The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1930, Page 1

The New York Unemployed Delegation Are To Be Released, Some of Them— and Maybe—October 21! Mass Action Forced Even This Miserable Gesture. Onward, Workers! Forward to Sep- tember First! Fight for Work- ers’ Social Insurance! Dail Central Orga (Section of SS VIL, No. 190 at New York. N. Y.. under Entered a: second-class matter at the Post Office the-Ce a RI the act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, F 8,1 30 DAY, AUGUST FINA EMAND U.S.IMPERIALISM KEEP H IF giacnIcns HANDS OFF CHINA! ll War Funds to the Jobless! HERE are forty-four American gunboats in Chinese waters, and many of these, with others of Great Britain and the lesser imper- alist powers, are speeding up the Yangtse river to threaten the Chi- ese masses, whose peasant revolution is advancing further as the Red rmies sweep onward to the Yangtse cities, to unite with the exploited workers for the establishment of a Soviet Republic. 2 Why is there a revolution in China? And why are the robber im- (perialist powers mobilizing their war machine for direct intervention? Where is the boasted “unification of China” that Chiang Kai-shek, the expensive darling of American imperialism, was to bring about? Alas and alack, the Chinese capitalists, with all their ghastly mass murders, of starving workers and peasants, about which the American fs was totally silent, have not, could not, unify China, nor build a “modern,” that is to say, a capitalist industry. Chiang, with hands dripping blood from hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants, butchered to make them accept his rule, backed by Wall Street millions as he is, could neither wipe out the feudal ex- ploitation of the peasantry, nor build industries or even maintain a physically possible living standard for the workers in what industry there is. The social basis of his vile dictatorship was robbery, hence the peasants were robbed more than ever, the workers robbed of even their miserable bowl of rice, while feudal militarists waxed fat and the im- perialists took over much important industry that formerly was Chinese. In addition, with the masses thus scarcely held down by the sword of the busy executioners, Chiang Kai-shek’s American-backed govern- ment felt the continual smashing blows of the rival imperialist British- Japanese bloc. Wars raged without end, and with them grew the mis- eries of the masses. Now the Chinese masses can no longer endure this and are rising to sweep the whole imperialist gang, and all their rival native “war lords,” to hell! But what happens? The Washington agent of British imperial- ism, now administered by the “socialist,” the “labor” party, which is busy butchering in India and cutting wages at home, calls on Hoover’s notorious State Department, and it is all arranged that, while “there is no agreement” as to which imperialist plunderers should oppress the Chinese masses after the “reds” are wiped out, all im/erialists must work together to “protect their nationals,” the ancient lie and excuse for armed intervention to “wipe out the reds.” Workers of America! You have a class interest in all this! The same thieving bosses and bankers who have thrown 8,000,000 of you on the street jobless and starving, who cut wages and speed you up like driven devils, are the same whose munitions and warships, soldiers, sail- ors and marines (your sons and brothers) are being mobilized secretly, behind lies about “protecting American lives in China.” With the war funds taken from your sweat and misery, your bosses seek to crush back the rising fight for bread and freedom of 400,000,000 starving and oppressed workers and peasants! The same “Edison Corporation” which is right now in New York putting over a robbery on prices charged you with the aid of Tammany grafters, only recently had the savage police of Shanghai shoot down women strikers of their electric power plant! Workers of America! The war funds your bosses are using in China should go to relieve the, suffering jobless right here! In your shops, mines and mills, on the railroads and ships, rally to demand all war funds to the jobless! Refuse to transport munitions to China! Demand all warships and troops be withdrawn from China! Demonstrate for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill on September First! Organize Shop Committees to defend the Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union! Hands off Workers’ and Peasants’ China! The Tiger’s | Heart [AMMANY, New York’s example of capitalism, ulcerous with graft, cynical as a harlot, more brutal! than any beast, slanders the com- paratively noble animal by which it is known—the Tiger. But the tiger has a heart! None other than that Tammany prince of underworld dudes, Mayor Walker, steps forth to prove it. He has written a letter to the Parole Commission, and, on the strength of it, this commission, which fills its pockets with graft from the victims of other ‘Tammany grafters, has decreed the release of some of the March 6 Unemployed Delegation elected by 110,000 workers, who are probably, provisionally and’ with “all due caution,” to be released on October 21. Foster, Minor and Amter are “guilty,” of course, as Walker says, but merely of “bad manners,” of “unpatriotic statements.” And for these abominable