The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1930, Page 1

7 HEAR WM Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Coee spon: of Dail Central UG = Eaatered as’ second- at New York, N. ¥. Vol. Vil. No. 289 clase matter at the Post OBice under the uct of March 3. 1879 the Comin wn tat “hoy ele Worker — ee. Party U.S.A. pies Not A Leg to Stand On HE ridiculous attempts of the capitalist press, assisted by the “social- ist” sheets, to picture the Moscow trials of the counter-revolutionists as a “frame-up,” have been left without a leg to stand on. It is, of course, somewhat natural for the American capitalists, whose savage class justiced burned to death Sacco and Vanzetti regardless of the proof of their innocence, capitalist justice which only yesterday pblazoned its crime across the front pages in big letters saying that “Mooney and Billings Denied Pardons”—it is natural perhaps that the capitalists who try to dodge responsibility for the crimes-against the Soviet Union of their agents there should use the term “frame-up,” in an effort to delude American workers; who are certainly well acquainted with such things. But after the exposure in the Moscow court, the protests of the defendants themselves, the absurd claim is shattered. Prosecutor Kry- Jenko, reading the statement of the Czarist emigre “Committee of the Commercial and Industrial Union,” published outside the Soviet Union, claiming that the confessions of the defendants were “a tissue of lies and fabrications, doubtless extracted from the accused by torture,” asked the prisoners to tell their experience in prison. The N. Y..'Times, which has been playing up all the “denials” and “claims” of “doubt” and tales of “frame-ups” and “torture,” had to admit through its Moscow correspondent, that the prisoners themselves freely contradicted it. “Professor Ramzin said it was an absolute lie. Larichev said he had been well treated in prison, Kalinnikof sobbed out that he had made a voluntary confession and had suffered no ill-usage. Fedotof said . . , he had received treatment appropriate to a man of culture, that . . . he was far from being tortured. The rest of the accused showed the same unanimity . . .” ‘Thus the attempt to make out a case of “tortur ad “frame-up,” was smashed before the whole world. But no doubt the “socialists,” led here in America by Morris Hillquit, who only two weeks ago led the pack of anti-Soviet liars here in the adoption of a resolution of protest at the ‘prosecution of these counter-revolutionists, will brazenly continue the same identical lies, The reason is that the American “socialists” are completely bound up with the most reactionary elements of American imperialism, the fascist elements symbolized in Fish and Matthew Woll, the enemies of the American working class and of the working class throughout the world. American workers should learn from this that all pretensions of the “socialists” are but lies hiding their common aims wit hthe worst enemies Why Fish Lies HE antics of J. Hamilton Fish are not without their. humor, but no one should under-estimate the fact that capitalism has need of just liis sort of malevolent jackass to drown out by interminable braying the sob of mass misery of the workers. Saturday, Fiish gabbled for forty minutes over a coast-to-coast radio hook-up, on the “menace” of Communism. He spoke, in pretense, as “an individual” and not as chairman-of the Congressional Committee. But he thanked the other committeemen publicly and in nu way was his speech different from an official declaration. So far as Communism in America is concerned, the meat of his argu- ment was that it was a menace to “our” industries. Since-the workers do not own the industries, they need not share Mr. Fish’s alarm at the fact he recited of Communist organization in the factories, the issuance of shop papers by the workers therein, the organization of strikes against wage-cuts and speed-up, the battles waged for immediate relief and un- employment insurance for the jobless. Although Mr. Fish has “endorsed” the series of anti-Soviet articles running in the N. Y. Post and other papers by Knickerbocker, he calmly ignores even these when they contain matter that does not suit his purpose. Knickerbocker says that the Soviet is not “dumping” manganese in the United States. Fish says it is. In his Saturday speech, Fish said that all labor in the Soviet Union is “convict or forced labor’—incidentally and brazenly lying by saying Soviet labor is paid “only 10 or 20 cents a day.” Yet even Knickegbocker admits: “Convict labor is employed to no perceptible degree,” while .. . “The assumption that all labor in the Soviet Union is forced labor is not borne out by the records.” Fish tried to make use, however, of Knickerbocker's representation of the kulaks (rich farmers) being taught that “he who does not work, neither shall he eat,” as “forced labor.” Like Knickerbocker, Fish misrepresents the sending of the kulaks to work in the lumber industry at union wages and conditions, as “opposition to collectivization” of the land these kulaks ‘occupied. The