The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1931, Page 1

4 FACTORY . eranana Ante ~— {Section nd ae Communist ob aaa Norker -EdRmuniet Party U.S.A. tered as second-clasi lew York. at Y.. under the m matter at the Pont Office The Forgers Are Still Working the New York Times of Sunday, September 6, is printed what pur- ports to be a resume of a document of the Communist International. ‘This is eyidently another of the long line of forgeries, of which the out- standing’ examples were the “Zinoviev letter”, the Sisson documents, the Whalen forgeries, etc. That it comes at this moment is no accident. It is part of the preparations of the bourgeoisie for the coming winter of star- vation and death for the working class, It is “useful” to our rulers, and whatever they need| in the way of documents is always produced punctually, This latest forgery is, if we can judge by the Times’ quotations and by the profound silence as to how it was secured, even more crude than previous ones. It is a very clumsy rehash of portions of articles from the Communist press together with interpolations by the forgers regarding “assassinations”, “simultaneous revolutionary outbreaks”, and similar blood-curdling phrases. Every paragraph of the Times’ description of the document bears within itself evidence of its nature. _ We have no illusions that we can “correct” the Times’ editorial office regarding this document. The Times has no scruples whatever about printing forgerics regarding the Communist movement and the Soviet Union, and prinis everything of this nature without question, doubtless with the know'-dge that they are forgeries. But for the workers it may be valuable to point out some of the most evident features of the forgery. The Times quotes the document as explaining the economic crisis as the result of “improvident and unregulated” activities of capitalists. (The quotations are given by the Times from the “document”). These are words which it would be impossible to find a responsible Cémmunist using in this connection; but they are exactly the words that might naturally be used by a clumsy forger trying to restate the Communis; indictment of capitalism as anarchic and unorganized. It speaks of the crisis deepening despite “all artificial remedies and cajolements”. Again the words chosen roveal the bourgeois mind of the forger; no Communist document could contain th’s juxtaposition of “artificial” as opposed to “natural” remedies, or speak ot the measures of wage-cuts, starvation and terror, being taken by the bourgeoisie, as “cajolements”. The .forger proceeds. to call for a “simultaneous revolutionary out- break in the leading captialist countries”. In this is revealed his lack of even an elementary education in Marxism-Leninism, which teaches the law of unven development of capitalism and, therefore, the impossi’vility of a “simultaneous revolutionary outbreak in the leading” count If this document could be taken as genuine, it could only be on the sup: csi- tion that the leaders of the Communist International had suddenly di: carded the most fundamental teachings of Lenin—and even the forgers would not insist upon this! Next, our forger instructs the Communist Parties “to perform acts of sabotage in order to disorganize food supplies’. {Here we have a clue to the identity of the forger; he is in all probability one of ‘the gang of counter-revolutionaries who, under the orders of the French government, carried on a campaign of sabotage within the Soviet Union to disorganize its food supply. This is a typical capitalist weapon. But it would be the sheerest stupidity for the Communist International to call upon its still relatively few members to “sabotage” the food supply in capitalist coun- tries, when the capitalists are*doing such a good job of this themselves on a scale a million times larger than the Communists could possibly do (even supposing that the Communists had any interest in achieving such ends). No, the Communist International has not changed its program, which does not accept sabotage as its weapon. The forger was merely delivering what the capitalists want for their agitation against Commu- nism, to try to cheat the weak-minded into thinking their lack of food is due to the wicked Communists and not to decaying capitalism. Then comes the point for which all the other items are mere back- ground. The forger calls for the organization of “combat groups” for the purpose of “acts of terrorism such as assassination of hostile politicians”. According to this, we are asked to believe that the Bolsheviks have sud- denly abandoned their own program in favor of that of the Social- Revolutionary Party. Probably the forger had been refreshing his inven- tive faculty from the Memoirs of Boris Savinkov recently published in the U. S. Bit