The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1930, Page 1

Fight for the Defense of the Soviet Union amd On August First Demand That the Funds Be- ing Used for War Preparations This First Workers’ Against Used For the Relief of Unemployed Workers! Republic Be Central Orga Babs pds Entered a3 s@eond-clus matte at New York, N. 1» uuder the Vol. VII., No. 183 A Determined WwW orking Class Can Defend the Soviet Union! RESS reports state today that Green repudiates the efforts of Woll to force through an embargo against all goods produced in the Soviet Union, and declares that Woll does not speak for the American Federation of Labor, but only for a small group. Yesterday similar reports were carried to the effect that Hoover had repudiated statements of Lowman, a treasury department official, aping those of Woll. Uncritically read, these statements would appear to settle ev thing. Actually they settle nothing. The war preparations agai the Soviet Union are being continued. The efforts to block the carry- ing through of the Five-Year Plan by means of embargoes and even a blockade are not being given up. Hoover, the spokesman for the im- perialists, is still in the forefront, and Green will continue to tag be- hind his masters, The fascist Hoover and the fascist Green are just as ready, and even just as anxious to make war against the Soviet Union, as’ well as against the workers here, as is the fascist Woll. Their word of caution only pertains to the question of tempo. The path towards war against the U. S. S. R. was being traveled so fast that they saw danger of rushing ahead of their army. The ma: had not only been insufficiently prepared to follow them in their at- tacks, but were resisting these attacks and showing their sympathy for the Soviet Union. Green’s “repudiation” of Woll, and Hoover’s “repu- diation” of Lowman, were merely strategical moves to enable them to intensify their efforts to win the masses for war against the workers’ government of the U. S. S. R. They want more time for poisonous lies and slander; more time for military preparations. But every worker must realize that that time will be short. Their maneuvers must cause all workers to increase their efforts to mobilize great masses of workers in the streets on August Ist, against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union—the fatherland of all workers—in the shops, mills, and mines. The action of the New York stevedores, the demonstration planned for August 1st, and the exposures carried by the Daily Worker have all been in- dicators to the bosses’ Washington agents of the mood of the masses. They will closely watch for any relaxation in the workers’ struggle. The efforts, therefore, to expose their war plans must now be increased. Into the streets on August Ist! Rally for the defense of the Soviet Union! Endorse the Workers Insurance Bill! ODAY’S issue of the Daily Worker contains the Workers’ Insur ance Bill as proposed by the Communist Party. This Bill provides for the payment of $25 per week to all unemployed workers, and an additional $5 per week for each dependent member of an unemployed workers’ family during the entire period of their unemployment. The funds for this insurance are to be provided by the government from funds secured first, through the transfer of all military and naval appropriations to a workers’ i rance fund: second, by a grad. uated capital levy on all fortunes in excess of $25,000; and thirdly, by a graduated income tax on all incomes in e: of $5,000. The rich, undeg the terms of this Bill, who have extracted huge profits from the workers, will be compelled to provide the funds for the maintenance of the workers when unemployed. The administration of the insurance fund is to be in the hands of the workers themselves, and not in those of a few boss-class, fat- bellied politicians. This is an insurance bill for which all workers can fight. Take it up in your shops and factories; present it to your local union meet- ings; bring it before your workers’ club or fraternal organization; everywhere secure endorsements. On August Ist, in the demonstra- tions against imperialist war, this Bill must be widely popularized. The demand of the workers for the transference of all war funds to the unemployed finds its concrete expression in this Bill. Fight for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill! pie leis, all Geel to the Daily Worker! ERS \DICTATOR OF PERU WORLD WORKERS PREPARE AUG. 198 WALL STREET PARIS, July 80.—The growing radicalization of the French work- | Leguia ers, as evidenced by the strike of | 100,000 workers in the industrial districts of northern France, makes it certain that there will be a big and militant demonstration this year on August Ist. The French boss government is very much worried. This is evi- denced by the presidential! decree, prohibiting street processions on August 1st, on which day workers all over the world will stage anti- war demonstrations. The order also | put a ban on meetings of workers |at this point, making possible the in the municipal halls of Paris and | shipment of 1,000,000 tons a year. suburban towns. The U. S. Steel Corporation has Knowing that the workers will; been dickering for this juicy plumb. disregard the decree, it is publicly | Leguia will turn it over to them i announced that armed troops would | they give him sufficient graft. be used against the workers if the | edict is violated. * (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 30.