fact is, that the kulaks “opposed” the collectivization of the lands occupied by the poor and middle peasants, and frequently burned the buildings and destroyed the machinery of the collectives. The collectives refused to allow kulaks to join, rather than forcing them to join, and they were “dispossessed” more by the tact that they could not compete against the collectives, especially so when the landless peasants they had been exploitinig no longer would work for them because the collectives took them in and bettered their conditions. Moreover, all land in the Soviet Union belongs, legally, to the nation, and the rich farmer “kulak” who could no longer get rich by getting others to work it for him, has neither a legal nor an economic basis and has to resort to that painful expedient of going to work. Now we call attention to why Fish lies about. this. It is because he, and other American capitalists and landlords, wish to cover up the fact. that here, right here in the United States, it is the poor farmers who are “dispossessed”. and driven to “forced labor’—provided they can find it, in the factories. In the last ten years about 5,000,000 of the farming population of the United States, surely something like one million farmers, were driven off their farms—not by Bolshevism, but by capitalism! Moreover, these mil- lion farmers were poor farmers, they were driven off by poverty because they were unable to compete with the rich farmers and farm corporations, because they were ground into dust by rents, mortgages, taxes robbery by all kinds marketing monopolies. In short, here under capitalist rule the poor farmers are driven into the cities to seek in vain for jobs among the unemployed—while the rich farmers remain and fatten on the misery of their poorer neighbors. In the Soviet Union the rich farmers, a small percentage of the total, are “forced” to go to work because no one will longer sweat for their profit—while the big majority, the poor and middle farm- ers are joining the collective farms and living better than they have ever lived before as they work to build up socialist agriculture. NEEDLE TRADES BALL 10 DRAW A HUGE CROWD NEW YORK—The Needle Trade Union Ball which was arranged for the purpose of getting funds for preparations of the dress strike, will troupe which is now playing in “Brillianten” will participate in the program, All those who received tickets for the union ball are instructed to come to the office of the Union immedi- ately and settle for these tickets. can be bought in the office of the be the most colorful affair of this winter. From reports of the Organ- ivers it is already evident, that the affair will also be one of the biggest. ‘The ball will be held on Friday evening, December 5, in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. The dance orchestra will be of the Petesk Radio Broadcasting Co. The whole Artef Union, 131 West 28th St., or in the Freiheit office, 50 Kast 13th St., in the Workers Book Shop, 50 East 13th St., the office of the Cooperative Colony, 2800 Bronx Park East, or Friday evening at the box office in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The price price of tickets is only 50 cents, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2.—The senate and house of representatives met today to begin their work of es- tablishing a federal spy system, con- sidering the embargo plans against the Soviet Union, taking up the bills for finger printing, registration and deportation of foreign born militant workers, and making sure that the bluff of giving relief to the unem- ployed shall remain no more than a bluff. Congress met behind a barricade of shot guns. The demonstration yes- ers, gressmen. Shotguns were issued last night to the capitol police, and new forces were added to the capitol| guard. Nothing For Relief. There is the usual squabbling over | committée appointments. There is a flood of bills proposing various in-} effective remedies for DOE SHCeEDY| terday. of 1,500 workers, a third of| them representatives of foreign born) organizations totalling 200,000 work- | has scared the heavy set con-) Scene of Gas Attack on Workers © Congress Meets hind Glas to Starve Jobless; Speed Exiling in Washington, D. C. but as the United Press correspondent puts. it: “It is the determination of repub- lican leaders to keep unemployment relief measures down to those for additional public buildings and roads appropriations and the seed loan and possibly the Wagner bills, and to block any bills calling for huge out- lay of federal money.” Starvation Hoover Again. Congress today heard Hoover's presidential message, in which the only proposal of unemployed relief is that Congress appropriate from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 for con- struction of public works. Even the highest amount, if all given to the 9,000,000 jobless would mean only $16.66 for each man out of work— and the jobless are by no means to get all of that money. The smallest amount will be appropriated, or still less perhaps, and all but a insignifi- | cant fraction of that goes for graft and