The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1930, Page 1

Workers in the Steel Mills of Sparrows Point, Md.; Gary, Ind.; East 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 — the-Co °, 4 NC unist Party U. ay | orker S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! —— | (Section of the Communist International) at New York. N. ¥.. under the Entered a. second-class matter at the Post Office act of March 3, 1879 ol. VIL, No. 193 [OMORROW PROTES J. §. Government Make It Decisive! ‘NHINESE reports say that “a decisive battle’ is impending be- tween the Northern Coalition (backed by the British-Japanese loc) and the Nanking forces of Chiang Kai-shek (backed by Amer- can imperialism). This, of course, is and cannot be “decisive.” Moreover, it is about the 57th “decisive battle” between these two forces, all the other 56 raving decided nothing more than that the Chinese masses die on the vattlefield and perish by millions of hunger and disease as a result of -obbery by the militarist tools of the rival imperialisms. j Monday’s reports also say the following; “Numerous executions of Communist suspects took place today in Hankow and Changsha.” There s not been one single word of condemnation of this savagery by the pitalist press, which reserves its tears for missionaries and other fools of imperialism. ] But if you, the reader, will visualize the scene: Half-starved coolies, panting between the rickshaw shafts, or frail girls with Dresden dvil faces but courageous hearts—dragged off by soldiery, paraded thru the streets, forced to kneel below the barbarous curved sword of the beheader, the girls raped and vilely tortured before death comes to their aid, you will realize also that this is being done as you read this while U. Ss military and naval officers look on approvingly, encourag- ing the Kuomintang hangmen. Realize that Hoover is responsible for this! That without the Kuomintang executioners being protected by American warships they would not dare to spill the blood of the workers and peasants! -| But now Hankow is being surrounded by the liberating forces of “ |the Red Army of China! And at the urging of Hoover the headsmen are increasing the executions! Meanwhile American, British and Jap- anese warships and troops are moved into position to prevent capture of the city and to see, incidentally, that the forces of the rival im- perialism don’t grab any advantage in the general imperialist plunder. )A fine lot of “civilizers”! Workers! This is the “decisive” struggle, the struggle of China’s joppressed masses to throw off their chains, to drive out imperialism! iit is the duty of every American worker to make the struggle a victory of the Chinese masses. Refuse to transport munitions to China! Demand the withdrawal he all armed forces! Demand hands off revolutionary China! j | Who Is Responsible? APITALISM breeds unemployment and misery. Its very existence 4 is based on these institutions. The great masses of workers have only their wages to live on. If they are out of .a job and unable to secure one, they are without income and consequently without means | of livelihood. It is this fact that enables the capitalists to maintain star- vation wages. j The worker has unemployment and starvation on one side, and the chance of an underpaid job on the other. But frequently the worker [has not even the choice between these two alternatives. When his hair gets gray, and his movements grow slower, capitalism tells the | worker that he is too old. It refuses him the job he needs.. When the | worker gets sick or, cripled in an industrial accident, he is either unable to fill a job or is refused one. In periods of economic depression, like the one we have at the | present time, the shops, mills, mines and factories close down, or work | ie greatly reduced shifts. Then millions of workers cannot procure jobs. | Jobless, rhoneyless and homeless, masses of these workers are com- pelled to wande¥y to look for work, to beg for food, to steal rides.’ They are victims of profit-hungry capital, But capitalism decrees that it is a crime to be its victim. If a jobless, moneyless and homeless worker steals a ride—rides the rods— some brutal railroad guard beats him up and some “justice” sends him to the workhouse, If a jobless, moneyless and homeless worker begs a meal, he is hounded from town to town and kicked from jail to jail. If a jobless, moneyless and homeless worker does nothing but merely wanders from town to town looking for a job he is picked up and jailed for vagrancy. The vagrancy laws are an outrage against the working class. They are instruments for herding strikebreakers. They are punishments vis- ited upon the workers by capitalism for capitalism’s own crime, for its own inability to provide jobs for all those who have nothing but jobs as their means of income. It is necessary to carry on a struggle for the abolition of the vagrancy laws. At the same time full social insurance is necessary to protect the victims of capitalism. It is imperative that the victims fight for the establishment of the Workers’ Social* Insurance Bill, which guarantees to every jobless worker an adequate income, whether his joblessness is caused by unemployment, or by sickness, or by injury received upon the battlefields, or in the workshops, or anywhere else, by old age, by child-birth, ete. Whether a worker is unable to procure a job for any reason, he must be entitled to an adequate compensation. Having only the job to keep him alive, the social insurance must keep the worker alive when he has no job. The capitalist class is, and must be held, responsible. Fight for social insurance! Not a cent for war and armaments! relief! All funds for the workers’ Drouth and Deceit HE terrible toll the drouth is taking agnong the poor farming popu- lation is new only in its degree. Starvation and disease have always afflicted particularly the farmers’ families of the southern hill country, whose chronic starvation shows in their very faces. Now they are dying like flies, obscurely, from typhus and pellagra. Secretary Hyde cynically says this will teach them to “form cor- eaberiert The Farm Board will sell them grain—if they pay for it, tt so will any other profiteer. The Red Cross will distribute $1 and collect $2, And Hoover is going to make a Delphia “announcement.” With the exposure of Hoover's faking on unemployment, farmers should know what his “announcements” are worth. He will doubtless give them a taste of demagogy for “relief” as he did on unemploy- ment “relief.” Meanwhile, speculators are doubling prices of food in the cities. Eight million workers are jobless and cannot buy farmers’ products, while other millions have wages cut directly or by part time work. e What the matter is, both with farmers and workers, is capi- i talism. Capitalism is worse than drouth, worse than typhus or pellagra. It creates unemployment, disease, starvation, misery i and war. Both workers and farmers must join together to over- } throw capitalism, to establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern- 4 ment. ry In the meantime, the workers led by the Communists must help che farmers to organize a revolutionary mass struggle for real relief, a program which was given in Monday's Daily Worker. And farmers should join the fight for the Workers Social Insurance Bill and dem- onstrate, too, on September Ist! Both workers and farmers should know that only Communists will take their insurance and relief measures to the tribune of Congress an! put up a revolutionary fight for them. Therefore, the Commu- nig tots Saold wot their votes on election dow * POOR FARMERS DYING OF PEST AND STARVATION |Capitalism, Which Is| the Cause, Will Do | Nothing to Aid } | Hoover “Relief” Fake Cee ie 4 Not only are the workers Speculators Doubling thrown out of the fuctories to Prices in Cities starve, but the bosses have Anna “vagrancy” laws to get “free” labor out of them and to con- eniently jail Communist organ zers and militant workers as is the case in the Southern states. The fight against “vagrant” laws must be part of the fight against unemployment. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 11.—| |Because capitalism allows specu. jlators to make millions off th gamble as to the degree of ruin| |eaused by the drouth, it is really who is cutting the right-of-way for the spillway levee near here, and took all the food and canned stuff | they could lay their hands, on. jrancy. He has warned them to leave town. The men did not come |of their own accord, in the first place, but were enticed by lying advertisements and then left to starve. The bosses answer to the unemployed is jail on the charge NEW YORK.—The Veets Unity Council meeting August will be enlarged by the presence of | |elected representatives from A. F.