The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1930, Page 1

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No. 296 Hail the Chinese Soviet Congress! b Ka First All-China Soviet Congress which is being convened on De- cember 11, the third anniversary of the Canton Uprising, will establish the central Chinese Soviet government to coordinate and extend the struggle for the final overthrow of the imperialist rule and its lackey— the Kuomintang bour- geois-landlord-militarist government, for the complete unification-and b independence of China and for the revolution- ALL CHINA: SOVIET ary democratic dictator- ship of the Chinese workers and peasants in the form of Soviet: Although the heroic effort of the workers and peasants of Canton three years ago in es- tablishing the Soviet Government was nipped in the bu the im- perialist, their s¢ ants, it the foundation ‘for the great victory of the Chi workers have establ: extended the Sovietrule : ern China to carry on a revolutionary civil war Kuomintang government. the m The Kuomintang government in Nanking, after having capitulated to . not only fails to solve any of the basic problems of vation, unemployment, wage-cuts, ex- onomic » and financial crisis, savage white terror d peasants and incessant militarist wars are the Under the rule of the Sovicts, the rule of the workers, poor, on the contrary, all, imperialist interests and 1 abolished, Iend and property of the landlords and 2 n confiscated and nationalized; all exhorbitant taxes e been eradicated; betier conditions and higher wages are given to the workers and land to the peasants. The Canton ui ‘ing manne years ago and the All-China Soviet Con- gress today, show the workers and peasants throughout the wotld that only through volutionary overthrow of the state apparatus and the establishing the r ‘ of the ic of the workers and peasants, are the workers and peas- ants able to secure and guarantee their rights and interests. é Soviet power in China which will be greatly consolidated after t Congr ounds the death knell of the domination of imper- H nd its sctvants in China. World imperialism, including the forces Of USK. in Ba smpt to continue its oppressive rule over China, and to save itself from the whirlpool of deepening general crisis, has attacked the Chinese workers and peasants, bombarded the Soviet districts and fought against the Chinese Red Army, and given the Chinese militarists financial, military and other helps to smash the Chinese revolution. ‘The Chinese workers and peasants succeeded in establishing and ex- tending the Soviet rule in China because they get the experinece and inspiration from the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union. The suc- cessful socialist construction in the Soviet Union still further stimulates and the Chinese workers and peasants in their revolutionary struggle. ‘The Soviet Union, being the inspiring force of the Chinese revo- lution and the revolutionary movements throughout the world, accen- tuated the crisis of capitalism and hastened the world revolution. This basic contradiction ‘between the Soviet Union and world imperialism has driven tHe imperialists to irfcessant, feverish attacks and provocations against the Soviet Union. The imperialist provocation through the Chinese Eastern Railway question, the Fish Committee, the Whalen forgeries, the slenders against the Amtorg Trading, Inc., the charge of Soviet dumping and the revelations of the recent trial of the “Industrial | Party” leaders in Moscow, all prove conclusively the imminent imperialist war danger and plot against the Soviet Union. American imperialism, while trying’ at home to save itself from the crisis by rationalization, speed-up, wage cuts, unemployment and starva- tion, is more and mote joining and assuming a leading role in the im- perialist attack on the Soviet Unon and the Chinese Soviets. The same | capitalists who oppress the workers and peasants in the U. 8. A. are the same imperialists who murder and kill the Chinese workers and peasants, and lead the imperialist attack on the Soviet Union. All American work- ers must understand that the struggl@ of the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union and in China is also our struggle. The American work- ers must systematically intensify cur struggle against imperialist war against the Soviet Union and imperialist intervention against the Soviet China by mass revolutionary demonstrations, by organizing “Hands Off -the Soviet Union and Soviet China Committees” in the shops, mills, mines and ships, and by joining the revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League, by joining the Communist Party to fight against every attack on the living and working conditions of the workers and farmers. ) Hail the All China Soviet Congress! Defend the U. S. S. R. and the Chinese Soviets! Down with imperialist war and intervention against the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviets! Demand the withdrawal of all warships and troops from China! Support the Unemployment Insurance Bill! Join the Revolutionary Trade Unions and the Communist Party! Long live the Chinese Communist Party! Long live the Communist International—the leader of World Revo- lution! NTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. A. WORKERS FIGHT CHURCHS SCABBING FOR ‘EAGLE CO. NEW YORK.