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The daily worker., 1930-03-28
Philippine Mails Barred to Worker Unions

MANILA p L. March @7-Jaan Ruiz, acting director of the
postal system the Philippine Islands, arbtroyy deped Of e
OF the mails the PrOetdrian Labor Congress.
Ihe 00Fer8 organization had been campaigning for
@ oT oor6S and peasants ay against the naUe capitalists
the American 1mperiaH 1t demanded independence islands,
to be gained through struggle the Masses denounced the ac
S OF the bourgeois politicians The congress other means
Y'th wh'ch to its agitation organization
The daily worker., 1930-03-28
GERMAN STEAMSHIP MERGER.

HAMBURG, March 27.-A mer-
ger, under, the form of a working
agreement to run for so years, has
taken place between the Hamburg
American Line and the North Ger
man Lloyd steamship companies.
Wall Street interests have heavy in
vestments in both companies.
The daily worker., 1930-03-28

gades was guarded by a force If
about so armed police and severe
collisions occurred with the workecs.
About 5000 persons took part in
the demonstration in Goeteborg,
1000 demonstrators marched thru
the streets in Malmoe. The Malmoe
demonstration was particularly i'm
portant as it represented the largest
Communist demonstration ever held
there. Demonstrations also occurred
in other towns.
The daily worker., 1930-03-28
Pope's Counter-R Revolutionary Plots.

HOCOOV, U p' % W. NDy HdIIT'
That the Catholic Mission for re-
lief work in the Soviet Union dur
ing the famine year 1921 was a CEN
ter Of counter-revolutionary propa-
ganda against the workers govern
ment was disclosed in an article
sent to the press here by Franz
Koritchoner. "The Pope also for
gets" says the writer, "that the
August Throne morally supported
Petlura, the counter-revolutionary
bandit, in the belief that an al
lance could thereby be set up be-
tween Rome and the bourgeoisie of
Eastern Ukraine"
The daily worker., 1930-03-28
Challenge Pope to
Open Secret Archives

Continued from Page One)
the world to join in the demand
that the Vatican opens up the Sc
cret documents.
The daily worker., 1930-03-28

business men standing in the door
ways Of their shops were beaten UP.
In Roemerstadt an open-air meet
ing was held in the Dreyfus Platz,
where the Communist Deputy Babel
addressed the masses. Afterwards
the demonstrators marched to the
market place where they were furi-
ously attacked by the police. Many
workers were injured, including
Comrade Babel, who was so severe
ly maltreated that he remained un-
conscious for half a nhour. An old
woman received a heavy blow in the
stomach from a policeman and is
now in a hospital with severe inter
nal injuries. She is not expected to
recover. There is general indigna-
ton in the town at the bestialities
of the police.
The daily worker., 1930-03-28

over, be careful, the vulcan will ex-
plode.
AN ex-Sergeant of the Bosses
Army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

struggle against the social-democratic agents
of the bourgeoisie, as well against the
Gomperists of the American Federation of La
Dor whose only service now is that of breaking
strikes scabbing and general servility in the
matter of worsening the labor conditions. These
social-fascsts must be thrown aside by the
workers, as first step, if they mean to start
a struggle and to accomplish anything by it.
They must set up leading strike committees
totally Independent of the machinery OF the
A. F. of L., elect to them representatives not
only of the organized, but also of the morgan
led workers, and, what is more, they must
organize new revolutionary unions and branches
of the Trade Union Unity League. These
should form an organized mass foundation OF
uncompromisng proletarian class struggle,
with a clear understanding of the objectives.
The most dangerous opponents in the labor
movement are to be considered such "left'
leaders of trade union, cooperative and poll
teal labor organizations who in essence are
ordinary social democrats, syndicalists or other
opportunists. They must be timely and pitt
lessly exposed no matter under what label
they appear. So that they may not gain by
fake means the confidence of the masses We
must not allow them for moment to obscure
the vast differences between Communism and
opportunism, and must point out even more
clearly, both in theory and practice, the prin-
ciples and the revolutionary and Marxian-Len-
mist substance of the Communist movement.
Such is the basic line of the Communist
Party in the present period. The opportunsts,
some of whom marched with the Communist
Parties during the second period of postwar
capitalism, have now, in the third period de-
clared open war on the Communist Parties and
the Communist International--al along the
line. Why? Because now, with the sharpening
of the class struggles. when the Communist
movement had to strike a course in the direc-
ton of more relentless class struggles, the
opportunists (even those who were in the Com
munist ranks) have turned more to the Right
In their estimate, relative capitalist stabilize
ton is not in precarous state, but is being
further consolidated, capitalism is not expert
encing serious crisis and is not being men,
aced by one, there is no rehabilitation of the
working masses and rising tile of the rev.
dictionary labor movement in prospect. Ac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
By ]. AMTER.
written in Tombs PrisOnD

