The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1930, Page 1

Steel Workers, Help Mobilize Your Fellow Wotkers 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, ete. Order your bundle N of the Daily now. Orga (Section of the Communist International) £) Oty ==? ome So v Z Be ee ig a ~ =e"! tt it the Post Office Vol. Vi54% 4. 26 SU Naw York 'N Yc onder the act of March %, 1870 “4S Baki A) pace we a LCE alae _, == = = 7~e i MEE) ‘ODAY FOR RED Hail the R. I. L. U. ODAY there opens in the capital of the world proletariat, Moscow, the Fifth World Congress of the most powerful trade union or- ganization of the earth—the Red International of Labor Unions, of which the Trade Union Unity League of the United States is a section. The RI. is powerful not merely because of its numerical strength, though it has far more members than that so-called “nterna- tional” of social fascist treachery known as “Amsterdam.” The R.I.L.U. is powerful because it has on its side the forces of history and the decisive factor of Marxist-Leninist guidance, the guidance of the Com- munist International. In America, the importance of the R.I.L.U. has, in the past, been obscured to the worekrs. It is one of the first duties of all revolution- ary-workers, first of all the Communists, to see that this error, better to say this crime, be liquidated. Many “reasons” are advanced for this. One is that because the A. F. of L, is not affiliated to Amsterdam, and the R.LL.U. is center- ing its fire on Amsterdam, therefore we have nothing to do with Amsterdam nor the R.LL.U. either. This leaves out of account the fact that the A. F. of L. follows the same social fascist and fascist policies as servant of U. S. imperialism, that Amsterdam follows as servant of European imperialism. This ignores the fact that the RI. LU. is fighting policies, not a name. This in essence is a form of “American exceptionalism” and an objective support to social fascism. Following the Fourth Congress of the R.I.L.U. in March, 1928, the right wing opportunists who ‘had been, as Comrade Losovsky at the time well said, “dancing quadrilles around the A. F. of L” began an open fight against the line of the R.I.L.U. as they had previously ear- ried on a covert sabotage. Indeed this was brought into the open at the Fourth Congress itself, where Lovestone, foreshadowing his open renegacy, marshalled all forces of opportunism, of vacillating conciliators, to fight the guid- ing line of the Ninth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, the line of the Fourth R.I.L.U. Congress, which line insisted on building the Trade Union Unity League in the U. S. A. as a center of independent leadership of mass struggle, on an end of the opportunist “loyalty” to the A. F. of L. as the “main stream of the labor movement,” on an end of the intolerable kowtowing to a hand- ful of social fascist “progressive leaders” who stultified all efforts to struggle and, dictating the terms upon which they would lend their supposed “influence,” were fast discrediting the revolutionary trade union movement among the masses. Today, with the opening of the Fifth R.I.L.U. Congress, all can see how necessary was the R.I.L.U. line of giving independent and revolutionary leadership to the masses. Would\ we today go out and organize another Passaic strike and | then turn it over to the traitorous A. F.of L.? Would we today ignore the unorganized miners as we did those-of Colorado until they fell into the hands of the misle: of the L.W.W.? Only the most rhino- cerous-hided opportunist would say so. < ‘There are those who say 80, yes, but they are now outside the leadership of the T.U.U.L., these renegades of the Lovestone and Trotskyite cliques, uniting with the fascist and social fascist leaders of the A. F, of L. against the workers. Today the revolutionary workers of America must render deserved recognition to the R.I.L.U. as the Headquarters of the World’s Trade Union Movement. And in doing so, they should bend every effort to follow its guidance in building up its American section, the T.U.U.L., as the national trade union center, the mass organization of class struggle, as essential to the workers as is the Communist Party. Make No Mistake! 