The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail Central Orga he-Comn Norker frumict Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist gy ee WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ———— Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of March 3. 1879 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1930 Workers! Demonstrate, Fight Against the Bosses War Plots! (Joint Manifesto of the Communist Parties of Mexico, Canada and the U. S. A.) Workers: War is being prepared! War, in which you will be ordered to shoot your brother workers, for the profits of the capitalists! The economic crisis, which has thrown 9 millions of workers out of a job in the United States; 800,000 in Mexico and more than a million unemployed workers and bankrupt farmers in Canada which reveals the bankruptcy of the capitalist system, has already brought misery and starvation to millions of men, women and children. Now the added terrors of war threaten us! Against whom is this war directed? Against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, against the workers’ govern- ment of Soviet Russia! Why do our bosses move rapidly towards war on the Soviet Union? Because in the Soviet Union capitalism has been abolished, the workers are in complete control, and have demonstrated their ability to build a new society, a socialist society, without any bosses, without any capitalists. Not only have the capitalists been abolished, but the miseries of capitalism are also being wiped out. Already, the Soviet Union has abolished unemployment, at a moment when capi- talism has thrown on the streets millions of workers to starve and die. Already the Soviet Union has demonstrated the ability to build industry for the benefit of the people, ten times as fast as capitalism, in its period of growth, was able to build for the profit of the bosses. That is why the capi- talists have determined to make a desperrate military at- tack, in the hopes of destroying with their guns, poison gas, and tanks, the workers’ government which stands as a living example to be copied by the oppressed of all the world. This military adventure for the benefit of capitalism, is directed against the working class, and they expect you, the workers of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. A., to fight it for them. Preparations for war are seen in the economic blockade measures being adopted by the U- S. Government; in the war speech of Hoover’s lieutenant, Hyde; in the savage newspaper campaign of the capitalist press; and in the ex- posure of the plot of American, British and French imper- ialism, just exposed, to start active war in 1931. It is also seen in the slanders of the “socialist” leader, Hillquity of the fake “socialist” party, and in the actions of theses! gov- ernment of Mexico, agent of Wall Street. es Workers, you must understand that, even measures to blockade the trade of the Soviet Union, ii is deep- ening the economic crisis, throwing more of you out of the factories, deepening your starvation. When war comes, you will pay a heavier price. The Soviet Union is the stronghold and inspiration of the working class of the entire world. War against it is part of the war of capitalism against those who work in every land. Workers! Demonstrate and fight against the war plots of the capitalists and reactionaries, the Czarists and their “socialist”, party lickspittles! Fight against unemployment, the fruits of capitalist rule, and demand all military funds be used for unemployment relief! Defend the Soviet Union, fatherland of the world’s working class! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANAD Central Committee, Communist Party of Canada. Central Committee, Communist Party of Mexico- Central Committee, Communist Party of U.S. A. Another Swindle ‘ENATOR, CAPPER of Kansas rushes into print to uphold the Farm Board, which he recently has been condemning for its obviously stupid attempt to “reduce acreage.” He applauds the purchase of 110,000,000 bushels of wheat, made by the Board in an attempt to “peg” the price on the Chicago Wheat Pit at 73 cents. But he does not marygl, even a little, at the action, which reversed the Farm Board’s policy Wnnounced before the wheat harvest, that it would buy no more, because efforts “to stabilize prices by going into the market are futile.” What the Board said on that line in July and August fs still true, and the Farm Board has not given any reason for its reversal in policy pre- cisely because of that fact. But the renewed buying of wheat has caused the change. in Senator Capper’s attitude to the Farm Board and all this has a significant connection, Capper says of this new buying, that—“Uncle Sam's money saved thé market, and was of immeasurable assistance to the wheat farmers of this country.” Both of these are lies. It did not “save the market,” obviously, be- cause the cause of the.price drop, admitted by