The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1930, Page 3

he last three accused of the second. roup of Communist workers on ial were examined today (July 7). ll three declared that they had | zen subjected to frightful mal- ‘eatment and tortures by the po- ce during the ten days they spent 1 the hands of the police. The ac- ised Franz Michael Winkler was resent when the accused Ladislaus ebess was so tortured by the po- ce that he jumped out of a second tory window to escape from the orturers. Winkler described the ortures in detail. The indictment speech of the ublic prosecutor then followed. lis speech was ornamented with rild attacks on the Soviet Union nd the Communist Party, which vere treated practically as synony- rous terms. Communism aimed at estroying the idea’ of God, the atherland, the family and love, ac- ording to him, Numerous mass rials of Communists had taken ‘lace in Hungary. It was !mpos- ible for the police to crush Com- |} nunism and he therefore demanded | xemplary sentences. With regard o the tortures and maltreatment, | nothing of the sort had occurred. | *olitical prisoners in Hungary were reated with humanity (laughter ind jeers from the accused). "ELL OF BRUTALITY OF "ASCISTS AT TRIAL OF IUNGARY COMMUNI TS Vorkers Tortured In Jail; One Jumps Out of Second-Storey Window -rosecutor Attacks Soviet Union; Defense Says Torture Wont Stop Communists — BUDAPEST, Hungary (I.P.S.).—, The police evidence had shown that there had been no improper pressure placed upon the accused. The first lawyer for the defense, Dr. Vambery, then spoke and de- clared that neither Communism nor the Soviet Union could be abused out of existence as the prosecutor seemed to think. Experience had shown that despite all repressive measures it was impossible to crush Communism in Hungary. The men in the dock were idealists who had worked for their political ideals, the indictment was baseless, the evi- dence for the prosecution was worthless and he demanded :he ac- quittal of all the accused. The lawyer for the defense, Dr. Szoenyi, then described the terror- ism and intimidation of the lawyers for the defense carried out by the police. The police had made use of threats in order to rob the ac- cused of their legal right of de- fense. However, the lawyers had refused to let themselves be intimi- dated. The speech of Dr. Szoenyi made the prosecutor furious and the lat- ter demanded that the protocol of the speech shoulg be handed over to the public prosecutor’s depart- ment with a view to filing proceed- ings against Dr. Szoneyi and to the advocates chamber with a view to securing his expulsion. In the Camp (Continued from Page Une) ent people, as we are told in patri- otic text books, but a congress that is a servant of capital and whose aim it is to help enslave the alleged free and proud Americans to the same capital. A commision of such la congress is not a free and inde- pendent investigating agency but a commission of servants, They were dispatched to create sentiment against the class ‘struggle; they were instructed to detract mass at- tention from the real enemies of the masses; they were ordered to pre- pare ground for new oppressive laws against the militant workers of whom the Communist Party is the natural leader. They carry out their mission. They obey orders. They therefore cannot even appear as investigators. They must appear as detectives. They must speak the language of police spies. They must move within the miserable circle of police conceptions. Grover Whalen, Their Superior. It was a sight for the gods the way these gentlemen treated Grover Whalen, Why, they bowed before hin. as one bows before a superior. They met him with the sweetest of their honeyed smiles. They thanked him almost abjectly for his “testi- mony” and for having “defended the interests of the City of New York in these matters,” i.e., for defending the bosses against the working class. It looked funny the way these legislators flattered a policeman. This flattery, however, expressed a political fact of great significance. Servant Whalen is more precious to the capitalists than Servant Ham- ilton Fish. Servant Whalen is more essential in the struggle against the working class than the parliament- ary chatterboxes. Without congress- men the bosses can easily exist. Without policemen they are helpless. Therefore—hurray for Whalen! This is not a time for parliament- ary clap-trap, say the gapitalists. This is a time for hit and shoot, The workers are becoming more ra- bid; the workers are turning more and more to the Communist Party. The profits are endangered, capi- talist robbery is