The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1930, Page 1

—— a — am WORKERS! CELEBRATE 13 YEARS OF SOVIETS AT COLISEUM TONIGHT! In capitalist America 9,000,000 jobless workers and their families face starvation and cold this winter. In the Soviet Union, where the workers rule, there is no unemployment! Hail the 13th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution! Dail Central -Cod y NO unist Pa Norker rty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist Internaitonal) OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 268 + at New York, N. ¥., Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1930 CITY EDITION = = Price 3 Cents ——— \ Which Is the Failure? recent editorial in the N. Y. Times tried, rather pitifully, to make readers believe that the Soviet Five-Year Plan was falling down. As “evidence,” it presented us with the statement, which is true enough, that Soviet transportation is experiencing a shortage of freight cars. This is peculiar “proof,” indeed, that Soviet industry is “falling be- hind the schedule.” Exactly the contrary is true. The complaint about the shortage of freight cars, for example, was made a matter of special emphasis, because the Donetz coal miners, not “falling behind schedule,” but on the opposite, producing nearly twice as much coal as formerly, found that unless more cars were provided to take away the coal, that they would have to slow up production. So a great row was raised about freight cars, and we will bet our left eye that the shortage will be overcome, even though with some dif- ficulties, But what sort of business has the capitalist press of the United States got to be seeking non-existent “failures” in the Soviet Union? The American railroads certainly have no “shortage of freight cars.” In fact, precisely because U. S, capitalist industry is in deep depdession, there are hundreds of thousands of freight cars in good repair for which there is no use. And their number grows by thousands every week. If the | American capitalists had a freight car shortage such as exists in the Soviet Union, they would be tickled pink with prosperity. More, just becuase there are so many surplus freight cars here, the effort of the steel industry to “stimulate orders for cars and locomotives” (Annalist, Oct. 31) to make up for falling steel orders in other lines, is doomed to strike a snag. Even passenger traffic has fallen off so much that one of the “de luxe” trains between’ New York and Chicago, which used to run in five or six sections, has been cut down to one, ‘Workers should understand that the lies of the capitalist »papers about the Soviet Union’s “failures” are more than just envy, more than a case of “sour grapes.” Firstly, American capitalists want to conceal the real success of the Five-Year Plan, of genuine socialist industry in the Fatherland of all workers. Secondly, American capitalism wishes to cultivate the notion among American workers that the Soviet is, in general, no good, to cultivate a hostility upon which American imperialism hopes to bank in its war preparations to attack that Workers’ and Peasants’ government which | stands as a challenge to the whole capitalist world. | American workers will not fall for this boss propaganda. They will see through it with eyes cleared by their own miseries inflicted on them by capitalism. And they will stand like a rock for defense of the Soviet government of workers! | “Gentleinen Prefer Bonds” | A distinct service in clarifying the issues around the escape of the Gas- tonia prisoners was rendered by the letter of Wm. Z. Foster, pub- lished in the Daily Worker on Nov’ 1, in which he resigned from the | committee of the Civil Liberties Union. Foster's letter was a clear state- ment of the position of the Communist Party. Doubtless it will ruffle the feelings of the “liberals,” because it boldly | calls a spade a spade, and shows up the hypocritical surrender of the fundamentals of civil liberties by the Civil Liberties Union under the smoke-screen of an attack against the victims of class justice, an attack against the Communist Party, and an attack against the Soviet Union. No more open and bold effort to destroy the right of asylum has ever been made, than the Civil Liberties Union demand for “adeqquate guarantees” from the “Communist authorites.,” as the price for withhold- ing operation of their decision to persuade all persons of means not to give bond for Communists in the future. The C. L. U. is not satisfied with the knowledge that the Communist | Party has not advocated and does not advocate bail-jumping. It wants the Communist Party to act as a policeman, to