The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1930, Page 1

ber 1st demonstrations mobilize the workers in support of the Bessemer City Strikers! Rally Sept, ist! The strike of the Bessemer City textile workers against a 20 per cent to 30 per cent wage cut is the beginning of new strike struggles in the South. In preparing for the Septem- Central Orga ction of (Se “the-Cd the Communist International) fe NO at New York. N. ¥.. ander the Vol. VII., No. 199 Watered a, second-class mutter at the act of March 3. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930 orker mist Party U.S.A. INAL CI TY 1500 TEXTILE WO Support, Spread Bessemer City Strike! OUTHERN textile workers are again in action striking against the S efforts of the mill owners to load the burdens of the crisis on the workers’ backs. This time it is the workers in American Mills, Numbers 1 and 2, of Bessemer City. They are striking against a wage cut ranging from 20 per cent to 30 per cent. ‘ * Bessemer City is only a few miles from Gastonia, the scene of the bitter strike of last year. . It is extremely significant that, despite the frenzied attacks on all revolutionary workers by the southern bosses, and the boss supported organization campaign of the A. F. of L., the workers ignore all their hoakum ‘and turn to the National Textile Workers’ Union, the storm center in the Gastonia fight, for leadership. P This places great responsibility on all revolutionary workers’ or- ganizations, and especially on the T. Dav. L Nation-wide mass sup- port must be mobilized for the Bessemer City strikers. The working class as a whole must be roused to the significance of this new struggle of the southern workers. They must be made to feel that the workers as a whole are with them. On the field of battle the task is to spread the strike. Rank and file strike committees must be set up. Simple concrete demands must be put forth for the improvement of the workers’ conditions in the mills and as a means of appealing to the workers in the entire Char- lotte area. Committees of workers must be créated to visit the work- ers in other mills, to establish N.T.W.U. mill committees, to win sup- | vort for the strike, and to spread the strike as rapidly as the organ- izational preparatory work can be done. é Workers in other cities must realize that this strike against wage cuts in Bessemer City strengthens the growing strike movement against wage cuts everywhere. Rally to the support of the southern textile strikers! Send donations to the T. U. U. L. strike relief fund! Using the A. F. of L. Against the Workers SOBIALIST” RAG |" Bisset co THINKS CLUBBING. WORKERS IS O.K. | Panken to “Restore Faith” in Capitalist Administration Forward Finds “Hero” =< | All Stool Pigeons Go to the “Socialists” | NEW YORK,.—Jacob Panken, | | who once got along in Tammany’s | Killer Machado |municipal machine as municipal court judge, is going to run for M d Ww ' | congress. Ur ers Ong, Panken, given a welcoming hand ; |by the N. Y. Times, says that the | city graft cases “have destroyed jall faith in the administration.” | Panken clearly wants to re-establish |. HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 18,— faith in capitalist government. Machado has murdered comrade What can workers expect from|Wong, a member of the Central “socialist” administrators? The | Committee of the Communist Party “socialist” Jewish daily “Forwards” | of Cuba. Wong, a Chinese worker, tells us the same Forwards which|was arrested last May in a raid gave enthusiastic aid to the Fish! carried out under Machado’s in- Committee, advocates clubbing the | structions against revolutionary he Communis ye t cE fl i n i |ful that Tammany police do it, but | that Comrade Wong “committed sui- lailed Leader PREPARE FIGHT, SAYS LOSOVSKY Labor of 55 Countries | Represented At the tt comers 5,000 BATTLE FOR vvitaket Decay ana, JOBS’ AT AGENCY Capitalist Decay and) Social Fascists and A. F. of L. Aid Bosses Reformism Analyzed | \tries assembled here in the Fifth) NEW YORK.—Over | World Congress of the Red Inter-| ing and desperate |national of Labor Unions, the now) Workers rushed the nici] {ten years old world center of mili- | “Free” Employment Agency in New tant unions and revolutionary min-| York, Monday, in a vain attempt to orities in reformist unions, heard|get jobs which do not exist. (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., Aug. 18.