The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1930, Page 3

fea reas BOSSES BEGIN DRAFTING THE TOILERS FOR WAR | Cook Up All Sorts ot Wall St. Gov’t Backs Wright Airplane Attempt to Finger- print Workers In War Move Annual military field day was held at New York University to prepare the students in military train- Paterson, N. J. stuc m ‘y tra Editer, the Daily Worker: That the United. States is preparing for war may be evidenced by ing for the coming imper- To the Daily Worker: After reading an article in the |Daily Worker about the meaning lof the oncoming August 1, I think the interest that the federal government takes in the war industries, ialist war. Photo shows Schemes The government recently gave over two and a half million dollars to Fe ae H, 5, Gen. Hanson Ely, com- —- the Wright Aeroplane plant of Paterson for the construction of some | Chicago, Tl. motors. mander of the Second | | Following upon the heels of this order came a most dastardly scheme to keep the workers in slavery and subjection. One morning the com- f — pany posted a bulletin and an- Corps army area, who will be one of the directors for D.G., WARVET SEES NEED OF DEFENSE OF SOVIET UNION Workers Must Be On| Guard Ali Time Washington, D. C. Daily Worker, . Comrades: More and more people every day throughout the country are becom- ing interested in what is taking place today in Soviet Russia. Most of this interest is favorable to the cause and needs more cultivation. People who have not. Those of us who have our hearts and minds close to the great movement, must he prepared to answer questions and discuss the matter with these | peoples, thereby winning them over to inter in the Communist Party in America. Recently the capitalist press has | had to admit that Russia’s 5 year| plan is succeeding. This we must) take advantage of at once, because | at the same time the Jingoes are aiready giving the battle ery for w jissued a nounced that all employees were to be finger-printed. The bosses came out with a lying statement that “this measure was to protest the employees from undesirable reds etc. Workers Protest Spy System. This attempt at finger-printing raised a storm of protest among the workers. The Communist Party leaflet exposing this scheme to further enslave the workers and called upon the work- ers to organize and strike against the rotten conditions that exist in this factory. This was so well re- ceived by the workers,and the storm of protest was so great that the company rescinded its order and had the finger-prints destroyed. The company, in order to off- set the effective protests, issued a statement to the press that “the agents took records at the Wright plant without authoriy.” Whereas in the original statement to the press it was stated “This move re- sulted from a conference between Mr. Robinson and Mr. Gordon Vice | President and Treasurer of the com- pany and is sanctioned by Guy W.} Vaughan President”—“The work is | being done under state supervision.” Statements like this, however, don’t | fool the workers, for they realize that it was only through their | united protest that the order was} repeated. | bosses’ militarist experts. murder, recent months. Above photo shows planes in war maneuvers during one of the numerous sham battles staged within Showers of.death dealing gases and explosives to be rained from airplanes, whole industrial areas and civilian populations destroyed, such is the nature of the imperialist wars as envisaged by the Not only are the imperialist bosses of United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, gearing up their war machinery to hurl the masses of their respective countries into the slaughter pens of imperialist wars; but a common hatred against the rapid building of socialism in the Soviet Union means that capitalist war will be carried to the Workers’ Republic in the last stand of a dying system to exterminate the revolutionary rise of the workers and farmers. working class under the leadership of the Communist Parties of all capitalist countries will turn the imperialist wars into a war against the bosses and for the overthrow of the system of hunger and mass But the masses of the New York, N. Y. 'o the Editor, Daily Worker, ir:— In the Hunts Point tunnel cave-in du iS Will Never Forget Criesof | Workers In Tunnel Cave-In]} wards the whole crazy construction ; fell, The concussion of the firing had done its deadly work. The guy who PACIFISM BOSS WEAPON AGAINST WORKERS FIGHT Chicago, Ill. To the Daily Worker: Workers of the whole world and | especially veterans of the world war: |I and all other workers want to|lies of the capitalist papers about| pow wages for those who work, and |thank the workers and veterans for| the Soviet government not being run! compare it with the industry work- | the brave defense of the jobless del-| by workers, but by “dictators.” on July 4 in Union Park. Chicago Veteran Calls for Fight for Workers’ Rule | Wall Street in the coming slaughter, with a student | officer. | i} | | {and let us make an