The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dailu. Central Orga e-Co Rfrumict Party U.S.A (Section of the Communist International) orker OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! ans ove Entered ss second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y¥.. under the act of March 3. 1879 CITY EDITION | Price 3 Cents Vol. VII, No. 282 NEW YORK, TUESDAY,, NOVEMBER 25, 1930 “Lovers of Freedom” HE Hotel Pennsylvania is one of New York's nicest. It is a fitting place for the gathering that took place there Sunday, of what the N. Y. Times called “socialist,” “labor” and “Russian” groups, to adopt a resolution calling on all “lovers of freedom” to protest the “rule of blood” and to raise money for relief of the “heroic victims of the reign of terror” in the Soviet Union. Firstly, just who are these people? Here there were “socialists” who, by even the capitalists who support them, are known to have nothing in common with genuine socialist principles, “socialists” who openly pledge their support to the bosses against the workers, “socialists” who deny that there exists any fundamental difference in interest, any mutual conflict, any inevitable struggle, between the working class and the capitalist class. Here, too, there were those “labor” groups carried around in the vest pocket of Matthew Woll, who can add up supporters by the hundred thousand but who cannot get a baker's dozen of them to a really public mass meeting. In fact it is typical that these “groups,” which the N. Y. ‘Times said were represented by “delegates” who spoke of “a total mem- bership of more than 250,000,” do not dare to go before the actual work- ers of New York City in a call for a general public mass meeting of their wholly fictitious “250,000 members,” let alone the general mass of work- ers whom they try to impress by this lie. ‘Then, there were those “Russian” groups. This IS interesting. Since not even being “socialist,” it is clear as day that these “Russian groups are the Czarist white guards, the rotten remnants of the old Russian capitalist class and nobility, the groups which brutalized the Russian peasant and swung the whip and the scaffold over hundreds of thousands of Russian workers. ‘These are the “lovers of freedom”! An incident which occurred there, in this hand-picked “delegate” body, disclosed how utterly vile is the “socialist” party. Some ill-advised youth thought that it was necessary to conceal the essential imperialist- capitalist character of their action against the Soviet Union, with an ac- companying gesture of disapproval for the massacre of the people of India by the “socialist” or “labor” government of Great Britain. A resounding majority, led by Morris Hilquit, the “socialist,” rejected this. While the time may come when American imperialism may need this “socialist” opposition in America to blaze forth in self-righteous wrath at the “socialists” of England—the main thing U. S. imperialism now wants, is the whole wolf pack in full.cry against the Soviet Union. Hilquit objected to putting anything in the record, even such an empty gesture as a slap on the wrist for his “socialist” pal, Ramsay Mac- Donald, but seeing the need for a pretended interest in “freedom” got off a few pretty words. : He said that if he “had to choose” between Fascism and Communism, he would choose Communism. He said it was a “stupid thing” to ban Soviet goods. And so on. But this “socialist” scoundrel had just fin- ished voting against even the gesture of protest against the massacre of Britich “labor” imperialism in India! And he was voting here, sitting here in sweet harmony, with the Wolls and the Djamgaroffs, who are moving heaven and earth to ban Soviet goods! Fen more, he professed to be surprised with these “strange bed- fellows.” Rut he stayed tranquilly in bed with them and indeed courted the intercourse. Nor can the American socialist party foreswear its bed-fellows. It is part of the Second “socialist” International, whose connection with the counter-revelutionary “Woising Peasants Party” of Professor Kondratisv in the Soviet Union is being exposed at the great public trial opening today in Moscow. ‘These dastardly criminals plotted to wreck the Soviet industries, to organize rich peasant uprisings and to open the way for armed invasion of Soviet soil by imperialist armies and bloody Czarist bands such as were represented here, with Mr. Hilquit, in