'ORMAN THOMAS, who has entered the congressional elections and aspires to play the role of Ramsay MacDonald in America, is head of what is called the “socialist” party. But no worker should imagine from the name that Thomas or his party have anything to do with socialism. On the contrary, “socialists” are the pinch-hitters for capitalism. In his announcement of candidacy, Thomas said that “the su- preme issue” of the campaign was to “give vitality to democracy by building up a party with principles.” But he made no mention that the “socialist” party was such a party, indeed he was so considerate as to leave out mention of -the “socialist” party altogether—just “a party with principles,” ‘that’s all. Let us take merely a hasty glance over the day’s news to see what kind of “principles’ the “socialists” have. The “socialist” premier of England has just returned from a religious festival in Switzerland, and sent a swarm of bombing planes to bombard the women and chil- dren of some Iiidian peasants whose men folk are away from home fighting for national independence. It is said the slaughter was ghastly. Score one for the “socialists” of King George! J. R. Clynes, the “socialist” in MacDonald’s cabinet who bears the proud title of Lord Protector of His Royal Highness’ Pants or something like that, is up in-Scotland in order to be officially present when a British princess gives birth to a royal brat which may some day mount the British throne. J. H. Thomas, whom MacDonald put in charge of unemployment, is busy denying starving women and children the unemployed dole they once got, and trying to break the strike of the Lancashire textile workers. The German: “socialist” Horsing (nice name) is horsing all over Germany for war against the Soviet Union. In Porto Rico a leading member of the “socialist” party which is there the leading defender of American imperialism against the masses who are struggling for Porto Rican independence, denounces a worker to the police as a “dan- gerous Communist,” and the worker disappears, while the “socialist” continues drawing his pay as‘ an official underling of Governor Roose- velt,' who was appointed by Hoover. There are many other examples we might cite, but these are enough to show the fascist and imperialist character of the “socialist” party. This is the party which belongs to the “socialist” international, all of which follow the same policy. These are the “principles’? Thomas meant, these are the practices which he will follow. Down With the counter-revolutionary and fascist “socialist” party! Demonstrate on September Ist against its fake scheme and for the Workers Social Insurance Bill! Vote Communist in November! Electric Chairs HE Catholic church, which fittingly adopted the cross, the instru- ment Roman slave imperialism used to execute rebellious slaves, has aprival in the protestant Ku Klux Klan of the South which should kneel down and worship models of the electric chair with which the capitalists of Georgia hope to kill six Communist organizers for daring to make speeches and distribute teaflets. It is a timely action of the International Labor Defense to rally the masses to the defense. It is especially fitting that on August 22, anniversary of the ghastly murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, that all workers rally to the I. L. D, demonstrations against these new as- @mssinations, Defeat the electric chair! Protest! } ‘WORKERS MUST DEMAND SOCIAL ~ INSURANCE BILL Toledo Family Needed | Food; Farmer Says Many Starve |Demonstrate Sept. Ist Mass Behind Workers’ Social Insurance Bill An unemployed worker, Elmer Tilton, and his son, Louis, 17, also unemployed, were shot dead Wed- nesday on a farm near Toledo for taking potatoe: in order to keep a family of six other children and the | elder Tilton’s wife from starving to | death. The excuse that the farmer gave for killing the two unemployed workers was that recently many jobless have been stealing his pota- toes to keep them from starving to | death. | This news, with the daily reports jof suicides among unemployed (Continued on Page Three) ‘AUTO WOMEN WORK 3 HOURS \Fake Resumption “Is Shown Up (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—This week the newspapers splashed over the first page and in editorials about the fact that the crisis is over and that we are starting to work again Mon- |day, August 4th. Monday morning there was big headlines about the | 100,000 workers that went back on the job. But they did not tell about the story that I am writing you. I am |a woman working at Briggs High- land Park. After being laid off for two weeks we were glad when they told us that we start work on | August 4th. So that night I went to work. After working three hours I was told to go home. Others were sent home even earlier and at most some worked for 6 hours. We were not only sent home, but our for our pay on Saturday. This means that we are all fired and now the newspapers do not say a word about what happened the first night we were back on the job. Husbands Jobless. Many women cried as ‘they were fired after being out of work al- ready for a few weeks. No hope was even given to us to