The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1930, Page 1

‘To combat this growing war prepara- Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! Dail Central : (Section of UA OF WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! at New York. N. Vol. VII. No. 294 Entered as second-class matter at the Post OMice ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930_ aes —=— CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents An Economy Program” iCHEME after scheme, at the present time, is being brought forward by capitalist economists and politicians to meet the unemployment prob- lem. Hoover's proposals for the expenditure of $150,000,000 for public works occupies the headlines at the moment. Senator Wagner's various proposals, including his latest for “unemployment reserves” (which is supported by Prof. Douglas) are running Hoover's a close second. Those of Governor Roosevelt and other state and local dignitaries regularly make the first, page. All of these proposals can well be characterized in the words of Hoover as “an economy program.” What is back of this “economy program”? Simply this!—all of these politicians and other hirelings of the bosses are trying by every means to get through the present period of unemployment without. placing any additional tax burdens on the bankers and manufacturers. The profits and wealth of the capitalists, in their opinion, must be protected at all costs if the country is to get back to “normalcy.” Millions of workers and their families, they know, are freezing. and starving. And, of course, they consider that “most unfortunate”! Tem- porary relief measures, they assert, must be undertaken. These are necessary, iirst, because the bosses want to use these workers again as soon as “normalcy” returns and, second, if temporary relief is not pro- | vided, these hungry, starving workers might cause some’ embarrassing situations before spring. Certainly, they declare, temporary relief must and will be provided! But this “temporary reliet,” of course, must not result in any added burdens for the employers. And, if these unemployed workers should listen to those radicals and demand more, then it will be necessary for us to convince them (with policemen’s clubs, tear gas and machine guns) that “normalcy” can only return if the capitalists are fully protected This is the reasoning of the capitalist politicians of the republican, demo- cratic and “socialist” parties. | Governed by such conceptions all their proposals are designed to give the minimum to the workers and the maximum to the bosses. Hoov- er’s proposed “stagger plan,” for example, attempts to reduce the wages and living standards of the whole working class, to place the entire bur- den of unemployment on the workers, without a cent being lost or con- tributed by fhe capitalists. The “temporary relief” program in New York City, according to Tammany’s claims, has provided “jobs” for 17,300 men and women at $15 per week cleaning up parks, painting park benches, etc. About 16,000 have been given “charity boxes” twice in the past three months. Bread- lines feed 150,000 daily.’ Lodging has been provided in various buildings for 40,000 or 50,000. This has beer done by reducing the unemployed down to the most miserable existence, by public appeals for donations, by a tax on city employes, but without any effort to tax the profits or wealth of the big Wall Street bankers, the manufacturers and big merchants. And “relief” has been provided for such an insignificant portion of the city’s 800,000 unemployed that daily the papers report a growing list of suicides and deaths in the streets from starvation and exposure. Hoover's proposals for public works to cost $150,000,000 (now reduced to $110,000,000 after “Hoover Asks Congress Aid to Avert a Tax In- crease” (New York Times headline) is of the same character. The pro- posed new highways, the river and harbor improvements, and the pro- posed new roads in national parks ‘are only of direct benefit to the wealthy. The number of jobs prdévided, even assuming the use of “oover’s “stagger plan,” would be insignificant as compared with the 9,000,000. jobless workers now in the United States, and the wages paid on these jobs will place the employed worker little above the starvation level. On these proposals all politicians of all capitalist parties are in | full agreement. i The other proposals—the so-called “long distance” proposals—for labor exchanges, a registration of the unemployed, and for the