The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1931, Page 16

Page Hight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931 Figure This Out on May Day are smart : they have “superior brains.” Yesterday they figured that the industries of the Soviet Union were a failure—were going bust, Today these same “busted” indus- ruining capitalism too, apitalists tries are * so much goods into ca- countries, Looks funny to Me too, The “busted” indus- nder sme Economic ng out $8,- goods a year at the Now the United States, this land of “prosperity in 60 days,” production has fallen ap- off by imately one-t the ning of the ec crisis (There is no cris the Soviet Union—It's pecw The capi-j; talists grow hoarse cr g, it will get | better “in 30 days in 60 days,” “in three months,” “in six months.” But how about this “dumping” business we just spoke of. Actu- ally out of every $100 worth of goods exported by all countries, the Soviet Union exports $1.90 worth—yes, this little dollar-ninety } must be hard on capitalism, And you, } T suppose the expert of Soviet steel has ruined the U. S. steel industry —except the Soviet doesn’t export steel, Or the export of Soviet au- tos has put flat tires on the U. S. auto industry —except the Soviet buys instead of sells autos, Yes, this Russian “dumping” is a head- ache for the rich brain cells of the capitalists — especially since the Soviet isn't “dumping” (selling be- low cost) any goods at all. Tears On “Forced Labor” But the most heart-rending thing is to see these poor capital- ists shedding onion tears at “forced labor,” which they swear; exists all over the Soviet Union, and you should hear them swear! Workers in the U. S. know how the bosses love us, even love us to death, Here they want us to be “free;” 10 mii- liou free of jobs, thousands free oi homes, free of food, free of shoes. Those who work, free to be speeded faster, given free wage- cuts, free to work 9, 10, 12 hours a day. The capitalist, free to keep [ his billions of profit, the workers, free to suffer a 12 billton dollar loss. in wages in 1930. The capitalists admit we lost it, although Bill Green and Mat Woll will admit only a 10 billion dollar toss. Ne- erces free to get the lowest wages or to be freely held in peonage. Police and courts provided to pro- tect lynchers. Farmers free to go bankrupt and lean, to get the “free” 10 cents = day, or nothing, from the Red Cross relief. g a s a WU By Lorowilcr FOR THE UNEMPLOYED! By J. BARNETT The capitalists want the Soviet workers and farmers to have “free- dom” similar to that in America. Their kind hearts simply bleed with sympathy for the Russians. The capitalists are even willing to take the industries away from the Soviet workers, who must now mansge them—these “busted” so- clalist tudustries, that produce so much gocds. They would even te willing to start a war to get ‘em. Think of all the Soviet toilers who will be thrown out of work by the 518 new Soviet factories to be open- ed in 1931. Think of how much new “busted” socialist industry these factories mean. But how do the capitalists figure “forced. labor” when the workers and peasants own the industries and land, and run the government? ,;—— well, I suppose the capitalists don't have brain cells the size of unemployed apples and heads as hard as cabbage for nothing! Yes, the Soviets are mean enough to furnish everyone a job. Unemployment is abolished, They even let the ex-capitalist do some honest work, if he is willing and wants to eat. It’s a sad kind of “forced labor,” hours are being continually forced lower. By the end of this year almost all industries will have the | 7-hour day, five-day week. In dangerous trades the 6-hour day has been in force for a long time. Frequent rest periods are pushed upon the _ toilers. What ter- rible suffering must have occucred during the first two years of the Five-Year Plan when the wage- Fight jor Liberation of the Nicaraguan People! By JORGE HIS May Day sees the batile- front in Nicaragua extended, The Nicaraguan workers on the eastern coast, the place where actual wage workers are thickest, have taken to arms to expel their Yankee bosses | and the armed forces led by US. Marines! This is of the greatest signific- ance for the struggle for national | independence, For the first time the working class are entering the armed struggle in great numbers! Fighting against the same Yan- ; kee capitalists as you do, you work- }- ers of the United States, these Nic- araguan workers, sweated and bled by American bosses, thrown out of work to starve and die, and denied every right by the brutal terror of Wall Street’s armed marines, have thrown down the challenge of bat- tle and taken up arms to drive the invaders and exploiters from their native land! Every American worker will hail with joy this extension of the fight! These workers, backed by the ter- ribly impoverished peasantry, con- stitute the hope and assurance, if out of these workers there is de- veloped a Communist leadership, of ultimate victory! They wilh inspire the Army of Liberation, already long in the field, to new efforts, and may serve as & safegurd against the struggle against treachery by bourgeois po- | liticians