The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1930, Page 1

“Anti-War Pacts Now Total 60,” Says a Cap! talist Paper Headline, Quoting Stimson. But Workers Know That There Were Scores of “Peace Pacts” 16 Years Ago, Yet There were 12,000,000 Men Killed in the Past War. Don’t Be Fooled! Streets August 1! Onto the Dail mm: 70 f (Sectiro Vol. VII., No. 175 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March }» 1878 <> NEW —_§ YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1930 4 ——— Daily, Worker the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents EDITION ° 6 Who Is Djamgaroff? R, FISH, trying to cover up before the revelations that Whalen’s famous “Amtorg documents” are forged, says that whether the documents are forgeries or not, will not make any difference to the conclusions of the congressional committee. We agree that nothing, either the proof of forgery of these docu- gents or anything else, will sway the Fish committee from its purpose. The “hearings” are only melodramatics to make atmosphere for the verdict, which was decided before the committee was even chosen. But why has Mr. Fish been dodging? Why is he covering up Whalen, liar and peddler of forgeries? The Daily Worker flatly as- serts that Fish is trying to belittle the importance of these forgeries to shield those who are and have been in a conspiracy to bring about a war upon the Soviet Union. No one need take our word for it. The capitalist scandal sheet, the “Evening Graphic,” publishes the statement of John Spivak, its reporter, who dug up the two-by-four printer, Max Wagner, who printed the forgeries. We know that Wagner has been accused by Whalen of having “a criminal record.” It seems to have escaped Whalen whose crimes, though plentiful are not recorded, that it is precisely the sort of a character as Wagner is the one who would print forged letter- heads. Does the Fish expect that they would be printed at the gov- ernment printing office? But Spivak, hotly resenting the Whalen charge that he is a Com- munist and the further charge that he tried to bribe a certain George Djamgaroff, spills a considerable number of beans about the said Djamgaroff—and the estimable Whalen. “Djamgarof,” says Spivak, “is one of the leaders of the Russian monarchist movement in the United States.” Djamgaroff tried to per- suade the “Graphic” editor and its publisher “against the use of his name in connection with the forged documents.” Before he knew Spivak had “the goods,” Djamgaroff got very chummy with Spivak, and, in the latter’s words: “To prove how close he was to Commissioner Whalen, he showed me a police reporter's card, No. 1168, issued to the A. B. C. News Service. Djamgaroff is not a reporter. Why did Whalen issue that card to him?” The Daily Worker is a newspaper, but the New York police de- partment refuses to issue reporters’ cards to its reporters. Spivak declares the “A. B. C. News Service” doesn’t exist except under Djam- garoff’s hat, yet Whalen ladled out police reporters’ cards to this czar- ist white guard. Spivak wants to know why. The Daily Worker has long known that many Russian white guards and especially selected men from tke army and navy were called in to aid the police in clubbing workers’ heads when they protested at the refusal of unemployment insurance while the government refunds mil- lions in taxes to the rich and nearly every city official is stealing for- tunes from the treasury. Many of these clubbers wore police reporters’ eards in their hats. : But Djamgaroff is not merely a scoundrel, and did not merit the eonfidence of the scoundrel Whalen simply for scabbing on the cops. Spivak says: “Djamgaroff told me that he had vast sources of infor- mation, that he had an espionage system and that he co-operated closely with Russian monarchists in Europe.” So this white guard plotter, busy with continual plots to bring about a war against the Soviet Union, whom Spivak says is also a bosom friend of Ralph Easley of the Civic Federation, a pal of Matthew Woll; this czarist who works with funds from secret sources and has an army of spies at his command, is favored by Whalen, who peddled the forgeries that Djamgaroff and Easley had fixed up months before. To Spivak’s request to testify before the Fish Committee, we see, then, Fish saying that it “don’t make any difference” if the documents are forged. And in his reply, sent to the “Graphic” by Fish, he says: “Have asked Mr. Spivak to see me Wednesday morning in regard to his appearance before the committee if possible on that day.” It seems that Fish would like to have Spivak tone down his testimony, and in- deed the pressure of many highly placed people may manage to hush up the exposure of some startling facts. But what are facts to a Fish? They are “not essential,” they “have no bearing on the question!” What Fish is after is “facts” against the Communists, “facts” against the Soviet Union, “facts” no matter how absurd or ridiculous or false or fanciful, that will help Djamgaroff get what he, Secretary Stimson, Easley, Whalen and Woll, not to mention Sir Henry Deterding