The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1930, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WE 30,000 FRENCH WORKERS Gold Stars, STRIKE AGAINST BOSS) Brass Siars, ATTEMPT TO CUT WAGES Boss Attempt to Shift Burden of Crisis on| Workers by Making Workers to Pay “Doles” Contraction in French Export Trade Shows Deepening Crisis and Sharpens War Danger The textile workers at Lilfe, the enter of the French textile indus- ry, have launched a general strike in support of the over 38,000 strik- ers in Northern France, who have fighting against the wage- cutting plan embodied in the new insurance law, as the Daily Worker reported yesterday. The action of the Lille work will bring the number of strikers to over 60,000. In a demonstration against the new social insurance law at Rouen a clash with the police occurred. Sev- eral workers were wounded and 30 were arrested. The crisis, which was compara- tively slight in France, has recently come much intentsified, and the French bosses are busy in shifting the burden of the growing crisis onto the shoulders of the workers. The method that the bosses used to at- n this purpose is to make the workers pay for the jobless “doles” vhich the bosses should pay. This, of course, simply another form of wage-cutting. One of the indications of the en on strike for more than ten| growing crisis in France is the sharp falling off of its foreign trade, which is largely due to the rapid decrease of exports, The decline in exports is particularly noticeable in | manufactured articles, The export in June of this kind of commodities ; were only 2,016 million francs, in contrast with 2,293 million franes in the preceding months and 2,718 a year ago. A wir-’ss dispatch to the New York Times Friday admits that “the figures indicate strikingly the contraction of French export trade.” This situation, on the one hand, | precipitates the wage-cutting cam- | paign, while, on the other, it in- | tensifies the struggle for markets | which is rapidly leading to an im- perialist war. The French workers, as the strike indicates, are mili- tantly fighting against the wage- cutting campaign of the bosses, which is closely connected with the war preparaions of the bosses. The French workers, together with ‘heir fellow-workers throughout the world, are also preparing for the mass anti-imperialist war demonstration on August 1. MOVE FOR WAR All Out On Aug. 1st for Soviet Defense (Continued from Page One) Mellon, and their tools in the Fish committee, the Civic Federation, with the slimy Woll, at its head and into the dens of the blackest forces of reaction in all history—the Rus- sian ezarists in the United States. Cover For Wage Cuts. The capitalists and their tools, in preparing war against the Soviet Union, hope by this din and cry to divert the American workers from the ever-growing millions of work- ers ni this country facing starva- tion. The bosses hope, by rushing the workers to war against their fellow-workers in the Soviet Union, to detract attention from the widen- ing cracks in the capitalist system and from the crushing blows di- rected against the American work- ers in the form of wage cuts and speed-up. Every worker must answer this challenge of the American bosses against the workers’ republic by swelling the ranks of the demon- strations against imperialist war on August Ist. “All the vast natural resources and industries o f Russia,” says Mellon (through Lowman) have been seized by the Soviet govern- ment.” (He does not point out that the workers siezed power and the industries, drivnig out the ezarist parasites and exploiters). “So it starts without a single initial cost.” The fact that the Soviet workers have driven out their bosses and taken over the industries that they built with their sweat and blood and are forging ahead under the five-year plan is the basic reason for the war cry against the work- ers in the Soviet Union. The American bosses fear such an example for the workers in this country. They know that the American workers are becoming more militant every day, resisting wage-cuts, demanding unemploy- ment insurance. They know that the capitalist system is rocked to its very foundations by the sharpen- ing crisis. The fact that the work- ers in the Soviet Union seized what they produced and ousted the bosses, frightens Mellon, Morgan, Hoover and their class who have fattened on the sweat and misery of the American workers. Lowman even comes to the de- fense of his class brothers in the U.S.S.R., the kulaks and the priests. He rehashes the lies of imprison- ment of priests and the forced labor of kulaks. This is done to give heart to the diminishing rem- nants of the counter-revolutionary forces in the Soviet Union. Lowman, Woll for Wage Slashes. When Lowman