The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1930, Page 1

Foster, Minor and Amter, Jailed Leaders of the Jobless, Are Communist Candi- dates. They Pledge Struggle Against Imperialist War, Terror, Unem- ployment; Support Them By Demonstration on August ist! ction of the Comm Vol. VII., No. 173 aKs matter at the Jer the act of Marc the-C lu. My NISH CONSULATE AT NOON TODAY AGAINST FASCIST| Aunict unist NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930 Fake J Gbiesd Ll oiraitee in | New Zealand NEW ZEALAND, under mass pressure ports, is about to grant a limited insurance to unemployed cae Under the terms of the proposed bill each unemployed worker, “with some exceptions,” over 21 years of age, will receive $ per week for & period of six months, and an additional $4.36 per week when married, and $1 per week for each child. Aside from the fact that the amounts pald to employed workers and are therefore entirely inadequate to maintain a worker or his family, there are two drawbacks to this proposed legislation. The first is that the v are compelled while working to provide half the funds for this insurance directly through a levy on their wages, the government providing the other half, which in the last analysis also comes from the workers; and the second is that the administration of the fund, instead of be’ placed \n the hands of the workers’ organizations, is vested in a special in- surance commission of 8 appointed by the government. This proposal, however, does show that, while the United States, the wealthiest capitalist nation, permits its growing unemployed army, now numbering at least 8,000,000, to starve in the streets, to be evicted from their homes, with as yet only the beginnings of a m: for unemployment insurance, in New Zealand the workers able to force the government there to give at least some though still insufficient concessions. The fight here for an unemployment insurance equivalent to full trade union wages and administered by the workers’ organizations must be strengthened. The United States government, which has $2,800,- 000,000 every year for military expenses and is now preparing to add an additional $1,000,000,000 for a larger navy under the terms of the London “disarmament” pact, must be forced by the organized mass pressure of the workers to grant insurance for the unemployed. Under the slogan: “Not one cent for armaments; all funds for unemployment insurance,” this struggle must be undertaken on international fighting day against imperialist war, on August Ist, and continued until the demand for unemployment insurance is won. according to e far below the wages Fish Prepares For Imperialist War; Workers Protest, August 1! Revive Whalen Forgeries for orker Party U.S.A. i esaenel) FINAL WHITE TERROR WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price 3 3 Cents GERMANY RULED BY A DICTATOR; SITUATION TENSE i] —— |Revolutionary Tide Is On the Rise in | Germany | Election in 60 Days | Government Cuts the Jobless “Doles” | (Wireless by Inprecor) BERLIN, July 18.—Upon the re- jection of the government's emer- gency decrees by the !Reichstag Chancellor Bruening today dis- solved the Reichstag under Para graph 48 of the German Constitu tion, Dictatorship, thus, has be- come a fact in Germany. The government’s emergency de- crees which include the cutting down of unemployment “doles” at a time of the most acute unemployment | situation were rejected by a vote of | 236 against 221. The socialist, Landsberg, declared | that the decrees have no statutory OYED UN TE FOR ANTIWAR PROTEST AUGUST 1! Akron Rubber Workers Fight Mass Hunger Rubber W. wihege: Indus trial League Leading a Fight for Both Employed and Jobless Will Demand “All Wa r Funds to Jobless” in August 1 Protest; Thousands Lose Jobs AKRON, Ohio, July 18.—Only the hardest fight by the workers here can save them from the most immediate and terrible starvation, as thousands upon thousands are being thrown onto the street by the r out the slightest resources, work, thousands more being fired. These Sarkets , will surely join in the usu /1st world protest against i | perialist war. The Firestone Company have dis- charged seventeen hundred (1,7 and are closing the plant for thir- teen days. This will likely mean wage cuts for those who are allowed to return after their “vacation.” The Goodyear Company, which ubber barons—jobless and with- Fosinie the 30, 000 already out of INEMPLOYMENT FAKE REMENIES AIT WORKERS | Expose Ty is Swindle | basis, therefote the socialists voted | has just ended a nine days “closing | against the government. Minister | ¢or inventory,” leaving 15,000 work- | of the Interior, Wirth, answered by| ers without wages for this time, | By Protest Aug. 1 Hands Off Revolutionary » The “progressive” Blaine undertakes to do the