The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1930, Page 1

The Fish Committee and the Police Plot to Railroad Pickets to Jail and Foreign Born Out of Country; This Is War Preparation; Fight It With Mass Protest Demonstrations in Every City on August Ist! | The Farmers and ] 6 ae secoud-eluas matter at the Post ( Mtlce nt New York N ¥. ander the act of March & INT ine, 2H mpany Vol. VII., No. 172 eo daily excep: Sunday by | Coton Square New York NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930 1ON RAT and trons rker ew York City and foreign countries there 6 m vear FINAL CITY EDITION Sto year everywhere eacepting Manhattan Price 3 Cents FIGHT FISH CONSPIRA CY BY A UGUST FIRST P ROTEST W. Virginia Miners Battle Wage Cuts, Starvation; Need Reliet Abolish Juries Prepare for August First! X-PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, writing in the Herald-Tribune of today, tears the mask off the London Naval Conference and of other fake peace conferences, and clearly lays down a perspective of war. He says: 4 “In spite of all the high resolutions, all the solemn treaties, all the carefully prepared organizations set up for the peaceable adjustments of international disputes, the world is arming more heavily than before the war, and we hear too many distinct ut- terances of hostility. . . . The war curbed for a time but has not greatly changed the spirit of the nations.” This is Coolidge’s statement of the case for the American bourgeoisie. In London, almost simultaneously, Lord Robert Cecil, speaking before the annual conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, de- clared: “. . . old tendencies, which ultimately lead to war, are be- ginning once more to assert themselves and, indeed, there are so many signs that there is a trend in this direction that we should be foolish to ignore them.” Speaking further of the London Conference for Naval “Disarma- ment,” he says: « “No one who watched those negotiations can have failed to see how much they were conducted in a war atmosphere.” These are the statements of two outstanding spokesmen of the bourgeoisie of the two greatest imperialist nations. These statements are, simultaneously, warnings of the closeness of war and a phase of the preparations for war. They are efforts to convince the masses of people of each country that war is inevitable and that all phases of the military and other war preparations must be rushed. F This must be a warning to the workers. Just as the capitalists f the United States feverishly rush their war preparations, even to the extent of calling a special session of the United States Senate to. ratify the naval building program agreed upon at London, so must *he workers rush the preparations for struggle against imperialist war. The workers of the United States have the task of bringing about he defeat of the Wall Street bankers and industrialists when they at- ‘ampt to mobilize the masses for another bloody war to protect their tvade, investments and profits; we have the task of transforming their mperialist war into a civil war against their government and for the «tablishment of a workers’ government in the United States. But to accomplish our task we must prepare rapidly. Our work specially in the shops and factories and among the unemployed must he strengthened; shop nuclei of the Party, shop committees of the? ‘rade Union Unity League and of its affiliated revolutionary unions, and special united front anti-war committees must be set up in the shops, mills and mines. [inemployed councils must be established, sshich in turn must unite in struggle with the workers from the shops.” August Ist, through the activities in the shops and among the un- amployed, and on the basis of @ close linking up of the struggle against wage cuts, lay-offs, speed-up, and for unemployment insurance, with the struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, must bring a great outpouring of workers into the streets as the beginning of a continuous mass struggle against imperialist war. Under the slogans: “Organize! Strike Against Wage Cuts!”, “Not One Cent For Armaments; All Funds for the Unemployed,” “So- cial insurance for all workers,” we must prepare for August Ist, and for the mobilization of the masses against the imperialist war which the bourgeoisie are frantically preparing. the Elections HE farmers are today selling their wheat at 64 cents a bushel. * This is about 10 to 20 cents below the cost of production. The price of wheat today is the lowest it has been in the last sixteen years. While the price the farmer gets for his products is much below their cost of production, the prices of the commodities which he needs are continuously mounting and are now much above 1914. The working masses, however, do not benefit from the fall in the prices of agricultural products. Bread is no cheaper and the cost of living remains the same if