The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1930, Page 4

i res | es Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co, Inc, daily, except Sunday, at 60 Bast aily.. lorker SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Page Four 18th Street, New York City, N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: “DATWORK.” By matl everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; exceptine a Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 East 13th Street, New York, N, Y, Coated B USA ot Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50. By BURCK EXPOSE THE RENEGADES AND STOOL-PIGEONS By EARL BROWDER. LL over the world the renegades from Com- munism are uniting their forces more and more completely together, and at the same mo- ment connecting themselves up more openly Yirith the social fascists, and even directly with the open bourgeois parties. It is of interest to Tevolutionary workers to take note of the re- cent development of the Lovestone and Cannon Temegade groups in the United States. Upon the occasion of the set-back suffered by the Marine Workers’ Union on the Phila- deiphia waterfront, these two renegade groups immediately launched a concerted drive to split a woion. Through the instrumentality of a little group of umstable elements in the union, three or iour persons, they tried to disrupt the organization with the avowed purpose of taking the marines workers back into the American Fed- eration of Labor. The manifesto of this little group was the joint product of Cannon and Lovestone, and was immediately published in both their papers, falsely carrying the names of number of seamen who had repudiated them denounced them as renegades. Their progress in this move towards united ction of all renegades was at the same time a towards unity with the socialist party. This fort to split the marine workers’ union was by the Rev. Norman Thomas. We had the opportunity to read a document of the American Fund for Public Service which records that Norman Thomas “is very much interested” in the renegade splitting group, and has himself raised the question of providing them with money from the American Fund. It is entirely understandable why Mr. Thomas is so very much interested and himself takes the initiative to provide them with money for their disruptive work in the Marine Workers’ Union. For a long time Mr. Gitlow and Mr. Thomas have been competing for the “honor” of leading the fight against the revolutionary unions in the Amer- ican Fund, but in a most friendly rivalry. The renegade seamen, the Lovestone and Cannon groups, and Norman Thomas, recognize their affinity to one another, and their common aims. The Trotskyites have already entangled them- selves deeply in the Farmer Labor Party of the Northwest which has definitely become an ap- pendage of the steel trust. They are in close collaboration, together with the Lovestone group, with the Halonen renegades in the cooperative movement. The Trotskyite, Miller, ran for state legislature on the republican ticket in Dakota. One of the points of unity between the two renegade groups is found in thé person of Al- bert Weisbord, who is a sort of liaison officer, functioning freely in both groups, apparently as @ common member of the two, thereby express- ing their growing organizational unity, as well as their political agreement. Ludwig Lore is in close connection also with both, while active in the Muste group. In relation to the Negro question, both rene- gade groups have a common approach, openly denouncing the Communist slogan of self-de- termination for the Negroes and thereby sup- porting the dogma of white supremacy. Both groups orientate themselves upon the petty bour- geois Negro leaders, especially those with con- nections in the socialist party. The Revolution- ary Age goes as far as to reprint, and endorse, sections of the Musteite pamphlet on Negro workers, and even unites with the bourgeois N. A. A.C. P. The latest and most scandalous expression of this counter-revolutionary line on the Negro question is seen in their openly joining the Gar- veyites with a savage campaign to arouse race hatred and prejudice between whites and Ne- groes, and especially to incite the Negroes against Communism. In the Garvey paper, The Negro World of November 22nd, is printed a letter by Rothschild Francis, a Lovestoneite, con- sisting of crude slanders against the Commu- nist Party, upon the basis of which the Negro World prints a wild appeal for voluntary segre- gation by the Negroes, their separation from all whites, especially from the Communists, charg- ing the Communists with Jim-Crowing Negroes, calling them “niggers,” and at the same time making a vicious attack against the Soviet Union. There is not the