—} Strong delegations from 55 coun- 5,000 stary- unemployed Losovsky, deliver a magnificent | wonders in the solution of the un- opening speech and report on the|employment situation by their world situation. “free” employment agency which In his opening address, Losovsky | gives. jobs only to the Tammany compared the present position of| grafting clerks. Monday morning, the International Federation of | hungry, sick unemployed workers Trade Unions (the Amsterdam Yel-| waited for hours for the place to |low International) with its position | open. Some had waited at the door Municipal | The | the R. I. L. U. general secretary,| Tammany grafters announced LARITY.as to the role of the American Federation of Labor in the Suey eh Ha C class struggle at the present time is especially necessary. At a ie ae ck socialists” are anxious time when the bosses are feverishly preparing for war against their | on the gob ay eaiitacetey imperialist rivals, against the Soviet Union, and against the working in a" ‘s f fasoaa aad class at home the A. F. of L., under the leadership of the fascists, Woll a kay eee Spied puri i i he b for use | I. Weiss, who was ex Panne Se ead a powerful instrument of the bosses for lGocenttiy (Pony. ie eatatea + The central point in the policy of the Communist Party and the giving the recipe of how the ee revolutionary. trade unions of the T.U.U.L. must be to expose the A. | ist” party members ba recruit if F. of L. leadership on the basis of the concrete, daily issues of the | by the police The way to ge |cide in jail for fear that he would | be sent to8China where he would be | | executed.” Butcher Machado has a long his- tory of inducing so-called “suicides” and “disappearances.” Machado is | directly responsible for the murder | of Comrade Wong. | There are over 100 Chinese work- Meanwhile, the R. I. L. U., Los- ovsky pointed out, has become a powerful world organization. Capitalist Decay. The past decade has been one of capitalist decay, The social demo- crat governments in many European a decade ago. Then it had 24,000,-|all night. When the doors opened 000 members. Now it has 13,000,000,{there was a rush for jobs. Jacob jand many of these are in the revo-| Snappy, 56 yeai old, a Negro lutionary oppositions. worker, was severely hurt in the fight that followed for the jobs that rwere not there. In four days about 100 workers were placed, most of them in fake jobs at greatly re- duced wages. There are a thou- sand workers who lose their jobs to every one that is placed in the class struggle as strikebreaking agents of the bosses, as class enemies of the -workers,. Our struggle to build the revolutionary unions must be simultaneously a struggle against the fascist and social fascist leaders of the A. F. of L. and socialist party and for the demands of the workers, i, €., against wage cuts, against the speed-up, for the q-hour day, 5-day week, for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill, ete. In this fight we must not create illusions that the A. F. of L. unions can be turned into fighting instruments of the workers against | the bosses merely by removing a Green or a Woll. | Neither must we accept the reactionary view of the Lovestoneites or Trotskyites that by accepting the social fascist leadership of the Musteites as against that of Green that the A. F. of L. could then be made to fight. workers “disillusibned” and drawn jers being held by the Wall Street laway from the Communist Party | puppet government in-Cuba for de- |is to have them well beaten by the | portation to Chiang Kai Shek’s ex- countries lead the workers to de- feat, and prepare the path of fas- cist dictatorship. Tammany agency. Jobless Ranks Swelling. 1 The bosses’ lynch terror adds two more victims—Thomas Shipp, 18, and Abram Smith, 19—mak- ing number lynched so far this year 20. Young Totlers Organizing For Lynch Fight Young Negro and white workers are getting together throughout the | country, under the auspices of the |cops, is Weiss’ idea. | His article in the Forward as a recruit to the “socialist” party shows him to be entirely eligible to that aggregation of stool pigeons and counter-revolutionists. He goes on from praising the Tammany police for thus aiding the “social- | ist” party, to telling ridiculous fairy tales about how he got his “orders | from Moscow.” This latest “unknown soldier” of | social fascism received barely a! mention in the organization bulle- | tin of New York, District 2, of the {Communist Party on’ August 1, which printed the decision that he But it is absolutely necessary to differentiate between the thou- sands of rank and file workers who are members of the A. F. of L. and the fascist and social