The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1931, Page 4

Musteite Hosiery Misleaders Ry EDITH BERKMAN ned Hos n Readir and now in A. F, of Company which met with > this open Comm) finally come out from 16 to 6 1 the union mills ke out from assessment union of- f system dues ied upon the by th = 1 in which no union shop will ted to strike. new agreement, which is turning this union into an open Company Union and will force upon the workers this most unheard of wage-cut, was introduced by one of the so- called leaders with the following words: “$6 a week may sound very little, but we must com- pare this with no pay at all, and then it will sound a lot.” The nerve of these high-paid of- ficials to come to the hosiery workers with such an open sell-out. Sell-out Tricks It is interesting to know the preparations of this A. F. of L. and Muste union to bring this wage-cut to the workers! First, they called a strike of non-union mills in Reading. This strike was not prepared. The workers in Reading were not assured that the union shops .would come out with them on strike, and of course, know- ing the betrayals of these labor officials in former strikes, told them to call out on strike the union shops which will receive now a 50% wage-cut and then they too will come out on strike. Out of 10,000 workers in Reading, 6 workers did not go to work the morning of the strike call. This is because the hosiery workers have no faith in the leadership of the Full Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers’ Union. The officials had staged these so-called “strike slogans” in Reading with a purpose in mind. ‘This purpose was to prove to the delegates which by accident (?) gathered to the special conven- tion in Reading, that the hosiery workers will not strike. Hence, now the new agreement should be accepted by every worker in the trade. “Stabilize” the Industry. ‘t is also interesting how these misleaders of labor, these high-paid officials, tell the workers to work for $6 a week in order to stabilize the industry for the mill owners. They even in- troduce in their arguments for the new sell- | | | struggle against this new agreement. | | | of the Russian ker wh ja to build the worker: r ay with un- employment, and where the textile workers are only 7-hours a and e controlli hat country—Russia. But these aders are trying to blind the workers and from the full fashioned hosi- r the bosses and for themselves. Textile Workers Union in Phil- sued a statement to the hosiery these sell-out agreements and | adelphia has explainir terro! dare threatened with death when The ing three points are in the leaflet of the nal Textile Workers Union: zed a are they folla Nati 1, Every Department should organize a Com- mittee of Action to prepare a fight against this sell-out agreement. 2. The Committee of Action in every Depart- | ment should elect delegates—these to form the | Mill Committee against the sell-out of the of- | ficials. 3. When this agreement comes into life, these Committees must organize and lead a strike in their mill against the new agreement and in- clude the demand of recognition of the United Front Rank and File Committee. While the officials claim that there are 10,000 hosiery workers in their unoin, there are only a few thousand employed. Most of the hosiery workers are unemployed or working part-time. Unemployment is a result of over-production in the trade, is a sickness of this industry just the same as in the mining industry. Strike Struggle a Need ‘The officials want to solve the crisis in the hosiery industry by turning this unoin into a company union and bringing the wages down to those of the unorganized workers, which they call scabs. The answer to this sell-out agree- to speak against their officials.) ized struggle under the rank and file mill com- mittees of, action. The hodery workers must organize for strike struggle aganist the sell-out agreement pre- pared at this Special Convention. They must take the union away from the A. F. of L. high- paid officials and turn this union and the funds of this union into a fighting instrument for the The National Textile Workers Union, just like the National Miners Union, will join in the uni- | ted front struggle of the hosiery workers not only of those organized into the Full Fashioned Hosiery Union, but of the thousands of workers in the unorganized shops and mills. ment of the hosiery workers must be the organ- | Mr. DePriest Attacks Negro Workers With Evictions By CYRIL BRIGGS. INMASKED by the Negro workers of Chicago as a traitor and an enemy to their inter- ests, Oscar De Priest latterly has been running around the country telling the toiling Negro masses what a good friend of their’s