The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1930, Page 1

Bpeed the Signature Collection Campaicn for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! ‘Dail Central Orga = 4 ‘ . oo “the-Co (Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. Vol. VII. No. 292 Entered as seco! at New York, N.Y. ne Post Ofice of March 3, 1879 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents W. Z. FOSTER BEFORE FISH COMMITTEE EXPOSES JT AS PART OF BOSS TERROR NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930 Foster Reads Communist Party Challenge to Fish Committee Exposes War Plans of Imperialists Against the Soviet Union; Calls on Workers to Rally for Soviet Defense SOVIET WORKERS RISE AND CHEER AS DEATH OF n Smashing Attack He and Amter Tear Into! Capitalist System’s Exploitation, Mass Misery for 9,000,000 Jobless WRECKERS IS DEMANDED Cites Bosses’ Wage Cutting Drive and Failure to Relieve Suffering of Unemployed; Calls on Workers to Organize and Fight American Engineer, Workers) S¥!e'9 in Seven Hr. Show Up Lynch Law of States Represented on & 4 | Speech Hurls Defiance the Committee; Expose War Plot Against y WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Wm. Z. Foster, when called to testify before the Fish : y c 3 at Imperialists Committee here today, before answering any questions put to him by the committee mem- eet " institution. It is our task to organ-| One girl striker, absent from the] * j the wage of wes Soviet Union, with | when conflict comes, tle result ‘ze the great masses of workers to| picket line in the morning, joined. it Aca the Daily Worker appears on the last moment receipts of money | A Mexican boy, 15 years old, writes: “I still don’t belong to any of ce aa Se eekitadag Tha Ba fe babes on m the invaders don't @ fight against wage cuts, against|at noon, and told of being in jail from comrades as loans as well as $150 coming from Detroit and $100 | your organizations but I want to show you with actions that I am with | Irving Plaza Hall. Irving Place and uall jhe ms rahe one : speed-tp and fight for unemploy-|and fined $5 (afterwards remitted)| from Cleveland, both promising to send more. This shows a slight im- | you. I receive at home sometimes 15-cents or 20 cents on Sundays. I | 15th St. ‘ : sg cir ment insurance. The A. F. L. is car-| for a clash with two girl scabs. provement in the receipts for the Emergency Fund. However, this is not | am going to send you 10 cents every week for the $30,000 Daily Worker ‘Among the speakers will be William peer y et 8 eee rying on the notstrike agreement) Today there will be no picketing] sufficient to secure the appearance of the Daily Worker every day. The | Emergency Fund and the rest of the money I will spend in buying the | Z. Foster, who flung defiance into | spy % Soe ’ under which the bosses have already|as the factory does not try to work| pressing debts are becoming heavier and the creditors are becoming much | Daily Workers,” i Mal tAcon of thie Spy, organizer of intervention aii cut wages to the extent of $8,000,-|Saturdays, but there will be a big] more insistent than before. Workers everywhere must push every effort Comrades! These are a few of the responses from the districts. Bi Cc ‘ittee bef Mig matte pe ee bin 4 The A. F. L, is part of the|mass meetings of strikers in the La-| torush funds to the Daily Worker. beg ieee am Rete ty ore nom he | was | Ramzin, Charnovsky, Kalinnikov, U.S.S.R.; Denounce Attacks on Workers bers, insisted on reading a statement drawn up by the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party. This statement characterizes the Fish Committee as the bo: s’ tool for fur- Expose Vile Anti-Soviet Lies : ? | Hugh Cooper Says That| Four U.S. Roadmakers “Bloody War Plotters” By HARRY GANNES = ther worsening the conditions of the American workers and for the preparation of war : ; é I nes Cpe vO te oer oC) (Special to The Daily Worker) , = against the Soviet Union. It calls upon the workers to organize and fight for their own Soviet Workers Are | Return With Hig h | Poincare’s Rise Bi Ings WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5—To- demands in the United States and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The statement fol- Learning Skill Praise of Soviets Intervention Nearer day the Fish Committee had William lows in full: e — Z. Foster, Israel Amter, and Harry ' ers, seven leaders were sent to the peniten- i | No Jobless i faeeecow, Us as , 13, Jobless in USSR.) nse Maee Gannes of the Daily Worker on the tiary for 42 years each for the crime of or- Workers Are Inspired] a ' Serer tit 5 t ; stand, and suffered a defeat. Foster and Amter turned the attack by the Fish Committee into a counter at- tack on capitalism. They tore the hypocritical mask off the commit- tee’s “investigation” and exposed Mr. Fish and company as out to do the ditty work of trying to bind