purchase of building materials. However in new laws for the fur- ther consolation of big capital and for the attack of foreign born work- ers, the president is not so stingy. He wants the Sherman Anti-Trust Act modified so that it will be prac- tically ineffective legally as it is actually, and he wants laws to make deportations easier and more com- mon even than they are now. He approves in substance the recommendation of Secretary of Labor (now Senator) Davis for re- striction of immigrants except where the immigrants could be used for strike breaking (“flexible inter- pretation” where the worker “will not be a charge on the community”). It was against the many bills be- fore congress for this deportation and for the finger printing and reg- istration of aliens that the National Conference for the Protection of the Foreign Born was called and met; last Saturday in Washington, lead- ing up to the demonstration Mon- day at ‘he capitol and a brutal NEW YORK.—Workers and organ- izations in California, Tennessee, Butte and Great Fall, Boston and Canton and in a score of large and small industrial centers have written the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance, re- questing direction and signature lists in the mass drive for the proposed Unemployment Insurance Bill. Many thousands of signature lists have al- ready been sent into the field. Work- ers’ organizations and individual workers, all readers of Daily Worker, should write for signature lists and cooperate in organizing a thorough campaign for the collection of a mil- lion or more signatures. The secretary of the Chattanooga Unemployed Council writes: “Send signature lists immediately. We sure can get signatures here. There are 18,000 unemployed in this city, many of them actually starving.” In all industrial centers, workers are dying from cold, hunger. Thousands of evictions take place daily. Fight for Relief. The Committee points out that the struggle for immediate relief to the jobless from local and city govern- ments must go on, at the same time the campaign for national unemploy- ment insurance is waged. The at- tempts of the employers to force those still working, sometimes only a day or two a week, to contribute to Collects § $50.50 for Aid of Daily Worker NEW YORK.—At a rehearsal last Sunday of the Freiheit Gesang in preparation for the performance of the revolutionary oratorio “October,” which will take place on Saturday evening, December 20, at Carnegie Hall, the sum of $50.50 was collected for the Daily Worker. The members of the organization promise continued efforts for collec- tions in support of the Daily Worker in the present urgent campaign for funds. All workers’ organizations are urged to help the Daily Worker in its pres- ent crisis by taking up collections at their meetings and rushing the mon- ey to the Daily Worker at 35 East 12th St., New York City, Nation-Wide Response to Call for Signatures for Insurance Battle for Immediate Relief for Jobless Goes] on While Signature Drive Is Speeded; City Conferences Must be Organized! the funds for soup kitchens for the jobless must be fought. If the work- ers permit, the employers will con- tribute nothing and make the work- ers themselves bear the cost. The committee leads a campaign to have organized in each city con- ferences on unemployment of dele- gates from all workers’ organizations to aid in the signature collections and the local struggles. The local T.U.U.L. organizations will take the lead in calling the conferences. There will be a workers’ mass delegation to congress in January, carrying the sig- natures and demanding action. police attack on the demonstrators. CHINA RED ARMY DETTATS TROOPS NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—An Associ- ated Press dispatch from Hankow states that Red Army troops cap- tured the city of Changteh, in Hu- nan province, defeating Chiang Kai Shek’s army sent from the city of Changsha against the Communists. This leaves the road open for a fur- ther attack on Changsha, which at one time was in the hands of the Red Army. Reports to the Daily Worker some time ago from Changsha declared that the Red Army was maneuvering about Changsha, strengthening its hold on the surrounding territory for a drive on Changsha itself. Meanwhile, all preparations are being made for the holding of the Soviet Congress on Dec. 11, the anni- versary of the Canton Soviet NEW YORK—The the Friends of the Soviet Union national office an- nounces a series of mass meetings throughout the country, protesting the war plots against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which are made plain not only by the host of provocative acts and campaign of anti-Soviet propaganda now, but by the confessions of some of the plot- ters’ Russian agents on trial in Mos- cow. In New York City there will be seven meetings in various parts of the city preliminary to a mass meet- ing at the Coliseum on Dee. 21. In Detroit, Dec. 14, at Danceland, a large meeting has already been ar- ranged, with Anna Louise Strong, managing editor of the Moscow News, as principal speaker. In Many