job. India! . ENATOR JOHN J. BLAINE, the so-called “progressive” from Wis- consin, by means of a resolution introduced yesterday in the Sen- ate, is undertaking to prepare the basis for intervention in India, or, at best, to capitalize in the interest of American imperialism the grow- ing anti-British sentiment, which arises from the struggle of the In- dian masses for national independenee. Some weks ago, Henry Cabot Lodge, certainly an authoritative spokesman for Wall Street, declared: “In a sense the American commercial interests in India have profited by the discontent with British rule. If has led to a boy cott of British products and this in turn has at times benefited the American exporter. . . . Exports to India increased 392 per cent from 1914 to 1928. Imports, on the other hand, increased 164 per cent in the same period. There are, moreover, reasons for thinking that our export trade may increase still further.” This quotation clearly establishes the basis for the resolution of Blaine. In order that “our export trade may increase still further” it is necessary to sharpen’ the antagonism of the Indian nationalists to- ward England and to win their sympathy for American imper' m. And the job w he is doing in this case fits in perfectly with the bitter struggle which the Washington government, in behalf of American capitalists, is waging in all parts of the world for markets, and at the same time is a part of America’s preparations for war against its English imperialist rival. Blaine, of course, to appear “progressive,” rails against the “atroci- ties” and “inhuman conduct” practiced by the MacDonald “labor” gov- ernment in shooting down thousands of Indian workers and peasants in order to crush their revolutionary independence struggle. But he cunningly “forgets” the bloody American imperialist rule in the Philip- pines, the outright murder of hundreds of Nicaraguans by American marines, the burning and lynching of Negroes in the South, the shoot- ing down of workers and peasants in Haiti, the numerous occasions on which marines and naval forces have been sent into China, the years of pillage, rape and murder which stands to the “glory” and “honor” of the United States and her armed forces in all parts of the world. The murderous imperialist policy of MacDonald in India must be condemned by all workers, and with it must go the same condemnation of the bloody interventions of the United States in India or any other country. The Indian masses, in fighting for independence from Eng- land, are fighting against the whole imperialist system. Their fight is our fight. We, as workers, must rally to the support of the workers and peasants of India and against imperialism and imperialist prepara- tions for war. The demonstrations on August 1 against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union will at the same time be answers to the “progressive” fakery of the Blaines and demonstrations of support for the revolutionary struggles of the colonial peoples in China, India, Latin America, Africa and the Philippines. TO AID BRITISH _|HOOK MOUNTAIN TRIP TEXTILE STRIKE rants TODAY, 8 P.M. Tag Days Start July 19; Daily | Worker Editor Speaks Wednesday | ‘The M.O.P.R. movie, which has been shown in Berlin, Paris and Russia, will be shown today, for the first time in this country, on the Hook Mountain excursion. Judging from advance sales of tickets, the New York District of the 1. L. D. expects a record at- NEW YORK, — Demonstrations | and tag days for the relief of the 140,000 striking textile workers of Yorkshire, England, will -be held throughout the United States he- ginning July 19 under the auspices of the Workers International Re-|tendance on this picnic and urges lief, National Textile Workers’ | everyone to come. Union and Trade Union Unity League. They will continue for one week. Among the cities in which the workers will show their interna- tional solidarity are New York, Chi- cago, Detroit, Milwaukee and New Bedford. In New York a mass meeting will be held Wednesday night at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., at which the workers of the metropolitan area will demonstrate their support for the workers who have been on strike for the last three months. C. A. Hathaway, editor, the Daily ‘Worker, will be among the speak- ers at Wednesday’s meeting, the committee in charge announced yes- The boat leaves at 2 p, m. sharp, | today, Saturday, July 19, from Pier A, South Ferry. Tickets, $1.25 at the office; $1.50 at the boat. terday. Other speakers will be Mar- cel Scherer, national secretary, Workers International Relief; Dew- ey Martin, one of the leaders of the Gastonia strike of 1929 and Bill Murdoch, general secretary, Nation- al Textile Workers’ Union. The meeting has been arranged by the Workers International Relief and the National Textile Workers’ Union. Demonstrate August Ist! |admits he can not produce* ——*proof of these forger: FIGHT FINNIS lready shown by the ig on hecwae 4 to be so a — ildlike WHITE TERROR! 