the Hotel Pennsylvania meeting. These, workers, are the “lovers of freedom”! And against them every worker in America must raise a voice for defense of the Soviet Union! These “lovers of freedom” are the agents of your bosses who give you wage cuts, lay offs, starvation and misery, and who want to destroy the only government that stands for the freedom of the workers from capi- talism and oppression! Defend your class; defend the Soviet Union! A New ‘Attack ol the Jobless 'HILE the miserable slop being handed out as charity to the homeless and starving men and women is being cut down rather than in- creased, the unutterably hypocritical “relief committee” is planning to attack the unemployed from a new angle. On Nov. 14 and 15, after a newspaper barrage of the “wonderful” packages that Mayor Walker was distributing, only some 9,000 of these packages, containing about enough for one poor meal for a family, was given out, though the police had reported 32,000 families in desperate need. This was said to be the ration of a family of four “for one week.” Note that! But, lo! After this marvelous deed was done, it was ob- scurely said in remote paragraphs of the boss press, that similar packages would be distributed—but only on Thanksgiving Day! Now simple arithmetic says that from Nov. 14th to Nov. 27th, Thanks- giving Day (Ye gods! Thanks for what?), is thirteen days. It also notes that distribution of 9,000 packages to 32,000 families leaves a ghastly gap. Yet this is all that such damnable deceit amounts to—a simple but crim- inal deceit, a lie, a pretense! ! But now, a new drive! Some anonymous “social workers” who have been snooping like detectives around the bread lines, are horrified at the alleged “foreigners,” the starving men and women “from other parts of the country.” These, they say, are “imposing” on the great heart of New ‘York by migrating here in droves, doubtless paying their way on the ‘Twentieth Century Limited from Chicago, to get the wonderful “oppor- tunity” of standing in line in the Bowery, to be blessed by the insulting questions of “social workers” and shoved around by cops like criminals— all to get a miserable bowl of soup and a lump of stale bread! This is always the cry which preceeds a police attack on the jobless. This is the same hypocritical excuse put out by Mayor Murphy in Detroit to cover up the refusal to carry out the promise to feed the jobless he made to get elected. It is the same in every city and it is an attack against th working class as a whole. Expose this damnable plot to take, away even the stingy crumbs and charity slop from the starving! Fight against this effort to divide the workers into “natives” and “foreigners”! And make this an added reason for demanding genuine and adequate relief for all, above all Unemploy- ment Insurance by the Federal Government! Sign the petitions for Unemployment Insurance! Demand real food and adequate shelter and warm clothing for the unemployed! Don’t let the unemployed worker “from other parts of the country”: be used .to break strikes against wage cuts! Unite employed and unemployed for Unemployment Insurance! Aobless Council Holds Open Air Mass Meet NEW YORK.—Hundreds of unem- ployed workers listened to the speak- ers of the Borough Hall Unemployed Council, which held a meeting yes- terday at Jay and Johnson Sts., to rally the workers to fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Comrade Doherty, the main speaker, pointed out the fact that unemployment was growing and that only by fighting for immediate reliet, to be paid by the city government, and for unemployment insurance, could the jobless keep off starvation. The workers greeted the speeches with enthusiasm. A good discussion followed, the workers supporting the unemployment instance bill, VIOLATE THE INJUNCTION AT ZELGREEN Largest Demonstration Yet Shows Workers Will Smash It 3,000 Mass Picketing Carry on for 214 Hours 19 Arrested; 6 Injured NEW YORK. — About three thou- sand workers and jobless came out in mass violation of the injunction at Zelgreen cafeteria yesterday, and us- ing new tactics effectively picketed the place for two hours and a half, driving the police frantic by keeping their placards up for over an hour, singing, and shouting “down with the injunction!” “Down with police brut- ality!” They came at the call of the Smash the Injunction Committee of the Trade Union Unity Council. “Extra heavy