The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1930, Page 4

—_ ATOR em Se Published by the Comprodaily Pu 13th Street, New York City, N. ¥. ! Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Rage Four hing Co., Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: Inc., daily, except Sunday, at 50 East “DAIWORK.” Central NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO PROTECT FOREIGN-BORN HE struggle against exceptional laws against | D. must take a most active part in fighting foréign born workers, with which the Amer- icari capitalist class wants to divide the ranks 4t the wor! , is wi ng. Reports from dif- ferent mass orgar s are arriving at the Office of the Nation: visional Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, all stating that they have elected delegates to the conference which will be held in Washington, D. C., on November 30, Dec. Hundreds of organiza- tions will be represented by hundreds of dele- gates at this n conference, which will unify the struggle on a national scale of the foreign born and e, white and Negro work- ers, against t , finger printing, de- portation of the class terror of st the working class. Even from were elected to the far we 1 conference. From ia, delegates will also afer In the city , the Finnish workers’ organ- about 40 dele- , Russian, Lith- wanian, tural, Yarge delega’ organization @mployed counc Bions will be r will also have Trade union en's organizations, un- nd other workers’ organiza- nted there. White and Ne- , in the capital of the coun- rs are the ruling class. rk City, on October 25th, a large fpumber (about 20) open air meetings were held @nder the auspices of the District Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, protesting Beainst deportation of Serio and Hikukele and RBgainst the d: born worke: In W: g' forking to pr D. C. accommodations for a local committee is the The International Labor Defense sent a call fe all its district and local organizations saying fm part: “The attack on the foreign born work- @rs assumes enormous proportions and the I. L. | all affiliated organizations to elect delegates to | native workers, for the election of delegates. uth, Minn., 5 delegates | tory laws against foreign | | | against this attack. You should therefore do everything in your power to bring the issue to | the attention of all workers and to make the | national conference for the Protection of the Foreign Born a success.” The I. L. D. calls upon the national conference. | The Provisional Committee for the Protection | of Foreign Born of Philadelphia, published a call | to the mass organizations of foreign born and | A whole series of district conferences were al- | ready held. In Boston, Mass., the district con- ference will be held on ‘November 23rd, and a few days later, a mass protest meeting against the attack on the foreign born. In Newark, N. J., the local conference will | be held on November 16th. In the northwest conferences are being organ- ized; in St. Paul, Minn., Mesaba Range, Iron- wood, Mich., Hancock and Duluth, Minn. A | whole series of mass meetings and indoor and outdoor demonstrations are being organized. With the deepening of the economic crisis, with the growth of the resistance of the work- ers to starvation, the ruling class is carrying through discriminatory lay-offs of foreign born workers on the pretense that they will be re- placed by citizens. In this way they try to pit native against foreign born workers. Their aim is to weaken the working class in’ the struggle for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts and speed-up. All organizations of foreign born and native, Negro and white workers, unite for the strug- gle against all discriminations against any part of the working class, for the struggle against | finger-printing, registration and deportation! Elect delegates to the National Conference to be held in Washington, D. C., November 30th, 3ist. Report the names of the delegates to the sec- retary of the Provisional Committee for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born, R. Saltzman, Room 603, 32 Union Square, N. Y. C. OA Rousing Welcome to Mister _ Vandervelde! | M- VANDERVELDE, the president of the Second International (Social-Fascist), one time minister of the King of Belgium, most loyal bervant of the bourgeoisie and imperialism, most bitter enemy and venemous hater of the First Workers’ Republic of the U.S.S.R., most cordial friend of the Chinese counter-revolution and of the Kuomintang butchers—has at last arrived in China, and is being feted by the militarist ban- dits of the North, after which he will come down to Shanghai and Nanking, to be feted by the Militarist