The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1930, Page 5

YORK, SATURDA NOVEMBER 8, 1930 Page Five Making War on the Workers E last reports of the so-called “accident” in the shaft of Mine No. 6 of the Sunday Creek Coal Company at Millsfield, Ohio, give the num- ber of dead‘as seventy-nine. But unless arithmetic ceases to mean anything, the bosses are lying and there are some fifty or more miners, first reported to be trapped among the 158 underground when the explosion occurred, who are not accounted for in the figure of those taken out. No doubt the mine oper- ators got their influence at work to minimize the number of their victims. For these workers, these miners of Millsfield have been murdered. They have been murdered just as certainly as though they had been lined up against the wall and shot down by the Sunday Creek Coal Co. bosses. They were murdered, these scores of workers, in order that the stock- holders might keep up their profits. They were murdered just as 23,000 other workers were murdered, and 3,000,000 wounded by the hellish speed- up of American industry in 1929. ‘The bosses are simply casting all the safeguards to life and limb aside in the effort to speed the workers so that the production per man will be increased and thus their ability to compete with other bosses and yet pile up their hog’s share of profit be guaranteed—no matter what happens to the workers, The Millsfield mine was openly violating the mine safety laws. Even the Chief Engineer of Mines of the U. S. Bureau of Mines admits that none of the safeguards to life were observed. But these scoundrels always discover these facts after the workers are dead. And it is a foregone conclusion that no company officials will ever so much as sit a few days in jail for this murder. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. It is only in the Soviet Union, where workers rule, that such crimes against the workers as the recent sabotage of food supplies, the deliberate putting of filth into food destined for workers, is properly punished (48 were shot), Here, under capitalism, not only the Millsfield mine, but other mines are allowed to massacre the workers so as to make a few cents more profit. Open flame lamps were used in the Millsfield mine. The mine superintendent says, of course, that the mine was not gaseous. But the fact is that there was a gas explosion, Rock dusting, which adds less than one cent to the cost of a ton of coal, was not done; though this is one of the simple precautions against explosions of coal dust and fires. The fact is that the bosses are beginning a frontal attack upon the" workers, with wage cuts, wholesale lay-offs and hellish speeding. As the National City Bank bulletin for November admits: “Business men have been going over their organizations with a fine tooth comb, subjecting every process to a rigid inspection, with a view to eliminating unnecessary man-power, and paring the costs to the irreducible minimum.” For the aim of holding up profits to the same dizzy height of 1929, the capitalists are making a veritable war upon the working class. To beat back this attack, with its thousands of dead, its millions of wounded and millions of starving jobless, the workers must organize for action. The Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ Union should bring the lesson of this’ attack particularly to the miners. The necessity for all workers to unite under revolutionary leadership to defeat the war being made upon them, is shown by the ghastly murders of our class comrades, the miners of Millsfield. New York Begins Winter Drive for 8,000 New Readers! Red Army Jamboree Tonite Every day will be a Red Sunday for the New York district in the cam- paign for 60,000 circulation according to Fanny Rudd, district Daily Worker representative, who says house to house activity during the elections will be kept up to build the Daily Worker. Shock troops picked from differ- ent units will fight the house to house battle daily. The district bureau has laid plans for the campaign. A 4-page bulletin has been issued to serve as a basis for discussion in the 100 units of the Party in New York and New Jersey. Discussion will take place in all units Monday and Tuesday. The whole party is back of the drive for 60,000 circulation. The campaign will be one of the central points on the agenda of every party unit meeting from now until Janu- ary. Section executives met Thursday night and unit bureaus took up the campaign Friday to prepare for fhe unit meetings. Factory sales will be built up in all parts of the district. There are al- ready bright spots. If papers are not sold for one day before the Otis Elevator factory the workers ask next day what t’hell happened. . 