all Bolsheviks know that the Boris Savinkovs were the bit~- terest enemies of the proletarian revolution, and that always they have among them the Azevs, police agents, who are the most authoritative assassins, due to their superior experience. It is the capitalist class, in every country, which is organizing assassinatons. Our own Party already has a growing list of martyrs, while in Europe and Asia assassination is the typical everyday weapon of the bourgeoisie. But the Communists, the Bolsheviks, have always rejected individual terror and assassination as a political weapon, not out of sentimental considerations, but for the very good reason that this weapon does not lend itsel? to the purposes of the working class, that on the contrary it disorganizes the forces of the workers, and prevents the development of mass actions which are the real Bolshevik weapon of revolution. This forgery ascribing individual terror to the Communist movement is merely a part of the preparations for new attacks against the working class and against the Communist Party. Already in Canada the govern- ment is preparing to declare the Communist Party outside the law on the basis of this charge of criminal violence. Hamilton Fish and Matthew Woll are leading the fascist efforts to do the same in the United States. In this connection, a word of warning is not out of place to the work- ers everywhere, to be on their guard against stool-pigeons who are being used to manufacture evidence for the courts against the Communist movement. There are signs of such police agent work no now in Chicago, for example, where the magnificent advances of our Party in developing mass resistance to evictions and for solidarity of white and Negro workers has created panic among the capitalists. The combatting of stool-pigeon attempts of this kind, requires the most unflagging vigilance. ‘We charge the New York Times with having again printed and given its authority to a most palpable forgery. But the New York Times will probably not retract. Its particular business is to print forgeries “when needed” for the interests of the capi- talist class. MASS CONGRESS WILL RATIFY COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATES On Friday, September 18, the workers of the city will rally at Cen- tral Opera House to ratify the can- didates of the Communist Party for thre elections in November. At this Ratification Congress the full elec- tion program of the Communist Party will be presented. All unions, shows, fraternal organ- izations, are entitled and urged to send five delegates for every fifteen workers to the Congress. The names of all delegates should be sent to the Election Campaign Committee at 35 East 12th St. ‘The Communist Party appeals to the workers in the American Federa- tion of Labor unions, who have had their taste of the Green and Woll sell-outs, to rally to the support of the Communist Party and to repu- diate the parties of Woll, Green and Thomas with their program of “booze,” wage-cuts, and “reforms.” Send delegates from shops and unions to support the Communist Party in this Election Campaign! ‘The Election Campaign funds of the Communist Party must come from the nickels and dimes con- tributed by the workers. The Com- munist Party calls on all workers to respond to the call for the Election Campaign Tag Days, Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20. Cooperate by using your headquar- ters as a station for the Tag Days and have committees appointed who will be held responsible for this work. All Tag Day Committees are to meet at the headquarters, 35 East 12th St. 8rd floor, of the Communist Party on Thursday, September 10th a‘ 7:30 p. m. Rally for the ratification of th candidates of the Communist Part: who have been nominated in all th bourcughs of the city. Elect del- gates from your shops and organiv tions. Rally the workers to vote + they strike—to vote Communist. Workers Correspondence is th: backbone of the revolutionary pres: Build your press by writing for + about your day-to-day struggle. WALL STREET BACKS CHILE EXPLOITERS Imperialists Partake in| Bombing of Rebels | Roundup _Unemployed | Dockworkers Put Up) Strong Resistance NEW YORK.