The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1930, Page 1

acre’ a sexticindh cate For Real Aid to the Unemployed, the Workers Who Are Disabled by Sick- ness, Injury or Old Age, Support the Social Insurance Bill of the Com- munist Party! And Demonstrate for It September First! Da ly. —T. NO vor unist Part ker y USA. WORKERS © OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (Section of the Communist International) Vol. VIL, No. 187 Entered ay second-class matter at the Post Office y at New York, N. Y.. ander the act of March 3, 1879 « Day NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1930 FIN AL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cent NOT A CENT FOR ARMAMENTS: A Demand the Release of the CHANGSHA RED FORCES Unemployed Delegation! ILLIONS of workers in the United States are unemployed. Being workers they have only wages to live on. Without a job they get no wages; without wages they starve. Confronted with this terrible alternative the unemployed masses throughout the country demand work or wages. They demand unem- ployment insurance. On March 6th of this year over a million unemployed demon- strated for this demand throughout th United States. But capitalism does not allow workers to voice their grievances. That is why the cap- italist authorities arrested and prosecuted the leaders of this unem- ployment demonstration everywhere. Here in New York the police arrested the delegation elected by the unemployed; the delgation was composed of William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter and H. Raymond. The chief policeman in this arrest was Grover Whalen. Whalen is associated with a bunch of czarist spies in America; he used his official position to pass off ism was in danger. The accomplice of the ezarist spy organization in America, the accomplice, of forgers, the chief policeman, Whalen, saw his duty. He arrested the committee of the unemployed. The members of this committee had committed no crime, except to fight for the workers. They had violated no law. No jury, ex- cept a framed jury, could be expected to convict them. But such little things present no obstacle to a willing capitalist REPEL ATT press Chi ACK; MORE GOVT TROOPS REVOLT |U. S., Japan Sending More Gunboats to Sup- na Revolt Boss Press Admits Upheaval in China Is An Agrarian Revolt Led By Communists Continue the Struggle of August First! LL FUNDS FOR JOBLESS! WORKERS IN SMALLER FACTORY T IN ANT OWNS JOIN -WAR PxOTesT Thousands in Mining and Industrial Company Ruled Hell Holes Want Workers’ Insurance Wide Radicalization of Masses Indicated and Present Necessity Is Organizing Three brigades of Chiang Kai-shek’s army along the Peking-Hankow Railroads near Hankow have mutinied and joined the Communist forces, according to a cable dispatch to “The Chinese Nationalist Daily” in New York. IN FRANCE; ASK HIGHER WAGES | New York State Law Exposed ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 4.—The fraud practiced against the workers under the new “welfare” law of New York State is well illustrated by the statement of Charles H. Johnson, Com- missioner of the State Department of Public Welfare, making LEADERS OF AUTO UNION AT FORDS 4 F Red Army machine gun crews successfully defended Reports continue to arrive at the office of the Daily Worker t TE Pee ne, ate a ricer the city of Changsha against the attack of a “Chinese” gunboat showing the widespread nature of the August First Anti-W ae Y by the very laws which the chief policeman, Whalen, was supposed to | Which was forced to withdraw after a short battle. The Siang demonstrations in the U. S. Stories received yesterday by ; uphold. | River is falling again and it will be difficult for imperialist | mail from small mining and factory (owas eer show f However, Whalen and his army of capitalist police had no time | gunboats to go near Chanfsha. The city is still in the hands | sna in addition to the tens of thousands previously published, an Z to think about this. Over a hundred thousand unemployed had dem- |of the workers, peasants and > -_—— Fa R e “Old A e Secu v1 ty In jadditional 17,000 demonstrat- onstrated in New York. Masses of workers had dared to demon- /Req troops, despite repeated g jing. Many of these were in strate in the streets. They dared to voice their demand for work or cena t6 the artetey |places which had not before wages. They had dared to demand unemployed insurance. Capital- ie |been roused to the danger of jimperialist war, but