slightest doubt that this fas- cist editorial was written with the advice of representatives of the Lovestone group. All of these developments should be no sur- prise to those who have studied the laws which govern the formation of political groups and ten- dencies. It is the logical and inevitable fruits of their political line which began in the strug- gle against the Fourth World Congress of the RILU and the Sixth World Congress of the CI. It is only another of the thousands of proofs that everyone who begins to struggle against the Communist International ends up in the camp of social fascism, or of open counter- revolution, The workers must learn the neces- sity of dealing with these snakes in an effective manner. They belong to the family of stool- Pigeons. What the Moscow Trial Reveals (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) By PAGE ARNOT. IOSCOW, Nov. 28.—Evidence of the eight de- fendants on trial before the Supreme Court in Moscow established one fact clearly. The bourgeoisie, imperialist countries ,in particular the government of the French republic and the General Staff, were the moving forces behind the whole train of plans of wrecking, espionage ‘and armed intervention. Cunning as were the heads of this so-called industrial party, as shown in the recourcefullness ‘with which they elaborated the hitherto unheard devices for introducing the disproportion in le industry and another, or between production nd consumption in the same industry, for sup- Porting the opportunists inside the Communist Party, by the most devious ways—despite all these things it is clear now they were nothing but tools in the hands of the French General Staff (from whom they took their orders and payments directly) and in the hands of the British, French and American capitalists. A significant passage in the evidence was when Fyodotov said while at the beginning the con- spirators in Paris were hanging about in the ante-chambers of the government, later the sit- ation was reversed and the “initiative” passed over another sphere. That is, from private as- sociation with the Russian expropriated mine ‘and factory owners, to the governments of the imperialist. powers. From the moment the initiative passed over, the drive was constant and pressing for war. It was actually timed for 1930, and later 1931, which date still holds good. The complicity of the bourgeoisie is revealed in the utterances of the bourgeois press. Torgprom, the central com- mittee of commerce and industry in Paris, it- self came out with a flat denial of everything, following the lead of Poincare, who loudly pro- Claimed his innocence. Actually the bourgeoisie is in a cleft stick. ‘The trial was conducted with the utmost pub- licity in the presence of thousands of Moscow ‘workers. Scores of representatives of bourgeois Journals in America,.Germany, Britain, etc., dip- Jomats of the imperialist powers were present. ‘The press reveals its complicity with the bour- geoisie in the plot by the lies it spreads. These lies-take two forms: Announcing Stalin’s murder; risings in Moscow, corpses in the Red Square, etc. etc. Such stories in which the wish is father to the thought is the familiar accompani- ment for the plans of intervention. Significant now is the fact that “Vorwaerts,” German socialist newspaper, the “Herald,” the London socialist paper, and the “New Leader” of New York, are in the forefront of the liars. 2. The bourgeois press treats the trial and the revelations of approaching war as a fake the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin saying the trial is “a gigantic maneuver to distract attention of the workers from the economic difficulties.” This 4s echoed by the Mensheviks, “Populaire” in Paris saying the trial “is a diversion caused by the failure of the Five-Year Plan. Although the conspirators admit the wrecking ‘was defeated by overwhelming forces utterly "unexpected by them of the working class, never- theless they were able to do considerable damage, but this is seen only when we consider the nega- tive side. On the positive side there is the well nigh un- believeable energy displayed by the revolutionary working class, which has had such gigantic re- _ sults that the efforts of the conspirators was mere flotsam and jetsam amid the overwhelming tidal wave of the proletarian advance toward the construction of Socialism. zs are the figures? The plan was stupen- enough. It allowed for the growth in a le year of 40.5 per cent. But the workers did that. They did things which bour- mists, like the correspondent for the n “Economist,” while reporting in black their senses. Instead of an increase from 1,600 million roubles to 2,300 million roubles, they went right up to 3,200 million roubles, or nearly 95 per