The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 1

| of Howard Clothing Co., owned by Famine Conditions in the Min- ing Camps in Many States. Organize Unemployed Councils! Fight for Re- lief and Against Starvation! Vol. VIII, No. 66 at New York, N. ail Central Mes. of Entered as seccnd class matter at the Post Office Y., ander the aet of March 3, 1179 ly, aW the Communist Snfunist aos orker Party U.S.A. tional) <2 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1931 CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! eS Cen 3 Cents CHICAGO CITY RELIEF T0 BE STOPPED; 150,000 STARVE Soviet Workers’ Court Sentences 14 Socialist ist Wreckers to Jail City Attorney Do You Stand For This? IRKERS, especially you who might be voters of the “socialist” party ticket, you who look yet with some respect at Norman Thomas, you | who have not been so sickened with the sight of Heywood Broun that you cease to follow the words of Hillquit! We ask you: Have you been reading the cable accounts of the Moscow trial of the Menshevik “socialists’—the secret plotters against the Workers’ Republic who call themselves the “Russian Social-Democratic Party”? Do you realize what has been uncovered in that trial? Do you under- stand that in your name, with funds collected from you “for socialism,” by Hillquit, Abramovitch, Abe Cahan, Dan and the other leaders, these scoundrels have been trying to wreck socialist construction in the Soviet Union? ‘With the authority of your votes, you who voted “socialist,” Hillquit sits in the executive committee of the Second (“Socialist”) International and plots to aid armed intervention against the Soviet Union? Do you stand for that? With the money collected from you, here in America, by Abramovitch and Hillquit and O'Neal and Thomas and the rest, these scoundrels were paying for secret sabotage against the Five Year Plan? Do you approve of this, workers? You who support the so-called “socialist” party? Do you stand for this criminal conspiracy of the leaders of the “so- cialist” party of America with the imperialist war, makers who would cut the throat of every revolutionary worker, who are arming fascist Poland and Rumania, who are preparing now, today, for war against and destruc- tion of the Soviet Government? Is there any doubt left that they have done this? still plotting? Read the evidence of the Mensheviks on trial! lear connection with such confessions as the following: “Comrade Abramovitch has come here in the interest of the underground Social Democratic work in Russia.” “Huge sums of money are necessary . . .”—From the “Socialist” Daily Forward, New York, Jan. 12, 1930. Again, look at the following account of one of Abramovitch’s meetings here in the United States, as told by the N. Y. Times of April 20, 1925: “Mr. Abramovitch thanked his audience for the moral and finan- cial support which they have given to the anti-Bolshevist movement of which he is one of the leaders.” “N. Chain announced that the collection taken at the meeting had brought $500, and the total amount contributed at labor meetings throughout the country dur- ing Mr. Abramovitch’s recent tour was $14,000. The money will be used for the support of the Russian Social Democratic Party and the furtherance of its aims.” If you did not know at that time what those “aims” are—read the words of those Mensheviks, collaborators for decades with Abramovitch and Hillquit, now. telling how those aims were sabotage of Soviet industry, secret conspiracy to defeat the Five Year Plan, unity with the blackest and most bloodthirsty imperialist war makers and the savage. white guard Czarist refugees! And remember that in this particular audience, the N. Y. Times tells were present—James O’Neal and Abraham Cahan! Again, qnly a year ago, the official organ of the “socialist” party tells | you, under the title: “Rafael Abramovitch and the Russian Socialists,” that these gentry were “preparing the vanguard of the workers for the day when the Communist dictatorship will expire and when the socialist movement will be able to come out from underground.” And to make sure that it would “expire,” the American “socialist” party joined with the agents of Poincare and Churchill and Mr. Fish to expedite the “expiring” of the Soviet Government of Workers and Peas- ants! It is their bad luck that their fellow conspirators within the Soviet Union got caught! That they are now confessing their crimes and de- nouncing Messrs. Hillquit, Dan, Abramovitch and Co.! They tock the comfortable “risk” of crime for which their co- conspirators are now atoning before the revolutionary court. They at- tempted in advance to cover those crimes with a mantle of heroism. The “New Leader” continued: That they are Trace