return. Most of the women, whose husbands have not worked a day this year depended on the few dollars brought home by the wives after slaving all night at Briggs. And now even this is cut off with no opportunity of getting work again. The only shift that remains is the day shift. And they have already cut the wages again fifty per cent. When we get the pay envelopes on Saturday every one is sure that it will be a fifty per cent wage cut. ' You know in Briggs they don’t an- nounce wage cuts in advance, you just get your pay and find less than last week, that’s all. Must Organize. I have watched them arrest the leaders of th> Auto Workers’ Union every time they tried to tell us what jis coming. But now I see the rea- sons clearly, Every worker in Briggs must see that it is no use hoping any longer. Every one of us sgparately they can treat like cattle, Just throw us out now to starve, We must answer it by or- together; it makes no difference, men and women. Yours for the building of a strong Auto Workers’ Union, —Briggs Woman Worker. MEXICAN MINERS KILLED IN BLAST MEXICO CITY, Aug, 14.—Four workers have been killed and four j others severely injured in a mine ; explosion at Fresnillo, in the state of Zacatecas. Vote Communis pages taken away and told to come} ganizing. Even if we have no jobs) let us all get together and fight! —a the-Con ye Co 2 em “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, =, ‘Ee mmunist Party 1930 | MARION, 1 | law and fight the terror of the LY )., DOUBLE SHING | | | Photograph of Brutal Lyxching of Two Negro young workers, Thomas Shipp, 18 and Abraham Smith, 19, on August 7., This photograph was sent out by a capitalist photo service with the warning that “because of its gruesome aspects and for other reasons, many editors may not wish to use it? Among the other reasons is no doubt the knowledge that the capitalist press generally supp news and pictures of atrocities against the workingclass. Negro and white workers must organize to smash lynch bosses! ‘TWO BETH, STEEL MEN DIE OF BURNS * Correspondent) BETHLEHEM, Pa.—On Aug. 6th, | two workers in department D. F. of | the Bethlehem Steel Co. were burned |by the fire from a broken blas |minute when a furnace is closed, jand so the men were forced to fix | the furnace while it was on. The conditions of the workers in |the Bethlehem Steel Co. have been going from bad to worse in the last |year. Most of the workers are only working 2 or 3 days a week. Wages are cut daily. Skilled workers working 10 hours a day make as low as $15-$20 a week. But the company made $40,000,000 profit in the last year. By ROBERT W. DUNN Committee of the LL.D.) | NEW YORK.—Frame-ups, legal] lynching, terror, are increasing in the United States. The Interna tional Labor Defense is the working-class- defense or, that struggles continually to smas the frame-up system and the other | weapons of persecution used by the| judicial arms of the capitalist state. | zetti agitation may be useful as a jguide for future action. In 1926 | and 1927 especially many attempts | were made by the Jewish Daily For-| | ward and other professional red| baiters to injure the work done by | the I. L. D. to rally the masses of the workers in protest against the frame-up. Branded As Lies. Here we had both the national/ and local offices of the I. L. D. do- ing their utmost to spread the ry of the frame-up and to rouse the workers to mass action. Great e forts and sacrifices were made by many comrades who helped in the work, And then would come slimy insinuations in the columns of the MeetinMineTowns Lynchings ot Today Greet RILU Marion Teach Totlers Lesson NEW YORK.—The August 15} Several significant features ‘stand mass meetings to greet the Fifth|out glaringly in the brutal double World Congress of the Red Inter-| lynching at Marion, Ind., last Thurs- national of Labor Unions will take| day, of two Negro young workers, place not only in the great indus-) Thomas Shipp, 18, and Abram trial cities but are being held dovm|Smith, 19. in the little factory and mining| First, is the open mission by |towns. Word has been received at|the capitalist offi nd press the National Office of the Trade|that these mob murders were com- | Union Unity League, American sec-| mitted by leading business men. tion of the R.LL.U., that meetings ‘The Marion Chronicle de that |demonstrating the metal miners’) the lynching was done by “good confidence in the leadership of the | cit furnace. One of them suffered 24 R.LL.U., and their determination to! ond, is the confession that {hours before he died, the other suf-| carry on the T.U. union organ- | these men are known to the sheriff |fered a few days more. Both were | ization and