The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1930, Page 3

g S in olent and dis- > al- kers ar- for ago 38,- day, cen- try, aber 000. cut- the ; to ying pay the pay y's cts to rk DAILY KER, nuw RITISH STRENGTHEN AIR BASE S IN IRAQ TO PREPARE FOR WAR ippet King Feisal Goes to London and Does As His Masters Request ‘itish Navy Gets Mos’ Region; To Build t of Its Oil from Mosul Strategic Railway s part of the British war prep- tions against the Soviet Union, Treaty of Alliance and Amity” ween Great Britain and Iraq has n signed in Bagdad. Nominally, recognizes the independence of 1, to come into operation when } is admitted to the League of ions. “Independence” means of rse such independence as Nicar- a and Cuba have from Wall eet, or the “independence” of ypt from British imperialism. wever, the most significant ture of the “treaty” is the pro- on for strengthening the posi- | 1 of the British Royal Air Force Iraq. ‘he present royal air force sta- 1, seven miles from Bagdad, and t in Mosul, will be evacuated not re than five years after the sign- of the “treaty,” and the Iraq vernment will lease instead to tain three air bases to the west the Euphrates and the Shat-al- ab. (hese are near to Basra, on the rsian Gulf, and thus are designed defend this line of communica- n with India, and as a base against the Soviet Union. They will also be within easy distance of the pipe line which is to be built from the Northern Iraq oilfield to Haifa, on the Palestine Mediterranean coast. The British fleet obtains most of its oil fuel from these oil- fields, and the new shif is a step towards active war preparations, British imperialism advances its aims in this sphere of its activities by corruption of the Iraq bourgeoisie —King Feisal is merely a puppet of British imperialism and the govern- ment is a British-controlled dicta- torship over the workers and peas- ants. King Feisal and General Nuri Pasha, the prime minister, re- cently made a visit to England where they discussed the build of the oil pipe line and the project of a railway from Haifa to Bagdad, thus completing the railway route from the Mediterranean to the Per- sian Gulf, over the territory entirely under British control. Feisal, of course, acquiesced to all his British masters required of him, and he re- ceived the good wishes of Arthur Henderson, the slimy foreign min- ister in the “labor” cabinet. ONGSHOREMEN “TRIKE FOR MORE PAY IN ORLEANS ‘all On 12,000 More to Show Solidarity NEW ORLEANS, La., July 28.— wee hundred longshoremen led by arine Workers’ Industrial Union e on strike here, demanding an crease of wages from 25 cents to ) cents per hour for longshore ork on the river boat docks. A strike committee of 25 has been ected and pickets are on the job. onight a mass meeting for ail ngshoremen will be held. A special leaflet is being issued 9 the longshoremen on the Morgan ine docks. A strike leaflet has een issued for general distribution n the waterfront, urging solidarity f all longshoremen of which there re 12,000 in the port of New drleans. Should Spread. This strike should spread to the forgan, United Fruit and other ocks, for conditions are extremely ad along the New Orleans water- ront. Most of the men are unor- canized, though the International ngshoremen's Union has a small ection, and pursues Jim Crow holicies towards the Negro work- rs. There is a large percentage of Negro longshoremen. strike started spontaneously workers on the steamboat several days ago, Members he M.W.1.U. Hocked an attempt » swindle k, and started a meeting on the rf. A crowd of about 250 were ng addressed by W. C. McQuis- on and Ellison. Bosses and fore- en rushed up and attacked the akers, clubbing Ellison over the i with a piece of coal. This ng Bosses Lose Round. tiff fight resulted, which was n by the workers, and a mass ting announced for Saturday t. The longshoremen at this k did not aid the M.W.I.U. mem- rs defeat the bosses, but did not slp the bosses, and cheered the ult of the battle. The owner of he boat “Captain Ollie’ sent a voman for the police, but they did ot arrive in time. The crowd fol- owed cheering through the streets for several blocks, and some came ip to the M.W.LU. offices and oined. The men on the river boats have been getting about $1.50 a day. No empt has been made to organize them by the LL.A. until it became frightened at growth of the M.W.L.U and authorized ‘free initia- tions” recently. The I.L.A. confer- ence here two weeks ago was at- tended by governor Huey Long and the fakers, but by no longshoremen ‘o speak of. It was a flop. * 8 © Conference in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 28.