The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1930, Page 1

{ In March, 1925, a $35,000,000 loan was floated in New York for Poland. ODAY ATN L Organize in Every Shop For Mass Violation of the Injunc- tions! The Fight Is On For the Right to Strike and to Picket! Central (Section of the Communist Internation al) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Oftice at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3, 1879 OF Party U.S.A. WORKERS ” THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIL. No. 277 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930 Preparing the Imperialist Spearhead JOLAND and Roumania, in the rapidly maturing war preparations against the Soviet Union, are being prepared and are preparing to serve as the spearhead of the imperialist attack. This is proven, not only by the confessions made in Moscow by the eight counter-revolutionary professors and engineers who were in the service of the imperialists themselves but also by the easily seen developments of the past few years and especially those of the past few months. | Ever since the establishment of the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment in the old Russian czarist empire, the imperialist powers have used the border states (Finland, Latvia, Esthonia, Poland, Liuthiana and Rou- mania) as a sort of steel ring to prevent the spread of working class rule to where it might jeopardize their own profits and power. They have built up the military power of these states and their governments have been maintained only by military force against their own workers and peasants and by a constant stream of loans from the imperialists. ‘The imperialists, however, were investing for the future; they were investing with the full knowledge that these countries could never repay these loans, but with the knowledge that they could be used as_ the battering ram in the war which the imperialists planned to wage at the first favorable opportunity in an effort to wipe out the workers’ fatherland —the Soviet Union. r A few facts prove the correctness of these statements. In October, 1927, a $72,000,000 “stabilization loan” was made to Poland with the participation of American, English, Swiss, Dutch, French and Sweedish bankers. Wall Street bankers alone swallowed up $47,000,000 of this loan. In addition the American Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of France made available an additional credit of $20,000,000 for “the protection of the Polish exchange.” In March and June, 1928 two additional loans totaling $21,200,000 were made. Since then a number of other loans have been granted by Amer- ican, French and English bankers. In all the Polish foreign debt now totals more than $500,000,000. This is the amount which the imperialists have contributed in Poland to prepare for the carrying through of their plans to crush the workers’ republic. In Roumania similar amounts have been advanced by the imperialists. And to make sure that they would not be double crossed the imper- jialists granted the loans only on condition that the money would really be spent in such a way as to further their anti-Soviet war aims. Charles 8. Dewey, the assistant secretary of the United States Treasury Depart- ment in Washington, was sent to Poland as the imperialist agent to supervise the expenditure of these huge funds. The United States gov- ernment, following the dictates of Wall Street, has so far functioned primarily In the role-of financier and military supply department in pre~ paring these border states to fulfil the role in which they have been cast by the imperialist powers, France and England, on the other hand, have actively supervised the military preparations. They have called conferences of the general staffs of the Finnish, Latvian, Esthonian, Polish, Luithuanian and Roumanian armies. They have set up one coordinated general staff in an effort to unite these forces into one army capable of striking a united blow against the Soviets with the assurance that these forces, themselves utterly unable to cope with the workers’ and peasants’ Red Army, would have the sup- port of the powerful and well-equipped military and naval forces of the imperialists. Within these border states, Poland and Roumania especially, the same | frantic war preparations have been made. ‘The Russian white guards—ex-capitalists, ex-generals in the czarist | armies ex-nobles of the old regime, etc.