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

BREAK THROUGH THE LIES daily Publishing Co, Inc, ally, except Sunday, at S Te ne Algonquin 7956-7, Cable: “DA checks to the Dally Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New ¥ OF THE CAPITALIST PRESS! {Special Cable to the Daily Worker) By A. B. MAGILL. (OSCOW.—Under Krylenko's questioning, richev and Charnovsky were forced to detailed wrecking activities in various b of the fuel industry to prepare for intervention Larichev said in the Donetz Basin the wreckers first proposed in the original Five-Year Plan the raising of the coal production from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 tons. Kalinikov objected that the fig- ures were too low, and would arouse suspieion. later the figures were raised to 8,000,000, but the workers replied by producing 17,000,000. La- dmit On the question of htw. the latter was possible, Larichev replied that the counter-plans of the workers themselves, particula since the ex- pesure of the Shakhty plot. defeated the wreck- ers. “Larichev said the wre¢kers tried to minimize the importance of the Kuzbas.coal fields and to play up Donbas, in order-to-prevent the develop- ment of Ural-Kuzbas-metal-coal combination. (Donbas can also more easily be cut off in case Of war). Nevertheless, Stalin at the Sixteenth Party Congress stressed the tremendous import- ance of the Ural-Kuzbas combination. This shows the wrecking activities could not be accomplished as France wanted them to be because: 1. The correctness of the Communist arty line, andP the correctr of the Comniunist Party line, and the leadership of Comrade Stalin; 2. The increased participation of the workers in every phi of socialist construction, as-evidenced by the new Donbas record. The testimony of the entire trial is a decisive vindication of the Party -line, which did not fall for either the minimum. or. maximum proposals of the wreckers, but pursued a clear course, aided by the wholehearted support and vigilance of the worker: ter-plans of the workers all along the line defeated the wreckers’ offensive, and ined tremendous victories for socialist con- tion, now thoroughly-smashed right wing, on the other hand, objectively expressed the wreck- aim to slow down the socialist tempo and in this way to prepare the ground for irfterven- tion. Professor Ramsin’s testimony threw light on his personality. He tried to present his work as scientific and objective. Under questioning, however, he was forced to admit he had drawn | the Thermo-Technical Institute, which he head- | ed, into wrecking work. This exposes the hypo- crisy of the bourgeois prattle about science.” | The international lie and slander campaign | continues as a cloak for the intervention plans. | The Riga liars unearth new Ukrainian revolts, Kharkoy arrests, etc. The talk of Norman Thom- as, regardin; to deceive the American masses. | ‘Soviet terror” is a smoke screen | Thomas is a | Comrade of the French Socialists who Miliukov | said, according to the testimony of Yurovsky, the second witness of last night’s session, could be depended on to support the intervention. Poincare, the vicious leader of the French | imperialist plots, now adopts a new line in a | recent article just published. Instead of a | blanket denial he takes a defensive stand. The | | | | i American workers must break through the lies of the capitalist press and the socialist agents who mask the role of American imperialism, which is in the forefront of the anti-Soviet war campaign. The defense of the proletarian fatherland is the chief and immediate task. A Typical Case (By a Worker Correspondent) T the State Labor Department, 27th St. 4th Ave., you can find many tragic cases of men and women who have been injured while working for the bosses and because of the in- jury unable to work and with it all unable to collect their fust compensation. There is all sorts of red tape to go:through; applications, doctor certificatés, proofs of injury, time. date, explanations. You have to wait they tell you. You might be starving,.you might be in the worst straights, it makes.mo difference the an- swer is the same, “You'll-just;have to wait.” There is the case of John Burns. He came in late this afternoon. He looked very tired and sick. He sank down ‘on thehard bench and sat there for a short while before he could get up enough strength to tell what’he wanted. He sat there with a dead look on his face. His cheeks were sunken in, there weré deep blue hol- lows around his eyes, his forehead was drawn from nervous strain and exhaustion. John Burns wore as clolthes 4h old army coat, shabby pants and shoes that