the v l WHE Fish Committee is supposed to be investigating Communist activities in the United States. It impossible to understand Communist activities unless one knows the conditions of the working class in this country, upon which these ac- tivities are based. ganizing a union. In Gastonia, workers who defended their homes from the midnight attack of an armed mob are sentenced to be buried alive behind prison walls, repeating again the history of the infamous Centralia, Washington, case. Soviet Wants Peace;| Standards of Workers) Must Fight War Plans! Improving, They Say | MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. — In sharp! contradiction to the yarns of “con- vict” labor, starvati- ~ and misery in NEW YORK. — When the New! York Post’s articles against Russia got around to description of the Dnie- lof K cries of “Long 1 “Long live the Pr ernoon greeted t demanded the dea eight of the cow Rising s American working class into. a still Today more than 9 million workers are In Danville, Virginia, the textile workers | prostroy project yesterday, it was no| the Soviet Union which the | seats, the a ve deeper slavery, in preparation for unemployed and deprived of all means of striking against a starvation wage of $8 to | longer possible to overlook the pres- “Makers are spinning in all big capi-) part of the the ence in this city of the American con- | talist papers, the actual report of House of Trad c S the most terrible of world wars. i forker representative i s . Fs ho sans ihe sulting engineer on that job, Colonel ring, unfor; ble sila rid son ee “Moscow cept the bread lines and miserable char S Mooney and Billings, victims of a proved Hugh L. Cooper.. And Cooper, being} Makers, who went from a small New! and slanders of the gold” and told how the exploited and crumbs. Thousands upon thousands of work- | frame-up, after 14 yi have again been | interviewed, remarked, according to| York state town to work for the Sea-| teryentionists and unemployed working masses them- ing class families have been thrown out of | denied pardons by those who framed them, ‘{ the Post himself, that as long as the| brook Engineering Company, which | out the world, and demon: selves supported their own paper, the living. There is nothing left for them ex- their homes because they can no longer pay $10 a week are subjected to martial law. In Atlanta, Georgia, the ruling class de- four American skilled workers, road- writer of the articles, Knickerbocker, | has 2 road contract near Moscow. merely described what he saw his| The four are Clarence Van Gorden, | | clusively that the determined to wipe ot . All-three had been am in or ‘ 1 ara» wth 4 z € | sary ih ele subpoenas. WM. Z. FOSTER oe pets eee ae aa hue opis ed | mands the death penalty for six workers story was alright, but that for some| his son Bud, A. E. Wallingford, and | revolutionary bands, de nier- na id soles ak the Wearioy the are having their wages slashed and are being rho had the “audacity” to attempt to exer- | of his inferences and conclusions he | Jesse Wallingford, all of Glen Spey,| vention, and fulfill task of building speeded up beyond the limit of human en- | cise their constitutional right of free speech | “ought to be spanked.” |N. ¥. An interview with them ap-| a socialist soc’ over one-sixth of committee showed plainly that it is going to advocate laws for the finger printing and registration of foreign- born workers, that it is going to try to outlaw the Communist Party and militant workers’ organizations, that it is going to call for an embargo on Soviet products. Fish stated that, “You can quote me on* hundred per cent for that.” Reads Statement es Foster's written statement (pub- lished in full in this issue of the Daily Worker) had a tremendous ef- fect, and most of the Committee members visibly winced. Then, after the reading of the statement, Bachman referred to the part which tells of the horrors of capitalist rule in West Virginia (from which state Bachman is a represen- tative) and tried to deny discrimina- tion against Negroes there. Foster brought out facts proving it and Bachman shut cp. Some of the questions asked makes it evident that the Fish Committee MORE COME OUT AT EAGLE PENCIL; MASS PICKETING Big Meetings Today and Tomorrow... NEW YORK.