The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1931, Page 4

Published by Page Four THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN the Comprodaily Pubtishine Co... Ine. THE COAL FIELDS They 4 0s housands of w inning at red- auditions. The took place in reducing the y depths of starvation the Terminal wages of the Many due to going to garba re dis eating out of cases, are and t. The miners miners’ hout ir wives no clothes t g evicted . The coming ‘inter will be n ie bosses are de- termined to reduce the standard of living of the miners below the wage-level of the German and English miners, and establish coolie labor in the minefields, literally starving to death thousands. Pinchot recen' issued a statement, in which he claimed to be against wage-cuts. The work- @rs must beware of such demagogy and hypo- cr! They only need to look into his record in the mining industry, where he and his gov- trnment sent the state police to break the strike of the miners against wage-cuts and where his government, together with the bosses and the U.M.W.A., forced the miners to accept the wage- cuts in the mining field. At the present time, Pinchot is doing the same thing in the steel in- | | | | | dustry—is using all of his forces to put over wage-cuts throughout Western Pennsylvania. Pinchot, the head of the state government, is the leader of the struggle of the bosses to enforce wage-cuts on the workers. In this situation, the Socialist party and the UMWA is the best tool of the coal bosses and {| their government. The UMWA, led by Fagan, is trying its best to make the miners in the Ter- minal Mines accept the wage-cut. Fagan and the UMWA have agreed to the 2242 wage-rate, and are urging the workers not to strike. The Socialist party is now put forward by the coal | bosses with a lot of left phrases, at the same | time that the Socialist party supports the scab agreements of the UMWA and attacks the Na- tional Miners Union and the other organizations The Socialist party of Pennsylvania, not long ago, got out a leaflet to the coal miners, in which they openly endorsed the UMWA and its policies, ‘Vhis leaflet talks a lot about “nation- alized” mines, and endorses the UMWA plan of 1922. This plan would do for all mines what the UMWA, the coal bosses, and the govern- ment has done for the Terminal Mines—reduced wages to new unheard of levels. This Socialist party, and UMWA “nationalization” plan calls for “collective bargaining” (with the scab UM ‘WA, of course). government to set the wages of the miners. It calls for “centralized control over all coal min- ing” by the bosses’ government.” In other words, this so-called nationalization program of the UMWA, which the leaflet of the Socialist party urges the miners to adopt is a scheme for the federal and state government to more easily | ers to vote Communist. It calls for the Hoover federal | force wage-cuts on the workers, making it easier for the government to club the miners into sub- mission. The policy of centralized control means the shutting down of all the smaller mines and the throwing of hundreds of thousands of min- | ers out of party and the work. The po! of the Soci UMWA is the policy of putti speed-up for f rule of the clubs he coal fields, over the wage-cuts, une! oyment the bosses. It is of the bosses’ on campaign, the mi J ies which are campaign The the lesson: coal miners of and t Virginia, The ke that the government is a bosses’ government, the courts, injunc- tions, state police, Pinchot government, Hoover government, UMWA, Socialist party, were united against the miners in their strike against starv ation. The County Commissioners refused the de- mands of the unemployed and strikers. Pinchot urged the men to go back to work and accept the wage-c The Hoover Red Cross and the of the Pinchot nment refused the mine relief The bosses’ ja were filled with strikers. The one Pai which came out on the side of the workers was the Communist Party, the only Party of the w ng-class. The Com- munist Party proved in this strike that it is the only Part uggling for the needs and demands of the worke: All of the resources of the Com- | munist Party throughout the country were thrown into the support of the miners’ needs and demands, sending in organizers, issuing leaflets, collecting relief, organizing the workers and leading the struggles on the picket lines, etc., in the interests of the struggle of the work- ers. The democratic and republican parties and the Socialist party, all supported the bosses in | their