The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1931, Page 5

i eqs j } 1 1 ' H } —— ' t ASO ROR “Socialist Opposition” Joins a ont | | In Attack On British Sailors (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON which will participate in the Unio Bq. demonstration is the Intern, tional Labor Defense which is “oir ing in the struggle to prevent ,th British capitalist class from, start ing a murderous attack on thé “Bric ‘sh sailors such as the fascists in Dhile have already started. The ILD sent the following cable to the” tnili- tant british seamen throught ‘the British section of the International Labor Defense. ye “The International Labor. .De: fense of the United States through its British brother organization sends comradely solidarity greet- ings to the struggling sailors re- sisting the starvation policy of the MacDonald government. We pledge ourselves to organize broad mass resistance against threatened: putr- ishment facing the militant sailors leading’ this courageous struggie. American imperialism, like British imperialism, reserves extreme (per seoution for workers who “Voice their grievances in military, naval, or air forces. Workers everywhere join hands in your defense. The In- ternational Labor Defense is “jotn+ ing the solidarity demonstration or- ganized for Saturday on Union Sq.” 66.6058 c The militant actions of the British seamen have had a tremendous_ef- fect on the stability of British {m- perialism. This was immediately recognized by the British as well.as the foreign imperialist powers,.-In the House of Commons the discus sion of the actions of tht) sailors -has become secondary to the problem,of the present stability of British capi- talism which has been weakened greatly by the resistance of thesea- men to the wage cutting program ot MacDonald. The disobediance of the sailors was & militant blow by them at the en- tire system of discipline which has been one of the very foundations of the British armed forces,.” “forget” this act of military dis- obediance is revealed as a retreat of the capitalist class due to the fear that a yet more critical =. Is} rapidly developing. Sir Austen Chamberlain, First Lord of the Admirality, agreed’ to “forget” in the following words yes- terday in the House of Commons: “The past is past,” he said. “It is in the interest of everybody, in, the, navy and out of it, to forget what has happened. I am not goin look back. I am going to look for- ward, and I count confidently: on | the traditions of the service and the loyalty of the men to uphold’: me. We shall go forward together in the service of the country.” While the fleet is steaming back to port where it will arrive Saturday to bme greeted by the workers in great Solidarity demonstrations the Brit- ish ruling class and its national, gov- ernment is fearing that the pound will fall rapidly in value as the-re- sult of the obviously weakened..eco- nomic position of British capitalism. ‘The Daily Mail of London states eqdi- torially that “the plain fact is that Britain is still in the midst of a| crisis.” The critical situation iS Tur-| ther explaned by the Daily Mail in the following words: “"t the story from Wall Stréet that a large part of the latest cred- it granted us is already gone in > safeguarding the pound is true, we> are all fiddling while Rome burns. What is the use for the navy to: go- on strike if it is merely helping -to_| ruin the value of everything it ex- ists to protect? What is the use-for tariffists to urge tariffs if the,un- certainty they minister to is mexe- ly helping to decrease the valueyf- our money in paying for food and. | other goods from abroad?” About two weeks ago the United States and France granted the Bank of England a credit of $400,090,000 in order to prevent the collapse,of the British banking system. It-has been reported that the majority of this credit has already been used: up. So serious is the situation that, the Yeading bankers of the country yis- ited MacDonald Thursday night:-in order to give him the necessary,in~ structions for dealing with the pres- ent crisis insofar as they themselves have any conception as to how the collapse can be averted. The:New. York Times reports the visit of, the Bankers to MacDonald as followssn,~ - “Financial leaders of Lac l cluding Sir Ernest Musgrave Har, vey, Deputy Governor of the Bank. of England, visited the House -of ~ Commons tonight, it is reported,to convey to Prime Minister MacDon- ald a grave warning that the sta~ bility of the pound was again -im~.