The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1930, Page 1

ph ad 1ot $e) gle Steel Workers, Help Mobilize Your Fellow Workers for Organization and Struggle Against Speed-Up, Unemployment, Wage Cuts. Distribute the Special Steel Workers Issue of the “Daily Worker Saturday, August 16. Special features, letters, news, photos, etc. Order your bundle of the Daily now. Dail Central Orga (Ss Cectron of the Communist f unist Interna Entered at New York. N. ¥. ander the Vol. VII., No. 194 second-class matter at the Host Office act of March 3, 1870 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1930 Pa tional) FINAL rty U.S.A. © WORKERS © OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMONSTRATE TODAY! DEFEND CHINESE REVOLUTION! It’s Ours--Defend It! “ec HE Soviet flag is flying over a greater area in China today than is held by the counter-revolutionary government.” 4 These significant words are taken from the historic manifesto issued late in May this year by the Presidium of the Conference of the Soviet Districts of China, the manifesto calling for an All-China Soviet Congress in November. he Excerpts of this historic manifesto, sent us by the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, which has functioned effectively in guidance of the revolutionary trade unions of the masses of the Pacific in de- fiance of all that imperialism and its native tools could do, should give a thrill of proletarian joy to the heart of every worker. aes More, as we receive this word by mail, relayed through encircling lines of imperialist warships and native counter-revolution, the cables say that the Red Armies are converging upon Hankow, the Chicago of China, and are strong enough to force the Nanking murderers gain to flee from Changsha. Do you, working class reader, not glory insthe onward sweep of the Red Army of China? But there is another side of this gigantic struggle. The same Associated Press cable says that—‘“Ho-chien, governor of Hunan, has been torturing and executing daily approximately 250 Communist sus- pects.” And silently but sinister the imperialist powers are speeding warships, troops, planes and all the instruments of mass murder to the aid of the Kuomintang executioners, to try to dam back the floodtide of revolution, to massacre the heroic fighters who are carrying the banner of the Hammer and Sickle from Tibet to Shanghai and from Canton to Harbin. : Dare we, workers of America, stand aside and watch as if we were disinterested observers only? A thousand times, No! The Chinese revolution is part of the world revolution! It is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh! It is our revolution, too! E Down with imperialist intervention! Refuse to transport muni- tions to the butchers of the Chinese masses! In every work place sound the demand: Hands off Revolutionary China! Smash Social Fascism! ORMAN THOMAS, chief of the social fascist “socialist” party, is running for Congress, and his candidacy is given an enthus- iastie weleome by the leading capitalist papers. A The N. Y. Times gives Thomas the following praise: “He is a capable man of high character, deadly in earnest,” etc.) who got a large vote in the mayoralty election “not because he was a socialist” and whose candidacy may be “one more lesson for those dull and obstinate scholars—the managers of both political parties.” The N. Y. World welcomes the entry of social fascism’s leader as “admirably fitted for the post” of congressman, and says it hopes for “a telling rebuke to the obtuse and myopic leaders of both the major political-parties.” ~ E No worker should conclude from these comments that the Times and the World are “going socialist.” On the contrary, the reason is that the so-called “socialist” party has “gone capitalist.” The only difference is that it cdvers its capitalist nakedness with a fig. leaf of hypocritical phrases supposedly “attacking” the other capitalist par- ties, designed to sidetrack workers from following the Communist Party into revolutionary action against capitalism. Hence the capitalist press supports social fascism against the tide of the masses toward the Communist Party, holding up the fig leaf in so doing, with empty chatter about the “dull and obstinate” or “obtuse and myopic” republicans and democrats. ‘Thomas, the social-fascist, decks his support of the capitalist class in exactly the