The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1929, Page 1

= ee FLL A VOTE FOR THE HAMMER AND SICKLE IS A BLOW STRUCK AGAINST THE TERROR CAMPAIGN! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Ba ily Entered as sevond-clane matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 8 1879. ker FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by Company. Inc.. 26-28 Union Square, The Comprodaily Poblishing New York City. N. ¥. 21 Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per = year. Vol. VI., No. 200 NEW YORK, MONDAY, Norman Thomas, Candidate WHITE GUARDISTS Communist Party Fights WORKERS SMASH TRY TO SABOTAGE Bosses Terror Campaign BACK AT BOSS’ FLIERS’ WELCOME Against the Working Class TERROR PROGRAM Spread False Rumors Voice Protest at Celebration of Russian Revo- Tondon, Cleveland in gg the 3rd Capitalist Party, There is no doubt that the big capitalists of New York wish to have Jimmy Walker re-elected mayor of New York City. Walker has excellently fullfilled the tasks of the head of the government of New York in carrying out the needs of the bourgeoisie. He has ruthlessly erushed every strike for organization and every fight against rationali- zation. He has build up a well-equipped and efficient police force and conducted a reign of terror against striking workers from the traction men—struggling against company unionism, to the present oil men’s strike against Rockefeller. He has establisijd successfully the alli- ance. of the bosses, the state machinery, the undgrworld, and the soci- alist and A. F. of L. bureaucracy against militant workers. The city government of New York has been made a model of fascist reaction against the workers. iS fs Yet, all of th¥ bourgeois newspapers controlled by all the various groups of these big capitalists, are boosting the candidacy of Norman Thomas. Has the bourgeoisie gone in for socialism? What is the meaning of this turn of the capitalist class toward Norman Thomas? The New York tlections demonstrate with crystal clearness the role which the socialist party is playing today as the third party of the the bourgeoisie. Keenly conscious of the sharpening class struggle, the rising tide. of struggle of the workers, the growing movement of the toiling masses to the Left, the capitalist class is endeavoring to disguise its reaction and terror against the workers under cover of a ‘liberal” mask, and is building up the socialist party as a last reserve and as a nieans of diverting the militancy of the workers into harmless channels. The capitalist class is aware of the fact that its two party system is being shaken by the growing militancy of the workers, and is preparing new bait for theold trap. The~ socialist party, with its candidate, Norman Thomas, serves splendidly as such bait. He is for an efficient police force. He is for government “cleansed of graft and corruption”. He is for government “being taken out of politics’—non-class government, and thus, not only spreads the myths cf government being “ above the class struggle” but at the very moment when this government is being*exposed in the eyes of the working class as an open strike-breaking agency, Thomas by this demagogy screens the essential class nature of the government and thus enables the bourgeoisie to consolidate and concentrate the strike-breaking machine. And the pacifist face of Norman Thomas further affords the bourgeoisie the means’ with which to hide the feverish war preparations. While Thomas’ “democratic” phrases sup- posedly directed against the rule of violence” only protects the present violence against the workers and lays the basis’ for a more open-and more violent fascist regime. The capitalists are aware of the danger of the Communist move- ment to their plans for intensified rationalization and war with which they seek to overcome the crisis which is under-mining their rule. They-are drawing in: the petty bourgeoisie, the socialist party, the social reformists, to bolster up their defenses against the menace—to thenj—of the developing radicalization of the working class. The situation is clear. To crush the Communist Party; to build up the socialist party; to behead the working class of its revolutionary leadership, and by strengthening reformist leadership to frustrate the unification of the workers’ movement on a revolutionary-Communist— line, that is the aim of the capitalist class. Electing Walker, drawing the socialist party into its machinery, grooming the socialists for their social fascist role, the bourgeoisie feel that they can more safely slash wages, intensify speed-up, meet increasing unemployment