- periled. It is stated they gave two reasons for this emergency—first, the naval unrest and, second, the report that a general election was tmminent—and it is belleved thet; -|: visit was largely responsible forthe |, harmonious debate that followed ‘ine Commons on the naval question? It is the militant action of the-sait- |; ors that has been a vital blow atthe capitalist system in Great Britain: ‘The effect of this action on the ‘party of the sailors and the resentment of the workers throughout the country: against the hunger program of -the. MacDonald National government. makes the capitalist class fear that an election at this time will rouse ae Masses to further militant: ac- sions, bas ‘The Times gives the orders of the’ bankers on the elections as follows: ‘The |, willingness of the government.,.to bar | Ohio, W. Va. and Ky., and for or- done if the government does not un for at 2 Immediate it of the Skers to M ynald a special cab- ¢ meeting was called to take up ne question of saving the British round. The “opposition” which up to’ the sresent time has ¥ocally “disagreed vith the National government; be- same silent immediately on the news |of the critical situation which has | |aeme. about in connection with the |danger to the pound. The Times re- ports the silence of the “opposition” Las. follows: }---“So, for the first time since the | new government took power, there is'truce between it and the Oppo- sition, with the result that all bii- terness was eliminated from tie | navy debate. Mr. Hall, who raised the question, and Sir Austen, who answered for the government, were |.most conciliatory toward other.” The Times gives also the reason for the “truce” between the opposition and the government. “Thé Opposition, too, wants to save sterling, even if it thinks the government does not have the right | method to do it.” | ‘The opposition wants to save ster- | ling. The opposition is determined to fight shoulder to shoulder with | the other capitalist politicians to save sterling—to save British capitalism | at the expense of the living stand- ards of the British workers. There was therefore “no abuse of the gov- ernment by the Opposition.” | Sterling fell Thursday on the for- eign exchange markets and the Brit ish government loans aiso fell in value. The fall of the pound has been accentuated already by the sending of funds abroad by British | ‘capitalists who are attempting as in tthe German crisis to save their cap- | Ytal' by shipping it abroad. ‘The fall of the British pound is | ‘iot only a serious blow:to the British capitalist system but a biow at the | ntife capitalist world. This was ly pointed out by the Daily} Mail: | “The fall of the pound would not | only mean misery, hunger and un- | certainty throughout our own coun- try, but would mean disaster to Germany, Austria and possibty | other countrie: ‘OPEN TRAINING SCHOOL IN PA. Party School to Train | : for Struggle PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 13. —on | Saturday evening, Sept. 19, a ban- quet. and dance will be id at 805 | James St., N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa., to | @reet- the 25 students of miners’ | and steel workers who coming to} the school organized by the Party, | for the purpose of training function- | aries. | The coming struggles of the miners | will take on a much broaded scope | than the present one and will be} ‘much more intense because of the | increased starvation. Many of the| -niiners have gone back to work at the“point of guns and the vicious terror of the bosses. The miners in the -National Miners’ Union, who ware back in the mines, are now wag- ing a gigantic campaign for the building of the union. Simultane- ously, the steel workers are organ- izing into the Metal Workers’ Indus- | trial. League to fight the daily wage- | cuts. that are taking place in the | entire steel industry. For all these Struggles we must have trained forces who, will be able to give leadership to. the. thousands and thousands of workers who are ready to struggle @gainst the bosses’ starvation, the U;.M. W. A. and the whole A. F. of L. ~All workers of Pittsburgh and vicinity come to greet the students at the opening banquet of the miners and steel workers’ school. All sym- Pathizers and sympathetic organiza- tions must come en masse. There will.be good music by a miners’ or- chestra, good things to eat and a good time will be had by all. »-All workers put Saturday evening, Sept. -19, aside for this affair alone. UNITY COMMITTEE PICNIC AT BENLD i ENLD, Il.