strike-breaking, wage-cutting drive. The main issues of the present election cam- paign in the mine fields are — the struggle against further wage-cuts, the struggle against further lay-offs, the struggle for unemployment insurance for the workers, for immediate relief for the unemployed, the struggle for full equality for the Negroes, for the demands of the Negro workers, the struggle for the interests of the for- eign-born, women, young workers. The Communist Party calls on all ners to | voteefor their class, the working-class in the present election campaign. We call on all min- The Communist Party points out to the miners that the bosses’s gov- ernment which is putting over wage-cuts and further unemployment, is preparing to plunge the working-class into a new bloody world war. The bosses see in the Soviet Union, which has @ working-class government, a serious threat to the decaying, rotten, bankrupt capitalist system. ‘The bosses’ government, trying to get out of the worst crisis the capitalist system ever went thru, wants to capture the markets of the Soviet Union. They want to destroy the Workers Government of the Soviét Union, which is an inspiration to the workers all over the world. The Communist Party points out to all workers that the only way in which they can win their freedom from starvation, disease, poverty, misery, is to completely wipe out the wholé rotten cap- italist system, and set up 4 new systém—a work- ers’ system, as the workers did in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party points out to the miners that a vote for the Communist Party in the present election campaign is not only a vote against wage-cuts and unemployment, but is a vote against the whole rotten capitalist system. The workers must organize into the National Miners Union and the other revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League and fight for their immediate demands and needs. The work- ers must join the Communist Party and strug- gle against the whole rotten capitalist system. Food and Housing Conditions in the USSR Are Greatly Improved ee for the years 1926-1928 show a constant | improvement both as to quantity and quality | of food consumed by workers. Especially notice- able was the increase in the consumption of the higher grade and more nutritious foods. Thus, the consumption of rye bread and flour declined during the three years 18 per cent, while that of wheat bread and flour increased 7 per cent. The consumption of grits and potatoes fell 13 per cent; on the other hand, that of such highly nu- tritive items as eggs, meat, butter, and. sugar in- creased 120, 17, 26 and 20 per cent, respectively In 1931 the food situation has shown a de- | cided improvement. In 0 there was a record grain crop (87.4 million metric tons, as against | 71.7 million tons in 1929) and the sugar-beet crop was also exceptionally good (15.2 million tons, as against 6.3 million tons in 1929). This, | has provided the population with an adequate supply of grain and sugar in 1931. According to preliminary estimates, the yield of vegetables and potatoes in 1931 is expected to be 94.1 mil- Mon tons, an increase of 45 per cent over last year. The urban consumption of vegetables is Imperialist War and the Fight || | Against the Main Enemy =| in 1915) The war fills the pockets of the capitalists to | | whom an ocean of gold is flowing from the | i} treasuries of the great powers. The war is Provoking an unreasoning bitterness against the enemy, and the bourgeoisie does its best to direct the dissatisfaction of the people into those channels, to divert their attention from the main enemy, the government and the Tuling classes of their own country. The war, however, carrying with it untold miseries and horrors for the toiling masses, enlightens and Steels the best representatives of the working- class, If perish we must, let us perish in the } struggle fdr our own cause, for the cause of the | | workers, for the Socialist revolution and not for the interests of the capiialists, landowners, and | ‘Tsars4this is what every class-conscious worker | sees and feels. Revolutionary Social—Demo- | cratic work may be difficult at present, but it is possible. It progresses in the whole world, and in this alone lies salvation. 