not higher. It is the grain and packing trusts who are now enriching them- selves by means of the expropriation of the farmer. The agricultural crisis did not come suddenly. Capitalist agricul- ture has been in a chronic crisis throughout the entire post-war period. The growing unemployment only further accentuated the crisis in agri- culture. Capitalism can not remedy this crisis. Even the capitalists are foreed to admit the failure of the Farm Board. It could not halt the fall of prices, which are determined by the price on the world market. The wheat bought by the Farm Board did not abolish the fact that over 60,000,000 bushels of wheat are stored in the grain elevators in the United States and 130,000,000 bushels in Canada. The over-supply will be still further augmented by the spring and winter crop, esti- mated to be 818,00,000 bushels. Farm relief was the chief issue in the election of President Hoover. The millions of poor farmers now see that they were fooled and te- trayed. It could not be otherwise, capitalism lives on the plight of the farmer and the misery of the masses, Otherwise it would not be capi talism, and Hoover was the chief exponent of the interests of the American capitalists. : The government sees the growing discontent and revolt of the farmers. The elections are approaching and it again wants to appee? before the farmers with some fake issues. As a solution of the agri- cultural crisis, the government called upon the farmers to cut their sowing area by 20 per cent. How this will remedy the conditions of the farmers is difficult to understand. Even with the maximum pro- | duction the farmer could not make ends meet. Yes, they tell the farmer that this will raise the price of their products. This is nonsense and the capitalist economists know this too well. They know that the United States is not the only country exporting wheat; that European and Southern American countries are also increasing their wheut ex- ports; that the price of wheat is determined by the supply on the world market and not by individual countries. We presume that since the government is so interested in less production then a crop failure would be the greatest blessing for the American farmers. This would be the logical conclusions of the policy of the government. It may not sound logical. But the entire capitalist system is not based on logic, but on the exploitation and profits. The | parasitic nature of capitalism becomes still clearer when we take into consideration the fact that millions of unemployed are starying while millions of bushels of wheat rot in the grain elevators. These are the results of capitalism. No matter what schemes and promises the bosses will make they will not be able to solve the agricultural crisis, only the proletarian revelution will do that. For this end in the present election campaign we must bring the issues of the class struggle io the agricultural laborers and to the | poor farmers. We gave much lip service to the poor farmers, but very little was done to organize the farmers, to build the Party in the agricultural districts, Our election campaign must not be confined on! to the industrial proletariat, though, of course, it is the decisive fact in the class struggle, but it must also reach the agricultural proletariat and th or farmers. More activity in the countryside. Special agi- ors must he sent into the farming districts. Sell the Daily Worker among the farmers, Make the farmers vote and elect Communists in *he coming elections. No-Strike Betraya Give Funds to Feed | Striking Miners and Their Families Read the story of the struggles of the West Virginia and Penn- sylvania mine workers. Get the | truth in the Daily Worker. | Their fight is your fight, it is | the fight of the whole working- class. Collect funds in factories—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. shops and | LEADERS TODAY OF NOMINATION Communist Committee Goes to Their Jail ers of the unemployed, still in jail as a result of the demonstration of 110,000 unemployed and employed workers on March 6, William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, and Israel Amter, will be officially informed ; today of their nomination to head the Communist Party election tick- jet. A special committee, composed of R. Baker, organizer New York District, Communist Party; J. W. | Johnstone, secretary New York Dis- trict of the Trade Union Unity League; Herbert Newton, American Negro Labor Congress organizer, recently released on bail in Atlanta, Ga., where he is held on a charge of inciting to insurrection and is under threat of a death sentence; J. Perilla, election campaign man- ager of the Communist Party, and Irving Potash, secretary of the Nee- die Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, will leave for Welfare Is- land from 26 Union Square at 12:30 today. “The selection of William Z. Fos- ter as candidate for governor, and of his running mates, Amter and Minor, is a challenge to the bank- ers and capitalists of New York and theig Tammany Hall city adminis- tration and police thugs. It is an ‘xpression of the determination of (Continued on Page Two) || four Pursglove properties, Connels- NOTIFY JOBLESS NEW YORK.