—The Unity Commit- tee of. Action, in conjunction with the Women’s Auxiliary, and the YCL unit, held a picnic on September 7 | to counteract the vicious bosses’ pro- | Paganda in connection with the fake “Labor Day.” Over three hundred automobiles were parked around the Picnic grounds; the crowd must have ;totalled more than 2,000. ‘A’ church, backed by the coal bosses, tried to throw a monkey wrench into the picnic by staging a social atthe same time. Only fifteen or twenty couples, all old, devout ‘church members, came to the church ial—the band had to be dismissed the social postponed. All the ‘other church members, especially the youth, came to the miners’ picnic, ‘The proceeds of the picnic will go to ‘help the striking miners of Penn., each | ganization. This picnic, as well as the showing of “Ten Days That “Financial leaders, however, hold the view that the work of the Mav-~ Donald Government already ste" complished would be quickly un- Shook the World,” was run by the miners themselves, and is a tribute to”the Organizational ability of the miners, | the working cl |cablegram of the Communist Party | | sailors. Sailors’ Wives ied On Struggle Against MacDonald Hunger | CONTINE > PROM PAGE ONE) were being treated unfairiy in cor BP: n to police and oiners, Tht men energetically campaigned in the local newspapers to ot sions by the Admi “The sailors of the will be at their ho e teh a: to in: The governmer it has given sailors no r f from the The only ed, whi % | er ation of their com- | plaints. Austen Chamberlain hes alreaa; stated that as far as abolishing the wage cut is concerned the MacDoa- ald government of which he is a member has no intention of gra any important concessions to the | sailors. “It ar that the limits with- in which we can do that are fairly marked out. We cannot allow th economy scheme to be eaten aw in det.il We are quite where there is a particuts within the g ‘al scheme who s' fer exceptional hardship, to ex- amine that case and previde a ren:- edy. That is the purpose of the in- quiries which will be opened at the earliest pessible moment after the arrival of the ships at their home ports.” The capitalist class in the other countries has already sharpencd the attack on the revolutionary working class to crush the results of the tions of the British sailor: mong lass of the rest of the world. In Germany the fascist gov- {ernment has prohibited the | Fahne for a period of four weeks for publishing the cablegram of the of Germany to the militant Britis This cable whien was pub- lished in full in the Daily Wor! Thursday, congratu'atea the Brit sailors on their acTons and encour- aged them to fight on against the MacDonald capitalist oppression un- der the leadership of their own com- mittees and in solidarity with the militant proletariat of the shops and |the mines and with the militant sea- | few men throughout the world. In Paris the capitalist press has | used the occasion of the actions of the British sailors for an attack on the Soviet Union which it blames di- | | rectly or indirectly for the actions of | the e sailors. They point out that this is a vital blow at the “moral heaith of the army and navy” and call for \8 more vicious attack on the part of | the MacDonald government on the} British workers, not only to save British capitalism but to save the entire capitalist system. The semi-. official French government paper | Temps stated this in the following: “Today we see the consequences. These incidents cannot fail fur- ther to complicate the already dir- ficult task of the British Nationa: Government, It must give proof of great energy and sang-froid to sur- mount the difficulties which beset it on all sides and to bring to n successful conclusion the politicai and financial enterprise which con- sists of re-establishing confidenc: and consolidating the credit ot England throughout the world.” Workers Correspondence fs the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. Rote | _D! AML Y Wi /ORKER, NEW YORK, SATI ‘Legion Conference Jeers BE Starvin Will Try to ee ive Ww orker in Resistance to Bos WA GTON, D. C pape 1b. hour of speechmaking d with } ri references dole” and the oymer ment Commission of Legion. When an patient delegate finally tried to a resolution demanding that of the fund for direct relief of unemployed during the com- winter, Chairman Howard P ed to receive it. Savage identified as an employe of the Insull power interests. The resolu- tion finally was placed in the re- cord of proceedings, as an individ- ual suggestion. ing From the outset, the meeting was | in reactionary hands. Savage intro- duced Ralph T. O'Neil, whose most striking utterance was: “Unrest and are abroad in the land, and the ranks of the unemployed are fertile fields for the fallacies of communism. Lawlessness and communism are a more direct threat to the integrity of our government which we are pledged to maintain than was the threat of autocracy in 1917.” JRDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 