The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1930, Page 1

Workers in the Steel Mills of Sparrows Point, Md.; Gary, Ind.; ast Chicago, Ind., and Pittsburgh Write of the Furious Speed-up and Lay-offs the Steel Bosses Are Forcing On Them. Watch for the Special Steel Workers’ Issue, Satur- day, August 16th. Dail Central Orga (Section of ol. VI, No. 192 Bntered a» second-cinas matter at the Post at New York. N Y. under the act of March 3. he-Conn the Communist a OS frunist Norker Party U. S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents PROTEST WAR ON CHINA REVOLUTION WEDNESDAY: Chinese Trade and Reds 66QIX additional Reds were executed,” reads an obscure line in a dis- patch from Hankow, China, to the New York Times of Saturday. “There appears at this time to be little hope for peace and pros- verity in China until there shal! have been a stabilization of economic and political conditions in China. Our government is determined to render every possible aid in the accomplishment of such end,” said he Daily News Record of Friday, quoting Senator Key Pittman, dem- »erat of Nevada, who is heading an inquiry of the senate committee of foreign relations for Hoover on U. S. trade loss in China. There is a ghastly connection between these two items. Since 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek’s mythical Nanking “government existed, he United States has been backing it, and the American capitalist press has been slobbering columns of pYaises for the “progress” and “modernization” and “construction” and “stabilization” and what not, supposedly the fruit of Kuomintang “ousting of Red Russian intrigue,” ting” for which American imperialists had only the most ful- some praise, though it is a matter of common knowledge that not only Russians, but something more than 300,000 Chinese workers and pea- sants were simply butchered by Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Ching-wei and company. Although “Russian intrigue” was wiped out, and admittedly does net now figure in the conditions, still the vaunted “stabilization” has not appeared, the fascist Kuomintang rule by massacre has failed to remove the basis of native mass revolt, the feudal exploitation of the peasantry and the general imperialist and capitalist starvation and oppression visited upon the workers and peasants by imperialism. In- leed the Kuomintang thrived upon this and hence could not end it. Thus the masses again are rising to oust imperialism and its bloody tool, the Kuomintang native capitalists and feudalists. Let no one doubt that American imperialists are responsible for the Hankow executions. While the imperialist press has carried acres »f stories about some foreign missionary’s finger, and the armed hosts of the imperialist powers are mobilized for war upon the Chinese mas: supposedly to protect fingers and other parts of the anatomy of foreigners, they are in fact intervening to protect their imperialist trade. With American, British and Japanese warships and troops filling llankow harbor, the savage and bloody Kuomintang is protected in chopping off the heads of workers suspected of being Reds. Without open encouragement and permission of the American government ang Kai-shek would not dare to pursue his thirst for blood. Hoover is responsible for the “six additional Reds” being executed! It is part of the plan “to render every possible aid” to “stabilize economic and political conditions in China.” ! Break the imperialist murder plot against the Chinese Workers! revolution! Refuse to transport war material to China! Demand with- Demand hands off China! drawal of American armed forces! Real Farm Reliet T another column we give the news of the,so-called drought. “relief” measures being put over by the capitalist government against the supposed to “relieve” farmers it and also against the interests of the workers. The meat of all this capitalist demagogy is that of “credit.” Which means that only the wealthier farmers will get this quéstionable bless- ing of a loan through their corporations miscalled “co-operatives,” while the poor farmers avill get nothing, unless they get more debts than they can ever pay, It is time that farmers should begin mass demonstrations at every county seat for real relief, for a turning over to an administration of poor farmers exclusively, of all farm board funds, and a*tax on at present non-taxable bonds, the robber profits of corporations and grain and cotion gamblers, té make a Farmers’ Insurance and Relief Fund, against which loans to the full value of the yearly crops of poor farmers should be made without interest, a crop failure in whole