the preparations for the | and other officers who do not intend | young men 30-35 years of age. |great Unemployment Day demon-|to take any action against them: According to the by-laws of the) strations on Sept. 1 will be held| Third, the prosecuting attorney | Bethlehem Steel Co. a furnace oday in Hibbing, Minn.; Ironwood,|made no effort to conceal the role ; Supposed to be stopped while it is! Mich.; Newbury, Mich.; and Super-|of the capitalist state in supporting | |being repaired but the bosses say! ior, Wisc, lynch law, | |that it costs the company $25 a! further detail on the Chicago} Fourth, the treacherous, stool | |mass meeting is that it will take | pigeon role of the Negro petty bour- |place at 8 p. m., at Peoples Audi-|geoisie was clearly revealed in the | torium, jaction of two Negro preachers, Dr.| | Similar mass meetings are sche-|W. T. Bailey and Rey. William |duled for almost every large city in Oglesby, local head of the National |U. S., and will be held throughout | Association for the Advancement of | the world, also. | Colored People in warning the sher- ] jiff that the Negro workers planned Every worker must join the Metal | retaliation against the business men | Trades Industrial League, headquar-| leaders of the lynching mob. ters, 337 Hamilton St., Allentown,! Negro and ‘white workers! Pa. | lynching! Organize \ corps! Fight self - defense —A STEEL WORKER. A DEMONSTRATE AUGUST 22! than those expended on the the I. L. D. and its branche oom ye orzer U.S.A. NATIONAL Certain phases of the Sacco-Van-| } (Member of the National Executive | sie Ee. ~ Hola LE comet DEATH MASK OF BARTHOLOMEO VANZETTI Forward to the effect that large sums of money had been raised by the I. L. D. and that it was all go- ing to the Communist Party. In ply to these baseless slanders the Saceo-Vanzetti Defense Committee of New York issued financial state. ments showing that the amounts taken in were actually much less’ ki ‘|Party and its related organizations | ed by socialists and onar- that was in charge of the! of the case. the attack of | ain comrade in Moscow sent a story to International P | Correspondence, edited in Vienna, in| which he stated that the Communist ne worst had raised som ‘ecorr it read $500,- This was obviously an error and absurd, as no such claims had jever been made by any party or group, certainly not the Communist Party or the I. L. D. This mis- taken figure, however, was taken as authoritative, although it never ap- peared in any paper in the United States and was used by the eminent socialist “author on Commu- nism, Oneal, to prove that the Com- |Munists were nothing less than rob- | bers and crooks. | The I. L. D. will carry on mass | agitation, regardless of these at- tacks, and will exp the lies and WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! EDITION Price 3 Cents FOR RED INTERNATIONAL AND WORK OR WAGES Two St. rving Unemployed Workers Killed tor Taking Food WHITE TERROR REIGNS IN HANKOW AS RED FORCES APPROACH CITY (Many Imperialist Warships in Hankow Are Protecting White-Terrorist Regime | Nanking Discharges Gov’t Employees As Red Forces Advance On City Suter etsy FORM ALLENTOWN JOBLESS COUNCIL FOR STRUGGLE Boss Press Carries Fake News (By a Worker Correspondent.) ALLENTOWN, Pa.—A couple of weeks ago all Allentown papers carried the optimistic news that 500 men are going to get jobs on street construction, But when the men came out for the jobs they found that the contractors could pot even supply “his own” two hundred workers who have been waiting for this job some time. For more than a week two to five hundred men came around ask- ing for jobs but only one or two would sometimes be taken on, and sometimes no one. These men were mostly skilled workers and-:were now ready to take this job as plain laborers at 40 cents an hour, for perhaps a few days. This broke some of the illusions that these workers who are mostly Pennsylvania Dutch had about their city council. So that when the Daily Worker was passed out among them they all took it eagerly and next time we came around they asked for’'more. After a few days of personal conversation with these workers a short meeting was held on the corner of 7th and Gordon Sts., where these men were waiting for the jobs. From this meeting about 125 marched to the new Workers Center of Allentown. They did this in spite of the fact that the “boss” hadn’t been around as yet for after the short meeting and the weeks’ experience they realized that it was no use waiting for any work there. At the Workers Center, 337 Ham- ilton St., we had a regular business meeting where 75 workers signed up and joined the unemployed coun- mittee of 11 unemployed workers was elected with instructions to call another meeting for Friday, August 15, at 10 a. m., at the Workers Cen- ter, 337 Hamilton St. At this meet- ing a plan of work for the prepara- tion of the September 1 demonstra- tion will be made up. THROUGHOUT U.S, Millions Will Demand |Case Be Not Repeated NEW YORK.