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

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill, Unemployment Insurance Must Central Be Won Now! ily,.: ne oi ines ee: eit oder ON ie te Pi Vol. VII. No. 290 at New York, Entered as seeond-c sya 8 matter at the Poxt Oibce onder the uct of March 3. (879 Demand the Death Penalty! T. workers here in America, the trial ot the counter-revolutionists in Moscow isa revelation in many ways. Accustomed here to be told to shut up every time they are dragged into capitalist court, their objec- tions'“over-ruled” and their mouths stopped if they attempt to explain atiything, the fact that prisoners on trial before a proletarian court are alioweq to have an argument with the judges, such as Ramzin had with the Moscow court’ judges, is a refreshing exhibition of the fairness of proletarian justice. Just because of this, however, we are unmoved by Ramazin's fancy argument about the “purity” of his scientific writings, which he defended in bristling indignation. His “scientific writings’ on socialist construc- tion coyld not but bear the “scientific” justification of hs conscious aim, the aim which: he held for years, of limiting and crippling socialist con- struction. It was inescapable. And the cold hard fact that the initiative and enthusiasm of the masses smashed through al) his “scientific” plans and conclusions is posi- tive proof that his “science” was as corrupt as his conscience. No worker will, therefore, fall for the subtle campaign of the capitalist press to build up a “nobility of character” around these criminals. Ramzin’s defense of his “science” is just as unworthy of belief as the attempt of himself and all the rest to represent themselves as having none or little comprehension of the meaning of their crimes. ‘They al) tried to stall this off by saying that now, after being caught, they “realize the enormity of the offense,” and some of them claimed that even yet they “didn’t realize” that overthrow of the Soviet Power of the. worker: and peasants would mean a fierce and bloody massacre of literally million of workers and peasants. This is a rotten alibi. For several yeats these scoundrels sat in posts of responsibility, consciously, deliberately and in an organized method do ing their worst to wréck Soviet industry and to open the way for foreigr imperialists to butcher the Russian masses. And they did it for pay! For money paid to them by foreign imper- ialists they plotted the death of workers around them, workers whom they met daily and pretended to cooperate with. Can any punishment be toc harsh for such criminals? They went abroad, and in England arranged that manufacturers, from whom the.Soviet authorized them to buy machinery, would pay five per cent of the money, which Russian workers were sweating blood to accumulate inorder to build for the future, should be given over by the manufacturers to the Ozarist white guard cut-throats to finance the armed intervention of a horde of bloodthirsty mercenaries whose dearest aim is the slaughter of the workers. Can these abominable scoundrels be allowed to escape the stern punishment of the proletarian dictatorship by artful pretensions of having “only a difference of opinion” about the possibility of success of the Five- Year Plan? A thousand times, no! It has even been shown that when they had the chance, these“high- minded” gentlemen, these “pure scientists” and “cultured specialists,” pocketed bribes from businessmen to whom they awarded contracts, bribes which did not even go into the White Guard treasury for the “noble” Purpose of intervention, but simply into their own pockets for their private enjoyment. Shall punishment of these embezzlers and cultured crooks be softened because, being caught red-handed, they now state that “after arrest” they “realize” their “mistake” and—knowing that the Soviet prosecutor has , @ocuments to prove it anyhow—-confess to their treasonable dealings for year after year with French and British and Polish imperialists and the murderous Czarists and despicable “socialist”. conspirators? Never! There are thousands upon thousands of Russian specialists and scien- tists who never would think of such degenerate and criminal actions. ese, the vast majority. of technical workers and scientific specialists, are: honestly working to build up socialism, the benefit of which they, too, will share with thé mass of workers—without whom their science would be barren and fruitless. These criminals are the exception and not the rule, and the punish- ment given them will be approved by these masses of really honest and really ‘scientific men and women, who know from experience that ohly when science is liberated from the rule of capitalism and given a social basis under the rule of the working class, can science and individual initiative eome to flower. Only last’ week a group of Soviet scientists, nurtured and encouraged by the Proletarian Dictatorship, give to the world a great invention, a new metal alloy, which will allow the