Gree rise of ability and intelligence" says
fascist Hoover Where does the "free" part of
it arises from? 100000 children are toiling
in the mills and on the farms of this country
1.-THE majority on farms not belonging to their
parents) Millions of boys and girls, after
passing through the capitalist schools whose
aim and method is to develop the robot mind,
90 into industry which destroys and consumes"
all initiative, which saps all energy, which
destroys the body and mind of the worker at
40 years of age. Only one type can develop
under these conditions-the criminal type,
whether in the form of the stock brocker O..
p. Morgan, John ID. Rockefeller, etc), the thlef'
the CRATER the cabinet officer (Hoover and
Coolidge in the cabinet when Fall and Doheny
plot to steal the oil reserves-with their full
knowledge and therefore their complicity) the
slave-driver, the murderer-all of them pro-
ducts of the system which is based upon the
Individual fascist conception) as against the
mass Communist conception).
One cannot talk of "free rise of ability
character and intelligence" until there is free
dom. Under capitalism the is freedom for the
capitalists whose aim is subsection of the mass.
Only the Proletarian Dictatorship which
folds all possibility of mas development, which
looks to the mass-the working and poor peas
ant masses-with their overpowering, dormant,
creative abilities; which unleashes them and
gives them broad scope; which for the first
time in history, provides the conditions for the
"free rise of ability, character and intelligence"
which makes it possible for the native ability
freely according to its own bent-only the
and intelligence of every worker to develop
Proletarian Dictatorship provides the dem
ocracy" that the workers-the massacre in
terested in-the democracy of the working class
embodied in the dictatorship of the working
class over its enemies.
Fascism is the very opposite of this. Fas-
cism arising at a time of monopolist capitalism,
when the sham of democracy" lin reality cap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
Yellow Dog Grows Uglier
By SOLON DE LEON.

YELLOW dog, the employers house pet is
not only getting older, he is also growing
ugler as the years roll on. Court decisions,
drenched in capitalist class interests and in
creasingly highly spiced with capitalist die
tatorship, are the diet on which he is develop
ing savageness.
When first born, yellow dogs bark was much
worse than his bite. He took the form of n
contract which man or woman seeking work
was required to sign. This contract stated that
sin consideration of employment" the worker
agreed, as long as he toiled for that particular
boss, never to join union
What worker with the whip of hunger play
ing over his shoulders, would not sign such ?
contract to get bread? Promises extorted by
force have been recognized not as binding, from
time beyond the memory of man. So the unions
laughed at yellow dog, and went on organizing.
Then suddenly yellow dog developed teeth.
In 1908 the Hickman Coal and Coke Co. of
West Virginia discovered that number of its
supposedly safely acknowledged miners had
been secretly organized into the union. The
company hailed the union officers to court.
They were found guilty of Inducing breach
of contract" and sentenced to jail On appeal
the United States Supreme Court upheld the
sentences.
The next step in yellow dogs growing ugli-
ness was to have it declared punishable to or
ganize yellow logged men even if they quit
the boss upon joining the union. This is the
basic point in the Red Jacket Coal Co. inJunc-
ton in West Varginia in 1922. For uphold
ing this injunction, as well as for other SER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

