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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26

have now begun to organize, putting up GER
tain demands to the exploiting farmers, for
lettering their working conditions and for in
creasing wages. They also demand that the
farmers stop holding their laborers in con-
tinuous state of intoxication, and that an end
be put to replacing by means of alcohol the
lack of energy of the exhausted workers.
Already from the very beginning the land
workers are compelled to suffer from the vio-
lent pressure brought to bear by the united
front of the employers, the police, judges and
white clfauvinists. The farmers endeavored
to dispense some of the meetings of the labor
ers by force; however, the latter put up due
resistance and succeeded in defending their
rights.
And when it was decided by two of the
farmers to fire some of their most active
workers, they received reply which, truly,
they had little expected all the workers oc
cupied on their farms declared a sympathy
strike. The strikers were subjected to ter
ribe persecution. They, together with their
families were driven from the farms; and
when they stopped at the nearest village, the
police declared them to be vagabonds and COM
PEELED them to travel on, However, by means
of police restriction it was not possible to pre-
vent the movement of the land workers, and
the struggle is developing and extending.
The struggle of the farm laborers in the
Cape Province is only the first step towards
organizing the struggle throughout South
Africa. 1t should be the task of the land
workers to establish strong unions, and af-
filiating with the Federation of Native Trade
Unions, to wage the struggle hand in hand
with all other class conscious proletarians of
South Africa against the whole capitalist sys-
tenn.
The international Conference of Negro work.
ers, which will meet in London on July LIST,
will even to greater degree strengthen the
will of the millions of Negro toilers to strug
gle. The conference will draw up general
program CT action and demands, and will in
dictate the path along which the Negro work
ing masses should tread in order to finally
overthrow the yoke of imperialism and abolish
all capitalist exploitation
Provisional international Trade Union
Committee of Negro Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
Agricultural Workers Strike in
South Africa

THE general upsurge in the revolutionary
movement throughout the world draws into
the struggle ever greater numbers of the prole-
tartan masses. Each Gay brings fresh news
about the struggle going on between the eX-
plotted and eXploiters, about this struggle eX-
tending in scope about the most backward sec
tions of the working class rallying to it, and
about the proletariat going over from the de-
fensive to the offensive
The movement among the agricultural work
ers, evidenced lately in the S. w. Cape Pro-
vince (South Africa, once again proves the
general awakening of the exploited and OPP
pressed toiling masses.
Everywhere the agricultural workers are
that section of the working class which is
mostly cruelty exploited. Simultaneously,
they are the least class-conscious and most
backward strata of the proletarat. In the
colonial and semi-coonial countries the agri-
cultural workers are in actual fact slaves
chattel slaves. They get miserably low wages
for their heavy labors, lasting from early
dawn until sunset. The white exploiting farm
ers in South Africa consider the black farm
laborers employed by them to be their own
property, however, treating them worse than
their working cattle The Negro agricultural
workers in South Africa are leading a mis-
cradle, semi-starvation existence, without any
hopes whatever for being able to emancipate
themselves from serfdom under the present
rule of imperialism.
T. Heavy taxes, laws prohibiting them from
going freely from place to place brutal pun
ishments and even corporal punishment for
the slightest offense-such is the fate of mil
lions and millions of the South African land
workers. The exploiters thought that by
means of their brutal oppression they had
succeeded in stamping out every desire in the
hearts of the toilers for struggling to better
their lives, and for complete liberation.
However, the oppressors were mistaken. We
are living today in the great age of revolus
tionary struggle. The proletariat and the OPP
pressed working masses, having been awakened
from their long age sleep, now took up the
determined fight for their liberation for doing
away forever with all exploitation and OPP
preston.
The farm laborers of the Cape Province
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
By E. CARLOS.