and Fish himself, are trying to put over—a flood of war propaganda against the Communist Party and the Soviet Union as a preliminary to suppression of the Commu- nist Party and war on the Soviet Union! No smoke screen of fairy tales about General Koutiepoff, Besse- dowsky and Communist kids, who say “Damn it, pass the cread,” can hide the raw truth. War plots of czarists and American capitalists are being made against the Soviet Union! All out on August First to -protect this conspiracy for a new world war! NEW WAR PLAN OF ¢OY MOBILIZE FOR AUGUST FIRST UNION SQ, MEET N. Y. Communist Party Issues Call to All Workers Growing Attacks Pre- pare War on Soviets NEW YORK. — Pointing out the rapid war preparations of the boss- es, the growing fascist terror, and the attempts by murders, such as Expose Fascist Moves’ the killing of Levy and Gonzales, to} . (MENT Hi [MORE JOBLESS, | | | | | | AND WAGE CUTS, AS WAR NEARS Big Industries Show Steep Drop to 1921 Crisis Level | — | Railways Fire Men) General Motors Shuts} |Down Fleetwood Plant| While the imperialists rush war preparations, spending billions for armaments, unemployment and wage cuts grow apace for the workers. The latest issue of the Annalist FRY WORKER a CONSCRIP] WORKERS AT SOLDIER'S WAGE IS U.S GOV'MEN) WAR SCHEME |Exposure of Capitalist Plot Against Workers; Protest War Plan by Demonstrating Aug. 1 Old Gag About “Universal Service” Hides New Plan ‘o Draft Workers in Industry WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.—With the publication in many papers of recent days, of a “New War Plan for America,” the advance propaganda for war conscription of labor is going ahead, under the innocent disguise of stories about a commis- sion, authorized by congress and appointed by Hoover, which terrorize the revolutionary workers | | who are exposing the war moves of | j the bosses, the Communist Party of | |New York District issued a state-| ment to all workers, calling on them} |to participate in the gigantic anti- war demonstration in Union Square) on August First. The statement! says: “Only nine more days remain for| the August First Anti-War demon- | | stration on Union Square. During jthese nine days every revolutionary organization must strain every ounce of its energy in order to make the August First demonstra- tion a mighty mass challenge to the imperialist government in its |feverish preparations for war and| for an attack againtt the Soviet) Union. “The workers in the shops and \factories, and all working class or- | ganizations, must be organized for | the demonstration, against the gre ~- ling ways of fascist terror, which is part of the war plans of imperi- jalism. The leaders of the New York unemployed, Foster, Minor, Amter | and Raymond, are stil! in jail. The! police brutally murdered our fellow} workers, Alfred Levy and G. Gon- |2ales. Vicious jail sentences, and sedition and anti-syndicalist laws are used everywhere against the mili- tant revolutionary workers. | | “On August First the New York workers will demonstrate on Union , Square against the especially acute | |menace of an imperialist attack ‘against the Soviet Union. The Fish \investigation committee in its plans to outlaw the Communist Party and | the revolutionary unions, is an open | | incitement to war against the Soviet | Union. | “On August First the revolution-| ary working class will intensify its | | struggle, under the leadership of the} Communist Party against unemploy- | ment and starvation. One of the} |central demands of the August First demonstration will be: ‘Not a cent |for war preparations; all funds for | the unemployed!’ | “Every unit of the Party and | Y. C. L. and all working class or: | ganizations are urged by the Dis LM en We'll chuck all Fish in the garbage can— Along with Randolph Hearst, And the rest of the war drum beaters As we march on August “First; Of all the Fish we ever smelled si is going, it is said, strengthen the nation by mob- ilizing sources of supply and to eliminate profiteering.” Every worker has reason to be alarmed about this tricky busi- ness. And for this reason to join | (July 18) declares that the decline in June carried their employment in, |dex down to 90.1 for all industries. below the lowest point in the de pression of 1924. “Each industrialist group shows — a loss,” says this Wall Street sheet. “. .. the heaviest decline as for several months past, being in the machinery group. Employ ment in six other industry group: declined in June to the lowest lev els since 1921. The index of Fac tory Payrolls declined in June to 89.6 from the revised index of 91.8 for May.” (This shows that wage cuts are being enforced gen- erally.) Besides, commodity prices, one of the main anchors dragging the crisis to deeper depths, are continuing their steep decline, forecasting more unemployment and more wage cuts for the workers, est against the war preparations m August 1, When it was being ‘iscussed in the U. S. Senate on anuary 6, even Senator Dill ad- nitted that this move, then in the ‘orm of a resolution that was later xdopted: Property Must Be Paid