bandits of the Nanking regime. Welcome, Mr. Vandervelde. You have come ~ ust at the right moment to enjoy the splendid banquets which the butchers and hangmen of | the Chinese counter-revolution will give in your honor. You have come at a moment when the Streets of Changsha are still wet and sticky with the blood of 4,000 Communists, workers @nd peasants, murdered by the hirelings of Nanking. Every day is a red letter day in the @alendar of the Nanking regime. Every day Bees the execution of at least twenty workers (as Communists) in Hankow, Nanking, Canton, etc. Among them are many women and youth, Who die with a curse on their lips, a curse upon Phe oppressors of the Chinese workes and peas- fants, a curse upon the imperialists, and a triple | Purse upon the running dogs of the imperialists, | Phose of your type—those of the counter-revolu- fionary Second International. ¥ M. Vandervelde, who in his capacity of foreign {minister in 1926 accused China before the Hague Court of Arbitration of a “one-sided” dissolu- tion of the Sino-Belgian Treaty of 1837 and Protested most indignantly against the violation ‘of Belgian “interests” represented by the con- ®essionaires and missionaries, the same M. Van- @ervelde has now come to China, as a “private Person and scholar,” having been invited by the “Chinese National Committee for Scientific Re- Bearch.” But lest M. Vandervelde’s stay in (China, and his scheduled lectures at a number bf universities on several “harmless subjects” Prove too tedious and monotonous, we shall see to it that His Excellency, the Ex-Minister of the Belgian King, gets a really rousing welcome and that certain interesting questions are put to him, making sure that he answers them, too. ‘What does M. Vandervelde think: Is the Chin- se counter-revolution’s technique of mass mur- @er and execution of revolutionary workers and Peasants superior or inferior to the technique of his own colleagues, Noske and Scheidemann, from the Second International? Or can M. Wandervelde perhaps make some practical ra- Honalizing suggestions from the experience of his own Belgian imperialist government in thi t e Belgian Congo? Another question: Why is it that until now, the counter-revolutionary Kuomintang, who are @s loyal and true defenders of the Chinese bour- Beoisie and feudal lords and reaction as are the heroes of the Second Internaticnal the servants and defenders of the bourgeoisie and the imper- falists of their respective countries, why is it that the Kuomintang has not yet been officially af- filiated to the Second International? There {s no visible difference in the main principles and tactics, namely in the brutal suppression of the revolutionary workers’ and peasants’ movements on the one hand, and in their readiness to serve the imperialists as direct tools for preparing and Waging war against the Soviet Union. Is there ny good reason why the Chinese super-Noskes and Scheidemanns, the Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yu-hsiang, Yen Hsi-shan, Chang Hsueh-liangs, Wang Ching-weis & Co, Should not join you as o-secretaries or vice-presidents if Pierce, of the Second Another question: In your manifesto you have recently published in the name nahin ve of the Second International, you call upon all counter-revolutionary elements in Rus- _ bla and outside of Russia, to Wage a holy war @gainst the U.S.S.R. and to overthrow the First Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic, What organ- _ fzational steps do you intend to undertake dur- | ing your stay in China; what are your plans } fm regard to the monarchist and counter-revolu- Wonary white guards who are in China, and who are serving as strike-breakers, scabs, stool- Pigeons, policemen and pimps to the Chinese tmilitarists and foreign imperialists? Is there | any Treason why you would not, or could not ac- cept the position of Honorary President of a Special Monarchist and Counter-Revolutionary White Guard Legion residing in China? What tactical differences are there that still prevent you from taking such a step (surely there are no differences of principle!), Another question: The press reports that after your visit of China (and we do hope you go per- sonally to Changsha, Hankow, Nanking, Canton, to bestow special medals to the mass butchers, Generals Ho Chien, Chiang & Co. for their thorough butchery of workers and peasants who dared to fight against their oppressors and tor- mentors), you intend to visit Indo-China. What & wonderful “coincidence” (or is it a plan, and not a coincidence?). You will still be in time | to see the thousands of corpses of the native | workers and peasants of Indo-China who were murdered by order of your colleagues, the