8 6 A revolutionary class in a reactionary war | cannot but “with the defeat of its government.” expected to inerease by 72 per cent. A large part of the vegetable supply comes from the state and collective farms; Through th development of livestock production, especially on state and coi- lective farms, the shortage in, meat and dairy products is being rapidly overcome. i Housing. Soviet industry has faced a complex housing problem. The rapid expansion of old industrial centers andthe establishment of many new ones resulted in an acute housing shortage. In the old industrial centers houses inherited from pre- revolutionary days proved both insufficient in number and unsuitable in character, necessitat- ing new housing for the influx of additional in- dustrial workers, while for tre workers engaged in the enterprises being constructed in new local- ities entirely new cities must be built. Considerable progress has already. been made toward meeting this problem. Housing construc- tion on a large scale began in 1926, when ex- penditures totaled 292 million rubles. This fig- ure, however, was doubled in 1930, and is expect- ed to be practically quadrupled this year, the ap- propriations for housing construction having been set at 1,117 million rubles $575 million), 57 per cent of which is for housing construction in new settlements. New housing construction has been so planned as to make it possible for a much larger percentage of workers to live in close proximity to the plants. They will thus have at their own disposal the time prgviously required for traveling to and from work. The rate of increase investments in housing construction greatly exceeds that in the number of workers. The housing space per worker has, therefore, shown a steady rise, mounting from 4.9 square meters in 1928 to 5.2 in 1930. This, of course, is still far from adequate, and the present intensive rate of housing construction will have to be maintained for a number of years before housing difficulties are overcome. Rents are graduated according to the income of the tenant and the number of his dependents. The lower the income and the greater the num- ber of dependents, the lower the rent. In many in- jal enter ps workers receive housing, light, and fuel ‘roe, This adds another item to the fund of * alized w s.” Even where rents aid, but a small portion of the total family expenditures. Thus, in 1929-30, the average rent paid by workers’ families amounted to only 6.4 per cent of the total ex- penditures. New Honsing for 127,000 Moscow Workers This Year. Extensive housing construction is in progress in all parts of Moscow, which will provide new they constitute ae ans SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: excepting Boroughs one year, $8; six months, $4.50. By HARRISON GEORGE. Yes, there are TWO SIDES to this street that is called “America.” On one side, the tens of millions of poor. On the other side a handful of rich. Why? Perhaps the kid’s grandfather, “saved” all that money, eh? Several hundred years, eh? No! That gag doesn’t work! The multi-millionaire manu- facturer “got his” by exploiting, by ROBBING the workers in his factories of part of the values created by these work- ers over and above what they got in wages. Those wages were just enough for the workers to live on while they were working. But now, let’s see—the work- ers have produced food and clothing and shelter so plenti- fully that they can’t buy them back with the wages they got. And NOW they are OUT OF WORK and wages are UNDER CAPITALIST RULES—STOPPED! So the workers in the factories who produced this $30.- 000,000 have NOTHING, neither food, clothing nor shelter nor any weges to buy these things. “What do they do? THEY STARVE! don’t starve literally to death, they are starving, under- nourished, under-clothed, they can’t pay rent and are evicted from their homes.” They barely keep alive—some of them—by living on relatives who are also badly off because their wages have Their wages “staggered” by the neat arrange- ment of Mr. Hoover and Mr. Green, head of the American been cut! Federation of Labor (a scoundrel). Why is this, when the poor work (if they can find a job!) their whole life long; while the rich are rich although they live in idleness from the cradle to the grave? Look at the contrast in the above picture, showing three stories taken from life itself—and death itself—on this street “Amcvica,” the richest street in the world! Here on one side is a five months old baby girl, Kath- erine Barker Hickox, who has “earned” no less than $30,- 000,000 in such a short time, just by being born to the daughter of John Barker, a multi-millionaire manufacturer who died in 1910. A baby heiress of $30,000,000! Did this capitalist brat have “the forethought to save money in times of prosperity”? That’s