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wet '« DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930 PRAVDA SAYS WAFDISTS WILL NOT LEAD MASSES OF EGYPT TO REVOLT Wafdists Always Compromise With British Imperialism Whenever Possible Egyptian’ Workers Must Lead Peasants to Bring About Revolution MOSCOW (LP.S.).—Commenting upon the situation in Egypt “Pravda” (July 16) writes, among other things, the following: “The struggle of the Egyptian nationalist — bourgeoisie against King Fuad and his feudal clique which represent the strongest sup- port of British imperialism in Egypt, is gaining in sharpness. As far as the events depend on the action of the Wafd party, there will be no decisive attack on the dic- tatorial ministry of Ismail Pasha, and still less any determined action with a view to liquidating the mon- archy in Egypt The Wafdists wish to dispose of the uncomfort- able competition of British capital- ism in Egypt, and for this reason they demand national independence and freedom of development for Egypt. Freedom of development of course meaning the enrichment of the Egyptian bourgeoisie and the sole right of exploitation in Egypt for the Egyptian capitalists. At the same time, however, the Waf- German Socialists Vote Down Amnesty BERLIN (I.P.S.).—At the begin- ning of the July 16 Reichstag’s ses- sion the objection filed by the Reich’s Council against the amnesty law of the government was Cee aan The socia] democrats voted for the ob- jection and 10 democratic deputies abstained from voting. The result was that it was impossible to ob- tain a two-thirds majority for the government bill, When the failure of the amnesty was announced the social democrats had already left Right Wing Renegades Conference at Prague PRAGUE (I.P.S.).—The national conference of the right wing rene- gades took place in Prague on Juiy; 18. The group is ted by Neurath, Berger and Muna and maintains close relations with the Brandler group in Germany. The conference expressed approval of the amalga- mation of the Hais trade unions with the reformist trade union fed- | Vienna Uprising Memorial Meeting VIENNA (LP.S.).—In the eve- ning of July 15, a memorial meet- ing was held by the Austrian Com- munist Party at the graves of the July victims. Masses of workers ap- peared after the close of the fac- tories ‘and all flags and banners Friends of S. U. in Czechoslovakia PRAGUE (LP.S.).—Fifteen hun- dred persons attended a meeting July 15, called in Prague by the preparatory committee for the for- mation of a Friends of the Soviet Union organization in Czechoslov- akia. Most of the workers present were social democrats or not poli- dists. dists. let no opportunity pass to offer Great Britain a peaceful solu- tion of the conflict. The Wafdists will take very good care not to draw the Egyptian masses into any campaign for civil disobedience, be- cause the results of any such cam- paign would probably be even more serious in Egypt than in India. The utmost to be expected from the Wafdists is that they will organize a few mild attempts to boycott British goods. Otherwise they will content themselves with protests. The anxiety expressed by the Brit- ish conservative press that the Waf- dists will stir up a revolution in India, is not honest. It is nothing but an attempt to compromise the Wafdists. The revolution in Egypt will take place when the masses of the Egyptian peasantry under the leadership of the Egyptian -work- ing class organize to bring it about. First of all however, it will be necessary for the peasant masses to emancipate themselves from the ideological influence of the Waf- the hall. The result of their action is that proletarian political prison- ers, such as Margies and Evers, will remain in prison instead of being released under the amnesty. The government, of course, introduced its amnesty bill in order to secure the release of the fascist Fehme mureders and above all to quash the uncomfortable proceedings which are at present going on and which would end in public trials without the amnesty. eration. At the same time the group drew a line of demacration between it and the Kovanda group which has gone over to the social democratic party. The conference offered a picture of complete demoralization and not more than about 15 repre- sentatives of organizations were present although the smallest branch hac a representation. bore crepe streamers. The meeting developed into a powerful demon- stration against the Schober gov- ernment and its reactionary policy. Thanks to the iron proletarian dis- cipline of the masses, the insolent provocations of a large force of police were totally ineffective. tically organized at all. The meet- ing expressed unanimous approval of the proposal to form a Friends i the Soviet Union organization. he speaker was Comrade Smeral, who will hold a series of similar meetings in all the big industrial tcwns of Czechoslovakia. BIG STRIKE IN SHANGHAI LOOMS Imperialists Massing Forces Near Hankow (Continued from Page One) the suppression of the revolution his full attention. The British mili- tary sommand