International League of ex-Soldiers under leader- ship of the Communist Parties of all countries. Do not believe the I that date should be driven in the mind of every worker. I know that the Communist Party finds the best way of propaganda, but I will write about one point which may be pic- tured for every worker. The Chicago Tribune had an edi- torial one day in April, which told about a meeting of the generals who decided to recommend the fol- lowing: (1) That when the next war starts, all industries should open up to pro- vide work for everyone. (2) That the wages for unpatri- otic workers should be raised very | much, but no raise for officers. | It was stated that these two |things were necessary, because the workers could not be trusted other- wise. And when one thinks about |the great unemployment now and | ing, raising the pay, one must admit | saw with my own eyes that the So-|that the bosses are prepared for s was a real brave battle you! viet government is composed of the everything. veterans of the world war gave.| workers, You were not afraid of police clubs or bullets or fear for your life. Veterans Now Jobless Now you are out of work because| red blood in our veins. Let us chase! Vets, Let’s Act Now Soldiers and sailors, let us act. We are still brave. We still have that capitalist system for which you| the damn capitalists out of our coun- fought has now plenty of over-pro-| try and overthrow them. ts got plenty | side with the workers and poor farm- duction. The capitali for about fifty ye.rs ahead. But how much as we soldiers and work- ers when laid off? are thrown out we are broke. Side by ers we must fight on for a revolu- tionary Workers and Farmers Gov- As soon as we ernment that will give us bread, We must tell every worker how to act in the case of war. —JID. * * * Editorial Note: Yes, it is very im- | portant to tell the workers how to act in the case of war. It is also the most solemn duty of every class conscious worker to rouse the work- ing class and the toiling masses to the ever-growing danger of a new imperialist war and an imperialist Wall St's War Moves. Now, workers of Wrights, the fact that the United States Govern- Only Revolutionar y| —CHICAGO EX-SOLDIER. Struggle Will Win gave the order to fire those shots, bathed his fellow workers in blood and pain and death and living death. attack against the Soviet Union. The workers must understand «he full seriousness of the danger of Coming as it does the success of the 5 years plan at a time when capitalist countries throughout the of last night in which Michael Kelly | lost his life and eleven fellow work- | ers were injured, more or less seri- Fought for Bosses’ Profits We had different ideas than we have now when we were drafted to JOBBLESS CHAUFFEUR SUICIDE world are in the midst of violent depression increases the danger of war against the Soviet Union. Do you think comrades they are going to see their system wiped out without a fight? The coupon clip- pers throughout the world are alarmed. It must not be, they are saying. What are you going to do} about it? .We must see them and their cry for blood with a solid organized mass of workers. Now is the time, tomorrow may be too late. They shall not destroy the hope of the world. —American Born War Veteran. * a # P. S. I hope to be able to con- tribute something to the Worker soon and perhaps send in a few We certainly must try to p it, going at this time because this winter conditions are going to be ripe. D isarmament Means Engines of War TOKIO, Japan. — The money Japan saves from her “naval limi- tation” program will go into the construction of war-planes. “Dis- armament” and “arms reduction” means the wrecking of second rate | war material so it can be replaced | by first class engines of destruc- tion. “For the deficiency of naval strength resulting from the London Naval Conference,” Japanese states- men say Japan will go in for the construction of war-planes. The only disagreement among the Japanese war-lords is in regard to the number of planes the coun- try should build; whether they shall increase their air strength to thirty or forty battalions is the immediate problem. The, American imperial- ista also recently made an advance of $12,000,000 for the construction of war planes. ment is taking such a deep interest in the Aeroplane factory is evidence enough that war is in the air. But the fact that $1,000,000,000 was ap-! propriated by Congress for war purposes, conclusively proves that all the peace talk is the bunk. In reality the danger of war was never so great as it is now. While over 7,000,000 workers are unem- ployed and starving; billions are spent for war purposes. It is in-| teresting to note in this respect that the capitalist parties of New Jersey nominated Dwight W. Mor. row, Morgans partner, for senator, to further the war preparations. The Communist Party also has its candidates in New Jersey, but they are workers candidates and represent the working class. The Communist Party is calling an August First Conference and all