1 |Bussian white Pix betes t{|have conceived them in go | that way. The committee made no investi-| | gation into the internal evidence that the documents are forgeries, | accepts Whalen's offer at face| value, decides to call a secret session | for the presentation of this proof, and refuses to make public either | date or place of the secret session. Printed in New York. The Whalen forgeries are seven photostats of letters printed on imi- | tation Amtorg and Communist In-| ternational stationery in the print shop of one Max Wagner, at 204 East 10th St., New York. Wagner told a reporter named Spivak of the New York Graphic that a Russian white guard agent walked in there four months before their appearance in Whalen’s Demonstrate: Today At! N. Y. Consulate NEW YORK.—The denunciation | by the militant workers of New York against the proposed fascist | murder laws and the murder gangs | already at work on the workers of | Finland will be heard today before | the Finnish Consulate, 5 State St., | near Whitehall. The consulate houses a gang of | white guard officials who not only represent the government that has abolished the Finnish Diet, while the streets of Finnish cities are held by armed forces of the busi ness men and landlords, flogging, | kidnapping, lynching workers and| hands, and had the letter heads of |Amtorg New York and Moscow | offices set up in type, as well as of the other offices in or supposed to be in Moscow, took a proof of them, | | and never came back for the order. | The forged letters were written in typewriter on the proofs. Ralph Easley of the National Civic Fed- eration peddled photostats of these letters around to the department of | state, which couldn't swallow them. They ‘appeared in numerous news- paper offices in New York, for sale. The papers wouldn’t bite. Then Whalen «sprang them on an aston- ished world, and a resolution which had been sleeping in the house of representatives for several months (Continued on Page Five) their leaders. In Finland the most ruthless war of extermination is being waged against the workers and their or- ganizations. This too, is part of the war prep-| arations of imperialist powers against the Soviet Union. Finland will be one of their vassal states in that attack. Fight the Finnish terror demonstrating today at noon! by Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August Ist! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be turned over for the relief of the unem- ployed! ' FIGHT 25% WAGE CUT Bridge Workers Militant in Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) in a sort of picket line, and stop MONROE BRIDGE, Mass.—The | workers of the calendar department | of the Deerfield Glassine Co. are out on strike after the refusal of the management to consider their objections to bad working conditoins and a wage cut as‘high as 25 per cent, The men are out nearly 100 per cent strong, and the spirit is fine. Meetings are held every day. Be- cause they were forced to vacate the company’s premises with only a few hours notice, the men are staying in the only nearest place, Readsboro, Vt. Picket the Mill. However, several times a day we go past the mill village in our autos frequently for mail at the company store, Attempts to bring in men from] outside have failed. Two workers who drove up from New York yes-, terday, saw us standing in the high- way (and although already hired) came over and spoke to us. On learning the facts they left with expressions of solidarity. Company Desperate. The company is desperate and has the town patrolled by state police. It is trying to run the de- partment with green local men, but that is only to break our ranks. We are carrying on this strike in a militant way and are trying to spread it through the entire mill, War on USSR; Protest Aug. 1 NEW YORK.—Whalen brought the forgeries to the Fish Committee hearing yesterday. He said he knew they were authentic “original photostats” of original documents which he | president, Ebert, one hundred and Proof that they are authentic he has none, and admits it, except fifty emergency decrees were issued. | that Police Inspector John Lyons, head of the radical squad, and head “of the under cover men in the Amtorg,” told him they were O. K. On their waren His throws the whole burden of | ernment will be determined by the| JAILED NOMINEES ARE NOTIFIED Call For Defense of U.S.S.R., August 1 NEW five composed of R. Baker, organ- izer of District 2, Communist Par- ty; Jack Perilla, New York Elec- tion Campaign manager; Jack John- stone, secretary of the New York District of the Trade Union