—The heroie lead- STRIKE COMMITTEES IN MEET 10 SPREAD STRIKE | Nearly 7,000 Miners, 50 Per Cent Negroes, in Strike; Prepare Anti-War Protest Aug. 1 | U.M.W.A. Company Agents Aim to Bring in a 1 Policy With Relief JERE, West Virginia, July 17.— A joint meeting of the strike com-} mittee from sixteen mines of this! section assembles here tonight to! adopt a plan of spreading the strike and building the National Miners | Union. They will also take up preparations for protesting against imperialist war on August 1. From seventy-five to one hundred delegates will be present represent- ing the workers of the following mires: Cassville, Shriver, Bunker, ville, Osaga, Chaplin, Kelley Creek, Rosedale, Harmar, Arkwright, | Throop and Butler. There are from | six to seven thousand men in these | mines, about fifty per cent being | Negro miners. | The last wage cut brought the tonnage rate down to 28 cents, the |day rate is from .$3.20 to $3.60. | There is no check-weighmen and the | miners are forced to. load “two for one.” All payment for dead work has been abolished. A conference called by Van Bit- ; er, fascist chief of the U.M.W.A. {company union, is meeting at F | Way today, consisting of subsidized officials and gangster elements of the old U.M.W.A. districts of West: ern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Southern West Virginia, Maryland, South eastern Kentucky and Tennessee and Northern West Virginia. The main question at the UMWA meeting is relief, with which these | ; operators’ agents plan to penetrate the strike districts, hoping through the terrible starvation conditions to win or neutralize the miners and their families against the National Miners Union. The poverty of the miners of this region must be seen to be under- stood. It is comparable only to the | uation prevailing in the pellagra- | | ridden districts of the Southern tex- tile mills, WOMEN WORKERS ANTI- WAR CONFERENCE TODAY NEW YORK.—Tonight, at 7:30 |p. m. at 26 Union Square, New York, working women from shops and fac- tories and from working women’s organizations of New York and Ne Jersey will meet in conference at the call of the Communist Party, | District 2, to make preparations for |the anti-war demonstration on Au- ea ae But It Keeps Coming Up! ¥ oye By FRED ELLIS. The New Joshuas, trying to halt the rising sun. Fascist Murder Rages in Finland; Protest Saturday NEW YORK.—The New York District of the Communist | Party -calls upon all revolutionary workers to show their soli- darity with the working class and peasantry of Finland, the victims of the ruthless fascist terror campaign launched by the | Finnish capitalists and landlords in preparation for war against | the Soviet Union. The demon-*- | stration will be held this com-} THUGS FA'L TO DRIVE | ing Saturday at 12 o’clock at | the Finnish Consulate, at HARLEM COMMUNISTS State St., near Whitehall. = | yew yorK—At the meeting of | The most brutal campaign of! the Communist P. on Lenox mae fascist violence against the working several | — Where the reckoning was made| class is raging throughout Finland. one. was|°™ reports from 18,815 establish- | The diet was abolished officially ddwould have (oo with 3,172,039 workers, un-| several days ago. The Finni: had not | ¢mPloyment fell off 2.5 per cent r worker government of the bourgeois parti the arm of | in collusion with the social-demo-| the attacker. crats capitulated and turned the) ‘The police agents had thrown official government over to the) bricks from a roof but none of these fascist bands. The most ruthless) struck the worke war of extermination is organized against the Communist Party reves | Wm. Simmon a white worker,|June last year, show: lutionary unions, and all dans ore | We las) acked aud thie aa Employment izati vorkers, r genera le 0; he workers to » ganizations of the workers. The! dufend th Rather eae kce | (1926—as 100) workers press has been suppressed, ae 1929 1930 the right to organization, trade | tori Gabeae Hlawiie | aan May June unions and cooperatives completely fees eee 00.8 87:7 85.5 abolished. Armed bands of fascisti| Ree reread aoeicae on: ta ean kidnap and murder workers’ and| : peasants’ deputies, and working| Many members of the Universal | class leaders. ;Negro Improvement Association | this year, and that June this year! The effects of the crisis of cap-| Were Present and remained, regard. | was 13.3 points below a year ago.