The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1931, Page 4

~ Published by the Page Four Address and mai! }ath Street, New York City. N. Y. Telephone Algonquin Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., dally except Sunday, at 60 Bast 6-7, Cable: “DAIWORK.” 3th Street, New York, N. & all checks to tne Daily Worker, 50 East Daily, <Worker: Central Ongange tne oanumiet Party USA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mall everywhere: One year, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs ot Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctly. Foreign: one vear, $8- six months. $4.50. writ er story is that of the A. F. made many charges s of the UMWA and s bear out the attack League and the Com- react: by Mr. of the Uni Mr. Dr the shell I amp of the t as not dared to reply to the at- F. Green, has come forward \. F. of L. and the U.M.W.A. gives the main points of defense of Mr. Green iy the Dreiser's att below; and sue which ike, but jole question of the struggle of the work- he offensive of the capitalists. | Worker will publish all letters. It e in this discussion and ing policies and practices | will likewise uncover of Lew particip: Strike Area Must ‘ = 4 - Speed ‘Daily’ Drive | t te 2 | * Pittsburgh, Pa. | ap Editor: | Many of our comrades underestimate the im-. nee of the Daily Worker. Steel workers or y kind‘ of workers want the Daily Worker A worker 72 years old walks 11 miles every | day to buy the Daily Worker in McKeesport. He | also donated $1 for the paper. Many of. the non-party workers are more in- | terested in the Daily than members of the Party. For example, in McKeesport I went with | 50 copies of the Daily to the mine on strike. The striking miners ran for the paper. Fifty cents was collected to pay for the papers and also 15 cents more to pay in advance for the coming bundle. The miners elected a Daily Worker agent and now are getting a bundle every day. Let's go to the street unit of McKeesport. | Fifty copies were taken there. I talked with the comrades about taking a bundle every day, | but could only convince them to take a bun- dle every Saturday. Gomrades, let’s wake up and find out how important the Daily Worker is in the class strug- | gle. If the Daily is lost. then the Communist Party will be isolated from the masses. ‘We must think every day of our paper and find ways and means to support it Save the Daily Worker, comrades, by selling more copies, by collecting funds for it. The Daily must not die. pe Daily Worker Agent. Organize Unemployed Councils to Fight) for Unemployment Relief. Organize the Employed Workers Into Fighting | Unions. Mobilize the Employed and Unemployed for Common Strug- ygles Under the Leadership of the Trade Union Unity League ‘Theodore Dreiser’s UMWA and Mr. Green’s Detense - WHAT DO YOU SAY, WORKERS? y officialdom | cherous A. F. of | m which has made them run for | which involve | Exposure 0 WHO IS WRONG? Green's Defense. WHO IS RIGHT? Dreiser's Attack. 1. The miners were ‘dis carded by the UMW and A. F.of L. u 1 he MU (National By Union) invaded the field, when the U M. W. A. took a hand again in the interest of the corporations.” 2.““Backers of the strike said the UMWA had bet broken in this field in 1927 and that the miners were left to shift for themselves. They told me condi- tions were unbelievab- ly bad and that men received so little wages that it amounted to starvation wages.” know for a positive fact that there was pro- posed and now is being put into effect, a close union between the chief corporations, such as power and utility groups, and the A. F. of L. to put a quietus so far as possible on strike and labor troub- les and bring about the general poverty of the rest of the people.” 4. Sheriff “Cain said the deputies were instruct- ed not to interefere in any way with miners’ picketing. When I pointed out to Cain the newspaper reports seemed to indicate the deputies had disobeyed orders and in one in- stance a deputy had killed a man and wounded others with- out provocation. he said the papers lied.” [The A. F. of L. is a close corporation oper- ated for little groups who get all the money they can at the expense of all the rest of non- unionized labor.” (The ent on this attack. Mr. scales, conditions to feed men, women and children.” Mr. Green does not re- ply at all. Dreiser states The A. F. L. porations. Mr dares not to reply. Green evades this di- rect attack upon this sheriff who is the agent of Pinchot, who is work- ing hand in hand with Lewis to break strike and only replies in general ‘the distres- sing and inhuman con- ditions described have been brought to the at- tention of the govern- ment and given public- ity by the A. F. of L. Green’s only reply is that Dreiser's attack is “unjustifiable.” | AFL corfupt officialdom is betraying not only the great bulk of un- organized labor but also the rank and file of the A. F. L—Ed.) Workers from the striking area, from Penn- sylvania, Ohio, West Virginia as well as from the field in Illinois and the anthracite, what have you to say to the situation in the coal fields and the defense of Mr. Green? Textile workers of Danville, Elizabetthtown, Lawrence, Marion and Gastonia what do you say of this miserable defense of Mr. Green? Workers in the A. F. of L. unions, what have you to say of the strike breaking role of the UMWA? Say, who