endangered! There- fore—on with the congressional in- vestigation! But you, investigators, remember that, all and sundry, you are not worth the heel of the last policeman. Class Against Class. I wish many workers could be present at the fishy “hearings.” No better class education is needed. Mere they sit around the table. They look like any other group of human beings. They are dressed like the rest of the people. But this is an entirely different world! All their conceptions are just the op- posite of our conceptions, They start with a set of accepted truths which to them are as self- evident as it is self-evident for everyone that the typhoid or the cholera have to be combated. A strike is a calamity and a crime. A strike is bad. A strike is a dan- gerous character. A strike leader is a menace. Strikes must be sup- staged by the A. F, of L. The A. F, of L. is good; it is mentioned with the greatest respect. The socialists are also good. The workers xen- erally are bad, The Communists are the enemy. The Communists must be fought with all means at hand. The Soviet Union is a hor- ror. The very mention of the So- viet Union makes the “investigators” shiver in pious indignation. They speak of it with the very same mien with which religious people speak of Satan and hell. It is almost in- decent with thes. gentlemen to pro- nounce the word: Soviet Union. of the Enemy question of laws are of least im- portance. What is law in the face of danger? ~.aws are made to pro- tect the interests of the bosses. If you break the law in fight against the workers, the better for you. The thing to consider is not the law but the attack on the foe. What is the constitution, what are the guarantees of liberty when you deal ‘with the enemy camp! Camouflage. Is is class against class—this you feel in every word. This is the con tents of all the “hearing.” But be- cause the truth cannot be told as boldly as that, subterfuges are be- ing invented. The meaning of things is twisted. Pretexts are rampant. Camouflage is the order of the day. To the outside observer, war camouflage seems strange; it is half masquerade, half child’s play, and one may think it a foolish oc- cupation. .The meaning of the camouflage, however, is very direct and very real. It is meant to de- fend the strategic positions, to falsify perspectives. This is what the Fish Committee is engaged in. It has invented the “foreigners.” Every Communist is a foreigner, and 80 per cent of the Communists are “Russians.” Never mind the fact that there are large numbers of native born and natural- ized American citizens among the Communists: If need be, another subterfuge will be advanced. The naturalized and native born Com- munists, don’t you see, use Commu- nism as a “racket”—to enrich them- selves at the expense of deceived aliens. The explanations don’t seem to fit? They are good as a pretext, anyway. They may fool the ignor- ant. Should they not have the de- sired effect, there is another song— the Amtorg. Never mind the fact that any literate Russian can detect the forgeries of Whalen’s documents as first glance. Never mind the fact that they are written with mis- takes of an obviously American or- igin, proving both that they were forged in America and forged by ignorant persons. Never mind the fact that a man of ordinary intel- ligence would be able to see from their contents that they are made to order. They are not meant to impress people with intelligence. They are meant to impress the mob, They are aimed at arousing sus- picion. They are a means of con- crete sentiment. The main thing, however, is that they are dragged in to have a pretext for new op- nye laws against the working class. Old Women’s Gossip. No trick is too mean, no falsifica- tion too repellent for these “investi- gating” gentlemen, Everything is gzist on the “legislator’s” mill. The Young Pioneers distributed once a leaflet carricaturing Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The carricature has been gravely placed before the Com- mittee and solons pore over it and gravely nod their heads. “What crime!” Women and children are participating in Communist dem- pressed, except cases where they are|onstrations; immediately a legend is created to the effect that Commu. nists hide behind their wives and little ones—and the solons tighten treir lips, make the corners of their mouths droop, and mutter inaudibly but gravely about the “Communist cowards.” In our camps worke: dressed in summer attire were “ covered”—immediately @ story is circulated about Communists being “clad in climate and sunshine.” Com- rade Raymond had arrived in New York a few days before