| agencies. ‘white and poor Negro farmers from All Tobl jlagra are already reaping a hapeoety 2 oa while this hypocritical organization | |ample, is rife among farm wage| Advertisements had appeared in | neither the workers nor poor farm-| ployed rushed for the food tents and \rich parasites, | jail all unemployed workers for no jof L. locals, shop committees, and ‘other workers’ Iabor and fraternal) RALEIGH, N. ©., Aug. 1.— |difficult to say what is the truth/ !about the numerous and conflicting “reports” from varied’ capitalist pe EIN SS But it is known that in some’ Sp tt S | places the farming population, espe- | EYL ays cially in the South where capitalism z° S |and landlordism has kept the pe He Wil l J ail uniting and thus kept both half) starved, that actual starvation is threatening, and typhoid and pel- | of death. NEW MADRID, Mo., Aug. 11,— This information was given Hoov-| Hundreds of unemployed workers jer today by John Barton Payne, several days ago raided the con- |chairman of the Red Cross, and | lies when it serves its imperialist | | purpose, its estimate of conditions |bear the brand. of. truth. Payne ‘states that unemployment, for ex- | workers, who are actually starving.| papers roundabout stating that | Hoover is said to be preparing an| work was going on and men would {important “announcement,” but it'be wanted. Hundreds applied but can be figured in advance that/ were not hired. The starving unem- jers can look for anything outside| took the available supplies, |of possible aid to check disease th retaiiati iio tees). dheritt jwhich may get out of control and| ).."seciared that all anemplovad h kill not ‘only poor people but some | [#8 declared that all unemployed he Alfred Thom, general counsel of (Continued on Page Three) | \ of vagrancy. This is the “free | SEPT, | ISSUED labor” in the United States that ! ! | Matthew Woll brags so much about. Here is a sheriff who threatens to ‘Unity Council Thurs. | other reason than that they are un- + . employed. in United Front Meet | ; PROTEST MURDER OF | organizations. They will be there | Negro workers here are suspicious \to take part in planning a huge un-|°f prison whitewashing to the -ef- ‘employment demonstration on Sept.| fect that William Bellamy, Negro 1st, Unemployment Day. The meet-|PTisoner, died of heat rather than ing will be held in Irving Plaza| brutality. Bellamy, the _ prison Hall at 7:45 p.m, |guards admit, was placed in a % \4 eho coll: ; The organizations sending repre- hub ges cell. He died ‘soon sentatives ta the Council meeting Thursday have before them now Support the Daily Worker Drive! NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, T THE WAR ON Fakes . Unemployment F igures found would be arrested for vag- | 1930 FINA L CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents = pile Maral to il WORKERS? REPLY MUST BE SOCIAL INSURANCE FIGHT 1 Prof. Hired By eas COAL § [ AVERY Rebel 7 ribes ' Bureau Tells Inside | Figure Juggling | | All Out “Jobless Day” Workers Must Agitate, For Passage of Bill | That the federal census bureau count of unemployed is faked from beginning to end, is the inside in- formation published Monday in the 'N. Y. World by Prof. Charles E. | Persons, who was one of the lead jing experts employei by the gov- ernment to compile the figures. | “I quit the. service,” said Prof. Persons, “when I found that ef- forts were being made to reduce the number of unemployed to the number, of jobless workers.” There is nothing new about this |fakery, as the Daily "Worker has repeatedly pointed out the deliber- ate lying, twisting and juggling of unemployment figures by the cen- REVOLUTIONARY CHINA! Workers’ Uprising in Hankow Looms; CONTRACT SIGNED AT GRAND ORGY Militant Miners Gird For Great Struggle SCRANTC a., Aug. 11 (By | Mail).—Officials of 104 anth: coal companies, and 42 officials of the United Mine Workers’ of | America, ned the five and a half year contract here today after a riotous feast of Mammon at the | Chamber of Comnierce dining room. ‘The actual ceremony by which the 150,000 anthracite miners are bound to a no-strike program, involuntary dues paying, and wage | cut system with speed-up and loss lof pay for work done was carried out at the Masonic temple, with the cite | Ailtacking More Forts in Indta | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | LONDON, England, Aug. 11.