The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1930, Page 1

Phe “opposition” of Hooyer to the embargo on Seyiet products fools no one. Workers know that behind the scenes war is being prepared, and on August First they will rally in the streets for the defense of the Soviet Union! fa Dail Central Orga ction of (Se =, «Worker e-Conn the Communist International) Entered a; second Vol. VII, No. 182 atter at the Post Of! WORKERS OF MELLON ADMITS MOVE ‘AMOUNTS TO WAR DECLARAT\ON? ALL OUT AUGUST Ist! DEFEND THE SOVIET UN. 3N! | From Trade Embargo to War! Red Army ei || Smash the Basen! War Preparations Mellon Tool FE Rally August First! VELOPMENTS are taking place rapidly. In but a few weeks the situation has changed from general agitation primarily by white guard and fascist elements against the Soviet Union, to an actual trade embargo by government agencies against certain Soviet prod- ucts, with the threat already of a general embargo against all goods produced in the Soviet Union. The next step can only be a trade block- ade; and following thatwar—imperialist war for the overthrow of the first workers’ government. And with the present tempo of development these stages will be rushed through in an extremely short time. Already, hand in hand with these attacks on Soviet trade, goes feverish military preparations. The secret anti-Soviet agreement reached during the London Naval “Disarmament” Conference has already borne fruit by the forging of an iron fascist ring around the U.S. S. R. The big imperialist nations are arming as never before, and at the same time they are providing the funds and armaments for the fascist border states—Finland, Latvia, Esthonia, Poland, Lithuania and Rumania. In all these aggressive preparations United States imperialism is more and more in the fore- front. Under the leadership of certain Wall Street interests these preparations will be energetically pushed. ‘ These attacks against the Soviet Union and the early danger of war arise from several basic factors. The first of these is the efforts of the imperialists to get out of the present world crisis, daily being acecntuated by the deepening of the economic crisis, by securing more markets for their goods, wider and cheaper sources of raw material and profitable fields for invest- ment. This leads them to cast longing eyes in the direction of the Soviet Union with its vast territories and resources. A second factor is the rapid growth of socialism in the Soviet Union, as exemplified by the successful and speedy carrying through of the Five-Year Plan. The bosses realize and openly state that the Soviet Union must be stopped now, if at all. Every year makes the Soviet Union more impregnable, and at the same time brings it more support from the oppressed masses of the imperialist countries. A third factor is that the imperialists, in their efforts to bring about a re-division of the world, first by trade war and later by open military warfare, intend to accomplish this at the expense of the work- ing masses, Their present wage-cuts, mass lay-offs, speed-up, attacks on workers, preparations for anti-labor laws, Fish committees, etc., to- gether with the preparations for war and for attacks on the Soviet Union, are all phases of one concerted drive to solve their own precarious situation at the workers’ expense. These are the forces that are driving for war on the Soviet Uni these are the forces that are driving for war on the American working class. The Fish committee, Woll, Easley, Djamgaroff, Stimson, et a! are merely the tools through which the imperialists make their prep. arations and wage their offensive. The rapid developments of the last few days must be a warning to all workers. The statements that the Hoover administration now proposes to lift the embargo should fool no one. The drive against Soviet pulpwood, manganese, anthracite coal and other cargoes, the harrassing of Amtorg in its purely commercial dealings and the estab lished connections which exist and are maintained between the Unitec States state department, and the white guardists and their Americar fascist allies show clearly the war intentions of the American imperial. ists against the U. S. S. R. Workers must resist this offensive—the offensive against their own working and living conditions and the offensive against the father- land of all workers, the Soviet Union. | Rally on August Ist! Organize! Strike against wage-cuts! Demand unemployment insurance! { J China Takes Two Capitals Changsha, Nanchang Taken By Communists; Imperialist Gunboats Hasten to Intervene Demonstrate For Defense of Soviet Union and | Chinese Revolution On August First Two of the most important cities in South China, Changsha | |and Nanchang, capitals of two provinces, have been captured | | by the Red Armies. Kiukiang, a strategieal city on the Yangtze | | River an done of the key positions in Kiangsi province, not far | from its capital, Nanchang, is on the verge of capture by the = “Red troops, who are reported to be only 20 miles away. Changsha, a city with half | | FACTORY GATE a million population within its | | MEET ill city walls, is the capital of| | | Hunan province, Nanchang, which | has been beseiged by armed work- | ers and peasants for many weeks, | jis the capital of Kiangsi province. | iIn both provinces, where the | revolution is the most highly developed, the forces of re- action have been greatly weakened | For Union Square _|by the persistent and continuous as- sault of the guerilla peasant | A sy, eae ; troops and many local Soviet gov- | NEW YORK.