social- fascist governors of French imperialism in Indo- China. We implore you, Monsieur Vandervelde, to include in your series of lectures which you intend to make during your sojourn in China, the most interesting and valuable topic: “The Second International as an Effective Tool of Imperialist Oppression and Suppression of the Revolutionary Movements at Home and in the Colonies.” What rich material for such a lec- ture! You could draw from the rich archives of your colleague and illustrious leader of the Second International, Mr. MacDonald (most modern air raids on villages, and mass mas- sacres in India, Egypt, Iraq, South Africa); you could use the rich. material from the archives and recent exploits of your social fascist col- league, M. Varenne, who is a most loyal servant of French imperialism in Indo-China; you could cite most convincing facts from the bloody an- nals of counter-revolution and suppression of the workers’ and peasants’ movement by your social-fascist colleagues in Indonesia, who are also most loyal servants of the Dutch imper- jalists. We also suggest that you include in your lecture series the following topic: “The Sec- ond International as the Agitprop Dept. of the International Bourgeoisie for Preparing the Next Wer Against the Sovies Union.” You might also include among your. lectures the most enlighten- ing subject “Social-Democracy Paving the Way for Fascism in Europe.” We assure you, M. Vandervelde, of a rousing welcome, a most rousing welcome, when you come to Shanghai and other industrial centers. We are sure, the workers of Japan and Indo- China, and of other countries which you intend to visit, will give you an equally hot time. We shall make sure that you tell the workers and peasants of China what you think of the eight- hour day (which your soctal-fascist brood has helped the bourgeoisie rob from the workers of Germany, France, Belgium, etc.); also about the freedom of organization, the right of the workers to organize in trade unions free from the yellow agents of the Kuomintang, and about the free- dom of assembly, the freedom of the press, and similar “freedoms” about which your social- fascist brood love to talk so much. M. Vandervelde, do not forget one thing: When you go back to Europe and to Belgium, do not forget to tell the Belgian and Interna- tional proletariat, that in spite of the most frightful terror, in spite of your visits to China, in spite of closest cooperation of your Interna- tional Labor Office with the Nanking blood- hounds, in spite of the counter-revolutionary ac- tivities of the Second International in alliance with the imperialists at home and in the colonial and semi-colonial countries, the Chinese Revolu- tion is alive, Red Workers’ and Peasants’ Armies are in existence, Soviet flags fly over numerous districts, the Soviet Power of the Chinese work- ers and peasants is growing, and decisive strug- gles are ahead, which will make visits like yours impossible in the future. The aims of anti-foreign born legislation {s to divide the working class, to cut wages, to weaken struggle against unemployment, to Prepare for imperialist war. Fight against them! Elect dglegates to the National Con- ference for the Protection of Forelgn Born, Nov. 30, Dec. 1, Washington, D. C. f Daily, Yorker ict Porty U.S.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 Tei THERE | $ (1. 5SA4NO Une Np IN The aes By BURCK ete Sag a FicHr, DEFEND Boss neey UNIon DF sq SOWET Re: SU Attempts to Mislead Negro Workers Exposed y bate Central Control Commission of the Com- munist Party has expelled Rothschild Fran- cis, Frederick Makel and Lillian Makel for fla- grant violation of Party discipline and for de- liberate attempts to disrupt the work among the Negro masses. Rothschild Francis, who edited “The Eman- | cipator” in the Virgin Islands, came to the United. States in 1929 and shortly thereafter was accepted into the Party on the basis of his stand against marine rule in the Virgin Islands. Later, however, when copies of his paper were received, in which he took the plainly opportunist line of trying to placate the present governor of the Is- jands through a declaration that he was not so bad after all, the membership of Francis Was put under question. The attempts of the Party to make him realize his errors and to correct his wrong line re- mined without success and only served to bring out further that he had no understanding of Communist principles and tactics, and that in reality he was a petty-bourgeois opportunist and an unscrupulous self-seeker, He started a fake organization under the name of Frederick Douglass Inter-Racial Forum, through which he tried to spread his opposition