The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1931, Page 4

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Pi By JORGE pa: Union, a market which has great potentiali- | } ties for development, and to deprive Euro- A Good Red Gone Wrong | pean industries of orders from the Soviet Union which enable them to reduce unemploy- still May 21. ¢ x the Soviet He was—and is—a Section Organizer, as) ich we reprint her The speech wil be p! shed as a 24 page pamphlet Czechoslovakia exported the same sugar at 80 the present practice of the international or- ment, would certainly not be a measure cal- Not a bad one eilher, no doubt. But he pulled at 2 2 copy. Order yours now. This is the Crowns per 100 kilos. In Poland for instance, | ganization of industry lead? The enlargement ‘lated (0 aesure a wayoout: okethe presenta | a boner that made us feel like sending him along { third instaliment.—Ed a product which was sold at 400 Zloty in Po- | of the steel and copper trusts did not prevent bese Risener : ae atic ee with Mr. Knickerbocker’s beloved kulaks. AR el WR AE c . Unfortunately, wrong ideas have been He had been instructed to call a Dally Work- iene exported by Poland at only 300 Zloty. | the development of eed ES ae | spread almost everywhere concerning the de- ' er Readers’ Meeting, and he called it. So far \ A lit 5 an attempt was made to The same was the case in Germany where | trary, the extension of the cartels and the Saat ae Ae eta eelL Hong hetwecn dhe so good. But he had also been instructed all | fy + eat oT ainst the Soviet ex- sugar was sold on the home market at from | fact that they maintain high prices despite et ifhion andlahe ethan’ countries.” The about what to do there. He had been told to get H ; x that the Soviet Union 28 to 24 Marks per 50 kilos, whilst the Ger- | continual overproduction, have resulted in the a anenive Scnhomic cam fia. doviet | these readers together and invite them to form } r dumping. This accusation man sugar-exporters were selling the same throttling of sales and the development of the | bait he i > Soviet | themselves into a Daily Worker Club. | out foundation and it has many occasions publicly not ial representatives of the So- also by the impartial investi- experts from the capital- Ve do not deny that the spe- icultural syst¢m and trading system permit us to iltural products at lower prices than These favorable condi- lt of the socialization of the Soviet Union, the absence of such those borne by the peasant our sugar at from 5.8 to 6.7 Marks per 50 kilos. These are generally known examples of agri- cultural dumping. Only a few weeks ago Mr. Hotovetz, who was Minister for Trade in Czechoslovakia for some time, declared that it was pharisaical to charge the Soviet Union with dumping, whilst neither Czechoslovakia nor any other capital- ist country was free from this sin. To prove his contention he quoted examples from the sugar and iron trades. I also have occupied myself with this question, not only because we have been charged with dumping, but be- present crisis to a greater extent than former crises. The proposal of the French delegation leads only to an extension of the policy of political blocks to new fields. The proposal cannot do anything else but maintain the present high prices and ensure that the monopolists con- tinue to pocket their excessive profits. It seems to me that this Commission might have expected exactly contrary) proposals with a view to ameliorating the crisis. In view of the importance of this question and in view of the baseless charges of dump- Union and the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan will not result in any reduction of the foreign trade of the Soviet Union. The more our economic system develops, the bigger will be its demands on foreign markets. Our ca- pacity for absorbing foreign goods is immense. Further, experience has shown that these various anti-Soviet campaigns are useless. Experience has shown that the most impor- tant industrial contracts we ever concluded (with Germany and Italy) were made at the height of these campaigns, and that further We said “invite” and we mean it. Because Communists do not command the workers, but explain the Communist position and win them | to it Well, our Section Organizer didn’t exactly command them—the 130 workers who came, 65 of them Negro workers—to form a Daily Worker Club. In fact he forgot all about a Daily Work- er Club, and instead—made a fine speech urg- ing them all to join the Communist Party! We are not against workers joining the Com- munist Party. Far from it. But to get over- y about it, to try to rush things, to get so y with success” at getting such a large number of