cent in one year. Here is the table: é First year 1928-9, planned estimate in million roubles 1,653; actual result, 1,679; second year, 1929-30, planned estimate, 2,331 millions; and actual results, 3,267 millions. If we take large scale industry production Te- ures they show equally astonishing increases. While in the case of heavy industry, the Five- Year Plan, arduous and difficult of achievement though this is thought to be, is actually within measurable distance of fulfillment within the space of three years! They had set themselves the task of increasing production and the means of production, the basic industries of the country, by no less than one quarter increase each year. They were going to have an increase of three qquarters in three years. But actually they had an increase of more than double in that period. Similarly, light industry is increasing by leaps and bounds, and will achieve its Five Year aim in four years. Faced with these tremendous unprecedented figures, the proof. of the superiority of planned, Socialist construction over capitalist production leaves the bourgeois press with nothing but to imitate the flat denial of Poincare. ‘They deny that there is a Five-Year Plan in operation. They deny it is being fulfilled. They deny that the results of the Russian workers is a drive forward, far exceeding the highest fig- ures of the plan . These wild and desperate lies of the bourgeoisie are the measure of their dread of the effect of the plans, and the effect of their success within the capitalist countries where the workers are seeing Socialism built up before their eyes, and realizing that for this end they must follow the same road as the Russian workers have trod. Small wonder that the bourgeoisie, faced by the success of the Five-Year Plan, and reeling under the blows of a world economic crisis, should put forward every effort to crush the forces of revolution. Hence their suppression of the colonial revolutions in all countries of the East, and in Africa, and South America. Hence their drive against the working class by means of rationalization, speed-up, wage cuts, etc. Hence their brutality towards millions of unemployed. Hence their concentration on the Socialist fatherland, ‘stronghold of the world revolution, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, where the workers are building up Socialism through Only a simpleton would imagine that in such @ situation thé bourgeoisie is going to be turned aside from intervention in the Societ Union and World War by the revelation. of their plans through the discovery of the plot of the “indus- trial party.” On the contrary, if anything, the partial re- velation of the plan makes it more necesstry for them to strike quickly. Who can paralyze the efforts of the bourgeoisie to crush the revolution? ‘The masses alone can prevent a new world war, @ new imperialist world war against the Soviet . Union. Already “increased revolutionary activity of the masses” compelled the conspirators to postpone the launching of war for one year. But that activity must be increased tenfold to be effective now. ‘The working class of Britain, America, France, Germany and every other country, within the measurable distance of that war must stop it! As the crisis deepens, so more and more. war becomes a “solution” for the capitalists of the crisis. Action on the widest scale, the utmost energy, the utmost speed is necessary on the part, of the workers. On them alone depends the stopping of the war! UGH!!! Discrimination Against the Foreign Born Workers By SOLON DeLEON (From a forthcoming book “Facts for Workers”) ‘Without the foreign born workers the tre- mendous expansion of American industry which marked the past century would have been impos- sible. From 1820 to 1920 nearly 42,000,000 im- Migrants made America their home. They were given the hardest and most dangerous work, at the longest hours and for the lowest pay. Theiri Jack of acquaintance with the language and the institutions of the country made them easy vic- tims to extortion and abuse. Acquiring political rights was made difficult. for them. At the time of the 1920 Census, 13,921,000 per- sons, or 13.2 per cent of the population at that time, were foreign born, They came from prac- tically every nation on the globe, including the Orient and South America. Fourteen countries, however, had éach furnished 250,000 or more, namely: Germany Italy +-1,610,000 Russia. 1,400,000 Poland «1,140,000 Canada 1,118,000 Treland 1,037,000 England 812,000 Sweden 626,000 Austria 576,000 Mexico .. 478,000 Hungray 397,000. Norway ....++6 364,000 Czechoslovakia 362,000 Scotland .. 