The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1930, Page 1

Organize in Every Shop For Violation of the Injunctions! Fight Is On For the Right Strike and to Picket! Dail: (Section of the Communist Internaitonal) 4 Party U.S.A. aWwWorker SANs Ruunict Vol. VII. No. 272 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents CATCH FIVE POWERS IN PLOT TO ATTACK SOVIET UNION War Plans Against the Soviet Union ‘AR plans against the Soviet Union have been maturing over the course of years. These have been regularly exposed in the Daily Worker. The United States, especially during the past few months, has more and more been playing a leading role in the development of these plans. The republican regime in Washington was responsible for the break in relations with the Soviet Union by Mexico. Stimson’s note at the time of the Chinese-Eastern Railyway dispute was a direct effort to continue Chinese attacks against the Soviet in an effort to provoke war in which the United States would be a beneficiary. The loans of American ‘bankers to Poland and other boarder states for airplanes, military equipment, poison gass, ete. were further steps in that direction. The recent efforts to set up an embargo on Soviet goods and the activities of the Fish Committee were efforts to hamper the carrying through of the 5-year plan and to prepare the minds of the masses for the actual declaration of war. All of these efforts of the United States government are organically bound up with the war plot of France, England, Poland, Finland and Roumania as exposed by the indictment against these imperialist tools working within the Soviet Union by the Soviet Supreme Court. France, for example, aided in setting up a joint general staff to command the in- vading armies; the United States through its military loans provided for the equiping of these armies. No American worker must forget the speech made by Secretary Wilbur of Hoover's cabinet during the election campaign. “One of the great peoples of the earth is deliberately trying to work out large social and economic programs for the mastery of its vast terrain along new and untried lines. “Our economic, social and political philosophies inevitably must wage a gigantic and fundamental struggle with theirs.” This is an open statement of Hoover's intention to prepare and wage war against the Soviet Union. So that in estimating the war plans of France, England, Poland, Finland and Roumania—now exposed with the arrest of 8 counter-revolutionists in Moscow, we should not think for one minute that the hands of the Wail Street hirelings in Washington are clean, Hoover's own speech yesterday tears the mask from all the “peace” and “disarmament” talk and puts war immediately on the agenda. “We, as a nation whose independence, liberties and securities were born of war,” says Hoover, “cannot contend, that there never will be righteous (capitalist—Ed.) cause for war in the world. Nor can We assume that righteousness has so advanaced in the world that we may yet have complete confidence in the full growth of pacific means or rest solely upon the processes of peace for defense.” Shorn of all its high-sounding phrases this statement merely means that “we” were born of war and while “we” may talk about peace “we” are going to live by war. The war for which they are most energetically preparing is the “gigantic and fundamental” struggle against the work- ers and peasants government of the Soviet Union. They are doing this in alliance with France and England. The workers of the United™States must be on their guard. The speeches of Hoover and MacDonald yesterday were war speeches. The exposures of the war plans in Moscow yeSterday for 1931 must be a warning. The workers must prepare to fight. They must organize in the shops and factories. They must rally against wage cuts and for unemploy- ment-insurance. The busier the capitalists are kept at home the more difficult it is for them to carry through their war mobilization. And at the same time the masses must be prepared, in the event that the war is started, to continue in an even sharper form to fight for their demi ialist war into a civ@ war with the objective of overthrowing the govern- ment of Wall Street’and establishing here, as they did in the Soviet Union, a government of workers and poor farmers. This revolutionary program, now that the war preparations are be- coming more open, must be widely propagated among the masses. MacDonald and Thomas IORMAN THOMAS, the leader of the American “socialist” party, al- though a member of the 2nd “socialist” international which pretends to concern itself with the world-wide interests of the masses, is solely the tool of the American capitalists. Ramsay MacDonald, on the other hand, while making the same pre- tensions of internationalism as Thomas, is the contemptible hireling of the British imperialists, In the United States the “socialist” party joins in jim crowing Negroes and in refusal to fight against lynching, it collaborates with the bosses in speeding up production and cutting wages, it systematically undermines and betrays the struggle for unemployment insurance, and, under cover of pacifist phrases and attacks on the Communists, it aids*in the bosses’ war preparations against the Soviet Union. But it does all these things under the cloak of various tricks which confuse and deceive the workers. In England, though, through