—have been given full opportunity to carry on their anti-Soviet plots and murdrous attacks.on Soviet citizens, including the outright murder of the Soviet Ambassador in Warsaw. The workers and peasants have been most viciously exploited. Their conditions have become totally uncomparable with those of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union only a few miles across the border. | ‘When they showed sympathy with the Soviet Union or when they re- belled against the unbearable conditions at hom they were clubbed, beaten and imprisoned, they hav been ground down with an iron heel. In Poland at the present time over 10,000 worers and peasants are rotting in Pil- sudski’s filthy prisons. The imperialists and their tools.in these border states know that they | cannot wage war against the Soviet Union without first crushing all mili- tant elements among the workers and peasants in these countries. The efforts to crush the Communist Parties and revolutionary workers’ or- ganizations there are a major phase of their plan of crushing the Soviet Union and then forcing down the standards of the workers in all coun- tries in order to insure for themselves still greater profits and wealth. The campaign against “religious persecution” in the oviet Union, the talk against “Soviet Dumping” (as for example the present efforts of Manganese producers association here), the activities of the Fish Com- mittee—all these and many more, are efforts to prepare the atmosphere for war. Poland and Roumania, together with the other border states, are to | be used-as the battering ram—the spearhead—in the attack. But behind them stand the military might of England, France and the United States. All of them, despite their own private quarrels, all stand united against | the workers’ republic, all of them are prepared to wage what Secretary | Wilbur in Hoover's cabinet called the “fundamental and gigantic struggle” against the Soviet System. Workers, war is close! Only you can prevent these dastardly im- perialist plans from succeeding. The bankers and capitalists are not going into the trenches themselves to fight. They are relying on their hopes of arousing you to fight against, to help them destroy the only workers’ state. The workers everywhere must talk and agitate against this war; they must organize and fight now against the efforts of the bosses to worsen their conditions; they must prepare to transform this war of the bosses into a civil war for their own emancipation. | while the unemployed starve, but this White House Gives Banquets; Jobless Outside Starve, Freeze CITY EDITION Arrange Biggest Blow-| outs While Workers |; Go Hungry WASHINGTON, Noy. 12,—Shiver- ing and hungry men loiter at street) corners opposite the White House | grounds, and in ashamed and con- fidential tones plead for help to pay for a meal or a night’s lodgings. Three blocks away from the big iron gates and the stone posts of the White House front is the tenement where an Italian worker, desperate from months of unemployment, tried to kill himself and his wife, the Sun- day morning after election day. (Two small children gave the alarm, and the couple will survive to face hun- ger again.) But within the iron fence where is the shining beauty of the executive mansion, the security attested by smartly-uniformed police on either side the. doorways, and PAS preparation for “the most. brilliant House?” | social season in years.” Not only do the bosses and their government tools wine and dine themselves to the bursting point This winter when over 9,000,000 unemployed suffer hunger, Hoover and the other government lackeys, will Igo to a series of the biggest | winter, so the society pages of the blowouts ever arranged. Washington newspapers inform the | At least 12 big diplomatic dinners | jobless. Hoover will give the biggest have been arranged for the coming | within the mansion there is Jively|“Why Can't We Sleep in the White/ 0-01 that the bosses want, while vice-president; dinners for the army and nayy; House and Senate dinners. The most expensive foods will be served, literally hundreds of thous- ands of dollars will be spent so e few parasites can eat the best dainties and luxuries money can-buy while the | unemployed workers freeze and starve to death. Elections. are over, democrat and republican politicans will gorge them- selves at these dinners. Promises to! the unemployed will be more than forgotten at the overloaded tables groaning with food. Probably stuffed to the gizzard from these dinners, Hoover will issue | statements against unemployment in- | surance, against any real relief for! the unemployed. At many of these} luxuries bequests there will be A. F.