workers are invited to elect dele-| gates and to attend. This Confer-| ence is to be held July 24th at/ 8 p. m. at 205 Paterson St. On August First Communist} Parties all over the world will) demonstrate against the impending } war. The Communist Party of Pat- erson is calling on August First demonstration against war in front | of City Hall at 6 p. m. —WRIGHT WORKER. And Jail Leaders of Jobless for Demanding Bread Daily Worker: Toledo, 0. This is clipped from a local paper: “Three bankers convicted of par- ticipation in embezzlement of three million dollars have been released from the penitentiary after having been imprisoned five months. “This news is from Michigan-- same state that sentenced a man to life imprisonment for possessing a pint of whiskey.” : What do you think about it? —TOLEDO. “Poppies” Sold While © While the Wall e-trap institutions and_ill-treat gion and Veterans of Foreign stepping real aid for the crippled _ posed to be for the veterans’ benef thinking the veterans are taken car ‘treet government continues to ignore thousands of men maimed in the late imperialist war, and to stick others in em Ex-Servic en Starve ously. Commissioner Mulrooney made an inspection (?) and afterwards a commentary, saying “It was una- voidable.” With all my power, phy- sical and mental I repudiate this statement. Tunnel Not Braced. I have been in the mines since I was 13 years old and I am 25 years of age. The tunnel from the shaft bottom is inadequately secured at the moment. To Mulrooney’s inex- perienced eye it may appear safe but it is not. The supports holding the network of timber are not solid- ly on the floor of the tunnel, but sitting on loose dirt and are not on the equal and essential level. either don’t know their job, or are. too damned scared if the work is not done quickly enough, they'll be on the scrape heap, that the ele mentary rudiments of common safe- ty are forgotten, and even the hu- man instincts of self-preservation in the bloody rush of capitalist profits forgotten. The Cave-In. What happened last night this: A round of shots was fired be- fore the timber men had compivicc their’s as they don’t get time to do their work) and 20 minutes after- their haphazard work (no fault of| The men in control of the work} I was lucky and escaped with a |minor injury, but to my dying day | |the cries of my comrades pinned | beneath the debris have only one meaning, “destroy capitalism before it destroys us.” —A VICTIM. 12 WORKERS KILLED IN SHAFT EXPLOSION SAN FRANCISCO.—At Hetch- Hetchy, San Francisco’s municipal water project, 35 miles east of here, twelve worker were killed by a gas explosion which blazed through one of the tunnels there. A shaft drops eight hundred feet, straight down, and then branches off into an east and a west drift. The men killed were working in the east drift. In the west drift which is 1,500 feet long, thirteen men were badly shaken but no one was killed, The engineer in charge said that the explosion must have resulted from a steel tool giving off a spark which ignited a gas pocket. As the men had been working through rock of a serpentine formation for some time, no danger was expected and the drilling went on hurriedly and without precaution, New York, N. Y. To the Daily Worker: During the last war I enlisted in the American army. On entering the army I found out that I had left my individuality as well as my| conscience behind. I was told that} the first duty of a good soldier is| to obey implicitly the orders given him by his superior officers. When I went to school, I had been taught the ten commandments — that it was wrong to kill a fellow man, that it was wrong to steal. On en- | tering the army I found these teach- jings reversed. I found that not only was it perfectly all right to kill a fellow man but it was my} sworn duty to do so, That by proving myself a first class killer did I prove myself a} good solcier; that I deserved praise | | ciently performing my duty. Sent Against Russian Workers sian soldiers left the front and took | down the revolution. part I also might be called upon to play. fight for “democracy” and “people’s rights.” But where is that democracy that we fought for? The capitalist government does not let us open our mouths and ask of them why they close the factories and lay off thou- sands of workers and ex-soldiers. And turning thousands of policemen against us to kill those of us that were not left on the fields in France. Vets Must Join Communists Veterans of the world war, this is not a democracy that we fought for. We ought to join the workers army and its leader, the Communist Par- ty, and fight for our rights. With overproduction we ought to work 3 hours a day while getting the same pay that we get for five and one-half days. Veterans, join the workers’ army NEW YORK.