The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1930, Page 4

- Published by Page Four Syvare, New ané the Comprodat York City, WHITE TERROR IN CUBA Machado, the y tyrant creatures of servile t two dislodged overnigh revolt maneuvered nd oppress itstanding leac are be us of ¢ Bruzon and Y ya various means wn into the of Haye to Diaz, San- Fs cells where hundreds of more wn é inknown, still to b f nic crisis in the United States and rk Stock Exchange crash ned the sugar er the island the lowest price of sugar ever history, the consequences of hown in the closing of the mills. the-p 1 paralyzation of other industries and the most barbarous system of rationalizaticn. Cuba, with a population of 3,600,000, h 00,000 unemployed. This unemployment has of late ed with a new wave of creasing and starvation masses have answered with more thus sharpening the class onths mic misery six 1 s took place a branch of industry and thousd On J h of this y memorial day for Julio Ar Mella, killed by agents of Machado, the Cuban workers went,on a gen- eral political strike in memory of their fallen leader. March 20 saw in Cuba more than 200,000 workers in demonstrations against un- ment and in protest against the crimes ng every nds of workers. empl of fascism More than 100,000 workers laid dpwn their tools throughout the country on May Day The increased 1 ney of the workers led by the Communist Party and the National Work Confederation of Labor, accentuated the instability of the imperialist regime of tyra headed by butcher Machado. Fascism in Cuba tried to broaden its social basis by taking into its governmental bosom Nationalist Party, the Party “opposition,” pretending to represent the of urban and agrarian petty- ie expropriated by imperialism, but «ements of the interests of the t bourgec y mail al) checks to Pol cworkers brutally slugged. hing Co., Inc. Telephone Stuyve the Daily Worker daily, except Sunday, at 26-28 t'1696-7-8. Cable: “DAIW6 26-28 Union Square New York J Union al RK.” Ney ‘Centrol Orge | founding all its policy upon surrender to im perialism. But all efforts made to obtain the stabiliza- tion of fascism have completely failed. This why the persecutions are now intensified more and more against the workers and peas- ants. Fifty workers were arraigned before the courts and many more were added to the before and after the March 20th demon ations The National Workers’ Confederation of La- the Workers’ Federation of Havana and more working s trade unions were declaréd illegal and their assemblage prohibi ed. The Workers’ International Defense wa so declared illegal and its leaders persecuted. At the May Day demonstration in Havana militant workers, Montergo and Perez, were killed by the police and more than forty two Deportat are taking place every day. During the last days of June, forty Spanish workers were deported to Spain. On Aug. lf panish workers were deported from Cuba, jailed in the ship which passed by York. These seven workers were kept jail for four months without any trial. Hundreds of workers are rotting in jail and eing tortured daily. ns , Seven more The protest meeting against the deportations anized by the Workers’ International De- fense w ttacked by the police and four workers were seriously wounded. Eighty work- ers lie in the prison of Havana.* The majority f these workers will undoubtedly be condemn- ed to long prison terms and others deported. On Sunday, Aug. 17, Jose Wong, a militant leader of the Chinese workers of Cuba was killed in his prison cell. The outstanding lead- ers of the workers of Havana now in jail are daily threatened to be brutally assassinated in their cells or tortured by inquisitatorial means used by the fascist regime. The working class of the United States must not be indifferent to these crimes perpetrated by American imperialism and its agents ‘in Cuba. This is the same imperialism that ex- ploits and persecutes us here, that is respon- sible for the wage cuts, unemployment and speed up against workers in the United States. Workers organizations throughout the United States, whether trade union, fraternal, roli- tical or cultural, are asked to join by resolu- tion in protest against the savage white terror against the Cuban workers, to demand the re- lease of all political prisoners, to express their solidarity wit’ the Cuban workers, groaning and bleeding in the chains of “Butcher” Ma- chado, and to express that solidarity substan- tially in contributions to their defense, to be sent to the International Labor Defense, room 430, 80 E. 11th St., New York City, for safe dispatch to Cuba. ‘ Help smash the white terror in Cuba! fend the Cuban worke De- Forward to the Detroit Auto | Youth Conference Continued) The T.U.U.L. through its special youth de- partment Auto Workers Union { that in the auto industry -we znd the are aware of the ha¥e a tremendous boiling pot of discontent which will explode and burst out any minute in a wide strike movement in which the young workers will undoubtedly play a leading role, as v > recent Flint auto strike of as seen in 5,000 auto workers, where the youth were most militant in the batiles with the state troopers, National ( hicago gangsters and local police. In order to lay the basis for real effective work among the young auta workers, the Auto Workers Union and the T.U.U.L. Youth De- pariment have decided to call an auto youth conference Saturday, September 6, at 2 p. m., at the Trade Union Center, 4864 Woodward