Unity League; I. Potash, secretary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, and Herbert Newton, one of the six Atlanta defendants held on a charge of inciting insurrection, and facing a possible death sen- tence, who were delegated by the State Nominating Convention of the Communist Party at Schenectady on May 25, and by the mass ratifica- tion meeting at Madison Square Garden on‘ June 30, to officially in- form Foster, Amter and Minor of their nomination for the offices of | governor and congressman, visited |the leaders of the unemployed. These have been in jail since the) mighty demonstration of 110,000 workers at Union Square on March 6th. ‘i Escorted By 150. A delegation of 150 workers sel- ected by revolutionary unions and| unemployed councils for the pur- pose, escorted the committee of five to Welfare Island, In their notification speeches the members of the committee stressed the significance of the Party's choice for leading candidates in the state elections, of the unemployed delegation railroaded and kept in jail by the Tammany police depart- ment for their heroic struggle for unemployment insurance, the 7-hour 5-day week, against speed-up and wage cuts. The selection of these imprisoned workers expresses the renewed de- termination of the Communist Party and revolutionary workers of New York to intensify the struggle against unemployment and starva- tion. Comrades Foster, Amter and Minor, in their acceptance speeches before the notification committee, and in the presence of many capi- talist press reporters in the hall at Welfare Island, stressed their de- termination to live up to the great honor and duty conferred upon them by the working class. On this August 1 the entire work- ing class must rally in greater masses than ever before to demon- strate against imperialist war, and for defense of the Soviet Union, they said, ‘ YORK.—A committee of | “sation, which amounts to $12,560 a pointing cut that the former gov- | ernment headed by the socialist Mueller had considered the applica- tion of Paragraph 48 on many occa- | sions and that, under the socialist | The German nationalists declared that their attitude toward the gov latter’s attitude toward nationalist | demands. Koenen, Communist member of | he Reichstag, clarified the attitude lof the Communist Party toward the | {government and declared that the| | socialist coalition policy paved the | way for the present situation and \the dictatorship. * 8 NEW YORK.—The situation in| Germany is of world wide import- | anee, particularly in the develop- ment of the world revolution. | According to the German Consti- | tution, an election is required within | 60 days after the application of | Paragraph 48. It is reported that, as the present condition indicates, | the Communists and the fascists | will be the only parties that will gain in a new election at the ex- pense of the other parties. In the midst of the deepening crisis and on the threshhold of a maturing revolutionary situation, the immediate future in Germany will be marked by a tremendous sharpening of the class struggle, in which the social-fascists will more and more openly align themselves with the developing fascist dictator- ship while the radicalization of the working class, and the growing strength and influence of the Com- munist Party of Germany, certainly point to rapid acceleration of the rising tide of revolutionary struggles in Germany. | fired 1,000 workers Thursday. The Goodrich Company, recently | closing its tire and pyt cepartments | for “inventory” during ten days and forcing unpaid “vacations” 12,000 workers, has fired the last of 2,500 in the Shoe Department, which is being moved to Massachusetts, on the reckoning of the company that wages are lower there. These “inventory” shut-downs are new things, and clearly are lies, in- | vented to put over mass discharges jand wage cuts. The Trade Union Unity League is holding many good meetings, building the Rubber Workers Industrial League and Un-! employed Councils for workers of | miscellaneous trades. according to the shop where they worked. This organization must, of course, result Shop Committees within the plants of those left at work, while shop gate demonstrations of both the unemployed and those still working should make an energetic fight to get the jobless back by forcing re- duction of the hours and cutting down the speed-up, both jobless and employed fighting solidly for unem-! ployment insurance, higher wages and against wage cuts—this solid- arity making strike action succes- ful. Socialists Vote to Keep Workers in Jail (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 18. — Yesterday the socialists voted against amnesty, thus preventing the motion from| getting the two-thirds majority movement on | Unemployed | rubber