The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
COMMUNISTS IN
FISH SESSION
1900 New York Workers
in Meet
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soviet government would be estab-
lished, even though all history shows
that ruling classes will not relinquish
power and the fruits of exploitation
peacefully.
Engdahl brought a statement in
writing on the purposes of the In
ternational Labor Defense, the great
need for it in this capitalist coun-
try, where 1t handled last year over.
5000 cases of workers arrested, most
Of them for trying to carry on the
elementary activities of organiza-
ton, speaking to their fellow work
ers, etc.
Fights White Terror
He brought out in the statement
and by testimony that the I. L. D.
is mass organization with hundreds
Of thousands of workers affiliated
either directly or through other or
CARNATIONS, that it is not Com
munist organization, but that the
workers in it have elected Commu-
nists to leadership because they trust
them to fight always on the side of
the working class, Engdahl stated.
"The year 1880 sees ten thousand
deportations, total of Is working
class prisoners serving 1872 years in
prison, some condemned to life SEN
fences, 20 lynchings since the begin
ming of the year, with ID white work
ers killed by ruling class murderers
during the same period. There are
such outstanding prosecutions as the
railroading to prison of seven Gas
tonia prisoners to lit years, the six
Atlanta prisoners facing death in the
electric chair for merely attempting
to hold meetings; the Imprisonment
Of the New York and Milwaukee I'M
employed delegations; the nine work.
ers sentenced to az years imprison-
ment each in Imperial Valley, Cali
fornia; the infamous life sentence
imposed on Tom Mooney, Warren K.
Billings and other workers now held
in California bastiles; the Centralia
prisoners in Washington, scores fac
ing so-called sedition charges under
state laws, while hundreds continu-
ally fill jails and prisons because of
their strike activities, their efforts to
organize the unorganized workers.
1.-THE appointment of this committee
by a congress that turned it's back
completely upon the hunger and
misery of 100000 unemployed work
ers, and additional millions of I'M
derpaid, part time workers, that dis
cussed merely fake relief for the suf-
fering agrarian population. marked
another step in the growing tyranny
against Americas toiling masses"
Demands Committee Dissolve
The statement, and Engdahl in his
testimony, demanded the dissolution
of the Fish Committee, as purely a
provocative organization, whoseS.in-
vestigation of children's camps has
already been followed by raid on
two of them by the K. K. K. and the
lingo militarist organizations.
In answer to questions from the
committee, which still tries to keep
up the bluff of believing the Com
munist Party is aNforeign organiza-
ton, Engdahl told Of his being born
in Minnesota, and how he became a
Communist by observation and ex-
perience as a child in a working class
family and as worker himself. Like
Debris, he described the goal of Com
munism, the control of industry and
land by the workers and farmers,
and the abolition of the rulership of
parasite class. Both workers told
of the campaign to win unemploy-
ment insurance and relief for the
jobless, to build the militant unions
Of the T. u. u. L., to win better
wages and conditions, etc.
Smash Wheat Charge
The Fish Committee got small
comfort from the testimony of three
brokers who handled the short sales
of Soviet Union wheat here and the
testimony of E. Y. Belitzky, manager
of the All Russian Textile Syndicate,
which ordered the sale for it's clients,
the organizations Of the workers and
families of u. S. S. r.
The brokers patiently explained
over and over again, in accord also
with Belitzkys evidence to the con-
gressmen, that "short" sales of this
sort are not gambling, but the only
way to avoid gambling; that they do
not depress the price when placed in
the manner the Textile Syndicate or
dered, and, in fact, did not depress
the price in this instance. They ex-
planned that the wheat was sold short
on the Chicago market to hedge"
sales of wheat which will take place
within the next few weeks in Europe
and because clients feared wheat is
falling in price, and the Soviet work
ers and farmers want to sell 7,765,000
bushels at the price of September
ITO. When another 7,765,000 bushels
is sold in Europe, this short" sale
contract in Chicago can be bought
back at the price of the sale In Eu-
rope. What is made in Chicago by a
change of price is lost by lower
price in Europe. II prices rose in
Europe, the gains and losses would
cancel, but in the reverse order. Such
short sale. they testified is the nor
NAL and ordinary thing for those who
do not wish to speculate on the price
Editors Note.-This is the true
explanation of the hedging operation
The Daily Worker. deceived by re-
ports from capitalist sources that the
All-Russian Textile Syndicate was
buying cotton now for future de-
livery, misinterpreted the purpose OF
this hedging in recent editorial, and
thought it was to protect the losses
probable when the cotton price falls
|, The principle is the same. Belitzky
testified yesterday that no cotton has
been bought yet this year.]
U. S. Government, Too
The utmost efforts of the Fish
Committee to destroy this explana-
tion failed. In fact, all 1t resulted in
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