Avenue. corner Warren, Rooms 11-12. ‘The basis of this auto you ence will be real,bona- file youth ates from the shops, well as delegates representing the unemployed auto All youth organizations, clubs, Labor Sports Union organizations are asked to send iwo fraternal delegates. The youth, Auto Youth Conference an Organiza- tional Measure. The uth conference is being called perspective of developing and organ- s in.the auto industry. The an enl in itself, but merely @ means of laying the basis for organizing this ito y izing real stru conference is sivad movement of rising discontent. The con- ference will mean nothing if it is not followed up with tedious, systematic, roptine, every- day organizational rk in the shops among workers. This conference will lay asis for the formation of real youth sec- n the existing shop locals of the Auto s Union Fords, Briggs. La Chrysler, Fisher Body, Hudson, ete. T.U.U.L. Youth Department and the » of the union are concentrat- wo young such The Youth Committ ing on the most important shops where pre- viou the ¢ organizational work ha nite organizational ot been done with tive of forming “ groups of young workers in the various depart- represented at th rence. A series of shop-gat® and organ youth meetin are bei held and many more are planne |, Every shop that has been.chosen as a concentration shop will be covered twice a week with shop-gate meetings. Youth shops in Flint, Po Muskegon, Cleveland, ete., are being taken into consideration in the plan, These struggles in the auto industry: must be sys prepared conseiously by means of preparatory wor This can and will be done ‘only if we correctly approach the oung workers simply of their specifie youth and git and show them that only through or tion and fight ean they better their conditio However, we cannot issues organize the workers merely by shop-gate meetings on the outside, b must properly coordinate and supplement this with constant hamme-ing away on the insile of the shops throvzh personal agitation and personal eon- nections. The whole campaign for the auto youth conference must be conducted on the basis of their youth grievances under the gen- eral poli sea of “Organize to strike areinet 9 and speed-up!”, at the same time rho bir sloran of social insur. ance for the young workers to the fore-ground. 1 slogan scouts Conference Must Take Up Special Youth Issues, However, we will not be able to organize the young workers in the shops behind this auto youth conference for September 6th un- | less we make the young workers conscious of | their special youth issues and grievances, and draw them into the general shop organization committees together with the adult workers on the basis of the following special youth de- mands: 1. Abolition of speed-up, piece-work, gang and bonus systems. 2. Six hour-day and five-day week for all young worker 3. Equal pay for equal work for young and adult workers, 4, Complete doing away with,child labor, and state maintenance of all employed child laborers under 16. 5. Unemployment insurance for all young unemployed workers without any qualifications or discrimination, 6. Against all young Negro workers. ‘ discrimination against 7. Two 15 minute rest periods every day for all young wo: 8. A month’s vacation with full pay every year for young workers. 9. No dangerous occupations for young workers under 21. 10. No night work for women and girl workers. 11, A weekly pay of at least $25 for all young worker: | | 12, Vocational training for young workers | between 14 anJ 18 on company-time for equal pay under union control. 13, Right to organize, join the T. U. U. L. | and picket during strikes. | 14. Not one cent for bosses’ war; every dol- lar for unemployed, i The T. U. U. L. can only become an actual leader of the American workers in all their | struggles against the bo: by proving itself | pable of uniting all sections of the workers (youth, adults, white and Negro, native and foreign-born, male and female, ete.) in a head- on-collision with the fascist leadership of the American Federation of Labor, solidifying its | root in the factories of basic industries, build- | ing shop-committees an! consciously preparing and breaking the ground for the future oncom- ing ¢! battles of the American workers | against the bosses and A. F. of L, Young workers! Organize your groups in your departments and shops! Get together and elect delegates to the Auto Youth Conference in Detroit, Saturday, Sep- tember 6th! Equal pay for equal work! Not a cent for bosses’ war; every dollar to the unemployed! Workers—young and old! Organize together to strike against wage-cuts and speed-up! Join the Auto Workers’ Union (affiliated to the T. U. U. Lit The Daily Worker is the Party’s best in- strument to make contacts among the masses of workers, to build a mass Communist Party. Strike insurance! agai wage-cuis; demand social «Worker ha=ED ot te US.A. OT BOSS “CHARITY,” BUT UNEMPLOYMENT I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sy mall everywhere: Une year $6; six months $3; two months $1; excepting Boroughs of é Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. and foreign, which are: One yr. $8; six mons. $4.50 BY BURCK. “Fifty-Nine Multi-Millionaires Control the Country y I. AMTER. 