The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1930, Page 1

/ Demonstrate August Fir:t! Continue the Strug- gle Against Imperialist War, For the De- fer> the Soviet Union and the Chinese Revolution, and For Unemployment Insur- ance in the Shops and Factories After Fol. - Vit, No. 184 red a at New York Nos. nas mutter at the Post Office the act of March 3. 1 Dail Central 9 Orga Scola of the Ape: eh Oe N W YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1930 Norker F the-CDUinunict Party U.S.A. pene’) Why We Demonstrate on August First! Sees! years ago the capitalist controlled nations began the world J bloodbath which supposedly was to bring ‘world peace” and make the world “safe for democracy.” Instead millions of workers lost their lives and uncountable thousands were maimed for life to make the world safe for capitalism and to pile up greater profits for a few fat- aellied coupon clippe: Now sixteen ye after the beginning of that war, we are on the verge o* another war. Again under fake peace slogans the capitalist countries are arming for war. Billions of dollars are being spent for varships, military equipment, airplanes and poison gas. The factories are being put on a war footing. Wages are being cut; production is being speeded up. Workers in the war industries are being finger- printed; preparations are being made in Congress for a “universal” draft, which means,a draft for workers both in the army and ix in- dustry. This new war grows primarily out of the struggle of the imperial- ists—the rich bankers and industrialists—for new and greated sources of profits. They want more markets for their goods, more sources of cheap raw mate! and fresh places for the profitable investment of their money. Actuated only by re for greater and ereater profits, regardless of the cost in wo. s, they are ready to make war against any nation or colony, if by it they think they can get a bigger e of the world’s territory and extract a few more dollars for them- selves, The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which arose during the last world war as a result of a workers’ revolution against the despot- ism of ezars and capitalists, is the particular object of the present war preparations. There the profit-hungry capitalists see a vast ter- ritory covering one-sixth of the world’s land area, rich in natural re- sources, and populated by a people who can consume and pay for capi- talist products. In addition they see their class enemies—the working —not only in power, but rapidly proceeding with the building of a non-capitalist, socialist society in which profts vill be abolished and all wealth will go for the kenefit of the workers. This is the explanation of the last few days’ events. This is why Hoover, Stimson, Easley, Green, Woll and white guardist supporters of the former Russian ruling class can all unite in the war preparations against the Scviet Union. This is the reason for the talk of trade embargos and blockades. This is the reason for the Fish Committee, the wage cuts, the speed-up, and the bitter attacks against the Amer- ican workers who are against imperialist war and sympathetic to the we ‘ors? Srviet Union. To stop wage cuts, to stop the speed-up in the ries, to force the government to pay unemployment insurance, to win the masses for struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the workers’ fatherland—the Soviet Union, is the reason for the demonstration on August 1st! Demonstrate on August 1st! Not one cent for war; all funds for the unemployed! Demand the enactment of the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill! Contix.. the struggle against impé@rialist war after August 1st! Fight for the defense of the U.S.S.R.! Hands Off China! 6 Bes exploited and oppressed workers and peasants of China are . rising to overthrow the militarist and imperialist oppressors. A new wave of revolution sweeps over China, joining its forces with the rising masses of India in a might; offensive against imperialism. Workers all over the world will rejoice in this magnificent advance, and will give enthusiastic support tc the Chinese workers and peasants. But there must be no illusions. Imperialism, and before all United States imperialism, is preparing war against the Chinese revolution. Already at Changsha, when the revolutionary army took the city from the bloody bandit, General Ho Chien, it was American guns and American ships which attempted to rescue this militarist murderer of the people. From Shanghai comes the news that the United States Consul- ate General has called upon the American Chamber of Commerce there for its advice to the government at Washington, and that this advice has been given in favor of “unified action by the powers to suppress disorder and to restore conditions favorable to the formation of a responsible government”—a government responsible to imperialism! Workers, be on guard! In this development is another menace of war, which will surely embroil the entire world. Imperialism, watching the collapse of its tool, Chiang Kai-shek, and itself gripped by the creeping paralysis of crisis; watching the rise of the revolu- tionary masses in India and China, while at the same time millions of workers