The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1929, Page 1

WORKERS HERE EAGER T0 WELCOME USSR WORLD FLIERS one i instone SOVIET PLANE TAKES OFF _ MAYOR NOMINEE TODAY iF WEATHER TURNS; A \ @ COMMUNIST! COMMUNIST CANDIDATES William W. Weinstone (left) For Mayor. * * * Otto Hall (right) For Comptroller. Entered a matter at the Post Office a 1 New York, N. ¥., under the act of Worker March 8. 187! FINA AY, 2 P.M. L. CITY EDITION Vol. VL, No. 204 Published daily excepi Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company. tne.. 26-28 Union Square. New York City, N. ¥.<G>2 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929 Outside N SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mall, $8.00 per yea) lew York. by mail $6.00 per year E “In the New York Elections PALLY FOR ¢, P, -- Vote Communist! Next Tuesday is election day in New York. This is the biggest and most significant city in the most powerful capitalist oligarchy in the world. In its maze of collosal buildings and shabby tenements are six million human beings, the most of whom are desperately struggling for food, clothing and shelter. The rest—the owners and real rulers of the city, merely uti the needs of the mil- lions to draw them into factories, workshops, transportation industries, in order to extract more wealth for their own enjoyment. New York has seen many fierce combats between these two classes, and will see many more and fiercer. Every phase of the life of this city, as of the world, is colored by this combat which, indeed, is the dynamic force of all present history. The New York municipal elections have to do with this struggle. The different political parties which ask the masses of toilers to give their votes next Tuesday are active forces in the class struggle that arises out of the process of exploitation of labor by capital. There is the democratic party, the party at present in office, the party which is now supplying those officials who command the police force and other legal machinery in the class struggle against the work- ers. The democratic party politicians want to retain these positions, which pay so well in salary and so much better in graft, blood-money, bootleg profits and bribes, Then there is the republican party, which is not so strong in this ig city as in the rest of the country and whose politicians are there- ore out of power and maneuvering, plotting and playing political tricks 0 get themselves and their horde of mercenaries into the well-paying positions. The republican candidate for mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, adventurer-lawyer, the “socialist” yesterday and fascist today, what- ever-will-pay-best tomorrow—is offering even to “cut rates” on the compensation for running the city government for the capitalist class by dispensing with some of the most conspicuous forms of graft. (The capitalists know that the promise méans nothing.) And then there is the so-called “socialist” payty, a party of very shrewd but small-fry lawyers, a few preachers without paying congre- gations, a horde of hard-boiled professional office-holders in trade unions, men whose business is that of getting a living for themselves out of dickering with employers, politicians and the police for their services in defeating or preventing strikes, etc. These “socialist” trade union bureaucrats are usually men who were once workers, or even! or- yganizers of the workers, but who “rose” out of the working class to Lecome professional strikebreakers, learning how to utilize their past connections with the working class and to bring into the service of the bosses the peculiar art of using the words and forms of trade unionism and “socialism”; these are by far the most skilful instruments of the vapitalist class in sabotaging and defeating the labor movement. This shas become the whole historical role of the “socialist” party. And it is in this role that the “socialist” party offers its services to the ruling ‘lass in this election. But jit is even more than this. For the “socialist” party of the nited States—and most particularly in New York—like the social- iemocratic parties of all other countr has developed in the recent years so far along the road of strikeb: king as to become essentially similar to the fascist movement of Italy. Today it is impossible to find any material difference between the “socialist” par and the fas- cist party—except the name and a certain remnant of “liberal” and “labor” phraseology. The “socialist” parties have become social-f: parties. The “socialist” party of the United States has become a pz of the police, a party of the employers against the workers, but still using a few shreds of “socialist” language as a traditional hang-over and as a useful means of supplying the capitalists with a slavish sup- port among the working class. What does the “socialist” party—this aggregation of petty lawyers, preachers, shop-keepers and professional “trade union” strikebreakers— offer in this election? The “socialist” preacher, Norman Thomas, its candidate for mayor of New York, offers as the most significant contribution of his party— more efficient policing! Against whom are the police used in the class