Daily Worker readers together as to violate the Party policy laid down in an editorial ue n the capitalist countries, namely cause the permanent policy of forming mono- ing which have been made against the Soviet we succeeded in increasing our trade with | on June 4, and try mechanically to corral every- d interest which ac- polies on the home markets in order to obtain Union, I propose that the governments repre- Great Britain and other jhdusttiel Bein trieny ellos who reads the Daily Worker into the Party, ‘ n for about 70 per cent artificially high prices there, and to utilize the sented at this conference should adopt a joint | a ae Saas & ig repeats the mistake of the Conimunist ary abe surplus to further the export trade, represents, declaration which could later on be turned | and in opening up negotiations with other hice aitata mpeae was warned against of the total costs of production, and the aboli- t ro: as I have already pointed out, one of the fac- into an international convention, aiming at home and countries which hitherto have hesitated to enter into commercial relations with us. Is We want our readers to get together in Daily Worker Clubs, and we will be willing to walt dleman's prot tors which complicate and aggravate the world abolishing the disparity between i j In conelusion, I must point out that the economic crisis. The high prices hinder the export prices and containing an undertaking | this not proof enough that the interests of until those who want to join Be Pitts eae prices on world ket are determined by | consumption of the piled up commodities. They | not to permit prices on the home markets to | the capitalist eee do not demand a con- | aa aes oar eer cies Mar beat i e are not in the least | are maintained by those organizations which | exceed the export prices for the same com- | flict with the Soviet Union, but that on the | YN 0 arty, we will not lose patience, nor try contrary they demand the extension and con- s on the world mar- come that we must meet the rue to us from the machinery h we need for the development of exploit their monopoly in order to export at dumping prices. The great disparity between the export prices and the home prices of the same commodities has been dealt with in the report of the economic organization of the League of Nations, but this report made no attempt to give any explanation for this dis- modities. We deny categorically the existence of So- viet dumping, and we should certainly not re- fuse to take part in an international discus- sion and an international action on the lines I have just sketched. Such an action would have a most beneficial influence on the eco- solidation of relations with the Soviet Union? Is this not proof enough that these campaigns against the Soviet Union can have no bene- ficial effect whatever on the economic crisis, and that they are bound by narrow and un- reasonable aims? to force matters. And we will be extremely angry with any Party member who shows the least sign of snob- bishness or scorn toward workers who want to | belong to Daily Worker Clubs but who, for rea~ | sons which are their own business, do not wish to join the Party. c justry and the carrying out of our Five- ies eta Year Play : parity, or to draw any conclusions from it. nomic situation of the broad masses of the The Capitalist System and the Soviet System. ia sta’ ae Gagne Anno alee ane part’ an The fact that despite the fall in grain prices | people because it would inereas their pur- he: ; cite e Told Yeu 5 "Eee pega Cx ESS age aft Sy SUE SE by 48.3 per cent on the London market in the chasing power, make possible the absorption Although I show you the favorable influ- Not long ago we foretold the present pen- »ooms or slumps at the cost of the consumers. | ence of the foreign trade of the Soviet Union dicular fall in the price of wheat. It fell off n we have declared ourselves ake part in the grain conference g place in London. In any and that is that low a n of dumping. iping is meant the policy nizations which main- yn the home markets in order possible low prices for export pur- en the culprits will be found in the talist countries. The report of the Inter- al Labor Office contains very interest- ing figures concerning the great disparity be- tween the home and export prices prevailing in a number of countries. This phenomenon is closely connected with the policy of the hi T could quote in- ces, taken exclusively t press. Here is an exam- ple from Czechoslovakia: Last year sugar was sold in Czechoslovakia at 550 Czech Crowns per 100 kilos wholesale and at 600 Crowns per 100 kilos retail. At the same time, however, poses, t fe period from March, 1929, to March, 