in the Wuhan area hare requested British authorities fa Shanghai to send more British ‘woops to Hankow. Seven American @Buboate «re soncentrating in the wpper Yangtse, wear Hankow. Ac- gording * a report from London, British snd Japanese destroyers were steamin;, at ful) speed up the Yangtse River, Saturday to Hankow and Kiukiang. The Communist forces which are the only forces in China that dare to challenge the imperialists have already met the imperialist forces in battle near Changsha. Bigge: id more signi- fieant battles are awaiting the im- perialists and native militarists in Hankow. Hankow is not the only objective of the revolutionary forces, Kiuk- jang, one of the most important strategical cities on the Yangtze River, between Shanghai and Han- kow, is already within reach of the Red forces. Martial Law was de- clared in the important port, city of Amoy in Fukian province and troops patrolled the city. Martial Law has also been declared effec- tive in Nanking, the capital of Chiang Kai-shek’s government, and troops are also patrolling the city. Almost all of South China, except the Soviet areas, is an armed camp, armed against the “specter of Com- munism,” ‘vhich is haunting and taking control of China despite all suppression, and direct and indirect imperialist intervention. Support the Naily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Su' ALABAMA BOSSES IN BOAST Workers Must Demand Social Insurance (Continued from Paye oner lynching Negroes and jailing Com- munists, the Industrial Board goes on to say that... Cheaper Than Elsewhere. “The wage scale necessary to attract these unemployed women is far lower than that existing in centers specializing in woman labor.” This is said by Birmingham bosses at a time when thousands of men, not to speak of “white females ten years of age,” are vainly seeking ‘work and their families are starv- ing. These blood-sucking bosses ac- tually try to “justify” this auction- ing off of the “white females, ten years of age and over’ to the lowest bidder, by saying that it is a “far. sighted’ way of helping the unem= ployed! These slave catchers say: “If the woman. of the home is gainfully employed, she can carry on the burden of supporting the family until her husband can find work. Thus in times of depression many families would be saved from @ penniless condition by the cheap woman labot campaign carried on by the Industrial Board.” Race Equality—of Starvation! How a family is going to live on the miserable wages, which the In- dustrial Board brags of as not only cheaper than malé labor in the Bir- mingham district, but cheaper even than woman labor in any other dis- trict, these slave drivers don’t say. | State Out of 147,249 “females ten years of age or over,” there are now 40,- 641 listed a’ working, this leave 100,000 of them not working, and since part of this number ai eroes, there remain 73,000 “white LEeTtreRs - Fe acy reese ‘xX Ea E_ im S&EOo,r Ss STOCKYAR FIGHT FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE. BILL TO AID. JOBLESS Fight For Bill Must Be Speeded Cleveland, 0. Daily Worker: The following is a letter sent to the Cleveland Press by an unem- ployed worker: “To the Editor of The Press: Never before in my whole life had I seen such hard times as the working people have now. Hoover’s prosperity is becoming so intoler- able that we can not expect any- thing but a general uprising of the masses who will obtain control of government like our forefathers had obtained from England. Sweated to Build Home. Take my case, for instance, I had been working hard for about eight years, saved enough for a down payment on a home. Several months ago I could not meet the payments and the bankers sold my home at auction, for which I had worked harder than the whole bank com- bined. I had been sweating 10 and 12 hours only to have it go to those parasites and have my wife and children go hungry because I can’t find work. It is such conditions that make Communists. During the war, I served ag a machine-gun man and am willing to serve again, but not against my own class, but aginst the bankers who rob my wife and children of their bread and butter, for which I am willing to work. Sees Uprising I look forward to a general revo- lutionary uprising of the masses, who will confiscate all capitalistic property and inaugurate a system that will benefit the masses, not the present favored few. In contrast with the present system of produc- tion, which is wasteful and haphaz- ard, the Communists contemplate a system under which the economic | needs of the community will be ac- curately estimated and the avail- able labor, capital and land care- fully apportioned, so that the just quantity of goods required will be produced. As a consequence of these improvements, there will be an immense saving of productive power, which may be utilized either to add largely to the volume of goods produced, or to shorten the hours of labor and tq combine both advantages to the benefit of man- kind. Fake Census Figures. Now about the census. Does La- mont say how many work two or three days