The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1930, Page 1

se ilk mm el — hE cms Id n- nd le on Ww Many fake unemployment relief proposals will be made by capitalist agents, especially by those of the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party. But the workers must not be fooled. Fight for the Bill of the Communist Party on September Ist and in the Elections! Daily, Central «Worker ist Party U.S.A. pn of the chan ueles Nile ereatepal) Entered as second-clasn Vol. VIL, No. 188 at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 matter at the Post Office es QE a1 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! FINAL CITY EDITION Pee ia Cents DETROIT WORKERS FIGHT FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL 250, OOO F ‘rench Workers In General Strike COMMUNIST PARTY CALLS Expose the Socialist Fakers 'E remember a time during the period of the war in the United States and for a short time following whén to declare oneself a socialist was equivalent to inviting a prison sentence or at least socal ostracism. But how things have changed! Today to declare oneself a socialist—especially a socialist candidate for office—is to be accepted immediately as a savior of society (of cap- italist society, of course!). We reier particularly to the reception given to the congressional nominees of the socialist party—Thomas, Hilquit, Broun, et al—by the New York capitalist press. Without exception these papers not only run very favorable news reports of their selection, but editorials greet- ing their candidates. Why this changed attitude? The answer can be summec up in the fact that in the crisis period for capitalism since the wat, when all other bourgeois parties have repeatedly failed, the capitalists in all countries have found that power could be given to the socialists and under the mask of being a “labor” party” they have pacified the workers and pulled capitalism out of the hole. The MacDonald government in England is a good recent example. The continued depression and developing crisis at home, accompanied by wage cuts, rationalization, and increased unemployment, caused 3 militant fighting spirit to grow among British workers. In the colonies, the spirit of rebellion was rising. The power of the British Empire, under pressure both from within and without, was hanging precariously in the balance. The conservatives having failed, the MacDonald forces, w ng the critical situation by armed force in India and governmental pressure to force the workers to accept 4uiWu0nS al nome, Were placed in power, to “solve? Worselied cui In the United States, with the continued growth of unemployment, the beginning of a nation-wide wage cutting campaign, and a growing fighting spirit among the workers the capitalists here also look to the socialist party to pull them out of the hole. By fake proposals to help the workers they proceed with their efforts to help capitalism. That is the reason why their candidates are now so well received by the capi- talist press. The workers must see this change in the bosses’ attitude and the reasons for it, They must expose the socialists as agents of the bosses and rally behind the Communist Party and its candidates in the fight against all the capitalist parties for the demand of the workers. The rousing of great numbers of workers for the demonstrations of the Trade Union Unity League on September Ist tor “Work or Wages” —for the Workers Social Insurance Bill—must at the same time be a mobilization of the workers for the candidates of the Communist Party who alone wil. fight for real social insurance, against wage cuts, against speed-up, against capitalism, and for a workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States. Demonstrate for social insurance on September Ist! Vote Communist in the November elections! Get Behind the Electi et Behind the Election x . Campaign HE Election Campaign must receive more support. The Election Campaign must he conducted with more force and vigor, Only a small section of our Party is involved in the campaign; the Party mem- bership, as a whole is not yet doing its share. The work is still being carried on spasmodically and not in an organized and concentrated fashion. In a number of districts we can definitely note a serious political und-restimation of the importance of our participation in the coming elettions. This situation must be changed. The responsible Party committees in the districts must make an immediate check-up of the campaign and take the most drastic steps to correct the shortcomings The opportunities for a successful Election Campaign are today greater than ever before. Workers are