The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1930, Page 1

The Great Mass Demonstrations Today Must Give Impetus to the Organization of the Work ers for Continuous and Persistent Struggle Against Imperialis: War, for the Defense of the Soviet Union and for Unem- ployment Insurance, Organize! Dailu Central Butered n. second-class at New York NY. un ol. VIL., No. 185 ter at the Post Office e net of March 3. 1879 Orga f NEW YORK, SATU — ep ELLY URDAY , AUGUST 2, 1930 orker he-Conmunist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) NAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! EDITION CITY To Cents 30,000 IN ANTI-WAR DENONSTRATION IN NEW YORK Shanghai Workers Demonstrate; Fall of Hankow Appi f Continue the Fight in the “hops, Mills and Mines! HE war plans of the imperialists were heavily bombarded in all countries today by the workers’ most advanced battalions. Notice was served on the bosses that the workers are ready to fight. The millions who demonstrated Jet it be known in no uncertain terms that they are now ready to defend the Soviet Union, defend the Chinese and indian revolutions, and fight against wage cuts, mass lay-offs and the killing speed-up in the factories. At the same time these great mass demonstrations will arouse inereased numbers of workers, who until now have heen under the influence of pacifists and reformists, to the feverish haste of the bosses’ wa’ preparations and of the necessity of fighting back. The bosses however will not discontinue their offensive because of today’s demonstrations. On the contrary, while continuing to build battleships, airplanes, and other instruments of war at the same fever- ish tempo, they will concentrate more than ever on breaking down the resistence of the workers to their war plans. The fascist and social-fascist leaders of the A. F. of L. and socialist party will be prompted to increase their lying propzganda against the Scviet Union and the revolutionary workers’ organizations. By every means they will attempt to confuse, mislead and betray the’ masses. Bv the clever use of “convict labor” charges against the Soviet Union by talk of world “peace” and “‘disarmament,” and by advocating “peace in industry” and “cooperation with the capitalists,” they will aid the besses in their war y'ans and in their drive against the working and living standards of the masses. This will be one side of the bosses’ further war moves. Simultanecusly the Fish Committee’s “investigations” and plans for anti-labor legislation (special police, deportations, fingerprinting, revistration of foreign born, etc.) wil: be more energetically pushed. Attacks will be made on workers’ organizations, attempts will be made to smash factory meetings, workers will be beaten, arrested and im prisoned By means of *reformist bunk and fascist terror the bosses will attempt to carry through their plans for war,#!snee’“"y against the Soviet Union, and their wage cutting drive against the workers. The demonstrations today aroused the fighting spirit and deter- mination of the workers, without as yet foreing the bosses to abandon their plans. The struggle, therefore, must be continued and sharpened. Stronger organizations must be our objective, followed by still shaprer struveles, Militant workers in the shops, mills ard:mines must or- ganize shop committees, composed of the best working class fighters, which must take the initiative in establishing contect with the local unions or leurues of the Trade 'I:1ion Unity League, and, with their help, organizing the workers to fight, against wag: cuts, the speed-un, imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union, and for the Workers Social Insurance Bill. Revolutionary workers must join the Communist Party which leads the fight against capitalism and for the demands of the work- ers; supports the revolutionary T.U.U.L. unions, and organizes and trains the workers for the struggle to overthrow capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ government. By organization in the factories and mines and by revolutionary struggles the workers can win their demands and defeat their class enemies—the capitalists. Increased masses of worke). are today ready to fight energetically for their demands. Organization is the most burning need of the masses. All revolutionary workers, all units of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League must con centrate all efforts on the establishment of shop coramittees and nuclei in the factories to organize and lead the continued struggles of the werkers. Organize! Strike against wage cuts. Fight for the Workers Social Insurance Bill! Ficht imperialist war preparations! Defend the Soviet “nion! Hands off revolutionary China! Organize to continue the struggle! Social Insurance and the Election Campaign OR the first time in their history, the American workers are pre- sented with a definite program for social insurance. The economic insecurity of the American workers is greater than in any other country. Once a worker meets with an accident, sickness or unemployment, he and his family are exposed to inevitable starvation. Even the existence of the skilled and highly-paid workers is not assured in a period of un- employment such as now exists as a result of the economic crisis. Social insurance therefore becomes the most burning problem be- fore the American working class. The struggle for social insurance is therefore the central issue in the election campaign of the Communist Party. Around the social in- surance bill prepared by our Party masses of workers in the factoiies