he is, and how he represents their interests in Congress. | Incidentally, he has been carrying out the bid- ding of the white ruling class in warning Ne- groes against the Communist Party and against ‘THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF CHICAGO MCC iM betrayal of the Negro masses as these masses face the necessity of fighting for the very right of existence. A few days after this meeting the police opened a murderous fire on a crowd of Ne- o and white workers demonstrating against the eviction of a 72-year-old Negro woman. Three Negro workers were murdered and scores of Negro and white workers wounded. The Ne- gro martyrs in the fight against eviction and starvation were murdered by the Negro and white landlords of Chicago even though the Writ of Restitution County oF Coox, Crry oF Cmcaco, ‘SS. Whereas, i ONAPES obe- STATE OF ey dion: toate the uk Municipal Court of Chicago, a (BES inst. kale Pe] ‘The People of the State of Illinois, to the Bailiff of The Municipal Court of — a 2p -4—-— plaintiff, eae A.D. i obtain in The / EEC AN i Ge _..defendant..., in an action of forcible detainer, for the restitution of the premises situated in the City of Chicago, County of Coak and State - oft ois, following to-wit LHe the said defendant al @ hereby commanded, that of the goods, Le OIE. St. Pag and restore the said plaintiff, ae Sh nae and also for.. We, Therefore Command You, in the name and by the authority of the said People, to dispossees to the possession of said premises. And you are ‘itels, lands and tenements of the said defendant. Deflars-and We Cents being the amount of costs in said anit. Hereof make due WITNESS: JOSEPH L. GILL, Cleric of ai and the cal thereof, at Chieago, aforesaid, this | ca A.D, 19% is to the the is de: trated by Negro masses panying photostatic reproduction of a di service by De Pries ‘© worker and his family living in some of his Chicago properties. De. Preist also showed interests he really represents when, last he supported Hoover in his opposition to un empl starving millions of Negro and white workers and poor farmers ment relief for the Mr. 1 Priest is a millionaire and a Chicago landlord. Negro workers throughout the country know from bitter experience that there is no dif- ference between a white landlord and a Negro landlord. One is as bad as the other. Moreover, in most cases it is the Negro landlords and real estate agents who lead the movement in jacking up the rents on Nesro tenants who are forced to live in segregated districts. Right now, Nail and Park Harlem real estate agents, are lead- ing the movement to force up the rents of Negro workers who have moved out of Harlem to the Bronx in an ‘effort to’ escape the ‘extra rént ex- tortions in the Harlem segregated district. In Chicago, Negro landlords joined with white landlords in planning the massacre of unem- ployed workers. which occurred.on August 3. At a meeting of these human birds of prey, a de- mand was made on the police and city adminis- tration for drast’c measures against Negro and white workers \/ho, lead by the Unemployed Council, were resisting the evictions of unem- ployed workers. This meeting was also attended by a representative from the Chicago Defender andylocal leaders of the NAACP, the feaders of shots were fired by their police agen tty upon the demand of the white and Negro land- lords that the police shot down the unemployed ‘These Negro and white landlords are prepar- ng for another massacre of unemployed work- ers. With winter rapidly approaching they are atte! ing to throw unemployed workers and their wives and little children on the streets. In spite of the promises to stop evictions, made directly after the massacre when the bosses found it nec y to try to placate the anger of the workers. the landlords and their courts are serving scores of eviction notices daily, and ordering their police agents to crush the resist- ance of the masses. De Priest and other land- lords, Negro and white, are continuing’ their eviction notices daily, and ordering their police agents to crush the resistance of the masses. De Priest and other landlords, Negro and white, are continuing their eviction policy, determined to have their houses empty and boarded up ‘ather than give any quarter to the starving, destitute unemployed masses, Negro and white workers! Organize and fight back! Join the Unemployed Council! Support the Cook's County Unemployment Conference called for Sunday, September 13, at the People’s Auditorium. On with the mass fight for imme- diate relief’ and unemployment insurance, against evictions, against race discrimination and Negro oppression; for unconditional equal rights for the Negro masses, including the