— | Aladar Tamas, editor of the left- wing journal, “Hundred Percent,’ has been arrested together with many others in connection with anti-war propaganda, Peru, July 30.—Dictator | of Peru, in his |strument, the Peruvian Congress, takes occasion to praise Wall Street |and its Kemmerer financial mission to Peru. He told about negotiations under way by which Leguia proposed turn- ing over to American imperialists | the vast ore reserves on the Pacific 000,000 tons of 60 per cent iron. | The Frederick Snare Corporation, * «* | first. Cn et MOSCOW, July 30.- On August | first, the International Anti-War Day, the Soviet Volunteer Society | for Aerial and Chemical Defense will present the Red Army with Jif two aplanes built in Soviet ¢ tories with funds contributed Ly the i Oh workers. These planes will be used | BUCHAREST, Roumania, July |to frustrate the attacks and war | 30.—The gendarmes arrested many | preparations of the imperialist pow- | Communists and militant workers | ers against the Soviet Union. Anti- | in Bucharest, Temesvar and other | war demonstrations will be held in cities in an Laud to hamper the j all Lint of the Soviet Union, Defend U.S.S.R:! Demonsirate in Union Ss eleventh | annual message to his puppet in- | Coast, near Ica, estimated at 200,- | has completed surveys for a part | anti-war demonstrations on August | rat the Post Office net of March 3, 1879 Stag Sees IGHT MILLION workers With the deepening of of machines for men and a fev is daily increasing. result of the growing practice to cast workers on the scrap hi they reach the age of 45. Hun sands are unable to work becau: injuries, occupational diseases, validity, etc. These workers, suffering, poverty and want. their position worse, with no needs, ‘CIAL INSURANCE TO ALL Section 1—Title. This act shall be known as the Workers Social Insurance Act. Section 2—Purpose. Whereas a national public emer- gency now exists in the United States of Ameri the purpose of this bill shall be to provide payment of social insurance to all wage workers unemployed or unable to | work because of sickness, inj old age, and to all persons now re- | ceiving war pensions. | Section 3—Persons Entitled | to Social Insurance. (a) All persons mentigned Section 2, regardless of race, s |color or creed, are entitled to p: ment of social insurance as here- inafter set forth. (b) Persons now receiving war pensions shall be entitled to receive | social insurance payments under | | this bill in place of pension p }ments which are hereby repealed | Section 1—Amount to Be Paid. (a) All persons entitled to social insurance as set forth in preceding sections shall, until regular employ- ment is provided or secured, receive | |the regular average wages earned | | by them while employed, but in no | case less than twenty-five dollars | | per week plus five dollars per week for each dependent member of the | unemployed worker’s family. (b) Women entitled to social | | insurance payment on account of | maternity shall receive payment for | |four weeks prior to date of giving in | birth and for four weeks subsequent | thereto. Section 5—Workers, Social Insurance Commission. A Workers Social Insurance Com- jmission shall be elected at a Na-| crisis, accompanied by a further substitution up of production in the factories, the number In addition to these al- most two million workers are permanently discarded from industry because of old age, and this number is rapidly increasing as a their families, are undergoing the greatest Each day finds government to satisfy their most elementary pil saumniet TIGHT FOR SOCIAL NSURANCE! are joble: the economic erish speeding pose. of the bosses | unemployed. eap as soon as dreds of thou- se of sickness, maternity, in- together with action by the Demand All Wai Funds foi the Unemployed! Yet the United States government, which boasts that this is the world’s richest na- tion, has billions of dollars for military and naval expenditures. dred million is spent every year for this pur- An additional $1,000,000,000 is now being appropriated for more battleships and cruisers, in preparation for war on the Soviet Union, but not one cent is available for the Two billion, eight hun- The Communist Party demands immediate relief for the unemployed workers. mand unemployment upon all workers to demonstrate in the streets on August 1st against imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union and for the immediate adoption of the following We de- insurance. We call Workers’ Social Insurance Bill: A BILL WORKERS tional Conference called purpose as hereinafter provided. | Section 6--County Conferences. (a) | enactment of this bill there shall be held within each county of each state of the United States of Amer- ica an unemployment conference | workers, employed or unemployed, said elections to take place in shops, factories, mills, mines, offices, trade unions, unemployment councils and workers’ organizations generally. (b) The basis of representation shall be one delegate for each 200 workers. (ec) Said County J] convene in the within said county and shall elect delegates to a state convention which shall take place within one month after the end of the County Conference sessions. (d) State delegates shall be elected on the basis of one to every Conferences | fifty county delegates. Section 7—State Conferences. (a) State Conferences shall be convened and held in the capitol of the state and shall elect delegates to a National Conference, which shall meet in Washington, D. C., not later than three months after the enactment of this bill. (b) National delegates shall be elected on the basis of one for every fifty state delegates. Section S—National Conference At the National Conference a | committee of 35 persons shall be | elected as the Workers Social In- surance Commission and this Com- mission shall have full power and | titled to social insurance payments Within thirty days after the.