is right? The testimony of the workers which is carried in Dreiser’s first story or Mr. Green; the National Miners Union or the UMWA. Workers everywhere give your answer to the Greens’, the Lewis’, the coal barons, and the strike breaking Pinchots! Rush relief to the heroic miners who are fighting the battle of all labor. il (WILDWOOD, P/ Mr Green is uterly sil- Green’s only ans- wer is that “during the} last ten years more than} $3,000,000,000 have been| spent in the coal fields} of Pennsylvania. Ohio,| West Virginia and Ken- tucky, to protect wage and The facts} are even worse than leadership has) worked for years hand) in glove with the cor-| Green the | | | | BUCK, store Pox 2 By BURCK TT present miners strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, is the s truggle against the starvation wages in the coal mine | fields. Oyer forty thousand miners are engaged in the battle against the coal barons, to get liv- ing wages for themselves and to be able to sup- | port their families. On the side of the coal barons in this battle is the government—Hoover, Mellon and Com- pany—répresénting the combined interests of the trusts and bankers and the entire class of ex- ploiters of the working class and poor farmers. The wholé capitalist class, with all its powerful weapons, with thé infamous Iron and Coal Po- lice, State Militia, class courts and newspapers, is working for the defeat of the miners through arrests and jailing of active strikers and by threats of deportation of foreign born miners. They want to force the miners and their families to submit to starvation conditions, in order that the mine owners may be able to reap enormous profits from the labors of the miners. The miners are conducting their battle hero- ically, They have gone to the picket line en masse, With their wives, sisters and children, in spite of arrests, jailings, shootings, and in spite of the fatt that some pickets have already been killed by the murderous thugs of the coal barons. The same Hoover government which is now doing its utmost to assist the mine owners’ at- tempt to defeat the miners and compel them to submit to starvation conditions, is known to the poor farmers through its actions of assistance to Farmers: Help the Miners’ Strike Wall Street financiers, railroad companies, ele- vator and terminal companies, implement trusts, wheat speculators, local bankers, money lenders, rich farmer capitalists and landlords, in robbing the tenant farmers, share-croppers and poor farmers. This same government which through its armed thugs afd deputy sheriffs arrests, jails and shoots striking thinérs, is assisting the rob- bers of the poor farmers in forcibly collecting debts and taxes, in auctioning their animals and implements, in foréclosing their mortgages and evicting them from their farms, The miners are fighting the struggle of the whole working class, and also the poor afrmers. Therefore we must assist them with all our power to win this strike. We must express our solidarity with their struggle, not only in words but in deeds. We must send all possible material help so that they need not surrender their demands, becat&e they and their families have nothing to eat. We know that the poor farmers have no money. They cannot help in that form. But we are certain that all poor farmers who under- stand the significance of the miners’ struggle, can and are willing to spare some food. We ask the toilers on the land everywhere throughout the country to rally to the relief af our striking brothers in the mine fields. Get your neighbors together. Explain to them the meaning of this struggle of the miners. Select a Relief Committee and begin to gather food, such as wheat, flour, potatoes, vegetables, meat, butter, eggs, etc., and send them in carloads. If you cannot pay the freight arrange with the nearest city workers to make collections for pay- ing the freight. Or, if you leave no means to pay freight at all send it collect, and it will be paid by the Relief Committee. The question of miners’ relief should also be | taken up in every farmers’ organization and cooperative. Many of these organizations can pssist very materially, if only those farmers who se sympathetic to the miners’ struggle will fight and press in these organizations for relief. It would atso be very encouraging if farmers’ organizations will pass resolutions of solidarity for the striking miners. In these same resolu- tions the abolition of Iron and Coal Police and the withdrawal-of all police forces from the strike area must be demanded; injunctions agains picketing, arresting, jailing and shooting the strikers must be vigorously condemned and the right to picket must be demanded. Agricultural workers and toiling farmers should arrange meetings everywhere, take up this question of organizing relief and pass sol- idarity resolutions for the striking miners. Toiling farmers! as you fight against the rob- bery of trusts and bankers and against the Hoo- ver government and its Farm oBard, against the taxation burdens, the evictions, aaginst mortgage foreclosures, etc., combine your fight with your proletarian brothers in the mine field! Strengthen your fight by sending relief and ex- press your solidarity in resolutions. Send all relief to the following address: Penn-Ohio Miners Relief Committee 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Party