The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1932, Page 4

have thelr way. Published by the Co: 18th St, New York § Address and mail all c! SEND REVOLUTIONARY DE- TACHMENTS SECTOR OF elephone / to the Datly Worke: conquin 4-7956, Ublishing Le, inc, dally except Bunday, at 60 Bast Cable “DAIWORK.” 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥, BU. HLIGN Ra: Pree 8 By mail vverywhere: One-year, $6; siz months, $$; two months, $1; excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronz, New York City, Voreign: one year, $8; six montha, $4.50. TO EVERY THE CLASS BATTLEF — iv By BILL DUNNE. qunist Party Nominating Conv a- new high political level of the ri tae class strugg The revolutior the resistance of the working cla: and war drive has been nger sreatly From the mass center established by the Con- “on, revolutionary detachments must now be xtched without delay to every section of the battle front! Te working class of the United States is faced with the sharpest, most vicious and most wide- spread atack in all its history. Uiwperialist war has begun with the oim'aught on the Chinese people roic- struggle for liberation t imperialist powers and their ‘The battlelines are forming for iet Union with the Wall Street- ent in the front rank of the r backing the Japanese assault munitions and finance American working cla: unemployed, are being 1 has ‘been militarized. Conv n, witnessed by ids of workers in the deci: and railways, selected a d nm struggle Comrades Foster and and Negro revolutionaries, vie act placed before the white work! in unmistakable form its duty to take up as i own the sevolutionary battle for the complete Kperation of the Negro masses. ‘oove and The Convention met at a momentous hour for th¢ American working class. Never before 0 have the class lines been clearly drawn in the United States, and not a ection of the working class in America hag escaped the drive against s, working conditions and living standards. isms have pened to a degree witnéssed in Ar never » thunderclouds of a world war whi ted against the Chinese pe et Union first of all, and lass and the colonial peoples, hang ever lower trike the mountains of e y the great powers any day Ughtnings 3» sives assembled frontiers. hurlii other and more terrible holocaust for the sal , in a desperate at- to drown the rising the | tempt of its r revolutionary’ struggles in blood, to ling the defeat of and its allies, Soviet Union and postpor ism by the workin: the Communist Pa! Only Revelitionary stzxigyle and working-class unity can defeat the war plans of the imperialist murderers. .Only our Party can lead such a struggle and cement the unity of our class. erican capitalism, its huge frame wasted Ae anon by the three-year crisis which deepens daily, is bound up with the sha structures of other capitalist countries. It is | tied to the diseased carcass of world “Permanent American prosperity” has peared into that museum of curiosities where are housed the other shibboleths of capitalism like the “high American standard of living,” one time supposed to be engraved in eternal marble on the walls of the impregnable American social mm. whose rulers had confounded the Marx- ian law of the inner contradictions of capitalism which create the class struggle. Today, between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 Amer- ican. workers are jobless. They live on the scummy slop of “charity” or are forced to beg, sieal—or starve. Eighty-five per cent of the workers still em- ployed work only part time. Wages have been cut at least 60 per cent since 1929. There is a new wave of wage-cuts sweeping the country. Unemployment is increasing. Twelve million Negroes-have been forced still lower in social status. The vicious discrimina- tion practiced against them in “normal” times has been transferred into the breadlin p- houses and neighborhoods—and increased. Ne’ forms of terror have been unleashed them-in the South. Doak's deportation drive has made of eign-born workers a specially hounded s the masses. They are arbitrarily and atically deprived of opportunity to earn a liv heed because of accident of birth. ‘They are spied upon, terrorized, seized, and sent away without regard for their or dependents. The capitalist offensive against the standards of the working class and poor far ers-has as its corollary the drive against thei political rights. From every strike against wage- cuts, out of every struggle against unemploy- ment, the armed forces of the capitalists and their fascist and gangster allies of the under- world take their toll of life and liberty. Massacres of unarmed workers, secret and open assassination of their leaders, mass club- bings, gassing, and arrests, deportations, provoca- ticiis of alleukinds have been carried through on an unheard of scale. Through the two-party system American im- | led b; the for- periaticm is moving rapidly toward a more open | ¢ dictatorship. The ruin of thousands of small | firms, the bankruptcy of hundreds of thousands | of farmers, on one hand, and, on the other, the | steady concentration of the ownership of natural resources and industry, the unity of finance and industrial capital, consummated by arbitrary power seized by such semi-official groups as that of ‘twelve Morgan-Rockefeller representatives by. Owen D. Young, all show the feverish forts being made to unite more firmly al] the state forces of capitalism against the working | class and its allies. 