| italism in finland’ are now eo ins | less of the attempts of their leaders | This proves how scandalous are the tense, with the economic situation | break up the meeting. worse than it has ever been before | and the radicalization of the | masses increasing, that the capit-| shoulders of the working cla alists have decided it is high time| The Finnish Communist Party is | to give the fighting organizations | waging a heroic and stubborn | of the workers and peasants a death | struggle against the fascist terror. blow. Thus they hope to prolong! Mobilize for the demonstration on their rule and also shift the whole | Saturday! Down with fascist terror burden of the crisis onto the! and imperialist war preparations! (Statement of the Centr: (aed April 1st a drive has bee: Renew, Intensify the Daily Complete the Drive by August First! ‘al Committee, C.P.U.S.A.) n going on to increase the mass in- fluence and circulation of the Daily Worker, and to put it on such a basis as to insure its regular publication at this time of sharp- ening class struggle# colonial revolts, and bourgeois preparations for imperialist war and for war against the Soviet Union. At that time the Central Committee emphasized the role of the Daily Worker as the collective agitator, educator and organizer “which binds together all the thousands of scattered organizations and in- dividuals into a powerful movement, fused with a common knowledge, program and will” capable of waging a struggle against unemployment, wage cuts, and speed-up, against the lynchings of Negroes, for the re- lease of class war prisoners, against the imperialist war preparations, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. During this period entirely insufficient work has been done in carrying through the program published in full in the Daily Worker of April Ist. Much progress has certainly been made in increasing the circulation; it having been almost doubled in the past three and one-half months, ee respect the New York, Philadelphia and Chicago Districts, in the case of paid subscriptions, and Boston, Cleve- land, and California in the case of bundle orders, have greatly im- proved their work and come the nearest to reaching their quotas. But in the case of the drive as a whole, or in the work of the separaté districts, if the great opportunities of the present period are borne ia “ velopment of systematic sales at shops and factorie: Worker Drive mind, it is necessary to emphasize the insufficiency of the work done in this campaign. The whole campaign in its present form must now be brought to a close with the ending of the demonstrations against war on August Ist, In connection with, and as a major part of the mass work in the shops and factories and among the unemployed in preparation for August Ist the remainder of the quotas must be filled in every district. the Daily Worker must be made the most powerful instrument in bringing the masses into the streets on August Ist. : In the first place must be placed the regular, stabilized circula- ion of the paper, which means securing regular subscribers who have the paper delvered to their home every day either by maif or by regu- larly established carrier service. The setting up of our own carrier routes, with unemployed workers or Party members as carriers, is essential especially in view of the closeness of the war danger, the threats of anti-Communist laws and the possibilities of illegality for our Party and press. Next must come the increase in the bundle orders and the de- r : i primarily, and also in working class neighborhoods, with the objective to establish regular carrier routes. These activities to greatly increase the circulation must be given (Continued on Page Five) in Labor Trials Says Inspector Judge Boasts of Prejudice in Ruling Workers Should Be Fired For Political Beliefs Woll Launches Avalanche of Fake Letters On Congressmen; Fish Has 2 Unionists Expelled NEW YORK.—John A. Lyons, chief of the “Radical Squad” of the New York police department, in direct charge under Police Czar Whalen of recent political memory, of the clubbing, riding down, jailing and arresting of thousands of unemployed workers in this city, testified before the Fish i -~~==-=* Commission yesterday. Sodid WAGE SLASHES: PROTEST AUG, 1 should be broken, and that the yellow dog contract is a patriotic Working Class Income! Off 18.7 in Year duty. So did a detective named Wm. | Valkenberg, who added nothing to the discussion, and so did Matthew Woll, vice president of the A. F. of L., acting president of the Na- tional Civic Federation. The secretary of the N. C. F., Ralph Easley, was recently compli- mented in an open letter from Elihu WASHINGTON, July 17,— The | Root for starting the whole con- statement yesterday made by Fran- cis I. Jones, director general of the Federal Employment Service (not to furnish any jobs, but ‘only to collect statistics), shows how com-| pletely ridiculous is the lie of Hoo- | ver and his census figures about| truth even, when he thinks it won’t “2.7 per cent of the total poula-|do any harm, plays up to all the