and prepare for war—primarily against the Soviet Union. The moment calls for intensified struggle for an all around fight against the bourgeoisie and it social fascist agents. : To vote “The Hammer and Sickle” on election day, and to fight against rationali- zation, war preparations and the instruments for carrying thest into effect—the A. F. of L. and the socialist party; to fight under the leadership of the Communists in the shops, trade unions and in all fields of class struggle, is the task to which the Communist Party calls “the working class to bend all energies. The Wall Street Crash and the Working Class The greatest- financial crash in the history of Wall Street is the ungnimous verdict of the bourgeois press in regard to the wild panic on the Stock Exchange the last few days. The chief executive of the capitalist class, President Hoover, and the tzars of industry and finance, rush into print to reassure their class that “everything is sound.” With the hocus pocus of demagogic verbiage, the boss class are seeking to fool the workers in regard to the significance of this event and to keep up the myth of “eternal prosperity.” But economit facts cannot be dismissed by the magic words of a Hoover, nor exorsized by the wizards of finance. The business hoom which has been the basis of the hectic speculation, is coming to a close, | and the beginnings of an economic crisis are at hand. This reality has | asserted itself on the Stock Exchange. This business boom was erected on the increased production resulting from the rationalization drive against the American working class and the past few years of tre- mendous expansion abroad of American imperialist export of capital and commodities. The increasing difficulties of American capitaJism to secure an unobstructed growth of markets both at home and abroad, are deepen- ing the general crisis of American capitalism. (as part of the world crisis) apd the development of the economic crisis. Over-production of automobiles (the strong point in recent “prosperity”), oil, coal, tex- tiles, shoes, building construction, agricultural products, etc. are some of the evidences of this economic crisis. This crisis is now asserting itself upon the Stock Exchange. The New York Times, jp giving the opinion of an unnerved presi- dent of an.investment trust, quotes this authority on the cause of the panic as a growing belief that a “transitory period of busines® re- cession” is approaching, indicated by “the accumulation of stocks of several important commodities, such as copper, oil, sugar and rubber.” The prospects for continued enormous profits from the cycle of production are over-shadowed by a sharpening competition abroad, and the tendency of the workers, with the example of the Soviet prole- tariat’s advance in view, to struggle against further intensified ration- alization and conditions. These basic facts are deflating the speculative market, in addition to the immediate cause of the snapping of the credit strain put upon industry's requirements by this very speculation. The events on the Stock Exchange are profoundly shaking the | capitalist system? Despite the gains which will be made by the great financial bourgeoisie which dominates the “Exchange,” the unsuccess- ful attempts of the Federal Reserve Bank to checkethe speculation, is proof of the fact that this institution which has been vaunted by all capitalism’s apologists as an’ instrument which would “control, regu- late and. organize capitalism” is unable to perform this miracle and proof positive that capitalism cannot organize itself and that the laws of capitalism intensify its contradictions and are tearing its rule asunder. : . One immediate result of the crash is the wiping out of great num- bers of s1 Me tradesmen, the petty bourgeoisie, and the further con- solidation concentration of the big banks. The main effect will be to intensify the, growing crisis, and an attempt of capitalism to 3 further slash wages, intensify the speed up, and by plunging more of Arrival in N. Y. Galled by Triumph 20,000Workers Hail the Fliers in Chicago Galled by the triumphant passage of the Soviet world fliers over the United States, white guardist ele- iments attempted to sabotage the |Land of the Soviets flight by spread- jing false rumors through the capi- talist press that the plane would arrive in New York yesterday. The huge working class receptions \tendered-to the four U. S, S. R. emissaries in Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago, ovewhelming proof of |the admiration felt by American | workers for the socialistic. achieve- {ments o fthe Soviet workers