The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1930, Page 1

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail (Section of the Communist 4 Vol. VII. No. 293. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3. 1879 NEW YORK, MON DAY, DECEMB ———— Starving the Babies HEN in August the milk trust which, with the enthusiastic support of Tammany’s “Health Commissioner,” Dr. Wynne, used the excuse of “the drought” to raise milk prices—saying that it was because farmers had to buy extra feed as they would normally have to do only in winter— the Daily Worker at that time denounced this as a crime against the workers whose children would be robbed of this needed food. Now, the milk trust has reduced prices—but only a miserable one cent per quart. And why? Have the farmers now, in mid-winter, stopped buying extra cow-feed and gone back to reliance on pasture? Hardly! And this fact shows that the milk trust, the falsely called “Dairymen’s League” in which the Borden Company dominates, lied outrageously when it raised prices in August. Further, it shows that these criminals were protected—undoubtedly for a part in the graft—by the Tammany “Health Commissioner” whose pretensions of solicitude as to the “public health” are but a sham to cover a criminal conspiracy against the health and very lives of the oabies of New York workers. The reason the mlik trust makes even the ridiculous concession of me cent per quart, comes out in the obscurely published admission that the sale of milk in New York has fallen off no less than one million quarts a day since the price increase went into effect. This represents a deprivation, if we count that, on the average, each quart less would have given milk to two workers’ children, of two million working class chil- dren, stunted in body and weakened in mental capacity by being robbed of this simple but vital food—mitk This is a crime no less than wholesale murder, and would be and is punished in the only civilized country in this world—the’ Soviet Union, by a firing squad. But here, in capitalist America, after a little fake “investigation,” it is free to continue to the profits of the milk trust and the grafting Tammany politicians posing as “health” officials. The absurd “reduction” of one gent per quart (15 cents instead of 16 cents for “Grade B”) is utterly inadequate, even to bring sales up again to as much as half that million quarts. This is true because there are at least 800,000 workers jobless in New York, many more on part time and still other thousands suffering wage cuts. And fifteen cents (for milk for which the trust pays farmers a price of four and five cents) is still far beyond the ability to buy of at least a million workers in New York who must continue to see their babies starve. We repeat that this is a crime compared to which murder is an in- nocent sport. And we repeat that the Tammany government is in guilty conspiracy with these criminals. So workers need not expect relief from that quarter. No miserable pretense of “charity,” to which the capitalists in their audacity demand that the workers themselves con- tribute, should be allowed to conceal the fact that what is most needed is unemployment insurance for all jobless workers and higher, not lower, wages for all employed. The workers: must, therefore, organize their struggle for these de- mands, and demand that, until such demands are met and their children can be cared for in this way, that the city stand responsible for fur- nishing through the school system, really adequate food, and clothing as well, for all workers’ children. Stop the starvation of workers’ babies! 3 ° , eo ¢@ ¢ - Against War--Civil War! 'HE French wolf of war, licking its chops in anticipation of the war it plans for next year against the Soviet Republic, tries to disguise it- self as a lamb of peace Aristide Briand, foreign minister in the Tardieu cabinet, in an inter- view published in the N. Y. Times of Dec. 7, thus endeavors to falsify the ambitions of French imperialism for hegemony in Europe by armed conguest of the Soviet territory, as a passionate desire for peace. Inventor of the idea of an European Federation—with the Soviet Union left out as the enemy against which such a federation is to be organized, and which French imperialism is to lead, Briand wishes to camouflage the feverish preparations tor war against the Soviet Union as a heart-breaking “struggle for peace.” As an essential part of this disguise, Briand claims to be vastly con- cerned about what the workers think, and tries to establish himself and French imperialism generally