its “The Russian underground work of today is full of heroic sacri- fices; the active underground Russian socialists of today are real martyrs. Here in the United States, Comrade Abramovitch is the ambassador of this heroic task. And all those who are against dic- tatorship with its terror will assist Comrade Abramovitch in suc- cessfully fulfilling his mission.” Listen to this! “Against dictatorship with its terror’—when any worker knows that the overthrowal of the Soviet power of the Russian workers would mean its replacement by a capitalist dictatorship that would ride belly deep to a horse in the blood of the workers! To speak of “terror’—and intrigue with Poincare! To whine about “despotism” and conspire with Mr. Fish! Any worker will realize that an overthrowal of the Soviet Power would mean the most ghastly and bitter results for the workers of all lands! That destruction of the Soviet Republic would bring a wave of unheard of MOSCOW, March’ 9. the following decisions: Sokolo’ Zalakind, eight years’ strict isolation. ADMIT GUILT; ASK CHANCE TO ATONE CRIMES; “SHOULD BE SHOT,” SAYS ONE Ikev Says It Is Bitter | Bitter Thing to Repudiate, Party After 30 Years; Only Thing to Do All Ask Right to Work for Socialism Even| While In Jail for Their Crimes (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) At the final session of the trial of; the 14 counter-revolutionary Mensheviks the court brought in The sentences of Groman, Sher, Ginsburg, Sukhanov, Jakubovich, Petunin and Finnyenotaevsky, strict isolation, the maximum term under the Soviet code. 4 Berlatsky and Ikov, to be ten years’ sentenced to Volkov, Teitelbaum and Rubin, sentenced to five years’ | strict isolation. The period of time served by all the defendants since their | 98° #8inst a fake arbitration award | for a 14 per cent cut. arrest are includéd in the term of imprisonment. ‘CHILDREN FAINT IN CAL. SCHOOL Jobless” Fill Jails In New Orleans VENTURA, Cal., March 9.—Two school children fainted from hunger in school here last week and led to the revelation that a ghastly condi- tion of starvation among children and adults both prevailed in this county. Industries here are fruit and oil. . Drive Jobless to Jail NEW ORLEANS, La., March 9.— New Orleans has the largest prison population in history. Eugene Stanley, district attorney, stated yesterday that cold weather and unemployment have contributed in great part to the overcrowded condition. . aS Walk and Pray QUEBEC, Canada, March 9—The priests here are trying to capitalize on the jobless by suggesting they of- fer prayers at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Baupre for a job. Each pious pilgrim at least puts up ten cents for a candle. It is recalled that earlier in the depression, last October, 350 men marched 25 miles to pray at this shrine for employment. The priests do not reveal whether any of them got jobs afterward. 14 MORE JAILED . reaction, of savage assault on all workers’ wages, conditions and wha’ ‘ittle rights remain to them, throughout the capitalist world! Down with the Menshevik-imperialist bloc! fense of the Soviet Union!! talism! 18 POISONED BY GAS IN SHOP WITH AMALGAMATED AGREEMENT NEW YORK. + Workers dropped like flies in the pressing department Every worker to the de- Away with the “socialist” lackeys of capi- found him dead in bed the next morning. ‘The evening papers yesterday Gapell and Marx, at Flatbush Ave. Extension and Nassau St., Brooklyn, yesterday. Deadly fumes crept through the room and struck them down, gasping on the floor. Those able to do so staggered screaming from the building and collapsed on the sidewalk, They lay stretched out, moaning and frothing at the mouth in a line on the sidewalk until they could ‘be lugged into a temporary hospital ‘established near by. The entire place, where some 400 to 500 work, was cleared in a panic. Eighteen were unconscious at one time. One Died, All are said to be recovering now, put, it is known that last week, a worker named Abe Stone died after pains ce ay ak thi kop ‘Thee talked a lot about “mysterious fumes” but they are no mystery to the work- ers; they are gas from the machines. ‘This shop is part of a chain that manufactures $22.50 suits. The Amal- gamated Clothing Workers has had an agreement with it for some time, the usual sort that Hillman makes: speed-up, rotten conditions, no care whatever for the workers’ health, low wages, right to fire, and all. Just recently the Hillman outfit made a new agreement that made things much worse, cut wages 15 per cent, increased the speed-up, and wiped out the last vestige of safety conditions, With this agreement in his pocket, IN SUN STRIKE Picketing As Firm As Ever; Meeting Called NEW YORK.