The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1930, Page 1

? Extra Dailyu.aAl Central Orga ea NOD e-Co orker mist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIL. at New York, N. ¥.. Sis Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the act of March 8, 1879 “NEW YORK, TUES — DAY, DECEMBER 2, 1930 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMONSTRATION FOR FOREIGN-BORN GASSED, CLUBBED Detend Chinese Revolution! PROCLAMATION The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the’ Workers of the World. | | | | Dear Comrades, Workers, peasants, soldiers, sailors of all countries. The English, Japanese, American, French, German and other imper- ialist robbers are protecting the bourgeoisie and the landlords’ counter- revolution in China, they are striving to crush the new revolutionary waye, to stamp out the Chinese Soviets. The international bourgeois press is full of wild stories of the “hor- rors” of the peasant movement in China, of the Red terror of the par- tisans, of the “brutalities” in the Soviet districts, etc. This is all absolutely false, and is merely a repetition of the old slanders about Bolshevik ‘‘brutalities’ in the Russian revolution. It is done to justify their own crimes and to deceive the working masses. The imperialists are utilizing Chinese reaction to set up a brutal terror against the revolutionary workers and peasants of China; in big cities like Shanghai, Wuchan, Canton, almost every day there are masses | of arrests and executions, heads are cut off in the streets, women and children are killed for distributing proclamations, for taking part in demonstrations; the rule of the Kuomintang is the rule of a new in- quisition. In 1930 alone, 58,000 people have been executed. The imperialists are carrying on a bloody war against the workers | and peasants, against the Red Army and the Soviet Government in | China. French airplanes have bombarded Soviet Lunchow, the Japanese imperialists haye twice driven back the Reds from Da-ye; the British, French, Japanese and American artillery, warships and airplanes are | operating against the Red Army in Chang-sha and Shasi. A tremendous | amount of rifles, guns, machine guns, tanks, airplanes, gas and other weapons are being imported into China from England, America, Germany, | Japan, Czecho-Slovakia and Sweden. German, British and Japanese | military specialists, scouts, missionaries and social-fascist. leaders like Vanderveld are being sent there to support the executioners of the.Kuo- mintang. The imperialists of all countries, while carrying on a fierce struggle.among themselves for domination over China, have agreed in the geneval struggle against the workers’ and peasants’ revolution. The imperialists are attempting to unite the Chinese generals and execuiioners for the struggle against the Soviets. Chiang Kai-shek has received money and assistance from the im- perialists to prepare 10 well armed divisions against the Soviet districts. ‘The imperialists have concentrated their armed forces near Hankow to the extent of dozens of European divisions. There are 23 foreign cruisers stationed in- the Yang-tse-Kiang for the purpose of dealing out brutal Dunishment under the pretense of “saving civilization.” ‘The Chinese workers and peasants look on this “civilization” as _ shameless inhuman robbery,@s imperialist slavery, which props up the oppression of the landlords and usurers. This civilization means the destruction of millions of people, ruin, slavish conditions of labor, un- ending war, death from starvation and similar calamities: ° The workers and peasants of China have replied to the arbitrary violence of the.imperialists and to the terrible. oppression of the, bour- geoisie and landlords by forming Soviets in 200 counties in Southern and Central, China, by forming a Red Army, 800,000 strong, by the advance of 3-4 million armed peasants with the support of 30 million farmers. . They are building up a new life, they are equalizing the distribution of Jand among ‘the, peasants and the soldiers of the Red Army, they are destroying the contracts f slavery and debts to usurers, introducing the 8-hour day, making special laws to defend the interests of the wofkers, men, women and youths, and are giving women their rights. ‘They are setfing up their own cultural organizations, organizing schools, develop- | ing the trade union movement, improving the conditions of life of the workers and the masses, of the peasants. On December 11,'the 3rd anniversary of the Canton Commune, there will be a session of the first congress of Soviets in China, at which | the workers’, peasants’ and soldiers’ deputies will set up a provisional central revolutionary Soviet government in order to carry on a line for developing the revolutionary struggle still further, for