The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1931, Page 1

i te i ts sew |S SHIRTS) i ae Jimmre Pawrs 4 —_ Sitesi pears Gets 28° N IDEA WHILE peeieuy Shs Coxcrenn Booze | UD . aW orker Dest Porty U.S.A. (Section of | the Communist tnernatone) J ac A“ WORKERS OF THE WORLD, _UNITE! Vol. Vil, No. 28 at New York, N. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESD: AY SEPTEMBER 22, 1931 C. ITY EDITION == Price 3 Cents, ANGLO-U.S. FINANCIAL WAR ON, SPREADING WAGE CUTS ® Capitalist Collapse and Soviet Advance IN SPITE of J. P. Morgan’s “hopeful” declaration that the bankruptcy of British capitalism is the “second stage of recovery,” the suspension of the gold standard and the heavy fall of the Pound Sterling is a stun- ning blow to world imperialism. Workers should understand that Morgan would have said nothing at all but for self-interest, since he found it necessary to say something to protect Morgan holdings which are deeply inyolved in British securities. While American imperialism can look with equanimity and even some joy on the blow suffered by its British rival, a blow it aided by “gold raiding” the Pound Sterling, it is a blow which reacts upon itself and spreads disaster through the whole capitalist world. Thus the “strength- ening” of America through the weakening of England weaves tighter the web of all imperialist contradictions and rivalries of which, also, the Japanese advance in Manchuria, in collusion with Japan's ally in the East, England, is a blow at American imperialist interests. And, thus the “solution” of all capitalist contradictions leads directly to war. It is significant that the “socialists” in the “labor” party “opposi- tion” have agreed with J. P. Morgan and Ramsay MacDonald, the King’s prime minister, that “His Majesty's Government” did the right thing, although the N. Y. Times correspondent cables that suspension of the gold standard means “adjustt™cnts” which will “prove a painful process not only at home but in othef countries.” These “painful adjustments” mean for the British workers a depre- ciation of the buying value of their money wages by higher prices—an effective wage cut in reality, while by this indirect wage cut and the direct wage cuts already begun, British industry will intensify the strug- gle for the world market, thus intensifying world unemployment and the imperialist trade rivalry already leading to a new world war. Even before the British collapse, which is echoing throughout. Europe and causing consternation in Germany particularly, the U. S. Depart- ment of Commerce figures on European unemployment indicated what the Department calls “Record Figures” of unemployed in a list of twenty countries beginning with Austria and ending with Yugoslavia. There is one European country Union! not included in the list—the Soviet And from Moscow, the N. Y. Times correspondent sends a dis- yatch dated Sunday, Sept. 20, which begins with the following lines: “This Autumn is showing a sharp improvement over last year, not only in industrial production, but in the financial situation, food conditions and public sentiment. In August production rose 11.1 per cent over July, and 33 per cent over August of last year.” This, workers of America, is proof positive of both the victory of socialist construction under the Soviet rule of the working class and the bankruptcy and anti-social character of capitalist class rule! In the capitalist world—wage cuts, growing unemployment, mass cory and war! In the land ruled by the workers—no unemployment, wage increases, the seven-hour day and five-day week, progress of the toiling masses and security for all who work! American workers must fully understand this comparison, because the capitalist class seeks here to unload the burden of the crisis upon their shoulders, just as British capitalism is now putting the burden of the financial collapse on the British workers and armed forces. American workers more than ever face direct and more savage wage cuts, indirect wage cuts by sales taxes, and the starvation program of Hoover’s unemployment “relief.” More than ever they must strengthen their fighting organizations led by the Communist Party. More than ever they must stand ready to defend the Soviet. Union, because all imperialisms, rivals among themselves as they are, are first of all rivals among themselves in their anxiety to take the lead and the hog’s share of the loot they hope to get by making an attack upon the Soviet Union! American workers must remember