where the | workers are now ready to fight |against the war danger for the ; Soviet Union and for the Commu- |nist Party’s Worker’s Social Insur- ance Bill. policeman. The arrested committee was simply denied the right to a |The same dispatch reports that a| clear that nobody under 70 years of age, and not all of those ea : lateectoee. se eae eee jury trial. Its case was referred to a court of special sessions. This | Section of the government troops) 9Q() (()() Now Out: Calljover that age, are to get even ®@--—-~—-— —-——— |Expose Fake Opening} | unity League and the Councils ot f court is a staunch and sacred Tammany institution. Its patron saint |@@trisoning the three cities of Wu- : li the miserable $20 per month, | Under the law will be obtained from M bl the Unemployed must realize that is Boss Tweed. Its purpose in life is serving the bosses. Its reward |chang, Hankow, and Hanyuan were} For General Strike : Dl county ants leit” comintesicnees ore Jobless is graft. This court of special sessions did what was expected of them. It adjudged the members of the unemployed committee guilty and gave them an indeterminate sentence to three years in the penitentiary. These indeterminate sentences are also Tammany institutions. It is an open secret among mere thieves, forgers and grafters that tagged with such an indeterminate sentence one can shorten the sentence at just so much per month. The key to the prison is in the hands of an hon- orable Tammany parole commission. . The unemployed delegation, Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, have now been in prison for four months, They are in prison because millions of workers are hungry, and these men in prison had given voice to the demands of the hungry millions. They are in prison be- cause the capitalist masters of the United States do not permit hungry workers to demand bread in an organized manner. If the workers organize to demand bread they may take it if they do not et it other- wise; and that would be treason—treason to capitalism. But treason or not—the workers must organize to demand bread. They must organize and struggle to get unemployment insurance. They must organize and strike against wage-cuts. They must organize and fight to take their imprisoned delegation, Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, out of the clutches of the corrupt Tammany police, out of the clutches of the government of the capitalist masters of New York and of the Uuited States. | suspected of connections’ with the Communists and were disarmed. | Barricades in the foreign section of Hankow are strengthened. Amer- ican imperialist naval authorities in | China have announced their deci ion | to send more gunboats and marin | to patrol the Yangtze River. A Jap-| | anesefdestroyer flotilla was ordered | |to proceed to Hankow from the Sa-| |sebo naval base. | Communists Lead That the revolutionary upheaval in China is primarily an agrarian revolt conducted under the leader- | ship of the working class through | | its vanguard, the Communist Party of China, even the capitalist press reports are now compelled to admit. An Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai Sunday says, though re- | luctantly, that “indeed, poverty- stricken farmers by thousands are joining China’s Communist ranks, j PARIS, Aug. 4. — The ranks of the strikers in Lille, Rouen, Rou- baix, Tourcoing, Halluin and Lan- oy, the leading industrial district in the north of France, were strength- ened today by the addition of more than 100,000 workers who walked out today. This brings the num- ber of workers out on strike for higher wages to wellover 200,000. The great majority of the strik- |ers who have already been out for |nearly two weeks consisted of tex- tile workers. The reinforcements comprise large numbers of steel, iron and building trades workers. Originally starting as a protest against the fake insurance law, which made the workers pay the burden instead of the bosses, the strike is now becoming a general strike for an increase in wages for all workers, which is the maximum of re- & = around September 1, but obtaining lief. Workers will clearly see R the blank is not getting the “grant,” the need of fighting for the Social Insurance Bill proposed by the Communist Party, to use all war funds for social insurance in- cluding unemployment. Application blanks for “grants” POSTPONE ANLG CONVENTION | To Be Held Nov. 15 and. 16 at St. Louis On account of the extremely fa- | vorable objective conditions for mo- | bilizing the Negro masses for the and Johnson makes clear that the “grants” are not pensions, but only lousy charity “allowances.” Further, wherever possible, the children or other relatives of the aged workers, though they have burden enough as it is, will have to support them, and they will get no “grant.” Moreover, a whole list of “conditions” are laid down which make a mockery out of the preten- sion that it means any “Security Against Old Age Want,” which is. the title of. the state law. Where the Social "nsurance Bill proposed by the Communist Party provides—“payment of social insur- ance to all wage workers, unem- DETROIT, Aug. 4.