as the defender of the peace-desirous work- ers against the war-makers, who, of course, are somebody else. To be quite definite, the interviewer marks it down that this “somebody else” is—“the menace of Communism.” This is quite in accord with the leading role of imperialist France in the war plot against the Soviet Union, as proven by the Moscow trials of Ramzin and Co. Indeed Briand’s interviewer plainly states: “It was undoubtedly the danger of contamination from Com- munism that formed the basis of the first conversation that Briand held with Chancellor Luther.” (For a “united—capitalist—Europe. Editor) In adjusting the “peace” mask firmly on the face of imperialist France, Briand must pretend to voice the real opposition to war that the masses feel. So he comes out with the asssertion that: “If war were to break out now, conditions would not be the same as in 1914. The nation responsible for a declaration of war would certainly have to face something even worse—civil war.” Of course, Briand, in his “innocence,” does not allow the masses to conceive, that imperialist France or any other of the robber capitalist powers could possibly be “the nation responsible.” Oh, dear, no! The nation responsible must, of course, be the Soviet Union! By this scurvy trick, Briand and the other criminals who really cause war, if they cannot (and they cannot!) make the masses in the Soviet Union revolt against the Workers’ Government, they hope at least to lessen the reality of civil war in their own countries. It is the old gag of pretending that. “the enemy started it.” But scarcely any such empty subterfuge can long avail the robber bands who at this moment are arming hastily for war next year, in 1931, against the Soviet Republic of Workers and Peasants! Nor is capitalist America left out of these war plotters. On the con- trary, Briand especially remarked to his interviewer—“the cooperation of the Americans in the progress already made toward the achievement of peace.” Such gigantic hypocrisy for those who have scorn{ully rejected every Proposal for either total or partial disarmament made by the Soviet Tnion in the last several years! Buch arrant scoundrelism for those who are arming to the teeth and plotting day and night against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviet Republic! Yet Briand spoke truly that those responsible for war will face civil war! Only the workers, the toiling and peace loving masses everywhere, including capitalist America, will not accept the definition of their ex- ploiters, as to who is responsible! They will not look upon the Soviet as responsible, but upon “their own” governments! So we will let Briand’s warning stand, gentlemen, to you: “Against war—civil war!” as our warning EAGLE WORKERS hundred, who did not quit when the strike started a week ago, At the meeting yesterday the strik- ers made it clear that they are deter- mined as ever to resist the ten per PICKET TODAY Continued Organiza- tion Over Week End NEW YORK.—Vigorous picketing of the Eagle Pencil Company plant on 14th St. and 13tp St. and Ave, © was arranged for by the 900 workers on strike. Picketing stavis this morn- ing at seven. ings yesterday and Saturday, heard speakers, continued their depart- mental organization, and committees visited the employees, those on strike who have not come on: the picket limes yet and those few, less than a They held mass mect- | cent wage cut which started the strike, Reports were made by the strike committee and by departments. They heard Fred Biedenkapp of last year's Shoe Workers strike and now head of the Smash the Injunction Ccmmittee of the Trade Union Unity Council. A speaker from the Workers’ Ex‘ |Servicomen’s League pledged all pos- sible support on the picket line, A speaker from the Intemation | Labor Defense offered the services on the LL.D. in ease any were arrested on the picket line, and gave advice as to how to get in touch with the LL.D, and how to handle the case until the LL.D. comes in Workers’ Lives Are in Danger! U.S.Govern Workers! Your lives are in dan- ger! War is being prepared! . War in which your bodies will be snatched away from your wives and your chil- dren and, dressed in uniforms which may serve as your burial garments, | will be thrown onto great battlefields | covered with poison gas and swept by | explosives! War is being prepared, workers, while you are lulled to a false sense} of security with lying chatter about “peace pacts,” “disarmament” and what not. Do not take our word for it. We are Communists, “reds,” and the capitalists, through their thousands | of newspapers, radios and movies, have been teaching you that we “reds” are “awful people.” We are “awful,” yes, but only to the capi- talists who exploit you in peace and slaughter you in war. But now a capitalist and “good patriot” speaks. He is Major A. B. Quinton, of the Ordinance Department of the U. S. Army and Instructor in the Army In- dustrial College. Major Quinton wrote an article— but not for workers. He wrote it in the October, 1930, issue of the “Har- Army Officer Admits Will Draft Labor for Shops and Trenches! vard Business Review,” to inform the capitalists, your big bosses, how the U. S. Government is making ready for war—how it is already planning! to conscript you, yes, you! and to see | | that you don't strike, no matter what your wages and conditions in case you stay and work in industry dur- | ing the coming war. Major Quinton. says that:—“Indus- trial activity, more than fighting man power, is the determining factor be- fween success and failure of a mili- tary effort.” A “military effort” is —a war. To prepare for war, the entire country is divided into fourteen dis- tricts, under a central “Director” for supervising industry to furnish war supplies. Each district is in charge of a joint command of army officers and capitalist manufacturers—the latter serving as “dollar a year” men —the same profiteering game as in ment Arms tor War! >the last world slaughter. The war supplies which every fac- tory can turn out are listed, and con- tracts are already signed! And about Jabor—Major Quinton s that these | war makers are figuring out just how many.workers will be needed, and how to distribute them, and—to see |that you are “controlled,” you work- lers, the U. S. Army is figuring on: ‘The means by which industria: cooperation between managemenv and labor in the production of th. armie’s supplies may be secured.” This means that the U. S. Army | already working with the reactionary, strike-breaking leaders of the Amer- | Internation ER 8, 1930 jican Federation of Labor, with ‘the Greens, Wolls, Hutchinsons and thaw | tribe, to handcuff and gag all work- ers who protest against wage and working conditions ‘in the war the U. S. Army is preparing! Green, in statements made in the capitalist press, has already agreed to support | | conscription of labor in time of war! | Naturally, the capitalists are not | not expecting peace if they are pre- | |paring for war. War is coming! | Coming soon! And the General Staff (Continued on Page Three) Hoover’s Fake Bldg. Program Slashed; No Relief for Jobless WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—There is very little enthusiasm developed over Hoover’s fake $150,000,000 building program. As compared to the speeches which Hoover, Klein and Lamont made for months before the opening of Congress about a two billion dollar building program, indeed. On Saturday, in order to keep taxes down for the bosses, and to keep their profits up, the bill was ¢ut down to $110,000,000. When it is real- ized that it takes from two to four years to get a building into ac- tion, and that at least one-half goes into the pockets of politicians and contractors, the prospect of $30,000,- 000 to $40,000,000 spent for building works doesn’t hold out any relief for the 9,000,000 unemployed in the Unit- ed States. In fact, if the entire amount of $110,000,000 were used for relief pur- poses, it wouldn’t feed the unemploy- ed army for more than a few days. Money for War the building program, which is less Contrasted to the $110,000,000 for than even in so-called prosperity years, is the $1,000,000,000 that Hoo- ver is asking for war purposes. Noth- ing will be cut from this. In fact, the prospect is that more will be added to the war budget. The main thing the boss represen- tatives in Congress are worried about is taxes for the capitalists. They do not care how many millions of the unemployed starve, so long as not one cent additional taxes are put on the bosses. It is becoming clearer all the time that the workers must mobilize their forces to dernand unemployment in- surance. The main demand must be “All war funds must be turned over to the unemployed in the form of unemployment insurance.” There is immediately available more than a billion dollars for this purpose. The Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, advocated by the Commu- nist Party, also gives other means for providing money for the unem- ployed. Only by struggle will the bosses be forced to part with their profits. Jobless Cut Down on Bread So “Daily Worker” Can Come Out. Do Your Bit! DAILY LIVING FROM HAND TO MOUTH. MUST HAVE FUNDS the $150,000,000 bill looks slim SOVIET BLASTS DISARMAMENT LIE Lunacharsky Refuses to Sign Geneva Report GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 7.