and mass organizations must te aroused to action. This bill must not only be brought to the workers in the shops, trade unions, for their en- dorsement, but the Party must aiso consider the utilization of the initia tive and referendum laws as 2 means of struggle for this bill. Social insurance, particularly in the present period, with the growth of unemployment and the rapid radicalization of the masses, becomes a sort of a plaything in the hands of the capitalist parties, Governor Roosevelt, at the annua! governors’ meeting, came out for social in- surance, but the workers know that this is only a fake promise, that this is a political gesture, on the bases of which the democratic party hopes to win mass support in the coming elections. We have already a sample of the kind of social insurance Governor Roosevelt proposed-—— the old-age pension law in New York, which is only @ source of graft to the Tammany Hall politicians and a charity dole handed out to cer- tain selected old people above 65. The socialist party also speaks of social insurance, but their plan of social insurance means that the worker will have to stand the burden of that “social insurance” fund and not the capitalists, We even find that capitalist corporations, like the General Electric, established “unemployment insurance” which is deducted from the wages of the workers and pot paid hy the state and employers. The social insurance bill proposed by the Communist Party is a weapon for revolutionary class struggle. The bosses and their govern- ment must pay the social insurance to the workers, Instaed of billion- collar appropriations for war purposes, we demand that a five billion dollar insurance fund be established and administered by the workers and for the workers, 4 In all of our agitation for the election campaign, in all the speeches of our agitators ai] candidates, social insurance against unemployment, sickness and old age must be the keynote. The platform of the Com- munist Party must be brought into the factories and mass organiza- tions for support and endorsement by the workers. Our election campaign is not an aim in itself. It is a revolutionary method for mobilization of the workers for struggle for their interests. The struggle for social insurance must occupy the central place in our election campaign. ’ PEKING-HANKOW “RAILWAY CUT BY - CHINA RED ARMY i , Capture of Kiukiang) ; and Hankow By Red | Armies Is Imminent Nanking Collapsed Wane Chin-wei Urges White Terror (Wireless by Inprecorr) | SHANGHAI, China, August 1 Th: Red Armies have defeated gov- ernment troops near Huayuan dis- trict on the Pekine-Hankow Raii way, the main north-south trunk line in China. Red troops are threatening Hankow where martial | Jaw is declared by Chiang Kai-shek Barbed wire entanglements and sandbag barricades are set up {around foreign quarters. The au- |thorities have arrested and exe- | cuted six Communists. 60,000 Red (Continued on Page Hive) MEET DESPITE ~WE,CANGSTERS Workers Defense Corp Must Defend Meets NEW YORK.—Enraged at the successful gate meeting held day before, the bosses in the West- ern Electric Co. piant got their forces together to break up the meeting held today by the Com- munist Party section committee. Throughout the meeting selected straw bosses and boss spies heckled and insulted the speakers, and |when a young girl comrade was | | speaking, spattered her with ice | cream and other things that they | threw. | The workers who the day before | had turned out in full force to hear | the Communist speakers, were inti- | midated by the thugs and hesitated to come to the defense of he speak- ers. Immediately upon the ad- |journment of the meeting, the thugs, fully a half dozen, went for the two young workers who were the chief speakers. In cowardly fashion they attacked the young workers, Taback and Manes, tear- ing their .clothing and injuring | Manes about the right eye. | Many meetings and __ similar skirmishes with the stool pigeons ! ‘in the plant have already taken | | place. The workers, growing res- | | tive, under a system of continual | layoffs and wage cuts, are proving |to be more and more attentive to the Communist spéakers—which arouses the hatred of the bosses. | Only recently 50 young workers jwere laid off without warning. | Those that were working for 50 “Labor Is Free in the United States,” — Lynching of Negro workers, the Ludlow, Marion and Centralia massacres, the murder co-Vanzetti, the killing of Katovis, Levy, Gonzalez, and the jailing of thousands of mili- tant workers, among them Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, with Mooney and Billings | still rotting in jail, is Woli’s idea of the “freedom of labor.” of Sae July 31. The bill sets down concrete demands for unemployment insurance for all workers. 