surely were no comfort to his feet. That army coat though it was ‘given to him by the government cost John @ big price. It cost him his memory. He went to France to fight for his ‘country to make United States safe for democracy. That's what they told him, gave him a gun and sent him in. He didn’t know just what this democracy would ‘mean to him but they made it:sound quite im- portant and they said it so-that.it sounded like té ought to mean a great deal. Besides you didn’t have much choice in the matter, if they jwented you to go, well, you just went. It was the last big battle that took John’s near away. “I belonged to- 245th,” he told ‘8th division. The whole division was wiped fut except me. Three buddies fell on “me, they were dead, that saved me. he last thing I Qemember, I never could remember anything else texcept that fight. Why I evem forgot my own saame. “I don’t know who.my, mother and father 1s don’t even know if I had any. I was one of Wie unidentified. The name I got now was {given to me. John Burns they called me.” *Do you get any bonus?” I asked. Wo, he smiled as if it was funny, “You see I’m me of the unidentified so they can’t officially five me any bonus. That is, they have to de- fide just who I am before they can pay and sey ain’t ever succeeded. in doing that, so you iyge.” I saw it all. He still had his army coat, fe ‘still had the horror of the war and his in- pbillity to remember the past, but officially they ouldn’t decide whether this was so, therefore | John Burns who was sick, out of a job and hung! gets no bonus. Why was he at the State Labor Department? Some more of this official business. Early in October he worked for Woolworth 5 and dime stores. w He worked on the paper bailer. While rking his arm was broken; it was pretty bad, broken in two places. The doctor for the bosses’ insurance company took care of his arms. Put cast around it and all that. After awhile they | took the casts off and said, “Now, you're all | right, you can go to work again.” “But I wasn't | all right,” Burns explained to me. “I couldn't move my arm yet. I can’t even move it now. | He showed me his arm . It was in a sling. “They only gave me two weeks compensation.” This happened in October and he hasn't been able to work siree. No one wants a man with onéjarm in the sling. There are too many men who can’t get work who have two good arms. By this time he had no money and was behind in his rent. So he sold all the clothes he had, to raise the rent. But the rent is coming due again and he doesn’t know where he is going to get it this time. He ‘explained his situation to the women at the State Labor Department. “Did you fill out a blank?” she asked him indiffer- ently. She is a big woman, this lady. No sunken cheeks about her and I don’t suppose she has to worry about the rent either. That's all the satisfaction John Burns could get from the State Labor Department. The in- stitution to “help” workers get what belongs to them from the bosses. “How lg will I have to wait,” Burns asked. ‘How should I know?” an- swered this sweet woman. “As long as you have to, I guess.” c Meanwhile John Burns is hungry. All his clothes are gone and in a week or two he will be on the street because he has no rent money. We left the Labor Department together and as we walked he told me more about himself. ‘Two years ago ne got married. He wasn't feel- ing sa bad then. He had a job and could work. Then his health began to fail. He didn’t know just what it was. He lost his job. And then the worst. blow of all, his wife left him. “How about the American Legion?” I sud- denly thought of asking him. “Those bastards wouldn’t help you. All they do is have parades and big hurray meetings and anyway I’m not a member any more because I can’t pay my dues.” So this is the case of John Burns, who fought for the bosses in the world war and worked for them during peace time and now all he can look forward to is the bread line and a flop in the municipal lodging house. Organizing the Fight of the -- Unemployed By MYRA PAGE. y= Downtown Unemployed Council of New ‘York City is getting down to its job of or- ganizing the unemployed workers in its territory and leading their fight against evictions and for Unemployment Insurance. This was well brought out in its meeting held Friday, Nov. 28. “he sixty-three unemployed workers attending the meeting were a pretty good section of the ‘American working class—native-born American elements predominating, foreign-born, Negro, youth, middle-aged, and with a few older men. However, there was only one woman worker wesent. A report was brought in by a special commit- tee of the Council on eviction