The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1931, Page 1

M Carry on the Drive for Signa tures. Intensify It. However, Remember That All Signa- tures Must Be in Hands of the Naiionai Commit- tee in N. Y. C. Not Later Than Feb. 5 Dail. (Section of the Communist international} Ro a Nine ED ahunist Party | be OP | Entered ax xecond-cl: at New York ¥.. under the Vol. VIII, No. 28 m matter at the Post Office en act of Mareh 3 187° NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 39, 1931 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! er U.S.A. | ae Price 3 Cents 39,000 PHILA “The White Man’s Burden” 'VER. since Kipling, the poet laureate of British imperialism, coined the phrase depicting the looting and oppression of colonial people as a Supposedly unprofitable and thankless bearing of “the white man’s burden,” imperialist apologists have never ceased to claim that it is all done for the “benefit” of so-called “backward” peoples. An example in point is the speech of a Mr. McDonald before the Foreign Policy Association at Washington Jan. 19. Mr. McDonald re- ferred to the “settlement of the Haitian problem” as “the most brilliant success of the year,” and the result as being “acceptable to all.” Undoubtedly American imperialism achieved a “brilliant success” in placating the native capitalists and capitalist “intellectuals” by substitut- ing the outworn dictator, Luis Borno, with another imperialist lackey, but whether this marvelous diplomatic victory of the greatest imperialist power over the oppressed masses of the tiny “republic” is acceptable to the Haitian workers and poor peasantry, these workers and peasants have yet to say. Certainly the thirty peasants who were shot to death by U. 8. ‘Marines are not complaining, and thus Mr. McDonald can proceed upon the pleasant axiom of all bandits, that “dead men tell no tales.” Still another instance of the “white man’s burden” is that of Nica- Tagua. Perhaps that was listed as the “second best success of the)year,” since the Nicaraguan canal survey is nearly finished and quite a number of Nicaraguans have been murdered ‘The “success” in Nicaragua goes still further, however. The U. S. Minister to Nicaragua and the U. S. Marine commander are hurrying to Washington to “confer with Secretary Stimson,” because, it is reported, “The Nicaraguan government is pressed for funds. The need for funds being such that unless a loan is made, the maintenance of the National Guard in its present strength will be imperiled.” Thus a new Wall Street loan will further enchain the country to Yankee imperialism and the Nicaraguan masses will be taxed to pay for it. Yet this is but the result of previous imperialist subjection and looting of Nicaragua, the Associated Press of Jan. 22 relating the fact that Irving Lindberg, American. collector of customs, has wrung $525,000 out of the national income the past year to “reduce the national debt” and that $225,000 addition has been paid in interest to the bondholders—un- doubtedly of Wali Strect! The “white man’s burden” is thus seen to be quite profitable to the “white man” (an alias for the imperialist bankers), while the sub- jected colonial country is driven into bankruptcy and deeper obligations imposed upon its people, who rightly and with every justification are showing their resentment by increasing the armed struggle for in- dependence. American! workers, who are faced at home with the need for fierce struggle for life and bread against the same identical millionaires who are looting and niurdering in Nicaragua, should aid’ materially and morally the fight for independence of the Nicaraguan and Haitian peop! ‘The demands raised by the unemployed for unemployment’ insurance in the demonstrations of February 10, must include that for all funds used ‘ to oppress other peoples to go to feed.the: starving. Everywhere, the All-America Anti-Imperialist League must be or- ganized and activized in aid of the fightets for Nicaraguan liberation! Everywhere the demands must, be raised: -“Withdraw the Marines from Haiti! Get out ef Nicaragua! * “All military appropriations to sustain armed forces of the U. S. on foreign soil to be turned over to the unemployed!” G. E. B. of Industrial Union Maps Plans for Dress Strik« NEW YORK.—The strike of 35,000 dressmakers is nearing. Every effort The dressmakers ‘will have with will be made on the part of the | them in the coming struggle the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | wholehearted co-operation and as- Union to reach all workers in or- sistance of tens of thousands of lackeys. ganized, unorganized and company | Workers in the city of New York who , union shops. In order to accomplish |are taking up the question of how this task and to most effectively | best to assist the strike at the con- strike against the terrible sweatshop | ference tomorrow at 2 p, m. at Web- conditions established in the dress | ster Hall. : industry by the greedy bosses, in co-| All organizations that have not operation with the company union, | sent in their credentials so far are