struggle? Against the workers. he “socialist” party—the social- fascist party—offers to the big bourgeoisie of New York the service of making the police and the whole city government a more efficient in- strument in the class struggle against the workers, and at the same ‘Final Mobilization At 3 Capitalist Parties Are Strikebreakers, Says Communist Party TICKET AT 6 BIG MEETS TONIGHT Candidates to Show the Significance of Stock Crashes Four Rallies Tomorrow Madison Sq. Garden To night at 8 o’clock the workers of New York will rally at three in- door and three outdoor mass meet- ings in variou sparts of the «ty and learn from the leading Commun- ist candidates the real issues in the election campaign an dthe signifi- cance for American workers of the | Wall Street stock crashes. The speakers will point out the} fact™that the tremendous crashes on | the stock exchange are no isolated | incident. They, prove the correct- | ness of the Communist analysis that American cap‘talism is heading to- wards an econ~ie crisis, and for | New’ Yc onstrating in Union Square Aug. 1 heard the three capitalist parties, ers rallied by the Communist Party are seen dem- under Communist leadership protested imperialist war. Socialists protest against a new war for bosses’ profits? Rallies Wor kers , when workers all over the world Have you ever the Republicans, Democrats and Vote Com- We ’ Cents Price 3 EXPOSES ROLEIN DETROIT SHIPS FOGBOUND N.Y, STRUGGLES |Shows Black Record in Needle, Food, Shoe Truck Strikes \Prepare War on USSR | Only Communist Party Fights for Workers | “The records of the three capital- listic parties, the Democratic, Repub- | ilican and Socialist, in the struggles lof the New York workers, are’ 100 |per cent. of a strikebreaking char- acter. Their program in the present election campaigr are more strike-| breaking, more police and gangster terror, more intensive exploitation of the workers in prenaration for jfor the imminent imperialist war | lwhich is being directed especially against the Soviet Union.” Thus William W. Weinstone, Com- | |munist candidate for Mayor. char-| W Shestakovy and Comr Alleghenies, “Aircraft All in Readiness for DETROIT, weather making for extremely Mich., Oct. 3 eather Bureau in Warning Against Flying; ades Chafe at Delay Graveyard,” in Path; Mass Field Greeting -—Continued wet and murky unfavorable aeronautical condi- tions again caused the the four Soviet fliers, much against their will, to put off the departure of the Land of the Soviets on the | tinal stretch of its history-mak' York flight. Fine rain and fog 500 Volunteers Needed for Big Election Rally! | In expectation for a monster turn-out for the 12th anniversary celebration of the Soviet Union and Election ampaign Rally at | Madison Square Garden, the Party, this year, is organizing | the meeting to maintain Com- munist order and discipline and for obtaining the maximum or- ganizational results for the Party. conspired to make poor general from the Rocky Moun- ‘this reason is trying to put into ef- fect a program of wage cuts, speed- up fascist terror and war—particu- larly war against the Soviet Union. The speakers will show how stock shes on, Wall Street. sill direetly + the conditic” ; of the workers ew York, Fev" more open-air meetings will munist and fight against imperialist war, under the leadership of the Communist Party. | | 12th Anniversary Rally | Sunday to Demonstrate. acterized the threc capitalist parties in an interview in which he dis- | : comrades, are needed for various eussea their role in the outstanding | | committees. All MARSHALLS, recent labor struggles in this city. | | | CAPTAINS and USHERS select- “The Tammany city government | | ed by the Units, as well as those | | during the past four years has sur-| | whe can assist, are instructed to} passed all its previous strikebreak- | report on SATURDAY, NOVEM- records.” he said. It has kept) | BER 2d, at 2 p. m. sharp, at the} | ith the steadily approaching | Workers’ Center, 4th floor.r To achieve the best results 500 | | ing pace ing 12,500 mile Moscow to |tains eastward to the Atlantic, jthe U. S. weather bureau | | ported. Officials of the Dearborn airport jhere, strongly advising the fliers against taking off this morning, {pointed out that “blind flying” through fog, despite the recent great jadvances in acronautics, remains |unmastered and is the chief peril of aviation. They pointed out that tue Land of the Soviets, on the route t» |New York, would have to pass over |the Allegheny Mountains, known as {the “graveyard of aircraft,” a feat sufficiently fraught with danger in the clearest weather, and foolhardy when attempted during a fo z Semyon Shestakov, Philip Bolotoy, Boris Sterlingov and Dmitry Fufaev, who have brought the Soviet ship safely across three continents thru gales, hail, snow and rain, were visi- bly downcast by the enforced delay. time offers to drag back into the support of the capitalist profit- | gougers a whole layer of discontented workers who have begun vaguely to hate the capitalist system but have not yet learned that the “socialist” party is an agent of it. ° The “socialist” party offers its services at even cheaper rates than La Guardia—it offers to dispense