The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1929, Page 1

1 J J , 4 t e THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government Fo Organize the Unorganized | Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Daily Entered as second-clans matter a1 the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the net of March 3, 1879. FINAL CIT} EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The Company. Inc. 26-28 Union Square. Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. 2 Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents Vol. VI., No. 206 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1929 12,000 AT MADISON SQ. MEET PLEDGE DEFENSE OF USSR How to stitutional Amendments and 2 New York City Question and Proposition Vote YES on Proposed Amendment Number 2) Vote NO on All Others PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE. This amendment reads as follows: “CIVIL SERVICE PREFERENCES: Shall the proposed amendment to section six of article five of the Constitution giv- ing a preference to the appointment and promotion in the Civil Service of the state to honorably discharge soldiers, marines or nurses of the army, navy, or marine corps of the United States who have a disability received in the performance of di in any war and who were at the time of entry into the military or naval service and still are citizens and residents of the state, be approved?” On this Amendment, VOTE “NO.” The Communist Party is for full wages and for complete social insurance for all disabled soldiers, whether citizens or not. sailors, The object of this amendment is’ to promise a job to the veterans of the war in place of providing them with full compensation so as to | enable them to live without dependence upon charity, If carried into effect, it would be used by the capitalist class to corrupt a small sec- tion of the veterans at the expense of the great mass of disabled sol- diers and would thus enable the capitalist class to build up a stronger state bureaucracy and trick the soldiers into believing they have se- cured some relief and thus to silence the growing discontent of the disabled soldiers that have suffered from the graft, corruption and op- pression of the capitalist system and of the state power. It is a measure of more effective preparation for world war. . PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. ‘This amendment reads as follows: “ABSENTEE VOTERS: Shall the proposed amendment to section one-a of article two of the Constitution permittipg the legislature to provide for absentee voting by inmates of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital be approved?” Vote “YES” on this amendment. The Communist Party is for every extension of the suffrage to j{ soldiers and to workers away from their homes on jobs, etc. The pro- posed amendment only covers absentee inmates of United States Vet- eran Bureau hospitals. Despite its limitation to only Veterans’ Bureau hospitals and the attempt to avoid, by this amendment, the growing de- | mands of the soldiers for participation in suffrage, we nevertheless call upon the workers to vote “YES.” (Continued on Page Two) Let’s Crow a Bit---and Work Still Harder! The announcement recently made at Washington that the Pan- American Federation of Labor has indefinitely postponed the congress it has called for Havana next January, sets the seal of failure on this infamous body in its efforts to control Latin American labor. Press information reports that the reason given privately is the fact that there were “few responses” to invitations sent to Latin trade of L. or- unions, while the official announcement says that the A. F. organizing American workers to allow six or s Council to enjoy a pleasant January trip in Havana, is pretty thin | logic for anyone acquainted with the A. F. of L. Moreover, and the important feature in this aiimouncement, is that by telling what a brave lot of things it is going to do in the South, that the A. F. of L. tries to cover up the failure of its past campaign to attract the un- organized, unskilled and bitterly exploited proletariat of the Southern states. The two failures: the one to delude and control Latin American labor, is fittingly matched by the second, the inability to “organize” for bureaucratic control and betrayal the workers of America’s South- ern states, are only partially chargeable to this reformist character of A. F. of L. policy and tactics, the decisive factor is the initiative and energy of Communist and revolutionary trade unionist efforts in exposing the traitorous character of the American Federation of Labor and its treacherous offspring, the Pan-American Federation of Labor. The Pan-American Federation of Labor, formed with money fur- nished Gompers by President Wilson, with the deliberate purpose of paralyzing the struggles of Latin American labor while American im- perialism advanced its control politically and economically, aptly termed | by Mattie Woll as the “Monroe Doctrine of Labor,” has been whipped, by the revolutionary Datin American Trade Union Confederation, which j began about two years ago to struggle for leadership of Latin Amer- ican labor and whose congress at Montevideo last: May reflected the tremendous revolutionary response its program has won from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. The Latin American Trade Union Confederation has not only given leadership to the struggles of Latin American labor, but has displaced other leadership, the