The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1930, Page 1

The direct connection which exists be- tween the State Department in Wash- ington and the Russian white guard- 1 further exposes the war plans against the Soviet Union. Rally August 1st! Dail Central Orga nternational) at New York, N. Entered ns second-class matter at the Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879 Fa) BE Preparing for War ESTERDAY Mr. Spivak, the reporter of the Daily Graphic, took some extremely valuable and interesting information to the Fish Investigating Committee, which that committee promptly suppressed. Mr, Spivak, having evidently been forewarned by his previous exper- iences with government representatives in the bus of the Whalen forgeries, had prepared his testimony in writing and has given it to the press. It contains revelations of the inside workings of the forgery machine, reaching into the highest offices of the United States Gov- ernment. It is evident that the Fish Committee and the Whalen docu- ments did not appear simultaneously by any accident. Both were, in all probability, conceived by the same brain. Here are some high points of Mr. Spivak’s evidence: The Russian monarchist, Djamgaroff, received confidential re- ports from Washington within a few hours after the forgery evidence was submitted to the State Department, informing him of the fact. Ralph Easley, of the’ National Civic Federation, had the forged documents in Washington six weeks before Whalen published them. Mrs. Henry Loomis, sister-in-law of Secretary of State Stimson, is one of the principal contributors to the Russian monarchist organ- ization headed by Djamgaroff. Mr. Stimson was fully aware of the activities of his sister-in-law, and sent a message to the newspaper asking that the story not be printed, as that “would be embarrassing” for: him. The Department of Labor and the Department of State both knew about the forged documents for weeks before Whalen published them. Spivak turned over his evidence that the documents were forgeries, to the Rules Committee of Congress, but Fish, chairman of the in- vestigating committee, declares officially that he never heard of such evidence. Djamgaroff, Whalen, and Easley, worked in very close touch with each other before and after the publication of the documents. Djam- garoff carried a police card signed by Whalen. Djamgaroff boasted indirectly that “he might be working for the State Department.” These are only’a few high points from the evidence of Mr. Spivak, which the Fish Committee refused to allow in the record. Of course, the Fish Committee is “not interested” in these facts. It is interested only in protecting the forged documents from exposure, and protecting the forgers. Forgers and forgeries are all a part of the same plan which the Fish Committee itself is promoting. This plan is not a new one. It began with the invasion of Murmansk and Siberia by United States soldiers in 1918-19. It was continued by the policy of blockade against the Soviet Union. It was crystallized into the permanent policy of non-recognition of the Soviet Government. It was carried out in the official recognition and gov- ernmental financing of Kerensky’s ambassador in Washington, Mr. Sack, for years after “his government” had been dead and buried. Only last year, the plan was expressed in Mr. Stimson’s interven- tion against the Soviet Union, encouraging the Chinese mi itarists in the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The plan is also carried out in the financing of military preparations by Poland, Rumania, and the other border states. It was extended further with U. S. “good offices” in bringing about a rapprochement between Poland and Ger- many, directed against the Soviet Union. The plan is one of war against the Soviet Union, Whalen’s forgeries are directly connected also with the interna- tional forgery mill, which produced the notorious Zinoviey letter, the Orloff documents, the Chervonetz forgeries, and the whole stream of lies and filth which has been poured out against the Soviet Union. It is a part of the international imperialist war preparations against the Soviet Union. ; Workers! Wake up to the fact that war is being brewed behind the curtains which*hide this combination of high government officials, Czarist murderers, and plain forgers and criminals! Protest against the coming imperialist war! Organize yourselves to fight against the war! Unite for defense of the Soviet Union! ‘All out