The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1930, Page 1

COLLECT SIGNATURES FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! SPEED THE CAMPAIGN! Take Out a List and Sign Up Everybody Who Thinks the Job« less Workers Should Not Starve This Winter. me ee ee Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail (Siection (of Ee «Worker he-Cd mimunist Porty U.S.A. the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII. No. 278 a Entered as second-class matter at the Post Oflice at New York, N. ¥.. ander the uct of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents " —a “As Far As Possible” AXIM LITVINOFF, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in the Soviet Union and head of the Soviet delegation at the Preparatory Dis- armament Commission, so-called, now meeting in Geneva, is successfully exposing the “peace” and “disarmament” talk of the imperialist spokes- men. He alone, in conformity with the desires of the workers and pea- sants whom he represents, has urged general and complete disarmament. And he alone, when these proposals were summarily rejected, insisted on real reductions in armaments. His proposals embarrass the representatives of the big capitalist na- tions—United States, Great Britain, France and Japan—because, for them, Geneva is a place where they talk of disarmament and peace only to conceal their own feverish war preparations which are directed primarily against the Soviet Union. Yesterday's session again revealed this fact. “to limit” naval armaments. A proposal was made Litvinoff, recalling how the London Naval Treaty, after three months’ talk about “limitation,” had resulted in a new and enlarged building program for cruisers, destroyers, airplane car- riers, etc., insisted that the proposal he amended “to reduce and limit naval armaments.” This put the imperialists in a hole, and to get out, Massigli of France proposed the following formulation which was adopted with only Litvinoff and one other delegate voting against it: “The high contracting powers POSSIBLE to reduce their naval agree to limit and AS FAR AS armaments.” Whereupon, Litvinoff, with a burning sarcasm that completely tore the veil away from “this face-saving formula” (New York World— 11-19-30) proposed “that this commission rename itself “fhe Preparatory Commission for Disarmament IF POSSIBLE.’” By such skillful thrusts as this Litvinoff at Geneva is exposing before the workers of the entire world the disgraceful hypocrisy of the imperial- ists, who talk loudly of “peace” and “disarmament” while at the same time they feverishly prepare for war. Promises Don’t Go! '‘OLONEL ARTHUR WOODS, strikebreaker, and now Hoover's “hunger chief, calls the newspaper boys together every day and informs them of what will be done sometime to help the nation’s 9,000,000 unemployed workers. Yesterday. for example, he announced that as soon as the “plans and specifications are prepared,” “bids will be called for” and then “contracts will be let” for the building of a couple of towboats and some barges for use on the upper Mississippi. Now, knowing government “red tape,” we would estimate, if al] goes well, that here are jobs for about a hundred jobless workers in, maybe, 1935. Yesterday's talk with the “boys” also brought more astounding in- formation. And this is -it!—notwithstanding all the ballyhoo in the capitalist newspapers and the shameful lies of the politicians, Woods ad- mitted that only “eighty-six communities have relief surveys or relief drives under way.” True, he listed others as conducting “unemployment surveys” and “job hunts.” But with almost 9,000,000 jobless, many of whom are actually starving, only eighty-six communities in the United States have yet made the slightest gesture toward relieving the suffering of these workers. And with this miserable record, Woods boasts that “the whole United States was alert to the urgency of the unemployment situation!” Such contemptible gall must arouse thé workers to more energetic struggle. Colonel Woods ,and: those he serves, must learn through mass pressure, that the workers will not tolerate, either this self-satisfied in- difference to their suffering, or the We want immediate unemployment relief—and nothing less! miserable, begging charity offered. insurance and adequate emergency Promises don’t go! Hoover Gang Starts Actual Is Precedent; Use Hoover Fault as Excuse WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 19.