the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- urgently requested to' do so today. triel Union is determined to use| Where no delegates were elected, every ounce of its energy to reach | workers’ organizations are requested all the workers, regardless of race |to be represented at the Saturday and color, and mobilize them into a | conference by their officials. fighting force. The Needle Trades Workers’ In- OBLESS VOTE DE OF UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATIONS Communists, Militant} Unions of All Lands Call to Action A call to all workers’ organizations, | especially to the Communist Parties, | | revolutionary unions, militant min- | orities in other unions and shop or- | | tanizations, for’ an international | | fighting day against unemployment | jhas been issued. The day set aside | is Feb. 25, 1931. % The call is signed yb the Commv- | nist Parties of Germany, France, | Great Britain, Czechoslovakia and | Poland. It is also signed by the Red | Trade Union Opposition of Germany, | the United General Confederation of |Trade Unions of France, the British | | Minority Movement and the Red | Trade Unions, of Czechoslovakia. The Communist Party of the United States and the Trade Union | | Unity League, as well as other work- ers’ organizations in this country, have already endorsed the call. A nation-wide day of demonstration is olready arranged for Feb. 10 in the | United States. | The manifesto setting aside Feb. | for world-wide unemployment | A children’s soupline in Oklahoma City. streets February 10th to wrench cash relief from the bosses congress to save your children! WORLD WIDE DAY |Oil Barons Wallow in Riches As Children of Oil Workers Face Cold and Stavvatien! Workers! iONST Fight for the lives of your children, Feb. 25 Is International Fighting Dav Against Unemployment HUGE DEMONSTRATION AT CITY HALL: 18,000 MARCH: JOBLESS RELIEF DENIED Crowd Yells Approval as Spokesman States Unemployed Refuse to Starve While Capitalists Have Plenty { | Allentown Unemployed Rrepare Great Feb. 10 Demonstrations; New Unemployed Councils Being Formed; Meetings and Conferences | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 29. — Thirty-five thousand demonstrated for immediate relief for ‘the unemploytd here at city hall today, and being denied even a promise of food, | voted enthusiastically to back up with a still larger demonstra- | tion on Feb. 10 their delegation to Washington to demand pas- ee oe —————sage of the Workers’ Unem- DEMAND MAIL {ployment*Insurance Bill. They accepted with cheers the of- | RIGHTS FOR THE eat Willi. ‘indae, eee | On the | told the city council that the jobless gle points out that big capital is» proceeding as ruthlessly as ever before, and with much greater power to destroy, to wipe out the lives of an innumerable mass of workers dur# jing this greatest of all industrial | crises. Big capital proposes to. starve lpiltions to death rather than to feed | them, and, even more, actually seeks to make profit out of their misery by uStmg them as pawns in-a giant yage-cutting drive, if The demands of the demonstrators | tions for War Mellon, Bosses, Fight Demand »ersssse"" of Vets for Cash Bonus Relief |the capitalists and that they will take this food if they have to. The demonstration began at noon, with .a crowd of 8,000 packed into Independence Square. After hearing speakers there, they marched in solid NEW YORK.—Preparations for the | ranks through the streets to the city demonstration this Saturday at the | hall, and were followed by about 10,- | Central Post Office, at 34th St. and | 000 more along the sidewalks. At iF KR | refuse to starve as long as there is 7 AGE v \.)| food in-abundance in the hands of | Eighth Ave., are going on in full | city hall plaza they found 20,000 a- swing. Workers’ organizations ‘are | waiting them. It is conservatively responding to the call for solidarity, and reporting that they are mob- estimated that the actual demonstrat- ors at city hall numbered 35,000. Feb. 25 will be for an immediate lump | svm large enough for at. least two | months’ maintenance; for real un- | ~ployment insurance in all’ coun- | wries, for free rent,~heat, light, etc., until insurance is paid; and for the seven-hour day and no wage cuts. Worker Vets to Expose Fake Bonus Bill Tonite | NEW YORK—The Workers Ex-) | Servicemen’s League will expose the | Mellon and capitalist class bonus) fakery at the regular meteing of the | | League tonight. The propostion of | immediate payment of the bonus to | | the veterans causing the capitalists | | te “suffer” will be one of the main | i: cs after the report, of the execu- | statement issued by the Organiza-} tional Committee of the League last! | dreds of thousands of starving ex- Not a Cent for Hungry WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—A howl ot fear and rage against the hun-| By I. AMTER. NEW YORK.