The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1930, Page 4

Published by the ( Bguate, New York AT TEEE 1a Page Four THE GROWING 1 VERBLIN By A Un- at Chicago or nal the cago un rassed b I Th were V articipated in the un held on the n the con- vention open proletari and into the tee the challenge emplo: it In Almo: the conventi to intensify the t r became oby delegates to the convention were a charged with disorderly conduct. charge, as s indicated by the notation of the police officers on the arrest slip, was that “delegates to a Com judg ecting the the prisoners were Convention.” The very honor: ander, zealous in his duties of interests of the bosses, gave the delegates the maximum penalty of three months and five days in the work house. Prisoners Held Incommunicado, In this case a tactic wa hich the Police and judges hoped would make for them to railroad all class conscious we srker’ to jail. The police refused to book the arrest- ed comrades until the morning of the tri The prisoners were not permitted to commu- opted it e nicate with the International Labor Defense so that their whereabouts could not be ascer- tained. When the attorneys of the I.L.D. call- ed at the police statio were held prisoners, th no such parties were At the time of the trial the honorable judge, “disregarding” the duty imposed upon him’ by bourgeois law, of explaining to the accused that they were entitled to a trial by jury, proceeded to try the cases himself and upon the statement of the police officers that they were delegates to the unemployment convention, gave them the maximum penalty. where the delegates = informed that Negro Workers Viciously Attacked. Most of the ‘fury of the capitalist tools is concentrated on the Negro workers. the large representation of colored workers at the unemployment convention showed the bosses to what extent the movement for social insur- ance and for work or wages penetrated into the ranks of the colored workers. Because of the unbearable conditions under which they are compelled to exist, because of the indescribable misery which is their lot, the colored workers, mote so than the white workers, are coming to realize the absolute necessity for organiza- tion and struggle against the capitalist system. In Chicago, the councils of the unemployed amongst the Negro workers are the most ac- tive and militant. The outdoor meetings of the Communist Party held in the Negro district quare 2ROR EN.4 VE CHICAGO of ¢ ve lingly well attended. t were dete ned to ro workers away. They broke at a corner were held vs were ar- Ne- The a taste of knocked ro work- . High Bis Romania Fergu- A Negro worker who bail son was fined heuvily. was too sick to move when told to do so by the police gang was compelled to serve y days in j e vicious Judge whose x t the Chicago under- known. world are well k Police Pretext of Race Riots As usual, the judge who plays a most im- portant role the ter against the workers is the notorious and cheap publicity hound, Juege Lyle. All the cruelty, sll the inhuman- ity, all the viciousness and bestiality of the capitalist m is embodied in him. When he sees a class conscious worker arrayed be fore him, he licks his dirty chops with the anticipated satisfaction of the cannibal leading his human yietim to the slaughter, When only one charge is filed against any cl ious worker he instructs the state’s at- to file two or three more; he mul- s the amount of the bail manifold. Keen was his satisfaction when he held Comrade Hollman over to the grand jury for sedition and placed him under $7,500 bail. When a worker who came to listen to the trial of ‘those arrested at a street meeting was a little too ’s bailiff to Lyle who in- slow in obeying the orc sit down he was yanked before structed the police officers to arrest him and handle the worker in a proper manner. The worker was beaten into unconsciousness. New Chief Intensifies Terror. It is interesting to pote that this terror ex- ists in the regime of the new chic¥ of police, ck. The Civil Liberties Committee of Chi- cago, in the servile manner characteristic of all liberals attributed the terror to the individuals at the head of the police department and not to the class whose tools these individuals are. To the Civil Liberties Committee it was the malevolent Chief of Police Russell and the bad Detective Stege who were the cause of the arrests and the brutal beatings. The chair- man of the Committee, Arthur Fisher, was gullible enough to believe the new chief of police when he promised to reverse Stege’s policy as far as the Communists were con cerned. That reversal consisted in intensify- ing the terror, The simplest worker understands the substi- tution of one capitalist tool for another can bring no favorable results to the working class. The inten ication of the capitalist crisis will strengthen the terror. The bosses and their tools will listen not to the sweet voices of reason and constitutional liberties, but to the demands of the organized working class. USSR. Commands Respect of Chicago Boss Press Comrade Sailor, the following article stresses certain tendencies, which recently have