The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1930, Page 1

Organize in Every Shop For Violation of the Injunctions! Fight Is On For the Right Strike and to Picket! Dail: GSection.-o7 e-Eduimy the Communist Feet Norker OF Party U.S.A. i) WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. ‘VIL No. 270 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office 5 at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents | — The Soviet Marches Forward Ga than any other demonstration since those which were part of the actual seizure of power in 1917, is the description of the march of millions of workers of the Soviet Union on the 13th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. This fact not only proves the sustained upsurge of mass support which has carried Soviet economy and government through two years of vic- torious socialist construction, but it.gives the le to the ridiculous fairy tales of “collapse” and the yarns told by such counter-revolutionary idiots | as the Princess Alexandria Kropotkin, now touring the United States to help raise the war fever against the Workers and Peasants Republic. This imaginative dame, under the helpful auspices of some rascals who call themselves “The League for Political Education,” sprung the following ludicrous story: “The streets in Moscow were torn up continually on orders from the government to offer obstacles to street meetings and uprisings against the government.” Such tales are childish, but malevolent, meant to deceive. Of course the dozens of foreign diplomats who attended the Moscow celebration know better. It is a sight never to be forgotten while life lasts, to witness the work- ers of Moscow, cheering, singing and with eager joyous faces pour through, Red Square by the hundreds of thousands, hour after hour in unending stream until one feels the overwhelming force of the revolutionary mass. ‘The absurd lie.of Princess Kropotkin is the more stupid in that every cop can testify that streets which are “torn up” are not “obstacles” to street meetings and uprisings, but quite the contrary. Streets which are torn up offer excellent material for barricades, and cobblestones have ever been the first weapon of discontented masses. It is evident, therefore, that the Princess is a liar. But this is the quality of all those who are sharing in the labor of stirring up sentiment for war against the Soviet Union. The Fish Com- mittee discovers a “revolution” that it says is going to be pulled off in Los Angeles on Nov. 24. Why the 24th no one knows. But all these vindictive lies are designed to add to the fairy tales of Soviet “dumping” and to back up the real, material and gigantic prepara- tions for war against the Soviet that are occupying a big share of the attention of the U. S. Government. It is notable that the same night (last Thursday) in which her pre- varicating highness, the Princess Kropotkin, representative of rotten European nobility, freely allowed to enter the United States and go about urging war against a country with which the U.S.A. is at least formally at peace, was spouting this war propaganda, the New York State Chamber of Commerce was adopting a resolution demanding “in emphatic terms” that the Hoover government ban all representatives of Soviet trading organizations from entering the United States. The contribution of Princess Kropotkin to America is an incitation to war, while the Soviet trading representatives come here to buy machin- ery—giving employment to American workers. But the interest of the workers is the last thought of bosses and princesses. The success of the Soviet in abolishing unemployment. in building socialism while raising wages, shortening hours and giving real security to a worker's life, is a menace to capitalism. American workers may profit from the example. Hence all the lies and war maneuvers against the Soviet. With good reason the Moscow workers, as they poured in endless streams through the Red Square Nov. 7, bore banners declaring that world imperialism is plotting armed intervention against them and asking the workers of all the world to aid them defend the Workers’ own fatherland. We, the American workers, must and shall reply by firm resolye to permit no war against the Soviet Union, and to give bone and sinew to our pledge we must build up militant trade unions and the Communist Party to defend our own interests here, which are part and parcel of the interests of the workers who maree through the Red Squar last ‘Thursday. The Soviet Speaks for Peace |AXIM LITVINOFF, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, was the only one to raise a voice for real disarmament, for a genuine peace policy, of all the diplomatic agents of the world’s government