—Adolph J. C. Le Scelleur, jobless chauffeur jumped from the 12th story of No. 410 Park Ave. yesterday and killed himself. He had been hunting work since April. He had a wife to support. There are thousands nearly as desperate as this. To them the Communist Party calls, “Don’t die without a blow at the system that starves you! Join the Councils of the Unemployed, and fight for work or wages! The idle rich, lolling at ease while you suffer would be glad to see you commit suicide.” Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. war before it takes them by sur- prise. The bosses are preparing a new world slaughter. One of their plans is to “draft” the working class into the industries producing for the war. This means that the bosses plan to put the workers who have not been sent to the front as can- non fodder under military discipline, with the right to kill and shoot them should they undertake a struggle for better conditions, against the robber war, etc. It is this and not higher wages that they plan for the workers in the coming robber war. The bureau- erats of the American Federation of Labor are backing the Wall St. imperialists in this scheme. They will help the bosses to “draft” the labor. Being already a class conscious and possibly a decoration for ef‘i-| worker I made some remarks to the leffect that I was not going to be] used as a tool to help crush the Luckily we were not sent over-| freedom that the Russian proletariat seas, so I was not compelled to take| had fought so hard to achieve, and |the life of a fellow worker. During | that I was not going to be used | the close of the war when the Rus- as an instrument in breaking strikes, These utterances of mine were |part in the revolution that over-| probably brought to the attention of | threw the Czar, the American and|the commanding officer, for there) British forces were sent to help put| are stool pigeons in the army as I realized the| well as civil life. After being mustered out I joined the army of unemployed. A lot of New York, N. Y. Editor Daily Worker:— After every war the American capitalist class has been organ- izing its war veterans’ organiza- tions. Their purpose was to have all the ex-servicemen organized and keep them full of patriotic ideas about the “great things” they have accomplished for the land of their birth. But these kind of patriotic organizations were used in all cases against the workers in their fight against the bosses. Many times the member- ship was given the arms and sent to butcher their fellow-workers. After the imperialist world war there was organized three differ- eee them there, the fascist American Wars aids the government in side- veterans by selling “poppies,” sup- its, and thus leading the public into Photo shows Tammany Mayor e of, / Walker lending publicity to the fascists’ poppy sales. ent kind, but with similar pro- grams of organizations, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and World War Veterans. The need of having those « ganizations was even more neces- sary after the world t was ever before. USED AGAINST SOVIE! We all remember that in the middle of the war there broke out revolution in Russia, The capital- ist class understood that this rey- olution was getting dangerous for them, and so they ended the war among themselves and sent their united forces to suppress the rev- olution, And so did the capitalists of the United States. First they buffa- loed the sons of the working class to go and fight against German workers, to make the world ‘safe for “democrai they acted 0 oat the Sevtet Us'ss they told d'fferent stories, about the “bloodthirsti- ness of ‘Bolsheviks’ and how they murder the innocent people.” After the unsuccessful attempt to suppress the revolution the im- perialists found out their weak- nesses and the armies were re- called. But they found out still another thing—the soldiers who were posted in Archangelsk, Siberia and other points, were not the same “fighters for democracy” on their return. The soldiers had seen and heard the Bolsheviks. They also found out the fact that the Bolsheviks were making the world safe for the wage-earners and not for the few fat-bellied capitalists. Soldiers on their re- turn were more than sympathetic to the Bolsheviks and were freely talking about the Bolshevik sys- tem. The returned forces were di- vided into other units, leaders put in jail or in same cases were sent to Haiti, Philippines, ete., as ex- iles. FAKE PROMISES GIVEN VETS. And this was the situation that brought forth the necessity to or- ganize the patriotic war veterans’ organizations. But what has the capitalist gov- ernment done with the promises they gave the sons of the work- ing class before the war? Have the soldiers on their return from the trenches received their bon- uses or pensions? Have the dis- abled soldiers been given proper medical attention? Not the least. The capitalists were tnable to pay the bonus or the pension; they were unable to face the ex- pense 0! giving proper aid to dis- abled soldiers. Have those patri- otic organizations—A. L., V. F. W. and W. W. V.