and ‘peasants, goaded the counter-revo- lutionaries on to sending an anony- *mus phone call from Cleveland to | | officials of the Curtiss field at Val- | ley Stream, S. L., late Saturday night | |“informing” the latter that the fliers | would reach the field at 2 o’clock | Sunday afternoon. | Ludwig Landy, national organizer of the Friends of the Soviet Union, the organizatin sponsoring the re- ceptions, yesterday made public a} | statenaent denouncing the despicable | |white guard hoax, perpetrated “with | the aim of saboting the reception arrangements of the Friends of the Soviet. Union and: of creating chaos OCTOBER 28, 1929 Price 3 Cents lution, Madison Sqare Garden, Oct. 3 ‘Party Candidates, Gastonia Defendants Will Big Demonstrations; | Denounce Verdict NATIONAL MINERS UNION LEADS SPREADING REVOLT BELLEVILLE CONVENTION SPEAKS WITH VOICE OF THOUSANDS FOR BATTLE Fighting Low Wages, Unemployment, UMWA | Fakers, for Tri-District Meet and Big Drive Plan Detroit Greeting, Speak; Needle Workers Union Urges Support Needle Union Meeting wait, “Gp ceaioe Moweal” Pheory. Smasiaks A mighty protest against the new terror drive of the capi- ChicagoWorkers Carry, Masses Quit UMW, Follow NMU for Struggle talist class against the Communist Party and militant workers, \Twelfth Anniversary celebration of the Russian Revolution and SOVIET INDUSTRY “:".; Election Rally in GROWTH AMAZING Sunday afternoon, Nov. 3rd. At this celebration leading Com- munist candidates and three of the ‘seven defendants in the Gastonia |ease, who are being released on bail | “ while the “working class fights to lJ |defeat the vicious class verdict Wi i |against them, will speak, This terror drive, resulting in the +] |Gastonia verdict, the arrest of 26 N.Y. Workers to Tail ormmtaist, leedare in ‘Chicago. on Twelfth Anniversary |will be voiced by thousands of New York toilers at the huge! {Madison Square Garden on’ Fight Into Shops | ‘WindowBosses Baffled BUL LONDON, Oct. 27 lige charged upon hundreds of workers, following the call of the Communist Party for a protest meeting against the Gaston-| ia terror. They were demonstrat. | ing before the Chancery of the U.| S. Embassy here today to present a| petition protesting against the con-| viction of textile workers of Gas-| tonia. | The demonstrators carried red| |flags and banners with such inscrip- | \tions as “MacDonald Gorges” in Mounted po- and dispersed | | BELLEVILLE, Ill., Oct. 27.—That the rebellion of the rank and file of the coal miners, formerly one hundred per cent in the United Mine Workers of America, but now following the jead of the National Miners’ Union in open revolt against the Lewis and Fishwick machines, has reached the proportions of | diately after the Belleville state | 110 delegates to order, They repre- Oa $s movement firmly convention called by the N.M.U. |sented the cream of the militant mas knitted for organization and | struggle under the banner of MARION DURING | opened yesterday. THE EVICTIONS sion cere the N. M. U. was clear imme- President George Voyzey called icharges of sedition, the sentencing MOSCOW, Oct. 27.—Astounding a | of six young workers in Los Angeles large group of American business | to long prison terms, and in the | rests and attacks on militant New men, engineers and journalists "to whom he was speaking, E. J. Kvi York workers in the recent food| | workers, needle trades workers’ and} ing, vice-chairman of the State|truck drivers’ strikes is being car Planning Commission, declared that | ried out by representatives of the the Soviet Union would soon surpass | three capitalist parties, the republi- the United States in industrial pro- | can, democratic and socialist. duction and would lead the world! The demonstration on Nov. in production gain over pre-war|therefore be a mobilization of the figures. |workers of New York behind the “During the last year,” he said, | election program of the Communist | “our total capital investment in in-|Party, the only party that. fights dustry was 1,650,000,000 roubles, | against the Tammany-socialist ter-! while during the coming year it will|ror in this city, against the speed-| 3 will] Washington” and “Textile Workers|COMpany Throw Out) Starved and Murdered in Gastonia.” jeti ’ Wi They started out on foot for tie| M Victims’ Families | Embassy, anleby the time they| “yrapro . j ; nen M: . C., Oct Gover- reached it the crowd had‘swelled to|,.o, Gardner has refused to say how several hundred. |long the troops will be kept in Mar- | The demonstration started with a ion. They were sent in to overawe | great meeting in Trafalgar Square,|the striking tetile werkers