The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1930, Page 1

Build the Organize and Strike Fund of the Trade Union Unity League! Dail (Section of — he-Commy the Communist Interna tional) orker unist Party U.S.A. WORKERS ~ OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of March 8. 1879 “NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930_ EDITION _ “3 Cents Price Vol. VIL. No. 276 “God” or Bread | HE capitalists and their henchmen are becoming a little nervous these days over the success of the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union. A few months ago this plan for the industrialization of the country and for the collectivization of agriculture was ridiculed as utopian. They sneered at the “crazy Communists” for even attempting “to accomplish in five years what has required over one hundred years in this country.” And when the last Communist Party congress there, set the completion of the five-year plan in four years as their goal the capitalist sneers became still broader. But now this sneer is transformed into an expression of fear. . They see, after two years, that the “crazy Communists” are actually carrying through their plan “to accomplish in five years (and less) what has required over one hundred years in this country.” They know the effect, that this great Communist success in the Soviet Union will have on the workers here who are suffering and dying from hunger. They are mob- jlizing all their contemptible hirelings, therefore, in an effort to coun- teract Soviet achievements with anti-Soviet propaganda. Among their willing servants is the editor of the Cincinnati Labor Advocate. In a front page editorial (probably syndicated) he attempts to show that the great achievements in the Soviet Union are detrimental to the interests of American workers. In this he lends himself to the preparation of what Secretary of the Interior Wilbur termed “the funda- mental and gigantic struggle” (the war) which the capitalists are pre- paring against the Soviet Union. A “Jf the Russian Communist system is a success in five years, immediately then they will be able to sell grain, lumber, coal, ma- chinery and everything else to this country. . . .so much cheaper than they can be produced any place else that it will be impossible to compete.”"—says the editorial. Then he goes further and says: “In fact, if the Russian system of collectivism ever becomes a success there can be no doubt but what this country and every other country on the globe will be compelled to adopt Communism in a few short years. Nothing else could be possible.” With the latter argument we must confess some sympathy. We also know that “this country will be compelled to adopt Communism in a few short years,” but not alone as a result of the success of Communism in the Soviet Union. Truly the successful building of socialism there will be a tremendous inspiration to the workers here. The oppressed, masses here, though, will overthrow capitalist rule, establish a workers’ and farmers’ government and proceed with the building of a Communist society primarily because they cannot and will not any longer tolerate the misery, suffering and starvation steadily increasing under capitalism in the United States. This capitalist crisis will not result from “cheap Soviet exports” either. ‘The Five-Year Plan has not “cheap exports” as its objective, but rather the raising of the living and cultural standards of the masses in the Soviet Union. Exports will only be made to the extent that such exports are necessary to pay for machinery and other products needed for the carrying through of the Five-Year Plan. They, most likely, will even be Jess in the case of most products than the exports of the old czarist empire. So this will not be the cause of the capitalist crisis. On the contrary the crisis causes are inherent within capitalism itself and lead to a continuous impoverishment of the masses—to unemployment, part- time work, speed-up, wage cuts, hunger and starvation. It is these factors, and not “cheap Soviet exports,” that lie behind the assertion that “this country will be compelled to adopt Communism in a few short years.” But the editor of the Cincinnati Labor Advocate, anxiously desiring to serve his masters and realizing the weakness of his arguments, con- cludes with what we presume he thought was a knock-out. He resorts to the inevitable last argument of a pootlicking hypocrite. “lowever, we know.” he says, “that we do not want that kind of success that the Communists look forward to. We, above: all things, do not want to live in a land where there is no God.” Well, God, the capitalists and the labor fakers have all had their chance. And here in the United States we have 9,000,000 unemployed. Millions are working part-time. Wages are being slashed. Starvation and misery are rampant. Suicides occur by the dozens daily. Starving girls are being driven to prostitution. Graft and corruption are on all sides. This is the picture under the regime of God and the capitalists. In the Soviet Union, on the contrary, the improvement for the masses is se rapid that the capitalist world readily admits their fear of this great progress. There, unemployment is now non-existent; wages are moving upward; the masses have more food, clothing and better houses than ever before; they own and control the industries of the country; everything is operated for their benefit. : With this contrast before us as an inspiration, as an example of what the workers can accomplish, we