8,000 new readers in New York by the seventh anniversary of the Daily Worker is the objective. Live wires, do your stuff at Monday and Tuesday unit meetings. IN THE SHOPS / A Jamboree of otherwise jobless workers, who live by selling the Daily Worker will be held tonight, Downtown Workers Center, 27. East 4th St. Red Army builders! Drop us a line. Enclose photo for our rogues’ gallery. Don’t slight history. Well, well, a Daily Worker rep from a distant city drifted into the office with a hand bag of complaints. We told him of the Daily Worker cam- paign for 60,000 circulation. He hadn't heard of it. Nevertheless N. Y. C. newsstand sales for the week ending Oct. 25 were 4780 a day. As the weather man says this is the highest point reached in the history of the local bureau. reparations expert of Wall Street is “touring” Europe and making it a special point to visit the fascist pow- ers. He is reported at present to be Wall St. Makes Deal With German Fascists; | munists. | returns indicate that the total Com- | dence of the Third Period in Mexico, DAILY WORKER, NEW Transport Worker Delegates aes at the Red International Congress Third from the left, George Mink, and next to the right, Tom Ray, both from the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, U. 8. A. To the right of Ray is Cooper, Negro railroad worker, U. S. A. Right of Cooper is an English delegate and almost in front of him (the man with the beard) is Losovsky, secre- tary of the R. I. L. U. At the extreme right is A. Walter, of the German marine workers’ movement. All these seamen and longshoremen delegates t ook part in organizing the provisional committee to call a marine workers’ conference in Hamburg in the near future to form an International of Seamen and Dock Workers. TFOLD GROWTH IN LAWRENCE Communist Vote Shows Important Gains By HARRISON GEORGE. Time was when the name of Diego Rivera called to mind a portly per- son known the world over as “the famous Mexican artist and Commu- | nist.” But that was before the Commu- nist International forecast the pres- ent beginnings of revolutionary up- heavals, sharpened class struggles | and imperialist war of what it called the “third post-war period”—a term at which all the opportunists then lurking in various holes and corners of the Communist movement cast all their quiver of ridicule. In those days Diego Rivera was the Over 1,500 In Connecticut. jleader of the Communist Party of In New Haven, Conn. incomplete | Mexico, But it was precisely the evi- | (Continued from Page 1) 111 votes for Foster in the presiden- tial campaign, the results this year, more than five times increase, with | more to come, show the Negro and | poor white farmers and workers are | rallying to the Communist program. It is particularly significant when it is remembered that most of the Negroes are barred from the ballot, and that there is terror and discri- | mination everywhere against Com- munist vote in the state will be over |in the form of the Escobar-Aguiree | 1,500, which is twice that obtained | rebellion of March, 1929, which put in the last elections. New Britain, /Senor Rivera on the griddle of his- | an important metal center, shows 500} tory. At the head of the Workers’ per cent increase in the Communist | and Peasants’ Bloc, when the revolt vote, and the socialist vote there is| began Rivera and his similars de- cut in half. In many towns the Com- | cided that between the two reaction- munist vote equals or surpasses the ary forces the Bloc should support socialist party vote. There are num-|the government. So the armed peas- erous cases reported of the stealing | antry shed their blood to whip the of the Communist votes by the cap- | rebels and were promptly shot by the | DIEGO RIVERA, MEXICAN ARTIST, RUNS AGROUND ON OPPORTUNISM. the International led by Brandler, Lovestone & Co., which was encour- aged by Bucharin, was probably cor- | rect. But then again, perhaps Trot- sky was correct, too. So the poor fellow wavered between two affini- ties, the Right and the fake “left”— between two different brands of op- | portunists. But if there was vacillation on his part, there was little on theirs. Love- stone wooed Rivera. Cannon group in the U. S. A. ex- | tended him a welcome hand—and the devil knows just which has official jurisdiction over Rivera at the pres- | twelve hours a day for wages of four | | pesos daily, a shade less than $2 a} | Rojano claims, and Rojano demand- | The Trotsky-| WORKERS BY JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS worked for his boss, Diego River: ‘Strong Peasant Union Carries on Fight yates | Against Bosses Then Rivera unjustly fired him,! TOKIO, No. 7.—A week ago several jed pay for the four hours he had| hundred native Formosan rebels jbeen putting in all this time over) against their Japanese oppressors, the supposed eight-hour day. Rivera/and at least 86 Japanese officers refused and thus the claim went to/ school teachers, landlords and busi- court. | So did Rivera go to court, | paper, under a big headline, stating) The Japanese imperialists got a jthat Rivera created a scandal there.