speaks of “a sub- stantial reduction in the purchasing power of the American workers” and tries to blame this on the Soviet Union, he is carrying out the plan of the American bosses to in- crease the vast wage-cutting drive now on, and to make the American workers think the Soviet Union is responsible for it. No worker will be fooled by this. It is the American exploiters, whose machinery of production is break- ing down, and who to keep up their profits force drastic wage slashes on the workers. Only in the Soviet Union are wages going up. Only in the Soviet Union is industry (owned and controlled by the work- ers in their own interests) expand- ing, growing, advancing. In the capitalist lands and their colonies the contradictions of capitalist are growing. This worsens the condi- * tions of the working class. At the same time, while millions starve, the capitalists spend billions for war CHICAGO PASTOR HELPS LYNCHING Protesting Workers Arrested CHICAGO, July 29.—The assist- ant pastor of Olivet Baptist Church (Negro), at 31st and South Park- way recently caused the arrest of three white workers, members of the Communist Party, for distribut- ing an anti-lynching leaflet in front of the church. The three comrades were held in jail for three days, but despite their arrest over 300 Negro and white workers attended the lynching protest meeting held by the Communist Party and for which the leaflets were distributed, The pastor of Mount Olivet Bap- | | a demand from members of his con gregation for an explanation of this incident, gave the treacherous ad- vise that Chicago Negro workers should not concern themselves with the lynching of Negroes so far away as Texas, etc., and that anyway Ne- groves should fight their own battles without the assistance of white workers. This advise is in open support of the “folicy of the bosses in isolating the Negro masses from the rest of the working class in order to permit of this greater ex- ploitation and double oppression both as Negroes and as workers. Such advise is clearly in the inter- ests of the imperialist oppressors and exposes the treacherous role of the Negro petty bourgeois mis- leaders. Only by the united struggle of the Negro and white workers, under the leadership of the Communist Party, can the lynching terror of the bosses be smashed and the work- ing class emancipated from capital- ist exploitation. preparations—against each other and particularly against the Soviet Union. Fish Failures. The Fish committee plot to “ex- pose” the connection of Amtorg with the Communist International failed miserably. Hence, the direct blow struck by the American im- perialists at the Soviet Union by blocking trade. This wag fore- shadowed by the telegram of secre- tary of state Stimson to the Fish committee in New York, denying he said he knew the Whalen documents were forgeries. This is just another of Stimson’s usual lies. Matthew Woll, who put his nam¢ to Hoover’s wage-cutting policy, is now in Washington conspiring with Stimson and Mellon to take further steps leading to war against the U.S.\S.R. He remained ominously silent on the proof published yester- day that he attempted to get money from the Amtorg Trading Co. by his fake insurance racket. Woll was very willing to “deal” with Amtorg if he could fill his own pockets by it. The letter was an attempt at bribery. When Lowman announced the drastic policy of putting an embargo on all products from the Soviet Union, Woll immediately wrote him stating: “We are hopeful that your action in denying entry to lumber, pro- duced by convict labor, will be fol- lowed by similar rulings on other commodities . . .” Out, of the Shops August Ist. In every shop, factory and mine in the United States the workers’ answer must ring out against the declaration of war of the American bosses against the Soviet Union. It is the same declaration of war that Wall Street has proclaimed against the American workers. The Amer- ican bosses want to foist on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics breadlines such as every day lengthen in this country. They want to try to make it impossible tist Church, when confronted with | tees Red Stars By MARTIN SAILOR During the world war—the hor- \rible carnage for profits of the | capitalist class——many new tricks for glorification of the war were invented. In order to change deep sorrow and despair of the mothers whose sons were lost without trace, to fake proud—the institution of the “unknown soldier” was created. For the mothers whose sons were known to be killed,—gold stars were created. While the remains of their loved ones were rotting away in a far off land for interests foreign to them,—gold painted stars were shining in the windows of the be- reaved. That was during the war. When the