on August 1st! Down with imperialist war! Expose Matthew Woll! ISERABLE, slimy creatures regularly crawl into working-class organizations for the purpose of espionage, disruption or be- trayal. Some never advance beyond mere police spies or stool-pigzons; others become “leaders” who utilize their position to serve their capi- talist masters, whose miserable hirelings they are. Such a creature is Matthew Woll; his “leadership” of the American Federation of Labor is leadership for the American imperialists in their war plans against the Soviet Union and in their efforts to pile up greater riches for themselves by further impoverishing the masses through wage-cuts and unemployment. His every act is in the interest of the bosses. In every” struggle he has played the dual role of stool-pigeon and betrayer. In the strug- gles of the needle trades workers he united with the needle bosses and the police. Before and after March 6 he openly advocated bloody fascist terror against the unemployed workers. Before the Fish committee he proved himself to be the most rabid enemy of the Sovict Union. His own testimony shows that he and the National Civic Federation, of which he is president, are the center around which the Russian white guardists and all other fascist elements rally for struggle against the workers. A letter of his, supplied to us by a reader, provides still another proof of his miserable, boss-serving role. Speaking of the Union Labor Life Insurance Co., of which he is also president, he says: “We hope to demonstrate through this life insurance or- ganization the soundness and validity of our present social, econ- omic and political order.” He hopes to demonstrate that the existence of an army of 8,000.000 unemployed workers, who are being evicted from their homes, who are going without food, whose families are starving, is entirely satisfac- tory? He hopes to demonstrate that wage-cuts and the inhuman speed-up are quite alright? Perpetual wars, misery, starvation —all these should arouse great enthusiasm among the workers, according to Woll. ‘We number among our policy-holders such distinguished men as President Hoover, Governor Roosevelt, Secretary of La- bor Davis . . .’—ete., ete., he says. These are the people he is concerned about; these are the people he serves. To them he can demonstrate the “soundness” and “val- idity” of capitalism; but not to the workers who daily feel its iron heel. Matthew Woll, his associates in the A. F. of L. leadership. and the organizations which he heads must be exposed before the workers as capitalist tools, especially before the workers in the A. F. of L. A struggle must be continuously waged to win the workers away trom their leadership, and for revolutionary struggle. No incident should be passed up; no opportunity overlooked to carry the fight into the A F. of L. local unions. Prior to August 1, especially, the activities in the A. F. ot L. should be increased. The testimony of Woll and Green before the Fish committee, where their efforts to mobilize against the Soviet Union were mace clear, should be made the basis for a struggle to bring the rank and file members into the streets on August 1, against their own fascist leadership, against imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union, for unemployment insurance. In this way these creatures will be driven out of all workers’ organizations! PLO I NEW YORK, FRID. AY, JULY 25, 1930. § WAR ON SOVIETS The Workers Will Not Be Lambs! STATE, LABOR | WOLL, WH! WOKKERS Finances Monarchist Sp plot, of the Russian m espionage and forgery By FRED ELUS. |\tary of State Stimson, (By Special best wishes, on behalf of the U SHOW BIG DROP Crisis Hits France; Business Down 10‘ PARIS, July 24.—Big losses in} their foreign trade will add im- petus to the strides of the French imperialists in the strengthening of the anti-Soviet block. Hitherto, France was one of the few countries in the’ capitalist world which was not severely af- fected by the world crisis, Things are rapidly changing. The cost of living for the workers is rising. | Despite the fact that the price of |wheat throughout the world is fall- ling the cost of bread went up sev- eral days ago. fighting program for the miners of the United Statey There are expected to be between 250 and 300 delegates in attendance, some coming from the strike fields. where the battle is being waged un- der the National Miners Union lead- ip against the operators, the ascist U.M.W. traitors, and the