| chance to use their poison gas and He “lost his serenity and insulted the) aircraft bombers, as well as mountain representatives of the Union of? Renen sad Hevipiors | mosan masses. Hundreds of “savages” The case was continued, so the|were shot by “civilized” Japanese outcome is yet in doubt. But the/ rulers for fighting against thelr op- |union gave out a statement on the/ pressors. It is also reported that 108 | Whole affair, which in short said | wives of Formosan peasants commit- 1, That Senor Diego Rivera, ac-/ ted’suicide in order to permit their !customed to call attention to himself | husbands to go to battle to the end | by theatrical attitudes of a vulgar) §. Ishizake, governor general of demagogue the better to advance his/ Formosa issued a statement declar- petty business interests, took advan-| ing that the reason for the uprising ‘ness men were killed at Musha, a vil- the | lage of Central Formosa. School of Plastic Arts, members of | but the governor general believes that 2. As long as the union was com- posed principally of these students, who lacked class consciousness, police in Formosa, as well as in Korea has the support of “civilization” in Formosa. INTERNATIO! NEWS “CIVILIZED” SLAUGHTER OF FORMOSA’ and machine guns against the For- I tage of the students of the Central} of the natives is not known as yet | the union, to e:ploit them as workers. | the well-organized force of Japanese | AL Fight French | Attacks On | Soviet Trade | \si | MOSCOW.—Referring to the deci- } | ion of the Council of People's Com- |missars to cease or radically limit Soviet purchases in all countries |which attempt to discriminate against Soviet exports, the “Pravda” writes that the campaign against ‘soviet dumping” is the newest slogan lor the ar et front now that the |“crusade” business fallen through. The latest effort is to make the Sov Union responsible for the world economic crisis and thus pre. are public opinion for an attack or the workers and peasants state. French imperialism needs the nen war-cry to prepare a. new economic political and military attack on the Soviet Un Bri Pan-Europe plan has fallen through, Briand anc Flandin suf da fiasco in Genev: when they attempted to organize ar ion international boycott of soviet good through the League of Nations, an French imperialism is now indulgin in a series of hostile acts against th Soviet Union. The success of the socialist con- Rivera and his followers used the union to advance their money-mak- ing schemes. 3. A great number of real work- ent writing. Anyhow, Diego Rivera belongs to the general hodge-podge of oppor- | tunists who set themselves up as the | | made a direct attempt to bribe the italist election boards. Newcastle county in Delaware gave the Communist Party 107 votes, an increase from 58 in 1928. Second In Daisytown. Daisytown, Pa., a little mining cen- ter, put the Communist Party in the second place on the ballot, with 21 votes for senator. It is ahead of the democrats, who got 10 votes, and the socialists, who got 2 votes, but far behind the republicans yet who still have the workers fooled to the extent of 147 votes. In Johnstown, Pa., 50 votes for the Communist candidate were found during the counting, at 9 p. m. The capitalist party election board ap- parently debated for three hours whether they should simply disregard them or not, and finally, after mid- night, reported them out with the} rest of the votes. Company Bribery. In this town the Lorain Steel Co. voters who work for it. Each voter got two dollars enclosed in a let let- ter telling him he should vote repub- lican. In New Jersey, although no credit was given for votes in many districts, and no Red watchers were at the polls, the Communist vote increased 300 per cent. Especially significant are a few from the farming districts where the K-K-K. is strong, and bit- terly fighting Communism. None were cast there in the last election. Jersey Farmers Vote Red. In Mercer county, Graham, Com- munist candidate for senator, got 192 | votes and Wishniewski, Communist | candidate for congress, got 293. The vote in Trenton itself was 156 and 224, which shows about 60 votes from the rural district, actually counted. Nobody knows how many were cast and not counted. In 1928, Foster's | vote in Mercer county was 96. Jaeger, the socialist senatorial candidate got’) 216 votes in the whole county. (Editor's Note—An accidental drop- ping out of a few words in our Mer- cer county story yesterday made Jae- ger appear as the Communist can- didate! Jaeger is socialist; the Com- munist candidate running for sen- ator is Dozier Will Graham, a Ne- government for their pains. After which, under leadership of | the Communist International, the Communist Party of Mexico had a} house-cleaning, and expelled Diego Rivera, an added reason being his/ refusal to resign from a well-paid government job because, so he said, | he could not give up living like a capitalist with