cases pending in the downtown east-side territory. In one Muni- cipal Court alone, at 264 Madison Ave., so their investigation revealed, there are forty cases pend- ing within the next five days. The Council’s Committee of Action was instructed to organize the Unemployed Councils can get in touch with all families to be evicted, and organize the resistance. The question of organization of Tenants’ Leagues was also discussed, and referred to the executive committee for the working out of prac- tical details. After the disposal of other business, such as systematic and extended collection of signatures for the Unemployed Insurance Bill, the meeting was thrown open for discussion. A number of unemployed workers took the floor, and told of the terrific conditions among the unemployed, and how best to carry on the struggle for their demands. One worker reported that yesterday he had heard over a friend’s radio, on station WNYC, a debate on the subject of Unemployment In- surance. And why is this an issue, comrades? Because the Unemployed Councils, the Commu- nist Party and the Daily Worker have made it an issue. This goes to show that our campaign Mae ee And we are only begin- g.” Throughout the entire meeting, there was a, fine fighting and practical spirit shown. Toward the close, a worker rose and said: “Fellow workers and comrades, the landlord he will evict me next week. I have six children. I am rent, this will be the out of the hospital— had been sick for “pure | 80 East TWORK." N. Y. ork, Da Hoover ASKS FoR 150M! hay i t FoR THE UNenPiDieD, r Lion FOR WAR, PRosrEeing AROUND # Tee eaosaceny' 18 G0 pi ewe “THE PROSPERITY TICKER” ZWorker pace US.A By matl everywhere Manhattan SUBSCRIPTION RATER: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months. and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, 41; excepting Boroughe $8; six months, $4.50. Chicago Jobless Delegation Battle Police at City Hall Close to a hundred delegates from irteen Unemployed Councils throughout the\ city, stormed the meeting of the City Counefl on Monday, November 24, in an attempt to speak and place before the Council the demands of the unemployed of Chicago. Although the police were guarding all doors, at 2 o'clock, just as the meeting was called to order, the delegation forced their way to the second floor and up to the door of the Council chamber and there were met by sixty cops and as many plainclothesmen and members of the red squad, which resulted in a vigorous clash between the workers and the pol- ice. The workers took a determined stand on the second floor and battled with the police, refusing to leave the place without getting a hearing from the Council. The police were very brutal, hurling men and women alike down the stairs and beating them over the heads and faces with their sticks. tant and foutht listen to the Negro politicians who tried to divide them from the white workers and send them home. One Negro worker, Comrade Poindexter, secretary of one of the Unemployed Councils, was brutally beaten by the cops around the face and head and was thrown, bleeding, down the stairs—but only after he had also laid out once of the burly cops and had beaten off several more. According to capitalist press reports, “As the second floor, into the city treasurers’ office. Bert Keefe, chief clerk, immediately ordered all the money locked in the vaults.” In the main lobby on the first floor, the dele- gation, reinforced by a-mass of workers reaching close to a thousand, carried on their battle, shouting demands and refusing to leave the building. “We want work, not charity!” “We built this City Hall and all we have is the lower level of Wacker Drive.” “You want to arrest us and throw us in jail—but you can’t put all the 500,000 unemployed of Chicago in.” “We demand the right to present our demands to the City Cotin- cil.” “If this government can’t take care of its workers, we'll organize and get a government, that will,” etc. etc., were some of the slogans shouted. Louise Morrison, a member of the delegation, Started to speak to the workers from the top of the first landing on the stairway—but after ten seconds was grabbed by the police and beaten and thrown out into the hall way of the lobby. A second reinforcement of about 50 police, in addition to those already there was rushed in and with drawn revolvers forced the workers to disperse. Only after the police drew their guns did the workers stop fighting and were thrown out of the building. The most militant section of the entire mass of workers were the Negro and white women workers, who tore at the cops’ buttons, pulled off their badges and screamed and