the final over- throw of imperialist domination and its servant—the bourgeois landlord government—for complete national independence, for the unity of the country and for the victory of the revolutionary-democratic dictatorship | of the proletariat and the peasants of all China. The successes of the Red Army and the Soviets in China in or- ganizing a firm revolutionary government will serve as an encouraging example for the oppressed peoples of all colonies. hey will be a great factor for bringing nearer the doom of imperialism and the victory of the proletarian revolution throughout the world. ‘The world bourgeoisie, tightly held in the clutches of the economic crisis, do not wish to lose the tremendous Chinese market, and. cannot tolerate the successes of socialist construction’in the U. 8. S. R. Comrades! There are only two sides to the barricades. On one side are the proletariat of the whole world, the oppressed toilers of the colonies, the U. S. 5. R. and Soviet China. On the other side are the world bourgeoisie, the landlords, the fascists, who are responsible for the world economic crisis and unempleyment. The victory of the revo- lution in China and the victory of the U. S. S. R. is a victory for the proletariat of the world. Our fight is your fight. { Workers, peasants, soldiers and sailors. Not a cent, not a single soldier must be sent for imperialist slaughter and intervention against the U. S. S. R. and the Chinese Soviets. Reply to the imperialist interventionists by forming mass fighting committees “Hands off the Chinese Soviets.” Reply by mass demonstra- tions against loading and despatching armaments and soldiers to China. | Demand the recall of foreign soldiers from China. Struggle against war on the Chinese workers and peasants. Don't allow soldiers or arms to be .sent. Hands off the U. S, S. R. and the Chinese Soviets, Down with imperialist. war and intervention against the U. S. S, R. and the Chinese Soviets. Long live the world proletarian revolution, Long live the socialist revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasants of China. Long live the Communist International—the leader of the world revolution. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA, October 12, 1930. JOBLESS VOTE 10 | AID EAGLE STRIKE a. m. and tells everybody to come back at 1 p. m. ‘ At the indoor meeting at 27 East Fourth St. the jobless pledged all possible aid to the Eagle Pencil strike, volunteered to help picket and not to scab under any citcumstances Congress Opens With Attack On WRECKE Those Pro Special to the Daily Worker. By JOE PASS. WASHINGTON, Dec. . Congress opened today with a tear 1—The U. | gas attack, with clubbing and beat- | ing and terror turned loose against | the National Conference of Foreign Born. The 500 delegates to the Con- | gress, joined by another thousand, | | many of them Negroes, demonstrated | at the capitol building steps against the savage laws this Congress has | before it, directed against the foreign | born. * | Police drew their guns and fired tear gas shells. Members of the| House of Representatives stood on | the steps of the capitol and urged on | the police to brutally attack the for- | testing Deportations . The battle’ lasted all the way from Workers Fight Back as| nc wnnsto te ene rom Congressmen Urge | @ quarter of a mile away. The police on the Police admit beating up several women | workers. Placards carried by the demon- gro and white workers, forced its way | strators fead: “Down With Deport- into Speaker Longworth’s chambers | ations,” “We Demand Release of Po- and filed the demands of the con-/ litical Prisoners and Justice for the ference. | Foreign Born,” “Down With A committee headed by Ella Reeve | Crowism,” ete. (“Mother”) Bloor went to the senate | ‘The demonstration came during the building and was refused entrance. | great national conference for the pro- The singing of “Solidarity” by the | tection of foreign born, which started demonstrators could be heard in the| here yesterday with 480 delegates, chambers of Congress. | representing over 200,000 workers. Eleven workers were arrested and) The conference and deraonstration three are in the hospital poisoned by | aré in protest against: the finger- the gas used against them by the! printing, segregation, discrimination Jim RS ON TRIAL TELL HOW THEY TRIED Deterding, Kautsky and War TO SMASH 5-YEAR Chemists For Attack on USSR Oil King Talks About “Poor Russians” But | Overlooks 25,000,000 Unempleyed in PLAN Sought to Prevent Oil, Coal Development to Full Aim Was to Aid War Hid Fact Kuzbas Coal Source Tremendous eign born. Congressmen yelled, “Give | police it to them! Hit ’em again!” etc. | Defend Themselves. | The workers defended themselves, seizing back from the police those already arrested. The capitol police called