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REVOLUTION ON THE ORDER OF THE
DAT AS WORKERS AND FASCISTS
PREPARE FOR ARMED STRUGGLE
(Wireless By Imprecorr)
VIENNA, Nov. 5.—N-gotiations
are going on in the Labor Chambe
rconceri.lr.g settlement of the Stock
erau struggle. The participants are
representat'ves of the reformist
Metal Workers’ Union and tne
Christian trade union. The social
democrats have no objection to the
reinstatement of the three fascists
ejected by the Haid i ’.ant workers,
the three being members of the
Christian trade union. This is a
continuation of the socialist tactics
aiming at i 'operation with the
Christian, nationalist and other
bourgeois trade unions.
An emergency national confer
ence of the Austrian Communist
TUUL, NTW SCORE
FASCIST TERROR
Demand Hungarian,
Rumanian Amnesty
(Continued from Page One)
intensify the persecution of the best
champion of the tlalian proletariat.
Thousands of political prisoners are
in the same condition as comrade
Terracini. If the world proletariat
does not act in time, our comrades,
courageous leaders of the proletar
iat revolution, will meet with the
fate that has doomed Sozzi, Riva
and hundreds of others who died as
a result of the tortures inflicted
upon them. The Anti-fascist Alli
ance of North America calls upon
all the workers of the United States
to protest against fascism and to
orevent the slow but sure assassina
tion of our comrades.
"The mass meeting which will be
held on Nov. 10, in Webster Hall.
1J 9 East 11th St., will mark the
beginning of a wide agitation for
the immediate liberation of these
political prisoners for the abolition
of the ‘‘Special Tribunal” and for
the abroation of all extraordinary
laws against the Italian working
class.
The Trade Union Unity League
has issued the following statement
denouncing the terror in Hungary,
Roumania, and other fascist coun
tries :
“Matiyas Rakosi and other brave
Communist leaders, who dared to
continue working for the emancipa
tion of the Hungarian workers in
spite of the fascist regime of Horthy
and his hangmen, are being tortured
to death in the capitalist hellholes in
•Hungary and Roumania. The same
thing is taking place in Poland,
Italy and in many other imperialist
countries. Leaders of the militant
working class movement are being
murdered or sent to prison for the
rest of their lives, in order to pre
vent the rising revolutionary onward
march of the working class.
Unions Illegal.
‘‘Militant trade unions are being
declared illegal with long prison sen
tences for those workers who have
enough courage to stand up against
the war mongers of the imperialist
system of rationalization and ex
ploitation. Our comrades in Hun
gary are dying in prison not from
natural causes and not to our opin
ion simply from results of the hun
ger strike, but from the torture and
beatings rained upon them by
Horthy and his hangmen.
“The Trade Union Unity League
calls upon the workers and members
of the militant trade union move
ment and further calls upon those
militant rank and file workers in
“MORE DAILIES,” ASK GEORGIA MILL
HANDS; WHAT’S THE ANSWER?
Macon, Thomaston, Forsythe Workers Call
For Militant Paper
(Continued from Page One)
the Daily Worker to these mill towns; every such dollar is a body blow
against the mill owners of these towns.
Workers, deliver those body blows, now!
Tomorrow we’ll publish a partial list of workers' groups that have
adopted mill towns of the South.
Will your group he on that list?
Can It say it la showing it* solidarity with the southern mill work
ers if it’s not on that list?
Daily Worker,
26 Union Square, New York City.
Here’s a crack at the southern mill bosses in the shape of a con
tribution to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South.”
Name
Address
City .• State
V
Amount S
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
We
(Name of Organization)
City and State -
wish to adopt a southern mill town or village, and ace to it that the
workers there are supplied with copies of the Daily Worker
every day for weeka. We ineloae $
Kindly send us the name of the mill village or city aseigned to us,
for we wish to communicate «•**• " • •vorkeri there.
Party was held on Nov. 2 and 3.
It was pointed out that the Stock
erau events prove the impossibility
of a peaceful solution of the Aus
trian crisis, in spite of the coopera
tion of the - dal “democratic” fas
cists in establishing a fascist dic
tatorship.