For. has gone throughout the country to make the people think that if there is another war, under some plan of this kind, we are going, to draft property the same as we draft men ! Property cannot be taken without paying for it.” he resolution, very carefully | On Monday, General Motors Cor. poration announced that it would with his fellow workers in the pro- | | “Is all a part of the agitation that | This certainly is the worst! As we go marching on! 500 Nitgedaiget Wurkers Denounce Fish Committee BULLETIN. WINGDALE, N. Y., July 21—The Fish committee was met by some 500 worker campers when it reached Unity Camp, near here, at 5 p,m. today. This spontaneous mass meeting occupied the five min- utes’ stay of the investigators with speeches by Koretz and Davis. on ee BEACON, N. Y., July 21.—Over 500 workers in Camp Nitgedaiget protested against the Fish congressional investiga- tion committee, who arrived here this morning. At a signal, the blowing of the camp siren, the campers assembled when a the committee arrived. Fish himself was absent, at- tending a ing. The committeemen, accom- panied by three state troop- ers, were told that they would be disappointed in the fact that they would not be chased off the grounds as they expected )plained the true role of the Fish| | committee. He characterized this | | suppression of the Communist | | Party and the revolutionary trade | | unions, because they are fighting for the demands of the working class. Foretaste of August 1. | This mass demonstration of work- | close down for good its Fleetwood |plant at Fleetwood,. Pa., on August |15. Over 700 men will be thrown out of jobs. | The Northwestern Railroad at Proviso has installed an ultra-mod- ern hump freight yard, throwing | hundreds of brakemen out of work. | Assistant signal engineer S. E. No- ble, of the Northwestern, comment ling on t 2 “By providing this facility the |Chicego and Northwestern Railway |has speeded up the passage of freight through Chicago. It has ef- fected a saving of sixty-four en- gine hours per day and a saving of three tons of coal per day per engine as compared to flat switching” He says nothing of the men whe are thrown on the streets to starve The railroad brotherhoods and the American Federation of Labor are republican club meet-| investigation as a prelude to the |Cooperating with the bosses to fa- cilitate the lay-offs and mass wage cuts. At the same time, Green and} Mathew Woll, the boss stool-pigeons | in the A. F. of L., are backing to| the utmost the war plans of the im-| perialist bandits. The answer of the workers should be “Strike Against Wage Cuts,” under the lea- worded so as not to arouse antagon- ism at present, but which will face the workers with the fact that dur- ing the war Hoover is now prepar ing, in the form forced labor for the miserably low wages now paid to soldiers, in the whole of industry, in text says: “That a commission is hereby created to study and consider the sibility of equalizing the burdens fe and to minimize the profits of war, together with a study of policies to be pursued in event of war, so as to empower the president immediate- ly to mobilize all the resources of the country.” words can and do sor of schemes against The “resources of the “to o— TRISH RAILROAD GENERAL STRIKE Misleaders Showing | Signs of Betrayal DUBLIN, July 21. The strike of railway men, together with the | bus drivers, is being extended an }a general strike of the railway workers throughout Ireland wil! start midnight tomorrow. The workers are demanding the reinstatement of workers who were dismissed on account of their soli- |darity with the striking bus driv. Jers. If the demand is not granted | the workers announced:that they wil }go on a general strike midnight o | Tuesday. The entire staff of the Broadston | station, altogether about a hundrec men, joined the strike on Saturda; night. The staff of the Dublin rail | way passenger and freight station: |have also walked out after the }bosses dismissed workers who refus. ed to handle goods consigned to the Irish Omnibus Company. The tourist season is just begin ning in Ireland and the Dublin hors: show is only two weeks to come The workers have certainly found : | good time to reckon with the bosses Although the striking workers have |shown great militancy, the reform | ist union bureaucrats of the Nationa: |Railwaymen’s Union, who are con |ducting the strike because of the pressure of the workers, have al |ready showed signs of betrayal. Jt may also include labor, | is reported that the entire executive and we have only to look at what! of this union has arrived in Dublin the capitalist congressmen said in| to confer with the local leaders. discussing the resolution. not about how to fight bosses, but Wainwright, for example, who! about how to settle the strike. No claims partial authorship along with | militant worker will be surprised if Senator Reed for this movement) it will turn out that these mislead. against the workers, said: ers are trying to sell the strike. “The price of everything, in- | cluding labor, must be stabilized at the