are sure that “this country will be com- pe’ 4 (by the American workers) to adept Communism in a few short years.” In the’ meantime it is the task of all workers to rally to defend the Soviet Union against the avalanche of attacks now being launched, as a prelude to war, by the capitalists and their hirelings. Newspaper Methods EARST’S letter to the publishers and managing editors of all Hearst newspapers, reproduced elsewhere in this issue, is of utmost import- ance to all workers and not only to the foreign-born. While this particular Jetter is directed against the foreign-born workers it exposes the methods used by the capitalist newspapers to poison the minds of its readers. THe same methods are used against Negroes, against Communists! against strikers, against everyone,n fact, whom the capitalists are fighting. It 5 a means of turning one worker or one group of workers against another. ‘The method is very simple. “Whenever a criminal figures in the news,” says Hearst, “please state conspicuously if he'is not an American citizen, while if he is, state when he was naturalized. “For instance: “‘John Kajuski shoots policeman. Kajuski is not an American citizen. He arrived here from Poland in 1925'.” By this method the Hearst papers try to create the impression that every foreign-born worker is a criminal, a murderer of policemen. He tries in this way to poison the readers of the Hearst press against the boreign-born and in that way justify the deportation of foreign-born workers who fight against wage cuts, against speed-up, for unemploy- ment insurance, etc. together with the American workers 3 Against the Negro workers the same hatred is engendered by charg- ing them with rape and similar crimes. Special methods are used to cultivate hatred against all fighting workers. And this method is not confined to the Hearst press. It is regularly practiced by all capitalist newspapers—in@fact it is through such methods as this that they fulfill their role as instruments of the bosses Against this particular effort directed against the foreign-born all workers must rally behind the conference for the protection of the for- eign-born workers to be held in Washington on December Ist. Against the poisoness methods of the capitalist press the workers must react by pushing the drive for 60,000 readers for the Daily Worker. DEMONSTRATE AGAINST EVICTION Mounted Cops Attack; Council Is Formed while they heard six speakers, one of them a Negro worker. Mounted cops were called out and finally broke up the meeting by riding their l1orses into it. . . After the outdoor meeting was broken, it adjourned indoors, and continued. The meeting formed an unemployed council, and also a ten- ants league. Many Daily Workers NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 17—A thou- sand workers and jobless gathered in mass demonstration against evic- tions at 105 Prospect Ave., yesterday morning and defled polic interference were sold. Another meeting at the same place was scheduled for yester- day evening. (Editors’ Note. The seaond meeting had not been re- ported on at the time we went to press.) Country; Workers Fight Police Set Up Barricades Socialists Try to Betray Strikers NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Despite the “calling off” of the general strike in Madrid by the fakers in the trade unions, capitalist dispatches from Barcelona declare that 200,000 work- ers in this largest industrial city in Spain came out in a general strike in sympathy with the strikers in Ma- drid. The Madrid strike is still proceed- ing. The strike was a spontaneous walkout of the workers, and the trade union officials were forced to “rec- ognize” it when it became a fact. Fighting took place throughout Barcelona between police and strik- ers. The United Press cable from Barcelona states: “By noon the Syndicalist Union order for a strike extending from 24 to 48 hours had brought all ac- tivity to a halt. The streets were crowded with student and labor demonstrators who battled police and destroyed property. Several persons were seriously injured and many others hurt in the fighting with stones and pistols.” In many places the pavements were ripped open and the workers put up (Continued on Page Three) ‘ANISE’ TO SPEAK HERE THURSDAY Workers Organizations Elect Delegates! NEW YORK. — The Friends of | Soviet Union points out that the con- | |ference it has called in defense of the First Workers’ State, to meet Thutsday it has galled to meet Thursday at-6-p.. mi. in Irving Plaza | Hall, in defense of the First Workers | | State comes at a time of sudden re- | vival of the capitalist crusade against |that country. The sudden public exposure by the-Seviet govel ent of |the war plot engaged in by sabotagers ‘and spies in the U. S. S. R.,{con- | nected with the government officials |and general staffs of France, Eng- |land, Roumania, Poland and U. S. |has been followed by an unusual | barrage of lies in the capitalist press. | Israel Amter, one of the unem- jail, will open the conference at 6 p. m. sharp and will lay bare the conspiracy by which the imperialist powers expect the Balkan states to strike the first blow of armed inter- vention against the Soviet Union. The F. S. U. requests all organiza- tions to send in the names of their delegates to the district office F. S. jv by Wednesday to 797 Broadway at the latest and to order tickets for the mass protest meeting which will fol- 200,000WALK OUT IN STRIKE INBARCELONA Strike Sp Be ads Over) | | ployed leaders