5,000 LAY-OFFS IN BERLIN; MORE COMING BERIN, Aug. 1—In Berlin alone, 5,000 employees have been dismissed today. More fitms may join the of- fensi cents were laid off and others re- hired for 35 cents an hour. The workday in the Western Electric is 834 or actually 9 hours | } | under a tense speed-up and pusher system. The police were conspicuous by their absence at the moment the company spies went for the two young workers, The sentiment among the more aggressive workers is that the future meetings would have to be defended by a Workers Defense Corps and the company dicks routed once and for all. Spread Fight fo Jobless Insurance Bill In All Shops; Mobilize for September Ist! Preparizg for Unemployment Day, September 1, thousands of workers are discus and spreading the Workers’ Social Insurance. Bill, which was published in the Daily Worker for each dependent. One of the main features of | the bill is that all funds now set aside by the boss govern- ;ment for armaments and war |preparations, which amounts | to billions, immediately be handed | over for unemployment insurance, | Carry on the fight started on Aug- ust Ist. The bill also sets up a/ Workers’ Social Insurance Commis- sion, elected by the workers, to see | to the carrying out of the provi- sions. While 8,000,000 workers face starvation because they are out of work, with no prospect of getting any, the bosses live on the huge profits wrung out of the workers. Therefore, the bill demands that a heavy, capital levy be placed on fortunes in excess of $25,000, and an income tax on incomes over $i,000. The Workers’ Social Insurance © | | | (Continued on Page Five} oachi fol —By BURCK It| provides for the payment of $25 per week to all unemployed and an additional $5 per week | GALA TUL. PICNIC SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 All militant workers from the shops, industrial unions, leagues | and unemployed councils will be out | at the picnic of the T.U.U.L. in| Pleasant Bay Park on Sunday. An} elaborate program of music, danc- | ing, games, eats and refreshments have been arranged. Jack Johnstone, secretary of the New York District of the T.U.U.L., will speak. The picnic will not only be a get. | together for a good time but will! also help raise funds for thc lading |badly beaten about the head and| workers of strike struggles against wage cuts, speed-up and unemployment. Directions: Take Lexington Ave. Subway to 177th St., then Union- port car to end of line where free busses will take you to park. Demand the Dissolution of the Fish ployment at home, | ing for war abroad! | against the Soviet Union. That is Fight Against the Imberialist War! Detend USSR! i ORKERS! The capitalists are preparing wage-cuts and more unem- At the same time they spend billions prepar- Above all, pteparations are being made for war | the meaning of the recent demand | of Matthew Woll, capitalist agent who heads the American Federation of Labor, for an embargo against al] business with the Soviet Union, Granting of Woll’s demand, which means closing more factories in this country, has already begun. _ The Fish investigating committee, which is supposed to “investi- gate” Communism, is only ‘a public comedy to screen these sinister Proceedings, to make propaganda and agitation for war preparations and to suppress the workers’ struggle for unemployment insurance, against wage-cuts and against imperialist war, Workers! The Communist Party gives you its answer to the Fish committee and to the entire capitalist class. Statement of Central Committee C. P. U. S. A. Fight million workers are walking the streets unemployed. They on the of this investigating committee, only concerned with makin against the workers. The most outrageous lies and forgeries have been admitted here as the most unimpeachable evidence, ie: revolutionary workers’ organizations. Daily Worker and you will find a complete record of our activities a than all your stool-pigeons can give you, who can thousand times more the foreign-born, of deportation, of outlawing wo of breaking strikes, of helping put across new wage-cuts and speed-up rkers who still have jobs in the factories. which is not investgating at all, but is i propaganda for new laws of suppression s. The entire world knows them for forgeries, but the chairman of this committee has publicly endorsed them and given a vote of thanks to Whalen, who conspired with counter-revolutionary anti-labor ex- officers of the czarist army to foist these documents upon the public. You cannot make any great mysteries about the activities of the} | Communist Party, of the Trade Union Unity League and the other Committee! rs’ organizations, That is the meaning We refer to the Whalen forger- | There are no mysteries. Read our | cretly Roar Pledge to Defend Soviet Union, China Demand All War Funds for Jobless; Demand Release of Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond Part of Workers Leaving Meeting Driven Into Police Trap; 60 Blackjacked; 5 in Hospital NEW YORK.—Thirty thousand militant New York work- ers and unemployed, under a sea of banners pledging defense of the Soviet Union and of Soviet China, war on imperialist war, demanding that all war funds be given to unemployment relief, calling on workers to join the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the if EMONSTRATE ON AUGUST FIRST defense and relief organiza- | . 'Big Demonstration At tions and the Friends of the Soviet Union, met yesterday in one of the largest and most color ful, enthusiastic and determined derronstrations that has been held here. Police Trap. Workers were not beaten up on Union Square, as is the custom with Tammany police thugs, but the po- ee a lice set a trap for them as they left| Shanghai as after the meeting was SHANGHA!, Aug. 122A" large | Sa A ted |2nti-war demonstration stopping A line of police and one mounted eainway and Ge ete ee man drove a considerable number . s x down 15th St, past Irving Plaza| Place today at Shanghai, the big- Hall. Irving Plaza had been se-| %°St industrial iry in China, de- ly filled with police. As the|SPite all the war-like preventive workers passed, singing, the police; Measures and the white terrorist charged out and fell upon them with | brutality of the imperialists and clubs and blackjacks. |native militarists. Fifty militant Workers heard the first detach-| Workers were arrested by the ment of police