—It |is reported from Madura province, India, that the police of Madras fired on pickets trying to maintain the boycott of saloons and killed two. Five were injured. In Lahore prisoners are on trial charged with “conspiracy.” The charge is based on their hunger strike against trial by a special court. The prisoners were forcibly fed. | hn ee | Peshawar Cu‘ Off. | Capitalist press dispatches from | Peshawar, marked “delayed by | censor” tell of the British imperial- ist troops fighting from within the ‘fortified town against revolting jpeasant tribes, Afridis and others, |who hold all the territory around. sus bureau, as well as by Hoover,|™ayor present and John L. Lewis, |The British artillery is posted in the | Green, Davis and Lament. | But this is the first time that struction camp of H. H. Cummins,|one of the big boys on the inside | comes out and admits that the fig- jures were deliberately manufac- tured to belittle the seriousness of | inemploy. ~t, and to fool the - workers. Prof. Persons himself does a little underestimation. He ~ays in- | stead of the government figure of | 2,000,000 jobless there are at least 5,000,00€, There are many which | Prof. Persons does not count, and | which bring the figure to well over | 8,000,000, as originally proved by | the Daily Worker. The government lying has a direct | object. The bosses do not want the workers to organize to fight for unemployment relief. They want to minimize the tremendous extent |of unemployment so that the work- jers will not come out in masses and fight, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and | Communist Party, for the adoption | by Congress of the Workers Social Insurance Bil]. The bosses do not |want to let the unemployed an? jemployed k- that every day | thousands » are thrown on the streets. [bless. They do not want to part with their profits. They do not want fortunes of $25,000 and over, and incomes of $5,000 and over, levi and taxed to provide a mir‘mum weekly unemplovment insurance of $25 a week to all un- employed . orkers, as provided in |the Workers Social Insurance Bill. | However, no amount of lying and trickery will keep the T.U.U.L. from organizing in mines, mills, shops and factories for the support of the Workers Social Insurance Bill. | |More effort will be put in to make Unemployment Day,” September |wallowing in the adulations |bosses and business men. The chamber of commerce had all the streets decorated with flags, and threw the town wide open for a joyous celebration—just the sort of |@ good time the old colonial land- lords used to hold when a shipload lof fine new slaves was brought in) | Miners Starving. At the moment this orgy of labor treason and slavery was tak- ing place, the miners were gather- ing in groups in the countless colliery towns, brooding over the prospect. Even before the signing of the agreement, bosses had gone around and told them gleefully that | from now on they would have to (Continued on Page Three) TROOPS PROTECT LYNCHING MOB Stool Pigeons Warn of | | Retaliation MARION, Ind., Aug. 11.—The | [names of the two Negro preacher stool pigeons who informed Sheriff {Campbell of the plans of Negro workers for retaliation against the mob Jeaders of last Thursday’s lynchings were revealed today. They are Dr. W. T. Bailey and the; William locaf head Rev. Oglesby, of the National Association for the | Advancement of Colored People. In the meantime, the prosecuting attorney has completely white- | Washed the crime by trying the murdered men out of court and de- of | Ist, a*tremendous nation-wide dem-|claring “there is no question, but \onstration and fight for the adop- resolutions for adoption on unem- Get Donations! Get Subs! ployment, and supporting the Work- | ‘ers Social Insurance Bill proposed | by the Communist Party. | The bill is to appropriate $5,000,-| CH 000,000, using all war funds, to establish social insurance to be ad-| vhinistered by the workers through | ) elected bodies, 1,000,000 Jobless Here. |The resolution describes the, growth of unemployment, with ap- By GILBERT LEWIS Chattanooga bosse . | are |tion of the Bill. \the penalty for their crime.” 