The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1930, Page 6

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Hoover's haunted autanin. sivin: ee | have special privileges ; comrade who an between the two dominant imperialist pow Mexico, coincid | the capitalist press with an eye for our us ers—Great Britain and the United States. The ers’ agreement General 4 , | of thing happened to be reading some aly overthrow of the Siles government of Boliv ion. The w is now paved for the settle- papers, and founc the on July the New by a military coup. General Cerro’s coup in of all “differences” between the United Jersey senate “shelved” a resolution to) “in- Peru, conclusively prove the sharpening of this and Mexico. Mr. Ho: is chosen to vestigate” the unemployment situation. Even “investigation” was too much for Dwight Mor- inter-imperialist rivalry. Parallel to these maneuver periglism, we witness the defi lations in almost all the countries of South America and the attempt on the part of .he oppressed masses to push forward the strug! against imperialist exploitation to its logical the conelusion—against the feudal landlords, native bourgeoisie and the imperialist vass: In Brazil, the workers and peasants are striv- ing, under the leadership of the Communist Party, to break the wrist of both “conserva- tive” and “liberal” bourgeoisie—the parties, re spectively, of British and American bankers and for an independent struggle, the struggle for Soviet power. In a lesser degree, but with more astute: s, these two imperialist powers are m euvering against each other in their Caribbean colonies. Here the iron heel of Wall Street falls heavier upon the oppressed masses, espe- cially through the unchallenged control of the government institutions by the White House. In E] Salvador and Honduras, the politi¢al in- trigues of the opposing government groups re- veal outstandingly the fight of London bank- ers against the still advancing colossus Yankee. More defined is this rivalry in Mexico. For every concession gained by Mr. Morrow for his: American masters and associates, there is @ new war trench built by the British rival financial groups. The political horizon in Mex- ico is pregnant with dark clouds that may bring on any day the storm of bullets and destruc- tion, an imperialist war. The Escobar rebellion of 1929, engineered hy English financial lords, was defeated by American imperialism. Since then Wall Street has made further advances, culminating in the “successful” Lamont-Montes de Oca agreement. But simultaneously with this advance, England is forging its weapons of war and this time Morones and Toledano afe the willing servants and are coming for- ward to speak of the “progressive” role of European capital. +On July 25 Mr. de Oca, finance minister of Mexico, and Mr. Lamont, chairman of the in- termational committee of bankers of Mexico, signed the agreement by which all the pro- visions therein included completely satisfy both the master and the servant. A victory for J. P. Morgan. Assurance is thereby given to the collection of big interests to be paid’ by the Mexican workers and peasants. The agree- ment only settles part of the international debts of Mexico to the amount of $500,000,000. La- mont secure! the payment of the interest and sinking funds by a guaranteed lien upon cus- toms revenues, This is the: first far-fetched vietory. *The second important victory for Morgan, whose mouthpiece in the White House is Mr. Hoover, is the passage of the control of the Mexican railway into the hands of American interests. It is a well-known fact that a good portion of the railway of Mexico has until now been under the unquestionable control of Brit- ish fianciers. The Lamont-de Oca agreement stipulates the plan by which the railway com- pany is to be reorganized and a new one to be formed, It goes without saying that this new company will be controlled hereafter by the House of Morgan. All ended happy but for British imperialism. » A few days after the conclusion of the ‘agreement, the declaration of General Alma- zan to the effect that in the event of war be- tween the United States and any other power, it would be an “honorable” duty for Mexico to “s~side with the United States, was a threat made by the Almighty Morgan, Hoover and com- pany, to the beaten but not knocked out Brit- < lean the plate, Great Britain Not Finished. Meanwhile, Toledano, the friend of the “pro gressive European capital,” and Morones, head of the decrepit Partilo Laborista and the fas- cist Confederacion Regional Obrera de Mexico, form in Mexico in con- gressional elections. The ing tour in of London speak on the same pl. ion with the ¢ forgotten Valenz the Caribbean region on financiers a is on the a spe payroll nomic Crisis In Mexico. The deepening economic crisis in Mexico is increasing