physically “guarantee” * that prisoners on bail shall be delivered to their jailers. It rails against the “moguls” of Soviet Russia, because the fugitives were allowed to enter that country. In very clear terms it demands that the Soviet Union shall close its doors to escaping victims of class war if the C. L. U. is in danger of losing money. It thus demands of the workers’ government that it, too, shall be a policeman for capitalism. Every conscious worker can have nothing but scorn for such betrayal of the elements of civil liberty. Meanwhile, the International Labor Defense, which guaranteed the bail of the Gastonia boys, is calling upon ail its supporters and friends to donate to a fund to repay the money seized by the capitalists’ hangmen of North Carolina. It is to be hoped that all real fighters for civil liberties will help in this task. At a time when sacrifices of life, health, and liberty, are the daily toil of the struggle for bread and the simplest civil liberties, it is not asking much that’a few dollars shall be given to the cause. It should not be necessary to waste many words refuting the slan- derous insinuations that Communists run away from struggle, that Com- munists are a “bad risk.” The Communist Party and its individual mem- bers, together with the workers who follow its lead, are the only persons in America who risk anything besides a few dollars in the fight for civil liberties. If the Civil Liberties Union, and its “gentlemen who prefer bonds,” carry out their decision not to give any aid to Communists, then they will have to close up shop and go home, for they will not be able to find any body else who risks life and liberty in the fight against the monstrous oppression of capitalist imperialism in the United States. |Mining Towns Show 13 Years of Soviet Rule! A Victory of the Workers!) Only Revolution Brought Peace, Bread, Land! | Only Workers’ Rule Improved Workers’ Lives! RED BALLOTS MULTIPLY IN MILL CITIES A Lesson for Workers Here! | Tripling of the Com- munist Vote | Defense of the Soviet Union Is Your Defense} Against Boss Attacks on U. S. Workers! By HARRISON GEORGE. | Here, in capitalist America, where} | . . | Basis for Big Struggle! Is fo fad Bs | workers of America! It is thir-|the government acts as the watch-) teen years today, since the workers} dog of the bosses, 9,000,000 workers | Many Workers Votes} ana peasants of old Czarist Russia! are jobless and millions are starv~ | | seized power and established their/ing! Here where the capitalist class | Stolen by Bosses own government, the Soviet Govern-| rules, the capitalist government itself | . | hat wages have been cut 25.8 NEW YORK.—Continued evidence! ment of Workers and Peasants. Led} admits tl of a general Communist vote at least by the Bolsheviks, the Communist) per cent since 1926! Here, in the last double that of last year, perhaps | Party, they overthrew the capitalist] year alone, the American working more than double, continues to ar- government of Kerensky, whom the; class has lost over $8,000,000,000 from | rive. Evidence of radicalization of | British and French imperialists, | its income! Here, in capitalist | the workers, not merely dissatsisfac- supported by American imperialism | America, the income of the farmers | tion with the Hoover “prosperity” re- under Woodrow Wilson, had put into| has fallen 19 per cent in just this} ve jalist | last year! ime that is really a starvation re- | Power to continue the imperialist ot is shown ma scattered reports | World War. In short, here in capitalist ruled | from the smaller industrial towns. “Peace, Bread and Land!” These} America, industey anime sci ane In Syracuse there were this year | ¥eTe the demands of the Russian| lions are nag rae # = ae. 200 volee 26% Mester’ Comniunint ed | workers and poor farmers. And the) talists continue to live in luxury. didate for governor. This is double} only way y get ese de-| There the Soviet Union, indus- ‘ay they could get these de-| 7 in let Union, the Communist vote in the la: ‘aus was to make a revolution, to| tial production is growing at 30 and tion, The socialist party vote th ; | overthrow the rule of capitalism. - 2 st ele : more per cent per year, the toiling Iter, and se- 3 | Workers of America! You have| Masses have bread, shelter, eee was less than in last) 1.6 told a million times since Nov.