—Widespread prep- | crnments have been established. aration, huge factory gate meet-/ Jt is significant that the fall of ings “and scores of street corner | (» angsha was partly due to the rallies, color the proletarian section mutiny of a section of the garrison ‘in the capitol of world imperialism Iforces who were aroused’ to revo- ,2 few days before August first. | jutionary class consciousness by the Unions and factory groups, mass A persistent propaganda of the Com-} labor organizations all prepare for ‘5 5 A ‘or | munists, and have joined forces} a gigantic demonstration on Union | with the workers and peasants Red | Square against the imperialist wars. | | Armies. The revolutionary unions, par- | Acting under the usual excuse of ‘icularly the needle workers indus- |* protecting their nationals,- the rial union, are mobilizing thousan ds ; American gunboat, Palos, the Brit of workers for a gigantic demon- | ish gunboat, Aphis, and the Japan stration. The misery of unemploy- | ese gunboat, Futami, have sailed up ment and starvation, increasing | river to Changsha to suppress the speed-up and wage cuts in the | revolution. However, owing to low | | factories for those who are still at | depth of the Siang River which| | work now increases thé militancy of.| connects the Yangtze River with new battalions of workers. Factory Changsha, it is still doubtful | gate meetings are held almost daily | whether these armed claws of im- in front of the huge metal, airplane, | perialism will ever get to the Red electrical supplies, and textile fac- tories of New York, Brooklyn and | throughout the state of Jersey. At | tator at Nanking and tool of Amer- | agarian Red Unions Organize | capital. | Both Chiang Kai-shek, the dic- ployed! Into the streets on August Ist! FISH HEARS THE PAID RACKETEERS Committee Salves Its Ears After Defeats CHICAGO, Ill, July 29—The Fish Committee is salying its wounds, gained when it tried to defend the Whalen forgeries in New York,’ and| made a hash out of a lot of formerly | useful Anti-Soviet propaganda. Here in Chicago it confines its hearings to professional patriots and leaders of white guard and terrorist groups, | and racketeers. Naturally it hears! only what it wishes to hear. | The Chicago sessions were ab- ruptly adjourned today by Represen- | tative Fish when he found no other way to prevent Attorney Fisher of the Civil Liberties Union from tell- ing of unprovoked police brutality against and attacks on Communist meetings. Yesterday N. E. Hewit, represent- | ing his “American Intelligence Vig- ilantes” told with horror of the or- ganizing of Negro workers. by the American Negro Labor Congress. He said there” were 15,000 Commu- nists in America. He called for the suppression of the unions of the Trade Union Unity League, as well as the Communist Party. Wm. J. Page, principal of the Brown Elementary School told of Pioneers and Young Workers dis- tributing Communist leaflets in his reached the workers rallying them to the international demonstration against imperialist war. “All War Funds for Relief of Unemployed,” “Dissolve the Fish committee” and other timely slogans rally the work- |ers for the struggle against the | bosses’ war. The demand for the immediate release of Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, leaders of the demonstra- tion of 110,000 New York unem- ployed and the discussion program of the Party in the approaching elections by the workers at the factory and street mass meetings is the most striking development. ' Fight the War Preparations Against the Soviet Union To All Organizations and Delegates Represented at the August Ist United Front Conference of New York: Dear Comrades:—Since our United Front Conference of July 24, at which 508 registered delegates, representing 309 workers and or- ganizations of this city, were present, a series of new war moves against the Soviet Union took place. The enforcement of the embargo on Soviet goods is a direct attack upon the Soviet Union. It is the beginning of an Economic Blockade, a direct military measure. It is a blow against our Workers’ Republic. \ The plans of the American imperialists are to follow the embargo by a complete blockade. In the