the toll of unemployment. All in- dustries are suffering from a general par. In 1921 e pel 000 workers; in 1 le over 5 ustry employed .000; in 1 12,000, and now a little A frightful unem- ployment mines, especially in Pachuca, where, through rationalization, 50 per c the workers are facing permanent unemploy- ment, More than 10,000 railway workers will be effected by the “reorganization” system, with the help of the reformist leade} Land Taken From Peasants. The Mexican bce now bluntly come out for a complete revision of the land question. It must be remembered that the so- calle! distribution of the land among the poor peasan the the bourgeois revolution of the Obregon-Calles group. In his recent statement, Calles admitted that the land laws proved to be a fizzle. The national land debt amounts to something like ),000,- in the geoisie has marrow of was 000. The peasants only received 4 per cent of the land and no implements with which to work it. Some of the local vernment have forcibly taken back the meagre piece of land given to the peasants after the revolution of 1917. This exorbitant land debt, piled by the pill graft and wholesale robbery of the government officials is now to be paid by the workers and peasants. Mothers Persecuted. The first stages of capitalist rationalization in Mexico and the resultant mass defensive to its application brought about the adoption of the fascist labor code, the fascization of the of the reactionary Morrow-Portes-Gil-Rubio state and the incessant, ruthless persecutions government. The further revision of the labor code is now proposed. This is deemed neces- sary in view of the tightened grip over the economy of the country resulting from the re- cent developments in connection with the La- mont de Oca agreement. Role of Communist Party. How the exploited workers are reacting, how these workers are increasing their militancy against the fascist government, can be best illustrated by the events of June 29 when in Matamoros they defied the police and dem onstrated in the streets against the persecur tions. Twent ers were brutally mase sacred. scist authorities are particular! vicious in their attacks upon the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions, The announced Hoover's trip to Mexico was again the target of renewed brutalities against the All efforts ‘are being made to stifle any working class opposition to Hoo- ver’s stepping on the Mexican soil. The op- pressed masses know that this imperialist emis- saey’s trip is obnoxious to them. The outcome of the impending war between the two imperialist powers, the outcome of the new program of fimfucial and eeonomic slav- ery, depends uponthe corregt’ application of the line of the Commhunist’ International, not only in Mexico, bupilso”in the United States. The revolutionary Pyeletariat of this country must give full support to thesstruggles of its brother proletariat of M , The Programmatic Declaration ot the German Communist Party By TH. NEUBAUER (Berlin). E Programatic Declaration of the Commu- » nist Party of Germany has had the effect of ea bombshell in the camp of the German bourgeoisie for it has presented in bold and striking phrases the question which constitutes the cardinal point of the whole political de- velopment in Germany: the social and national emancipation as being inseparably connected. | __ The inner-political development of capitalis Germany, accelerated by the serious economic crisis, has in the course of five months tra- versed the path from the great coalition with the social democracy, at the head, via the bour- Beois block and the dictatorship of the Reichs- president to the threshold of a fascist military dictatorship. The tremendously increased rad- .icalization of the toiling population extends portance of this manifesto, which cons 1 of the Versailles Treaty, the Dawes Pact, the | Locarno Treaty, the Kellogg Pact and the Young Plan expressed the same ideas? Does not this manifesto breathe the same spirit of living Leninism which has realized national and also social emancipation for 150 peoples constituting the population of the Soviet Union? The ideas contained in the program- matic declaration are not new. This does not, however, Jessen the great international im- sts of the fact that, while ruthlessly exposing the national and social-fascist agents of the ex- ploiting class, it s forth the task of the social and national emancipation of the toilers of Germany as a one and indivisible whole. International Struggle. The Communist Party of Germany declares ‘beyond the working class and is embracing | plainly and openly: The German working class ever broader masses of the petty-bourgeois og small peasant middle strata. Those forces iu German finance capital which see in the establishment of a fascist dictatorship, some- pwhat on the lines of