war was over,and those who remained alive returned, they found at home starvation, wage cuts, persecutions, Especially was that keenly felt by the Negro workers. When they returned home expecting to find some of the democracy they were told so much about in France and for which they were told they were fighting for, they found a wave of lynchings, more race discrimination, more persecutions. In vain did they look for the fulfillment of the promises of the capitalist parties and politi- cians. The war was over! They were no more needed as cannon fodder. Even during the war they were segregated into separate Jim Crow regiments. They were good enough to fight and die for the glory of capitalism, but they were not good enough even to die along side a white soldier. And even after they bled to death on the battlefield, they were no good to be buried along side the white victim of capitalism. So they segregated them even after death into the Jim Crow cemeteries. The so called Negro leaders of the capitalist parties had nothing to say about it, except to call the exploited, perse- cuted Negro masses to support these parties of the lynchers, and the Jim Crow government in Wash- ington. The so-called Negro Jead- ers were selling the oppressed masses of their own race for a mess of potash—a few “honors” and aU E- Ee cy et ia SEO YP S DNESDAY, JULY 30, 1930 aoe — AG Ieee wae MAJESTIC RADIO | GUTS WAGES UP TO 50 PER CENT Bosses Afraid of Strike| Sentiment Chicago, Ill. Editor, Daily Worker: Conditions in the Majestic shops were never very good. At best, the workers did not get enough wages to make a decent living. At pres- ent conditions are worse. In the | cable department wages were cut | almost 50 per cent; in the assemb- lers department, Grand Ave. plant, 25 per cent per hundred. When the girls in the cable department re- fused to work for the miserable wages, they were ejected from the building. The bosses were afraid that the girls would organize a strike. This is what they fear most. In the soldering department and waxroom, the conditions are un- bearable—these shorten the lives of the workers and when they become old and cannot produce as much as they used to, due to the terrific speed-up, they are thrown out and young workers take their places. The young workers are more ex- ploited than the adults; are paid less for more hours. In all departments the same con- ditions prevail. The workers are brutally speeded-up. They are not allowed to talk to each other while at work. The workers who dare to say something to their fellow work- ers while on the job, are immedi- ately fired. Asa result of the speed-up, a girl lost three fingers in the punch press. Fellow workers! are you going to stand for such conditions? We must organize and fight the rotten conditions imposed upon us by the jobs handed down from the political tables of the white masters and exploiters. At present when the government officially segregated the colored “gold star” mothers and exposed the fake democracy for which the war was supposed to have been fought, what do the so called leaders have to say? Do they call upon the Negro masses to fight against the segregation and the Jim Crow government! Nothing of the kind! They are trying to con- vince the lynchers that lynching is not nice, it is ashame! The mouth- piece of the Negro politicians in Chicago, the Chicago Defender, has the following to say in an editorial: “The discrimination that the government now heaps upon them (the mothers) is poor pay in re- turn for their patriotism. It is unnecessary, undignified and a discredit to the principles of democracy.” They speak of the “democracy” of the capitalist class which never meant anything to the poor ex- ploited, persecuted, segregated Negro masses. There is only one way to gain full social, political and economic equality for the Negro masses, and that ise-to fight for it together with the white exploited and persecuted workers and poor farmers. The Communist Party is the only party that unites ali work- ers and farmers of all races and nationalities in the struggle for the full emancipation of the working class regardless of race or color. Under the leadership of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union an end was put to the lynchings and persecutions which were so prevalent under the czars. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of America an end will be put to the lynchings and persecu- tions which are so prevalent under capitalism today. All the capitalist governments are feverishly prepar- ing for another war. Let us all, white and colored workers, demon- strate on August 1 against these war preparations! Let us tell the bosses, the exploiters, the slave drivers and lynchers, that when there is any more fighting to be done, it will be for our own inter- ests, against wars, against race discriminations an d lynchings, against capitalism, and for a work- ers and farmers government, for a Soviet Republic in the United States! FACTORY EMPLOYMENT LOWEST EVER RECORDED. NEW YORK CITY—Factory em- ployment in New rk State, ac- cording to the State Industrial Commission, took a severe drop again in June and has now reached the lowest point ever recorded. Demonstrate August Ist! ie for the workers to run their indus- tries without paying tribute to a group of exploiters. The bosses know that if they can crush the Soviet Union it will make their task of crushing the workers fighting of crushing the fighting organiza- tions of the American workers Workers, your answer must be definite and decisive, All out on August Ist! Fight the war danger! Organize and strike against wage cuts! Mobilize for the defense of the Wovkers’ Republic! Demand, not a cent for armaments, all funds to the unemployed, in the form of unemployment insurance, i) bosses, —A MAJESTIC WORKER. Convention Represents 80,590 Mine, Oil Labor (Continued from Page Une) its new tasks, the draft constitution submitted to the convention changes the name of the National Miners Union to; Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union. “This industrial union is organ- ized to unite all workers in the mining, oil, smelting and refining and quarrying industry and to lead them in their struggles against the capitalists for better working and living conditions and for ultimate abolition of wage slavery. This in- dustrial union is founded on the principle of the class struggle ... (which) must continue until the working class has conquered polit- ical power and abolished capitalism as a system, replacing it by a socialist society. ... Class Struggle. “For this reason our industrial union does not limit itself to narrow craft or occupational inter- ests, or even to the far wider in- terests of all the workers in our industry, but considers itself al- ways as an integral part of the forees of the working class.” The M.O.S.1.U. affiliates with the Trade Union Unity League, and through it with the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions. The principal of democratie cen- tralization prevails throughout the organization, with the basic units the pit, mine, shop and quarry com- mittees. National, departmental, district and sub-district organiza- tion is provided for. There is a youth section and a women’s de- | zations. CHICAGO POLICE ATTACK NEGRO WORKER MEETS CHICAGO, IIL, July 29.—The Red Squad, headed by “Murphy and Tuhey,” the famous Chicago stool pidgeons, are carrying on their terroristic activities in invading meetings of workers, and terroriz- ing them, asking them why they are members and why they attend meetings of the Trade Union Unity League and other workers’ organi- They have broken up at least 10 meetings in the last two weeks in Chicago. They are inten- sifying their attacks militant organizations of the work- ers because the T.U.U.L. and the Communist Party are becoming a factor in the life of the workers of Chicago. The police are particu- larly vicious against the Negro workers, trying to divide them from the white workers. They are using Negro police to break up Negro meetings, because they break up militant meetings of the Negro workers by the white cos- sacks. But the Negro workers are beginning to see through this. They know that the Negro cops are doing the dirty job of the bosses. L. A. MOLDERS TO JOIN ANTIWAR STRUGGLE LOS ANGELES, July 29.—The Molders Union of this city learned about war preparations of the im- perialists and their planning attack on the Soviet Union when Joe Stevens, of the Com t Party spoke at their mectir day night imperiali the London eagernes Jnion, the ers count preparation of Aug’ national anti-war day The members of the A. F. of L. Molders Union were very favorable to the call of the Communist Party to fight imperialist wars and de- fend the Soviet Union and promised to stand by this fight as well as organize the millions of workers for a revolutionary struggle against capitalist exploitation, against un- employment and for Work or Wages. The workers were very enthusi- astic over what the speaker said and gave him a “good hand.” “Go on with your good work was the general answer. The speaker suggested that the Union should invite Donovan who just returned from the Soviet Union to hear a first hand report of the conditions prevailing in the land of the dictatorship of the proletariat. With enthusiasm the suggestion was accepted. Strike Against Wage-Cuts! Demand Unemployment Insurance! Demonstrate August Ist! fee Neihart. bain A SO miner, from West Virginia coal; Thornhill, a Negro miner, from eastern West