Life Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. |.Units Must Help Themselves. By N. FELD (New Jersey). T the last unit meeting (Jersey City unit), the question of headquarters was discussed, and the entire question was based on how to get $14 more in order to pay rent for the month. I put the question of headquarterg in a different manner. It is not only a questio® of $14. Sup- pose we get money for two monehs’ rent; will this solve the problem? The question of head- quarters is a question of activity. The unit has not been carrying on any ac- tivities, not a single campaign—Election, Daily Worker, Scottsboro, Trade Union, etc. unit has a membership of 20 comrades, of them very good elements; another unit with less forces is doing much more. The five new mem- bers who joined the Party recently are getting discouraged. The Section and District are of the same opinion. Headquarters can be maintained only through activities. Organize L. S. N. R. groups, revive the International Labor Defense in this town. Many comrades are working in shops—form Trade Union groups. Conduct the work of the John Reed Club in a proper manner and the Negro comrades will not kick about discrimina- tion there. Spread the Daily Worker and Lib- erator where you collected Scottsboro signa- tures; place these papers on the news stands. Most of the workers in town do not yet know of the existence of our Pprty here. When they do, we will not have to waste time on how to get $14. It is true that the police terror has increased to a great extent and it is difficult to work here and the Section and District will have to come and help. But do not give the excuse that the District broke the police terror in New Bruns- wick and Yonkers and therefore we will wait until the District will mobilize the entire forces to break the police terror. In New Brunswick and Yonkers the comrades suffered enough, car= ried on activities and developed the struggle; many meetings were broken up, many heads were broken, before the District could come to help. If the Unit is of the opinion that the Section and District should send comrades for chairman, speaker, to distribute leaflets and to get a permit for the meeting, then what do we need the unit for? The Unit must stabilize itself on a function- ing basis. Exercise your tongue in the open-air meetings, and show to the workers that we un- derstand the situation. Instead of coming to the Unit with your Party book merely to pay dues once in two weeks, come to the headqua ters twice a week without your book. Be a tive between the meetings. Do not wait for he from the Section and District. When you b gin to show some activity, be sure that the Part, will not leave you all alone, but will help you in every way. If you will wait for good or- ganizers to be sent you, you will have to wait tdo long. You are able to develop yourself and the other comrades and increase your useful- ness to the Party. FIGHT STEADILY FOR RELIEF! Visit the homes of the unemployed workers. Lis all cases of starvation, undernourishment, inade- quate relief. Carry on a sustained and steady, struggle for unemployment relief for the starving families from the city government, the large corporations and employers. nenib! Have large delegations of workers present at every me2ti city council to fight for adequate re- lief for all cases of starving and undernourished workers’ families. II]. Preparations for Imperialist War and Armed Intervention in the U.S.S.R. Preparations by the capitalists for the next imperial- ist war, especially for military intervention against the Soviet Union, are going on apace. All the talk capitalists “reducing” cover up the real war preparations. Lenin's Teachinzs on How the Imperialists Prepare War Lenin teaches us that imperialist war is no accident put is inseparable from the capitalist system. Lenin | or any of the countries subscribing to this protocol said: as incompatible with its principles. War is no accident, nor it is a “sin,” as the Brian, Henderson and Co. did not dare to reject Christian priests think, but capitalism. capitalist life as peace is. War is the continuation of the everyday struggles end rivalries of the capitalist powers for markets and colonies TRANSFERRED to the field of armed What is the meaning of the dealings and relations be- tween the capitalist powers since the infamous Ver- which concluded the “last” war, if not a constant struggle for positions and advantages in pre- paration FOR THE NEXT ARMED CONFLICT. various imperialist sailles Tri The Tariff War between the powers has never been as sharp as it is today. imperialist power is trying to erect a tariff wall around its frontiers to shut out the competing goods rivals, at the same time aiming to break down the tariff walls of its opponents. This is the policy of every imperialist power. This policy is a continuation war of 1914-1918—the fight for markets and colonies— and the PRELUD® to the next war. Capitalism for unrestrained economic warfare between the capital- ists within each country, and between the capitalists of yarious countries. The capitalist class in the States stands foremost in war preparations to wrest world supremacy from Great Britain, and to lead the imperialist powers in the attack upon the Soviet ‘The consistent peace policies of the Soviet Union are well known, as well