— The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union longshoremen’s conference to plan a campaign for better wages and conditions and for insurance for the unemployed will be held here September 7. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance, Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August 1st! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be turned over for the relief of the unem- ployed! Strike Against Wage-Cuts! RUSH WAR MOVE ON SOVIET UNION; FIGHT IT AUG, 1ST Woll, Mellony Stimson in Frenzy of Lies (Continued from Page One) system .of capitalism is respon- sible for their starvation and misery. It is deliberately de- signed to throw a smoke screen over the general war prepara- tions of the American bosses. More and more the American workers are learning about the suc- cess of the five-year plan in the Soviet Union, the rapid building up of socialism, the betterment of the conditions of the Russian workers. The workers in the United States also every day feel the crushing weight of drastic wage cuts, more mass unemployment, and starva- tion. It is for this reason that Woll, the American Federation ot Labor, Andrew Mellon, the Russian monarchists, Stimson and Hoover— and all their class forces—are whipping up a war frenzy against the Soviet Union. Try to Hide U. S. Unemployment. The growing mass, unemployed YURK, 'TUESDA Y, JULY * Page Three ry SHOW POPPY $ ALES AS FASCIST War Vets Must Fight Bosses and Bosses’ Government for Right to Live | | Editor the Daily Worker: Legion stated that disabled war vet- Am sending the enclosed clipping, |erans receive 1 cent for each poppy |which may be of interest for edi-| they make. jtorial comment, if not as a news} “Mr. David Schmitt, in his article, story (from the Chicago Tribune of | stated that he received 1% cents for | July 2): each poppy. } “POPPY MONEY. “Our family made 10,000 of these | “CHICAGO, July 2.—In answer to/ poppies at the rate of 65 cents a |the letter of David Smith, patient at thousand, including putting on the Edward Hines Jr. Hospital, Hines,!labels which said they were made Ill., I wish to give the following in-|by veterans.—Chester Peimoda.” jformation with reference to the con- —Rk. A. | duct of poppy sales as far as the * | American Legion is concerned: Editorial Note:—The second letter | “This year approximately one| gives the poppy sales fake away. million poppies were manufactured | “Poppies” are made and sold not by disabled veterans in hospitals in| for the relief of destitute or dis- the state of Illinois. Last year a/abled war veterans, but to defray flimsy paper poppy mas made which | the salaries, side graft, etc., of the was rather difficult to assemble.| American Legion Veterans of For- Men this year were able to make | eign Wars officials. three times as many poppies in the | Poppy sales are held to kid the same length of time, and chrough | masses into believing that the ex- arrangements with the hospital au-|soldiers are being cared for, while thorities the rate of pay was set at in reality thousands of vets ire job- 1% cents per poppy. In all, ap-|less and together with their fam-; proximately $5,000 was paid by the/ilies are starving. These poppy anh American Legion to disabled mer in the hospitals —L. R. Benston, De- partment Service Officer.” re @ “POPPY MAKING. “CHICAGO, July 2.—On June 18 Mrs. T. P. Young of the American sales also serve to whip up war sentiment and a jingoistic spirit among the masses. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. first demonstration against the im- perialist war preparations. “Defend the Soviet Union!” must be the reply of every American worker to the direct steps for war against the Soviet Union now being instigated by the American bosses, through the aid of Woll and his boss Civie Federation of Labor. Slander Workers. Woll admits that the so-called five-year plan and the building up of socialism in the Soviet Union, while in capitalist lands the crisis is throwing millions out of work |to face utter starvation, that is the | real reason for the steps of the ex- ploiters and their tools in the A. F. of L. beginning their war agitation and preparation. “Should the five-year plan be suc- cessful,” says a statement issued by Woll, under the name of the Wage Earners’ Protective Conference (a \fictitious organization concocted oy “convict labor” charge against Soviet coal and lumber is the vilest pretext. It is the success of the; army is frightening the American | Woll and his fascist and monarchist exploiters. They feel the tremen- | backers) “it would mean that other dous upward drive of the, unem- | countries, including America. would ployed demanding unemployment | be compelled for the sake of seii- NMU CONVENTION IN PITTSBURGH (Continued from Page One) for the Trade Union Unity League, with which the N.M.U. is affiliated. Dunne outlined the whole situation in the coal fields, where rationaliza- tion, under-pay, unemployment and displacement of men by machinery is rampant. He took up the betrayals of the Lewis gang which has now organ- ization chiefly in the anthracite and seeks to maintain itself there as a company union by means of the compulsory check-off and compul- sory arbitration included in a five jand a half year slave contract to start Sept. 1. The Fishwick - Howatt - Peabody {Coal Company union uses the same tactics in Illinois, and the miners} have nothing to gain from either] of the company controlled outfits. Youth Are Active. The report for the young mine the workers back to | insurance. They know that huge preparations are being made for August Ist to expose and to fight | against the rapid war preparations. They realize that the demand “Not a cent for armaments, but all funds to the unemployed,” is spreading like wildfire in the shops, mines, mills and factories, and in the ever growing ranks of the unemployed. Hence, the ery for war! War against the Soviet Union! War against the workers’ fatherland which is building and forging ahead, bettering the conditions of the workers. War against the only country, which in the swamp of capitalist crisis, stands out as a beacon light for the workers, pointing the goal of emancipation for them. This is the basis for Woll’s state- ment on Monday. It is an attempt to befuddle the workers, to blind them to the real issues and the menace of an ever deepening crisis. It is to hoodwink them into war against their allies. It is an at- tempt to divert them from the growing struggles against wage- cuts and for unemployment insure ance, to be paid by the capitalist government, out of the swollen profits of the bosses, This was made very clear in a statement issued Monday by the strike-breaker vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, timed to appear in the capitalist press at the same time that Mellon’s man senator David A, Reed of Pennsylvania urged the treasury department to extend the embargo to lumber and anthracite produced by forced labor. i It is the slogan “Not funds for armaments, but unemployment in- surance for the great army of un- employed” in the August 1st prep- arations that has aroused the ire of the bosses and their tools, Green, Woll, and the Russian monarchists, A, F. L. Heads War Moves. Woll, who together with the en- tire officialdom of the American Federation of Labor, and the lead- ing exploiters in the United States, last November, at the Hoover econ- omic conference promised the bosses they would do all the strike-break- ing necessary to keep the American workers’ wages down, must be answered by every worker by par- | preservation to adopt the Soviet | | system. . This is a threat against every | worker in this country, whom the | bosses are trying to plunge into | a war against the Sovict Union | The Daily Worker nas time and | again pointed out that Matthew Woll’s attacks against the Soviet | Union was at the same time a blow to every worker. This has been proved by the whole series of wage-cuts that have descended upon the workers in every indus- | try in the United States. | Cover U. S. Wage-Cuts. Woll’s fake organization, Amer- jica’s Wage Earners’ Protective Conference, does not say one word about the 8,000,000 unemployed in this country, or the concerted drive against the standard of living of the American workers by the bosses in order to transfer the burdens of the crisis onto the backs of the workers. Woll and his capitalist backers have only one object: that is war ~gainst the Soviet Union. In every shop and factory in this country the workers must learn this lesson of the collaboration of the A. F, of L. and the bosses in the war preparations, They must answer it in huge masses, partici- pating in the August 1st demonstra- tions all over the country. Demand unemployment insurance on August ist, not war armaments or prepara- tion for war against the Soviet Union—the only country in the world where unemployment is on the decrease, Several days ago, the Interna- tional Labor Office in Geneva was forced to admit that ia the Soviet Union, in the space of a few months, an additional 400,000 work- ers were given jobs, while in other capitalist lands millions were thrown out on the streets to face starvation, Boss Press Supports