—Almost continuous picketing yesterday afternoon while group after group of workers left the ling and went into the Eagle Pehcil Co. to collect their pay, always one week behind, and came back to the picket line, featured the strike of 900 there against the wage cut of 10 per cent. The police tried in vain to prohibit mass picketing, to prohibit singing of “Solidarity” and Line,” to kéep strikers from yelling “On The Picket |- durance. In the streets of every large city, workers are dropping dying and dead from starva- tion and exposure. Every newspaper in the country constantly reports ‘suicides of these workers, driven to desperation by unem- ployment and starvation. The Communist activities are the organized protest and struggle of the masses against these con- ditions. \ Why ‘Starve? What is the cause of this starvation, mis- ery and hardship of the millions of workers ,in the United States? Is it because some great national calamity has destroyed the food, clething and shelter available for the people? No, on the contrary. Millions of workers must go hungry be- cause there is too much wheat. Millions of workers must go without clothes because the warehouses are full to overflowing with everything that is needed. Millions of work- and assemblage in order to organize com- mon meetings of white and Negro workers to consider their common problems. In New York, Steve Katovis was shot down in cold blood by a policeman for pick- eting. The Negro worker, Levi, and the Mexican worker, Gonzales, were murdered on the streets of New York by the police for taking part in workers’ demonstrations. The Negro worker, Mason, in Chicago, \was “beaten to death by the police for the crime of speaking on the street. In every city these same police, who club the workers and throw them into prison, are exposed before the whole world as a set of gangsters, who are bound up with the or- ganized criminal underworld on the one hand and the inner circles of the capitalist class on the other. The recent exposures of the Néw York police and courts preying upon women on a wholesale gcale is only a brief glimpse of Cooper stated that 16,000 workers| pears in the Middletown Times-Her- | were putting through the Dnieprost-| ald of Middletown, N. Y., issue of] roy damn and hydro electric station, | Dec. 4, 1930. The Middletown Times- | that it would cost $110,000,000 when! Herald editor hasn't realized that all finished, that $60,000,000 had already been spent, and the project was 65 per cent finished. Things are going ahead of schedule, a year, or perhaps a year and a half having been lopped off the time expected to finish the work, Willing and Enthusiastic. Cooper said: “The young Russian workmen have learned to become skilled workmen much more rapidly than we expected, although they still lack a great deal of being up to the American standard. They are wil ling and tremeydously enthusiastic. Of our 16,000 only about 150 may be Communists, they all are loyal to the program for betetring the condition of all. They feel that their living conditions are substan- tially improved over what they capitalist papers are supposed to) rally to the patriotic task set them | | by the finance imperialists of Amer- | | ica and Western Europe. | So instead of running a screamer | headline about “Slave Labor in Dark- est Russia,” he prints a headline, “Says Russia Is Not As Black As She Is Painted,” and under that, he let$ the elder Van Gorden tell of | rapid construction, of conditions im- proving overnight, of sufficient food, and the very reverse of “convict” | or “forced” labor, except that the| former millionaire class, which would | be lolling at ease in a capite*-t| country, does have in Russia, the| Says Van Gordon: | “Russia has no unemployment prob | “Russia has no unemployment problem and there is work enough} the earth’s surface, m-Hour Speech. seven hours days, Krylenko s significance of the trial. He a Rush Your Order ‘Next Wednesday the full in- dictment by the et. Union State Prosecutor, giving in de- tail the amazing story of the wreckers’ activities and the im- perialists’ war plot, will be pub- lished in the Daily Worker in an 8-paged tabloid-size plement. Order heavil; wide distribution. Rush! sup- for od the work of the accused and individually showed the conc intervention, mal reeze i velg elle ei <i * . were. for everyone, and everyone must! nection of the is proposing @ whole series of laws|at scabs. When the police ordered} ers must freeze in hovels and cellars be- | the rotten mess that is repeated in the po- “Piste proves tnd le at : c 3 Necaces Y ji a seg aie . bs eh & A s quip- | work. True, the average Russian is} French government lu 4 against the revolutionary workers, es-| nly eight pickets at each gate the} cause thére are too many houses. Millions | lice and judicial sys y ser arteg 7 ; | governmen including sh strikers marched before the gates in y States Judicial system in the whole United |} ment inspire them and nothing | leisurely and refuses to hurry, but he| the French _#eneral secret, pecially against the foreign-born. a parade of groups of eight. of workers must freeze because there is too coula be more positive and visible works and one finds the former aris- | agents and Torgprom. felson. of ia ete an aL ; ‘i hone eee Aca tha ag The number of scabs coming in mueh coal. This is the logic of the capi Rottenness and Decay. than the enthusiasm that this | tocyat doing his daily toil along with] He exposed the true worth of the ers, whether the idea of fi: ger print-| limousines was less by half yester-{ talist~system which the Fish Committee is It is an example of the rottenness that | "fat Project has created. It is a | the meanest laborer. Many former | denials by Poincare, and quoted, ing and. registering them was all|day from what it was the day before.