| composed of delegates elected by | largest city | for that, social insurance payments | rules, regula- | | PROPOSED TO BE ENACTED By THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO PROVIDE FOR PAYMENT OF SO- EMPLOYED OR UNABLE TO WORK BE- CAUSE OF SICKNESS, INJURY, MATERNITY OR OLD AGE, in ac- | cordance with such tions, by-laws and provisions as may be adopted by such National Conference as applying thereto. Section 9—Rights of | Conferences. County, State or National Confer- ences may discuss and pass upon | | any matters which they deem fit. Section 10—Funds. (a) For the purpose of carry- inging out the provisions of this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of five bil- lion dollars, and in order to provide | this sum all appropriations hereto- fore made or now in effect for mil tary, naval or other war purpo: are hereby repealed and all such sums heretofore appropriated for naval, military or other war pur- poses, including war pension funds shall be deemed appropriated for the purposes of this Act and shall be immediately turned over by the Treasurer of the United States of America to the Workers Social In- surance Commission when the latter is elected as hereinbefore provided, to be used by said Commission for the purposes of this Act. (b) Additional funds shall be raised by (1) a graduated capital levy on all capital and property ac- cumulations in excess of $25,000 and (2) a graduated income tax on all incomes in excess of $5,000 per year. (c) The capital levy and income tax rates to be an amount suffi- cient to realize funds required to properly carry out the purposes of this Act. authority to register persons en-| Section 11—Time. This Act shall take effect imme- and to distribute unemployment and ! diately. ‘RAID ON “RED spy NEST” IS BAD FLOP NEW YORK.—The big raid, “on the secret headquarters of the cheka and the Ogpu,” engineered by the Hearst papers and the police de- partment was a flop. ‘Two days before ‘the raid the Hearst sheets | announced that the headquarters of the “Soviet Spy System” was dis- covered in an east side pharm and would be raided by the polie ‘Thirty-six hours later the police came down on the drug store of James Schafran, at 272 Ave. B | y-| They found no spies and no docu- | ments. They found that Schafran | is not a Communist, he is a member | of a Tammany political club The only excuse for the raid is that Schafran had sold some tooth | paste to Amtorg. “Why don't they | go after Henry Ford,” said Schaf- | ran, indlensnly. 1 FORGERIES EXPOSED! Spivak’s s Supbressed Story Friday The Daily Worker will print Friday the suppressed ~tatement of the Graphie reporter, Spivak, which proves that Woll, U. S. state and labor department officials, Eas- ley and Whalen were all involyed with the Russian mon- archists in the Whalen forgery plot. Read h@y Secretary of State Stimson’s sister-in-law Stimson did about it! ught 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 state department.” This story was offered the capitalist press, and re- fused, Only minor extracts were printed. Even the Graphic suppressed the bulk of its own reporter’s find- ings. Read the whole thing in the Daily Worker, Friday! Party U.S.A. the Rem unde ipfenatienat) CHINA RED ARMY IS WELCOMED BY CHANGSHA MASS Distribute Property of the Rich (Wireless by Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, July 30. — The gov- ernment building at Changsha is re- | ported burning. Ten thousand well- armed disciplined _ revolutionary forces routed government troops un der General Ho Chieng, the Kuomin- tang governor of Hunan province. Foreign residents in Changsha Lave fled to gunboats. The revolutionary {forces are advancing on Kiukiang, an important harbor in the Yangtze River. Fighting between foreign gunboats and revolutionary troops, are going on. The British warship,| Afis, bombarded Red positions near| Chenglo under the pretext that the | foreign ships are fired on by Red troops. * | NEW YORK. — Occupying the) city of Changsha on Monday morn-| * * | ing, workers, the “city poor,” and} peasants, led by the Communists,| immediately began to expropriate| the expropriators. According to an! Associated Press dispatch from} Shanghai: “piling the loot in the streets, Communists permitted the mobs to help themselves. The rabble apparently did not resent the inva- sion and made off with the spoils.| What little resistance was offered,} came from well-to-do Chinese, who} (Continued on Page Five} FOOD WORKERS MEET TONIGHT! ™ Midst of Struggle Plan for August 1 BULLETIN NEW YORK.