—The Latin American _workers of Harlem are mobilizing for continyed demonstrations against the sending of scabs to the Eagle Pencil Co. b ya Spanish church in Harlem. There was a demonstration last night, and there will be more. ‘The Eagle workers are militantly picketing against scabs sent by the employment agencies. Cars thrt were bfought in wit hscabs had a motorcycle police escort yesterday, and the police threaten pickets who call a scab a scab, A scab who insulted one girl worker was struck three times by the girl i 6) Amazing Series of N.J. Exposures Amazing secrets of corrupt labor leaders and boss graft in New Jersey will soon ap- poor in the Daily Worker written by Allen Johnson, whos? brilliant exposures of Tammany corruption recently created a sensation. Read how 25 years ago Frank Hague, a gangster, was thrown off a street car. When he fell gut a gun fell out of his pocket. Read how Kean laid out $3,000,000 for the purchase of a seat in the senate. Vatch for this series in the Daly Worker soon. 00,090 clreulation drive news Page 3 ‘Ford to Close Down; Layoffs Increase in Many Big | Plants Wall Reports Ford to Close Up Auto Industry HardHit Jobless Army to Grow: In Detroit NEW YORK.—Ford is expected to shut down operations completely. Every worker remembers the fan- tastic promises that this faker made at the beginning of the crisis that he would not only continue production as usual but would probably increase it. Now the Wall Street Journal (Dec, 9) publishes the startling news | that Ford is facing a close-down. | | This Wall Street sheet says? inactivity in the Fordherr ea “Detroit is pondering over the rather unusual anomaly of ex- treme inactivity in the Ford camp | with persistent rumors of another close-down in contrast with the renewed activties at Chevrloet, Poritiac, Essex and Plymouth.” | |; The so-called “renewed activities at Chevrolet Pontiac, etc.” is produc- | tion of dealers’ models of new types | of cars, and will lead to slowing down earlier in 1931, The New York Times | several days ago, commenting on this | | ight upspurt inthe auto industry, said that there was “no rush for new buying in the automobile industry.” With the agrarian crisis worsen- ing all the time, unemployment | growing, the vast overdevelopement | } growing, the vast overdevelopment of the automobile industry, the pro- spects for 1931 are distinctly worse than in 1930. Plant capacity for automobile production is 8,000,000 | ,cars a year. In 1930 the year will| | show a production of less than 3,- 5C9,000—and a great deal of this was overproduction. This is admitted by | the Wall Street Journal which says: | “The Ford Motor Co. . . operated /on a high schedule into the sum-) | mer months and is now holding out- put in check, apparently believing | conditions do not favor an early} | increase in sales.” Besides, the Ford | dealers have 50 per cent_more stock | on hand than they had last year, | with the market sharply contracting. This promises more unemployment for the auto workers, more wage cuts, | ond a geenral downward drag on the | entire economic crisis. * JOBLESS SUFFER WORST IN SOUTH Blde. Program Fails; Jim-Crow Charity WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—That un- | employment in the South is assuming | frightful aspects, is admitted in a re- port. just made by Frank Bane, mem- ber of Hoover’s hunger committee, to ex-police chief Woods, head of this committee. Bane reported that because of the geheral crisis, the severe drought, and numerous bank failures, unem- ployment was especially severe in the southern states. This means, of course, that the Negro workers and poor farmers are the heaviest suf- ferers. In his report to Woods, Bane com- plained about the slowness of prom- ised building construction. To this Woods replied that “the delay -was caused by the length of time re- quired for site selections, title clear- ance and drawing up of plans and specifications by federal agents.” Processes of these kind have been Street Se acliall 500 Buffalo Rubber Workers Get the Gate 5,000 Put Out In N. J. At Same Time, Speed-' ._ ‘Up Is Being Pushed BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 10.