outset, and drastically reg- | wages they have ever made in their lives during the war.” Liquidate the $10,000 Deficit ers at Camp Niegedaiget, the com- | dership of the Trade Union Unity| ulated throughout the war.” Of course, no capitalist politician trict Committee of the Communis 'T is important to understand the reason for this sharp appeal. In this period of intense class struggles, of wage-cuts and prepara- tion for war the liquidation of this deficit plays an important part in | determining the success of building a mass organ for the working class, as the mobilizer and organizer of the every-day struggles of the workers against the imperialists. In the last few issues of the Daily Worker there appeared sharp. appeals for the liquidation of the $10,000 still remaining uncollected in the $25,000 Emergency Campaign. The final date has been set for August 1 for this campaign. The raising of this $10,000 is similar to the barrage laid down in battles, behind which the various sections of the armies move forward for new gains and more secure entrenchment. The liquidation of this deficit is the barrage behind which a firm structure for permanent circulation. through subscriptions, house-to-house carrier service and regular bundle service is being firmly established. Workers in shops and factories, workers in various sections of the country, should help in laying down this barrage by sending in their donations and contributions. Workers at picnics and outings during the summer should carry out the examples of the comrades of the Jugoslay Educational Club of Masory, Ohio, who collected $100 at a ic. Let us fire away in the next ten days, so that by August 1 we can move forward in more intensive campaigns in spreading the Daily haf ole through means of increased subscriptions and regular daily Ci Call Mass Anti-War Conference July 24, Manhattan Lyceum NEW YORK. — With only nine] the New York District of the Communist Party for July 24, at 8. P. M., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street. The evolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League are electing delegates. The Needle days left to complete mobiliza-, Workers © Justrial Union, the tion for the huge anti-war| Marine Workers Industrial U: - demonstration at Union| ion, the Textile Workers Union Square, the Communist Party/the Metal Workers Industria’ and Young Communist Leave | League, the Building and Con- are speeding up the campaign to) struction Workers Industria penetrate the shops and factories, and to mobilize all workers’ or- ganizations to send delegates to the anti-war conference called by — League, and many other organi- zations, have called special meet- ings’ to elect delegates to this conference. | Party to redouble their efforts t: | mobilize the workers in the shops and factories and trade unions for a mighty demonstration on Un ion Square against imperialis‘ war; for defense of the Soviet Un- ien, against fascism and_ police terror, for unemployment insur- ance.” By P. Yuditch N June 28, 1930, there appeared |“ in the Jewish Daily Forward, an |article by one, S. Schwartz, which | begins as follows: “I want to tell to the Forward readers a thrilling story of what happened here in New York, a story of workers that were fooled, betray- ed and enslaved; of a rich powerful company which lured those workers from their homeland and into this golden country by means of force, promises, and wished to suck ‘heir blood in the most shameful manner; of a union that took the cause of the workers at heart and successfully fought all the schemes of the com- pany. The story reads like a nar- |rative, woven by the fantasy of @ happened in life and that took place in New York before our very 3. “The story is not only thrilling, but also instructive.” We agree with these conclusions. The camp had nothing to hide and mittee was told, is but a foregoing | the campers would tell them where| sample of the huge August First they stood in relation to the rev- {emonstrations in every industrial olutionary movement. Every men-| city im the capitalist world, when tion of the Communist Party was the unemployed and the exploited sheere] and (he Fish committee was| workers will oppose war against | booed. | the Soviet Union, will oppose all | The mass demonstration was! imperialist war, will demand that ; opened by Jack Perilla, New York | the workers arrested already for | state campaign manager, who ex-| (Contmued on Page Three) | ought to open the eyes of the work- |ers to what the socialists and the henchmen are doing among the wo! lis not the story as it was told in | the Forward, but as it actually hap- jpened. We want also to point out how the whole thing was falsified by the Forward, It is a story of how socialist lead- ers reported and helped to deport a group of twenty-five Swiss work- ers. of how eighteen of those wo: ers were, by means 4. false promis- es, robbed of over $2,000, of how the workers themselves were fraud- ulently used to corroborate the r- port to the authorities and to facili- ag poet; still, it is a thing that really*|tate their