1) (Communist Candidate in the 23rd Congres- oe nal Distriet, Bronx) AMES W. GERARD, former ambassador to Germany, says that fifty-nine men are the “actual power behind the throne” of the gov- ernment. He says these multi-millionaires and | billionaires are “too busy to occupy political office but they determine who should hold such offices.” That should be clear to every worker. Fifty- nine men, intluding Rockefeller, Mellon, Mor. gan, Ford, Farrell, Van Sweringen, Raskob, Insul, Du Pont, Lamont, Owen D. Young, are running the country. They are the bankers and industrialists who determine the policy of the government. They are the people who se- lect the candidates, put up the money and see to it that the amen they want are elected. They select the candilates of both the re- publican and democratic parties and decide among themselves who shall support and fin- ance the republican and democratic party. In- sull supported both pariies. There is no difference between these parties. Look at the discussions and votes on the London al Treaty, the Smoot-Hawley tariff, the discussions on the prohibition law. It is not one party against the other, but, if there are any differences, they are iside both parties. Now the Democrats Raise the “Prosperity” Issue. Then why do the capitalists have two-parties and use a third party—the socialist party They have them for the purpose of shifting from one to the other in ¢ of an economic or political crisis, such as we had in 1913 and have now. Al Smith says: “The democratic party will soon be in control in Washington and will make, this a happy and prosperous nation.” The democrats are in control in New York City and State and unemployment is about the worst in years. Bread lines, tens of thousands asking for work at the employment bureaus; few jobs to give; wage cuts; evictions—this is the prosperity in democratic New York. The seme jn reouklcan Philadelphia; dispossessed workers housed in the sheds at the county fair at socialist Reading, Pa. But this is not all. Jacob Panken, candi- date of the “socialist” party for congress, will be supported by the republican party; Norman Thomas is being supported by the Times (Adolph Och: the owner and one of the fif- ty-nine mentioned by Gerard), the Telegram (Howard, the owner is also listed among the fifty-nine) and the Worl!; Heywood Broun is supported by the Telegram and by a group of writers, actors and song writers including Irving Berlin, son-in-law of Clarence Mackay, head of the Rostal Telegraph Co., Ethel Bar- rymore, Alexander Woolcott, Walter White and James Weldon Johnson (traitors to the Negro race)—none of whom even know what socialism means.. But being that the socialist party is a third capitalist party, they know they are safe. The ‘ogialisis”—the Last Reserve of Capitalism, All this isyemphasized by. the’ British labor party's government acting to the satisfaction of British imperialism; in India, Egypt, ete. and with the workers at home; the German | capitalists using the social-democratic party | to lead the government of Germany whenever a sharp turn has to be made. ‘The same holds Strike Strategy By “JACK JOHNSTONE. HE great teacher, experience, is driving home to us the lesson that strike struggles must be properly prepared. This, however, must not be approached mechanically. It does not mean merely that a definite percentage of the workers m be organized into shop committees, the revolutionary unions and leagues, ete., although this is a prerequisite for successful struggle. Are the conditions favorable for a strike Is the mood of the workers for strike struggle? Does the situa- tion require or allow more time for further preparations before the strike is called? Shall we develop single shop or department strikes as part of the preparations? These and many other questions have to be asked and answered in the preparations for strike siruggles. Rank and File Strike Committees. Preparations for strike must be carried out on the basis that the workers shall form broad rank and file strike committees, not after the strike has been called, but in preparation for the struggle, and where the fascist company unions are making pretenses of strike struggle or framing up with employers for a lockout, the slogan: “Take the strike or lockout into your own hands or else you will be defeated” must be raised and put into effect. The ex- posure of the fascist A. F. of L. and socialist leadership is an essential part of strike prep- arations, One of the s in the preparatory per- iod is the organization of shop committees on the basis of the united front from below, the holding of shop delegate conferences, and the settir; up of permanent shop delegate counci The United Front From Below. The organizing of the workers on the basis of the shop is a fundamental necessity. ‘This does not mean, however, that only those who are ready to join the TUUL or a revolutionary industrial union are qualified for membership in the shop committee. While all efforts must be made to draw the workers into the revolu- tionary unions and must be the organizational objective, the shop committee is the bas form of the united front from below, the ob- jective being to organize the workers, unor- ganized, members of the A. F. of L. company union, members of the T. U. U. L. into a, shop committee around the problems confronting them in the factory to strik> for common de- mands upon the factory owner, drawing the workers under the leadership an! finally into membership of the revolutionary unions. Develop Rank and File Initiatiy The preparations for strike struggle should be carrie! out in a manner that will develop rank and*file initiative, the propaganda for