offenses “pure and virtuous” Tammany gives them six months in prison, and they are to get out, maybe, on October 21. As for Raymond, he had doubtless been “bad mannered” before, at least he had been so judged by some other crooked judge whom Tam- many holds in sacred regard, and, therefore, although the first “crime” has been expiated, he must remain in prison four months more than the others." It is true that even this gesture, so hypocritical that, we repeat, no tiger would be so shameless as to make, was forced out of the cauldron of crooks known as Tammany Hall, by the pressure of the protesting workers of this country. The Tiger wishes to pretend, before election, that it has a heart. But it is careful not to release these revolutionary workers, these Communists, in time for their valuable service in rousing the workers in the congressional elections to Vote Communist! Again, no tiger would think of insulting its prey. But Walker, whose sales of offices, bus deals and endless other things stinks to heaven, decks himself out as a vestal virgin and urges the Parole Com- mission crooks to see that “the conditions of your parole will not give these men any license to repeat the offense.” Such damnable perfidy! What had they been doing, these Com- munist leaders? Walker hypocritica!ly says: “The only injury they worked was to themselves or the cause they ¢spoused.” Rot! If they had done only that, this slick mayorial crook would not give them even the miserable chance he does of “repeating the offense.” Of course, neither Raymond, Foster, Minor or Amter committed no crime. The criminals were exclusively the detestable Whalen, his successor in infamy, Mr. Mulrooney; the judges, in short, the whole capitalist. machinery of class justice, To say that these working-class prisoners were guilty of “bad man- ners” and “unpatriotic statements,” and at the same time to demand that they stay in prison if and unless they are guaranteed not to “re- peat the offense,” not to be “bad mannered” or say “unpatriotic” words, is a mockery in itself. Under such rules, even by one so half-witted as Dancing Jimmy, any one of the millions of New York workers might be kept in prison for life, What is the lesson of all this? It is that the same masses of work- ers for which the Unemployed Delegation was railroaded must support more than ever the demands which that delegation voiced, The lesson is that every worker, employed or unemployed, must rally to vote Communist on election day, to aid in breaking up the political machine of capitalist exploitation, and on. September First come into the streets in militant demonstration for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill, which embraces in it the demand for “Work or Wages,” for which the delegation went to prison. Protest the class vengeance of capitalism! Demand the release, immediate an! unconditional, of Raymond, Foster, Minor and Amter! Wieht for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill f / \INTENSIFY FIGHT FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE AS Sept. 1—Spread Jobless Bill With more workers becoming unemployed every day, with wage cuts descending on hundreds of thousands of those still temporarily on the job, the fight for the Workers’ Social In- | surance Bill becomes an immediate question for every worker. Here are some facts that no worker, employed or unemployed, can overlook. o— nets Green’s talk with Hoover NEW YORK NIONS about “no wage-cuts” was \camouflage for an intensive AND 1.0, PROBE |drive for further wage-cutting, Those Blackjacked On | undertaken by the bosses, with the help of the American Federation of Aug. 1 Testify NEW YORK.—The International Labor officials. A complete ex- | Labor Defense, together with a posure of the wage-cutting drive already on, and the intensified cam- number of labor unions has today organized a Labor Investigating paign yet to come, is exposed (not | Committee to determine the facts for the workers) by one of the of the vicious police attack which | leading newspapers of the bosses, the Journal of Commerce (Aug. 17). followed the Anti-War Demonstra~ tion at Union Square on Friday, Here is what the bosses say: “As a matter of fact, wages August Ist. The committee will consist have already been considerably reduced in a good many branches. members chosen by unions and.other labor organizations who will hear The reduction has come about in witnesses and render a decision. this way: Union laborers unwill- ing to work at less than ‘scale’ have accepted work oftentimes at Hearings will be carried on at the Labor Temple, at 242 East 14th St., near 2nd Ave. They will be open as little as half their. regular rates in other occupations. Thus to the public. The first hearing will be today, at 10 a. m. for example, many skilled work- men are now engaged in road making. Other employes have actually accepted tentative cuts in order to enable plants to run. These have been camouflaged in a good many cases—so it is re- ported—by one means or another. The point is that the effort to Two members already chosen are James Carr, designated by the Metal Workers Union, and Chris Popodopolus, designated by the ;Food Workers Industrial Union. | Among those unions who will de- ignate additional members at meet- lings tonight are the Needle Trades | Workers, Industrial