a weék and earn $10 or $12 a week? Does he expect us to live on that? As for charity, we absolutely can not live on $5 a week. Besides charity demoralizes us so that we lose all respect for our- selves, Finally there are chances left for the capitalists to improve the un- employment situation by setting a six-hour day, with a dollar an hour and their plants in full production. Tn this way every worker willing to work will be able to find work, thereby increasing the country’s purchasing power and giving every- body a real honest-to-goodness prosperity. Unemployed, Wisconsin Kids’ Camp Takes Registration MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 3, — The W.LR. of Milwaukee announces the opening of registration of work- ers,’ children for a two weeks stay. These rates are $7 a week. Spe- cial arrangements will be made with unemployed and those working part time. Workers are urged to register their children at once, before the camp is filled. The first period will opén Monday and Tuesday, August 4th and 5th, so that the children will have to be registered at once, Come to 302 W. Water St., Room 34, or call Broadway 5221 ask for comrade Phillips. Demand the release of Fos-; ter, Minor, Amter and Kay- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. females’ who, according to these Birmingham bosses, are “a new res- érvoir for cheap woman labor.” But those who are working, wages Tun from $4 to 610 a week, the low- est, of course, for Negro women and irls. Thus the white bosses of ‘irmingham are anxious to show that by the race prejudice they in- still in the minds of white workers ainst Negro equality, they can offer white female labor cheaper than in any other city of the United 8. This shows how necessary it is to rally all workers, Negro and white, both employed and unem- ployed to demonstrate for the social insurance measure on Unemploy- ment Day, September 1, ’ ® D WORK Chicago, Ill. Dear Editor: Swift and Co. are laying off all old workers. Mostly young workers are now left on the job. The com- pany forces us to work at neck- breaking speed—81-b. You do, or die, or get out; this is how the com- pany talks. speed many accidents happen, and no matter how it happens, the bosses always blame the workers. Some of the workers are so scared of losing their jobs, that they strain themselves to keep up with the speed. Here is a table of accidents that happened during the speedy year: As a result of this} ERS ON MOVE. Speed Up Makes For More Accidents in Chicago Yards Jinjuries, 6.0 per cent. Knife cuts, 19.2 per cent; strain, 12.6 per cent; falls, 10.5 per cent; falling objects, 7.0 per cent; eye Once a person strains himself he) will never be the same again. After an injury the bosses keep you for a few months, sending you from one| place to another and then find some pretense and out you go. To prevent all these things work- ers must organize and fight against merciless speed and lay-offs. Single handed workers can do nothing, but a Union such as the Trade Union Unity League can do a lot. —STOCKYARD WORKER. Amour Co. Wants Ideas to Help Fire Workers Chicago, Il. Daily Worker: Armour and Company offers prizes for any idea that will help to throw workers out of the plant. Starting July 1, the company will accept any idea that) vill help to increase their profi) and get tid of some of the workers. So, let us help the poor profi- teers, send in your ideas, who knows, you may be the one that will be thrown out on the streets by your own idea. Last year 106 ideas accepted and about 45 per cent of the workers were thrown out from the plants. So help yourself, worker! —Armour Worker. Ship Companies Aid | Hand Out Religious | Dope to Immigrants New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: The ship companies do their bit in helping make recent immigrants “good” citizens. They allow a mis- sion society to distribute tracts that contain the following advice: “How to Start Right in America First—You will need God and Christ in getting sturted right in America, He will help you in your difficulties. Your prayers will be a strengthening influence to you as well as an act of worship. Thank God for the opportunities which you find here. Pray for strength. Pray for guidance. Remember what Christ said, “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it to you.” —SEAMAN. READY FOR SACCO MEET liam Murdock, of the National Tex- near the end of the Fall River mass ton applauded the announcement of @ great mass meeting August 22 under the auspices of the Interna- tion Labor Defense, to commemor- ate the murder of Sacco and Ven- zetti. MILL BARONS TO SLASH WAGES TEN PER CENT MARION, N. C.—Part-time work in the Clinchfield mills near here has brought the workers an average of $5 a week in wages. These mills, in order to further exploit the work- ers, will soon commence to run night and day at full blast, slashing the wages of the mill-slaves ten per cent. The bosses believe the new arrangement will look better to the workers than the wages which they received for their former three days a week of slavery. WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT DROP IN PA. PHILADELPHIA.