The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1930, Page 1

While the Chinese Peasants Are Advancing With Their Red Armies and Joining With Workers In an Effort to Overthrow the Bloody Rule Of Imperialism and Its Tools, British and American Robbers Are Planning Armed Intervention. Workers! Demand Hands Off Revolutionary China! Dail Central Orga thi af e-E Communist (Section of the EG ial: Vol. VIL, No. 189 nteree Fed ee __NEW} YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST F 7, 1930 SPREAD Shock “Troop Methods Goes STALIN, at the Sixteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, said, in regard to revolutionary com- Petition and the use of “shock troops” struction, that: Intervention In China Prepared By Capitalist aia MOBILIZE IN SHOPS in the victorious socialist con- “Not long age opinions were heard among us that the com- petitions and shock troops were ‘overdone subtleties’ and already ‘bankrupt. Today, these ‘wise’ people are not even accorded a derisive smile. They are simply regarded as people whose ‘wis- dom’ is out of date.” The use; as Comrade Stalin brought out, of these methods nave worked “miracles” among the Soviet working class. And while it is quite true that the tasks they fulfill so splendidly in the Soviet Union seem to be “different” than in capitalist countries, there is a basic unity in aims. The Soviet proletariat is engaged in a class offensive against the remnants of capitalism. The workers in capitalist countries are also on the offensive against capitalism. Revolutionary workers of the whole world recognize this unity of their class in struggle. Only the opportanists, the social fascist “socialists,” and other tools of the cap- italist class try to make out that “Russian” methods “won't work here.” They are not “Russian” methods, but working-class methods, revolu- ‘ionary methods. The method of revolutionary competition was used by the Com- munist Party of the United States of America with some, though not ough success, in the recent Membership Drive. The method has cer- nly proved its worth; but we must ask—What has become of revolu- tionary competition, of the splendid method of setting tasks of emu- lation? The workers of the United States now face the imperative neces- sity of making, under the leadership of the Communist Party, a tre- mendous fight for Social Insurance. The Communist Party must lead, is leading, this fight. But can it be self-satisfied with what it has done? No. Our efforts must be magnified many fold! Our Party is markedly, even dangerously, weak on shop organ- ‘zaiion, the-point most sharply stressed at the Seventh National Con- vention, which demanded a turn to the masses, a turn to shop work. In this, we must stress again that there is too much slowness in making the tur, And to correct this weakness we can well put into ly the tried method of revolutionary competition, but the ” of groups of workers especially selected for t capacity and devotion, to concentrate upon the strategic shops and factories to build shop units of the Party, to build shop commit- tees of the revolutionary unions, The struggle for Social Insurance can be successful. But only if | guidance and leadership. Even such hypocrites as Governor of New York says unemployment insurance is “coming.” But it will only “come” when the masses enforce it. It will “come” enly in the measure by which our Communist Party rallies behind it for real and not fake social insurance, the employed workers from the shops. the unemployed workers from organized Unemployed Councils. September First is to be a day of Struggle for Social Insurance, tor the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill proposed by the Communist Party and supported by all workers’ organizations, but especially by Shop Committees. The struggle must go on every day, of course, both before and atter September 1. But the demonstrations that day must give point to the demand of the workers, must mark a step forward in the fight, must be such that the capitalists cannot ignore. To the masses in the shops! To the shops with the iron determin- ation and revolutionary will of Shock Troops! What Farmers Must Do E do not need to go into long explanations to prove to the mi jovity of farmers, who are poor farmers and not rich farmers that they are suffering as never before. They know it. But we have the duty, every Communist has the duty, of contra dicting the flood of bunk in the capitalist press, which tries to make the poor farmers believe that they are poor because of the drouth, the “surplus,” the tariff or the lack of it, their own fault in “not mechan izing” the “world market,” “acts of God or nature,” or any number 0/ lies dished out by the capitalist politicians. Farmers are poor because they are being robbed by big cap ital, the banking interests, monopolies, landlords and capitalist government tax robbers. Farmers can expect nothing but more robbery from all the “reliei schemes. hole-and-corner “remedies,” proposed by any capitalist polit Rooseve ical party, sevubliean, democrat, “socialist.” They bave been sold aut repeat by the fakers of the “Farm Bl and as often deceived and ™ by tarm Bureaus, “co-dperatives” and a million and one achem nave only riveted the chains of finance