—Undaunted by 14 more arrests of pickets yesterday, the strikers at the Sun Market and the Food Workers’ Industrial Union car- ries on its struggle. Picketing will continue. The total number arrested in the few days since this strike started is 64. The A. F. L. (and its United He- brew Trades) officials come down and point out the strikers and pickets they want arrested. The A. F. L. gang is financing the scabbing, and got out the injunction for the em- ployers, though at the time the strike started, they did not have a single member in the three markets on strike. These three markets are at 184th St. and St. Nichols; 188th St. and St. Nichols; 178th St. and Riverton, A Japanese worker took motion pic- tures of the attacks on the pickets. A special meeting of Bronx section of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union the employer does not care to take|is called to discuss the strengthen- the trouble and slight expense to/ing of the strike. The meeting is clear out of the room the gas from | tomorrow night at 8 p, m. at the his pressing machines, betas east . (Special Cable to Daily Worket.) | jis withdrawn. (phebiery. We Continue Sti | Accept Line of the Na to E xpel All Who PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 9.— Acting on the strong advice of the| National Textile Workers Union, the) 2,000 upholstery weavers of Kensing-| ton have approved the line and pro-| posals of the N.T.W. to continue their) strike until the 14 per cent wage cut The N. T. W. is offering its unt! support and urges the strikers to take over their struggle, to disregard the United Textile Workers Union sell-out and the U.T.W. threats to expel them. | The N.T.W. warns the strikers against the local vacilliating officials and ur- ges the strikers to elect broad, repre- | sentative, rank and file strike com-| | mittees. This strike started over a month Union; Defy Threat of MacMahon of UTW avers Vole To ke Against Cut tional Textile Workers’ Do Not Go Back | i | | Starving Unemployed Says Law Ends Relief Scheme “Answer of Legislature Will Be That Relief Must Stop at Once”; Whole 1931 Appropriation Already Gone Communis $70,000 More Than .< Proposed Bond Issue Only Election Bunk; Vote for Weekly Cash Relief |Destitution Grows Throughout Illinois; Red Czoss Refuses Any Aid Whatever; Miners Organizing Their Councils CHICAGO, IIL, March 9.—The Cook County (including 7 EXILED FROM ‘She UTW of- ficials sabotaged the strike before and) | Chicago and suburbs) government practically declares itself ! bankrupt and stands ready to cut off all charity work. Even capitalist agency figures admit this will affect 150,000 jobless Tremendous applause by the workers in the court-room | jafter it started, having thrown the | | was the response to the court's verdict. | grievances over to arbitration in the} | first place. Recently President Mac- |Mahon of the U.T.\. declared that all the strikers would be expelled if MOSCOW, March 9.—Before |they did not immediately go back the final session of the court, when sentences were pro- nounced, Sokolovsky, Ikov, Pe- tunin and Berlatsky, Menshe- vik counter-revolutionists, continued their speeches in their own defense. In all cases it was a story of ac- tivity in the revolutionary movement jin the early nineteen-hundreds, which was unbroken generally up to 1917. In most instances they took up re- sponsible work for the Soviet Gov- ernment thereafter, Rubin in publish- ing, Ikov and Petunin in the co-op- eratives and Berlatsky in finance. Berlatsky particularly led the insur- rections under Koltchak and Minfin in the Far Eastern Republic. All admitted that such circum- stances did not alleviate but aggra- vated their guilt. In deliberate tones they laid bare the underlying mo- tives of the evolution of Menshevism along the lines of the previous speak- ers; they confessed their disbelief in the possibility of the building of So- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Taueht “Honesty” ~w Forced to Steal CHICAGO, March 9.—From teaching “honesty” in the capital- ist public schools, Fred Bennett, an unemployed teacher, to save his family from starvation, was forced to go out with a gun and hold up stores, During the winter months, when he was thrown out of a job, he looked for a job frantically, but could not find one. He saw his child dying of slow starvation. Despite the lessons of “honesty,” and trust in capitalism that he was forced to teach, he could find no other means of feeding his family than robbery. This is’the irony and logic of capitalism, Bennett was arrestsed and faces a jail term. | to work, RAP PERSECUTION OF YOKINEN BY U.S Call for “Défense of Foreign-Born NEW YORK.