been more marked, for recognition of the Soviet Union. These views are now propa- gated more aggressively because of the econ- omic crisis and the steady fall in America’s foreign trade. However, the other side of the picture, which does not stand out with sufficient clearness and sharpness in Comrade Sailor's article, must be stressed. This is the preparations which are aggressively being made the crushing of the Soviet Union and the turning of its vast territory into a colony or colony for exploitation by the imperialists. These two tendencies, one for recognition, the other for war, exist within the bourgeoisie. Ina perwd uf crises the sirugye veiween them sharpens. Today ihe most dummant tendency in the United States 8 not jor recognition, bui for war. We fight of the Soviet Union but even more aggressively tor its, defense.—( Editor) for semi- for recognition By MARTIN SAILOR. HE success of the Five Year Pian of the Soviet Union is showing results not only in the U.S.S.R. but ajso in the United States. Alongside of the vicious lies which continue to be printed by the capitalist press in Chice appear signs of a change in tune. OU) few weeks ago the Chicago Ame’ n printed a serial story by a czarist colonel gov, il- lustrated with faked photographs of “Bolshe- vik atrocities.” One of the pictures poi ad a “Bolshevik gloating over a killed priest, who was mur- Another depicted dered merely tor praying. a group of people i religious beliefs,” etc.+ . he oir Sous of these photo. which graphs are now appearing in the press Soviet Union with the originals from they were faked, The “innocent Russian priest,” for instance, happens to be a military spy who was shot:by an Austro-Hungarian firing squad after being court-martialed during the war. The “gloat- ing bolshevik” happens to be Long, the offi- cial hangman of world wa ures of the Austrian mili- tary officers were cut away from the original photograph in order not to show the origin of the photograph. (See pictures 1 and 2. The group of “innocent Chiistians” in an: ocher faked photograph happen to be Serbians Austro-Hungary who fired upon a military train of the Aus- trians during the war, They were rounded up by the Austrians and shot. The seene is de- scribed as a “massacre of Christians by the Bolsheviks.” Change of Tune. An! yet, the same Chicago Evening Amer- an which printed these atrocious lies and comes out with an editorial in ‘Moscow gold.” The suc- r Plan has its effect even of this sheet. pictures now favor of accepting cess of the Five Y upon the slimy liars In an editoria] under the head: “Red Gold As Good As Any,” the paper says very frankly: Much as we Americans dislike the Communists, we have no prejudice against Communist mone, The editorial! urges the capitalists to keep on selling to (he Soviets, because “some of vur worknien ueed work and are not particu- about whe gives it to them. With work--even though Communism pays are not Jikely to think much of Without work. they might, and aurdly blame them,” philosophizes sheet. The editorial writer does not o admit that the workers are think- ing of Communism nowadays either cause the Soviet Union is the only country where there is more work than iy au and are even able to supnly the 3 @ oun workers with work, while the capitalist coun- lar during the | 1 everywhere ta and Bronx, New York City. and foreign which are: (ne yr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (ue yeat $8; 31x months $34 two mi hs $1; excepting Boroughs of $8; six mons, $4.60 | Americans have taken a chance. “An Unbearable Stench Around the } A $600,000,000 Budget For New York By 1. AMTER. Prisoner No. 52351. (Communist Candidate 23rd Congressional District, Bronx.) HE Board of Estimate has announced a budget for New York City for the coming fiscal year amounting to more than $600,- 000,000, The budget provides for increases of per- sonnel and salaries in the courts, district at- torneys’ and sheriffs’ offices. The workers and their families may starve, but Tammany increases the opportunity for graft. Tam- many needs more police, courts and district attorneys to send more workers to jail. At the same time some 10,000 workers storme! the City Free Employment Bureau in search of a job. Many of the applicants had been out of work for six months to two years. 320 jobs of a temporary character were as- signed. The State Industrial Commissioner an- nounced a drop of 4 per cent in employment during July. Work in New York State is at the lowest level in many years. What has Governor Roosevelt done about it? What has Jimmy Walker done about it? What has the republican party done about it? Nothing! Nor do they intend to do any- thing. The city budget contains no item for unem- ployment relief, although there are at least 800,000 unemployed in New York City and more than 1,C00,000 in the state. Walker’s Antics. Walker.was ready to throw the unemployed delegation out of the meetingvof the Board of Estimate, which was held just after the March 6th demonstration, because they demanded im- mediate unemployment relief. Tammany could do nothing for the army of unemployed—al- though it easily found