Mussolini, the last resort for maintaining the capitalist class rule, are more and more gaining ground, Origin of the Declaration. Against this development in the direction of e fascist dictatorship in. Germany there ands the Communist Party of Germany, sup- stted by the class-consciousness, the fighting axperience and the determination of the best sortion of the German proletariat and by the sympathy of the millions of toilers in town nd country, as the only anti-ftscist force ex- ting in Germany. It is making use of the ‘lection campaign for rallying the toiling 8 against fascism. From this situation arose the programatic declaration of the Communist Party of Germany. y From the class enemies of the proletariat— ‘vom the social fascist “Vorwarts” to the na- ‘onal fascist Hitler papers—this manifesto has called forth a perfect storm of fury and ‘abuse. The exposed demogogues are shouting about an alleged “new turn,” or even of a “nationalist turn” on the part of the Commu- nist Party of Germany. But have not the dec- larations of the Communists on the question will win its national and social emancipation in brotherly alliance with the proletariat of other countries. The inner-political develop- ment of Germany is a matter which concerns to @ very great extent the working class of the other countries. There is no need to point out what disastrous consequences the setting up of a fascist dictatorship in Germany would have for the workers of France, Belgium, Eng- land and other countries. But at the same time it is equally obvious that the setting up of a Socialist Soviet State in Germany would open up a new phase of worl historical de- velopment for the workers of all countries. The national fascist agents of German ca italism wish by lying nationalist and an semitie phra: to divert the toiling masses from their task—the social revolution. Against them there is opposed the Manifesto of the Communist Party of Germany. The Commu- nist Party of Germany says: “Where is your program of national and social emancipation? You have none; you have only phrases, only deception. But here is our program, which we shall realize'just as it has always been realized by victorious Bolshevism over one-sixth of the globe, Here is our program of emancipation; now you must show your colors! Won't Defend Exp'e There can be no national emancipation with- p- a | army of thi WAGE CUTS T00AY On With the “Working Woman” Drive! By PAULINE ROGERS. 'HE latest census figures show that there are ten million women gainfully employed in this country, and there are 23 million wives of workers who are working at home or in the factories when they get a job. This vast three million working women is practically unorganized and they are being used by the bosses as means to force down wages and to lower the living standards of the entire working class. The Working Woman, the only English work- ingwomen’s paper ingthe U.S.A. has the im- portant task of awakgning ‘these millions of exploited and backwWa) place in the class ‘$trugle,/and to make them militant fighters in, the yanks of gur revolu- tionary working class drganizations. ~\, —_ 1,000 Subscribers—$2,000 by Noy. Ist If the Working Wonian to become a mass paper and a factor in organizing women work- ers, it must get the support of the entire Party. During the months of September and October, we are conducting a campaign to get 1,000 new subscribers, raise a fund of $2,000, and to reach out further into the shops by building women workers correspondence circles. All class conscious workers must do their share in making this campaign successful, so that we can continue to issue the paper and spread its influence among working women, Never was the task of organizing women so pressing as at the’ present: On to a mass working women’s paper! Build and support the Working Woman! out social emancipation! Never again will the German proletariat march to war for its ex- ploiters and their imperialist aims. But the million masses of the toilers, freed by the social revolution, will defend the factories and mines which belong to them, the state which they themselves govern, If the German proletariat wishes to shake off the yoke of international imperialism it must first break the yoke of its own imperial- ist bourgeoisie. A victorious proletariat which has overthrown its capitalist class, nationalized industry, the banks, wholesale trade and the large lanied estates and taken into its hands the state and its ecomomy, can rely upon the unlimited aid of the 150,000,00 workers and wonten workers to their _ Overcome Our Shortcomings! Build Mass Unions! peasants of Soviet Russia and upon the broth- | erly active solidarity of the French, English and Belgian working class and of the world proletariat and will find in the revolutionary fight for freedom of the oppressed