the acts and declarations of the Mac- Donald “labor” (socialist) government it is easy to see through the trick- ery and deception characteristic of the so-called socialists in all countries. ‘There Ramsay MacDonald has been most successful among “His Majesty's” politicans in pulling the British capitalists out of their present difficulties at the expense of the toiling masses at home and in the colonies. The direct efforts of MacDonald to cut wages and to speed-up production, as well as his do-nothing policy on unemployment, are well known. Like- wise his murderous attacks on the Indian masses and the toilers in the colonies generally require no elaboration. Now, however, MacDonald’s speech of yesterday more openly exposes him as a mere capitalist: tool. “Markets are the goal,” he says, “I hope to settle down to this business in the frame of mind of hard-headed business men ... and (that inter-imperial agreements) may strengthen us in the struggle that we may have to engage in for the economic existence of this great community of nations (the British empire). This certainly is a most open statement of British imperialist policy. “Markets are-the goal” of the “labor” government. Inter-dominion agree- ments in order to prepare for struggle (for war) against Britain's rivals sre the immediate aim. And within the country the policy is to suppress the rising revolt of the workers. Listen to.this gem from the “socialist” MacDonald: “We have to find maintenance, if for no other reason than that we must maintain our (the capitalists) social stability and order.” This coming froth one who pretends to desire the destruction of British capitalism and the establishment of socialism shows up the fakery of the MacDonalds and Thomas's. And Norman Thomas, here, who but a short time ago loudly heralded the “achievements” of MacDonald, seeing now that the masses are wise to this fakery and desiring to keep the masses confused as to his own role, makes some admissions. + “Frankness leads me to add,” ‘says Norman Thomas, “that whereas the British labor record was a distinct advantage to us last year it was a distinct handicap this year.” ‘ All of these statements, admissions and betrayals must make the masses see that there are no essential differences between the “socialists” and th other boss parties. They must see that the “socialists,” just as much as Hoover, are preparing for war against their rivals, especially against the U.S.S.R. and against the workers at home and in the colonies. The masses must see that only the Communists uncompromisingly’ lead their fights against war, against unemployment, and against capitalism. { ls and at the earliest possible moment to transform such an imper- | |British and American Imperialisms Cover | Swords With Words By HARRISON GEORGE. Yesterday there were speeches. It was Armistice Day. But they were not speeches of peace, even though the speakers, Hoover and MacDonald, decorated them with with words about “peace”. ‘They were war speeches, those made by the Presid nt of the United States and the fake “socialist” who serves as British prime minister. | Do you understand what that| means, workers? War speeches! Do| you realize that on the day which was supposed to be given to celebrat- ing peace, on “Armistice Day”, the heads of two great imperialist na- tions rattled the saber of war Just | as other rulers’ did before. the last | | world war? Workers, do not fail to see the threat of war hidden in the words of peace! Your lives, the lives of your loved ones, depend upon you seeing. Upon you acting after you see and understand. MacDonald, the fake “socialist” and “pacifist”, but speaking for Brit- | ish imperialism, driven to the wall by American imperialist rivalry for | trade and power, fearful of the real | socialism being built in the Soviet | Union, threatens both. He absolves himself and British imperialism from responsibility for the coming war by | saying: | “Ride the wind and direct the} storm—that is all that a government | can do.” Then he laid down which way the wind is blowing and whither the| War Speeches Ring About World on “Armistice Day” to withdraw befor London “naval conference”, the proposal for "im- munity” for “food ships” — the chal- lenge to British sea power. For “food ships” are innocent} symbols of imperialist trade, and many a ship supposed to be loaded | with corn has carried cartridges and | cannon. Directly after renewing | this imperialist proposal, which Hoover tried to say was “disinter-| ested” he went right on to say: “We, as a nation whose independ- ence, liberties and born of war, cannot contend that) there never is or never will be right- | eous cause for war.” Meaning “food” ships! Then, remembering Hoover's open declaration against Bolshevism at. King’s Mountain, we can understand what Hoover said about “our obli-| gation in these matters (of foreign | wars” being based “not wholly on self-interest” but upon what Hoover calls “moral and spiritual strength” —which he claimed at King’s Moun- tain was challenged by Bolshevism. At the same moment, yesterday the Soviet courts publish an indict- | ment of spies connected with plots of French and British for armed in- | vasion of the Soviet Union through Poland! This is capitalist “peace”! While 9,000,000,000 American work- ers are jobless and starving, and the most given them is a bowl of stink- | Ing charity, the