same rather thin fig leaf. He says, “both old parties are morally and intellectually bankrupt”; that the bosses who vicious- ly club and jail workers for demanding Work or Wages are “too timid” and “fear to say the words unemployment insurance”; that they who really engineer monopoly are somehow lazy and “sit idly by” while mergers are going on, etc. Clearly, this is not attacking capi- talism, but supporting it, Social fascism says to the Big Men of Wall Street: “The workers are getting radical and turning Communist, and your grafting and dissipated dubbs running the old parties are not so able to deceive them as we socialists. Let us try our hand and pretend to give a new deal, ‘democracy,’ ‘reform’ and all that. When necessary we, too, will use clubs and machine-guns. Didn’t we raise the slogan, ‘Untie the hands of the police’ inthe last New York election? Didn't we @lub and jail the unemployed in Milwaukee as well as Tammany did in New York? To the workers, of course, the fig leaf must be made prominent. And ihoias talks rather vaguely about unemployment insurance. But the only plan for that put out by the social fascist “socialist” party is so much against the workers that 200,000 workers of France are striking against it right now, when “socialist” leaders there tried to put it over in unions they control. No wonder, when it loads the bur- den of payments on the workers and limits relief to 40 per cent of wages for only 26 weeks. Workers! The only real social insurance bill is that of the Com- munist Party. The only party of the workers is the Communist Party. Demonstrate for the Workers Social Insurance Bill on September First! Vote for Communists for Congress to make a fight for it there! MANY EVENTS ATIEXSERVICEMEN JOIN DAILY PICNIC Big Program All Day DEMONSTRATION TODAY NEW YORK.—At the last meet- ing of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League it was decided to join in the demonstration of the Com- | munist Party for the defense of the | Chinese Soviets. : The Daily Worker Picnic and Carnival, to be held on Sunday, August 17, in Pleasant Bay Park, will really be a huge mass affair. Many mass: organizations will be there in full force, The program of entertainment will include “Strasse frei,” a one-act play of mass action, played by the German Proletbuhne, as well as a number of events arranged by the Labor Sports Union. These sports events will include: A champion soccer football match ; hattan should attend the mass meet- }ing at Fourteenth and University Place. Report at 7 o'clock, Ser- vicemen living in Harlem ‘o report at the demonstraton at 7 o'clock, at 132nd St. and Lenox Ave. The workers who served in the All ex-servicemen in ‘lower Man- | played by the East Side Workers’ Club vs, Barcelona, A silver cup donated by the Hungarian League Bureau of the Communist Party will be given to the winning team. E. Austin will be the referee. A 9-inning baseball game will be played by two teams of the Eastern District of the Labor Sports Union. A banner will be given by the Daily Worker to the winning team. There will also be games and races for children and grown-ups: 40, 50 and 100-yard dash, standing broad jump for boys and girls, fat ladies’ race, sack race for ‘men, ete, Prizes will be given to the win- army, navy and marine corps, are now showing their clas solidarity and both the Negro and white workers are fighting against the boss instead of for the boss. Organize and " strike against wage-cuts! ———$—— ners, including yearly subscriptions for the Daily Worker, for the Young Worker, for the Young Pioneer, Sports Magazines, ete. The price of admission is only 35 cents. Every worker must be pres- ent and participate in this: demon- (stration, for the Daily Worker, EVICTIONS OF | JOBLESS SHOW BIG INCREASE All Workers Must Push| Fight For Social Insurance Bill Demonstrate Sept. Ist) Demand War Funds) Go to Unemployed ‘The meagre reserves of the mil- lions of unemployed is rapidly dwindling. In all big cities thou- sands are being evicted for non- payment of rent. In Baltimore cases brought against unemployed workers for non-payment of rent has jumped from 35 per day to 120.| During the first six months of | 19380, 11,735 working class families were thrown out on the streets to starve by the capitalist courts. Their crime was—unemployment. This same procedure takes place in New York, Chicago, Boston, Phila- delphia—every place where the | 8,000,000 jobless tramp the streets looking vainly for work. | At the present rate of evictions, | the great majority of unemployed) will soon be on the streets with | their families facing starvation and death from exposure. Winter is not far away. This is a threat) against every worker, employed or| unemployed. | While a relentless fight must go! on against evictions, the major task | of every worker ‘is to double his} efforts in demanding the passage) by Congress of the-Werkers. Social Insurance Bill. This bill is being} discussed in all factories, mines and mills. Discussion alone will not force it through the bosses’ govern- | mental machinery. The workers | must organize in the shops, in the| Unemployed Councils, in their local unions, in their fraternal organiza- tions, to force it through. The immediate aim is a monster} demonstration in all leading indus- trial centers on “Unemployment Day,” September 1st, to demand the passage of the Workers Social In- | surance Bill. The unemployed must} have relief immediately. The| bosses do not intend to part with} the minutest share of their profits. The A. F. of L. and Musteite fakers are preparing to protect the bosses from the growing militancy of all workers by some fake measures. Against this all workers must fight for the Workers Social Insurance Bill, advocated by the Communist Party. It is this measure alone which provides adequate relief for the unemployed, to be paid by the capitalist government out of its war funds, and by levies and in-| come taxes on the huge fortunes and incomes of the parasite class. Fight against evictions! Mobilize for the Workers Social Insurance Bill. SACCO UNITED FRONT FRIDAY Worker Organizations to Meet on Memorial NEW YORK.—Friday, a Prelimi- nary United Front Conference to lay plans for the Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Demonstration, at Union Square, on August 22, will meet at, the Manhattay Lyceum, 66 Fast | Fourth St., at 8 p. m. Attending will be delegates from | all International Labor Defense branches, Trade Union Unity League, International Workers’ | Order, the American Negro Labor | Congress, Working Women’s Coun- cils, as well as delegates from the shops of the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union, the Needle Trades In- dustrial Union, the Building Main- tenance Workers’ Union, the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, and other worker and fraternal organi- zations. After preparing the program for the mammoth demonstration at Union Square, on the anniversary of the two labor martyrs the con- ference will culminate in a protest against intervention by imperialist powers in the Chinese revolution which is increasing the terror and atrocities against the Chinese work- ers and peasants. Strike ag: st wage-cuts; de- mand social insurance! | ; moment, we stood in the window A CRUST OF BREAD HAIRMAN LEGGE of the Farm Board is having the capitalist government pay his way around the West to tell the farmers to “reduce acreage” 25 per cent. On Monday, | the Associated Press carried a dis- | patch from Boston which read: | Captain Tom Brown of the | Forthill Square firehouse today | discovered the ‘hungriest’ thief. | A crust of bread, thrown to a | flock of pigeons which are regular | noon-day visitors at the firehouse, landed at the feet of a passerby. The latter pocketed the morsel and outdistanced pursuing fire- men who sought only to give him | @ square meal.” There is no “surplus” of wheat in Boston, no surplus of bread in the bellies of millions of unemployed | workers and their starving families, | no surplus of any kind of food for the working class, even those who work having to scimp along half- starved on wages cut by Legge’s In- ternational Harvester Co., and other corporations. Every day new lessons are given the workers on the real meaning of “Government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Milk prices are raised one cent a quart in New York where 800,000 workers are unemployed. Food is thrown by hundreds of | Ses See ce eee ————--_—# | jearloads on the garbage dumps | while workers starve. Workers are clubbed and jailed for striking | against wage cuts while the “people who govern” raise the price of milk, (Continued on Page Three) JUDGE REFUSES TO LET JOBLESS LEADERS APPEA Workers to Denounce} Prison Terms Sept. 1 NEW YORK.—Acting Presiding | Judge McAvoy 6f ‘the Appellate! Division of the Supreme Court of | New York State on Monday refused | the request of the International La. bor Defense attorneys for an order allowing an appeal to the Unites States Supreme Court in the cas: of Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray. | mond, the unemployed leaders now | serving prison sentences as a result | of their participation in the Unem- | ployed Demonstration at Union) Square on March 6. | As a result a request was made yesterday for sych an order directly to Justice Harlan F. Stone of the United States Supreme Court in| Washington, D. C. “This latest refusal by Judge McAvoy is in line with the whole | conduct of the case, in which New | York officials disregarded legal ; strictures to deny bail and a jury! trial to these men, though they! were charged with a misdemeanor, which legally entitles them to both The fight of the unemployed goes! ahead. September 1 is designated | as Unemployment Day by the First | National Convention of Unemployed, | which met in Chicago July 4 and 5. Great demonstrations will take place in all United States cities on that day to demand the passage of the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill. The | bill is proposed by the Communist | Party and sets apart all war funds and other funds from the national treasury to the amount of $5,000,- 900,000 for social insurance, espe- cially unemployment insurance. More Tribes ‘j Join War On | British Rule | KARACHI, India, Aug. 12. i: Fighting continues in the Northwest | Provinces, with the Afridi tribes who first surrounded the British} government’s fortified city of Pesh- | awar increased by adherence of the| Orakahzi, Chamkenna and other | easant tribes. The government air force is con- | stantly in action. When the Cham senna tribesmen came out against the imperialists, the Peshawar com- manders threatened to blow up all} their villages, Two British residents and num- | bers of the militia were killed when | the Chamkennas rose. The heaviest | ‘ighting today is around Parachinar | and Kohat. Advanced posis of the! Afridis near Peshawar are reported to have been withdrawn several jmiles. The British hail this as a victory. | British troops continue to flood | into the Sindh, ostensibly to “pre- vent communal rioting.” It is ad-| mitted, however, that the troops make slow progress because the! railroad tracks are cut. Cuttine the tracks could have nothing to do| with any fights between Moham medans and Hindus, and this infor- | mation is further evidence that aj strong anti-imperialist element en- tered into the so-called “communal rioting.” All news ensored, and delayed $6,000,000 A YEAR IS SOVIET FISH CROP | WASHINGTON, D. C.—The fish | crop of Soviet Russia amounts to more than $6,000,000 a year. One tenth of this amount is derived from the sale of caviar. More than, $600,000 has been gathered this | year from the sale of caviar in the | United States. Mobilize the Workers! By ELLA REEVE BLOOR Vanzetti had the hope, almost to| the last minute, that the workers | would rise en masse and demand | their freedom. A week before his execution he said: “Can’t we mob- ilize the workers?” Yes! The work- | ers were mobilized that last day, in every country of the world, march- ing through city streets, shouting | and carrying banners: “Sacco and | Vanzetti must be freed.” Who will | ever forget that seething mass of workers on Boston Common? The solemn determined parade of pick-| ets all day long, before the State House where Governor Fuller with | all his friends around him was looking at us from his window as 160 of us were dragged off to jail. | _The great mass of workers sob- bing, crying, down there in that little street in front of the hall, unable to get in the crowded place— standing for hours, surrounded by all kinds of hired thugs with rifles in their arms. |And when |they called us to the window to give them some hope, for there were many still who hoped that Fuller would grant a reprieve at the last and raised our voices and the tense crowd became absolutely silent, T. U. UNITY POUNEH RALLIES | FOR “LABOR DAY” Fnlarred Mectinges to Make Plans Tomorrow} EW must YORK. become d “Labor Day’ a day of struggle against unemployment, mass demon- stration on U jon Square at noon on September First!” is the slogan