the excuse that Mr. Taylor, an official of the U. S. Steel Corporation, gave the other day in “explaining” why some people are rich and others are poor. That’s nonsense, isn’t it! the manufacturer, Did you ever sit down with a pencil and paper and figure up how long it would take you to save a million dollars if you got $5 a day and saved it all? But sometimes them insane. To starve and beg in a “land of plenty”! Se eed auth, the misery and horror of it all drives And thus we have two examples from thousands—as follows: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (yes, the “socialist” ruled city where the “socialist” party is forcing the jobless to candy.” When the little came back hoi “Daddy” was dead! Little boys, let didn’t CAPITALISM! years old, a mother “She was tired went to school, got “kill himself.” starve just as in the cities where the republicans and demo- crats run things!) Vincent Cibic, 42 years old and jobless, gave his two little beys his last three cents to “go buy bo, s! -fter saying: “Thanks, daddy, we haven’t had any ¢: +" ‘na !oag time,” got the candy and ~ Daa ° HAD HUNG HIMSELF! us tell you something! Your daddy No, HE WAS MURDERED BY And then, at Wilmington, Ohio, Mrs. Russell Ward, 35 of four little children, told friends she was “so worried she couldn’t think” because of poverty that resulted from her husband being out of work. of poverty,” said the coroner, so she her chi'dren by saying, “We're going away’”—and took them hom » where she SHOT ALL FOUR AND THEN KILLED HERSELF! Ah, workers—but she didn’t really do that terrible thing! No, indeed, the cap‘talist class killed these four little swellest millionaire POOR! stop this murder! less worker, $50 for Even when they © UNEMPLOYMENT grafters!)! children and murdered this mother of theirs! them just as effectively as though a banker of New York’s Murdered club had, silk-hat and all, walked into that poor home in Ohio and shot them down! CAPITALISM LIVES ON THE MURDER OF THE And only when the poor unite in fierce determina- tion that SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT BE, overthrow the rule of the rich and set up an AMERICAN SOVIET, A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT, can they And today, NOW, to save these lives of OUR CLASS, we must unite to demand Winter Relief of $150 to each job- each dependent—and we must fight for INSURANCE, at full wages, paid by the capitalists, administered by the workers (not Tammany Every worker—the EMPLOYED, also, has an interest against wage cuts! OF THEIR CLASS! in fighting for these unemployed demands! As also the un- employed will help the employed to organize and: strike ONLY THE WORKERS WILL STOP THIS MURDER Appeal of the Communist Party of Japan on the Sino-Japanese Conflict Shanghai, October 6, .931. Central Committee of the Communist Party of Japan on September 22, in connec- tion with the commencement of the military operations in Manchuria, published an appeal to all Workers, Soldiers and Seamen of Japan. The appeal which was published and distributed as a leaflet, reads: “The imperialist war in Manchuria began after careful preparation and cn the initiative of the Japanese army. Workers, Peasants and Soldiers! ‘The Japanese bourgeoisie thereby took the first step towards the occupation of the whole of Manchuria. This was not in any way an act of “self-defense” or an “unexpected incident.” “This action on the part of Japan is a chal- lenge to the Japanese and Chinese proletariat, and also to the working masses of the Soviet Union. “The occupation.of Manchuria is a carefully prepared step on the part of ruthless robbers and hated murderers, Even if this conflict is ‘settled’ by an agreement with the counter- revolutionary Nanking government, the prole- quarters for 127,000 persons. In the Lenin dis- trict of the city, 45 houses are being built, which will accommodate 17,000 persons. In the Stalin district, of a total of 32 new houses, 7 were com- pleted by July. In the Proletarian district, 191 are under construction, 174 being of standard type. This will accommodate 27,890 persons. ‘Ten of the 33 new houses in the Krasnaya Pres- naya district have been completed and are oc- tariat of the Far East will never forget this crime, . Comrades, Friends! As @ result of the tremen-. dous economic crisis the Japanese bourgeoisie are faced “with ruin. The bourgeoisie are seek- ing a way out of this crisis at the price of the blood of broad sections of the working popula- tion. Workers! War brings to you still