The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1930, Page 1

Farmer Sends Last Quarter “Enclose 25 cents. Send Daily two weeks. Would send fifty cents for one month, but I am in hard luck. The twenty-five cents is all I Baxter Brumit, Bremen, Georgia. Subscribe! have.” Renew! Central Orga CSiecit1 om of f International) Norker he-Co Rinunict Party U.S.A. the Communist =) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered a; second-class mutte: at New York. N. Y.. under the Vol. VII., No. 229 rat the Post Office act of March 3, 1879 EE 21 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents A Slogan of Action | The slogan, “Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts!” is not merely a propaganda slogan. It was not put forth by the Central Committee merely as an additional slogan to be written into leaflets | or used in speeches. It is not addressed only to the great mass of organized and unorganized. workers who are having their wages slashed daily by the bosses. It is a slogan of action which, on one hand, must rally the masses for strike struggle, and, on the other hand, must orientate the members and leading committees of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League on the systematic organiza- tion and preparation of such strike struggles. Too much emphasis cannot be placed on this second aspect of this slogan because very clearly systematic organizational and preparatory work for strike struggles has not been carried through to a sufficient | extent in any district. During the past month or six weeks no less | than fifty or sixty notices of wage cuts have been carried by the Daily Worker. In only one case, that of the Minneapolis box makers, did the revolutionary unions organize and lead’a strike of the workers in an effort to prevent these wage cuts from taking place. In many cases leaflets were put out and shop gate meetings were held. But | our efforts, in too many cases, were confined ‘to these general propa- ganda activities, while thorough, continuous organizational efforts were neglected. | Even our propaganda efforts still show certain weaknesses. In the districts the slogan is used only in the form as issued by the Central Committee, whereas everywhere it must be further concretized. Wage cuts are taking place in various forms. In only a few factories. are they made openly and directly. In the majority of cases they are being put over by firing workers and hiring new men at lower wages, by “readjusting” piece work rates, by instituting a “division of work” under the pretext of “aiding” the unemployed, by laying off men com- bined with a reassignment of jobs (at different wage rates) for those kept on, and by innumerable other methods. But in nearly all cases the methods used are directly connected either with lay-offs or with discharges and rehirings—that is they also directly effect the unem- | ployed workers. Our propaganda activities, therefore, must not only be built around wage cuts in general, but around the specific form of wage cutting in a given factory. Likewise, our propaganda work must not only be among the employed workers, but also among the unem- ployed. | In a period when 8,000,000 workers are jobless, strike struggles | can only be successful providing they have the support of the unem- | ployed workers. The struggle against wage cuts, therefore, must be | connected with the fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill and for immediate, emergency relief for the unemployed. While correcteing and strengthening our agitational and propa- ganda work it is necessary to remember that workers, except in rare cases, even when they ar deeply discontented, will not spontaneously walk off the job. Leadership, in one form or another, must be preesnt. We have the task of establishing that leadership. This can be established, not by speeches and leaflets alone, but primarily through tent, daily efforts to secure contacts among | he workers on the job and to set up a shop committee among the | workers. With this shop committee functioning as the instrument of | the revolutionary union the propaganda and organizational work must be developed within the factory or mine and not merely from the out- side. The whole plant must then be honevcombed with department com- mittees and when possible before a stri ‘a shop local of the revolu- tionary union must be established. In s a Case the shop committee is not liquidated, but is transformed from a preliminary organizational committee into the leading committee of the revolutionary union in the factory. The agitational activities against wage cuts must be combined with systematic efforts to establish such strike machinery in the factories. | Strikes, after the preparatory work has been done, should not Hihat .assunih roe representative “dae merely be “called” from the outside; they should be voted by the work- inc ea aoc eA Sene Ay ers themselves. And at the meeting where the strike vote is taken |@ustries “normally’ employing 60, broad strike