forces of police were | there early, with two patrol wagons and two emergency wagons. There were swarms of plain clothes men. The police made a pretense of using their fists rather than clubs, but held pieces of iron concealed in their gloves. Half a dozen of those arrest- ed were so badly beaten, they had to be sewed up and bandaged at New York Hospital before being brought to court, which they entered with dis- colored eyes and swollen faces. Oth- ers had lesser injuries. All Determined. The crowd fought the police large- ly as individuals, it gave way before the charging mounted police without attempting to drag the cossacks from their mounts, as could have been done in many cases, if small groups had co-operated. But the workers were determined, }and not terrorized. Police charged in groups of two or three into the mass of picketers seeking as usual to tear down the placards which carried the slogans: “Smash the Injunction”; “End the 12-Hour Day”; etc. This time they failed. Occasionally the uniformed thugs got a placard, but | the pickets showed skill in handing them along, in concealing them for a minute while the cops were right on top of them, and displaying them a minute later. Once the placards went, up there was no moment at which (Continued on Page Two) Woll and Socta |Defend Sabotagers in USSR, MacDonald’s | Murder in India | NEW YORK—The combined | American socialist party and Russian white guard meeting did its bit to bring imperialist war against the First Workers’ State yesterday, and also defended the murder by the British labor party government of thousands of Indian workers and peasants. After tirades against the Soviet Government by Moris Hillquit and ex-Judge Jacob Penken, both prom- inent socialist party leaders, the con- ference in the Hotel Pennsylvania adopted a resolution condemning the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government in the Soviet Union as bloody, call- ing for defense of the sabotagers now under arrest. It voted down by an overwhelming majority a resolution to include the murderous Macdonald regime in In- dia in the condemnation. This latter resolution was offered by that young socialist group which sees that the official socialist movement has be- come so reactionary that it is losing jall the confidence of the workers and wants to use subtler methods to mis- lead them. “It is up to us to force the Com- (Continued on Page Three) | | | New War Moves on Sovtets lists Make \20 Jingo Societies in Conference Hear Woll Demand Embargo WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 24.— Another slanderous attack on the Soviet Union coupled with a demand for embargo on Soviet products was | made here today by Matthew Woll.| Woll is vice president of the Amer-| ican Federation of Labor and acting| president of the National Civic Fed- | eration, a strike breaking organiza- tion composed of heads of big open shop corporations and A. F. L. bu- reaucrats, Woll's argument was the old one|“Just One More War— developed in articles now running} ‘ e ar 599 in most American. newspapers, that| to Clean Up Moscow Urges Cockshutt the Soviet government is starving! the workers and peasants, in order | they are buying. Defends Capitalism. “They have seized the property of free people”, said Woll, attacking the (Continued on Page Three) |tive of the king. | Cockshutt interrupted a discussion |of the industrial crisis in the United | States and Canada, which he ad- mits will get worse this winter, to| tral Committee of the Communist | | “Communist Party of Soviet Union world-shaking Five-Year Plan Soci: fear and rage. tarian fatherland. perialist war as part of struggle ag capitalism. “Long live Party of Lenin. “Long tive the world October. CENTRAL COMMITTEE PLENUM SENDS GREETINGS TO COMMUNIST | PARTY IN THE SOVIET UNION NEW YORK.—Greeting the advances of the Five-Year Plan and declaring that the attacks of the imperialists against the Soviet Union ‘must be met by the iron resistance of the world’s working class for the | | defense of the proletarian fatherland,” the enlarged Plenum of the Cen- \cable to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: “Central Committee Plenum, Communist Party, U. 8. brother Party Soviet Union which leads proletariat in achievement } “We condemn new unprincipled -bloc right leftist opposition which || reflects influence class enemies and petty bourgeois workers whole world to new struggles and arouses world capitalism to paroxism of “Sharpening war preparations of imperialism against Soviet Union must be met by iron' resistance world’s working class for defense prole- “We pledge all energies to mobilize American workers against im- sion suffered at home from same ruling class. Workers of Soviet Union ee ant a tes sape toe tine of eames wae ||N« Xs Limes Aids Edgerton’s Lies; Facts Show Crisis Wors “CENTRAL COM point out that much could be done; |toward solving it by a war against | the Soviet Union. This is the plan; all imperialist governments are} working on, and was strongly hinted in a speech by the MacDonald cab- inet minister, Thomas, several days ago. | But Cockshutt became almost hys- | | terical in his speech when he started |to work up war sentiment. “War |should be non-existent,” he said, “but before that I would have one war—to clean up Moscow.” Other | Jems of his expression are: “Ex-| | istence in Soviet Russia is worse than death.” and he remarked he could ;|not see how any other government | |in the world allowed those conditions | to exist, or “why these parasites filled | with the filth of Moscow are permit- ted to send their literature out to joes countries.” Party, U. S. A., sent the following |, Moscow:— A., greets alist Construction. ‘Canadian Boss, Deterding an Standard Oil for War on USSR 2 Big Oil Trusts Make Plans for Attack on Soviet Oil ment are the Standard Oil, the She!l and the Anglo-Persian group. Though these oil robbers fight among them- selves for dividing up the world’s oil sources they find common cause in attacking the workers’ republic at pre- cisely the time when from all sides the war preparations increase visib- ly As T. C. Watson puts it, the chief | strategic move of the oil robbers against the Soviet Union is the cre- | ation of a monopoly of all available oil tankers on which the Soviet pe- troleum organization relies” to trans- port its gasolene to Great Britain and other places. They hope by this moye to choke off Soviet oil exports, control the markets, divide it between them- selves and handle prices to their mu- tual advantage. rendering a blow to the workers’ republic. The Standard Oil and the Dutch Shell have a large fleet of tankers which they control. Their plan is to lease all the others they can lay (Continued on Page Three) ainst hunger, wage-cuts and oppres- | | (This is the first of a series of articles explaining the phase of the War Plot against the Soviet Union and the counter-revolution- ary movement which came to light | with the arrest of the sabotagers and their confession. Within a few days these sabotagers will have a public trial, reported to the Daily Worker. These articles appearing before the trial will show what is on trial, what the forces the ar- rested men represent, and how they were trying to accomplish the destruction of the first Workers’ State.) * MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 23— The arrest of two groups of sabotag- ers here recently and their confes- sion that they were taking money and orders from the government of- ficials and chiefs of staff in Eng- jJand, France, Poland, Rumania and other countries created a sensation. The organization was discovered and broken up. Some of the facts already plain are the following: ‘There were two groups, which made a bloc on the basis of the platform of Professor Kondratiev, the “ideolo- Party,” with a central committee and all. Kondratiev was chairman of the central committee of this counter revolutionary party. The W. P. P. was made up of old socialist revolutionary party members and “Cadets” (Constitutional Demo- crats) and included among its lead- ers, besides Kondratiev, Professor Makarov and Saadigin and others. ‘The organizers of the other group Sabotagers In War Plot On Soviet Union Had A Party Professors, Clade Socialist Revolutionaries, , Kulaks, Old Capitalists:and Foreign Imperialists Organized Together were old mensheviks: Groman, Suk- hanov, Bazarov and others. The platform of the W. P. P. of Kondratiev in its political and econ- omic sections amounts to the fol- lowing: (1) The overturning of the dicta- torship of the proletariat and its re- placement by a “republican-demo- cratic system,” “a bourgeois-parlia- mentary government” on the basis of capitalist commodity production. (2) The recognition of the neces- sity of capitalist restoration and the agrarian-industry method of devel- (Continued on Page Three) | 2,500 AT JOBLESS | COUNCIL MEETING | EW YORK,—Hoover's lying cam- par |Paign which he dropped like a hot NEW YORK.