when the so-called Preparatory Disarmament Commission of the League of Nations opened. its latest session at Geneva on Thursday. The N. Y. Times ran a headline over the story of the opening session saying: “Arms Parley Opens with Soviet Attack.” And what was the Soviet “attack”? Nothing more or less, workers, than a demand that the capitalist countries really do what they have long been talking about—really disarm! Naturally, such an “attack” ruffled the feelings of the capitalist dip- lomats. After endless years of “conferences,” “commissions,” “sub-com- missiohs,” “investigations” and all manner of polite lying, the efforts of the big imperialist powers to “disarm” each other is a self-exposed fraud. Litvinoff merely called attention to this fact in open meeting. He called attention to the fact that “one hears frequently in private,” as he corre- spondents noted, that: “Europe appears more disturbed at present than at any time since 1914. Rumors of war are spreading like gas fumes. War budgets of the five big powers had been increased $500,000,000 or 2% per cent since the ‘Disarmament Commission’ was established in 1926.” Naturally this was very upsetting to the capitalist diplomats, who hope to keep the masses asleep with the illusion that the capitalist powers “desire peace” and are “striving” to.disarm. After the Commission had jabbered for years, Litvinoff, in the name of the Soviet, simply insisted that the Soviet proposal for general and complete disarmament be dis- cussed. If not, the Soviet would “lose all interest” in the other important ques- tions—and rightfully reserve its arguments for this simple but logical demand for the main conference and not waste breath on such a “dis- armament” commission which refuses to discuss disarmament. The capitalist diplomats were horrified and outraged. They had agreed among themselves not to talk about anything important, and Chairman Jonkeer Loudon of Dutch imperialism, not only protested but tried to suppress Litvinoff’s speech by refusing to have it translated. But here the extraordinarily wise diplomats of capitalism struck a knot. Not only did the whole body of sixty correspondents of the world press resent this violation of the rule providing for immediate transla- tions—naturally beca1 they could not report the content of what was obviously an impo! Speech to their papers, but the Soviet delegation— possibly anticipating some trick—handed out on the spot prepared trans- lations of Litvinoff’s speech to the press. And the sagacious Dutch imperialist, Mr. Loudon, had to surrender and issue the Soviet delegation’s translations as the official translation, in order to coax the correspondents back again into the hall, which they had left in angry protest, With full justification Litvinoff rubbed salt in the wounds of the im- perialist tricksters by politely thanking Loudon for “giving to his speech the added importance which forbidden words enjoy”—as the N. Y. Times correspondent puts it. “Forbidden words”! Why is it forbidden to talk of disarma- ment conference? The answer is that it is not a disarmament con- ference, but a conference to make the masses believe the powers are disarming when they are not, when they are arming as never before. Nor will Herr Loudon get far in explaining the farce by protesting that the public break “the habit of referring to disarmament in connec- tion with our work”—for the good reason that the very name of the Commission, as fixed by the League of Nations which gave it birth, is “the Preparatory Disarmament Commission.” But this request of the Commission's imperialist spokesman is signi- cant of the fiasco, the fraud, the miserable and hypocritical failure of the whole affair which Litvinoff exposed before the masses of the world. If the imperialist powers want disarmament, all they have to do is disarm. That is what the Soviet proposal is, because only the Soviet Union really desires and works for peace, Let every worker mark it down that the Soviet proposes peace and real disarmament, and that the capitalist nations refuse peace and reject disarmament. | ‘| the three tours of duty.” BOSSES ARM AGAINST THE UNEMPLOYED Use “Crime Wave” As} Pretext for More Cops, Militia Starvation Spreading Hoover Mocks Hunger of Workers Children NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Under the pretext of an impending ‘crime wave’ as the result of growing unemploy- ment, the police in New York and elsewhere are mobilizing to shoot | down jobless workers. The New York | Enquirer, a Sunday newspaper, at-) tributes “21 violent crimes” to the | lesperation of unemployed workers. It goes on to say that as a result of “economic situation” the police commissioner “will make a change in the squad system. This