that one of England’s leading im- perialists, Sir Henri Deterding, has long argued that war against the Soviets is not only necessary to preserve capitalism, but would be “good business,” in territory and resources seized for market outlets! Defend your wages and conditions! Defend the Soviet Union! De- mand unemployment insurance, immediate relief, all war funds to the unemployed! SIGNATURE COLLECTION MUST BE SPEEDED IN LAST DAYS The return of the Tammahy booze hound, Jimmy Welker, who has been dined and wined in every cabaret of Europe, should be a signal for inten- sified election campaign activity by the workers of New York under the leadership of the Communist Party to expose the racketeering and gang- sterism of the Tammany Hall ma- chine and its twin brothers, the Re- publicans and Socialists. In the col- lection of signatures which must con- tinue from now until October 1 with the greatest energy if the Commun- ist candidates are to be placed on} the ballot in assembly districts that are still very weak, this drive should go hand in hand with exposing the ‘Tammany unemployment relief rack- et which is now being used as an election tactic to fool the workers. According to the report of Control- ler Berry, the Board of Estimate ap- PITTSBURGH BANK IN HEAVY CRASH PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept .21—The Bank of Pittsburgh, with reported assets of $53,343,953, was declared suspended and the Comptroller of the Currency took over the bank. It is one of the oldest financial insti- tutions here, having been founded in 1810. The deposits, as of record of July 1, 1931, was reported at $46,921,065. The vice-president of the Pitts- burgh Clearing House Association declared “the suspension was due to a drain which has arisen most largely from withdrawal of deposits by banks in other sections of the country.” ' The Bank of Pittsburgh has the following branches: The Merchants propriations for so-called improve- ments to provide work, amounts to | $190,000,000, 35% of which according |to the Tammany racketeers will go to labor providing work for 150,000 for six months on a three-day week basis. At the same time the above report | was made, Harvey D. Gibson, Chair- man of the Emergency Unemploy- ment Relief Committee reported that there are 700,000 unemplyoed work- ers in New York, with 500,000 heads of families, a total of 1,200,000 job- Jess workers. For these $12,000,000 is supposed to be sufficient in the five Boroughs. Even if the Tam- many racketeers took nothing, this, would not even mean $12 a piece for the unemployed and his family. Yet this wholesale fraud is being spread around by the Tammany racketeers to fool the workers again into voting for the Republicans and Democratic thieves who are now in office. On top of this every worker should be told im the house to house can- vass\ for the collection of signatures that the Tammany Hall and Repub- lican gangster-politicians will not grant one cent of emergency relief to any body who has not voted for the past 2 years. In other words, the bosses politicians will definitely bar any body who has not voted for the reactionary Tammany hall and its machine. They will give relief only as a bribe in exchange for votes. Workers, expose this unemploy- ment racketeering with the lives of the starving million workers and their families in New York. All out for signatures to see that every dis- trict that is not yet over the top gets the necessary quotas of signa- tures. There is no time to lose! The Jast day is October 1. 20,000 signa- tures must still be collected. Give an hour a day to defeat the enemies of the working class and to see that the Communist Party candidates are and Manufacturers National Bank, J 1 City National Bank and the Columbia National Bank. on the ballot in every working class ecciion in New York. re CHIANG ASKS U.S. TO WAR ON JAPANESE: Imperialist Powers Are} Drawn Swiftly to Major Warfare | Invoke Kellogg Pact Japanese Entrench In! Southern Manchuria NEW YORK.