The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1931, Page 4

— Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1921 be impossible. he work not al- amount branch pledges es do not meet from Tom M 5 most un-| Bu heard ot you who read this— fund, not} iy checks sent | checks to de- | ciated is clear| that come | { VOICES FROM THE LIV. CoNbe reEMnED MOONEY: BiLunns WAECEY. D. office—from | the wives of | 1 Valley pris- | boro children, | Pennsylvania | m Act. e to time in} organ of the| been in jail—or you know what ive even a postal on the outside. t means toyou can’t visit the ven write to But we can all help | hear the voice of the the monthly check. we can do as in- y we h in an organized wa out money ¢ e least y one knows, this is not It is working-class relief mrades who, at the moment, en to be where they particu- d our support and encour- The rs of capitalism can to make life war prisoners, Let circulariza penny th oners, an This po. response amon; heretofore have t in’ prisoners’ relief These con nt to help this vital work from you before Aug. 22. Begin this month to give something Prisoners’ Relief individuals are 0 your contribution direct. and substa 1 t ce Hutchins, Treasurer, Room I. L, D. branch some 0! 80 E. 1ith St. New York City. ALIVING Deary Me NAMARA SCHMIDT IMPERIAL CENTRALIA WOODLAWN Ca eens aves 1G TOMBS—“FREE US!” By BURCK The International Labor Defense has called nation-wide and World demonstrations for Amnesty on AuguIst 22—An- niversary of Sacco and Vanzetti’s death. The Inter'l Labor Detense Fights the War Danger By JOSEPH NORTH. 4¢MJ ARCHING arm in arm with the growing war danger and attack on the Soviet Union is the unparalelled increase in white terror in all capitalist countries,” the International Labor De- fense today stated in its call to all members and workers to continue the fight against war. ‘The world-wide demonstrations Aug. 22 for “Amnesty!” and against boss-terror will also have as a major objective the continued fight against the war preparations. The swiftened pace of white terror is like a barometer registering the approaching. storm. ‘The capitalists all over the world, regardless of national enmity and competition, are in united front in trying to®uppress the workers by fas- cist methods. The jails and prisons are filled with revolutionary workers. Revolutionary mass organizations are being persecuted and dissolved. It is, therefore, the duty of the ILD and its af- filiated organizations to mobilize the various strata of the working masses which come under its influence, for the struggle against interven- tion, against the war danger, and against social fascism. A glimpse into the charnel house that con- stitutes the capitalist world today can be gotten from the statistics compiled by the LL.D. of white terror in one month alone—last March. That | brief space of 31 days shows the following un- paralleled heights of terror against the working class reached in 25 capitalist countries, includ- ing the United States, China, Germany, Japan, France, etc.: Workers murdered . Seriously wounded - Injured’ .. Arrested .. Deportations in America have gone into un- told thousands as Secretary of Labor Doak hides the true statistics. Danger of Intervention The, danger of intervention against the Soviet Union “has tremeéridously increased during the past few years. Proof is a glance at the war charts of the various imperialist countries. The graph of expenditures on armaments rises to unapproached peaks., The swarm of anti-Soviet campaigns and provocations—the Pope’s crusade, “dumping,” forced labor, and the provocations of the neighboring lands about the Soviet Union -—the “cordon sanitaire’—is added proof. . The fight against the menacing war danger has become a Central task of the ILD today. Preparation for August First was a prin- cipal point in the activities of the organization from coast to coast and:is interlocked with the fight for “Amnesty!” for the Scottsboro Negro boys, the Alabama share-croppers, the striking miners, etc., the Chicago unemployed. Labor Defender Reaches 40,000 Representatives of the ILD have been active on all committees. and in conferences preparing for August Ist. The official organ of the ILD, the Labor Defender, with a circulation of 40,000, centered the August issue around the war dan- ger. This issue was’ sent into thé districts in the middle of July, to give ample time for use _a$ an agitator and organizer for August Ist. Many districts of the I. L. D. held con- ferences to prepare for August Ist, and August 22nd, the latter date to be’ known as Sacco- Vanzetti Fighing Day for Amnesty and aaginst boss terror. - The International Labor Defense through let- ters to its districts, through its organ, the La- bor Defender, through its discussion outlines and directives, through its speakers and organ- izers, has constantly exposed the war danger, and the coalition of capitalist powers for attack on the Soviet Union. ‘The call of the international headquarters of the ILD has been:.sent to. all sections of the defense organization.. This. call stated, “This year, as in preceding years, the ILD, together with other working class orgariizations, will on August ist, demonstrate in mass. action against intervention and for the