will even | up the uniformed patrol strength on | This is in line with the Hoover policy of getting the militia ready to give the unemployed bullets when | they ask or fight for bread. All over |} the country, not only the police are | being armed and ordered to shoot} to kill, but the capitalists themselves especially in the exclusive sections, | are arming as in Evanstone, Ill, Westchester, New York, and else- | Entire Workingclass in U.S. Has RED VOTE MORE THAN Suftered 20 Per Cent Wage — DOUBLE IN Don't Disturs us WE ARE STUDY IG UM ee DUDS ue How much have wages been cut already? That a 20 per cent wage decrease has been suffered by the American workers through direct wage reductins and part-time em- ployment is the admission made by the Standards Statistics Co., one of the leading capitalist agencies. “Because of wage cuts and part- lime employment,” says this or- ganization in one of its recent statements sent out to the ex- ploiters, “aggregate wages have de- clined from 44,607,000,000 a year to $35,754,000,000—a loss of 20 per cent.” Hoover talks about “maintaining statistical where. With Hoover's instructions already | out to all state militias and police forces to arm against the unem- | ployed, the imperialist president has | the gall to issue a Thanksgiving pro- clamation praising the advance of | capitalism in the “prevention of dis- ease and in the protection of child- hodo.” Children of unemployed workers | already like flies for lack of food | and because of diseases contracted due .to malnutrition (starvation). While wages are being cut the price | of milk and other foods necessary for children is going up making it almost impossible for the employed, let al- one the unemployed, to provide their children with enough food to keep them healthy and alive. For the workers the only solution is to fight for unemployment insur- ance, and against the rotten cap- italist system, which is responsible | for unemployment. Don't starve, | fight! BOSSES RUSHING TO WORLD WAR Admit “Peace” Talks| Only Screen NEW YORK, Nov. 9. — War prep- arations throughout the capitalist | world are being speeded-yp a hund- red fold, as the economic crisis deep- ens world-wide, and the struggle for markets assumes a tremendous pitch. As Comrade Litvinov, of the Soviet Delegation, pointed out at the Geneva | arms conference a few days ago, the capitalist nations are increasing their | war budgets and talk about “peace” | and “disarmament” the more as they prepare for actual war. With millions unemployed, the cap- italists throughout the world are spending between $4,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000 yearly for war. The war maneuvers against the Soviet Union especially receive added weight as the | workers in the U.S.S.R. push ahead | under the Five-Year Plan, building | up socialism, exposing the bankruptcy of capitalism, its decay and misery for the workers. In a special article in the New York American, Mussolini admits that the capitalist nations are rush- ing to war all the time shouting “peace”. Mussolini ought to know a | good deal about thisbecause he is moving toward war as fast as any | of them and shouting “peace” just as loudly. “The civilized world”, says Musso- lini—the capitalists always refer to capitalism as “civilization” — is as- sembling its resources, réinforcing day by day and piece’by piece a form- idable war machine.” Against the war preparations of the bosses, the workers must put up a fight to turn the war funds over to the unemployed. ROADS THREATEN WAGE CUT WASHINGTON.—-Railroads in the western district will cut both their) wage rates and their wage working staffs, was the suggestion made to the Interstate Commerce Commission | by 10 western rail executives in a |The deportation of Serio, present wage rates!” Green, who to- getaer with other fascist leaders of the A. F. of L. made an agreement with Hoover and the “59” billionaire Tulers of the U. S. providing for “no wage reductions, and no strikes,” has been leading the workers to believe there have been no wage cuts, Green made a special trip to Hoover to thank him for “maintaining wages.” The Daily Worker for the past year has carried news every day of drastic wage cuts in every industry. Now the bosses themselves come out and ad- mit that wages have been cut 20 per cent, or a total sum for the entire workingclass of $,853,000,000. tions have the wage cuts come cn at a furious pace. In Berkshire few days ago the workers in the full- fashioned hosiery indstry were given a 30 per cent wage cut. Wage cuts are expected for every worker in this Especially since the end of the elec- | just a) Pledge to Carry Out Boss _ Plans Insurance WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9—A full