THE recent Republican primaries IN Pennsyl-
vania, another "battle of the century" for
the control of the state apparatus by the vari-
Gus corrupt political machines, ended with the
nomination of J. j. Davis for U. s. Senator
and Clifford Pjnchot for Governor. Weeks OF
artificial excitement, the use of fake issues,
threats and promises, the mobilization OF all
organs of capitalism, including the fascist A.
F. of l.. and the social fascist Musteites the
flow Of gold, wholesale buying of votes pre-
ceded this battle Of millionaires as the New
York Times puts it, which determined the cleo
ton Of these two expert demagogues next
November, the republican party having firm
mold on Pennsylvania.
Even the bourgeois press has to admit that
the primaries weren't fought on issue, but "on
personalities" The questions dividing the
bourgeois parties nationally, such as tariff,
farn-relief, foreign policies are no issues to
the republican party of Pennsylvania. con-
trolled through and through by financial capt.
tai. They all endorse the protective tariff,
the imperialist policy of the administration,
the use of iniunctions, of troopers and coal
and iron police against the strikers-the only
thing they disagree on is the control of the
state apparatus by the various groups of capt.
talists, especially the railroad and public utility
magnates, headed by Gen. Atterbury, of the
Pennsylvania R.R.. the real boss of the Ware
machine and the manufacturing and mining in
terests of the Manufacturers, Assn, whose most
outstanding spokesman, Jos. K. Grundy, the
liking of lobbyists" lost his fight for renomin-
alton to the U. S. Senate. The real fight was
centered on the governor, with all of its ap-
pointive power to the Public Service Commits
sion and other juicy sources of graft and pa
tronage. In this respect, the victory of Gift
ford Pinchot, with all his fake liberal phases
and Rooseveltian gestures against the ''preda-
tory interests" was the running mate of Grun-
DIV, is a bitter bill to the Ware gang in spite
of the victory of Secretary Davis and the other
candidates. The nomination of Davis was
victory of the Hoover administration, which
disiked the tactless die-hard stand of Grundy
on the tariff issue.
Another interesting feature of the primaries
was the huge vote polled by the wet candidates,
Bohlens and Phillips, who are making the re-
peal of the 18th amendment their platform,
took away large number of votes from the
Ware candidates and helped to elect the dry
Pinchot. The playing up of the prohibition is
sue, nationally (Morrow's speech, the Literary
Digest polls) shows by the way the efforts
of the bourgeosie to lead the discomfort of
the workers into fake channels
The money spent for the rich plum cannot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
THE PENNSYLVANIA
PRIMARIES

be even estimated and amounts to many mil
lion dollars. In Philadelphia alone, where the
Ware machine has at its disposal thousands OF
municipal employees, whose job depends on the
votes they are delivering, $4,000 official watch
ers per $1,000 day were reported by the
press, besides a large number of volunteer"
watchers, gangsters, scores of lawyers, taXls,
ambulances, to get the patients from certain
hospitals to the polling stations. The Senate,
in order TO further keep up the illusions nj
honesty in government, sent down an investiga-
ton committee, headed by Sen. Nye, to AS
sure the proper conduct of the primaries"
The fascists o. the A. T. of L. have of course
endorsed the Davis-B Brown slate. Even Pin
chot, who was in the past supported by the
A. f. of L., especially the miners, was not
acceptable for the United Mine Workers, whose
leaders did the;r best to deliver the vote to the
candidates of the Vare-Atterbury machine The
huge vote the miners gave to Pinchot incident
ally shows the little influence the Lewis-ken-
nedy machine has upon the miners. The Music
ties of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers,
after playing around with the slogan of La
Dor Party rewarded through their Northeast
Progressive League their friend Davis-and
punished their enemy-Cirundy. The efforts
made by these social fascists, mass meetings
and demonstrations held in Kensington in IA
vor of the V.re ticket compared to their treach-
circus lukewarm attitude during the recent
strikes further shows the real face of these
so-calfed progressives.
Party Did Not Do Enough.
The Communist Party. which besides few
sporadic meetings and literature distribution
did not utilize the primaries to expose the
capitalist parties and to make the workers boy
colt the primaries is faced with the task of
carrying on it congressional election campaign
on such scale as to reach all workers and
poor farmers of the state and mobilize them
for the class struggle. While there are still
many workers who have illusions regarding
the good men, in office, friends of labor line
Davis and Pinchot, our Party will have an
easy job to expose their program and to raise
our issues: the fight against capitalist ration
alization, unemployment, against imperialst
war preparations, for the support of the revo-
lutonary struggle in the colonies, and for the
defense of the Soviet Union The State Rati-
fcation Convention of the Party which will
be held in Reading, Pa. on July Is, will be
attended by large delegation from the fac
tories and workers organizations, who will come
to this stronghold of Maurer, Stump and other
social-fascists of the SIP. to endorse and ratify
the platform and candidates of the class-strug-
gle and to mobilize for a revolutionary par
liamentary campaign in the State of Pennsyl-
vania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
The Tariff

immediate restriction of foreign markets be-
cause of foreign tariff retaliation.
This is the secret of Henry Ford's "high-
minded" condemnation of the Smoot- Hawley
bill. This greasy hypocrte and super-slave-
driver predicts that Hoover will veto the bill
because it is certain to injure rather than
benefit American capitalists. Faced with de-
crease of profits, he admits that it will not
only not do away with unemployment but will
even increase it by limiting American world
trade.
James D. Mooney, president of the General
Motors Export Co., attacked the tariff bill on
the same ground, stating that the loss of the
foreign trade for autos, which amounts to
about Is per cent Of the total production,
would throw an additional $4,000 workers out
of work, thus deprvng 100000 persons Of
their means of existence.
These exploiters are not worried about the
working class They have only one worry and
that is their profits. Only the Communist
Party exposes the real nature of the Wall
Street tariff from the point of view of the
working class. Only the Communist Party rep
resents the interests of the working class, and
in the coming congressional elections, when all
the Wall Street parties will attempt TO use
the tariff as vote catching issue, the workers
should register their hostility to these plumb
erers and their capitalist system by voting for
their own Communist candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
Negro Workers Awakening