capita! tighter, nade iheir lives more miserable, It is tin fy step © The | that great masses of farmers begin to act for themselves. nkesing with capitalism and begin to fight it. rm Board says: ithhold your crops.” ‘The farmers must suy on masses: “All right. but we will withhold paying our * ‘Che Farm Board says: “Reduce production.” The farm- * say. “Ali mght. but let the landlords reduce rents, the rail- coduce ftreights, the government reduce taxes, the farm imple- crust reduce prices!” Communist Party warns the farmers that only by following y of the United Farmers’ League of Bismarck, North Dakota, will they attain anything. The U F. L. stands for a rea) is organizing poor farmers over wide areas to declare tenants’ for Jower rents, taxpayers’ strikes, mass demonstrations to freight rates, a fight agaMst foreclosure, ete. 1 day the farmers of Ciinton County, Ohio, showed the hod of how to fight, though, wecause they were lacking y leadership, they didn't ask much and didn’t get much ring from drouth, with families “existing for weeks on meagre had gone individually to the County Commissioners to ask work be opened up to give them a few pennies wages. Noth- ropes evoke ing doing 4 hey went in mass—and demonstrated, just as the workers do xyment insurance. And the commissioners were forced to it is the method that is significant. ¥ s have many things to learn from the revolutionary work- vrs, and among them the most important things is revolutionary mass iction. \Noedle Trade Fraction “Toate Tomorrow At 8 NEW YORK.-—Tomorrow night a very important general fraction meeting of all Communist Party members in the needle trades will be held at 8 p. m. sharp, at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, All comrades should be present withou fail at this meeting which will take up the problems and Party policy in the drive in the dress trade ‘lipper Workers Meet “onieht in the Lyceum) NEW YORK.--Tonight at 6:30 ; all stinper workers should he it Manhatian Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth 3t.. to plan organization te put an md te the wage-euts, long hours, yellow-dog contracts and speed-up ivsiem in the trade. Speakers from he Inlependent Shoe Workers’ ‘inion will address them. The union s condneting a drive to organize all unorganized shoe and_ slipper vorkers, All are iny‘te4 ~ MACDONALD AND HOOVER PREPARE WAR ON CHINA British ~ Ambassador} Has Important Talk With State Dept. War Lords in Truce Demand War Funds for Relief of Jobless Preparations for large scale im- perialist intervention in China are going on with feverish haste as the revolution advances by leaps and bounds in the Yangtze Valley, the richest section in China. In addition to the dispatch of gunboats, eleven of which have al- ready been concentrated near Han- kow, mass sentiment for war against the Chinese revolution is be- ing stirred up by all the lies and atrocity stories that the distorted mind of moron bourgeois journalists and diplomats can think of, from the burning of the “whole city of Changsha” to the chopping off of a British missionary woman's finger. On the other hand, intervention imperialist diplomats are busy pull- ing strings to bring about a joint intervention. The British social- fascist MacDonald “labor” govern- | ment, whose masters, the British j bosses, have extensive interests in the Yangtze Valley, has already made the first move by making “im- | portant” propgsals to the 'nited ‘States through its Ambassador in Washington. The proposal is so im- | portant that right after the conver. "sation with the British ambassador. assistant secreary of State Castle }went directly to report the conver- sation to President Hoover. Thus ithe “socialist” MacDonald and the “republican” Hoover work hand in glove in hatching out schemes for the suppression of the Chinese Re- volution. According to a speech delivered at the Williamstown Institute of Pol- ities by Dr. Yuen Li Liang, judge of the Shanghai Provisional “ourt. the Nanking forces and Northern troops have ceased fighting each other since the workers and peas ;ants took Changsha. The resigna- | tion of Chiang Kai-shek has ulso been reported. There is every in- dication that the Northern militar. ‘ists, the puppets of British and Jap anese imperialism, and the Nanking clique, the tool «f American imperi alism, are now working for a tem porary truce so that they can main tain a united front of counter-revo- lution against the workers and pea- sants. NEW POOL BARS NEGRO CHILDREN Discrimination By N.J. Municipality ELIZABETH, N. J., Aug. 6.—In pursuance of the boss policy of | isolating and degrading the Negro | workers, which found its crassest expression in the recent jim-crow- ing of the Negro Gold Star Mothers by the Federal Government, the | local government here has barred Negro girls and boys from using the new William G. Dowd swimming pool. These discriminatory acts against the Negroes are part and parcel of the capitalist system, and together with lynching and other forms of racial oppression, can only be abol- ished by the overthrow of the en- tire vicious capitalist system and the establishment of a Workers and Farmers Government which will, as in Soviet Russia, abolish all forms of racial and economic oppression and discrimination. AGED NEGRO MURDERED MOUNT VERNON, Ga., Aug. 6. —S. S. Mincey, seventy, Negro politician, who was kidnapped from his home Monday, and carried to Toombs County by a masked and robed band, where he was horribly beaten, died this afternoon. Local | Councils of the Unemployed aWorker Party U. S.A. cero Ol U FINAL CITY EDITION WORKERS it HF /ORLD, NITE! Make Them Use the War Funds For Jobless I> RLU. WORLD = Hung Jury In GONGRESS MEETS QR AUGUST ‘5TH NEW YORK.