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

Published dy the Comprodat! Dail Centr Ong aWworker’ of Manhat / Rieunist Party USA By mail everywhere: On: SUBSCRIPREON RAT! year, $6; six months, $3; few York City Foreign two months, $1; excepting Boroughs one year, $8; six months, $4.50. —<——SSESESESEs Spread the Rhode Island Textile By NAT KAPLAN, DRESIDENT HOOVER, throug! 5 erce, Robert P. Lamont secretary of categori- fo stop wag cuts in the R. I Lamont justified wage cuts on the grounds that the “poor bankers” controlling the silk and woolen corporations are not making enough profits during the present This follow: statement of S. t equally sure that no concern, p present time, reduces wage s such a step is absolutely nece: The employers and their government feel it it absolutely necessary to make the textile work- ers pay for the capitalist economic crisis through wage cuts, speed up and unempl The Workers’ Answer. The New England textile workers did not ac- cept this bosses’ program without protest. In February 10,000 American Woolen Co. workers us in Lawrence under the leaders of the N. T. W. U. They won most of their ands, though their orga tional gains were smashed by the terror of the capitalist government. Law- rence proved to the workers the possibility of winning strikes in the present economic crisis. It laid the basis for the present strikes of over 3,200 silk and woolen workers in Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, R. I. and in Putnam, Conn. The New England silk strikes are part of the national strike movement in silk, includ- ing Allentown and Paterson. Smashing the Strikebreakers. The most signi: nt fea of the R. I strikes is that the major strikebreaking tactics of the employers have been defeated. This has been made possible by the correct leadership of the N. T. W. U (1) The effort of the employers to starve the workers into submission has been answered by the opening of three relief stores in R. I. (2) The attempt by the employers and their government to terrorize the workers into submis- sion (wholesale arrests, deportation threats, tear bombing of crowds, “shoot to kill” orders against fickets) has been answered by increased mil- itancy, mass actions, and demands from the capitalist government that the workers be granted their rights. (3) The attempts to fool the workers back their miserable jobs has been answered by the maneuvering ability of the workers, their elected committees and the N. T. W. U. and the ewarned exposure of the sell-out move Anna Weinstock was forced to publicly at nounce her withdrawal from the Central Fells situation. The workers saw through her and her strikebreaking cronies, the Polish American Citizen’s Club and the renegade strike commit- tee member, Frank Faber. The fake vote in Providence of the A. W. C. the Olneyville Businessmen’s Association and that company tool, the democratic Alderman Duf- fy fell flat.- The fake vote was On Monday. On Sunday the workers took their own vote showing | 409 (out of 600 workers in the mill) standing solid in the strike and only 49 for crawling back. Up to the time of writing, the vicious lies in the capitalist press, the “red issue”, the religi- ous issue, the attempt to play craft against craft, has made no real dents in the ranks of the strik- ers. However, the churches have not yet been fully mobilized in the strikebreaking crusade, and the attempt to import scabs has just been started. ‘The workers must be on their guard against the next strikebreaking.moves, The Fight Must Go On. The strikes have now developed into an endur- ance test between the employers and the work- ers. The employers are using every means at their disposal to spread demoralization among the workers. (“We will move out”, ‘‘We are hir- ing new help”, “We are shutting down complete- ly”, are examples of the company lies being wide- ly spread.) But the workers know that as long they keep the mill closed they stand the chance of winning their strike. The weakness of the employers in the situation can be seen by the following facts, among others: 1. Salzberg, mill owner in Putnam, Conn., has already entered into negotiations with the strike committee in his mill. 2. Bloom, another mill owner has expressed his willingness to enter into negotiations with the strike committee, 3, The American Woolen Co. is taking frantic steps to defeat the efforts of the N. T. W. U. to spread the woolen strike. Some of the crafts in May- nard and in Shawsheen village (near Lawrence) have been given improvements in their condi- tions. The loom fixers in Fietcher’s mill (second AWC mill in Providence) have been given prom- ises of wage increases to go into effect soon, etc. The present fight must go on. If the workers retreat now, if they allow their ranks to be broken, they will face a new wave of wage cuts and speed up. The decisive problem is to keep their house- ind children, house to wives and their youth house visits, keep up the agitation, sign up the strikers in the union and spread the strikes. The spreading of the present strikes is a double surety that victory will be won. The Part “Seldom Seen” Miners Play in the Strike = is no real road to Cross Creek. It lies | old model T Ford 4 between the Twin Valleys of Misery. That's ’ iners call it “Seldom Seen”. The Ste- 2 conveniently went broke and failed to pay the miners $8,000 owed to them in back wages.