The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1930, Page 1

ee Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must 5 Be Won Now! Dail Central J orker Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS © OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII, No. 283 . at New York, N. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. “Implementing” the Kellogg Pact fORKERS should be informed of the real meaning of the term being | used in the capitalist newspapers, concerning the diplomatic skull- duggery now going on over the Kellogg Pact. Coy and cautious, Stimson and Hoover are “awaiting the initiative” of France for “quiet consultations” over what can be done to “implement” the Kellogg act. It turns out that this “implement” is expected to be | another pact, a pact to “consult” with otherr “powers” to determine, in case there is “trouble,” just who is the “aggressor.” .From this, we understand the reason for the caution of Hoover. He is, girstly, fishing for an agreement which may bring allies to the side of U. S. imperialism in its coming armed conflict with British imperialism. But even more immediate an issue is the desire of Hoover to tighten | the united imperialist war front against the Soviet Union. It was found to be faulty in the test made in the attack on the Soviet through their Chinese Manchurian servants in 1929, when the Soviet Union defeated the maneuver by a firm policy of peace and defense, and rather made a monkey ont of Stimson, who tried to bring about intervention at that time. The discovery and prosecution of the counter-revolutionary organ- izations within the Soviet Union has undoubtedly dismayed French im- perialists particularly. Their main aim, French dominance on the con- tinent, depends upon a successful war against the Soviet Union, This, | jeopardized by the revelations in the trial now going on at Moscow, un- covering and destroying the enemy within the Soviet Union, makes a united front of imperialist powers outside the Soviet Union the more necessary to these scoundrels. Hoover, thus, steps forward at a moment of need, to offer American aid in building this war front against the Soviet Union, to insure a “con- sultative pact” whereby any vassal country of French imperialism on the borders of the Soviet Union, will be upheld, and the Soviet declared the “ageressor,” when French intrigue provokes a clash. : This is the meaning of the sudden desire of Hoover and Stimson to “implement” the Kellogg Pact. And it comes most significantly at a time when practically every American capitalist paper is featuring one form or another of anti-Soviet propaganda. It comes when the Fish Committee is spreading poison gas, when Matthew Woll, the czarist white guards and the unspeakable “socialist” party are trying to create a war sentiment against the Soviet Union among American workers. Incidentally, to do this, they are using the craziest stories of “perse- cution” of workers—not here, of course, but in the Soviet Union. The falsity of this is shown by the way Soviet workers are running their coun- try, even sitting on the tribunal trying the plotters whom these Woll’s and Hilquits are trying to make appear are supported by the workers, The whole picture of anti-Soviet war preparations can thus be seen as extending from Hoover to Hilquit, just as in Europe it extends from Poincare .0 the “socialists” connected with the plotters on trial in Moscow. The “implementing” of the Kellogg Pact is thus of interest to every worker, just as is the Moscow trial. It shows the deep forces at work to attack and, if possible, destroy the fatherland of all workers, the Workers and Peasants’ Republic. It is an attack on the American working class, and each American worker should so understand it and rally to defend his own interest by defending the Soviet Power! Why the Lie . ' JAY” capitalist papers played up a proposed increase in the price of steel as a) herald of returning “prosperity.” Let us examine it. The comprehensive survey of the economic crisis given by the Communist Party at the recent Plenum (enlarged session) of the Central Committee, stated the following about steel: “An examination of the relation of other industries to the steel industry, will show that the saturation in aufomobile, building and railroad enterprises, present very limited possibilities of any major revival of steel production. While there may be slight upturns (though the next six months promise a continuation of the extreme downward sweep), there is no basis for a continued uninterrupted seale of production in the steel industry for the next year, or even longer.” : The basis for any i 2s. and any talk of such as a herald of returning “prosperity” is pure hokum. Paul Willard Garret, financial editor of the N. Y. Post, in that paper on Nov. 25, correctly said: “In the months ahead the market must steel itself to the pros- pect of heavy unemployment, wage-cut and dividend reductions.” But what, then, is the reason for all the hokum? And the answer is that the capitalists want the workers, desperately seeking for real re- lief from the starvation and misery thrust on them by. unemployment, to continue passive and unresisting in the face of further attacks on their wage scales, further lay-offs and further refusal of real and ade- quate relief. This is proven absolutely by the proceeddings of the so-called “par- liament, of Community Councils” meeting in New York