--Over 2,500 unem- | potato, has now been taken up by ployed workers gathered at a meeting the leading capitalist papers in a of the Unemployed Council of Greater | more vicious form. Recently Edger- | New York, held in front of the fake | ton, president of the Manufacturers | Tammany city employment agency.) Association, issuer a pack of lies They had stood around for days,| about employment increasing, “good hoping for jobs which never came.| times around the corner,” and such Most of them were hungry and many | other slop. | homeless. | Now the New York Times in a | Milton Stone, one of the uncm-/ whole series of faked telegrams from | ployed committee, who was beaten up | 4 number of cities, without one grain in City Hall on Oct. 16 by orders of |of fact declares “a hopeful and gen- Mayor Walker, spoke. He pointed uinely optimistic note as to the un- out that the struggle of the unem- employment situation is sounded in ployed at City Hall forced the boss | reports made from almost every part government to promise a million dol- | of the count lars for relief. “This was obtained | How They Lie. by fighting. It is not enough. But! On the same day that the New enly by mass mobilization of the un-| York Times prints this tripe, the employed can we force adequate re- | Journal of Commerce, a paper the lief,” he said. Many of the unem- | workers are not supposed to see, but ployed came down to the headquar- | which the leading bosses read, takes ters of the Jobless Council }a poke at just this sort of lying. i Federal Reserve Board: Statement Industries Going Down:-More Workers Lose Their Jobs Every Day e All ts Referring to Edgerton’s bluff they inform the bosses that “The greatest menace that threatens every part of the United Sta today is the fear of facts.” They go on to blame Hoo- ver for the origin of this kind of lying: Perhaps,” says the Journal of Commerce,” the authorities at Washington are in part responsible for a growing hebit of self-dece: tion that is fast rendering us in- capable of seeing the busi uation as it is. i This campaign of lying (politely called by the boss press self-decep- tion) is carried on to fool the work- ers, making them hope obs will soon some and they will not have to fight for unemployment insurance. The Facts. Here we will print a few facts. The N. Y. Times index of business activity has dropped this week to the lowest «Continued on Page Three) ‘WO campaigns are being carried on by the American bosses without Have You Sent in Your Contribution to the Drive for $30,000? Rush It In! gist.” Kondratiey has formed a whole political party which was | called “The Working Peasants’ T let-up. One is an intensified drive against the 9,000,000 unemployed workers, lying about economic conditions, and tying this up with wage cuts for the employed. The second drive is ‘against the Soviet Union. The Bosses Act. The capitalist press sizzles with attacks on the workers’ republic. Mellon acts. The Standard Oil becomes chummy with Deterding of the Royal Dutch-Shell when it comes to an attempt to destroy the Soviet oil industry. Special Correspondents in Moscow. And today the trial of the counter-revolutionists opens in the Soviet Union. The Daily Worker is covering it with four of its best staff writers and artists working full time to let the American workers know the truth of the war plots. The Daily Worker Is Your Paper. The Daily Worker is exposing the boss lies about the crisis.’ It is | carrying on a fight for unemployment insurance. It is one of the workers’ most valuable weapons in the organize and strike against wage cuts cam- paign. In ‘spite of the severe crisis, with 9,000,000 workers out of jobs, with the employed having their wages slashed, the Daily Worker is growing. Its circulation is increasing. But tremendous burdens have bait piled on the Daily Worker. Its growth is endangered by lack of unds, Don't Wait. ‘There should be no delay.. We must have $30,000 to keep the Daily Worker growing as a weapon against all boss attacks, The Red Shock Troops must show some action. Funds must be rushed to the Daily Worker immediately. Our work cannot be hampered at this time by delay in sending funds. Rush the Funds! Do your share in the drive for $30,000! ‘Tell your shopmates the fix the Daily Worker is in. Tell them what the Daily Worker stands for. Get their support and rush this money in immediately! STALIN IN AN INTERVIEW SAYS SOVIETS FOR PEACE IMPERIALISTS FOR WAR ) ! “Killed” by Riga Liars But Talks to U.P. Correspondent | Why Rumors Spread \Says Trade Relations Should be Established | to dump products abroad. He ga WINDSOR, Canada, Nov. 24—The} NEW YORK, Nov. 24.