—Just a few days ago 500 workers at the United States Rubber Reclaiming Co. were laid off. The company an- nounced that this lay-off is “only till the first of the year.” At the first of the year, if the plant opens up at all, it will be with less workers, a more vicious speed-up, and pos- sibly with a cut in pay. That is | the Christmas ‘present for the U. S.! | Rubber workers, { ‘When we were working there, we | were only getting paid on the aver- age of 42c an hour. From the min- ute we ctarted work till the end of | the day we were driven like horses, not even betting a lunch period but just snatching a bite of a sandwich whenever we could. When first get- | ting a job there, you get finger-. printed and photographed. You know that is shop can be easily be turned over for war production, hence the | fingerprinting with its blacklisting systems of all militant workers. We've got to get behind the drive of the Trade Union Unity League for 1,000,000 signatures for Unem- ployment relief. die aa Layoffs at Elizabethport. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 10.— Notices have been posted in the | Elizabethport shops of the Central UW —Comfnunist NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER i 1930_ orker OF Party U.S.A. oso s of the Communist Tntévaational) WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cen ts WORKERS RALLY TONIGHT, TOMORROW AND SATURDAY AGAINST WAR PLOT ON USSR. CLEVELAND, Dec. course with the purpose of declaring economic crisis. Ayres placed heavy “gradual revival,” which failed to pan out. At the end pened. prophe' ing business, However, the most signifi the fact that he said that it in expecting a rapid recover no opportunities of any big Since the pre covery will begin as a com holds out no promises for the basic i Ayres, Banker, Says War I Is Solution of Economic Crisis! materials as one of the means of ending fhe c livered Monday at the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. The entire capitalist press is featuring this speech as a prediction of Ayres on many former occasions predicted “upturns” would be a big seasonal upturn in the fal jon business put of the type of Ayres and others are taking up the fortune tell- 10.—Heavy production of war materials—and of war—as a solution for the crisis in 1931, is the way out predicted by Leonard P. Ayres, vice-president of the Cleveland Trust Company, who has become a Wall Street prophet on the emphasis on the manufacture of war in a speech he de- of last summer he stated that there Nothing of the kind hap- over in a pretty bad hole, ant thing abdut Ayres’ speech, in spite of is alrea rranted stries had ady clear that we are not ems Jikely that business re- or improvements.” He industries, such as building construc- | tion, automobiles, steel and iron—except through speeded-up war activi- ties. ORGAN OF INTL | NEGRO OUT JAN3I HAMBURG. ~The “International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers” has just begun the editing Protest Meet Against Bloedy Polish Fascism BRONX, N. Y.—A protest meeting inst the bloody terrorism of the fascist Polish government will be held under the auspices of the League against Polish fascism, the Ukrainian Workers Club, the Russian National Railroad of New Jersey of another of an official organ, “The Interna- | Mutual Aid Society, and the Slovak shutdown of shops from December 13 to Januarys. Four thousand men | will be affected. oI Since the first of the year, the Elizabethport shop workers have lost over sixty days on a count of Shop | Shutdowns, not counting the time} lost by being placed on a five day| @ week basis. By speeding up the workers when the shops are reopened the rialroad managemnt ies able to get one year of shopwork done in seven months. The number of engines in need of repair this year is just as large as that of last year. | tional Negro Workers’ Review,” which | will make its first appearance inj January, 1931. This journal intends to propagan- | cize and popularize among the Ne- | |gro toilers the principles of revolu- tionary class struggle and revolution- ary trade unionism by bringing to them the facts about the struggles | of the more advanced revolutiona’ movement of Germany, the United States, France and England, by| bringing to the Negro workers and | farmers the lessons of the organiza- tional and tactical experiences of these movements, and by giving to Workers Association, at 4041 3rd Ave., between 174th and 175th St., on Sat- urday, December 13, at & p. m. All workers are urged to attend. | There will be speakers in English, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and other | Slovak languages. them information concerning current politics and the economic and polit- ical meanings of these topics. All Daily Worker readers are urged to contribute articles to the “ ‘Inter- national Negro Workers’ Review.’ The headquarters are in Hamburg, Germany, at 8 Rothesoodstrasse. American Sugar Trust Encourages | ~~ White Slave Traffic in Cuba Workers are asked to note the "e hypocrisy of the “red-baiters,” who are raising so many howls at the supposed “forced labor” and al- leged “slavery” in Soviet Russia as a part of the propaganda for war against the Soviet, while conceal- ing and winking at the unspeak- able crimes of imperialism such as those related in this article—Ed- itor. 8 By MYRA PAGE, How much is a woman worth? If she is an impoverished and defence- Jess Negro or Indian woman, and subject to the forages of American imperialists in Latin America, her life comes cheap. Down in Oriente Camgueey, an eastern province of Cuba, women are sold at auction for sometimes five dollare apiece. If a girl proves par- known to take as long as five years. ticularly attractive, the bid on her Women Sold 1 Into Pros- | en by labor contractors, in| titution on Island may run as high as twenty dollars. ‘These women, imported irom Haiti and Jamaica, are forced to undress and bathe in the river in the sight of their prospective buyers. This system of white slavery has developed, side by side with the growth of American imperialistic penetration into this territory. Large sugar plantations and mills have been established by Yankee | sugar concerns, with the National! City Bank having controlling inter- est. To man these plantations and mills, Negro labor (about 100,000 in total) was imported from Jamaica and Haiti and sweated 12 to 14 hours a day at 40 cents a head. A system of ~~ collusion with the American sugar interests and the Cuban government. Also, the American government it- self, because of its imperialistic con- trol over Haiti and Cuba, is well aware of this system of prostitution, but simply winks at the practice. Negro women are brought by labor contractors from the islands nearby Cuba, and virtually told to the men for such uses as they see fit. Since | the male workers only get $2.40 a week, even the price of $5 comes too | high for a single man. The com- mon practice is for three, four or five | men to chip in together and pur- chase a woman between them. She must cook, wash and act as wife and “banker” to all five. “Cooking” of the simplest sort is done over out-door fires in the fa- grown up on these sugar plantations, (Continued on Page Three) ‘ILack of Funds, Causing Breakdown, Forces Many to Miss Daily Worker i INCIDENT ILLUSTRATES NEED FOR $30,000 FUND SUPPORT ‘ Many workers were unable to buy copies of the Daily Worker yesterday. The reason? LACK OF FUNDS. When the Daily Worker moved from the old quarters it was nec-' essary to install new machinery. It has not yet been prop- ‘erly adjusted and the necessary money to put it in proper working order is not available. Therefore the paper was held up. _ The only way to insure against the recurrence of such an event and to guard against a possible temporary suspen- sion of the workers’ paper is to support the $30,000 fund. Liquidate the deficit—SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. The necessity of not missing a single issue of the Daily Worker is plain to every comrade who failed to get yester- day’s fase bee such worker therefore failed té read the only true and complete kur head aie eget a ters’ trial—the only report published, not to intensify the war threat against the workers’ republic, but to disclose it and arm the working class with accurate information to fight again it. Every worker who missed yesterday’s Daily Worker because'of the lack of adequate funds also missed the report of the anti-injunction struggle, the growing vi- ciousness of the police against the militant Eagle Pencil strikers, the news of the Chinese revolutionary victory against Chiang Kai-shek. Every issue of thé Daily Worker is equally imvortant. The working class cannot afford to lose its paper for a single day. The $30,000 fund must be completed. Every workers, every organization must get behind’it and support. Use Red Shock Troop $30,000 Emergency Fund blank 3 and rush SURE ven Ge De Noe 8 re apitalist Press of Whole World Tries es Take Advantage of Mercy to Sabotager: German Banks Join Cr | Reason Is Hatred of “Russi edit Embargo; Destetl 1"-~g Meetings Throughout USE : Nine To Be Held In New York Within Next Tw 0 Days; Many In New Jersey Everything is made to serve the’ war junking all the editorials breat: the “bloody Bolshe who gh talist press of the world is now and imperialist agents convictec IN TENSITY DRIVE | GNATURES FOR INSURANCE Jobless Conference In N. Y. on Dec. 19 NEW YORK.—“Cover your house and block for signatures,” is the slogan put forward by the New York Campaign Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance which is throwing its full energies into the drive for a million signatures representing the mass demand of workers everywhere, employed and unemployed for un- employment insurance to be taken out, of the government war fnuds | and taxes on property and income of the bosses. Plans for conferences of employed ; and unemployed workers to strength- | Jen the work of the unemployed and | | give impetus to the drive for one) million signatures are now under way | in every city. | | m New York, the conference takes place on December 19 at Irving Plaza. | The New York Capaign- Commitee calls upon all workers’ organizations to send