—A general mem- bership meeting of the Food Workers Industrial Union tonight at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Fifteenth Street and Irving Place, | will mobilize for the Anti-War | demonstration tomorrow. All members of the union must attend. * * * INAL Demonstrate for Defense of Soviet Union; For Armaments, All Funds to the Unemployed!” | the WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price Es Cents etacuuiaia' Fight Against Imperialist War Preparations Demand, “Not a Penny Establishment of Soviet Government in South China Is An Immediate Possibility; Protest Intervention ci 1 ; SREEN, HOOVER SGREEN WAR PLOT IGAINST SOVIETS Woll For of U. Hoover’s lat Fascist Faker! - Slav e Labor _Bosses tate} ement on the i-Soviet of governn’ i by Woll and the Rus dregs, is the sheerest smoke sereen to cover up the rapid -var prepara- tions against the U R. The Journal of Commerce, mouth- : piece of the leading Wall Street Slimy Mathew Woll, who leads bankers, ys that the “Treasury the strike-breaking and wage-cut- Departr not likely to recant ting uttacks against the Ameri from its present position as opposed workers and during the rest of the to the entry of the pulp wood car- time unites with the czarist scum goes, now in, or on the way to and imperialist bandits in rushing American ports,” and that “this war plans against the Soviet Union.| position will be extend: to cover other commodities” from the USSR. « Mass pressure of the workers in A t i t this country is the only force that ugUs LYST |) wint stop the headlong rush to wai é | against the Soviet Union. While 2 Mellon, through the treasury de VEPAY AUONS |) revorns vet is tot tom F A h d well as the miserable lackey Woll. have moved too rapidly for the orge COTE cnvatans of toe aera Sete worker should be misled by the re From all over the country comes reports of active preparation for August First demonsration against imperialist war and for the cent steps which are char in the capita r treat” and “reconsideration.” Latest among these is the action | defense of the Soviet Union. The) of the fascist Wiwam Green, presi workers show great response to} dent of the A. F. of L., in repudiat | the slogan: “Not one cent for war ing Woll’s demand for yon all Soviet products. (Continuea on Bien Hage Five) FURRIERS TONITE “AT COOPER UI an embarge —all war funds for the unemploy- Green cole ed!” Shop gate meetings, street meetings, distribution of leaflets and sales of the Daily Worker are rousing the masses. Some of the| most important centers of activit outside of New York and Sicsee | are mentioned below. * CANTON, Ohio July 30. —Satur- | | day evening a meeting of 300 work- ers took place in the Negro pectia| (Continued on Page Vive) | Meet to E lan Sti ugei ee For Raise in Wages 3 ; | after work, all furriers, organi | and unorganized 1 m anize employed and unemploy ure TOILERS STRIKE (Wire lee by Inpracorr) PARIS, July 30.—The strike} * against the wage-cutting campaign in connection with the new social} insurance law is spreading One by the Needle Trades Workers bl dustrial Union to come down to Co et and Four’ per Union, Eighth § Avenue, to prep: struggle for inc The furriers is a tradition in New Yor But the International Fur Worke NEW YORK. — Speakers for the) | Food Workers Industrial Union who} | addressed some 800 workers from) the large Bonda Bakery in the Bronx Tuesday at noon, report the | response was “immense.” This bak- ‘ery is close to the Roseland Cafe- i teria, 135th Street and Cypress Ave- nue, where there is a strike led by | the Food Workers Industrial Union. tures now for settlement. Picketing continues in full force at three other plac East 180th Street, the Bronx. Here! the boss and the right wing gang-| sters try to terrorize the pickets. There have been no more arrests,| however, since the dismissal of cases against those last arrested. At Allerton Avenue the Glenmore} Bakery is Laue well. ip: Rare (the compa’ union) has assure hundred thousand workers are now The cafeteria boss is making over-| One is at 613! out. Collisions with the police oc-| the bosses th r there will | curred. Many arrests are made, | None. The rs want to fig for real inc now a month ove eal ————-—-—— | due, and for betterment of shop cor boss lost his application for a per-| ditions in other wa manent injunction, Results are expected soon at the} place on Church Avenue, Brooklyn, where the racketeer Fagan recently installed an American Federation of Labor card in the window. The importan\ of the Fifth World Congress of tht Red International of Labor Unions was discussed by speakers at the send-off for the del- egates to the congress. The affair was held at the headquarters of the Food Workers Industrial Union at 16 West Twenty-first Street. The) speakers were enthusiastically greet- ed. Moving pictures of May First Here e eel in the Soviet Union were shown. The Needle Trades Workers Indu trial Union will lead this strugg] which should have the support ¢ every worker. The N. T. W. I. I urges the furriers to elect their ow rank and file strike and shop cor mittees in every shop, Yesterday afternooa an enthusia tic meeting of the unemployed ne dle workers was held at the >ffic of the Needle Trades Workers Ir s dustrial Union, 131 West 28th The meeting worked out the tas! of the unemployed in pr and taking part in the ve demonstration tomorrow at Unio Square. The unemployed need! q. 5 p.m. Tomorrow: