The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1930, Page 1

NGSHA Help Mobilize Your Fellow ¢, Organization and Struggle ¢ Up, Unemployment, Wage yO.” the Special Steel Workers Se ily Worker Saturday, © ial features, letters, O O°) %5 “rder your bundle 4 e+ v now. & i c g, ¢ Central ( ail y —5 orker the-Co fauniet Party U.S.A. Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII., No. 195 Entered a second-cinas matter at the Post Office at New York. N Y. ander the act of March 3. 1870 NEW YORK, 4, Intensify the Fight It’s Ours--Defend It! “ce HE Soviet flag is flying over a greater area in China today than is held by the counter-revolutionary government.” 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. 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. More, as we receive this word by mail, relayed through encircling Nnes 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 foree the Nanking murderers again to flee from Changsha. Do you, working class reader, not glory in the 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 reyolution, 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! . Down with imperialist intervention! tions to the butchers of the Chinese masses! the demand: Hands off Revolutionary China! Refuse to transport muni- In every work place sound Danger Signals ACTS and figures are stubborn things. In the case of those given in Wednesday’s Daily Worker, on “The Election Campaign to Date,” they show that only 25 per cent of the Communist Party mem- bership is participating in the Party’s Election Campaign. They show, further, that there is a political underestimation of revolutionary par- liamentarigm,affecting in.some placcs..at least, the leading commit- ‘tees of the districts, The Party cannot and will-not Jet this go on without holding those responsible accountable. If the leading committees of districts, in a time when masses are eagerly responding to our platform, fail to develop the Election Campaign, the membership must demand a reason Failure to act is a political crime, a failure to carry out the political line of our Party, and will be dealt with accordingly. Facts show that the campaign is not yet brought to the workers in the factories and mass organizations still led by reaction. Our united fronts are still narrow, and the fact that at ten State Ratifica- tion Conventions, with 1,370 delegates attending, there were only 162 from shops, A. F. of L. Unions and minority groups (only six offi- cially elected by A. F. of L. unions), shows a serious situation, a fail- ure to establish contact and organization with and among the masses of dissatisfied and radicalized workers. Likewise, when districts like Chicago, or Massachusetts, order only 1,000 Election Platforms, Minnesota only 750, platforms meant for mass distribution, this shows the Party is not active. In Chicago it means that not even every member of the Party has a Party Plat- form! How do the comrades think they are going to measure up to the requirement set by the Seventh Convention for mass work? Clearly, this is an intolerable situation—and the Party will not tolerate it. There must be more attention, more vigor, more action and a real correction of weakness. Proposals of the National Campaign Commit- tee must be given serious consideratios and carried out. The struggle for Social Insurance is the center of the Election Campaign. Let the whole Party be aroused to this situation! The member- ship must demand an accounting from its leading bodies! Forward to a successful Communist Election Campaign. Don’t Stand for It! 74 HOUGH the facts showed widespread damage, they also showed there is no foodstuff shortage involved.”—From the N. Y. Times editorial on the effect of the drouth. “Agriculture Department and farm board experts apparently be- lieve the drouth situation is somewhat less general than is popularly supposed.”—United Press dispatch Tuesday, Again, the N. Y. Telegram says. ‘he daily production of milk in this area is about 9,000,000 quarts, of which New York uses only 8,500,000 quarts.” But it is added: “Health Department officials would not comment on the 1-cent increase in the price of milk.” While there has no doubt been some further damage between August 1 and this week’s breakage of the drouth, yet the August 1 estimates of the following basic crops, as given by the government, show utterly no reason for the harvest of monopoly price boosting: This Year Last Year (Bushels) (Bushels) Wheat . 820,613,000 806,000,000 Corn . 2,211,823,000 2,614,000,000 Barley . 306,000,000 304,000,000 All Hays (tons) . 95,400,000 114,700,000 Beans (dry) 22,000,000 19,700,000 Apples ... 146,000,000 142,000,000 Peaches . 46,900,000 45,800,000 Pears . 24,300,000 21,600,000 Potatoes . 373,000,000 360,000,000 Tobacco (Ibs.) .. 2,475,000,000 1,519.000,000 If we keep in mind that from last year’s crop there was such a “ surplus that it became a national problem to dispose of what was held over, even the blind can see that there is absolutely no reason for the prite boosts being gouged out of the pockets of the working class— which are indirectly but absolutely wage cuts. But what does the capitalist government do about it? It permits and even encourages this added attack on the wages of the workers. The Health Department of New York City can find no reason for milk price increases, but it permits the raise. It permits, for the greater profit of the monopoly, which it officially protects under the excuse of “pure milk control,” this monopoly to rob the workers of $35,000 more a day, to dictate that milk shall be 16 cents per quart instead of 15 cents on the excuse that farmers are compelled to feed grain, though the monopoly (which milks farmers but not cows) keeps $9,000 more a day just for the idea, perhaps, and every fool knows that dairy farmers feed grain anyhow at all times of the year. The reason is that Tammany, that is to say Graft, runs New York City. The Borden Company, which runs the monopoly, pays 22 per cent dividends! Workers, this must not pass without protest! Fight this wage cut as you would one in your factory! Make mass protest demonstra- tions before dairy agencies. Rally the housewives and school children to blockade sales at robbery prices! Never mind the retailer’s plea that he is “not responsible”! Fight the whole bunch of thieves! Fight the stexyetion government! Don’t stand for it! for Workers Social Insurance “JOBLESS DAY,” SEPTEMBER 1ST |Demand Passage of! Workers’ Secial ‘Insurance Bill Many Starve to Death 800 At Hartford De- mand Passage of Bill being evicted from their houses, the preparations for huge demonstra- tions throughout the country on| September ist, to demand the pas- sage by Congress of the Workers Social Insurance Bill are going ahead at full speed. | On August 8, over 800 workers attended an enthusiastic mass meet- \ing in Hartford, Conn., on the corner } |of Windsor and Main Sts., deman ing the passage of the Worke Social Insurance Bill, advocated by | Communist Party. Many Negro workers were pres- | ent and heard the bill read. They | learned that the bill provides for adequate unemployment insurance | for all workers, regardless of race or color, and for whatever reason \they may be unemployed—old age, jillness, aécident or lack of work. | It was pointed out that the bill jealls for the immediate turning jover by the government of all war | funds for unemployment insurance. | It provides, also, a heavy levy and | tax on fortunes over $25,000 and | incomes of $5,000 and over. Death by starvation of unem- | ployed workers is becoming a dai Joccurrence, The capitalist pre: | does not begin to record the deat! of starvation. The fact that Mau! ice Murphy, 57, died several da: | ago in the Hartford Hospital, Ha |ford, Conn., due to starvation, w: |not published in any paper outside | the city of Hartford. Murphy had been living on the city garbage dumps, and when food became searce there he became ill and died. | The coroner’s verdict was “death by | starvation.” | All workers must immediately | {prepare a fight for the adoption of the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill. The demonstrations on “Unemploy- ment Day” for the bill will be under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. ‘A NEW JOBLESS SUICIDE IN CHI, Must Fight For Bill to, | | Live (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill—While I was swimming in one of Chicago beaches | a man of 55 years of age was found | dead, Saturday morning. He has committed suicide with a bullet. The man was Mr. Eli Kunttu a car- penter living on the North West side. This is a very common occurence in our United States, while the un- employment is increasing. The man was a weakling or else he would not do as he has, instead we work- ers should unite and fight for our | rights. Also for old gae pension as | they have in Russia, when a man is over 55 years of age there and is unable to support himself he is well taken care by the government. | While I was traveling in Russia last spring I have never heard of such a thing that when a man gets old has to end his misery in such a terrible way. While here in our rich land of freedom we must com- mit suicide in order to shut our eyes from our starving families. | All workers unite and fight for your | families and yourselves. Demand old age pension and work or wages for the young. Be not a weakling but a strong fighter and good win- ner till the end. 39 PER CENT DROP IN AUTO PRODUCTION NEW YORK.—Automobile pro- duction for the first six months of 1930 declined 39 per cent in the U. S. as compared to the same period of a year ago. DEMONSTRATE ON ie 1930 NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents = THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 —— British imperialism is bombing and gasing the Afridis and In- | As unemployment worsens, with) gigns around Peshawar. At the jhundreds of thousands of jobless) same time, British planes and workers throughout the country) Ging supplied to the Kurds are being used to prepare war against Turkey—then against the Soviet Union, Tinie and Auto Workers to Greet RILU Militant unions in New Bedford Detroit and the Soviet Union yester- day announced plans for the ma: meetings by which on August 16 | the workers of the world will greet the Fifth World Congress of the The Boston District of the Trade Union Unity League, the American section of the R. I. L. U., has issued a leaflet calling the workers to mass meetings on that date. These meetings, with others pre- viously announced, or still to be ar- MDONALD STIRS | ‘KURDS TO WARS THREAT US.S.R, | British Imperialism In- stigates War On Turkey for Oil | British Supply Guns ;Want to Extend Iraq | ate | War Base on Soviets British imperialism is fomenting war between Turkey and Persia. It is the object of the “labor” gov- ernment of Ramsay MacDonald to \direct this war against the Soviet | Heavy supplies of British as | Union, |machine guns and ammunition, well as liberal sums of money are | being supplied to Kurdish troops to invade Turkey so that British imperialism can establish a buffer | ¢ state under its control between Tur- key, Iraq and Pers’ This would bring the British air stations closer to'the U. S. S. R. The London Daily E: ing for British imperialism, leading politician, Ramsay Mac- Donald, declared Tuesday that the action of the Turkish troops, in ‘tempting to put down the British- inspired attack, would lead to an | outbreak of war, MacDonald was very instrumental | Red International of, Labor Unions, | in» ha¥ing*a~ treaty signed recently | between Iraq and Great Britain, | providing for a stronger military | control of Iraq as a base for war | against the Soviet Union. Iraq, in | which the valuable Mosul oil fields jare located, was handed over to | British imperialism as a “mandate” S\are made against her ~ | Peters. = = Chinese Red Forces Advance to Within WOULD IMPRISON -JUROR FOR NOT. JAILING TOILERS ‘Start Prosecution of. ecution of jurors because they | 20 Miles of Nanking RED ARMIES HAVE RE-ENTERED CITY OF CHANGSHA Kanchow Abandoned By Nanking Troops The workers’ and peasants’ revolt in China has reached such propor- |tions that even Nanking, the capi- tal of reactionary China and the refused to dis d the evid aa and convict unemployment demon- strators here is the latest, most M Sh t trasen ant cynical attnpt’ of tne LASS OMOULS business interests here to destroy the militant labor movement. toy Work at | Mandine Ward, of 1247 W this city, one of the jurors who refused to convict ten workers charged with riot for taking part Hood Rubber \in the April 26 unemployment dem- (By a Worker Correspondent) onstration here, has been summoned] WATERTOWN, MASS.—After before the trial judge. Charges! two weeks lay off without pay we in affidavits of the jury foreman, C. Gray, and |jurors, Mrs. M. Dunn, and Mrs. J. went back to our jobs but many were not given work again. In this |way the company used the lay off |to get rid of a good many without so much chance of trougle as if they had fired them in the ordinary way. The affidavits charge that Mrs. Ward stated that she would not send any one to jail and that dur- In some way the rumor had gotten jing the course of the trial she about. town that there was a pos- | bought and read a copy of the Daily | sibility that the company would take | Worker. {on some more workers besides the Mrs. Ward will be defended by jones who were working when. the Attorney Leo Gallagher, who ap-|lay off came. Therefore, when we peared for the International Labor | got to the plant on Monday morning Defense to defend eight of the tei e found all the streets around the | defendants in the case in which sh ‘mill gate filled with workers looking |for a job. Some of them had been j of the world center of revolutionary | Sacco-Vanzetti ranged, in industrial cities all over the world will not only greet the Congress, but will celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the founding ;Donald treaty “while recognizing | the independence” of Iraq, goes on} to show that there really is no in-| |dependence at all, but that Iraq/ unions. In America, the meetings | Must be an integral part of the will mobilize for the immediate! (1 ¢5. the British flect in the struggle to build unions and combat | yyogiterranean and the Near East Re ee AEE IpEE Osea: |comes from the Mosul Oil Fields. | ployment Day demonstrations and] o¢ ine tact that the Tuskah gon | TET COR inhi eae aieen | ernment has discovered oil on Turk- the release of Foster, Minor, Amter | 4 ynite] Press dis 3 S patch from An- and Raymond, leaders of the jobless | : ) dares a jgora (N. Y. Sun, Aug. 13) states: dcmonsizators in New | York on /«But repeated reports here have in- nhs ae ani ROWE Pers tOe Prison | dicated that oil discovered on the} Pomme ror Wee Serie | Mosul frontier last year has been : 3 | vesponsible for the revolt and that age eitile Workers Roused. __/the money of a European power oa eae Sas other than Great Britain!) | NG ing |has been spent to establish a new board of the National Textile Work- | republic in the Near East.” | ers’ Union will be held here to| Ramsay MacDonald, who uses} work out a plan for nation-wide! every available machine gun and pemmanare of ee Fora on | Poe pee to oun the eee ist 15, August 22 and Septem-| for independence in India, Egypt ber 1. Big demonstrations will be jand Palestine, suddenly discovers a NR oe ee [ees fae nee vendetics of ne d cities. he textile;Kurds on urkish territory—be- workers, in addition to the demands leaute of the valuable oil fields cov-| of other workers _and the specific | eted by the British imperialist ban-| tasks of August 15, August 22 (the | dits. anniversary) and} The United Press dispatch from (Continued on Page Three) | — (Continued on Page Three) MOBILIZE THE WORKERS! —— 7 By BEATRICE SISKIND | “Remember Sacco and Vanzetti,” “Save the Atlanta Six,” will be the ery of the working class this year, August 22. This is the third anni- versary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. The entire earth’s sur- face was ablaze with indignation and fight against the outrageous crime. Capitalist “justice” was de- nounced as pure boss ¢lass justice by millions of tongues in every lan- guage. Now the third year finds boss class justice working overtime. Since the death of Sacco and Van- zetti, the jails of capitalism have been filled with militant workers. Death sentence and electrocution have lost their mystery. The cap- italists no longer use frame-up charges to justify their ends, Now it is bare-faced murder for organ- izing and fighting against the cap- italist system with its murderous exploitation, killing speed, and wide spread starvation. The Textile Trust showed its ugly NICOLO SACCO —_— tence! On the third anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti, the working class head in Atlanta, Georgia, for the distribution of leaflets calling for a protest against unemployment and, attempting to organize the Negro and white workers into in- dustrial unions, 8 workers are held for “inciting to insurrection,” which carries with it the death sen- must burst forth in a tremendous storm of protest and demand that the Atlanta six be saved from the electric chair. The working glass does not need martyrs. We must keep our fighters on the outside to continue the struggle against the system of exploitation, speed-up, unemployment and war, | by the Versailles treaty. The Mac- was a juror. Evidence Showed Police Guilty. Ward states that she did not she would not send any one to jail, but that she said she would not send innocent persons to jail, and that the evidence in the “riot” case showed that the rioting was done the brutal attack of the police. ‘urthermore, she states that other jurors, including those making the attack on her, bought and read copies of the Los Angeles Times, | jish territory near the Mosul fields.| which shouted for the conviction of |wh ohad ordered them away then ‘the defendants. The Daily Worker, |dodged back into the office’and had like the Los Angeles Times, regular newspaper with s class mailing privileges. She does not, however, make charges against the jurors for reading the Times. Her opinions of the guilt or inno- cence of the defendants were based on the evidence at the trial. ANOTHER MOONEY WITNESS A LIAR Crowley Wasn’t Where |He Said He Saw Them, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 13. | —Edwin McKenzie, attorney for Francis Billings in the California | state supreme court review of the} case today announce® that he had witnesses to smash the last of the witnesses by which the Fickert- Gunha-United Railroads gang framed up Mooney and Billings 14) |years ago. MacDonald, who now admits he was lying when he said he saw Billings at the scene of the crime was supported in the trial by an- other witness supplied by then | District Attorney Fickert and Police |Charge of vagrancy (an excuse to | Captain Goff (then sergeant). This |look me over), asked all kinds of witness named supporting mechanic, was John an auto eleven minutes before the Prepar- edness Day explosion, one block from where MacDonald said he saw them, McKenzie states that he has found an army captain who will testify that at the time and for an hour before Crowley was under his ear fixing the clutch, at a place iialf a block from the scene of the explosion. This makes the third eye witness | of the prosecution to be exposed. | The “honest cattleman” Oxman is now known to have been miles away. MacDonald was a mile away by his own admission, And neither was Crowley there, The supreme court judges are de- véloping great anger at all these waiting there since five or six o'clock. The office force paid noj| attention at all to the workers until | about eight o‘clock when they start- | |ed milling around and shouting that | they were hungry and wanted work. | Then one of the bosses came out and told everyone to get away Be-| cause there were no jobs being given that morning. This was answered by more shouting and threats to break n and smash up the plant. The boss Il the doot and gates locked. Then lable Watertown police were called down and finally suc- seeded in breaking up the crowd by driving about the streets where it was crowded the most and using their clubs on several occasions. The Hood Rubber Company has always used the limit of brutality in crushing any kind of real mili- tancy on the part of the workers. The Watertown police and courts | |have never yet failed to come through with the most oppressive measures whenever the Hood Rub- ber Company has called upon them. | JACKSON WALES. HOLD ORGANIZER -FOR*VAGRANCY” |Workers Must Fight | Vagrant Laws | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | SACREMENTO, Cal.—Just a few \lines to show you another one of jthe methods used by the police in this town to stop us from organizing. j I was arrested yesterday on a| questions and then turned loose this | | But I can not leave Sacremento because it is too far to walk to the next town and I can be of more use| to the Party in Sacremento and I'll | stick here. Strike against wage-cuts; de- mand social insurance! Organize and strike against wage-cuts! exposures, They were eviluntly Fut to work to find a way to keep Mooney and Billings in prison until they die, and they resent being inece monkeys of. It is quite prov- la! ie, though, that they will carry ous orders from *he United Ra roads, however it strains the ev dence, ‘ | seat of the U. S. puppet government |of Chiang Kai-shek, is seriously |threatened. It is reported that a large force of armed workers and | peasants have advanced within 20 miles of Nanking which is almost left defenseless by Chiang Kai-shek, | who has ordered most of the troops in Nanking to the northern frontier and Hankow. | Meanwhile, Changsha, the capi- tal of Hunan province and an im- portant center of the silk industry, was retaken by the Red forces yes- terday, although the capitalist press | prefers to consider the news unveri- \fied. Changsha was captured by | the workers and peasants two weeks }ago, but was subsequently recap- tured by Nanking troops. When Changsha was first taken | by the Red forces, all the capitalist { press reported hysterically that “ihe | Reds have burned the whole city Jand killed all foreigners.” Now, gradually the truth has come out, and even the Associated Press which carried most of the sensa- tional atrocity stories only a few days ago, has to admit that accord- ing to “a report written at Chang- sha on Sunday by a representative of the American Northern Presby- terian Mission,” “generally speak- ing, the city was not burned,” al- though “heavy damages” were in- flicted. These stories should be sufficient to teach the workers how to regard atrocity stories in the capitalist press. Kanchow, a very important city in Kiangsi province, has re- cently been abandoned by Nanking troops and it is reported that Red forces have occupied the city. The very fact that Nanking troops are forced to aban’.n the city, which is the key city in southern Kiangsi, shows that £ viet power in this part of Kiangsi is consolidated. SHIPPING MASTER KILLS SEAMAN Bosses Tool So He Does Not Stand Trial (By a Worker Correspondent.) NORFOLK, Va.—Captain Rainier, the shipping master of the port of Newport News, Va., shot and killed an unarmed seaman in his shipping office, Sunday, August 3. The sea- tran came into the office tooking for a job. The shipping master bed been drinking a li‘:le and he started an argument, * When he saw he was losing the fight he ran for his gun and shot the seaman through the head, The shipping master is a valu- able strike-breaking servant of the ship owners, therefore he did not Crowley. |morning at 8.30 a, m, and told to| have to stand for trial, But let a | Crowley said he saw Billings and a |leave town or the next arrest would |man who looked like a Mexican, Set me six months, worker do so much as to look cross- eyed and they will give him 90 days on the county farm. This is a sample of bosses justice down here in Virginia, SOVIET-U.S. TRADE INCREASES 175 PER CENT. NEW YORK-~In the short period of one year Soviet Russia hae climbed from 17th to 6th place ov the list of foreign purchasers of United States’ commodities. During the first five months of 1980 the business of the Soviet Union witt this country amounted to $64,424, 521, an increase of over 175 per cent above the same period of « year ago. Not a cent for armaments: all funds for unemployment insurance,