right of self-determination for the Negro majorities of the South, together with the confiscation of the land for the Negro and white workers who work the land! Down with Jim Crow capitalism! Down with its treacherous Negro and white are more and more forced to expose thelr | agents and apologists! attan and Brenx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: New York City. a mall everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3;.two.months, $1; excepting Boroughs Foreign: one. year, $8; atx months, $4.59. By BURCK By M. T. ONCURRENT, with the deepening economic crisis, the war danger is increased by leaps and bounds. The world crisis is getting worse. There is no let up. Great Britain, like Germany and the rest of Central Europe, has fallen into the maelstrom of intensified economic and fi- nancial crisis. In the meantime, American capitalism has suffered severe repercussions which as a result has widened the economic crisis in this coun- try. The forced optimism of capitalism's pro- phets has been drowned out by force of facts. The situation here is becoming worse, which means more wholesale wage-cuts for the work- ers. Here is what the financial editor of the Journal of Commerce wrote on August 24: “Owing to the combined adverse influences of bank failures, low commodity prices, insuf- ficient adjustment of business costs to a smaller volume of production and unsettled foreign con~ ditions, hopes that a more general major busi- ness revival would get under way within the next sixth months are rapidly disappearing. In- stead, the more optimistic are now basing their hopes on the latter half of 1932 as an appro- priate period from which the major revival may be dated. This is based largely on the prospects of higher commodity prices by that time, to fol- low better technical situations in the staple markets which may result from steps now taken or contemplated to get rid of surplus stocks, and reduce the new supply. “On the other hand, it is generally admitted that the return of more active business might be considerably delayed by unfavorable develop- ments in these respects. Adverse developments abroad in particular, by delaying recoveries in the commodity markets, might cause the depres- sion to be protracted considerably beyond 1932, making a new interzovernmental settlemefit a particularly important element in the evolution of world economic recovery.” Capitalism is in the throes of the worst eco- nomic crisis in history. The fundamental con- tradictions and antagonisms have become ac- centuated. The struggle for foreign markets, for colonies and redistribution of the world has be- come intensified. This struggle brings the cape italist countries into conflict. In order to insure their profits, to guarantee | their dividends, the capitalists are exploiting the workers more and more., If they do not succeed {n overcoming the crisis by this ruthless ex- ploitation of the work they will attempt to solve the situation by war. J ‘The economic crisis weakens the capitalist sys- tem, hastens its decay, With this confronting them, that is, a lifé and death struggle, the cap- italists are marching straight to war t& salvage the wreck. All the talk about disarmament and peace is just so much {fllusion and lies. At Williamstown Institute recently, Prof. Gre- gory said that “if nothing were done by next spring the world would witness an intensifica- tion of the credit crisis, which would be affected also by the probable failure of the Geneva arm- aments conference” (N. Y. Times, August 19). Raymond Leslie Buell in the News Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Association for August 28 writes: “There is little prospect that the disarmament. conference, called for February 1932, will suc- céed so long as the burning economic and po- litical issues of the world remain unsolved. If that conference convenes and ends in failure, it is obvious that the international situation will be worse than before.” These “burning economic and political issues” are the many, antagonisms and conflicts: among the fmperialist countries. They cannot be solved in a peaceful manner. The sole “solution” is war, All the politics which capitalist diplomats are playing now will end in war, for “war is but a continuation of politics by other means,” i.e., force. The crisis gets worse and the capitalists pre- pares for war. The present conflict among the imperialist na- tions over the Young Plan, and Germany gives a definite example of deep rooted antagonism. France wants the maintenance of the status quo in Europe, ie, the Versailles Treaty and the policy of alliances. American imperialism wishes to break French hegemony in Continental Eu- rope. Also to