the March 6 ee Hear: ase solons made much ado about the fact that the “Communists bring their leaders In dealing with the enemy the from other cities” (where do they MORE JOBLESS G. E. Jobless gy IN MONTANA Men Will Fight, Not Starve Silently Comrade Editor Daily Worker: Have been waiting for more com- | petent writers than myself to send in a little news of the slaves’ lot in Montana (the treasure state of the West), The Leader, a capitalist paper here a few weeks ago reported 283 | families on the county, that the summer and this the town in the state. Very little building going on. Ten dollars is the scale for car- penters but it has been reported on good authority that many of them are so much in need of work that they will offer their services for half that if the employer will lie to the business agent. Railroad Lay-offs. The railroads have laid off lots of men in all department. The A. C. M. Smelter has laid off nearly half the number of men that were working a year ago. In every case and in all depart- ments they can get along without a man he is laid off while in many cases those left on the job have to do the work of the man laid off as well as his own. In the wire mill the bonus sys- tem was installed and the system soon eliminated more of the workers ana those remaining ha! their rat- ing cut about ten per cent about a month ago, All day workers who a year ago were getting about $5.25 a day and working seven days a week are now getting $4.25 and working five days a week. In other words they have had a cut of pay of $15 a week but in many cases do- ing from a third to a double the amount more work than they were doing a year ago, Workers of Montana, the bosses are preparing us to expect a small diet for winter. Cowards will accept it and starve. Men will fight to live but are not afraid to die fighting. Join the fighting Communist or- ganization and demand work or maintenance. —MONTANA WORKER, q “best” USSR GAINS ARE FISH WAR EXCUSE Filibustering to Delay Proof of Forgeries (Continued from Page One) the stayd, Nelson asked: ‘Your government is spending about 30 billion dollars on the Five- Year Plan?” “Yes, about that much,” Bogdanovy. Then in rapid succession, Nelson got from Bogdanov affirmative an- swers to this series of questions: Giant Construction, “You're building the largest agri- cultural machinery factory in Eur- ope?” “The Soviet Government is build- ing the four largest textile plants said in Europe?” “You are building some of the largest electrical units in the world?” “You have imported machinery for mess production of many pro- ducts?” “Twenty million dollars worth of tractors were imported into Russia year through Amtorg?” ‘A tractor plent has already been opened in Russia to produce 50,000 tractors @ year’s’ “You are building others that will manufacture 75,0'0 mure a year?” “You are developing a substitute for cotton?” (Further questions by Nelson pointed out that this cot- ton substitute would equal about one-third of the amount now needed.) “The area of cotton grown in Russia has increased about 200 to 800 per cent over that of 1913?” “You are planting 10,000,000 acres to wheat?” “You are building the largest metal plant in the world?” “Your contracts call for the use in Russia of the best engineering talent of U, 8.2” Workers Are Winning, These are the crimes of the So- viet Union in the eyes of a capi- talist world. Socialist construction on the basis of a rising standard come from in other cities?). The ‘solons have heard about the red flag—right away a story is created that the Communists salute the red flag mornings and evenings, Attack On the Working Class. seems petty. It sounds like old gossip. You can hardly a smile when you see the parliament mouthing all this piffle. It would be ridicu- lous if there were not behind all this the grim reality of a new attack being prepared against the working class. Behind this silly camouflage there lurks the real danger of class assault on the labor movement. The workers will have to renel the assault by their united forces, s } | | of his earnings ‘Insurance’ Is | Speedub Plan Chicago Heights, Ill. The Daily Worker: It seems, so says the Chicago Tribune, that the General Electric Co. has adopted a plan which “we believe accomplishes all that might be expected of state insurance with- out many of its disadvantages.” | The plan is this. An insurance fund will be set up when requested by 60 per cent of the employes in any branch. The employe, when working half time or more, agrees to pay into the fund one per cent over a period of three years. The company will match} this contribution dollar for