The ’■evolutionary upsurge of the
working masses was noted as too
advanced for the crisis to be solved
by means of negotiations. The
crisis is nearing its culmination and
the Austrian station is immedi
ately revs' 'onary. The struggle
against the fascist dictatorship is
already a struggle for power. It
is the duty of the Communist Party
to lead a bold and aggressive fight
for power.
the American Federation of Labor,
who are being mislead by the bur
eaucrats, to show militant trade
union solidarity with our comrades
in Hungary and Roumania by or
ganizing the masses of the workers
in workers’ organizations to demon
strate and to protest against this
bloody regime of fascism.
“Down with world imperialism!
Down with fascism, &nd all its
agents! v
Fight against war!
Fight against social reformism
and against the misleaders of labor!
Fight for the building of a revo
lutionary Trade Union Movement!
N. T. W. Protest
The National Textile Workers
Union has issued the following state
ment:
“The National Textile Workers
Union calls on all textile workers
to protest against the brutal treat
ment the Hungarian Fascist govern
ment imposes on working class lead
ers in prison ar.d to demand their
immediate release.
“Seven leaders and active textile
workers of our union are sentenced
to prison terms : high as 20 years,
for their participation in tjie strikes
that recently took place. in the
south, against the very low wages
and rotten conditions of the south
ern mill workers.
“We textile workers realize that
struggle is only part of the general
struggle carried on by the workers
of this country and the whole world
against the capitalist class and the
capitalist order.
“We therefore protest most vehe
mently and ask all other workers
to raise their protest together with
us against the torture of Stephen
Rakosi in the Hungarian dungeons
and of the other working class
fightters in the prisons of the Hun
garian and Rumanian fascism. We
demand the immediate release and
freedom of all class war prisoners
from the Hungarian and Rumanian
prisons.” \
Meet Defies Terror
(Continued from Page One)
GEONS OF NORT CAROLINA.
The I. L. D. calls attention to Chi
cago where 29 WORKERS FACE
10 YEAR TERMS IN PRISON FOR
BELONGING TO THE COMMUN
IST PARTY AND VOICING
THEIR SUPPORT OF THE
SOVIET POWERS.
The I. L. D. calls attention at this
time to Los Angeles where 5 WO
MEN WORKERS HAVE BEEN
SENTENCED TO TERMS OF
FIVE YEARS AND TEN YEARS
FOR TALKING OF THE U. S.
S R. AT THEIR SUMMER CAMP.
The I. L. D. calls attention at
this time to WOODLAWN PA.,
where THREE WORKERS GO TO
PRISON TOR FIVE YEARS
CHARGED WITH SEDITION AND
COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBER
SHIP.
The I. L. D. calls attention to the
Polish Workers Throw
Off Socialist Control
and Fight the Police
WARSAW, Nov. 6. The fake
fight of the socialist party leaders
in the Sejm (parliament) against
the invasion of parliament by Pil
sudski’s officers recently, and Tues
day’s practical dissolution of the
Sejm (supposed to be a month’s post
ponement) by order of President
Moscicki, Pilsudski’s handy man, was
taken up seriously by the socialist
workmen at Lwow, Gracow and
Lodz, where the socialist leaders
were unable to restrain the workers
from clashing with the police thru
out Tuesday night. This fact,
coupled with the minex-s having
forced the reformist leaders to call
a one-day protest strike at the non
fulfilment of wage demands, show
that the militancy of Polish woi'kers
is escaping from the control of the
socialist leaders.
POLISH MINERS SHOW SPIRIT
(Wireless by lnprecorr)
WARSAW, Nov. s.—Under pres
sure from the membership the ti’ade
union cf minei’s has convened at
Kitovatz, a delegate conference of
three Polish coal districts. The con
ference resolved on a one-day pro
test strike against the non-fulfill
ment of the orkers’ demand. The
upper Silesian miners have joined
the strike.