—Moving irresistibly into the vortex of the imperialist conflict in Southern Manchuria, where Japanese troops now occupy 700 miles of the main railroad lines, American and British imperialism have taken the initial step in what threatens to develope into a major imperialist war. The American-inspired Nanking government in less than 48 hours ‘after the forcible occupation of Muk- den, invoked the aid of the League of Nations and signatories of the Kellogg pact for action against Japan. Invoke American Imperialism Aid The appeal for the invocation of the Kellogg pact is a direct request of the puppet Nanking government to American imperialists to take the lead in war against Japan. Similarly the appeal to the League of Nations the imperialist weapon of world ag- gression, is an attempt to manoeuvre. for allies for the U. S. against Japan. Cc. T. Wang, hangman Chiang-Kai Shek’s foreign minister, indicated as (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BUILD LAUNDRY WORKERS UNION To Fight the Yellow! Dog Contract NEW YORK.—Since the mass meeting of last Thursday, where hundreds of laundry workers showed their readiness to build a union, con- siderable progress has been made. The Organization Committee set up various sub-committees to take care of every situation arising. Meet- ings are held with shops, workers are approached on the streets and spoken | to. All are drawn into the work, which is done with devotion and high spirit. Those who have joined the union are on the job day and night, with the only desire in their heart | to build a union for the workers. The Laundry Workers’ Union will immediately begin a fight against the yellow dog contract, which the bosses, in order to secure themselves against a union, force the workers to sign. As a guarantee that the workers will) not join the union orf go on strike in case of labor trouble, the bosses force the workers to sign a forfeit, that they lose theis security when they go on'strike. The bosses of the Pretty Laundry force their men to! sign a contract that they can not get their security for a long period, sometimes as long as three years. Some drivers who, because of their miserable pay can not keep up their families, fall short in cashing in the money they collect, and are threat- ened with firing, although their se- | Lewis and Brown, while in the USSR. Robinson, Negro Worker, Praises The Sovet Union PARIS, France, Sept. 21—(CNA)— Robert Robinson, American Negro | worker who is employed as a me- chanic in Soviet Russia, is spending his ‘vacation here. He speaks very enthusiastically about the Soviet Union and the building of the Five- Year Plan and has the highest praise for the treatment of Negro workers by the Soviet workers and officials. Robinson is the worker who was attacked by two white southerners, These two men were arrested, tried and sentenced to ten years’ impri- sonment by the Russian court, but as they later apologized very humbly to Robinson, the sentence of one was changed to deportation and the other was pardoned and allowed to remain. 500 PENN. MINERS STRIKE AGAINST HUNGER, JOIN NMU Build Up a Militant Picket Line; Ask Relief JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 21.—Be- tween 400 and 500 miners came out on strike at the No. 6 and No. 7 Mines 0 fthe Loy Alhanna Coal Co., Carinbrook, Pa., against the starving conditions that exist at these mines and for reinstatement of 15 miners that were discharged because of their union affiliation and activities. The strike occurred last Wednes- day, Sept. 16. The miners had to carry rails, push cars, set timbers and were never paid for “dead work.” Some miners had to work as many as three days with no pay. There was a strong picket line with about 500 miners with four cossacks and one sheriff for the start and the picket line will continue. Re-} lief work is already started, the spirit of these miners is great and other mines are to be on strike in the near future. These miners have joined the Na- tional Miners Union in mass, be- cause of the intolerable conditions they were forced to live under. They organized a union local of the Na- tional Miners Union about 8 weeks ago. They know that the only way | to better their conditions is by or- | ganizing into the N. M. U. The Workers ‘International Relief of Johnstown is arranging a Miners’ Relief Conference, the purpose of | which will be to provide food, cloth- | ing and shelter for the strikers and | their families. The Workers "Inter- national Relief is applying for a per- mit to hold a “Tag Day” on Satur- day, Sept. 26, for the benefit of the striking miners in eCutral Pennsyl- vania. The W. I. R. is supporting | the striking miners of Western Penn- sylvania, Ohia, Panhandle District and Kentucky. The coal miners are looking over their shoulders on the picket line to the rest of the work- ing class to participate in the strug- gle against the coal operators, be- cause it is their fight as well as the miners. The local union of Cairn- brook said that the National Miners Union is there to stay. modore Laundry fired a man because he was short $23 although the man has $150 security. A mass meeting is called for! Thursday, September 24, at 8 p. ™m. at Ambassador Hall, 3rd Ave. and Claremont Parkway. All laundry curity covers the shertage many times over. The bosses in the Com- HOOVER BIDS LEGION SAVE CAPITALISM Says Hope < of seal Capitalism Is In The U. S. A. Against Taxing Rich) ers Must Bear Bur- den of Crisis DETROIT, Sept. 21.