bearings of machinery to be used twice or three times as long as now. Thus the Soviet cherishes and ad- vances eyery scientific step’ forward + Byt these miserable criminals who think to escape punishment by confessing that which the prosecutor was ready to prove without them, these merit no consideration from the Soviet Power. » Every worker shoutd realize that the overthrowal ot the Soviet Gov- ernment: of workers and peasants and the establishment of a regime of capitalist white terror on the territory of Soviet Russia, would mean a savage and bloody repression of the workers’ government throughout the world, a ruthless crushing of even the most faintly militant trade unions everywhere, including the United States. It is unquestionable, therefore, that every American worker should look upon these criminals before the Moscow court as his own class enemies. And with the millions of Soviet toilers who ave poured into the streets in defense of their government, the fortress of the world’s working class, we, too, believe that the death penalty is the appropriate punish- ment for these despicable agents of world capitalism, these plotters against. the lives of the workers of the whole world! Destroy White Chauvinism MERICAN slave owners, traders and political supporters of Negro slavery, in order to justify the buying, selling, and brutal exploitation of the slaves, propagated the theory that Negroes were mere dumb brutes, but: little, 1f.any, above the mule, and certainly far inferior to the whites. ‘With such a theory as a basis the most vicious and brutal treatment was the lot of the Negro slave. After their “emancipation,” in order to con- tinue the same ruthless exploitation and persecution cf the Negroes, and injorder to prevent the unity of the white and colored workers against the bosses, the white capitalists and landowners have continued to propa- Bate these poisoness white chauvinist (white hatred against Negroes) theories, Many workers—even some who think they are “progressive’—un- eritically. accept this slave owners’ poison. They practice the same dis- a and persecution as that used by the bosses who squeeze the last possible drop of: blood out of the Negroes in the form of profits. And by doing so these white workers are aiding the bosses, not only in the vicious exploitation of the Negroes, but also of themselves. The white workers never cap improve their own conditions, without at the same time joining in the fight to improve the much worse conditions of the Negroes. Only common struggle by all workers against the capitalists will bring working class victory. Some “progressive” and “radical” workers, apparently have not learned this yet. A few weeks ago some Lithuanian groups in Chicago openly ‘adopted the vicious practices of the white slave owners of the South. Some Jewish members of the International Workers Order in the South did Ukewise. And now, reports from Harlem indicate that members of the Finnish Progressive Society has joined hands with the bosses by refusing to dance with Negroes, retusing to permit them to remain in the hall and by threatening to gang up on them in an effort to force them to leave. These instances emphasize the need for a sharp and continuous struggle against white chauvinism. In the Party the slightest evidence of white chauvinism, or even a concilliatory attitude toward it, must be burned out, It must be made clear that the holding of such views, or the failure to fight against such views, is incompatible with membership in a Communist Party. Likewise Party menfbers, when working in trade unions, fraternal or. other workers’ organizations must uncompromisingly fight against. this ideology of the slave owners and the capitalists. Especially must the Freiheit and the other lenguage papers give serious ‘and continuous attention to this struggle. Destroy white chauvinism! ‘and white workers, unite ih common struggle against the bosses | junction! Workers Fight Todity fa. Right to Strike, Picket Battlefront is Zeigreen Cafeteria, 34th Street Near Eighth Ave., at 5:30 P. M.; Every Industry and Jobless Will Be Involved Big Mass Meeting Last Night at Central Opera Cheers Speakers Who Urge Mass Violation “A.F.L., as Bosses’ Strikebreakers, of Course Use Bosses’ Strike Breaking Weapon, the Injunction.” Says Foster NEW YORK.—All out today to picket the Zelgreen cafeteria, 257 W. 34th St., in mass violation of the in- Picket Zelgreen at 5.30 p. m.! All plans are made by the Smash the Injunction Committee of the Trade Union Unity Council, which has been leading this fight to save the right to strike in New York. ‘The workers and unemployed of this city, veterans of dozens of heroic struggles in shoe, needle, food, ma- rine and many other industries, are determied that their right to organize and strike against intollerable con- ditions shall not be taken away from them by a series of edicts from the course. Extensive preparations have been NOW DEMANDING SERIQ'S BEUEASE Fascists and U.S. Stop Voluntarv Deportation NEW YORK.