The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1930, Page 1

Rally in the streets on September First! Carry forward the struggle against the bosses’ government and its hirelings for unemployment insurance! Or- ganize and strike against wage cuts! Vote Communist in November! Dail Central Vol. VII., No. 209 Entered a. second-class matter at the Post Office at New York N.Y. under the act of March 8, 1879 ‘NEW YORK, SATURI ‘SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1930 iin, PIN: DEMONSTRATE IN UNION SO. Expose the Bosses’ Lies; Strike Against Wage Cuts! N several occasions the Daily Worker has branded as lies the state- 0 ments of leading bankers, manufacturers, and politicians who de- clared their opposition to wage cuts on the theory, as they put it, “that the return of national prosperity was dependent on high wages.” We have repeatediy charged that this was pure hokum designed to deceive the workers, to lull the workers to sleep, while these same bosses and their agents prepared by means of mass lay-offs, speed-ups and wage cuts to load the whole burden of the economic crisis on the shoulders of the workers, and to return to prosperity at the expense of the work- ers, if they could. The workers’ correspondence received by the Daily Worker has more than justified these charges. Every day their letters contain re- ports of wage cuts in three or four industries located in as many dif- ferent cities. This has convinced us, and we have so stated, that all this talk recently in the daily papers about “no wage cuts” was merely the smoke screen behind which a real nation-wide drive was being launched to ruthlessly slash wages. Now we are in a position to cite a concrete example of the most brazen kind of lying to prove the correctness of our position. In the June 28th edition of the Financial Chronicle, James A. Camp- bell, the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube, made the following declaration which has since been widely quoted by all the prosperity blabbers: “We are unalterably opposed,” he said, “to any reduction ir wages. We believe it very harmful to the recovery of business.” In last Thursday’s Dajly Worker a worker correspondent employed by the Sheet & Tube declared: “All kinds of methods are used (to cut our wages in an in- direct way while the bosses are preparing to cut the wages of every man openly.” Such reports convinced us that Campbell and his ilk were plain, brazen liars. Today’s press reports, by announcing a direct wage cut in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube mills of 70 cents a ton, merely fur- ther prove our contention, and they also justify the contention of ou: correspondent about the bosses’ preparations for direct wage cuts there. Catnpbell’s talk about “no wage cuts” and his careful maneuvers in the mills to put over the cuts indirectly or on a single department basis, we repeat, were merely the preparatory steps to enable his firm to put through direct wage cuts without arousing strike sentiment among its employes. The statements of Lehman, Green, Farrel and innumerable others during the past few days are designed only to prepare the ground for wage cuts. These lying declarations, accompanied by wage cuts everywhere, must arouse the workers. The workers must prepare to strike. It must likewise, and especially, arouse the organizers of the revolutionary industrial unions and leagues affiliated to the T. U. U. L. We might frankly ask, ‘‘Where is the Metal Workers’ Industrial League in Youngstown?” The same question could be put to all of the unions and leagues. And eve here we would have to recognize an unpardonable slowness in developing the organization work in prep- aration for strike struggles against (hese wage cuts. In view of this national wage slashing offensive we must emphasize the need of preparing for strikes. We cannot wait until the workers themselves walk out. The entire forces of the Party and the unions and leagues of the T. U. U. L. must immediately make this preparatory work their major task. The first step is the organization of shop committees in the factories. These must be broadened by means of a thorough propaganda in the shops to expose the lies of the bosses and the preparations being made for a cut. The directives of the Strassburg Conf which are being popularized in a special of articles by Comrade Jack Johnstone beginning today in the Daily Worker, should then“be followed. Prepare everywhere to initiate strikes against wage cuts! Support the drive of the T. U. U. L. for funds with which to carry through its preparatory organization drive! Governor Rooseve.t on Unemploymen: OVERNOR ROOSEVELT, following out the be tions, is proving himself a first class political of Green, the A. F. of L. head, he has just put ov on the unemployed workers in an effort to secure as governor of New York and consideration for the presidency. Everything was carefully prepared. On the ernor was to speak at the State Federation of , Buffalo, Green made public a letter endorsing hii. lection, At the convention he could not avoid speaking on une: , — ..ent. He had to commit himself on this burning question for the workers. What did he say? Knowing the deep discontent of the masses and the growing mass sympathy for the Communists, he first demagogically ‘whines that he might “be mistaken for a radical, a Communist, or a bolshevik” and then goes on to state that he will make “a practical, definite study of unemployment insurance, avoiding, of course, any form of dole.” All of which means absolutely nothing. 