colonial peo- ples in China, India, Western Asia and Africa such powertul allies agai imperialism, such a gigantic force that it will be able to tear to pieces the imperialist treaticss and to annul the tributes demanded by world capitalism. Who Won By the War? Versailles, Young Plan, reparatio} use are they to the proletariat of the of Versailles? A lasting settlement of the European frontiers, security of peace? On the contrary, already today the imperialist world is on the verge of the abyss of new wars which are to change again the map of Europe and fix new tributes for new victors, The rep- arations, the burdens of which the German bourgeoisie have piaced on the shoulders of the working masses of their own country, what benefit have they brought to the proletariat of the victor countries? They have been used by the bourgeoisie of these countries solely for the purpose of strengthening the state power in order to suppress the working class and accelerate armaments for new wars. En- slaved under the double yoke of the German and the foreign bourgeoisie, the German work- ers have been made into international wage~ cutters, Thus the programmatie declaration of the Communist Party of Germany has a message for the proletariat of the other capitalist coun- tries. We German Communists wish to over- throw our bourgeoisie—you Frené¢h, English. Belgian, Czecchish, Italian, American and other workers, overthrow your bourgeoisie! | | | | By MAX E attempts of the e: s through the inte of the workers meet with serious resistance on the part of the worker: Particularly is this true in the Northern section of West Vir- Here a whole series of strikes have taken place. While most of these strikes have ended in a defeat for the miners, their de- termination to struggle expresses itself daily. Numerous mistakes have been made by our union. These mistakes have had one general approach. This approach to our work we must destroy in order that our union may develop into a mass organization of the miners. I ‘will deal in this article with the most recent strike, since the mistakes in this strike represent mainly the error being made in many sections. The Connelsyille Strike. Three hundred miners struck in the Connels- ville mine in Scotts Run, W. Va. This mine is owned by the Paisley interests, a Cleveland concern owning a number of mines in the state. Only recently strikes took place in their mines at Elm Grove and Moundsville, W. Va. In January of this year, the men in the Connelsville mine struck against a wage cut, The United Mine Workers “led” the strike and under the plea “we have agreed with Hoo- ver not to strike” sold out the miners. In August a new walkout took place. The immediate cause was the introduction of the “clean-up for the day men in the mine, This system had already been intro- duced for the coal loader The “clean-up sys- tem” is based on the elimination of specified working hours. Under this system, the miners are forced to work until all the coal which is cut during the day is loaded on the cars. Seales in these mines have already been taken off, and the men are paid sixty-eight cents for a four-ton car. The day men previously worked eight hours. They were informed that beginning Aug. 11, those of the day men work- ing 8 hours would receive $3.50 per day in place of the $4.50 which they were receiving, a cut of 2214 per cent. Those who worked until all the coal was cleaned up, would re- ceive $4.75 per day. Under the “clean-up sys- tem,” the miners work a minimum of 12 hours per day and mgny of them up to 18 hours. Fakers Show Their Face The coal loaders followed the day men in walking out. They did this partly in sym- pathy with the day men, but mainly in revolt against the “clean-up system.” The arch-be- trayer of the miners in W. Va., Van Bittner, representative of the Lewis machine, came on the scene and claimed leadership of the strike for the U.M.W. The members of the Mine, Oil rnd Smelter Workers’ Industrial Union did not contest his claim of leadership of the strike. Instead they surrendered the strike to the L.M.W. The overwhelming ma- jority of the miners in this mine are sym- pathetic to the M.O.S.W.I.U. Yet our com- rades in charge permitted the strike leader- ship to remain in the hands of the U.M.W. Despite the fact that they could easily have taken over the strike in the name of the revo- lutionary union.