to the line of the Party and to disrupt the work of the American Negro Labor Congress. He ended up in an open alliance with the Love- stone renegades. Frederick Makel and Lillian Makel, Negro” workers, who joined the Party about one year ago, and with whom Francis lived during some time lately, fell under his influence and aligned themselves with his disruptive activities through becoming the puppet president and assistant secretary, respectively, of the fake Forum. All three of them ignored the requests of the Central Control Commission to appear for hear- ings or to submit statements, whereupon their expulsion from the Party followed, and they stand exposed as anti-Party elements and as renegades, who are trying to mislead the Negro workers. Central Control Commission C.P. of U.S.A. Leaps by Hundreds! TELEGRAM:—Beginning Monday Extra Hun- dred Daily Organizing Route. Money Mailed. —M. Baltimore, Md. BUILD HOUSE TO HOUSE ROUTES! SELL AT FACTORY GATES! ON TO 60,000! Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U.S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. 1, the undersigned, want to join the Commu nist Party. 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Are the Americans Held Slaves By the Soviet Government? i Gigetes appeared in the Chicago Tribune a copywrighted news dispatch dated Sept. 20th | | from Riga, Latvia, with the following headlines: | “Detroiters Reds’ Slaves” and.“450 Tractor work- | ers, families face hunger, disease in Soviet fac- | | In this dispatch the reporter is trying to re- late a woeful story about the life o fthe Amer- ican Colony in Stalingrad. This story is built upon an interview with Mr. Lewis, who was re- | cently exiled from the Soviet Union because he | was found guilty of attacking a Negro worker. late a woeful story about the life of the Amer- icans are threatened by a “lot of known and un- known Asiatic fevers.” Yes, many of us have suffered one way or another, due to the change of climate, also due to the abrupt change in food. Nearly all of us have lost weight rapidly. But by now nearly all of us are steadily regaining our weight. Many of us are feeling better then we did when we came here. We suppose many letters from here to relatives in Detroit will testify to this effect. Furthermore we want to correct the Riga dispatch: not two, but four Americans have died in our Colony. Were these deaths due to jack of medical attention, as Mr. Lewis insinu- ates in his interview? Absolutely not. In order to set many anxious relatives at ease, we will review two cases here. | Died of Friends Foolishness. One is, that of Mr. Daly, who when taken ill with typhoid fever, his American friends would not permit him to be moved to the hospital, stating that they wanted to take care of him themselves. Naturally they could not give him the needed medical attentton and in spite of the doctor's order they fed him substantial food, which was to his detriment, and which caused his death in a short while. Then is the last case. Mr. Kuzmicky was taken ill with typhoid fever and pulled through successfully but this restless soul took him out door too early, he contracted a cold which caused inflamation of the brain that cost. his life. That everything possible was done to save them, can be testified by those that stood by. There are many that have been cured of typhoid fever and all ‘kinds of other ailments that the Americans brought with them from the States. Some being taken to Moscow and operated. upon successfully and given back their health, opera- | tions that they needed long before they came | here, but could not afford because of the amount involved. Here it cost them not a penny, and they were paid their full wages while laid up. (Workers of America take notice). Relatives Get Wages. Whether our wages are being deposited in’ Detroit or not, we will leave to our relatives to testify. But Mr. Lewis in his interview insinu- ates that “the attempt of others to discover if Tractorstroy was keeping its agreement were fruitless because of the censorship of their mail and telegrams.” To prove this to be an abnom- inable lie, it will be enough to recall that Wil- son, who is a habitual drunk, who has not put in a week's work while here, and when he did go near a machine he nearly wrecked it, he was a disgrace to the Colony and some time ago sent out a defamable letter about the conditoins in our Colony, which letter was also full of slander. This letter was published in full in the Detroit News of Aug. 13th. If such a fourflusher could get such letters through the Soviet mails, where is there a censorship then? Lied About Attack on Negro. ‘Then Mr. Lewis goes on telling why he has been