The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1930, Page 1

Hundreds of Unemployed Workers and Their Families Are Being Thrown Out on the Streets. In Chicago Even Employed City Workers Were Evicted. Mobilize To Fight For Join the Mass World- Work or Wages! Wide Demonstration Against Unem- ployment, February 26! aily Entered as second-cluss matter at the Vost Office at New York, N. Y., under the act o f Mareb 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION : Vol. VL, No. 282 Company, Inc., 26-28 Unlon Squa’ Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing <gg%,, re, New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1930 {side New York, by mail $6.00 per year. In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. _ Price 3 Cents FIRST UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL IN Unemployment Also Means Wage Cuts Perhaps you, reader, are one of those lucky workers who still have 2 job. Do you know that the problem of unemployment is also your own personal problem? If you don’t know this yet, you should wake up to the fact. The problem of unemployment concerns the entiré working class, concerns every individual worker. Suppose you do have a job. Do you think it makes no diffeugnce that outside your shop there is gathering a great crowd of jobless, hungry, desperate fellow workers? Do you think that the enormous competition for jobs caused by unemployment is going to leave you un- touched? It is nonsense to think such a thing. Already the level of wages is going down rapidly. And those workers who were looking for an increase in wages are forced to abandon their hopes, and are lucky indeed if the wage-cuts passes them by for a few weeks more. And how about the speed-up system? Isn’t it being screwed up a.few more notches since the unemployment set in on a mass scale? Of course it has. Every factory executive is sitting up nights figuring out how to drive his workers faster, get more work out of them, in order.to bolster up his falling profits. Further, are you sure you will not be the next one fired in your factory? No, you are not at all sure of your job, You may be on the streets yourself before long. In fact, if you think the matter over just a little bit, you will realize that you and all the other workers still on the job, are being hit by the unemployment almost as hard as those out on the streets. And with that realization must come als@the knowledge that your in- terests are the same as those of the unemployed. If we could force the capitalists to establish unemployment insur- ance to relieve those out of work, that would at the same time take off your backs some of the pressure of the unemployed army waiting | to take your job away from you. Just turn that thought over in your mind for a while. Of course the capitalists will never establish unemployment insur- ance unless they are forced to do so. What power is there which can force them? There is only one such power. It is the power of a united working class shaking its fist under the noses of the capitalists and their police! | On February 26th, the workers of the entire world, employed and unemployed, white, black, yellow, and brown, will at the same time shake their fists under the noses of the capitalist class and shout all together: “WORK OR WAGES!” Get ready to join in this mighty world-wide demand of the working class. Rouse your fellow workers to the importance of February 26th, and mobilize them also for the demonstration. Together we will shake the damned profit-making exploiters until their teeth chatter with fear. That is the only way to fight against unemployment. An@ at the sanfetime that is the way to prepare for the greater fights that are to come—the fights that will change the system which produces unemployment, and give us a system controlled by the working class. Forward to February 26th! PAINTERS MEET BEAL ARRESTED TONIGHT AT 8 IN PONTIAC MEET Fight Unemployment,|Bosses Fear Militant Terrible Speed-Up Unemployed Masses The Trade Union Unity League) PONTIAC, Mich., Jan. 30.—Fred calls all unorganized painters of | Beal, one of the Gastonia defend- New York to attend the mass meet- ants, was arrested at a Trade Union ing, tonight at McKinley Square Unity League meeting last night, Gardens, 1258 Boston Road, Bronx. 7d is being held on $10,000 bail = under the infamous Michigan Crimi- inni ri t of FS apd eaten Pa. \nal Syndicalist Law. Another worker Fae jnamed McGrath was also arrested. tion painters have gone from bad! pho arrest of Beal and McGrath to worse. The speed-up, with the /follows the mass unemployment simplification of the work, makes} march, when 1,500 unemployed possible for one man to produce as| workers marched to the City Hall much work as three men only a few | on Tuesday, despite police attempts years ago. Because these painters | to break up the demonstration. are not organized the bosses force; Beal and McGrath were arrested them to work nine and ten hours ajat a meeting of the T.U.U.L, and day. The bosses employ unskilled | the Auto Workers Union, attended laborers for $3 a day to replace the | by over 350 workers who hissed and skilled workers. The laborers work | booed the police when they pinched under a skilled foreman, who is|the two, Many of the workers pres- speeding them up to the limit. ent joined the Auto Workers Union, Tens of thousands are looking for;and some joined the Communist jobs. | Party. In order to put a stop to this; Over 100 new members have erushing speed-up, and unemploy-| joined the Communist Party in the ment, the painters must organize | fight against the attempts of the into a militant industrial union of General Motors Co., and their tools all building trades under the leader- ‘in the courts and police, to prevent ship of the Trade Union Unity) mass organization of the unem- League.. The organizers of the T.