more and more beginning to recognize the Party as their leader, not only in their everyday economic struggles, but also in their political struggles. The Election Campaign is not an aim in itself. We want to use the weapon of revolutionary parliamentarianism in order to mobilize the workers for greater struggles on the economic and political field. This action will only be achieved when the Election Campaign is taken more seriously. At present we are especially confronted with the immediate task of putting our Party on the ballot. So far, the collection of signatures, with the exception of a few states, is proceeding very slowly. If our collection of signatures, with the exception of a few states, is proceed- ing very slowly. If our collection of signatures is not intensified our Party will not be placed on the ballot. . ‘the sale of the election platform to date is still very negligible. Hundreds of thousands of copies must be sold during the election cam: peien. Our election platform must be popularized and be brought to the workers in the factories and mass organizations, The cr is deepening. The masses are dissatisfied. No matter to what tricks the capitalist parties shall resort to, they cannot cover up the growing unemployment and misery of the masses. In this situ- ation the responsibilities of the Communist Party is especally great. We must especially intensify our struggle against the socialist party, which 1s trying to utilize the present economic crisis for its political interests. We must convince the masses that the socialist party is un- willing to fight against unemployment and for social insurance. We must put forward the slogans of our Party. Especially must we widely popularize and mobilize mass support for our Social Insurance Bill. The coming elections must result in a large vote for our Party plat- form and candidates. It must serve as a demonstration of the support of the masses for our revolutionary program and determination to resist the concentrated attack of the bosses. This requires intensive work on the part of the entire Party membership, This requires an immediate correction of the shortcom- ings and weaknesses in the Election Campaign. We must utilize the coming Unemployment Day, September 1, for our Election Campaign and prove to the masses that the Communist Party is the only force capable and willing to fight unemr'oyment and for Social Insurance. Into the Election Campaign! Bring the Election Campaign into the factories and mass organ- izations! . Organize and agitate for the Party platform and candidates! DEFEAT YOUR ENEMIES! It is customary, according to the capitalist press, for Communists to enjoy being martyrs. But that is only in the capitalist press, Com- munists do their work. If they become martyrs while so doing they are neither pleased nor inconsolable. But when masses give enough support this problem doesn’t arise. We defeat the enemies of the workers. The Fish committee aims to destroy the Daily Worker. We need mass support. You who read this may help by rallying every- body to the Daily Worker picnie on Sunday, August 17th, at Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx. Defeat your enemies! ‘REVOLUTIONARY UNIONS WINNING THE LEADERSHIP Workers ‘Reject Plan of Reformists For Return to Work | Fire On Demonstration |Showers of Stones Are Answer to Bullets (Wireless By Inprecorr) PARTS, France, Aug. 5.--A quar: ter of a million workers, in all in- |dustries but particularly steel, iron. | textile and building trades are on zeneral strike which has now para- lyzed the whole northern area of France. Ce Sa) The strike is spreading, with the BUT THE RED ARMY ADVANCES! | | revolutionary groups in the reform- {ist unions now leading, since the | |men voted almost unanimously jagainst the proposal by the right | wing unions to go back to work two |days ago, The revolutionary unions | |of the “C.G.T.U.” (United General | Confederation of Labor) are gain- |ing great prestige as a result of the attempted sabotage o” tionary leadership in the “C.G.T.” (General Confederation of Labor), though the first strike movement, in the textile mills, was declared by | the C.G.T. | The Communist Party and the Communist leaders in the unions with the suppor of the masses, call for a steady broadening of the strike. It is realized here that now, when the capitalists are trying to | throw the burden of crisis and ra- tionalization on the workers, is the time to make a stand. The strike | started ‘over attempts to force the | workers to pay for social insurance. The French workers, as do the | revolutionary unions and Commu nist Party in U. S., demand thai | social insurance be paid for by the | capitalists through their govern: | | ment. | Yesterday evening the police, at- | |tempting to disperse a workers’ | demonstration at Halluin, fired a * Hey into the crowd, wounding many. The workers defendec them- | selves heroically with showers of | stones. The strike area\has peal | filled with t | | ALL our TOMORROW TO HELP VANITY STRIKERS | NEW YORK.