Woll. Woll’s statement, which was widely published in the capitalist press with scare head-lines, also pointed out that the attack was not limited to war preparations against the U.S.8.R. Woll called for the suppression of the advance guard of the American workers, the Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated unions, which are the only ones fighting arainst for unemployment insurance, and Demand Unemployment Insurance!] ticipating in the gigantic August Preparing for the August 1st wage-cuts, | a very important section of the coal mining force and the most militant lin strike action, was made by Joe | Tash. | | Grant reported on the Ne FO | miners; pointing out their increased | numbers and greater exploitation, | the discrimination against them by | jthe Lewis and Fishwick factions of | the United Mine Workers and their / complete equality in the ranks of the | N.M.U. | | The report on women was by | Gunjar. | The Workers International Relief | was given the floor in the person of | Marcel Sherer. The WLR. ar-| jranged the feeding of the delegates | to this convention. In addition to getting a spirited welcome from the | delegates in the convention, a con- ference on relief held during recess of the convention make preparations for mass relief to the coal strike) now looming. It was decided to) open a central miners’ campaign re- lief office in Pittsburgh. New Central Office. Fifty district relief organizations and secretaries, plus the miners of Illinois, W. Virginia, Pennsylvania, th. Anthracite and Ohio pledged re-| inforcement of the Anti-War Cam- paign and all their efforts to bring | the masses of miners out on August First demonstration, The conference also denounced the | Fish Committee propaganda and its plans for attack on foreign born) workers, and crushing of the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary | unions, including the N.M.U. Speakers at the W.LR. conference | were: L, Gibarti, Marcel Sherer and Michael Burd, Pittsburgh dis- trict relief organizer. The W.I.R. children’s camp at Finleyville has held a miners’ soli- darity demonstration on the occa- sion of the meeting of the N.M.U. convention. demonstratiot gai imperialist war. Workerst Answer the war Provocation of the bosses against your fellow-workers in the Soviet Union! Into the streets on Aug- ust Ist! Demand unemployment insurance! Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts! Smash the fascist leaders of the A. F. of L. and their united front with the bosses in their war preparations BALTIMORE JOBLESS RALLY FOR AUG UST 1ST! ‘Jobless! Fight Evictions! 8 LEGION GRAFT ON EX-SOLDIERS Demand Immediate Relief! On the Streets Aug. Ist! Daily Worker Editoi Dear Comrad very important. Baltimore, Md. 1 am writing you the essence of an article 1 read | Union. in one of the Baltimore capitalist papers—the Post—which 1 consider | bunk. This article states that 50 families are being evicted | pigeon methods. TO ALL FISHER BODY AUTO WORKERS ‘The Fight Is Not Yet | Over (Continued from aye ney knew that as long as the Auto Workers Union led the strike they | would be unable to stop us. They were determined to deprive th strike of this leadership. They found that police brutality and jail- jings could not accomplish this. |They raised the cry of outsiders | and reds but could not fool us. They |qade all kinds of fake promises, if we would quit the Auto Workers We did not fall for this Then they resorted to stool- They used Com- weekly; that the judge of the People’s Court stated that there were 2,176 | stock and their other agents on the families since January, this year. on the bench, He also said that one landlord alone had 16 notices served on his tenants only. Ac- cording to this judge, the cause of the many evictions here is the un- employment and the laying off of thousands of workers in the basic industries in Baltimore (Bethlehem Steel — Eastern Rolling Mills — Marine Workers (longshoremen) and the Railroad shops of the B. & 0.) Clubs, Bosses’ Answer. But the government which he represents is not doing a thing to better the conditions of the work- ers; but instead the unemployed workers are being locked up, charged with vagrancy, and given 3 or more months in the House of Correction, where they are put to work to build a bigger jail for themselves and other workers The unemployment here get: ting bigger and bigger. There are now 40,000 jobless out of 750,000 population. The unemployment Council in Balto, leading the work- ers in Baltimore for a fight for work or wages. It is holding meet- ings in front of th homes of the evicted families. From now on we will