—On the occa- sion of the fake announcement that Ford was re-employing all his workers, the Auto Workers Union and -the. Unemployment Council today held a mass demonstration in front of the Ford River Rouge plant. Thousands of workers at- tended and booed the police, This is the first time in the history of the automobile industry that a workers’ meeting was held on Ford property, The Ford plant “opened” today with steeply reduced forces. Ford announced that the few employed would operate on a four-day week, as production is to be reduced. The large number of Ford workers who were not taken on were told they would be hired “within a week or two.” The Detroit News makes the fol- supreme efforts are now in order to give organization form to this mass radicalization. Organization must grow out from the large cen- | ters into the little hell holes of capitalism, the small towns domin- jated outright by the companies (Continued on Page Three) ‘FRANCE COPIES U.S, WAR PLOT Attack on Soviet Union Looms Ever Nearer | | Paris dispatches show a new anti- | Soviet campaign beginning on the same basis as that engineered in waving Red flags. . .” and that “the pb anf : 7 vork. beca lowing comment: | the United States by Matthew Woll, : They must demand the immediate and unconditional release of test. source of reeruite lay| . The walk-out today was voted by| struggle against imperialist oppres-| Ployed or unable to work because |!Wine comment: employe's| the Fish committee and their allied ‘ Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond. among ‘the dissatistied peasants, the members of the General Labor| sion and lynch terror, the American | of sickness, injury or old age, and| jo.coh ang wenduetien Cohan police and ezarist pals. A_ member among e dissatisfied peasants, Negro Labor Congress has decided} who were close to the line of sub- sistence.” The development of the revolution Confederation, despite the action of the yellow leaders Saturday in to postpone its national convention | negotiating with the bosses for an|to November 15 and 16, in order to ! to all persons now receiving war pensions,”—the N. Y. State law lays down the following conditions: cently made is 20 to 50 per cent compared to a year ago.” The News also says that all of the French senate, Victor Dal- biez, writing in a paper of the capi- talistie “radical socialist” | end of the strike. The workers de-|#4in more time for convention pre- | Danby, tendencies developing. A very cynical and disappointed attitude is |—The National Association of campaign for the relief of the des-| Times admits that production dur- sures already have been taken : being adopted toward congress. Great dissatisfaction’ is developing | Building Trade Employers and the} SEATTLE, Wash—Four battle-, “In the Soviet Union, where the| titute coal miners is being started| ing August will be just as low in|against this peril, adopted on the 2 with the existing political machines and representatives. More and | American Federation of Labor offi-! ships of the Pacific Fleet are in.| workers’ and pessante’” army and jat_ once, Marcel Scherer, national | July, when 170,000 workers were demand of the workers organiza- y more we hear the demands to send to the house and senate, not repre: | cials met here during the last week | The sailors have been given shore | navy is built up for the protection | Scretaty, Workers International | jaiq off. “The automobile indus- | tions” -- evidently referring to Mr. z sentatives of areas, but of financial and economic interests. Instead |in July and established a National | jeave until Aug. 11, The bosses|of the workers’ republic, there is| Relief, stated yesterday. — Scherer | try,” says the Times (Aug. 4) “is | Woll and his mythical “wage earn- of professional politicians—to send bankers, railroad magnates, utility |Board of Claims which prohibits! ave planning a patriotic celebration | full democratic rights in the navy Just returned from Pittsburgh. | off for the whole half year. Pro- | ers’ protective league.’ - czars, coal barons, textile: bosses, etc. Morrow, Grundy, Davis, are |strikes in the industry, in so far @8/to whip up the war spirit of the|and army. The sailors in the navy | WPere canes Panna con" | duetion was very light last month,| | While this shows the imminent ; peat Srliginee ae of the growing fascist tendencies of the a Hoh Ch ne ease era sailors. They, of course, keep silenc | have full citizenship rights. is Rear aoa erases rh nea jand it will not be much greater panes a wat eesiok te sone ites ern! . ver i a y iti | ail ip i i ood ii wn nion, other dispatches show a y SEINE OAISB CURT oer tu tabcins Sigtsrarahipi: te bate ARSE let | The: teard Ja thaoretically to ad-| seocbash wher lapfan’40°e Me aael Piece te amet SSCS ri: | the cotdarsnce ct WT. Se funoticnn |S MONT ss the: tivaliy. between France and Te - the help of social democracy. This is best being exemplified by the | Just jurisdictional disputes, either by) Wat) Street navy. ” eae man; except wine on duty, All| 2ze8 ay pes ne the suseton of PATERSON WORKERS 60 is bringing all these countries’ : present situation in Germany. The basis for the rapidly maturing |!ts own decisions or by arbitration.| “The Communist Party of Seattle,|co.ditions, outside of military ac- ("Sing Telief for the mine workers. jvassal states in the Balkans into: - process of the establishment of a fascist dictatorship in Germany was | The union which does not accept the! ;, greeting the sailors of the Pacific | tion, is controlled by the iulors During the union convention a “practical war mobilization, : laid by the German social democracy iteslf. ‘The dictatorial Bruening | decisions rendered is to be fined by| Feet, points out to them a few| themselves who elect » committee a | eareaiaeom erence ontended ty “col IN BODY TO N.T.W. OFFICE: All Set for War ) government is only carrying out the fascism embodied in the Weimar |the AF. of LS. | things that they should re ‘ember as| supervise all conditions aboard BID | eine ocdeae whe eeneaMektan vee Se hee | In Jugoslavia, actual war orders constitution, prepared and enacted by the very German social democ- Wonderful” For the Bosses, workers. The capitalist government | —food, living quarters, ete. ‘ aaa is aoe : i jare in effect, with all local officials racy, over the protests of millions of Ger, ‘ The bosses’ viewpoint is expressed | » & ' " a Agee lief organizations in their respective] PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 4.—One 1a , man workers. More than } .| is preparing war, first against the ‘Just now the capitalists are localiti Iso the W. L-R. th 1 hers 1 trated under command to hold themselves that, the social fascist program of the German social democracy be- | bY Oscar W. Rosenthal, presilent of | soviet Uni hi yor! i : i Fareed ae ian a atts SN Aaa a padine ch th a y ‘ : het | Soviet nion, where the workers| working up a war frenzy against | . ; Fate e ckcs _| in instant readine Much the same ‘ came the model progr: f fascist. di rsiesccaty . the Builders’ Association of Chicago. s 2 3 taries. After the union convention | against imperialist war and for the | A gram of fascist dictatorships in other countries. a in have seized power and control of | the Soviet Union, because there the tone ; ; = ; Tatil | state of war prepa ons exist in FR le, “The Finnish fasci: ‘ He stated: “The agreement is al: abo ra adjourned, an executive meeting was | defense of the Soviet Union in front 4 . e ‘or example, e Finnish fascist law for the protection of the re- i ;, | industry, and secondly for markets| workers are building up socialism % i A A K t |Hungary, Roumania, and Czechoe , public” was framed on the draft prepared by the German social- wonderful thing for the public. Pee Fast py bags Whe eth der the Five-Year Pl hile ‘t held of W. LR. secretaries of Chi- | of City Hall here on August 1. In} Blaval i jemocratic minister of the interior, Carl Severing. Strikes are absolutely forbidden.” TObbeP a STHIRILE aieen Sa a the y capitallat’ lanes ag pal rc is [Caz St, Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh |spite of rumors that the Ku Klux | $10 in ai h this I Ital ri. A : fateh ond se It seems certain that the cases | *°?) dae ae TH88 8) and Philadelphia, which includes all! Klan would break