—The strike of the Vanity Sportwear is being con- ducted in the best militant spirit The bosses are getting desperate and are trying to scare the workers by serving certain individual sum monses. But the workers are de- | termined to fight until they win, |and no bluff of the bosses will help, {such as srpeading rumors that, '“only a few Communists are strik- ing.” The workers in the shop are | | united and know exactly what they ‘are fighting for, and will continue {under the leadership of The Na- | tional Textile Workers Union. | The union appeals to every class |conscious worker to show solidarity and come to the demonstration {Thursday morning, at 7:30, at 136-40 West 2Ist St. BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. 5.— Over 100 workers from the Bethle hem Steel Co, sheet mills at Spar- rows Point are out on strike against a wage cut of 10 per cent and terrific speed-up that has reduced the crews of eight men to five. A month ago the workers i» this mill got a wage cut of 22 ang a half per cent and a speed-up of 200 per cent. At that time they struck, but a few of the skilled men were bribed back, and police terror forced the others back, Since then, a steady firing of the more militant has taken place, and sheet mill men have been replaced by the tin mill workers, who were themselves given a five to ten per j cent cut. « When the,second wage-cut, 10 per | Demand Unemployment tn: STEEL WORKERS Si RIKE Fight Wave Cuts at Soarrows Point reac- | —BY BURCK Soviet in Red Forces Are ‘Changsha Within 25 Miles of Hoi! ow A Soviet Government for the Soviet areas in Hunan, Kiangsi and Hupei provinces as established at Cha Gonmine LiL jereys ice, DEQH repori AGE IN THE U, §. ARMY Rated} |Negro S§ Soldiers Like Slaves FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz., Aug. 5. --Peonage .in the United States army was exposed by the wife of a Negro soldier at this post in a let- ter published this week in the Kan-| sc Call. Picturing the ' less than s »mes of soldiers as huts, devoid of sanitary facilities and discipline so isgid that it would be revolting even in war time, the wife tells a revolt- ig story of intolerable conditions for Negro soldiers and their families at the fort. The wives of the white officers ractically run the fort, heaping all sorts of insults upon the Negro wo- ters’ }men and the soldiers as well. Each civilian on the reservation has a soldier to help him, soldier does the work and the white civilian gets paid for it. Strike A inst Wage-Cuts! ay ae was announced, the started again. The police are already in the mill, strike trying to foree the strikers back again. The Metal Workers Industrial League issued leaflets to the work- ers of the sheet mills to organize strike committees and carry on a militant struggle, spreading it to the other mills. Leaflets were issued to the tin mill workers to join in the struggle and refuse to take the place of the strike: A huge open air meeting is ar- ranged by the Metal Workers In- dustrial League for tomorrow, at vorkers are asked to at- ‘tend to this meeting, but the | » at 15th and astern Ave. | Many trade unions and pea-* sant mass organizations were formed in Changsha and the vicinity just as in other Soviet areas as soon as the workers and peasants took control of the place. patches spread conflicting and self- contradictory. reports as well as “official” announcements about the “re-entry” of Changsha by Nanking troops. Of course, it is the spread- ing and deepening of the revolution | among the masses rather than the | gaining or loosing of a city that is | of decisive importance at this stage of the Chinese revolution. The re- ported evacuation of Changsha by the Red forces, if true, might pos- sibly be a temporary strategical move in preparation for a bigger and more important engagements in |the near future. The bigger move may very likely | be made in or about Hankow, the | second largest industrial city in China and once the seat of a revo- lutionary government in 1927, The advance guards of the Red forces have already approached within 25 miles of the city. There are numer- ous indications of intensified acti- | vities of militant workers in the city of Hankow, eight of whom were already executed by the Koum- intang government in the last