or in part to cancel the debt accordingly Farmers, organize Committees of Action by townships and dem- onstrate militanily for this genuine relief! Organize with the United Farmers’ League of Bismarck, North Dakota, for real relief by struggle! Capitalist “relief” schemes must be rejected as helping only the cap- italists. Use revolutionary mass action! Demand real relief! Headlines About Negroes AST Friday’s capitalist papers carried a headline “Mob Quieted After Lynching Two Negroes,” the story of horror from Marion, Indiana i'rom the wording of the headline, typical of the capitalist press which encourages lynching, one would imagine that the Negroes should be jad that only twe were murdere:, and that the lives of two Negroes was a cheap price to “quiet” the mob. “Anything to please the baby!” If the mob, swallowing the capitalist press propaganda of race preju- dice, gets irritable, “Give ’em a couple of ‘niggers’ to lynch!” Such is the idea inherent in the headline quoted from the capitalist press of America. On the opposite side of thihs page you will see the result of this sort of eanitalist press treatment of the American Negro. But not ajl the world suffers from capitalism and its press. In the Suviet Umon, under the working-class dictatorship which the U, S. boss press bellyaehes so much babout, the Soviet power permits neither race prejudice nor the capitalist press which incites. Hence the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times cables the news that the daily paper ‘“Trud,” organ of the Central Council of the Soviet Trade Unions, runs a headline: “We Will Not Allow the Ways of Bourgeois America in the Soviet Union!” across the front page, over a story of bitter attack against—‘a reactionary group among the 300 American engineers and mechanics employed in the Stalingrad tractor plant beat up a Negro and threw him out of the common mess hall for the unique reason that he is a Negro.” Perhaps Matthew Woll will come forward with howls of rage, that American workers in the Soviet Union are being “persecuted” because they are not allowed their truly American (capitalist) right to lynch Negroes. But all workers will draw lessons from this and from the difference in the way the capitalist and the Communist press speaks of the Negro. Only the Communists fight for racial “equality and against lynch- ing. Only a Soviet Workers’ Government enforces equality. This is the lesson American Negroes are learning. PRISON HEAD the cheating, starving, swindling | and general brutality to worker prisoners, but over the charge con- tained in the affidavit that the $8,000,000 sewer grafter, former NEW YORK.—The affidavit of Harry Ruprecht, detailing the hor- rible conditions for the ordinary worker prisoner in the jail at Black- well’s. Island (Tammany calls it “Welfare Island”) has touched a sore point in the graft ridden civic body of New York. The affidavit was made to the International labor Defense by Ruprecht on his release, and was given to the press by the LL.D, It was published in full in Saturday’s edition of the Daily Worker, and in some of the capital- ist papers. The chief excitement on the part | Queensboro president Connelly, was pampered in jail, living in a re- frigerated flat, with the best of food and four convicts as servants ‘to wait upon him. This, City Com- missioner of Correction Patterson, took the trouble to deny. He ad- mits most of the rest of the charges. including the charge that narcotic traffic goes on apace in the prison. He admits overcrowding and conditions, He evidently feels that nobody cares what happens to a poor prisoner. But he denies, with- out proving his denial (for the proof is all the other way) that jail is a joke for a rich grafter. The state hoard of correction, ‘eaded by Walter N. Thayer, has FIGHT FOR SOCIAL TASK OF TOILERS | Admit Wage | Cuts in 60 Industries; Jobless Army Increases iA FL. Aids F ids Exploiters| Mobilize For Sept. 1) “Unemployment Day” | Unemployment and wage-cuts are growing for all workers. That wages were cut in 60 industries | since November of last year, fol- lowing the Hoover-Green “no wage- cut” agreement, is the gist of the | August monthly review, Facts fer Workers, issued by the Labor Bu reau, Inc. an organization very favorable to the fascist leaders of the A. F. of L. While the Labor Bureau, Inc., points out the rapid ' growth of wage-cuts and unrem- | ployment, they cover up the role | of Green, Woll & Co. in aiding the | bosses slash wages. This brings jmore than ever to the fore the | necsesity for fighting. for the | Workers Social Insurance Bill, ad- , vocated by the Communist Party. ) | “The