as the unflinching determination of its toiling masses to defend the socialist fatherland of the world proletariat from eny and all imperialist attacks. In line with its peace policies. the Soviet Union stated its attitude to the European Union Commission of the League of Nations on the question of economic warfare between various states, proposing “the complete cessation of all forms of economic aggression.” rade Litvinov, speaking for the Soviet Union, had chal- Jenged the Capitalist powers to sign with the Union a protocol by which— the parties undertake not to adopt in their relations with each other any discrimination whatsoever and regard the adoption in any of their countries special attitnde militating against the interests of one nd their servants about “outlawing war” and armaments is nothing but a SCREEN to an inevitable stage of War is as much a legitimate part of of the ialist slaughter. Street government by demonstrating in tens an | the preparation of a new imperialist war. This is the third in Comrade Bittleman’s series on the war danger articles must realize the urgent need of taking up the most vigorous and wide-spread fight against this danger of a new imper- farmers of the country to answer the war moves of the Wall international Day of protest against The Communist Party calls upon the workers and d hundreds of thousands on August First, and how to fight it. Every worker who reads these one of The certain battle. the Soviet Union is a WAR MISSION. military intervention. Each of its the Soviet Union. of the stands United talism and Communism. Union. Listen to Babson: son’s emphasis). Com- Soviet of a Steft this proposal OPENLY. But they rejected it in fact. By this they have proven once more that unrestrained economic warfare, leading inevitable to armed war, is an inseparable part of the capitalist system. The Hoover Imperialists Lead in the Struggle Against The present mission of Stimson and Mellon abroad It is devoted especially towards lining up the capitalist powers for more intensified eco- nomic warfare against the Soviet Union preliminary to The capitalists of the United States are assuming the leadership in the fight against the Soviet Union to rid the world of the socialist “menace” and to settle their antagonisms with England and the other European powers at the expense of the workers and peasants of The Babson Statistical Organization, the information service of Big Business, states the issue like this: “Be- hind all the political and economic troubles which are disturbing Europe today, THE STAGE IS BEING SET FOR A GIGANTIC CONFLICT” (our emphasis). What conflict is that going to be? A conflict between Capi- Russia, naturally, represents Communism, But who are going to be the foremost champions of Capitalism in this impending conflict? Our country (the United States—A, B.) today ts the very bulwark of world capitalism and with France controls the world’s gold, navies and territories (Bab- ‘This linking up of American and French imperialism by Babson is no accident. In Europe, France is the foremost champion of military intervention against the Soviet Union. The French General Staff, with the par- ticipation of the British and Polish Staffs, is outlining the intervention campaign and is organizing the armies of intervention, The Hoover imperialist group, through its Federal Farm Board, was storing up grain and other provisions on the Atlantic seaboard for the armies of intervention by arrangement with the French General to those who will. Congress in Europe.” ‘The Wall Street Journal states the case for war against the Soviet Union in this way: ‘The American system of government is the most complete and definite expression of the principles upon which the Western civilization is based (Capitalism— A. B), and is in the MOST COMPLETE OPPOSI- ‘TION to the system which the Soviet government is enveadoring to establish in Russia and, eventually, everywhere.” (Our emphasis), Nicholas Murray Butler, head of Columbia Univer- sity, is one of the most polished and suave servants— one is tempted to say, butlers—of American Big Busi- ness, At a luncheon in his honor at the American Club in Paris, Butler urged international economic action against the Soviet Union as follows: ‘We ought not to postpone for a week or a month those joint international undertakings (against the Soviet Union—A. B.).....If France, if Great Britain, if Italy, if the United States, if Canada and the rest each start to do this thing alone they will get nowhere, ahd they will leave the field to our Eastern European friend (Soviet Union—A. B.) with a plan. Let the world wake up—let it demand of its men in office that they either take a constructive lead or give way The National Civic Federation, one of the most vici- ous and reaétionary anti-labor organizations in the Uni- ted States, HEADED BY A VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, Matthew Woll, has assumed the initiative in organizing an “interna- tional” campaign against the “menace” of Socialism in the Soviet Union. Upon the suggestion of Ralph Easley, Matthew Woll will appoint a committee “to confer with leaders of the moral and patriotic (1!) forces abroad upon the advisability of creating a joint international committee to deal with this menace (!!) from a world standpoint and, if deemed wise, to call an international