meantime feverish military prepara- tions are being made. Matthew Woll, the Fish committee, the socialist party, are clearly a part of the entire war preparations against the Soviet Union. The first steps in the War against the Soviet Union have begun. ‘The hour to crush the war move is here. Double your preparations for the Anti-War Demonstration, Down to Union Square on August Ist at 5 p.m. Fight the economic blockade of the Soviet Union. Defend the Soviet Union, Fraternally yours, DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, NEW YORK. J Major Walter Furbishaw, chief stool pigeon for the Illinois Steel Co, announced there were 1 0,000 Communists in U. S., and that they were trying to organize the steel workers. He wanted something dyne about it. Harry A. Jung of the National Clay Products Association, and head of a patriotic racket of his own, told Fish there were 30,000 Commu- nists in the U. S. “Communists will become a menace unless they are liquidated,” he thought. educational prison. Japanese imperialism, are betting | for more support from their im- perialist masters by pledging more energetic efforts in the suppression of the workers and peasants revolt. Wang Chin-Wei, in an interview, asserted that one of his first tasks after the conquering of Nanking would be “the national duty of ex-| terminating the Communist bands in the Yangtze regions.” Chiang Kai- shek, on the other hand, sought to strengthen his campaign against | | the Communists, by offering to buy | the 3,500 ton cruiser, Niels Juel, the best warship of the Danish navy,} which will cost him between $2,- 759,000 to $4,165,000. It is publicly | announced that Chiang will use the cruiser to fight “pirates in Chinese waters.” Demonstrate August Ist. The recent outstanding successes of the Chinese Revolution, which re flects clearly the correctness of the | line laid down in the decisions of the} All-China Soviet Congress which the Daily Worker reported June 138th, will certainly have the effect of | arousing the apprehensions of the imperialists and inevitably contrib- | ute to the intensification of the im- perialist attacks against the Soviet Union, the Chinese Revolution, and militant labor movements and colo- nial revolts throughout the world. Workers and oppressed peoples of the whole world must answer im- perialist war moves by intensified class struggles, and also by a mass review of our strength, a mass demonstration on August Ist, the International Anti-War Day. Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August Ist! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be turned over for the relief of the unem- ployed! | | | | dustrial Union has gained 500 new | After a meeting of 800 longshore- | Onto the Streets on August First! Convention Represents 80,590 Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 29.—The third day of the National | U.S.S.R., where the workers are | Miners’ Convention here showed an increase of delegates, to constantly improving their condi- | 383, representing 80,590 miners in i61 mines. The intense poverty of the miners in the coal and metal fields making it ORLEANS DOCKS BULLETIN NEW ORLEANS, La., July 29. | —Armed scabs fired on the pick- | ets here today. The workers on | the United Fruit Co. docks are ready to strike and the general waterfront sentiment is favor- able. The Marine Workers In- members. Of the pickets already arrested four were fined and their cases appealed, four are out on bail, six were dismissed and 30 are held for night court. * NEW On? * » La., July 29.— men in a hall here last night, and an- other meeting of 500 on the docks this morning, the strike on the river boat docks enlarged. There are now 400 on strike, led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. | They are sticking to their demand | for 100 per cent increase in wages from 25 cents an hour to 50 cents. The bosses offered 40 cents today, which the strike committee elected by the workers refused. Sharp battles took place today between the pickets and the scabs which the employers tried to put to work. In most cases the scabs were badly beaten. The police ar- rested 15 pickets this morning. The bosses threaten a lockout. The union is making every effort to spread the strike to the Morgan line, and other parts of the water front. Menenntneintis Strike Against Wage-Cuts: } ago, when it | very difficult for delegates to get to Pittsburgh was the prin- ~~ cipal reason for delay in arrival} who have been duly elected and whose credentials have been received by mail at the convention. Delegates were present from hard and soft coal -fields, from metal mining and oj] fields, and from smelters and refineries. of the union has tremendously en- larged since was organized among the coal miners, then for the first time thoroughly awakened to the betrayal of their interests by the Lewis controled United Mine Work- ers of