— President | Hoover appeared today before the opening session of the . American Legion in a deliberate move to block | the demands of the rank and file | members for an immediate cash payment of the bonus and to mobi- | ilize the Legion for war against the Soviet Union and against the strug- gles of the American working-class for unemployment relief and against | starvation. Hoover’s speech clearly reflected Frankly States Work- | Relief Commitee today. |tatoes to keep the breath of life in |the relief committee headquarters in | | Room 205, 611 Penn Ave,, Pittsburgh, | Pa., Who Frovi More ae Can Be B des Freight? , Brought If Funds Are Raised; Milk for Children Urgently Needed; Solidarity Growing PITTSBRGH, Pa. Sept. 21. [eee but we have no money t |farmers ir and around Ironwoc |themselves into the Workers |letter received by the Penn-Ohi “We have collected 40,000 pounds of ; potatoes, but the freight will cost $200 | for this carload. We have no money | but plenty of potatoes.” And thousands of hungry mouths | |in the strike fields need these po- | their bodies! A special appeal for immediate funds to send for this, and other car- loads of potatoes is made today from | Every penny now on hand is} needed to supply bread to the strike camps that look to Pittsburgh for at least three meals a week, and a little ® the growing hysteria of the American | milk for babies who are ill for lack bourgeoisie before the piling-up/|of it. There are a few babies in al- proofs of the shaking of world wide | most every camp where a special diet | capitalism, recent instances of which lof milk is the metiicine prescribed as | are the collapse of the British pound | the only thing to save their lives. —‘We want to send you re o pay the freight,” a group of | od, Mich., who have organized io-W. Va.-Ky Striking Miners | selves are eager to help the miners | who are courageously fighting against starvation. They urge you to send what you can to make up the freight charges, so that the potatoes can be used to feed hungry fighters! Send your donation to the relief head- | quarters in Pittsburgh. “T have collected a few around my neighborhood but it is hard getting y, because it is terribly around writes a farmer from Manitou, N. Dak. to the Penn-Ohio- W. Va.- Ky Striking Miners Relief Committee. “There is no crop this year. The drought took it and what we have fo sell doesn’t bring anything. Most of us farmers around here have live | stock, and just as long as we can nternational Relief, said in a| J, Farmers Donate Carload of ’ Potatoes for Miners Relief; POUND 8 FALL SPURS FIGHT FOR MARKETS easly Alot of the Stock Exchanges Forced To Close P. Morgan oH Lies | Previous Credit Raised With Difficulty By Uss, Banks BUL (Cable by Inprecorr) LONDON, Sept. 21.—The departe ure from the gold standard is wel- comed by the Labor Party. The Daily Herald, organ of the Labor Party; in a leading story today de- scribes the measure as essential in the present situation and demands an international conference to dis- cuss gold distribution. The Labor Goyernment made a united front with the government announced: “It is indeed a wise and salutary step the government has taken. This action is not of despair, but |feed our cows, we have something to| wisdom.” This was preceeded by a Bye on. | three days drain of gold and credit. ‘We farmers are with you for &) Nineteen and a half million pounds better system, so let's stick together, | were withdrawn on Friday and ten sterling, the disaffection in the|Milk here literally means life or armed forces of imperialism. With | death! * | his mind on the dramatic events| Farmers ‘his are destitute them- workers and farmers!” million on Saturday, occurring in Europe where capitalism | is on its legs, while Socialist economy in the Soviet Union is ba for: ward to ever greater victories; told-the convention: “The hope of the acy re A world is in the stability of the ai ns 8 government of the United States.” | Cap American capitalism intends to try to save itself at the expense of the | working-class. Peddling his usual | lies about the. mythical relief which | the government is “furnishing” to | the unemployed, he said: | “Make no mistake that those And Public § Cable in N. (CONTINUED ON PAG Protest Today at Yokinen Hearin THREE) world capitalism facing | march of planned-Socia |viet Union. Yesterday’s os Boss Press Admits Big Soviet Hoover made it quite clear that “Sh. sup Improvement lh Output, Finance, Fond Conditions Sentiment,” Says Duranty’s NEW YORK.