| curity —because they have no big \tth, 1917, that the Soviet Govern-| capitalist class to rule and rob them. In New Bedford, Mass., the textile| ment was “falling.” But it stands| Workers of America! This is the| workers and others, many of whom| today, the strongest government v7 " are foreign born and can not vote, all the world, because it has given| He about the Soviet Union. They still mustered from those who canto the masses, to the working class vote 535 ballots for Maria Correa,|/ and poor farmers exactly what they | Communist candidate for lieutenant | demanded—‘“Peace, bread, and land.” A governor. The 1928 vote was 280 for) The Soviet Government does this| Wt 0 the Soviet Union, to destroy | Fred Beal, at that time very promi- ; because it is the workers’ own gov- this great living example of working nent as a leader of the New Bedford | ernment, because the working class| 48S government! Russian workers have done. The} strike. \is the ruling class, rert!y interestea| Workers ey War against | Biting a Conn | and working for the good of all who) ie Fe) a a war against | 4 | toil. Because it ruthlessly wipes out | ™ ta wh . 1 - Incomplete returns from New) the boss class who live from the| arn this great lesson, workers! 4 : Learn that only by overthrowing Hayen, Hartf » all | sweat . ve fartford and Bridgeport, all|sweat and misery of the masses. | capitalism, by following the guidance in Connecticut, show the Communist | Look at the facts, workers! In the) os) G, te Patt vote more than double that of 1928, / Soviet Union, where the workers are | Bs ie Age Hee psa hiss poate and this in spite of wholesale steal- | building socialist industry and agri-| POURe i Myer» War and © Jemwiee ing of votes by the capitalist election | culture at unheard-of speed on the) ae m3 oe Me Oncinweapde arin boards. ruins left by i i ad [ruins left them by years of war and o,'this aay, the thirteenth anniver-| There is definite evidence of ist | eS eee eas taan| sary of the Soviet Government, and - “\ every day hereafter! ! Hail to the eng | there stealing in New Haven. ‘ | There is hort ! fj . soe eee Soviet Union! Away with capitalism, starvation, war and misery! In Hartford, voters reported that! There, where the working class the Communist Party levers on the | rules, wages increase from six to ten| voting machine were jammed so that | per cent each year! There where (Continued 'on Page 8) capitalism is overthrown, all workers | KEEN INTEREST now have the Five-Day Week (work- ing four days, resting the fifth) and Paid subs will give us a : | scare. American capitalists want to make| 5.4 capitalist politicians admit the MOBILIZE TODAY IN DEFENSE OF USSR. AS WAR PLOT GROWS ‘Litvinov Scores Fake ‘Disarm’ Talk of Imperialists at Geneva Puts Forward Two Proposals of Immediate or Partial Disarmament; Chairman Tries to Stop Blasting Exposure (Cable by Imprecorr) GENEVA, Nov. 6.—The Preparatory Disarmament Commission opened its sessions this morning under the chairmanship of Loudon. Loudon declared “We must get used to the refrain of mentioning disarmament, the only task of the commission is to agree to measures to limit the arma- ment race.” After the declaration of Berndsdorf of Germany, Litvinov, of |the Soviet Union, spoke. He said it is impossible to consider the present session as a mere con- tinuation of the last session; too sii Bree hae bosses, the boss papers, | much has happened in the meantime. 2 |Two years ago the Soviet warning | fear you will learn to do what the | of the war danger was regarded as a Today prominent newspapers situation is precarious even com- pared to the period preceding the last World War. The problem of 50,000,000 people in the national minorities has troubled the world. It is further impossible to ignore the fact that the war mongers hhave increased influence on the gov- ermments of many countries. Since 1926 the war budget of ve of the big- gest capitalist states increased $1,- 500,000,000. He attacked the thesis of the “se- curity apostles” who state that se- curity is the first necessity and then disarmament may be possible. He declared that this thesis was diamet- rically opposed to disarmament. While demanding a high degree of | - | ‘Communists Call for security and financial support, etc., some countries were preparing war against their neighbors. at Gh Ob Ss aera Exposes War Plots MAXIM LITVINOV, Soviet dele- gate to “Preliminary Disarmament boss war preparations and their refusal to disarm. NNA FASCISTS PRESS ATTACKS; | WORKERS RESIST Sharper Fight Commission,” who showed up the | 6-page paper. Send them in. \the Seven-Hour Day! | But that is where the workers rule! IN ANLC. CONV. 3,000 Killéd by Bosses Chisse FIGHT ZARITSKY AGREEMENT TRICK Call for United Front in Headgear Shops NEW YORK.