funds to raise the salary of Walker and some other leading officials anl later of some city employees. Walker’s salary is now $40,000 a year. Mr. Baldwin, sole republican member of the Board of Aldermen, proposed nothing for the unemployed. The state legislature did nothing. pa anna te Se tries can not provide any work even for their own workers, The most vicious attacks against the Soviet Union usually appear first in the Chicago Tribune. This paper maintains a special lie factory in Riga, with an expert liar, Donald Day, at the head. ‘he most ridiculous lies were printed in this paper, as for instance a story at the beginning of the revolution to the effect that the Bolsheviks were favoring the ezar’s son, Alexis, as. the next czar of Russia, ete. This paper was always scream- ing bloody murder whenever the Soviet Union was mentioned, And now, even this paper changed its tune. In an editorial entitled “The United States and Russia” the paper says: “The Ruvs/ans ask for betier trade relations. Proof of good faith is the only basis for that on] the! trine is schematized bad faith. Individual It wey vg x fairly safe one as the Russian need is great. There is no guaranty when the need disap- pears. There would be reciprocal advantages in an extensive penetration of Russian mar- kets by American industry, but no assurance is offered for any diplomatic arrangements which might promote the trade”... With the growth of the economic crisis and the revolutionary movement in this country, with the realization that the wide masses of workers ate beginning to penetrate the thick walls of lies put up by the capitalist press against the Soviet Union, and especial. ith the success of the Five Year Plan the ist press is forced to beat a retreat. Only | f The eague of Nations’ Headquarters.” —Geneva Health Officer BY BURCK. The Overthrow ot Wall Street in Peru By HARRISON GEORGE. HIMES eS I am disposed to bow before any decision of armed forces!” Thus spoke, not Zarathusa, but a chap whom Wall Street thought was president of Peru a few hours before, Augusto B. Leguia. And, O, what a fall there was, my country- men! For Leguia, known in South America as “the Napoleon of America,” had seemed tu be seated in reinforced concrete on the backs of the Peruvian people since July 4, 1919, when, by a military coup d’etat, he seized pow- er as a personal dictator, ruling in the name of American imperialism with the blackest reaction possible to imagine. His seizure of power was “legalized” by what passes for “Congress,” and he was “re-elected” twice, once in 1924, again in August, 1929. But now, as these lines are written, he has fled for safety on a warship and the United Press says “his destination is unknown.” Forces Behind Revolt. It is clear that, as in the case of Bolivia, his overthrow is due to two forees: First, the hatred among the brutally exploited and op- pressed masses of workers and peasants (the latter mainly Indians) and second, the maneu- vers of British imperialism which, utilizing this popular anger at the dictator, managed to gain control of the only force on which such dictatorship depends—the military . Thus it must be understood that the pres- ent revolt settles nothing except the fact that American imperialism is struck another seri- ous blow directly after that which removed Bolivia from its unqualified control, except the fact that British imperialism is “hitting below the belt” of the Monroe Doctrine and a con- tinuance of this will precipitate quicker the inevitable inter-imperialist war. These masses of Peru have gained nothing but the confirma- tion that Leguia was not permanent and that tyrants can be overthrown—not altogether a negative result, but far from satisfactory. Briefly, let us see the c'aracter of Peru. 533,916 square miles, population, 6,000,000; rich in minerals, producing 95 per cent of the world’s vanadium; Guggenheim has the grip on the great Cerro de Pasco copper mines; Hoover-Wall Street did nothing. “Socialists” Serving as Tools for the Capitalists. The “socialist” party, which had canfidence in Hoover, now advocates unemployment insur- ance to be paid by the workers and bosses, with the bosses controlling. The “socialist” party will make ‘no fight, but knows that the workers are lfungry, that they are looking to the Communist Party in their. struggle, and therefore the “socialist” party, as a good tool of the capitalists, is trying to keen the work- ers from following the Communists. The Communist Party demands unemploy- ment insurance through the Worke~s’ Social Insurance Bill, at the expense of the bosses and administered by the workers, the rel'et to amount to $25 a week and $5 for each de. pendent, This can and will be ob‘eined om! by a fight for it. The Communist Party calls on the workers to mobilize for its support an to rally around the Communist candide‘e: This fight must, however, not be confined te the elections. The workers must organize, mobilize and demonstrate under the deman’ of work or wages—unemployment insurance. A $5°0.900,000 budget--more money for the graftess but not a penny to the unemployed. This is a slap in the face of the entire work- ing class in ‘New York City and State who face a fall and winter of hunger, evictions wage cuts. This budget will provide jobs for more grafters like Vitale. Moskowitz, Doyle. Colley and Ewald, who use their paid offices ‘to build up bank accounts obtained through eoernption, Workers! Sunnort the Communist Party! Vo'e Cor mist in the coming elections! (Written in Hart’s Island Penitentiary.’ government Vemand the release of Fos- fer Minor Amter and Ray- mind. in prison for fighting for unemployment insutance, rich in silver, lead and petroleum; produces sugar, cotton and alpaca wool. An Oppressed Nation. Only two per cent of the people are “white” (Spanish), over 50 per cent are full-blood In- diens, descendants of the Incas, and 40 per | cent more are part Indian. Yet the Indians are brutally, barbarously oppressed and ex- ploited, kicked about like dogs and are clearly an oppressed nation under the savage heel of foreign oppressors, fully entitled to self-de- termination. Leguia took power with Wall Street’s in- vasion of Latin America following the world war, and since then American investments have grown to exceed all other imperialisms. he customs, the Reserve Bank, the navy and education are administered—or were until yes- terday—by Americans. | Two American naval officers, “resigned” trom the U. S, Navy to take charge of Peru’s navy and aviation, were captured by the re- belling trcops while trying to aid Leguia by dropping leaflets to the troops. The insidious Kemmerer Commission, the auditors of Amer- ican imperialism in all parts of the world has been keeping Leguia’s books since 1926. Religion and Fascism, Leguia, as Wall Street’s lackey, built his power on black reaction. The catholic church is the government religion, and Peru broke with Mexico when that country fell out with the church. Leguia imported fascist black shirts from Italy to build up a force of strike breakers and assassins of the workers. The army, which has revolted, was under control of a French mission—take notice. The police were ruled by a Spanish mission. The British run the postal business, telegraphs and 80 per cent of the railways. The Indian inhabitants do the work and get the kicks. But American imperialism had, until yesterday, the dominant power. Leguia, to give Wall St. investments room, started enormous “improvements” in 31 cities, light, power, paving, sewage, street cars, any- thing which, however nice, was set down in the midst of desperate mass poverty to fur- nish dividends for New York bankers and not to build colonial manufacturing industry. Only last month Leguia granted a concession of 100,000 square miles to ‘’ankee capitalists headed by W. R. Davis, for “railway and col- onization” in Eastern Peru, but it is admitted that “great petroleum fields are in the area.” Rule of Blood and Plunder. Repeatedly the workers of the cities and in the mines have struck, only to be shot down by the savage mercenaries of Leguia com- manded by American officers. Year after year the workers have fought, trying to form class struggle trade unions, unable yet to form but the beginnings of a Communist Party. Terrorist Government. Against them Leguia threw every weapon of murder anJ darkness. Torture, assassina- tion, imprisonment, exile, were their portion. Joined with vile demagogy, which inspired the founding of “mutual aid societies” as a counter organization against revolutionary unions. In 1928, shortly before oover visited Peru, hailed by Leguia and his cohorts as their best friend, Leguia officially announcing that he cegarded the Monroe Doctrine as the “charter of liberty” for Latin America, Leguia decreed an outrageous “law.” According to this “law,” anyone who “prop- agates ideas against the social order and the established pclicy of the republic, or who tries to change them”—was subject to 25 years in prison. There was, besides, a “law” which | compelled the poor to work without pay what ever on public works, and practically all labor was and remains forced labor, though of course Matthew Woll will not demand that Peruvian topper be barred from the U.S. A. American Press Lies. One thing all workers should note: that the capitalist press, which has been filled with praise for Leguia, which has lied endlessly about how he was “loved” by the people, kept up lying till the last minute. The N. Y. Times | on Monday morning had an Associated Presy disnateh headed: “Peru Curbs Revolt; Lecuia at Races.” with a fairy tale beginning: “Lim, 4 By JORGE England Accuses England This would be surprising, without you know the ins and outs of imperialist politics, We are moved to remark it because of the head- line in a capitalist paper: “Palestine Riots Put Up to Britain in League Report,” and the next headline adds: “Geneva Mandates Commission Finds Negligence Led to Outbreaks Fatal to 200.” This is downright sad; with Great Be} tain bossing the Leogue, the League accuses Britain. But of what? There’s the rub. It charges that Britain was not severe enough, didn’t shoot enough Arabs, was too much in- clined to be “sentimental” and let the Arabs run their own country. By this means, the