255,000 Almost half of the foreign born workers are in manufacturing or mechanical industries. About. an eighth are in farming, while trade and do- meatic service each have about a tenth. Follow- ing are the specific occupations with 50,000 or more foreign born workers in 1920, ‘with the percentage they formed of all the employes in the occupation: % of allin Number Occupation Lumbermen, raftsmen and wood choppers ... 25 Coal mine operatives . 38 Bakers . te 55 26 25 Building, general and not specified ........++-++-++-151,200 24 Iron and steel industries.328,800 45 Blast furnaces and steel rolling mills ..........0+++++-133,400 52 Machinists, millwrights and toolmakers ..........-+5 + 218,000 24 Molders, founders and costers (metal) .......... Painters, glaziers, warnishers Semi-skilled operatives: 50,300 41 Clothing industries 43 Food industries ... 50,100 a7 Tron and steel industries.203,400 29 55,900 27 31 Woolen and worsted. 42 Laborers (steam and street 33 27 Janitors and sextons. 31 Servants and waiters 24 Comparing the number of foreign born with the total number engaged in each general line -of occupation, the foreign born make up 34.6% of those in mining; 23.4% of these in manu- facturing and mechanical industries; 22.6% of those in domestic and personal service; 20.3% | of those in trade; 17.9% of those in tion; 16.5% of those in public’ service; 10.8% of those in professional service; and 8.5% of those in agriculture and in clerical work. ‘ By MYRA PAGE. ‘HE splendid fighting spirit of the foreign-born workers in the United States, the invaluable part which they play in the American labor movement, as well as the basis for the present terrorist campaign against them, is well exhibit~- ed in the case of Guido Serio. \ Serio is now being held at Ellis Island by the federal government for deportation-to- Haly, and only the immediate, -determined action of the American working class can save him from the certain death which awaits him there, at the hands of the Italian fascisti. Serio came to the United States from Italy in 1924. He bore on his body seven stiletto wounds inflicted by fascists while he was na- tional secretary of the Seamen’s Union of Italy, a militant organization which he helped organ- ize, with a membership of 200,000. Ever since he has been in this country, Serio has continued his revolutionary activities. He has been especially engaged in organizing the approximately two million Italian workers in the United States, for better conditions’and for support of their fellow workers’ struggles in the home country against Italian fascism. Mussolini’s agents have hounded Serio’s trail constantly, eager to deliver him into their mas- ter’s hands. They received the cooperation of interests who were determined to forestall the rising movement for organization against their terrific conditions in the industries which they control. One method they plan to use is ship- ping leaders like Serio and Vikukel out of the country. Serio realized their plans, but he and his young wife never faltered. He became secretary of the Anti-fascist Alli- ance of America, and an active member of the Communist Party. At the time of his arrest he Save Serio, Militant Worker, Sup- port Conterence of Foreign-Born was addressing an indoor meeting of mine and steel workers in Erie, Pa. The IL.D. and other workers’ organizations have demanded that Serio be allowed the right of voluntary departure, which means that he would be free to choose the country to which he would go. But the U. S. government is meet- ing Mussolini's demand for the life of this mili- tant worker and ‘plans to deport him to Italy. ~-There “is no doubt of the fate that awaits him there. Only wide-spread. mass protests can save Serio for the revolutionary movement. This action of the U. S. government shows the direct relation between it and Italian fascism. It shOuld serve as a warning and a challenge to the whole American working class. Coopera- tion with Italian fascism—an open fascist dic- tatorship in the United States tomorrow. The drive of Wall Street interests against the fourteen million foreign born workers, a large number of whom are employed in the basic in- dustries, is one aspect, and an important aspect of the general drive against the entire working class. As such it must be met and answered. It is part of the ruling class’ scheme to find a ‘vay out of the present crisis by dividing the workers, and so render them less able to de- fend themselves against the present wage-cut- ting and speed-up offensive of the employers. It is part of the preparation for war. All workers in the United States, whether na- tive or foreign-born, must rally to the support of fight. Rally to the support of the struggle which the swruggle which recognizes this as their fight. The National Conference of Foreign-Born Work- ers being held in Washington, D. C., on Nov. 