RAMSATSTFIIP
HOT FOR PEACE
Admits No Claims of
Empire Surrendered
LONDON, Nov. s.—MacDonald
today reported on his American
trip, causing a stir among the con
servatives when he said, “I went to
America, not as a party leader but
as a national representative.” Bald
win agreed with this, and announced
that “a deep debt of gratitude” was
due MacDonald for his services to
British imperialism adding cryptical
ly, doubtless with a view to the com
ing war with America, that “Anglo-
American negotiations are above
pai'ty consideration.”
Although he made much of the
joint declaiation he signed with
Hoover, that war between U. S. and
England is “unthinkable” and spoke
vaguely of some naval aiTangement
which the world has been deluded
into thinking was a “reduction,”
when asked pointedly if he had com
mitted Great Britain to any particu
lar position as to the coming five
power naval conference, MacDonald
shook his head.
To other questions, MacDonald re
plied that he had made no commit
ment with respect to “belligerent
rights” of Britain to rule the seas
“beyond a promise to consider the
matter.” He said that the question
of general disarmament “was not
raised” with Hoover, and added that
everything with reference to the
five-power conference would be done
only after consultation with the
“proper experts”—which means that
the naval commanders of Bi'itain
will aid the “labor” government in
its policy of protecting impei-ialist
interests. MacDonald deserved Bald
wins compliment.
case of SALVATORE ACCORSI,
FRAMED UP ON MURDER
CHARGES, WHO MAY BURN IN
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR
DEMONSTRATING ON BEHALF
OF SACCO AND VANZETTI TWO
YEARS AGO AT CHESWICK,
PA.
The I. L. D. refers also to the
CENTRALIA PRISONERS, WHO
WILL HAVE SPENT TEN LONG
YEARS IN PRISON NOVEMBER
11 FOR HAVING DEFENDED
THEMSELVES FROM THE CUR
DEROUS ATTACK OF THE
BOSSES’ AGENTS.
* * «
The International Labor Defense
has a score or more of similar cases
to report, but lack of space pre
vents it.
Today in America it is necessary
for the workers to continue organ
ization, co..tinue the solidarity of
the vast, u rganized masses, and
to continue to fight against the
White Terror that assails them on
every side.
Remember, the International La
bor Defense rallied the masses of
the world to protest and prevented
the 16 Gastonia workers from
BURNING ON THE ELECTRIC
CHAIR.
It is still fighting to save the
remaining seven who have already
been sentenced. It will carry the
fight to the highest courts of the
land.
BUT IT IS UP TO THE WORK
ERS TRU MASS PROTESTS TO
DECIDE WHETHER THE I. L. D.
WILL SUCCEED!
The I. L. D. is now conducting
a drive for 60,000 new members and
for an ! mmediate fund of $60,000
to be available at by the time of
the appeals for the Gastonia case,
January 15.
CELEBRATE THE TWELFTH
• Celebrate the Twelfth Anniver
sary of the Russian Revolution by
joining the International Labor
Defense.
Down with the capitalist terror,
the preparation for new imperialist
wars!
Long live the Soviet Union!
J. LOUIS ENGDAHL,
National Secretary,
International Labor Defense
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot- I
tom Up—at the Enterprise* 1 ,
DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1929
‘LABOR’ RULE IN
INDIA JUST LIKE
BALDWIN REGIME
Arch Hypocrites Use
Deceitful Words
LONDON, Nov. 6.—As if seeking
to prove again, that the MacDonald
government is full yand even more
hypocritically imperialist that the
Baldwin regime, the question of In
dia is again the plaything of jest
between Tory and “Labor” in the
House of ornmons. When Mac-
Donald’s coi’respondence with the
j Simon commission was published,
revealing that the “labor” govern
ment agreed with that reactionary
I Commission on a proposed confer
ence of British and Indian bourgesis
nationalists in which the feudal nat
ive princes were to be brought into
check eveix so much as the boui’geois
demand for dominion status, a
storm arose in India.