'To solve the crisis at the expense of the masses no matter what the cost in mass misery—this is tise objective of the ruling class. This is the center of the Hoover program, | ‘There is to be no relief for the masses of the | vw unemployed by federal taxation if he has his way. There are to be no public works which do not guarantee a profit. ‘There is to be no insurance-if he and his masters a TI Pen Dy, | mas | thu ance to the i war on the Soviet Union—if he has ‘ar drive of Japanese imperial- The Hoover program is the program of Amer- There is difference of opinion + as to the method of applying ons of the ruling class submerge ences to carry forward the hunger and allies of the socialist party, ration of Labor, the Muste- les of the Lovestone and ted to them and are assaulting the lass and its revolutionary leadership, nunist Party, with every variety of from armed attacks and sup- magogy and deceit, to slander, lies ion. yy the tremendous sympathy and he Soviet Union, panic-stricken by able contrast between the socialist and the rising standards of the Union masses while capitalist society pressing the masses further into unemployment, hunger and disease, yerialism drives them ever closer ighter for its robber war aims—the mn of the Soviet Union, defeat of the volution and the conquest of its im- val defeat of the war program of Amer- lism and the overthrow of its whole nd,the class which lives on the backs of tu re ing the working class victorious The election program of the Communist Party challenges fhe program of the Wall Street- Heover government on every point. It is for this reason that it meets the im- ble ition of every section of the capi- , its parties and their agents. r this reason that the socialist party, s and sabotages the path of revolu- ggle against capitalism and war, is unscrupulous foe of the Communist Party the Communist International. It is the enemy of the Soviet Union. only because millions of workers support et Union that the socialist party now ypocritically of “friendship.” It does s only to more easily lead workers into the of their capitalist enemies, It does this to aid thé war program of U. 8. ts . It endorses and supports the re- y leadership of the American Federa- por, sworn enemy of the Soviet Union ss betrayer of all working-class in- pledging it support in its recent Mil- » convention. ‘The election struggle of the Communist Party a 1a tion of Lak against all these enemies of the working class can be ¢: ied through only as an integral part of the struggle against imperialist war and the capitalist offensive, only by the united front of all sections of the working class—first of all in the factories, shops, docks ahd terminals of the decisive industries and railways. The election struggle of the Communist Party | is not a cadging for votes, it is not and cannot be conducted on the basis of any belief in the fiction of capitalist democracy, the decisive char- acter of capitalist legislative action to benefit. or confidence in the possibility of patch- capitalist government institutions to serve rking class, We must say that we have not yet succeeded in carrying through our campaign so far on the basis of the broadest possible united front. Neither have we succeeded as yet in making the election campaign an integral part of all other struggles in spite of the tremendous en- m of workers for our program and candi- dates. ‘The necessary changes in the work must be made immediately after the convention, or else we will fail to measure up to the gigantic de- mands the impending war on the Soviet Union and imperialist world war place on us and the whole working class. All our work must be paced by the all-important fact that imperialist war has begun! The election program of the Communist Party must become the fighting program of the whole nited section of the American population. We must establish “solid personal bonds” with the merican working class. Bring this pro- 1, our six fighting demands, into every fac- nd into the home of every worker and farmer The Communist Party Nominating Convention has given the starting signal for the greatest mobilization of the American working class for revolutionary demands and struggle in its his- tory. Nothing less will meet the demands of this decisive epoch. Only the Communist Party comes before the working class of the United