30-Dec. 1, will mobilize and lead. Working class solidarity, more wide-spread organization, must. be our answer, and the launching of a counter- offensive against Wall Street and its government. Bosses’ Kindness in the South By DAVID DORENZ The last few weeks have witnessed a notable increase in plaintive wailings and mournings by the bourgeoisie over the sufferings and misfor- tunes of the more dependent members’ of the family, namely the women and children. _ Hoover's speech on the conditions ‘of children followed soon after the decision of the southern textile barons to abolish women and children labor at night for purely “humanitarian” rea- sons. Hoover in that speech spoke of the added miseries inflicted upon the children by the crisis. He told of six million children “improperly nour- ished” and urged reform as a relief. This re- form of course to be conceded to the poor work- ers by the slave driving industrial leaders. Hoo- ver lauded the attempts already made by the capitalists “to better the living conditions of the workers.” A shining example of the big hearted capital- ists and their reform are accorded the workers in the latest move of the bosses to shift the burden of the crisis onto the workers’ shoulders in the typical brotherly and effusive manner of the war mongering philantropists. . In Atlanta the Fulton Cotton Mill, citadel of exploitation, decided to do something good for its wage slaves, Accordingly the Atlanta news- papers ‘carried editorials and columns of news deyoted to the march of progress, civilization and better living standards which necessitated the exploiters to harken to “the humanities insum- bent upon them” by cutting off women and child _ labor at night, as one newspaper expressed it. ’ At this mill youth and adult workers received 8 to 12 dollars for an eleven hour shift.” The bosses at this mill are those whom Assistant ‘Solicitor General Hudson spoke for in his in- famous statements requesting the death penalty arrest every militant organizer of labor found in Georgia. This same mill hires spies to be on the watch for all organizers who approach the mill village. With the deepening of the crisis the mill has fired many workers of both the day and night shifts. Ordinarily ‘hiring 4000 workers, it now has 3000 working under speed up and some sec- tions of the mill are operating under the “stagger system.” Of this three thousand about 1200 are women and youths. The majority of women and youth work nights. The women forced into the shop because of the need to help support the family must work night because during the day they must prepare the meals for the family and Jook after the smaller children. The youth are put into night labor by the bosses because they can be speeded up much better than the adult. Now with overproduction prevailing, with the introduction of highly developed machines and smaller wages, and greater speed up, he. has no use for the labor of women and children. Soon under self-praising phrases he fires them out. In this manner the entire support of the family is thrown on the measly wage of 12 dollars week- ly of the father. Of course, when the family cannot pay rent these “humanitatian” mill own- ers evict the workers from the mill-owned houses into the. street. The workers are learning the truth about the bosses’ kindly ways and are organizing to smash this system of lies, starva- tion and unmeployment with as much kindness and consideration as this system accords them. Daily Worker before fac- i tory gates each week to be «+ in good standing. Every Party member, every Young Communist must sell 25. copies of the Ret By JORGE eee At It Again We confess that we don’t know what “vice” is. But we do know that a lot of cops are making money on it. The capitalist press is forced to be modestly excited over revelations that “innocent” girls have been arrested, yes, and some of them are now serving prison sen- tences for “vice.” If they were only “guilty” then jail is the proper place for them, is the viewpoint of the capitalist press. And amid all the fuss over the grafting police, don’t forget that what all the hypocritical capitalists want is that the girls who are “guilty” should get jailed, and not “pro- tected”—for a price. ‘We refuse to accept the capitalist definition of “vice.” The crimes against woman kind of the capitalist class which drives girls to prosti- tution absolves them in our eyes from any “guilt.” And we do not want them sent to jail. What we comment on, is the transparent ef- forts of one Mr. Mulrooney & Co., head of the ‘Tammany police, “New York’s finest,” to cover up the revelations that the N. Y. police depart- ment is in the racketeering business, a fact we announced when Mr. Mulrooney lent his pris- tine presence to the