treacherous and imperialist leadership of the Pan-American Federation of Labor and all the little cliques of bour- geois and careerist elements hitherto misleading various of the national trade union organizations of Latin America who are always ready to lick the boots of native political underlings of Wall Street and to how and scrape before Gompers, Green and Woll. In Mexico the treacherous Morones gang heading the Confedera- cion Regional Obrera Mexicana (the “Crom”, has been challenged by the new and revolutionary center, the Confederacion Sindical Unitaria. The mass resentment at the threat of war between Bolivia and Para- guay was organized by the Latin American Trade Confederation at a special conference, where the intrigues of American and British im- perialism were and challenged by the threat of a general strike and civil war by the proletariat of the whole continent, including the workers of both Bolivia and Paraguay. Does any one doubt but that no such conference would have been held had Green and Morones had | their way, if there had been no revolutionary center? The strikes of transport and harbor workers in Argentina were spread to Uruguay and Paraguay by this new centere. Brazilian labor was organized in a national center (none had existed before), Ford’s slave pens exposed and the fight begun against both British and America imperialism. The Colombian strikes were made a matter of intense interest to the whole continent exposing the ruthless but- cheries of the United Fruit Company and its native puppets. All Central American labor revived and) turned to the left. longer did the little cliques of doctors and lawycrs and the like bor m dare to speak in the name of labor ACRATI oseph V. KEE aarold G, Ba %. aRON COLEn 3C SOCIALIST Algernon LEE | X Norman Charles i AOMAS | SOLOMON When you enter the voting booth, swing the HANDLE of the CURTAIN-LEVER which is overhead from the LEFT to the RIGHT as far as it will go, and leave it there.e This will close the | curtain around you and unlock the machine for voting. E | THE CANDIDATES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY ARE | ALL ON THE LAST ROW OF THE VOTING MACHINE, WITH | -THE COMMUNIST EMBLEM, THE HAMMER AND SICKLE, DISPLAYED WITH THE NAME OF EVERY CANDIDATE. | PAY NO ATTENTION TO ANY OTHER NAMES ON ANY OTHER ROWS. REMEMBER TO VOTE ON THE LAST ROW ONLY. The name of the candidate for Mayor, William W. Weinstone, you will find in the first column of the last row, the candidate for Comptroller, Otto Hall, in the second column of the last row, and so on along that row. Over the name of each Communist Candidate you will find a POINTER. Turn down the pointer over the name of the Communist Candidate and leave it down. Continue in the same manner to the end of the ticket, taking care to turn down a POINTER for every Communist candidate. The Communist Party has not nominated candidates for every office to be voted upone VOTE ONLY FOR THE CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY. WHEREVER | YOU FIND AN EMPTY SPACE ON THE LAST ROW, WHICH | IS THE COMMUNSST PARTY ROW, DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY- ONE ELSE THERE. Leave the pointers down in their voting position, swing the HANDLE of the CURTAIN-LEVER, which is overhead, to the LEFT as far as it will go, and leave it there. This will register your Communist vote and open the curtain. Remember, the Communist Party candidates are on the last row. Vote a straight Communist ticket by turning down all the pointers on the last row where you find names of candidates and the emblem of the Hammer and Sickle. Above is a picture of part of the voting machine, showing the four leading Communist candidates in Manhattan. The machine contains the names of the other Communist candidates as well. Vote for all of them. | WORKING WOMEN SCORE K, GITLOW =! =. At a general membership meeting | Gitlow and introduced by one of her of the United Council of Working |supporters was voted down, receiv- Women, held last Friday night injing only ten votes. The Cencral | the Workers Center and attended by | Committee’s resolution also called |400 members, a resolution presented (Continued on Page Two) by the Central Committee of the Councils, removing Kate Gitlow, former secretary, and denouncing her position as an agitator for the social reformist Lovestone-Gitlow group was passed almost unani- | congress of imperialist tools—the Pan-American Federation of Labor. whose every congress and act has shown it to be completely dominated by the A. F. of L., as the A. F. of L, is dominated by the Washington State Department. The revolutionary Latin American Trade Union Confederation has smashed this nest of vipers! But this victory would be incomplete without the workers in the United States themselves taking a new path, of no longer being satisfied | as an opposition within the A. F. of L., but passing over to independent leadership of mass struggles and a drive to organize the proletariat in the imperialist country under revolutionary leadership. Little as may have been done in the brief time the new policy has been prac- ticed, the effort has been more than successful in exposing the traitor- ous role of the A. F. of L. and its most “progressive” Musteite ele- ments at the same time the masses have seen that only the Communists and revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League are worthy of their trust to lead them in battle against the bosses. The American proletariat is learnnig, and it