two or more delegates to the conference. Organizations electing delegates should send in their cred- entials to the committee at once |As part of the drive to get a large representation from the unemployed }workers to the conferenc, th Unem- ployed Councils have elected com- mittees to go to the breadlines, nold meetings n nejghborhood halls call- ing upon the workers in the bread- jlines to attend and elect delegates to the conferenc. | Shows Up Fake. Answering the announcement of) the “Conference of Progressive Labor | Action” that they will hold a dem- onstration in Washington of so-| called labor organizations for “re- | lief” Sam Nessin, secretary of the} Committee declared today. *“Unemployed workers must not be | misled by these attempts of the labor |fakirs to offer so-called remedies for | | unemy/oyment when in reality thelr | plans fit into the schemes of the} | capitalists perfectly. As evidence of | \this they are all united to fight the organization of the unemployed into Unemployed Councils and the efforts | of the councils to obtain unemploy- | ment insurance to be met by the bosses and their government. The “insurance” scheme places the bur- den of unemployment upon the) workers who are expetced to con-)| tribute out of their own meagre} wages the funds for the insurance. | Workers must not forget that it was Norman Thomas, one of the leaders | of this group who sat silently| throughout the session of the N, Y./ Board of Estimates on October 16 when the Unemployed delegation | was severely beaten for demanding immediate unemployment relief. The | working class and lieutenant of the | bosses must be a tremendous con- feernce at Irving Plazza on Decem- ber 19 which will register an over- whelming vote for the Unemployed | Insurance Bill to be presented by the workers to Congress in January. 800 Workers Support the Insurance Bill PASSAIC, N. J.—Over 800 workers attended a shop gate meeting in front of the New York Balt. Packing Co., held under the auspices of the Passaic Unemployed Council. The workers listenéd attentively as the speakers pointed out clearly that ie | Union. | held before the F plotters, Hastily hing ricthteous indignation »~t oot their engineers,” the cally howling because the SE rbotagey ion wete 1 on their own conf not s Vh bargo itens, bankers join in », English, h and American unite in cy extended to and his fol and mercenaries ul staff and allied war es” that Ramzi> and associ told false stories in their confessions! while eml Fren papers cre! G ah arging that the mer the dis: War Plot. Immed mobilization of the working masses to block the war plans, to denounte the embargo cam= paign is needed. The Friends of the Soviet Union is holding throughout United States a series of mass meet- ings this m n at which speakers recently sere m the Soviet Union will tell ¢f (ne vast gains of the Pive Year plan, and will expose the war plot. These de istrati EL react a high point with the demonstrations Dec. 27 before the French and Brit- ish embassies in Washington. Many New York Meets. Tonight at Irving Plaza Hall Wil- liam Z. Foster, just back from his de- fiance of the Fish Committee, which, is part of the war preparations, will peak at Irving Plaza Hall. Other speakers 1 be Rose Wortis, Amis, Negro worker, and Alexander Trach- tenberg. at 1 p. m, there will be demonstration against the of the French and Eng- 1 staff and government otage ring in the Soviet is demo. ration will be ench consulate in New York City, located at 9 East 40th Street. A whole series of meetings are being held in New York to rally against the U. S. war plot which is part of the plot of French and Eng- lish capitalists. Foster, Wortis, Amis (Continued on Page Three) PROTEST MEETS AGAINST WA Masses Will Rally 1 Defend Soviet Union ‘Tomorrow night there will be the following meetings in New York and New Jersey: St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Speakers: Williams, Moore, dacht, Amter, Kroll, Ho. 85th St. and Lexington Ave. Speakers: Sankari, A. Markoff, Kroll, Aziz, H. Williams. Ambassador, 3875 3rd Ave. Speakers: Reiss, Olgin, Baker, Ho, Moore. Grand Manor, 318 Grand St., Bklyn. Speakers: Flaiani, Bimba, Amter, Engdahl, Haywood, Lucy Wang. 1373 43rd St., Bklyn. Speakers: Lawrence, Hathaway, Obermeier, Chen, E. Walsh. 48 Bay 28th St. Speakers: Kogan, Damon, 2901 Mermaid Ave. Coney Island. Markoff, Nesin, Speakers: r, Levine, Todes. 105 Thatford Ave., Bklyn. Speakers: Weber, S. Don, Johns stone, Alexander, S. Van Veen, Elizabeth, 106 E. Jersey St. Speakers: Blosser, M. White, Wag- enknecht. Jersey City, 37 Henderson St. Speakers: S. Krieger, Biedenkapp, R, Ragozin. Perth Amboy, 308 Elm St. Speakers: Blosser, D. Gordon, Tal- lentire, Sepesy. New Brunswick, 11 Plum St. Speakers: R Moreau, J Rubin. Paterson, 205 Paterson St. the only way the workers could better their conditions was by organizing Speakers: Appel, C. Brodsky, Sroka, Newark, 93 Mercer 5 Dee 4 Be-' 4 wot