all his bourgeois luxuries. Senor Rivera felt very much in- jured. And to exteriorize his feel- ings he said that the Right Wing of “opposition” to the Communist Inter- | ers, regular construction painters and | 1924 was estimated at 4,041,702. There |national under the false claim that | so on having joined the union, these! were 183,313 Japanese (most of them| France are becoming more and more they are Communists. Now it happens that this exem-| Rivera pernicious and expelled fif- | and workers considered elements such as | Formosa (Taiwan) formerly belong- structive work in the Soviet Unior ed to China, but was ceded to Japan | show up still more clearly the world on May 8, 1895, following the China- crisis of the capitalist economic sys- Japanese war. The population in|tem. The French government fears |the creeping crisis. The workers in | police, soldiers, landlords, officials |yaqdical and frequent outbursts are manufacturers.) There 18 @ occurring in the French colonies, It plary agent of opportunism in Mex-j| teen in all, among them Rivera’s | well-organized Formosa Farmers |is not so long ago that the French ico has brought more glory to their arms. A clipping from a paper pub- lished in Mexico City tells the fol- lowing story: A worker, one Juan Rojano, mem- ber of the Union of Painters and Sculptors, takes a petition before the Council of Arbitration and Concilia- tion, one of those fancy class-cllab- oration courts which was set up by the Mexican government with the assistance of the bosom friend of Trotskyists of the United States, De- Negri, who goes under the name of Roberto Neville in the Trotsky- Cannon paper. Juan Rojano, the worker, and the Union of Painters and Sculptors which helped him present his case, claim that for five years Rojano | wife, Frida Kablo. 4. On July 25, the general meet- ing of the Union of Painters and | Sculptors unanimously expelled Diego | Rivera, after “recognizing the error |of ever having considered him a | Union, consisting of native and Jap- | capitalist press wrote ironically and anese tenants, which has been in ex- | contemptuously of the Five Year istance since 1926, ‘This farmers| pian of socialist construction in the | union, together with the proletarians, | soviet Union; today it does nothing fights against the Japanese rulers | pyt foam at the least reference to it. who have robbed the Formosans of |The success of the collectivization on union member, since his character as | their land. a boss was incompatible with the} The Japanese workers know For- real interests of the working class.|mosa as a bloody island where Com- | Further, in the discussion many|rade M. Watanabe, who was general sides other things, Diego Rivera “ts | Japan, was killed by Japanese police an exploiter of the worst kind.” at the beginning of Oct., 1928. Daily Worker Jamboree for Red | Out of a job? Got spare time? Army Builders. Food. Informal fun. | You can earn a little money and If you've sold Dailies you get in | take a crack at the system by sel- free. 9th floor. 35 East 12th St. | ling Daily Workers. Come up and Saturday Night, at 8 o'clock. we will explain. 35 East 12th St. Tales Against Movement By a Seaman on the Cruise of the “Booker T. Washington” The Ku Kluxers who invaded the boat at Jacksonville were particularly angry with the. captain, telling him “you ought to be ashamed of your- self working for niggers.” They threatened to throw him overboard. If ever a white man did plead for colored people, I think Captain Vaughan did so that night. He told the Klansmen that if the ship had been an enemy ship in time of war, they would at least have allowed it time to get the crew on board and get fuel and provision, But because the boat was owned by Negroes, even though an American corporation, they would destroy it in the mad hate of the Negroes. The Klansmen told him to leave the boat at once because | they were going to blow it up. And at that moment other men appeared on the dock carrying boxes which we understood contained dynamite. By this, however, the engineer had man- aged to get steam up, and we left the dock and anchored in the stream. Went to Masters ny Parker Sees Mussolini Wall Street is giving more and more support to the fascists through- out Europe. The latest announce- ment of aid to the fascists comes from the bond firm of Harris Forbes and Co., one of the leading brokers in German bonds. In a statement issued by this outfit, published in the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 6) they state that the fascists in Germany are “a strong bulwark against” Com- munism. They point out to the parasites in this country who hold and buy Ger- many bonds that the fascists are their best friends, together with the so- cialists who uphold the Young Plan payments. At the same time Gilbert Parker, ——— TIME IS VALUABLE Don’t lose on problems of * PRINTING Save time and money by consulting LOUIS SMITH 32 UNION