| ployed workers, U. U. L. are themselves workers.| The International Labor Defense Wherever. the Trade Union Unity! is organizing a big protest meeting League takes the lead in the strug- gle of the workers it fights for higher wages, shorter hours and against the killing speed-up. The T. U. U. L, has in its ranks many thou- sands of workers in New York among whom are needle workers, food workers, building maintenance, metal transport, textile and many others, who are waging a struggle against the bosses and their agents. The A. 'F. of L. officials refuse to and cannot organize the painters. Wherever. it makes a pretense at leading the workers it betrays them to the bosses. vainters are urged to come to the «ass meeting called by the Trade Union Unity League tonight at 8 p. m. at McKinley Square Gardens, 1258 Boston Road, Bronx. Come and bring your fellow workers! Help lay the basis for a militant industrial union of all unorganized painters! STRIKERS OUT. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By Mail). —Thirty-five building workers at the University Club Building struck against the employment of non- union labor. The contractor applied dor an injunction, in Pontiac for next week, and the Communist Party is calling a mass meeting in Detroit to fight the Criminal Syndicalist Law. NATIONAL MINER | CONVENTION 1S. \England Revolutionary | Competition. With It Fi ght Unemployment 1,000 Rank and File Delegates Expected | BULLETIN. | The Trade Union Unity League | has just been challenged by the National’ Minority Movement of England to mobilize a thousand rank and file delegates at its Na- tional Miners Union Convention. This is the goal set for the Minor- ity Movements’ Miners’ Conven- tion which will soon take place. * . PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 30. |More than 1,000 delegates are ex- | pected to participate in the Second | National Conyention of the National | Miners’ Union to be held in this city April 1, Pat Toohey, secretary-treas- urer of the organizaztion said today. | “This will be a real rank-and-file | convention,” he. said, | “While Lewis and Fishwick fight |for the right to rob the miners through the check-off, and for the privilege of being the exclusive agent of the coal operators, the N.M.U. is preparing for the most | bitter national fight in the history | of the American coal miners,” Too- \hey said. “In their efforts to mis- ‘lead and betray the miners,” he said, | “they are’ utilizing” such — pseudo- progressives as Howat and Hapgood |as window dressing.” | The convention, the N.M.U. seere- |tary stated, will map out the stra- |tegy for the struggle which the or- | ganization will lead when the ex- | piration of the Anthracite agree-| ment on August 81 will be the sig- nal for a sharp wage cut on the part of the operators, counting on |the aid of the Lewis machine. { | “The convention is especially im- ‘portant at this time in order to |revise changes in the mining in- | dustry, to review our position, and \to revise our tactics and policies in (Continued on Page Three.) | | Paterson Dye House Workers Protect NTW Organizer from Police; PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 30.— This morning the National Textile Workers’ Union Committee, distrib- juting leaflets and holding meetings |to explain the plan of organization {for the approaching - silk strike, came down to the big Textile Dye ;Co. It was here that workers forced |a boss with a gun to beat a retreat jlast week when he tried to break up their meeting. : This company has its own police and armed thugs, already in fear of the strike. They arrested one N.T.W. member this morning, and the others distributed the leaflets {against police orders. They also, with the active help of the workers in the dye house, prevented the po- lice from carrying the arrested worker into the office of the mill |for unknown purposes, until the chief of police came, an hour later, and a committee went in with him. {He was released. A meeting will |be held at this mill tomorrow. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By Mail). —Knitters at the Sunrise Knitting Mills struck against a wage cut from $1.39%4 per dozen to $1.10. SET FOR APRIL 1 | Minority Movement of) Impoverished Farmers Losing ‘Land on Mortgages, U.S. Says Secretary of Agriculture Advises Less Product All unorganized | |~ WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Many farmers are being thrown off their land because of their impoverish- ment and consequent failure to pay the excessive interest rates charged by insurance companies who own $2,000,000,000 of the $9,000,000,000 in mortgages against American farmers. This was revealed in a statement issued today by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde in which he said that “many American farmers ‘are being embarrassed financially lateral and high infterest rates on Because Workers Can’t Eat So Much Now |by the alleged demands of life in-| surance companies for more col-} farm loans.” | Thousands of the dispossessed farmers are flocking to the cities, adding to the unemployed army which already numbers more than 6,000,000. Hyde in a previous statement | pointed out that the farmers should curtail production for next year as the workers would probably eat less | because of growing unemployment. The farmers who are being thrown into the ranks of the unem- ployed will be mobilized to take part in the mass demonstration against Nine years ago, today, the fight- ing rebel “Big Bill” Haywood and 387 other members of the I. W. W. were indicted at Chicago for “con- apiracy to overthrow the govern- ment,” “Big Bill,” spent his last years in the Soviet Union and was a staunch defender of the Commu- nist . International. KOREA SHAKEN BY BIG REVOLT Report to “Daily” Gets Around Censorship Reports evading the strict Jap- anese censorship rigidly clamped down on the Japanese colony of Korea and exclusively published ‘here by the Daily Worker, staté that three days ago a gigantic demon- stration of protest shook all Korea against Japanese imperialism. It is stated that as a result, wholesale arrests of demonstrators took place, a total of 12,400 workers and peas- ants being* rounded up by Japanese | troops. The Jast great demonstration took plate on December 9, last, and at that time there were 800 arrests. These arrests, together with the trials soon to begin in Japan of 825 revolutionary workers arrested nearly a year ago, indicate the crisis in Japanese imperialism, and the attempt of the Tokio government to overcome them. Moreover, the at- tacks on both Japanese and Korean revolutionaries are a part of Japan’s preparations for its planned attack on the Soviet Union, since they know that these masses would be the first to counter-attack a war on the Workers’ Republic. DE RIVERA TRIES TOSAVEFASCISM Rallies Fascist Party; Spain in Turmoil - BULLETIN. PARIS, Jan. 30.—Shonts of “Down With Berenguer!” were shouted by a violent crowd in the | streets of Madrid last night, a dis- | patch to the French Communist paper “L’Humanite,” said today. The dispatch added that Beren- geur conferred with detective and civil guard chiefs and decided to take the strictest action against those responsible for the outbreak. Caer MADRID, Jan. 30.—General Ber- enguer, the military head of the new government, is yet unable to form a cabinet. In the meantime, Primo de Rivera, is trying to hold to- (Continued on Page Two) 15 Go to Trial Today in New Bedford; Held for Mill Gate Meeting NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 39. —Fifteen textile workers and organ- | izers come to trial here tomorrow. They were arrested during the two days’ fighting of 6,000 workers with the police recently for the right to hold mill gate meetings. They have a variety of charges against -them, such as “disorderly conduct,” “resist- ing officer,” ete. Tomorrow also, Martin Russa, district organizer here for National Textile Workers Union, Peter Heg- elias, section organizer of the Com- munist Party, and Emanuel Perry, youth organizer, will come out of jail. They were sentenced on the unemployment on February 26. ‘ same charges*as the 15 up for trial. SOUTH UNITES RACES SHOWS HOSTILITY CHATTANOOGA T. U. U. L. RAISES BANNER T0 SOVIET UNION FOR “WORK OR WAGES” FOR BOTH NEGRO AT LONDON MEET AND WHITE JOBLESS ARE STARVING IN COLD ‘Building of Socialism in U.S. S. R. Threat to Imperialism Preparing War Plans Sharp Rivalries on War Armaments Shown Edward Price Bell, London corre- | spondent for the Chicago Daily News at’ the race-for-armament meet, exposes the fact that the im- perialist powers are disturbed at the rapid building of socialism in the Soviet Union, and are maneuvering for an alliance against the Workers’ | | Fatherland, |_ In a dispatch to his paper on| | January 27, he say's: i | “There is at the five-power naval conference a vast, invisible presence. t is as unobstrusive as it is vast. |It is as mute as it is invisible. As} | the presence itself does not speak, so it is not spoken about—or at least not much, and never openly. | Yet it is there. It is in the thoughts | of the delegates—in some definitely, in others vaguely. Its intangible approach is from two directions— across Europe from the east and across the Pacific from the west. I refer to the great. political fact of Soviet Russia.” He points out the’active hostility of the imperialist naval delegates at London towards the Union of Social- (Continued on Page Three.) INJUNCTION AT | MILLER SMASHED ‘Murder Writ No Good; | Club Pickets Anyway The injunction obtained at Millers Market (161st St. and Union Ave.) | Bronx, under which Steve Katovis |was shot, is no good. It was so; |bad, that Supreme Court Judge| Gallagher had to throw it out of | j