America. Change of Name. The convention ended yesterday. In recognition of the general in- dustrial character of the union, and (Continued on Page Three) statement of the Graphic r Stimson did about it! state department.” Demand Unemployment Insurance! | The scope | the days, two years | FORGERIES EXPOSED! Spivak’s Supbressed Story Friaay 4 i The Daily Worker will print Friday the suppr that Woll, U. S. state and labor department officials, Uas- ley and Whalen were all involved with the Russian mon- archists in the Whalen forgery plot. Read how Secretary of State Stimson’s sister-in-law was caught financing the Russian white guards and what Read how Stimson’s office pleaded that the facts be kept secret so as not to “embarrass the | | This story was offered the capitalist press, and re- fused. Only minor extracts were printed. Graphic suppressed the bulk of its own reporter’s find- ings. Read the whole thing in the Daily Worker, Friday! r More Drastic Acts on Soviets | War Plans Directed By Hoover, Mellon, Stim- son, Woll and Czarist Dregs | Whole Scheme Is to Hide Wage Cuts Against American Workers By Big Bosses While all plans are being rushed to speed the war against | the Soviet Union, Hoover and Mellon announce that they are | “reconsidering” the embargo on Soviet products. No worker will or must be fooled by these phrases, which are intended to cover up the growing mass protests of the American workers to the open war preparations? — T 2 mr E CUTS PILE oma | - f the big bosses, aided by the |}, fi f ws IN fascist leaders of the A. F. of That the action of the im HY Ae L. s perialist government of the United 4 States, directed against the grow- the five iet Union, “ to | ing succe: in the mounts “Organize and Strike” Is T.U.U.L. Slogan ” are the words i ymour Lowman, | ant sécretary of the treasury in a statement issued in Washing- ton yesterday. Wit lready ha | Lowman is one of Andrew Mel-| With its already handed he treasury lon’s lackeys in th ands of work- de partment, and speaks for his | er ning crisis foretells master. It is the same Mellon _ cut dylee aaatene ploiter of millions of American | 7 the Wate |workers, who together with|,, ” : ‘ em erg The Green, tr; of the Amer with Woll and listract the fight an workers by back- gainst the Soviet | Matthew Woll, strike-break levery fascist and Russian moni chist, counter-revolutionary prosti- | tute that is the driving force behind he Lobe CHE |the frenzied war preparations |. One ARE | against the Soviet Union. | . fie a Hoover, who has been working be- hind the scenes, has announced he will “study the question.” I r work smashing attack under of “Organize and Fight The central threads of this wide- spread war preparation against the » production, which last time, according to the New York Tim lex, was at 140, this week drop to 37.9, and still continued d d This indi- cates that ent in the at is mo- tions, and building up socialism, leads directly to Hoover, Stimson, | (Continued on Page Three) | Fight imperialist war! this moment over 40 kinds of shop | ican imperialism, and Wang Chin- : lof d for th vali ment is n ever before | _ Defend the Soviet Union! leaflets, extra issues of shop bulle- | Wei, the leader of the”left” Koum- | AQ STRIKE ON | of some and for the non-arriva ‘MILIT ANT STRIKE ae tha dudustyy. Wares On August 1st demand that all war funds be given to the unem- | tins in nearly a half million copies | intang and henchmen of British and | so far of the rest of the 620 §) still, ther ) indication of any ne figures in the f the auto indus- IN TURIN, ITALY try, from July on there is a ec downward curve in product (Wireless By Inprecorr) M sletely sus: | MILAN, July 29.—Yesterday, | penc Among them are workers of the Fiat Automobile | For nd-Pon- Works in Turbin went on strike. tiac a uctions have streets of the city are swelled with | demonstrations. Placards with ans, such as, “Down with Fa: 5 “Deport Mussolini,” “Long Live Communism,” etc., were carried by the demonstratonrs. The police were helpless. Later, the cavalary at- tacked the strikers who answered k, Chrysler and entire predic- es for the auto in- t to pieces. on the farms is already S the general . “One unfavorable the Commercial and been made s been with showers of stones. , \ feithe Milan authorities made twenty of the | arrests in connection with the kill- iPioanty. ing of the fascist militia leader, ie os Gitar’ a Poreu. ) ago. . @ reduction in (an admission peak of cure in the big indus- loss of wages. the fact ssed ‘eporter, Spivak, which proves t reports of 60 of the s show the gigantic June earnings 3.9 per cent, The ves this story of railroa inre of the cr showed a drop of New York T th rom a y the companies been reduced, Pennsylvania, York Central 16% to 19 per Some of the smaller total 1 in that month 1921 or 1922.” Even the Workers! Demonstrat in Union Sq uare, F riday at 5p. mn.