who don’t kunckk taken care of; if the United States | down properly to the bosses, and it capitalists can be forced to disgorge| probably has some kind of censor a little of their millions of profits| ship law on its book for unemployment and other social | Fight it on August 1! insurance such as the Soviet Union| Better war preparation could not uae ale edtveneiied ; eel be expected. The working class ‘is bs to be rendered unionless and Voices b Rs s. . read less, all leaders in imminent danget The federal governmeni,of Hoov-| of hangmen abroad or prison terms Jer, the state and county and city) at home. | governments, however, are all) Against this, the Communist Par watchdogs of the capitalist class,| ty calls for mass demonstration and and instead of bread, they give the! protest on August 1, international jobless millions clubbings, bullets, | anti-imperialist war day. The work blackjacks and poison gas; though| ers then will mobilize not only for nearly three billion dollars were ap-| the preservation of their fighting or- propriated for war by the recent) ganizations, but to demand that the session of Congress. I From the shops, where the work- Jers are forming Shop | Against War, the workers will march to central points on August 1, to demonstrate against this gov-| voiced, nervous gray clad funds gathered for war prepara- tions be used instead for unemploy- Committees | ment relief. Getting Workers Fired. Wood, a nollow-cheeked, sotto figure ernment of hunger, demanding all} told of following fred Beal, of the war funds for the jobless. Strike against wage cuts! mand unemployment Rally against De- insurance! imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet | | tite \ Union on August lst! Nitional Textile Workers Union and other union leaders about the coun In New Bedford, he conspired Batty, director of the Amer Federation of Textile Opera tives (which joined the United Tex Workers during the strike) te (Contmuea on Page Three) r —