—With sector after sector of ‘capitalist press is forced to a jlishes a dispatch from Walter Duranty, A new bill is to be presented to contain clauses prohibiting the ex- port of capital by British capital- ists, the exchange of currency, gambling and hoarding commod- italism Shakes’ ities, particularly foodstuffs. | | MacDonald announced in the | House of Commons at 5:30 p. m. that the Government had decided to reduce the wage cuts of the armed forces, teachers and civil servants from fifteen and twelve and a half per cent respectively to a flat cut of ten per cent. ane aa Tre only stock exchange which opened in Europe Monday was that in Paris. All other stock exchanges were forced to remain closed as the result of the tremendous blow to the financial structure of capitalism | caused by the suspension of the gold standard in England. In Paris and New York the prices of stocks fell Y. Times * ruin and collapse, the dmit ths victorious list Economy i in the So- New York Times pub- its Moscow correspon- \Fight Deportation of; | dent, with the significant caption: “Soviet’s Progress Marked in a Year—Sharp. Im- | The demonstration will be held at: 10 Worker NEW YORK.—A call to all work- | ers, native and foreign born, Negro and white, to demonstrate today (Tuesday) against the efforts U. S. Department of Labor to deport success of the Five-Year Plan. Du-| to fascist Finland August Yokinen, Tanty says: militant Finnish worker, has been| “In August production azose 11.1 issued by the New York District of per cent over July and 33 per cent | the International Labor Defense, over August of last year. .The gain | | was especially noticeable in light provement in Output, Finance lic sentiment.” Duranty’s dispatch itself shows even more clearly the tremendous of the advance of Soviet industry and the| i |even meat,” e, Food Conditions and Pub- The machines are reported stand- p pretty weil and the factory nfident of reaching the daily average of 100 set for the begin- | | ning of October. | Duranty reports “a better food supply and more fish, vegetables and | the successful co-ordin- | sharply and in Paris brokers per- mitted only sales of less than five per cent of the holdings of the in- dividual capitalists. The highest grade French stocks fell ten per cent in value. The English pound fell to $3.33 from its par of $4.85 and the Bank of England raised the discount rate from 412 per cent to 6 per cent. Conferences are being held by the leading bankers in all of the capital- ist money centers. As far back as last Friday when the acuteness of the British situation became known in a. m. in front of the Federal Build- | ing, Park Place and Broadway, where | Yokinen will receive a hearing in the | U. 8. District Court. The I. L. D. calls upon Negro| workers especially to demonstrate | their solidarity with Yokinen be- | cause he is being persecuted for hav- | ing repudiated his race prejudices at | a mass trial last spring and for de-/ _|claring his determination to fight for | complete social, economic and poli- | tical equality for the oppressed Negro | people. Mrs. Carol Weiss King, attorney for the New York I. L. D., will de- | fend Yokinen. But his real defense must come from the workers, the I. workers who want to have a unjon must come and join the union. L. D. points out; only they can save industry, which in August gained 16.5 per cent over July and in the first ten days of September 20 per cent over the first ten days of August. “The Donetz coal field produced a daily average of 97,700 tons in | August and 108,700 in the second week of September, compared with 77,200 tons in September of last year.” “Steel production,” he says, “shows similar gains.” He also records great advance in the Stal- ingrad factory: “The daily production of trac- tors has steadily advanced from about fifty in July to an average of ninety-four for September, yes- | liet. Union, with its rapid growth of | “of labor between town and| country—the collective farms and the factories. Thus it is announced