tion” being jobless. It also ought | prejudices and desires of the con- Lyons is a sharp contrast to the feeble Commissioner Wood, all day | witness the day before. Lyons is | clear cut, has all his lies well tabu- lated and ready at hand, tells the |euts of those left at work. Here the| | counted as one of the thirteen groups | | buyers — a shameless lie. gressional investigation. \to end, for the shameless fascist liars of the A. F, of L., their claim that there have been no wage cuts, For June, as compared to May, reckoned on reports from 39,903 es- tablishments with 4,9 * ,660 workers in thirteen industrial groups, em- ployment fell off in the one month, 1.8 per cent, while payroll totals | fell off 2.7 per cent, showing wage! payroll total for one week was at| the rate of $26.50. In manufacturing industry alone, from May to June, while payroll} totals fell a full 4 per cent. Reckoning from the monthly av- erage of 1926 as 100, the compara- tive figures for June and May, compared with each other and with This clearly shows that employ- ment fell on these comparative fig- ures 2.2 points from May to June lies poured out of Washington about there being only around 2,400,000 jobless in the whole country. On how wage totals, the income of the whole working class, have/ fallen, the same comparative fig-| ures, based on 1926, show: Payroll Totals (1926—as 100) 1929 1930 | June May June | 102.8 87.6 84.1 This clearly shows that the total working class income was cut down) 8.5 points from May to June this! ar, while from June last year to) June this year the working class! wage income was cut down 18,7) points. Yet the scoundrels of the A. F.} of L. officials, to help the bosses put over more wage cuts, say that wage cuts are “forbidden by finan- | cial lords” and try to make believe sale commodity prices has been pass- ed on to the working class retail Prices gressmen on the committee even when it is somewhat to the discredit of local police and legal reputation. Lyons is efficient, a deadly enemy of the working class, poison clear through. Abolishing Trial by Jury. Lyons almost immediately on taking the stand made a point for abolition of jury trials. He told of 1,200 arrests his cops had made in the fur strike, and hundreds of other arrests in other strikes. “We find we get better results by making a case of simple as- sault (against the strikers to be framed.—Ed.) than one of feloni- ous assault. We bring the case before three judges, instead of before a jury. We find juries un~ willing, most reluctant, to con- vict these strikers. They do not (Continued on Page Five} Demonstrate August Ist! LYNCHERS HUNT NEGRO IN TEXAS HOUSTON, Texas, July 17.— Uniformed and bossmen lynch gangs are raking Houston and vicinity, seeking an unarmed Negro worker who, half starved from lack of em- ployment, sought relief at the home of a wealthy merchant this morning. The wife of the merchant accuses the Negro worker of robbing and attacking her. The police officials have arranged with the merchant to have the Ne- gro worker legally lynched if not burned as John Hughes was at Sherman, Texas, or as William Rainey was at Beaumont. Four Negro workers haye been lynched in this state within the last seven mont One Negro worker, Jesse Washington, is being held in a state prison in Oklahoma, after a mob failed to get -him in Sham- rock, Texas, last Saturday. More }than 50 Negro workers and their |families were driven from Sham- A large number of Negro | rock, ‘that the 9.1 points fall in whole-| Workers were forced to flee from | Erick, Oklahoma, last Monday. | Demonstrate August Ist! | of food, clothing and shelter (rents) |are just as high as ever, and in some | \cases higher, for the workers. ing at lower wages comés in — From May to June there were aj only 7.5 per cent increase in total |few, largely seasonal, increases in| payroll. some trades, but only in twelve out| Thus, any worker should see th=t of fifty-four trades, the largest in-! the crisis is deepening, that millions crease being small, 3.9 per cent in| are being still thrown out of work, clothing. The government reports! and refused any relief by the capi- jonly eighteen out of the fifty-four | talist government, while $1,000,000,- | reported wage total increases, which) 000 is being appropriated for war- |must have been so small that the) ships alone, and huncreds of mil- government statisticians —_ were | lions given back in tax refunds to ashamed to give the figure, great corporations, In one industry, radio, which . For these reasons, every worker, a total collapse since the stock ex-| er.ployed ur jobless, should join his | change crash, there was a spurt p| fellow. workers in r -rching to the jfrom May to June, it reporting a| Anti-War demonstrations on August gain of 11.4 per cent im employnent,| First, under the demand: Not a cent but — and here is wher the rehir-'for war; every @vllar to the jobless