The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1931, Page 4

1th Street, New York Cit: JRE Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7 Address and mai! all checks to the Datiy Worker, Inc., dally except Suuday. at 50 Bast Cable: “DATWORK,” East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. General Luden ed war in Europe by July, a ton, whose name “He's not far wrong.” military intervention id and Union are going on with feverish are increasing. The states border- Union are brought under fascist rule, in preparation for the attack. French granting large loans to its vassals. and Rumania for strategic rail- enlargement of armies, for the war t the of Socialism. The French General Staff had once set the date on for 1930 and then changed it to 1931. Soviet military campaign have been ined and armies of intervention are being organized group undertook to supply food and conferences place between leading imperial- Mellon are abroad fixing up the “in- list offensive against the Soviet and symptoms from all sides in- nd military intervention. American Capitalism Ready for War Hurley declares with satisfaction not failed to profit by the lessons we and 1918. Our ns then for mobiliza- n power and of industry were vague and in- There is going to be no such vagueness mpleteness now. He says: “Tomorrow a different and a brighter (!) pic- ture would be presented. With the declaration of war by Congress there would spring into imme- diate action elaborately and carefully conceived or- ganizations for the marshalling not only of trained forces of soldiers but of industrial sources of war. The navy fs one of chief war weapons of American capi- talism. In truggle for world supremacy the capi- talist class of the United States is building a navy superior to that of Great Britain. At the present time, the U. S. fleet is already stronger than the British in all categories of fighting ships except cruisers. The re has 53 cruisers, the United States has the naval rivalry between these two im- ‘obbers has become reduced to a fight over The United States is now building 9 cruisers and has projected to build 8 cruisers in 1930-31. The American imperialists are beginning to feel ready to engage Great Britain in the decisive conflict. American capitalism is paying particular attention to the development of the newer arms of destruction, tanks and other such as, the Air Fleet, poison gas, forms of army mechanization. In the Air Fleet the U. S. is considerably superior to Great Britain. In 1929, the U. S. had 1,823 war planes as against 1,292 In May, 1931, 672 planes took part maneuvers which number constitutes only a nucleus of “a full-sixed war division which would include 2,238 planes.” The greatest secrecy sur- rounds the development of the war-chemical industry, the production of poison gases and bombs. The Army is being rapidly mechanized. Thus, in the cavalry tanks or “combat cars” take the place of horses, each such car costing $70,000. We must especially discuss the War Department's of Great Britain’s, in the Army Air The U. M. W. A. As Government Strike Breakers By JACK JOHNSTONE Driving the striking miners back into the mines at the point of the gun is the method used by the deuptized coal operators, U. M. W. A. gunmen, the Coal and Iron Police who are aided and pro- tected in these strikebreaking activities by Pin- chot’s state troopers. This is the only means hey can use to enforce the scab agreement signed oy the U. M. W. A. with the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company. Four days of the most intensive error, where deputies 2s numerous as the miners on strike have gone from house to house in the carly hours of the morning trying to force the strikers into the mines, arresting scores of men, women and children, driving strikers out of the company houses, has failed to break the strike line. Not more than 400, many of them scabs from the outside, have yielded to this terror, out of a striking force of 2,500. Those who have yielded to the terror are sullen and can be pulled out on strike again. Never before in the history of the American labor movement was such an intensified form of strike breaking terror practiced, and it is but a ‘ample of what will occur in the bigger mass shikes that are even now in the making. In the pasi the employers and the government depended gentrally on the private agencies, the Pinkertons, the Tarleys, etc. as their main strike breakers. Today the A.F. of L. is the official strike- breaking organization of the government. In the struggle of the miners the strike breaking united front betwe2n the government, the coal operators, and th U.M. W. A. stands out clearly and the miners understand this. ‘There is not 2 mining camp in the strike area where Fagan, Lewis or Green would dare address a meeting of strikers without the protection of deputies and state troopers, and even with this protection they} have been unable to hold