equally treacherous gang headed by the Fishwick-Howat- Farrington group, connected with the A. F. of L. bureaucrats through the Muste “wing.” Never have the miners been in graver need of a fighting leader- hip, and it is the business of the ‘.M.U. Convention to hammer out the action program on which the miners will be asked to unite, to In March the retail price index of the necessities of life was 58: in June it was 593, an increase of 10 points. During June, it was shown by the finance ministry’s re- jport of several days ago, that the . s |volume of business in France, as | 'ganize for struggle against wage lindicated by the revenue from the cuts, mass unemployment and turn-over tax, declined by 10 per| Starvation, for uniform wages jcent, compared with June’ of last | throughout the industry. |year. There was a loss to the} The call of the N.M.U., which is treasury of: nearly $2,500,000 for | affiliated with the Trade Union | the month. Unity League, the U. S. section of } the Red International of Labor The foreign trade balance shows FRENCH RUSH WAR Open National Miners Union PLANS: MARKETS Convention; Fight Wage Cuts GLASGOW, Scotland, July 24.—Extend revolutionary greetings and ited Mine Workers of Scotland, to the | National Miners’ Union Convention.—W. Allan, Secretary. * * PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 24.—With strikes going on in Hlfmois and West Virginia, and a deep resentment against the sellout by the Lewis gang of the U. M. W. A. brewing a strike in the Anthracite, the National | Miners Union will open its conven- ® tion here Saturday, July 26, with a} INGE social-fascis: | BRITISH, AMERICA WORKERS BOTH ee PROTEST AUC. 1 | British Bosses Cut; U.S. Denies, Aid WASHINGTON, 24,—Secre- July tary of the Navy Adams is trying a CRISIS SHARPENS RMANY now to evade the implication of violation of the brand new “d armament” treaty in the N General Board’s plan—announced the same day that Hoover signed | the treaty—to make all light cruis- | Pes ers into combination cruiser-airplane More Unemployed BN aes es eal ate Class Lines Tighten | war preparations is one more i | against which the workers shall] BERLIN, July 24.—Despite the| march from their shops on August| optimistic statements ofthe German | Ist, in protest against imperialist we capitalists, the facts prove that the in Germany is growing im-, measurably worse, with no signs of | Adams is quoted as having nied emphatically” that such | uptur According to the officiat H the . but in spite of this, high statistics, 2,770,000 men and women |! off of the navy _ insisted were registered as unemployed. The | fran that this scheme was im-| portant, although “regretting that the subject had been brought to the front” as it seems they wished! to’ keep it secret. , official figures do not begin to in dicate the extent of the mass unem ployment -in Germany. Comrade Stalin in his report before the Six- teenth Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet Union, reported at least 5,000,000 unemployed in Ger- many. In reporting on unemployment in Germany, the government bureau declared that for the first time in Against all these secret war plots, American workers are protesting August 1, demanding all war funds | go to the jobless. * * * } “Labor” Imperialism For Treaty. | uy, qWorker (Section: of the Communist 1 FINAL. CITY \ tion. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents TION EDI DEPARTMENTS, EASLEY, 'N, FISH ALL IN SCHEME: MUsT FIGHT IT AUGUST 1! PRINTER OF WHALEN “FORGERIES BRINGS TYPE TO FISH COMMITTEE TO PROVE HIS STATEMENT; ; CONGRESSMEN CONSULT WITH DJAMGAROFF State Department Asks Press Not to Publish Fact Stimson Relative ies; Communist Representative Ousted By Cop NEW YORK.—Testimony yesterday before the congressional committee headed by Hamilton Fish, Jr., and appointed “to investi- gate Communism,” showed a solid united front, and interlocking onarchists in the United States, and their system, the National Civic Federation, Secre- and Grover Whalen, while police commission- er. The plot is for war'on ghe?—— eres FRONT MEET PLAN MONSTER AUG, 1 gation,” and its program of anti-labor laws, deportations and federal secret police. The evidence submitted by John Spivak, N. Y. Graphic reporter, and evidence he still more important which he was refused permission to aa ubmit but distributed in the form, Bleet United Front of a signed statement to the press, ae % and the corroboration of Max Wag Committee of 75 ner, New York printer in whose Ee, shop the Moscow letterhe of the YORK.