—a wild argument developed in the ses- sions here yesterday of the League of Nations Preparatory “Disarma- ment” Commission over the report to be made evaluating the results of its work. Anatole Lunacharsky, who took Litvinoff’s place on the Soviet delegation when Litvinoff left several days ago, refused absolutely to sign the self-glorification report the bulk of the commission wanted to make. Lunacharsky stated the Soviet gov- ernment refused to delude the work- ers with the idea that the commis- sion had done anything for disarma- ment. He insisted on the right to file a separate report. The chairman Loudon, denied that the commission could consider any opposition reports. Lunacharsky then referred to thé records, showing that in the past it had done so. And he had his way. Sweden, Holland Join. Lunacharsky pointed out specifi- cally one case in which the commis- sion had completely failed to cause any limitation, that is, in its refusal to count the trained reserves as part of the armed strength to be limited. Here the representatives of Sweden and Holland declared that they would sign Lunacharsky's report in- stead of the majority report. There were fierce arguments among other capitalist nation repre- | and promises to assist in every way | U. L. address is 93 Mercer St., New- sentatives over details of the major- ity report. 7 STARVE IN EDGE- WATER PLANT | Wage of $10.50 a Week| Hundreds Laid Off EDGEWATER, N. 7—| Ford’s big Edgewater as: ly plant, capable of producing 800 cars a day | and now being shown off to visitors) \from New York and surrounding | towns as a miracle of modern en-| | gineering, a starvation pen for the }2,000 or 2,500 workers still left in it. | There have been two lay-offs, | last’ one laid off 1,200 men a week | ago, |plant’ will close for two or three weeks after Dec. 16. | Those still in the place work on| a line (belt) with a speed of 210 or| more inches a minute, and work only} | four hours a day, three days a weck,| | producing-about 250 cars a day. They| get total wages if they work all three/ | shifts, of $10.50 a week. But even/ | this starvation pay they do not get |clear. They have to pay $1.80 a j week, ‘60 cents a day for the round} |trip for fare from Newark. Besides} | this, there is “knock-off time” when | the men stand around without work, | and this time is deducted from their pay. The men are forced to give at least | 50 cents to the Community Chest.| On Nov. 24, the pushers in Ford's! came around and let it be known that whoever did not contribute at jleast a half a dollar to the fund | would find himself laid off. Prac-| | tically all contributed, but on Wednes- | day, Nov. 26, many of these same |men were laid off. On Monday, Dec. 1, another 1,200 were laid off. Other men in Ford's are compelled to pay graft to hold their jobs or| get transfers. | | The price of transfers is $5 to $10) graft. Twelve pushers were recently | caught handling this graft. In this situation the workers still on part time in Ford's and the job- jless should organize and fight for jreal unemployed relief and for a wage they can live on. The Trade | Union Unity League calls on them to} get in touch with it for this purpose their organization for against such conditions. a struggle} The T. U.! | will support the strike and the fight Norker he-Communist Party U.S.A. al) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, ONITE! = CITY EDITION Price 3 Cent Ss —? WAR DANGER ON USS.S.R. IS GROWING AS IVE GET DEATH SENTENCE of Woolworth Cut Wages of Girls Whose Pay) Is on Hunger Level} (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—Last Thursday, the | working women in the warehouse of | Woolworth's 5 and 10 cent stores were notified that their wages would be cut $2 per week. Woolworth’s are | known for the notoriously low wages | paid in their stores, and a cut of| $2 per week brings the total wages] way below the starvation level. The relief girls of high school age,| who work ten hours on Saturday are} now paid $2.50 for the ten hours’ work, or 25 cents an hour In the Board of Education in New| York City, the scrubwomen who) There is a rumor the whole| work from 7 a. m. to 9 a. m, and, #242 of the imperialist countries for then come back and work from 2 p. m. to 7 p. m. get $3 a day. AFL INJUNCTION IN ANOTHER SHOP Starts Strike Breaking Within 11 NEW YORK.