recently. released from | Lies About “Soviet Dumping’ Show Boss Fear of Co mmunism Capitalists Afraid U.S. Workers Will Learn How to. be Free! By HARRISON GEORGE. Two great New York capitalist papers, together with numberless al- lied papers throughout the country, are running blazing attacks on the Soviet Union. These papers are the N. Y. World and the Post. What do they say? The headline of the Post yesterday said: “Soviet, On Iron Rations, Wars for Trade Primacy,” and the World said: “Sov- iets Cruelly Enforce Economic Policy in Rash Gamble to Prop Republic’— strangely contradicting itself. on the “rash gamble” by a sub-headline say- ing that, “British Observer Says First Year’s Success Augurs Evertual Triumph.” But if we look for contradiction in these stories, we will find no end of them. The Post writer has Moscow streets everywhere shining with new asphalt pavement, while the World Notice To o> KEEP our! ?course. But read some from Can- | ada. “Dumping” is an established capi- talist habit. Any farmer will tell | you that the International Harvester Co. with headquarters in Chicago, sells binder machines in Czecho- | Slovakia, Argentina or Italy for less | than it costs to produce, but makes him pay three prices here under | | high tariff. So there's nothing “im- | moral” in dumping under capitalism, provided you are not the capitalist hit by it. | | To begin with, the amount ot | | wheat, oil and other things the Sov- | iet is selling abroad is by no means | as much as Ru | under the Czar, so that is NOT a} “menace.” But is it “below cost?” Here all capitalist experts get hys- used to sell abroad | terical. “By any ordinary standard at lees than cost. But any “ordinary” ' standard means a capitalist standard Here’s the difference: The land in | tion, not to landlords, and the billions But first, what “dumping” is. writer weeps over the inhabitants, let us understand just whom he says must stand “ankle deep in Moscow mud.” Both of them agree on two things: First, that the Soviet is “dumping” goods abroad. Second, that the whole Five-Year Plan of socialist construc- tion is a menace to the capitalist world. Let us examine these claims. price less than it costs to produce them. Right now Canada is accus- ing the United States Farm Board of “dumping” wheat on the world market. The capitalist papers here don’t say anything about that, ot Briefly it means selling goods in foreign lands at a | upon billio: here in America is paid to landiords tion can actually begin, is absent in | | Soviet production costs. Also, there, production is organized and planned under one national scheme; here, all is anarchy in spite (Continued on Page Three) Needle Bosses Tax Workers to Get Strike-Breaking Fund Employers Meeting Under Pretense of Helping Unemployed and Fund Will be Disguised as Aid to Jobless; Industrial Union Acts BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—All unemployed dressmakers are called by the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Union today at 2 p. m. at 131 West 28th St. An unemployed council will be formed for the purpose of fighting for relief controlled by the workers and jobless and at the expense of the bosses. The coming dressmakers’ strike will be one of the chief topies for discussion, as it is most closely connected with the solution of the problems of the unemployed. NEW YORK.—The needls trades) to the fund, with executives and ofvn- bosses have one of the most vicious |ers giving what their means permit” schemes through which to take back | (Woman's Wear Daily). some of the already miserable pay| In some shops thé workers are al- received by those working a couple | ;regqay being taxed from 50 cents to of days a week. On the pretense of |g) per week. The Mary Lee Froa&k being very sorry for the poor unem- | js one of them. Its 70 workers were ployed needle workers, various man-| called to a meeting and terrorized ufacturers met at an aristocratic) into voting a tax upon themselves luncheon in the Garment Center| which will go to the association which Capitol Friday to “work out ways and | wil] be the clearing house for all these means of raising funds for unemploy- | funds. Mr. Mossesohn, executive ment relief.” chairman of the association, frankly According to the decisions of this |admits that the money will not be luncheon meeting, where Samuel | used for the unemployed but tor im- Kline of the Industrial Council of proving business and | Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers | tween the lines) for breaking and other heads of the various gar- ment exploiters associations were the | | leading lights, “each firm is to have its employes contribute 1 per cent of their pay for the next three months the he Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union. The strike demands are mainly aimed at the cause of the present Mossesohn states. in Women's Wear (reading be- | dressmakers’ strike being prepared by | widespread unemployment. | DOWNTOWN JOBLESS SEND, 30 TO PROTEST EVICTION) NEW YORK. —In spite of all ob- | stacles thrown in their way by the | Tammany government, and in spite | of a rainstorm, the Down Town Un- employed Council held a meeting at- tended by about 2,000 jobless near | the city fake employment agency on | Lafayette St., at noon yesterday. After listening to Owerking, of the Trade Union Unity League, and oth- | of measurement,” says the N. Y. Post | writer, Soviet products are being sold | National Anti-Lynching Convent ’ 120 DELEGATES AT ANTI- LYNCH