of the delegates to the Trade Union! Unity Council meeting tomorrow night at 7:45 in Irving Plaza Hall With the regular delegates, repre senting the militant unions and leagues of this city, will assemble delerated of a large number of workers’ orranization: fraternal, defense, sports, cultur: insurance. ets., and representa s of many} F. of L. loc which have} adopted the resolution the Workers’ Social Ins: proposed be the Comw Shon delegate covneils and cou! cils of the unemployed will be rep- resented also. | The demonstrators will also de mand the release of the elected rep resentatives of the March 6 unem. ployment demonstrators, Foster. Minor, Amter and Raymond, now| held in prison for trying to carry | ont their orders from 110,000 job | s less or striking workers to carry a| message from them to the city hall. | Preparation of this demonstra- tion and mobilizing of the workers | for it will be the one main order of business before the council meet- | ing Thursday, The whole meeting | will be turned into a special pre-| liminary united front conference for | Unemployment Da: Vote Communist! | ae BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI We Isaid: “We stand in the { Martyred “ comredes? (And then! | the terrible news—“Both gone.” | Yes, the workers were mobilized but | it was too late. electric chair in Atlanta, Georgia, for no other crime than to make better lives for the slaves of the Southern, mills. We must stop this |delpha, “Minneapolis, Duluth, |and| Six young brave workers face the | FROM CHA New York Workers Ral night protesting against the =) WORKERS OF 7 CITIES PREPARE TO GREET RLU, Meetings Prepare For! Unemployment Day NEW !YORK.—The !workers of en of the largest U. S. industrial | cities are preparing mass’ meetings | for August 15, to greet th» Fifth World Coneress of the Red Inter-| national of Labor Unions, according | to information yesterday from the | national office here of the Trade Union Unity League. Some time ago the T.U.U.L. urged all of its district organiza- | tions to prepare thése’ meetings | which are also to ‘celebrate| the Tenth Anniversary of the founding of the R.I.L.U., and to utilize the meetings as rallying centers for th September 1 Unemplo~ment {Day demonstrations. Build Strike Fund. Another purpose of the meetings to help build the $100,000 na-| tional strike fund of the T.U.U.L. The militant unions are engaged in marine | workers strikes, | food strikes, needle workers strikes, coal strikes and others practically all of the time. Especially in the an thracite coal fields, a tremendous Strugzle is developing over the| wage-cut and no-strike contract which the Lewis forces seek to bind n the miners, The cities in which mass meet- ngs are already prepared are: Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Phila- | | New York. The meetings will draw up and adopt resolutions greeting © the! fifth World Congress of the RI. L.U. and these resolutions will be cabled across to the congress. CLOAKMAKERS MEETING TODAY Needle Trades Union Warns of Treason NEW YORK.—“The bosses and their company union are already preparing a new sell-out against you. They are preparing to legalize | piece work, which will mean even! lower wages, more speed-up and| unemployment than exists in the trade at the present time,” warns organized murder. We must keep our faith with these organizers in our army. We must free our At- lanta comrades, Burlak, Dalton, Powers, Carry, Newton and Storey. We must open the prison bars for our |Imperial Valley comrades doomed |to a living death in the dungeons of San Quentin and Fol- som: Comrades Spector, Horiuchi, Roxas, Emery and Erick- | son, and young Yetta Stromberg who faces a ten year sentence in California, Our responsibility of organized leadership is great. Shall we meet shadow of death tonight. Let us | act as Sacco and Vanzetti would | have us act. Let us get togethe: regardless of race, color or nation- | ality.” For which the police sent | in a riot call and we were arrested | for “inciting to riot.” Pickets at| the jail before the electrocution | were beaten into insensibility, Shall we ever forget the last hours of our the challenge of Sacco and Van-| zetti: “We must mobilize our| workers?” Then we must organize our forces now before our Atlanta | comrades are burned in the electric chair, All out on August 22, Let the protests of