workers are being organized | in strong | | With the wa~e of mass discharge: | of workers from their jobs, tens of | thousands being laid off here, there and everywhere, and simultaneous wage cuts being put over on those left at work, a rain of fake and ut. terly false “remedies” and “plans” are being spouted by the bosses | their government spokesmen, and bootlicking A. F. of L. and “social ist” lacke; | Friday, Gerard Swope, president oi the General Electric Co., deliver- ed himself of a “plan,” in fact two | “plans,” which the capitalist press is spreading itself to “prove” is a | len to “solve unemployment,” or to “stabilize employment.” Never was there a greater fraud It is rather baldly stated that “in no case can a workers’ relief be more |than 50 per cent of what he has paid into the fund.” How and why | the workers could regard this as “relief” as anything but plain rob- | bery is beyond imagination. While the “plan” supposes that the com- pany pay inte the “relief” fund | “equally” to the workers’ sontribu- tion, if the vorkers’ relief actually | received can “in no case” 2xceed | half of what the workers pay in, not only does the company actually contribute nothing, but it robs the | worker of half of what they have paid. Moreover, while the “rules and methods” are kept rather dark, un- doubtedly a’ worker has to be a good slave for many long years before this company union scheme even promises to :.id him, and it is speci- fied that he “can get no more than | $20 a week, for no more than 10 { weeks.” If he can get that, he will be a dandy. But when one looks over the plans “stabilization” one sees at once fo which is required for its passage. | that it certainly helps the company. Because of this vicious counter-rev- | and with equal certainty hurts the clutionary action of the socialists. Demonstrate August Ist! (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) PUEBLO, Colo., July 18. — Nor- mally employing 35,000 workers, the Minnequa plant of the Colorado Fuel anu Iron Co. (a Rockeseller of 1,500. These remaining workers average three or four days’ work a week, In a desperate hope of getting work sometimes, thousands of steel workers wait hours in front of the plant. Scrap Thousands. So brazen has the company be- come in its demands for speed which requires the strength of youth that it had publicly announced that no man over 45 years of age will be employed. Workers who are injured are forced to either remain at work or come back to work in the short- est possible time. The company does this in order to avoid paying insurance compen- unit) is now operating with a force | the proletarian prisoners are forced to remain in prison, CUT 35,000 MEN TO 1,500 Inhuman Spee Speedub in Rockefeller Plant week. Sentiment for a militant union is spreading despite the ef- forts of the Rockefeller interests to completely company-unionize plant. * we @ PUEBLO, Colo.—Nick Simonich, \a worker in the local steel plant, was killed last Tuesday when a dumping bar slipped and struck him in the face, breaking his neck. | Simonich leaves a family of seven. He had been employed in the stee! | mills for 22 years and was known to be very careful, but the inhuman speed-up which is being imposed on the men by the C. F. & I. is re- sponsible for many accidents, According to the company’s rules Simonich’s life is worth $250, but it_is very doubtful if Simonich's money, as the Rockefeller interests fight to the last ditch before they ever pay out a nickel in insurance or death compensation, the | wife and children will receive this | workers. It may be called a plan | to “stabilize unemployment” at the | expense of both employed and un- | employed. | It is a double-barreled “plan,’ one for when “business is increas. ing,” another for “employment con- | trol, When “business is increasing,” the very first rule: “No. 1,” is “to in- crease the working force as slowly as possible.” That is against the unemployed. «Another “rule” is “to resort to overtime in particular de- partments ar! in general before in- creasing the working force.” This hit: both the employed and unem. ployed. Then the “rules” for “employment control”—when business is declin- ing, is started off with “Cease hir- ing at once,” which is a queer way of “helping the unemployed, ” but | which in actual fact is shown to be meant to “begin firing at once,” which the General Electric has been doing even before this wise “plan.” Another “rule” is “to cut the nor- mal week generally” and it says “gradually as possible’—probably to avoid strikes—“‘down to 50 per cent of the normal week.” Since there is nothing, said about wages, it is clear that this wonderful scheme is a part-time unemployment drive against the working class. And in neither “plan” is there any- thing at all for the workers, } 5