imme- where slogans “Down with Capital-| diately after Sheriff Adkins and his ic Tyranny”, etc., were displayed, | deputized company gunned and nd speakers addressed thousands |killed six strikers and wounded 20 of workers. A procession then more in a deliberate massace of those marched to the U. S. embassy, wav-|on the picket line: ing red flags and singing. Thhe po-| The Marion Manufacturing Com- miners movement in Illinois, a move- ment that has to its credit the “wild cat strikes” of 1919, the Herrih bat- | tle, the fight against the machine in the Zeigler case, and the anti-Lewis and anti-Fishwick movement of 1926. Backed By Thousands. Included among the delegates were John Pukel, of Auburn, repre- senting 800 organized miners, and Bisby of Springfield, representing |700. ,Other delegates had similar backing, proving conclusively that the miners of Illinois have complete be 3,300,000,000 roubles,” most of |up and wage-cuts, for social insur- which will go into heavy industry. | ance for workers, for better housing, But this, Kviring told his as-|and against the danger of imperial- Continued on Page Three) 3 TULL, TOURS \the Five-Year Plan, which itsélf is| only a step toward a more far-| sighted plan for the entire Soviet in- | \tonished hearers, is only a part of | ist war. i While these attacks on the Com- munist Party are going on, Norman lice platoon which tried to block) pany is now in the process of evict-|confidence in the National Miners’ their entrance into the embassy |ing from their homes the families | Union for competent leadership in gates was nearly overpowered by @ and friends of the murdered men, | the center of the struggle develop- concerted rush from the demon-| and has requested Gardner that the | ing now on a wide front against the strators, when a reserve force of | troops be allowed to remain until| employers’ exploitation, and against |mounted police charged through the the last of what the company calls the Lewis and Farrington-Fishwick crcwd.? ‘undesirable workers” is thrown out | misleadership. BUILD UNIONS | Foster, Labor Jurors) Have Many Dates The* Trade Union Unity League is pushing its organization work through the industrial sections of \the country through a continuation \of the tour «f William Z. Foster, tts | general secretary, with three other | |tours to :tart in the very near fu-| ture, One is by Jack Johnstone, na- |tional organizer of the league, ,and | the other two are by members of |the Labor Jury at the Gastonia case | trial. i | Foster, who is now addressing the | jcoal minets’ rank and file convention | |called by the National Miners’ Union t Thomas, socialist candidate for may-} dustry, including agriculture, for | or, and the socialist party are being | socialist construction in the next fi welcomed with open arms by the} teen or twenty years. | capitalist class. | During 1930, Kviring said, sixty-) Phe 12th annivérsary celebration (Continued on Page Two) jof the Five-Year Plan of Socialist! EreaEsy NNER See {Construction by which Socialism in Vote Com- | the U, S. S. R. is advancing with | | swift strides, thus strengthening the | |struggles o fthe workers in all caun- | ee Together with “Vote Com- | | (Continued on Page Two) | | | Fight Police Terror! munist! PACIFIC COAST MWL GONFERENGE Meets Nov. 910 at cre, WINDOW BOSSES Against the Strikebreaker Walker | and Lagardia Thugs! Vote Com- munist! SAN PEDRO, Calif., Oct. 25—| The West Goast Marine Workers’ | : the street. | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 27, —|°" “~ St° Clevgland workers today declared their solidarity with the imprisoned Hoffman in Secret Deal. | | Alfred Hoffman, the Southegn or- | |Gastonia strikers and organizers and | ganizer of the United Textile Work- denounced the wave of terror against |ers, the A. F. L. union, is doing noth- the Communist Party and all mil-|ing abut the evictions, and Saturday itant labor organizations that is now |held a secret and friendly conference prevalent. A great mass demon- with Judge N. A. Townsend, the Gov- stration was held at 2 p. m. in the ernor’s personal representative here. Public Square. Hoffman, and the other U. T, W.| The speakers included J. Louis (Continued on Page Three} | Engdahl, national secretary of thet EET International Labor Defense, the Cleveland I. L. D. secretary, Rose; I. O. Ford, speaking for the Com- : ‘ munist Party of Anferica, J. Wil-| AMSTERDAM (By Mail).—The liams, a Negro worker, speaking for itor of the Central organ of the | the Workers Interracial League, and Communist Party of the Nether-| V. Kingston, speaker for the Youth. !