—Just as in New York servicemen who are demanding a City, where, Mayor Walker declared cash bonus to keep them from hun- | that the gity is doing everything pos- ger was set up in the Senate Finance | sible for the unemployed and star- Committee hearings on the cash} ving workers and their families, that bonus plan. Secretary of the Treas-|is through charity, so, too, in every wy Andrew Mellon, who. himself has | other city and state the governments | squeezed over a billion dollars from | 2re employing the one method—mis- tive committee is made. Ina special) t? the workers, took the lead in attack- ing the ex-soldiers’ demands. Mellon, who paid himself and other leading bosses over $2,000,000,000 in tax re- turns, said that it would “disarrange the country’s finances” to float bonds amounting to $3,400,000,000 necessary pay the cash bonus. (to the, bosses) were predicted by All sorts of threatening dire results | lerable, degrading charity. In New | York, i nfear that the 1,000,000 un- ; employed are getting too much to leat, they are discontinuing some of- ‘the breadlines, registering the work- | ers and making it impossible for | them to get more ‘han the minimum amount of food. * This is the new line of attack on the unemployed and, therefore, the Bt Urge Mass Support for Hunger March Tag Days Sat. and Sun. Congress. The march of the unem- ployed to Albany and Trenton on Feb. 19 to make demands on the state governments of New -York and New Jersey is one of the further important developments of the strug- gle for unemployment insurance. Al- CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) WAGES CUT IN ARMS FACTORY NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 29.—The Winchester Repeating Arms Co., which is in the hands of a receiver, | which the League is visit | tion is good. ‘The final plans for the strike were | dustrial Union is calling a special“ meeting on Feb. 5 at 8 p. m. at St. | night the veterans of New York were | Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th St. There called on to expése the many plans are thousands of Negro and Spanish- now being hatched up to fool the speaking and other workers residing | veterans into thinking that congress- in this section. Many of them are men are interested in having the ad- members of the union. Thousands | justed service certificates paid in full of them are unorganized. Some of | now, and also the payment of the taken up at the meeting of the Gen- | eral Executive Board of the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Union at a special session yesterday in New York. Many members of the na- tional committee came from out of town to attend this most important, | Mellon if the cash bonus plan goes | through. Behind Mellon is the en- | tire capitalist préss w hich is pour- ing out tons of propaganda against the cash bonus. The Congressmen | and Senators.who are “speaking for” the bonus are doing all they can to them are in the clutches of thé com- session. Each demand to be put to pany union. This vast army of thou- the bosses has been thoroughly stud- ied by the General Executive Board, workers in the dress industry the | them to fight for and under the importance of fighting for conditions leadership of the Needle Trades that will break the iron grip of the | Workers’ Industrial Union to rid exploiters and their company union | themselves of the company union, for all unemployed wrokers. sands of. terribly exploited workers | and “it was determined to bring to | must unite. This meeting calls on | of millions | block it, but the mass pressure of foci soleiies Hie eens | the veterans who were sent into the | x tive dependents ; i of workers, relatives and dependent jast capitalist slaughter is driving | of veterans in many instances an : a other workers who pees unemployed. | them to appear to be in favor of if |The mecting is at 8 p. m. tonight | Even the American Legion, which at | at Ukrainian Hall, 15 East Third St. | The veterans will demand real relief | against the cash bonus, recently, on |its last convention, definitely voted | was aided yesterday by Judge Edwin S. Thomas of the United States Dis- trict Court in putting through a 10 per cent wage-cut for all workers employed by this war industry. The order was put through by the judge in order to mobilize the government |need of unemployment insurance be- | comes ever more pressing. The work. ers want no breadlines, no flop- | houses—they want the insurance they | | are entitled to, as victims of the crisis |—as men willing to work. This de- ‘mand they are fighting for—even as | the farmers of Arkansas, finding that |arainst the workers if they go on there was only one way to get relief, | strike. | shouldered rifles, marched to Eng-| The judge, in ordering the wage- \land, Arkansas, end—GOT relief! cul, said it was necessary to “cut On Feb. 10, the national delega- | cost for the bosses, andd “to con- cash,” that is, to protect the of the parasites who own this industry. tién of the unemployed will proceed | ser to Washington to lay the demands | ) |of the unemployed before the U. S. wa ilizing their entire membership to participate in the protest against the banning of the working-class newspapers, the Young Pioneer, Vido Obrera and Young Worker. Bill