few days. According to a cable dispatch to a New York Chinese newspaper, the entire force of 2,000 gendarmes in Hankow was disarmed by gov- ernment troops because most of them were found to be Communist suspects. Martial law is still in | force in Hankow. The imperialists are, on the other vhand, also concentrating their | forces around Hankow, where seven foreign gunboats have already ar- |rived. Two of the seven are U. S. | gunboats, sent there to protect the interests of Wall Street, and keep | the Chinese masses in subjection. |Four Japanese destroyers are steaming from the Sasebo Naval | Station to Shanghai to strengthen the forces already there. War clouds of large scale imperialist military intervention in China are gathering fast. NEEDLE FRACTION FRIDAY NEW YORK.—There will be a very important general fraction meetig of all Communist néedle workers held Friday, at 8 p. m. sharp, at the Workers Center. The | meeting will take up the drive to aorganize in the dress trade, In the meantime, capitalist dis- | aon August Ist, according to a Japanese report from Hankow. i an, one of the veteran leaders of the Chinese revolutionary trade union | | mov ement and for several years the organizer of the fighting miners at An-Yuan in Hunan | d to have been elected the president of ee new government. 6 HURT IN JAIL RACE RIOT HERE ‘Capitalist Jim-Crowism Starts Trouble Four Negro and two white pris- oners at the City Penitentiary on Welfare Island were injured last night in a race riot arising out of the Jim Crow ideals and practices ot American capitalism injected even within prison walls. The riot arose directly as the fe- sult of the white prisoners’ attitude that only one race at a time could prisoners themselves out of a com- mond fund. correctly took the attitude that if the whites did not want to use the field with them hat was up to them, they would certainly not be barred from its use at any time. The four Negroes who were at- tacked and suffered injuries were beaten up by the guards who went to the help of the white prisoners Rebert Minor, one of the leaders of the unemployed delegation ar- rested on March 6 and jailed by the capitalist court is at Welfare Island “Will L Last for From many sources comes news of the worsening world economic crisis. A cable from Berlin to the New York Times (Aug. 5) quotes Dr. Paul Reusch, a leading exploiter and German member of the Bank for International Settlements, say- ing as follows in a speech before the Rhine Chamber of Commerce: “Without wishing to paint the Picture darkly, I fear the serious- ness of the situation is not yet fully appreciated. 1 believe there are still many who expect to get clear of the present depression in short order. This German de- pression, which is part of a world slump, will not be overcome for a long ‘time to come.” Latest cable reports published by the U, S. Department of Commerce | sidetrack the workers with use the baseball diamond, and the | apparatus which is bought by the | The Negro prisoners | FOR STRUGGLE TO FORCE REAL HELP FOR JOBLESS Hoping to Prevent Communist Party of Detroit, a a campaign for getting 150,000 erendum in the April elections. While in general the struggle through the method of the state referendums is to call| upon and instruct the United States Congress to adopt the Workers In- surance Bill, the Detroit elections in April, for which signatures will have to be gathered by December 1, | will permit a broad campaign for the Workers Social Insurance Bill as against the fake unemployment bill being suddenly foisted on the workers by the local petty bour- geosie, These slimey tricksters, as usual under the name of “liberalism” per- forming as protectors of the big capitalists, have formed a so-called | “unemployment insurance league,” businessmen who want to counter- act the Communist struggle for real and adequate insurance not only for the unemployed but all disabled and | aged workers. This group of enemies of the; working class, pretending to be | heart-broken at the unemployment, have a “bill” that provides for only 12 weeks “relief” for the jobless, |and limits the payments to a mis- erable 40 per cent only, of the aver- age wages. Obviously, 40 per cent of his “average” jet alone feed, clothe and house his | family; and indeed these petty- bourgeois tools of big capital don’t expect workers to live on such ridiculous sum any longer than three months, although millions of workers have already been jobless for nearly a year. Clearly, these scoundrels figure that by putting over such a strike, the workers will be “quieted down” and will not fight for the real Social Insurance Bill proposed by the