City. Frank P. Walsh, says the N. Y. Times of Nov. 25:—“told of reports that industrial leaders laying off older employes’ in large numbers and replacing them with workers not so highly paid.” Walsh, of course, was considerate of the feelings of these damnable scoundrels, and would not reveal their names. Other speakers, it is said, “described the destitution of hundreds of families facing eviction, and warned that)such conditions would breed revolution.” A certain Mr. Sutro, whom the Times says is “one of the most gen- erous supporters of the Community Councils,” “defended industry” and said that—“there is no use getting hysterical about the matter.” Thus ‘it is clear that all the talk about “nobody will go hungry” and the fuss over collections, the promises of Mayor Walker that no family would be evicted and all would be fed, are just damned lies. Families are’ price # ANTI- NOVEMBER 26, 1930 “More Unemployed, Wage Cuts Due,” Says Post Editor NEW YORK.—Yesterday there was open admission by financial experts that the crisis is getting worse and will continue wores throughout the winter, open admission by other ex- perts that widespread layoffs are taking place and that employers are firing the men drawing the usual wages to put to work men sent from employment agencies at lower wages. These two admissions fully sup- port the charges continually made by the Daily Worker on these three points. They show, incidentally, that most of the capitalist “unemploy- ment relief” is really wage-cutting, and neither reduces the number ot jobless nor gives any relief. Unemployment and Wage Cut. Paul Willard Garrett, financial editor of the New York Post, writing Experts Admit Crisis Grows Worse: “Jobless Near Revolt” in yesterday’s issue, states: “...in |the months immediately ahead the market must steel itself to the pros- pect of heavy unemployment, wage- cut and dividend reductions. It must anticipate that the news from Wash- ington with congress in session will not all inspire business confidence.” Garrett holds out hope for 1931, but gives no evidence on what he bases that hope. At the special meeting of the “Par- liament of Community Councils” in the old county court house here on Monday night, Frank P, Walsh, chairman of the committee on unem- ployment of the Community Coun- cils, announced that much informa- tion was coming into his office that wholesale layoffs were taking place and that employers were firing other men to hire jobless at lower wages. Walsh shielded the names of the employers who did this and advised that in the resolution to be adopted nobody be named. The resolution that was adopted followed Walsh’s suggestion and dis- approved of the firing and wage- | cuts, “made in some cases by em-| ployers who are large contributors to {funds being raised to relieve unem-| ployment!” At the meeting other speakers stated plainly that the firing and eviction of workers “will breed revo- lution.” Fighting against the resolu- tion, Lionel Sutro of Sutro & Co. urged a hard-boiled attitude and said: “The more we talk about riot, The speeches showed clearly that the only force compelling even such attempt at relief as has been made is the organized force of the jobless and the feeling that starved workers are turning to Communism. The un- employment demonstrations should be continued and workers and jobless | should organize for fight against wage-cuts. On with the signature collections for the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill! MASS MEET T0 HIT DEPORTATIONS And Speed Delegates to Washington Conf. NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to protest the deportations, persecutions and jailing of foreign born workers will be held af Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., Friday evening, 8 p. m., ‘with Earl Browder, J. Louis Engdahl, Louis Koves, Herbert Newton and S. Horvatt as speakers. The meeting will be held just prior to the depar- ture of the New York delegates to the national convention of the Coun- cil for the Protection of the Foreign Born in Washington, D. ©., begin- ning Sunday, Nov. 30. The New York delegation will be present at the mass meeting. “As the convention is just about ready to open in Washington,” reads a statement issued last night by the Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born,” word has reached us here in the national office of the decision by the Supreme Court of California to deport Sadaichi Ken- motsu to Japan to face a certain death there at the hands of the im- perialist war lords. The Interna- tional Labor Defense which handled his case in San Francisco states that he is being deported for his mem- bership in the Communist Party of America. The excuse for his arrest was that he had participated in a demonstration in that city. The council also points out that hundreds of thousands of foreign born workers are losing their jobs because of the discrimination going on in the country today against the alien, as the bosses try to obscure the issues at stake and shift the blame from their shoulders onto the backs of the most exploited sections being evicted, and millions are hungry—and they cannot live on words. And it is also clear that all the talk of returning “prosperity” is aimed at inducing these starving and suffering workers to bear it in the hope that times will get better soon. Times will not get better soon, And workers must plan their fight accordingly. They must demand