—The Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions, the wor'd | center of revolutionary union acti- vity, holds its Fifth World Conere: August 15, in Moscow. The Trade Union Unity League American section of the R.1.L.U., ealls for general mass meetings in all industrial centers in the U. S. on that date to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the R.LL.U., which very nearly coin cides with the date of opening of the Fifth World Congress. These mass meetings n ust be the occasion of stimulating the drive to increase organization of the revolutionary unions of the T.U.U.L., and ite na tional leagues, and to build un the The | LOS ANGELES, C ten orst After fifteen hours of de able to agree. This is the first time the j;eourt machinery in this white |terror town has failed to con- vict “Reds” for.any crime they choose to accuse them of. One juror declared all the evid- ;ence showed the police started the riot, and that the police should h: }been on trial! instead of the wor! When the jury reported. heavy detachments of police were massed at the court-house to prevent an other demonstration. The room wa: |filled with hundreds vaiting ali day to hear the verdict. The boss el lits hope to vic s has not given up mize these workers. August 15 meetings will serv: as | Another trial is schcduled for Sep preliminary mobiiization for the| tember 5, 2 sreat national demonstrations on] Those on trial were: Frank spec: Sept. 1, set aside as “Unemployment |tor,’ Carl Sklar. T. Horiuchi (al | three previously sentenced to 3. tr ;42 years imprisonment in the Im | perial Valley case. and brought from |prison in chains to be tried on this jease), A. Yamaguchi, George Day” by the First National Conven tion on Unemployment, held in Chi cago, July 4-5. The Americ. n delegation con: of 30 members as follows: minir Soxie 4; metal, steel and auto, 5; textile, | Rose Becker, Evelyn Martin. Geo 4; marine transport, 3; railroad, 2;| Kies Joe Holub and Irving Kreiz limber, 1; agriculture, 1; building | Pere trades, 1; needle trades, 2; oe | ree Rigts workers, 1, and certain delegates | Strike against wage-cuts; de- representing the national office and| mand social insurance! its departments: Bill Dunne, na- | eC ee tional office; Little, youth; Ford,| Organize and strike against Negro. | wage-cuts! Cal., Aug. 6. ang prejudiced jury’ summoned by the bosses to rj —BY BURCt rurance! Trial of Los Angeles Leaders of Jobless Even the heavily packed ilroad the on trial here for participation in Unemployment Day dem- ations did not dare to convict. iberation it reported itself un- RGENTHA ER | UAYS OFF 1.2 \Calls It “Vacation”: Wage Cuts Loom The Just now everything and only a few engineers ploved inside. | The Unemployed Councils, head s at 13 West I7th St., woul these un> ployed Jers join in a fight for uner | ment insurance. 7 losed A.F.L. CHAINS Atlantic City No Strike By JACK TAYLOR. EUILDIN Agreenient |tion of Building ‘lrades Employer He was talking about the crudest, | cent times. Its purpose is to take most ruthless attempt to bind the; from the building workers their building workers to a policy that) most effective weapon of struggle, will tie them down for either two) that of the strike. or four years, absolutely helpless,| How did it come about? while the employers change condi-| are some reasons. tions or swindle them out of wages} The crisis in the building indus- any way they want to. try reflects the general crisis of Rosenthal made his statement at) capitalist economy in the United Here authorities are making a pretense of an “investigatior ” |week, where the National Asocia- the Atlantic City conference last| States. The building bosses are trying to solve the crisis on the “It's a wonderful thing for the) and, the leaders of the A. F. of L public; it absolutely prohibits strikes | organized the National Board of | in the building industry,” said Os-! Claims, car W. Rosenthal, president of the) ‘The Nationa! Board of Claims i Builders’ Association of Chicago. the most anti-labor creation of re G WORK Musi Be Fought | ba ks of the backs of th: i | trades workers Unemployment, speed-up. wage |cuts, there are the answer of th: b ers es to the building trades wor in the present economic crisis. Worse Than Ever Betore. At no time in the history of th building trades is there to be found such wholesale and permanent un employment as at the present time Many thousands of the former aris tocracy of labor within the A/ F. of L. building trades locals have been permanently “squeezed out” of the building industry. Rationaliza (Continued on Page Two) DEMONST Spread Workers Socia Mobilizing all its forces to tion by Congress of the Wor today issued a statement callin ” puree “Unemployment Day. “Labor Day, socalled, must} be turned into a real mas demonstration, in