with all of the “outside” graft and to make its would-be office holders serve the employing class for no further compensation than the mere salaries of office—plus, of course, the “natural” perquisites of strikebreaking by its trade union bureau- crats and plus what its horde of hungry lawyers can pick up as hangers- on of a party in power. (Of course the capitalist class only smiles at he promise of “honesty” on the part of hungry lawyers and strike- fries The “socialists” offer other services, such as making the schools more effective in doping working class children with capitalist propa- ‘cers, with sabres rattling, entering | the Sejm as the first session in| ganda, whipping the discontented teachers into line with this propa- | ganda, etc. It offers, as well, to “beautify” the city (as they call it) in a way very attractive to property-holders and real estate operators; it offers to solve the municipal traffic problem in such a way that the big finance-capitalists who own the transportation system can with more | peace and safety continue to exploit the masses of the city. But the whole “socialist” party municipal program is of one piece—a program for the more effective use of the state power in suppressing the work- ing class. . The essential thing is that all of the above-mentioned parties offer only various plans for the more effective administration of capitalist rule over the working class—for the mere effective exploitation of the workers—for squeezing more profits out of the workers for the capi- talist class. They are all capitalist parties (as are also the various smaller parties on the ballot which we have not mentioned). That is the line-up of the capitalist class servants, clamoring for the jobs in service of their masters. Oe But the class struggle is the most serious reality in modern life and nowhere more than in New York. The working class learns by * * hitter experience that its struggle is a political struggle—that the po-, ctor in the struggle. The policeman’s club on his head in eve:y »Strike teaches the worker that. "The working class therefore has developed its own class politic 1 party. While the capitalist class has many political parties for the co fusion of the masses, and which represent the various elements amon, the exploiting classes, the working class has, dnd can only have, a single political party—the party which secks to overthrow the dictatorship oi the capitalist class, to place the working class in power as the ruling class and by means of the powerful instrument of a new form of power—the dictatorship of the working class—to form. the state power, by one class or the other, is the decisive a ate Gres J 00d Lhe Cay ‘celebration of the 12th anniversary | confidence in the cabinet. be held tomorrow night and then) the final mobilization at the big} | Communist Candidates Sq. Garden Meet; Ma of the Russian I~volution and Com- munist Election Rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday afternoon. The indoor meetings tonight are: Brooklyn: Tivoli Hall, 20 Myrtle Ave. Speake=:. €.to Hall, Negro candidate for mayor; H. M. Wicks, candidate for president of the board of aldermen; ~-ed Bir“enkapp, gen- cral manager of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union and candidate foz president of the boro of Brook- lyn. jand Communist Election Rally ai Man’.tan: Manhrttan Lyceum, | day afternoon at 2 o'clock. 66 E. Fourth St. Speakers: Samuel The celebration will be Darcy, candidate for alderman in|, ie te the Eighth District; Alexander Mighty demonstration’ for the Trachtenberg, candidate for assem- defense of the only Workers’ (Continued on Page Two) Republic from imperialist attack and —_———_ for the only party that fights for the defense of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party. “Defend the Sov- ‘et Union,” “Fight Against Imperial- | a} Pilsudski Plays Aces Up to Awe the Masses With Socialist Help WARSAW, Oct. 31.—As expected, with the social, “democratic” fas- cists sputtering a few weak protests —but submitting—General Pilsud- ski, Polish war minister and vice- premier by title, but fascist dicta- tor in fact, today carried out a new rmed demonstration against the im (parliament), 90 of his offi- | U.S. Bosses’ seen months opened to consider a jalixt constr ntee nnd mn world Madixon Sq tion in USSR in | dari re Meet ov. 3. * and to transform the whole social system into a free society without sf exploitation and misery. This class political party of the workers is, of course, the Commu- nist Party of the United States,’section of the Communist International, which presents its name to working class voters on the New York muni- cipal ballot Tuesday. The Communist Party knows perfectly well that our class cannot attain its aims through the elections under a political system which exists to suppress and exploit the workers. The workers of New York | for USSR, C.P. Program to Speak at Madison ss Singing a Feature t Madison Square Garden Sun- st War,” — Cuts, Speed tem of © mand the soner's “Fight up and the Entire pitalist Rationalism, Against Wage “De Release of the Gastonia | r ’ “Defeat the Capitalist|terror machinery at the service of | Miller, sentenced to 