deportation. In this work | the socialist swindlers worked hand in hand with 1 professional agent ¢f the rich manufacturers, Together with their reporting to the authori- ties, they also did a piece of espion- The story is not only thrilling, but lalso instructive. It is a story which But what we have in mind, age, for which they now expect Here are the facts: There is a large watch company in New York, 580 Fifth Avenue. The |name of the company is The Bulova Watch Company. The company |maintains watch factories both in {Switzerland and in the United | States. In October, 1929, the company | brought over from Switzerland to New York a group of twenty-five workers, twenty-one men and four women, The workers were imported on the strength of a permit issued by the federal labor department in Washington. The permit specified that the workers would remain in this country one year, after which they were to be sent home by the company. The permit was issued upon the application of the company in which League, and to participate in the |mass demonstrations against imperi- jalist war on Aucust 1, called by the |Communist Party. “Not a penny for armaments,” should be the workers’ demand. “All| funds for the unemployed, in the form of unemployment insurance!” Demonstrate August Ist! Socialist !.eaders ix the Role of Spies and Thieves it was claimed that the workers to from the government a reward|be imported were needed for a spe- amounting to something like|cial kind of skilled work for which $13,000. there were no mechanics in the Unit- ed States. The work, the company said, was to fit into American made | pocket watches parts imported from Switzerland. There was a contract made with the workers according to which they were to receive in their stay in the United States, $50 for male workers and $35 a week for women workers. The contract was made in Swit- zerland. As soon, however, as the workers arrived in New York, the Bulova Watch Company forgor its contract and began to subject the workers to all sorts of chicanery. The company began to claim that the workers were not earning their wages. Soon it proceeded to cut their wages. On January 27, it discontinued the weekly wages and introduced piece (Continued on Page Three) | The “Universal” Trick. It must be understood at the be- ginning that the Draft Act, which wa put into effect in the last war under the pleasant title of “Uni versal Service” is still in force, and can be used tomorrow to draft work- ers into the army. Now it is planned by the bosses to get some law in spite of the constitutional bar against compulsory labor, to con- | would ever dream of increasing the wages paid to the soldiers to civiliar rates, but jumps at the chance to cut the wages of the workers. And of cqurse, all this anti-working class plot is approved by the fascist Anerican Legion leaders. Yet the American Legion com mander, a Mr. Spafford, some time ago in a hearing of the House Com mittee on Military Affairs, cheer- seript labor at low wages—and again it is brought forward as “universal service.” But all®who went through the past war, know that the service was not fully admitted that it had not thought of “drafting capital.” In answer to a question, he said: “You can not draft capital; you know that, sir.” “universal,” the rich men’s sons| Mr. Garrett, a member of the getting into soft and safe places.|committee: “Why?” and the rich men becoming richer} Spafford: “The Constitution o! and richer from the blood of the battlefields, Now a new scheme is put out, un- der the title of “universal” con- scription of the “resources” of the country. But if anyone thinks that this is going to include capital, the} U. S. A.” fact that the U. S. Congress struck} The meaning of this “New War out a provision to conscript capital, | Plan for America” is clear. This is before they passed the resolution.|a capitalist government and will dr should show clearly that the gov-|nothing to injure capitalist inter ernment is not going to “take capi |ests, but it will force workers int tal” without giving it whatever} the trenches to bé blown to pieces profits the capitalists and their gov-| and into shops to be worked to ernment agree on. dvath at $1 a day, under the pleas No, the new thing to be e~f-"/ ant name of “universal service.” in this new “univers: | And against this nolieas is labor. As Senator | _ scheme, the workers must rally in the U. S. Senate, Jan. 6: | protest in the streets of every city “If we are to have a universal |on August First, demanding, that in draft of men, then the men who | stead of $1,000,000,000 for more work at home ought to receive | warships, the government turn over some pay, food, clothing, that the |all war funds to the millions of men get who go to war. The men | starving unemployed and their fam- who were exempted made the best ‘| ilies. the United States says that you car not take a man’s property without just compensation. To draft capi tal and take a man’s property would be making us into a United States of Soviet America, instead of thé Send Delegates \ to Anti-War Conference, { 4