exiled, and states he attacked the ‘Negro worker “who took exception to. his against the Negro being quartered in his room.” This is a very characteristic KKK. lie, American in this Colony will nail this as such for they know best. Mr. Lewis is trying to say very much unbearable here like to leave. But, why did forward with the defense that Z that conditions sentence sat up nights trying to think up an appeal to the.»Russian workers, to give him an- other chance to stay in the Soviet Union? Was he afraid to be freed from Soviet imprisonment? This very fact disproves his assertion that 450 Americans are kept prisoners. Even Most Backward Americans Want to Stay. . Yes, some narrow minded group of Americans got themselves all excited over the thought whether they could go home before the year is up or not, and did go and applied for visas for their passports, but later on forgot to call for them and are still around here poisoning the air. This is how the Americans are held pris- oners in Stalingrad. ‘This reply to the above dispatch of the Chi- cago Tribune and Detroit Free Press was read on Oct. 14, 1930, before a meting of the Society for Cultural and Technical Aid to Soviet Russia and accepted as a rebuke to the Lewis’ lies about conditions of the Americans at Trac- torstroy. In view of this fact we ask you respectfully to print this letter in full in your paper, in jus- tice to the many Americans living in Tractors- troy and their relatives in the States. Secretary: F. C. HONEY. Subscribe! “Enclosed I am sending you $2.50 for two subscriptions. Be sure to start sending the Daily to these subscribers immediately. They were subscribed while going dtound for sig- natures in the election campaign. Comradely yours, K. M. GRBAC, Chicago, Tl. BRING EN THE SUBS! BUILD MASS CIR- CULATION! ; Foreign born and native, white and Negro workers, unite for struggle against discrimina- tion and anti-labor legislation; elect delegates to the National Conference for the Protection of Foreign Born, Nov. 30, Dec, Ist, Washing- ton, D. C. Today in Workers’ History November 7, 1837—Elijah P. Lovejoy, publisher of Abolitionist paper at Alton, IL, killed by mob. 1917—Rusgian Revo- lution began; workers under leadership of Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd. 1918—King of Bavaria overthrown; Ger- man evolution spread to all parts of country, with establishment of Workers and Soldiers’ Councils. 1919—Sixth and most violent raid on Russian People’s House in New York, furniture destroyed, hundreds blackjacked and arrested. 1923 —Coal dust explosion in mine at Glen Rogers, W. Va., 27 killed. 1923—Political general strikes in Warsaw, Lodz and Lem- berg, Poland; 25 killed, 80 wounded. Gobble ’Em Up! TELEGRAM:—Increase bundle order to 700 coples for 12 days. Good opportunity to secure Subs—G. Z., Los Angeles, Cal. PUSH SUBSCRIPTIONS! ORDER BUN- DLES—1 CENT A COPY! ON TO 60,000! The republican, democratic and socialist parties are parties of registration, finger- printing, lynching, clubbing and jailing of workers; elect delegates to the National Con- ference for the Protection bf Foreign Born, Noy. 30th and Dec, Ist, Washington, D. C. Kedfoote By JORGE Our Rhode Island Reds As a result of Red Sparks having burned the pants of certain party bureaucrats, there has arisen a gort of campaign to convince us that if anything’s wrong, it’s the passive elements jong the membership. We don't believe it. The membership ts, in the main, active. Where it is not, we do not charge that fact to the rank and file. There are, of course, passive elements who try to dodge work, who say they are attending union meet- ings when they don’t, who have “a weak back or cold feet, perhaps. It has reached our ears that some such exceptional members have taken | cheer from our attack on the mechanical carry- ing out of instructions to question the authority of the Unit Bureau on these grounds. Such elements have no authority from Red Sparks, and the active members and Unit Bureaux receive our unqualified support in making them toe the chalk line or get out. Nor does Red Sparks’ thwacks on the upholstered part of D.O.s et al, about their shabby treat- ment of the Daily Worker, authorize anybody to proceed upon the idea that they can snap their fingers at these officials. They may be full of sin and iniquity, but they're the best we got. And therefore we'll | insist only on our right to set them on the path of righteousness as erring brothers and not upon the general idea of shooting them all at sunrise. As Lenin once remarked in 1921, when some- body demanded the death penalty for petty grafting bureaucrats: “If we shoot all of ‘em, we won't have any officials left.” Rae Se