Capper, was the whole world surplus of wheat—and that surplus existed just as effectively after the purchases as before. What it does amount to is a subsidy from the government, supposedly for “the wheat industry.” We have no quarrel with the subsidy as such, but just whom did it help? There is the rub! The Farm Board last year, waited until after the poor and middle farmers had marketed their crop—because they need money too desper- ately to “hold it,” before it bought. Hence it bought wheat at $1.10 and $1.25 from speculators, and not from the farmers. This year, it refused publicly to buy wheat, until the same thing had happened, the poor and middle farmers hed been compelled to turn over their wheat for what they could get, all the way from 48 to 60 cents a bushel, to the specu- lators, and then gave these speculators a nice profit by buying 50,000,000 bushels at 73 cents! The reason for Capper’s change in attitude was be- cause this allowed the rich farmers, who even partricipate with the specu- lators and bankers in the so-called “cooperatives,” the rich fermers who have credit enough to be able to hold their wheat, to share in the benefit of the government subsidy and the artificially “pegged” price! So there is nothing mysterious in all this. The “market” fs saved only for a time. The workers in the cities must keep on paying high prices for bread. The great majority of wheat farmers, the poor and middle farmers, are swindled, and the rich farmers and speculators came out ahead. The moral of all this is that poor and middle farmers have more in- terests in common with the workers in the cities than they have with the rich farmers, speculators and the capitalist government. They should ally together to fight this combination of capitalist crooks—including Sen- ator Capper, spokesman for the rich farmer capitalists, COLLECT SIGNATURES FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! By WILLIAM WEINSTONE. (Special Cable to the Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 26.—In the Trade Union Hall, where the famous trials against the Social Revolutionary Ter- rorists, and the Shakhty sabotagers were held, the trial against the counter-revolutionary disrupters and spies of international capital opened yesterday with the reading of the extensive indictment against eight leaders of the industrial party. At the moment of the reading of the indictment the entire city of Moscow was in demonstration, Huge columns of demonstrators, factory workers, filed past the hall in one of the most powerful demonstrations held in recent years. The demon- stration was alive with banners de- manding the sternest justice against the agents of international imperial- ism. This was a profound answer to the lies of the capitalist and so- cialist press throughout the world which with shameless audacity called the indictment against the anti- Soviet war plotters a fabrication, and Ramzin Admits Fear’ of Militant Toilers Held Back War | who represent the charges in the| trial as an attempt to shift attention away from the alleged crisis in the country. The Soviet prosecution will not} only expose the desperate acts of| sabotage directed at the disruption of the Five Year Plan as part of the plan to prepare the way for suc- cessful intervention, but will reveal the indisputable facts showing the} Soviet and world proletariat that the bourgeoisie, headed by the French reaction, recognizing the success of socialist upbuilding have set their minds on intervention in 1930, and now have postponed it to 1931. Confessions of members of the cen- tral committee of the “industrial party” is striking proof of the charges repeatedly made by the revolution- ary movement that actual war prep- arations against the Soviet Union Moscow Trial Shows World’s Workers Alone Can Stop Bosses’ War Planning af were under way, and that the Reli- gious Crusade, the Polish provoca- tions, the Chinese Eastern Railway war, and the “dumping” campaign are links in the world bourgeois war gainst the socialist fatherland The Fish Committee in the United States, the hypocritical anti-Sovie dumping campaign are all part of th movement culminating in war in 1931. ‘The American proletariat will learn through the trial that never was war |so imminent against the advancing Soviets as now. The confession of Ramzin, chief of the sabotagers; re- vealed among the strong reasons for the postponement of the interven- tion, was the rise in the revolutionary world movement, showing clearly that upon the working class alone depends whether the plans of the imperialists to plunge the masses in war and to enslave the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, by riveting the imperialist chains on them and firmer on the world’s ex- ploited, will succeed. Recognition of Shop CALL HUGE ANTI INJUNCTION MEET All Workers Rally to Central Opera House! NEW, YORK,—Whileshop organ-| ization to smash the injunctions is