last congress that | itual existence of this great commun- j adjourned under Hoover, refused to| ity of nations.” grant “American workers Unemploy- This is a war speech of British im-| ment Insurance, but appropriated | perialism. But what did Hoover say? | $2,831,825,963 for war! Hoover spoke very cautiously, but he| And now Hoover follows it up with | spoke of the “contacts”, by which! a saber-rattling war speech on the | he meant “conflicts”, arising from|day of “peace”, on Armistice Day! | “eyery shift in power, in trade and| Workers! ‘There will be no peace finance,” until you organize and make suc- Then he launched the challenge cessful war to overthrow the cap- to Britain which he had been forced | italist class! That's all! Leads War Machine Secretary Patrick J. Hurley, of the U. S. War Department. storm leads: “Markets are the goal. Inter-im- perial agreements may strengthen us in the struggle that we may have to engage in for the economic and spir- 1,000,000 NAMES WILL, BACK BILL TO FEED JOBLESS Mass Organizations Form Committee | NEW YORK.—Leading officials of |13 workers’ mass organizations met yesterday at 16 West 21th Street and ‘formed a provisional committee to jlead the campaign to collect sign- jatures and mobilize forces for the Workers Unemployment Insurance | Bill, to give each jobless workerss $25 |@ week and to take for unemployment | |insurance $5,000,000,000 from the na- | tional government's war funds and jthe swollen incomes of the capitalist | | exploiters. Bosses Urge Charity to Postpone the Revolution’ 150,000 Jobless and Wage Cuts of 25 Per Cent, | 388 Per Cent on Part Time; Situation Tense and Bosses Have Only Fake Relief Plans PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 11.—With the army of the| unemployed growing daily, Philadelphia capitalists are becom- ing frightened by the prospects of violence and riots durng the} coming winter. These sentiments were voiced at meetings of the Commttee of one hundred on Unemployment and Pinchot’s Unemployment Com mission?phiiadeiphia Record is the creation this past week-end. “A revo-!of a gigantic loan fund for the un-| lution is just around the corner | employed. Naturally the bankers are | unless we take immediate steps favoring this plan, being willing to 2 tak 4 1 ; to relieve the present tense] *< Sl caieuctea eG ea rcaiets situation,” declared Dr. Herbert Tily, |“ “piy * a er president of Strawbridge & Clothier, nchot’s commission talks of stab- | BRIAND LED SABOTAGERS; BRITAIN WAS TO TAKE LENINGRAD; USE POLAND; HOOVER TELLS WHY WAR IS NEARING Hoover’s Lying Peace, Phrases Cover Big | Arms Race | Slanders Worker Dead Go to Unemployed WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—In a speech calling for immediate war mobilization, Hoover on the 12th An- niversary of the armistice of the World War, pointed out why “we cannot overlook the fact that na- | tions in many ways are always poten- | tially in conflict.” | While his entire speech was shot through with a pacifist screen,) Hoover dwelt on the growing imper- jalist antagonisms which lead to} war, talking about the “shift in pow- er,” and the drive of American im-| perialism which “increasingly pene-| trates and overlaps into the four) corners of the earth.” Building up reasons for the rapid rush to war, Hoover said: “We, as a nation whose independ- ence, liberties and securities were born of war, cannot contend that there never is or never will be riyht- eous cause for war in the-world. .Nor | car. we assume that righteousness has | so advanced in the world that wey may yet have cumplete confidence in the full grewth of pacific means of| rest solely upon the processes of’, peace for defense.” Here is the beginning of the war| phrases that the bosses will attempt| (Continued on Page Three) ANOTHER 1,000 RED VOTES SHOW. IN MINNESOTA 1 Dakota County Has 582; Gain Everywhere 04; MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 11.— Delayed returns from outlying pre- | cincts in Minnesota raise the Com- |munist vote in this election by an-| jother 1,000. Previous figures, based | on incomplete returns put it at 12,847 | for Roine, candidate for lieutenant governor of the stsate. The vote is now 13.847, much more than double the 1928 vote. The gains in some of the counties are .remarkable. Milwaukee county Mac Donald Pushes War Maneuvers Securities were Demand War Funds) tonpon, nov. 11. — tn an open imperialist speech, calling for greater war preperations, Ramsay MacDon- ald, “socialist” prime minister, show- ed today to what lengths the social- fascists go in maneuvering for actual war. Talking about the struggle for world markets, and the necessity of preparing the empire for this strug- gle, MacDonald said: “Markets are the goal, and my trouble has been to see to it that Mr. Bennet and Mr. Forbes do not run away with too much of the swag ... but I hope we have to settle down to this business in the frame of mind of hard-headed business men who see that inter- imperial agreements are good for us (the British imperialists), that inter-imperial agreements may be of mutual helpfulness, may extend over the whole of the empire and may strengthen us in the struggle that we may have to engage in for the economic and spiritual exist- ence of this great community of nations.” In a veiled way MacDonald refer- red to the Soviet Union, and the necessity of British imperialism main- taining