fascist strikebreakers who lead the A. F. of L. The rank and file workers in the A. F. of L. must be won for the revolutionary class struggle under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party and the T. U. U. L. ‘This frankly means that it is not our duty to desert the A. F. of L. and leave the members of these unions, under the leadership of the |be expelled “as an irresponsible | bosses’ agents, to be utilized against the interests of the workers. On / and unreliable clement.” the contrary revolutionary workers must carry on their activities | Hence the “Forward” welcomes | within the A. F. of L., not with the Lovestonian conception of forcing | Weiss as a great hero, whom it the leaders to fight, but with the revolutionary conception of winning (compliments for “turning away” the leadership of these workers for the building of revolutionary trade | trom the Communists. This “For- unions which alone can successfully fight for the economic demands | wards,” which even leads the cap- of enehwnebece: ‘ ___ |italist press on anti-Soviet lies, is In this respect the article of Comrade Darcy, entitled “The Declin- | backing almost as fulsomely as the ing American Federation of Labor,” published in Saturday’s Daily capitalist press does, the candidacy Worker, could easily lead to very serious mistakes on the trade union | 4¢ panken, Thomas, Broun, et al. question. The figures which he quotes on the actual decline of the | Workers who understand the anti- A. F. of L. are certainly enlightening and true. But such statements | working class character of these as: “The A. F. of L, is in the period of its senility,” and then “The |«.ocjalist” scoundrels will vote the workers are in fact writing the answer to the renegades in bold letters | Go munist ticket in November, and by leaving the A. F. of L. in hundreds of thousands,” do not constitute join the everyday fight for social an effective reply to the renegades who see no radicalization among insurance, demonstrating. for unem- the American workers, and no possibility of building revolutionary ployment insurance on September 1. trade unions. Such statements may well lead to a liquidation of the struggle | GANDHI AGREES against the strikebreaking A. F. of L. leadership on the mistaken as- sumption that the masses of workers, independent of our continuous | efforts to expose the fascist and social fascist leaders, were becoming conscious of the role of the A. F. of L, and deserting it for the reyo- | lutionary unions. Such a reliance on the spontaneous action of the | workers, which incidentally is one of the great weaknesses still strongly ‘felt in the revolutionary movement, stands out as one of the greatest barriers. inthe organization of the workers at the present time for | ‘Asks Only a Phrase From MacDonald The capitalist press reports that | Mohandas (“Mahatma”) Gandhi has | made his long expected declaration | that he will call off the anti-imper- ialist movement—so far as it now| | lies in his power to do so. struggle. ~ Ae At the present time when the bosses are more and more utilizing He does not even ask Dominion | Status, to say nothing of indepen- the A, F. of L. leaders as.a dam to hold back the rising tide of working class. radicalization as is concretely shown by the role of Woll and Green before the Fish Committee and in the efforts to place an | embargo against all Soviet goods, in the arrangement of counter dem- | onstrations on September 1st in Chicago, .Philadelphia and other cities, in the invitation of Mayor Curley of Boston to the A. F. of L. to organize the unemployed, etc., it becomes more necessary than ever | before, within the A. F. of L, and among the unorganized workers in _ the shops and factories, to expose every strikebreaking act of the A. F. of L, leadership as a means of winning the masses for revolu- tionary struggle for their daily concrete demands. ecutioners in China, In the instance’ | of Comrade Wong, Machado did the | job for his fellow-murderer Chang | Kai Shek. +e © A statement issued by the In- ternational Labor Defense, New York, charges Machado with the murder of Comrade Wong. It has sent a cable of protest to Cuba, de- manding the release of 70 other Communists now held in Havana prisons, who also face secret execu- tion by Machado’s butchers. Pro- test demonstrations are being or- ganized, FIGHT TO FREE VAN ETTEN CAMP TEACHERS VAN ETTEN, N. Y., Aug. 18.