meet- ngs, and were giriven out of camp. So the only means left fgg? them to try to shove over their ting agreement is fascist terror. ‘dered, 1 said to be dying, 19 shot, over 302Clubbed, 550 kno" arrests, thousands gassed, over $1,000,000 de: ded for bail, over 3,000 families served with evjction notices, the striging front of more than $0,000 miners still holfis solid. There is war in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Qhio, Class war, with all forces of the government, the coal operators, and the A. F. of L. shooting into and mowing down the ranks of the striking miners and their families. This organized intensified brutal terror marks ® crucial point in the strike, Will they succeed through fascist methods in again driving the i vation and slavery?Shall it be with their own checking weigh- heir own union committees, to force itouch the agreement, or shall it be the same cid tonnage scale, the same cheating at the scales, no pay for dead work, siate, bad bottoms, no rails, no posts, forced buying at company rhoves ot bich prices with-company made money, etc,, with the added burden of the Lewis-Fagan company check-off? This is what the war is alone. shot ship *. ¥ about, the fight for 55 cents for mining a ton of | coal and the right of the miners to elect a checkweighman that will see they are not cheated at the scales, the right to build their own union, the National Miners’ Union. The struggle against evictions, against starva- tion, against the coal operators and the U. M W. A., against the terror of the state, is the fight for 55 cents per ton. ten: men, women and children are being mur- dered, shot, clubbed, gassed, thrown, out of their homes because they demand 55 cents for minin: a ton of coal, a bloody war against the miners, because they demand 55 cents for mining a ton of coal. Can the miners be driven back into these heil- holes of slavery by this fascist terror? This can happen if the miners are left to starve and fight “Give us a bowl of soup per day, a loaf of bread, some milk for the children, tents to sleep in, and we will win,” is not mere idle talk of a few miners, this is how the main bulk of the strikers and their families feel, and talk. They know who they are fighting against, what they are fighting for and what they have to go back to if they lose, that is why there is war in Penn- sylvania, West Virgina and Ohio. The miners are standing the brunt of the new wage-cutting of- fensive the results of this strike will have far- reaching effects upon the living standards of the workers as a whole. The bosses are trying to stabilize the standard of living of the workers at @ poverty-starvation level. The demand of the miners for 55 cents per ton, as against the 30 cents per ton demand of the coal operators, in- terfers with, hinders and can stop the bosses’ wage cutting program. That’s why there is war in Pennsylvania, miners require the help of the working class in order to win. Tear gas bombs, rifles, sawed-off s, machine guns, is the ammunition d in to defeat the miners, with plenty of deputized U. M. W. A. gunmen, coal and iron police, and state troopers to use them. The am- munition that the striking miners ask for from the working class is food, clothing, tents, and money and to arouse the working class in protest against the murderous war being carried on by the government, the coal operators and their strike-breaking agents, the U. M. W. A., and the A. F. of L, fascist leaders. FIGHT STEADILY FOR RELIEF! Organize Unemployed Councils to Fight for Unemployment Relief. Organize the Employed Workers Into Fighting Unions. Mobilize the Employed and Unemployed for Common Strug- gles Under the Leadership of jks. the Trade Union Unity League ‘Daily, Wor rker” Porty U.S.A. x be “vt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mall avery whare: dne year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Borough@ of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctly. Foreign: one year. $8- six months. $4.50. — rg This is “Daily Worker” \ the fourth article in Comrade Bittelman’s the War Danger and How to Fight It. rmaments and Mi litary Preparations for Imperialist War series on On page one of today’s we publish new facts about the plan for a united capitalist attack against the Workers’ Soviet Republic. Every worker must realize the seriousness o fthe danger of a nef im- perialist war. Workers! Turn out in masses on August First and demonstration against the new world slaughter which the imperialists are preparing. plans for the conscription of an Army of 4,000,000 im- diately upon the outbreak of war, with 7,000,000 more men registered in reserve. neral MacArthur, chief of the Army Staff, presented the following mobiliza- tion plan to the War Policies Commission of Con- gres Here it is in substance “We have a general mobilization plan. . . . It contemplates the mobilization, by successive per- iods, of six field armies and supporting troops, or