official “anti-racketeer” committee being organized by his fellow rack~ eteer, Mr. Crain. An Inspector Bolan, !t seems, had “investi< gated,” and found the police innocent, But now comes a gent who implicates whole droves of cops in the vice racket. But a dick named Con- frey, of Inspector Bolan’s staff, was the one who taught this gent, Acuna by name, to be a frame- up artist against women if they were “inno- cent” or a stool-pigeon if they were “guilty.” It is worth noting that when “guilty” women were scarce, Acuna says—“Vice squad members swooped down upon the Negro section of Har- lem, ‘crashed flats’ and made arrests at ran- dom.” A habit that they count on getting away with because New York law deprives workers of their constitutional right “to keep and bear ” and shoot the daylights out of such offi- cial criminals. Acuna was told “get something” on a house at 200 West 19th St., but found only “innocent” people there. But the cops made a pinch any- how. And Acuna, who was being paid $150 a week by the cops to “get” women, yielded to a streak of decency and appeared to testify in her defense. After which—“the police had little to do with him. . He was insulted, beaten and kicked” and finally railroaded for a year’s stretch by a dick, Eisner, for whom he used to “work.” Another dick he stooled for against women, was Gene Tunney’s brother. Mr. Mulrooney, of course, {s “investigating” himself again. And the whole Tammany ma= chine, to help along Mulrooney’s notion gf estabe lishing “cordial relations” between police and the people, insults the starving workers by mak+ ing them come begging to the police stations, te these vile things called cops, for a bite to eat! cen Yeats Those “Courteous Cops” Remember the August 1 demonstration In New York? And the way the cops waylaid the work- ers and beat them up? Particularly do you re- member that an Inspector Day said that he saw nobody beaten, but that the “reds” had “thrown themselves violently to the pavement” in such a way as to “get bruised, so as to have an ex- cuse io charge that the police had been brutal?” Well, here are some more things like that, “Three suspicious looking men,” who turned out, sure enough, to be cops, were reported by an apartment tenant to the apartment man- ager, to be hanging around the door. The man- ager, Fred Dodenhoff, and a friend named In- galls, went outside where one of these suspicious chatacters, Patrolman Newman, promptly pro- ceeded to knock Ingalls galley-west and arrested both him and Dodenhoff for “disorderly con- duct.” In court the cops testifiéd: “That Ingalls had been drinking and collapsed in an epileptic fit on the sidewalk in front of the station.” And that was where he got that black eye, etc. But Ingalls, his family physician and friends testified that he had never taken a drink of liquor in his life and never had an epileptic fit. This all happened at 156 Kenmore Place, Brook- lyn, and the charges against Ingalls were dis- missed. But Mulrooney still keeps the cop. Then, this chap Acuna, who spilled the beans on the vice graft, last Wednesday testified ‘in detail how Police Inspector John Ryan had taught him how to stool on women and frame them up. “The first thing I must do, the inspector said, was to change my name. Then I must not let anybody know my real name or ad- dress. Then when I entrapped women I must give a false name and address, that I must play the part in a comedy, that I would be slapped around, insulted by the officers and that that was the part of a stool pigeon, but it was only a comedy.” And what does Mr. Mulrooney’s Inspector Ryan say about it? The Times tells us: “Inspector Ryan said that it was ‘possible’ that Acuna had been taken into his former of- fice at the West 123rd treet station and duped into believing that he was talking to the actual inspector.” And what does Mr, Mulrooney say of all this hokum? “If Ryan isn’t an honest man, there isn’t an honest man on the force.” We agree with Mulrooney, this time. There isn't. And this includes Mulrooney himself. “Labor” Spooks Well! It seems that England, which got so excited over the pope's charge that “religion” was persecuted in Soviet Russia, had some up the sleeve herself. For now comes a courageous spirit, or rather a spiritualist, from the “Labor” party, a Mr. T. W. Kelly, who up on his feet in the House of Commons and declares that “some members of parliament” are spiritualists, but because the law is against spiritualists, any one of ’em may be put in the stocks in the local market place and jailed for a year besides, Now just why didn't the pope get excited about that, instead of raising such a stink over the “holy” kulaks in Soviet Russia? Somehow, we kinda think that the pope and the “labor” party are both crooks,