real and adequate immediate relief for all, in place of the ridiculous and miserable slop being ladled out now to only a few who are-expected to stand the insulting inquisition of po- lice to get even that. Workers, both employed and jobless must see that the promises made them are kept, that none goes hungry, that shelter and food and cloth- ing are provided for all, not forgetting that the main demand is for ade- quate unemployment insurance at the cost of the capitalists and the government. And a vital part of all this is the organization of all workers in each shop, department by department, to strike against the wage cut drive now just getting under way! FIGHT EVICTION OF | very wealthy, but. Deutsch was served with a neviction notice last week for owing merely the November rent. Mrs. Deutsch went to Mayor Walker with WORKER IN BROOKLYN NEW YORK.—Today at 2p. m. in Snider Ave. Court, Brooklyn, Borough Hall Unemployed Council will have @ committee present at the eviction hearing aaginst Benjamin Deutsch, an electrical worker. This worker has not been able to get a job for seven months. During this time he has had two serious operations. He has @ wife and five children, the eld- est a girl of eight years of age. ‘The landlord, Danva Realty Co., is her story and Walker, with an ap- pearance of great generosity, wrote the | 00 the notice to the sheriff, “Let them |: stay another week.” But the sheriff felt that he did not have to do even this, and scolded the family for both- ering the mayor, The committee from the Borough Hall Council of the Unemployed will take action to organize the tenants around where Deutsch lives, at 64 Church St., Apt. 1, and will fight the of the working class in America, to Smash NEW YORK.—Still more extensive mobilization to smash the injunctions is being prepared for by the Trade Union Unity. Council Smash the In- jurietion Committee and by the thou- sands ,of workers and jobless who followed them,Monday into mass vio- lation of the court order prohibiting picketing at Zelgreen cafeteria. The capitalist press stories of the picketing seek to represent it as only a fight of “The Reds” against “hav- ing the cafeteria organized into the AFL.” ‘They represent it as a fight between two unions. Some of them state the cafeteria was “previously open shop.” The facts are that the A.F.L. came into the Zelgreen after it was organ- ized into the Food Workers Industrial Union and union conditions were es- Soviets Want Peace; Capitalists Ask War for Profit MOSCOW, Nov. 25—The sabotag-/ ers’ trial began today in Trade Union Hall. Mass demonstrations, showing the determination of the workers to repel any attempt at intervention, took place today. The trial is expected to last three weeks. Innumerable meet- ings of workers, peasants, engineers Build Larger Demonstration Mass Meeting Next Week; Fight Must Go on| Or Right to Strike Is Lost; Monday Clash Put | Cop in Hospital; Five Pickets Sentenced the Injunctions with the boss that the union condi- tions would be abolished, the 12-hour day set up for many of the workers, that the F.W.I.U. would be locked out, and a contract made with the AF.L., and that the A.F.L. would pre- vent strikes by an injunction and by use of the police and hired gang- sters. A Battle Field. | Zelgreen Cafeteria then -became the particular point around which the battle of the militant workers and jobless of New York is waged against this kind of injunction. Injunctions prohibiting picketing and causing arersted pickets to get long sentences under Paragraph 600 of the New (Continued on Page Two) % the less we will accomplish” | \that the proof must “satisfy” the U.S. tablished. Irving Epstein, manager of | the A.F.L. local 302 made a bargain | AS PROLETARIAN TRIBUNAL Mellon Order Is War Move; Embargo at Moment’s Notice Soviet Union Products Can be Barred Merely by Statement From Customs They Are “Made by Convicts;” MacDonald Joins Attack ® WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.— Further details of the Treasury De- THATS AN partment orders signed yestedday by INJUNCTION Secretary Mellon, undoubtedly with UNDER Your. the approval of Hoover and the whole Foot poms administration, show that they are a preparation for war, and make it pos- sible under a propaganda guise of “embargo on convict made goods” to bar all Soviet Union products. There is just now no official direct charge that the Soviet Union prod- ucts are convict made, and the redic- ulousness of this charge when made some weeks ago in the sace of lum- ber and manganese appeared at once. The government had no proof. ‘The new regulations are resigned to cure that. They throw the burden of proof on the Soviet Union organ- ization shipping the goods, and state | British House of Commons that the MacDonald government was prepar- ‘i ‘ing a report on “Soviet dumping.” te Soya unlea, | Congressman Fish spoke to the same There is not an immediate b Ahk | united convention of 20 jingo so- g0.' The machinery is perfected for ities which heard Woll yesterday, embargo at a moment’s notice, by | and urged embargo. |publication of a “finding” by the : | Commissioner of-Customs that Soviet | The Fish Committee, meeting here, products or the raw materials in|Yesterday heard the same lie about Treasury Department. Hoover, of course, denies that it is an attack on |try” in U.S.S.R., which they tried to victs. After that there | “"’ ‘ eae Siege red taatto un- | Make capital of in New York sessions. roll, but meanwhile, unless the com bes ena hoe Snae i “satisfied” the goods stay | P° ; 4 i saps i seaared She geocda etey | tempts of persons he had swindled to Among other war moves against | “TV® Papers on aes the Soviet Union yesterday were false reports by the Jewish paper “The Day” that the Soviet government was | The second article on the sabotagers in the Soviet Union is published on the tator. back page. overthrown and Voroshiloy made dic- | | | Arthur Henderson stated in the Maxim Gorki Appeals to Workers of World to Smash Boss War Plots Y.C.L. to Welcome Plenum Delegates With Dance, Banquet NEW YORK.