confession that all the promises |made by the democratic party about of war making, atack on the work- ; jers’ standard of living, and starvation jindustry during the coming weeks. | of the jobless, was just election talk, | Among themselves the bosses make Jno sercret about their plans for wage | drivers here. cuts. The National City Bank bul-} yesterday, just when it became |letin for November says that this 48 | clear that large masses had been |the main task now being undertaken | fooled by some of this stuff, and had | by the exploiters. The Commercial & | elected a whole string of democrats | Financial Chronicle, one of the lead- | to Congress, giving them practical) |ing Wall Street mouthpieces, says | control of both houses, a statement | that the main obstacle in the way | was issued by the big chiefs, Alfred “liquidation” of the crisis is that wage | —, Smith, John Davis, James M. Cox cuts (already amounting to nearly | (all candidates at one time for pres- $9,000,000) have been too slow. They ident), together with the democratic must be speeded up. They are being | Jeader in the Senate, the leader in speeded up. |the house; Raskob, chairman of the What is the functioning of the A.| national committee and Shouse, F of L, officials in this period of |chairman of the executive commit- \frenzied wage-cutting? At the last | tee of the democratic party. national convention Hoover and| Won't Frighten Business. | Green slobbered over one another | They pledged the demoerats to co- (Continued on Page 3) operate with Hoover, not to engage in any obstructive tactics, and not| MEET TO FIGHT PERSECUTION OF FOREIGN-BORN | Called for De Dee. Ist & Washington, D. C. NEW YORK. — To combat the} wide-scale persecution of foreign- | born workers throughout the United States, a convention for the pro- | tection of the foreign-born will be held in Washington, D. C., on De- |cember 1, the approximate date of the opening of congress. The convertion will be held in Press Hall with about 400 delegates present from all parts of the coun- try and under the auspices of the Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born. To Fight Deportations The Council for the Protcetion of the Foreign Born is an outgrowth of the deportation and persecution in general going on as a result of the more militant activity on part of workers resisting the onslaught of employers associations in the present period of unemployment. The convention in Washington will pay special attention to the finger- printing and registration of aliens bills which congress will attempt to put through in this coming session. Vukukel and other cases will be discussed and plans formulated for a vigorous cam- paign against these attacks. Dis~ franchisement of aliens will be gone into and a general offensive planned. “Communism Challenges Capitalism; 5-Year Plan Wins,” Say Economists Offer Bloody ee Program to Try Save Profit System * NEW YORK.—“Communism {s suc- ceeding, and challenges the very ex- istence of capitalism; the Five Year Plan for building socialism in the Soviet Union is succeeding.” This is the frank admission made in just these words, by two of the most dis- tinguished of American capitalist economists, speaking Friday night in the Foreign Policy Association sym-| posium at Hotel Astor here. After admitting this, the two ex- perts devoted their time to worry-| ing over what might be done to save capitalism, if possible. Their advice to the assempled cap- italist leaders was for some form of fascist planned economy, which they hardly pretended could be set up_ without bloodshed and merciless suppression of uhe workers. “The Soviet economic system is formal statement, # functioning in such a way as to offer “Organize and Strike READING, Pa., Nov. Strike Action Near Against 30 Fer Cent Cuts In Reading. Says National Textile Workers Musteites Call Meeting to Betray Toilers the textile mills here has swamped the efforts of the United| | Textile Workers and their tributary, the Full |to “frighten business.” “Even en- lightened political selfishness de- fri¢htened,” says their statement. This is certainly clear enough. The ~ for wa~> outs, for throwing the | burden of the crisis on the -vorkers | 39 jand jobless, for ruthless suppression | 2\/of the workers’ organizations, the | | iy perialist war Wans, the business | | councils for tricking the jobless and! | preventing strikes—are all big busi- |ness strategy. The democrats cri Against Wage Cuts Union; 9.