—Contradictory news reports sent out by capitalist newer agencies in Chile from the censored “information” of the Chilean govern- ment declare that bombing is pro- ceeding against the mutinous navy. The government claims that several destroyers were captured off the coast at Coquimbo and the cruiser O’Hig- gins was badly damaged. The re- ports lack decisiveness and indicate, despite the attempt to show the gov- ernment forces as advancing vic- toriously, that there is a bitterly fought civil war going on in many parts of Chile. At Talachauno, dock workers sided with sections of the coast guard in fighting against the white guard troops marshalled by the government. From all indications fighting is still going on at Talachau- no. Hundreds are reported killed, with the whiteguards showing insane fer- ocity when capturing reyolutionists. In mahy instances workers who had been singled out were battered to death. Wall St. Aids Chile Rulers As to who is carrying on the “bombing” against the fleet, the capitalist news agencies are ex- tremely vague. Previous reports stated that the Chilean air forces consisted of 30 planes only 2 of which were equipped as bombing planes. It was also declared on the first day of the mutniy that the .air fleet in many instances had joined the navy. Now the capitalist papers here say | that 100 planes are partaking in bombing the navy. What is clear (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BANKERSCONTROL SILK INDUSTRY \Lehman Bros. Wide Holdings Shown By Labor Res-arch Assn. The stake of the bankers in the textile industry has been discussed in Labor and Textiles. A recent re- port of the Lehman Bros, the) banking firm which carries the Lieutenant Governor of New York as its “special partner” shows work- ers how much their exploitation brings into the coffers of this par- ticular set of milionaires, The report shows that this bank- ing house alone owns 9,351 shares of the American Bemberg Co., and 4,307 shares of the American Glanz- toff Corp., both giant rayon com- panies operating in Elizabethton, Tenn., against whom several strikes were carried on in 1929. The Leh- man’s also owned 2,400 shares of United Piece Dye Workers whose workers joined in the Passaic strike of 1926. They have also shares in Phoenix Hosiery Co., Artloom Corp., Associated Rayon Corp., Duplan Silk Corp., the Munsinger Corp. and General Rayon Co. Other leading bankers with far- reaching control in textiles are Old Colony. Trust Co. of Boston, First National Bank of Beston, Lee Hig- ginson & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., Hayden, Stone & Co., Hornblower & Weeks and Bancamerica-Blair Corp. Hiei ec eH Wrecked by Fascist Bomb Canadian Masses Rally to Defense of Jailed Leaders | TORONTO, Canada, Sept. 7—As part of the Bennett government attempt to jail lead- ers of the Communist Party of Canada and drive the revolutionary workers movement) underground, the Workers’ Center building at | Winnipeg was wrecked by a fuse bomb early this morning. A threat to bomb the revolutionary workers’ quarters was made here last year by fascist elements backed by the govy- i a eet BRITISH UNION LEADERS AIM TO KEEP BACK FIGHT, Show Great Fear For Rising Militancy (Cable By Inprecorr.) LONDON, Sept. 7—The Trade Union Congress opened at Bristol today. The affiliated membership was reported as having decreased by 25,000 during the year. President Hayday’s speech made a clever play at left wing phrases, carefully evad- ing the demand of an opposition other than purely parliamentary measures, This crisis was repre- sented as “a bankers’ plot.” Hen- derson appealed against recrimina- tion against MacDonaldites. The Congress is taking precautions to prevent unemployed marchers from gaining entrance to the sessions. Visitor’s tickets have been issued to carefully selected persons. Dozens of extra guards have been enrolled. Special police protection has been obtained. NEW YORK—An “unemployed demonstration and march took placé in London last Saturday, with the workers carrying placards for a fight against wage-cuts and hunger, news cables here said. PROFITS OUT OF WAGE CUTS ‘The International Paper Co. and | subsidiaries have reduced salaries and wages approximately 10 per cent, effective Sept. 15. The reduc- tion applies to all executives and workers. At, the same time the In- ternational Paper Co. reported that “News print properties during the five months of this year, in spite of price cuts, show larger earnings than the first five months of 1930, due to substantial reductions in production costs and overhead expenses.” Their earnings for the first quarter of 1931 was $500,000, by the second quarter it had increased to $1,000,000. This is but one of the companies, of the thousands throughout the country, who ar making higher profits by cut- ting wages. Raided Party The national offices of the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary trade unions and farmer organiza- tions were raided August 11 and all leading members of thé Political Committee arrested. They were charzed with “unlawful association” and the crown prosecution has man- ifested its anxiety to jail all revolu- tionary leaders as an onening wedge for a sayage mass attack on the en- tire Canadian working class and poor farmers. Winnipeg, latest scene of the gov- ernment-supported fascist outrage against the revolutionary workers was the center of militant unem- ploved