Cities. The F. S. U. proposes to hold mass meetings io the largest available halls between Dec. 10 and Dec, 21 in Bos- ton, New Bedford, Lawrence and ether cities in New England; in Philadelphia and Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Cleveland anda Youngstown; in Chicago, Milwaukee, Gary and St. Louis; Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth; Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco; in thé South in Charlotte, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Denver, Colo.; New Haven and cities throughout Connecticut. The whole series of meetings cul- minates in a mass demonstration of protest before the British and French embassies at Washington, D. C. ‘The Communist Party is calling on the workers to come to mass demon- strations of protest against the war plot and the embargo schemes of the U. S. governmenty,which are part Mass Demonstrations Against ‘ Plot to Make War on U.S.S.R. Friends of Soviet Union Calls Meets; Communist Party Calls Demonstration | Before » Chicago, N. Y. Federal Buildings ¢ of it. These demonstrations ions will be held before federal buildings in New York and Chicago in the near future. The U. S. government is deeply in- volved in the campaign of imperial- ist powers to start military action against the Soviet Union. All workers’ organizations are urged to adopt resolutions against the plans of the imperialist powers to make war on the Soviet Union, and send these resolutions to the Daily Worker for publication. MASS PICKETING GETS RESULTS AT EAGLE PENCIL CO. Bosses Efforts to Split Ranks Fail NEW YORK. ful and enthusiastic lines yesterday, the first picketing most of the workers of the Eagle Pencil Company had ever taken part in, another section of the last re- maining department in the shop walked out. There will be mass picketing again today In the whole plant on Hast 14th and 13th Sts. employing over 900 workers, there are now not over 50 or 60 at work, practically all of them in the paper box shop across Thir- teenth St. from the main building. pene reason they did not come out | with the rest is because of their iso- (Continued on Page Two) —After three success- mass picket to Smash NEW YORK mobilization The Liegest meeting in the against the injunctions will take place tonight at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. Here plans will be made for mass viol tion of the injunction tomorro The principal speaker will be Wi mass figint m Z. Foster, veteran of dozens of mili- If You Want the “Daily” to Continue Rush Funds at Once! The Daily Worker just received $50 by , telegraph from Denver with remarks, “Long live Daily, we will do every- > quota.” The comrades and functionaries in the of- thing in our power to rai fice of District 2 each paid Plenum $140 was collected. The unit Daily Worker agents of District These are the first organized concrete efforts for 2 raised $42 for their units. funds to meet the emergency. Comrades and workers in all other offices of the Party and section organizers should set the example to the workers in their cities and immediately send in their contributions. To date there has been only about $400 received on the emergency call. the following | and other gravers’ bills $5. At the raising Comrad meetings. Enclosed find . EMERGENCY FUND NAME Cut this out and rail ; immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 50 his situation can be overcome. dition will ultimately the moment the question i we will have the Daily Worker. The effect of the deficit is more serious now than it was ten days ago. bills are pressing harde bills Past due paper, printing still remain unpaid; en- must be paid in cash other- wise we get no cuts. The wages in the office are falling considerably further behind. This con- be overcome. But at whether or not Don’t wait to be visited by committees; don’t wait for organization of These things are being taken care of but what must be done now is to rush funds! immediately to the Daily Worker at 50K. 18th St., New York City. For ‘ vs++-dollars...... We pledge to build RED ‘SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER E. 13th St,New York City. ‘RED SHOCK TROOP: $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND seeeeees. Cents, Meeting Tonight Mobilizes the Injunctions {tant struggles, leader of the great steel strike and recently released from six months’ imprisonment for leading the March 6 unemployment march All militant workers and all job- less are urged to come out tonight and be dy for action tomorrow. I. L. D. to Call, Protesting the brutality of the po- lice in the anti-injunction fight, led by the Smash the Injunction Com- mittee of the Trade Union Unity Council, the International Labor De- fense joins with the Trade Union Unity League to hold the huge mass meeting at the Central Opera House, 67th St. near Third Ave., tonight with William Z. Foster, general sec- retary of the Trade Union Unity League; J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary ofthe I. L. D., and Jack Johnstone, organizer of the Trade Union Unity Council, as speakers. The district