—A series of terrific wage cuts in| cizea some of them before the elec- |tion to better fool the workers, to ; Show the big capitalists that demo- crats were as useful for fooling the; Fashioned Hosiery Workers to stop strike movements among the workers. | workers as republicans. That was | jtion at the head of the move-* iment, in order to lead it into jchannels harmless to the} bosses. The socialist city ad- ministration has never gone give the employers as good police | protection during a strike as either the republican or democrats could "give. Bosses at Meeting. ing for this afternoon at the back on its promise to the bosses, | after its first election, that it will) The U. T. W. has called a meet-| The U. T. W. chiefs are trying frantically to get in posi- | accomplished, and the democratic chiefs now make haste to assure big Jinflicted on the 42-gauge leggers in| business of their loyalty, and that |the Berkshire mills, and the man- | the anti-labor policies of big busi- ager has stated that the other work-| ness will be carried out by them, in ers there will be cut this week. The | Cooperation with the Hoover admin- Berks County workers were already | istration. |cut to half the scale they got at the/ Fight For Insurance! first of the year. | We may now expect a revival of | joint swindling operations against} U. T. W. Already Betraying. lthe jobless, noisy fake relief mea- The U. T. W, leaflet calling the! sures, by the two big capitalist par- meeting says: | ties working together in perfect har- “A walkout of all full fashioned | MOny. workers in Berks County cannot The Communist Party continues, |by signature collections, b; = be averted in the next ten days | 2 ee elie Rc aie jization of jobless and workers, by \Big Donkey ede Break Promis es. Communists Fight for, unemployment relief, etc., and all the, criticism of the republican policies) jhas been made by the chief donkey | mands that business should not be/ unless the employees immediately Orpheum Theatre, at which indus- | get together and by united action mass demonstrations, to carry on the fight for taking the war funds and trial engineers from the mills of the | Full Fashioned Hosiery Manufactur- | ers and from the University of Penn- | sylvania will be present to help the |more to provide $25 a week insur-| | ance to each ee worker, force the manufacturers to recon- sider their present program of put- | ting in wage reductions at once.” regione leaders of this union fol! phe National Textile Workers’ SO. WORKERS MEET the workers. ‘union, whose slogan is “Organize | High points in a spontaneous/and Strike Against Wage Cuts,”| strike movement are the announced | {points out that the U. T. W. plan is | threat of the Rosedale workers to/ contessedly to try and stop the strike, FIGHTS LYNCHING MINNESOTA; DEMOCRATS AID HOOVER Barred from. Ballot In | Ohio, But At Least | Triple Broun Lauds Capital More Industrial Towns Show “Red” Gains NEW YORK.— Further enormous gains in the Communist vote, as the reports come in slowly! Meanwhile along with the democratic party lead- ers’ admission that they have no real quarrel with the republicans, comes another from Heywood Broun, chief socialist candidate for congress, in which he states that the socialist party, “should admit the capitalists and intelligensia more to its mem- bership,” and that failure to do this. “shows a certain snobbery.” The first reports from the heavy j industry states outside of Pennsyl- |vania are beginning to come in. The | first two are Minnesota and Ohio, 12,847 In Minnesota. | In Minnesota, Roine, Communist jeandidate for lieutenant governor |leads the ticket with 12,847 votes {and Bartlett, for secretary of state, has 12,596. In 1922 the highest Com- | munist vote was’a little over 5,000 ; which means much more than doub- | ling. Three-fold Growth In Ohio. Ohio barred the Communist can- | didates from the ballot in most coun- |ties. In addition, the,“sticker” cam- paign, the campaign to stick the Communist candidates names on the | ballots, was ruled illegal, and all such | ballots thrown out. However, in spite jof all obstacles, the election board in Cleveland, admits, unofficially, that about 6,000 ballots with Communist | stickers on them had to be thrown lout for that reason—-and that is 6,000 |Communist votes, for one county, Cuyahoga, in which Cleveland is located. In Mahoning County, which con- tains the big steel city of Youngs- town, the Communist Party did get on the ballot, and there 3,114 votes were cast for Hannah Rabinovitch, Communist candidate for judge. In Clark county, where Springfield is located, there were 364 Commun- ist votes for ‘county commissioner, which is five per cent of the entire | vote, In Cincinnati, where the Commun- ists were barred from the ballot, there jis no ‘count, but radio announcers had to admit that many ballots were being disqualified because they had Communist stickers on them. There is thus, admitted, a vote for Communism in Ohio of 9.478. There (Continued on