— President Hoover, through secretary ot Agriculture Hyde, has struck open- jy at Soviet trade with the United States, such actions ordinarily are preparation for worse. This direct blow is at imports of sausage casings, which for years have formed one of the big items in the total of imports into this country from the Soviet Union, An order has been issued that after Dec. 15 no certificat of health- ful condition, attached to such ship- ments by the meat inspection depart- ment of the Soviet government, shall be accepted by the American inspec- tion officers. The Meat Inspection Bureau of the Department of Agri- culture explains that this means that henceforth each cask of casings will be opened, and its contents will be chemically fumigated before it is ad- mitted to the American market. Denying that thi; will constitute an embargo, the Bureau chiefs admit that it will add to the landed :ost of the Russian product, and hence will reduce its competitive chance in America. No Complaint For a year and a half, past, the Bureau discloses, certificates of in- spection from the Russian Soviet in- spectio nauthorities of any Soviet shipment of sausage casings has been filed with the Bureau, But an crder has been received from Secretary Hyde that the certificate must not be honored after Dec. 15—a date far enough distant to give importers warning to make no more shipments unless they wish to bear the cost of fumigation at New York. ‘The sole explanation of this anti- Soviet trade move is that the Hoover administration has decided that So- viet inspection certificates “are not officially known” to be based on ac- tual inspection. Such official ignor- ance is declared because the United States government refuses to rec- ognize the U, S. S. R. and so has no official representatives within the So- viet borders. lore Such Action Coming While this blow at the casings tradi? will be serious, in cutting down ie the amount of Soviet sales in this country and thereby reducing Soviet orders for American machinery and farming implements, the precedent set is more important still. For if affidavits as to the condition of meat. products are to be rejected, Soviet affidavits as to the conditions under which manganese, lumber, coal and other exports are produced—affidavits as to production by free labor es- pecially would be rejetced in the| same way. This order was issued the day after @ cabinet meeting. It appears to in- dicate that Hoover and his advisers are embarking on a political adven- ture of shutting off the trade with | the Soviet Union, which gave em- ployment in the past year to scores of thousands of American mechanics. NextSundaytoBe Red One in N.Y. With Democrats and Repub- licans, their election quarrels over, sighing lovingly in each other's arms, and Tammany graft charges that flickered a day in the boss press snuffed out with a hasty ihumb, the Communists are organizing for the greatest New York Red Sunday, Nov. 23 when all Party and league workers will swarm into the streets and make house to house visits in the Daily Worker 60,000 cir- culation offensive. Red Sundays will also be held throughout the country. Every Red worker, meet your fellow workers at section headquarters Sunday morn- ing. Carve yourself off a slice of that 60,000 circulation. Campaign news page 3. Work Down to Lie About Soviet Union By HARRISON GEORGE. American workers must marvel at the persistence with which the capi- talist press lies about the conditions of the workers of the Soviet Union. For exactly thirteen years most of the American capitalist papers have stoutly asserted that every Russian worker was starving to death. Yet they still live! ‘That one, single fact, should be disconcerting to liars such as, for ex- ample, the N. Y. Post, which is run- ning a series of 24 anti-Soviet ar- ticles on “The Red Trade Menace.” But the Post, and its writer, H. R. Knickerbocker, are hardened liars. For example, while Knickerbocker was in the Soviet Union many months ago, he is now in the United States. But every story published in the N. Y. Post bears a current date line, as did the one yesterday—“MOSCOW, Nov. 18.” This gives the impression to the reader that what is told is of con- ditions in Moscow today. Even all that is said is distorted, and much is plain lying, but even if all were true months ago, there is no reason to as- sert that it is true-today, as Soviet organization makes rapid changes Stands Facts Upside é Boss Press Weeps Over “Famished”’ ers, But Not Those ot America! THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 { CAPITALIST PRESS 3 you must read the news about the - ‘ 9,000,000 unemployed workers and their families in the United States of capitalist America! Yet while this sorrowful tale of | “shortages” is given in the N. Y. Post, | the Moscow correspondent of the N. Y. Times, who at least is actually in Moscow, publishes a cable dispatch in that paper of Tuesday, sayin: “Foreigners often ask: ‘Why, if |Soviet production is as superior to pre-war conditions as is claimed, is there shortage everywhere?’ The an- swer is threefold. First, the demand has increased enormously. The pea- sants and workers today have stand- HUNGER COMMITTEE TO TRANSFER FAKERY ON RELIEF TO CONGRESS Bankruptcy of Woods Commission Is So Evi- dent that Boss Press Keeps Silent About It Senators Worry About Gov't Deficit, But Find Plenty of Cash for Ward and Corporation WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—What has become of Hoover’s hunger committee headed by the ex-police chief, Col. Woods? \It started off with a bang, and reams of newspaper publicity was given to the tremendous relief that would go to the AS THE BOSSES WANT YOU TO SEE THE LAND WHERE THE WORKERS RULE when necessity requires. But what is said? In this we find the Post's screming headline repeat- ing the ancient lie of starvation: “Famished Moscow Short All Food Except Bread; Buyers In Line for Hours.” And the story is one long wail about “shortages,” particularly of food. Though, — strangely enough, there is rio proof of anybody, any WORKER, actually starving. Tf you want to read about workers who are really and actually starving to death, ard food and clothing which seven- tenths of them would never have dreamed of in the old days. Second, the demand has ben scattered over the country instead of being relatively concentrated in industrial centers, | With consequent delays and difficul- | ties in distribution. Third, there are exports.” Workers, consider well what the first reason means: Russian workers and peasants are demanding “enor- mously” more goods than ever be- fore, because they have been gettThg increased wages and income. Facts show that workers’ wages in the Soviet Union have been raised from six to ten per cent every year. In the United States, under capital- (Continued on Page Three) MOBILIZING TO HIT INJUNCTION; BE READY MON! All Workers Meetings Rally to Action NEW VOPK. — All militant work- | ers’ meetings, all meetings of the un- emnloved now.«t#k® up the question of smashes @Pyunctions against | nicketine. Phe eal of the Smash the | Trimefions-Committee of the Trede | Tton ‘Vnity Council for mass picket stot demon lOnSwOM: Mondav at 6:2) | Jn. m. tng \Oafeteria at BT West Embargo on Soviet Products Department of Agriculture Ruling Refusing to Accept Import Affidavits on Sausage Casings | St. has broucht re- snonse frome workers in all industries. The Now! employed Coun- cil voted yesterday to take part in a body. A mess meeting of building trades workers Saturdav will take up the question and 1mdoubtedly act in sup- port of the campaign to smash in- junctions. Mass meetings of needle trades | workers yesterday voted to take part. |The question comes up before meet- jings of the unemployed furriers to- |day, the umbrella workers, and the raincoat workers. There will be other mass meetings. In all shops active organization for imass participation, with choosing of \leaders and close relations with the Smash the Injunction Committee is | required, and some progress is being | made. The Committee points out that this demonstration Monday afternoon is jthe most important yet. The fine |fight put up Thursday by workers who are determined to save the right |to strike and the determination of |those arrested must not be wasted. ;Open mass violation of the injunc- | tions which American Federation of Labor and bosses unite in obtaining to preserve the right to picket with- out, which strikes are useless. All out, jobless and employed alike, and |together, to smash the injunction, at Zelgreen Cafeteria, Monday. GREET th ANNIV. UT=) COUNCIL NEW YORK. — Final preparations \for the United Council of Working Class Women’s scventh anniversary concert being completed, the affair gives promise of an enjoyable cultural evening. The concert will be held on Friday, Nov. 21, at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East Fourth Street, at 8 p. m, Prominent among the features of Freiheit Mendolin Orchestra and recitations by Yosel Kotler. Members of all councils are ex- pected to turn out in full force. Pres- entations to be given members for activity will usher in the eighth year of working class women's activity in the class struggle. All workers are urged to reserve this night and attend the concert meeting. ‘Tickets may be purchased now. the evening will be numbers by the | General Strike Molested By celona have spread to Seville. | police. Many were wounded. workers to come out. As in Barcelona and Madrid, the strikers stoned street cars that jran aftey the general strike was called. The A. P. cable says “The strike was entirely unex- sympathy with the earlier movement in Madrid and Barcelona.” The Seville general strike shows | that the mass discontent is wide- spread throughout Spain, and cannot easily be put down by the united ac- tion of the Socialists and the Fascist Berenguer government. Cable reports from Madrid and Barcelona state that the general strike has been called off there, though thousands of workers are still out, especially in Barcelona, where sporadic fighting between police and NEEDLE COMPANY UNION IS SCORED Schlesinger’s Denial Won’t Stop Jobless NEW YORK.