| It took a march upon the county rities at Washington, Pa., to send Stephen- son to jail for fourteen months. That was a little way back. And since then, the county has refused relief of any kind. Since early Spring, many of the miners here were organized by the National Miners Union into a Miners’ Unemployed Council, and are now on the picket lines helping the miners in other camps win their strike.| But those families still living in Seldom Seen tell of the conditions that caused them to quit the mine and to refuse to scab today on the 35,000 striking coal miners agl around the region. Prices at the compa demanded for everyday phenson mine Sixty-six cents for a dozen eggs! $9.98 for a twelve pound ham. 25c for a pound of salt. 68c for a pound of oleomargarine—butter is unknown here. 25¢ for a can of evaporated milk. 40c for Eagle Brand condensed milk for babies. 15c for a box of matches 15e for a cake of Palmolive soap. -10¢ for a cake of P & G soap. 20c for Cambell’s soups or baked beans. These prices are so many reasons why the coal diggers quit work here early in the year. There are no water facilities whatever for the 60 or more houses there. entirely upon hillside springs and creeks. the mine worked, they paid $9 a month for a rotten 4 room shanty. Those four lucky fami- lies that had electricity installed, paid $2.50 a month for that. Some long shanties partitioned store? Here are a few necessities at the Ste- The families depend | When | into three rooms, demanded $6 a month for rent. | In the best months of last year, one radio on ‘he entire patch and three cars—one of these an Children walk a mile and a half to school— if they happen to have shoes and clothes. If anybody becomes ill? No doctor will come to Cross Creek. When Stephenson failed to pay the company’s debts to the only two Avella doctors, although every miner had part of each pay deducted for the doctor, now no doctor will come to “Seldom Seen” and if you're sick you either go five miles to Avella, doctor yourself, or kill yourself. There is no rural mail delivery. If you want to send a letter or get one, it means a walk of a mile and a half to Penowa. In bad weather the country paths leading to the pateh are im- passable. They used to make 42c a ton for the machine coal here, and 50c for pick coal, but only 10 of the 180 men in the mine ever drew more than a “snake”—a curved line meaning either a clear account with the company, or a debt to them. The jobs usually allotted young miners—on the tippel or slate picking—paid 31¢ an hour for 8 hours, and 25c an hour for car greasing. The miners of Cross Creek are standing solid with the strikers of this section. They pledge to stop any scabs who may try to go through Cross Creek to the neighboring mines, and they promise not to go to work until all the mines now on strike sign up with the National Miners Union. Those left at “Seldom Seen” have organized a joint committee with the Jefferson and Penob- scot miners to prevent scabbing and help im- prove the relief. The miners of Cross Creek sup- port the call of the National Miners Union for | a united front of all miners against the coal op- erators and their first lieutenants—the United Mine Workers of America. “Seldom Seen” miners appeal especially to those workers outside of the strike area to help them with relief by sending donations of money and food to the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Vir- ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee, room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. War Bases Reveal Wall St Plans (By Labor Research Association.) (Special to Daily Worker) MERICAN IMPERIALISM has rushed the building of its war bases in the Pacific Ocean, end Wall Street is looking for other is- land sites for naval bases. Recently, negotiations have been under way with the puppet governments of Colombia and | Ecuador looking to the transfer to the United | States of important islands in the Atlantic and Pacitic approaches to the Panama Canal. Harry Gannes in the pamphlet, Yankee Colonies (International Pamphlets, price 10 cents) thus describes war preparations of the U. S. government as seen in the strategic posi- tion of American colonies. “The axis of the American naval machine is the Panama Canal and the Caribbean area with its flank of war bases. Farther out in the Pacific Ocean, 2,000 miles west of the mainland, lie the Hawaiian Islands, one of the most completely fortified naval bases in the world, and 5,000 miles farther out, the Philippine Islands.” “American imperialism maintains in Hawaii a standing army of between 15,000 and 30,000 men at Schofield Barracks. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, vies with Singapore in its military im- portance. Hawaii stands at the cross-roads of the Pacific, like a compass, pointing out the most important trade routes to the North, to the South, to the East and to the West.” No less important for American imperialism and war preparations are the Philippine Is- lands. Admiral Hilary Jones declared that the abandonment of the Philippines would be “tan- tamount to abandonment of our ability to pro- tect our interests in the Far East.” Other war and navy department officials have made similar statements in recent days, and Gen. Leonard Wood, in an interview when he was goverflor-general of the Philippines, said, “Our position here is strategic. It means that we can at a moment's notice rush our ships to the aid of Americans in China.” And he added, “Also, Great Britain depends upon the United States to maintain our posi- tion here. Without us, she could not hold India.” Thus spoke a frank imperialist, recog- nizing the class interests of all imperialists as united against the workers of East and West, of China, India and the Philippines, rising in revolutionary protest against these same im- perialists. Not only in Hawaii and the Philippines, but in Guam and in American Samoa, important naval bases have been built and strengthened .since the World War. Comrade Gannes gives the main facts, briefly and-precisely. Workers who want concrete data about fortifications and defenses, high power radio stations, naval air stations, ammunition depots and submarine bases in the Pacific and in the Caribbean areas “There has been no change in the administration’s policy By BURCK regarding the maintenance of wage levels.”—Sec’y Doak. Daily Worker and Language Press Sending a Correspondent to the Soviet Union JN order to give the American workers and 1 farmers a first-hand picture of the daily life, problems, and achievements of the 160,000,000 toflers of the Soviet Union, straining every nerve to build up their free, socialist society, the Daily Worker and Communist Press generally have arranged t6 send over a member of their staff to live and work in the Workers’ Father- land and write back to us here what he sees and experiences there. Every phase of Soviet life will be covered. Our correspondent will follow with us the daily life of the workers and peasants in their shops, mines, and on the farms; at their union meet- ings, homes; their club houses. We will find out what the Soviet masses do and think about a million things! Including what they think of America. We will discover what the Five Year Plan means in terms of human lives; of the toiling masses. We will see how they run their own government and the role of their great Communist Party in building up socialism over one-sixth of the earth's surface. The next best thing to going to the Soviet Union and seeing for yourself is to have a friend go who'll promise to tell you all he finds out, and answer your many questions as nearly as he can? Well, here’s your chance, given you by your workers’ press. The series will start in the early fall. Your correspondent is at your command. Send a letter immediately giving your sugges- tions to this comrade and listing the different matters which you would like to have him look | into while there.| Ask the workers and farmers in your neighborhood and place of work what they’d most like to hear about and put that down, too. Your correspondent can’t undertake to answer each one individually, but all questions and sug- gestions sent in will be carefully listed and every attempt made to act on these, and to include material on each and every one in the course of the series of stories which he will write for the press, Send all such letters to: Daily Worker Foreign Correspondent, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. District, Section and Unit Literature Agents Do you have your supply of AUGUST FIRST PAMPHLETS? See that you are supplied with the following pamphlets at your August First Demonstrations Anti Soviet Lies and the Five eYar Plan 2 By Max Bedacht “Soviet Dumping” Fable, by M. Litvinov 2c Revolutionary Struggle Against War vs. Pacifis, by Alex Bittleman be Life in the U. S. Army, by Walter Trumbull 10c Socialism and War, by Zinoviev and Lenin 15¢ The War and the 2nd Int, by Lenin 200 Chemical Warfare, by Donald Cameron 