—According to the Federal Reserve, factory em- ployment in Pennsylvania for June over six per cent. lower. the same period have dropped 15 per cent. OVER FIFTY-NINE MILLION DOLLARS IN PROFITS NEW YORK.—The and Brooklyn electric light com- panies for the year of 1928 have lined their pockets with $59,592,000 in profits. FARMERS LOSE $40 A HEAD ON CATTLE UTICA, Kas.—Because of the economics crisis in the bosses’ sys- tem, farmers here have lost as much as $40 a head on market cattle, also similar enormous losses on sheep. FARM IN THE PINES Situated tn Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German ‘Table. tntes: #10— ‘#18. Swimming and Fishing M. OBERKIRCH Rox 78 KINGSTON © et Y JAIL MURDOCH; TOILERS) BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 3.—Wil-| tile Workers Union, was arrested | 1930, as compared to June 1929, is} Wages Zor | Manhattan | .| Lincoln St. and find out all about it | | the result of the fact that the great | meeting, August 1. | The 3,000 demonstrating in Bos- | IS NOW READY. TO FIGHT BOSS Stock yard Workers} Into the T.U.ULL. Chicago, Ill. Dear Editor: Many times I have read the true words printed in the shop paper, but like the rest of the workers I believed in the bosses’ promises un- tii finally I became convinced that | the bosses’ promises were nothing | but lies. I was a true slave once, and I worked hard to please my boss, but when I became exhausted and was no longer able to keep up with the neck-breaking speed, the bosses laid | me off. That is how they rewarded me for being a good worker, that is how bosses reward all good workers who believe in their lies. Now is Militant. Now I realize that it would have been much better if I and the rest of the workers had been bad workers to the bosses and true to ourselves by answering the call of the Trade Union Unity League. Organize and fight against speed-ups and lay- offs! Fight for work or wages and social insurance! Then we would be much better off. ‘no longer believe in bosses’ lies. I no longer will be a good worker to the bosses. I'll be true to myself and to my family; I am going to fight for better conditions like a man, because bosses never will give us better conditions unless they are compelled by organized labor. I wish that the workers still on the job do not wait as long as I did, but join the T.U.U.L. right now. The sooner the better. Come to 23 S. like I did, I know you will like it. Farmers Rush To Join! Collective Farms NEW YORK.—Acerding to a dis- patch from Walter Duranty to the New York Times, there is a “great influx into the collective farms” as success of the collective farms, which yield 50 per cent more grains per acre than the individual farms, have convinced the peasants of the superiority of the collective farms over the individual farms. The dis- patch reports that “collectives near Rostov report as many as 10,000 applications from individual farm- ers within the last two weeks.” * WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT DROP IN ILLINOIS CHICAGO.—Industrial conditions growing worse in Illinois have caused employment to drop to the lowest level since 1921. Employ- ment is 11 per cent. lower for June, 1930, than for a similar period of last year. Pay rolls, showing the results of wage slashes, are 20 per cent, lower than those for June last year. Strike Against Wage-Cuts! | tack. The cops turned away when Down With Imperialist War A snapshot of a few of the ist war, borne by the workers at strating on August First. hundreds of banners against imperial- Union Square, New York, demon- “ORGANIZE” 1S AUGUST 1 TASK Follow Demonstrations| By Building Unions (Continued from Page One) dred Legionnaires and fas s 2 recently up : three wor! meetings by well planned and con- certed attack, the tables were| turned on August 1. A crowd of | 5,000 was present, with a commit- | tee of 24. While Starck of the Young Communist League was speaking, 100 organized thugs started the att ck. Enough of the| crowd had entered the wor de- | fensc group, led by Marine Workers Industrial Union members and 5 old ex-servicemen to repulse the at- of | they saw the thugs attac kthe meet- ing. After the meeting was fin- ished, part of the demonstrators marched to Communist headduart- ers, at 11 Plum St. The fascists reorganized and attacked this| smaller body, brfeaking a window but getting thrashed again and chased away by the workers. Bloodshed in Frisco. In San Francisco 8,000 workers | stood their groun dand listened to| Wm. Simons speak for 45 minutes after a first police attack had) hurled a woman speaker from the | platform and spattered the sidewalk with blood. A unique demonstration, partici pated in by Canadian and U. workers and arranged by joint co- operation of Canadian and U. S. Communist Parties took place at} the border city of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The meeting of 1,000 was at- tacked by a combined force of police | and fascists, tut the workers stood their ground and heard an hour’s speaking. They