shouted to the workers to keep on fighting. The workers are more deter--ined now than ever before that they will get nothing unless they put up a stiff fight for it. ‘The Unemployed Councils ~~e mobilizing for a big drive for sig- natures in the present campaign for a million signatures for the Unemployment Insurance Bill and are preparing to organize all the unemployed and e~ployed workers of Chicago for a big dem- onstration and a real fight for immediate relief. Every Party member, every Young Communist must sell 25 copies of the Daily Worker before fac- tory gates each week to be in good standing. workers fought, refusing to be ejected from the | many of the jobless were pushed | Force Phila. Workers to Pay For Boss Charity ‘The Negro workers were very mili- | off the cops and refused to | the crash came, and I have been unable to get any work since. “Last week I went up to the charities society, and they gave me seven dollars to feed and shel- ter my family for a week. What can you do on seven dollars, for eight people? “Now the landlord says, unless I pay rent by Monday, he will get the police to put me out. So what do you say?” It wes arranged that the details of this pending eviction case be taken up by the poopie dled iby ag pind cd By J. GRALICK. 'HE stagger plan, reduction of wages through fake relief plans for the unemployed is rapid- ly being put into effect by the employing class with the assistance of the labor fakers in Phila- delphia. This is the beginning of the capitalist bosses’ attack against those yet working to lower their standard of living. A few days ago it was an- nounced by the head of the local branch of Sears, Roebuck that that company would expect each of its employees to contribute a day’s pay every four weeks for the avowed purpose of aiding the unemployed. But the bosses will handle and distribute the relief funds, and what is left after most of the money which will go in the form of graft, will be given as a sop to prevent a real conflict of the workers against the bosses. The Sears and Roebuck employees will be forced to accept a permanent reduction in wages as the capitalist bosses admit they have no solution for unemployment. William F. Green, the labor faking head of the A. F. of L., the bosses’ tool definitely states so So does the head of the General Motors and other capitalist bosses, and they are correct. Capitalism cannot solve the problem it produces The real solution lies in the hands of the work- ing class, which must abolish the course which is capitalism itself. Bulldeze Gas Workers. The United Gas Improvement Co. has an- nounced that all of its 12,000 employes would contribute a day’s pay each month. The offi- cials promise that the U.G.I. will contribute as much as all of its employees for the unemployed. The street cleaners of Philadelphia who receive the big sum of $3.20 per day are to give one per cent of their pay to relieve unemployment. The electrical workers’ union has made arrangements with the employers to have the men work only 32 hours per week for the “benefit” of the un- employed. Yet the workers are asked to produce as much work as they did before the reduction in hours. As long as the workers do not control the means of production they cannot control the amount produced. And the problem of unem- ployment, and the solution of it lies in the dis- posal of “he surplus, not in the time required to produce it. The officials being loyal tools of the bosses use the very evils caused by their capitalist bosses, such as unemployment to break down the resistance of organized labor, and to prevent them irpm struggling to better their working conditions. A. F. of L. Fakers’ Scheme The District Council of the painters’ union has a so-called unemployment committee which is supposed to do something or ofher about the unemployed painters. They have met.the em- ployers, the latter have stated that there would be very little work to do unles the ppainters’ council delayed the pay increase which is due the painters next January. The officials will probably try to influence the members to hold a favoravle referendum on the matter. Philadel- phia in its turn sees the birth of an institution which has alfeady become part and parcel of the every day life of other cities. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Apples are being offered on an increasing number of street cor- ‘ners. Yet this is just as impractical as the cock- roach petty business men’s “Buy Now” program, as the problem confronting the apple buyers is how to get a job to buy apples. Open New Flophouse. An eight-story factory building formerly oc- cupied by the Baldwin Locomotive Works is al- most ready to receive such workers as have come to rock bottom of existence. Sleeping quarters and breakfasts will be furnished for five thou- sand men who will be turned out into the street for the day: The place is dilapidated, having been abandoned by the Baldwin Works. It was ready to be torn down. It is rat and insect ridden. A minister will be in charge. A long ap- plication will have to be filled out by those who wish to be quartered in that building. The first night 5,000 applied for admission, and only 1,000 beds were in the building, and no provision was made for the unemployed women wiio must Tesort to prostitution in order to exist. And the By JORGE Terpischore or —Something Else We have been receiving letters from several comrades about our dances. One comrade, fgp example, wants to know why so many the; forget that their duty at “red” dances, just in other places, is to approach wall flowers fof. Daily Worker subs. He got seven in one wel that way. J Another, a young worker, brings up the mate ter of “approach” from another angle, and regs isters a protest we have often heard, but. about which little or nothing has ever been done.- He is “not a Victorian,” he claims, and being frank goes on to state his positive attitude ward certain functions that we all share, rather enjoy sharing, by the way—but which we need not detail here. Anyhow, he. convinces us that he is neither an early, middle or late’ Victorian, but an earnest young worker who i§ disgusted by what is permitted to get by af some of our dances because, evidently, those in charge permit it. We can understand why they permit it.’ We don’t want to be kill-joys for workers who are regimented and fenced round with rules and regulations by the bosses, when they come te our affairs to play and make merry. We scorn bourgeois conventionality and expectorate. og capitalist laws, blue and otherwise. So “those | in charge” let anything—and sometimes—eyerys | thing, pass. But— ; | Those in charge may forget, however,” ‘some of the other angles. Bourgeois morals, or Jack of them, are not those of the working “class, Particularly is this true when, in this, the age of capitalist decline, the bourgeoisie sheds ita. pretensions and exhibits its true vileness’(antie, social tendencies in economics, politics and even in sex), The lead in this is taken by thecboure geois diletante, which seeks to elevate degener- acy into a philosophy and Stick some label on |. it about “freedom.” It is natural that some workers, not. all by. any means, become infected, looking upon un- masked bourgeois degeneracy as if it were not thoroughly bourgeois and adopting it as their own standard of conduct, in spite of the fact | that it is utterly out of harmony with a healthy proletarian ‘standard, political Healthy because give charity, slop, apples, fake relief but no real solution for the unemployed problem. The work- ers through organizing will solve their problem | of their misery. Unemployed Councils must be | built to demand unemployment insurance to be paid by the capitalist bosses, and the build- ing up of revolutionary industrial unions will prevent the bosses’ attacks toward the lower | ing of the -workers standards of living, speed- ups, etc. And the Communist Party leading the workers in their struggles will lead them to an objective revolutionary point. of the capitalist system, which is the cause of all the workers’ misery, and only by a forcible overthrow of capitalism will the workers solve their problem. Who Said There Is Food Shorizge in Russia? By GEO. KATSIOLIS It is very regrettable that all the capitalist malicious lies about food shortage in Russia are affecting even a large percentage of comrades into believing such absurd and ridiculous asser- Some ex-leading members are amongst such belfevers, and the worst is that even the editorial staff of one of our foreign language weeklies doubted the accuracy and refused to | tions. print a statistical treatise which indicated that | the brgga grain production w greater in Russia than was in the United Sta I feel certain that we will never enlighten the rest of the workers about facts of which we re- main ignorant ourselves. Therefore we will quote statistics from the Commerce Year Book 1929, Vol. 1, p. 190 for U. S. and Vol. 2 p. 559 for Russia Year Grain U. S. Russia 1926 Wheat bushels 831,090,000 819,566,000 Rye iis 40,795,000 901,553,000 Barley a 184,905,000 253,018,000 Total 1,056,700,000 1,974,142,000 1927 Wheat bushels 878,374,000 745,885,000 Rye = 58,164,000 933,033,000 Barley * 265,882,000 211,281,000 Total 1,202,430,000 — 1,890,199,000 1928 Wheat bushels 902,749,000 859,789,000 Rye e. 41,765,000 783,433,000 Barley ad 356,868,000 261,804,000 Total 1,301,383,000 —1,905,061,000 These figures speak for themselves. Current announcements gave the wheat production in U. S. for 1929 as 806,000,000 bushels. For the other grains we have no data on hand but we do have data on the 1929 production in the Soviet Union which is given in metric tons in “Soviet Economic Development and American Business” by Bron page 23. When translated in bushels it is as follows: Wheat in bushels 737,370,000 Rye in bushels 794,400,000 * Barley in bushels 337,000,000 Total ...... 