protect its investments in Ger- many. Hence a desire on its part to relieve | ee French impegialism ts an. obstacle to “disaxinamieile” de out be wreck the disarmament conference. The fact is patent and we must all face it and consider what policy to adopt in the circumstances.” (Robert Dell, Paris correspondent, Baltimore Sun, August 15). When the capitalists speak of disarmament, they mean having their enemies disarmed, thus improving their chances of robbing in the war game of robbery of colonies. “What disarma- ment now means in Europe is that, of two groups of people actually at war, the méans of one shall be greatly diminis#ed and thus the chances of the other similarly enhanced.” (Frank H. Simonds at Williamstown Institute, N. Y. Times, August 1). Capitalist diplomats at an armament confer- ence talk about “national defense” and “sec- urity.” They imply that there are two kinds of armaments, those used for imperialist and aggressive purposes and those used for national defense and peace. Now, we ask them how can anyone distinguish between aggressive arma- ments and defensive ones. Nobody has invented a gun which will refuse to go off unless it is convinced it is being used for defensive pur- poses. Imperialist war is war among predatory, robbing countries, for a redistribution of col- onies and markets. Lenin in his pamphlet “So- cialism and War” (Inter. Pub.) explains the hypocrisy of this talk about defensive and of- fensive wars. He says, “Imagine that a slave- holder possessing 100 slaves wages war against a slave-holder possessing 200 slaves for a more ‘equitable’. distribution of slavés. It is*evident': that to apply to such a case the term defén- sive war or defense of fatherland would be a historical lie...” “It is in this very fashion that the present day imperialist bourgeoisie, when war is waged among the slave-holders- for the strengthening and consolidation of slavery, deceive the peoples by means of the national ideology and the idea of defense of the fatherland.” In preparation for the coimng war the im- perialist countries are not only making use of such slogans as these, but they are already ma- nufacturing new ones. Now they can more ef- fectively hide their frantic preparations for war by attacking the USSR. The capitalist class not only considers the Five Year Plan an economic menace, but also a menace to peace and pros- the Herald-Tribune, a republican and pro-Hoo- ver sheet, means is this: That the Soviet Union perity. They say that the Five Year Plan is District, Section and Unit Literature Agents See that you are’ supplied at once with thé following literature for current. campaigns: For SOLIDARITY DAY—September 7 Work or Wages, by Grace M. Burnham 10 Social Insurance, by Grace M. Burnham. 10 History of May Day, by Alexander Trach- tenberg y aT) Race Hatred on Trial 10 Graft and Gangsters, by Harry Ganner 10 Lynching Negro Children in Southern Courts, by Joseph North 05 Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers by William Z. Foster 05 The Frame Up System, by Vern Smith BL Tom Mooney Betrayed by Labor Leaders 10 For INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY—Sept. 8& Youth In Industry, by Grace Hutchins 0 No Jobs Today, by Phil Bard 05 Life In the U. 8. Army, by Walter ‘Trumbull .10 For the UNEMPLOYMENT CAMPAIGN Fight Against Hunger 05 Out of a Job, by Earl Browder 05 20,000,000 Unemployed 10 50,000,009. Unemployed 05 Also Work or Wages and Soctal Insurance | For the ELECTION CAMPAIGN — Why Every Worker Shuld Join the Com- munist Party The Heritage of Gene Debs, by Alexander ‘Trachtenberg American Working Women and the Class - Struggle 4 Revolutionary, Struggle Against War vs. Pacifism, by Alex Bittelman , Also your local Election Platforms, “Out of a Job”, “Fight Against Hunger”, “Graft and Gangsters”, “Race Hatred on Trial’, “Lynching Negro Children In Southern Courts”, “Work or Wages”, “Social In- The Growing Economic Crisis and the War Danger making Russia the greatest military machine in | the world. With such deliberate lying and hy- pocrisy the imperialists are attempting to con- ceal their feverish preparations for war. Thus for instance, the Sentinel of Waterville, Maine, August 4, writes: “A good many have suspected for some time that the five year program is more military than economic.” “If the five year program proves an economic success, producing the world’s greatest military machine will be easy. In view of the record, teachings and the ‘needs. ofthe Bojsheviks, such a development is a necessity: and. hence it, is only reasonable and logical to conclude that. this is their main purpose. “That ruthless, driving doctrine of force which ~ the Bolshevik espouse so loyally and frankly