—Over a week ago the Headwear Trade Group of manufac- turers issued an ultimatum to the millinery workers demanding that officials of the locals 24 and 42 agree to commence negotiations. The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union immediately pointed out that the “ultimatum” together with the answer given by Zaritzy, president of the International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers, is just a little comedy being staged by the bosses end their agents in order to more easily put over the slavery agreement proposed by the bosses. Knowing that the millinery work- ers would not only vote down but fight against the “collective agree- ment” which means immediate wage- cuts, introduction of piece work in all branches of the trade, speed-up and increased unemployment and perma- nent enslavement of the trimmers under the most miserable non-union conditions, Zaritzky and the bosses have arranged that hte manufdctur- ers fire the first shot. Zaritzky, Spector and even Golden who pretended to be against the agreement will put the finishing | touches by advising the workers to |accept, after a while, in view of the | threatened lockout and the “hard times.” ‘ That this is true is already indi- cated in the leaflet issued by the Ex- ecutive Board Millinery Workers’ Union local 24 calling a meeting for ‘Thursday where not a word is said about the collective agreement. In- stead a “lengthy and detailed” report is announced to be given by manager N. Spector so as to prevent the burn- ing question from coming up. The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union on the other hand calls upon the workers to put the “collec- tive agreement on the order of busi- ness in spite of the officials and has issued a leaflet to all blockers, oper- ators, cutters and trimmers, organ- ized and unorganized employed and unemployed to unite against the bosses collective agreement, and to fight against the open shop condi- tions that go with it. GOLF INSULTS MILL HANDS CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 31.—In this time of depression cotton mills of the south are turning to a new scheme of paternalism—golf for their employes. In Greenville, S. C. the building of such a course paralleled 10 per cent wage cut. The workers are getting about $10 week do not seem to be able to raise the money for-clubs and balls, however. Only the boss men play. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.__That 23,- |000 workers were killed in industry and 3,000,000 were injured in pro- ducing profits for the bosses during 1929, was admitted in a radio speech last night by Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont. Lamont, who talked of the fact that accidents were | growing said nothing about the tre- mendous speed-up which is killing 1 | more and more workers every day so that the bosses can keep up their profits. there were 9,000,000 less workers on the job, the death rate in industry will be greater than in 1929, as the COLD SHACKS FOR MICH. JOBLESS Fight These Conditions Demand Relief TOLEDO, O.—Families of jobless workers who formed a tent colony at Lambertville, Mich., last summer are now trying to build makeshift homes from old lumber that they pick up. The miserable shacks that are thrown together are without the most primitive sanitation, or heat. Chil- dren are going around without shoes or proper clothes; food is scarce. Exposure to the bitter cold of the Michigan woods, no clothing, dis- eases due to malnutrition and insan- itary conditions is the lot of these jobless workers. In sharp contrast are the homes of the bosses, big palatial houses, well heated, with best of food, and cloth- ing for the bosses’ families, for Profits; 3,000,000 Injured American Industry Takes More Victims Than | W.r; Workers Must Fight Rationalization! |So. Masses See Real| | Fight on Lynching ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 6.—The na- tional conyention of the Ameican Nego Labor Congress opens here Sat~ uday morning, November 15 and con- | |tinues fo two days of concentrated | wok directed towads building of a |mass organization of Negro and | employers are speeding up the work- | white wokers to combat lynching and ers faster than ever before. | all forms of Nego oppession. Lamont figured the loss (to the| The Ameican Negro Labor Con- | bosses, of course) as amounting to| gress is aleady favorably known $1,000,000,000, but the loss to the! among the southern masses as a mil- | workers in life and limb is much | itant organization whose organizers | greater. | have fearlessly faced the terror of A fight against the speed-up pro- the bosses in carrying out the activ- | ‘The Soviet Union, Litvinov stated, | considered the war danger indis- solubly connected with capitalism but | believed it possible to minimize the | NEW YORK.