8,000,000 workers are un- employed today. The number is increasing. Before the legislature meets and completes his proposed “study” the workers, who are already starving, will be dead. What the workers want is not “study,” but food and they want it at oncq, i Even the capitalist press in its opposition to unemployment in- surance sees through the fakery behind this demagogical speech of the governor. The Herald-Tribune quite correctly states: “These problems (a concrete program for the realization of unemployment insurance.—Editor) the governor neglects to dis- cuss; but without a discussion of them, to advocate state unem- ployment insurance is merely to raise false hopes.” They also guess that “his real hope is directed rather toward the production of votes in November” than toward helping the unemploye! workers, The speech of Goverpor Roosevelt was a criminal playing with the misery and suffering of the unemployed with the connivance of the takers of the A. F. of L. The workers must not be deceived, As opposed to his proposed “study” the masses must rally behind the Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party. As opposed to Tammany’s pliable tool, Pe '\ the masses must rally behind the eandidate of the Com- munist Party, William Z. Foster. Vote for Foster for governor! Fight vor Mie Gnenpioyment insurance Bilt! Bosses to “Cash in” On Anti-Red Insurance WASHINGTON.—Aided by Rear,tend to make a good thing of theit Admiral Coontz, retired from the insurance racket by selling policies U.S. Navy on # $6,000 a year pen- to super-patriots and deducting ten ‘| be . | per eent of the commissions they sion, H. A. Jung-of Chicago, @ vio- | receive for the pyrpose of making lent Red hunter, is launching an’ anti-radical propaganda, anti-Communist insurance project. | The name of the insurance com- The above two miserable human, pany is the “National Defense Life products of capitalist economy in-| Insurance Company.” 4 ences of the R. 1. L. U., Tammany trai sir, With the aid a first class hoax s own re-election self in 1982 for ore the gov ‘nvention in a 20,000 RED | ~ FORCES MARCH ON CHANGSHA ‘Only 8,000 Nanking | Troops “Defending” the City |'Wuchang May Fall |U. S. Gunboat Palos Is} Ready to Intervene HANKOW, Aug. 29.—An armed force of 20,000 workers and peas- ants are marching on Changsha, the capital of Hunan, which is “defend- ed” only by 8,000 Nanking soldiers who are unpaid and seething with | discontent. It is reported that the | soldiers may evacuate the city with- | out fighting. | The United States gunboat Palos, | which shelled Changsha when the | city was in the hends of the workers | and peasants about a month ago, is again in the Siang River near | Changsha. do the dirty job of helping Chian: Kai-shek to fight the workers and | neasants. Imperialists, missionary dopesters, ese landlords and capitalists, are fleeing from the city. They know that the unprecedented white terror which was inflicted upon the poor population of Changsha after th veentry of Ho Chien in Changst« a few weeks ago, when an average of 250 were executed daily, have en- raged the workers and peasants. Now, the Red spectre is again ap- proaching Changsha; the ruling par ssives and butchers may well tremble! Another detachment of the Red Army is reported to be marching on Wuchang, a very important city aeross the Yangtze River from | Hankow. PUSH SIGNATURE DRIVE’—FOSTER |Gives Statement in Jail] On Campaign NEW YORK.—Wm. Z. Foster, Communist candidate for governor of New York State, in a statement | jissued from Harts Island Peniten- tiary, calls wpon the workers of New York State to intensify the drive for signatures in order to put the Communist candidates on the| ballot. | “Visiting workers’ homes,” Com- | vade Foster points out, “is one of | the most effective means of propa ganda. The members.of the Party get in touch with ma: the slogans of the Party and the| revolutionary unions into the| masses.” Ss and carry | “It is most important for every | working class district in New York | State to have local candidates on | the ballot, as well as state candi- | |dates. With the aid of these local candidates we will be able to raise local issues, as well as general, and to make a more direct appeal