—The most recent case of A, F. L. strike meeting and use of the injunction appears in the strike called Saturday at the food market at 3451 Jerome Ave. | This shop has never had an or- ganization. Four workers, all that were employed, walked out and started picketing Saturday for shorter hours, minimum weekly wage of $40 @ week. An hour and a half after the strike started the A. F. L. Local 358 of the Grocery, Dairy and Fruit Clerks, came down and put two scabs to work and served the pickets with an injunction! This is the ready made injunction always used now by the A. F. L. and the bosses for strike breaking purposes, The police tried them to break up the injunction. The Food Workers Industrial Union | Hours | against injunctions includes also the | fight against this one. ark, or 16 West 2Ist St., New York City. “$30,000 Daily Worker Fund. “Have 6 dollars left for the week. Will live on 5—one I enclose. “Yours, T. A.” So writes a worker from Red Bank. Workers’ money is paper was never greater than This worker realizes that the need for the workers’ the crisis, efforts to divide the working class and to break down organization grow more and more intense. now. With the sharpening of The use as scarce in New Jersey as it is in Maine or California. But all over the country workers are beginning to wake up to the danger which threatens if the Emergency Fund Campaign should not be successfully carried through. Another comrade writes from New York: “I have entered my third year of unemployment. I cannot describe to you the misery of my life. Iam ill clad and the soles of my shoes are worn out. Right now I am in possession of one dollar and 17 cents. But I cannot bear in mind that the only friezd and the oniy weapon of the working class, the Daily Worker, is in such need and I should not help its need. 1 therefore send you the dollar to the fund of the Daily Worker. I only wish I could get any job so I can earn some . Money and contribute more. —A Jobless Worker.” ‘ of the injunction in an attempt to make it impossible for workers to organize must be fought with mass action—and a mass paper is necessary for the fight. In Washington the notorious Fish Committee is combining its preparation for war with the Soviet Union with a war against American workers and against the workers’ newspaper. The response from workers all over the. country is en- couraging. But it is not enough. Last week the Daily Worker appeared only because of extreme energy of a few comrades who made loans direct. | or had their organizations advance enough to get the paper out day by day. This week we face the same situation as last week. Hand to mouth existence of the Daily. More funds must be rushed immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 18th St. New York City : They Did Everything They Could Millions of Workers by Impei Now Ask for Their Lives Ramsin in Crafty Talk Promises to Help Build Socialism After Wrecking as Much as He Could Other Defendants Follow Ramsin’s Cue; Ad- mit Deserve Death, But Promise Everything ese ee BULLETIN The United Press, through a dispatch from Eugene Lyons, states that the death sentence was handed down for five of the eight accused wreckers in Moscow. received ten-year prison terms. Those sentenced to death for plotting war together with foreign imperialists are: Prof. Leonid Ramsin, Victor Larichey, Ivan Kalinokoy, Alexander Fedotoy, and Nikolai Cha ski. Those ceiving the ten-year terms are: Xenephon Sitnin, Vladimir Ochkin and Sergei Kuprianoy. Three re- By A. B. MAGIL pecial Cable to the Daily Worker) 7.—In tk A late development of the propa-| SON REFUSAL , alty for all the defend eight Imperialist Arguments | ialist intervention all that 13 years embargo and continuation: of the war sien of sins,” their final for ognition. “he other defense attorney, both at- MOSCOW, Dec. TO R ECOG NIZE still echoed with the voice of ! | Re a cm | cutor Krylenko—the voice of dred and fifty million workers and WAR MOVE ; ‘A {|| peasants—demanding the death pen- counter-revolutionary leaders of the i - eer Industrial Party, who plotted to sub- Repeats Hy pocr itical ject. to the fire and sword of imper- |of heroic proletarian labor and rifice had built up, last night and this morning made a final ‘“confes- plot against the Soviet Union is | mercy. statement Saturday by Secretary of} The defendants’ speeches were pte- State Stimson agajn refusing rec-| ceded by speech by Braudo and Stimson was jarred into a public{ statement by the exposure of his dip- | lomacy made a few days ogo by John : Speed Orders for Indictment Bassett. Moore, leading authoirty on | international law and former judge in the world