—An application de- manding the immediate release of Guido Serio, militant worker held for deportation to Italy, where he is fac a certain death for his anti- fascist activities, has been made by the International Lgbor Defense through Attorney Carol Weiss King. After the department of labor had ordered his deportation to Italy at the behest of the Italian embassy, the I. L. D. demanded “voluntary departure” for Serio and Judge Bundy ordered the district attorney to com- municate with Washington and tell made, shop organizations have been formed and leaders elected, commit- ganizations and enlisted their sup- port,, mass demonstrations in the garment markets have thousands, the Unemployed Councils pledge their added strength, the job- less before the fake employment agencies have promised to come. All forces aré to mobilize on 34th St. near Eighth Ave., .nd smash that injunc- tion tonight. Part of the preparations was a mass meeting in Central Opera House last night. In spite of police outside the hall more than a thousand workers filled (Continued on Page Two) Youth Protest the Jailing of Mabel Husa and Eileen Holmes NEW YORK.—To mobilize a mass protest for the release of Eileen Holmes and Mabel Husa, two P10- neer Camp leaders who were ar- rested and maltreated at Van Etten, N. Y., last summer on orders ot the American Legion,” the “Young De- fenders” are calling a meeting on Fri- day, Dec. 5, at 15 West 126th St.” The “Young Defenders” are the youth section of the International Labor Defense, and aré calling on all young workers and young workers’ organizations to participate in this movement to fight against the im- prisonment of the two working-class girls on a deliberate frame-up. tees have visited many workers’ or- mobilized | FRENCH MILIT, © : Senator Oddie-of the Manganese Trust in Embargo Argument WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3—} Senator Oddie, republican, represent- jing the manganese trust of Nevada from which state he comes, today in- troduced and argued for his bill for the complete embargo of all Soviet Union products and for embargo on all imported products made in whole or in part from Soviet Union raw r terials. The sweeping nature of the bill. which has the backing of the notori- ous Fish Committee, was given point as a war preparation by the prop- aganda statements of Oddie himself. It is not only a blow at the Soviet Union economically, but if passed commits Congres. to a position which would “justify” military attack “for humanitarian interests.” | The Oddie bill and his arguments simply assume that all workers in the Soviet Union are slaves, convicts, | or “forced labor.” This absolutely | ridiculous charge is not proved. Oddie | hardly tries to prove it, he just wants the U. S. Congress to announce that it is so. Try to Use Jobless. Oddie’s argument to the unem- “Every dollar paid for Soviet prod- ucts dumped here provides employ- ment for the Communists in Russia and to that extent replaces American (Continued on Page Three) them to use “some common sense” in this case and in the event they do not he would be forced to take action. But the Washington officials re- fused to grant “voluntary departure” to Serio, insisting that he must go back to Italy. Then, when the case was returned to Judge Bundy for a decision, he seemingly backed down from pressure brought to bear upon him from forces close to the [talian government. ‘The attorney for the International Labor Defense is now demanding Serio’s immediate release instead ot “voluntary departure” upon three specific grounds, “that he was ar- rested without warrant,” “examined without being accorded a right to counsel” and “that his arrest was due to prejudice against him based upon remarks derogatory of the Catholic church.” Driven to desperation by hunger resulting from long periods of un- employment, two more workers took their owr lives in the New York district yesterday. They were Joseph Fialkowsky, 42, of 3810 Park Aye., the Bronx, and Bernard Maloney, 36, of 156 Ferry St., Newark. Fialkowsky, a cook, who had been searching for work for more than a year, leaped from the fifth story of the building in which he lived to the courtyard below. He was killed in- stantly. Maloney, whose reward for fighting in the last war was a con- tinuous starvation diet, hanged him- Jobless Workers, Desperate, End Starvation with Suicide self with a radio aerial wire. He had been unemployed eight months. The increasing toll of unemployed | workers who commit suicide rather than starve to death, gives the lie to all the fake capitalist “reliet agencies” who contend that the suf- | fering of the unemployed has been lightened by soup lines and food kitchens. No day passes in any city in Amer- ica that does not see another unem- ployed worker take his own life. Workers, don’t destroy your own lives, destroy eapitalism: No worker has ever killed himself in Soviet Congress Bill Bars Satie Goods; s; Deterding Urges War | the front |care’s aids in the Soviet Union, | to Deterding ployed in America (there are no un- employed in the Soviet Union) is} that: Russia for lack of a job. Party U.S.A. BOS! sy Ly British Oil Baron S Says} U.S. Gov’t Ought to Place Embargo | | NEW YORK, Dec. 3—Sir Henri] Deterding denies he is a criminal,| and becomes quite frantic in~ his humerous attempts to laugh off the facts produced at the trial of the| wreckers group in Moscow sir| Henri’s hilarious mood is plasterea on page of the New York! Times, through its London corre- spondent who had a.special interview | with the oil baron Deterding who has financed every gang of white guardist adventurers ete: the Soviet Union, and bragged about it, now sings a diff ent tune. He is being exposed to thie workers 0! the world as one ot the} Jeaders in an artempt to start one} ot the blocdiest interventions ever plotted. Thre facts of this come out of the mouths of Deterding ana Poin- not from Krylenko, as Deterding tries to} Caught Red Handed It is not the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, nor the Soviet prose- cutor, Krylenko, nor Stalin who .ell) about Deterding’s part in the war plot. It-is the very men who ta This is what hurts the oil bandit le is caught wit) the goods. And the capitalist press, in its | campaign to hide the real signifi- cance of the war plot, gladly spreads | Deterding’s self-administered white- washing across their front pages. But at the same time, Deterding admits he wouldn't mind seeing the Soviet regime wiped off the map. While on the one hand he denies his} part in the war preparations, he} propagandizes the American bosses about the absolute necessity of smashing the workers’ republic in order to overcome the world crisis. Dropping his comic role for the moment, Deterding goes on to say: “Tam certain that Russian un- reonsumption and lack of buy ing power is the cause of America’s distress today. And if the people in the United States ask me how long the depression will last I will | tell them, ‘As long as this gang tules Russia.’ “The only thing for foreign pow- ers to do—and I mean the United States, England, France and Ger- many—is to make an agreement not to buy from Russia or advance a dollar of credit. The furthe (Continued on Page Three) Unless Money Is Wired Today the “Daily” May Not Appear T SAI FRANCISCO YESTERDAY WIRED $80. THIS HELPED, BUT THIS IS. INSUFFI- CIENT. EVERY DISTRICT MUST WIRE MONEY TODAY WITHOUT FAIL! The Daily Worker has reached its limit. This fact can- not be emphasized too much. Unless money is wired to us today there will be no Daily Worker tomorrow. Some of our readers probably thought we were bluffing. They did not think our financial crisis was really so serious. And now, be- cause of this, we are up against the wall. Today we are able to appear only by frantically borrow- ing on the promise that the loans would be repaid within twenty-four hours. Both our resources and our credit is ex- hausted. Unless money is wired today, we repeat, the Daily Worker will not appear tomorrow. A sufficient amount of money must be received to repay the more than $400 in loans made today and to pay the cost of tomorrow’s issue. The Daily Worker has made the fight on its own resources as long as it could. It has defended every interest of the workers. It has led in the fight against wage cuts; in the fight for unemploy- ment insurance; in the fight against lynching; in the fight against imperialist war; in the fight for the defense for the Soviet Union. And now, when on every front the cupitalists are more bitterly attacking the workers and preparing for war against the Soviet Union, the Daily Worker is faced with ~ suspension Suspension cannot be avoided unless our readers rush A week from now will be too late. aid at once. must come today. To send it be wired today without fail. save the Daily. sion. The San Francisco district yesterday wired $80.00. Thi& helped but this was insufficient. The New York District is mobilizing its units and fractions for an intensive drive to save the fighting paper of the workers. insufficient. New York alone are reader, must determine today Daily Worker tomorrow. The Daily Worker management will do everything pos We are confident that the money can be raised with the full support of our readers. sible to maintain the paper. out this support the Daily mu save vour paper! Wire in e our obligations! Every district has taken upon itself the task of raising a quota of the $30,000 needed to Every district organizer, every party func- tionary, every reader must see that a substantial portion of this quota is wired in today to save the Daily from suspen 4s much as po late the lists, now in your hands, among your shop-mates and in workers organizations! Wire funds today to help us meet omorrow! The money by mail is too slow—it must But the efforts of Every district, every whether or not they want the But with- Ra money and ible today! Cireu st suspend. ked 4 { EDITION RY PLAN OF WAR Oh fA : Wi’ Than They First Br to Give Indust Were to Organize Kul WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! “Price | 3 Cents Force W en on Trial to Pilea More £ ought Out; Pla ries to French nned aks for Terrorist to Further | Intervention Plot SUMMARY OF WRECKERS’ TRIAL IN MOSCOW (1) Bring out that-the wreckers’ organization was wid than previously admitted. (2) Prepared for militar tries. (3) Leader of Menshevik trial party” in government. preparing espionage y intervention in many indus- group cooperates with ° reports for (4) Reveal plans to aid military. drive of French imper- ialism; arranged new construction to coincide with military plans of French General Sta factory to suit military needs (5) Prepared ground for (6) To bring and French secret (Special Cable to t MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—It bec. morning’s session of the wrec were withholding many CIR PICKETS | PEPY POLICE ATTACK ON TINE) Arrests Fail to Stop} Daotarmine? Strileers | NEW YORK —Mass picket lines! yesterday at the Eagle Pencil Co.| show the strikers mean business and| are determined to stop the ten per| cent wage cut. This time the police} had their orders from the company | to try intimidation. They attacked | the pickets who marched singing and| carrying placards against the wage cut and notifying all that the place was on strike | Eight were arrested and were to appear last night in night-court. The strikers were not frightened and in- sist on maintaining their picket lines. | This convinces the strikers of what/| the strike committee has been warn- ing them from the beginning, that) the police are always the employer's | tools, and that mass picketing must} be carried out in defiance of police, | if the right to organize, to strike and| picket is to be maintained Strike meetings held atte: the picket lines were enthusiastic and determined The 900 Eagle Pencil strikers know that to yield to a wage cut now will mean another one soon. They know, too, that any division of the ranks will not do All pledge to stick to the finish The strike has closed the plant though for a bluff an attempt is made to run one or|: 25 depart-| two departments—out of ments in the factory Eight strikers of the Eagle Pencil Co. who were arrested at 5:30 on the} picket line were taken to the night-} court and charged with interfering with scabs coming out of the plant. They are defended by Taub, torney for the International Labor Defense. The cop who pinched them couldn't identify any one of the workers who were eharged with call- ing the strike-breakers “scabs,” etc. He was completely confused on cross- examination. The workers were re- Jeasea. SOCCER GAMES TO HELP ORGANLIZE THE JOBLESS NE WYORK.—The Labor Sports Union has arranged two soccer games and an exhibition of mass physical exercises to take place Dec. 25, at Dyckman Oval, Dyckman St. and Broadway. The proceeds of this details in. connection wit! | scope of the counter-revolutionary cor Today’s cross-examination show ¢ organization wa | SO fair. | preparation | the estab at-| ff. French revised plans for of intervention. landing of Cossacks. out more details of foreign governments agents in session behind ¢! ed doors. he Daily Worker) ame still more kers trial that the de idants great evident it the piracy first that the w more exte: has-more branches than Secondly, the arr military wo ekers’ 1 and own purely for ii more striking than admitted. Third); and activity of th and passed entirely in’ ich general s the Mensheviks Active New ma ing the mc espion by Gri Kuprianoy ¥ the already mentic group in the Technic in the machine industr ted knowing about | this group, c stin: lishment - of that was car in the wood onstructi this plan e adr ity activ of the strato: peculiar ed out tedly to to the inte tionists to air forces their heavy ar Kur tivity of the irrigation te ship of Riesen! the western f Union. Kuprianov wreckers’ organization sides enginee: ficials in the T: cluding Soviet Union tatives abroad The Soviet & proceeded to estab! ‘industrial party” fulfi gations imposed by the French gen- eral staff, regarding the creation ot a sharp economic crisis in 1930, espio- nage work, preparation of ot the Soviet reveals the embraced, be- acts sabotage in case of war, building up ion. y organizi that had believed “that tense situation in electric power and w which in time of war | catastrophic. they Because early in 1930, due to the (Continued on Page Three) Rush Orders for Indictment The state prosecutor's indict~ ment of the 8 members of the Industrial Party who conspired with the imperialists to destroy the Soviet Republic by age and intervention will soon printed in an 8-page tabloid \,e supplement to the Daily orker. his startling documeni will so published, word for word. ) extra run of 75,000 papers event go to the organization fund of | the Unemployed Cawncils. The Communist Party, New York District, and the Trade Union Unity © Council endorses this exhibition an , urges all workers to be there, oq @nned. Broadcast this edi- over the U. S. Rush or- Mang for “Indictment Edition.” #2255 Uy thousand circulation ign news page 3,