@nds has en brought before court | This demonstration called by the 19 calling for resistance against the Communist Party is made the basis Police during the dock workers fox building the Interifational Labor | Sttike in Zaandam. The attorney of TRY DUTCH COMMUNIST EDITOR. A resolution on program and tasks was thoroughly «discussed by dozens of delegates before it was finally adopted late yesterday. It analyzed the economic situation, the | role of the Lewis and Fishwick ma- chines and a complete plan for in- tensive campaigns to take over the U. M. W. A. locals. Miners Hail Struggle. The miners hail the Illinois strug- gle as the signal for a nation-wide | movement of miners for an uncom- promising fight against class colla- boration, for the recognition of the \ Strike weapon. THhe economic situation is one of . rationalizatioa, introduction of ma- | chinery displacing labor, widespread |unemployment, wage cutting by | means of forcing miners to do dead | work free, and worsening of every lin Belleville, to split away the bulk a : ces [of the50;000: Tlitiots’ “coat miners | Conference t0; he held: in the. port o | Sicin the UML W. A., in. scheduled San Francesco, Nov. 9 and 10, it was to speak in a couple of Pennsylvania announced at the, ~pen meeting of jtowns next: Charleroi today and |Cannonsburg tomorrow. In Can- \n onsburg there will be a mass meet- ing of the T. U. U. L, leagues. Foste rthen goes to Chicago for | | meetings on he 30th and 31st, “The | (Contmued on Page Two) N. Y. ILD in Drive for 8,000 Members by Jan. | The New York District of the I. L, D. has issued a call, through Rose Baron, secretary, for the Fourth District Conference, to be held in Irving Plaza on Dec. 15. This call \is being sent to I. L. D. branches, shop workers’ groups, unions and the San Pedro branch of the League Satyrday night, at its newly opened headquarters, 265 West 14th St. Delegates will come from ships | and docks and fleet committees of | seamen and longshoremen and har- | bor boatmen and directly from the | Marine Workers’ League locals. Preparations for holding local con- ference to precede the regional con- | ference were made and L. Emery, (Continued on Page Three) YCL Membership Meet District 2 Tomorrow A special membership meeting of the Young Communist League of district 2 will be held on Tuesday, isco Heaaquarters START THREATS Baffled by Success of Washers Strike | Baffled in every attempt to smash | the strike of 2,000 window cleaners, the Manhattan Window Cleaning Employers’ Protective Association is trying by veiled threats to force all} independent firms that have signed agreements: with the Window Clean- Defense throughout the Ohio dis- \trict, whhere steel workers and coal miners are facing sedition charges state advocated a prison term of | three months. on a reign of terror against all mili- in Belmont county. Those to be tried are: Tom Johnson, Charles Guyn, Betty Gannett, Lilian tant labor groups, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, Chicago Andrews, and, Zorka Yori. Their section, will plan for she, amilitany trial date will be set Oct. 28. © organization of the needle trades and ee ae for the struggle against the reign of terror at a conferetice at the the | Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch (Continued on Page Three) Chicago Workers Rally. CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—While Illinois bosses and their courts carry | nee, Easier Union to break my © O. Byers Tells Why Dailv The charge was proved by Harry; Feinstein, union secretary, at or- ganization headquarters at 15 E. 3rd St. yesterday. “The boss association is desperate at the sweeping success of the strike,” Feinstein declared, while |police and underworld thugs, em- Worker Must Be Rushed South Must Go to Every Mill Town to Teach Workers How to Fight Bosses” underground condition. John Lewis, | international president of the U. M. W. A., and his present rival for the sell-out privileges and control of the junion property, Harry Fishwick, | president of District 12 (Illinois) of the U. M. W. A., were exposed as mere tools of the bosses, inter- ested in collecing check-off and ready to sell out the miners at any \tur nto get it. A special committee was elected a tthe convention to formulate the demands of the Illinois miners. The sentiment among ‘the delegates is for: A six-hour day—five-day week; no check off; no arbitration; no pen- alty; against the speed-up—enforce- ment, of safety rules. They say improved machinery and increased production—that now ben- efits the operators—should go to other working class organizations, The district conference is in prep-|Oct. 29th at the Workers Center, aration for the national conference | 26-28 Union Square, at 7:30 p. m.