creation of broad rank and file strike commit- tees should be subject for discussion in the shop and factory so that the need for these militant organs of struggle will emanate from the ranks of the workers, and when they are eveated they will not be a mere mechani elected committee but a broad rank and file committee that will give life and leadership io the strike, The organizing of the unemployed into indus- trial councils of unemployed is a central point in the preparation for any strike at all. In true in practically every European country. The three capitalist parties have their dis tinct function in the United States. The fifty- nine multi-millionaires, “the power behind the throne”, pull the strings and republicans, dem- ocrats and “socialists” act their par ‘The working class has its own pariy—the Communist party—and the Fish Committee wants to drive it underground. “We are not here to investigate the socialists”, said Fish at the New York investigation. No, the fifty-nine multi-millionaires know the socialist party i safe. is The workers must appreciate the significance of the statements of Mr. Gerard and. rally around their Par whose slogan is “class against clas Communist Paviy against the republican, dempcratic and “socialist parties.” “4 —(Wrillen at Hart's Island Penitentiary.) Bessemer City Strike | this respect the question of bringing forward certain demands become of major importance. The 7-hour, 5-day week is the major demand in this period, while this important strike struggle demand is economic in form, it is highly political in content, and goes hand in hand with the fight for unemployment insur- ance around which both the employed and un- | employed worker can be organized for joint struggle. , Strike Struggle Fund Essential. In preparation for strike struggle the ques- tion of a strike struggle fund must be raised and ways and means found to make the fund an impressive one. To wait until the strike has been called before beginning to raise a strike fund is entirely wrong, or to consider such a fund as a basis of relief by which the worker will win a victory over the bosses is wrong. A strike struggle fund is nee led for strike preparations, and questions of relief measures of course must be taken up as part of the preparatory work, but strikes are not won on the basis of relief promises, on the contrary this is the first wrong step that leads to defeat. Strikes are won on the basis of mass action, mass leadership, proper prepara- tion of the strike, a successful tying up of the industry, participating fully in the strike of the employed and unemployed. The gathering of $100,000 strike fund by the Trade Union Unity League is only the begin- ning of strike preparation, it lays the basis for proper propaganda and organization through which strikes can be properly pre- pared, and properly led to a successful con- clusion. and Boss Press By J. COOPER. VER since the outbreak of the textile stri in Bessemer City, the bosses’ newspapers have been carrying stories to the effect that the workers have “chased the N.T.W.U. or- ganizers out of the city.” That “a bunch of Reds direct from Moscow have come here to take part in the strike, ete.” and “that the workers have beaten up several of the N.T. W.U. organizers and chased them out of the | city.” The National Textile Workers Union has been in Bessemer City prior to the strike and is in there now directing, meeting with the workers, and constantly warning them against the gang that has put itself at the head of the strike misleading the workers, and eventually will sell out the strike. A mob of about 24 has been organized by the stools of Mr. Gold- berg, the purpose of this mob is to terrot the union workers, and to watch out for uniou organizers. On Monday, 5:50 p. m., this gang, led by W. E, Gilippspe, fake preacher, and agent of the bosses, followed J. for about two blocks, when Cooper seeing this stopped and faced them, Mr. Gilippspe suddenly started after another worker who was standing and looking to see what was roing to happen, after giving this worker a few kicks, and telling him to get the “hell out of this city” a group of strikers rushed over and started a fight with the gang for having beaten up the worker, The result was that all were arrested, and the strikers had to pay $15 fine for beating up the mob. (Capitalist class justice?) The workers of Bessemer City, many of whom are members of the union, are anxious to have the union lead the strike, but have not yet been able to kick the gang out of their midst. The workers are warned by the N.T.W.U. that these lawyers, stool pigeons of the bosses, } preachers, etc., are not interested in winning the strike or better conditions for the workers, they are in this for what they will get out of it. The N.T.W.U. will continue to direct the By JORGE ——eee “Cowards” The New York Telegram, as N’Yorkers will know, though people in the provinces may not, has more than one edition each day. And thereby hangs a tale. On Thursday, Aug, 22, we, who were still allowed at farge under a capitalist regime growing ever more desirous of sending us to the electric chair for dis- tributing leaflets, i.e, becoming more fascist, bought a noon edition of the Telegram. We were interested in seeing on the editorial page under the space devoted to letters from readers, the following letter (of which we thoroughly approve) under the heading which said, “Re- plies to Comment on Flight from Gastonia, N. C.,” and