Page 3) SOCIALISTS OFFER BOSSES SECURITY Heywood Broun Tells the New York Times NEW YORK, — Yesterday's New York Times quotes Heywood Brou, | | | pla barbie me Papas decd to! to work during negotiations, and that | ps ds strike of the D. S. . workers | i - \it holds out the idea only of post: i61 Delegates at Open- over their recent cut. |poning, not preventing, the wage) ~~ A 30 per cent cut has just been ' cuts. ing—More Expected CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 9. — All southern Anti-Lynching Conference jin session one hour, and already | sixty-one accredited delegates have | handed in their credentials. So far twenty-one fraternal dele- | gates from churches, fraternal or- | ganizations and labor unions have been. seated. Tom Johnson greeted the confer- ence in the name of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. pledging full |Support in the fight on lynching. | Mary Dalton spoke for the six At-| lanta defendants—two Negro, four Lorwin proposed a world economic | white workers—facing electrocution planning board, and then said, “Can| for organizing white and Negro! ;@ planned economy and collectivist | | Workers together. Frank Wall is now) economic institutions be built up| making main report. | he the first time a real challenge to capitalism,” stated Professor Calvin Hoover, of Duke University. Hoover | has just returned from a visit to} the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. Dr. Lewis L. Lorwin, of the Insti- tute of Economics, also a recent vis- itor to the Soviet Union, confirmed Professor Hoover's analysis, and spoke the second part of the alternative, a tacit admission that the principles of the older capitalism were doomed to failure before the challenge of | Communism. “Measures of Force” |clown and appropriate bearer of the “Socialist” standard in the last elec- | tion in which he ran for Congress- }man on that ticket, as openly ad- mitting that the “Socialist” party was a bosses’ party offering security te the capitalists. The Times declares; “Heywood Broun made a post- campaign concession that there were flaws in the Socialist party, He said the party had shown a “certain snobbery’ in refusing to | admit the intelligentsia and cap- | italists into its membership. said even capitalists in these days would be sympathetic to a party which offered them security.” Workers! Shake Off Crisis Load i of “two ways to accept the challenge.” On To Fascism. “Capitalism must either prove,” said Lorwin, | principles upon which it is based: private ownership, private initiative, and freedom of enterprise, can achieve the purposes of economic life | more effectively than the principles of Communism, or it may admit that the older principles upon which it is based are not quite adequate for the problems and conditions of today, and that some form of organized | thinking and some method of co- erdination are necessary for the pro- secution of economic activities.” Lorwin's further remarks were based on suggestions for carrying out without the measures of force end | “that the fundamental | compulsion which are being used in| Russia?” This last is partly propaganda, since force is only used “in Russia” | against capitalists and their follow- ers. But it is a plain threat of armed fascist control, hope that it can be international, that is, a union of imperialist fas- cist governments directed against 1 e |U.S.S.R. and all Communism. Lor- that competitive capitalism, and com- petitive empires can not form such @ central board, except perhaps tem- | porarily, as a war measure against the U.S.S.R., preceding their own imperialist wars with each other. with an expressed | win overlooks the practical certainty | More delegates expected before | conference adjourned. | ‘The conference was called by the | American Negro Labor Congress in| its struggle against the lynching ter- | Tor of the bosses. Delegates will be| elected by the conference to the na- tional convention in St. Louis. Nov. |15 and 16 of the American Negro Labor Congress, at which the fight| against lynching will be further in-| | tensified. | FORCED TO EAT OLD BEAR | SPOKANE, Wash.—Jobless work- | ers who were given jobs in the city| | park at 25 cents an hour and being very hungry killed an old bear kept in the park and ate it, George Pings, fat-tummied silk peddler, says it's “unfair” to ask only the wealthy to give aid to jobless in the pres- ent emergency and whines to the president “it would be a denial of one’s better nature if those not wealthy were to be excluded.” Demand war funds for re- lief! Demand unemployment insurance! Make your de- mands effective with 60,000 circulation for the Daily Worker. Join the campaign for mass circulation, Jam- boree news page 3.