dollar and in addition guarantee interest of five per cent to the fund. The| “fund” evidently will be held “in trust” by the company. Workers Must Pay. If the employe is laid off tem- porarily he will receive half of his wages, but not more than $20 a week for ten weeks, Special “pro- visions” cover periods of abnormal and prolonged unemployment. There is about as much protec. tion for the workers in a company unemployment insurance plan as| there is in a company union. There} are many ways of getting rid of employes without using the excuse of a “business depression” after they have served their usefulness to the company. Pa Speed-up Scheme. After an employe has paid into the fund one per cent of his wages | for three years he could be fired! for something or it’s possible he! could not stand the killing speed-up | that workers are now being sub-| jected to. | It is only natural that the Tri-| bune should approve of a plan that would place the full burden of the present economic crisis on the shoulders of the workers, and at/ the same time offer an opportunity to rob the workers of their contri-| butions to the unemployment fund. | W. E.N. (it should be W. G. B. S.) is always ready to serve its masters. I wonder why the Rev. Norman Thomas has not suggested some plan like that adopted by the Gen- eral Electric, then there would be no need for those national and state | employment agencies he so heartily approved. Will Not Deceive Workers. This fraud and fake fund of the General Electric Co. will not deceive | the workers or serve the purpose of the capitalists. The fight for) work or wages will go one and the, Communist Party will solve the problem of unemployment for all} time. | Fraternally, JAMES W. CLARK. of living, the seven-hour day and| five-day week, practically free rent, | free schools even in the highest branches, abolition of unemploy- ment, free medical treatment when | sick, vacations with pay, social in-| surance, general culture, workers’ clubs—and still a system that is, more efficient for production than the capitalist system with its ter- rifie wage slavery and mass mis- ery—that is why the bosses want to destroy the Soviet Union. That is one of the reasons for the Fish Committee. It doesn’t pretend the Soviet industry is a failure. Those | days have gone forever. It calls for war on Russia, smashing the | Amtorg, smashing workers’ organ- | izations in America—because un- less a resort is had to the sword, the final arbiter, Soviet industry will be too much of an example for the millions of unemployed, for| the many more millions suffering wage cuts in America, Or, as Nelson chose to.put it: | “When the Five-Year Plan is com-| plete you will compete with the whole world?” | Capitalist Propaganda. Nelson is still too shrewd to admit the example of such a system is what he really fears. He took the $40 a month average money wage of the Soviet Union worker, disregarded and ignored the enor- mously greater wage the worker gets in services, housing, food, cul- ture, insurance, etc, and spoke of a centralized Russian production with $40 a month wages—“dumping 50 million bushels of wheat, 100 million feet of lumber on our At- lantic coast.” He tried to revive, without success, the yarn about con- viet labor in the mines of U.S.S.R. Bogdanov told him flatly that labor was free in those mines, i The Amtorg statement giving all) the facts which the cross-examina- tion Tuesday brought out in the course of five hours of bullying and sneering and glory seeking by the committeemen, was read in a little over an hour yesterday. It was the same statement Amtorg had been | trying all day the day before to} introduce. No Other Witnesses. But the expert’s report on the wild discrepancies, contradictions, | and impossible statements in the) Whalen forgeries was not yet taken in evidence at the close of the hear- | ings yesterday. Neither were any | of the heads of departments, includ- | ing Crafpen, a key figure in the, Whalen forgeries, brought on the stand. The commitiee seemed a lI | what livi Jobless! Fight for Bread Aug. 1! CINNATI BOSSES FORCE JOBLESS | ane und Once Believed in “Pro Ready to Fight Editor Daily Worker:— I am one of those 8,000,000 that my bread from to supply my family. of debts due to high living, a Nicholas Longworth, put it. Th cated on Grandin Road here in C guts enough to s: cause of this present crisi be O. K. The truth is that honesty still Though I during the prosperity, fore I was able clothes for myself. asite calls this living too high, 1 wonder g really is, Cincinnati Unemployed. Then to mention this “wonderful” city, the gateway to the