Getting Down to Cases On Oct. 31, the Daily Worker carried on page 4, an article: “Scorn Barring of Communists from Rhode Island Ballot.” Its writer, Allan Ross, section organizer in that state, made num-~- erous statements therin besides the main one— the “barring of the Communist Party from the state ballot.” We exclude comment on others to deal with this one, on which two workers have written us. Comrade Ross made a long “explanation” about this, declaring it was a maneuvre of the parties and so on. Indeed such opposition ex- ists and no one expects to get on the ballot without a struggle. But the rub comes in that where Comrade Ross relates harrowing tales, the two workers say he’s full of hot air. Com- rade A. Joly writes: “Back in June, 1930, they got their nomina- tioff papers, and all they did with them was keep them in their pockets. As a party member here, I myself am not above reproach. But the party did nothing either. For the last two years we have been on the ballot and we did not have any section organizer. But now that we have one, we did not get on. It is strange, is it not? | This article (by Ross) was sent out just to fool the rest of the workers in other parts of the country and to cover up the rotten showing the Party has made here under the leadership of a section organizer that is never on the job and who thinks he should not do any work hirhself.” Which is to the point at least, and has a ring of sincerity. But we hadn't recovered from that, before we got the following from James Conroy, who is Secretary of the. Providence Local of the Textile Workers’ Union, also concerning. the “barring” of the Party from the ballot: “It is all bull. The Party members here never tried to get any names. They just carried the papers. around in their pockets. And the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union members, who are not Party members, refused to help them. Why? Because ninety-five per cent of the Party mem- bers carry no union cards and they refuse to belong to any union! Also, Comrade Ross, the section organizer, would not let Labor Unity be sold at any of the Party street meetings. So the union members said—to hell with them. The 8. O. is asking the workers to vote for Arm- strong for mayor. He is another non-union member, and he is secretary of the Trade Union Unity League. But we will never let him speak at any of cur union meetings here in Provi- dence.” Well, this takes our breath! No wonder the revolutionary unions don’t grow and even lose members.. No wonder a lot of things! And we fully understand the wrath of Comrade Conroy. But all this does not justify him from declaring that “we will never let.him (Armstrong) speak at any of our union meetings.” This is quite impermissible. Objectively it aids the capitalist parties. Speaking in a fatherly fashion to all comrades of the District, which includes Conriecticut as well as Rhode Island, we point out that the whole situation is nothing to be proud of and, as Comrade Joly concedes as regards himself— “not above reproach”—for all concerned. But we think that our Rhode Island reds are just as good as any. We are against any major surgical operations. Nor do we think that our comrades will get relief by trying jiu jitsu on each other. Yet it might occur to somebody that some extraordinarily heroic measure, say Possibly a District Committee meeting on the subject, is not out of place. Lee Hanover Trust Hopefuls The Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., of New York is one of our leading optimists in Latin American investments. Not deterred by the fact that some of you will recall reading in this column, of the bank's rosy forecast on South American bonds just before Argentina landed @ left to.the jaw and Brazil put in an upper- cut to the chin, it now comes out with: “The Economic Stability of Colombia is Sur- prising.” “Then {t goes on to praise the Colombian cof- fee producers for the “ability to overcome the crisis” and says that the Bank of the Colombian Republic has a policy that is “in harmony with the situation”"—whatever that means. All of which, individually and collectively, 1s hokum. Just because Wall Street got its cand!- date for: president elected, and because the Hanover Trust Co., has some nice bonds to sell, does not do away with the fact that Colombia is rotten, economically and politically, and will soon or late, more likely soon, go into con- vulsions. And even more of the same thing may be sald for Venezuela and. Cuba. The American Standard “Belteve it or. not,” a contributor from Phila- delphia writes in, “but the sandwich men ad- vertising. the Stanley Shoe Repairing chain stores here,. get ten cents an hour.”