Virginia; Grant, a Negro miner, from northern West Virginia coal; Antonio, young miner, from western Pennsylvania, coal; Bill Dunne; Parch, western Penn- sylvania coal; Dan Slinger, anthra- cite; Bill Gebert, Illinois coal. A special youth conference was held, with 15 young miner dele- gates. Bohus was elected national Youth Section director of the union. SAILING for the partment. Officers provided for are a na- tional secretary, national chairman and editor of official organ. Wages of all officers are limited to $35 per week. (Lewis gets $250 a week!) A Fighting Union. The draft constitution contains a clause on strike action: “The strike is the main weapon. Im- portant strikes must be conducted on the basis of the united front from below.” The constitution also calls for formation of unemployed workers in the industry into councils, “since permanent mass unemployment is characteristic of present day cap- italism, the M.O.S.LU. declares for the unity of employed and unem- ployed workers in all struggles.” (An important resolution on the present situation and the tasks of the union will be described in the next issue of the Daily Worker.) National Committee. The national committee of the union was elected by the convention as follows: Borich from western Pennsylvania, a coal miner; Allan- | der from the Colorado metal mines; Minerich, western Pennsylvania, | coal mines, young miner; Roby, northern West Virginia, coal; Guynn, Eastern Ohio, coal; Costoff, central Pennsylvania, coal; Hérman anthracite; Freeman Thompson, Hershey and Groves from Illinois, coal; Haeins and Miller from Minnesota metal mines; Hawkins, a Negro miner; Sabatini a young minér; Sivert, and Bohus (a youth) and Zelesky, Eastern Ohio; Sulky, coke region; Gunyar, a woman, | eastern Ohio; Johnson, a Negro | SOVIET y ow N + . + For a splendid vacation and an edu- cational trip to the land of the Soviets. vv J World Tourists, Inc., 175 Fifth Ave., N.Y. (Steamship Tickets to All Parts of the World) CAMP AND CONCERT will be STETSON’S FIELD Saturday, August 2, at 8:30 P. M. AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM HAS BEEN ARRANGED. Proceeds Daily Worker Emergency Campaign Fund agains the | fear to| August 16 STATENDAM August 27 BERENGARIA ‘EXPOSE LAYOFF POLICY OF THE DEERING BOSSES Organize to Fight the Boss Layoffs Daily Worker: Chicago, Ill. Perhaps the Deering plant shows one of the best examples of the present deep going economic crisis,| the effect of which is becoming more and more apparent, to us jtoilers who slave here at Deerings, jfor we have witnessed the continuous lay-off which has taken place here during the past year, with these lay- offs taken place here every day, the bosses cannot get to to accept the Hoover yarn about prosperity. The Deering plant does not an-| nounce that a lay-off will take place on a certain day, but they have ac- complished this by laying off a few every day. Just one year ago, the Deering plant employed 6,000, but today we find only about 400 on the job and a large number of these are cousins, brothers and other relatives of the bosses, with a goodly number of stool pigeons to keep the boss in- formed as to what we workers are talking about. Instead of resorting to a mass lay-off the boss simply tells a num- ber of work that they must lay- so, or perhaps as , this takes place \ jus re will be an or so,” on out the continues 1 a1 im theye is nothing d The effect of the lay- n $0 0: and tells ff here at been most far ‘reach- y and paint dept. are many depart- ents n completely for |the most part. The one third who still remain on the job are engaged in assembling at a break neck speed to complete the little work which still remains unfinished, when this is done, we are told the entire plant wili close. When we workers at Deering read the lying accounts in the Tribune and other capitelist papers about the failure of the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union we laugh because we realize that the Deering plant} would have been closed long ago if| the Soviets had not placed the large orders they have for tractors and farm implemens, we conscious work- ers at Deerings, hail the success of the workers in the Soviet Union who are building socialism, may we soon be engaged in the same task, down with the Hoover reign of unemploy- ment. ing, most BOSSES SAY WHEAT-BELT JOBLESS IS 100,000 OKLAHOMA CITY.—The State Labor Commissioner here reports that 100,000 farm hands are out of work in the wheat belt. These fig- | ures, from a bureau of the bosses, are a mild estimation of the real un- | employment situation in the wheat- | lands, Nevertheless they cannot keep from showing the sharp angles | of a crisis which shakes the country —something which labor commis- sioners would rather conceal than reveal, UNION New Liner Cunarder oin One of the Groups! ALGonquin 605 FIRE given at when these workers re-| . ‘there is no work jj], WORKERS IN ALL CITIES PREPARE DEMONSTRATION Answer to Capitalists and Social Fascists CHICAGO, Ill, July 29.