volun- | tary setting up of “unemployment reserves” in periods of “prosperity” are likewise efforts to get through the present difficult period, and all future periods of unemployment, at the expense of the workers, without placing any tax burdens on the rich. It is “an economy program” for the wealthy and a starvation pro- gram for the masses. ‘his is the program of Hoover, Wagner, Roosevelt, ‘Thomas and all the other boss-class politicians! In order to protect the profits of the rich they adopt “an economy program” which permits tens of thousands to die of starvation and cold. In order to protect the rich | they permit millions of men, women and children to undergo the greatest privation and misery. In order to pratect the rich, rebellious workers are clubbed, gassed and imprisoned in capitalist jails. This is the mean- ing of Hoover's “economy program”! The Communist program, on the contrary, says: “Tax the rich; feed | the poor; relieve the mass suffering at once!” We say, take the billions of dollars now spent yearly for war; take a portion of the wealth of the | capitalists which the workers have created; levy a tax on the fabulous | incomes of the rich, and with these funds pay regular unemployment insurance to the workers without jobs, to those who are sick, to those who are disabled! This program sponsored by the Communist Party can be realized by the workers. Through organization and continuous, determined struggle the masses can force the capitalists to pay unem- ployment insurance. The first'step everywhere is the struggle for immediate and adequate | local relief and the gathering of signatures to present to congress next month with the demand | of millions for unemployment insurance. Every worker on the job! Evéry worker in the Unemployed Councils! Reject the “economy program” of the bosses! Forward with the fight for un- employment insurance! “DEFEND SOVIET” MEETS INN. Y. Call Workers to Rally in Masses NEW YORK.—The trial of the wreckers in Moscow brought out the huge war preparations of the imper- ialist powers against the Soviet Union. As stressed at that trial, the war danger is not ended because it has been exposed. Not only is the danger against the Soviet Union growing, but the imperialists ‘are spending billions for a war for mar- kets and a re-division of the colonies. 48 Bay 28th St., Dec, 12. Speakers: Kogan, Markoff, Nesin, Damon. 2901 Mermaid Ave., Dec. 12. Speakers: Sazar, Levine, Todes. 105 Thatford Ave., Bklyn., Dec. 12. Speakers: Weber, S. Don, John- stone, Alexander, S. Van Veen. Newark, 93 Mercer St., Dec. 14. Speakers: Hartfield, Potash, Moore, S. Don, Hsu. Elizabeth, 106 E. ‘Jersey St., Dec. 12. Speakers: Blosser, M. White, Wag- » enknecht. Jersey City, 37 Henderson St., Dec. 12. Speakers: S. Krieger, Biedenkapp, R. Ragozin. Perth Amboy, 308 Elm St., Dec. 12. Speakers: Blosser, D. Gordon, Tal- lentire, Sepesy. New Brunswick, 11 Plum St., Dec, 12. Speakers: R. Evans, Moreau, J. Rubfh. . Paterson, 205 Paterson St. Dec. 12. Speakers: Appel, C. Brodsky, Sroka. CACHIN IN STRUGGLE OF WORKERS 40 YEARS Coney Island, tions and to rally the workers to struggle against it, the New York district is calling a series of meetings throughout the city: ie Anti-War Meetings. Irving Plaza, Dec. 11th. Speakers: Wortis, Foster, Amis, Trachtenberg. St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 120th St. PARIS.—On the eighteenth of No- | i Dec. 12. | Yember Comrade Marcel Cachin, the | * Speakers: Williams, Moore, Be- leader of the French Communist | dacht, Amter, Kro'l, Ho. | Party completed 49 years of activity | 85th St. and Lexineton Dec. 12 | in the service of the French and of, Speakers: Sa. Kroll, 2 alg, art A. Markoff, Williams. = * the international proletariat. Com- | rade Cachin joined the socialist | movement in 1890 under Jules C~reds, He fought in the ranks of | United, Socialist Party as a min- ority leader, and in 1920 he was one of the prime movers in the founda- | Grand Manor, 318 Grand St3 Bklyn. Dee, 12. Speakers: Flaiani, Bimba, Amter ‘on of the French Communist Party. Enedahl, Haywood, Lucy Wang. | tyrumanite published a special 1373 rd St, Bklen,, Doe, 12, “Maree! Cachin' 49 Years Supple- Bpeakers: Larter, Me’ ; Obermeicr, Chen, &. Waish, ” Moz! sas, demenstrations and icelebraiions have been organized, j \ | tire army to fight the advancing | | operations. | and to Magistrate Corrigan: for “re- | will cease only when the workers | have succeeded in maintaining their | greens with bigger and more/ de- | force to the situation in the Bronx, | where the A. F. of L, Local 358 of | the Grocery, Red Army of China Defeats 20000 Chiang Kai Shek Troops Were Sent Out to “Eradicate” Communists But Nearly Suffered Annihilation; to Hold Soviet Congress Dee. 11th NEW. YORK.