| of L. fakers who likewise, will come out, their stomachs full of the best |®"¢ Secretary of War Pat Hurley foods, denouncing the demand for joined in militaristic speeches, suit- unemployment insurance as a “dole,” | 2>!Y covered with paciést phrases on i fi a | Armistice Day. They spoke to the Boe da ee eet amou cee Unen. larity |Ordec ob ehe world Wat and to the Reserve Odcers Associa- tion, assembled in the Hotel Astor. The heart of Pershing’s address, swathed in mild “hopes” that there would not be another world war and ; sandwiched between landatory refer- ences to Woodrow Wilson and to NEW YORK.—General Pershing they spend more and more for their luxurious dinners. But to get relief, to fight against starvation, the work- | ers must mobilize their class forces to make the bosses disgourge some of their profits in the form of unem- ployment insurance. Don’t stand by President Hoover, was this: and starve. Fight! Demand imme- “It is a striking example of pat- diate relief! Fight for the unemploy- | riotism that the reserve. odcers. are dinners in the history of the White House. months. There will be dinners for the foriegn diplomats, dinners for the ; ment insurance bill proposed by the in training to be ready for military Commathiet Party. | service to the country, as none WORKERS GIVEN 1-10 YEARS BY OHIO BOSS JURY Spoke at Anti-War Jobless! Meet; Force Retrial Mass Picketing for Right to Strike at Zelgreen Cafeteria Smashing teh Injunction Is Every Workers’) can’t tell when we may again have need for armies.” WAR COMING. Then, later in the speech: “We fought to destroy militarism in the world, but much unrest and dis- | not reached the point where it can | be said that the danger has passed.” trust still prevail... the world has | Pershing and War Secretary | Hail Imperialist War Plans ‘Pershing Compliments Reserve Officers, Tells Them They May Be Needed at Any Moment; Hurley Praises Big War Approriations levery capitalist nation was arming |for war at an «nprecedented rate, |U. S. included. And Briand, chief jpeace talker in Europe, had just been caught leading a war plot against the Soviet Union! The “War to End War” did not jend war because war is a by-product of the capitalist system, which can only be abolished by abolishing the capitalist system. Excuses War Appropriations. | Both Pershing and Hurley recog- nize this, Hurley saying “Nothing contained the present national de- |fense plans is inconsistent with the |matural peace mindedness of the people of the United States,” and |"We should be |votion to the heroic Americans who have fallen on many éelds should we | fail to protect and to pass on to pos- |terity the national blessings,” etc, The “present defense plans” cluded unprecedented appropriations |for imperialist war, mechanization of ; the army, increase in-air forces, mo- lacking in proper de- | in-| Fight! It Is the Fight Of the Thousands Rally This is a confession that the “War } bilization of chemical and arms fac- to end war” propaganda which sent | tories, and navy building. It is these many millions willingly to the |fnuds which the Unemployed Coun- slaughter éeld in France was all bunk. | cils and the Communist Party de- | Johnson ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., Nov. 12.— The case of Charles Guynf, Tom | and Lil Andrews, three | Communists who were convicted by | a steel and coal jury of “criminal | syndicalism” and then freed by the} Court of Appeals will be tried again |according to Yetta Land, attorney for the International Labor Defense | who has been notified to that effect by the prosecution. Charles Guynn, one of the leaders in the Mine, Oil and Smelter Work- | NEW YORK.—"“All workers and) Zelgreen cafeteria, 257 West 34th St.,|/It didn’t end, the robber wars for | mand should be given to the unem- unemployed workers, who want to) today, at noon!” save the right to strike and picket} yesterday delegates from all work- come out today at noon and picket | ing class organizations met at the boss proéts. And at the moment when Pershing made this statement, | | Ployed to save their lives, instead of being spent for war to kill them off. re aihe | : h ealsaahs - tom of the injunction’! "This isthe |Uiow wet end wonkereg “actst! 