Communist | Party. noting this reformist attempt to propaganda carried on by these petty-bourgeois fakers who are very busy agitating among both white and Negro workers, are starting preparations for the September Ist demonstration and a serious cam- paign for the Workers Social In ! surance Bill, which provides for a minimum of $25 a week for unem- ployed, disabled or aged workers | without distinction, and $5 weekly additional for each dependent. The campaign of the Communists for this bill is getting splendid re- sponse from the workers of Nt ~oit. All workers organizations are asked to endorse it and help gather signa- tures for the referendum, by the Negro prisoners WORLD CRISIS WORSE A Long Time” give a uniform picture of a down- ward swing in the crisis in nearly all lands, Especially in these coun- tries is the slump sharpening: Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Chile, Cuba, India, Great Britain, Germany, Indo-China, Japan, Mex- ico, Philippine Island and many others, Meet Tonight At Seven. NEW YORK.—A special meeting | of all Communist Party, section and unit Daily Worker representatives will be held in the Workers Center, 25 Union Square, tonight, at 7 p. m. Every Daily Worker representative must be presen Social Insurance Bill up for ref-* supported by a namber of small | no worker can live on | wages, | The Detroit Communists however, | lying | All Daily Worker Reps| Prepare Demonstration Sept. 1, and Campaign to Back Social Insurance Bill in Election Small Capitalist “Liberals” Propose Fake Bill Real Relief Measure DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 5.—Setting the pace for other sec- tions in the fight for the Workers’ Social Insurance ,Bill, the roused by a fake unemployment bill, proposed by some petty-bourgeois liberals, are beginning ignatures to put the Workers’ WORKERS MUST BUILD THEIR DEFENSE COPS Communists Score Fake Ambush Probe NEW YORK.—Police Commis- sioner Mulrooney has eagerly | seized on the appeal of the Amer- jican Civil Liberties Union that he | investigate the bloody ambushing | of workers going home from the | Union Square demonstration Fri- | day, and the witewashing is under |way. The Civil Liberties, through | their director, Roger Baldwin ex- | pre ‘astonishment and gratifica- tion at the readiness with which | the commissioner begins his inves- | tigation.” The Communist Party, however, in a statement issued by District |2 last night, states plainly that, | contrary to capitalist ess reports, jit will not appear at the fake “in vestigation,” knowing full weil that | the whole hearing is merely an at- tempt to cover up the crime: the polic “The New York police who mur | dered Steve Katovis, Alfred Levy |and Gonzales, who brutally clubbed and mercilessly beat up thousands | of workers on the picket lines and | in demonstrations, especially in re- cent months, have convicted them- | selves by deeds before the working class as the paid and armed thugs | of teh bosses,” says the Communist Party. “Workers do not expect and will not look for ‘justice’ or ‘fairness’ at a hearing of those who plan and direct the police brutali ties.” “The only way the workers car smash these gunning attacks of the | police is by adequate organization of Mass Workers Defense Corps. Workers must defend themselves.” The International Labor Defense | points out how little can be ¢ of the murderous New York police investigating itsel’, while they have on their record the | Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymo Lesten to prison without one of evidence of the shocking polic« brutality on March 6 RAID GP, UNITS IN GERMANY | (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, August 5.—Last night there were wide-spread police raid: of the local headquarters of the |Communist Party, allegedly search jing for arms. The raid proved to |be a fiasco. One worker was ar. rested for carrying a knife which the police said was a dagger. The court at Mainz sentenced seven fascists for a term of six weeks and seven months in connec tion with the unprovoked attac’< 0 Reichsbanner, the socialist defens: corp. Seven patriots were sentenced a Main for excesses committeed ir |the anti-separatist demonstration: following Frnech evacuation. Six of the accused are discovered to be convicted criminals on charges 0: | -obbery and engaging | in the “whit |slave trade.”* * PARIS, August 5.—On August unemployed workers raided the pre fecture of Ferrara in Italy. A col lision occurred between the worker: and carabinieri (a variety 91 | mounted rural police). Several per: [sons were killed, including the fas acist, Podesta. ted ne in the hospital and heartily liked | ‘