court. Moore, who s imes lets his professional in- ‘ sometimes lets his professiona Gay. atow das eee terest get ahead of his loyalty to * | ‘i which to order the edition of American imperialism, pointed out the Daily Worker which will contain the prosecutors indict- ment against the wreckers now on trial in the U.S.S.R. The indictment will be pub- lished in full in Wednesday's paper. Rush your order. that as far as international law g it is rank stupidity for the U. S. go" ernment not to recognize the Soviet keUs.gandateeh. ; | Union. The U. S., said Moore, didn’t hesitate to recognize France during the reign of terror. Furthermore, the U. S. has technically recognized the Sovjet Union, anyway, through rec- ognition of her signature to the Kel- torneys of Kuprianov and Sytnin | loge Pact. respectively (the other 6 accused re- No Recognition. fused council). Stimson hardly tried to answer| Both attorneys admitted the guilt Moore's indictment of his misuse of Of the two defendants, but based international law, ut announced that | their defense on the plea that they the U. S. “hadn't intended” to rec-| Were not the chief guilty ones. They ognize the Union of Socialist Soviet made sentimental pleas regarding Republics through the Kellogg trea-| the “moral collapse” of the two ties, and furthermore would not rec- | COUnter-revolutionaries and promised cognize the U. S. S. R. unless (1) the | that they would reform and do use | Czarist debts were paid; (2) All Am- | ful work in the future. | erican |property owners in Russia Ramzin made a crafty, hypocriti- were compensated for loss of their|cal speech, declaring that he had | chance to exploit the Russian work- | undergone @ complete change otf ers, and (3) The Soviet government | heart and that he desired to work stopped its propaganda in U. 8. for socialist construction (strange The hypocrisy of these points, of |HOW overnight these hardened coun=\ , which the state department says it | tet-revolutianists who throughout ‘considers the last one most impors| their lives faithfully served the tant” js shown by a few facts, (1) | bourgeol suddenly have been The Soviet government has repeated- | S¢ized with the desire to build social~ ly stated that the matter of pay-{!i8m!) He declared that there are ment of the debts is a subject for | Only two paths: one to the left lead- negotiation, and (2) the same is true 98 towards socialism, the other to of the matter of compensating prop- | the right leading to Paris, sabotage, erty owners under the Czar. On/|€SPionage and treason. Neutrality is these first two points the U.S... R.|imPossible, “The French Govern- stands on the principle that it has|™ent,” Ramzin declared, “is the chief a right to refuse to pay anything, but | i™spirer of intervention, and is the will consider paying a certain price |Center of the struggle against the for recognition and better facjlity for | Soviet Union. It be the chief trade. blame for the next war. As to point 3, the Soviet govern-|_ The other accused took his cus ment does not conduct propaganda, |f"om Ramzin. He pai ite to The Communist International cer-|the brilliant suce S| tainly does, and just as certainly the |COPStruction during the last two Catholic church and the Imperialist |¥@"S to which he was previously capitalist organizations and white| blind (his sudden sight is remark- guard organizations in capitalist |@ble! The truth is that he wasn’t countries conduct as far as they are|Plind previously, but saw socialist able, capitalist propaganda in Russia, | UPbuilding only to be filled with the The U, S. government would hardly |@esire to destroy it, Now, faced consider suppressing the churches, | With the collapse of all their plots and the Soviet Union will not con-| tings and with death, the wreckers sider suppressing the Communist |$TW thapsodical about the achteve~ International — even if that were ments of the working-class, despité possible. their treacherous wrecking), The hypocrisy of Point 3 is still} All of the accused defended theme plainer when it is considered that | Selves against the charges of Kry- altohugh the Soviet government does |lenko that the original confessions not conduct propaganda in imper-| Were not complete. By some curious jalist countries, imperialist govern-| Coincidence, all of them hed “for« ments are abundantly proved by the | sotten” the little matter a§out con- present Moscow trial and by other |crete preparations for int incidents to be conducting capitalist |im the border areas: propaagnda themselves in the Soviet|ground to permit the Union ’ oy (Continued on Raga 2