1931, and despite the acute agrarian crisis, the grain prices on the Berlin market increased by 28.5 per cent, and on the Paris market by 12.9 per cent, shows clearly that this price policy re- duces the purchasing power @& the masses, which is in any case low, still further, and complicates and aggravates the present crisis. The French Project. The only effective way to secure a solution of the crisis would be to facilitate the growth of the purchasing power of the massés and in this way to secure the absorption of the stored up commodities by the market. However, the proposals which have been made in this Commission positively tend to aggravate the special factors which prevent any amelioration of the crisis. These pro- posals are calculated to support the policy of high prices, although this policy is one of the most serious aggravating factors at the mo- ment. Where can the proposal of the French delegate Monsieur Francois Poncet to extend of the stored up commodities and thus con- tribute to a solution of the crisis. I have done my best to point out the course of action which would lead to an amelioration of the crisis. The first step necessary, how- ever, is that false measures should be aban- doned, and I must stress strongly that the right way to a solution of the crisis is not to be found in an attack on the Soviet Union, or in the suggestion that this attack represents the only possible means to free the world of the crisis from which it is suffering. The Campaigns Against the Soviet Union. A campaign against the Soviet Union m seem advantageous to certain interested cir- cles for the moment, perhaps even to certain countries which need not necessarily be Euro- pean countries or competitors of the Soviet Union in the supply of raw materials to the world market. But in any case, such a cam- paign can have nothing to do with the inter- ests of Europe as a whole. To deprive Europe of such an important market asthe Soviet. on the course of the present world economic crisis, I have no intention of creating the im- pression that there is any harmony of inter- ests between the capitalist system and the So- viet system. Differences exist between these two systems and @ey will continue to exist. These two are fighting each other and they will continue to do so; this fact is inherent in their simultaneous existence. The question is only whether this struggle is to take place within the limits of the natural methods peculiar to these two systems, or 7Ste . whether the two systems are to adopt mutual- ly hostile measures which can in any case have no decisive influence on the outcome of the struggle, but which would succeed merely in turning these two systems into armed and hostile camps. (TO BE CONCLUDED} nearly 25 per cent in one day, Wednesday. Why was that? Well, because the Farm | Board really stopped buying wheat Wednesday. Why did they stop buying wheat Wednesday? Let the N. Y. Times of Thursday, June 4, tel) you: “St Farm Beard headquarters it was said that the early and heavy movement of the new wheat crop from the Southwest had prompted the sudden withdrawal of govern- ment support. Mr. Stone and Mr. Milnor were reported to have agreed on the move by telephoning last night, when heavy ship- ments from Texas began arriving at terminal markets.” So, in other words, when the farmers are selling wheat to the grain speculators, the gov- ernment Farm Board takes immediate steps to demoralize the market (what they accused the Soviet of doing, falsely, last year), so that the farmers—who have to sell in order to meet mortgages—get a low price from the speculators. After the wheat is almost wholly in specu- lators’ hands, the Farm Board will discover a terrible necessity of “protecting the market,” and buy wheat as long as money holds out, at a price that allows the speculators a huge profit. : ° ‘Then Secretary Hyde will “point with pride” i ft a vty aye : | to the tariff and the Farm Board as “saviors i Gra and Gan sters O R A ER of the farmers.” If the farmers keep on being b Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com- saved like that, they'll have to go home in a ¥ mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. barrel. : : By HARRY GANNES . : ‘ ‘This game was played in 1920, and again in f Aralt . 