court. The application for a per- | manent injunction was denied. The | temporary injunction and the ap peal for permanent injunction was ;made by Charles Solomon, socialist party leader and candiflate for al- | derman. But does this ‘stop police attacks on the picketing of Millers Market, | which the Food Clerks’ | Union continues, militantly, and un-| | terrified by Katovis’ murder? It} | does not! When the pickets ap- peared Wednesday, the police beat |them up, just the same. One picket told the cops who or- dered him away, of the smashing of | the injunction, proved it by the rec- ord, and demanded to be arrested and the case brought into court, if the police still didn’t believe. Right there it was proved that | the capitalist law is for capitalists, and not capitalists for the law. “To hell with you!” said the policeman, | |“You’re not going to court!’!? Then the police clubbed the workers; two of them being badly beaten up in the course of the usual brutal at- tack by uniformed police and detec- tives. This new policy of clubbing strik- ling or demonstrating workers is now consistently applied by Tam- many police, who are evidently or- |dered to cripple or kill, rather than arrest. The union is determined to go right on with the picketing; the murder of Katovis has aroused all its members to renewed militancy. Win Another Strike. Yesterday the fruit market at 1524 Westchester Ave., Bronx, set- tled, union conditions being estab- lished. In the strike at 2311 Ave. U,/ Brooklyn, the Hebrew Butcher Workers, who provide the scabs, and the boss are prosecuting five pickets under Paragraph 600, using an old injunction issued against the Progressive Butcher Workers, al- though this strike is conducted and the arrested workers belong to the Food Clerks. One union picket and two of the! Women’s Counsel pickets formerly arrested at Millers Market were in 161st St. court yesterday. The man was released, the wonien were sen- tenced to 3 days or $15 fie each. Industrial | D \Crisis Causes Swift Growth of Mass Suffering in Chicago; Fight Looms Against Evictions; Huge Demonstration Planned Feb. 26 Unemployed Millions, Refusing to Starve, to Join With Employed at Factory Gates, Demanding Relief, No Speed-Up, 7-Hour Day CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 30.—The first Council of Unemployed ever formed in the Union Unity League. | South was organized here yesterday at a meeting held in the newly-opened hall of the Trade Negro and white railroaders and foundry workers formed the majority of those pres- Negroes and whites min Frightened by the appa! ent. as shown by the deep snow on The Trade Union Unity gled freely. lling unemployment situation, declared by city authorities to be | the worst in 20 years, the city is compelling the unemployed to sleep in jail at nights, the | workers stretching out on the bare concrete floors without covering, despite the bitter cold the streets. League distributed the call for its meeting in the jail. At the meeting workers told of months of hopeless search for work, and vehemently denounced city UNEMPLOYMENT INFAREAST Starvation Grips the Toilers of Orient The world crisis of capitalism is bringing mass unemployment not only in the imperialist but in the colonies as well. The misery of the colonial workers, always: ter- rible, is being increased and th swells the millions who are enter-| ing a fight coming to a head on Feb, 26 the world over. The U. S. Department of Com- merce in its latest bulletin, Jan. 27, 1930, reports a vere unemploy- ployment situation in Burma. “Em- ployment in all ranks is at a min- imum,” they say. “Trade in gen- eral” says the Department of Com- merce, referring to Bu a, “is not expected to brighten in the immed- iate future.” A cable from Ceylon s ness in Ceylon during 19 sie Bete 9 was de- (Continued on Page Three) Shoe Workers Applaud for Fight to Victory; Youth Meeting Tonight At a meeting of the Ridgewood section this afternoon nearly 200 striking shoe workers enthusiasticat- jly voted to continue their struggle. Besides the rank and file discussion which was unanimously for a fight to a victorious finish, F. G. Bieden- kapp, general manager of the Inde pendent Shoe Workers Union and "Agustino who spoke in Italian, called upon the strikers not only to fight for the old conditions but for the demand of better conditions and for a 40-hour week, five day week | and week work. The workers stood a minute in silence in honor of Steve Katovis. One worker got great ap- plause when he said that although never a Communist, the Labor De- partment and the police were mak- ing him one, The Women’s Department of the union is calling a shop delegate con- ference of women shoe workers for Monday evening, Feb. 3, at the union headquarters, 16 W. 21st St., City. Youth Meeting Tonight. The Youth Department of the union is calling a meeting of all young shoe workers for this evening, Jan. 31, at the union headquarters, 16 W. 21st St. Two more strikers were arrested today on the picket line of the Leo Shoe Co. This shop went on strike (Continued on Page Twe) ‘Communist Party Mobilizes to Save Morning Freiheit Central Committee Calls All to Support Its | Campaign for Funds; “Useful in Struggle” The following resolutions have been adopted by the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of U.S.A, calling all workers to “mob- ilize for the Morning Freiheit cam- paign to save this valuable instru- ment of the class struggle.” The |vesolution is addressed to “ all dis- | in the forefront of all the struggles | ” “charity,” responding enthusi-* lastically to the T.U.U.L. pro- gram of “Work or wig: BARRICADES IN against the speed-up and for| shorter hours of those employ- | HAMBURG FIGHT ed. | | The program was presented by Red Hendrix, Amy Schechter, Fred |Totherow and Gilbert Lewis, the | |latter Negro organizer of the T. U | {U, L. A number joined the T. U.