Soroka, the district organizer Bar All But 6. A mass meeting in the plaza elect- ed a committee of 25 to present de- mands for relief, no evictions, free gas, electricity and rent for the job- > ssi y ay less, free food for the children of the ot the Young Communist League, re- | unemployed, etc. to the city ‘council. ports that all units of the Young i ‘ When this comm: Communist League will be present at | * sas elt re Fe the demonstration, and that the re- ¥ nse of the youth organizations | g and ask- | ing to take part in the demonstra- | ED O* PAGE (CONTIN THREE) FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER Statement drafted by the Com- munist Party of the United States and presented to Fish Committee by Wilham Z. Foster. A ringing challenge ta the Fish Committee and to the big capital- ists who were responsible for The Young Pioneers of America, New York District, has issued the fol- Jowing statement regarding the ban- ning of the working-class news- papers. The fact that the bosses’ government first banned the Young Pioneer, class children’s newspapers shows that they decided to start with those newspapers which | would bring the least protest of -the workers. The childdren of New York | will be present at the Post Office this ‘Saturday at 1 p. m. in full force. “We |f of intend to show the bosses and their government that the children are not }geing to allow their paper to be | barred, and keep quiet.about it,” was bringing the Fish Committee into existence, A call to action and a program struggle for the exploited masses which must reach millions of workers and farmers, white and black, native and foreign born. stated by Jim Baker, district organ- iver for the Young Pioneers. We call | upon all workers of New York to de- mand that the Post Office give the ; Young Pioneers, Viddo Obrera and Young Worker second class mailing | rights. 5 cents per copy, $3 per hundred. Send orders to WORKERS’ LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. O. Box 148 Station D New York: City. Feb. 25! Organize An International Fighting Day Against Unemployment on Fet -|the ruling big capitalists there must be ‘\mmedi- jready now, without any delay. of In view of the tremendous growth of unemploy- (th Be ee ung workers. Inexorable fight against wage-|Poland, Rumania, Finland, Latvia and Usthonia,/dous as at the present time when the capitalist tion attention must be concentrated upon a few, ment and mass misery this winter we issue a call to the Communist Parties, to the revolutionary trade union organizations and to all revolutionary organizations in the capitalist countries to organ- ize an international Fighting Day Against Unem- ployment of Feb, 25, World imperialism responded to the setting in of the economic crisis by ruthlessly throwing than 25 million workers out of the workshops factories on to the street, With this monstrous attack upon the working class, however, the capi- talists of all ccuntries, as is already clearly to be seen, are pursuing a miore far-reaching predatory | aim: they wish by means of the heavy pressure of mass unemployment to reduce the wages of the workers, to put through a big reduction of the standard of living of the whole of the working class, Truly, capital remains right up to the end true to its original vampire nature and greed for profits. But the enormous scale on which monop- olist finance capital in all parts of the world, in seeking to satisfy its unbounded lust for profits, 4s destroying the human existence of thé imme- diate producers of social wealth is unprecedented. ‘The greater the capital of a banking concern, of cartel or a trust, the greater the right of the owners of this capital to extract millions of fresh profits from the misery of millions of tollers. iy = — Against this enormous starvation-offensive of jonstrations on Feb, 25 must be ately organized the counter-offensive of the prole- | tariat in all capitalist countries. Otherwise there | is no salvation for the proletariat. Broad masses | of the workers are. ready to fight; they do not! ‘wish to capitulate like slaves, But the greater part of the organized workers are still bound and kept back from the fight by the social democratic, | more “eformist, christian, syndicalist and fascist or- ganizations, which are headed by sworn lackeys of capitalism who do everything in order to frus- trate any resistance on the part of the workers against the capitalist offensive. This fatal influ- ence of the reactionary labor bureaucracy must of necessity be broken through by the direct approach of the revolutionary workers’ organizations to the broadest working masses. In every single coun- ‘try the class-conscious active advance-guard of the jan of the state. proletariat must appeal to all workers, get into immediate contact with all rank and file mem- ‘bers of the reformist, syndicalist, anarchist, fas- cist and christian organizations, using a, language which can be understood by every class comrade, in order to convince them of the necessity of the proletarian united front for the fight against the starvation-offensive of the bourgeoisie, The mass action for the greatest possible mob- immediately urgent fighting demands correspond- ing to the immediate requirements of the broad Suffering miasses.. We propose as such minimum demands, which ean be set up in all capitalist countries, the following: 1, Immediate payment of a lump sum of money | as .winter relief for every unemployed, sufficient to ensure for each one a minimum existence for at least two months. The means necessary for this purpose are to be taken from the military budget and other socially harmful items of the expendi- ture of the states. 