of the brbed yellow press, the expoters and
trade union bureaucrats, many OF the white
workers under the impression that they are
compared to the blacks, are privileged race;
they do not understand that this is pure
STAKEHOLDER theory, directed both against the
black as well as the white workers
The international Negro Workers Confer
ence should dispel the mist which has been
created by the ruling classes with regard to
colored labor 1t must be announced by this
conference, with all determination and plain
ness, that the Negro workers are part and
parcel of the whole international proletarat,
that they are ready to take up the struggle
hand in hand with the toilers of the world for
social, national and race liberation, that they
do not separate their fate from the fate of
the exploited classes and oppressed peoples,
and that without the class struggle it is i'm
possible, nor can it be possible, to abolish race
oppression.
Whatever the composition of the confer
ence may be, whatever may be its decisions,
we are firmly convinced that it will be SER
ious stride forward on the road for uniting the
black and white workers in strong fraternal
union; that this conference will come to be the
center of gravity for the most backward and
oppressed Negro workers throughout the whole
world.
Negro Workers!
Greetings to all comrades and allies in the
fight against Imperialism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
DenOunces Renegades

Dear Comrades:
! was mortified ron Saturday, May II, to
find that the renega les. Wesbord, Keller
Dawson and Co.. using the name of Unity
Group National Textile Workers Union" had
signed my to their leaflet which | I'M
derstand is being spread all over the country
The only connection ! had with these scoun-
drels was when Stephens. the cowardly rene
gade, former district organizer, came to my
house OH Sunday, May H. and attempted to
get me to join them. l refused and told them
to leave. as was loyal to the National Tex
tile Workers Union, the l. l.. d. and the Com
munist Party.
At the present time when the workers
becoming militant and ready to struggle. when
the crisis is becoming acute and the dan
ger. especially the danger of attack upon
the Soviet Union. is great, we find that these
takers, Weisbord, Keller, Rubensten and Daw.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26

son, are consciously attempting to split the
ranks of the workers. These individuals, when
in office. showed that they were unfit to be
leaders or trusted by the workers. Now they
have shown themselves to be despcable traitors
unfit to associate with ass-conscous workers.
When | found that they were using my name
to fool the textile workers | went to the meet
ing, with the permission of my comrades, and
denounced them want all workers to know
that l am loyal to the working class and it's
leaders, the r. u U. L. and the Communist
Party. Let us fight these scoundrels who
have taken over the dirtiest work for the capt.
talist class and the "A. F. of l.. fascists in at
tempting to disrupt the ranks of the workers.
Long live the Trade Union Unity League and
the National Textile Workers Union!
Long live the Communist international and
the Communist Party, u. S. A.!
Down with the Lovestonete renegade who
are attempting TO disrupt our ranks!
J. FELCZAR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26

THE course of the moot-Hawley Tariff Bill
has been a very jagged one. Not only did
this expected billion dollar grab Of the big fin
ance capitalists call for the opposition of small
manufacturers and the petty -bourgeosie, but
even prominent republicans and capitalists,
in other words, sections of finance capital it.
self, beginning to demand that the bill in its
present form be vetoed.
This difference in the camp Of finance CAPT
tai has its roots in the contradictions of the
American imperialists economic position, in the
present economic crisis and the desperate need
for world markets which the tariff will still
further restrict as result of foreign reprisals
If they pass the tariff, they deepen the world
economic crisis. For countries that are pre-
vented from selling to the U. S. are also con-
siderably prevented from buying from this
country. If the tariff bill is not passed, they
rob themselves of the opportunity of robbing
the American masses and thereby of strength
ening their offensive struggle for world mar
kets which they need so badly, especially be-
cause of the economic crisis. In any case, the
tariff is a doube-edged sword of contradic
tons which slashes both ways.
The automobile industry, which places its
hopes on foreign markets to get out of the
swamp of overproduction, is good example
of the boomerang effect of the proposed tariff
Aor the auto magnates, the tariff will mean an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
A Letter from Prison

The imprisoned New York delegation elected
at the March 6 unemployed demonstration of
10000 workers, continues to take an active
interest and participation in the class struggle
outside of their prison walls, in spite of the
severe regime inflicted upon them. Following
are extracts from letter sent by l. Amter.
member of the delegation, to some comrades
in one of the heavy industrial districts of the
Party.
''Was awfully glad to receive your letter
and to know that you are on the job. You
have a district with splendid possibilities of
work-steel and coal. The objective conditions
are hard, but if the organization is properly
tuned up and put to work, there is no reason
whatever why you should not progress rapidly.
From the Ranks.
"The important thing is functionares. De-
velop them from the rank and file Ct am
speaking of both Party and League). Organ
ze the units in such manner and of such size
that each member cannot only be given work
a definite job--but be checked up. Assignment
of tasks without control is bureaucratic. Have
the nuclei and branches discuss the capabilities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26
By A. LOSOvSKY (Gen. Sec'y., RILU).