yell, as they emerged authorities and will be handed over from the hall: “Come on, let’s get|t? the local district court f ’em.” In this entirely unprovoked | fake “trial” and certain execi assault some 60 workers were | unless the rapid advance of beaten, and five so sevreely that! revolution scares the Koumintang they are in the hospital, where at| Officials out of their wits in time least one may die. fo neeye th Brains Contasions: intang tools at. Shanghai realiz ber, his skull probably fractured by | fluted: ‘loin sree Cee a policeman’s blow and with contu-| (C t ‘ "P. ao ss ns of the brain. He was uncon- one CP Cane ha scious at a late hour last night. : EW ENGLAND IN d their Koum- had clubbed him, to the Jewish Workers’ University, held him on the ‘floor and tortured him with a kind of third degree. Policeman 16102 did the questioning. Girl Knocked Senseless. Beatrice Deer, Young Communist League member, was knocked un- consgious and carried bleeding into the Workers’ Center. Another young | girl worker was slugged into un- consciousness by the police. Two ex-service men were badly beaten. One is John Simon, a Ne- |gro, who fought back and injured his hand defending himself. John Sibert was the other ex-service man, | with his knee wounded. Tony Lejuidice was badly beaten over the head with a blackjack as he jtried to help other workers being jclubbed. J, Levine was cut on the |back of the head while supporting janother worker dazed by a police- |man’s club. Four police in front if him did not dare to hit him, but a detective blackjacked him from behind. Drive Reporters Away. George Morgan was hit on the head and foot when he tried to stop a policeman from beating up another worker. J. Pasks was clubbed on the arch of the for’. George Mas- tropoles was hit i: the eye with a blackjack. He wa ent home. An unemployed worker was badly beaten, so that stitches were put in his head. He was then kicked out of Bellevue Hospital. Reporters who tried to see the beating were themselves beaten. One was the International News re- porter, Photographers who tried to take pictures were chased for blocks. Among those arrested are known |to be Peter Malone and Abraham Goodman. A Negro worker, selling Labor Defenders, was struck in the jaw. White Cops Jim Crow Negroes, After the demonstration white police refused to ride back to their stations in wagons with Negro po- congress. But instead of meeting surance, the workers were given po! ‘ani their families are without any means of life. | the crisis of the capitalist economic system, and at the same time is the| The activities of the cause of the Fish investigating committee. a quarter workers demonstrated; demanding unemployment insurance, frightened the capitalists and servants of capitalism in the United Stat This is the result of March 6, when a million and the demand for unemployment in- ¢lubs, prison sentences and Fish ley s | Communist | only inve | before the | pr y to prevent re committees to prepare new laws of suppression, of finger-printing of | stupid lies to bolster w entire world. doing and what they rt to outlaw am: revolutionary workers’ o:gar'y p their criminal and unsavory business. | lice. revolutionary workers’ organizations are carried on | Crowed, and took it, The object of this investigatifig committee is! hundreds of workers. the masses of workers from finding out what the! and for, at Fe veuse we are showing the masses whos (Conlinueu yu Kuye ive) inlaid The Negro police were Jim in the sight of led by the * jdon conference as merely prepara. DEMONSTRATION. Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | 700 At Stamford; 600 Union, is in Bellevue Hospital with contusions and probable skull frac- in New Haven | STAMFORD, Conn., ture. Police took him, after they \Between 700 Aug. 1— and 800 workers | gathered under the leadership of |the Communist Party here to fight ‘the war preparations of the im- |perialist bandits. Many Negro | workers were present. Abe Rubin jand a Young Communist League member spoke. The Mayor and chief of police were present. The enthusiastically greeting |the demand “Not a cent for war | armaments, all funds to the unem- ployed!” + SR NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 1— Six hundred workers participated in the anti-war demonstration called | here by the Communist Party. Ten |applications were received for |membership in the Party. ‘ * LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 1— | Three hundred gathered workers !demonstrated spontaneously here. | There was a good literature sale in |the crowd and a collection for the | campaign was taken up. tion for war and called for support of the Communist election cam- | paign. Other speakers were: James Low, | Otto Huiswood, Jack Johnstone, | District Organizer Baker, Rose Ye- ritsky of the Young Pioneers, Hoff- man, Sol Harper and Levine for the ex-service men, Paterson of the Y. 'C. L., Olgin of the Freiheit, Carl 'Brodsky and Stephen Graham. Besides the 30,000 actively par- ticipating in the Union Square dem- onstration, fully 25,000 more were gathered on the sidgwalks across from it and on side streets. These last were interested specta- tors, but not actually participating Certainly, some at least,;would hay: taken part if the police had no blocked the sidewalk gdirectly gion At the demonstration prominent | the north end of the square at abot |speakers were Max Bedacht of the} 5:15, p he Communist Party and all other | Central Committee of the Commu.) the sq mitting workers to lea: » but not éntersit.. oy t was possible Page: Five.) L ! (Cuntinucu on