outh, which known the country over for its efficient” manner in handling the unemployment situation. and th Here is what they actually done | through our “wdnderful” city man- ager, who formerly was a colonel in the army and was brought here from Washington, D. C., by the capitalists. His system in connec- tion with the “welfare” committee for the unemployed is as follows: Three days a week for every man, the work to be divided equally, and each man was paid 30 cents an hour or a total of $7.20 a week for such work as cleaning hospitals, paint- ing, etc; $7.20 a week! Who can support a family on that? City Gyp Scheme, The city manager’s pay is $25,000 a year. Now, let us compare this to the poor slaves who would work and get $374.40 for a year’s work at 80 cents per hour, or $7.20 a week, 8 days a week. But this “efficient” manner only lasted a few months, so the slaves are press- ing the sidewalks. Our city man- ager has since resigned for a better | position with one of those great chain stores. ready noticeable there, During his resignation here he was given a tremendous send-off, | a banquet, flowers, and, of course, plenty of congratulations by the cultured citizens of this efficient community, the Queen City of the West. Work here is terrible. Hardly any to be found. Here I am, one of those honest birds who fell for that prosperity bunk, but I have pulled myself out of that Rip Van Winkle sleep. What I want to see is everybody live here on earth. Let and let live, put heaven on this planet. Pa- ganism would be the proper name for the church and capitalists. I have sense enough to see real com- radeship in Soviet Russia than all lof this so-called brotherhood here that does not exist. FROM ONE OF THE 8,000,000 UNEMPLOYED, i { little vague as to whether they) would be today. A leaflet giving the demands of the American Negro Labor Congress, members of which have bezn summoned to the inquiry, was distributed at the press table, but no Negro workers were on the stand yesterday. Oust Daily Worker Reporter. The Daily Worker reporter, sit- ting at. the much enlarged press table, was approached by the com- mittee’s sergeant at arms yesterday and ordered to léave it. The same reporter had been barred from the room altogether at the first hear- ing a week before, Yesterday the reporter again showed his Daily Worker credentials and claimed the same privileges as the capitalist press. “We know all about that,” said the sergeant at arms. “We don’t recognize you as part of the press.” The workers’ paper js to be placed at every disadvantage, pre- vented if possible from obtaining the facts of this assault by the Fish Committee on the working class. It still has second class mailing privi- leges, but the Fish Committee has more than once hinted that it is going to see that those are taken away, Filibustering. Practically’ the whole day was spent in what looks suspiciously like filibustering—delay to prevent the proof of the faking of Whalen’: documents ever reaching an open hearing, The cqmmittee quizze’ Bogdanoy extensively on the organ ization of the Soviet Government on the role of the Communist Party in Russia, trying continually to make him say that the two are identical. They touched on the Whalen documents, picking out such iso lated facts as might be correct!:* stated in the forgeries, and strivin- for proof of those items, They were apparently trying ‘to buil some kind of case, however flimsy for the forgeries, while avoiding as long as possible any of the abun- dant evilence that the document are forged, Several atiempts on the P ‘ cinnati, t tion for these parasites, recently stated on His efficiency is al- | of JU WEEKLY sperity” Bunk, Now I Hunger Bosses Cincinnati, Ohio. don’t know where I am going to get | rd more debts, not the kind speaker of the house, “Honorable” this bum whose home is Io- | ve aristocratic see- rival here, and he had | and that that was the at in a short time everything would | Boss Cut Wag Offs Everyw PEER rene Taon Pada One) | from the st of the rest from he | Ae State: United | |ing population of the country is job- less, | Japan. | The foreign trade of Japan has reached the lowest point in ten| |years. The total unfavorable trade | |balance of the first six months this year has reached 223,000,000 yens | (about $110,000,000), | | The treasury of the Tokyo city | | government is empty and city em- | ployees are in danger of getting no| pay. More than 100 rai ployees in Tokyo are dismiss |more lay-offs are expected. All these naturally affect Amer- | ica and intensify the crisis in this country. According to the midmonth review of business published