office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense points out that this injunction fight is one of the bitterest in the militant struggles taking place in America toda: that 55 workers have been The Trade Union Unity Council, backed by all the militant forces in the country, are determined to carry this fight to a finish. The I. L. D. statement continues “that the fight against te bosses’ courts is the fight of every working man and woman in the country. The right to picket is one demand that must be fought vigilantly through mass protests.” The International Labor Defense calls upon its membership and sym- pathizers to come to the Central Op- era House and participate in the Struggle against police brutality and the bosses’ courts and worker must join in this mass meet- ing and spread the news in his shop and factory. Mass organizations, unions and that every workers’ organizations of other types, are rallying to the call to mass vio- lation of the injunction and will urge their members to be present at the mass mobilization meeting in Cen- tral Opera House tonight, i Series of Mass| WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price ice 3 Cents_ WORKERS IN U.S.S.R. SMASHED PLOTS OF SABOTAGERS IN MINES Vreckers Admit Right Wing Line Aided Their Work HAPPENINGS IN THE WRECKERS’ TRIAL (1) Dennisoy, old Russian capi- talist, complains to wreckers they | were not getting enough results for the big sums given. Wanted war in a hurry as world situation, growing strength of Communist Parties, was making it unfavorable for bosses. (2) Rabochinsky, white guard leader's article, explaining billions of profit to bosses in event of success= ful war on Soviets, read at trial, causes sensation. (3) Workers defeated wreckers? plan by producing 17,000,000 tons of coal instead of 8,000,000 as planned by wreckers. TODAY’S | (4) Kirpotenko, witness, gives facts of ‘Sabotage in textile industry. (5) Nolds, another witness, tells of bribes from British textile bosses. (6) Defeat attempts of defendants to hide details of widespread sabo- tage. Built huge locomotives to wreck railroads. Tried to cause dis- content among masses of peasants. eee eee (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—The high point of last night's session was the exam- ination of Ossadchi and Yurovsky, two witnesses in the trial of the wreckers. Ossadchi described the de- A complete Englisi: translation of the indictment in the wreck- ors’ trial, containing details of the startling war plot against the Soviet Union, is being rushed to the Daily Worker fast mail. Just as soon as it arrives, which will be in a few days, a special 2ight-page supplement of the Daily Worker will be published. Rush in your special orders now ‘or this ‘valuable document! | tailed conversations with Dennisoy in Berlin, July, 1930, when Ossadchi was deputized as Ramsin’s repre« sentative of the “industrial party.” Dennisov, an old Russian capitalist, complained bitterly about the failure ot the wreckers to achieve adequate results despite the receipt of millions He declared the postpone- ment of the war to 1931 gravely im= perilled the chances because of the changing international situation. He gave examples of this, such as the growing strength of the German Communis and the Anglo-Soviet iebt negotiations. Ossadchi’s reply contained the important contention that the internal situation in the Soviet Union was increasingly be- coming unfavorable for wrecking, for which one of the main reasons was the defeat of the right wing, and the decisions of the Communist Party rtral committee. Thus is clearly shown the activity of the rights objectively were in direct support of the wreckers. The wreckers were fully a‘ of this, the witnesses brought out, and were ‘|hoping for the success of the right wing as part of the preparation for the intervention. Yuroysky, a leading member of the “peasants’ party” (Kondratiev’s kulak group) gave a full account of the meeting with Miliukov, Cadet (Con- stitutional - Democrat, a bourgeois party before the revolution) emigre in January, 1928. Miliukov was fully aware of the activities of the Com- mercial and Industrial Committee in Paris and the connections with the “industrial party” and the French government. He gave Yurovsky full information of the military plans and the reasons for postponement of in- tervention which were already fre- quently stated. The importance of the association with Miliukoy in these conversations consists of showing that all the Rus- sian counter - revolutionary groups. were being used by foreign capitalists to prepare war. Once again the con- trolling part of France was stated by Yurovsky when he was questioned regarding the composition of the fu- ture government. He declared, amid general laughter of the workers in the court-room, that all parties, in- cluding Kondratiev's, hoped to secure leading posts in the government, but France would settle all that. Very important additional proofs of the concerted campaign for in= tervention was provided by the read= ing of an article by Vladimir Rae (Continued on Page Three)