is the spark that may start a conflagration any moment.” In the same vein the Bangor, Maine, Commercial, August 4 says: “Today Russia has an immense army that is being constantly increased . . . Several leaders in several countries have declared recently that when the next disarmament congress meets in Geneva {t will find the greatest stumbling block to international agreement for abbreviated ar- mament in Russia and there appears to be real truth in these statements. Russia has the men and it has them trained in arms. By its five year program it is preparing for the equipment and the munitions. It constitutes a distinct yamienace to world peace and cannot be dismissed lightly.” , It is interesting to note that both these quota- tions come from Maine newspapers. Percival Baxter, ex-governor of Maine, started this cam- paign with his two articles in the Portland Sun- day Telegram, Maine. He called for war on the Soviet Union. That an attack on the Soviet Union is the order of the day is not open to speculation. Bertrand Russell is quoted in the Herald-Tribune of August 17th as follows: “Germany may be the battleground with the U. S. leading capitalistic states against Russia ” «“ There is one large war issue: Com- munism against Capitalism.” ‘To Winston Churchill the Five Year Plan is a gigantic preparation for war. He considers the Soviet Union the danger point in Europe. “Is European war becoming more probable?” “The danger point is the Russian Soviet gov- ernment. Here is a gigantic, centralized state with 160,000,000 subjects outside the comity of nations, in extreme hostility toward the rest of the world, heavily armed by sciénce and with many real grievances and appetites to satisfy.” “Russia which already has far the largest army the world is actively arming. She is devel- oping all the forms of scientific warfare, which Pare at once, the most, novel, the most detestable and the most alarming.” “Before the great war Germany made immense precautionary pur- chases of all the metals and raw materials es- sential to the manufacture of weapons.” “Ex- actly the same symptoms are apparent in Rus- sian importations today. We have the same ex- traordinary, almost feverish purchases of all these key war materials and war metals on the ‘largest scale and almost regardless of cost.” — (N.Y. Anierican, Aug. 23.) ‘The Herald-Tribune of Aug. 24 quotes from a speech which Voroshiloy madé on the occasion of the First of May. Voroshilov said that today the oppressed workers were “arrayed against capitalism,” that in the present crisis of cap- italism were “assembled some of the conditions favorable to an offensive.” The Herald-Tribune draws the following conclusion trom Voroshilov's statement: “Here we have not only the cominon Soviet official assumption that the great war on capitalism is inevitable but such frank ap- prisal of the world situation as an opportunity for taking the initiative, that it becomes absurd to justify deliberate indifference to Russia’s mili- tary preparations by concern for world peace =Once again the capitalist press spreads pro- paganda about the Soviet Union being ready to attack the capitalist countries, The Herald- Tribune says that Russia desires a war which will “afford the Soviet Union and its sympathiz-_ |. ers abroad an opportunity to revolutionize the world.” “If the powers of the West do not pro- mote it by attacking Russia, Russia must, when economically prepared, take the, offensive.” What . 15 going, to start a war against the capitalist countries to foraqnt wong revolian. Theratane | teem Sai eet | We Second. the Motion ; “Dear Comrade Jorge:— ‘ Whoever is responsible for the atrocities mas fuerading.as poetry in our. Daily, would -sufter 2 horrible death at my hands.- T refer to those poems ‘(?): about the Red Front, and those sing. ing the praises of our. camps, such as Wocolona, Kinderland, Unity, etc. They are even printed in capitals, which’ serves.to augment: their ab- surdity. They are an eye-sore, an insult to the intelligence. They are-so awful that I shudder to look at them, . They can-inspire nothing but. mirth. "They are silly, infantile, nonsensical “They are as out of place in our red-blooded fighting Deily as a pair of soiled lace panties Would be on Rodin’s statue of Adam. “You might accuse me of touchicng upon @ triviality when there are such huge problems confronting us. But this too has its importance, T have watched with deep satisfaction the grow- ing excellence of our Daily in every respect. It is painful to see this moronic kind of stuff given such space and prominence. « Can you imagine what effect it would have on a new reader of our paper? Please do something about it.