—Over 490 dele- Whalen forgeries were printed, a preliminary anti-war ce held at Manhattan Ly- prove once more just what the I night prepared detailed Daily Worker has already este hed in other ways, that the U. a huge anti-war demon- government, the Hoover adminis- on on August 1st Union (Continued on Page Three) are. A committee of 75 work- ected from the floor as a United Front Anti-War Committee st demonstration and to et as a permanent anti-war eom- c AMA mittee to direct the work in_ the i, AJWEP shops and factories of mobilizing sal 5 * the workers against the growing eee war preparations of the bosses, and baa ymise of Rieger Out- the sharpening attacks against the He lobe Soyiet Union. put Falls Flat Of the 490 delegates, 165 were elected from 19 unions; 218 repre- sented 165 workers’ fratérnal and other organizations; 38 delegates came from shops and factories; 59 delegates were from Party units, and 16 represented Young Commu- nist League units. The meeting was opened by Gom- rade Baker, district organizer, who spoke on the growing war danger of the imperialist powers, and the especially sharp attack against the DETROIT, July ---Over 80,000 workers in the Ford Motor Co. plants who were laid off until July 28th were informed yesterday that their period of unemployment would be extended another week, until Aug 4th. At first, the Ford officials in formed the workers that they would be given a two-weeks lay-off, in or der to prepare for larger produc This plan fell through because a steady lo: on French trade. tion. NOTICE. The French Communist Party increasing its agitation among the | masses of workers and in the army against the speed-up of war prepa- lrations and is planning a tremen- |dous August 1 anti-war demonstra- . indicating the effect | of the shrinking of World markets Demonstrate August Ist! All comrades and sympathizers | | who have automobiles are urg- ently requested by the District Office of the Party to communi- Unions, appeals to all miners to ‘prepare for a national struggle aguinst wage-cuts, the speed-up, against the inhuman conditions now uffered by the miners, and for @ minimum wage of $35 per week, the -hour day and the five-day week. With the so-called United Mine Workers become a company union under the fascist leaders like John L. Lewis, while the even more tieacherous Howat-Fishwick being still more dangerous because of their pretended “honesty” while acting in |. alliance with the Peabody Coal Com- pany, the miners have no other gen- uine and loyal fighting leadership | than that which they are building |themselves in the National Miners the history of Germany the summer figures showed no lessening over the winter figures of unemployment —in fact, the number of unemploye { has been raised since the end ‘of June. The largest ine is ported in the important industrial centers in the Rhine-Ruhr valley and in Westphalia, At the same time, the Boerse (the Berlin stock market) suffered a severe crash yesterday. The now widespread recognition that the crisis instead of showing sig of easing promises deeper d.pths in increasing the sharpne: of the class struggle. Despite Zoergeibel’s prohibition LONDON, July 24.—Although the House of Commons is not required to vote ratification of the fake “dis- | armament” treaty, it is now passed! through “second reading” and after a third reading will be regarded as| | approved. | While Britain doesn’t get much} advantage out of the deal with| | America, it, too, is due to build| many more warships costing nearly a billion dollars, while the “soci: | ist” cabinet member, J. H. Thomas, jis going about the country telling the unemployed, some of whom now | surance, that’ the government will have to cut this off. | get a pittance of unemployment in- | of the big overproduction of auto: mobiles by all companies. Hende the announcement of the extended lay-off. There is no certainty tha: the plants will open on the advanced date. POSTPONE FUR WORKERS MASS MEET NEXT WEEK NEW YORK —The mass meetinz jof fur workers scheduled to be heid last night in Cooper*Union under of the Needle Trades | s Industrial Union was po \ poned because of a heavy rain storm. | The meeting will take place next Soviet Union, headed by American imperialism. He told of the neces- sity for organizing concretely in the shops to prepare for the August 1st demonstration in Union Square. Herbert Newton was the chair- man. Sol