States with @ revo- lutionary proletarian program for solving the crisis, Only the Communist Party raises the revolutionary banner of mass defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese people, the crim~- son banner of revolutionary struggle against im- perialist war and the American imperialist ruling Only the Communist Party comes forward in the ‘ird year of the crisis, with a pro- 1 of revolutionary struggle for Negro libera- tion. Only the Communist Party comes forward in this period of impending world war with the slogan of Defend the Soviet Union! Turn im- perialist war into civil war! Only the Communist Party of the United States of America points the revolutionary way out of the crisis for the working class—over~ throw of capitalism and the setting up of the proletarian dictatorship! Only the Communist Party comes forward with its begun inscribed: with the historic words of and, ‘marching under the in- val flag of the Communist International, founded by Lenin, unfurls before the American ing class the fighting watchword of the revolutionary proletariat of all lands: “Workers of the world, unite. You have noth- ing to Jose but your chains, You heve # world to gain!” We must unite the depletve sectiggs of tha | and white, for unity in organized and mili “ia Up: ia Cbd Le Vs if os Ye pitt GROPPER "AND SOCIAL THE EXPENSE Mr. Zimmermans—Actions Speak Louder Than Words ae By ROSE WORTIS JN the “Workers’ Age”, the organ of the Love- stoneites, Zimmerman came out with a belated statement ‘in which he attempts to explain thé special privileges accorded to him by the Schles- singer-Dubinsky-Bresslau controlled convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers, which set aside the well-guarded bureaucratic | machine rules to declare him eligible to run for | office. This statement is full of demagogy and is in- tended to continue the illusion amongst the workers that Zimmerman’ and his allies are an opposition to the I.L.G.W.U. leadership. “The workers in the trade kiiow from past ex- perience that when the International clique has to contend with real opponents who have a pol- icy of class struggle as against the policy of class collaboration, they not only fail to set aside the | rules but tighten these rules so as to keep their opponents out of the way. (The expulsion policy of 1925-2926, etc.) Dubinsky's speech in favor of Zimmerman’s admission shows clearly that the | bureaucrats of the International know that Zimmerman has completely repented his past and that today he can be a very useful cog in the machine. Clouding the Issue. Zimmerman’s statement that he was admitted because the International machine wanted to | cover up-the act of admitting Langer, Fine- berg, and the others, is false and misleading. | On the contrary, his admission is part of a well calculated plan of these union bureaucrats. Just as they are in need of the Finebergs and the Langers to help them carry through the | § open betrayals of the workers, so are they greatly in need of the Zimmerman fake opposi- tionists who with beautiful words and high sounding phrases cover up the betrayal of the International machine against the workers, turn the growing discontent of the workers into safe channels paralyzing the efforts of the workers to develop a real struggle against the bosses. Dubinsky, the shrewd, corrupt head of the International machine, had good rea lieve that by permitting Zimme: on the executive board of Local he was not extending any privileges to an enemy but to a friend, for have not the events in the dress trade during the past few months given suffi- American working class, Negro and white, native and foreign-born, in struggle for the six im- mediate demands. These demands represent the minimum needs of the exploited masses in the United States. The Communist Party calls for | @ mass struggle, of which the election struggle is an indispensable part, for these demands throughout the United States. The Communist Party proposes mass struggle and mass resistance of the most resolute and determined character against all war plans and acts of war. Organized mass struggle for the six demands is the first requirement for the decisive struggle for the establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government. Only the revolutionary government of the workers and farmers, with the Communist Party in the lead, can solve the crisis for all the ex~ ploited and free the masses from hunger, slavery and imperialist war. ‘The Communist election program is the American- workers and poor fariners, a call to black nt revolut Rus mass struggle on all fields the way out of the crisis—the way the masses took to victory and freedom. ‘The Communist Party election program is a declaration of war FOR the working class—war cient proof of that? Zimmerman in his statement writes about the miserable conditions facing the workers in our trade. He writes of the