— A second telegram has been sent to | Governor Roosevelt, protesting the sentences imposed on Mabel Husa and Aili Holmes, as a result of the Ku Klux Klan’s raids on the chil- dren’s camp here. The two teachers are being held in jail on a technicality which makes it necessary that appeal be filed eight days before action can be taken, and the International La- bor Defense attorney is attempting to secure the freedom of the girls on a writ of habeas corpus pending appeal. the prisoners will be removed to the state penitentiary at Rochester, and the defense attorneys are at- tempting to secure an order to pre- vent the transfer to Rochester pend- ing efforts to get an appeal, “It is significant,” says J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the I. L. D., “that those punished as a result of the Ku Klux raid on the children’s camp were not the mem- bers of the lawless mob, but the two young instructors who acted within their rights as workers in refusing Rumors from the jail say that| The central problem of the R. I. L. U. is to prepare the path for proletarian economic struggle. In his report, Losovsky analyzes further the world economic crisis, and the role of international re- formism as a capitalist agent. Losovsky described the great eco- nomic progress of the Soviet Union, and its meaning to the world prole- tariat. He told how the bourgeoisie in the. capitalist countries use labor governments as an efficient weapon of the united front against | the workers. | Losovsky analyzed the left and ‘right deviations from the correct line, and stated that it was the task jof the proletariat to organize against the war danger and to fight } against an imperialist attack on the | Soviet Union. Delegate Heckert of * Germany discussed the trade union tasks in the period of a growing revolution- ary situation. Tormossova of the Soviet Union trade unions spoke on the participation of women in the revolutionary unions and __ their struggle. Rschai spoke of work among the youth. James Ford, delegate from Amer- ica, and head of the’ Trade Union Unity League department on work among the Negroes, spoke on the situation among Negro workers and problems of organization. . CHINESE MINERS STRIKE IS LED BY COMMUNISTS CANTON, China, Aug. 18.—Min- ers in the Ta Yuan Iron Mines, on the border between Hunan and | Kwangtung province struck yester- day. The leadership of the strike is reported to be in the hands of the Communists. | the gift of the American flag which CONTINUE T New York is not alone in this’ American Negro Labor Congress, respect. The jobless ranks all over | for the creation of a militant youth the country now amount to at least | organization to fight the bosses 9,000,000. All of the workless are |iynch terror and oppression of N closer to the starvation line than/ oy, workers. The organization ever before. In Toledo, the grand|t) be known as the Young Liber- jury is “investigating” the killing} ators, of Elmer G. Tilton and his son{ ant ‘ . sume eee aN atc a | Last Friday evening saw the birth Louis Tilton for taking potatoes to! o¢ the new youth organization’ in A united front from below with all workers, including those of the A. F. of L., in the struggle against unemployment and the of- fensive of the bosses in the shops, must be the instrument in winning the masses for the new revolutionary unions. i Now, in preparation for the unemployed demonstrations on Sep- tember Ist, the struggle against the misleaders of the workers must be strengthened. ‘LITERATURE AGENTS |SHOE WORKERS MEETING WILL PLAN FOR AUG. 22 REPORT AUGUST 20 eee NEW YORK.—The Independent , There are just a few days left grow before the Aug. 22 and Sept.|Shooe Workers’ Union calls all \1 demonstrations. active members to a meeting to- All’ section and unit literature | morrow, at 7.30 p m., to organize jagents must report Wednesday eve-| committees for the picnic on Sun- |ning, 7:30, at the Workers Book|day, at Pleasant Bay Park. |Shop, 26 Union Square, for instruc-| The same meeting will make |tions in connection with these dem- Preparations for the participation of shoe workers in the Sacco and \ jdence. He is willing, under orders from the imperialist government he has faithfully served by trying to lead the workers’ and peasants’ re- volt into channels harmless to the rulers, to betray even that move- ment if the MacDonald government will say that it is its policy to grant dominion status, He makes it clear that he does not even expect dom- inion status at present. He «sks for a general amnesty of political offenders. The British Labor Party has already, in its election cam- paign, committed itself to this pol- iey. It does not follow that the government will now repeat the pledge. but in any case the whole world knows that the pledge means | nothing. * TOU! SULA note eT Square, August 22 and the demon-; nstrations. Be sure to report and be on time.| Vanzetti demonstration on Union stration on Unemployment Day, | September 1, |to have been the audacious printer, was offered to them, | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the youthful shoemaker and the rebel fish peddler burned to death in the electric chair of the state of Massachusetts just three years ago as the clock was turning midnight, August 22, 1927, still haunt the “Back Bay” aristocracy, New England’s ruling class, The Boston police, arrogant in- struments for the censorship and suppression of speech, press «nd as- semblage, has denied the right of | ago denouncing the then Governor jmilitant workers to use the Boston|Gardner as the murderer of these Commons for the Third Anniver-| two workers. Rather “Back Bay” sary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Momo-| fears for the energetic working | rial. The significance here is not| class activities. carried on in mem- so much that the main speaker was | ory of Sacco and Vanzetti; intense efforts to organize the workers in the textile, shoe, machine and other New England industries; the fact that the voices of Sacco and Van- | Vanzetti Sacco ——$—$—— he dared carry a banner in the Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial two years | Harry Cantor, just released from serving a year’s sentence in the in- famous Deer Island Prison because | streets vainly looking for work. At the same time, the condition of the workers on the job is be- coming worse through drastic wage- (Continued on Page Three) MARINE WORKERS GREET | | NEW YORK Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union hall, at 140 Broad St. was filled Friday night in honor of the Fifth World Con- gress of the Red International of Labor Unions. The meeting was a real international one, with speak- ers in several languages. There was a German Li spoke in Chinese. chairman, delivered an addr: i speaker | i gress, and the role of the militant world center of revolutionary unions A resolution greeting the Congress was adopted and cabled, and this resolution sponsored a demand for the formation of a transport inter- national. Sunday, in the same hall, a big crowd gathered to discuss the Chinese: revolution. James Mow was the the onward armies. march of the Red FIGHT! | zetti live today and speak in the demands of millions of hungry un- employed the country over, of which Massachusetts has a tremendous share. Workers in Boston will demon- strate in spite of the police, in 1930; they will gather in great numbers in Union Square, New York City, on August 22, 1930, tinder the Jead- ership of the International Labor Defense, that again organizes an internatignal protest against the electric chair, this time to defeat the effort to send six workers to their death in Georgia, Civil War “insurrection” law, be- cause of their class activities; spite of all the methods of oppre: sion that are being used in deat as they were exercised while they were still alive, Sacco and Vanzetti are remembered the world over. Demonstrate August 22nd! in R.LLU. WORLD CONGRESS :° main speaker, and told of | _ JAILED 15 h, | employed and had walked the; ¥0UNS worker delegates present at the Youth Conference called by the American Negro Labor Congress, at 308 Lenox Ave. At this conference it was pointed out that the bosses lynching mobs | do not.spare the Negro youth, that jof the twenty workers lynched so far this year, at least three were youths, and that the oppression of Negroes as a national minority and workers affects particularly the | Negro youth. The Young ‘Liberat- jors will struggle against lynching, jim crowism, segregation and all }forms of oppression. A resolution { passed at Frid meeting declares, jin part: “In struggle against discrimina- | tion in shops and generally for bet- |ter conditions for the working youth. The Young Liberators will | constantly fight for the organiza- | militant union organization |for Negro workers and parti Unity League.” The conference also endorsed the | platform of the Communist Party in the election campaign and called upon the young workers to support the Communist ticket and the struggle against imperialist war, unemployment, etc. KAGNER; ’ MONTHS BS j Was Framed By -RELEA: ss By ‘o. Union. | NEW YORK.