Matthew Woll, chief collaborator of Big Business in wage-cutting and strike-breaking made his appeal in support of Easley’s proposal as follows: Tt is not time for the peoples of all democratic and free (1!) nations of the world to join one another in meeting the challenge of Soviet Russia? Matthew Woll is a “labor” leader, a leader of the ment.” capitalists. American Federation of Labor, which means an agent of the capitalist class in the labor movement. same as the whole crew of social-reformists, stand in the front ranks of preparing the military intervention in the Soviet Union. with Wall Street. to disarm the’ working class in the face of this capital- ist offensive by demoralizing and confusing the more advanced elements. gades are paving the way for Muste. ‘As a preliminary to armed intervention, especially to disrupt the successful conclusion of the Five-Year Plan, the Hoover imperialist group is carrying on ECO- NOMIC warfare against the Soviet Union. One of the aims is to blockade exports from the Soviet Union and to stop imports into it as well, regardless of the fact that such a move is bound to aggravate the crisis in the capitalist countries. ‘The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York went on record in favor of “an embargo on im~- ports frem Soviet Russia and in opposition to the ex- portation of industrial machinery to the Soviet govern- ‘That this will mean more unemployment for the workers in the United States, seems to worry the Chamber of Commerce not at all. Stimson and Mellon are now busy in Europe lining up the capitalist powers for this program. All this is being done with the hypocritical cry of Soviet “dumping.” But who are the real dumpers? The capitalist powers and most especially the American The Fake of Soviet Dumping What is dumping? Dumping is the policy of the capitalists to sell goods on foreign markets at a price much lower than the one for which the same goods are being sold at the home market. sible? It is possible because the big trusts, which, in most cases, enjoy a practical monopoly of the home market for their products, compel the home consumers to pay exceptionally high prices. This enables the monopolies to export the same commodities to foreign markets at) much lower prices, sometimes at, what is called by the capitalists, prices below the cost of prod- uction, until they have driven their competitors out of the field. ‘The home consumer is made to pay for the He, the foreign The Socialist party is working The “left” faker, Muste, is trying The Lovestone and Cannon rene- further market solving ing of How is this pos- But to the lowering of the standard of living of the toiling masses.” All the capitalist delegates were opposed to this proposal. Hoover imperialist group, Mr. Mckelvie, to make the main attack on the Soviet proposals against the dump- ‘Thus the capitalists of the United States have exposed themselves as the real and most aggressive dumpers. used, This exploded fake is the basis for the imperial- ist howl of the “Red Trade Menace.” Why is it done? To confuse the masses. To divert their attention fvom capitalism, which is really and miseries of the workers and farmers. To incite and prejudice the masses against the part of the campaign of preparation for military inter= vention against the Soviet Union, conquest of foreign markets by the capitalists. This is the bases of capitalist foreign trade. Soviet Union is a SOCIALIST state. It exports not for profit, or conquest of markets, but for USE. It is exchanging goods for goods. If it is able to sell commodities cheaper than the capitalists, it is because the socialist system of production is SUPERIOR to the capitalist system. the Soviet Union does not have to pay the tremendous tributes of PROFIT and RENT to capitalists and land- lords, Consequently, the policy of dumping is totally For one thing, the system in to the system of the Soviet Union. It is 2 CAPITALIST weapon, not a socialist one. This fake of Soviet “dumping” was exposed mosi: glaringly at the two recent conferences in Geneva and London. At Geneva, in the Conference of the European Union Commission, Litvinov offered his proposal for a “pact of economic non-aggression.” The acceptance of this proposal would make dumping very difficult. Hence, the capitalists did not accept this proposal. Litvinov proposed, on the question of dumping, that ex- portable commodities must not be sold at the home at prices HIGHER THAN THE PRICES OF THE FOREIGN MARKET. Acceptance of this proposal would have KILLED dumping. Hence the capitalists refused to accept that, either. This explodes the fake of Soviet “dumping” most definitely. But at the recent International ‘Wheat Con- ference in London, the Soviet delegates proved that the capitalists of the United States are the most aggressive dumpers. The conference discussed the question of how | to dispose the wheat “surplus.” The representatives of \ the Soviet Union at the Wheat Conference offered to join the capitalist wheat-exporting countries in the mat- ter of distributing the wheat harvest of 1931, but o the following condition: “that the possible methods of this important question must not, however, lead) But it fell to the spokesman of the wheat at the expense of the working masses. the fake of Soviet “dumping” continues to be responsible for the plight Soviet Union, It is