being spéeded up, the Trade Union Unity Council and the International Labor Defense cooperates to call an enormous mass meeting as a fur- ther mobilization for new demonstra- tions to come soon. The mass meeting at which all forces should mobilize, every militant. worker of every industry come, will be held Wednesday night, Dec, 3, in Central Opera House, 69th St. and ‘Third Ave. All unemployed workers are invited especially. Here the rea- sons for the life and death struggle the unions and jobless of New York are waging against the injunction menace will be explained, and plans announced to carry on the fight, Mass violation centers just now around Zelgreen Cafeteria, where the A. F. L. and boss conspired to get an injunction to defend the twelve hour day and frequent battles have been fought, the latest one on Mon- day with 3,000 pickets who held the fort for two and a half hours against extreme police brutality. The Smash The Injunctions Com- mittee asks all workers or jobless who have a little time to be ready to come at the call to help distribute 50,000 leaflets against the injunction which will be ready in a day or so. TO PROTEST DEPORTATIONS NEW YORK.—Tomorrow evening @ mass meeting will be held in Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., un- der the auspices of the Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born to protest the persecution of workers born in foreign countries. Earl Browder, J. Louis Engdahl, Herbert Newton, S. Norvatt and language speakers will discuss the various problems confronting the alien in the United States and the national convention of the council that will open this Sunday in Wash- ington, D. C. Deportations of foreign-born work- ers will be vigilantly protested at this meeting. The Serio case will be gone into and how this worker's life is endangered by his probable de- portation to Italy, where he faces a certain death at the hands of the Black Shirts will be told by J. Louis Engdahl of the International Labor Defense. The national office of the Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born report conferences of foreign- born workers have been held in over 40 cities throughout the United States and at least bai delegates will be present. Trade Union Unity League Wins Phila. Shoe Strike Defeat 10 per Cent Cut In Model Shop; Force Shop In Philadelphia Still On Strike Committee; Another PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 26.— The first victory against) wage cuts here was achieved after two weeks of militant struggle by the workers of Model Shoe Co, The workers struck against a wage cut of 10 per cent. Finkelstein and Standard Shoe, re- main on strike 100 per cent, against an even higher wage cut and dis~ crimination. Not a single scab has recruited out of the ranks of the ladelphia shoe workers. The bosses of Model Shoe Co. made several attempts to hire scabs here, failing they turned for help out-of- town which resulted in many dis- appointments. Sensing the solidarity in the ranks of the workers the con- cern capitulated to their demands; recognition of shop committee, end of wags cut and vivicious discrimination practices, This victory of the Shoe and Leather Workers Indusrtial Union of the Trade Union Unity League ulti- mately means that Philadelphia shoe workers will rank as an organized industry. Scores of workers have joined the union since the strike. “The union is our only protection (300,000 IN CHINA RED ARMY; NEW CITY CAPTURED Flood Shanghai With Red Leaflets Reports from Shanghai to the New York Times state that the Red Army of China is rapidly advancing. In Hupeh the city of Siangyin is now under Soviet rule. On Tuesday a@ Communist dem- | onstration took place in Shanghai. Two main business flooded with leaflets urging workers to revolt against the Chiang Kai Shek government and® support ' the Soviet territories which were rapidly being extended. A report from the interior stated that the total field armies com- manded by Communists now num- bered over 300,000 men. According to this report 75 per cent of the ar- mies was composed of revolutionary peasants, 20 per cent were soldiers who mutinied from the ranks of the Nationalists and 5 per cent were workers and Communist Party mem- bers. The same cable says that a so- called crack regiment of the Chiang Kai Shek army was sent against the Red Army, but it went over to the side of the revolutionary forces. against more wage cuts and vicious discrimination,” the workers say. All shoe workers are urged to at- tend a mass meeting at 120 Tasker St. Friday, Nov. 28, 8 o'clock. Yesterday, the Daily Worker was on the verge of not appearing at al was available for the bare cost of printing. The compositors refused to work and finally agreed to go ahead only after assurance of being paid today. will be no paper unless funds the Daily Worker. ing sharper. out the road of struggle: The war against the Soviet ment grows This is the situation now every day! There to overcome the growing tasks which face The Daily Worker must not shut down at this time because of lack of funds! class battles throughout the world are grow- Only the Daily Worker is tell- ing the truth to the workers and pointing prepared at the same time that unemploy- in the United States, HOOVER FEASTS; JOBLESS STARVE, WASHINGTON, D.C.