69 RED VOTES IN STEEL ANTI-COMMUNIST call of the Smash the Injunctions] of smashing the in Committee, of the Trade Union Unity | violation. They gave enthusiastic Council, which leads the fight to end| support, and each reported his union the strike-breaking injunction tac-| or fraternal organization, defense or tics of the bosses, the courts and the relief or educational organization, A. F. of L, {ready to rally. The delegates of the “This is every workers’ fight,”| Unemvloyed Councils pledged jobless stated Fred Biedenkap, chairman of | Workers would come to the demostra- the Committee, yesterday. “Just. now |tion. junctions by mass TOWN OF BETHLEHEN| NEW YORK.—With election re- ports on the Communist vote still Jacking from such big industrial ‘centers as Michigan, Illinois and | Wisconsin, reports from smaller jcities and some counties still show, ers Industrial Union, Tom Johnson, | the fight centers around the Zelgreen| A thousand workers massed at the | the bis gain in the Red ballots. southern organizer of the Communist Party and Lil Andrews of the Young Communist League were arrested while speaking at an anti-war meet- ing on August 1 1929 in Martin's | Ferry, Ahio, when the police at- | tacked a demonstration of 1,000 workers and dispersed the gathering. | The three workers were defended by the International Labor Defense and vigorous mass protests were or- ganized throughout the steel and coal sections of that country. The) state hiréd a special prosecuting at- torney and backed by the steel in- terests hand picked a jury consist- ing of storekeepers and farmers. The only witnesses produced by the prosecution against the three workers were five deputy sheriffs and police officers. The district at+ torney tiraded against the three workers in his opening and closing } speeches referring to them as “bas- | tard spawn of anarchy which should be removed for all times from this grand and glorious coun- try.” The middle class jury convicted | | Guynn, Johnson and Andrews with-| made that the Communists have dis- |cafeteria, where the bosses and Ep-/open air demonstration held yester- | stein, business agent of the A. F. of a hernia gi ede oo mera “ue, by the Smash the Injunction prohibiting picketing. But during the | C ~™ittee. They were mostly needle shoe strikes, the same sort of injunc- | @Nd food workers, and they cheered day at noon at 39 Street and Sixth tions are used. T the coming great! for the cpen violation of the injunc-| dress strike, they will be used. In| tions. every strike the bosses and the courts "C t Zel- ‘aid pollen’ MUMIA’. ofide cunite al : ome to tha demonstration at Zel use irfjunctions against the workers’ &7ee? cafeteria today, promptly at right to picket. All jobless must real- | 0on, and bring all your shop mates ize that this is their fight too. with you!” is the last word of the “All out in mass picket lines at the Smash the Injunctions Committee. In Bethlehem, Pa., there were 69 Communist votes this year, against ;one vite in 1928. | The report from Camden, N. J., shows the Communist vote for con- gressmen as 84 Note—By error, the vote printed yesterday for Milwaukee, Kenosha, and Racine counties was given as votes for Reeve, Communist candi- date for governor of Minnesota. These are Wisconsino counties, and the vote was for Communist candi- ‘dates in Wisconsin.) Anti-Lynch Meeting By CYRIL BRIGGS In its current issue, the Chicago} Defender, a newspaper of the Negro petty bourgeoisie, carries on its New York page a report on the New York Anti-Lynching Conference of October 29, in which the vicious slander is. --—— Negro masses, with the Negro petty Spread Slanders Made By Rothschild On Lovestone Order Boss Negro Paper Lies About | in NewYork Chicago Defend deliberately play- ed up to the slander of the petty Negro bourgeoisie that the Commun- ist Party was a white man’s party. | He carefully omitted any mention of |the fact that the chairman of the anti-lynching conference was Otto | E, Huiswood, a Negro worker, and 50 cents, and to bring as many work- DANCE FRIDAY TO AID STRIKE FUND Ukrainian Chorus Will Furnish a Program ¢ NEW YORK.—One more day left | sured because the Ukrainian chorus | to tell the workers in your shop and will furnish a program of songs and/ wherever you meet them, that the|the famous Cascars Harlemites will} Trade Union Unity Council will hold| Provide music for dancing. an entertainment and dance on Fri-| Tickets can be gotten at the Work- day, November 14, at the Manhattan| ers Book Shop, 50 East 13th Street, Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., New York.