—For the tenth time now Chiang Kai Shek has an-_ nounced the mobilization of his en- Communist forces throughout China. | The latest mobilization of this tool | of imperialism is announced in an | Associated Press dispatch from | Hankow, dated Dec. 7. Chiang Kai Shek declared that he | would mobilize 300,000 troops, 20 | gunboats and 30 airplanes for ac- | tion in the Yangtse Valley against | the Red Army. This tool of Amer- ican imperialism himself is reported | to have arrived in Kiukiang from Nanking and will establish military headquarters in Hankow for major | ANTI-INJUNCTION COMMITTER PLANS STERNER BATTLE, Continue Picketing at Zelgreens NEW YORK.—The “Smash the Injunctions” Committee of the ‘ade Union Unity Council, follow- ing a meeting today, announces that plans will go forward for continued demonstrations at the Zelgreen Cafetenia at 257 W. 34th St., where militant workers have carried on Seven mass demonstrations to smash the injunction within the last month. The fact that the business men of 34th St. have announced their in- tention of appealing to the mayor lief” against the demonstrations will not stop the fightof:the-workers to#5t...T | smash the 12-hour day and the in- junction along with it. The fight right to picket and strike unmo- lested and when the vicious boss and | A. F, of L. weapon of the injunc- tion will have been completely de- stroyed. The Trade Union Unity Council will mobilize its full strength to continue its militant ac- tivity on the picket line at Zel- termined mass demonstrations than ever before. | sand of well-equipped trops sent by The report goes on to state: “However, despite Nanking’s con- tinued announcements of ‘impend- ing campaigns against the Reds, the Communist activities have continued unchecked. Reports to- day told of boats along the Yangtse River being raked mer- cilessly by shore batteries, while in Northern Hupeh province 20,- 000 provincial troops seeking to eradicate the Reds they were sur- prised and attacked by a like number of Communists. The pro- vincial troops were almost anni- hilated.” This is one of the most signifi- cant pieces of news that has ever come out of China. Twenty thou- of the Bosses Again Smash the By HALESSK (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES. MOSCOW, Dec. 8. — War is plan- d by the international bourgeoi- Chiang Kai Shek to “eradicate the Reds” were themselves practically eradicated by a force of the same ne “ size and badly equipped and armed. Si¢ by the “Deterdings and the: Ur The latest ‘maneuvers of Chiang | Wharts. War. the military prepar- Kai Shek and his reported increased ation for wh ch was in the hands of activities on a large scale against | the state leaders of the g reatest the Communists must be taken in | imperialist powers is imminent. Not connection with the fact that on|0Mly the pure capitalist circles’ par Dec. 11 the Communist forces are | ticipated in the preparation of “this te hold a Soviet Congress to con- | ‘lass war, [but likewise [all such solidate the Soviets established and | bourgeois, and petty bourgeo s ele- prepare more concerted plans for | ments which bound their fate for carrying on the revolution, This | life and death with the imperial- Chians Kai Shek knows will result | ists’ fate. in redoubled efforts to throw off| In the Soviet Union “the Indus- the rule of the nationalists andj trial Party” became the direct agency of the Torgprom and the their imperialist supporters. a French general staff, and was ac- tively supported by the petty bour- Jugo-Slavs Prepare | coois sister organizations sach as For Lenin Memorial | the so-called Toiling Farmers Party | headed by Kondratiev, and Yordvs- NEW YORK—In preparation for | ky leaning on the Kulaks and the the Lenin Memorial Meeting in this| Menshevik organization of romann- city the Jugo-Slav Revolutionary | Suchanov. Singing Society has decided to have! Among the Russian emigrees were rehearsals every Monday from eight | the so-called republican democratic to ten p. m. at 106 East Fourteenth | groups headed by Miliukov and Ker- Hromin, secretary, requests | ensky.._Finaily there were French that all members of the society be| social democrats who unequivocally present at all rehearsals for practice. | proposed to support armed inter- vention against the Soviet Union. BROKE—FARMER HANGS SELF | But all threads of this extensive RUTHERFORDTON, N. C.