--Philip Kagner, a member of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union, who served 14 months in Sing Sing as the re- sult of a frame-up by the furriers’ |company union, has just been re- leased, Kagner was arrested during the fur strike in the early part of 1929, | He was an active worker in the | union and active in strike. He was |charged with felonious assault | against a. scab. Witnesses were ; manufacturing evidence to see that | Kagner was sent to jail. | At the present time more frame- under a ups are being prepared by the com- | urges all work ;Pany union in the fur industry. j Among these are Jack Schneider, or- | ganizer for the N. T. W. L, and Ad- ho is now out on high bail on the same framed up charges, “felonious assault.” All members of the N. T. W. I. U. are urged to increase their activi- ller, wi WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 3 Cents me Price RKERS STRIKE IN BESSEMER CIT CENTRAL TASKTO Trade Union Unity League, Raises Fund for Struggle; Demonstrate September Ist! 30 PER GENT CUT STARTS WALKOUT N.T.W. Leads Fight in Gastonia Territory | BESSEMER CITY, N. C., Aug. Under the leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union a general strike against a 20 to 30 per cent wage-cut broke out here this morning in Mills No. 1 and No. 2 of the American Mills, a textile manufaeturing corporation. There are 1,500 textile workers: striking. Bessemer City the home town of Ella May, National Textile Workers’ Union organizer murdered by Manville-Jenckes’ mill hirelings jlast year. It is only a few miles from Gastonia, scene of the bitterly fought strikes of last year, which led up to the world famous Gas- tonia case. Answers White Terror. The Southern mill barons and their governments and gunmen and |lynchers have beeh gloating for months over what they claimed was the smashing of the workers’ or- jganization by blood and savage 20- \year sentences for organizers. The |American Federation of Labor and |its United Textile Workers have come into the state with their pro- gram of “never strike” and have |claimed that they supplanted the ee N. T. W. But now, a little over a year from the date of the outbreak of the Lo- |ray (Manville-Jenckes) strike in | Gastonia, in th | town, the mass neighboring mill of workers rally in their desperate need to the union jthat showed its stuff in the Gas- \tonia strike. The workers can not jstand this wage-cut in their already extremely low pay. There has been in addition to wage scales as low as a dollar a day much unemployment (Continued on Page Three) | NEW YORK.—Preparations for FOR AUGUST 22 | | —— 2 Facing Chair Talk On Sacco-Vanzetti | \the Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Dem- ‘onstration in Union Square’ on Fri- day, August 22, continue, with the Soderberg, | tion of fighting trade unions. The’! promise of a monster protest being and | Young Liberators will fight against | voiced in this ci there was general discussion, which | Jim Crow leaders of the American | of workers on this thitd anniversary by huge numbers indicated the keen interest of all| Federation of Labor and will urge |of the death of the two labor mar- seamen in the Fifth World Con-|the Negro youth to join the only | tyrs. Preliminary open-air _ meetings vill be held by all International La- in the organization of the seamen.|yougn workers, the Trade Union! hor Defense branches on Wednes- | day and Thursday in every impor- ;tant square throughout. New York | City, | Among the speakers: thus far an- {nounced will be J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of . the: Interna- | tional Labor Defense_and:) Gommu- {nist candidate for fieutenant gov- {ernor of New York; Sam Darcy and Charles Alexander, also of the In- ternational Labor Defense; Herbert Newton and Joseph Carr, two of the | Atlanta defendants who will face | death sentences in Atlanta, Georgia, in September, when they. come to j trial charged with “inciting to in- | Surrection,” because they attempted jto hold meetings protesting unem- | ployment; Lewis MacLaughlin, one jof the Gastonia defendants, await- jing the decision of the «supreme |court on a sentence of 20 years; j Joseph R. Brodsky, attorney in New |York for the International Labor | Defense, and Jack W. Johnstone, of |the Trade Union Unity League. Speakers are still to be assigned by other unions as well as by the |Communist Party and other worker | organizations The International Labor Defense and sympathizers to demonstrate at Union Square on | Friday, August 22, the third anni- versary of the death of Sacco and Vanzetti. ties in the fate of these increasing attacks and to prepare for a coun- ter-offensive,