—Though Schlesinger yesterday denied through the columns that he agreed to the proposition | made when he and Hillman were | meeting with Mayor Walker the day | before, to have needle workers work unemployed,” the policy of his com- needle worker jobless are more than ever determined to fight directly for relief themselves. All needle trades workers of all sections of the indus- try are moving forward to support the coming dress strike and are more and more against the company unions which sell them out. | Smash Injunction! Needle trades workers are rallying also to the call of the Trade Union Unity Council Smash the Injunctions Committee to take part in the mass demonstrations against injunctions. The next demonstration is at Zal- green Cafeteria on 34 St. near Eighth Ave., Monday, at 5:30 p. m. All unemployed furriers are called | by the Needle Trades Workers’ In- ;dustrial Union to meet today at 16 W. 2ist St. second floor, to discuss unemployment and important cam- paigns against it. The umbrella workers are being called by the Industrial Union to a meeting at 6 p. m. today at 131 W. ‘28th St. to build an umbrella work- ers’ section in the union. Li pected, but was called apparently in | |of the bosses’ paper, Women’s Wear, | in every strike now is the only way | for nothing making clothes “for the | pany union tends that way. and the} in Seville; More Troops Patrol Madrid Thousands Being Arrested; Communists Tried By Rump Courts; Socialists Not Fascist Gov’t Associated Press dispatches from Seville, Spain, state that the series of general strikes which started in Madrid and Bar- The workers clashed with the Strike committees visited shops and factories and urged all | strikers is taking place. Clashes have also taken place in Barcelona between militant trade un- ionists in the Sindicato Unico and so- cial-fascist leaders uf the Free Labor Syndicate, lead by Socialist betrayers. | Armed guards and soldiers fill Ma- |drid. The palace of King Alfonso is | surrounded by machine gun detach- |ments. Premier Berenguer, Fascist |vuler of Spain, announced that he has discovered a plot to overthrow the | monarchy and establish a republic. | While the strike in Barcelona is ap- | parently ended, the strike wave has | spread to other cities. The ending of the series of general strikes by no means indicates an end to the struggle. The present strikes are the culmi- | nation of a whole series of struggles | which will lead in the very near fu- ture to much bigger battles. JUDGE DELAYS WHILE SERIO LIES SICK ON ISLAND Many Protests Against; Deportation NEW YORK.—The announcement of Judge William Bondy refusing to act in the case of Guido Serio, who is about to be deported to Italy for his militant activity against the fas- cist government and is remaining at Ellis Island to await the pleasure of the judge in making up his mind, although Serio is sick with no great chance of improvement as long as | he remains there, has brought pro- | tests to the International Labor De- fense from various militant bodies | of workers. It is rousing mass ac- | tion on the part of many organiza- tions. esvecially from the Council for the Protection of Foreign Born. The International Labor Defense also points out tha tthese has been | jan intensification on’ the part of the | capitalist press, especially in Wash- | ington, D. C.. where the department | of labor is active ‘ its campaign, to | |deport Serio and let loose a stream | jof capitalist propaganda against all |foreign-born workers. Various capi- | talist papers refer to him as an “an- archist, who’ made speeches against | | Mussolini, the Pope and the United | States government.” ' | { unemployed as the result of ‘it NEGRO AND WHITE YOUTH CONFER TO FIGHT LYNCHINGS| Take Up Special Tasks Of Young Workers ST. LOUIS, Nov. 19.—A youth con- ference attended by 14 delegates was held Saturday night in connection with the anti-lynching convention in this city of the American Negro Labor Congress, whose name was changed by the convention to the League of Struggle for Equal Rights. About the same proportion of white and Negro workers as represented at the convention was present at the Youth Conference with six white and eight young Negro workers. Eleven other young worker delegates did not arrive in time for the youth confer- ence, Those present came from Ala- bama, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Ne wyYork, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania. The delegates discussed on the basis of their personal experiences in the field the task of building the Young Liberators and the anti-lynch- ing conferences. A report was made on the youth work of the American Negro Labor Congress and a resolu- tion adopted for presentation to the convention. The necessity of taking on lighter activities for the Young Liberators, such as sport é¢lubs, bands and social activities, and the building of self- defense groups, the building of a mass circulation for the Liberator was stressed by all of the speakers. The delegates reported that there were groups of the Young Liberators in Maryland,, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New York, with possibility of early organization in the South. Five youth members are on the Na- tional Committee of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and one on its Council of Directors. story without telling too much States Treasury. And the lousy A. F. of L. outfit, By A. RICHARDSON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 19.