4S ‘e By P. P. (Greek Buro) Why Not A Daily Worker Club? 1930, the Farm ae last summer swearing by Mellon’s Philadelphia Grafters. Small Town Rackets. HERE are great possibilities for the organiza | [N New York Oity there is a sort of district | fair au Disa end nae to start off your Fase ee eras ae ee eas ; harpake 5 ; : ; 5 i i led Williamsburg. There is a Workers’ | own Daily Worker Club! no’ y wheat. Then jovember - } Glow New.voA cobs @ratied 95 cents fron? (nla, Mayor Muaukey atehilnariotie ior ai@hile! |. cnet eave eee mas oes ane SO eS s ; bc aulayedl worktre\ was tald th'the taat aitinis | (albo becke ewey truidy ie Vara’ Maadbice cic’ | tne Cray our cmeseance st eee eer a ag eee, Bie ee etn ee re Every reader in Williamsburg (and this goes | ean buying from the speculators “to protect the 8 aw ; ( 2 tage of the different connections that we have ‘ i Te for other places as wéll!) should bring his shop | market.” By staging a little horse-play “oppo- A th New York graft. Previous articles | this was played up and used to advantage with particularly readers and subscribers of our ate ot our readers wrote in about it, kicking about | mates or neighbors, Have some music, maybe | sition by private grain dealers,” it is aimed to i in this series dealt with graft and gunmen in the “upright citizens.” Behind the scenes a true ~ | them doing everything in Jewish. He says that d i ji 4 k go. They traced tl 1 ow: i ferent Communist papers. Of course, this work some ice cream, and lots of time for discussing | hoodwink the farmers into thinking that the : jst sysiem in the United States. |. Devitt; who’ issues SajunHonis apainie eteiking | ov the Samme-time tie ditierens, langusse et, {yang that they ought to be Merten GortneTalb. | ee eee et acne Coates Cre bely) ||| ¢ Marmara who. are otired int ibeing “zobpedean, ; | hosiery workers,’ shoe workers, needle trades organizers who are touring the districts can help let. all who have criticisms or suggestions speak, | find out what to do about it by writing to the é ¢ 4 - | N ‘ considerably in securing contacts in the shops, Now he may forget that Jewish workers’ clubs note them down and send them in to us. We | «united Farmer,” Box 94, Superior, Wisconsin. P £ NDRE MELLON, billionaire secretary of the States treasury, n all leading cities and industrial Pennsylvania. He and the other lead- ts make full use of the gangster machine in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chester and elsewhere, Philadelphia is ruled through the William S. Vare political machine, headed by Mellon; Ed- win Stotesbury, head of Drexel & Co., bankers, Philadelphia branches of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Albert M. Greenfield, realtor and banker who was involved in the Bankers Trust Co. which and rules in Philadel- | workers with automatic regularity, is a Vare man and depends for his election to office on the Vare gangster machine. Al Capone's Asylum. When Al Capone sought to escape death at the hands of the “Bugs” Moran gang In revenge for the St. Valentine Day massacre in Ohicago he came to Philadelphia, arranged to have a concealed weapon found on his person (this job of carrying weapons Capone usually leaves to his personal gunmen) and was given fine treat- ment for a year in the Philadelphia prison, se- creted and protected from his avenging enemies. mills and mines in the districts, and in building up the Party in the different small industrial towns. Many language buro organizers are com- pletely isolated from the general Party work, and in many instances, when they come to the dis- tricts, they do not even find it necessary to re- port to the district office. The old conception that language work is not Party work is abso- lutely wrong. Language work is part of general Party work and must be Considered as such. The language organizers therefore are Party or- ganizers, and their specific language work must be closely connected with the building of the are necessary in atttracting the large numbers of Jewish workers away from capitalist influ- ences to revolutionary organization. But he cer- tainly does make out a case for some kind of a club for regular American workers, who, he says, look longingly at the club of the Jewish workers, and wish they had some sort of social life and affairs besides the speakeasies and pool halls. Why don’t he, that Williamsburg reader, and the rest of our readers in Williamsburg, get to- gether and form a Daily Worker Club? Get help of the Daily Worker Agent of the District and Section, put a notice in the Daily for a want to know what the workers think of the Daily. We will answer them and possibly some- one from the Daily will be there personally. We will try to correct our faults. The workers will recognize the Daily as something vital to their interests. They will want to help it, to get subscribers, to persuade others to read it, to make collections in the neighborhood, to send in stories about their shop conditions and distribute, the Daily in their shops. The Daily Worker Club will always have some- thing interesting to do. It will live and grow as