17 to 20 years, error Drive,” “Vote Communist”— these and other militant slogans will rally the vast throng of workers, | (Continucd on Page Two) RILU and 130,000 New | So. Wales Workers Score | Terror Drive The Trade Union Unity League, 2 West 15th St., yester- | | motion from the “Left” of lack of |@ay received from the Executive Bureau of the Red Interna- | | tional of Labor Unions a cablegram as follows: | “Extend our warmest sympathies and expression of soli- ity to the Gastonia prisoners and al: workers in America suffering from the terror campaign. crushingly severe sentences are unable to throttle the fighting energy and check the develo) ment of the new textile worker union. We are sure that in reply to the sentences new and large con- |tingents of workers will pour into; ; the union and that it will become as, {a result a genuinely mass militant | organization of the proletariat.” We are confident these | imperialist war and with the rising militancy of the working class. Aid- ing it and in reality a part of the Tammany terror machinery have \been the Socialist Party and the rican Federation of Labor. In ithe needle trade the Tammany po- \lice—A. . of L.—socialist-ganester ali‘ance, has tried to smash all ef lforts of the workers to organize for Thousands of New York workers, who are now preparing to! militant struggle against their greet the four Soviet aviators, will join in a tribute to the |swetshop achievements of Socialist construction in the Union of Socialist- Soviet Republics that have made their flight possible, at the celebration of the 12th anniversary of the Russian Revolution conditions. The Tam many governor, Roosevelt, during |the fake stoppage of the scab Inter- Inetional Ladies Garment Workers several months ago, personally di- Bee the sellout of the workers. the | |consolidation of the I. L. G. W. as |a company union of the bosses and the establishment of police mach- jinery in the industry. | “Tammany ha: not only put its |the bosses and their “socialist” lagents, but has even financed the “socialist” drive against the work- ers. In the early part of 1928 the (Continued on Page Two) BOSSES’ PARTIES FEAR N, J. DRIVE Communists Run Four on Militant Slogans PASSAIC, N. J., Oct, 31,—The New Jersey sub-district of the Com- munist Party has issued a statement on the election of state senators and jother officers here. The Commun- ists are runing Samual D. Levine ‘for state senate, and Frank Fisher, {Gustave Hoffman, and Mores Silver- man for the assembly. The party conducts its campaign under the slogans: Fight for the Workers Against the Bosses. the abolition of the capitalist sys- tem of society and for the estab- lishment of a Workers’ Government DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE Communist Party. © FIRST GASTONIA PRISONER BAILED Hendryx Out; ILD Ask | Loans to Free Others CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 31— The first of the Gastonia case de- fendants, K. Y. Hendryx, was re- !leased on 00 bond to F others, Beal, Carter, Harr {are held on $5,000 bond each. The other two, McLaughlin and McGin- nis, are held for $2,500. The I. L. D. had raised this ‘series of legal tricks has prevented its use. | The I. L. D. urges workers to send in donations or loans for. this bail. Loans should be in cash or liberty bonds. Hendryx wa sthe first released, as he has apparently suffered most {from the conf inemenc in jail since jthey were all arre sted early in June. Hendryx, on his release ,stated: ieee is only a little worse than the |southern cotton mill*. As soon as my health is better I am ready to |go anywhere “e National Textile Workers’ Union sends me to resume organization work. This is the spirit fof all the prisoners.” | Forty witnesses have been sum- moned for a “new investigation” into the murder of Ella May. The jhearings start Monday. This is a merely further camouflage to cover jp the complicity of Gastonia city officials, Solicitor Carpenter and |Major Bulwinkle, attorney for the “The Communist Party stands for Manville-Jenckes Co., and the county | authorities. Its second purpose is tv clear the skirts o fthe state government and " the Soviet Republic They expressed their determination to take off tomorrow morning, pro- |vided atmospheric conditions have at all changed in their favor. From the time that plans for the present air journey were first mapped out, Osoaviakhim, the popu- jlar U.S. S. R. aviation society whose 3,500,000 members subscribed funds to build the Land of the Soviets, has taken every precaution to insure the |safety of the crew. In striking con- trast to the tacit encouragement of hezardous stunt flying “1 the capi- talist powers, the Soviet pirdmen are junder orders not to risk “blind fly- mg” when avoidable, | The concern shown the wel- fare of the workers and peasants is well trated by the fact that while the total length of Soviet airways has now increased to 18,461 kilometers, {not a single accident has been re- | ported on any of the lines operating there. Nevertheless, on the run across Bering Strait from Siberia to the Aleutian Islands, and all the way down the west coast to Seattle, the fliers were forced to battle through fog as well as stormy