Harper, of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, spoke of the necessity for mobilizing the workers who fought in the last im- perialist war to fight against the coming imperialist war. The Ex- Servicemen’s League has issued a call to all ex-servicemen to partici- pate in the August Ist demonstra- tion. Four of the ex-servicemen also spoke, Other speakers were, Jack John- stone, for the Trade Union Unity cate immediately with the Party. If they cannot communicate with (UDI the District Office they are asked || The convention will diseuss the te bring thelr cars te the Wikis || problems confronting the Fifth ers’ Center, 26 Union Square, || World Congress of the Red Inter- Satiirdaj at Lab'elock. | |national of Labor Unions, to which ¢ delegates are nominated. co WAR TRAINING SPEEDED Demand War Funds tor Tobless! Fort Lupton, Colo. Correspondence Editor: six times the number of those they had last year. These units wre the Dear Comrade:-——While 1 was at|R. O. T. C., the C. M. T. C. and the a military fort recently an officer | state militia, who get part of their told me that the army is drilling | training with the regular army. So for the last four months with the | great is the increase that the regu- regiments, battalions, etc, at full jlar officers and soldiers have had strength, i. e., on a war basis, and|to move out of their barracks and het thoy are having many night | tive in tents to make room for these Also the aumber of auxiliary to snetasiees the regular army is from four to —D. W. CORRESPONDENT. ot the August First demonstration, the Communist Party of Germany is planning a huge meeting in the west end of Berlin, the heart of the bour- | geois district. The Communist Party of Great Britain is calling all workers to demonstrate on August Ist, Inter- | national Fighting Day Against War. League; Paterson, for the Young Communist League; Esther Carrol, for the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union. Jack Parilla spoke on the coming election drive of the | week, at a date to be announced soon. The furriers are organizing | to fight under the banner of the in- dustrial union, and through their rank and file shop committees, for | Demonstrate August Ist! Cops Break | Meet of Communist Party, and the big part that the exposure of the war danger July raises. |200 at Navy Yard Gate NEW YORK.—A_ meeting held, Thursday at the Brooklyn Navy} Yard, attended by over 200 work-| ers, was broken up by the police} when they learned the purpose of | the meeting was to mobilize for) the huge anti-war demonstration | on August Ist. Two were arrested, | vember crash there were a number Albert Stone and Silvia Marti They were released at the poles | 5 gga ae apostle ine | station, as no charges were placed|P“™% Now ® emirate oe against them. jeut for all workers is to go into ef- The workers resented seeing their | {ect_ next Monday. And more are meeting broken up. Many copies |©°™ing after that. of the Daily Worker were sold. The| The Grand Ave. plant is ecom- ; Navy Yard officials, when they no-| pletely shut down, throwing 5,000 | ticed the meeting getting larger,| workers out of wo: The speed-up and the workers more enthusias killing, with g fainting on the called the cops to smash the meet-| job. The bosses fear that the work- ing. ers will organize and have a spy Organize, Strike CHICAGO, Ill.—Since the No 25% CUT AT MAJESTIC and the fight against it will play in the campaign of the Party. COMMUNISTS FIGHT FOR EVICTED NEGRO FAMILY system to Waverr-the workers and| NEW YORK.—A meeting at fire those that talk to each other, |Cherry and Montgomery Sts. last As a result of the terrible condi- | night denounced the eviction from tions prevailing in the Majestic the |their homes of an old Negro family. workers, in spite of the reign of} The meeting was called by the terror and intimidation, are ready | Communist Party, Section 1, of New jto organize under the leadership of | York, Speakers exposed the rent the Communist ‘Party and the Trade | robbery, the Tammany and repub- | Union Unity League. A committee |lican trickery with tent laws, the is being organized at present to/fraud of “condemning” property for fight the inhuman conditions, un- | excavations, ete., resulting in free- employment, speed-up, wage-cuts,|ing the landlords entirely from any the spy system of the bosses, ete. |of their at all times very slight ob- | —RADIO WORKER, _ligations to keep places in repairs. 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