an organization attractive to all interested in ‘Gentlemen’ Prefer Mortgages ‘The American Federation of Labor local papers are some of the most horrible of/ horrible ex- emples of what “labor” papers should not be. We just picked up a copy of the “Southern Labor Review” of Birmingham, Alabama, which says it is “owned and controlled by A, H. Cather, member of Typographical Union No. 104.” Under its editorial “masthead” it has. within , quotation marks, not such an awfully bad slogan: + workers and farmers. we'll eat your hat + t failed in 1930, and W. W. Atterbury, president of While the surface indications in Philadelphia, | Party. i i: the revolutiona1 ress. Py ‘ the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. aike Boston, and some of the other cities where | Tn W—, which ls a small oompatly town, the | Meeting (maybe the Jeyieh ‘Workerat Club Oop). tse ser wacatineee somistne aepecta ciatit his'| MO MMGV cutee Tae tion ta Aa eRe | & The vice districts and the dens of the gang- all seems “quiet”, are not quite so hectic as those | Pittsburgh district had no connection at all; joan their hall for'a meeting?) and hold an af- shop the workers can’t read the Daily because elds ates nar ea Ua paid reales tae So") ¢ t sters are mainly owned by Vare himself. There | of New York, Chicago and Detroit, the system is but not only this, to many leading comrades they understand only Italian, the Club will get Mee ie sree sae et ow belong ct | is comparatively little fighting for the spoils, | the same; the alliances of the gangsters and the |this small steel town was altogether unknown. thusiastic and very anxious to do some real | some Italian Communist papers for them. It | it inthe © Lantana ddan ghseas tae y as the Vare machine hes organtzed its booze, | big politicians and capitalists is firm throughout | Through two subscribers of the Greek Commu work. A local of the Metal Workers Industrial | wi! canvass the neighborhood for the Daily At, a eae Ol ane re ee ; graft and crime so that the profits flow into | the whole structure. nist weekly, we succeeded in getting together | League can be organized, and this must be the | Worker, but when its members visit a nouse fool lie: ' one main center. Small Towns, Big Graft. six steel workers, all of them working in the | basic task of the new shop nucleus. It is now! where the family reads only Jewish, it will tell “Soviets now forbid all music not of dis- Graft from city construction work is handled ‘The smaller industrial cities and towns have | W—— Steel Co. four Greek workers, and two |the task of the section committee to give direct | them about the Freiheit and give them the ad- | tinctive Communistic flavor. Henceforth, all i by the Vare Contracting Co. and affiliates, and | their grafting politicians and gangsters, but it is | South Slavs. The meeting was called in the leadership to this nucleus and to work out to- | dress of the Jewish Workers’ Club to hel I f fine art sh } Ip that, lovers of e art should bar the ugly Com- ; all vice concessions go to the ward leaders who | only natural that the best and most efficient | toom of the workers, and after an explanation gether with the unit buro a concrete and plain | too) ’ | munistie ideas.” i split up with the police. gravitate toward the larger cities. of the tasks before the revolutionary workers at | Plan of work for this nucleus. The neighborhood Daily Worker Club will , ¢ Beautification Costs $10,000,000. In Oak Park, Ill, on March 20, 1931, when | the present time, the structure of the Party | ‘This town is completely controlled by the | grow out of the initiative of the readers of the It surely appears that the editor of the South 4 In 1927-29 nearly $100,000,000 was spent for | James M. Feron, police magistrate was tried | unit, and the role of the Communist nucleus, all | w— steel Co., and the terror is great. The | Daily who gét their shopmates and nei bors Gen Dae ele bas peter ete oem t t the “beautification” of the city (Art Museum, | for robbing $15,000 from city funds, he was | of these workers joined the Party, paid their | comrades are in danger of being exposed and | interested in the paper and multiply the infi pa grein eetmdinrmmine hay ages Public Library, parkway beautificications) which | merely told not to graft so openly and placed on | dues, and a buro of three was elected. This new | blacklisted. A careful new method of work must. | ence of this fighting paper of the working an bec proved to be a grand source of booty for the | probation for six months. During the past year unit decided to order immediately 10 copies of | he developed and the instructions to these com- | a dozen times over! And they will