up the meeting,| 4 though this neo-Ttatian ri- 8 Pe ec Heed Maa nce ccarestine uke iis athens considered ‘will not be merely juris-| ¢ We call es all sailors,” says the| throwing millions of workers on the|the mining regions of the country. |no disturbance took place. | Yalry is enough to set off a world , TY nan workers the burden of the Youn pan. ‘The international prcte. | ditional, but will involve demands | Communist, Party statement, “in- streets without work, to face starva- Retsorhdits, Vis Vieciia, Wits Baia eke: co ea ee ol tte ot oe ee ‘ “ity : , | for wages or protest against wage- | °°°8° i sputras ‘ : ennsylvania, West Virginia, io, | Pollack, editor of Solidarity, organ; ist antagonisms, of course, the el 4 ae an eat eae ree ae provibions f un Noung plan could not realy e Pp bs) Be) to fight and Prepare for the over- Fellow sailors, they will cail on|the Anthracite, Southern Illinois and| of the Workers International Re-/ on- being the intensifying conflict : MOONE IMA ee ee ee nee ONY 1) ATT has eiplopern dniinediately abel ed capttallniy, and: the estab | you to fight your brothers in the |the metal mining region of Minne-| lief; Robert Pace, National Textile! between ‘meriea and England, but , 2 pea To * if signed the agreement. Signing by |“) o forkers government. | Soviet Union. fe very same boss-| sota and Wisconsin. During the} Workers Union, and June Croll,| with British ir sm very jeal- 4 su Ciaua! Diao hoa than leat ete S the aatabhitian tof a fas, {the unions of the A. F. of L will| ,, Our demands for the sailors are:| es that exploit you when you work|convention and the coference the|Nec li. Ty. "2 Workers Industetal ing to block French ime i cist dictatorship, IEG aouintiat dati nes pine pee isl ia OF & 708 | take place at # meeting in October, | Full rights of citizenship for all the) on land or sea will call on you to|delegates, numbering almost 400,} Unior | pcrialist ambitions for leaderishp on ‘ Ge. woh’ Ase Bol a * fl i! isarming and suppressing |; Boston, where it will be decided | 2t™ed forces. The right to vote|crush the workers in the Soviet | were fed by the Pittsburgh W. 1. R.] A more! Etiroy wil. But Primary and. "1 aah i frag Ay Lari an yen) be attack upon the whether the agreement runs for two ane to nominate for office. Union who have done away with| Michael Burd, local secretary, was, an danners| acute danger is that of an imp . deb aie se ily Pal Ate perotee jon an oe e-breaking, by prepar- GeFbds years, “We demand that the sailors be| their exploitrs. We call on you to| in charge of the arrang ments. | marters | jalist attack on the Soviet Union: d ing aoa pon hs e tye luis and hel ping to build up the war given the right to organize unions| fight not your fellow workers but Funds should be sent at once to t Yorkers te ; peek a he sap alist countries, are by their very action laying the Rally Sept, 1, Unemployment j and to demand union wages and con-| your own enemies—the bloodsuck-|the W. I. R,, 949 Broadway. New|). if locaveu .. ‘son St.|cards to join the Communist ( gro! ‘ascism. Day, ditions, as well as full social rights. | ing bosses in the United States,” York City, Here 12 workers signed application They included three Negro wo! ; F , a The Growth ot Fascism AS its last resort to halt the rising revolutionary tide, and as a means of getting out of the economic crisis and solving its in- ternal contradictions, capitalism is 1-sorting to the establishment of fascist dictatorships which rule by bloody terrors. Of course the con- tradictions of capitalism are insoluble. A fascist dictatorship puts only a heavier burden upon the shoulders of the working class, but its results are only more accentuated contradictions and a deepening of the crisis of capitalism, The bourgeoisie of Europe speaks openly of the bankruptcy of the parliamentary system of government. Everywhere we see the bour- geoisie clamoring for a “strong man” to rule in the interests of the country and not according to the decisions of a political party. They now speak of a government made up of people who stand above parties and have only the national interests of their country at heart. Even such staunch parliamentarians like Bernard Shaw speak of the “obso- leteness” of the parliamentary system. “We shall have to get rid of the party system,” said Bernard Shaw last Sunday. These are the measures of the bourgeoisie to defeat the proletariat. These are the means through which capitalism wants to prolong its