—Clif- | enterprise led to and concentrated ford Dysart, poor farmer, hanged upon the highest places of French hitself in his barn at his home near | state machinery. Generals, colonels, Lattimore. What with mortgages to| the general staff, mentioned |by be paid, with below cost for his pro-| name personally associated with the ducts, and starvation facing himself | leaders of |th¢ {Industrial Party, and famliy during the coming winter, | gave their instruction, and likewise Dysart broke down completely. money. F ench diplomatic mail ' Only Workers Can Stop War | Plottings of the Imperialists ‘End of Trial Does Not Mean E End of War Moves st the Soviet Union; . | War Plots! {channels through which funds were sent to Moscow and through which espionage activity reports traveled from Moscow were set up. Employ- ees of the French Embassy in Mos- cow protected by diplomatic immun- ity were paid out money and re- ceived documents. French statesmen leadership in hand.’ Three of them ev frequently mentioined: the heavy industrial magnate, Loucheur, had_ political the most active former French mi- nisters travelling abroad; Briand the so-called Pacifist and the au- thor of Pan Europe; most of all Raymond Poincare, and the spe-| cialist Stitnin, one of the most tech-| the world war,! nical initiators of and organizer of the intervention | against the Soviet Unon n 1918— 1920. Th cri Moscow tral terminated these The Ramsin Company was uprooted. The damage they caused will be made good by the enthusi- astic labor of millons of Russian workers dnd peasants. The power of the socialist state will continue proudly to rise. But the danger of a war threat- ening this construction is not re- moved there On the contrary, the imp’ st criminals, defeated on one section of the front will pre- pare plans and new attacks so much more feverishly, they will prepare | war more cunningly. Ramsins’ trial ended. Now be- gins the new trial: the trial of the Imperialist War incendiaries, the trial of Poincare. The proletariat of the capitalist countries now must | have their say. | This policy applies with equal Dairy and Fruit Clerks’ Union have produced an in- junction against members of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union who are on strike for shorter hours | and a minimum wage of $40 a week | at the food market at 3451 Jerome | Ave., Bronx. The A. F. of L. rack-| eeteers, who had previously taken | no steps to organize the workers, appeared on the scene when the un- organized workers had gone out on strike and joined the Food Workers’ | Industrial Union, under whose lead- ership the strike is now being car- ried on. They have provided scabs and an injunction for the boss. Po- { lice, in cohoots with the boss and! the A. F. of L., have already warned that picketing will not be permitted. But the militant spirit displayed by the workers at the Zelgreen is evi- dent in the splendid response of the workers at the demonstration today, which was followed by the brutal clubbing of strikers by the police. One worker was arrested and held for disorderly conduct. The Trade Union Unity Council will give full support to the workers on strike in the Bronx. Fish Steps Out of White House Gaiety to Hear of F ight Against Hunger (This is the ane. of a series of articles on the Fish Committee meeting in the Capitol of the United States when they quizzed H William Z, Foster and Israel Amter, | members of the Central Committee — of the Communist Party, on ac- tivities in the United States. Foster was on the stand for over three hours. Besides reading the challenging statement, which ap- peared in the Daily Worker on Foster Tells of Mass! Starvation’ of Workers Min gowns and gems that cost many of the 9,000,000 unemployed miserable _days of toil and sweat and health. Only two Congressmen were given the privileges of hobnobbing with eee ee Seen sr tai or a this mighty outfit, And Hamilton 2 range (of topics of the class | rich- was ane of them. To get a struggle. These will be dealt with in this series of articles.