- Despite the fact that more than half of the men in the mine have stated their willineness to become members of the ALZMAN. pitalists to solve the fied exploitation M.O.S.W.I.U., the union organizers did not know of the walkout until after it had oc- curred, Old Methods of Work. This situation shows in a glaring form that our comrades have not yet overcome the old method of work: They still to a large extent function as a left opposition, rather than as a revolutionary union. Our comrades took the position that they would wait until the U.M.W. betrayed the strike and uhen they would take @ over leadership. Following from this they failed to elect a strike committee. For seven days the striking miners were without an or- ganized leadership. What picketing was ¢arried on, consisted mainly of miners standing before the entrance to the mine, but not attempting | | in any way to prevent the scabs from going to work. The U.M.W. issued demands merely for the day men. They issued no demands for the coal loaders who constituted the majority of the men on strike. This merely split the ranks of the strikers. Jur comrades made no efforts to remedy this situation. Misuse of United Front. Our comrades also neglected a splendid op- portunity to establish the united front from below and through this to win over the miners who were not connected with any union as well as a majority of those who are still mem- bers of the M.O.S.W.I.U. Three meetings of this kind were held. Only on the fifth day of the strike did our organizers propose that a strike committee be elected. This was rejected by the meeting because our organizers made no attempt to convince the men, to give lead- ership, but were content to lag behind. On the seventh day of the strike, after pres- sure from the center, a strike committee was elected which included some of the members of the revolutionary union as well as unor- ganized workers. Not Sufficient Responsibility. Our organizers in the field do not feel suf- ficiently the responsibility for the union. While large sections of the miners in Scotts Run ideologically support the M.O.S.W.1U., the number of dues-paying members is at a min- imum, Our organizers function more as rep- resentatives of a relief committee, than as or- ganizers of a revolutionary union. The situation exists where thousands of miners in this section call themselves mem- bers of our union without even having a mem- bership book, This weakness must be over- come, else the basis will be laid for the social fascist Farrington gang coming into the Wu-t Virginia coal fields. (As this article is writ- ten, word has come of the opening of a head- quarters in Fairmount, W. Va., by this gang). More Wage Cuts Coming. A number of mines have anounced addition- al wage cuts. Pursglove Mines 1, 2, 3 and 4, have announced a wage cut of 10 cents per car beginning Sept. 1. This cuts the price paid for coal to 14% cents per ton. The same cut has also been announced by the Bunker Mine, where a 10 per cent wage cut took place recently and also at the mines at Chaplin and Osage. The conditions of the miners are so bad that one can hardly believe that it is possible to force additional wage cuts. Yet the oper- ators are doing this. Misery among the miners is increasing. Great numbers of miners have not handled money for many months at a time. Their pay envelopes show a debt to the company. Rents on the houses owned by the company have been raised. Unemployment among the miners has reached an exceedingly high stage. We Must Correct Our Errors. In order to be able to retain leadership over these strikes and win completely the con- fidence of the miners, our comrades in the field must show: : 1, The ability to build and maintain an organized union which shall consist of a reg- ular dues-paying membership. This must be accompanied by the development of a capable local leadership in each mine. 2. Through the establishment of a united front from below, drawing in unorganized miners into strike lead- ership. Special efforts must be made to draw in on our committees Negro miners who form a large section of the population. 3. The ability to connect the demands of the strikers in the individual mines in the geenral program of the union. 4. Through the connecting of the struggles of the employed miners with that of the unemployed. 5. Through the mob- ilization of effective mass picket lines which must include unemployed miners and women as well as the striking miners. These picket lines must be organized for the purpose of preventing the scabs from entering the mines. The main issue around which the strikers 4 : ‘OTE row’s state to give the unemployed. is not to no heart. cause the day after the jobl ran no Bolshevik geration.” union and I. L. But that Jersey capitalists have But it’s for fish. Be- yhie on July. 9, the next s were told to go hungry, item Trout and which t up by the State Fish and provide sport for and buttermilk, Reddan told to- that hey have ivening G he following ne’ renton, N re being bro: Game Commissioner to fishermen, dine on steak Budget Commissioner de Reddan said that recently a bill for .000 for fish food seemed to him high enough to feed the fish porterhouse steaks.” So the venerable commissioner investigated he said, and—well, let him tell it, because he’s and can’t be accused of “exag- He said “We went up there (to the home for un- employed fish.