do as much work as is in our power to rally the unemployed workers into a fight f : Work or Wages and onto the streets on August Ist. Comradely you GEORG LLY, Secretary U. AUG, | CT wy ¥ if j “ew Strugele Soon By| Betrayed Strikers Despite re Motors police to Ist, t on Wil: wholesale C. jeviction notices served on workers ©———-—--——-—- |He said that this is the worst he} jhad ever heard of since he has been | | | | | | | ceived | showed that the workers realize the role of these enemies in their midst, | MASSACHUSETTS BARREN OF WORK Workers Turning to RevolutionaryStruggle Shefield, Mass. Daily Worker: For the past few months I have been hunting a job in the small industrial centres of Massachusetts. Hoover's prosperity escaped me in Manhattan, but I thought if it was anywhere to be found in these be- nighted states surely it would be in the state that was so well pro- tected against the ravages of Com- munism as the state of Massachu- setts is. But it grieves me to report that the land of the Thayers, Ful- lers and Lowells is as barren of work as the rest of our dear land is The economic and industrial eri is just as deep, the workers are dis- contented and ready to fight. The few who have jobs are ground to pieces by the long hours, the speed- up, the wage cuts, There is only one remedy and most of the workers I have spoken to know that it is, Under the lead- ership of the Communist Party of the United States eventual victory is assured. We must take the rev- olutionary road. We have suffered long, enough and listened too long to the betrayers of the working class. India is in revolt, China has lready had its first Soviet Con- | gress. All over the world we hear the thunder of revolution and all, jall led by the Third International, the Commu the only party of Mar m! —™. D. March from factories, shops and mines directly after work on August Ist to the demonstrations against war and unemployment Rally your shop mates under the slogan: “Not one cent for arma- ments; all funds for the unem- ployed!” eh ices paring snantesnci Rikoucaaekc a very poor response and The August first demonstration will help the workers in their struggle for unemployment insur- ; ance and will further expose the General Mot the mil groups of the Communist Workers Union, are being organi in preparati r larger stri cluding all we » for a strugg against wage cuts, speed-up and un- | employm The 4 the com nized by the stool pigeon, Comstock and sup- ported by the A. F. of L. stands exposed before the workers. Its efforts to call a meeting of the Fisher Body workers last week re- | role of the General Motors govern ment in Flint as well as its Na- ional control through the Morgan RL SI FARM IN THE PINES Situated to Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German Table Ht 818 Swimming and Hisi M. OBERKIRCH Rox 78 KINGSTON Ro Our Doors Are Workers of All Open! Races and Nationalities Come! —— wvvwvww WINGDALE, N. Y. Where finest comradeship prevails Well-known place fora long vacation Where food is healthful and plentiful SPORTS-SONG-THEATRE a tt a _ Comrade KRANESS requests that all comrades playing in- musical director, OUR BUSES LEAVE 1107TR 81 AND SEVENTH AVENUE: Every Briday at 6:30 p. m E PB. m, 'y Sunday at 9 a. m. Every Monday at 12 p. Every Wednesday at 1 m. pm | strike committee, who with the help of Scavarda and the A. F. of L. fakers organized the company union, behind the backs of the strik /ers, and with the most militant ele- }ments of the strike committee in |jail. At the same time the organ- | izer: | } held incommunicado. Betrayed and \left without leadership, we had to jretreat back to work. Our main mistake was of not ex- posing and ditching the Comstock jbunch when they started to hold their conferences with the G, M. police chief Scavarda. When the | bosses and the police failed with | the bogy of “reds and outsiders” the Comstock gang repeated the ery, bringing confusion in our ranks. We and our organizers, made the mistake of letting Com- stock appear time and again as the spokesman of the strikers, after all his dubious actions, building up his influence while he was prepar- ing for the betrayal. We should |have come before the whole strike | body and let them decide, whether | they wanted the police led Com- | stock leadership or the Auto Work- jers’ Union leadership hated by the bos: These mistakes to- | gether with the biggest shortcoming of not having a Fisher local of the | Auto Workers Union before the strike started, were the reasons why jwe had to retreat. the job correcting these errors and shortcomings and prepare for the awaiting struggles. The