fact that not a single measure was adopted at the convention which aims to improve the conditions of the workers. But not a single word did he say in his state- ment about the treacherous role of his fake pro- gressive delegation at the convention, the delega- tion whose leader and guide he was, the dele- gation which on every important issue went hand in hand with the Dubinskys and Bress- laus. Cheer Jailing of Workers. ‘These fake progressive delegates just like the others rose to their feet. glowing with enthusi- asm over the statement of Hochman that he was sent a letter demanding the impriso nmefit of the workers of the Industrial Union, whom Zimmerman and his allies know as class con- scious militant workers, and voted to throw the telegram demanding their release into the waste basket. These fake progressive delegates, just like the Schlessingers, Bresslaus, Dubinksys and Fein- berg’s cheered the bloody Mayor Moore (who only a few days ago carried through a pogrom on the unemployed workers), cheered Matthew Woll and McGrady, and helped to create a lynching party against the left wing delegates who voted against the fake strike and proposed the mobilization of the cloakmakers for a real strike for union conditions under rank and file control. Not a .single word did Zimmerman have to y against his fake progressive allies who voted ipport and sympathy for the counter-revolu- tionists in the (Soviet Union, who voted down | every resolution that dealt with the real prob- lems confrontirig the workers in our trade and tre working class generally. Against Rank and File. Zimmerman did not have a single word to say against his fake progressives who even voted down their ri ution for placing rank and file members on the G.E.B. which they themselves had proposed at the local meeting. Zimmerman Sneers. Zimmerman characterized the earnest desire of the workers and of the Industrial Union for a united strike as a “Communist maneuver”, He who had been fought most bitterly when he was in the ranks of the revolutionary movement was put forth as the spokesman of the reaction- ary treacherous International machine. His for- ums, and lectures were advertised in the yellow “Forward”, in the Tammany “Day”. This was done at a time when he knew well that the International Machine of which he was a@ part was planning to put through the Same fake as the 1930 with even greater wage cuts and greater concessions of the bosses. These facts were brought to light by Zim- merman himseif in his famous articles in the “Day”. Zimmerman was the one whom Hochman en- trusted with the job of attempting to break. up the united front conference on the eve of the dress strike. And now how do Zimmerman’s acts today compare with the beautiful words we find in his statement? Only last Tuesday night when the left, wing delegates introduced a resolution call- ing on Local 22 to invite the Industrial Union to a conference to work out plans for a united mass org zation drive and to submit these plans to a wited conference of the shop dele- pates of all shops of the Intenmtional, the In- dustrial ‘Union and open shops, Zimmerman snecred and laughed at the call for united strug- gle against the boss, which is heard from the mouths of the thousands of suffering and en- slaved dressmakers. The dressmakers and the workers generally will judge aimmenian by hia acts, not by his words. i ete ni WHY 18,000 BEET WORKERS ~ ARE STRIKING cE the leadership of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, the beet workers of Colorado have called out 18,000 workers in the first’ week of the strike. Mexicans, Japan- ese, Russo-Germans and Amerieans together are fighting savage wage cuts: the 1930 contract was for $23 an acre; in. 1931 it was #18, and now, 1932, thecontract’ only offers $6 to $15. The beet workers “are: employed’ directly “by the small operators,’ but? back of them is the dominating influence of the whole northeastern Colorado region, Great Western Sugar Company, which owns the chain of sugar factories., Banks and operators owe money to this com- pany which therefore controls every phase of life of the area, including the churches and schools. This is the company that has always paid a miserable wage and is attempting to put through another. slash. The 1930 level, of wages, which was a reduc- tion since 1927, meant constant indebtedness of the workers to the employer, that is, peonage. The 1931 level meant not only peonage but dependance on a reluctant and insulting charity. The 1932 level, lower’ still, means starvation! Wage Cuts Not New The present. wage cutting is no new policy which can be attributed by bourgeois economists to the depression. The whole record of the great Western Sugar Company is a record of squeezing down the workers. A study made by the University of California records that during the period of rising sugar prices, nominal wages rose very little. Thus from 1909 