10c War in the Far East, by Henry Hall 10 Don’t fail to act at once to get your literature! CENTRAL AGITPROP DEPT. will find them here. Why is there such speed-up in Wall Street’s war preparations? Why the rapid improve- ment of old war bases and the frenzied quest for a new fortified Atlantic-Pacific Canal? Gannes answers these important questions by describing the drive for markets that is now going on among all the imperialist powers. “In China, Egypt, India, and Africa the United States exploiters are extending their foreign markets at the expense of their British rivals. The ‘unthinkable’ war, in fact, is inevitable.” Every worker, preparing to demonstrate on August 1st against imperialist war, should have a copy of Yankee Colonies in his pocket. It provides the material for street mectings and discussions—just the thing to convince other workers of the reality of the war danger. It may be secured from the Workers’ Library Publishers, 50 East 13th St., New York City, at ten cents a copy. ALLINGG for increased mobilization against and exposure of the Hoover-Doak deporta- tion program, the International Labor Defense and the National Council for the Protection of the Foreign-Born have joined in an appeal call- ing for the raising of these issues in the August First Demonstration against imperialist war, and the Sacco-Vanzetti Demonstrations of Au- gust 22. The statement declares that the Hoover ad~ ministration, smarting under the exposures al- ready made of its murderous policy of shipping militant workers back to death in fascist coun- tries, is now seeking to Silence publicity growing out of the fight against this campaign being made in the federal courts. The statement is as follows Appeal Issued by the International Labor De- fense and the National Council for the Protection of the Foreign-Born In its savage war against the workers’ cry for work and bread, the Washington government announces its program to deport 20,000 “unde- sirables” this year. ‘These 20,000 “undesirables” are being carefully and deliberately picked by the hordes of immi- gration department agents sent into all prospec- tive strike areas or where strikes are actually in progress. These Hoover bloodhounds seek as “undesirables” all leaders of the growing strike struggles (coal mining, textiles and other in- dustries), as well as workers coming to the front in the leadership of the various militant working class organizations battling against starvation and unemployment. Doak Carries on Campaign. Secretary of Labor Doak, deportation director of the Hoover administration, fearing the rising protest against this phase of its -nti-labor at- tack, has taken to the platform be--re Kiwanis Clubs and other labor-baiting orgar zations in a vicious campaign against organizations fight- ing deportation decrees. The International Labor Defense and the Na- tional Council for the Protection of the Foreign- Born, in the fight for the right of political asy- lum for all workers in the United States, in the struggle against deportations, join in calling for the widest possible mobilization of mass protest against this program of murder. Deportation of militant workers today to numerous other capi- talist countries means long prison terms or ac- tual death sentences. Hoover Seeks Secrecy ‘The Hoover administration seeks to carry out these barbarous attacks on labor in secret. Sec- retary of Labor Doak proposes, for instance, that all appeals to federal courts be withdrawn and he will grant voluntary departure to deportees. Such an agreement would mean completely giv- ing up the fight for the right of asylum. It would be open collaboration with the Hoover de- portation program. Instead we will intensify the struggle for, the right of asylum and against de- portations on every front. The attempted pussy- footing tactics of the Hoover administration will be fought openly through mass protest and by taking full advantage of every opportunity of- fered by the courts of the boss class. ‘ Secretary of Labor Doak declares that, “If other protests prove ineffective, the un-Ameri- can American groups quickly resort to som plea which they think has a hum=nitarian touch.” Anti-Deportation Fight Must Grow. The International Labor Defense and the Na- tional Council for the Protection of the Foreign- Born raises before the whole working class the safety of the lives threatened by the Hoover- Doak deportation decrees against militant work- ers, against all those held “undesirable” in the eyes of the Wall Street-Washington regime. It is to be expected that the bloody, murderous at- tack of the Hoover government against labor in the United States, as well as in the colonies (Philippines), will object to this form of hu- manitarianism. We fight for the lives of Serio, threatened with Mussolini’s