can be heard everywhere on the lips of | obscure workers, that the Communists are the ones to whom they look for a policy to fill their needs and for leadership that stands the test. How pickayunish and nonsensical, in the face of these real victor- ies (which lay the basis for greater ones) are the babblings of the Lovestones and Cannons, handing on to the dead past, hypnotized by the power of American imperialism and its labor lieutenants in the A. F, of L. Like the opportunists under Jose Penelon of Argentina, who split the Argentine Communist Party two years ago and whose paper is violently attacking the Latin American Trade Union Con- federation and each of its campaigns as “futile,” “sectarian” and what not, the voices of Lovestone and Cannon echo out of the cemetery of a past period—talking against the new revolutionary unions, raging against the change made necessary by history. Every member of the Communist Party of the United States, will glory in the victories of our Latin American comrades, will reca!l the duties we owe them in full carrying out of the Solidarity Pact made | by the T. U, U. L, and the red unions of Latin America, and realize their own victory at home in the South must give added spirit for resolute pushing ahead to win for the revolution the unorganized | workers of the United States, Let us celebrate these victories by driy+ _ ing Salon to new ones! 1 ee Julius MILLER COMMUNIST ENGDANL Need Red Watchers {jat Polls Election Day | | Members and sympathizers of | the Communist Party who can act || as watchers on Election Day | | (Tuesday) in order to prevent || any flunkies of the three capital- || ist parties, democratic, republi- | || can and’ socialist, from terroriz- /ing workers voting Communist, | are asked to report from 6:30 a. m. to 9:30 a. m. at the following lstations: Manhattan, 27 E. | Fourth St., 143 E. 103rd St., 235 | W. 129th St.; Bronx, 715 E. 138th | || St. 1330 Wilkins Ave.; Williams- | || burg, 56 Manhattan Ave.; Bath | | Beach, 48 Bay 28th St.; Browns- | ville, 29 Chester Ave. They will | be given instructions at the above | | addresses. M.W.L OFFICE “INNEW ORLEANS Gulf Conference After | One in San Francisco | The Marine Workers League has | opened up headquarters on the Gulf} of Mexico in the port of New Or- |leans, it was announced at the Mar- | ine Workers League yesterday. The jdelegates that have been there for |the last few weeks have signed up |many members and have visited a féw hundred ships. The marine workers in New Or- leans participated in the opening of the League’s headquarters, and ener- getically carried out the policies of | the League in establishing an Inter- national Seamens Club at 308 Char- »}aim the crushing of all militancy so | seins neers a LAST IN ELECTION CAMPAIGN HERE Will Call for Fight on| Wage Cuts, Terror | War Danger | [For Better Houses) \Many Candidates Will! | Address Workers | Vote Communist! In Manhattan Lyceum, 66 jers will hold their fina demlonstra- tion in support of the Communist election program. Held in a sec- SAMUEL NESIN | polls open tomorrow. . WORKERS MEET IN CHICAGO TO | PROTEST TERROR _ Conference in Frisco In many parts of the country, demonstrations large and _ small, street meetings and other meetings, were held over the week end to wage war on the employers’ terror- | k Communist Party candidate for' state assembly from the 14th A. D. Workers, vote as you strike! Polls open tomorrow. i lto press, a great meeting of Chi- cago workers was reported. |tion where thousands of workers of} Agcembled in Peoples Auditorium, | various nationalities live in misery \they pledgedg continued assistance and filth, this rally will be a mili- | t ‘the seven militant workers, in- tant demonstration for the only pro- | cluding the District Organizer of gram that calls for a real fight for! tp. Communist Party, held in better housing and lower rents, and ¥ a fight against the entire system of “robbery with a gun.” The work- capitalist speedup, wage cuts, terror | or; voted not only to defend these, |and war that makes wretched living | ..4 the more than 20 sought on |conditions for workers inevitable. | + niar wartants, with ihe 27 a: Leading Communist candidates, | rested June 15 for demonstrating who will speak at the meeting, will! against the Gastonia arrests, but show how the intensified exploita-| also to protest the Gastonia verdict bosses’ terror have as their chief| workers everywhere. that American capitalism can more easily put through its program of war, particularly war against the |mighty enemy of world capitalism, | = Fe ong Saat ee | official call of the league for a ma- perialist_ war and for the defense of |Time YoTners: Kiciig Coast ote. the Soviet Union, to vote against |readquarters at 160 Stewart St. slavery in shops and factories, to| 45 arrested. The arrest was made vote against capitalist terror bY | by Be egents af tio “Fink Hall,” WoL eo nanny |the bosses’ employment and black- The speakers will include Vern|tist office. One of these agents, Smith, Communist candidate for Petersen, displayed a badge of the district attorney of New York state harbor police, as his authority County; Alexander Trachtenberg, | ¢o, making the arrest. The state candidate for assembly in the Sixth | parpor police are appointed by the District; and Sam Darcey, candidate |hoard ‘of harbor commissioners for alderman in the Eighth District. | whose chairman is Paul Sharren. berg, editor of The Seaman, official organ of the Internaticnal Seaman’s Union, and secretary of the state federation of labor. The terror campaign, and the workers’ fight against it, took on international manufacturers feel a crisis coming. The market has been steadily nar- rowing, not only in shoes, but in all manufactured goods, for months, and only an artificially stimulated tion of the workingclass and the | itself, and the bosses’ attacks on| Weinstone Canlidates Urge, Greeting 13th Year 1 | | | | | | AFL Cops Hit Marine | | istic campaign. As this paper went | | prison on charges ‘of sedition and | TONIGHT’S RALLY HAIL FIVE YEAR PLAN: PROMISE WAR ON TERROR DRIVE OF GOVERNMENT Expose Drive. on Workers; Hendryx Gaston Battle-Front, Speaks for J From led Other Party Crowding the main hall at Madison Square Garden yes- | E.