in the capitalist countries also demonstrate against hun- ger and war; watching the gigantic growth of socialist industry and agriculture in the Soviet Union, while capitalist industry plunges deeper and deeper into crisis—all these sharp contrasts and contradic- tions, are taken by the capitalist class as the signs deciding the neces- sity of their only, supreme. and desnerate “remedy” which is WAR. Workers! Rally to,the defense of the Chinese and Indian revolu- tions! ‘Hands off China!” Withdraw the warships and soldiers! Long live the revolutionary Soviet Government of the Chinese workers and peasants Long live the unity of the working class with of the colonies! Down with imperialism. the oppressed peoples READY T0 SPREAD ‘ORLEANS STRIKE TO MORGAN LINE | Workers . Bos Boss Called! “Black Bastards” Are Showing Fine Fight | 5 Arrested in 3 Days | Demand Raise From 25 Cents Hour to 50 NEW ORLEANS, Ia., July 31.— With 400 longshoremen on strike on the river docks here, preparations are made to call out tomorrow the many more who toil on the Morgan line docks. The river dock workers, organized into the Marine Workers Industrial Union are battling hero- ically against mass arr and gunfire from the armed scabs and scab herders. Last night a meeting was held at the docks in defiance of police refusal of a permit. The police are attacking and dispersing all crowds at the waterfront now. In addition | | to the 60 pickets arrested Monday and Tuesday, 20 more were ar-| rested yesterday morning and 15) last night, Eleven have been sen- tenced to 80 days.or $15 fine. The Nationa! Organizer of the M. W. I. U., Harvey, is in New| Orleans. Word is received that the Phila- delphia longshoremen held a meet- ing and voted solidarity, sending also money for the New Orleans strikers. Many of the dock workers are Negroes. When the committee ap- proached the boss Sunday, and for the first time in his history de- mandef an increase in wages, he said: “What th: hell is the matter with you black bastards?” The men are fighting for a raise of wages from 25 cents an hour to 50 cents. $15,000,000 FOR BOSSES WASHINGTON, D. C. Ina futile attemp* to stop the failing price of wheat the Federal Farm Board purchased 60,000,000 bushels. In doing this the bosses’ government spent a great deal of money However, the expenditure did nothing to stabilize prices and wheat crashed downward to the !owest level it has known since the world war. In this little venture the Farm} Board “lost” only $15,000,000! 1 Vv, Ykers, Demand: ot a Cent For Arma- nents, All Funds to the Unemployed!” A Billion Dollar Navy for Boss Wars! U.S.Wars On | China Revolt As millions of workers all over the world will demonstrate today against imperialist war, the first significant battle of | the American imperialist war against the Chinese Revolution, since the bombardment of Nanking in 1927, has already been fought near Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, which has been seized by the work-¢-————~ ers, peasants and Red Armics fire at the workers guarding the ress . city, when an unexpected rise in the since Monday morning. Forced iver enabled her to do so. to withdraw because of low, 4 fieree battle ensued which re- water level in the Siang River | sulted in 50 Chinese workers killed at the time of the fall of Changsha,|and many more wounded. Five the American gunboat Palos sailed | American sailors are reported to toward the city and opened heavy (Continued on Page Five) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION ERS! DEMONSTRAT YAY ON UNION SO. AT 5i! —® Millions of Toilers in All Lands Fight Boss War Danger Today Come From Shops, Mines and Factories Demanding “Not a Cent For War Armamen (MILLIONS FIGHT BOSS WAR MOVES ARMING GROWS | Demand Billions Spent! ‘For War Go to Jobless While thousands of workers will | demonstrate in Union Square to- |day millions of workers will | demonstrate in all capitalist lands against the growing spectre of ap. proaching imperialist war. Under the leadership of the Communist Parties, the workers are being mob ilized to fight against the imperial- ist war preparations. Foremost in the war aims of the imperialist bandits is an attack against the workers’ republic, the U.S.S.R. “While millions starve in the cap- italist countries, the bosses spend billions for war. On July 22, senator Wagner admitted that the | ratification of the naval “treaty’ the immediate expenditure by Great Britain, the United States. France | and Japan of $5,255,797,750. Of | | this, the American imperialist will | | lay out $1,071,000,000 for war Work is under way already on a flock of 10,000-ton cruisers to carry from 25 to 75 bombing planes. A big increase in military training everywhere is evident. The Chi- cago Association of Commerce, as every other boss organization in the country, openly brags of its war preparations. War is on foot everywhere in the capitalist domains, The growing and sharpening crisis of world capitalism heightens the war prep- | (Continued on Page Five) Workers of the United States! The United States is in the grip through in all industries. from the factories. | have only their jobs to live on. are also driving the whole workers moment millions of workers are