more frightful exploitation in order to satisfy the greed of the militarists. It brings you bullets and bloody wounds, — . Expiuied and oppresséd comrades! ‘The bour- geoisie r-* the big landowners rob you of bread, land and liberty. This war, which is being waged in the interests of the bourgco'sie and the big landowners, brings you further hunger, exploita- tion and finally ruin, “Comrades! Do you intend to go hand in hand with the handfvu! of bankrupt capitalists to ruin, or will you not prefer to shake off the yoke of capital and to secure the victory of your class! We must prepare the war against war! Use the weapons which have been forced into your hands only, in accordance with the requirements of the class struggle, against capital! The day is ap- proaching when you will proceed to the heroic attack against the bourgeoisie and the land- owners, against the murderers and parasites! “Workers in the factories, in the war indus- try and iy transport! Do not transport any sol- diers to the front! Bring to a standstill the ma- chines producing bullets, rifles and swords! “Workers, Working Peasants and Unemployed! Unite in order to carry out a strike against the war! Offer ie hand to the Chinese proletariat! Workers, Peasants, Soldiers! Rise together with the workers, peasants and soldiers of China for the common fight! Display class solidarity! Fight for the immediate evacuation of Mukden and all other areas occupied by imperialist SOVIET UNION BRIEFS ‘KAMENSKOYE POWER STATION OPENED SEPTEMBER 15 5 ‘The Kamenskoye regional power station, one of the 518 plants planned to start operations this year, was scheduled to be opened on September 15. The construction of the plant, the initial capacity of which will be 24,000 kilowatts, was started in October, 1930, and it was completed in record time, tena ° e e ° NEW RECORDS SET AT DNIEPER’ RIVER POWER PLANT New records have been set in the assembly of the nine spiral casings and two turbines at the Dnieper River power plant. These nine casings plus another smaller one were assembled 45 days ahead of schedule, while the second turbine was assembled two days ahead of time. Work was begun on the third turbine at the beginning of September. Another record was established in concrete laying. The plan for August was 15,600 cubic meters, but the counterplan of the engin- eers and workers, calling for 18,000, .was exceeded, a total of 19,600 cubic meters having been poured. troops, for the immediate recall of all Japanese soldiers from Manchuria and from the whole of China! Do not allow any troops to be sent to the front in China! Combat Japanese imperialism as well as all its military operations directed against revolutionary China! “Fight the new danger of imperialist war! “Fight for the protection of revolutionary China! “Support the Chinese Red Army and protect the Soret Union! “Do-n with imperialist Japant ‘“ang Live Soviet Japan!" © > mee —_—_] Gandhi For Governor of Iowa! After reading the Literary Digest of Oct. 2, we opine that the small farmers of Iowa, who trying to keep the 2,000 National Guardsmen with their cavalry and machine guns, thé vet= erfharies and other tools of the Dairy Trust and rich farmers, not the least of which tools is the State Governor, from killing their cows by the notorious “tuberculin test,” would be glad to have Gandhi as governor. We think so because Gandhi says: “Cow protection is an article of faith in Hin- duism. Apart from its religious sanctity, it is an ennobling creed. 1 would not Ki # human being to protect a cow, as I will not kill a cow to save a human life, be it ever so Precious. Cow protection is the dearest pos- session of the Hindu heart. It is the one con- crete belief common to all Hindus. No one who does not believe in cow protection can possibly be a Hindu. That which distinguishes. Hinduism from every other religion is its cow protection. Cow protection is the gift of Hin- duism to the world. And Hinduism will live so long as there are Hindus to protect the cow. The way to protect her is to die for her.” It will, of course, be more practical for Iowa farmers to elect a Communist for governor, who doesn’t worship cows, but protects farmers from. being robbed of their cows. < The “A.B.C.” Program It claims to be copyrighted and it ought to be. Put out on a piece of pink paper, it is sit on-pure fascist demagogy. Z “The present economic system is not equal to the job,” it. admits, Then. “The objective of the Communist is sound, but the methods are full of errors.” Only these “errors” are