wage truce, supposed to | have been agreed to by employ- | ers at the Hoover conference,” says the Labor Bureau, “early last winter has been violated by reductions in pay. There was no way in which to enforce any such promise on the whole of industry, since it was made by individuals who had no authority to represent any one in this matter but their own companies.” Here in all its lurid, scabby de- | tails is revealed the strike-breaking function of the A. F. of L. official- ‘dom. Just a few days ago Green praised Hoover for “maintaining wages.” While Green faithfully performs his part of “no strikes,” keeping the workers back from or- ganization to defend their standard | of living, the bosses perform their | ‘part—and cut wages. In this crisis no worker is safe from the crushing blows of the capitalists and their agents, the A. F, of L., Musteite fakers, and the social-facist “socilaists.” | Both unemployed and employed must unite to force through the Workers’ Social Insurance _ Bill. This bill provides for social insur- ance for all unemployed workers, for whatever reason they may be unemployed—old age, sickness, in- | jury, lack of jobs. minimum of $25 per week. All funds, demands the Workers’ So- ‘ial Insurance Bill, must come out of the state treasury by levies first | }on all war funds; by taxes on for- ‘tunes of $25,000 or over; by income tax on incomes of $5,000 and over. | At the same time, to fight wage- cuts, the unemployed and employed | must unite under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Council, under the slogan of “Organize Against Wage Cuts.” It is to call on all workers to; Nastiand that congress pass the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill that |n shops, mines and mills agitation | is going on for mass demonstra- tions on “Unemployment Day,” | Vanzetti Defense Committee and | September 1st. It is on this day workers and fraternal organiza- | hat the strike-breaking leadership ; tions. The date is that on whieh | f the A. F. of L. tries to get the | workers out to glorify capitalism and the bosses. This must be ) stopped. All workers must be | shown the slimy role of the A. F. | of L. officialdom. “Labor Day,” so-called, 1930, | must be made a day of struggle of | all workers against wage-cuts, and | | its greatest sponser, the A. F. of L., | and for the Workers’ Social Insur- | ance Bill, | Jobless Shoe Workers | - Meet Today at 11 a. m. NEW YORK.—All unemployed shoe wokrers are called to a meet- | ing today at 11 a. m., at the office of the Independent Shoe Workers Union, 16 West 21st St., New York. The jobless shoe workers are in a terrible position. Formation of Councils of the Unemployed and a fight for social insurance, seven- hour day and five-day week for those having jobs, no speed-up, etc., is needed immediately. gation.” What it will amount to is seen from Thayer’s published state- ment this morning that he “has ut- of the city authorities was not over yey forced to promise an “investi-| most confidence in Mr. Patterson.” i It provides a} and Strike | | BURLESQUE! INSURANCE IS BIG By HARRISON GEORGE. investigating itself. And all the feather-witted liberals are singing| peans of praise at the performance. | The New York Times, the haughty | harlot of “all the news that’s fit to print,” in Friday’s edition does | itself proud. | It “impartially” ladles out the ap- | provals of the investigation given |by the Civil Liberties Union, and |puts in skeptical quotation marks |the Communist declaration that the | hearing is a farce. | Like salacious and sagacious {Solomon reborn, it states “with | equal truth” that the witnesses for) | the police were the police them- | selves, a theatrical manager, a bur- lesque actor and an insurance agent, while against these were three| newspaper men, somebody they call| men, Croswell Bowen of the Hearst | ‘a Communist doctor” because he | treated Communist wounds, and an} “alleged” victim. Oh, Coyle, head of a travel agency that! FARM “RELIEF” OF HOOVER IS ONLY SWING! 'Make Capitalists Pay For Real Relief | WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10.