committees, widely representative of all departments in | the plant, should be set up. This committee, guided by the T. U..U. L., should lead the strike. These may appear to be details, but they are not. These are the essential things which must be developed in the daily work of the revolutionary unions, pressed forward by our Party fractions to ac- tually make the slogan, “Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts!” an effective slogan of action. | “REVOLT” THREAT AGAINST IBANEZ Chilean Dictator Jails, Wall St. Aviators An Associated Press Dispateh| from Santiago, Chile reports that two Amorican aviators were ar- rested for plotting a “revolution” to be supported by discontented bourgoisie, backed by the army, and mass radicalization, against the re- gime of President Colonel Carlos Ibanez. Ibanez, like Irigoyen, leans towards British imperialism, but not 60 openly or enthusiastically as the) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sept. ex-president of Argentina. |22.—A lockout of 48 hours is be-| ‘3 jing threatened by the industrialists | Final Bazaar Meet. This Wed. Eve’g, All, Delegates Must Attend | All delegates to the Communist | Press Bazaar Conference are urged to attend the last and most impor- tant meeting of the conference) Wednesday evening, Sept. 24, Manhattan Lyceum. At this meeting the final Fidns| for the bazaar which is to raise money for the support of the Com- munist press will be taken up. URUGUAY BOSSES at} VOTE LOCK-OUT The Ibanez dictatorship issued a| the present economic situation being linterview recently with the Detroit |ness of the situation,” |the bill presented by the Commu- nist Party. ,out.what is undoubtedly true, that |this winter will be the worst ever jfaced by the American workers, is |to arouse the bosses to resistance |crease the bread lines, and to speed {What |were on part time. | starvation wages. |per cent in Buffalo in August. |Soviet Union, New York district, has | Star Casino, East 115th Street at 2/| “FACE WORSE The Hoover- WINTER THAN SINCE 1893” | Detroit Charity Head |—secretary of Agriculture Hyde interest of banks Sees Longer Bread Lines Coming ‘Jobless Army Growing | ‘Must Fight ht for Relief. Through Class Action DETROIT, Sept. ter will be one of the worst that relief agencies have faced in years, the worst since 1907 and possibly since 1893.” It wasn’t a Communist who said this, but William J. Nor- ton, executive vice-president of the Children’s Fund of Michigan in an News. The same Mr. Norton who adds | that “few people realize the eit | also takes oc- casion to attack the demand for unemployment insurance, especially His purpose in pointing | against militant workers. plan that Mr. The first Norton has is to in- up the miserable charity organiza- tions that fatten on crisis. ee ee The 8,500,000 unemployed do not need Mr. Norton’s word to know that winter is going to be hell this year. Most of them have been unemployed for six months or over. is more, every day reports come from all over the country tell- ing of increasing unemployment, wage cuts, evictions. The Cham- ber of Commerce of Buffalo states | | 000 workers, during August had only 47,665 at work—and many of these The part-time workers will suffer acutely this win- ter, as they have been living on Wages dropped 25 | The Bureau of Labor Statistics| made an analysis of the type of} |workers unemployed in Boston. Here is what they found: Next to the crisis, the reason for their unemployment was “increased ef- | (Continued On Page 3.) CONFERENCE TO 22.—“This win- | | tion at Tryassina. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. |and the Fish Committee continue | their extrao: “narily crude at-| | tempt to mobilize for war against| | the Soviet Union. The function of ! Hyde and Fish is to lay a propa-| ganda basi, fit © + embargo on Soviet trade and secondly for! actual war. Unusual efforts are required because of the fact dem- j onstrated in many industral cities jon August 1 that the American | workers are opposed to the attack |on the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics. | Shields Farm Board. Hyde is .Jso trying to kill two birds with e stone. By accus-| ing the Soviet Union commercial | |agencies here of lowering wheat | | Prices by the “short” s-'e on the Chicago wheat market, he seeks not only to whip up a war fever among farmers, but also to ex- cuse the Hoover farm Hyde Wheat Hokum Is War Move Against Soviet Union TUUL UNIONS SPEED UP OR- | smashing and manufac-| turing interests. As board’s) Hyde left last night for Chicago|cago Board of Trade which oper- | part f his collossol bluff,| wheat prices in Susie | and lined him up for another “inpestigation.” He} conferred with Fish push an had already vestigations” are merely of the same war plot. Before leaving, Hyde made fur- part | ther unproven statements that the Textile Syndicate had sold short 7,500,000 bushels of wheat instead of 5,000,000. E. V. Belitzky, pres- ident of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate had previously