demonstrations last winter under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party. The spectre of the gen- eral strike of 1919 still haunts the Canadian bosses. Workers Are Rallying. Through all Canada trade unions, workers’ clubs, and farmer organiza- tions are rallying speedily to the de- fense of the Communist Party and its leaders. Mass demonstrations in nipeg; Crows Nest Pass, Hamilton, Windsor and many other centers have demanded the immediate re- lease of the Communist leaders. Funds for defense of the arrested revolutionary leaders continue to pour in to the Canada Labor Defense )teague offices, The Coalhurst local of the Mine Workers Union of Can- ada sent $100, the Lethbridge miners’ {CONTINUED ON PAGR Refuse Treatment to - Workers Beaten Up By Murphy Police DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 3.—A number of workers who were badly beaten up and arrested at an evic- tion at Dubois Street and Monroe Avenue a couple of weeks ago were refused treatment when they arrived at the police headquarters. One worker who had his finger broken, did not get it treated until he had been sentenced and sent to the House of Correction. Comrade Slaby who had a bruised shoulder and a swollen wrist after the struggle with several of Murphy's police, was in the House of Correc- tion three days before they consented to permit a doctor to treat him, THREE) ‘Negro Worker’ Tells of World Wide Protest On Scottsboro Carries Stirring Appeal of Int. Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers to Continue Fight to Free 9 Boys HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 7—In the current issue of its official organ, “The Negro Worker, the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers calls upon the workers of the whole world to build and spread the mass movement to smash the boss court lynch yerdict against the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, whom are in the death cells at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Ala. The appeal takes notes of the PHILADEPHIA, Pa. Sept. 7.—De- spite the fierce opposition of rank and file delegates, the Mustcite and “socialist’? misleaders of the Amer- ican Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers jammed through the drastic proposal to enforce a 30 to 50 per cent wage cut on 20,000 organized hosiery workers, at the special convention now in session sere. * Brazenly declaring that they are »-operating with the manufacturers { the organized mills to reduce the nion scale to those of unorganized ills Emil Rieve, Alex McKeown, ocialist candidate for Mayor of *hiladelphia and president of the \FFFHW local here, John Edelman, Nilliam Smith and other hosiery ‘nisleaders said it was to “stabilize” che industry Hosiery Misleaders Jam Thru 30-50 Percent Wage Cut Plan If enforced, the wage reductions would bring down the wages of the organized hosiery werkers to $15 for semi-skilled workers and $35 for top skilled workers where a ‘full week's work is to be had. The checkoff goes with this wage cuttthg scheme to tigi-:en the hold of the employers and AFFFHW of- ficials on the workers in the shops. Last week in speaking to a mass meeting of 1,000 hosiery workers, William Z. Foster declared that if the AFFFHW should put through the wage cutting scheme in convention, the, workers should rally to defeat it by, referendum and if that was stolen to organize committees of action in the shops to strike against it. a mighty storm of protest which is sweeping the world, and points out how this protest movement, initiated in the United States by the Com- munist Party, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, has spread until today it include broad masses of workers and sympathizers in prac- tically every country in the world. An excellent idea of the extent of the protest movement is given in the body of the appeal, where it is stated: “Mass demonstration and meetings of workers of all races as well as stormy scenes before American con- sulates have been held throughout Europe and America, and in South Africa and Latin America, protesting indignantly against the frame-up of their class brothers, and demanding their release. Nothing like this has ever happened before! The bour- geoisie has been astounded at this wonderful demonstration of interna- tional solidarity—at the spectacle of workers of all races raising their fists in defense of 8 Negro proletarians. “At Berlin workers, under the leadership of the Communist Party and the International Labor De- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) | Vancouver, Caleary, Saskatoon, Win- | 3rd Year Plan Is Huge Success In The Soviet Union (Cable By Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, Sept. 7.