— | From all the hypocritical hulla- ballo about the ruin of crops by |the Peshawar fortifications and the| the drouth, one fact stands out. The farmers, whether those affec- {ted by the drouth or those not , burned out, are going to get swind- | led but not “relieved.” It also | means new monopoly _ thieving prices for food to be pajd by the ‘city workers. The crocodile tears of the Hoover administration and its hokum peddl- {ing Farm Board, tickled to death at | the. prospect that the surplus may | be wiped out, but required to weep over the real miseries of the poor | | farmers, is a national scandal in itself. There would be no “surplus” if the millions of jobless got unem- ployment compensation and the em- jeut. | The drouth, affecting in greatly | varying degree 1,000,000 farm fam- ilies is of course a disaster for them. But not one of the hypo- | * | critical Hooverites has shed a tear | |for the other million farm families | | who by rents, mortgages, taxes and | | other robbery of Hoover's Por | pals, have been ruined and driven | off the farms since 1920. Since the drouth began, untold | millions have been cleaned up by } | Wontinued on Page Three) ‘SACCO-VANZETTI | NEW YORK.—A Sacco-Vanzetti | Memorial ust 22 will take place at Union Square, It is organized by the In- ternational Labor Defense with the co-operation of independent Sacco- the two workers were burned in the | ' electric chnir, 1927, | The recent police attack on | workers’ protest meetings, the | | police kx lings of Alfred Levy, a) Negro worker, followed by the | police shooting of Gonzalo Gonzales, jthe heavy sentences given Foster, | Minor, Amter and Raymond,—these and the hundreds of cases through- MANY’S police department is| ving their wages | IAL MEET Demonstration on Aug- | will sell on the globe, is | trayed as a “who operates a Russian-American travel agency.” you tickets to any spot “impartially” por- suspicious character News—But Not Fit to Print. | So much for that sort of “im- Heer ciegs But we read on. Recal- ling that one of these newspaper | Papers, was knocked down and out land sent to the hospital on August | First, and remained in the hospital yes, besides these, Albert|a few days with concusion of the| even thors) skull, truly an incident worth men- Battles Fought Within A Mile | of Peshawar | | According to any possible ter | pretation of the news dispaiches al. lowed through from Peshawar by Ihe British censors, the wholg re-| |gion is up in arms against the im-| perialist government, and a series |of indecisive battles has been fought Jall through last week between the |British troops now concentrated in jarmed tribes of peasants who want +them to get out. | Battles on the plains outside of iPeshawar were fought Thutsday, |Friday and Saturday. British troops | |with all the tools of modern war- fare, artillery, mackine guns, tanks and poison gas could not prevent) one detachment of the Afridi from} advancing to within a mile of the) icity. They did succeed, however, in | holding the city itself from the revo- | |lutionary peasants. The tribal armies are now estab- jlished north and southeast, within ja few miles of Peshawar, and hold the country between, except for the} and city itself. Constant ing on land and air raids by the British are taking place. The rebel armies have their headquar- |ters in caves, in which the region | abounds, DEFENSE CORPS’ SAYS LABOR HRY Report On a Ambush of | Aug. 1 Demonstration NEW YORK.~— The labor jury of six, elected from unions and work- ers’ organizations at the call of the | International Labor Defense, which heard witnesses tell of the police | onslaught on workers going home from the August 1 demonstration | here, met Saturday end drew up nd adopted a report to the work- ing class. The jury \™. so im- | pressed with the detaii4 story of the police ambushing and Biackjack- | ing of some 60 workers that it rec- ommends the transcript of evidence be published in pamphlet form, with a short history of police brutality in other cases and other cities, the exposure of prison condi- tions on “Welfare” (Blackwell's) \Island and a call for organization of workers’ defense corps for self defense against police assault and lynch gangs. The report of the labor jury out the country are forcing the | sums up the testimony of the work- workers to recognize the character |ers who appeared before it (par- of capitalist class justice in this | tially published alread in the Daily country today. Worker) and points out that full DAY BY DAY EVENTS uled murder. | body. | Governor Fuller of Massachusetts In the Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti August 10th, the Day First Set toe the Execution. Judge Webster Thayer plays golf at his country home. Legal witnesses to the scheduled execution are notified to be ready. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes refuses to inferfere in the sched- | Rosina Sacco is officially instructed to accept her husband’s lifeless | At 11:24 p, m., 86 minutes before the hour set for the killings, gives Sacco and Vanzetti 12 more days of life, “to afford the courts opportunity to complete the con- sideration of the proceedings now pending.” b Demonstrate August 22nd at Union Square. i v6 (ng, ers” Union, |tioning though we would rather perhaps see it visited upon Hearst himself, we find that all this is handled by the Times as follows: “Lester Blummer, a reporter for the New York Telegram, tes- tified he saw the free use of | | | blac::jacks, and Croswell Bowen, a reporter for the International News Service, verified thi So that’s that! After having h kull cracksd with a cop’s blz jack, we av positively certain that! Bowen shoul’ “veri omething| |in the most decided “impartial” Times mak | “leg man” of Hearst a rat interested ‘stander. | But this | terests us. Le were an ar of ¢ mbushed in a burles. c theatre. Oh, boy! Back stage, where the girlies wiggle it hout fear, though they ed” by the po s, the} poor dis- urlesque business in-| , there But police must do their duty it take them into hid- (Continued on Page Three) 2,000 PROMISED may be} How E>:barrassing! 1 MACDONALD ADMITS NEW CONTRACT WITH U.S. TO ATTACK RED ARMY ¥ ight Lynching | | | | JOBS BY TIMKEN: | Ann WORK tw at 7 Come ame Seeond Lie to Fool Men (By a Worker Correspondent) — | CANTON, O. — After promising 2,000 men work last Monday, Au-| gust 4, the Timken Roller Bearing | !Co..put about 400 to work for 2; | days, and then closed down. Now, they came out today, and their secretary, who is in Birming- | |ham, Ala, makes the statement | there, in order to fool the southerr workers, that Timken will put 5,00¢ tu work next Monday, which woul+ practically equal their payroll of | “boom” periods. All Canton know | that this is a deliberate lie. 15,000 Workers In Canton, | Nothing fe told the southern work | ers and others, that at least 15.000 | ; are idle here, that one murder and | one suicide resulted here today ove) | family troubles caused by the dam nable oppression aad worries forced on the workers. Last week a wor!d war veteran) collapsed in the city jail. He and his family of five | had been without food for one week. | He had been receiving a pension of | $12.00 a month. An enormous crowd is expected | at Timken’s gates next Monday and the Communist Party leaflets and have at least one speaker there to get the workers to fight for the Workers Social In | j SaEanee Bill. “MOORE ON TOUR OF N.Y. CITIES NEW YORK.—Richard B. Moore, | Negro worker and candidate for) state attorney general on the Com- munist ticket, is starting his tour upstate to win the workers of vari-| ous cities for the election program of the Communist Party. This is one of the tours of Com- munist candidates. Later, J. Louis| Engdahl, candidate for Lieutenant governor, will begin a speaking trip. | On October 21, the proposed date| for Foster’s release, he will likewise proceed to speaking engagements in| the upstate cities. Moore's speaking dates are: Hud- son, N. Y., August 12; Amsterdam, | | August 14; Utica, 15; Syracuse, 16; | Rochester, 17; Buffalo, 18; Niagara Falls, 20; Jamestown, 21; Spencer, | 23; Binghamton, August 24, freedom, without legal technicali- ties was given any one to testify. The j lice and certain capitals; re porters who had already iid their stories before the police depart- ment’s whitewashing “‘investiga- tion” refused to talk, The majority of the workers who testified before the labor jury were unemployed, The labor jurors, who all sign the findings, are: George Simon, fore- man, from Ex-Servicemens’ League; F, E. Welsh, American Negro Labor Congress; James Carr, Metal Work- ers’ Industrial Union; Nathaniel} Marko, Marine Workers’ Industriai Union; Chris Podopolus, Food Workers’ Industrial Union and Sol | Weingast, Independent Shoe Work- | the 4,000 | out any charge, | protect the lives of the ; deputies “not to fire,” which was | which is always concocted against Scene of a Negro worker mur- dered by a boss gang. In Marion, Ind., the state militia conveniently arrives after two Negroes were lynched. When it comes to put- ting down strikes the militia is on the. scene at the drop of the hat, In every instance, the bosses” state is used against the work- ers—white and black. Manon Folice Bully Negroes | After Lynching MARION, Ind., Aug. 10.