|or at the T.U.U.L. office, 16 West Ask them to buy tickets which are 2ist Street, at 50 cents, ers with them as they can, because all the money taken in from this | dance goes towards the Organize and | Strike fund created by the Trade Un- | | ion Unity League to help finance the | many struggles that it is called upon to lead. And while you are talking enthu- Siastically about the dance to the other workers, don’t forget to buy your own tickets. A good time is as-| in llminutes and were sentenced to) appointed the hopes of the Negro 1 to 10 years with fines of $5,000/ masses by barring Negro workers at by Judge Cowen. | the anti-lynching conference. Guynn and Johnson served six; This story, utterly false, and ridic- weeks in the Ohio State Penitentiary | ulous on the very face of it, is based and Lil Andrews in the woman's on a lying report sent to the New | prison in St. Marysville, Ohio when | York office of the Chicago Defender | they were bailed out by the I. L, D. by Rothschild Francis, a traitor who had meanwhile appealed the | against the working-class who was case. | expelled by the Communist Party for persisting in his attempts to mislead | the Negro workers and disrupt the | Negro work of the Party after sev- | eral attempts had been made to cor- rect his wrong line. Like water, | Francis found his level. He joined | the Lovestone renegades. ‘And in MARKOFF SPEAKS ON RED ARMY, TOMORRW NIGHT |fakers, reformist misleaders and | bourgeois politicians in their at- tempts to defeat the growing unity of the working-class. Lovestone Renegades and Negro Misleaders. Francis openly allies himself with their mass meeting tomorrow at 8 Pp. m. at Ukrainian Hall, 15 East Third St. Dr. Markoff, delegate to the Red International of Labor Unions Fifth World Congress will report on the Red Army of the Soviet Union. ‘The floor will be opened to discussion. Admission free, _ ‘ bourgeoisie, and one of their organs that the main speakers were A. B. the Chicago Defender—the Chicago 4!s. National Negro Director ofsthe Defender which while admitting in| Communist Party, and Herbert B. its editorial columns that capitalism | Newton, both ot them Negro work- is built-upon persecution of the min- | ¢tS and with Huiswood among the ority groups and the weak and that ™any Negro leaders of the Commun- Communism is the only movement ‘st Pa’ the treacherous misleaders of the| offering relief from the frightful op- pression to which the Negro masses are submitted by the capitalists, yet supports the capitalist parties in every election, supporting the notori- He deliberately covered up the fact that the worker-delegates at the con- ference unanimously refused to seat three persons who they consi€ red had no place in a working-class , LAWS PASSED BY FINNISH GOVT Is Preliminary to War Against U.S.S.R. The fascist attack on Communists in Finland entered a new phase yes- terday when the Finnish parliament passed three more anti-Communist bills.. One of the new bills prevents Communists from becoming members of parliament nominated or even from being aS candidates. The re- maining two bills empowers the pres- ident of Finland “to take extraordin- ary measures for safeguarding order and peace in case of a political emergency..” These new laws indicate that the government is now openly working with the fascists. Despite incredibly brutal attacks on militant workers throughout the country, despite the fact that poloice as well as fascists have kidnapped Communist leaders repeatedly and have tortured them horribly on the public squares, the militant workers under Communist threatleadership have continued to fight against the miserable condi- tions. The very fact that the govern- ment has found it necessary to pass these new that the Communist Party in Finland offers a mighty threat to the openly fas- cist. ruling classes laws is proof These new laws are a direct result of the last election, when, despite the fact that no Communist can- didates were permitted on the ballot, thousands of workers wrote the names of their leaders on the bal- | lots, even though they realized the terrible punishment their action ous fakers and demegogues. Mayor, Meeting, und that one ot these wag} Would bring if it was discovered. Thompson of Chicago in his efforts to exploit the votes of the Negro workers on false pretenses of “friend- ship,” fake promises, etc,, supporting | wen Me ‘qauettag White a | company with that counter-revolu-, Bishop Carey and his underworld is