—given aid to the ex-servicemen? No. They only gave you the opportunity to parade down the main streets on Decoration and Armistice Days, and, if you were bloodthirsty enough, you were given ammuni- tion to shoot down your fellow- workers. PREPARING ANOTHER WAR. The capitalist class started to prepare for another world war after the first one. The imperial- ists of Germany were downed, their markets and colonies were divided among the winners. But the winners weren't satisfied, be- cause the markets weren't divided “evenly.” They saw, too, that the Union vf Socialist Soviet Repub- lies was getting stronger day by day. And now, in time of world crisis, when millions and millions of workers in capitalist countries are walking the streets half starved, the workers of the Soviet Union are having a real taste of prosperity, The London conference, recently held, was called naval disarma- ment conference, but in reality was held to find means and ways to start anew war. This time it is going to be fought against the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies—the Workers’ Fatherland. The capitalist class is preparing for a new world war—we, the ex- servicemen, should prepare against the imperialist war. The bosses haven't given us the things they promised and in fact they never will, The ex-sery'cemen are walk- ing the streets, as every other WAR VETS HAVE OWN LEAGUE TO FIGHT WAR American Legion, Veterans ot Foreign Wars, Tools of Wall St., Fight Workers worker looking for a job, because the government has failed to give them work and to take care of them. The capitalists are agitating the young workers, who wore knee pants in time of the last war, to join the army or navy and see the world. They should not succeed in getting these millions of young workers to join the capitalist forces. VETS! JOIN W. E. S. L.! The ex-servicemen who were participating in the last war should see their mistake and join the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League—the only organization that stands for the rights of ex- servicemen and works hand in hand with all workers against the imperialist wars. The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League is growing steadily. Every meeting there is seen new com- rades that fill out their applica- tions for membership and pledge themselves to work against im- Perialists and their wars. Every ex-serviceman in the or- tion should see that he gets in touch with other ex-servicemen and bring them to our meeting and make them to join the organ- ization. Only in this way can we build up the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League and make the bosses sit up and take notice before they start another war. Every ex-serviceman, join the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen'’s League to fight against the bosses and their wars, to fight for our rights hand in hand with all class-con- scious workers. —WAR VET. free unemployment offices were opened for ex-service men and an strument in lowering wages. Workers of America! the tools of another imperialist slaughter. Fight with and for the defense of the Soviet Union— the fatherland of the workers. Unite with your fellow proletarians in the U. S. and throughout the world. Join the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. —EX-SERVICE MAN. WF erie Editorial Note: against conscious or unconscious ac- | ceptance of petty bourgeois pacifism or individualist ideology in all the phases of the revolutionary struggle against imperialist wars. The petty bourgeoisie becomes pacifist because of the great burden Forced into the army of Wi attempt made to use them as an in-| Do not be| Revolutionary | workers must be on constant guard| Jof taxation that armaments incur. |The small bourgeois feels his “indi- viduality” outraged when placed in uniform. Such petty bourgeois writ- ers as Dos Passos in “Three Sol- diers,” and “All Quiet on the West- jern Front” reflect this ideology. | Must Answer by Civil War But to the revolutionary workers the great masses of the armed forces represent workers duped and forced into the bosses’ slaughter pens. Fur- ther, that these worker-soldiers must in the light of their own experiences, understand what role they are play- ing in the bosses’ game of profits. Understanding, and under the lea- dership of the Communist Parties of the capitalist countries, the great masses of workers in uniform will train their guns on their real ene- mies in the revolutionary over- throw of the capitalist murder system. | | | | Off to Protect Wall Street’s Profits in the East ud all Street’s government by hunger, many young workers in the armed forces fall for the tales of adven- ture in the Orient. In reality it means maintaining the brutal and naked rule of the imperialist bankers over the masses of colonial and semi- colonial people, often at the point jalist armed forces in China are a of the bayonet. Today the imper- ctively engaged in trying to murder the revolutionary workers and peasants establishing their Soviets and freeing themselves from foreign imperialist exploitation, \ Above picture shows new recruits leaving from Brooklyn to go to China, and a new type aeroplane now used to bomb native villages,