—Police | officers who deliberately refused te | protect 18-year-old Thomas Shipp and 19-year-old Abraham Smith, Negro young Workers, from a lynch- ing mob last Thursday nicht, were busily engaged today disarming Negro workers and breaking up in- dignation mass meetings called to | Protest last Thursday’s murders. Local Negro preachers were also co-operating with the police in the police of plans,of the Nezro work- | ers for reprisals against the police and bus element who collabor- ated in Thursday’s double murder. | oe | On Fake Charge. MARION, Ind, (By Mail). —Four | thousand blood- thirsty lynchers; stormed the Grart County jail here) August 7, and brutally hanged two Negro workers, Thomas Shipp and) Abiaham Smith. A. third neal worker, Herbert Cameron, was brat: | ally tortured by the mob, and bare- | \ly escaped the same fate as the| other two. | Using crowbars and hammers, | ripping iron doors from hinges, | | punching holes in the inside walls lynchers attacked the} prison from two points, from the | front and side, and by the use of! j tear gas bombs, kicks, and bruta!! beatings, terrorizcd over a dozen! prisoners who were in the jail.! dragged out their victims, ard! hanged them on a tree in the prison yard, Sheriff Campbell, who i: veady to arrest Negro wo always! with- | made no effcrt to! Negroes. Or the contrary, as the jail was! sheriff ordered his| stormed, the tantamount to saying: “Give the lynchers every opportunity to mur- | der the Negro workers.” The two Negroes were arrested on the same old baseless charge of “attacking a white woman,” ani “fatally wounding her man com- panion.” This ic the lying charge Negro workers who dare stand up for their rights, or demand wages for which they had slaved. This always terrifies the white ruling class, and their first recourse is the lynch law weapon. * * « Form Defense Corps! NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense denounces most em- phatically the brutal lynching of Shipp and Smith, and the cruel torture inflicted upon Cameron, » REVOLUTIONARY | ARMY ENCIRCLES —KIUKTANG CITY Rumor Important Port Has Already Been Captured Send More Troops |New Mutiny Impends; Workers Will Rise BULLETIN NEW YORK.—The New York District Committee of the Com- munist Party has arranged a “Hands Off China” night for Wednesday evening, August 13, throughout the entire district. Nearly a hundred street meetings and demonstrations will be held on that evening in New York, Brooklyn, Bronx, Yonkers and the cities of New Jersey. Special leafltes are being issued by all sections. The street meet- ings will begin 7 and 7:30 p. m. and will end by 9 p. m., after which the meetings will all. pro- ceed to central open air demon-— Strations in the various sections of the city. “ . News of the continued advances of the Red Artay, unite with a re- vived barrage of lies and slanders directed against it in the capitalist press reports over the week end. Along with stories of consternation ir Chiang Kai-shek’s capital at Nanking over the reported fall to the Red Army of the very impor- tant river port of Kiukiang, are very definite and undoubtedly ac- curate reports of a conference in Shanghai of loc. representatives of U. S., England and Japan for mob: ilization of a huge war fleet aiong the Yangtze river, concentrating particularly in the Hankow region. From London comes capitalist ews service information that the MacDonald fake “labor” govern- ment is “hastening its assent” to the will issue C@pacity of stool pigeons warning | plan for joint intervention in China by the imperialist powers, Stimson Lied. It was realized by all observers that this statement made semi-of- ficially for MacDonald gives the lie to the U. Department of State declaration that U. S. is not inter- (Continued on dice teh ne Three) "EMAND SUPREME TOURT FREE FOUR Labor Defens se Appeals Jobless Leader Case NEW YORK.—An application to tho Clerk of the Appellate Division for an order allowing an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court was made | yesterday by the International Labor Defense attorney against the sentences imposed on William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I. Amter, and Harry Raymond. Sentences recom- mended by the Parole Commission are six months for the first three, and ten months for Raymond on the basis of an alleged criminal record preceding his Communistic retivities. This recommendation must still be approved by the com- mitting judges. The International Labor Defense declared yesterday that these sen- tences against men who were carry- inz out the wishes of 110,000 de- monstrating workers is an official gesture of contempt on the part of the N. Y. City officialdom against the starving unemployed. It is 3 gesture which must be coupled with the fact that the Tammany govern ment has not done one thing to save the life of even one jobless worker ganizations in Illinois, Indianapolis Cincinnati and C.eveland to arrange a series of mass protest meeting: and demonstrations against the lynching of Shipp and Smith, and to intensify their campaign agains! } 1 It has instructed its district of; the lynch terror.