approximately 4,000,000 men.” To make tt possible, the War Department has built up a large standing Army, with a tremendous Corps of Reserve Officers, as a nucleus for the con- script Army of millions. Let us look at the present military forces of the U. S. The Federal Budget had provided for a personnel of 214,004 in the Regular Army in 1930, and for 216,524 in 1931. This compares with 100,000 in August, 1914, and 133,081 in 1929. Next comes the Officers Reserve Corps. This totals 113,523. This is the commanding staff for the conscripted Army of 4 million. The Officers Reserve Corps is continually being augmented by active training for new officers with the Army garrisons, the Reserve Officers’ Train- ing Corps and the Citizen's Military Training Camps. Last, but not least, comes the National Guard. It is part of the Federal military forces. Its strength as provided in the Federal Budget for 1930 is 190,000 of- ficers and men and for 1932—195,000. This compares with 120,000 in 1914 and 185,000 in 1929. The total personnel of the Military Establishment as provided by the 1930 Budget is 810,304 with a total appropriation of $331,338,442. Mobilizing Labor and Industry for War. The War Department has outlined before the War Policies Commission of Congress a complete plan for the war time mobilization of labor and industry. Al- ready the War Department has commissioned 14,000 big capitalists as “contact men” who will assume charge for the War Department of the industrial machine upon the declaration of war. General MacArthur reports these plans as follows: “That immediately upon the outbreak of war the President will be given am statutory powers to mobilize promptly and use effectively the man power and material resources of the nation.” General MacArthur also provides for the establish- ment of a “Labor Administration.” This Administra- tion will serve as the weapon for the conseription of labor collaborating with Green and Woll towards that end. The mobilization of labor and industry for the war is fascilitated by the fact that a large number of Army and Navy officers are occupying leading positions in Big Business, The Navy claims about 600 of such “cap- tains of industry” in New York alone, while the Army points to about 250. Suffice it to mention the Army General, James G. Harbord, Chairman of the Radio Corporation of America; and Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Electric Bond and Share. Thus capitalist busi- ness and government link up together. The Growth of Military Budgets and War Expenditures, Compare the Army and Navy Budgets of the United States of 1925-26 with 1928-29. In the first instance the expenditures amounted to $528,701,000. In the second instance they amounted to $658,000,000. An increase of 24 per cent. During the samé period the French mili- tary budget increased 50 per cent. : It is significant that these are the two powers that Babson considers the mainstay of world capitalism. As the Babson Special Letter of March, 1931, say ‘Our country today is the very bulwark of world capitalism and with France controls the world’s gold, navies and territories. Although both Frenchmen and Americans like to talk about democracy and the “Peepul,” yet in both countries the factory is the real ‘King.’” Hence, both countries are topping. the list of increases in armaments. ‘The above figures for U. S. expenditures of the Army and Navy include only a relatively small part of the total expenditures for -socalled “National Defense.” A truer picture of this total is given in the following official figures which include all expenditures relating to the operation of the War and Navy Departments, war preparations, and the payment of war debts. These figures show that in the first nine months oi the fiscal year, 1931, expenditures for “national de- fense” amounted to the staggering sum of $2,124,737,000. The total governmental expenditures for these nine months amounted to $3,126,540,000. This means that 67.9 per cent of the Federal expenditures go for war and war preparations. In other words, out of every dollar spent by the Federal government in the first nine months of the fiscal year, 1931, nearly 70 cents was spent for war preparations. Every month the government is spending $236,081.