stated that even the was an exaggeration. charge is mere foolishness, as even an additional 2,500,000 bush- els sold during eight months ! in-| 5,000,000 amount| The new) | could have no effect on a market| that handles 60,000,000 bushels a day. Can't Keep it Up. American capitalists among themselves recognize the mere propaganda and war mongering} nature of Hyde’s charges. John A. Bunnell, president of the Chi-| informed the board desi “the gov- City ernment has no power event short sales by the Soviet agencies or any other and Conferences of Unemployed On Sept. 28 mem- “to the consciences of the of the board.” Many of SanT » members pointed out that Plan Solidarity Week the Chicago wheat market is to the world, and showed great « . disinclination to follow Hyde's « Jobless "Conferences lead. And Week For Fund. The New York: Times special re- porter on the Chicago wheat market calmly stated today that “The selling of wheat futures by Russia, which created uncertainty, actually had little effect on the market.” He also sta “pre va are the lowest at thi nce 1906,” evidently for other reasons than the Russian wheat. This is a Hyde without mentioning him, for that worthy tried to say that the five cent per bushel drop in the (Continued On Page 3.) tion, and aecumt ATTACKS ON THE MANCHURIA Ri. R. Soviet Union Warns! Chinese Authorities | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | IRKUTZK, Sept. 22.—Harbin reports a series of white guard attacks on the Chinese Eastern Railway. A band under the lead- ership of the former Czarist Colonel Sarayev occupied the sta- White guards | in the Chinese “police” service searched the premises of the Transiberian railway at Mand- schuli. The general consul of the Soviet | Union at Tarbin, Comrade Melni- kou, has warned the Chinese authorities. VOLUNTEER FOR SALE OF | WORKERS Many of the newstands are closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. We | therefore cal on all Party members | and sympathizers to volunteer to sell Daily Workers on the streets, should call beginning at 7 a. m. at one of the stations listed on the ad elsewhere in the Daily Worker. VOTE COMMUNIST! | , joined the Metal Workers’ WHITE GUARDS IN Canton Motor Co. Workers — Get 20 to 40 P.C. Wage Cut; Other Wage Slashes Reported | Southern Mill Workers’ Pay Cut 25 Per Cent;) And More Than Halt Are Jobless CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 22.—The workers in the Hercules Motor Co. in Canton received a wage-cut of | from 20 to 60 per cent. Most of the work is piece-work and the wage-cut even affected the skilled mechanics, day hands, etc, from $36-$37 a week down to $17-$18 a week; day rates from 35 to 40 cents an hour. Speed-up and the introduction of new machinery, besides the fact of the general economic crisis, has resulted in the laying off of 600 men, and thus instead of 900 as the formal force only 300 are now employed. The workers, immediately after the wage-cut, came to the Metal Workers’ Industrial League and asked for assistance. were held with workers of the cuat and at the same time issued a series of demands. Gate meetings are being held every day and the workers have endorsed the demands. number of them already Indus- which strike against the wage- trial League, for a cuts. ee Pie MILWAUKEE, Sept. 22.—W (Continued On Page 3.) | | Meetings | |shop, where they exposed the wage-| A good; have | is preparing | COMMUNISTS HIT YOUNG PLAN YOKE 76 Deputies tc to Demand It Be Killed (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 22.—The Central | March 6 unemployment demon: Committee of the Communist Party |tions, the police and employers sent has commissioned the newly elected | i" 2 12> Reichstag fraction to submit mo-| tions for the of the Young Plan payments. demands the cancellation of immediate cessation It the prohibition of the Red Front Fight-| ers’ drawal of the emergency withdrawal of proceedings against revolutionary proletarian political prisoners and against offenders driven by poverty or law. The fascist leader, Herr Hitler, has “withdrawn” the principles of| revolution and overthrow of the present system,” and announces a program of legal conquest of the | state, since the constitution forces ork-! the national socialist (fascist) posi- tion as a parliamentary party. DEFEND U,.S.S.R. Fight Latest est Attack On Soviet Union NEW YORK.