—Hoover and his family will fill themselves today with six turkeys, il. No money Soviet Union. are rushed in mounts. The Union is being and streets were} the} | money freely. Funds are slow in coming in. need $30,000, and we need it soon! If the readers and supporters of the Daily Worker want the facts of the Moscow trial to be published, if the Daily Worker is to continue to grow, there must be no delay in sending in funds. Support the Daily Worker! We must have money immediately! Send in your contribution today! RAMZIN TELLS ALL OF IMPERIALIST WAR PLOT Former Capitalists Put! Up Money to Push Intervention French Bosses In Lead) Carried On Sabotage to Spur on War (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) AFTERNOON REPORT MOSCOW, Nov. 26.—The trial of) the counter-revolutionary of the “industrial party” continued today with the statement of Profes- sor Ramzin, one of the defendants. He spoke slowly and composedly with | the voice of an experienced lecturer. -Contrary to the rumors which have been circulated that the defendants would repudiate in open court their statements made during the prelim- inary investigation, Professor Ram- zin confirmed entirely his previous statements and made substantial ad- ditions. How It Happened. Ramzin began by picturing the} conditions under which the engineers came to their counter-revolutionary tactics. The leading old engineers, he said, because of the revolution lost their privileged positions, and, con- vinced of the instability of the Sov- iet power, expected the re-establish- | ment of capitalism. The former capi-| talist owners, who fled abroad, main- tained steady conenctions, sent When Socialist reconstruction be- gan, he continued, their hopes van- ished of Soviet power reverting to capitalism. The difficulties accom~ panying reconstruction and _ the struggle within the Communist Party revived their hopes as to the possi- bility of overthrowing the Soviet Government. When information of an impend- ing intervention came from abroad, Professor Ramzin stated, the engi- neers endeavored to assure their se- curity if the overthrow succeeded. The kernel of the “industrial party” was then represented by two groups of reactionary engineers in the min- ing and transport industries. The central group had forty to sixty members, the total membership was about 2,000. “As the organization grew,” said Ramzin, “a more uniform political platform was worked out. A capi- (Continued on Page Three) If You Want the “Worker” to Continue, Rush in Funds! throughout the capitalist world. are being handed out to the American work- ers, The bosses are trying to keep the work- ers from fighting against wage cuts; they direct their attention to war against the Wage cuts At this critical moment in the struggle of the workers in the United States and in the Soviet Union, the Daily Worker is faced with a serious danger. Every day the deficit We EMERGENCY FUND 'This list is being sent by NAME |appress rreereres RED SHOCK TROOPS For Cut this out and mail immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St.,New York City. $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND Rnchosed fica iiss se seg ec cesesoese. Mass 0'Qerd'oi6't ose ¥ise baUjew oa obe Dna, Oe ae «cents, We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER members| , DELGASS LIES USED TO COVER WAR PLOT FACTS Newspapers Fake More Anti-Soviet Stories Not a day without several attempts made on a large scale to more closer to imperialist war against the Soviet Union. Yesterday while capitalist newspapers were being forced to print | the startling confessions of the leader | of the sabotageurs in Moscow, new | and wilder les and charges against {the Soviet Union were given great | prominence. The immediate aim is evidently to distract attention from Ramzin’s confession that he and his | following conspired with British and French army heads for open invasion and dismemdberment of the Soviet Union. ‘Yesterday morning newspapers gave huge prominence to the testimony the day before at the Fish committee hearing in Washington by the same Delgass, a discredited former em- (Continued on Page. Three) AMTORG PROTEST MELLON EMBARGO. Prohibiting Imports Is End of Trade NEW YORK. — Amtorg Trading Corporation, which handles most of the trade between Soviet Union and | U. S,, regards the new order signed | Monday by Mellon as practically the| end of the trade which keeps thous- ands of American workers at their jobs, if the prohibition of imports from the Soviet Union made possible by that