- 888 on war preparations but not one cent on unem- ployment relief. This amount alone would suffice to pay monthly unemployment relief to about 5 million unemployed at the rate of $45 a month, And if we take the total war expenditures for the nine months and divide it among the 13 million unemployed work- ers, we would have $163.45 for each unemployed as one lump sum for immediate relief. The capitalist class of the United States is hur- { | | riedly building up its war positions in Latin America The policy of the U. S. State Department is becoming increasingly more aggressive in pushing the penetration of American imperialism into Latin America. Latin America is one of the main fields of rivalry and struggle between the capitalists of the United States and the capitalists of Great Britain. American | capitalism is steadily pushing the British out, but the | British Exposition in the Argentine and the trip of the Prince of Wales to South America. | Both imperialist robbers are trying to strengthen | their positions in Latin America in preparation for the | wer between them for world supremacy. | In these war preparations American imperialism is paying special attention to the countries of the Carib- | bean. Most of these countries are, to one degree or another, practically colonies oppressed by American imperialism, The Caribbean sea and the Caribbean | countries are held by American imperialism also for military strategic reasons. For the defense of the Panama Canal and the pro- | jected Nicaraguan Canal—American imperialism is building maval bases and coaling stations at all strate- | gic points in the Caribbean. New Naval bases are being | planned in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The re- cent trip of Hoover to the islands was a war trip. American imperialism is also trying to line up the governments of the Caribbean countries for the war i against the Soviet Union. Most of the governments are | puppet governments, placed in office and maintained there by the U. S. government with means of terror i and assassination, as in Cuba and Nicaragua. Amer- | ican imperialism does not tolerate governments in the Caribbean that do not do the bidding of Wall Street, | including warfare against the Soviet Union. H Organize to Struggle Against the War Danger and | Military Intervention. | | | | | We have seen how American capitalism is prepar- | ing for war and military intervention against the So- | viet Union. We have also seen how the leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the Socialist Party } are standing in the front trenches of this criminal con- spiracy against the working class. We must begin to | organize our forces, seriously and thoroughly, for the | fight against the war danger and military intervention. August First will be the next great occasion to dem- | onstrate and fight against war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, August First is International Anti- War Day. On that day the workers and toiling masses all over the world will demonstrate against imperialist war and military intervention. The Communist Inter- | national and the Communist Parties in each country are leading the fight. | To fight for the Defense of the Soviet Union means to fight against war, against the capitalist offensive and | reaction, against the lynching of the Negroes and de- | portation of foreign born, against the miseries of capi- talist exploitation and colonial oppression. It is a fight for Socialism. Let us begin to prepare ror the big fight. Build up and strengthen the revolutionary unions organized in the Trade Union Unity League. Organize the Councils of Unemployed. Join and support the Communist Par- ty. In this way shall we forge the power for the de- cisive struggles against war, intervention and capitalism. In this way we shall properly prepare to turn the capi- talist war against the Soviet Union into a revolution- ary war against capitalism in the United States and the. world over. This must not be forgot- The government is carrying on patrol thugs. wagon at Wildwoo* Pa., on June 22 when police at- tacked mass picket line at But- ler Coal Co., and killed Pete Zi- garic. Right—One of the strikers recovering after he had collapsed from brutal gas and club attack of Pinchot’s police and company Answer Bead Attacks of Pinchot’s Police! Rush Relief |The ‘Dai ly’ a Mighty | Weapon Against Boss Class Justice By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL tional Secretary, International Labor Defense Hundreds of arrests already in the Pittsburgh- hio-West Virginia coal fields with the terror ave rising daily. Jails are filling up. One hun- red striking miners behind bars in the Harlan ‘ounty, Kentucky prison. Crucial days in the eht for the lives of nine Scottsboro boys. An- her hundred prisoners—serving long terms of om six months to life imprisonment—buried ‘ive in the bastilles of the boss class, including fconey and Billings, the Imperial Valley, Wood- wn and Centralia prisoners, McNamara and chmidt. Thousands in Wall Street’s dungeons » Latin American countries. Many bitterly per- cuted in American imperialism’s richest colony ino Philippines. The Daily Worker is a mighty weapon of the nternational Labor Defense in fighting these ersecutions, in organizing and carrying through 2 struggles for the defense and the liberation of ese courageous fighters victimized by boss class b Special efforts should be made by the | hole membership of the International Labor ~ofense to help The Daily Worker overcome its sent financial crisis. Quick and efficient ction now will help release The Daily Worker vom its burden of debt, thus