defense of the Soviet Union.” <<< SACCO-VANZETTLDAY WORLD WIDE DEMAND AMNESTY AUGUST 22! By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Sacco-Vanzetti Day, August 22nd, has become an international day of mobilization for labor. Tt is rapidly taking its place, with .opher strikes, wholesale deportations, | finger-printing of the foreign-born, lynching, ‘ race discrimination, all present-day tyrannies. |<In memory international labor increasing importance, among the joins the traditions of the Haymar- other “days” of world labor. The Bolshevik Revolution gave No- ket, Ludlow, Homestead, Recks, Joe Hill, McKees Frank Little, Ella vember Seventh to the workers of | May with Sacco-Vanzetti Day. Thus the world and developed the -signi= ficance of International May Day, May First. The anniversaries of the death of Lenin, and of the martyrdom of Lieb- Knecht and Luxemburg, are remem-|~ bered everywhere. tf) August First, in the crash of fever- ish preparations for a new war, is the Red Day of Labor’s Interhational Struggle Against Imperialist Slaught= er. The growing unemployment es- tablished March 6, in 1930, and Feb- ruary 25, in 1931, as international days of struggle against starvation, ‘When the millionaire governor of | Massachusetts, Alvin T. Fuller, gave the signal to turn on the~electric | | Slaughters in Haiti and Nicaragua, switch and burn out the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, in 1927, this éx- ecutioner .of workers serving -the’ {h- ferests of the New England coupon clippers and industrial overlords: es- tablished a new date on which: world labor is making history. Sacco and Vanzetti were done to death in 1927, when American im- perialism was enjoying comparative “prosperity” following the polities] | and economic storms of 1920-21, wher) the two Italian workers were arrest- ed and faced with judicial lynching. The first, second, and third anni- versaries of their murder have wit- nessed the development of ever- greater difficulties for the boss class | | | that feared them alive, but, that-now trembles and frantically calls for its police in many nations in the effort to blot out observance of their mer: ory, of their service to the whole working class. a. ei ‘This fourth anniversary, August 22, 1931, will establish a new milestone in international labor's struggle against ruling class oppression the world over. Sacco-Vanzetti Day is becoming definitely the Day of Struggle for the Liberation of All the Class War Prisoners, one of the two anniver- saries of the International Red Aid, the other being the anniversary -of the Paris Commune, March 18, It is the International Red» Aid, of which the International Labor De+ fense is the American Section, that has sent out the call to mobilize’ to workers the world over; the IRA that made the long fight to save Sacto- Vanzetti, that carried through ona world scale the Gastonia protest and that now orgarizes the mobilization agaifist the burning of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys, and the per- secution of the Camp Hill, Alabama share croppers. Crock Ae Before the workers of the world Sacco-Vanzetti Day cannot be-sep- arated from Scottsboro, Camp. Hill, Mooney and Billings, Imperial Val- ley, Centralia, Woodlawn, Atlanta, ‘The ILD called upon all its members and sym- pathizers to continue and “increase the. fight against war—against boss-terror and for Am- nesty on August 22—and afterward. j “Free the Scottsboro Negro boys! ’ ‘was the demand of these tens of thousands of German workers in Berlin. The International Labor Defense has mobilized world protest to save them. Support the LL.D. in its fight. A PRODUCTIONAL AND LIVING COMMUNE IN THE STALINGRAD TRACTOR PLANT By PETERS. | This Commune was organized ‘yhile the industri | during the time the factory was un- der construction. During this time mn strives ahe: vith un- | eee pen enaves, BHOAG Mil i | they helped to build the factory and hesrd°of speed all forms of socialist) +4 unioad and erect the machines. labor end competition is being de-| sometiniés they worked voluntarily veloped. Everywhere the words|s 19 and 12 hours per day; at the shock worker and shock brigade is| .one time they participated in the hea 2 Ss f the shor Bee re ae Ob the HOCH artipois-tor: beclititeal draining: porcac workers and brigades are to develop} a 3 | sponding to the needs of the plant. Seemereery Deore won. Be WeRS) SEHE | id begining! tay had ‘to ihe workers, to\increase the production, in barracks and tents. (It must be to-increase the quality, to lower the 5 cost. of production and to set an | Temembered that while today a city example.in labor discipline. of stone and brick houses surrounds Another form of socialist labor | the plant, at that time the city did and competition is the so-called | not exist.) While living in the bar- Prodlictional Communes that exist| racks they carried on political and fm many factories in the Soviet | cultural work among the backward Union. In the Stalingrad Tractor | seasonal workers that worked on the Plant these is also such a Commune. | constructions. Later on, when the This‘Commune is at the same time | new brick houses were finished, the @ Hving Commune. It consists at | Commune was given living quarters present of 130 