sa by the Workers ‘nary group, he is now openly cal- | coiections, supporting the petty jegro, . | i bourgeoi: I Ex-service Mas f ¢ to.come to /@borating with the worst type ot bourgeois misleader Congressman De Priest, who told the Negro masses | to be thankful to their oppressors, | that the white ruling class of this | country with its organized lynching _ terror, its race hatred ideology, were _ their best friends. | Omits Mention of Negro Chairman. Francis, in his lying reports to the white. He wisely omitted mention’of the fact that Rothschild Francis ahd Grace Campbell were two of the three rejected — Rothschild Francis | who deserted his post of struggle in the Virgin islands and refused to rid himself of his petty bourgeois con- | ceptions of struggle; «Grace Camp- bell, who refused to speak on the streets for the Harlem Tenants League for fear she would lose her city job and who finally, in league | ; With other Lovestoneites, Harlem | landlords and bourgeois politicians, disrupted that militant tenant or- ganization, | These new laws are also an indi- ,cation that the fascists are openly Preparing the home front for an attack on the Soviet Union, in con- junction with the big imperialist powers and the border states oof Rumania, Poland, Lithuania, Esthonia, all of which now have open fascist governments and con-!| stitute an armed ring around the oonly Workers’ Republic. 2,000 SHERIFF SALES PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Noy. Sheriff sales continue to total from 1.500 to 2,000 monthly, | po and | WORKERS RALLY TO FIGHT NEW WAR PLOT AGAINST SOVIET UNION Fish Propaganda and Embargo Plans Take Spurt Forward Tested Red Army Whole Chinese Eastern Affair Now Exposed NEW YORK.—The imperialist. plot for war against the Soviet Union and the rallying of the masses of work- ers and jobless for the defense of the Workers’ Fatherland both took a step | forward yesterday in United States: The Friends of the Soviet Union, New York District, issued a state- ment calling on all workers’ organi- zations, trade unions, shop or fra- ternal body, to send delegates to a conference November 20 in Irving Plaza Hall, to devise ways of mobili- jzation against this increased war danger, now revealed as desperately, near. Challenge to F.S.U. Harried Silverman, the secretary of the F.S.U. states “The exposure of the interna- tional imperialist clique plotting for the overthrow of the Soviet Government, with the British and | French militarists playing the lead- ing role as arch conspirators which | the Soviet Union has just revealed, is a challenge to all Friends of the Soviet Union, to.double our efforts (Continued on Page Three) COMMEMORATE 1887 CHE. VICTIMS [To Honor Haymarket Martyrs Thursday NEW YORK.—To commemorate the anniverss of the men who were pioneers in the revolutionary | labor movement in Amercia and were jexecuted for their activity for an eight-hour day, the Haymarket Mar- tyrs will be honored at a meeting to be held under the auspices of the district office of the International Defense, at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., Thursday evening, at 8:30 p. m. J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the LL.D. Joseph Brodsky, at- torney for the organization in many famous labor cases, and Charles Ne- meroff, district organizer, will be the speakers, The I. L. D. says: “The American workers have been taught that it is imperative in their struggle with their employers to form a strong de- fense organization to defeat. the le- galized murders by the courts. The International Labor Defense is in the forefront defending all persec- uted workers in America.” At the meeting there will be a general discussion of the Eight Month Plan as proposed by the Na- tional Executive Committee of the LL.D. district eS REE A Get your organization be- hind the Daily Worker Drive fer 60,000! Chicago Attacks in 60,000 Drive In one of the érst reviews of the Hoover snake-dancing and Woods hat and rabbit act even the boss press remarks: “Despite the mass of mat- erial gathered by the commit- tee very little has been re- ceived showing that new jobs for the unemployed are being created.” Bally-ho and hoey! Hokum and bunk. Three ring cir- cuses and plenty dust throw- ing in the name of unemploy- | ment relief but no jobs. This is a keyhole closeup of the boss starvation system. One way to smash it is to build 60,000 circulation for the Daily Worker. Join the campaign. Chicago attacks. See page 3, we OON! -