weather. | Philip Bolotov, second pilot, has had a vast amount of experience in sea and night flying and handled the controls on the dangerous hop over | the North Pacific and the mountain- ous Aleutians, which are perpetually ‘banked in fog. bond money, but a, te Frank Ambrose, manager of the Curtiss landing field at Valley | Stream, L. 1, yesterday teld the Daily Worker that for the last two days the fog kovering over the Great Lakes region has prevented }any planes from leaving the Cur+ tiss Airport at Dearborn, Mich. Not ; even mail playes have been permits | ted-to take off, the governmn: hav- |in gissud warnings against flying until the heavy fog lift The Friends of the Soviet Union, in charge of the mass receptions to be given the U. S. S. R. aviators at the field here and in the Polo Grounds on Nov. 9, yesterday ans know the Communist Party as the party which fights on the picket | line with the workers against the capitalist police and strikebreakers. While it engages in the struggle on the side of the workers in every struggle, large or small, and while it recognizes that the mere winning of an election will not liberate the workers, nevertheless the Communist Party sets up its own working class demands in this election. Where all the other parties offer platforms for the continuation of the capitalist system of exploitation of the workers, the Communist Party offers a platform against the system, a platform of those de- mands which express the most urgent partial needs of the working | c'ass—a platform which at the same time will strengthen the workers’ <“ghting line and mobilize them for further struggle and ultimate vic- tury. The Communist municipal platform fights for the right of the vorkers to defend themselves in the class struggle; it fights against the injunction, against child labor; for real social legislation such as o'd-age pensions and unemployment relief at a minimum of $25 weekly at the cost of industry and the state an! to be administered by the ~orkers’ ewn committees; the Communist Party fights uncompromis- ly for the full social, racial and political equality of the Negro ‘in’ prison the Gastonia strikers masses (against which all other parties stand); it fights for tM® in- {whose only crime was fighting} teresis of the v orking elass in all respeets and in all of its sections. against inhuman exploitation.” The VWorhers of New York! Vole for your own class! Vore Comimunise! | $ ” % The T. U. U. L. states that it is for abolition of child labor, for racial on this basis that it is conducting a {and social and political equality for ‘great drive for organization of T.| Negroes, abolition of night work for |U, U. L, districts and local leagues, | Women and young workers uncer 21, make a pretense before the workers | nounced the receipt of advices from that a genuine attempt is being) Detroit stating that the Land of ihe made to “run down” the murderers | Soviets would depart for New York of this N. T. W, organizer, shot in jand cooperating in every way to, build the National Textile Workers’ Union. * © * * SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 31 (Wireless).—A cablegram was sent today to Governor Gardner of North Carolina from the Labor Council of New South Wales, stating: “The ‘Labor Council of New South Wales, represénting 130,000 organized work- ers emphatically protests against the diabolical plan to sen to death (Continued on Page Tu v4 broad daylight by a gang of textile | ‘0 rthe seven-hour day afd five-day | bre mill gunmen in the presence of | week. The Communist Party has this morning, wecther allowing. Two special trains will be held \proven a fearless and courageous fighter in the interests of the toiling ‘masses throughout *:e country.” The statemert issued by the Com- mist Party here teday points out th-' the legislature is the open agent of the employers, and the willing servant of the tk’; corporations for which New Jersey is famous. Child labor is a common thing in the fac- torics, and though there are laws against night work for women, there is no penalty to enforce them. se the hypo Mnovar gas nttnek which covers the prepara- y of the Mare _crowds of people. Free Australian Workers (Wireless by Inprecorr) Oct, 31.—Preparations for a one- day general strike, a rain of protest |resolutions, plus police bungling of |the frame-up charge against seven leaders of the past timber-workers’ strike yesterday, brought about an acquital The seven were charged with picketing, defiance of the ar- bitration court award of Judge Luk- Jin and “doing something in the nautre of a strike”—the exact word- ‘ing of the charge, in readiness at the Pennsylvania station again this morning for carrying the reception committee of 3,400 representing nearly 200 work- ers organization and language groups, to the Valley Stream field in case the fliers start today. The | train tickets bought Wednesday are still good, but workers holding them are urged to call Algonquin 6650, 8048 or 2745 after 6.30 to learn whether the fliers are coming and at what time the trains leave. The plane is xpected to take off | at eDtroit before 6 a. m., and as its average speed is 100 miles an » a it will arrive here about-ncoa. 4