its “stability and order.” While speaking about war, Mac- Donald was forced to touch on un- employment. His approach to this question shows his outright imper- ialist views and actions “We have to find maintenance (for the unemployed),” he said, “if for no other reason than that we must maintain our social stability and or- der.” In short, MacDonald wants to save capitalism, with its mass starv- ation, misery and boss wars, from the revolt y wrath of the workers, MacDonald on behalf of British imperialism is rushing the war prep- arations, not only in words, and priq- aration of the minds of the masses, but by outright action in building up the armed forces of his British mas- ters. TUUC DANCE ON FRIDAY, NOV. 14 one of the largest department stores ilizing industry, fostering public | The committee arranged for im- | mediate organization in all large in- dustrial cities of local provisional committees, to’ call city conferences and elect permanent committees not |later than December 15. | | Demand Not Petition. | ‘The discussion of the proposals for | the signature collection and mobiliza- jtion meetings: resulted in a decision to stress that these signatures are not in the nature of petitions, but |of demands on the national govern- | ment that it shall not let the 9,000,- 000 jobless starve this winter. The house to house, factory to factory col- lection of signatures must be through such organizational forms as set in motion masses of workers and job- less, and make. their demands known. There will be demonstrations for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, and it is expected that great mass meetings, endorsing the bill, will take place at the time it is pre- sented to congress. 1,000,000 Signatures. February 1. The committee to go to Washington to present the bill will be chosen by the mass during the last week of January. The national committee to be known as “The National Campaign Committee For Unemployment Insur- ance” will co-ordinate and direct the work, but the local committees must the demonstrations and demands. It was brought out at the confer- ence yesterday that the Detroit sec- tions promise 100,000 signatures. ‘Taking part in the conference yes- terday were the Trade Union Unity League, its unions and various mass organizations. The conference yesterday sets a) goal of 1,000,000 signatures before | |utilize the local demands and con- | |ditions to give power and reality to| in the city. Mayor Mackey declared, “Tf the present situation grows much worse, I will not be held responsible for the peace of the city. A man with an empty stomach is nto rational.” “We must remember what hap- pened after a certain French queen told her people to eat cage if they had no bread,” urged Ellis Ames Ballard, counsel to the Mitten-owned |Philadelphia Rapid Transit. “Give |and give liberaly today, rather than |face the climax of revolution.” i $1.50 Per Man! ‘The Committee of 100 has asked the city council to appropriate $250,- | 000 for relief of the 150,000 estimated | jobless and their dependants, and to |add 3c to the tax rate for next year |to raise un additional million dol- |lars. The council says it is breke and the tax rate is too high already. Another scheme suggested by the Committee of 100 and backed by the ; ment exchange. works, and creating public employ- It is believed a fake | unemployment insurance bill will be introduced in the next session of the | legislature and it will be backed by |Save Reeve, Communist candidate for governor, 1,027 votes, vote in 1928 was 209. In Kenosha and Racine counties, the Communist votes were 121 and whereas the | For Organize, Strike Fund The T.U.U.L. and its affiliated or- 8anizations is giving an entertain- | Pinchot. | real 191. The socialists, despite their el- But in the meantime the unem- |#orate machinery, < ployed grow more numerous and |*#™e- The vote here for Communist wages drop. At the last session of | Candidats was 6 times that of 1928. the Central Labor Union there was} The vote in Mountville county, scarcely a trade that did not report |Nort Dakota, is reported as 562. For wage reductions of 15 to 25%. About |the whole state there were 900 votes 30 per cent of the organized workers |i0 1928, are reported to be on short time. | The jobless workers and those still |falo, and other big industrial centers at work must organize and them-|are still lacking. Even the vote for selves fight for real insurance, for | Minnesota is not complete. All in- relief. Gather’ signatures for |dications show enormous gains for the Workers Unemployment Insur- | the Communists in the country as a got about the | Reports on Ulinois, Michigan, Buf- | ance Bill! Demonstrate for imme-|whole, and a big base for the cam- | ment and dance on Friday, Novem- ber 14, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th Street. All proceeds will go to the Organize end Strike Fund. Whether it is to organize the Unemployed Councils, smash the injunction that hsa been issued against the Food Workers In- dustrial Union, or prepare for the coming dress strike, it is the Trade Union Unity Council that is playing the leading role. In all of these struggles there is a crying need for jfimances. Besides helping finance the drives which are undertaken by the T.U.U.L., everybody is assured of diate unemployment relief from the | paign to orgdize and strike against |spending an evening