out the} gress. municipal reserves | Damned niggers” and made other ‘The demonstrators were forced | abusive and threatening remarks. down Pennsylvania ‘Ave., by the gas. A delegation headed by Herbert | police was loaned to them by the Nevwon, Negro worker waiting trial| U. 5. Army Chemical Warfare Ser in Atlanta, Ga., where he will be| vice. American imperialism tries out Abuse Negro Workers. The police harangued and threat- ened Newton and Billups, Negro worker of Detroit, for walking with The police called them “God | and deportation bills which Congress has before it, and against the terror on foreign born workers. | Among those arrested are: | John Zilic, McKeesport, Pa.; Paud- | a white woman delegate to the Con-| lis, Kuldin, Detroit; Donzelo Fiorello,| poor Russian people,” because the Italian chef, New York; Rose Stein, | dressmaker, New York; Rose Markle, dressmaker, New York; Helen Rob- The tear gas pistols used by the|frts, Baltimore; Julia Whitfield, | facts brought out-in the wreckers’ | Capitalist Lands; Is for War! Deterding, head of the British oil | trust. vicious exploiter of the colonial peoples throughout the world, sud- |denly becomes concerned about “the | imperialist oil barons cannot lay their hands on Russian oil. | Fully supporting the truth of the | Washington trial in Moscow, Deterding in an ar- | All but Zilic were charged with dis-/ticle in the December issue of | orderly conduct. Zilic, after having | “World Petroleum,” calls for war | |has borne the usual fruit. | falsely against Mooney and Billings. given the death sentence if convicted | its weapons on the nearest convenient | a broken nose treated, was held on| against the Soviet Union. of “insurrection” for organizing Ne- workers, charges of assaulting an officer. Supreme Court and Billings Die In Prison Workers Only Way to . Workets; Many Times Proven Innocent SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 1— Life in prison for Mooney and Bill- ings: That is the verdict of the high- est court in California. “As over and over predicted by the Daily Worker, the soft pedaling on mass protest against the continued imprisonment of these two innocent workers, and the reliance on legalistic methods ‘The lib- erals and socialists who gloried in the fact that they were taking the lead now in the Mooney-Billings de- fense, with only gentlemanly meth- | ods used, and who promised that they would save the workers, which the “Reds” could not save, have their answer now, and have on their heads the blame for shackling them tighter to their life-long martyrdom. The Supreme Court of California today rendered its decision that no pardon is recommended in the case of Billings, This means, as the gov- | ernor has many times stated, that Mooney will be treated as Billings is treated. And this means no pardon, unless the workers rally to mass pro- test and mass demonstrations, so that | the capitalist class releases its mur- derous grip on the two men before they die. A Frame-Up. Mooney and Billings were convicted in a clear-clut frame-up for an ex- plosion which cost the lives of sev- eral “preparedness day” marchers | and others in 1916. Every witness | against them has been proven to be a perjurer. Most have confessed they were either hired or forced to testify The jurors, those that still live, have agreed that they would not convict if they knew What they now know about the witnesses of the prosecu- | 2901 Mermaid Avenue and formed a Rules Mooney TERRIFIC WAGE CUT IN CHARLOTTE ‘Failure of Legal Measures; Mass.Action by the!National Textile Mill ae i eS . Release Two Framed” | Committee Forming CHARLOTTE, N. C.; Dec. 1.—The Gon, | National “Textile Workers’ Union is “The-trial judge has stated several | "°¥ forming a milf’ committe and times that he is’ convinced the men | Célling on workers in the Mercury did not have a fair trial, and has | Mill here to fight th eterrific wage- petitioned the governor to pardon | cutting and speed-up. ‘The mill man- them. The court several months ago agement has just declared a wage- made the excuse that one chief prose- 5 cution witness, McDonald, had not |CU* of $3.50 for all except those in come before the court with his con- | the weave room. The stretch-out fession of perjury. McDonald did|has been increased from ten to then come to the court and repeated his confession. But in the face of all this the high court refuses to let them go. Form Coney Island Branch of L.S.N.R.) NEW YORK—Negro and white| workers of Coney Island assembled | twenty sides, which means another $2 cut. The new stretch-out means the permanent laying off of some of the workers. The new wage will be $7 or $8 a week, The Mercury employs about 150 and has the worst conditions of all. The hands ywork under 105 degrees of heat. “How long is the rest of