the workers resound throughout the world demanding immediate unconditional freedom ja leaflet distributed today to the| |cloakmakers, by the Needle Trades s The | Workers’ Industrial Union, leaflet calls the cloakmakers to a | meeting today in Bryant Hall, at jl_p. m. Speakers at the meeting ‘will be Ben Gold, Louis Hyman and Boruchowitz. | The N.T.W.LU. reminds season this time to help them much and warns them of the winter com- ing, when there is little work. Many who waited for July to find them work now have none, even though half of August has gone, “Mobilize in the shops for the rank and file shop conference which will be held August 28, at noon,” says the N.T.W.LU. A leaflet from the union to dress- makers will be distributed today. All.comrades are requested to help distribute, and should report either to the office of the union or to 370 for all our class war prisoners! West 85th St., or 260 West 36th St.,| 4 the Ay. Sklar, | cloakmakers of the failure of the : NANKING TROOPS FLEE NGSHA AS RED ARMIES APPROACH U.S. Imperialists Attempt Direct Intervention to Suppress Revolt ly to Big Protest Meet- ings and Demonstrations Tonight As the workers of New York and vicinity are preparing for over a hundred open air mectings and demonstrations to- imperialist war against the Chinese revolution and for the defense of revolutionary China, the workers and “city poor” of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, are getting ready to welcome a large detachment of the Red Armies which is marching toward the city with lightning speed. The Nanking troops are reported to have already evacuated the city. Changsha, which was captured by armed workers and peasants about two weeks ago, was later retaken by Nanking troops under cover of the bombardment of American and British warships near Changsha. During the few days Changsha was in the hands of the Nanking butchers, since its evacuation by the | Red forces, Ho Chieng, the Kuomin- tang governor of Hunan Province, has been torturing and executing daily 250 militant workers, “Com- munist suspects,” as the capitalist press calls them. Now it 1s reported that the Kuo-~ mintang authorities in the city are panicky, They certainly have rea- son to be panicky, since the con- sequences of their white terrorist measures will surely not be very pleasant for them. The municipal archives of Changsha are said to have been removed aboard a “Nank- qWontimuea on Page Three) HANDS OFF CHINA MEETS TONIGHT '2 Arranged in New York for Wednesday A Defend Soviet China Night has been arranged for tonicht by the New York District of the Commu nist Party Forty-two meetings have been aranged in various parth ox New York City. Many others are being arranved in other towns and cities around New York. The following places have already been designated for meetings: SECTION 1 Rutgers Square, Cherry and Mont- gomery Sts. Whitehall and South Ferry, Seventh ang Ave. B, Sixth and Second Ave, Fifth and Ave, A. The main rally, which will begin at 8:30, will be heid at Tenth St. and Second Ave. Six meetings are ar- tanged by Sections 2 and 3 in vari- ous parts of the upper downtown section, SECTIONS 2 AND 3. Thirty-ninth St. and. Ninth Ave., fand St. and Tenth Ave., St. Amsterdam Ave. Colt 14th St. and University SECTION 4, n Section 4 the following meet- ings will be held: One Hundred and Thirty-second St. and Lenox Ave. 128th St. and Lenox Ave. 114th St. and Lenox Ave., 112th St. and Fifth Av » and First Ave. 125th S$ Ave. The main rally to be held at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. Meetings arranged Pi | by Section 5: SECTION 5 , One Hundred and Elghtieth St. and Daly Ave. 149th St. and Prospect Ave., Longwood Ave. and Prospect Ave.. 138th St. and Brook Ave., Clare- mont kway and Washington Ave n meeting to be held at 163rd id Prospect Ave. at 8.30 p, m. SECTION 6. .,Borough Hall. White and Moore Sts., € d and Robling Sts., Hooper cond Sts, n meeting to be held at Grant Street Extension v nd Warren St., Fifth St. sto be held at Fitth I, Hinsdale t and P. nont Aves,, nin meeting to be held at Stone and Pitkin Ay : 8 Three meetings have been arranged by Sectio. in Long Island. The Places designated will be advertised {n tomorro press, Piscienite eine ae Stalin Report Due to special matter on the election, the continuation of Com- rade Stalin's Report will be vel oe ‘cmorrow. | eT | %