4 ATTANOOGA HARD HIT BY CRIS S Plants Are Closing Down Rapidly Everywhere {number of workers they employ | Unity League by calling meetings listed as follows: Crane/and giving away we cream and |proximately a million jobless in| | ened stiff! The Congre Enamelware Works (makers of New. York state, and tells how the deepening economic crisis is accom-| mittee, headed by fascist Mish, has paniegoey substitution of machines | questioned the right of officials of for workers, wage cuts, and speed- the Amtorg to reside’ in this coun- |up. It assafis the treachery of the|try. ‘To deport the executives of police to smash unemployment dem-| in the closing of the Amtorg. The jOustrations. It points to the reign) hosses of Chattanooga, knowing the | of'terror the bosses seek to Set up, fascist hatred of the U. S. govern- land “the imprisonment of the un-}ment for the Soviet Union, correctly employed delegation. |feel that steps might be taken to Besides social insurance, it de-, drive out the Soviet trading agency. mands: immediate relief for the job- Therefore, these bosses are fright- less from the municipal and state} ened . sinking fund, no rent payments for! This needs explaining, for we jobless, no evictions of jobless, free know well that the reactionary food for the school children of the| bosses of the South can have noth- unemployed, building of houses to! ing but blackest hatred for the be rented at cost to workers. U.S.S.R. But before explaining let It calls on all workers to organ-| Me give a picture of conditions in |ize shop committees affiliated with Chattanooga! |the T. U. U. L. It demands the, Like all cities in the South, Chat- | release of Foster, Minor, Amter and tanooga is in the throes of an | Raymond. And it calls for demon- economic crisis, is witnessing the strations Sept. 1, and participation sharpest depression of her history. in the T, U. U. Council meeting|The plants which ‘thave recently Thivedow ‘closed Yown altogether and the A, F. L. officials who call on the|the Amtorg would doubtless result | ‘national Hafvester is running only | bathtubs, ete.), 2,500 men; Shultz | Bros. Tannery (burned down), 900 men; Casey-Hedges, 300 men; Blowing Springs, 1,100. Of the other large plants Inter- |3 days, Lucey Manufacturing 3 | days, Summerville Iron Works 2 ays and U. S. Bipe 8 days. None of these plants are employing more than half of their usual amount of help. The above plants constitute the bulk of Chattanooga employing | power. It is therefore, pbvious that jat least one half of the workers | here are unemployed. Everywhere one witnesses the mass misery of the people. Thousands are starv~ ‘ing, hundreds are being ejected from their homes every day. The city has been talking about a soup kitehen; a large bakery has been selling bread at one cent a loaf and the fascist of the A. F. of L. have | i been combating the Trade Union | cake. Wage cut has followed wage cut, | and I know at least one worker who toils 9 hours per day, 4 da week, for the lordly sum of per week! And this in a steel jonly plant in the city running full itime. And it is possible for it to ‘run full time solely b L huge order it is turniny: Soviet Government. The has ordered from this company a | large amount of machinery to be { for the |used in the manufacture of fertil- | |izer from nitrates. The Chattanooga Times for July 25, declares: “Mr. Chapin (an offi- ‘cial of the edges-Walsh-Wcidner Co.—G. L,) said it would prove a hardship on the boiler plant if de | portation should result in a cance)- |lation of the present order and pre- | vent the placing of future orders Now we see why the Chattanooga | bosses are frightened stiff, The Hedges-Walsh-Weidner is the | use of a Amiorg | center of the town, a few yards |from the municipal court building. | British infantry is on the outskirts \of the city, and skirmishing goes ‘on in the orchards around. Over 8,000 airplane bombs were | dropped in one day on the. revolu- | tionists, afd the best opinion of | British militar eyxperts is that they | did very little damage. The air- |plane is a fine weapon against | villages full of women and children, and has been much used by the British in India for that purpose, | but, as the London experts said | yesterday, “its efficiency is much jless against an intelligent and |mobile force in rough country.” Burn Military Stores The Afridis burned a British military storehouse within a mile | of Peshawar, Sunday. They are re- ported attacking a great storehouse | several miles away from the city, |today. They have cut communica- tions except by plane, and are at- | tacking the Badama post, over 100 | miles southeast of Peshawar. Tribes led by the Haji of Turang- | zai, who last month fought a series | of indecisive battles with the im- | perialists, are rushing to reinforce the Afridis. A British armored train bearing a regiment of the Northumberland | fusiliers is being hurried from La- hore to Oshera in the northwest Provinces, where another tribal at- tack is developing. | Official London statements say: | “This is no ordinary tribal war.” MEET AUGUST 22 that the men who were hanged paid | IN UNION SQUARE | Mass Memorial For Saceo-Vanzetti NEW YORK.