—Ed.) ee better grasp of Fish’s feelings when he heard William Z. Foster read the devastating indictments of capitalism By HARRY GANNES | that he flung before the Fish Com- The night. before, the White House | mittee in Washington meeting in the dazzled with a riotous display of | Capitol of the United States on Dec jewels and fine gowns. Hoover and | 5, we must get a slant at the gala the top gang who rule for the “59” | night that the red-baiting Congress- rich bosses that run the United| man spent on the eve of the in- States gathered for a reception with | quisition. a “touch of royal atmosphere.” Rich Here is how the Washington Eve- | foods were served. The fat wives of ning Star describes the setting. | the parasite rulers were décked out| “The state suite of drawing | Week-End Crisis Is Passed ~- But F ight to Publish Daily Worker Continues - MASS AID MUST SAVE THE WORKERS’ The Daily Worker appeared Saturday and again yes- terday. The immediate crisis conditions which created it are allowed to remain EVERY DAY Is A CRISIS. The $30,000 must be raised. As long as the Daily rooms was aglow with lights and a few late Autumn flowers placed to advantage in each room, the splendid brilliancy of the ‘scene given by the court uniforms of the diplomats, the rich gowns and jewels worn by the ladies accom- panying them, the White House aides and other officers of Army and Navy in their full dress uni- forms and the gowns and jewels of the hundreds of women from of- | ficial and resident society present.” “Rich gowns and jewels,” bellies| filled with ‘the richest foods. On the following day Fish and the other walk into the hearing room. Some of the flowers from the reception are till there on the table in the ahte- room. They call Foster to the stand After a few preliminary skirmishes— the committee is uneasy all the time —Foster read the ‘atement? of the Central Committee cf the Communist Party... “In the streets of every large | (Continued on Page Three) was passed. But while the being answered with “relief” ers even more. The attack is carried on and intensified through every It is taken up by the boss-press, the boss publicity organ, PATER a ‘ mittee now meeting in Washington. serve only further to enrich the bosses, to exploit the work- The deepening crisis is schemes—new rackets which > DEATH SENTENCES REVOKED; WORKERS MUST COMBAT THE ANTI-SOVIET WAR THREAT | Wreckers’ Work Did Not Stem Tide of Growing of Socialist Construction; Workers Are More Enthusiastic Than Ever Trial Revealed Widesp read War Plot, But the Bosses Continue Their Efforts Mobilize Forces to BULL | Only Workers in Imperialist Lands‘Can Smash ' These Maneuvers of Their Bosses; Must Prevent Slaughter ETIN. According to United Press reports from Moscow, the death sentences imposed against five of the counter-revo- lutionary wreckers was commuted to ten years’ imprison- ment by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. year sentences to five years. This same report says The others received commutations of their ter that the sentences were com- muted on the ground that “the proletarian state does no{ desire revenge on beaten and disarmed enemies.” * (Special Cable to SSA the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 8.—The sentence of the Moscow trial ha8 been announced. It was a sev dictated by the interests of th its achivements. The sentence was ere sentence. The decision was e defense of the revolution and in agreement with the feelings and desires of the millions of Russian workers who EAGHE PENCIL CO. STPTV ERS’ PICKET | LINES MILITANT 8 Jailed and Released for Taunting Seabs NEW YORK.—Despite the grow- | ing viciousness of the police and the | arrest of eight strikers yesterday morning, the strike of 900 workers at the Eagle Pencil Co. plant is go- ing on full force, with the spirit of | the workers undaunted. Picketing continued yesterday morning and afternoon. The few scabs that entered the plant in closed cars were headed by | motoreyele cops, who headed the procession with The workers are striking against a 10 per cent wage-cut, the fourth of its kind in one year. They demand that the wage-cut be revoked. Mass picketing has been going on every | day since the strike started a week ago Monday. The eight pickets were arrested | for calling those who were brought to the plant to work “scabs.” The | judge dismissed those arrested, and they are now ready to go back on the picket line. The captain of police in the Eagle Pencil Co. plant district has daily | conferences with the bosses of the members of the Committee plant and says that he is running | things around there. Meetings are still held daily at the Labor Temple. There will be mass picketing in full force today, as reports from the factory state that less and less of the handfull are going to work. Borough Hall Council Resists Eviction of Unemnloyed Family NEW YORK.