To quiet this, the “labor” govern
ment authorized the Viceroy, Lord
Irwin, at Delhi, to make a speech
mentioning dominion status as the
“goal” toward which India , and
| Britain might “strive” for India—
(as though there were some super-
I natural force restraining Britain
from freeing India). But the Vice
| roy’s speecli aroused the Conser
j vatives at London, and Lord Read
! ing in the House posed three ques
tions: 1. The reasons for saying
such things without consulting the
Simon Commission; 2. Whether the
“conditions” of former declarations
and acts on the subject are still
effective these “conditions” being
such as to make the promises mean
nothing at all; 3. Whether the Vice
roy’s statement means “any change
in the policy or time when dominion
status will be obtainable.”
To these Lord Parmoor, replying
for the “labor” govei’nment, said
that the former (Tory) declarations
would retain full force, that the
Viceroy’s statemetn referred to the
“goal” of British policy (which
might be inferred to be reached
some centuries in the future), and
stated that the Simon Commission
“did not object” to the instructed
speech of the Viceroy in India.
“There is no change in policy.”
That the speech of the Viceray
was intended to mean nothing more
than to salve the dignity of the In
dian nationalist bourgeoisie and
enable it to parade before the mas
ses as having attained something,
is obvious. But to placate nervous
impei'ialists at home, the British
news agency ir. India sends mes
sages stating that the Viceroy’s
! declaration “delivered a severe blow
to the growing movement for com
plete independence.” Os course it
has done nothing of the sort and
the workers and peasants of India
whose leaders the “labor” govern
ment imprisons at Meerut are long
disillusioned, both with their own
bourgeoisie r d those of England
represented by MacDonald.
Grain Pours in to
Moscow
• (Continued from Page One)
calls upon Nikolai Bucharin and
other Right Wing oppositionists to
acknowledge their mistakes and ad
mit that the Party’s economic and
agricultural policy is correct. Izves
tia says that the success of the Five
Year Plan in the first year prove
the Right Wing’s mistakes.
• * *
In the United States Twelfth
Aniiversary celebrations that have
thus far been arranged are:
Elizabeth, N. J., Sunday, Nov. 10,
8 p. m., 408-12 Court St.; Bayonne,
N. J., Sunday, Nov. 10, 7.30 p. m.,
82 W. 20th St.; East New York, N.
J., Nov. 10, 3 p. m., 349 Bradford
St. Speaker: John Williamson;
Passaic, N. J., Sunday, Nov. 17, 2
p. m., 25 Dayton Ave. Speaker:
Louis Baum; Yonkers, N. Y., Nov.
17, 8 p. m., Workers Cooperative
Center, 262 Warburton Ave. Speak
er: George Powers.
Twelfth Anniversary celebrations
were held in Newark last Saturday
and in Perth Amboy last Sunday.
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MEN AND VERMIN
ARE MINGLED ON<
DAM BUILDING JOB
State Jobs Upstate Are
Hell
(By a Worker Correspondent)
A hundred miles north of here
on Highway 22 at a plaxe called
Wassaic is a big state job of 100
million dollars. Forty-eight build
ings for a chil ’.en’s insane asylum
are under construction, 24 of which
are already up.
The job will last two years more.
Steamfitters and mechanics work
40 hours per week of five days but
the unorganized shovel stiffs work
from ’’3 to 84 hours a week at a
wage of 60 cents an hour.
A state and city of New York
dam is also being built at Conkling
ville, five miles from Had’.ey, N. Y.,
and 66 north of Albany. I worked
!on both jobs this week, four days
at the dam, a..d one was sufficient
ion the asylum job. The conditions
■ in both places are unbearable. Both
1 dumps are alive with vermin, dou
ble deck bunks, and lots of booze
and gambling.
Lots of new men sleep on bare
spring. in Wassaic, without mat
tresses or covei'.ng especially men
who live on the job. You may or
may not £.st the vermin infested
rags to cover y<,j, if you pay your
fare and six dollars office fee to
the employment shark here on South
Street.
They push the slaves as thev
please on both jobs. A dope fieng
Monster Reception
and Concert
to the
4 Soviet Fliers
to be held at
POLO GROUNDS
155th Street, at Eighth Avenue
Saturday, Nov. 9
at 6:30 p. m.