—Isvestia,” | Soviet newspaper, reports that the total subscription to the Third- | | | Decisive-Year Loan was 1,700,000,- | | 000 roubles ($850,000,000), or an | over-subscription of 200,000,000 | roubles, It declares the result is unparalleled and striking, com- pared to ‘the financial situation | in a series of capitalist countries, | Where confusion reigns, with big | | | | banks collapsing and the masses | | | withdrawing their money. “Is- | | vestia” states that the loan result | demonstrates agaim the enthus?- | astic confidence of the toilers in | | the Soviet Government and sup- | port for the construction of So- | cialism. | LIBERALS FEAR ASK FOR CRUMBS But Only Workers Can | _Force Relief NEW YORK.—So widespread is the wave of suicides of jobless workers becoming that even the liberal apolo- gists for capitalism are beginning to worry about it. Professor John Dewey of Colum- | bia University made public recently a letter which he sent to President | Hoover asking Hoover, out of the | | kindness of his heart, t othrow some crumbs to the workers to keep them from self-destruction. Dewey doesn’t | want the workers to go in action | themselves against starvation, but | wants capitalism to become more | charitable. | National Miners’ Dewey mentions the startling fact | that in New York City for the first six months of the year 1,800 unem- | ployed workers committed suicide be- | cause they were faced with starva- | tion. He also says that many other thousands are forced to steal to keep | alive, and, as a result, the prisons | are filling up with desperate, un- | Thug Murderer Is Freed by PINEV ILLE, Ky., Sept. 7.— deliberated on Friday WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 9 8 ents emis _Price 3 € MINERS’ BABIES NEED MILK TO _ BEKEPT ALIVE ‘Poor Relief’ peer in Wiiniiaton County Ready to Let Starving Children Die Coal Operators’ Jury in Ky. A picked jury for 15 minutes over a verdict of not guilty to thug Bill Randolph, |who, last spring, killed a storekeeper n SUICIDE GROWTH, ‘ ri ing miners. In our report of Sept. 5 named Chasteen, is had given food credit to the we erroneously reported Jones and Hightower, who were indicted for perjury and placed un- |der a bond of $15,000 on a mu lof the U. M. W. A. | Jones and Hightower, who is 7 Union, RED YOUTH IN MOSCOW PLEDGE DEFENSE OF USS Huce Demonstration In Moscow Celebrates Int'l Youth Day Massing in a tremendous demon- stration, déspite rain flurries; nearly | 500,000 toiling youth of Moscow | marched Lenin’s Tomb in Red Square, Moscow, in celebration of In- | ternational Youth Day, Sunday. Mikhail Kalinin, veteran Bolshe- | vik and chairman of the : ® | Central | employed workers. | Executive Committee of the Soviet Dewey's solution is a special ses- | Union, and Maxim Gorky, stood on sion of Congress to put over another | the platform with delegations of fake building program like the one | Workers from other countries and with which Hoover promised to wipe | returned the greetings of the youth out unemployment “in the twinkling of an eye.” It is not Professor Dewey's well- wishes or appeals to the rich ex- | ploiters that will stop the wave of suicides and the deaths from hunger, | but the action of the workers them- | selves that will force relief from the | bosses. Law Reveals Its Majestic Equality PITTSBURGH (F.P.) — Oscar Jubelier, head of a busted bank in Uniontown, was charged with irregularities connected with the bank’s closing. He received a sus- pended sentence. At the same time, Ray Connolly, 22, was up before Magistrate Jones for taking a quart of milk from a politician's porch. “I had not eaten all day,” young Connolly told the court. “I waited up all night for the milk to be delivered.” “Well, they serve lunch at 1:30 at the workhouse,” said Judge Jones. “$25 or 30 days.” | and marchers. In an imposing array of close for- mation, amid a sea of banners and placards, the Young Communists called for defense cf their socialist fatherland and for speedy fulfiliment of the Five-Year Plan. In meetings held throughout the city the role of the Young Commu- nists in the construction of socialist society was stressed. It was pointed out that nearly 90 per cent of all shock troops in the factories, mills mines were members of the Leninist Young Communist League. The appeal of the Young Commu- nist International for defense of the Soviet Union was carried in many papers. The appeal said, in part: “The growth of contradictions between the systems of rotten cap- italism and victorious socialism makes the danger of war and in- tervention against the Soviet Union most possible, It is, there- fore, the revolutionary duty of the proletarian youth of the world to defend the union. Down with im- Pperialist war and _ intervention against the Soviet!” Preparations for International Youth Day, Sept. 8, in all capitalist VOLUNTEERS WANTED To help in the Election Work countries in the world are being speeded. International Youth Day meetings every day in the afternoon. UNEMPLOYED COMRADES ARE URGED TO COME 35 East 12th St., fifth floor NEW YORK.