were so determined that attempts to place sedition | charges against the speaker, Irma} Martin, were abandoned. The meet- | ing, however, was finally broken | up. Beat Cops in Trenton. In Trenton, N. J., with 2,500 present, the American Legion end the police tried to break up the meeting as soon as the war was mentioned. They arrested six, but the workers put up such a battle that the raiding force finally was beaten. In Concord, N. H., 2,000 workers met in defiance of police orders, and surged through the plaza for hours after police had smashed the meeting and arrested the speakers, Iram Feingold and Hoffman. In Manchester, N. H., hundreds of workers met, and were driven from the park by police, the crowd and speakers being roughly handled by police. The meeting of 600 workers, Negro and white, in Charlotte, N. C., was broken up by state police reinforeed by local deputies. Battle Angeles Police In Los Angeles, with Mexican workers at the peak of the dem- onstration, 5,00 fought off the police with fruit seized from trucks in a big fruit center, and with the sticks of their placards. The demonstration was only dis- persed after 24 had been arrested after much ary songs in a series of battles down the street. It was preceded by mas factory gate meetings. 4,000 In Gary Demand Unemployment Insurance! |with Peterson and | the district organizer is m literature had been |} distributed, and singing revolution- | ; As Always possible because of severe police ter- ror and spy systems to hold dem- onstrations heretofore, 4,000 dem- onstrated August 1. In nearby In- diana Harbor, also a steel center, 500 demonstrated. Both demon- strations were smashed by the Police, but the beginning is made |o¢ actual business has been carried here. A meeting of 120, largely Negro | workers, was held in Kansas City, Rovinsky as speakers. The Communist Party of- fice was raided as a re 5,000 In Erie A meeting in Buffalo, with 1,000 present, was charged by the police and disrupted, but accomplished some of its work. In Erie, Pa., 5,000 workers met, heard some speaking, bought many Daily Work- ers, but were finally broken up by | meeting in Dayton, | police. The Ohio, was smashed. The meeting in Wheeling was broken up with three arrests, so was the meeting in Moundsville smashed, but in nearby Martins Ferry, Ohio, 400 met without in- terference. A list of the attendance at meet- ings, reported by telephone or tele- gram to the Daily Worker is as follows: Detroit, 8,000; Boston, 3,000; New Britain, Conn., 2,000; Pitts- burgh, 5,000; Trenton, N. J. 2,500; Concord, N. H., 2,000; Chicago, 8,000; Toledo, 1,000; Duluth, 2,000; Sault Ste. Marie, 1,000; Hibbing, Minn., 1,000; Paterson, N. J., 1,000; Gary, Ind. 4,000; Indiana Harbor, 1,500; Buffalo, 1,000; Erie, Pa., 1,500; Niagara Falls, 5,000; Los Angeles, 5,000; San Francisco, 8,- 000; Cincinnati, 1,000; Cleveland, 5,000; Minneapolis, 1,500; Rock- ford, Ill, 2,000; Superior, Wis., 2,000; Milwaukee, 5,000; New Brunswick, 5,000. . These are the larger demonstra- | ADMITS GIGANTIC STRIDES IN USSR The Communists Are Honest, Says Cooper WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 1. —Speaking before the Institute of Politics, Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, New York engineer and consultant in the Dneiper River electrification project in Soviet Russia, admitted |the giant strides made by the work- ers and peasants of the Soviet Union in building a gigantic social- ist industry. “Looking at the picture of Russia jas it is today and comparing it with \the Russia of 1914, no matter how much we may disapprove of Com- munism, we are compelled in fair- ness to admit that substantial prog- ress has been made in industrializa- tion, education and social welfare work,” he said. “From our own experience and from absolutely reliable sources we know that during the last seven or eight years more than $600,000,000 out between American business and Russia and that never in a single instance has a penny of graft been \suggested or given. tions, which, coupled with New York’s 30,000 make an impressive vote against the war program. In addition, a steady stream of reports is coming into the Daily Worker office of smaller demons- | trations, those so far received be- ing: Chattanooga (in the heart of the K, K. K. South) 500; Charlotte (near historic Gastonia, and in the center of fascist activity) 600; in the New England area with its tex- | tile, light metal and shoe industries: Springeld, 350; Lawrence, 400; Stamford, 800; Woodbridge, 500; New Haven, 500. New Jersey, a heavily industrial- ized area, shows, besides the larger demonstrations already mentioned: 800 in Passaic. The eastern coal fields show: Martins Ferry, 400; and good dem- onstrations of at present unreported numbers in Wheeling, Moundsville, and many other small towns. In Ohio, outside of those already mentioned, 700 came out in the steel center of Youngstown, 600 in War- ren, and 500 in Niles, St. Paul reports 400; Kansas City, 120; Jamestown, N. Y., 200; Syra- cuse, 500. 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