members, all of them | in one of them. working in the same section, which | At first all of the wages that were tion of the The Strike m the Weybosset Mill of the By NAT KAPLAN. ‘HE strike of the 600 workers in the Weybosset Mill of the American Woolen Company came to an abrupt end through a sell-out engineered by Chris Dansereau, a foom fixer and the chief organizer of the strike, on Aug. 1. The strike, which started on July 8 under the leadership of the N. T. W. ., had many sig- nificant features. The militancy of the workers at ‘the beginning of the strike can be seen in the vote of 469 to 49 to continue the strike on July 18. Though the immediate issue in the strike was the return of the 12% per cent wage-cut the workers were objectively fighting against the new cuts planned.by. the company. ‘The wage-cut up to 20 per cent. in the Old- town Me., Mill of the A. W. C. was the first public announcement of this policy. Outwitting the Company. ‘The experiences of the Lawrence strike of last February helped the N. T. W. U. defeat the company moves in the first phase of the ‘Weybosset strike. Here was a real united front from below of workers (English, French and Irish-Americ@ns) who were church members, voters for the republican and democratic par- ties, together with “red” workers and organizers, ‘This unity was maintained in the first phase of the struggle even though it quickly developed into a fight not only against the employers, but against the strike-breaking antics of the capitalist government. The strike-breaking “conciliators” of the U. S. Departraent of Labor (Brown & Co.) were warned by the workers to keep out; the work- ers took their own vote to defeat the strike- breaking vote of the Olneyville Businessmen’s Association and the democrat, company tool, Aldeyman Duffy; when Captain Kelly and his cops ‘dispersed the picket lines the strikers sent delezat‘crs to the state government agencies de- manding their ‘rights as workers The fact that the A. W. C. was forced to grant improvements in the conditions of the Shawsheen Mill weavers (Lawrence) and the magazine loom weavers in the Assabett Mill (Maynard) attests to the profound effect of the Weybosset strike. These measures, together with the actions of the U. T. W., Gorman, Reviere and Co., prevented the spreading of the strike to other centers during the ‘struggle. : The Sell Out. Dut to many factors (to be dealt with later) the strike commenced to weaken after the first’ 15 days. By July 31 200 to 250 remained out on strike out of the original 600 workers. The. weave shed, however, was still crippled by the strike. Under these conditions it was possible to win no discrimination“and recognition of the mill committee ‘even if the return ofthe 12% per cent cut could not be immediately won. Instead of a real working-class settlement of the strike Chris Dansereau got Walter Plante, the chairman-of the strike commiittee, to enter into private negotiations with the company-(un- authorized by the strike committee). Wtih this admission 6f defeat the company proposed @ complete surrender, free use of the blacklist, scabs would not be fired, etc. On Saturday, August 1, Dansereau shoved this sell-out down the throats of the workers. What could they do in face of this situation? Seventy-one voted to surrender, 59 stalwart union men voted to continue the strike. The strike was over and , scores of workers will be victimized. jump. Many of the members of the until 100 per cent can be realized. . and shortcomings MU A Seen A and political classes. The The Prelude to thé Sell-Out. Many wrong stepé not in accordance with the militant policy of the N. T. W. U. before and during the strike laid the basis for the later sell-out. (1) “Dansereau and company fought against the formulation of demands for the: un- skilled crafts and departments, ‘thus~ narrow- ing the struggle. (2). women and youth work was neglected by the N. T. W. U. and the strike committee. Hence these workers broke ranks first and returned to work. (3) No ‘real at- tempt was made to develop mass picketing. Legalist ideas in the strikers’ ranks were ‘not persecution in the coal, textile and | August 22nd becomes a concentration | pf..proletarian rage against boss class | bloodshed and misery inflicted upon | Jaber through many years. % ! 1s rile ee | But Sacco-Vanzetti Day has eyen | deeper roots in other lands. Over | the whole of Latin-America the work- | ers will link the double-murder of Sacco and Vanzetti with the thou- sands slain under Wall Street’s ban- | ners from the Rio Grande to the | Southermost tips of Chile and the | Argentine. ‘ The assassination of Julio Mella in,the streets of Mexico City; the Massacre of the Columia banana workers, the wholesale perescutions in Cuba and Porto Rico; the mass are. outstanding examples of the fiendish class rule. of the American dollar through which profits are hat- vested from invested billions in Cen- tral and South America. \ ote South Africa, Negro and white, joins in protset against Scottsboro. Not only in Johannesburg, however, but, north into the streets of the population centers of Exypt and Mor- occo, a whole continent will join in exposing the social system of Wall Street that spawned the slavery of | the Firestone Rubber