—The National Office of the International Labor Defense has sent instructions to all its dis- tricts and contacts for the organi- zation of a gigantic mass campaign for the freeing of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, the Scottsboro Ne- gro boys, the Harlan miners, the Im- perial Valley strike leaders and all other class war prisoners, The cam- paign is to be conducted under the slogan of “Immediate, unconditional release of Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners.” While the issue of the Scottsboro frame-up is to be included in this campaign, the Scottsboro campaign is to be continued in its present form, with United Front Scottsboro De- fense conferences and other mass activities directed at rallying the white and Negro masses to the de- will be held in all important indus- trial and farming centers in the United States. LL.D. Calls tor Nation-Wide Drive to Free Tom Mooney fense of the Scottsboro boys and for the fight for unconditional equal rights for the Negro People. The directives sent out by the I L. D. national office call for the de- finite setting of dates for mass.de- monstrations for’ amnesty in every city and town within the ten days of Sept. 13 to Sept. 24. These am- nesty demonstrations must be on the broadest scale possible, drawing in especially all the forces of the Trade Union Unity League and its affilia- ted organizations. Special efforts must be put forth in the mine fields. United Front Mooney-Harlan De- fense Conferences, drawing in Scotts- boro, must be held as soon as pos- sible, and not later than October 10. The I. L. D. directives stress that (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) rder charge, as being members The U. M, W, A, is dead in Kentucky, 77 years old, are members of the Miners’ Babies Dying, Milk Only Cure. Thousands of children in the strike district are dying of starvation for jwant of milk. Another has died from lack of milk, this time the 3% months old baby of a Kinlock miner who was shot and then thrown in | jail for sttike activities two months ago. He was sent to the funeral with three state police guarding him jas if he was a murderer instead of a miner fighting for | family. In Louise; W> Va., the six-year-old daughter of Jim Jones, who has been on strike with the N. M. U. since jearly June, is dying of an intestinal fever, due to eating nothing but |ereen stuff which the family could jgather from the hillsides. The doc- tor says there is little chance of bread for his {saving her, but it may be possible |if she is put on a straight milk diet. same |Thrée other children in the family are sick from this fever will soon be dying unless th milk in their diet. | The miners have only their the workers, to depend on to them from starvation | fight the battle of their cl: government relief agencie: have no milk for dying bab fathers dare strike against bosses. the The gentle bourgeoisie lady who handles poor relief in Washing- | ton County, Pa., told the miners she | didn’t care if all their children died | They were striking against the bosses of the county and the depression was \“an act of god” anyway. The Red Cross takes the same attitude—mil- lions for war but not one cent for starving workers. Workers must de- pend on their own “red cross’—the W. I. R.—and the Penn-Ohio W. Va.-Ky.-Striking Miners’ Relief. Thousands of babies, children of miners fighting for bread and their union, are in serious condition for lack of milk. The Penn-Ohio-W. Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief asks you to send in money to their special Milk Fund, at Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. NEGRO HELD FOR HELPING WHITE Terror Doesn’t Stop Indianapolis Workers INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Because of his participation in a fight to re- lease a white worker arretsed for daring to come into the segregated Negro district here, Haley, a Negro worker has been arrested, charged with resisting an officer. Police terror, particularly against Negro workers, to block the growing unity of Negro and white worker is increasing here. But despite the terror the L. 8. N. R. and the Un- ployed Councils continue to build and gain in membership. Last week 28 workers were present at a new L. S. N. R. block committee. Suc- cessful street meeting in Hoghville and West Indianapolis where some of the poorest workers live resulted in the building of 2 Unemployed Councils. ‘The power of these councils has already shown itself when an evicted worker who went to a lawyer for help was told by the lawyer than only the council could help him,