British “labor” government is given orders never to let Arabs go unshot any more. Now it can say: “We sorta hate to massacre you buggers, but the League of Nations (Ha, ha, that’s us!) said we didn’t do enough last year, so come on and choose your place of burial.” * Recommended for Promotion An old regular of the Tammany cops, after many years diligently cracking heads and col- lecting “fees” for his captains, was retired on a pension of $1,250 per year. From force of habit he still persists in spending about that on firewater, much to the annoyance of his wife, who goes to court and gets an order that he pay $1,000 of it to her. The old war horse feels miffed, and going home takes down the familiar Colts which had served to knock off many a picket, and calmly shoots his wife, remarking: “This will be a good lesson to them damned judges!” He knew where to go to be safe against harm befalling him for a little thing like murder, too. As soon as he killed his wife he went to the neighbors and said: “Sure, I been after killin’ me wife and I want to surrender to th’ police.” * * * * * Always a New Gag. Somewhere Lenin wrote to the effect that if the capitalists ruled with forthright force and made no bones about it, the working class would get wise quicker and make an end of them. That’s why you need the Daily Worker to uncover all the thousand and one lies and tricks the capitalists use to cover up their tracks, to make the masses think that the gov- ernment is “above classes” and that- while some capitalists are bad, others are “pretty fine fellows” and will rescue the workers from the others who are bad and inconsiderate of workers’ rights. We are reminded of this at reading in a paper published in Spanish in Chieago, particularly for Mexicans, a dispatch dated from Washington, in which it is stated that Ambassador Dwight Morrow, “has broken definitely with J. P. Morgan & Co.” over the question of the debt Mexico owes the Morgan banks. This paper, which calls itself “Mex- ico,” is the only one we have seen which puts out this astounding rubbish. But why does it do so? To make the Mexicans, here and in Mexico, look to Morrow, who it says is terriblv angry with Morgan at the “injustice” done Mexico, as their saviour from that bad Morgan. By this means, and with an agree- ment between Morgan and Morrow, Morgan demands twice as much as he knows the Mex- icans can pay, Morrow comes in as a “de- fender” of Mexico proposing a compromise, and the boot-lickers of the Mexican govern- ment can “point with pride” to the fact that they “got off easy” by “defying the imperial- ists” to make them pay so much, and that Morrow, their “good friend,” should be ven- eratel by the Mexican people. Mexicans have stomachs which can handle the strongest chile, but how they can swallow this is beyond use * * * So, This Is Paris! A dispatch from Paris last week told of the Russian Czarist white guards mobilizing for a new war on the Soviet Union, with 100,000 monarchist troops. The chiefs met in the house of General Miller, who takes the place of the vanished Koutiepoff, and laid their plans, which they say need only finances to carry out for an armed invasion of Soviet soil in attempt to overthrow the Soviet government and reestablish ezardom. They expect to get the money, they ‘say, from Sir Henry De- terding, British oil imperialist, giving him a mortgage on Soviet oil fields at Baku. They also mention that until now the chance wasn’t so good because there wasn’t unity enough among the imperialist powers on the matter. , Evidently they count on the help of the United States. But what rather tickles us is the funny story credited to a General Stovog, who, they are told, came all the way to Paris from the Far East. This bird said that “at Vladivostok, more than ten thousand mutinous soldiers and sailors have for months been hold- ing out against loyal Red Army troops sent against them.” This looks like Vladivostok is in the hands of the White Guards, but probably it knows nothing about it. We can’ well be- lieve that the Czarists are arming for invasion of the Soviet Union, with imperialist aid, but this yarn about Vladivostok only reminds us that half or more of the white guards in the Far East are dope fiends. Aug. 24 (A.P ).—Complete order ruled in the Peruvian capital today,” and so on. And never in years has the capitalist press said one word of the fascist terror and bloody oppression. inflicted on the Peruvian masses by Leguia. But, lo, before the “Times” story “could be read, the Monday evening papers had to admit: “Riots in Peru as President Flees in Ship,” and accounts of “political prisoners at Central Prison” hearing of the revolt and “demanding to be freed,” while the d long fury of the workers broke loose in bling storm, Unfortunately, because of a lack of a.real ane mass Communist Party, the anger of the masses was directed solely at the dictatorshir which was overthrown, forgetful that onl) their own government of workers and peasant: can guarantee them freedom from new tyr nanny, which unquestionably is taking powe) for British imperialism in the shape of thr Military Dictatorship.