—The Friends of the issued an emergency call to all working class organizations for demonstration Sunday, Sept. 28 at{ o‘cloek answering thu latest move of the fascist Representative Hamilton Fish, who in speaking before the | Manhatan Chepter, Reserce Officers’ selse has dared | lengthy communique in which it! said that an “atempted revolt had been furstrated” Sunday when two | ‘American aviators were arrested at | Conception with two Chilean army and three civilians, passengers in an airplane piloted by the Americans. | American imperialsm has many military and naval attaches in Latin ‘American countries. In Peru an American army aviator was an aide to Leguia. The names of the Am- erican aviators was not given out. The Chilean officers arrested were General Enrique Bravos, Colonel Maroduke Grove, Luis Salas Nomo, Carlos Vicuna, and Pedro Leon Ugalde. Ibanez said he would ruthlessly suppres any attempts at “revolt.” The attempt at “revolt”, in which Americans had a hand, in undoubt- edly being engineered by a section of the bourgoisis in Chile which conform to the same group in Ar- gentina that overthrow Irigoyen. American imperialsm is doing all in its power to oust the British in the Latin American markets, and the British hav> countered in Peru and Bolivia. The imperialist differences are sharpening, and the various im- perialists utilize the mass discon- ‘ and business men here because the| workers have been able to force! |through the Uruguay congress cer- tain laws providing for old age relief and a minimum wage. The decision for the lockout was voted by delegates representing 100 industrial and business men’s or- ganizations at a meeting called to, consider a fascist drive against the) workers, bosses is against the taxes neces- sary for the social insurance re- lief. The bosses do not want to part with any of their profits. They accuse the legislators of fish- ing for votes, and demand a sterner attack against the workers. A note has been sent to congress declaring that the bosses will re- fuse to pay the taxes required for the carrying out of the social in- surance laws. Sharper class battles loom, as the bosses are perfecting their fas- cist machinery in order to batter down the struggle of the workers for better conditions. tent due to the worsening crisis. Ibanez has instituted a fascist re- gime, having exiled and ‘illed hun- dreds of revolutionary workers. Hoe has sent many Communists to the penal hell hole known as Island de Ocean. The main attack of the! Assn. Yesterday Department of&&— Assn. yesterday raised the demaiid for a five million dollar appropria- tion for the Department of Justice jto hire an army of spies, stool pigeons and gangsters to carry through a nationwide campaign of worse fascist terror against the 1 Working. class. | Use Demonstration “The Friends of the Soviet |Union”, states Secretary Harriet Silverman, “proposes to utilize the Sept. 28 demonstration to expose the Fish Committee, to launch a nation- | wide campaign to defend the Soviet for immediate unconditional ex- change of diplomatic representatives, | Union against imperialist enemies, |for recognition of the Soviet Gov- ernment and characterizes the pre- sent wheat slander with the equally fantastic Catholi. Church crusade and the Hearst photo forgeriesq, | Whalen forgeries, etc., as al part of the capitulist attempt to smash the first workers‘ republic. Speakers at the demonstration in- cluded: M. J.-Olz™, Mowe Peca and Dr. E. Reed Mitchell, just re- turned from the U. S. S. R. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein and the John Reed Club will be on the pro- gram. | Vote Communist! ‘Tammany; the Robbers’ Alliance _ Between Bosses and Underworld We must, be-| cause no one| to do so, give a| history of Tam-| many Hall. But in doing so, all readers of the) Daily Worker} should remem-) ber that all that) is said of Tam-| many can be found out and said in greater or less degree about every cap-| italist: city ad-| ministration. In- deed it is the) duty of Commu-| nists to give at-| tention to these| matters in muni- cipal elections. But Tammany Hall is symbolic of all capitalist politics. Just as the “Ohio Gang” was during the Harding admin-) istration. Tam- many symbolizes | capitalism. It) has grown older | and rottener with capitalism, but has man- aged to add a the rottenness. But under the putrid mass of capitalist corruption. Tammany Hall was named after: jan Indian chief, patron saint of Pennsylvania dur- YOANT NOT certain polish of By ALLAN JOHNSON. 4s ees Booze You ons OR (BREAD TH “UalemPbosetenT WE'LL ROME “You Boone er” refinement to | leaders since. veneer is the Saint Tammany, of Tammany, He was appointed Superintendent of | propaganda for the communist plat-| ference, and the delegates present the Poorhouse, and was deposed after a long period form and the communist candidates during which he stole the money that was supposed|A collection brought in $99.18 in (Continued on Page 3) | ing the Revolu-| was Constitution went into effect in 1789, Founded by Traitors. Tammany Hall was organized by one William Mooney, a paper- hanger who was a deserter from the Revolution- ary Army tothe armed forces of King George the Third. his present day) Tammany leages, who are always ready, as Juvenal once said, “to defend 1 League, the retroactive with- | taxes, | The T. U. U. L. S All national unions and leagues mi at once campaign program to n their respective and ective, the winning of new get- ng new readers for Labor Unity. his campaign is not rate from the day to day t of the nation- al unions or national leagues. Direct Campaig “The leading Tn | national union JAIL ANI EXILE FOR 22 RAINED OREGON WORKERS Syndicalist Charge industries, of the the cam- ions and commit its a : paign among Elections \ieaiee anil tha gtiens ae |dustry. It shall issue ias own PORTLAND, Ore., Sept — | poster, leaflet, recruit ; | with workers held on nal land! collection literature. aud deans syndicalism charges, eleven more| publicity to the pre upon the held for deportation, one already rail-| progress of the campa It shall |roaded actually without trial to a| devise methods of helping to raise and the | |80-day sentence for vagrancy, others faci imiliar sentences, lumber, shipping and other Bale ists hére seek to Communis icipation in the elections. Immediately after (Continued On BN 3.) “A BLOW 10 BILL GREEN IN A. F, L..