| of the International Labor Defense |. This meeting will discuss the League in Pittsburgh Jan. 1. situation and the plans for the mem- | ployed by boss contractors, are fail- ing to break it. “Now the bosses have a new scheme, We don’t know the exact, SAME, 1S ED the miners in he form of higher The most welcome visitgr to Mecklinburg County Prison in Char- | wakes, shortening of hours and bet- lotte, where 16 Gastonia mill workers and National Textile Workers’ | ter working conditions. Union organizers were confined, and ‘in which seven still face long im- | The ywant a struggle against un- prisonment, was the Daily Worker, says K. 0. Byers, one of the 16 |employment, and social insurance for bership drive. All comrades mtust Vote Ax You Strike, for Colors! Vote Communist! Your | bureaucracy and socialist party, an taligt class will push forward with from effective struggle. tions. The unorganized must be organized to broaden the front and The Trade Union fighting leadership to the econoniic must see the relationship between ship, she Communist Party, x bring up these revolutionary reserves into action, Unity League must be built and everywhere its branches must provide jattend. Admittance by membership card only. vigorously in its desperation into intensified preparations for war, seek by these means to overcome the crisis created by it. This situation confronts the working class with the task of increas- ing its fighting capacities, broadening its struggles and freeing itself from the crippling influences of the social reformis , the A. F. of L d fighting particularly against the | “left” social reformists—the Musteites—of all stripes whom the capi- the object. of diverting the workers All along the line the workers must sharpen their, fight against the speed-up and the war danger, and develop their fighting organiza- battles of the workers. All toilers the terror campaign against the Communist Party and the drive against the working class, and defeat the bosses’ efforts to rob the workers of their only effective leader- nature of the threats made, but our past experience convinces us the threats are mere pacifist overtures.” are the 40-hour, five-day week, an increase in the minimum wage from | $45 to 49.50 a week, proper safety jappliances and adequate compensa- tion insurance carried with a solvent | company. Two more arrests were made dur- jing Saturday’s picketing, bringing ; the total since the strike started to | 23. A | Charges of disorderly conduct |against the two men, Joseph Mello! !and Morton Glynn, were dismissed | |by Magistrate Jesse Silverman in} | Jefferson Market Court. iailed by the fhill bosses’ courts. ry The chief demands of the union | Byers, now in New York, before sailing for the Soviet Union as a | delegate to the Twelfth Anniversary celebration there, told yesterday what the Daily Worker means to the southern workers. He told why it is an immediate necessity that at least 10,000 copies of the Daily Worker be rushed South each day. “The militant American workers have got to setd the Daily Worker South to the different mill towns, so the workers can know what is happening #mong the other workers of the South, and can learn abeut fighting the bosses, . “The capitalist papers down South print nothing except what the bosses want them to. i‘ “They print only things written by some mill superintendent or thug. “The Gastonia Gazette is a good example of that. It calls ‘the mill workers and union organizers ‘gunmen,’ ‘bums,’ ete. It hollers for lynching of the union members. “When I first read the Daily, early last April, I knew that here was a real workers’ ‘paper. “Then when they arrested Beal and 15 others of us, we looked for |the unemployed. | No discrimination or lay-offs re- gardless of age, color, or national- lity. They are against Jim-Crowism and fo the unity of all workers. | There must be rank and file con- |trol, ¢he right to settle grievances of strike to be vested in the pit com- {mittee and the local union. Salaries of the officers of the N. M. U, are to be the same as those of the working men in the mine. Immediate sub-district conventions throughout Illinois are planned, and (Continued on Page Three) ELECTROTYPERS GAI COLUMBUS, Ohio (By Mail.)— Organized electrotypers have made a it every day in prison. We wouldn't be without the Daily Worker. |gain of $3 a week in wages. This “Over in North Charlotte, where there are many bigpmills, we have [includes moldes, finishers and (Continued on Page Thr 5’ branchmen. \