—August 22, the memorial of the death of Sacco and | Vanzetti, previously set aside for |a protest at Union Square of the! six urrection” cases in Atlanta, well of a protest against the prison conditions on Welfare cording to a statement issued today y the International Labor Defense. organization which on Fri ace public an ex-prisoner’s affi- vit revealing the corruption and ft existing there. itional Labor Defense Island, ac- ncig ment in the community,” say: 3 ion’s statement tove Qn the anniversary of the death ef the two-labor martyrs. Sacco and zetti, we are faced’ wi jof events rep d making thi R trag f persecu- . O. REQUESTS ADDRESS Central Office of the Party * es to ¢ ate with David » ® draftsman, who about one year ago, leveland in the latter presumably for New the P; | and who left part of June, York, Ga., will be made the occasion as } of the blackest ! Fall of City Near ‘MILITARY INTER. VENTION IS U, S, POLICY IN CHINA Execute 46 Hankow Communists in Week i (Wireless By Inprecorr) | SHANGHAI, Aug. 11.—Accord jing to reports from Hankow, Rec troops have taken the town oi Changto, in the northern part ot | Hunan province, at the northwest of Changsha. | The Second Conference of the |; Chinese Red Aid was attended by | 45 representatives from the various provinces of China. Representa- tives from the Red Army and from three Soviet Districts and dele- gates from revolutionary student organizaions were also present. The Conference supported Anti- War Day and the Chinese Commu- nist Party. It published appea!s showing the -mportance of the suc cess of the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union. While American, British and Japanese and other imperialist |powers are massing naval and military forces around Hankow. | three Red Armies, the Fourth. Fifth and Eighth, are advancing towara the tri-cities of Wuchang, Han kow and Han-Yuang and that ar attack on these cities is imminent | according to an aerial survey from Hankow, as reported by the New | York Times Monday. However, the imperialists’ and the (Continued on Page Three) DEFEND CHINESE REVOLT MEETINGS 42 Arranged in New York for Wednesday NEW YORK.—Thé New York District of the Communist Party is | making all efforts to mobilize the workers of New York to fight against the attempts of Americar {imperialism to drown the Chinese | Revolution in blood. | A Defend Soviet China night har | been arranged for Wednesday, Au- ‘gust 14. Forty-two meetings have been aranged in various parth or New York City. Many others are | being arranged in other towns ana cities around New York. |. The following places have already | been designated for meetings: SECTION 1 Rutgers Square, Cherry and Mont- Sts, Whitehall and South Seventh and Ave. B, Sixth econd Ave, Fifth and Ave. A The main rally, which will beg 8:30, will be heid at Tenth § Second Ave. Six meetings {ranged by Sections 2 and 3 jous parts of the upper downto: ; Section, | SECTIONS 2 AND 3. irty-ninth St. and 52nd St. and Tenth Ave,, | Amsterdam AY Columbus Place. rity N 4. following meet- nd Thirty-second St 128th St. and I. x d Lenox Ave. hy and. Fifth Ave. 114th and rst Ave, h St! and Fifth’ Ave | The main y to be held’ at 110th and Fifth Ave. Meetings arranged SRCTION One Hundred and tleth and {Daly Ave. 149th and xpect Ave, wood Ave. and Prospect Ave. 1 nd Brook Ave. Clare mont F d Washington Ave. to be held at 163rd |st. ct Ave, at 8.30 p, m. SECTION 4 ugh Hall, White and Moore nd and Robling Sts. Hooper ‘cond Sts. 1s to be held at Grant SECTION 7 . and Warren 8t. Fifth Tenth St to be Third A Ave. and Main m | ttor Sara , Thatford and e held at Stone Three meetines have been arranged by Section 9 in Long Island. The places designated will be advertised in toemorrew’s press,