- the successful y, d M. R. Bacon, lof 187 Seventeenth St. Bacon led raid on the Workers’ Center dur. i] es ing whict most of those now aur: Elect Delegates to Sept. | 28th Conference were arrested. Saturday, Sept. 13, a magnificient we.) Oty, ae ; protest demon | the largest| NEW YORK.—Many credentials gathering of workers since March 6, jae being received by the Unem- was held outdoors in spite of police | Ploved ae of Greater New York provocation and threats to attack. | ae 5s ai ia ; A. Be os lo- The stool pigeon was pointed out| ¢? ey ae C ganlas igus |from the speakers’ stand, and 1,500 | les the Industrial Unions an | Unemployed Councils, who have | tion, The “Hall”|the communist campaign. founded) three weeks|for after the U. §,| mons the working women of the But like) col-| their country or) iGontau on ease e2) | elected delegates to represent them | at the conference called by the Un- | employed Councils of the Trade Jnion Unity League. This confer- ence will be held Sunday, Sept. 28, 110 a. m. at Irving ie 15th St. | and Irving Place, N. Y. Its ob- | ject is to unite the andl and | unemployed workers in the struggle | for unemployment relief and the 10, 000,000 ) Women Are) enactment of the Unemployment In- Exploited In U Ss surance Bill as proposed by the Communist Party and endorsed by i the Trade Union Unity Lea: One hundred eighty-two delegates ity Leagaeteo representing §2 shops, 83 fraternal | |the Unemployed Councils. women’s organizations and 18 Party | _, 1” spite of the opposition of Wm. junits, assembled Saturday afternoon | CTeen, president of the A. F.-L., to at Irving Plaza Hall, to organize for the demand for unemployment in- surance, Local 2090, carpenters, voted unanimously to contribute $25 and to elect delegates to the con- ference at its membership meeting anq| held Thursday night at 84th St. La- stores, was stressed by Comrade J.| bor Lycem. This action followed Louis Engdahl, communist candi-| the example set by Local 2717 of date for Lieutenant-Governor of| Brooklyn where a motion to elect New York State and Comrade R. B.| delegates was bitterly opposed by Moore, communist candidate for At-| Kivowits, the business agent, Ras torney-General of New York State.| kin, the delegate to the District In addressing the conference, the| Council, and Feldman, a yellow so- speakers pointed to the lessons of | Cialist. The membership refused to the German elections, waere the| be intimidated by the threats which Communist Party of Germany re-| these bureaucrats made about the ceived 68 per cent of its vote from | Suspension of the local and other men, while it indicated a large | Such steps which we kngw fakers growth of the communist vote in the | are capable of. The motion to The necessity for greater activity | the red election campaign shops and factories, offices shops and factories, particularly in| elect delegates carried by a vote the heavy industries, it also indi-| of three to one. Sam Nesin of the cated that the revolutionary work-| Unemployed Council of Greater ers must p3y more. attention to| New York, addressed both» these propaganda among women workers. agen There is a ‘great ky for com- | MEET POSTPONED ful” occupations, the sain from various organizations pointed | ,oF| out. In New York, there is enorm-| Needle Youth Meet Postponed. to defraud it,” | ous exploitation among the girls and} Over 500 workers, young and he became in- women employed in the department | adult, crowded New Harlem -Ca- tensely “‘patrio-| stores, in the various offices, in the | sino last Saturday evening to greet tic” after the | candy factories, in the needle trades | the Youth Conference which was American colon- and other industries. | to be held on Sunday, Sept. 21. ial army had) The conference unanimously} However, due to the traditions of whipped the Bri-| adopted a resolution endorsing the|the Needle Trades Workers, they tish. |commnig campaign and pledging to| were forced to work on Saturday Mooney, the) mobilize the workers in the shops|and Sunday to make up for the “founding fath-| and the membership of the fraternal| Jewish _holida many delegates set the line for all Tammany/ women’s organizations, for mass|were unable to come to the con- decided to postpone the conference until Saturday, Oct. 4, the place to be announced later. ° cash and $91 in pledges. >