executioners in Italy; of Ma- chado, facing Wall Street's hangmen in Vene- zuela; of Li and Dea, to be turned over by Hoo- ver and Doak to Chang Kai Shek’s death squads in China; of Kenmotsu and Nishamura, simi- larly threatened in Japan; of Louis Bebritz, to be sent to Roumania’s fascist murderers. The nation must know of the Hoover-Doak at- tempt to place two Russians on ships at Seattle bound for Shanghai, without passports or visas, We definitely reject any such tricky proposals. For the Right of Political Asylum! a new form of death sentence against “undesir- ables”. They do not even comply with their own immigration and deportation laws. This means open and illegal collaboration with the Nanking government of China in this fiendish attack. All the Hoover-Doak government is interested in is rushing “undesirables” to their death at the hands of foreign fascist powers. Labor-baiting police in Los Angeles, Cal., join with the Hoover-Doak agents to secure the de- Portation of the Spanish worker, John Vilarino, restauran’ worker, 30 years resident in this coun- try, and with 12 children born !n the United States. His so-called crime ts <amissicn that he is a Communist. The Mexican food worker, Aka, 22 years in the United States, has already spent three months on Ellis Island awaiting deportation. The Hoo- ver-Doak government is trying to send him to Mexico. But Mexico will not receive him. In- numerable cases of this nature could be cited. Attack T.U.U.L. Leadership. Membership in any militant working class or- ganizatic® is ground for deportation «ccording to the H» >ver-Doak program. William Murdoch, leader o: the textile workers’ struggles, is to be deported »ecause he admitted membership in the Trade Union Unity League’s General Council. The whole charge rests on the one pamphlet, “The TUUL—Its Aims and Principles”. In 1929, 12,900 deported; in 1930, 16,600 driven out of the country; 20,000 exiles on the program for 1931. The number increases as labor de- velops, through its own organizations, resistance to lowering of its standard of living, and actual starvation. Huge sums are voted for this anti- labor campaign at Hoover's bidding when not a cent can be found for unemployment relief. Doak says there are 400,000 immediately subject. to deportation; that a special campaign is being carried on against 100,000 seamen said to be in this country illegally. It is to provide more readily victims for its program of wholesale deportation that the Hoo- ver-Doak-Fish campaign urges the finger-print- ing and photographing of all foreign-born work- ers. . This is not only part of the efforts of the gov- ernment to silence protest against the increas- ingly intolerable conditions under which the workers suffer today, but also to gag all oppo- sition to its war preparations and to the devel- oping attack being organized against the Soviet Union. On August First, the International Day of Struggle Against Imperialist War, mobilized la- bor must also raise its demands for the right of political asylum; against deportations; for the protection of the foreign-born, for the unity of workers of all races aggl nationalities in defense of their own interests. Fight against the Hoo- ver-Doak program on August First. Raise this struggle again, on August 22, Sacco-Vanzetti Day of Liberation for all Class War Prisoners. Join this struggle with the fight for the Scottsboro boys, the defense of the imprisoned Camp Hill, Ala., share croppers, and the 1,000 arrested coal mine strikers, Against the growing boss class terror! Signed by: INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FOREIGN-BORN -Workers! Joia the Party of. Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. Address CY cc cceccceebeoecesvccceres BHA sisseeseees OCCUPALION Vo seeeecccccececceseceees ABO seveee® -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, P. O. Box 87 Stati ion D. New York City. sea Tomorrow Never Comes “The aficient challenge (sic!) to love your enemies and do good to those who persecute you is bluntly repudiated by Communists and sup- planted by the doctrine of class hatred and class laments the pacifist publication “The World Tomorrow,” among whose contributing editors we find such saints as A J. Muste and Norman Thomas. The lament is, of course, 2 form of attack, and is preluded by the following: “Recent issues of the Daily Worker, the offcial organ of the Communist Party in the United States, reveal the wide gulf which seperates Communist strategy from that of the socialist party.” ‘We accept the “gulf.” When the capitalist corporations you work for cuts your wages, Com- munists say— e and strike, and make that strike effective by effective mass picketing; don’t hunt up the company manager and kiss him. The “socialists,” of course, peddle this stuff ~ for the workers