— From Lon-| NEW YORK, No After he no proof, and avoided details, for) Border Chamber of Commerce at its|don comes the report, cabled to the| had been “assassinated” in Riga, all facts are against the theory.| jatest meeting heard Colonel Harry] Hearst newspapers recently by T. C.| Berlin, London and Paris, Joseph Even the newspaper articles he relies Cockshutt, leading capitalist and | Watson, their special correspondent, Staling was able to give a long in- on tell of enormous building of s0-| nolitician, plainly demand war with | that Deterding, vicious enemy of the | terview Saturday in Moscow to olalized! Indusity in the Soviet, Unicn, | the’ ‘sovieb Union. | Soviet Union and head of the Dutch Eugene Ly ons, and all late news tells of increase!’ Cockshutt is director of the Cana- | Shell Oil Co., has concluded an agree- HUnited Press in food supplies, even though the| dian Pacific Railroad, director of the| ment with the Standard Oil Co. of taff correspon- Russian workers and peasants Vol-| Bank of Montreal, president of the| the U. S. to wage war against the dent, which was untarily shipped quantities of food) Cockshutt Plow Co., ex-lieutenant- | Soviet Oil industry printed Monday abroad to pay for the machinery! governor of Ontario and representa-| Included in the so-called agree- in many capital- ist papers. Lyons tells speaking to Sta: lin for more than an how his ‘assa Riga corre- spondents earlier in the week.” 3 The main point | Joseph Stalin 4, slalin’s inter- | view was that the whole flock of lies which are flying about against the Soviet Union have for their pur- | Bose the covering up of the coming | exposures of active war preparations | against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics at the trial of the counter- revolutionists which opens today. | Soviets Want Peace, | Stalin said that the workers in the Soviet-Union were striving for peace to carry on the tremendous task of | (Continued on Page Three) LATEST STEPS IN ANTI | SOVIET WAR PLOT 1 ot | | Royal Dutch Shell Oil Anglo Per- }sian and Standard companies | hold conference and ee on prac- tical embargo against Soviet oil by tying up all the tankers. Socialist party and white guard R. Hillquit and Panken launch tirade of invective against Soviet gov- ernment, calling it “bloody tyranny,” E call to defend kulaks against collectivization Col. Harry Cockshutt, chief Canadian businessman and former lieutenant governor of Ontario de- mands “one more war—to clean up cow. | 4. Matthew Woll, main speaker before “American Coalition” of jingo societies demands embargo on So- viet Union products. 5. Secretary of Treasu: Mellon signs order making import of all So- viet products very difficult and ex- | pensive, 6. The German paper Lokal An- zeiger attempts to revive the Riga lies about revolt in Russia by bring- ing its correspondent out of the So- viet Union and having him declare onditions are very grave.” 7. The Jewish Telegraph Agency attempts to rouse nationalist feeling against the Soviet Union with a re- port that “Five Jewish Communists have been arrested in Mosgow by Stalin.” 8. Senator Oddie of Nevada (Man- | ganese) and Senator McNary of Ore- | gon (pulpwood) have announced that hey will demand legislation in the ming session of Congress for em- go under excuse of applying the anti-dumping,” “convict labor” and r’ provisions of the || Notice to Delegates ||to Washington Meet 1, The Council for the Protec- tion of the Foreign Born asks all |elegates to the convention in Washington, D. C., to report in phat city at 1337 Seventh St, N.W. The New York and sur- rounding territory delegations are i cted to immediately forward their credentials and $6 fare pamoney: Vhis group of delegates will meet at Irving Plaza, Satur- j day, Nov. 29, at 1 p, m, sharp and will depart for Washington one hour later. | COLLECT SIGNATURES FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! t SPEED THE ‘CAMPAIGN! Take Out a List and Sign Up Everybody Who Thinks the Job- less Workers Should Not /Starve This Winter.