by the |Irving Trust Company, “nearly all lines of trade and industry in the United States showed declines for |June and the half year from the like periods of 1929, and in many |instances the levels reached were the lowest in six months or seven years. .. . Wholesale prices of com- modities sagged further, reaching th» lowest point in almost 15 years.” As a matter of overcoming the \crisis, a proposal has recently been |made to Legge, Chairman of the | Federal Farm Board, that export of wheat to the Orient, especially | to China, should be stimulated. Orient. But the Orient itself is suffering from a crisis, and other imperialist powers, notably England, which also have “extra” goods to sell, are look- ing for markets just as desperately as America. | This fight for markets, which are | continually shrinking, can only lead to war. This situation makes the mobilization of the workers and peasants of the world for the anti- | war demonstration on August 1st; this year a task of particularly urgent importance for all class-con- j scious workers. Demonstrate August Ist! the part of Amtorg officials and their attorneys to introduce such evidence met with surly rebukes from Fish and others of the com- mittee, | Fish Admits Realty Stock. | Yesterday Bachman made a direct threat of deportation to Bogdanov. “You'll be lucky if you are still here two or three years from now,” said the gentleman from West Virginia, with a sneer. Fish yesterday issued a “denial” to the press that he owns real estate, and was lying when he rose in the committee and said that Fos- ter, Communist candidate for gov- ernor, and now in jail as a leader) of the unemployed, was wrong in| charging him with it. But Fish, in| his “denial,” admitted the very sub- | stance of the Daily Worker’s ac- | cusation, namely that he was hiding | behind the name of Florence D.| Fish and a realty corporation. The real estate (millions of dollars worth.—Ed.) is now owned by his stepmother, this Florence D. Fish, said Fish, and his own connection | with real estate was merely through | stock in a real estate company! | Fish is caught in the act, and his | slimy attack on Foster pretty well | exposed, | Demonstrate August Ist! | Ad No. 144 Oey Sick Bladder and Kidneys are by Dangerous n’t neglect burni Raed assages, peatal rite oY ~“ nation, irrita- tion and night rising. Correct such ailments» bee once are ey be- me serious, to! {oe half a century “e ave prescribed Santal Mi quick relief. Get it at your pth ead Santal Midy Page Three On the Circulation Front for August First! A S yet very few orders have been made for the mobilization for August 1 demonstrations, August 1 demonstrations, to be really effective and to demonstrate the solidarity of the working class against imperialist war, against wage-cuts, unemployment, ete., and for the defense of the Soviet Union, must be preceded by intensive agitation and education in every shop and factory. For this reason the Special Editions of the Daily Worker are to be published. Several cities have already ordered their own Special Editions, but there has not been enough small orders for every distribution and sales to be used for mobilizing the workers for August 1. Prior to March 6 and May 1, hundreds of thousands of Daily Workers were sold in small bundle orders in a great many cities. These sales of the Daily contributed tremendously to the success of these demonstrations. New York City is ordering a specia! issue for July 28. Chicago and Phila- del are planning to get 10,000 and 25,000, respectively. Canton, Ohio, has ordered 150. These are the only orders that have been made to date, The working class cannot mobilize for this demonstration or for its every-day struggles unless there is carefully prepared groundwork and a four n laid. Demonstrations are not just the fact hat a group of workers come together at a special time and place. Demon- ons are primarily the result of a series of struggles, preparations a ns can mean nothing unless the Daily Worker is for the demonstrations. printed in this issue of the Daily Worker. See that your organization orders Daily to August 1. r as the weapon for the mobilization of the IOTICE! ms Rate mae The Labor Sports Union is x and Fishing. anxious to buy a cheap, second- hand car. Any comrade or sympathizer who has such a car or knows of one is asked M. OBERKIRCH S KINGSTON Row em f Demand the release of Fo to communicate immediately ter, Minor, -Amter and Ray- with the Labor Sports Union, : igh baaree Room 309, 2 West 15th St. mond, i ‘ ighting * . n prison for fighting || New York. 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