to swallow, so they will be easy victiins of the capitalists. For themselves, when in power they have no compunction in doing violence against the workers for the benefit of the eapitalists, MacDonald massacres workers and peasants in India and sends gunboats against the rebel- lious masses of Ching; in Germany Noske slaughtered tens of thousands, among them Liebknencht and Luxemburg, while Zoergiebel shot down the workers on May Day 1929 who merely wanted to march on the streets they built; and what about the bloody slaughter of workers only four years ago this month at Vienna, where the “socialist,” international is now meeting to broadcast its propaganda sup- porting the coming imperialist war on the So- Viet Union under thé hypocritical pretense that the war danger does not come from capitalism but from Bolshevism? Innumerable other cases might be mentioned, There is a gulf, all right, between the social fascist “socialists” and the Communists, and that is because the “socialists” are on the side of the capitalist class and the Communists on the side cf the working class. If the workers follow the “socialists” of “The World Tomorrw,” and do not struggle against capitalism today, their tomorrow will never coms. Forbidden to Think General Bartolome Blanche of the Chileax army, gave us this one last Monday, while trying to explain why the rank and file soldiers should be ready to shoot down the masses in case said masses would turn their revolt against the oid capitalist government into a revolt against the new capitalist government and try to establish a Workers and Peasants Government: “Strictly in keeping with the principle that the army is created to obey without deliberat- ing, the Chilean army now offers its sword and life to the new government.” Obey without deliberating’—that is what is required of soldiers in every capitalist army. Only the Red Army soldiers are allowed, yes, even required to think, trained to study. Way over in Eastern Siberia we were travelling once on a train with some Red Army soldiers, and got to conversing with them by means of a Russian-English dictionary and a lot of sign Jan- guage. Thumbing through the dictionary one of them picked out one by one, the three words “we” and “never” and “forget.” Then he clinch- ed his fist and said: “Sacco Vanzetti!” Match that in any capitalist army! So you young lads who will be asked—more likely forced—to go into the army when the cap- italists make war on the Soviet Union and bs required to leave your brains at home, get out on the street August First and tell ’em that when you go over the top it will be to join the army where soldiers think! ee eon Looking Over This Lunatic Asylum The N. Y. Times of July 27 tells us that my in Canada th? Northern Saskatchewan Indians, tired of the crouth killing crops and cattle “in- voked the Great Spirit” in ....... “A forty-eight hour dance, led by six singers in relays, centered about a great tree, on the bark of which a petition for aid had been carved. The Great Spirit seemed to answer, for soon after the mystic rites had been per~ formed, the rain began and continued for two Gaye” The N. Y. Times relates the above, doubtless: thinking it will amuse its readers to learn how superstitiows the Saskatchewan Indians are. Bui what do you thing of these other items, found in the same issue of the Times, in this year of Brace 1931, A. D.? Just look ’em over: “Slump Is Ending, Declares Klein,” says the headline, referring to Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and goes on to tell us, “Assistant Secretary in a Radio Talk Tells How Statistics Will Avert Depressions; Guessing Caused Trouble.” Next comes the extremely wise men who make up the Grain Market Analyst Club, sagely in- forming us on the basis of one man’s stomach, doubtless the stomachs of one of these Solomons, that—but read it yourself: - “The capacity of the stomach for bread is neither materially increased nor markedly de- creased *y the cost of the wheat that enters into “ie making of the bread.” From which we understand that the unem- ployed do not buy more bread even though it 4s cheap, not because they have no money at all, but because their stomachs are already filled to capacity, probably with Hoover promises, —_ On another page, giving the summaries ef Sunday sermons, we find: “National Fast Day Urged Cn Hoover; Church Appeal to End De- pression.” To our view, Hoover looks like he needs a fast, but there are millions who a few square meals. The depression in stomachs would only be deepened by fasting. Same page: “World-wide business depression was attrib- uted to Satan by James Bennett, a layman and clerk of the session of the Fort Washington Preghyterian Church, in an address last eve- Aren’t those Saskatchewan Indians IGNOR ANT and SUPERSTITIOUS! :