—s.s.” ‘We are loath to use force and violenee, pre- ferring the way of comradely conviction. But when this fails......2 Well, vox Bolsheviki vox Dei! * A Den of Thieves About this legal-illegal Customs Union betweer. Germany and Austria, it might be interesting to follow the maneuvers of capitalist diplomats against each other, as a sort of antidote for the line of stuff in the press about how “polite” and “friendly” and “mutally helpful” and “sympa- thetic” they are when they meet in conferences and consultations. The German-Austrian customs pact got French imperialism sore, so it said: “You will, will you?” and began having French financiers withdraw short-term loans to the Austrian fin- ancial keystone, the Creditanstalt; which “insti- tution, like all of them, can’t stand a strong wind these days. The Creditanstalt called for help to German bankers, and the little they gave only hastened their own collapse, so British imperialism: which was cautiously encircling France by little, favors to Italy, Germany and Austria, felt strong enough, to challenge France and. granted,a large credit to the Austrian Creditanstalt, But the German collapse was more than Eng- land could hold up alone, so she cried for Amer- ica to come to the rescue, and America did, with a meat-axe concealed irt a boquet. While gushing words of “relief” to Germany about the’ “Hoover Plan” ‘she got a reputation for kindness to children that,served to cover up the fact that American bankers were united with France to withdraw credit from England, and the Pound Sterling was about to shrivel up and blow away under the withdrawals of $750,000,000 in three weeks time. * Now the American and French bankers are getting hero medals for “saving England” by loaning her $400,000,000 more, the Customs Pact is knocked out and things seem lovely—but there’s a faint smell of something rotten in the financial structure of both France and America, and soon we shall see—what we shall see! Nice little playmates, these highbinders! 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 the Trade Union Unity League it says, the capitalist countries should not dis- arm and talk peace but be prepared to fight the U.S.S.R. Here we have it quite frank and open. Capitalism is getting ready to crush U:S.S.R. It is in line with what Gen. Holbrook said re- cently, that the United States 1s going to fight Russia. What could be plainer but that “the logic of Gen. Holbrook’s speech points not to disarmament but to strenuous preparation for .@ new war, this time on Russia,” Republican, Springfield, Mass., August .. The Star, Miles City, Montana, July 28, wrote as follows: “She (Europe) will not disarm for severe! ‘reasons .. . But the biggest reason of all can be found inthe everlooming shadow~ef Soviet Russia. The Communists have déclated war. on the capitalist world. With this menace “hover- ing near, it is small wonder. that central and western Europe are ‘not inclined te disarm.’ ‘The main theme the capitalists aré composing in their symphony of lies and false legends 1s this. The Soviet Union is an ‘economic-menacs because of dumping and 2 military menace be- cause under the Five-Year Plan she is building up a machine to crush capitalism. And they emphasize the fact that the only way! to deel with Russia‘is to wage @ war.on her and restore capitalism, ‘The Galveston, ‘Texas News of August 17, seyst “The only way we can combat thé menace of Russian dumping to our export markets is. by contriving an international agreenient to out- law Russian trade.” . . .“if- it were possible. it would inevitably lead to war. Russia-has the largest and one of the best equipped armies in the world"... “Any positive move in“that di- | rection: will destroy whatever chance there may be of. disarmament in Europe.- Economie war on Russia. will bs.followed by military war as the night follows the day.” ‘The Chicago Tribune of August 10 writes: “Russia, in fact, under its :esent regime. is engaged in war upon western civilization includ- ing American democracy which it rightly con- siders its most formidable opponent, It is only. common ‘sense for: 1:3 to-recognize that war for what it is: Bolshevism has only the code of ruthless. war,.and our American policy and course of action should conform to that. Mean- while our defense from r upon lk be made more efficient.” ~~~ id ‘ American imperialist policy and action is to take the Jeadership-in organizing all the cap- italist nations for war against the Soviet Union. In order to lead the workers into the war more efficiently, it is ideologically preparing the mind of the masses that the U.S.S.R, is the sole men- ace to “our institutions, civilization” and a mene ce to. the standards. of labor. of western \equns ™“