—Cable reports from Vienna to capitalist newspapers here report the continued preparations of danger by real disarmament, and therefore presented two proposals, one of complete disarmament, and an alternative of partial disarmament. The proposals have been rejected. The Soviet delegation .proposed to| delete the expression “limitation of | armaments” and substitute “limita: tion and reduction of armament tion of the problem of trained re- serves, also the war supplies prob- }lem. A reconsideration of the whole problem, they stated, would give new members an opportunity to fit action in the commission to speeches out- side. A negative decision would cause the Soviet Union to lose interest in a majority of the points on the agenda. the Austrian fascists to attempt to | seize power. The search and siez- 13th Anniversary of Victorious Bolshevik Revolution | Hit Fish, Socialists 112 Mass Meetings in U. S. Celebrate NEW YORK.—Workers all over the world, and in every large city and many small ones in United States rally today to protest the war plans of capitalist governments against the Soviet Union, and to celebrate its magnificent strikes forward on the 13th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The meetings take place in the midst of the armaments commission sessions in Geneva, which the official organ of the Revolutionary War Council of the U.S.S.R. brands as a smoke screen to excuse the prepara- tion of war moves against the Work- ers Republic. They take place the day after the Chamber of Commerce of New York calls on the U. S. government to “take steps against Soviet influence” which is a call to prepare for em- bargoes and war. They take place two days before the American social- list party, at the call of Menshivik organizations in Berlin holds a con- ference to make propaganda against the U.S.S.R. They are held in the etmosphere of thw, Fish commission, and the government moves toward embargo, in the-midst of feverish war preparations by the U, S. imperialist government. The workers of New York will dem- onstrate in a hall holding over 23,000, Bronx Coliseum, on East 177th St., Bronx. Foster will be the main speaker, and will show the connection | between the defense of the Soviet Union and the election results in |U. Ss. Sam Nessin, leader of the unem- | ployed demonstrators at city hall and | held for special sessions because of | that, will give facts on unemploy- ment here and lack of it in USS.R. A picket from the Zelgreen cafee | teria, “Smash the Injunctions” dem- ure of arms from workers is still pro- | onstration will tell of the struggle ceeding under orders of the minister | there, the sort of struggle the work- of the interior, Prince von Starhem- ers of the-Soviet Union never face. berg, who is alsot leader of the Fas-| Amis of the American Negro Labor cist HHeimwehr, a well armed force. | Congress will speak on the race dis- Von Starhemberg, who has the po- | criminations in U. S., and the solu- |lice under control, has been sending | tion of this problem where the work- as well as proposed the reconsidera- | them from house to house siezing ers rule. arms belonging to workers, in an at-| There will be a gorgeous pageant, tempt to lessen the resistance of the the Freiheit Singing Society will be wokers in the face of the coming; Present with a huge chorus, the elections on Novembe 9, and the | Workers’ International Relief Band threat of the Fascists who have | Will furnish music. openly stated they will win the lec-| In Syracuse, N. Y., the celebration tions o take power by armed force. | Will be Nov. 9 in Koscuisko Hall, with The Austrian socialist party has |>W@fsky as main speaker. aided this policy of the fascists by| 2% Newark, the celebration will be In spite of the fact that in 1930) cess which is going’on now as the crisis worsens, is one of the most im- | portant tasks of the workers. To- ‘gether with wage-cuts comes greater speed-up on the job. CAT, NOT JOBLESS, TO EAT LOS ANGELES, (FP)—Plenty of Los Angeles unemployed wish they were Mitzi, Maude F. Ide of San Gabriel, | ities of the oganization in organ- Loudon attempted to interrupt Lit- | izing Negro and white workes for a|vinov declaring the speech wouldn't | joint struggle against the common |be translated. Loudon's provocative oppressors. j attitude, caused excitement in the| Two of the Congress organizers are | hall, newspapermen leaving bodily. | now facing the electric chair in At- | Bernsdorf and Lord Cecil partici-| lanta, Georgia, on a charge of “in- | Pated in the discussion. surrection” because of their work in | organizing the masses for resistance | to the bosses terror. and F. M. T. hall at 2631 Lawton | 18-year-old cat. Mitzi; Southern workers are sending a/| was given a trust fund of $18,000 to| large delegation to the convention | business depression, but from them | HUNGER INSPIRES SAYS HOOVER No one would invite either war or care for her by her late mistress, Mrs. | which will be held in the big U. B. F., may come some new inspirations.