existence ani make the workers bear the burdens of increased capital- ist exploitation. They see the masses getting disillusioned with cap- italist democracy and resorting to revolutionary political mass strug- gles, under the leadership of the Communists, and consequently hope to avoid a revolutionary crisis by means of a fascist dictatorship. In the United States, as well, w. see signs of the same political has also reached such proportions! that the capitalist newspapers find it no longer expedient to deny the existence of a real revolutionary movement in China by calling the} fighting workers and peasants “ban- | dits.” The same dispatch is, there- | fore, compelled to report that | “China’s Communists have ceased to be merely roving bands of thieves |and lawless soldiery. Instead they} are genuine converts to Russia’s | Communism.” AFL, AGREES TO FORBID STRIKES ‘It’s Wonderful,” Say Building Bosses ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 4. cisively rejected the attempted sell- out. The bosses in the Lille district, urging the chief of police of the district to smash the strike, in a letter pointed out that they would not raise wages as they want to con- sider their profits first. A general strike of all workers| ances that confront Negro work-| under the law for his support.” is the aim of the revolutionary working class organizations here who are taking an active part in the strike and were chiefly instru- mental in bringing out the addition- al 100,000 workers to fight for higher wages. Higher wages, as a result of this militant strike, has already been granted by several in- dustries. THE FLEET ISIN | Communist Demands tor Sailors paration. A statement sent out by Herbert Newton, national organizer, declares: “The program of the A. N. L. C. has met with ready response. Many To get socalled “old age relief,” a person must be one who: | “1. Has attained the age of 70 | years, and is unable to support him- new locals have sprung up ard are| self either in whole or in part; and energetically taking up the fight| has no children or other person able against lynching and other griev-|to support him and jers. With this increased activity | and the necessity td build a broader | united front of workers, black and white, the locals have asked that thé convention be postponed in order. that the farmers of the South may | be able to attend as well as workers} ; of other sections. The dates de- cided upon are November 15 and | 16, in St. Louis, Mo. 4 responsible While factories are throwing men out of work at 40, as “too old,” it «Continued on Page Three) NAT'L CAMPAIGN TO AID MINERS Relief For Miners Is Urgent Need NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—A national plants are to resume work “on a somewhat reduced schedule com- pared to the schedule at the be- ginning of the lay-off.” The lay- offs began in June of this year. “This means,” says the Commu- nist Party, Detroit. District, “not | only is there a great increase in un- | employment as compared to last year in the auto industry, but that there are more unemployed than there were in June, just before the lay-offs.” At the large outdoor meeting in | front. of the Ford Rouge Rive plant the police arrested Power: secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; Wood, secretary of the Auto Workers Union, and Thomp- son, Youth Organizer of the T.U. U.L. Powers was badly beaten by the cops. They are all out on bail and the trial is set for next Monday. Ter) oe Pointing out that despite the much heralded opening of the auto plants in Detroit, the New York r { goes into hysterics about Soviet | “dumping.” This is evidently a part |of the international campaign to whip up war hysteria against the Soviet on an economic excuse. Dalbiez says that this “dumping” is “ruining French industry,” altho, just as in the case of the United States, he also unable to show how such “ruin” can be’ brought \about when Soviet imports into France are of goods France does not produce at all or very little. The principal imports into France from the Soviet Union are flax and oil, with some minerals, practically none of such goods being produced in France. There were also some | meats and flour and lumber, French produition in these being limited. Unites With Fish That this vomit of Dalbiez is part of the world campaign against the Soviet Union as preliminary war propaganda, een in the fact that | Dalbiez speaks of the United States, where, , “safeguarding meas- | | |