bosses are preparing through Comstock who is organizing a company union, the Automobile Workers’ n., |for them. Business is now starting, he says but forgets to add that it is the business of selling out the | workers to the bosses. But he can’t |fool us any longer, We will answer | his “business” with the organization |of our shop and depart | mittees into a fighting local of the Auto Workers’ Union. Fellow workers, prepare to fight right now. Let us show the bos | that we are not defeated. jorganize to smash their brutal | speed-up system. Smash the Com- stock company union by which t will try to impose their wage cuts on us again. Join the Auto ¥ ers’ Union, Fight for the 8-hour day 5-day week. For ent com- unemployment insurance— sof the Auto Workers Union | were kidnapped by the police and We must now immediately get on | Let us | ENEMIES OF U. , OILERS SUPPORT WOIL'S WAR GRY Aids Ihe 3osses in Wage Cutting Drive irom Page One) more shiploads on the would be barred from is little doubt that this scheme was concocted at a confer- ence betweenWoll, his fascist backer, Hamilton Fish, of the Fish Com- mittee, SenatorReed, the shadow of Andrew Mellon, and the whole tribe of Russian mona working through Stimson and Hoover direct- ly and through Stimson’s sister-in- law, who donates heavily to the campaign for nst the Soviet Union, The machinery of war vilification was set loose in an organized fashe |ion. Woll’s statement was sent te a large numbi | to combat the / . the demand rance. That the so-calle issue is the p ke is shown |in Woll’s herein he de- |clares, “We will show that there is {nu free labor in Soviet Russia.” What Woll meant is that there is j no labor which the capitalists are |free to exploit in the Soviet Union; |that in the U.S.S.R. the workers | have driven out the exploiters, taken jover industry and are running it in the interest of all the workers. At the same time, Woll urges war for the protection of the kulaks (rich farmers) and against the col- [lective farms in the Soviet Union, which raising the standard of living of the Russian farmers, while the American farmers face ruin as the result of the sharpening agrar- la. crisis. The bloated cry of Woll and his fascist and imperialist supporters is F. of L. locals Ist agitation, unemployment 0: ng fc oreed labor® directed mainly against the rapid | industrial ation in the Soviet Union. |It is the success of the Five-Year | Plan, which is the most outstanding reason for the sharp attack at the present moment. At first the capitalists, including Woll and his fellow fascist leaders lin the A. F. of L., predicted and \fought for the failure of the five- When its assured suc- , the capitalists, of capitalism sides of them, with be- ear plan. |cess became ob | viewing the er \surging on all | millions be came fra mployed, ect-le |their y proding Work or Wages. Equal for equal and Negre work for wages—Retter working Against the speed-up. Demonstra on August ist against the bosses prepar ns for other war. UTO WORKERS UNI FISH- ER BODY LOCAL, FLINT, MICH, SPEND YOUR FIRST PROLETAR: Athletics, Games, Dances, Theat NITGEDAIGET EVERY DAY SOMETHING NEW VACATION AT IAN CAMP—HOTEL re, Chorus, Lectures, Symposiums REVOLUTIONARY Scenario General Direction .... Mass Plastique .... Song Direction ... Percussion Camp Phone Beacon 731. Special Feature for the August 2nd Week-End 66 é . a9 Turn ‘the Guns to be presented on the night of August 2nd (Saturday) on the fields of the camp, Hundreds of workers-campers will participate in the giant collective drama—a political and artistic innovation in the proletarian American theatre. V. JEROME and CHAVER PAVVER MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS IN ADVANCE! NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. By train: from Grand Central every hour. MASS SPECTACLE NNO SCHNEIDER -EDITH SIEGAL -JACOB SCHAFFER N. Y. Phone Estabrook 1400 By boat: twice daily Electricity, running bungalows, many sins fires, comradely — atmo: SOCIAL water WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE CAMP WOCOLONA WALTON LAKE, MONROE, N. Y. (50 Miles from New York) Sports, swimming, boating, tac- ing, dancing, musical and cul- tural programs +t oat PROGRAM against the Soviet Union! De- mand: ‘Not a cent for armament; | all funds to the unemployed!” struments, should kindly bring them along. By Traint From Gri or 125th St. to WI id Centrat jale, N. ¥. 110TH STREET TELEPHONE: MONUMENT 0111 Excellent Orchestra $21 PER WEEK Aeroplane Rides RESERVATIONS WITH $5 DEPOSIT 'TO BE MADE AT New York Offi 10 East 17th Street; Gramercy 1018 MONROE, N. Y., Phone: Monroe 89;