in a pleasant city treasury! Join the Councils of che anions of League! wege cuts and to build the unem- |New Regime Starts a | Reign of Terror on Workers @ spanish-language newspaper pub- lished here. ‘The telegram dated Noy. 7 says in pert: “Today on orders ‘of the pro- visional acting president, Dr. Getulio Vargas, 50 Communists were ex- The details of the execution are not given, or the excuse given for | murdering the Communists by the | Vargas regime. A cook and bull story | is contained in “Mexico” about an | intricate intrigue of setting the op- CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 11—That 50 | eouted,. Immediately after the shoot- | Communists were executed by order ing of these agitators, General Jaurez of Getulio argas, “liberal” president Tavora, minister of public works in of Brazil, who took power after the te Present government, took an aero- plane trip to the Northern states on overthrow of the Luiz regime, is con- behalf of President Vargas, to . tained in a telegram from Rio de bi tape? take a campaign of pacification in Janeiro, Brazil, to “Mexico” (Nov. 8) | that region.” posing armed forces against one | another, which was charged to the | Communists. As all other regimes which have taken power in Latin America fol- jJowing “revolts,” the Vargas regime te instituting a reign of fascist ter- Tor against the revolutionary working | atmosphere and meet workers who Unemployed and the militant | ployment movement for $25 a week | Participate in daily struggles of our the Trade Union Baad Nota no evictions, and imme- | unions and leagues. diate relief 50 Communists Executed in Brazil On ¢ Order of Vargas, Fascist Head Make it a big Jaffair. Bring your fellow workers. The Ukrainian chorus will furnish |a@ program of songs and the famous |Cascars Harlemites will provide music for dancing. ‘Tickets are only 50 cents. Get them |at the Workers Book Shop, 50 East 13th Street, or at the 'T.U.U.L. office, |16 West 21st Street. | ‘Shoe Workers Meet on Injunction, Tomorrow, NEW YORK. — The Independent | Shoe Workers Union are holding a! very important membership meeting | at their headquarters, 16 West 21st | | Street, New York City, tomorrow at | 8 p.m. sharp. | The meeting will take up general | mobilization to fight against wage'| cuts, mass violation to smash injunc- | tions and the question of insurance | for the unemployed. , France Had War Plans Drawn Up to Invade J.S.S.R. in 1930 Postponed One Year Discovery and Jobless Anger Delays Action | NEW YORK. — Capitalist press dispatches show that the Peoples Commissariat for Justice of the Sov- iet Union has caught the French army general staff, Poincare, prime minis- ter of France, Briand, French minis- | ter of foreign affairs, the government of Poland and a whole list of big French and English corporations ac- tively planning war on the Soviet Union. The war was supposed to start this year and the French general staff, co-operating with the Polish, had drawn up full details for the in- yasion of the Soviet Union. The idea was for Poland to declare war, then a volunteer army of Russian royal- ists and mensheviks, led by French officers and equipped with all the most modern war technique by France and the big corporations, such as Deterding’s Royal Dutch Sfell Oil Co.. (owned in England) would add themselves to the Polish army. If \necessary later, an excuse could be }found for a declaration of war by | France, and other capitalist imper- lalist cotintries. | Still Plot War. The war plan is not abandoned, but is postponed until one year later “because of the economic situation.” (Continued on Page Three) CHILE FASCISTS RAPE. TORTURE ANTOFOGASTA, Chile, Nov. 11. ~ Arain the fascist regime of the dice tator Ibanez has struck at the Chile- en working class, and this time in the vilest manner that resembles the bar= |barous treatment of the workers by jthe feudal reactionaries of China. Here, in the nitrate zone, where American imperialism is fastening its grip upon the lives of the Chilean workers, the Ibanez government has imprisoned seven women, charged with “spreading Communist Party propaganda.” More, two of these women being young girls were violated and tor- tured by the soldiery who took them prisoner. All of them were dragged from their beds in the night, pulled naked through the streets and at the jails water was thrown on them so that they might die of consequent ill- ness. Thus the savagery of the bourge- oisie gives the lie to the supposed “chivalry” of the®Latin “gentlemen” when they deal with women of the working class. Thus the Chilean pro- letariat has another crime against it to avenge by better organization and determined revolutionary struggle. Hoover Makes Up Jokes for Jobless Hoover, president of the U. S. hokum school of economics, has just entertained a pack of national advertisers by telling them they created a desire for comm odities, increased de- mand, boosted production and pushed up the standard of living. Hoover proved by medicine show logic, that the reason goods are not being sold is because of an absence of de- sire, Clever advertising dis- tributed among the 9,000,000 jobless will awaken a desire for something to eat and wear, The only drawback is the absence of money. Smash Hoover hooey and the Starvation system, De- man it with 60,000 voices by a mass circulation of the Daily Worker. circulation tables on Full page 3.