SQUARE Telephone: Stuyvesant 4010 Concerning your Printing Problems in Italy making deals with Mussolini and will then visit Austria, where a fascist coup is being planned. Later he will undoubtedly go to Germany where he will smooth matters out with the fascists. The Harris Forbes and Co. state- ment shows that American imperial- ism is giving direct aid to the Ger- man fascists, and have undoubtedly reached some agreement with them. gro worker). Men Ashore Attacked by Police and —_—__ Ku Klux. HARLEM WORKERS FORUM. The next morning we learned that Sadie Van Veen will address the Stool Pigeon Preachers I; nspire Attack on Crew on Cruise of Garvey Ship ‘Booker T. Washington’ a Perea TT "WS, CHARLESTO Negro-Ownee “WnecRo -§ Here as Crev \ a, Gowibals Dope 39m, abaetpions 9 MEM Ls TAREYING fudng OT™ 4 } pera x bore. wth wv IN MORE TROUBLE| NEGRO STEAMER Libet Suit Against the ti Gen. Goethals Fited in Federat Court Atier Wving hed perere fe Photograph of headlines in the of the “Booker T. Washington” in the various southern Ports it visited. \ HAS ITS TROUBLES The George W. Goethals, s |g Vessel Promoted by One lynching in Jacksonville.” It was be- cause of the fact that the Negro workers in Jacksonville were aroused and organizing that the klansmen stopped short ot blowing up the ship. TBAMER we THE CHARLE: BLACK CROSS LINER HERE, S. S. General G. W. Goe.-| thals in Port for } In spite of our bitter experience in Jacksonville with the Ku Klux Klan, Carter's itching palms could not re- sist the lure of easy money, and he had the vessel put in at Charlotte, N. C., instead of coming straight on to New York. Here, his hopes came true, for he collected huge sums of money, although he ran the boat into some expense as going to the docks, IN HARBOR . Ae pier. The dock owners libelled the | boat for damages. Here, too, the chief engineer left the boat and libelled it |for his wages. The government put bosses press depicting the troubles most of the members of the crew on shore had been chased into the swamps by the klansmen and police. We finally picked them up. Many of them had their feet swollen from mosquito bites and were otherwise suffering from exposure. As there was still talk that the klansmen were coming out in the stream to murder us, we got together all the fire axes and shovels and pre- pared to defend ourselves. We were to learn later that the officers had a box of automatics on board but were too damned cowardly to arm the crew the ship happened to knock down the ! | the land and the increasing liquida- | tion of the Kulaks as a class are de- stroying the hopes of Millerand, | Tardieu and the “socialist” Leon | union members pointed out that, be- | secreatry of the Communist Party of | Blum of a capitalist restoration. The talk of “soviet dumping” covers the fierce and irreconcilable hatred | of the bourgeoisie of the most aggres- | Sive militarist state in the world against the country of socialism. The masses of the Soviet Union are well aware of the real situation. A GROUP OF CARPENTERS Leaving for the Soviet Union within 4 weeks, with a com- plete set of modern machin- ery, need a few more expe- rienced carpenters, machine ends and stickers. Applicants must donate their sharé towards the buying of machinery, Write or call for information to Theodore Lieberman, 509 E. ith Street, New York City. | ARTEF | — Proletpen || “endolin to defend themselves. We learned, too, that the trouble | had been started by eleven Negro | preachers who went to the white bosses with the story that Carter had come to Jacksonville to preach race equality. In addition to this, we had reached Jacksonville while that city | was in a lynching atmosphere, with the klansmen preparing to lynch a Negro who had escaped to New York and was expected to be turned back to the Jacksonville authorities. The Negro workers had organized. too, with the slogan “there shall be no |tell of our arrival in New York, of | a sheriff aboard to see that she did | not sail without paying the damages. | In starting out, the ship again | knocked down the pier, and we had | another suit. Such accidents are not | rare. They may happen to any boat. | In my next and final article I will | Orchestra Rrotheit Singing Society In a special program cel- of the sale of the boat by auction after | jofficials had deliberately passed up | good opportunities for selling without | the wholesale sacrifice of workers’ | money that subsequently occurred. | |The reasons behind this failure to sell when selling was good will make | workers burn with indignation. | ebrating the joining the International Workers Order with the Jewish Workers Harlem Workers Educational Forum this Sunday on the subject of the) Russian Revolution, The Forum meets at 3 o'clock sharp at 308 Lenox Ave. All workers are NEVIN | BUS LINES 111W. 3ist (Bet. 6 & 7 Avs.) Tel. Chickering 1600 urged toatt end. 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