not refuted or even mentioned. Vi ote ae But the “program” ts that the “President” should be given “autocratic powers” as, so it | Says, “will &e be done in the next military war.” | That, it claims would bring “the necessities | of life to all,” dnd—“all able-bodied People to | | work three hours a day with the brain and three hours with the hands, for the good of all.” { Um Did you ever see a guy working with | his hands who left his brains at home? Or-a chap working his brains without taking his hands along? This A.B.C. outfit left both of them home asleep. This kind of stuff is to make fascism seem attractive, “just as good as Communism.” But | take note that—‘The people are to be graded ac- | cording to ability, culture and vision.” “With the “higher grade to receive more of the com= forts and luxuries”—that’s where the A.B.C.ets want to get off at. Actually, they're graded now. And the Pres- ident is plenty autocratic already. And the es- sence of his dictatorship is that he, as the man- ager of capitalist government, is making all you “low grade” guys starve to death. * No, workers! We need a dictatorship, but oniy , one that guarantees the working class as the ruling class. The A.B.C. outfit, which is short for “Association for Better Citizenship, Incor- porated,” wants a capitalist dictatorship with- out any of the present democratic disguises. And that’s fascism. . * * e gos Gene Tuna Fish Gene Tunney, among other of his strange lit- erary pursuits, has recently written up “what I saw in Red Russia,” which, says Gene, “made | me changé my mind.” And that is surprising, since it is the first evidence we received that he | had one. | Gene, for an ex-marine, dwells muchly, all too muchly to be convincing, on the horror he felt at the disturbing—to him—lack of sex-conscious- ness among Soviet girls, which he tries to de- scribe in such a way as to question. Then he is horrified further by something he creates for himself out of plain and very stupid imagination, that is “the censorship” which, he says, extends to speeches made by all speakers in Moscow—‘every word they utter is submitted first to the proper authorities.” Which is just a plain lie. We, in person, have delivered many speeches in Moscow to all man- ner of audiences, street crowds, Red soldiers, scientists, and so on, and no “authorities” even suggested that we “submit them first.” And we savvied Russian enough to follow interpreters and see that they did the job right. Again Gene was over-horrified at seeing a pile of church bells and metal statues, one a life- size Christ, chucked in a smelter for to get use- ful metal. He was so sore over that that he has to lie about it and say that it was mostly used for ammunition, But what really got Tunney’s dander up was the fact, somewhat slurred over by him, that while he was SOMEBODY in Cairo, drew a crowd in Athens and received an ovation of 5,000 in Warsaw, when he got to Moscow he was just “another American tourist” and nobody met him with brass bands and the key to the city. . . Good Managers A comrade in Syracuse has been trying to buy @ copy of Red Sparks Pamphlet No. 1 from local comrades, and while they had everything else at their recent bazaar, they “hadn't heard” of that. More, they're not likely to hear of it before No. 2, which Burck, the artist, is illus- trating, will be out. ‘ ‘ If he wants it, we guess that he'll have to send his nickel to the Workers Library Publish- ers, Box 148, Station D, New York City. This is because the whole matter of distribution of liter- ature in some sections {s in a most primitive state. We, all of us, are figuring on managing society, and with power in the’ hands of our class we would do it, and pretty well, too.. But here and there are cases of slipshod in- efficiency that would make weaker souls doubt- ful. The Party has a district office in Buffalo. But one Buffalo comrade complains that He cannot even get the theoretical magazine of the Party, “The Commantst,” there, nor : “Red Sparks,” nor anything, in fact! pens Why? Well ,there’s something about a litera- ture bill that wasn’t paid. So nobody in Buf- falo can read Party literature! And this drifts along without end, and the comrade who wants to “keep up” must send money orders (and in- cidentally have them all balled up) to the Work- ers Library. Now THAT kind of management is not going to run any new society. cry ‘Have you a little Buffalo in your own home town? If so, better get out your bows.and arrows and take some local indifferents out for pose |