—The Borough Hall Unemployed Council was yesterday called upon to resist an eviction no- tice served upon Raymond Sacirstan, an unemployed worker who lives at 40 Pacific Street, Brooklyn. Sacirstan has a wife dnd 3 small children and has been pounding the pavements in search of a job for the past three months, unab'e to find any kind of work, He pays $13 a month for a ground floor flat that the bosses would not house their dogs in, no electricity, no lights in the > | hail, the filthiest hall toilet with no running water at present. And in this unsanitary, utterly unhealthy place, this worker has been forced to | house his family, the conditions be- | ing a deadly menace to the health | scfeaming sirens. | ? organized monster demonstra- | tions all over the Soviet Union |at the opening of the trial. The jruling was in accordance with the spirit of the expectations of the revolutionary workers the All Indictment | \Orders by 6 p.m.: Tomorrow the Daily Worker will pubtish the complete in- | | dictment of the state prosecu- | tor of the eight wreckers who | plotted to destroy the sociatist | fatherland by sabotage and in- | | tervention, | This indictment, coming as it does along with the convie- | tion of these ¢riminals must be broadcast over the U. 8S. | Orders by wire must be in | the Daily Worker office by 6/ | p. m. tonight. | (60,000 campaign | | ~*page 3.) news on world over who expressed readinest to imke an active part in the defense |of the Soviet Union. However the tribunals sentence de+ | termining the tate of the 8 isolatea |individuals is not the important is- }sue in the trial. The important thing is that it is a trial of imper- jalism armed for itervention, pre- pared for a class war against the Soviet Union under the direct leader- ship of the aggressive imperialist power, France. | The trial lasted for thirteen days and both the defendants and the wit- esses supplied voluminous naterial. Facts upon facts were revealed going far beyond those indicated in the indictment, facts showing the appal- ling picture of long years of destruc- tion and sabotage. The- prosecutor's examination “reminded” the defend- ants of may facts previously forgot- te, Several witnesses charged with the same crimes took direct or ine direct part and supplied facts cons cealed by the defendants’ but sube sequetly admitted. The sabotage raminficaito by the counter-revolutionary organization amed the “Industrial Party” is as- tounding. Manifold tasks were given by Paris wirepullers and bribers who staked all to pave the way for the mercenary invasion of the Soviet Union. The maifold competence of the defendants ex ‘ies put them into leading positions of the various economic and government Soviet in- stitt..ions. They endeavored {mischief in f plans. ‘Their cim v Five-Year Pian jits full endeavored to revard the to make economic chiefly the Worker must depend on last minute day-by-day help, there is danger that some day the help will not come in time. Never has there been a period when the workers’ paper ore needed. Never has there been such a barrage of attacks against the working class. International capitalism, discovered in its attempt to undermine the workers’ govern- ment of the Soviet Union, is now trying to distract the at- tention of the workers with such hysterical attacks on work- ing class solidarity as that represented by the Fish Com- boss-church, the boss-movies, the boss-government. Only in | such a working class paper as the Daily Worker can Amer- ican workers learn its true nature and organize the fight against it. And the Daily Worker can only live through workcrs’ support. Every worker, every working class organization must Aaa funds—not just once but steadily until the $30,000 is raise Steady mass support must save the Daily Worker! ot the baby in particular. And NOW | austri e ‘dc MNoctyivigation, even from this dump the landlord \ Thoy ca to utliiee the op- and the courts are trying to evict his | portun: po* ton of the right wing. family. Communist eemenis for their pur- ' The Borough Hall Unemployed | poss. Whea the scheme ft Council is resisting eviction in this opened to the Party's ce and many other cases brought to its and the corresponding attention. The council is also mak- | Plan figures, the wreckers endeavored ing good its challenge to get signa-| to cause the disproportion of the dif. ferent parts of the plen of speeding «Continued on Page Turea) tures for the Communist Bill for un. employment insurance, Bive-Year ©