vices to capital, Judge John J. Parker is now
being elevated to the United States Supreme
Court.
The latest stage of yellow dog madness has
been reached in the town of Nazareth, Pa
When the Kraemer Hosiery Mills there in
stalled the yellow dog contract, the workers
struck. The union sent in two representatives
who launched local campaign against yellow
doggery.
The Kraemer company, in the best CAPT.
talist tradition of 1880, rushed to court. And
the court, also in the best capitalist tradition,
granted ''the relief prayed for" Judge Russell
c. Stewart ruled that the hosiery company had
right to extort from it's workers promise
that they would not join a union, and that
''it is the clear duty of the court to protect
those rights. So he dutifully granted an in
injunction He forbade the union and its rem
resentatives to interfere with the business"
Of the company. Then, as the crown of his
order, he added: "The public is in the position
of the defendants"
This universal Injunction was upheld and
made perpetual by the county court early m
April. The earths whole 1,750,000,000 populaI
ton are row forbidden to organize or utter
word of criticism against yellow doggery in
this sup and coming" Pennsylvania county.
The order will be appealed to the state SUI
preme court, and probably to the United States
Supreme Court-where Parker will be waiting
to confirm it. If it is upheld all along the
line the scope of injunctions will be tremen-
dously extended And as for yellow dog, he
will have grown so ugly that nothing can curb
him-except the organized might of the mill
tant workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

cordingly, it is, in their opinion, not necessary
to insist on the revolutionary nature of the
Communist movement and that at least in our
activity, there is no need to refer to it; this
should rather be hidden as if it were shame
full disease; while it is permissible perhaps to
speak of revolution in the program and to
refer to it to some distant ideal, revolu-
tionary battles in practice, collisions of the
class forces in general, should be avoided and
bewaned against at the present time. The work.
ing masses need not be prepared for sucv
clashes and, in the opinion of the opportunjstS
they need not be led in general, at least not
forward they should either be passively lob
served" or attempts should perhaps be made
to draw their attention Enthusiastically or
at least partly to such harmless and one-sided
activity as electioneering, club work, work in
the cooperatives etc. In this sole activity they
naturally see no reasons for more decisive
struggle against the Noskes or against the A.
F. of L. machine. On the contrary, they are
everywhere searching for "lefts" among the
social-fascists as their possible allies.
Such is the present orientation of the oppor-
tunsts. In order to escape from the firing line
of the pending great strikes they desert to the
enemy of the working class.
Haonen acts just the same with his eco
operative socialism
The fact alone that he so strongly exaggerf
ates the Importance of the cooperative novel
ment for the workers aids in distracting the
attention OF those workers from the other
political and tad. union) spheres of the class
struggle, which, from the point of view of
preparing the prerequisites for seizure of
power by the proetariat, consequently, from
the revolutionary point of view, are of much
more Importance at the present moment Under
the dictatorship Of the proletariat the coopera-
tive organizations will be of extreme import
ance as the apparatus for the distribution of
products. But under capitalism, as is stated III
the Comintern program, they are "forced to
play very modest role" Especially, now in
the third postwar period, when the monopoly
organizations of capital are of enormous might
the workers cooperative organizations have a
very limited possibility of developing, and are
even more exposed to the danger of being de-
generated into mere appendages of the capital |
list regime.
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
FASCIST HOOVER'S CONCEP-
TON OF LEADERSHIP