Union, the In- keep wages up to the excessively dependent Shoe Workers Union, and high levels established in various trades where agreements existed the Marine Transport Workers’ In- dustrial Union. has been unsuccessful, except on paper; and in those cases where scales have been more or less strictly observed, it has resulted in a falling off o femployment to such an extent that the net in- come of the employe has been The figst witnesses to be heard will be Beatrice Deer, a young girl who was carried into the offices of the Daily Worker spattered with blood and suffering from severe in- juries; G. Morgan, another of the wounded, who was subpoened by . largely reduced. He has had fewer days’ work at nominally high pay and the rest of the time he has been idle. “Mr. Green and others may con- (Continued on Page Three) DEFEAT BROACH RELIEF SWINDLE 4,000 Local 8 Members Demand Bosses Pay NEW YORK.—The fake unem- ployment relief plan presented by Broach machine at a meeting of Local No. 3, International Brother- |hood of Electrical Workers, held at Central Opera House yesterday, was ‘unanimously defeated by 4,000 mem- unable to appear because he was still in bed as a result of his in- juri Bridget Farry, a bystander who was also among the injured, and B. Babad, another bystander. “To expect from the police’s in- vestigation of its own brutality any- thing but a distortion of the truth is ridiculous,” s the International Labor Defense, “Our experience with the police has repeatedly proven that its con- cern is not with the rendering of justice, but rather with doing every- WAGE CUT DRIVE GROWS |Bosses Admit Green “Camouflages” Wage Slashes; Unemployed and Employed to Unite Mobilize in Shops For “Unemployment Day,” of Mulrooney’s investigators but was | thing possible to intimidate workers. 6 AND 10 MONTH SENTENCES FOR JOBLESS LEADERS Discriminate Against Raymond; Walker Urges Severity | ie Court May Increase It - |Mass Protest Admitted | By Commission NEW YORK. — After three | months’ delay the New York parole board has handed down a decision | sentencing William Z. Foster, Rob- {ert Minor and Israel Amter to six | months and Harry Raymond to ten months jail terms. Even this is not al, for the special sessions judges 0 “tried” them without a jury and with practically all defense witnesses barred, and absolutely all testimony of police brutality barred, must pass on the proposed sentence of the parole board, and can in- | | M’Donald Rule Brings lobless to Over2,000,000 ° crease it if they wish. Further- LONDON, Aug. Official un- more, in answer to a direct question | employment figures published yes- | yesterday by the Daily Worker re-|terday show that unemployment porter, chairman John C. Maher, of | with the help of the MacDonald | the Parole Commission, stated that |“labor” regime is actually greater there is absolutely no time limit | than ever before in the history of | during which the judges must act. | British capitalism. The figure is To those who know the history of jwell over the 2,000,000 mark. While | delay and subterfuge in this case,|the MacDonald social- st re-} and the allied assaut charge aginst | gime points out that unemployment all four and Lesten, the fifth mem- | was higher only once before, in ber of the delegation elected March June 1921, when 580,429 were 6 by 110,000 unemployment dem-|registered as “unemployed,” the onstrators here, this lack of time }faet is that at that time hundreds limit is significant. Lesten has fin- | of thousands of miners were on ished his term, but the others may! strike. be held in prison indefintely, unless | More than 110,000 workers lost the workers and unemployed rally |their jobs in the last two weeks. | fin | wh | i jever greater protest against their|Many firms announce that they continued imprisonment. will fire a large number of their Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymodn | workers. | and Lesten were arrested March 6 «Continued on Page Three) DEMAND TO FREE JOBLESS LEADERS Labor Defense Calls For Greater Efforts NEW YORK.—“The sentence de- MacDonald won in the election by putting forward false promi |solution for unemployment. Every promise the “labor” party put for- ward has been broken. In fact, ‘utting and strike breaking campaigns. He heartily |supported the rationalization schemes of Mond and others, which threw thousands out of work. It |was MacDonald’s police that beat up dozens of workers when they demonstrated on March 6, demand- ing employment. When a delega- |tion of unemployed nt to the lead in the wgae cided upon today by the parole com-| “labor” minister, Margaret Bon- |mission—six months for Foster,| field, demanding a solution of un- |Minor and Amter and ten months|employment and adequate relief, |for Harry Raymond—is another ex-|she had them thrown out. ample of capitalist ass justice,” Besides shooting down I declares the International Labor De-| Chinese workers who rebel |fense, the organization conducting | imperialism, besides hel their defense, in a statement issued| bosses to cut wages and yesterday immediately after hear-;the rank ing the decision, Donald its against all attempts “The workers of this country by | at adequate unemployment relief. the hundreds of thousands have de- manded the immediate release of their leaders. | “The whole conduct of the case