to the workers.” | Some Districts in Danger, There is a short time left for col- lecting signatures. In some dis- | tricts there are only ten days left. |In the meantime the work has been neglected so much in some parts o. New York City and State, thai there is danger that some of the most important candidates will not be able. to appear on the ballot due to lack of signatures. This is one of the most urgent tasks at the present moment! ; Last Two Days For Collections in | the City. | Sunday the drive for funds for |the Communist campaign through la general collection, will be wound | up. | This does not mean that collec- \tions for the campaign fund have |to be stopped, after this drive is over. Party members and all sym- pathizers must try to continue to collect. money for the Party car | paign and turn it over to the office, of the Campaign Committee or to the offices of the Party newspapers or revolutionary fraternal organi zations for the Campaign Com mittee, No. 10 of the “59” Charlie Schwab, steel boss, su- per-exploiter and®supreme hypo- crite rivalled in oily hypocricy only by the other “58.” Tax the Rich; and Starving NEW YORK. Shall 15,780 per- It is there waiting to | Sons, which the Bureau of Internal | militarists to activity exactly the Revenue classifies as those few among the 122,000,000 people in the United States with incomes of over $100,000 each, continue to draw profits such as they did in 1928, of a total for this 80 persons of $4,903,359,563, while the rest of the 122,000,000 are living in poverty, and million sof jobless are starving taeir families? This is one question placed by the (Communist Party before the work- ers of this country for their deter- mination, along with the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bil], which calls for a tax on all incomes , above $25,000, to pay all unem- ployed, disabled and aged workers a weekly compensation of not less than $25. Another Question. Shall the capitalist government, which has approved a “disarma- ment” treaty which obligates it to build $1,000,000,000 worth of new warships, and which yearly pays out, besides this $1,000,000,000, a (Continued on Page Three) RALLY SEPT, { IN PATERSON TUUL to Lead Fight For Jobless Bill PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 29.—The Trade Union Unity League and the National Textile Workers Union are calling on all the workers of Pater- son to rally around the T, U. U. L. and demonstrate Sept. Ist at the City Hall, 12 noon, for work or wages and for the adoption of the | Workers’ Social Insurance Bill pro-| posed by the Communist Party. All members of the T. U. U. L.} and N. T. W. U. are asked to re- port at the mobilization point, Union Hall, 205 Paterson St., at 10 a. m. sharp. Workers of Paterson! Demon- strate on Sept. Ist with the work- ers all over the country, Demand the adoption of the Social Insurance Bill! Not a cent for armaments, all money to the unemployed! cial Insurance! SIX CENTS FOR SPEEDING U h TRUST ORO, CON! STAMFORD, Conn, Aug. After slaving under terrific pres- sure for an entire week, the Yale & Towne lock factory at Stamford 29.— has the gall to hand a worker a Feed Jobles: “ ‘JOBLES DAY’ SEPT. 1, N FORDS TO INDUSTRIES PLAN LAY. _ OFFS; BLDG. WAY DOWN SOUTH AMERICAN CRISIS CHANGES INTO REBELLION | Rival Imperialisms in Struggle Make Use of | Mass Discontent ‘As Independent Force Call For Soviets The overthrowal of Siles, in Bolivia and Leguia in Peru, has echoed throughout all Latin Amer- | ica and from word just received it appears that at any moment the | dictatorships in other sections, par- | ticularly in Brazil, is on the point falling before a mass rising. | Jppsey CITY. N. J. Au _ The Irigoyen regime in Argen-| Unable to feed five children {) cina, fortress of British imperialism, | | |. He Hed Teen oh Ghin del is tottering. All Latin America is| ory ain tolm Goceliak, St in ferment, and the rival imperial- | (07 & (one fime, dohn Gocelial > isms, British and America, are stir- | }"4"° te ene Bete aaa : Mn mative polititians ana |ome by hanging. He was foun Pa pie ve epuuiclads 200 | ieeal hy aie) ddvear clay Gauehter same as in China. or In Brazil, however, there is a|,,,0Celiak had spent nearly all his vastly different situation than in| /if¢ Producing profits for the b He worked for -a long time Bolivia and Peru or Argentina. The is z= ; laborer on the docks of the Cen Communist Party of Brazil is |/#borer on the docks of the Centr | Railroad of New Jersey. On } orker he-C oar unist Port y USA. (Section of the Communist International) | Brazil Workers Arm Out of a Job Since May, Family of Six Starving, Jersey Worker Kills Sel Rotten Capitalist System Wants Others to Do Same; But Workers Will Fight! — frightened because he did not ap- WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! AL CITY QON! OSE; OTHER |Frightful Jobless Con- dition Sure For Winter