enabling it to take » more effectively the tremendously vitdl strug- ‘es of the working-class now developing on every vand, To the aid of The Daily Worker as a part of the strugle against boss class justice! only for the benefit of the large business houses, in which mothers of the country are told that West Virginia and Ohio. The stricken America, SEND RELIEF! overworked, workers, the unemployed. ‘The parasitic charities make it a practice to take a day's pay from the pay envelope of the underpaid, If these employed workers (who are not much better off than the unemployed work- ers) protested against the forceable taking of the day’s pay from their envelope, they im- mediately found themselves in the ranks of Through this system of forcing the workers of Kansas City to pay salaries to a lot of graft~ ing parasites they raise annually a fund that runs into the millions of dollars, which comes mainly out of the pockets of the working class, but when one of these same workers gets laid off and cannot find employment, if they make Kansas City--the Heart of America By J.D. 'HE life blood of capitalist America, which is supposed to flow through its heart, Kansas City, is getting much slower every day, The Chamber of Commerce, through their various fake agencies, attempt to make the starving masses of Kansas City believe that Kansas City is a white spot on the map of crisis more and mofe of a problem. merce. staggered employed hide in, application to these fakers whose salaries they pay, they are insulted with such remarks as you are lazy and don’t want to work. The army of unemployed grows rapidly day by day and life for the working class becomes Through the winter months the continued promise of better times in the spring was the favorite smoke screen of the Chamber of Com- Spring came and the prosperity that was just around the corner did not materialize, in- stead it seemed to be finding other corners to The Kanses City fakers next fell in line with ‘the remainder of ‘the country to bring back prosperity through such fakery as children’s welfare day, when workers are taught that dancing around a May pole and listening to grand and eloquent speeches on the proper way to raise a child through proper food, clothing, the teeth, good homes to live in, etc., but the tnoney to buy them with, that is not in the plan of child ‘welfare day, Mothers’ day, “another commercial - holiday, they are the backbone of the nation, and as such should be raised to their proper sphere, by speeches of grafting politicians, faking priests, preachers and rabbis, but for food clothing and shelter, to give this backbone strangth to live on, ‘that will come with pie in the sky when they die. But even this fail to fill the stomachs of the unemployed and staggered employed work- ers, so the bond issue, one of the oldest tricks of the system, is resorted to. With the promise to the workers that if the bond issue is passed prosperity will immediately return and every- | Officials and straw bosses. thnig will be a heaven on earth. A week ago such a bond issue was passed in Kansas City. It called for the expenditure of $29,000,000 in salaries over a period of ten years, or the ten-year yan of Kansas City (an at- tempted trial at planned work after the method of these terrible Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, which is conclusive proof that there must be much to the method of planned construction of the Soviet Union), but that these demagogic politicians do not mean to use it for the pur- pose of solving the problem that faces the en- tire working class for a means of securing food, clothing and shelter, but rather to line their pockets with more gold, to satisfy their lust for more and better exploitation of the toiling masses. ‘The division of the spoils of this $29,000,000 will'go matrily to high-salaried By JORGE Don’t Be “Wrought Up” At least not the way one comrade, C. S. was, who writes us that he was “much wrought up by the jingo articles in the Post,”. so—what did he do? He wrote a letter to the World-Telegram, making suggestions for such improvements in the World-Telegram as he thought would, if adopted by it, put the Post out of business through winning its readers to read the World- Telegram instead. Helping one capitalist gain at the expense of another has nothing at all in common with working class interests, hence nothing in com- mon with Communist policy. Workers have no interest in helping “good” bosses against “bad” bosses. When you fatten the “good” boss up so he gets big and strong, he will be strong enough to kick you in the slats just like the “bad” boss did. This is the basic error of the | old hokum of “patronize the union label boss.” And since the World-Telegram is fully as “bad” as the Post, if not worse, why help either of them? Why not help the Daily Worker against both? Give us enough money to get a siz- page paper, and start other improvements. yogis . No, It’s Not Strange! A