100-PIECE ORCHESTRA
ARNOLD VOL PE, Conductor
IVAN STESCHENKO
Celebrated Russian Basso of the Chicago Grand Opera
OTHER EXCELLENT FEATURES
I Each Flier Will Greet the American Workers
All Seats Protected from Rain
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IN THE SHOPS
i
Amer. Ry. Express Workers,
1 Organize!. Fight the Fakers!
(By a Worker Correspondent) !
i CHICAGO (By Mail). —Here is
more about the conditions of the
workers in Chicago on the American
Railway Express Co.
In the freight houses and among
the expressmen the membership of
the union is composed largely ot
those holding more responsible jobs. ,
j About 90 per cent of the checkers
, are members. They receive 78 cents
I per hour. The truckei's and callers
1 get only 36 to 54 cents per hour,
and only about 20 per cent of their
number is organized.
About 30 per cent of those handl
ing mail at the depots are organized.
Truckers get 52 cents per hour,
sorters and car loaders 54. There
was the commissary. He has booze
and gambling at Wassaic and
charges $11.50 a week for garbage
and flop. Two hundred men are
piled in like sardines in a box in
a dirty old barn. All this has been
going on for more than two years
in both jobs.
Organized labor gets 45 cents an
hour hei-e on the job. The Conkling
ville dam is a 36 million dollar job,
besides a power bouse acx-oss the
river, a good place for the Commun
ists to organize the woi'kers.
J. F.
Build Up the United Front of
J the Working Class From the Bot
-1 tom Up—at the Enterprises'
[is little effort put forth to increase
the membership.
It may truthfully be said that in
no depai’tment have the union mem
bers l'eceived concessions or condi
tion thi’ough any visible effort on
the part of the uniox. leaders.
The vital question now confronts
us, what must the express workers
do? Several things are necessary
if they wish to prevent even worse
conditions than those now facing
them.
For one thing they must put out
of their minds all ideas of brotherly
co-operation between the company
and the workers. Ail employers in
tend to get as much work done for
as little wages as possible. They
SWEDISH RIGHT WINGERS
EXPELLED.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 20.—The Ex
ecutive Committee of the Commun
ist International has confirmed the
dczDion of its representative in
. Sweden to expel th. opportunist
| Right Win~ leadei's Kilbom, Sam
j uel. cn, Flyg and Olsson from the
Communist Party, for disruptive
anti-Comintern activity.
The Kilbom group seized the of
ficial organ "f the par’ -, but were
prevented from occupying party
offices.
The ttorkfnK fin** rmnnot ilmph
Iny hold of the re»<iy-made wtnte
machinery, nnd rrlHd It for ft* own
purfioftc ...Thin ne«* Tornmnne t Purl*
Coni in une) break* the modern ntnte
t'r Mar?
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I care not one particle about the wel
fare of the workers.
Another thing the workers must
j do is stop l-elying upon labor leaders
j arbitrators and commerce commis
sioners. All the experience of the
past shows these agencies to be tools
of the employers.
Above all the express workers
must ge ttogether. All barriers be
tween steady men, 90 day men and
extras must be torn down. They
must forget their petty differences
and remember that in the eyes of
the company they are all slaves.
If there is any feeling of brother
hood or co-operation it should be
extended to the slave and not the
slave driver. Every express worker
must be organized. The extra men
may be hard to reach because of
the uncertainty of his employment.
But he must be organized. Three
fourths of the extras have been
working around the express sheds
for a year or more. For intelli
gence and militancy they are the
equal of the steady workers. Fees
and dues must be made low enough
that the extras can afford to pay
them. A drive must be launched
to bring lal freight house and mail
platform into the union. If these
things cannot be accomplished by
the present union one should be or
ganized that can accomplish them.
It is very plain that the hope of
the express worker as of the rail
road workers lies in an industrial
union composed of every worker in
the entire industry and free from
the fossilised ideas of the old trade
union leaders.
AMERICAN RY. EXPRESS
WORKER.