| protecting against the protests of the | has penetrated into every phase of Amer- Coe oe a eerce ie (Continyed on Page Five) | “Voz-rozhdenya,” white guard paper right. The number. working in the box shop| workers. ican society, and is the natural result of the Oe, che ee Against Finger Printing Foster declared that this was a direct move“of the bosses to carry on the wage cutting campaign, black- listing. of the foreign-born. workers, discriminating against them, and in genefal, is in line with the terrorist campaign against the foreign-born has now been reduced to 35 or 40. There may be another 40 or 50 scat- tered through the huge factory, un- ‘able to work and only marking time. Many of these have promised strik- ers who visited them at home yes- terday and the day before to come out now. Visiting will go on today Confronted with the demand of hungry and homeless unemployed masses for bread and shelter, the rulers of this country an- swer with policemen’s clubs, gas bombs an savage prison sentences. Bestial Brutality. operations of the capitalist system. The same judges that send the workers to jail are one by one being exposed before the whole world as themselves grafters, who purchase their own jobs from the political macliines and make great pfofits from these by extracting graft from everyone whom Chicago North CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 5. — Over Western R.R. : Workers Hunger; Fake Relief chanic receives $19 for the week; the Deterding, which contained open in- timations of intery n plans, which substantiate the s ments of the accused. General Staff Orders. Krylenko dis sed in detail the sabotage and intervention work in each industry, g evidence upon For*the past year every newspaper in ‘i evidence of the tremendous damage and native workers as the crisis in-|2%d tomorrow. Ne 2 # s fs 8,000aChicago and North Western R.| helpers $13, and unorganized labor- Fossa bes wasp creases, z Factory Tied Up. Amer ica has been full of cases of the most they can drag into their net. 2 R. workers are suffering the pangs| ers starve on $8 or $9 per week wage. a Ub lcernes ee ae On the question of unemployment) The company is still trying all pos- bestial and bloody attacks upon crowds 0 What Communists Do. of hunger and privation, according Advice, But No Relief Stanieny saute aa cots’ eae Nelson asked Foster what ‘the Com-| sible tricks to intimidate the strikers, defenseless workers by the police. The Communist activities ‘in the United |, met released to the capl-} The directing officers of the com-| pondents, at first sce e been munists propose to do about elimi-)and has put up a big sign telling) Only last Monday on the steps of the capi- ; talist press by Fred W. Sargent, the) pany have put their parasite wives} forceod to change their line under nating unemployment. Foster brought forward the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, around which large numbers of workers are rallying. Nelson asked: “How will you do away with unemployment?” Foster replied, “You can net do away with unemployment under cap- italism. We propose the seven-hour day and elimination of speed-up. the five-day week and immediate unem- ployment insurance. The bosses’ an-, swer is terror and bread lines. For instance, in New York City there are fifty-three bread lines. Out of a bud- get of $620,000,000, it was only after a tremendous protest led by the Com- munists in which unemployed work- The committee dwelt on the A. F. L. in relation with the Trade Union Unity League. Bachman asked, “Isn't \t your function to supplant the A. ’ BLL"? Foster replied, “It is not ot Hi them that he “would hire others Monday.” The strikers know that this is impossible, as long as picket- ing is kept going good, and have in- side information that when Richards, the factory boss, called his foremen together and asked’ them if they could break in a new crew, they pro- tested that this could not be done within two months, even if they had the men. Meanwhile the Christmas orders are piling up. Particularly the boss needs the, fountain pen department workers, and that department is struck solid, } Biedenkapp Speaks. ' Two rousing meetings were held yesterday, one after the morning picketing and one after the afternoon. Fred Biedenkapp, of the Smash The Injunction Committee of the Trade Union Unity Council \and leader of the great shoe strike here spoke, and was enthusiastically cheered when he showed how solidarity and organiza- tion lead to yictory. bor Temple, Second Ave.” and 