—Editor.) and were convinced they were actually feeding the fish porter- house steaks. They also feed them butter- milk. It is an interesting thing.” We should y it less workers! Don’t you wish you were fish, to get porterhouse But then capitalist “sportsmen” aren't gunning for you But they will if you get rebellious next win ter. Still not all. But the Hoover government, not that of a mere state, is responsible, though the story begins in New Jersey, as follows: “NEWARK, N. lany — ex-soldiers come crying that their families have abso- lutely nothing to eat,’ says Harry C. Eaton of the U.S. employment office for veterans h ‘Many of them are threatened with eviction for non-payment of rent. Meanwhile, an Associated Pre from Washington on Sept. 5, tells u: “Fifty million fish whose lives were dangered by the drought have been saved by the government. Lewis Radcliffe, deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Fisheries, said that this number of fish had heen taken from the streams in the Upper Mississippi Valley and transplanted into the Mis bass is interesting! You job. yet dispateh en- “Poor Fish”? Shot That Killed Ella May Still Echoes Round the World By ALFRED WAC SCHT LLA MAY factory town. small When the National Textile Workers’ lived in anl the International Labor Defense their “speakings” in Bessemer City, N. C., upon a rear Jot and then right out upon the main road, facing Goldberg’s textile mills where Ella May worked, it was then that Ella May began to live. She lived an eventful year, crowded with D. tasks and the achievements which her strongly awakened class conscious ness allowed her frail body to carry as “work,” which although more difficult and dangerous, was more important and necessary to her than the best job in the milf. She became part of the revolutionary tide that is sweeping the South. Ella May and the Gastonia strike are like the two eyes in your head. They belong to- gether; they have one focal point deep down among the broad masses of workers in many countries who daily, with growing revolution- anry understanding, are fighting and striking as Ella May knew so well how to do. The textile bosses shot Ella May. The bour- geois city of Gastonia shot Ella May. The State of North Carolina shot Ella May. Wash- ington, D. C., shot Ella May. And since the Gastonia strike and the shooting of Ella May? In India, in French Indo-China, in South Amer in the Philippines,, everywhere, the enslaved colonial workers and peasants are fighting or preparing to fight under the red banner of revolt. The immense strikes in im- perialist countries and the wave of strikes in this country—all this is a lifting of the sod to dig the grave for capitalism. .All these struggles and battles are a part of Ella May. Ella May stands out as a_ revolutionary working class symbol upon which is engraved “Workers, join the red trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League! Organize and strike against wage cuts! Workers, build the Inter- national Labor Defense into a mass organiza- tion to keep class war fighters out of jail, to release the cl war fighters in jail Ella May will speak at all I. L. D. meetings September 14, held to commemorate the anniversary of her murder by the south- ern b She'll sp about the South, the oppression of the workers and farme the mill slavery, the arr and convictions, and possible death sentences our organizers face, about the Negro lynchings sponsored by bos and their political lac in an attempt to stem the tide of working class loyalty ameng the Negro race. The shot that killed Ella May is still beng heard from coast to © 3 around the world, and will continue to be heard until the workers win the world! are breaking out at the present time are strug- gle against wage cuts, fight against thé clear- up system, which is one of the forms of ra- tionalization introduted in the mines, for recoy- nition of the M.O.S.W.LU. which includes the recognition of mine committees, the establish- ment of check-weighmen, the establishment of the 6-hour day and 5-day week in the mining industry. The coal operators have organized a wage- cutting campaign to reduce to a still lower level the present low standard of living of the coai miners. The main task of the union in the present period is to organize the struggle of the miners against these wage-cuts, and to turn the struggle into a fight for higher wages. This must be connected with the struggle for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill and par- ticularly with the demand that the war funds be used for social insurance. The correction of the major shortcomi mentioned above is a prerequisite for the deevlopment of the M.O.S.W.LU. into a mass organization in the mining industry,