193 31 of Son gs s! More 3 th g Unemploy et of Leadership "Hunger Program sroxion, Cc told the veterar ing th with we! labor House in a program of di- up work. He remind:d the na Jed of them was service ss Compared to Hogs. TT APAEADD } Silae Strawn, president of the SOti Chamber of Commerce of the 4 United States, advised the veverans i Saeenuaiele g hysterical” about) Call of Affiliation to unemployment. He opposed un- LSU Leacue : employment insuran ground that it “tends A lot of people, had a job and so they cannot something they told several stories to illustrate a herd of hogs that “went when woodpeckers imitated sound wi‘ which their owner had been used to call them to their feed. Nobody protested the use o: hungry hogs to illustrate the pligh of hungry unemployed kers Strawn ended with fatherly adv that we be “thankful that we live in the United States, the most pro- | sperous country on earth.” be insured will never have allegedly fu One descri agains He “The Amoric> els all worki the ues to join, The L: abor Sports “hool Condition in Chicago 'Wers? ry for Teachers Long Overdue Now D. CHICAGO, Ill—The conditions in the Chicago schools is a disgrace to any city. The teachers, about 15,009 | of them, returned to classes which are more crowded than ever, with- out having had any pay since last April. | fered a scrip in lieu of cash, but the teachers who accepted it found } that it would not be taken in pay- | | ment by any of their creditors. So | | it has been of very little help. | The total amount due to Board of Education employes is almost | $12,000,000. The regular day teachers | alone have over $7,000,000 due them. The substitute teachers, who at best earned only a day or two’s pay here and there, whenever they happened to be called, have not been paid any- | The Board of Education of- | | not onl | tirely, and the students made to walk miles to at in some other town. Over 60 stu have enrolled for the hig which is a large gioup, consideving the small size of the town. | CHICAGO DISTRICT IN FUNDS DRIVE Mobilize Sections for a chance to pla n 309, 2 W Struggle Funds | P the tlantic Dist Pa. cid-A CHICAGO, Ill.—In order for r seceor tezms ef other coun- 15th 1203 Tasker St SHARPEN SPEED UP IN wEsteah New York W orker Only Wor! Organizatio yn of ES ST ¢ CADDIES HIT PAY CUT Is ‘ Jailed for Militancy S on working, the crev into working one we In other d vartments a lesson, by the steel t, but working s done Oc- the the golf 1 lectric police, Hawtl r an plant acti atmosphere oce mally) 01 rs were tated a 50 ed down y pilot mi can 1 'the | increz prevent cond eed up of them from ever more. ee Frye was i P Dist., Room 510, 611 | committees to a the condition The Communist Party to meet the e ce th, Pa lof the work A tbe ahs ops. Organize 5 e sharpening struggles of the wor Pp nio Dist. Room 310, 1426) to fight speed up. with club officials.” under its leadership, and in or 7 Cleveland, 0. | carry on the tasks, we must intens'f: 9 W. Division st., | our work in all directions. This means to immediately throw in all | forces into the struggle, distribute leaflets by hundreds of thousands | | monthly, open new headquarters, send out-scores of organizers. In | order to be able to do this, at the recent District Plenum, held Septem- mM ‘cit Dist., Dist., ford, Conn write direct Or to the Nai 4864 Woodward Ave 14 Frederick St Soccer Comm., Room 309, 96 Fift ‘The drive is limited to Nov. 7. us put th: able the district to carry mendous tasks, | ployes of the Board of Education| mobilize their fractions in the vari- | | together have accepted only a little | ous language organizations, will have | over $1,000,000 of the scrip, which is | to mobilize their membership for | about 8 per cent of the amount due | house-to-house selling of coupons or | them. Ave., New York City. | thing and are owed close to $500,000. | ber 6, it was unanimously approved | Although the papers are trying to/ |to have a “$5,000 Organization and | collections on contribution lists. Or- minimize the issue and to praise the | Struggle Fund.” This» means that| ganizations are encouraged to ar- jscrip. it is stated that all the em-| | every section, every unit, will have to | range aff for this drive. Let drive over and thus en- its tre- International Youth Day Campaign SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER Twenty-Five Cents for Two Months Subscription to the YOUNG WORKER (Published Weekly Wage “Donations.” ‘There had been proposals, which | undoubtedly will come up again, | | that teachers be asked to donate one | or two weeks’ work without pay, also | | that classes be increased. 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