Youngstown Mills Cut | Wages For 2nd Time | Must Extend Fight For | Jobless Insurance; T.U.U.L. Leads pear after several hours, his wife | sent their daughter to look for him,| Wholesale shutdowns in the basic In the cellar, swinging from a stair- | industries, with “hundreds of thou- way, his stiff body already cold, his|sands to be thrown into the ranks daughter found him and ranjof the 8,000,000 already unem- screaming to tell her mother. ployed, together with heavy wage- His death will not help his fam-|cuts for those left on the job, is ily. They still face starvation, A | the prospect of all workers as Sept. class-conscious worker does not let | 1st approaches. |the bosses and their rotten govern-| ‘The latest wage-cut is that given |ment kill him in this way. Ovyer|to 3000 workers in the steel indus- 8,000,000 workers find themselves |try, with the aid of the A. F. of L. schooled in struggle and has great | in this workers’ situation—jobless, | 11 he was laid off. masses following it, with experience | | Pe Was laid off. Since that the families starving and no jobs avail- gained in three armed movements. |h tempe¢ Se es ne a able. The bosses like to see work- When word comes that there is | SY) (0oKimg for work. He could) ors get rid of themselves this way. not find any. He saw his children It is less troublesome for them. But this is not the way to achieve any- thing for the working class, We niust organize and fight. Force the bosses to grant unem- eliak told his wife, Mary, that| ployment insurance. Line up and he had some work to do in the cellar | fight for the Unemployment Insur- early in the morning. Becoming | ance Bill. ASK EXPULSION TAMMANY COPS OF CHAUVINIS SLUG JOBLESS revolution in Brazil, every Amer- | ican worker should be ready to aid} and defend that force which is sup- | ported or led by the Communist | | Party of Brazil. He Brazil has 4,000,000 population | 1.) and is one of the world’s largest | countries, 4,500,000 square miles. It | | produces ‘coffee in great quantity, |75 per cent of the world’s coffee. | Besides, it produces rubber for Henry Ford; great wood, fruit and mining enterprises. British imp ialism dominates, with American imperialism striving to displace it. slowly starving, and could not bear Despondent and ‘herve-racked by ight of his starving children, In the presidential elections of | March, 1930, two forces disputed | ‘ : : es | the elections: Getulio Vargas, for| Rap Prejudice of the! Enraged At Success 0 | Americans “Agency” Meets | 5 | yen (Wireless By Inprecorr) | NEW YORK.—Enraged at the ; MOSCOW, Immediate | success of the many meetings of the A third force is represented by | expul c y meetings of the | the Liberal Alliance (Yankee im- perialism) and Julio Prestes (Brit- ish imperialism). The latter the election. ee sion was demanded by the! Unemployed Council in front of the |Luis Carlos Prestes, whose econ-| public prosecutor in the trial today | fake Tammany “free” employment jomic base is the poorest strata of ) of the American worker, Lewis, who | ageney, police rushed into the crowd the petty bourgeoisie. Vor two! , Robinson,,| of jobless who surrounded the speak- years this general w ¢ head of | in a public mess hall, in the Lenin- | ers’ stand on riday and severely |@ military command, ne Invine- | grad tractor works three weeks age beat up many workers. They knocked jible Column” or “Prestes Column.” |" The defendant's plea that his at-| the teeth o be out of one unemployed Negro worker, and kicked the work- ers after they had knocked them dewn, The Tamm ny gunmen came on the meeting suddenly, rushed into it with brass knuckled and_ bill @ beat the unemployed right and The officers of this force, because of a letter he wrote to the Commu- nist Party, declared themselves fol- jlowers of the Liberal Alliance. (Continued on Page Three) tack on Robinson was a free f between himself and Robinson, was rejected and the viewpoint of mal- treatment of Robinson, as a Negro. as a result of national chauvinisr ‘on the part of Lewis upheld. ‘5th R.LL.U. Congress The Central Committee of the | left. i A «4 | Metal ‘Trades Union passed a reso-| Sam Nesin, secretary of the New Discusses Fight lution cajling for cultural measures; York Unemployed Council of the Against Boss Terror for the enlightenment of foreign | Trade Union Unity League, deciared > workers in the Soviet Union. t this attack upon the meeting | Aap os ae es jof the unemployed workers was de- e B rr) ploy s was tape welts Se Aner econ? VOLUNTEERS FOR BAZAAR. MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—The discus- { liberately planned by the Tamman: i cs é There is urgent need of volun-' Hall bosses’ police to i vi sions at the Fifth Congress of the i..rs to help in preparing the D: MERC AnGe EL Nene | Red International of Labor Unions, Worker-Morning Freiheit Be ings are having upon the/unemploy- which is'now in