CONVENTION PLAN NEGRO RIGHTS STRUGGLE Enthusiastic Convention of American Negro Labor Congress in St. Louis Maps Out Fight on Lynching, Discrimination Changes Form of Organization and Name to League of Struggle for gro Rights Fight Against Atlanta Death Threat; Delegate Says “We Must be Necessary for N By CYRIL ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17. | Negro Labor Congress, number and 17 organizations. |a resolution supporting all colonial |pledged support in mobilizing the There the Soviet Union belongs to the na-| delegates. The spirit of the delegates co session. Moore presided over t A new name was adopted by® the convention — League of Struggle for Negro Rights. There will be a looser form of organization than heretofore. The national committee will con- tain 25 members. with an executive committee of seven. The Convention called for mass protest against the Atlanta case, | where Negro and white workers face | death for organizing in trade unions. A resolution for the defense of the Soviet Union was passed, as well as struggles, as well as a fight against the war danger. The centenary of Nat Turner's ex- ecution on Noy. 11, 1830, was com- | memorated. The Communist Party, through its | representative here, Earl Browder, Willing to Die If egro Liberation BRIGGS. With new arrivals, delegates at the ion called by the American 120, representing 18 states, are 73 Negro and 47 white is enthusiastic. Many of the : | t which under capitalism | qelegates actually fought their way here. | Shepherd of San Fran or in land purchases before produc- | was chairman of the morning he afternoon session. N.J. SPINNERS GET WAGE CUT AFTER 3 WEEKS LAYOFF YTWU Meeting Tues., November 18 (By a Worker Correspondent) GARFIELD, N. J—I am a worker in the New Jersey Spinning Mill Co, and want to tell you of another wage cut we just got. Three weeks ago this whole mill shut down and the other day, after three weeks, it reopened. Before any worker could punch the time clock ers, 2 large crowd followed the speak- | white masses for Negro struggles. |the boss told us we must accept an- | ers to 27 East Fourth St., wher? many | joined the council | A group of 30 was elected to go to Brooklyn to attend the un- jeviction of a shoe worker who had | | been out of a job for a year. Geneva Econom nonstration against the | cause of Negro |by the Workers’ International Relief southern Negro dele- | ced the preachers and gate, other fakers saying, “We must be willing to die if necessary for the liberation.” ‘yhe delegates were housed and fed | ic Conjerences Try Build Anti-Soviet Front ‘Dumping” Main War Cry, But Leads to Internal Conflicts GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 17.—! ets, an embargo can be placed on The preliminary arms conference is| Soviet exports. jtries assembling here for the eco- |momic conference opening here to- day conference is directed mainly at the Soviet Union, to pro- The |vide some means whereby, without too seriously wrecking European mar- | It proceeds warily, now practically a dead létter, wrecked | because the Soviet government has on the refusal of U to consent to any limit on S. imperialism | plainly stated that embargoes will the | meet with retaliation, and there are other five per cent cut and if we don’t like it to go ring up the clock as there were hundreds waiting out- side the mills for jobs. Families Are Starving Well, how the devil can we, of this mill, feed ourselves and families and pay the rent for the very little wages we get? We are all almost starving with our families after not working three weeks and before that, part time and now another wage cut. Before 180 machines were working, now only 60 are doing even more ork than the former 180 machines. k ebout working us to death! We don’t even get any time at all for lunch. The day shift starts at 6 a, m. and works right through to 2 p. m. Night shift starts at 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. No lunch period. And our wages are 30 cents for women who operate thirty-six spool machine that has to be changed every hour. And for men forty cents amounts to be spent to make war- | always most. pressed countries which an hour. Before two women operated low opening at 8 p. m. immediately after the conference. Anna Louise) Strong (“Anise”), managing editor of | the Moscow News, is the main speaker. (a capitalist trade sheet) that “Not only is contributing to offset unem- ployment a most charitable act but it the essence of good business at Miis time” (our emphasis). Through the cooperation of the | World Tourists a news reel of foreign delegates who visited Soviet Russia for trade relations will be shown. Wants Wages Equally Low. Samuel Kline, well known to the (Continued on Page Two) Newspaper Czar~Tries to Support Bills Before Congress NEW YORK.