Company. |° “The Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, the so-called moratorium, have all brought home directly to European labor the sinister purposes of the | Hoover-Mellon-Stimson-Morgan gov- ernment. Sacco-Vanzetti Day in 1931 Will thus help open the eyes of Eu- ropéan labor more than ever to Wall Street recruiting of imperialist pow- ers for war against the Soviet Union. | Workers and peasants in the Soviet Union, in China, in India and other Hations of the Orient will this year régister_ a new high-level of wrath against the dominant imperialism that took the lives of Sacco and Van- zetti. ue ea the same time, workers every- ere will also direct their attack against the reaction in their own countries. , Sacco-Vanzetti Day for the Lib- exation of All Class War Prisoners has. a signifigance for workers in all countries when it is remembered that every capitalist nation joins. in build~ ing the monstrous total of ‘170,000 working class prisoners in the dun- geons of capitalist oppression. From the year 1929 to 1930 the number of working «class revolutionaries sen- tenced to death by capitalist class justice has increased from 14,625 to 90,854. Sacco-Vanzetti Day, August 22, 1931, thus rings the world with its thundering appeal for the mass pro- test of labor against the persecution ofthe masses by the international 'noss class reaction. Bed eradicated. (4) ‘Dansereau: spread ‘the’ idea that the whole hope of the strike rested.on the vague promise of the loomfixers of the National- Providence Mill (2nd A. W. C. Mill’ in Olney- ville) to join the strike and not on the fighting ability of the Weybosset workers. This was tolerated by the union. (5) The N. T. W.\U. committed -a serious error in not preparing for simultaneous strike action in a number of A. W. ©, mills before the Weybosset strike broke... The Party takes responsibility for am: failed in‘its efforts to overcome these mistake through the Party frattion: 03 The company feels-strengthened through the ee es the Wreybones strike. It will hasten wage-cutting and speed-up policy. ‘The workers will again unite their ranks and answer with strike struggles. Neither conditions Commune needed extra money for special purposes, as, for instance, specialists, foremen, etc., who needed special books on technique, and so on. This 100 per cent socialization of the wages meant the equalization of wages, regardless of qualifica- tions, and this, according to the line of the Party, is not a correct policy in the present stage of socialist de- velopment, The’ Commune was, therefore, reorganized on a new basis. Instead of 100 per cent socializa- makes it possible for them to check | received were socialized, regardless of up their role in the production, in | skill or specialty. However it be- @ siifiple manner. came clear that this was too big a tion, it is now based on 60 per cent ‘These 60 per cent are used for food rooms, education, cultural needs, etc. The other 40 per cent'are kept by the earner and he disposes of them in the way he pleases. ‘ At the present the living quarters of the Commune are’ being reorgan- ized. After this is finished the Commune will have its own Red Cor- ner, library, reading room and room for technical studies, etc, The mem- bers of the Commune are now study- ing in the factory circles, but as soon as the reorganization is finished the of socialization as a temporary form Commune will have its own technical for becoming a member of the Com- Tune is that, the applicant works in the same department, so that it will | be possible to check up his role in Production. At present 95 per cent of the members are either Party or ¥. ©. L. members. The Commune| nings. ‘There they will sing their also include married workers with| songs of freedom. They are the children. To lead the work a coun-| builders of SOCIALISM. cil of five is elected, including a ib vvetls the conmitions ud Compare this with the president, treasurer, productional or- | of the (unaraTe the United ‘States ganizer and cultural organizer. » The | of America. With the starving min- days off from the factory are usus. rn ; ers in Kentucky, vania, Ohio, ally spent, either in the Cine Or ci ewer in any| or. or by excursions on the famous Volga | state Ralph Gray, one of the leaders of the Share Croppers Union of Ala- bama, who was murdered in bed*by landowners and their police while lying crippled and helpless from. a.deputy bullet. Four other “croppers were wounded; five still are missing and are believed to have been lynched by the landowners and police. Ihe Alabama bosses and their courts are trying to cover up this hideous:crime against the working class by framing other members of the union’ on the fake charge of “con- spiring to murder” their oppressors. The International Labor Defense is defending the croppers, - of subsistence. Liberty under capi-|.rally under the banner of the Com- talism means the right for a few ta| munist Party for the successful de, exploit to oppress them | feat’ of American capitalism. Under machine guns, tear. bombs, prison and chain gang itences, the electris chair, The’ workers of the United States must sthe leadership \of the Communist — Pufty the American working class. Wilf eventually build SOCIALISM in the United States of America,