14th St., at 9:30 a. m. Sunday there will be a similar mass tol building, police clubs and gas bombs were used freely to break up a delegation of work- ers coming to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed right of protest against proposec further legislation to suppress the workers. The Bosses’ Answer Is Tetror. Almost every demonstration of —unem- ployed workers-has been brutally smashed by police terror. In Imperial Valley, California, where agricultural workers attempted to or- ganize to get relief from the unbearable working conditions of the vegetable farm- States consist’in organizing and leading the struggle of the masses of workers against these intolerable conditions. If the Fish Committee wants to investigate the growth of Communisnt let it investigate the mis- erable situation under which the masses live and from which only Communism shows them the way out. What It Means to the Negroes. Asa part of this general starvation and oppression of the workers, the rulers of this country apply a special oppression and per- (Continued on Page 5) president of the road. Sargent makes the significant announcement that the company is not to stand the bur- den of the fake relief program which is to be put into operation in the Chicago shops. After a layoff lasting seven weeks, approximately 2,000 shop men were returned to work on Nov. 3. They are victims of the Hoover “stagger” system” and are employed only for three days a week. A small force is maintained in the round houses on a five days per week schedule. Under the “stagger system” a me- Last Minute Laan and Donations Make Today’s “Daily” SATURDAY AND MONDAY WILL BE VERY CRITICAL DAYS Possible A group of shoe workers who are leaving for the Soviet Union have already collected $50, ain other members will contribute before they leave for Soviet Russia. e Executive Committee of a group of car- these are not sufficient to relieve the serious financial condition. The Fish Commission hearing at which Foster, Amter and Gannes testified, proved, conclusively that the bosses are preparing a sharp attack against the. workers. The Daily Worker is the only weapon which reaches the and daughters forward as relief workers under the name of “Wom- en’s Club of the Chicago and North} Western Railroad.” Each worker in the employ of the road is to be “docked” one-half of one per cent of his wages each month, and this mon- ey is to go into a fund ostensibly for the relief of needy cases, although the fund is not to be handled in any way by workers’ committees,- but by company officials and bosses. Lately the foremen have been vis- (Continued on Page Five) DEFEND SOVIET UNION MEETING Foster Speaks at Mass Gathering, Thursday NEW YORK.—A mass meeting for called for inquisition yesterday. V. O. Amis will also speak, and others: will be H, Harvey of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, and H. T, pressure of overwhelming evidence) Nevertheless, counterplans of the working class have defeated wreckers who achieved: success only in light industries, expecially textile. Workers Overcome Damage (Today's “Pravda” brings concrete proof of the tremend hi ments of*the counterpla ularly active, October coal produc- epte tion was 31.4 per cent over ber. Also there was a record ¢ energy increase of 5: Krylenko stressed tt ers, contrary on repc talist press, didn’t original statements, Yor the operations in border are served to facilitate in admitted only when bed. “The proletariat o Union protest against t their imperialist » big and little, mer to defend our country with arms, ritchevy and Otehkin, that they no money for their work. He cussed each accused in turn, n are struggling against the| meeting in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St.| penters leaving for the Soviet Union will recommend to their member- | workers a fatan ‘iden exposing his _phycholog fascist leadership of the A. F. L./and Irving Place, at 1:30 p. m. Bied-| ship that they leave a substantial greeting in the form of financial aid | the becca” Nt OTR ere Crnecion eestnns by, Om Bae Mabe anatomy and characterizing in - which is closely allied with the bosses|enkapp will speak again. to the Daily Worker before leaving the United States. Both of these Comrades, the Daily Worker can’t miss a minute or an hour. Funds | cam) ign agnitiy mn vel riots eee a ae in all ite terrorist Tickets to the Needle Trades Work-| groups have issued a statement supporting the Daily Worker. must be rushed to the Daily Worker immediately. “ee 8 ieee ch counter-revolutionary activity, Z ll LA ers’ Industrial Union ‘Friday A worker sends in a check for $10 “ credit the we pent ic for $10 atating “Simply, amount ‘Use the attached donations to Dally. Worken 60 E, 13ih Sty New » ya coupon ‘and mail alt ork City \ capitalists of all countries are try» ing their best ta get the workers to suppor A zi Is Near,