—Daily reports of elaborate preparations for Sacco- Vanzetti demonstrations in cities throughout the country continue to pour into the National Office of the International Labor Defense, indi- cating that the third anniversary of the legal murder of the rebel fish peddler and shoemaker will hear the protest of millions of workers against the repetition of such tragedy, and the demands for .|the release of political prisoners now facing prison sentence and even death in the jails of this country. Six now face death sentences in trials to be held in Atlanta soon. Chicago will hold preliminary street and factory gate meetings on August 21, and on August 22 a giant demonstration will be made in the Peoples’ Auditorium, Gary, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, in North Carolina; Richmond, Vix- ginia; Hardford, Bridgeport, New Haven, New Britain, South Nor- walk, Stamford and Waterbury, Connecticut; Springfield Massa- chusetts are the latest cities who slander of the Forwards and their ind, have sent definite statements of their meetings on August 22, cil of Allentown; an executive com-| SACCO MEMORIAL White terror is going on at full swing at the tri-cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang, as the workers in the cities are intensify- ing their preparations for an up | rising and Red forces are approach- |ing from all directions to launch an attack. All who are suspected of either being Communists or Communist | sympathizers are publicly or sec- retly beheaded without even the semblance of a trial. Within the last ten days, from 50 to 150 execu- tions were recorded daily. A for- eign correspondent observed that “old-time execution squads with be- | heading knives are a common sight jon the streets.” Over a dozen imperialist war- |ships are lying in the harbor of | Hankow, looking on approvingly at the executions, and are ever ready to jump to the defense of the exeen- tioners’ regime, whose very exist- ence is made possible by imperial- ist’ support and protection. The Japanese concession at Han- kow was heavily fortified with barbed wire electrically charged: The French concession was “sur- routtded with barricades, » British troops are stationed in Hankow ahd are ready to defend the British concéssion which was seized by the workers in 1927, but was later vir- tually returned to the British ‘im- perialists by Chiang Kai-shek. Armed workers and peasants are advancing nearer and neerer to Nanking, the seat of Chiang Kai- shek’s government. The authori- ties are reported to be panic stricken and the city is considered by foreign observers to be “doomed” to fall into the hands of the work- ers and peasants. For fear of the revolt of the lower government employees most of whom have not been paid for three months, the Nanking government is discharging in a wholesale man- ner all employees considered: un- reliable. The. rest are foreed to work at reduced salaries. .Thus Nanking is trying to shoot two birds with one stone, both to save money for the government. which is on the verge of bankruptcy and to protect the government depart- ments from “red penetration.” The whole incident clearly indicates the helpless condition and: impending complete collapse of the- Nanking government, the tool of American imperialism in China, O..IN DETROIT IN ELEGTION DRIVE Social Insurance For Workers Main Issue DETROIT, Aug. 14.—Philip.Ray- mond, national organizer of the Auto Workers’ Union, is the Com- munist candidate for mayor in‘ the elections that take place on) Sep- tember 9. The Communist Party, Detroit, has issued a leaflet to all workers calling on them to sign the petitions for the Communist ‘eandi- date and to vote for Raymond, on September 9. After exposing Bowles, the pres- ent mayor who has been ‘recalled, and the other capitalist’ candidates, as tools of the auto bosses, the bankers and the underworld, ‘the leaflet states: “There will be only one Party and one candidate representing the interests: of the workers, The Communist Party has put forth Philip Raymond, National Organ- izer of the Auto Workers’ Union, a militant auto worker who has shown in‘ more than one struggle his devotion to the interests of the workers, as the Communist candi- date for Mayor in the election on September 9. All workers who are citizens are asked to sign petitions for Philip Raymond and to get their friends and shop mates to do the same,