order is actually put into ef- fect. This is the gist of a statement issued by Peter A. Bogdnaov, chair- man of the board of directors of Am- torg, yesterday. The statement says in part: “The new regulations issued by the Treasury Deppartment will undoubt- edly prove a surprise to the business organizations in this country trading with the Soviet Union. Various in- terpretations of the aims and pur- poses of these regulations have ap- peared in the press, I can only ex- press my fear that. in an atmosphere of continued attacks on the limited Soviet. imports into this country by certain groups and individuals, at- tempts ma be made under these reg- ulations by those opposed to Soviet- American trade to render its course more difficult, or even: impossible. The absence of normal relations be- tween the Soviet Union and the United States would make it easier for these groups to accomplish this alm. 6 Times Pre-War “The Amtorg Trading Corporation has always striven to expand the eco- nomic relations between the two countries. During the twelve months ending September 30, 1930, Soviet purchases in this country amounted to $149,223.00, six times the pre-war volume, while sales of Soviet prod- ucts heer made up $31,017,000, only about 50 per cent more than before the war. In other words, for every dollar's worth of Soviet products sold here nearly five dollars’ worth of American products is purchased for export to the Soviet Union. In addi- tion, while imports from the Soviet Union consist principally of raw ma- terials, Soviet purchases here consist |ance of the workers and peas GAINST SOVIET UNION le ngineer Laritchev, Admits Plans of Intervention Gives Plot’s History, Tells How He Faked Figs. of 5-Year Plan (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) LATEST REPORT MOSCOW, Nov. 26. — Professor Ramzin at this morning's trial re- viewed the wrecking activities of the “industrial party” in the Soivet Union confirming and amplifying his pre- vious statements. Instructions for united activity of the wreckers was given by the emigres, In 1927 the whole activity Ss die rected to the preparation for inter- vention. The main objective was the restriction of the pace of develop- ment of industry. Instructions were worked out in secret meetings of the Central Committee of the “industrial party.” The activity embraced all branches of industry. The wréckers deevloped plans for the creation of a crisis above all in the meal, electric and fuel industries. In proportion as the movement approached for inter- vention, the espionage work in- creased. The “central committee” provided detailed reports to the trade and industry committee in Paris, and to the French general staff regarding the electrical, agricultural and war industries. Admits “Heavy Crimes” Concluding, Ramzin declared, “2 am aware of the heavy commited. We aimed at the overthrow of the Soviet power with the help of inter- vention. We committed reason, not only against the Soviet state, but against the native country which was to be plunged into starvation, war and misery. As enemies of Socialism and the Proletarian Dictatorship we were agents of French imperialism. The whole heavy responsibility lies on the members of the central com= mitte of the “industrial party”, es- pecially on me as leader.” The next accused engineer, Larit- chev, was called. Speaking with self~ possession, Laritchev began with a complete admission of guilt. He de= clared it was his duty to reveal be« fore the whole world a full picture of the wrecking activities and pre= paration for intervention. He des cribed in detail the causes of the transformation of the engineer's com= mittee from a caste organization into a class party with the object of re- presenting the interests of industry. Clear Talk. The statements of the defendants were extraordinarily clearly cone structed and give a deep insight into the political differentiation within the engineering section. Beginning with the Five-Rear Plan they incited all engineers to the establishment of their “general line”: restoration of capitalism in opposition to the gen- eral line of the Communist Party in building up Socialism. The organi- zation of the secret party with def- inite political character aimed at the control of industry, and was widened by the development of other secret parties; peasant’s party and Gro- mann’s manshevik group. The char acter of the future government was to accord with the object of insuring control of heavy industry after the overthrow. A military dictatorship was planned to suppress the resist- Laritchev is to conti his speech (Continued on Page Two) 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 1237 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 largely of machinery and other man- ufactured products.” hour later, Take Out a List and Sign Up E less | SPEED THE CAMPAIGN! verybody Who Thinks the Job- Workers Should Not Starve This Winter. i