out of a job. Speed-up is excluding still more workers | Unemployment is condemning its victims to misery. Wage cuts are reducing the living standards of the workers. | therefore rapidly increasing child labor. | too old at 40 and are frequently re: of a severe economic crisis. At this Wage cuts are carried | and fight. The workers | Organize—to fight against the | The workers are beginning to realize this. They | they are awakening to the necessity of organizing to fight against wage- | deliberate underestimation. At least | They show their readiness to meet the | 30 per cent of the A. F. of L. mem- wage-cutting offensive against their living standards with a counter: families into the factories and are | cuts and for social insurance. There is only one way out for the workers! Organize—to strike against wage cuts! Organize—to battle for full social insurance! CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE! M .xifesto of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U. S. A. fused employment on that score. They must organize ts, But All Rally Today! Detend the Soviet Union! NEW YORK.—“To all work- ers of New York! Defend the Soviet Union! Defend Soviet China!” says a statement issued yesterday by the District Com- mittee of the Communist Party, New York district. It calls for the masses of workers, employed and unemployed, to demonstrate on. Union Square, at 5 p. m against imperialist war and for all war funds to be used for un- employment insurance an ¢ against imperialist war. GOOD SPEAKERS, Speakers at the meeting today will include: Sam Darcey, chair- man; Jack Johnstone, from the Trade Union Unity League; Harriet Silverman, Friends of the Soviet Union; Otto Huiswood, Negro worker, American Negro Labor Congr and others. Many unio! id worker's or ganizations are taking part in a body, carrying the placards and slogans of their ereanization ENDORSE JOBLESS. INSURANCE BILL; RALLY ON SEPT. 1 On the day that the Communist | Party published its bill providing } for unemployment relief for all | workers, the American Federation | of Labor, through its fascist presi- | dent, Green, comes out and admits | unemployment is growing worse. | He offers no plan for relief, except continued collaboration with the bosses in their wage-cutting schemes. We must take Green’s with the greatest suspicion, an agent of the bosses. He is On every the crisis and the class struggle. | His figures show that unemploy- |ment in the A. F. of L. increased breakneck speed-up! Throughout the country | from June to July one per cent— | namely, from 20 to 21 per cent of the total membership. This is bers are without jobs. Green dares | mittee | oceasion he lies about the facts of | | Speed-up is increasing industrial accidents and is also increasing | cffensive of struggle against the bosses. The bosses’ government :n| not publish the facts. The most | sick mong the workers. Even the strongest and healthiest w Washington has therefore initiated a political attack on the American | drastic unemployment in the ranks | | ers ca. dly stand up under its strain. | workers. The congressional investigation committee headed by Hamil | of the A. F. of L. is in the Building | i No longer able to keep pace with the machines, the workers get | (Continued on Page Five) u (Continued on Page Fi e) CONTINUE THE Si RUGGLE OF MARCH 6!. NOT A CENT FOR ARMAMENTS, ALL FUNDS FOR (AMM anne we snd esata nce imma unds to the Unemployed” Hoover, Green and Bosses “Change” of Tactics Is Only Strencthening of f Front in Preparation For Attack on Soviet Union TRADE WAR PLAN AGAINST USSR, IS CONTINUED WE Seah Maneuver to Quiet Workers Recognizing the growing resent- ment of erican worker#to their propaganda against the Soviet Union within the last few weeks, he generals of the trade war (lead- ng to military attack on the Soviet Union) have begun = to straighten t lin The active and onen propaganda for immediate general embargo on Soviet Union products has gone ahead of other preparations. The open declaration for such embargo norticipated in by assistant secretary of the treas- ury Lowman, by Matthew Woll, vice president of the A.F.L., is now seen a too rapid unfolding of the war plans, and a certain checking of the speed of advance on this particular field has been ordered. But this is only strategy; the } Plan is the same, the drive towards war goes on, in a more orderly fashion. Hoover and as president Green of the A.F.L. now state that they “contemplate no general embargo on Russian products”; Hoover com- pels Lowman, the under secretary of the treasury who stopped 80 ship loads of pulpwood from U.S.S.R., to disavow his declaration | of a general trade war; Green de- \clares that Matthew Woll, who urged a general embargo does not speak for the A.F.L. The Fish committee, the “congressional com- investigating Communist activity,” suddenly declares a recess of several months. But clear evidence that this is (Continued on Page Five) Exposure! on Page Three On page three read the whole suppressed story of what the New York Graphic reporter, John Spivak, saw and found when he started digging into the Whalen forgeries. The capitalist press, even Spivak’s owa paper, refuse to publish all these facts. JOBLUSS!