session, dealt with | Comrades and sympathizer Should ! ed workers to organize and fight for participation of the trade unions in mh sels u Siegel at the an junemployment insurance and _be- the straggles against white terror, se ee phage reiheit| cause of the effective exposure of : vets freting an y{ Building, third floor. th» fake employment ageney. fascism and bourgeois justice, and MERA (Pethe. aetioneot the yeolles celal | the demand for the release of class, BOMBAY, India. — Two more | demonstrates that iiey will stop at | war prisoners. The im tance of mills recently closed down here, nothing to interfere with the prep- jthe International Red Aid was bringing the total of unemployed for the tremendous dem. | stressed. | mill-hands to over 30,000. Y : against unemploy ent P! insurance, Sept. 1 in Union Square. noon. Two meetings, one of Town the Down Unemployed Council of the lrade Union Unity League and the other a meeting of the unemployed ex-servicemen have been attacked and broken up by Mulrooney’s Tam- | many police at tie city free employ- | nent ney. : The Unemployed Couneil will eon- tinue to hold its meetings in spite of police brutality.” Preparations have | been made for another meeting Sat- |urday morning in front of the agency at eight o’clock. The unem- | ployed workers will rally to the de. jfense of these meeting: Spector, ae Te; Ae EM MEEK Le TEIN Yate & whe Manuractifeine ComPAN St AMPERD, Conn, ceacTy wh LARS 4 | the unemployedamarine worker, has ‘ : 4 oh been sentenced to pay a e of $10 LGEIMPANY ¢ lor to serve 2 days. chose to | serve the two days. Christensen, the otk case of mployed . : : | worker, will be defended by the In- | “bonus” check of the magnificent} At the same tint e speeding | térnational Labor Defense. | sum of six ce The photograph! up those on the job ith fake | sneen | of this cheek is vo: tu el above. | “hc nes es,” the Yale & Towne bosses | New York City spends $600, | The name and date on the ¢heck are are firing a number of workers. | 000,000 yearly—the Communist covered up to protect the worker) Every week large groups are laid Party demands relief for the un- involved. eolh employed—yet: Communist! fascist leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. The iron puddlers in the Youngstown mills are having their |rates cut 70 cents on a ton. This |is the second wage-cut given these | workers within the past six months. | All workers should recall the lying ‘statement of the president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Mr. Campbell, who on June 21 said: “We are unalterably opposed to any re- ductions in wages.” Announcements have already beén |made by Iron Age, organ of the |U. S .Steel Corporation, that the | wages of 800,000 steel workers will soon be cut. It is against this growing wage-cut drive, and against the drastic extent of unemployment |that the Sept. 1st demonstrations will mobilize a mass movement of | the workers, employed and unem- | ployed, to fight for the passage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill. The whole fabric of Green’s lying |statement about “improvement” employment is completely smashed |by the latest figures and facts pub- lished in the capitalist press. The \ McGraw-Hill Co., building statist# jcians, report that during the past week building contracts awarded |dropped 90 per cent below the pre jvious week; they dropped 76 per jeent below the same week last year. \This shows a virtual stoppage of |building activit~. According to the |A_ F. of L. figures, over 39 per cent ot the building trades workers are siready unemployed. The number | will soon jump to 60 per cent, and even greater. A radio reporteover the Detroit |station, WMBC, foretells the clos- ing down of the Ford plant. ‘The adio announcer stated that “a big uto plant here” is going to close cown, Most of the other plants are |working on part time and will also shut | down soon, Thousands of |workers have already been ‘ct of Fords and other plants. Accord- jing to a report to the Federated | Press, 10,000 Ford workers were \fired since the plant started up | (Continued on Page Three) BOSS CANDIDATE PAYS AFL HEADS \Get Graft For Aid to | Butler in Mass. | BOSTON, Aug. 29.—A complete exposure of the fact that the fas. jcist leaders of the A. F. of L. who jare supporting William M. Butler, republican nominee for senator of | Massachusetts, are being’ paid heavy cash for their support was brought ‘out by the Liberal Civic League. |The. A. F, of L. fakers who fight jagainst the Communists and. the demar! for unemployment. insur- ance have been put on the Butler | payroll. How much graft they get has not been revealed, A move is under way to hush up {the entire scandal. The A. F. of L. |leaders said they would “investi | gate,” which means they will im- | mediately cover up all tracks and |hide one of thé potent reasons for their supporting this boss candidat+ |