do it for the But since he seems so thoroughly satisfied j 4 Vare-Mellon machine, Vare got the City Coun- | tens of thousands of unemployed workers have | the Daily Worker daily. rades must not only be what to do, but especially | pleasure it gives them, not from discipline or baceMp ht rain ey athedlbagbest age aes cil to erect the Sesqui-Centennial on property | been given jail sentences from six months to| All, these new Party members are very en- | how to do it, union” runt is Inlblatiye of the werxeis! ees aie iy cacises ok antec ial Ge owned by him in the South Philadelphia marsh- | life for stealing bread or other food! In Buffalo, ‘ sre! pages were to. notices of markiage sales qt Tore e Democratic Party which receives on an | dead for g a loaf of bread. For the crime | ter is situated, in the interest of the bankers and | as well as Chief Magistrate Be t their ; and leas” Jetted of 4 average of 5,000 votes is in reality a tail-end of | of being unemployed, workers are arrested on | these big corporations. As payment for their | share. So great is the riot of eu i heaters iran Deed meatal oe feels are belng robbed of thelr alttie property Hy banks the Vare machine, The vote in all 48 wards is | vagrancy charges and sent to the chain gang. | skillful brutality and terror against the work- | that the Vare-controlled Daily News of Phila- | South Chicago, South Bend, are similar; ‘nearly Sr should aR Be Ce ae almost solidly Republican. ‘The Republican clubs | But the small town capitalist grafters get a rep- | ers, the McClure machine is given free reign to | phia expressed its disgust with the rawness of | every city and town in the state of New werkoy i Maia someasinaiakenses ale pec er are the centers for semi-professional and pro- | rimand and their liberty for being so foolish as | exploit all vice and graft possibilities. The pay | the methods used. is a cesspool of crime, vice and graft. In Hack, ‘The Bolsheviks would declare all those mort- fessional gangsters and are the nucleus for hand- | to dabble in just thousands of dollars. of the company gunmen is not all in the checks Recently several constables and city officials | ensack, N. J., Sheriff Reilly sells police badges } gages cancelled, and let these poor workers and ing out patronage in the wards and precincts | Typical of conditions in the highly industri- | they get for strike-breaking; they are allowed | iried to break away from the McClure machine | to any crock who wants one at $2 a piece, In | little farmers occupy their homes and farms so in return for delivering votes for the machine. alized towns is Chester, Pa. In has a population | free reign in running bootleg joints, bawdy | and go into busincss on their own hock. For ; Vernon, Cal., near Los Angeles. the prosecutin: long as they exploited nobody else, without rent. For a while Mellon and Vare fell out, because | of 73,000. Many important industries, such as | houses, dope dens and gambling joints. The city | their pains they were framed-up (again an easy 4 attorney, Woolwine, had a brother who pai The land mien belong to the nation and they Vare was ambitious enough to don the Senator's | the Sun Ship and Drydock Co., the Viscose Co. | is honeycombed with these places. Ticre is at | matter) and received short jail terms, nearly every house of prostitution in the cit couldn't sell it, But they could use it for taeir i toga, and show that his city grafting ability | (rayon), the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the | least one speakeasy to every 73 inhabitants. $2.00 for Badges. ‘It was on this monopoly that the prosecuting a home until better ee more attractive 10 EY f could be applied with advantage to the Federal | Ford Motor Co., the General Steel Casting Co., McClure gets his weekly percentage from all ‘There are thousands of other small industrial | torney based his power. In return he for a Jong | them, modern collective homes and collective ie government. Vare returned to the Mellon fold | and numerous textile mills are located there. these places. The city police are paid $5 a night | towns where vice runs wide open, where gam- | time guaranteed his brother a lone hand in the | f ; took their place. Hu in an alliance against the Pinchot attempt to The McClure Republican machtne runs Ches- | to protect the truckloads of rum taken off the | blers, gangsters, beer runners and grafters flock. | bawdy house business. wit that Communist {dea ts “ugly” to Alabams 2 control the Republican machine in Pennsylva- | ter, as well as Delaware County, tn which Ches- ' boats. Chief of Police Vance and Mayor Turner, A worse place than Gary, Ind., owned lock, stock ' (To be continued.) - . ae