comrade of Detroit sends us a half-page feature editorial of the Detroit Times of June 2, entitled “Detroit’s Welfare Policy Should Not Be Imperiled.” He comments on the margin, re that—“It is strange that the capitalist press admits the bankruptcy of its system.” We say it isn’t strange. Necessity requires it. Why? Well, a huge graft gang was uncovered in Detroit’s “Welfare” system. One crook alone got in one lump some $207,000. Obviously, with Detroit swarming with starving unemployed de- nied relicf, adequate relief, by these grafters and thieves, the exposure of their graft causes a deep anger to be born among the workers. What do you expect a sensible capitalist ed- itor, interested in maintaining capitalism, to do? He could not deny the fact of graft. If he told the truth he would admit that such graft is inherent in capitalism and cannot be stopped until capitalism is overthrown. The Detroit Times editor says nothing of the sort. He tries to make out that it was only an incident—‘a singular case’—‘could have happened to any bank,” etc. Would that be enough? No. It was necessary to say something to soften the anger of the workers. So the Detroit Times editor launches into a bit of demagogic “sympathy stuff,” saying “no workingman was responsible” for unemploy- ment, saying it in capital letters. In fact, he says nobody is responsible—just “the system of production” and “no one men or group of men’—neatly dodging around the class rule of the capitalist class and making it appear that the “system of production,” although unfortunate, is just part of nature and nothing can be done about it fundamentally, It is “not controllable by man,” but the edi- tor must be give some hope, so he vaguely sug- gests that “the most conservative of industrial Jeaders—are endeavoring to bring about insur- ance against unemployment’—which is a lie. There was not a word in favor of the workers administering unemployed relief as a guaran- tee against graft. Please remember, workers, that when the ca- pitalist papers and politicians begin to “talk radical,” you should search their utterances just as is done here, to uncover their demagogy. Comrade Lenin once said that a demagog is the worst foe of the workers. So learn that it is not “strange,” but the logical method of retaining influence among the masses in order to side- track them from revolutionary action. icy The remainder of the money or the few crumbs that will be left will go to the productive workers under a stag- ger plan of two or three days work a week which will make the workers an average weekly sal- ary of $6 to $9 per week. What about the 50,000 unemployed in Kansas City? The number of workers who will gain anything from this stagger plan will be very negligible. The projects ‘that are to be built under this plan are more and larger jails to put working-class and political’ prisoners into, a convention hall so that the crooked politicians, bankers’ associations, Rotarians, Kiwanises, etc., can have more comfortable meeting places in which to figure out bigger and better five and ten-year plans with which to enslave the work- ing class on a larger scale. Another of the projects is more parks, so that the working class can go there (if they have car fare) and get fat on the fresh air and have bigger and better grass to eat, and maybe a few flowers to smell for dessert. Even the little benefits that the working class enjoy by this project will come out of the pock- ets of the workers, by the increased taxation on the homes of the small home owner. The Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City has learned a lesson from Chicago's famous crooks, Mayor Cermak and the Chicago Tribune... They are going to put on a prosperity jubilee, such as was held in Chicago after the election of Anton Cermek as mayor, This will take place in Kansas City for five days, starting the 27th of June, to celebrate the passing of the bond issue. The underpaid, overworked, em- ployed workers may be able to fill their empty stomachs on this sort of trash, as a noisy brass band or two and some fake political speeches seem to be able to take the place of food, ete, (so the fakers try to make us believe). The Kansas City Times and Star, like all cap- italist papers, are on the job with their poison propaganda, that the bond issue will bring back prosperity, and, that since it has passed, the people of Kansas City should help in the jubilee. to bring prosperity back to Kansas City, Now that this fakery will come to a close the aectors of the capitalist system will have to tind a new stimulant, and, in fact, a much stronger one than the last one to keep the heart beating. The consultation of Dr, Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Politician and the Quack Drs. Company of Charities and Churches are going to find it much harder to prescribe for this terrible heart dis« ease of depression which bas sprung out of the music-bound capitalist system.