italist Dictatorship cannot hold control; when
the masses under economic pressure become
disconnected, when they begin to organize and
fight for primitive economic demands against
unemployment and for unemployment insur-
ance against the ruthless speed-up and killing
hours, against the lynchng, Jim Growing and
discrimination of the Negroes, against hut and
dog taxes and high cost of food in the colonies,
etc. and when democracy" with all its lies
and shams no longer satisfies these needs, but
on the contrary, reveals itself in the police
mans club, tear gas, guns, arrests and the
electric chair-there democracy is superseded
by fascism. This fascsm pretends to stand
above ALT presumes to incorporate the needs
Of the capitalists as well as of the workers,
but standing above both. 1t is the rankest
most violent expression of the ptiless, armed
fascist-capitalst dictatorship even though
red out with the aid of socialist labor adult
ants These latter are the scum Of the working
class-sycOphants "a, F. of l.. bureaucrats),
grafters (almost all Of them) terrorists, rack
eteers, traitors.
Democracy is sham under capitalism and
in its transition to fascsm (the germ of which
was inherent in capitalism and now under the
proper conditions is developing in the United
States, being in full bloom in some other coun-
tries) is clearly visible in Herbert Hoover and
his predecessor, Calvin Cooldge-fascist lead
ers in the United States.
IF dmeocracy is to assure its authority it
must stimulate leadership from it's own mass"
continues the fascist Hoover (Quite contra
diction to what he said above about the crowd
never buiiling.') The "crowd'-the mass of
the workers-cannot build under the conditions
of capitalism, which is predicated upon the
exploitation, subsection and forceful suppress
sion of the mass to the will of the capitalist.
I'm this mass are included all educators, artists,
scientists, etc, who are tolerated and stimuli
ated only in so far they assist in the de-
velopment and Strengthening of capitalism, and
suffer accommodation, deprivation of their
means of livelihood as soon as they indulge
in and develop "acts and ideas that lead to
progress" as fascist Hoover says.)
(To Be ContinuedQ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
(Continued)

(C0nttnued)
The struGqIes for a auorking-ctdss policy IN
the cooperative movement noW gong on
among the Finnish avorkers, deals 1Ulth such
fundamental problems Of the entire aoorkln9
class, and With such an important section OF
the revolutionary Uorkers' Increment m me
United States, that it becomes document Of
uital interest to the entire Increment. The
Dqily Worker has Just received the author
lied English translation and hastens to pub
lish it for the benefit of all revolutionary
acoykers, as qoeU as for the Finnish Increment,
aohick already has received it IN the FINNISH
What Is the Line of the Communists and
the Line of the Opportunists?
The Tenth Plenum of the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist international theld
in December, 1929, said among other things:
"The bankruptcy of the notorious prosperity
slogan of the American bourgeoisie is be-
coming more and more apparent"
Hardly had three months elapsed when the
cruel reality of the incipient economic crisis
in the United States kicked overheard Hoo
ver's perpetual prosperity" as well as Love
stones and Peppers American exceptional
ISM" The industrial output in the United States
dropped fifteen per cent in November as COM
pared with May and the rate of decline was
course of the last 46 years Stocks and bonds
suffered a sharp drop, the aggregate wage of
the American workers has greatly diminished
and the number of unemployed has feverishly
grown-their number being now over 100000
in the United States.
Here we see the workings of the third period
in real earnest. If the leading country of world
capitalism has entered such an economic crisis
there is nothing to prevent it from spreading
to other countries 1t has already begun to
develop into. an international economic crisis.
The time is now entirely different than what
it was before the imperialst world war which
shook the foundations of the capitalist system.
The fundamental contradictions of that system
are sharpening more and more and will not
release it from their grip. Relative and partial
stabilization\ of capitalism could not hold out
very long because it was but superficial stab
iization. Its equilibrium has already begun
to totter and its further SCATTERING will go on
with increasing rapidity. The fierce competitive
struggle among the imlerialist powers for
world markets, for spheres of capital invest
ment and exploitation, for colonies, is gaining
in intensity, and is accompanied by frantic
ornaments preparatory to another world war.
They are particularly preparing for preda-
tory was against the Soviet Union, which is
the greatest and strongest fortress of the
world proletariat, and the only country in the
world the borders of which are not crossed
by the international economic crisis and which
is being powerfully strengthened by stupen-
dous socialist construction.
At the same time class antagonisms are
unusually sharpening in al capitalist coun-
tries. The capitalist class is seeking way out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23