the world whose activities are directed to pro- | duction of wealth and the improve- iment of the standard of living of everybody (“everybody” of course to | Deterding does not count the 25,000,- |000 unemployed throughout the | world, not the entire working class whose wages are being cut) going to | stand for this festering sore in its | midst.” | Deterding is joined in this howl against the Soviet Union by Karl Kautsky, chief theoretician of the, Second “Socialist” International, who Q sells what used to pass for a t+ knewledge, to the capitalists, Ma: aiding them to prevare a war against |the Soviet Union. An article on Kautsky in last Sunday's New York Times shows th autsky is openly | justifying an imperialist war against , the Soviet Union. Added to this chorus of war cries jis the yapping of the American Chemical Society, through its jour- jnel, Industrial and Chemistry, just issued. One of the leading articles ts an attack on -the Five-Year Plan. It \calls upon all American chemical en- |gineers now in the Soviet Union to jleave that country and ccme to the United States and work in the war indust‘ies to prepare for a war against the Soviet Union. Engineering last night at the Workers Center, | branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Thirty-six workers were present. Against 10 P. F. A. Welsh, fresh from the St. : Louis convention of the League, ad-| NEW YORK—The 900 workers in dressed the workers making a report Eagle Pencjl Co., 14th St. aud Ave. | both on the convention and on the|©> came out on strike yesterday Southern Anti-Lynching conference #8ainst the ten per cent wage cut. at Chattanooga which preceded it. | They all came out except the few |in the boiler room and a part of one Practically every worker present) out of 25 departments. This depart- responded to his talk by joining the ment is the box shop, separated League. An organization committee|from the rest of the workers. Mass of 14 was elected and will meet this) picketing will bring these out too if week to elect an executive committee | the company tries to run. of seven. The workers pledged their] Yesterday afternoon it was re- support to the building of The Liber- | ported to the strikers’ mass meeting ator into a mass organ to give lead-|that the management had given up ership to the struggles of the Negro|the pretense of running the factory masses against lynching and other|and had closed it down. The forms of white ruling class oppres-| strikers met in Labor Temple, 14th sion. St. and Second Ave., after the walk- It Depends O HE Daily Worker is comin was able to get hold of $500 which must be repaid within the next five weeks. Even with that we had to borrow about $300 to pay for the press work, Eagle Pencil Workers Strike P.C. Wage Cut out and elected a strong strike com mittee of about 60, proportionally ,representing the various departments. The strike committee members were chosen by the men and girls who knew them in the various depart- | ments, and were then elected by | unanimous vote of the whole mass The strikers, most of whom have} | meeting. \ |never been in a labor struggle be- |fore, got their first taste yesterday |of the attitude of the police when |they marched back of the strike committee shortly after noon to the) |factory. Police were thick around | the place and permitted only a part ' (Continued on Page Two) n You Whether the Daily Worker Can Continue to Appear! Rush Your Contribution! ig out today only due to the factthat a worker result of the Fish Committee investigations. Foreign Born Workers demonstrating before the White House in Wash- ington was gassed and attacked by the poliee. The unemployment crisis is becoming more acute. talist_ press is forced to print that workers are dying from hunger. SIR HENRI DETERDING FOREIGN BORN | ‘CONFERENCE. HITS | JIM CROWISM 4 Demonstrations Over | IN.-— Delegates and siting the National Confer- | ence for Protectio of the Foreign | | Born here yesterday staged four dem- | onstrations against Jim Crowism. At the Little Palace Restaurant, 14th and U Streets, a Negro delegate en- tered with white delegates and was | refused service. The determined pro- test of the workers forced the abol- BULLETIN. MOSCOW, Dec. 1—The O. G. P. U. discovered a secret organization in Soviet White Russia. Lastovski, Zvikevitch, Kraskoyski and Smo- litch were arrested. They are for- mer white Russian emigres, re- | turned on parole. oe oe (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Dec. 1—In yesterday jevening’s session the whole counter- revolutionary tctivities of the wreck= ers was further illuminated in the hearing of the witness Yurovski. Yurovski was brought from prison where he is hei on the charge of membership in the counter-reyolue tionary secret organization, the ‘“Working Peasants’ Party.” Although the presiding judge warned the witness he must not speak on questions of relation io the under investigation and must cons fine himself to questions of activity and the foreign relations of the “ine dustrial party.” Questioning revealed important de» ails’ regarding the position of the “peasants’ party” and close relation= ship with the “industrial party” and the Manchevists. Yurovski gave evidence of the poe sition of the “industrial party” and its activities and preparations for in- tervention. In addition, information was received from a representative of the “industrial party” in the “peas sants’ party.” He learned more on a trip abroad. In January and February, 1928, he had two conversations with the leader of the “republican-democratic center,” with the emigre Miliukoy, and a representative of the commer- cial and industrial committe ition for the time of the Jim Crow] paris, Hoefding. MAGNE a rule, Later at the same place some''firmed the fact that the “ ‘i t b le 0 or more delegates entered. and ie eae rvice beig refused the Negro mem- | bers, there was a ral demonstration, | during which some plates were acci- | dentally broken. and all left in a body. Outside, Squires, a Negro dele- gate and Nels K. a white delegate, addressed a crowd of Negro workers and got much applause for the fight on Jim Crowism. Two hundred at Thompson Rest- | aurant at Pennsylvania Ave., near Mth St. demonstrated and left the | place when service was refused Ne- | gro workers. | A hundred at Gerber drug store in| the National Press Building also demonstrated for the same reason After a threat that the National Press Club hall would be denied the conference, the meeting took place, but had to leave at night because of an auction held there. The whole | body marched to the White Lawn | Hotel, i3th and P Sts. N.W: and though the hall was small, held a crowded session. } The delegation of the Even the capi-* The party” was known to him. He de- clared himself a supporter of the idea of armed intervention in Ruse sia because the overthrow of Bolshes vism by internal power was hopeless, Miliukov replied to Yurovski's ques- tions regarding the attitude of the French socialists, that although any war, particularly one against the |S oviet Union, was unpopular with the French workers, the socialist leaders undoubtedly firmly resolved in case of war against the Soviet Union, to support it. Miliukov gave detailed information of the preparation for intervention. | The reason for the postponement of the original date from 1928 to 1930 was necessitated by the existence of a strong-handed government in France, which is best guaranteed in the person of Poincare. He stated that the preparations and elaboration of plan, the finances and military command, was guaran- teed by the French government and the general staff. The fighting forces (Continued on Page Three) Indianapolis Cries For More “We need an immediate in- crease of 100 copies of the Daily Worker. We have a man here that is going to get all the Daily Worker subs he can for carrier. Also we have three comrades at my location who are pushing Daily Workers “peasants’ party” because this is still NEW YORK.—The Down Town Unemployed Council held a mass meeting with 2,500 jobless workers present before the doors of the Tam- many fake employment agency on Lafayette St. yesterday. Milton Stone of the October. 15 delegation to pre- sent demands for immediate relief for the jobless from the city govern- ment spoke and exposed the city government trickery and disregard of the sufferings of the jobless. Ginko d closes its doors at 10 in this strike against a wage cut. Committees were elected to visit the First Municipal Court,’ Grant and Lafayette streets and the Second Municipal Court, at 264 Madison St. today. At these courts eviction cases against jobless workers are going on. The judges refer some of these cases to the crs’ bureau, but this is only a trick, and the landlord are already setting legal machinery in motion to have the evictions go on and save the Mayor's reputation. The response to the Emergency Campaign has picked up just a little | but nevertheless not enough to make it certain that the Daily will come out regularly. There is. still no money for.postage for sending out the appeals by mail; no money for the every day printing ; no money for the telephone; no money for the rent. ) d Comrades! It is necessary for us to bring these points to ‘the front. Every effort must be made to raise funds immediately. The workers are entering new struggles. The United States Con- against the workers as a gress is preparing more oppressive measures trial in Moscow points out, more clearly than ever the impending danger of attack against the Soviet Union. Comrades!. 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