—The Illi- nois State Ratification Convention of the Communist Party was held with 187 delegates shop committees of Crane, Stock- yards, McCormick plant, North Western car shops, Alfred Decker and other large factories. There were delegates from the National Miners Union, Southern Mlinois, Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union, Metal Workers Industrial League, unemployment councils, from forty-nine fraternal working class organizations, the American Negro Labor Congress and thirty party units. Among the delegates were 15 Negro delegates and 28 women, = The convention unanimously, with cheers and applause, nominated Freeman Thompson, heroic leader of the Illinois miners, president of the National Miners Union the standard bearer in the election to the U. S. Congress. Among the seventeen candidates for congress wete nominated Lee Mason, Squires and Ponyoe, Negro comrades: From Southern Illinvis districts were Hersh, Springfield; Andy Young, O'Fallon, Roy Groves; Eldorado, Sam Hammersmark, Bill Browder, Baker (ex-service man and_ stock- yard worker) were among the can- es to the Illinois State Leg- e were Romania Ferguson Beidel. The convention was district organizer Gebert who was elected chiarman of the convention, Sam Don was the main speaker; in his hour and a half report he went into detail on the present economic war, exposing the role of the social fascists, the socialist party, Muste and the fascist A. F. of L. and stressed war against any illusions in connection with the proposed formation of the labor party which will be another boss party. He dealt at length with the danger of war. After the main report discussions helps the Jewish Coloniz: Send your membership SPEND YOUR FIRST PROLETAR! Athletics, Games, Dances, Theat: REVOLUTIONARY Scenario .......... General Direction Mass Plastique . Song Direction .. Percussion .. COM vecesereces CAMPERS ALSO BUFFET MAKE YOUR RESERV. Camp Phone Beacon 731. representing | nominated Arthur) and Kelly, Negro workers, and Lydia opened by crisis, unemployment and danger of on a collective Sociali NITGEDAIGET EVERY DAY SOMETHING NEW Special Feature for the August 2nd Week-End “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 Scenic Effects and Costumes NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. By train: from Grand Central every hour. NEGRO WORKERS OF CHICAGO JOIN STRUGGLE Meeting Defies Police Terror; Call to Aug. 1 CHICAGO, Ill., July 29.—At @ meeting called by the American | Negro Labor Congress, 250 Negro and white workers assembled in protest against lynching and police brutality, deliberately directed against the Negro workers and poor farmers by the white ruing class. In Chicago particularly are vicious attempts of the bosses to keep Negro workers from joining the militant working class organi- zations. Not only are the street meetings being broken up, but also attempts of the workers to hold in- door meetings have been stopped by the police and the workers thrown into jail. Raid Communist Nucleus. A meeting of a Communist Nucleus in the Negro territory, which had met at the same place for seven years without interfer- ence from the police, was recently raided, The bosses know the miserable conditions of the workers in Chi- |cago, the nts and low wages |they are forced to accept. There {are 40,000 Negro workers unem- ployed in Chicago. Therefore the bosses know that the Negro work- ers are ready for organization and are attempting to force them to accept their ever worsening condi- didates from the Chicago area. hore By sailing and. vrtorising Peterson was nominated from Rock- ; j ford. But the workers are determined : e ‘ to fight back. Thirty-five Negro Among the 16 nominees for repre-| ond white : ah thé | American Negro Labor Congress at this meeting and adopted a strong resolution against lynching, police | brutality for the right to use the streets and parks, for unemploy- |ment insurance, and calling on all Negro workers to join the August | first demonstration. followed. Kjar discussed at 1 ation in Souther: greeted by the con’ Nelson spoke on August First, call- ing on the working class to partici- pate in this demonstration and in mobilizng the members of the or- ganizations represented for the Au- gust First demonstration in Chicage at Washington Square, ength the situ- Nitect* The “‘Icor’’ ation in the Soviet Union ist basis, as a part of the Five-Year Plan. Defend the Soviet Union! Participate in its Socialist Construction! 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