who would liquidate the fight for independence at the ex- pense of the masses. The ‘so-called “nev; policy” of Hoover and Secretary Stimson is a fake. The supposed policy of “no armed intervention;” the policy of a pretended “withdrawal of mar- ines,” only covers up a fiercer in- tervention, and the use of the so- ; called “National Guard” — com- | manded by marines—to intensify the massacre. At the very moment this “new policy” was announced, the death- dealing airplanes of the Marine Corps were hurling bombs into Nic- ‘araguan villges! At the same mo- ment “no intervention” is promised, t U. S. warships were speeding at full | steam to threaten the Nicaraguan people! To land rore marines! To “open a war of extermination”! | Behind the so-called “National | Guard” are marines with arms! And | behind the marines are the war- | ships, gunboats, destroyers, loaded | with death! Behind all this is the brutal force of\ Yankee imperial- ism, the enemy of the Nicaraguan masses and the wor«ers of the Uni- ted States! The same Hoover, the same Wall Street bankers, who are taking the lives of the Nicaraguan workers, are cutting your wages, are denying you relief from starvation by unemployment! Every American worker, every op- ponent of imperialism, must rally to the support and aid of ail forces fighting for Nicaraguan independ- ence! Especially those which, like | the Army of Liberation, are battling with arms in hand to drive out imperialist invaders! Demand all armed imperialist forces get out of Nicaragua! Raise -banners of. protest. on May Day in your marches and demonstra- :tiens! Hail thte armed workers ef Nicaragua! Every aid to all for- ces fighting imperialism! Fall support to the struggies of the Army of Liberation! earners loaded up with the 2,397,900,000 incr in wages. } This year, 1931, in spite of all stance, they will be required to y off in their pookets another 58,600,000 increase. Their pan- re simply ip in ang These figures amount to an increase of 6 per cent In addition they are re- to take sici fits, sent were Carrying on more d” protection of ‘and the | for | ; putting over various improvements the standard of living. If all e expe ire for this year % little less that $5,000,000,090; ail in addition to wages, In fact | the real wages are now 40 per cent above pre-war and if social insur- ance and other benefits are in- cluded it is 67 per cent above. It is a mystery why these Soviet workers are so enthusiastic about such conditions—you figure it ont it Out. Force Themselves Lato Collectives And the peasants have been sent flocking to.the collective farms | where modern methods, new ; chinery, and government aid are | “‘Zorced” upon them bringing new burdens such as new creameries, new schools, new standards of |heaitth and living. The hard work, bad methods, and poor re- jsults of the old | garming, sent them flying to the ma- S$ are lumped together, | is to} | { } individualistic / i cled, Looking at USSR! Lo Uncle Sam views the advance of the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union 67,000 households join daily—45 per cent already belong. How the capitalists love the chil- dren — the thin, hollow-cheeke children in the U. S. soup lines But they are especiaily o are S about -the Soviet kids, who are b jing made to play and eat to suct a degree that they are getting deep-+ er chested, full legged, bigger mus- stronger boned, and taller. Maybe the capitalist don't like to e } see the workers and poor farmers running their own industry, work- ing for theniselyes, having» theit own Soviet government, raising healthy chiidren, training their own Red Army to defend their socialist economy, maybe they think its a bad example for American. work- ers, a bad May Day example — socialist farms. At the present raic| figure it out yourself. OUR DAY! By A. B. MAGIL. And there will be banners, banners, flying down the street, And there will be voices singing and the sound of marching feet. And there will be faces shining like conquering flags that say: We are marching to our tomorrow, we are mafching—today! Down tools, you fellow-workers, let’s choke the mad machines; Today is workers’ May Day—we'll show the boss what it means! And we come from the haggard breadlines, we raise out of black despair The shinins fist of <‘ruggle, » banner that shall tear Down all the flags of oppression, the reds and the whites and the blues: Slavery or freedom? We have only our chains to lose! Down with the Hunger Government! We march in a thousand cities, and beside us march our dead. The Haymarket martyrs to lead us, Ludlow’s slaughtered band, Frank Little’s tortured body, the voice and face and hand Of Sacco and Vanzetti, Steve Katovis, all Ouf bravest fighters have called us, and we shall answer their call And there are the other slaughtered whose silence grows to a roar: “Our death must be life to your struggle—Fight the Imperialist War!” Today we cast off our misery as we cast off our sweat and our grime; —y Long Live the Fight for rt Today we are millions marching, marching to meet the time When every day shali be May Day—onward thru days and thru nights To All Power to the Workers and Out With the Parasites! —By Lozowie’