bearing the signatures of some one named Francis Sheehy, to wit: “When from the security of an editorial chair, you presume to brand as cowards labor agitators fleeing from long terms in prison, from the living death imposed by the ruling class for the classic crime of ‘stirring up the people,’ it seems to me you take an unworthy attitude. “The men of whom you write so scorn- fully, demonstrated an abundant courage when they invaded a stronghold of reaction, provincial prejudices and quick violence, and there raised up a rebellion against the slave- driving oligarchy of raw, unchastened indus- t “Theirs was, in my view, an_ historic achievement, a landmark in the toilsome evolution of the American South from bar- barism to civilization. . And now, if they are unwilling to expiate their heroism by end- less years in inhuman cages and walled yards, you point the contemptuous finger and ery ‘Coward’!” From Mr. Sheehy’s comment that the Tele- gram’s attack on the Gastonia victims as cow- ards was “unworthy” of that hypocritical capi- talist sheet, we gather that he is not a Com- munist, although his opinion as a whole should be held by every Communist. Calling the Gas- tonia defendants’ action in escaping from a fascist death sentence is entirely “ tworthy” of an editor of a capitalist newspaper and those who agree with capitalist newspapers. But to top it all, we started to show this healthy mass response to a correct policy to one of those who thinks we are still living in the “demo- cratic” era of President Harding’s rmalcy, when we discovered that in the later (4 p. m.) edition of the Telegram, all the other “Letters From Readers” were there, but the one bawl- ing out the Telegram editor for being the one that played a cowardly role—was missing. The darn thing just vanished after the editor looked over the first edition, and in its place was—what do you think? A long item on weather reports from 44 different cities, in- cluding the time the moon rises and sets and when it is high tide at Hell Gate and Sandy Hook! So it appears that the Telegram editor was not only cowardly in attacking the Gas- tonia victims, but was even so cowardly that he suppressed a reader’s letter resenting it. But then when one recalls that the Telegram supports Norman Thomas, one can understand any depravity, can’t one? ee “Walker Denies” This is getting to be a familiar headline. Walker should hire an official “Denier.” But when he begins to denying that he would tell the truth when caught in embarrassing’ cireum- stances, it sort of upsets all the fond trust we had in his other denials. The story is this: On Saturday, Aug. 23, it seems that the Mon- tauk Casino, a gambling resort which had for- gotten to pay the necessary “fee” to the sher- iff’s office as well as to our gentle and kind- hearted police, was raided by the sheriff, as toil about, a hit late to be true, in Wednesday's N.Y. Times. The Times began its story with the usual word: Mayor Walker denied last night,” and went on—“that he had been a guest in the Montauk Casino last Saturday night when it was raided as a gambling resort, but admitted that he had been in a restaurant connected with the Casino-at one time Satur- day night.” So! He “denied but he ad- micted.” How come? Well, it seemed that a deputy sheriff, with two others who also identified N’York’s sportive mayor, stopped a fellow he recognized as Jazzy Jim trying to slip out of the gambling joint. “He called me to one side,” says Deputy Sheriff Max Mitten- Jeiter (just like a blas*d dutchman who never goes tb mass!) “and said he was Mayor Walker. He asked me to let him go. I did so.” And what does Mayor Jimmy say to that? He says: “I was at a restaurant in Montauk Satunlay night. But if I had been at the casino and some one had asked me if I were Mayor Walker, I would not have identi- fied myself as the Mayor.” So, after such in- gratitude as to imply that the officer who let him escape was a:liar, Walker admits that if he “had been asked” (which is beside the point since nobody had “asked” him) if he was Mayor Walker, he would have lied about i Thus it appears that whether Walker “denies” or “admits,” he is a liar either way—and is proud of it. | | | | | | i 1 | * 8 * The So-Called “Socialists” “Do you play bridge? No? ‘Then will you play bridge or any%ther card game?” Thus the paper of the alleged “socialist” party calls the workers to rise in their might and over- throw capitalism at “an evening of bridge” at Brighton Beach, to “spend a cool evening.” Meanwhile Norman Thomas, speaking at the University of Virginia, “warned the business men that they had better hasten their own conversion to humane industrial policy, lest they be too late to avert a desperate outbreak of the workers’ resentment.” Namely, they had better support the so-called “socialist” party against the Communists. Certainly, with Brighton Beach “evenings at bridge” the “so- cialist” party is by no means rallying the work- ers for “desperate outbreaks.” —— ——— workers, and warn them against this bunch of hoodlums. The bosses’ press can gloat all its wants about “the organizers having been chased out of this -” We will proceed to carry on until the workers will have taken the situa- tion over into their own hands, and carry on a struggle against the wage cut, for a wage increase, for the 8-hour day, against the bosses . mob, and for a 100 per cent union in the tex- tile industry in Bessemer City as well as throughout the South.