—Further proof that the widespread Hearst chain of newspapers is deliberately trying by the most unfair and demagogle means to work up sentiment for the bills pending in Congress against the foreign born workers in United States is presented in a letter from Hearst ‘to his editors, recently ex- posed and a photograph of which is here reproduced. ~* Hearst’s papers are in every large city of U. S., sometimes openly claimed as his, and sometimes merely | secretly controlled. In New York Hearst has three, the American, Journal and Mirror. His instructions to his publishers | and managing editors give clear, de- finite instructions that whenever a crime is committed, or a suspect is arrested, the person charged must be labeled as foreign born and his country of nativity mentioned unless uralized, that fact must be mention- ed too. Hearst gives examples, in his dsire that his anti-foreign born in- he is born in U. 8. If he is not nat- | ships deadly, and. the limit ‘inst t hind the army reserves, nes, as always. | They appear, also, in azeravated form with all the complications lamong the delegates from 40 coun- | | refusal of | will break solidarity with the imper- France and other colonial powers to|ialists and open up for Soviet trade. But the plots|It proceeds hypocritically, under the | Soviet Union go on be-|slogans of a fight against dumping, jand for tariff reductions. Hearst Orders His Editors to Build Up a Prejudice Against Foreign Born W orkers To Publishers and Managing Editors of all, Hearst newspapers: ' Whenever a criminal figures in the news pleasz state conspicuously if he is not an Ameries> ~ tigen, while if he is, state when naturalized. For instance: “John Kajuski shoots policemen, an Amefican citizen. ved here in 1925 Or else: “¢ hhe is an American citizen and was naturalized in 1928." Also, if possible, state whether he is illiterate or victim of drugs. “W. R. HEARST, Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 5, 1930. ski is not rom Poland | structions not be misunderstood or) pending before congress when it evaded on this point. opens sessions in December. There Finger Printing and Exile are bills for finger-printing, seggre- The reason for this jingm crusade | tion, registration and easier deporta- is of course the chance to pass bills/tion ‘of the foreign born. These are \ jin addition to the bills which will | the machine. Only one does the work | now. I’ve just heard there will be @ meeting of the National Textile Workers Union Tuesday, November What Is “Dumping?” Most of those concerned are build- ing up tariff walls and cursing the | tariff walls of other rival empires. | “Dumping” is a word full of dyna-! mite, too. All Soviet exportation for | “the purpose of buying machinery is 18 at Passaic. You bet I’m going up there and a lot of other workers from this mill and other textile mills and we are all going to join up with the union so that we'll be strong enough to fight against wage cuts and for better living conditions. . jclassed as “dumping” and on that, INDIAN VILLAGE RESISTS SUD- point all capitalist envoys are agreed. | But U. S., Canadian and Australian | exports of wheat to Europe are also called “dumping” by the Balkans, by | England or France. That causes | | probably be submitted by the Fish | trouble. committee. The reason for the crusade against the foreign born, a campaign backed up by the American Federation of Labor, is of course to further the plans for imperialist war, to try and split the ranks of the workers and throw native born against foreign born, and to terrorize militant for- are wholesale deportations. National | The foreign | tant native born workers are already | giving their answer. A whole series of city conferences has elected del- egates to a national conference of foreign born workers to meet Dec, 1 in Washington, D, C., and work out plans for counter offensive against the terror campaign, and defense against the slave driving bills now before congress, or to be submitted during the coming session. The Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born, headquarters, 32 Union Square, New York, states that it expects 400 delegates, from every section of the country and represent- ing every language group, will be Confeernce eign born workers. Even now there | born and the mill | present at the national conference. « The Swedish delegation has raised a hornets’ nest by demanding that | the conference define “dumping.” | Count Betheln, Horthy’s right-hand man in Hungary, has given out an| interview in which he criticizes the | U. S. for refusing to take the initia- tive in a special conference on agri- | cultural exports. France proposes al “truce between industry and agricul- | | ture’ (!) to be brought about by a | pooling of bank capital. Considering | that France of all European coun- | tries, has most free credits to dis- pose of, and is reported loaning Eng- | land $1,000,000,000, other empires look | askance at this, as a scheme for the | French bankers to grab control. | All the desire of empires to com-| bine for military onslaught on the | Soviet Union, and the rivalries among | themselves which they are trying des- | perately to smooth over and postpone until after the crusade against Com- | munism appear in the economic con- | DEN ATTACK. BOMBAY.—A raid by police on @ village near Belgaum near here met with the stiff resistance of the villag- ers. As a result many police were in= jured and 22 casyalties among the peasants were reported. Chinese Decline To Be Suppressed Disturbing tricks on the part of the Bolsheviki are be- coming quite annoying to the Imperialist catspaws in China who have a difficult enough job trying to suppress all the workers and farmers who no longer care to be robbed. The boss lie-grocers pass this over the counter: “Today the Communists may boldly uphold the red if cause while tomorrow, necessity demands, they appear as peaceful farmers.” Better to say the peaceful farmers of yesterd: are ference in even more naked form. boldly aanviathg the red cause today. Build the Red lation gains in Wednesday's Daily | Worker. | army of the Daily Worker. Join the drive for 60,000 cir- culation. Don't miss the full story of circu-|