By A. LOSOVSkY (Gen. Sec'y., RILU).
THE International Conference of Negro Work
1 ers, destined to be convened in July next,
is of vast significance, for this will be the first
conference which will serve to unite the Negro
workers of the U. S. A., the West Indies,
Latin America, and South, Central and West
Africa This will be the first conference at
which Negro workers will assemble for the
purpose of discussing the methods and means
for waging the struggle against imperialism
and race oppression. Of particular importance
is to drawn into the labors of this conference
the toiling masses of the most backward col
onies of West and Central Africa, just where
during the course of the past year some rather
militant manifestations of the Negro toiling
masses took place.
The fact alone that the Negro workers will
meet at an International Conference, the fact
that they are taking up for solution num-
Der of general class political tasks-is sign
of the growing class consciousness of this most
oppressed and most cruelty prosecuted section
of humanity-it is the harsh warning for i'm
perialist domination. Imperialism based and
bases itself today on race oppression. 1t was
imperialism which first gave rise to the theory
of privileged and non-privileged races; it was
imperialism which squeezed and squeezes out
of the colored toilers untold super-profits; it,
in the full sense of the word, exists on the
blood and sweat of scores and hundreds of
millions of toilers. Following in the footsteps
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-26

of each member; decide what his task should
be; make recommendations to the sections and
district. In this way you will get functionaries
that you never dreamed of. This is the basis
of our future growth--without this there will
be dearth of functionaries-an without func-
tionaries, responsible for leadership, there will
be no growth.
"In the League you must begin at the be-
ginning but with good situation you should
build up well. The same holds true Of the
Party.
"We are here in prison and must remain
until the appellate decision decides on the
writ, then perhaps we will get bail.
Organize T. U. U. L.
Zone thing more want to add to the above
the main work is the trade union work
building up the miners union, establishing the
steel workers union, building up shop commit
tees everywhere. That is the main job of the
whole Party and League and will be the center
of discussion at the convention. The building
up of the T.U.UL., the establishment of shop
committees and shop locals as the basis make
it possible to establish the Party and League
in the shops-our main task. Every contact
must be cultivated, for the workers who come
to us today are militants who will help to
build up.
"Give my regards to everybody"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-08
OREGON STUDENT
IS ESSAY W|NNEF
Best High School Paper on
Ending War Brings
European Trip.

Ray Steubing, student at Jefferson
High School, Portland, Greg, was an
nounced today as winner of an award
for the best 300-Word high school pa
per on How May the Pact for the Re-
nunciation of War Be Made Effec-
tive?"
He will be given vacation trip to
Europe.
Lucille Palmer of the John Marshall
High School, Richmond, Va, was sec
ond, and Max Baer, Central High
School, South Bend, Ind, third.
The judges were William John
Cooper, commissioner of education;
Senator Capper of Kansas and Gideon
Essay Follows.
Young Steubing's essay follows:
Because of wars deep-rooted hold
on all nations, the pact can be best
made effective by two-fold campaign
the abolition of the causes of war and
the creation of a psychological antipa-
thy toward war. One problem involves
the other; complete remuneration de-
ponds on our solution of both.
History records innumerable causes
of war, most of which can be grouped
in three major ategories-Psycholo
cal, political and economic. Force can
not abolish these causes; we must abol-
ish them by education. War does not
make a nation great; cultural devel-
opment alone does that. Through max
ing that fact evident to the governed
and to the governing we can defeat any
policy of aggression.
Scores "Cheap Jingoism."
because modern government is rep
resentative and not monarchical, peace
depends on the public attitude. Might
doesn't make right; war isn't greatness;
cheap iingoism isn't true patriotism
these are fundamentals which must be
emphasized.
warfare destroys markets and bust
ness: friendship creates markets and
business. Economic interdependence will
guarantee peace; then no nation will
dare attack another, for such an action
will cause its own downfall. Industry
is wars enemy; busy men don't care
to fight. In every way the press, the
pulpit, the theater and the school stand
out as major agencies for peace develop
ment.
1.-The pact can be psychologically en-
forced by whole-hearted adherence te
substitutes for war. Through emphasiZ-
ing internationalism We must overcome
nationalism and race hatred. Nationa
law observance tends to strengthen In
ternational law observance. BY en-
phasis on law observance, armament
reductions and arbitrative agencies we
can create that psychological antipathy
necessary to substantiate the abolition
of the causes of war in establishing an
effective pact"