to 1928 the price. of beets advanced 60 per cent, while “‘con- tract labor” in the Colorado beet fields advanced only 25 per cent. But when beet prices fell 18 per cent in 1931, the company immediately cut wages 22 per cent. Now this year it pro- poses about 40 per cent further cut. The First Demand ‘The first demand of the workers is for the 1930 wage level, $23 an acre. This level is in itself a miserable pittance since an experienced worker can earn at this rate but $230 a year. The highest proposed wage for this year is $150 for the year’s work. (A man can handle 10 acres, a woman averages 7, and children pro- portionately less). Thus by putting in 12 to 16 hours a day, mostly on hands and knees in the dirt, and in- cluding the labor of all children from five years and older, a family could make $600 for the year. The company proposes to cut this to $375. On this the whole family must exist, since there is no other employment available for the thou- sands of workers during the five winter months. Always the workers have been forced to bor~ row during the winter, a practise encouraged by the sugar company, in order to hold them in a condition ef peonage. Last winter the company lent $1.25 per week per adult, that is 6c a meal, which money was isstied in the form of orders on the company stores, where prices ranged far above the other storés. Forced Labor + American business men, who are so sensitive to “forced labor” in other countries, are glad to have thousands of Colorado children earn profits for them by crawling in the dirt under the boiling sun. ‘Twelve hours of work for five and six-year old children driven at top speed intermittently from May to November. Even the strike break- ing Department of Labor is forced to record this child slavery; for example, 1,073 children, be- tween the ages of ten and fifteen working in| Colorado beet fields, a great majority work | “over 10 hours” (U. S. D. L. Bulletin No,.187) / The Bulletin carefully omits all record of child! workers under ten. The United Front of Respectability The “respectable” citizens of the community combine to support this children’s bill. Come pany representatives, growers, and merchants unite in silencing any school superintendent who may be naive enough to want to enforce’ the compulsory schoo] attendance law during beet harvesting time. Yet when the workers rise in their strength to demand their rights, these same company agents, who have ignored the school law when it interferes with their profits, utilize the trese passing law. They used the trespassing law as a basis for evicting strikers, and the vicious state antie picketing law to make the way clear for scabs, Priestly Allies of the Sugar Company As everywhere, the capitalist exploiters have as their allies the priest and ministers, who try to split the ranks of the workers into weake ened groups by stirring up racial prejudices. The fact that over 50 per cent of the workers of Mexican descent were born in this country, in no way weakens the discrimination. In many schools Mexicans, or children of Mexican pare entage are segregated in classes away from the others. Mexicans are forced to live in the worst part of town, away from the hundred pers centers. The Catholic “Mexican Welfare Committee” has approved publicly of this segregation. “Many priests favor segregeted colonies... but some fear that this makes 't easy for the radicals to ‘work on them’.., \Ve wish here to again call attention io the Red propaganda being carried on among the Spanish speaking people of Colorado. This is a real menace which if not combatted will certainly mean the destruction of the Catholic faith of many of these people and later on have a bad ef- fect on PEACE AND GOOD ORDER ,in the state.” (emphasis mine.) As always in the name of “good order,” the Church sides with the present order of child- killing owners against workers and their fam- ilies. 18,000 beet workers have risen to demand not only the means to live, for cash instead of credits, but also for the recognition of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, For the Union carries with it the smashing of all racial discrimination, the end of forced labor, and builds the solid United Front. The ex- | ample of the beet workers has roused the equally exploited onion field workers in neigh- boring counties to hold a protest demonstra- | tion against their oppressors. Agricultural workers are organizing — they _are showing their solidarity with their com- rade workers in industry. Support the beet strikers. Help to win! Collect and send strike donations to UNITED FRONT RELIEF COMMITTEE, 1154 Eleventh Street, Denver, Colorado. The Fight for Water in the Mahoning Valley By FRANK ROGERS ‘HE most brutal features of mass starvation are revealed among the steel workers of the Mahoning Valley. Being denied even the ‘smallest means of relief by the various bankrupt charities’ and no