Rights. This explains the peculiar phenom-
enon that portion of the Let's" who only
yesterday Carried out" noisy attack AMI at
tempted to collectvize the Soviet Union within
two or three weeks, have today fallen into
passivity; they sit with their arms folded and
leave the field to the Right deviators, whereby
they pursue the. line of real retreat before
the kulaks.
The popularity eof the present period
through which we are passing consists in the
fact that the fight against the Left exagger-
ators constitutes for us the prerequisite for
and the peculiar form of the successful fight
against Right opportunism.
(lo he continued,
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
ALARM SOUNDED AT H. s.
 AT PREVENTION PROGRAM
Students Complimented By Deputy Chief Souney For Orderly Exit
 From Auditorium

Fire Prevention Week exercises were held this morning at the local Senior High school. Deputy Fire Chief Michael J. Souney and Fire man James Moore spoke to the stu dents and teachers on the preven- tion of fire.
 Deputy Chief Souney illustrated his talk by several incidents in the history of local fire fighting. MT. Moore told the assembly of the high toll of life that fire took in 1929, 10000 persons in the United States alone. He remarked that the great est single cause of fire was careless ness. Other causes, such as spon- taneous combustion and the like, rank far below carelessness.
 During Deputy Chief Souney's talk, the fire signal of the school sounded. The auditorium was quick ly emptied of students and teach CTS, who were then recalled to their seats. The deputy chief said that it was the first time that he has ever seen such a large assemblage leave an auditorium, and he compliment ed the students on their quick and orderly exit
 Governor Trumbull's Fire Preven- tion Day proclamation was read at the opening of the assembly by Clifton Andrews, student. The gathering was presided over by Principal Louis P. Slade.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
SOLDIERS REBEL;
 JOIN COMMUNISTS
Thousands Of Chinese Quit Army
 for Red Ranks

Shanghai, Oct. 9.-tP-Thousand Of rebellious soldiers throughout southern China today were reported flocking to the red banners, swelling the ranks of communists to formi- dable proportions.
 Changsha advices said the Reds in Human province had perfected an or ganization to high degree and were virtually in control of the entire province.
 A report from Kiukiang said con- munists who captured Kian, import ant city in southern Kiangsi prov ince, we're continuing their footing there and were driving scattered provincial forces north toward Siakiang.
 The situation at Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi, was said to have eased slightly as the red army on the out skirts of the city had withdrawn slightly toward the southeast.
 The populace of Nanchang re- mained in a state of alarm, how ever, because the red army was con- sidered strong enough to capture any city in the province.
 Two thousand nationalist soldiers from Hankow arrived at kiukiang and were sent to join the Nanchang garrison while coolies in the capital worked feverishly to prepare de- fense trenches.
 The reds seemed content, however, to plunder outlying communities rather than attacking the major cities
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
Hotel Statler for President Hoover

Hotel Statler for President Hoover.
 A small sized auto, which the boys brought up in the elevator to the fourth floor of the Statler, visited Connecticut headquarters at room 40.
 Jack Heery, the local fireman, re- ported himself as having a fine time at the 102d Infantry reunion Tues day evening.
 Colonel Seymour, the first districts nominee for congress, dropped around to pay his respects to the New Britain Legionnaires before the parade started.
 EX-Mayor Gardner C. Weld and Stanley Eddy marched with the Eddy-Glover post for a short time. Traffic regulations held them up from starting at the beginning.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
New Britain Inventors
 Are Awarded Patents
BY GEORGE H. MANNING

Washington Bureau. N. B. Herald)
 Washington, Oct. g. - Two New Britain inventors have been granted patents by the U. S. patent office for the invention of certain devices.
 Henning Johnson devised a win dow screen fastener, described by the patent office as comprising a member arranged to be rotatably mounted and having a biting lip eccentrically positioned thereon, said member having a hole for a fastening tool in a wall thereof at an angle to the bottom of the mem- Der, and means for engagement by said tool in cooperation with said hole to operate said member"
 Norman B. Hurd invented a door holder, assigning his patent to the American Hardware Corp, New Britain.