exposes the prejudice of the courts |and we protest vigorously the con- |tinued holding of these working- class leaders, ‘We demand their immediate and | shut | unconditional release and the imme- | |diate dropping of the felonious as- \sault charges which - still against them. 94 BRITISH TIN MILLS TO HUT DOWN nety-four tin mills n British ter m, in an attempt to stabilize prices, have agreed to make drastic reductions in output. The mills will completely down for two months. By | doing this the bosses hope to create an acute shortage of tin so the stand | price will rise, insuring them more t profits. LONDO bers who attended that meeting.» The machine tried to intimidate the membership into accepting the fake plan of unemployment relief. The plan was to assess the entire membership one day’s pay every three months. A committee of three was to be appointed by the machine to consider applicants for relief. Business Manager Preiss spoke, in favor of the fake relief plan.| Moroney, an official of the local,| |dared the membership to vote aganst the plan. The membership answered by unanimously voting down the proposition. Member after member arose and stated that they were op- posed to a plan by which the mem- | bership would pay for their own un- employed relief. They demanded that unemployment relief be gotten from the industry and from the} funds of the local treasury. A representative of the interna- tional office in Washington of the LB.E.W. was present, speaking for Broach’s plan, but was booed down whenever he arose, Workers Internatio Moclips, Wash. Daily Worker: Dear Comrades: here at the M. R. Smith Shingle, to. take effect June 1. However, the workers were determined not to take it and walked out. The bosses began recruiting scabs immediately, the first being short-lived, however, for with Comrade Taylor, of the W.LR. striking weavers, they shut the mill down. Seabs (rats) being plenti- full, the mill owner soon brought more from Everett, 200 miles away, | but not a full crew, which seemed |hard to get. Scabs Brought in. the bunk houses, under a barrage of tear. gas bombs, and succeeded in shutting the mill down till July 7 when it started up again with a of 167 textile plants in Pennsyl-| rat crew. These rats were brought vania show a decrease of more’than |in in fast cars piloted by deputies, twenty-four per cent for May, 1930, | all armed with sawed off shot guns jas compared to May, 1929, and revolyers, into a bull pen, built TEXTILE PAYROLLS SHOW BIG DROP PHILADELPHIA.—The payrolls On May 28 a wage cut was posted | |in the lead, the T.U.U.L, boys and) Comraite Taylor again took the| lead with the boys following into) MOCLIPS LUMBER STRIKERS FIGHT nal Relief Money Goes For Strike Aid |for them of full length lumber, eat, although not quail on toast or | standing on end (a work of art).| tea bone steaks as the wobbly paper The mill now is running with a rat|in Seattle seems to think. erew, armed deputies guarding them| Being a member the W.LR. of | say that all money collected has T.U.U.L. boys. | Sone directly to this commitiee and Never participating in a, strike| not to Russia as the wobblies claim, before, it has made of me, what they | but has been distributed by me and call a militant Bolshevik, after see-} the rest of the committee to pay ing the law, or what represents | for milk, rent, water, lights and law and order, protecting scabs| eats, to the strikers and their fam. with guns in order to allow them) ilies. to take our husbands’ work, | The W.LR. has organized a chil- Shut Off Water. | dren’s camp eleven miles from Aber- The bosses have even gone so far | den, which opened August 2 and to as to shut off lights and water| which many children from Moclips |from the workers’ homes, evicting | have been sent. Us mothers are glad those who lived in company houses! to take advant of this opportun- and getting up a petition to run us|ity for it will leave us wih more out of town, classing us as boot-| time to give for the W.I.R, and the leggers, reds and undesirables. But | strike. we have stuck it out for over two ~A SHINGLEWEAVER’S night to keep off the strikers and months now and they haven't starve: WIFE.— MRS. NORTON, us out yet, as they expected to do, P.S.—This letter expre: the owing to the help of the W.LR. andj sentiment of all the weavers and the clams and crabs from the ocean) their (with the boys of the W.IR. doing the digging), we have had plenty to wives in Moclips, Wash, Vote Communist orker -Co munist Party U.S.A. the Communist International) MacDonald and his cronies took the | it with searchlights playing around at | finance committee, at Moclips, | can © |Body department workers, laid of WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! i “CITY EDITION SOVIET HINA! WAR AGAINST CHINESE REVOLUTION STARTED BY BOSS GOVERNMENTS Nanking Troops Retake Changsha Under Cover of Bombardment By Gunboats Boss Press Admits U. S. Policy in China Is to Help Nanking Fight Workers (Wireless by Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, Aug. 7.—On August 4 an attempt was made by Nanking troops, under Ho Chieng, to cross the Siang River and take Changsha, but they were repulsed by the Red troops. The next day powerful attempts to storm Shangsha were made when reinforcements arrived. Under cover of bombardment, 2arried out by warships, Nan-*—— CLASH WITH COPS MORE WALK OUT tion, toward the northwest. | American and British warships par- |All Workers Support General Strike ticipated in the anti-red operations around Changsha. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) PARIS, Aug. Me NEW YORK.—Rushing gunboats and military forces to Hankow, Am- erican, British, Japanese, French. and Italian imperialist powers are pursuing a policy of extensive and large scale intervention in China in an attempt to suppress the Chinese Revolution. Eleven gunboats of United States 7.—Yesterday noon imperialism have already been con-| bloody collisions took place in centrated at Hankow. Each of these} Haulin between strikers and police. gunboats can put a landing party| Cavalry attacked 2,000 strikers. ashore at short notice. A regiment of U. S. marines is stationed at Shanghai and can be transported to Hankow whenever needed. British troops have just been rushed from Shanghai. Japan has eight war- ships at Hankow and four more are on their way, speeding to Han- kow. These, together with three French and one Italian warship, ke up “one of the largest con- centrations of foreign forces in! Twenty workers were injured, re- ceiving sabre cuts. Many police were hurt by sticks and stones wielded by the strikers. Belgian scabs were manhandled and driven back. Busses bringing them into the strike region were overturned. ie # Reports to capitalist newspapers |here state: “The strike in northern | France has extended further.” The latest report sent to the Daily years” around Hankow, as a cap-|Worker by the Inprecorr declared alist press dispatch from Shang-| more than 250,000 had walked out. h i was forced to admit. | The strike began in protest against a fake social insurance bill, that ous for the imperialists that it is | tried to saddle the workers with the no longer possible for them to con-| burden, instead of the bosses and ceal their motives for intervention. | their government. It extended into hus, Henry F. Misselwitz, United |a general strike for higher wages. Press Cable Editor, who spent many| Many workers have won higher years in the Far East and is knuwn| Wages, particularly in Rouen. In to be well acquainted with imperia!-| Lille, the street car workers, ist policies in China, confesses frank- | though remaining at work, voted to ly “The immediate object (of mi | furnish the strikers with strike itary intervention) would be to pro-| funds. All workers not yet out (Contmued on Page Three) | have passed resolutions supporting EN MO es 82 |the strike. A cable from Paris to WAR ARMAMENTS | that “The strike has now assumed general proportions throughout the Hoover ‘Economy’ Was For War Vets Only | country following the walkouts WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—A]| since Monday.” RAISING MILK great deal of information about war ie NEW YORK.—Like vultures prey- preparations of teh Hoover govern- |'™& °” the dying, the big wholesale PRICES MONDAY nent was revealed yesterday inad. |MiK dealers have hastened to take “Hit "Em While advantage of the heat wave to raise verten'ly by Congressman Byrns of | The situation in China is so seri- } hey Are Hot” ig Milk Trust Is Slogan of the price fo milk. The “Dairymen’ League” (in which there are none but big capitalist dairy owners and buyers) announced yesterday that the price of Grade A milk would be raised 37 cents a hundred pounds and Class B, 20 cents. It is to be noted that the price goes up fastest for he drinking qual- ities, which itself gives the lie to the League’s excuse that it is drougght conditions up state which makes the milk more expensive. The increase goes into effect Mon- Tennessee, whose main object was to e” Hoover’s bunk, ritic | Bryns points out that a budget of 000,000,000 was passed by con- $500,000,000 Most of the increase was due to increased war preparations. One detail brought out is the fact that Hoover talked about holding off the build- ing of a navy dirigible. “On the | same day,” Byrns informs us, “the | gress, approximately more than last year. secretary of the navy, Charles Fran-| day. It is based on the fact that s Adams, made the public state- | babies need milk, especially in hot ment that ‘no decision for or ainst |Weather they need it fresh, and the construction of the ZRS-5 had been made.’” Which means Hoover lied, and that the navy repartment is going ahead on its billion dollar war program in every detail. therefore hot weatner is just the to soak the poor hard for sev- eral sdditional pennie: ily Worker and |Ford Payless Vacati Freiheit Carhival 5 ronn a “i - |Ex led in Kearney] A two-day outing and carnival ts | = |to be held » of raising KHA A Ford | fund8 for the y and | plant w here in the exporting Iveiheit, eo ay even |department who were told last week ! i A ng all ‘to take awaeation without pay and | day | come back Wednesday, were told on | to |their arrival at the time set to sta away until Monday. Meanwhile Jerein, La other e | All organ last week, expect the same treat-|sive their cooperation by not ar- ment when their week is up. The |ranging other affairs for these days plant is moving to Edgewater, where |and their support in raising fun? & new speed-up system will be util-|for these two revolutionary papers ized against the employees, lof America, ‘ 1. sked to ns ave r go