} |U. L. and one white and one Negro; were chosen at the meeting to aid |in organizing the Council of Unem- ‘Unemployed Battle for Hours with Police (By Special Cable) HAMBURG, Jan. 30.— Pitched f Coun "| battles between unemployed and po- |ployed. The Couneil will meet again | ice today and tonight for hours held [today and a demonstration is! Hamburg in its grip, in-which eleven planted. | | sk 8 Mass Suffering in Chicago. Reports in New York papers, un- confirmed by any direct information from the Communist Party organ- ization in Chicago, state that be- police were injured and many unem- ployed wounded. The battles started because the police attacked a demonstration in the streets in the old part. of the }town, the unemployed resisting the | if ; |attack, using bricks and iron bars cause of the frightful situation Con- | against the police who used their |fronting tens of thousands of fam-| firearms in the first attack. Many jilies in Chicago (many of them em-| injured fell on both sides. ployes of the city, which is bank-| In spite of the heavy policing of rupt) who face eviction from their the other sections, fresh fighting homes for non-payment of rent, the| broke out in the Wex district, when Communists of Chicago are plan-| demonstrations clashed with police, ning a huge demonstration with a) The marchers resisted efforts to dis- march on the City Hail, demanding perse the They tore down scaf- |“No Evictions of Unemployed” as partly constructed : | folding (Continued on Page Two) cae a FIGHT WHALEN’S ~ TAXI UNIFORMS The boss-contcolled Muricipal | Courts of Chicago, which have been Js Blacklist Attempt; | TUUL Lists Demands ling dozens of Communists, now | fee ees JAIL 3 JOBLESS | “Fight the Whalen police uniform m. from non-payment of rent. One of the victims is Mrs. Louis Mogelepsky, mother of four chil- (Continued on Page Three) ‘e throwing many city workers who | and militarization orders! Organize Lave not received any pay for weeks | | Garage Committees! Prepare for | |Shorter hours, accident insurance, while working, out on the streets for | against police control and discrim- ination!” says a statement just is- sued by the cab drivers’ section of the Transportation Workers’ Trade \Big Demonstration in| Buffalo to Reply | Union Unity League, 26 Union | BUFFALO, N. eae 30.—Two | Sauares New York. The statement members of the Communist Party, | “We are faced today with the Stone and Richards, and Donald,/ combined attacks of the police de- | Young Communist League organ-| partment, the fleet owners and their izer, were sentenced to one month's | agents, the racketeers of the Amer- imprisonment for taking part in last ae F haar vies of Labor—Martin, | Friday's spontaneous demonstration | ait pussy Suit ok of the unemployed workers. A big Si eapteai eRe iE a : >|compelling us to wear uniforms, is protest demonstration against the breaking up of the demonstratio: | and the imprisonment of these three} workers will be held on Friday, Jan. the final act of destroying complete- ly our personal liberty. Already we are finger printed, are ~forced to carry criminal identification cards, and are completely under police su- 31, at Schwables Hall, 351 Broad-| way. The Trade Union Unity! | League is organizing the unemploy- (ed here into Unemployed Councils, pervision. We are in fact labeled as criminals. All the reasons given for the uniforming—respectability, neatness, and more business—are |only excuses to cover up the truth. |The plan of Whalen and the fleet ; owners is to use the uniform for a |complete check-up and black list. (Continued on Page Two) heit is now conducting a campaign for funds. The Morning Freiheit is in a very critical financial situa- \tion and unless aid is rushed the very existence of the paper is en- | dangered. | “The Morning Freiheit has been | | ns | | Today in History of t the Workers a i eg January 31, 1922—Judge Kene- saw M. Landis, at Chicago, an- nounced wage-slashing scale for building trades workers. 1920— Willizm D. Haywood and 37 other members of I.W.W. indicted at Chicago for “conspiracy to over- throw the government.” 1918— German troops called to Berlin to trict organizers, Jewish language of the Party. In the needle trades; suppress strike of 1,000,000 men fractions, and all Party members,” and says: “Comrades: The Morning Frei- eS the Morning Freiheit has been lead- | and women for peace. 1911—Paul ing in all the fights against the la- (Continued from Page Three) ', Sitiger, prominent German social- ‘ist died,