today that 31,440 workers have al- ready been provided by the collec ation (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) EUROPE JOBLESS _ REACH NEW HIGH Situation “To Worsen Coming Winter |tive farms for the Donetz collieries, or 87 per cent of the total required.” Duranty’s cable further emphasizes the vast difference between the Sov- | industries, lack of employment and | its plentiful life for the workers, as| against the capitalist system with its rapid disintegration, huge masses of] 4 new high record for unemploy- unemployed, mass suffering and|ment in Europe and the worst June starvation. To the starving unem-/in history for unemployment was re- ployed and part time workers under ported yesterday by R. M. Stephen- capitalism, the Soviet Union points | son chief of the EF ni sectdi ft the’ only way out of the crisis, hea we him. Demonstrate today! terday’s figure being ninety-seven. “Stop Thief! Every worker in New York City has an interest at stake in stopping the conspiracy to raise the price of milk. That interest must be organized—and only the Communist Party can do it, Milk is one of the most necessary of foods, espe- clally for children; yet there are millions of children in New York City whose parents are too poor to buy milk, even the bulk “loose” milk, which one-half the price of bottled milk. of children’s food is clear, when it ‘for the 7,000,000 or so people in New York City, there is supplied only a total of 3,500,000 quarts of milk per day. A big majority of the 7,000,000 are children. And taking out about half of the 3,500,000 quarts for bakeries and other manufacturing users, it is ob’ 2,000,000 quarts that are used directly as food, will not supply the millions of growing children with the “quar a day” which is the minimum. for More, the approximately 2,000,000 quarts consumed kg ieee SM ala aad oe dreds of and tubercular for lack of milk. In buch a situation of starvation of millfons of workers’ is from one-third to This lack of the best is understood that-- vious that even - say, as it did their health. to adults, and -still more—to the families of the rich whose parasitic women even bathe in milk “for their complexion” while hun- price of milk by 33 and 1-3 per cent to the workers who, though poor, are still scraping their purses to buy milk for their babies, is to bar still other millions of children of these workers from getting any milk at all! It is a crime compared to which murder in cold blood is an act of angelic virtue! But capitalists always. veil their crimes in disguises of one sort or another. If the Milk trust, led by the Borden Company, would baldly raise the price of milk— drouth’—there would be public indignation. Last year the thieves’ excuse was almost too much for their pals in the Health Department to justify. In, fact Commis- sioner Wynne did make a faint, almost inaudible, re- thousands of workers’ babies become rickety children who get no milk at all, to raise the a year ago under the thin excuse of “the FESPA pero leben eer retin ade A the Department of Commerce. “It is generally expected that Eu- | ropean unemployment in the coming winter will surpass even last win- ter's figuress” Stephenson stated. The list as compiled by Stephanson is as follows, in thousands: | Winter End of High, June, mark and took a tip around the countryside supposedly eae te. Br eh to “ascertain conditions’—but nothing was done and | Beigium eee eae 207 «187 doubtless enough money was passed to silence the Health | Czechoslovakia | 344 2 sea which like all Tammany departments 1s for |penmark .. 73 A Now, however, the workers are to be robbed and ie ‘ their babies starved under the infallible excuse that it France 51 is “all for the benefit of their health.” The conspiracy | Germany 3.954 is well-planned and brilliantly executed. The World- | Hungary 24 Telegram introduces the mysterious mnenace “bacilli coli’ ‘| trish Free State . 29 23 and forthwith everybody is supposed to be struck dumb Italy 792 598 with terror at the “menace” and with joyful wonder at Latvia . 10 2 the “promptness” with which Tammany officials move Netherlands *.......... 109 56 to action for “the benefit of the poor”! Norway ee 23 The very idea of Tammany doing anything that Poland » 455 357 does not fill Tammany pockets is absurd on its face. Rumania «8 But when it can fill its pockets under the mask of “im- Sweden .. » 8&8 50 proving public health” there is a big chance of getting Switzerland . . + 61 AT United Kingdom ..... 2,697 2,736