1,878,779,000 As for 1930, statistics are arriving in small doses, and while the Soviet production of wheat and rye alone in 1929 amounted to 1,531,770,000 bushels, the Economic Review of the Soviet Union of Nov. 1st informs us that these two grains alone during the present year made a gain of 36 per cent over 1929 which means a gain of 551,437,200 bushels making the total production for the year 2,083,207,200; and if we assume that barley remained the same as last year we have @ grand total of 2,420,207,200 bushels which sug- gests a production double that of the U. 8. From these figures it is evident that there was no other reason for food shortage in U. 8. other than sabotage in the distribution which caused The abolishing | harmonious with a progressive economic class rising to power as a ruling class. ; | If anything interferes with this basic _work- ing class aim-it is anti-social and immoral, and bourgeois degeneracy, carried into our own ranks by occasional “germ carriers” does interfere—, | hence should be checked by “those in charge.” | “Occasionally,” writes this young worker, “I-have brought five or six workers with me toe our | dances, and these young workers have turned away in disgust.” Nor is his the only complaint, not by any means. So—on with the dance, and let joy be uncon- fined. But make it the joy of revolutionary | workers who keep a deep purpose for tomorrow, | and not the “joy” of a bourgeois pig who, dazed at the shaking of his historical class rule and not knowing what else to do about it, takes to the hog-wallow to obliterate his dread, of ~a red tomorrow. And, while we're about it, we recommend-that you attend the Needle Trades Ball on Priday night, Dec. 5th, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., where you will meet the entire-Daily Worker staff, (provided they contribute us.com- plimentary tickets!) * . As One Worker Sees Us “Red Sparks:—Dear sir: Will you please print | this in your column with any comment: you’may wish and tell us what is wrong with the, Panty | in Providence? fn “At the mill where I work I was Sceriasbed by a member of the socialist labor party and | invited to attend a meeting at their hall, but a Communist worker told me that they were all wrong and that I should attend a Communist school that has a class every Wednesday night at North Main St., Providence. “Well, at 7 o'clock on Wednesday night. I are rived at said hall for my first lesson on ‘ mentals of Communism.’ I was wéleomed-by & fellow named Armstrong, who someone told me was on the ballot for mayor of Providente, and T must say that after listening to him during @ discussion in the evening I .was glad that he was defeated, this I mean for the welfare *oft our city. AE, | “Anyway, the class was opened by a fellow who they called Comrade Saul, and who stopped speaking now and then to feed the fire in the stove with Daily Workers. @ “After Saul’s open class, a discussion was soon in progress between Armstrong and Saul. ‘Botany,’ Armstrong maintaining that vegetab! life, like the human race, was com) of, met and female. “Now, Sparks, will you please let me kiiow % that is Communism, or is the Communist Party trying to make a joke of the workers. As I not interested in Botany or. vegetable lifé;"I not think that I will attend the next class Fundamentals of Communism, but will go to th socialist party, and if that is no better I join the A. F. of L— Thank you—1 e This reminded us of a circular someone brought in, advertising a meeting of the Ephest Seventh Day Adventist Church in New Yt City, at which the pastor, one Geo. EB. was put down as going to answer “This Iny tant question: Why Easter Comes Sometimes tt March and Sometimes in April.” i Barring the author of the letter having. con fused the welfare of “our” city with the of his class, we think he has presented abil! Particulars that seems to require reply from comrades of Providence. We might seem-to | picking on Rhode Island too much if we anything—and it’s such a little state, Ship Ahoy! Lay To, You Lubbers! “Norfolk, Va.—Will you