— | Herbert Hoover. Workers to Organize and Fight; Form Shop Committees Another wage cut has been handed to 1,600 workers of the Cutler Ham- mer Co, of Milwaukee, Wis. This is at least the tenth wage cut that has taken place in this “Socialist” city during the past few weeks. In Pennsylvania, the Kayser Hos- iery bosses, not satisfied with the 20 per cent wage cut of a few months ago, have handed the workers a new wage cut. Examiners have been cut from 10 cents a dozen to 81%; the menders have been cut to 7 cents and the boarders have also received a cut. Many workers are receiving as low as $10 to $12 a week in these plants. Intensify Drive. ‘Wage’ slashes are coming down on the workers all over the country. Under the cry of “cutting production costs” the bosses are intensifying the wage-cutting drive now that election is over. They cut wages right and left in all sorts of forms. The Journal of Commerce (Nov. 6) admits that in hundreds of plants the bosses are “substituting women for men at much lower rates of pay,” and that the “Employers who face the necessity of reducing their pro- duction costs will endeavor to find other means of economizing their labor costs,” More Wage Cuts, As Bosses Carry Out Attach on Standard of Living CF Railroads. The Pennsylvania Railroad, whose head, Gen. Attebury, came out in a} widely-advertised statement that he/| for their activity in the eight hour, would not fire the older workers on the road, is now laying off gatemen and hiring boys at about a third the pay. These are the underhanded wage cuts that have been going on right along and will continue. Organize and Strike! Against this increased wave of wage cutting the workers must mass their forces and resist, as there is no limit to the extent to which the bosses will grow as the crisis worsens. Organize and strike! Form shop committees! Organize in the Trade Union Unity League, the revolution- ary unions leading the fight against wage cuts, its policy of “toleartion,” and is now actively peparing the road for a fas- cist coup by refusing to arouse the workers still under its control against the fascist drive. The workers themselves are becom- ing moe militant. At Linz, when fas- cist machine guns were tained on a went on stike until the machine guns were removed. LL.D. HOLDING Haymarket Martyrs NEW YORK, N. Y.—In Commem- movement of that day, the Interna- tional Labor Defense will hold country wide meetings to strengthen and build the workers’ defense move- ment. J. Louis Engdahl general secretary of the I. L. D. and Sam Darcy assist- ant secretary, will be present at these meetings to discuss with the mem- bership the problems facing the or- ganizations during the coming year. The ever increasing persecution of workers for their militant activities necessitates a more vigorous program for the coming year and these meet- ings will be confronted with this Problem. cooperative lumbe yard, the workers | MANY NOV. MEETS {In Commemoration of) oration of the Haymarket Martyrs executed in Chicago on Nov. 11, 1887, ie 57 Beacon St., with Peter Chaunt |as main speaker. The other New Jersey celebrations today will be: Jersey City, 337 Henderson St., with | Charles Alexander; Passaic, with Carl | Brodsky; Paterson, Union Hall, 205 Paterson St., with J. Ballem; Eliza- beth, 408 Court St. Harriet Silver- |tan; Perth Amboy, 308 Allen St., | Fred Biedenkapp; New Brunswick, 11 |Plum St., V. I. Jerome; Bayonne, 10 | West 22nd St., Sadie Van Veen. The Staten Island meeting will be at 110 Victory Road, with Patterson | as speaker. | There are 103 other meetings re- ported up to yesterday as having been arranged in industrial cities in |U. S. It is probable that more will |be held. ‘2,000 DEMAND JOBLESS RELIEF \Indianapolis Workers Demonstrate INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 5—On No- vember 3, 2,000 unemployed workers under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party demonstrated before the State House and City Hall and pre- sented demands upon the governor and mayor demanding unemployed |insurance, no evictions of jobless workers. A committee of one hundred visited the city council with these demands. The demonstrations was the most {militant ever held in this elt a