steps taken by the city authorities to relieve the suf- fering among the poor and unemployed the next step has been the shutting off the water supply. ‘Thousands of workers are without even water to satisfy their hunger and thirst. They go to their neighbors for their daily supply of water. The sanitary conditions are becoming unbearable in the workers’ homes. Even the capitalist press speaks of a possible epidemic of terrible diseases in the Mahoning Valley unless the water supply is turned on at once in all the homes. Who Owns and Controls the Water Supply? In Youngstown the water is owned and con- trolled by the city. On January 28th the city water commissioner issued a final notice to 2,200 homes in the third district that their water will be t%yned off unless full payment is made at once. The local papers also report that steps will be taken to collect $46,000 due the city from the public schools. In District No. 3 the shutting off the water supply will effect a whole section of the city. It will result in untold misery; suffering; and breeding of disease among the working-class. The city government must be Textile Workers Progress in the Soviet Union 1d workers of the Trekhgorka (Three Hills) cotton mill in Moscow recently reported on the progress they have made, They tell us that: 1. In 1913-14—before the revolution when the mill was in the hands of a rich private owner— the factory produced 119,000,000 meters of fin- ished cloth. But in 1928-29, under workers’ rule, it produced with the same machinery, 182,000,000 meters. 2. Before the revolution afaut 75 per. cent of the workers of the factory lived in barracks. Now the barracks have all given way to fine modern apartment houses. % 3. There are 500 children in the factory kin- dergerten, where women workers can leave their children under expert educational guidance while they are at work. One hundred and sixty’ babies are now in the factory nursery. ‘The workers in this factory took a prominent in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. They now reaping the fruits of their victory over owners government . mil: part in are now ‘the mill held criminally responsible for al) sickness, diseases, deaths, Racketeering in Water Already petty racketeers have started into the water business advertising their water supply. On Poland Avenuue in the working-lass neighbor- hood where the city supply has been shut off in many homes an independent racketeer has supplied water through his own pump and fil- tering station. Now he has threatened to cut off the supply unless payment is made on Dills due him. On Jan. 27, he issued a “final” notice to many Negro families. The water was shut off from a blind Negro worker. BUT THE BLIND NEGRO WORKER, who had heard of the Unem- ployed Council, ASKED TO BE DIRECTED TO THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL HEADQUAR- TERS so that he could report. When he re- turned, he told his neighbors that the Unem- ployed Council would arrive soon to mobilize the workers of the whole street to turn on the water in-all homes. When the petty racketeer heard of, this, he turned and himself turned on the water fearing that the angry workers would destroy his pipe line and water supply. Arrest Workers Secking Water In Struthers, Ohio, a few miles from Youngs town, the city water supply is owned by the OHIO WATER SERVICE COMPANY. In hun- dreds of homes the water supply has been turned off. On Jan. 24, the Unemployed Council or- ganized the workers in many sections of the city to turn on the water supply. Scores of workers turned out with picks and shovels to dig up the water boxes and turned on the supply. Soon the water company was notified and police made an arrest to intimidate the workers. However, the largest crowd seen in the Struthers City Hall turned out for the trial of the arrested worker showing solidarity and determination to fight against hunger. The mayor who acted as judge feared to pass sentence in the presence of the crowd of workers but later handed down a ver- dict of guilty. ¢ Water Company Prosecutor At the trial the city prosecutor was absent being out-of-town. And the city called up the ATTORNEY FOR THE WATER COMPANY TO PROSECUTE THE CASE BECA‘JSE THEY WERE INTERESTED IN THE CASE. This was openly admitted by the Mayor when questioned about the legal right of the water company to act as the prosecutor. ‘The mayor and attorney for the water company ruled that the water supply was private property, just as bread or an auto, and that it was an.criminal offense to open ® cloced water linc, The moyer further do- claved U fone. ¢ vwhelo rolice, do- partment would ke armed to U tui to prevent the unemployed from “sical rater.” In Campbell, Ohio, another steel city, the water supply is owned by the city. But without any regard for the unemployed and the conse- quent results the water supply has been turned off in hundreds of homes, +s, 4 (4s