strategic centers,” says the T. U. U. L. statement, sent out to all its na- tional] leagues and taries, “These demonstrations must be so organized that we reach the masses of unemployed workers as well the employed “These demonstrations must be held unions, secre- as workers. | NEW YORK Mereantha!e j{anetype Co. foctory at Ryerson and Flushin: Brooklyn. closed | dowr Monday. hrowing 1,200 .em- Moyees out © work The besves call it a “two veeks’ vacation for hem without pay. There are many re ts of ‘anization ond fe-cuts contemnlated, -speer ur hemes, ete. to he put in force when the men come back ne haps | !s two ~eeks from the time rationslization proces ady hit the facto It used to 3,000. Recently 1.800 hes are em under the auspices of the T.U.U.L. and the Unemployed Councils. “Special effort must be made to draw into this campaign rank and \file workers from A. F. of L. vanced by the Communist Party, huge demonstration in favor of the Bill on September FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE: BILL; RATE SEPT. 1 T.U.U.L. and Unemployed Councils to Lead in “Unemployment Day” Demonstrations Insurance Bill in All Shops; Get Workers to Fight For It spread and fight for the adop- ers’ Social Insurance Bill, ad- the Trade Union Unity League g on all workers to work for a ist JIM CROW PLAN AT BLACKWELLS ISLAND JAIL No Real Race Preju- dice; Fight Stools NEW YORK.—Commissioner of Correction Patterson has 27 prison- ers at Blackwell’s Island (“‘Wellfare |Island”) on the line for punishment Jas a result of the so-called race riots Tuesday and is taking much mions. i “The entire preparations for the | Labor Day demonstrations must be | up with our central task, | which is the building of the revolu- tionary unions, and to rally around our central slogan- Organize and | Strike Against Wage-Cuts-—large masses of workers, both employed and unemployed. linked A drive mm the factories and mines is now on to fo: by Social shops, | consid. and W adv: | eration {ot the | Bill, Party. adoption congress Insurance ae need by the Communist The Bill which calls for | social insurance for all unemployed | workers and those unable to work | injury for the payment of because of sickness, or old age, provides 6 Catealls From the \roused Workers NEW YORK. Becatise their tac e exposed, ¢ up a noon mecting hel pol e provera jterrs bre ection Two of the Communist at 28rd St. and 11th Ave. reetinas iy this factory sec ior a?) growr .. de popular with tLe workers, and the heck and ullying tacties of p } Y nd uniformed ! wo ” ' ooing bi . Dra; fatform the police fully nit number, tried to disperse the ¢ vhile the workers { them Several workers in th owd, all of then n applied for members Apt ‘arty. George Simon, Negro worker and chairman of the meeting was one of the workers brutally attacked !nsi Priday at Irving Place and 15th St when he came to the rescue of & jon glory to himself for ees sup- pression.” The capitalist press and Tammany politicians made haste to accuse the Communists of starting he riot, because Foster, Minor, | Amter, Raymond and Lesten, lead- ars of the jobless, were originally sent there. However, yesterday even Patterson admitted that with Lesten out, Foster, Minor and Ray- mond on Harts Island, miles away, and Minor desp ill in the ison hospital, could hardly be responsible, The real of the riot appears from a description of the prison and Patt yn’s policies by Sol Harper, of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, who recently served a term ‘kwell’s Island for introducing a motion against lynching in a Pull- man porters’ meeting. Bad Conditions. The prison, says Harper, is hor- per week to all such workers,|ribly overcrowded, and is unsani- lus $5 per week for each depend. | iary, without plop oe, aE ae the 2 re vorkers | nauseating pails in the cells whic ‘nt of the unemployed workers ie priuonel have to empeai the nly mornings. Two blankets only, and To rally wide mass support for!no mattresses, are assigned to the the Bill, September Ist has been|Ptisoners. To distract the prison- ae. lers from this condition, Patterson, Soukna euiaee UL nemel9 Day | 4° Southerner, deliberately Jim by the Communist Party, when all|Croys the Negro prisoners, gives | workers will be called cn to come! them the hardest work and creates [out in mass demonsirations to de |an atmosphere cultivating race mand the adoptior of the Workers | strife, In spite of this, however. Sociai insurance Bill. |the bulk of the prisoners have no | prejudices, and, when they can, work willingly with each other, Negro or white. The idea that the riot started be- ause of a quarrel between Negroes ind whites for the baseball field is nonsense. There are only two j teams, one Negro and one white, hey play each other. They ‘ould not fight for the field. Fight Stool Pigeons, | Fights, probably including this usually start over dope ped- r which is ended to by the eged politicians ng the guards’ fa- on work, This for the y all their n have been killed land by the guards. | » that Connolly, | srafter, praises and is avored nd which Ire | pol th Job temper up “ me at 28rd St. and the river front on he west side afier several speakers | acquainted the group of work or gathered about of the issues fac ing the working class, vad Ne