—The Young Com- and professional workers demand capital punishment for the guilty. Maxim Gorki, famous novelist, is- sued an appeal to workers and pea- sants of all capitalist countries, par- ticularly Britain and France, de- scribing the self-confessed crimes of the sabotagers, committed at the in- stigation of czarist emigrants and foreign capitalists. He pointed out the plan of the war plot was that the masses of the Sov- iet Union were to be provoked into war with Poland, while the masses of Britain and France were to be per- munist League is holding a National Plenum in New York City. Com- rades from all parts of the country will be present to relate their ex- periences in carrying through the League plan work. These comrades will be welcomed at a banquet and dance to be held Friday, Nov. 28, at the Workers’ Center, 35 E. 12th St., New York City. Comrades Joe Carr as well as Mary Dalton, facing the electric chair in the South for their activity: in or- ganizing the Negro and white young workers, will be among the comrades. present. suaded to rush assistance to Poland and Rumania, War is profitable to thé capital- ists, Gorki pointed out, and that no censideration of the horrors caused will prevent them from provoking war, He appealed to the workers and peasants to throw off the capitalist yoke. “During the world war tre- mendous values were destroyed, rightly belonging to the workers,” he said. “Millions were killed and mil- lions maimed. Poverty and destitu- (Continued on Page Three) Cut this out and mail immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York City. RED SHOCK TROOPS For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND Enclosed find .. We pledge to build RED SHO‘ Name 1 2 4. 5. This list is being sent by NAME ......... eviction. 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The widest publicity is be« ing given the trial, The hall is packed with workers’ delegates from factories. At the press table, besides the representa- tives of the Soviet Press and corre- spondents from Communist publica- tions in other countries there is a strong representation of capitalist press reorters, especially from Ger- many and Americ: President Vishinsky announced {* composition of the court. Im@ tion to Vishinsky the court cor of Antonov Saratowski and Wuiaci members Lvov (a worker in the Amo Works), Ivanov (a worker in the Putiloy Steel Factory). The accused offered no objection to the canstitution of the court, ‘but refuse defense with the exception ot Kupriaiie and’ siinin, The court proceeded to read the charges against the accused. The charges are against elght engineers: Ramzin, Kalinikov, Laritschev, Tscharnovski, Jjedotov, Kuprianov, Otschkin. On the ground of their own confessions they are accused of systematic sabotage of Soviet econ= omy, artificial creation of a crisis, espionage in the service of foreigh imperialist powers, attempted disrup- tion of the Red Army, preparation of acts of sabotage in the electricand war industry. ) The whole activity of the accused is linked up with the planned prep- aration for military intervention by, the imperialists, for which connec- tions with the governments and army general staffs of France, Eng« Jand and Poland were undertaken. At 3 o'clock the whole city was the scene of colossal demonstrations of masses of workers, From factories endless processions streamed to the center of the city bearing banners demanding the sternest justice against the agents of international imperialism. During the reading of the charges uninterrupted processions passed the trade union hall. At the time of sending this cable to the Daily Worker the reading of the charges is still proceeding, ad Jobless Suicides on Increase in Seattle SEATTLE, Nov. 25.—Seattle busi- nessmen have always been proud that the suicide rate here is lower than in other large cities, especially on the coast, but now it is growing rapidly, ‘There have been three suicides and several attempted suicides in the last three days. Several of thse were young boys and girls who were un- able to find-work and were driven to desperation by the impossibility of living on air and the fine promises of Hoover and the rest of the bosses, Notice to Delegates to Washington Meet 1, The Council for the Protec- tion of the Foreign Born asks all delegates to the convention in Washington, D. C., to report in that city at 1337 Seventh St., N.W. 2 The New York and sur- rounding territory delegations are instructed to immediately forward their credentials and $6 fare money. This group of delegates will meet at Irving Plaza, Satur- day, Nov. 29, at 1 p, m. sharp and will depart for Washington one hour later, LESS INSURANCE! SPEED THE CAMPAIGN! Take Out a List and Sign Up Everybody Who Thinks the Job- ‘less Workers Should Not Starve This Winter.