—How the Hoover gang would “admin-| rebates last fall, there wasn’t any | ister” Unemployed Insurance if they were to get the chance is shown by| “red tape” in the way. the sufferings of the retired government workers, who haven't received 2| Pay the government workers a few | Penny of their pensions since last July, although the pension fund is their) easly pensions out of their own own money collected out of their wages while they were working. A reactionary bourgeois paper. the Washington Star, tries to tell the! dication” stuff. Says the Star: RED TAPE FORGING POVERTY , UPON RETIRED U. S. WORKERS)! Thousands ob-Paperstinnaiad Em Actual Want While Claims Being Adjudicated. Money due them lying idle in the the National Federation of Federal| Employees, is standing around doing | years ago, nothing whatever for the money the! | ployes in| Are untold suffering and Thment emploves-as according to Gerttude Employes, the situation the direst of poverty— ‘United workers have been contributing to it ever since its organization fifteen When Hoover wanted to give the Government Takes Employees’ Money for ‘Pension Fund’ Then Starves Them Wall Street gang $160,000,000 in tax But he can't money without six months of “adju- Hines “Adjudicating” Brig. Gen, Frank T. Hines, who has been “adjulicating” World War veterans affairs for the last seven years, was put in charge of the gov- ernment workers’ pensions fund last June. Hoover liked the gouging sys- tem that Hines set up in the Vet- erans Bureau. Thousands of ex-soldiers ure being | Sypped out of their compensation by the Hines outfit, so Hoover can give the money to big-bellied business men in tax rebates. That's why Hines was given his Veterans Bureau job——Wall Street couldn't prevent the appropriations for veterans’ re- lief, so it did the next best. thing, which was to put a red tape artist at the head of the Veterans Bureau who would gouge the soldiers out of their compensation, shunt the meney back to the Treasury, where Mellon Could switch the swag to the Wall Street gang via the tax rebate recket, while Hines stalled off the’ victims with the same “adjudication” gag that he's pulling now on the civilians. Ex-Service men who squawk too (Continued on Page Three) \ ie s activity. The boss press is silent about its activities. Woods made it clear that he could supply no iobs. Later he annouzced Hoo- ver’s hunger committee would supply no relief. Now they keep their mouths shut. The whole fakery is transferred to the forthcoming ses- sions of Congress where the capital- ists through their lackeys, will raise another false cry about relief. Democratic and Republican Con- gressmen are squabbling over what | should be done to fool the unemploy- jed. One proposal is that the Red Cross be given a subsidy to feed the unemployed. Most of the Republican and Democratic senators and con- gressmen oppose this because it would be a “dole.” | Senator Reed stated that the Treas- ury was facing a deficit, and that all the plans for public building boasted about by Hoover wouldn’t go on at all. | ~ At-the same time, plans: are being | made to decrease the taes of the’ big corporations by one per cent. In the talk about government “deficit” none ot the capitalist congressmen say anything about the billion dollars be- ing spent for war preparations. They keep uiet about the $300,000,000 tax r ‘urns given Mellon, Morgan and Rockefeller at the beginning of the crisis. Plenty of mcney can be found for war or for presents to the rich bosses. Not one penny for the unem=- ployed. It is getting clearer that there will be no relief for the jobless, unless they mobilize, together with the em- ployed workers, and demand unem~- ployment insurance. WORKERS LAUNCH OPIVE TO DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION Anna Louise Strong Is “Tain Speaker Tonight NEW YORK.—Denouncing the vi- ous lying propaganda of the New Yor Evening Post as an indication of the frenzied fear of the capitalist of the tremendous success of the Five Year Plan which will be accom- plished in three and a half years, the Friends of the Soviet Union, N. Y. district will launch a counter cam- naign to spread the true facts about the Soviet Union tonight at 6 p. m. ft ‘p at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St and Irving Place. There and then the F. S. U. conference will be held, ac- cording to the statement just re- leased by the local secretary, Harriet Silverman. The members of the working class delegations who will attend the con- ference, will respond as never before to the appeal of the F. S. U. to smash | the imperialist smoke-screen of lies |and the plans of the Fascist Fish Committee to start the new wave of | terror of finger-printing and deporta- | tions against the foreign born and | those who are opposed to the bank- | rupt capitalist system. | Mass Meeting | ‘The F. S. U. conference which will open at 6 p. m. sharp will adjorn at 8 p. m. and a mass meeting of | Protest will begin to which all are | invited. The meeting will expose the | war plot against the Soviet Union, | the latest Anti-Soviet conspirrey | which the Soviet government directly | charges against the British and | French governments with U. 8. standing ready to intervene. | Speakers at the meeting are Anna ; Louise Strong, just returned from | Moscow who will make her first | speech in New York at this meeting. | Dr. E. Reed Mitchel, Moissay J. Ol- gin, I. Amter are among the speak- ers, The program also include a new Soviet News Reel. in