|terday afternoon, 12,000 New York workers pledged their de- {Fourth St,, tonight New York work-| termination to fight imperialist’ war on all fronts, to defend the Soviet Union, and to vote Communist when the municipal They met to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Bolshe» | vik Revolution, the triumphant advance of socialist economy tn the U. S. S. R. made possible only by that revolution, reiterate their and to of the the rt Communist Party, York District called the de onstration. Candidates Speak. Party standa included William candidate for mayor; Negro organizer of t! WM. W. WEI | Communist fo | mayor in the ci ton Arrest Seamen. | row. Worker the hammer | Meanwhile the terror continues. | and sickle, In San Francisco, M. Murphy, a seaman belonging to the Marine |7,,; : to the |Unity League and candid Workers League, distributing the | comptroller; Rahancn. Greail date for assembly in the Fi trict, Bronx; and Sam Darcy manic candidate trict, who was 4 Robert Minor, editor o Worker, presided “We are here not merely serve the anniversary of the R Revolution. We are here to pled ourselves to defend the Union Socialist Soviet Republics,’ Minor said. “In 1914 workd capitalism tried to solve its inherent contrad ons war, but the war did notasolve the to ob- an OTTO HALL feeling of well-being, and the mo- mentum of. the big profiteering that resulted from rationalization, wage scope as was recently proved by the | cablegroms of protest sent in by mank workers’ organizations abroad. cuts, etc., has held prices up. As a matter of fact every trade, (Continued on Page Three) The U. S. government. h-3 taken a direct part by approving the sedi- (Continued on Page Two) tres St. with a big reading room where seamen of all nationalities are) welcome. Active organization work is being| carried on in the Gulf for the jrep- aration of a Gulf Coast Conference | which will take place within the next | two months. This will be the third | conference of the Marine Workers | League. Nov. 9 and#10 the West Coast Conference is being held at the new headquarters at 160 Stewart St., San Francisco, and the reports Continued on Page Three) UNEMPLOYMENT FOLLOWS CRASH 'Banks, Factories Close} as Stocks.Collapse Following immediately upon the crash in Wall Street, the shoe manu- facturers began to lay off men, states the secretary of the Indepen- dent Shoe Workers’ Union of Great- er New York. It is apparent that the employers read the lesson of the collapse of stocks, and know that whether or not there is a short re- vival of buying on the exchange, the levents of the last few days have showed the hollowness of the “pei manent prosperity” talk, and all Facing Long Prison Term, He Tells of Need for Fighting Paper Thousands of workers, at the celebration of the Twelfth Anniver- sary of the October Revolution at Madisop ~ tarden yesterday were stirred as they heard K. Y. “Red” Hendryx say a few words on the southern. mill workers’ struggles against terror and slavery. And now let tens of thousands of workers, thru the columns of the Daily Worker, hear what “Red” Hendryx, one of the seven Gastonia textile workers and organizers facing long years in prison, has to say about the Daily Worker. “Every worker has got to give money and give it at once to see that the Daily Worker is rushed to every mill town in the South. “The Daily Worker is the greatest weapon to fight the capitalists in the South. “All the other papers the southern workers get are the bosses’ papers. “If they were to read only these bosses’ papers, they wouldn’t know anything else but the boss-man’s side, for these Papers poison tis work- ers’ minds. “The bosses’ papers write against the workers, telling them not to strike, talking against the union. “They know if the mill workers could get the Daily Worker the bosses would have to pay more wages and give better conditions. “Now I want to tell you some things about the Daily Worker and us workers in prison. “Beal, Miller and the rest of us felt cut off from the workers of (Continued on Page Three) ‘ ¥ ~“ ‘Red’ Hendryx Calls on Workers to Rush the Daily to the South Communist Party candidate for jcomptrolled in the city elections to- morrow, Negro and white workers, vote for your cla oo Lill aed contradictions of capitalism,” said Max Bedacht, speaking for the Poli- tical Committee of the Party. “It increased them and increased the suffering and misery of the work- pre “The Russian Revolution points the way to freedom to millions of oppressed races throughout the world, particularly to the Negroes of the U. S. A.,” said Otto Hall. “The capitalists try to divide the workers by this oppression so as to exploit them more mercilessly,” Hall continued. “Yet 12 years of (Continued on Page a