2. An unemployment insurance really appro- priate to the necessary, vital requirements of the workers, exclusively at the cost of the employers In those countries where there already exists a system of unemployment benefit, improvement,of this system and increase of the amount of unemployment benefit. Determined fight against every policy of retrenchment of so- cial expenditure-for progressive taxation of the big caitalists and big agrarians. ~« 3, Exemption of the unemployed from payment of rent, taxes, and expenditure for necessary com- munal services, so long as they are not assured of an adequate social insurance or social welfare, ilization of the unemployed, and especially of the workers in the factories, for the international dem- commenced al- i ™ prohibition of eviction of unemployed. 4 Seven-hour wo ig day with full pay, six- cuts, for higher wage, decided by workers’ conferences in the different branches of industry.) Prohibition of mass dis- charges. ' In every country) these demands shall be sup- plemented by some other concrete action demands arising out of the particular situation of the coun- try in question and closely connected with the fight against unemployment, such as for instance, in a number of countries: Fight against white terror and fascism;\ against measures of bourgeois policy which aim at impoverishing the peasant masses; cessation of payments under the Young Plan (Germany); confiscation of the property of against the imperialist regime in the colonial countries, In addition, the fight against unemployment must be connected with the fight against the war- preparations of the bourgeois governments. To the working masses of the people it is not yet perfectly clear what monstrous crimes the rulers of their country—for the greater part in secret— are now preparing. Great Britain and the United States are arming against each other; France and Italy are arming against each other, etc. The whole imperialist world is arming for war against the Soviet Union! In the first place the General 4 A the princes and the Church, or special slogans! land are at present working for the realization of the robber plan, The international campaign ‘of the bourgeoisie, of the social democrats and \fascists, which is conducted under the pretext of {combating “Soviet dumping,” sims at diverting ‘the attention of the working masses of the people ‘of the capitalist countries from those who are ‘veally responsible for the impoverishment of their ‘situation and to pursuade them of the necessity {of intervention against the Soviet Union. The year 1931 is regarded by the imperialist enemies lof the Soviet Union as the decisive year for their linterventionist efforts, because in the Soviet Union this year is of decisive importance for the realization of the great socialist Five Year Plan. Therefore, we workers of the capitalist countries must precisely at present follow with greatly in- creased vigilance the war preparations of the jmilitarist circles and expose and combat them, In the land of the Soviets, where the victorious jproletariat is building up Socialism, there is no unemployment but on the contrary the demand for labor power is continually growing. Capt- talism, on the other hand, brings mass unem- ployment; it needs the accumulation of the mis- ery of the workers in the interest of the a¢cumu- Nation of capit Never before in the history, of| (Conerete wage demands |as well as very influential military cirgles in Eng- system is already shaken to its foundations, The |warehouses of the big capitalists are chock-full with products of every kind, whilst the producers of this wealth are starving. We, reresentatives of the revolutionary workers’ organizations, do not conceal for a moment that our aim is the con- fiscation of all this wealth. The only way to the final and complete solution of the questidn of unemployment is the ‘revolutionary fight for the overthrow of the capitalist governments, for the capture of power by the proletariat, for the ex propriation of the expropriators, January llth, 1931. of the C.P. of Germany, of the C.P. of France, of the C.P, of Great Britain, The C.C. of the C.P. of Czechoslovakia, The C.C. of the C.P. of Poland, The National Committee of the Red Trade Union Opposition of Germany, The Bureau Confederal of the C.G.T.U, of France, The Executive Committee of the British Minority Movement, The Executive Committee of the Red Trade Uniens of ; ‘vagus peciee -s The C.C. The C.C, The C.C.