The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
TRADE WAR PLAN
AGAINST U,S,S.R,
is CONTINUED
u. S. in ManeuVer to
Quiet Workers

Continued From Page OneD
but strategy intended to mollfy an
aroused working class, that merely
recognize the Indignation aroused,
and delay more intense attack until
they have completed the rest Of
their war preparations, is seen in
the lack Of any definite decision
now on the embargo question by
the government. 1t is seen in the
Fish committee statement that its
work will be resumed in September.
1t is seen in the continued avalanche
of business mems propaganda for
war on Russia: trade war first,
and in the continued taking of incl
dents by particularly the New York
police department and the U. S.
department of justice-incidents
each one more shabby and incredible
than the one before, each one
dropped as soon as its maximum
propaganda effect has been OBJ
tanned, only to make way for an
other.
Mass protest today is not enough.
Mass protest, mass demonstration
against war and for the defense of
the Soviet Union is needed, but it
must be followed by frightening
rather than a decrease in the storm
Active organization into the Com
munist Party, the class struggle
unions of the Trade Union Unity
League, the Councils of the Unem.
ployed-is needed.
There is required continuou;
preparation for the September Isl
demonstrations of the unemployed
continuous agitation for the bill
proposed by the Communist Party
to set aside $5,0OO,00O,000 for un
employment relief and insurance
to use the war appropriations Of al
sorts for this purpose.
Yesterday was signalized by re
newed demands of j. Carson Adker
son, representing the American
/ Manganese Producers Association
for embargo on all Soviet Uniol
manganese. Anderson is at thu
present moment in Washington con
ferring with secretary Lowmal
as to how best to accomplish this.
Senator Reed of PennsyIvani;
demands exclusion of Soviet Uniol
coal, senator Tasker L. Oddie o
Nevada, chairman Of the senate
committee on mines, yesterday made
formal request of the treasury de
partment that manganese import
from the Soviet Union be prevented
New York papers yesterday car
ried new and even more fancifu
stories Of the police and fedora
detectives searching for "a Sovie
spy" supposed to be nance
"Filin" or Simmons" and sup
posed to be posing as a drug clerk.
This follows the farcical and ad
mittedly useless raid of police o.
the drug store of one Schafran o.
Ave. B, day before yesterday. l
follows melange of testimony
of known Russian monarchists ant
professional patriots before tn
Fish committee, along with lurit
but contradictory and unsupported
stories of convict labor in Russi;
told by navy Intelligence service
men and others posing as sailors.
Hearings on the admission of twc
shiploads of Soviet Union pulpwooC
already locked in U. S. ports arr
going on now in Lowman's office
in Washington. The Amtorg Trad
ing Corporation is presenting proc:
that no convict labor was used il
producing or transporting this
wood.
Convict labor is the excuse UseC
to keep out the pulpwood, dump
ing" is the excuse offered for ;
proposed barrier to manganese.
The convict labor excuse is re
duced to the extreme of ridiculous
ness when it is remembered tina
much U. S. timber and other prod
ucts come from convict or peor
labor.
Negro and white convicts work il
the coal mines of Alabama; peonagt
| prevails among the Negro lumber
camp workers of Florida, Missis
sippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Il
Florida last fall Negroes were
taken from the jails and solc
directly into lumber camp slavery.
Peonage and convict lumbe
workers in the south are living il
lice infested camps, paid, if at all
in brass token money" forced t.
to carry on the struggle in thi
! period.