—Supporting the call | of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights for a national Solidarity Day born workers, the National Commit- | tee for Protection of Foreign Born ; last night issued the following state- ment: denouncing the government persecution of Yokinen following his repudiation of the boss poison of race the front ranks for the rights of the Negro masses: ernment to deport August Yokinen, | Finnish-American worker, is a blow against every Negro and white work- er in this country. He was arrested | by the immigration authorities after he unhesitatingly repudiated his former prejudices against the Negro | workers at the mass trial gutting 4 and pledged himself to carry on = militant struggle against all mani- | festations of race prejudice, white chauvinism. By this action Yokinen won the of the immigrant and native, Negro and white workers alike, and the hatred of the ruling elass. Millions of foreign born workers, Negro and native white workers! Yokinen cause is your cause! Defend Yokinen! All Committees for the Protection of Foreign Born, all mass organiza- tions standing behind these Com- mittees are called upon to mobilize masses through mass meetings and demonstrations for the defense of Yokinen, on March 28 to fight deportations | | and persecution of Negro and foreign hatred and his pledge to fight in| The step taken by the federal gov- | respect and wholehearted solidarity | CUBA TO SPAIN Will Be Jailed By the Fascist Regime On March 5 the following workers were deported from Havana to ie aeces Manuel Mosgqerau, Jose Roig, Andres Rodriguez, Enrique Bellain, Jaime Baella and Jose Gutierrez with | his wife Maria Seijo and theirs ‘two | sons. All are members of the Cuban Red Trade Union. Andres Rodriguez, is |e fisherman who took active part) j in the fishermen’s strike. They were deported on the charge | of “terrorism” because of their par- | ticipation in the left wing trade un- ion movement, | They will arrive today at 10 am. in the “Manuel Arnus” steamship | and will remain here for a day.) | When they arrive in Spain they will | be arrested by the Spanish fascist government. ™ LABOR UNITY AGENTS A special meeting of all Labor | | Unity agents in New York will be} held on Wednesday, March 11th, at/| 8 p. m. at 16 West 2Ist St. | ATTENTION! N | meals |in January, 10,511, | 12,428. | to go on a ‘ here. The report of the governor’ unemployment commission shows that 536,678 workers were housed and 1,189,535 free given’ by 18 Chicago flop houses during the period Oct. 24, 1930, to Feb. 28, The growth of mass hunger is shown by the fact | that the average daily free meals given during December were 8,143; and in February, The worst misery is among the unskilled workers, a great num- ber of whom are Negroes. Seventeen ver cent of these workers are ex- servicemen who are getting their) lessons in American “democracy.” “Disaster Basis.” The situation is such that the | Daily News admits “the olty has had isaster basis.” It goes | on to say: “The wreckage of war| continues for years after the fight- ing. Social workers assert that the same situation will prevail from this disaster. . . . This situation of hun- ger and mass sickness spreads to groups which have never known des- titution before and have never (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Resist Cops As NEW YORK.—Several clashes “be-| Brenner, | tween striking dressmakers and scabs, during the course of which at least one clubbing cop was left with a stinging impression of what work- ers’ solidarity means and a special | policeman received special treatment, marked the mass picketing held here yesterday. Before the picketing ended six strikers were arrested and as many more were rescued from the hands of police by their fellow-dressmakers. In the first move of what is an ob- vious attempt at a frame-up, four dressmakers were arrested on war- rants sworn out by Needleman and Stimson and British Bankers Push War r Drive; 6 Soviet Congress Opens With the cigulng 3 of the Sixth All- Union Congress of the Soviets in Moscow Sunday, the question of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics received great attention by the two leading capitalist powers, Britain and the United States. Molotoff's point in his report to the Congress of Soviets, that the imperialists are increasing their war preparations against the Soviet Union, was fur- ther amply illustrated by the action of Secretary of of State Stimson, on behalf of the American imperialists, and by the action of British bankers, for British imperialism, Stimson has appointed Assistant Secretary of State, James Grafton i} | | mean the possibility of recognition, | they were informed by “high offi-| Victory of Bde(alien| Assured Says Molotoff partment “to deal with Russian af- fairs.” While some of the “liberal” capitalist representatives took this to cials” in the State Department that | this was not intended at all. The real object is to concentrate the atttacks against the Soviet Union. Stimson is preparing the ground for war. He has ordered the collection of more data on “forced labor,” on the ad- vance of the Five-Year Plan, on the ae for “world revolution” of on Wee re — ee sienna aaah dralasecsicshamesiang the Communist International. In fact, all the usual capitalist prepara- tions for war are being speeded-up and centralized in the new depart- ment. British Bankers Plot. In England, on the day the Sixth Congress of Soviets met, a group of prominent British bankers organized to hold secret meetings “to protect British industry from Rus- sia’s trade onslaught.”. That this is a deliberate cloak for war prepara- tions was shown by Molotoff's speech wherein he said that while under Czarism over 1,500,000,000 rubles worth of products were exported, yearly, the Soviet Union during 1930 _ (CONTINUED Oo} PAGE THREE) ‘Needle Strike Pickets Clubbed; 6 Are Arrested Brenner, the shop which broke a contract with the Workers Industrial Union to make one with the LL.G.W., the company union which “guaranteed” against strikes. Picketing Again Today ‘The John Reed Club, the organi- zation of revolutionary writers and artists, expressed their solidarity with the strikers yesterday by marching with them on the picket lines. The same shops that were picketed yesterday will be picketed today. Picketers are to report at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. near 42 St., at 7 a.m. The fight of the dressmakers against their unbearable slavery is evoking the interest and sympathy of ever-widening circles. The most recent example of this occurred the other day when Branch 271 of the Workmen's Circle, a “socialist” con- Needle Trades | 4000 BRITISH MINERS STRIKE AT PAY SLASHES Defeat Union Fakers, Strike Extending (Cable by Inprecorr) LONDON, March 9. — Yeterday 1,400 anthracite miners of the Great Mountain Colliery in Ammanford struck against the wage award. Many mass meetings are being held throughout the coal fields appealing for the extension of the strike. Today four thousand came out of the Cambrian collieries at’ Rhondda, | South Wales, against the award. Further extension is expected by the Minority Movement which led the strike. At Blaenciydach Lodge yesterday the chairman of the union refused to put the strike vote to the meeting. The meeting was disrupted. The men went out on strike today. At other Rohndda pits all work has stopped. There is one hundred per cent solidarity at the pitts affected. Union officials, to help the bosses, are trying to persuade the workers to return pending a conference. | Three kundred struck at the Siddick pit in Cumberland against the | award. Extension of the strike here is expected. NS aN The miners are striking against the reduction of wages, put over through the help of the MacDonald labor government and the officials ot the Miners Federation. Wages under the award of an “impartial chairman” are to be cut from 60 cents to $1.50 weekly. The Miners Federation is for the wage cut. The Minority Movement is urging the workers to strike. The entire South Wales mining territory is affected. 161,000,000 POPULATION IN THE SOVIET UNION The population of the Soviet Union has passed the 161,000,000 mark, ac- cording to a statement.by a member of the People’s Council of Commis- sars quoted in a recent Moscow dis~ patch to German papers. In 1925 the population was 145,500,000. Siete meth ee an 2 TSE ED trolled fraternal organization, voted to contribute $26 to the Dress Strike Fund after a bitter fight against the proposal was waged by right wing elements. Enthusiastic Mass Meeting Held. At a large and enthusiastic mass meeting of strikers held yesterday in Bryant Hall, the dressmakers ex- pressed their determination to con- tinue the strike until their demands for higher wages, a 40-hour 5-day week and recognition of the Ir | trial Union are won. The entertainment committee of the union will provide an entertain- | Garvey Flees From Jamaica Sensational developments in the Garvey movement! Marcus Garvey, head be- trayer in the “Back to Africa” outfit, has decided he needs a change of atmosphere, since his followers are showing hos- | tility toward his phoney pro- gram of Negro “liberation!” So London is his next stop- ment and concert today in Bryant ping place. Hall at 2 p.m. The Garvey movement fs on The St. Louis Needle Trade Work- its last legs, Read why—in ers have passed a resolution of solid- arity greetings to the striking dress- makers of New York and Philadel- phia, tomorrow's Daily Worker. (Sixty thousand circulation news on page 3.)